Based on the resources provided or your research, share innovative ways businesses are using Instagram.
Week 2 Discussion Post
Instagram is More than Pretty Images.
Instagram started a decade ago and gained its billionth user in 2018. Businesses capitalize on the platform’s popularity propelling Instagram’s revenues to billions annually.
Module 2 Discussion Week 2 Resources
Guide to Get Started on Instagram for Businesses (2021)
Why brands are continuing to use Instagram influencers (2021)
Four Best-Practice Strategies For Influencer Content On Instagram (2021)
Instagram launches its version of TikTok Duets (2021)
15 Effective Ways to Leverage ‘Doomscrolling’ In Your Marketing (2021)
Based on the resources provided or your research, share innovative ways businesses are using Instagram. Provide one example of an organization’s Instagram marketing campaign and one using an influencer. (Research Support Required)
This post should be 1-2 paragraphs in length (at least 100 words). Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite in the body of the post and add a reference list in APA format. NOTE: failure to use research with accompanying in-text citations to support content will result in reduced scoring “Level 2-Developing” on the grading rubric.
How do you identify instruments appropriate for use with GCU core quantitative research designs?
1. Think again of that study on the predictive relationships of high school principals’ leadership styles and academic achievement in their schools in your state. The instrumentation must be aligned with the research questions and study design and must be feasible for administration of the study. How do you identify instruments appropriate for use with GCU core quantitative research designs? How might you address concerns about the influence of instrumentation on study feasibility? Do you have any ethical concerns about recruitment and data collection? Explain.
2. Imagine again that you are an automotive manufacturing executive tasked with increasing sales in your state. You wish to assess the effectiveness of an incentive program for sales personnel implemented at 10 dealerships in medium-size cities and 10 dealerships in small cities. What three data collection approaches are most feasible for such a study? What are the most significant strengths and weaknesses of these data collection approaches? Why are these significant? What concerns do you have about the feasibility of implementing these approaches to data collection for this study? Explain.
What did you learn about your state’s insurance and Medicaid program. How does your state compare to other states?
Impact of Health Care Policy and Determinants
Part 1
Research health care policy and health care determinants.
Respond to the following prompt using 90 to 175 words:
⦁ Explain the importance of health care policy and its impact on health care determinants.
Part 2
Complete the following chart. Use the weekly textbook readings and other resources you have researched to support your answers:
Identify the four different forms of health care policy. Identify an example of each form identified. Classify the form identified into one of the two categories of the health care policy. Describe why the health care form identified fits in the category identified (15 to 45 words).
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Part 3
Respond to the following prompt using 90 to 175 words:
⦁ Describe how the different forms of health care policy can be used to shape future policies.
Part 4
Respond to the following prompt using 175 to 265
⦁ Look up your state’s (Michigan, USA) Medicaid program (search for your state + Medicaid). Compare the guidelines, income requirements, etc. for your state to those of another state.
Additionally, explore your home state’s insurance website regarding current insurance rules for state residents.
⦁ What did you learn about your state’s insurance and Medicaid program. How does your state compare to other states?
⦁ Why do you think your state’s program and guidelines are different from those of other states? Are there demographic or geographic factors that contribute?
References
Cite at least 2 reputable references used to complete your prompts and chart. One reference must be your textbook, Longest’s Health Policymaking in the United States. Reputable references include trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, the textbook, or other sources of similar quality.
Format your reference section and references used in your prompts and chart according to APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.
Based on the information provided you need to create: A Use Case model depicting the functional requirements of the system
Read the scenario of “Exotic Cars Inc.” Based on the information provided you need to create:
A Use Case model depicting the functional requirements of the system
A Class diagram of the corresponding structural model
Use APA-style writing as well as examples in the book for your projects
Case Study Scenario
Exotic Cars Inc. (ECI) is a company specializing in sales and maintenance of the exotic cars. The cars that ECI sells come from multiple sources Shipped directly from factories Purchased from private collectors Traded-in by customers of ECI ECI also provides a regular maintenance service of the exotic cars, such as engine tune-up, tire rotation, oil change, etc. You do not have to buy a car from ECI to use its maintenance service; consequently, some owners of the exotic cars purchased elsewhere also use ECI maintenance service. ECI appreciates the continued business of its patrons. Consequently, the company wants to maintain as much information about each valued customer as possible. As a result, ECI diligently records how much money each customer spends on buying cars (more than half have purchased two cars and about third bought three or more), on maintenance service (how much customer spends overall, and per car), and whether or not a customer ever traded a car in. Similarly, ECI maintains detailed data on all the dealers, companies, manufacturers, and other sources that provide the company with needed services, parts, or cars. ECI is not a “backward” organization, but things have been done there pretty much the same way since ECI was founded in 1966. The owners of ECI feel like it is about time not just to move forward, but “leapfrog” the competition. You, along with the members of your team, have been hired by ECI to find a way of dramatically increasing the level of performance of ECI.
Organizational structure of ECI
There are three operational locations of ECI Washington, DC, Richmond, VA, Virginia Beach, VA. The corporate headquarters are located in Charlottesville, VA. Every location has a general manager who is responsible for authorizing/rejecting requests area managers may have. Normally, area managers only handle the issue relevant to their area. For example, sales/trade-in area has its own manager, body shop/repair shop has its own, and service area has its own area manager. Every area manager is authorized to make financial decisions up to $10,000.00. If the amount exceeds the limit of an area manager, then the general manager of that location must authorize it–the general manager has discretion of making financial decisions of up to $100,000.00. If the amount exceeds this number, a request is send to the headquarters, where it is approved or rejected by the VP of the area (e.g., service, sales, and repair). The VP of the area is authorized to make financial decisions of up to $250,000.00. If the request exceeds this amount, it must be addressed by the CEO of ECI.
Construct the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses with correct parameters.
Hypothesis Testing
The Lazer Company has a contract to produce a part for Boeing Corporation that must have an average diameter of 6 inches and a standard deviation of 0.10 inch. The Lazer Company has developed a process that will meet the specifications with respect to the standard deviation, but it is still trying to meet the mean specifications. A test run (considered a random sample) of parts was produced, and the company wishes to determine whether this latest process that produced the sample will produce parts meeting the requirement of an average diameter equal to 6 inches.
Use Excel to:
Construct the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses with correct parameters.
Develop the decision rule assuming that the sample size is 200 parts and the significance level is 0.01.
In a Word document:
Recommend what the Lazer Company should conclude if the sample mean diameter for the 200 parts is 6.03 inches.
Submit your recommendations in a Word document and attach your Excel file.
What can employees do to motivate themselves?
Case
WORKPLACE MOTIVATION
Assignment Overview
As in some of the other assignments in this course, you will draw upon your personal experience for this Module 2 Case Assignment about Workplace Motivation.
For the assignment, you will consider the topic of employee motivation for a diverse group of employees who represent different ethnicities, religions, ages, and genders. There are many ways to impact employee motivation, such as with job enrichment or rotation, work-life balance, flexible work hours, job sharing, telecommuting, employee recognition and empowerment, and financial incentives. When determining which of these to use to motivate a diverse group of employees, one must consider that every person is motivated in different ways and with different tools. For instance, your company may set up a comfortable place where employees of different faiths can do their daily ablutions or prayers.
You will prepare a presentation that proposes options for employees to vote on adopting at your own workplace, keeping in mind the demographics of the employee pool as different people require different motivators. You can use the list already provided, but if you do, please add more of your own ideas to the list. Talk with your own HR manager about what they feel is wanted by the employees where you work. (You will select 5 of these topics to put into this PowerPoint presentation.)
For an overview of some important current issues regarding workplace motivation, such as telecommuting and working remotely, and the different things employees consider to be valued motivators, you may find the following articles interesting:
Aleksić-Glišović, M., Jerotijević, G., & Jerotijević, Z. (2019). Modern approaches to employee motivation. Ekonomika, 65(2), 121-133. doi:10.5937/ekonomika1902121A. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Elvie, M. (2019). The influence of organizational culture, compensation and interpersonal communication in employee performance through work motivation as mediation. International Review of Management and Marketing, 9(5), 133-140. Available in the Trident Online Library.
MacRae, I., Furnham, A., & Reed, M. (2018). Chapter 12: Motivators and attitudes. In High potential: how to spot, manage and develop talented people at work, (2nd ed.). [Books24x7 version]. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Samsudin, N. H. (2019, September 20). The method of managing employee motivation in Islam: Analysis on reward methods. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioral Sciences. The Second International Conference on Humanities. Future Academy. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.09.20 Open Access through CC NC 4.0.
Case Assignment
In the background materials, you read about some very traditional theories of motivation such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory. You also learned about how people of other ethnicities or religions are motivated in the workplace. Now you will connect those theories to identifying appropriate motivational tools for the following four employees who each represent a different ethnic group where you work:
Adara is a 26-year-old married Muslim mother of two who was born in Detroit, Michigan, but moved away and became a valued employee three years ago. She has an associate degree in accounting and is also going to school to earn a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Ivy, a single 22-year-old African American, and a recent college graduate with a bachelor’s degree in marketing, has been with the company for just three months. She is the company’s social media marketing assistant.
Maria, a 30-year-old single mother of three who is originally from Puerto Rico, has been with the company for five years. She works as an administrative assistant and is going to school online to earn a degree in business administration.
Richard, a married, white 45-year-old man and father of four children, has been with the company for 16 years and is the Director of Finance.
Consider a time at work when you felt highly motivated. Think about exactly what motivates you personally. Can you apply Maslow’s and Herzberg’s theories to yourself? Now, think about what these four named employees might want or need to motivate them, again applying Maslow’s or Herzberg’s theories. Be sure to conduct some research in the library and read the background readings about what motivates different employee groups.
At work, you are offered the opportunity to develop a PowerPoint presentation that introduces employees to tools your company may adopt to increase employee motivation.
You have come up with 5 tools that you feel will motivate the employees to complete their work in a satisfactory manner, leading to meeting organizational goals. You will apply at least two tools to each of the four named employees and explain why you chose them as motivational tools.
Your presentation should cover the following:
What are 5 tools managers and organizations use to motivate their employees? Include a short discussion of which of the two theories (Maslow or Herzberg, or both) addresses each tool on the appropriate slides’ notes page.
What can employees do to motivate themselves?
What motivates you to complete your own work and are you motivated according to Maslow’s or Herzberg’s theory?
What two tools do you identify as appropriate to each of the four employees, Adara, Ivy, Maria, and Richard? Why did you select those? Are they connected to the motivational theory of Maslow, Herzberg, or both?
Your presentation must contain at least 12 slides (cover slide, five slides for the five tools, one slide for self-motivation, a slide for each of the four named employees, and reference list) but you can have more slides as needed. Use in-text citations and a reference list with at least two high-quality scholarly references for support. High-quality references are academically peer-reviewed journals or textbooks and are found in the Trident Online Library. The citations can be inserted onto the notes pages rather than on the actual slides.
Note: A URL (website address) is not a reference. A reference always contains four parts: author, publication date, article title, and the source of the article. Sometimes there is no author, but the APA manual tells you what you can put in that spot instead. The source for a high-quality peer-reviewed journal article is the journal. When you find an article in the Library, you can click on the quote (”) icon, select the APA format from the drop-down list, and copy/paste the reference onto your reference list. You may have to clean it up because the references are not always input into the database correctly.
Note 2: People today do not want to sit and watch a presentation with tons of words on the slides. They want to see no more than “5 words and a picture” and the picture must be of real people. Feel free to format your presentation with minimal words or however you can get your information across to the employees with the greatest impact. A simple way to come up with headings is to take the assignment’s questions and shorten them to a few words. For instance, I would format the questions in this assignment into the following headings:
5 Tools and Motivation Theory
Self-Motivation
My Motivators According to Maslow or Herzberg
Adara’s Motivators
Ivy’s Motivators
Maria’s Motivators
Richard’s Motivators
A great reason to change the questions into short headings is because if everyone puts the same questions in their papers, their originality score will be falsely high. Rewording the questions helps you to avoid getting a high originality score.
Upload your assignment to the Case 2 Dropbox. Be sure to review your Turnitin Originality report. If the score is over 15%, you may not be writing in your own words and you will need to contact your professor and arrange to revise and resubmit your assignment. Changes cannot be made to the submission, however, if it has already been graded by your professor. Always check your originality score after submitting your papers. If your score is above 15%, take a look at the originality report to see where you forgot to cite your sources. Always use quotation marks to indicate that material has been copied directly from the source. Also, the citation for all quotes must include the page number where you found the quote. These are two areas where most students get dinged on their score.
While it is not mandatory, you are encouraged to submit all your assignments into the practice dropbox. If you do this, you can make any needed changes prior to submitting the assignments for grading.
Citation and reference style instructions are available at
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ and Trident University’s Introduction to APA Style, 7th edition .
You will find the following useful as you critique sources:
Herring, J. E. (2011). Chapter 3: Evaluating websites, Figure 3.1, p. 38. In Improving students’ web use and information literacy: a guide for teachers and teacher librarians. Facet Publishing. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.
Lack, C. W., & Rousseau, J. (2016). Chapter 4: What is critical thinking? In Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience: Why we can’t trust our brains. Springer Publishing Company. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.
Identify and explain the complex system of managerial and organizational factors that influence motivation.
Discussion: Motivation Theory
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As discussed in the background reading, McClelland’s Need Theory talked about three main needs: achievement, power, and affiliation that motivates employees’ behavior. In a response of at least 300 words (there is a word counter in the text box), respond to the following three questions.
Questions 1 and 2:
Based on what you have learned about McClelland’s Need Theory, (1) which need (or needs) is the most important for you at this time in your career (or life, if you are not currently working)?
For the Module 2 SLP assignment, you completed an online survey that measured what motivates you according to the theory developed by McClelland. (2) Were the results of the survey surprising to you or what you initially suspected they would be? Explain your response.
In order to be an effective motivator, recognition should be part of a wider organizational plan to meet employee needs that impact their company commitment. If the organization has other problem areas, recognition may be less effective and other tools must be used instead of, or in addition to, employee recognition. These other interventions could be, among others, employee involvement, communication, empowerment, employee care, telecommuting, or work-life balance. Whatever recognition tool is used, the results must be measured.
Question 3:
How does your company measure these or other various tools to improve employee engagement and increase work productivity?
(To answer this question, you might need to first talk to your employer’s HR manager to discuss what they do.)
If you are not currently working, but have in the past, think back to the ways your previous employer took steps to measure improved employee engagement and increased work productivity.
If you are not currently working, you can complete this discussion topic by using a committee or other group or club membership that took steps to improve the engagement of its members. It is not necessary for you to have belonged to the group or club, but you must know how it changed (or you could ask the group’s leader if things changed and if those changes were as expected).
Your Subsequent Posts:
After posting your own 300-word response to the three questions by midnight Wednesday of Week 1 of Module 2, respond to at least two other students with responses of at least 100 words by midnight Sunday at the end of the Module 2 second week.
Add something new to their discussion rather than stating you like and agree with what they wrote. If you do use the words like and agree, include a paragraph about why you like (or dislike), or agree (or disagree), with what they wrote. This last paragraph is what takes your response to a higher level of critical thinking. In these two responses, underline the new ideas/comments and/or research that you added to the discussion.
Remember: To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). Only one high-quality peer-reviewed outside source is needed (in the initial post), and these are found in the Trident Online Library. But in any post, if you borrow ideas/information from other authors, give them credit for their work.
Now that you have completed the three assignments in this module, do you agree with the statement, “Yes, I can meet the three Module 2 learning outcomes”?
Case
Identify and explain the complex system of managerial and organizational factors that influence motivation.
SLP
Demonstrate knowledge of the complex system of managerial and organizational factors that influence motivation.
Discussion
Identify and use tools to measure your own composition of psychological needs.
What are your top three most important needs, according to the test?
WORKPLACE MOTIVATION
SLP Assignment Overview
A 2014 study by Judge and Papata found that all personality traits are more predictive of job performance when the work was performed in an unstructured environment where employees have the freedom to make personal choices. In addition, the study found that employees’ traits also indicated how they would act in a situation because of those same traits.
According to MacRae, Furnham, and Reed (2018), there are two types of motivation that influence employees, intrinsic and extrinsic. As you likely know, intrinsic motivation comes from that which drives people from within. We are motivated by things like the norms held by our families and by the communities in which we live. For example, if you received many awards for your achievements as you grew up, you may now be motivated toward activities for which you can earn rewards in your adult work.
The second form of motivation, extrinsic, is external. MacRae, Furnham, and Reed (2019) gave several excellent examples of extrinsic motivation factors that include a good salary, steady job, access to medical and other insurance, safe workplaces, and paid time off. These factors are important to every employee, with some more so than others, because all workers have different needs. These factors motivate workers to perform their jobs well so that they keep receiving these rewards.
The intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors employees have is what molds them into who they are as individual employees.
Understanding the role of motivation and attitudes at work is important to understanding why people do what they do (or do not do). It is important to consider the level of accountability at individual, companywide, or nationwide levels to manage performance and ensure ethical conduct takes place. The same is true of understanding all factors of motivating people at work and understanding motives and attitudes.
MacRae, I., Furnham, A., & Reed, M. (2018). Chapter 12: Motivators and attitudes. In High potential: how to spot, manage and develop talented people at work, (2nd ed.). [Books24x7 version]. Available in the Trident Online Library.
SLP Assignment
In Module 1, you learned about personality characteristics and how those characteristics affected your behaviors as an employee (and in life in general). In the Module 2 SLP assignment, you will take another test, but this one is about what motivates you. Please take the test at this site (or another site of your choice, or do both tests for comparison of results):
http://www.seemypersonality.com/personality.asp?p=Motivation-Test#q1
For this SLP assignment, after completing the test about what motivates you, address the following questions related to topics covered in this Module in a paper that is 2-3 pages, not counting the cover and reference list pages. Note that when the assignment calls for a submission of 2-3 pages, the professor is hoping for three pages but is willing to accept two full pages.
• What are your top three most important needs, according to the test?
• How do you satisfy these needs?
• Are your needs the same at home as they are at work?
• How do your needs affect your motivation to do well in life?
• What motivates you to get up every day and go to work?
Then, meet with someone who knows you well: your best friend, a trusted manager, or a coworker, and discuss the results of your motivation test. Write about the results of your personality test and your answers to the above five questions.
Having met with your selected trusted person, is how you see yourself the same as how they see you? In the final submission of this SLP assignment, include a paragraph of at least 150 words (or ½ page double-spaced) covering the highlights of your discussion with that person. (This is in addition to your responses to the five questions above.)
If you are not currently working, you can select a family member, friend, neighbor, or someone else who knows you well to complete this part of the assignment.
Upload your assignment to the SLP 2 Dropbox. Be sure to review your TurnItIn Originality report. If the score is over 15%, you may not be writing in your own words and you will need to contact your professor and arrange to revise and resubmit your assignment. Changes cannot be made to the submission, however, if it has already been graded by your professor. Since this paper is all about you, your Turnitin score should be extremely low. While it is not mandatory, you are encouraged to submit all your assignments into the practice dropbox. If you do this, you can make any needed changes prior to submitting the assignment for grading.
Support your responses to the questions in this 2- to 3-page assignment with at least one high-quality reference from the Trident Online Library that is about the concept predominant in this Module, motivation theory. High-quality references come from peer-reviewed academic journals and textbooks. All references must be properly cited and included on the References page.
Remember to spell check your submission. In addition, check for the correct use of basic APA formatting of the document and references, such as the use of Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced paragraphs, paragraphs indented ½ inch, margins on all four sides of the paper set at 1 inch, and bold headings. You can use another formatting style, such as Chicago or MLA, as long as you use it consistently throughout your paper; however, if you use APA formatting, practice using the 7th edition.
This paper is all about you, so it is perfectly fine to respond to the assignment questions in the first person.
Citation and reference style instructions are available at
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ and Trident University’s Introduction to APA Style, 7th edition .
You will find the following useful as you critique sources:
Herring, J. E. (2011). Chapter 3: Evaluating websites, Figure 3.1, p. 38. In Improving students’ web use and information literacy: a guide for teachers and teacher librarians. Facet Publishing. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.
Lack, C. W., & Rousseau, J. (2016). Chapter 4: What is critical thinking? In Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience: Why we can’t trust our brains. Springer Publishing Company. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.
Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Overview
In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for the assignments, Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness and External and Internal Environments.
Research the company on its own website,
Use the Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.
Requirements
Write a 6-8 page paper in which you do the following:
- Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
- Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
- Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
- Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
- Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Why is culture and training often overlooked?
APA format
175 – 265 words
Cite at least one (1) peer reviewed reference
Respond to the following:
Dr. Bill Berry
Theme
Hi All,
There is a theme here. Often, senior managers implement a system without making sure everything is in place for that implementation. Often this includes both training and culture. In terms of culture, it takes a growth mentality of continuous improvement. Inherent in this is the risk of the culture being or becoming a blaming culture for failures rather than a celebrating culture for success. We need to find the besta nd have them share rather than finding the worst and have them explain.
Why is culture and training often overlooked?
Dr. Bill
Ancona, D. (2020, September 8). The Overlooked Key to Leading Through Chaos. MIT Sloan Management Review. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-overlooked-key-to-leading-through-chaos/
