Week 2 Discussion 

Data/Information/Knowledge

1.  Discuss the relationship between data, information, and knowledge. Support your discussion with at least 3 academically reviewed articles.

2.  Why do organization have information deficiency problem? Suggest ways on how to overcome information deficiency problem.

Please use APA throughout. 

Post your initial response no later than Friday of week 1. Please note that initial post not completed on the due date will receive zero grade. See class syllabus for late assignment policies. Review posting/discussion requirements

Read and respond to at two (2) of your classmates no later than the last day of week 1. In your response to your classmates, consider comparing your articles to those of your classmates. Below are additional suggestions on how to respond to your classmates’ discussions:

· Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.

· Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.

· Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research.

· Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.

· Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.

· Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

Read and respond to at two (2) of your classmates: 150 words

Classmate 1:

1.  What are the business costs or risks of poof data quality? Support your discussion with at least 3 references.

The building blocks of all systems is understanding and applying the following terms.

• Data

• Information

• Knowledge

DATA: Despite being hugely useful and everyone talking about how we live in, data on its own has a little or no meaning. It is raw and unprocessed. An example of data might be as simple as the number 100. This could be absolutely anything. Remember if we does not mean anything to you it is classified as DATA.

INFORMATION: Information must inform you of something. In other words, it must have a meaning. At this stage, you will have processed data and put it into context. For example, if we say 100 students, this adds meaning. However, this does not really inform us of anything. We need to put it into context. Adding the context by saying, 100 students are travelling to some place. We can say INFORMATION = DATA + MEANING + CONTEXT

KNOWLEDGE: Empowers us to make right decisions. We need to make an informed decision using the information we have. If we add, how the 100 students will get there. They cannot travel by aircraft as there may be no enough room, so they decide to travel by train. Therefore, knowledge is the process of applying a set of rules to information to help us make decisions.

2. Why do organization have information deficiency problem? Suggest ways on how to overcome information deficiency problem.

It’s difficult to comprehend what information that will be useful later. At that point regardless of whether we are informed or not one should have the capacity to yield required information somehow.  How would you quantify fulfillment, or advance towards an objective/change? Then we can overcome the information deficiency problem in organizations by storing and presenting that information in a way that is really useful. On the off chance that the information isn’t introduced well at the time choices are being made then most this work is lost.

Classmate 2:

Relationship between Data, Information and knowledge

The three words Data, Information and knowledge involves lot of fundamental concepts in the field of management along with the enterprise level understanding. Talking about data it is basically a raw form that is made out of observations and calculations. So basically data is nothing but information that is translated into a certain form that is effective for any process. This data is converted into binary digital form. Data is stored in different forms such as video files, audio files and also text, data is stored in certain formats.

Information is the result that is obtained from data that is processed that is useful to make beneficial for the users. Information is created by understating the relationships and also the link between the data. It is very important to know where, when and how do we get the information, this mainly useful for decision making in any organization. Information is mainly to take any kind of action and this further leads to the stage of knowledge and understating.

Knowledge is the tedious concept to define this can be referred to information that is being processed and structured in a certain manner to implement it into action. But this knowledge can be shared in the form of information and this turns out to be knowledge. So basically knowledge created for information to proceed for an action. 

The relationship can be seen as attraction for an individual’s attention it very clean from the above definitions as any of the field above cannot be seen individually it is different form of understanding for taking information and knowledge, so this in depth seen as a linear sequence from one place to another in the form of data. But not in all the cases and scenarios this relationship is clear and straight it differs from org to org and separated by data models as well.    

Deficiency problems in the organization

Basically any organization that lacks proper management leads to failure business small or big gets all their forces from the economy. Of course there is no instant solution for any business or an organization. Any problem cannot be eliminated immediately but can be mitigated and be avoided slowly. Having a wrong planning or designing a wrong marketing would lead to deficiencies, basically any business usually is product oriented and service oriented sometimes a customer based business. 

So any individual should be able to identify what exactly is the business need, plan should be apt and budget also should be designed in an efficient manner one should not overestimate the calculation. It is always essential to know your audience and try to reach the organizations target accordingly. Financial support if also one of the manor deficiencies in an organization, any business to kick start is a tedious task so one must be sure about it and well prepared for their future scenarios. Calculating current profits we cannot estimate future business.

Bad customer service is one of the major deficiencies to the organization, when a company cannot meet the customer requirements and is not able to satisfy the customer with the product or service it is always got to dig deep and find solution accordingly one must find an alternate source that can handle the customers in a better manner. 

The deficiencies can be avoided by having better management such as understanding and analyzing the information and satisfying customer needs for their respective business. Reducing the over load of information such as cutting down content. Auditing the companies outputs in regular intervals will make the work flow proper. 

 Competency

This competency will allow you to demonstrate your ability to examine organizational changes that are due to technological changes and apply the sociological theory that would explain such change.

Instructions

You have recently started working for a local department store in the Operations Department. Upon settling into your new position, you come to realize that they have outdated business practices. As a department, you and your peers begin to discuss changes that your store could make to help the store become more profitable and more competitive in the marketplace. This leads to discussions about the evolution of business practices at larger corporations such as Apple, Microsoft, Kohl’s, etc. Partway through your discussion, your Director of Operations comes in and joins the conversation. He likes what he is hearing and starts to brainstorm out loud with the group how your store can get “more with the times.”

Knowing that every change within an organization is made for a specific reason, your director asks that you research some of the key theoretical perspectives that would explain how and why organizations change. Because of your sociological prowess from your days in school, you know that you can apply Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory to the reasons for organization change, but your supervisor has asked for a minimum of three theories that would support change.

In addition to conducting research on theoretical perspectives for change, your supervisor would like you to put together some sort of visual representation that demonstrates how each of the theories explains organizational change, and then highlight the one that you think is most applicable to your store. You will be presenting your visual presentation to store management in an effort to provide them information so that they can determine the avenues of change that are most appropriate for your store. Because your supervisor sees the value in the changes to the organization, he has encouraged you to create a presentation that will grab the attention of the audience and that includes both pictorial and written information so that all the audience can easily envision the application of the change to your environment.

For this presentation you are to reflect and address the following information/questions:

• Provide a brief definition of Conflict Theory.
• Provide a brief definition of Symbolic Interaction.
• What changes have been made in various aspects of society (work, school, shopping, etc.)? Explain them through the lens of Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory.
• How do Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory explain or impact organizational change?
• Identify at least one other sociological theory, and demonstrate how it applies to organizational change in our society.
• Of the three identified theories (Conflict, Symbolic Interaction, and the theory of your choice), which theory do you believe best explains organizational changes in our society? Consider various aspects of the organizations that change i.e. technology, online, and face-to-face transactions, local versus global operations, etc.

Conflict Criminology and Sociology

The concept of critical criminology has been prevalent among criminologists for decades. A derivative of Marxist Theory, the primary focus of conflict criminology is the disparities linked to economic, social, and political affiliation. Chapter 8 in your primary textbook and the Karl Marx & conflict theory (Links to an external site.) video discuss social conflict and critical criminology (Siegel, 2015, & CrashCourse, 2017).

In your paper

• Explain how conflict theory is related to both criminology and sociology using appropriate terminology.
• Discuss how politics play a role in conflict theory using appropriate terminology.
• Discuss how politics influence crime rates of the lower class using appropriate terminology.
• Evaluate various sociological schools of crime causation using appropriate terminology.

Your paper must

• Be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text and the article being evaluated.
• Document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Text

Siegel, L. J. (2015). Criminology: The core (5th ed.). Retrieved from https://redshelf.com/

• Chapter 8: Social Conflict, Critical Criminology, and Restorative Justice

Article

Losoncz, I., & Tyson, G. (2007). Parental shaming and adolescent delinquency: A partial test of reintegrative shaming theory. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 40(2), 161-178.

• The full-text version of this article can be accessed through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library. This article discusses the theory of reintegrative shaming and supports the discussion “Restorative Justice.”

Multimedia

CrashCourse. (2017, April 17). Karl Marx & conflict theory: Crash course sociology #6 (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3igiwaeyc&feature=youtu.be

• This video discusses conflict theory. It focuses on the central tenets, various approaches, and how Marx’s theory relates to society. It will assist you in this week’s assignment: Conflict Criminology and Sociology.
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Today, there are a variety of ways in which health information may be communicated to the public including traditional methods such as brochures, posters, magazines, newspapers and other news outlets, and newer methods including mobile and web based applications, social media, and streaming media. These methods may include audio or visual elements or both. To effectively communicate health risk information, consideration must be given to the target audience. For this Assignment, you will select and support a communication strategy for different audiences and sectors. Your Instructor will provide you with a current health risk scenario and three different possible audiences and sectors.

By Day 7 of Week 10

Prepare and submit a 2-3 page paper that includes the following:

• An APA style title page, including your name, date, course and section, and title 
• APA style headings for each section below
  • Explain what considerations are important when selecting a strategy for a particular audience and sector. Support your answer. Provide examples of communication strategies that can be used to convey health risk information to different audiences and sectors. 
  • Select a communication strategy for each of the provided audiences and sectors and explain why you believe it is the most effective way to convey risk and prevention information to that audience and sector. Support your answer. 
  • Explain how you would evaluate the efficacy of your selected communication strategies. Note:The title page and References page do not count towards the paper’s page requirement. 
• Cite the sources within your text in APA style 
• Include an APA formatted reference list at the end of your paper. 

Note: The title page and References page do not count towards the paper’s page requirement.

Your Instructor uses the Module 6 Assignment 1 Rubric to grade this Assignment.

MOD 6 Assignment Scenarios 

Highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus is spreading across the United States. Those at the highest risk are pregnant women, young children under the age of 5, and adults older than age 65. While the available flu vaccine is expected to work well with this strain, there are limited supplies.  The following populations need to be informed about the risk and to get vaccinated as soon as possible. 

• Residents of Morningside Nursing Home
• Parents of ABC Preschool
• New immigrants from Nigeria

Be sure to discuss all three populations!