During this course, you worked as a team on a large project. It is important to reflect on projects and teamwork to learn what went right, and what went wrong. Evaluate your team/project experience during this class so far. How could you have improved teamwork and collaboration? Are there ways you would have approached a project of this magnitude differently if you did it again?
During this course, you worked as a team on a large project. It is important to reflect on projects and teamwork to learn what went right, and what went wrong.
Evaluate your team/project experience during this class so far.
How could you have improved teamwork and collaboration?
Are there ways you would have approached a project of this magnitude differently if you did it again?
Create a “User’s Guide” of 3 to 5 pages where you advise future teams on how to maximize their success on an audit. Be creative!
Explain the concept of organizational effectiveness, as it relates to the interactions of members. Describe methods used to assess the behaviors and attitudes of organizational members, and apply 1 model in an analysis of your organization. Analyze methods used to improve the behavior and attitudes of organizational members.
Part 1:
Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.
This is next weeks key assignment: I only need an outline today.
Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
You work for an international construction company that has been contracted to build the tallest skyscraper in the world in Rio De Janeiro. The financing is coming from Dubai, the materials are coming from China, the engineering and technology are coming from Germany, and the labor will be hired locally with management from the United States. You invite all of the players to the headquarters in the United States for a big meeting to explain the project and get to know one another. The people seem to be staying with their own groups and not mingling.
What is the cultural phenomenon here?
How do you explain the lack of intercultural communication?
What do you know about these cultures-specifically their economic, political, educational, and social systems-that could help you in getting them together?
What are some of the contrasting cultural values of these countries?
You are concerned about some of the language issues as you start the meeting, particularly the fact that the United States is a low-context country, and some of the countries present are high-context countries. Furthermore, you only speak English, and you do not have an interpreter present.
How will this affect the presentation?
What are some of the issues you should be concerned about regarding verbal and nonverbal language for this group?
What strategy would you use to begin to have everyone develop a relationship with each other that will help ease future negotiations, development, and implementation?
part 2:
I also need another outline for this one:
Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.
this is the key assignment
Working with organizations to improve the interactions of members and increase productivity through collaborative behavior is an essential role of the organization development human resources specialist. You will need to pick an organization to use for this project. The organization you choose may be your current employer, or alternatively, an organization in which you volunteer or one about which you can easily find information through the school library, the Internet, or other sources.
Research and address the elements of organizational effectiveness that will improve interactions in a presentation for senior leaders:
Explain the concept of organizational effectiveness, as it relates to the interactions of members.
Describe methods used to assess the behaviors and attitudes of organizational members, and apply 1 model in an analysis of your organization.
Analyze methods used to improve the behavior and attitudes of organizational members.
Propose processes to build teams and manage their different stages of development.
Evaluate methods of managing conflict and change within the organization.
All I need is a simple outline for both based on the information given.
Compare and contrast the three STRIDE variants of (a) STRIDE-per-Element, (b) STRIDE per-Interaction, and (c) Desit.
Question A
Compare and contrast the three STRIDE variants of (a) STRIDE-per-Element, (b) STRIDE per-Interaction, and (c) Desit.
Question B
Each week, research a unique news story or article related to Information Security/Information Technology. Post a summary of what you learned to the discussion thread, please also provide a link to the original article. Source is your choice; however please fully cite your source.
An 89-year-old female complains of a stabbing chest pain and points to the area just below her scapula at the right mid-clavicular line. She states that she had an upper respiratory infection last week that just seems to hang on. She has no other complaints. In order of importance, describe three (3) questions that you would like to ask this patient and give a brief explanation of why.
An 89-year-old female complains of a stabbing chest pain and points to the area just below her scapula at the right mid-clavicular line. She states that she had an upper respiratory infection last week that just seems to hang on. She has no other complaints.
In order of importance, describe three (3) questions that you would like to ask this patient and give a brief explanation of why.
You are a project manager for a large electronics retailer (for example, Best Buy) who will be implementing a new time-keeping system to track hourly and salaried employees time and attendance. You have been asked to develop a balanced scorecard that can be used to manage the effectiveness of this project. Create a balanced scorecard for the financial, customer, business, and learning aspects of the project and insert it onto the discussion board. Explain how you will measure the effectiveness of the project.
You are a project manager for a large electronics retailer (for example, Best Buy) who will be implementing a new time-keeping system to track hourly and salaried employees time and attendance. You have been asked to develop a balanced scorecard that can be used to manage the effectiveness of this project.
Create a balanced scorecard for the financial, customer, business, and learning aspects of the project and insert it onto the discussion board. Explain how you will measure the effectiveness of the project.
Senior leadership at Matrix International Corporation now has a strong understanding of the importance of performance management and its value to the company. Their knowledge came as a result of the information that you provided to them in your executive summary. The human resources department and your supervisor, Annalise Zajac, the Director of Human Resources, are very proud of the foundation that you have built for them. Annalise has asked you to prepare a PowerPoint presentation in which you evaluate a minimum of 3 different approaches to evaluating performance to share with the HR department. The following must be included in your PowerPoint presentation: What are three approaches to evaluating performance? How is each typically used? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?
(1) Within the Discussion Board area, writewords that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions with your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Senior leadership has emphasized that effective performance management is critical to long-term success at Matrix. Communication in performance management is the next topic that you will explore. Since communicating objectives, discussing performance expectations, and dialogue between employees and managers builds success, you will need to discover some best practices to share with the HR department. With you follow classmates, please discuss the following:Complete the following:
What are some formal methods of communication in an effective performance management system?
What are some informal methods of communication in an effective performance management system
What are some advantages and disadvantages of formal methods and informal methods?
Senior leadership at Matrix International Corporation now has a strong understanding of the importance of performance management and its value to the company. Their knowledge came as a result of the information that you provided to them in your executive summary. The human resources department and your supervisor, Annalise Zajac, the Director of Human Resources, are very proud of the foundation that you have built for them. Annalise has asked you to prepare a PowerPoint presentation in which you evaluate a minimum of 3 different approaches to evaluating performance to share with the HR department. The following must be included in your PowerPoint presentation:
What are three approaches to evaluating performance?
How is each typically used?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?
(3) Within the Discussion Board area, write words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions with your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
A performance appraisal meeting is held periodically at Matrix so that managers and employees can discuss the results of the performance review and develop positive outcomes. Although at times, managers and employees may have challenges conducting a productive performance appraisal meeting, there are some strategies that can be used to add value and reduce anxiety among managers and employees. With your fellow classmates, please discuss the following:
What makes performance appraisal meetings valuable?
Why is it important to discuss the performance diagnosis and future planning during the meeting?
Why should the manager and employee arrange follow up meetings?
You provide a lecture to the working group regarding the importance of security education, awareness, and training due to the oft-quoted security maxim that users/humans are the weakest link in the security chain. While making users aware of security risks and training them how to protect company assets will reduce risk, it is important to put technical controls in place to protect the operating systems and applications that employees use every day. Discuss the importance of hardening the PCS client workstations and servers.
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You provide a lecture to the working group regarding the importance of security education, awareness, and training due to the oft-quoted security maxim that users/humans are the weakest link in the security chain. While making users aware of security risks and training them how to protect company assets will reduce risk, it is important to put technical controls in place to protect the operating systems and applications that employees use every day.
Discuss the importance of hardening the PCS client workstations and servers. Make recommendations for operating system hardening options and describe how these are related to the concept of system-specific policies discussed earlier in the course. One of the working group members blurts out that antivirus protection is a waste of computing resources and patching applications takes too much time. Be sure to address these two concepts in your initial thread. Include at least one research reference and associated in-text citation using APA standards. In your replies to your peers further discuss the importance of software security.
A mother brings her 6-month-old daughter to the HCP for evaluation of possible colic. The mother says the baby has had many episodes of crying after eating and, despite having a good appetite, is not gaining weight. The mother says the babys belly gets all swollen sometimes. The mother says the baby tastes salty when the mother kisses the baby. Further work up reveals a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. The mother relates that her 23-month-old son has had multiple episodes of chest congestion and was hospitalized once for pneumonia. The mother wants to know what cystic fibrosis is and she also wants to know if she should have any more children. Post an explanation of the disease highlighted in the scenario you were provided. Include the following in your explanation: The role genetics plays in the disease. Why the patient is presenting with the specific symptoms described. The physiologic response to the stimulus presented in the scenario and why you think this response occurred.
Week 1 Discussion scenario: A mother brings her 6-month-old daughter to the HCP for evaluation of possible colic. The mother says the baby has had many episodes of crying after eating and, despite having a good appetite, is not gaining weight. The mother says the babys belly gets all swollen sometimes. The mother says the baby tastes salty when the mother kisses the baby. Further work up reveals a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. The mother relates that her 23-month-old son has had multiple episodes of chest congestion and was hospitalized once for pneumonia. The mother wants to know what cystic fibrosis is and she also wants to know if she should have any more children.
Post an explanation of the disease highlighted in the scenario you were provided. Include the following in your explanation:
The role genetics plays in the disease.
Why the patient is presenting with the specific symptoms described.
The physiologic response to the stimulus presented in the scenario and why you think this response occurred.
The cells that are involved in this process.
How another characteristic (e.g., gender, genetics) would change your response.
Effectively plan, design, develop, and test an original program of your choosing. This program is your choice and it can be as complex as you wish. The goal is to start with an idea for your program and then step through the process of most phases of the development lifecycle to turn your idea into an actual program. This includes planning out the algorithm using pseudocode, coding your program using everything you learned from Units 1-3, and finally, testing and debugging your program to make sure it fulfills your intended purpose. You will fill out a journal (template link below) which has five sections that correspond to the five steps you will complete for your final project.
Effectively plan, design, develop, and test an original program of your choosing. This program is your choice and it can be as complex as you wish. The goal is to start with an idea for your program and then step through the process of most phases of the development lifecycle to turn your idea into an actual program. This includes planning out the algorithm using pseudocode, coding your program using everything you learned from Units 1-3, and finally, testing and debugging your program to make sure it fulfills your intended purpose. You will fill out a journal (template link below) which has five sections that correspond to the five steps you will complete for your final project.
