Instructions

Assume that you are a change management consultant hired by the consulting firm in the example in this week’s introduction to research and analyze both the likelihood of a crisis among leaders and/or subordinate personnel with the impending training.

You are given authority to interview any leader or subordinate personnel involved in the planned change, inquire about areas of discomfort experienced last year, as well as explore how these areas could be relieved. Per your contract, you are to prepare two documents.

First, prepare a handout to discuss with participants of an all-team meeting that includes your findings and possible remedies to concerns. This document should include:

• Provide an abstract and key points discovered from your interviews and research.
• Explain key discoveries from persons you interviewed concerning discomfort with the Saturday morning training sessions.
• Determine the feasibility among subordinate leaders of possibly conducting training at other days and times or other alternatives.
• Ask for suggestions and a discussion regarding other training possibilities.
• Provide in-text citations in addition to your references page, as many of the personnel at the firm have advanced degrees and will expect academic citing and references.

Second, provide a brief report for the RVP discussing possible and suggested procedures if a crisis does develop over the planned training sessions. Provide suggestions for dealing with the crisis, including the following:

• Recommend how to discuss the crisis with the most vocal subordinate leaders.
• Recommend how to discuss all aspects of the crisis with HR.
• Recommend how to effectively implement the training if some subordinate leaders refuse to participate.
• Recommend how to respond to subordinate leaders who may leave the firm, including the recruiting of replacements.

Support each document with at least two scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.

Length of Handout: 2 pages
Length of summary for RVP: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages

Here is the example:  

As an example of an area of discomfort, consider those subordinate leaders of a national consulting firm were asked by the regional vice president (RVP) to work Saturday mornings, with pay, for a month to implement a planned change to a new computing platform for the regional office of a national firm. This amounted to four Saturdays from 8 AM until noon, in which subordinate leaders were engaged in both understandings and using the new platform. When the four weeks were over, these newly trained subordinate leaders were then to conduct training/implementation sessions with their subordinate personnel for Monday through Thursday the last hour of the day for four weeks.

As an indication of a faulty communication structure between the regional vice president and subordinate leaders, consider that the regional vice president (RVP) and leader for the office was told from two subordinate leaders the same concern they heard last year with a similar training period: The Saturday training sessions will bring some hardship upon them and their peer leaders. They reminded the RVP that two of the eight subordinate leaders were single parents who had not voiced concerns but would encounter challenges with their children. At first, the RVP decided to meet with all subordinate leaders and convince them of the necessity of the Saturday morning training but was uncertain how to proceed.

Because the RVP heard the same concern with a similar planned change last year, they were troubled that they had only heard from two of the eight subordinate leaders. The RVP wondered what the others were thinking. This indicated that the RVP’s communication regarding the planned change was largely taken as an edict rather than communication among the office leaders. The communication network for communicating planned change was not in good order.

Your company is a security service contractor that consults with businesses in the U.S. that require assistance in complying with HIPAA. You advertise a proven track record in providing information program security management, information security governance programs, risk management programs, and regulatory and compliance recommendations. You identify vulnerabilities, threats, and risks for clients with the end goal of securing and protecting applications and systems within their organization.

Your client is Health Coverage Associates, a health insurance exchange in California and a healthcare covered entity. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) enables individuals and small businesses to purchase health insurance at federally subsidized rates. In the past 6 months, they have experienced:

• A malware attack (i.e., SQL Injection) on a critical software application that processed and stored client protected health information (PHI) that allowed access to PHI stored within the database
• An internal mistake by an employee that allowed PHI to be emailed to the wrong recipient who was not authorized to have access to the PHI
• An unauthorized access to client accounts through cracking of weak passwords via the company’s website login

Health Coverage Associates would like you to develop a security management plan that would address the required safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive data from the attacks listed above and protect their assets from the vulnerabilities that allowed the attacks to occur. 

Write a 1- to 2-page high-level executive summary of the legal and regulatory compliance requirements for Health Coverage Associates executives. The summary should provide

• Accurate information on the HIPAA requirements for securing PHI
• FISMA and HIPAA requirements for a security plan
• Scope of the work you will perform to meet the Health Coverage Associates’ requests

Compile a 1-to 2-page list of at least 10 of the CIS controls that provide key alignment with the administrative (policies), physical (secured facilities), and technical safeguards required under HIPAA to protect against the attacks listed above. Include corresponding NIST controls mapped to the selected CIS controls.

Write a 1- to 2-page concise outline of the contents of the security management plan. Include

• Policies Health Coverage Associates will need to manage, protect, and provide access to PHI
• The recommended risk management framework Health Coverage Associates should adopt
• Key elements Health Coverage Associates should include in its plan of actions and milestones

 

1. The purpose of this paper is to experience the world of humanities beyond a classroom setting. The material covered in this assignment is based on the period of time covered in our book: ANCIENT TIMES TO THE 1500s. Any material submitted beyond the 1500s WILL BE RETURNED, WITH NO POINTS.  

 

Write a 2-3 page report (500-750 words) that describes your experience and addresses the requirements below. 

Format your report according to this formatting and writing standards document. This document includes examples of in-text citations and other great items!

STEP 1: EVENT SELECTION

Select 1 event from the list below and include this event on your title page.

Event A: Museum
Visit to a museum that exhibits items from Ancient times to 1500s 

Event B: Live Play/Performance
Attend a live play/performance that exhibits music/literature from Ancient times to 1500s

Event C: Online Play (Amadeus)
Watch parts 1 and 2 of this community theater presentation which is an adaptation of the show ‘Amadeus’.

• Amadeus Part 1 (https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/956951/uiconf_id/38285871/entry_id/1_rcewtx57/embed/dynamic)
• Amadeus Part 2 (https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/956951/uiconf_id/38285871/entry_id/1_ve5sz367/embed/dynamic)

STEP 2: THE EVENT

For events A or B:  Clearly identify the event location, date attended, the attendees, and your initial reaction upon arriving at the event.

For event C:  Identify the plot of the play and 3 characters.

STEP 3: CULTURAL ELEMENT

For event A: Provide specific information and a description of at least two (2) pieces (e.g., art, exhibits, music, etc.). Provide as many details as possible. Make connections of your event with specific chapters of the text.

For events B or C: Choose 2 scenes (1 scene from Part 1 and 1 scene from Part 2). For each scene you have selected:

• describe in detail what you see (background, props, scenery, etc.)
• list and describe each character (describe their clothing, accessories, etc.)
• list one line spoken by one of the characters and describe how the others in the scene react to what is said (facial expressions, body language, verbal response, etc.)

STEP 4: CONCLUDING REACTION

For events A, B, or C: Describe your overall reaction after the event experience. (i.e., Would you visit/view the event again?, Any most/least favorite moments?, etc.)  

STEP 5: DOUBLE CHECK FORMATTING

Formatting and writing standards are part of your grade. Align your formatting to this course’s required standards included at the top of this assignment.  

Week 8 Assignment: Lists

Instructions:

You will complete this assignment in Python 3.x. Make sure you have downloaded the software, and it is installed correctly. You will download it from this site.

You will code the following and submit it in one file. Use the information in the Lessons area for this week to assist you. Save it as a python file (.py), and upload it into the Assignments area.

• Create a comment block (starts at line 1 in the code) with the following information:
•               “””

Your name

Course Name, Section (example: ENTD200 B002 Spr15)

Instructor name

Week # 

Date completed

“””

• Problem 1: Create a list (or tuple only, no dictionary) that contains the months of the year. ( do not hardcode the month number)
• Problem 2: Create a loop to print the number and the months of the year from the list. 
•      The output should like this:

Month 1 is January

Month 2 is February

….

….

Month 12 is December

Optional 1 (not required)

Month 1 is January, …Happy new year ( Do not use if-then. Do not add the messages to the months list), create another list for greetings.

The output will look like this

Month 1 is January , …Happy New Year!
Month 2 is February, …Happy Valentine!
Month 3 is March
Month 4 is April
Month 5 is May
Month 6 is June
Month 7 is July, …Happy Fourth of July!
Month 8 is August
Month 9 is September
Month 10 is October, …Happy Halloween!
Month 11 is November, …Happy Thanksgiving!
Month 12 is December, …Merry Christmas!

Optional 2
Modify the Payroll and/or the MPG program from week5/6 to store the results in a list/dictionary. Print the list/dictionary when no more calculation is selected.
The output will be something like this for the payroll

Payroll for week xyz
James Bond ……. 21,500
Al Bundy ……. 500
Johnny English ….. 1,200

Total Payroll ……. 23,200

For the MPG will be something like

MPG for zyz truck
Week 1 ….. 12
Week 2 ….. 33
Week 3 ….. 27

MPG Ave ….. 24

Prior to addressing the following prompts review chapter one in your required text, review the website The Beginner’s Guide to Goal Setting (Links to an external site.), and watch the 30 minute 8 episode series by Ray Dalio entitled Principles for Success (Links to an external site.). Although Dalio’s goals were to become an investor and entrepreneur, his processes and ideas are worth exploring to consider applying to your own journey.

In this video, Dalio addresses a process for more effectively meeting our goals. His steps are listed below:

1. Identify your goals.( complete bachelors and work in a field with children. help children in abusive situations, work for a child advocacy center, 
2. Identify what problems stand in your way of achieving your goals. ( may be hard to find jobs in that field and get foot in the door,  may need a masters/doctorate for my ideal jobs)
3. Identify the root causes of the problems. 
4. Design a plan to eliminate the problems.
5. Execute the plan.

Rather than thinking, “I’m right.” I started to ask myself, “How do I know I’m right?”

In addition, Dalio discusses our barriers:

• The ego barrier: Acknowledging weaknesses.
• The blind spot barrier: When someone believes they can “see” everything.

Using the premise of the principles and the barriers he shares, as well as the knowledge you have attained throughout your program, reflect on and discuss the following:

• If your future career could look like anything in the world, what would it look like?
• Using this vision, develop one or more goals (Dalio’s Step 1).
• Identify what specific psychological knowledge will need to be featured on self-promotion materials to support your goal.
• Next, follow Dalio’s steps 2 to 4 for success.
  • Identify what problems stand in your way of achieving your goals.
  • Identify the root causes of the problems.
  • Design a plan to eliminate the problems.
• Lastly, discuss your thoughts about executing your plan (Step 5): What concerns do you have? What things have you accomplished that will support you in this execution?

Your journal this week should be 400 to 500 words. Demonstrate your understanding of the importance of professional and ethical writing standards.