How does happiness and pleasure factor in to these theories?

Competency

Evaluate consequence-based moral theories.

Instructions

Creating the perfect boss

Your company, Ye Old Paper Mill, recently experienced some organizational chart changes, mostly related to management positions. After posting low profits and even lower employment satisfaction scores, the CEO decided it was time for a change. The CEO, who prefers consequentialist views when it comes to ethical decisions, approached you, along with the rest of the human resources department, and tasked the team with weighing consequentialist ethical theories and selecting which theory would be best for potential managers. For this assessment, you will draft a proposal that addresses the following questions:

· What are key features of consequentialist theories?

· What are the differences between the consequentialist theories?

· How does happiness and pleasure factor in to these theories? Remember employee satisfaction is at an all-time low.

· What are the pros and cons of each view for the company if the majority of its employees would follow one of the particular theories?

· Would it be possible for a manager, who follows a different ethical perspective, to effectively manage subordinates who follow a particular consequentialist theory?

· Select and defend which consequentialist theory for management would be best for the company.

Your properly formatted proposal will need to include the following sections:

Introduction: Explain why you are sending this proposal. Provide an overview of the issue and discuss the task from the CEO.

1. Address the questions listed above with applicable support and research

2. Conclusion: In this part, you will wrap up the proposal and select and defend which consequentialist theory for management would be best for the company.

3. Proper Proposal Formatting: This a professional document and needs to be structured as a proposal and not as an essay. You will still need to supply both in text and full citations for the sources of your information. If you need further assistance with how to structure a proposal,

Explain epidemiology and its relationship to public health.
  • Explain epidemiology and its relationship to public health.
  • Describe the selected issue or disease.
  • Identify the underlying nature and cause of the selected issue or disease.
  • Analyze the uses and effects of demographic data, surveillance data, and vital statistics in public and community health.
  • Identify the demographics and effect of the selected issue or disease on the community.
  • Determine if the effects cross from community to state or national levels.
  • Analyze possible solutions for the selected issue or disease.
  • Identify possible solutions.
  • Explain how the solutions were, or might be, successful.
  • Recommend additional suggestions for treatment or resolution.
  • Explain how the P.E.R.I.E. model served as a guide to understand the cause.
Discuss how this case illustrates the contrasts between the administrative use and developmental use of appraisals.

For this  Week Case Study, you will review the following case study. Upon thorough review of the case study, you will answer the questions at the end of the case study.

Performance Management Improvements for Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms and is widely known for its innovative research. But the firm has not limited its innovations to products. Several years ago, BMS leaders decided that the company’s performance management system needed to be re-invented. Specifically, they determined that the existing performance appraisal process was not working. Managers were “form focused,” meaning that they were so concentrated on filling out the performance review forms, the content of the forms was not being used for employee coaching and based on development. Also, most of the attention of managers and employees was historical and based on what employees had done in the past. Little attention was being given to how employees could develop and improve in the future.

The most radical steps taken were to totally eliminate the appraisal forms and their rating scales and to request that managers not discuss pay increases during performance review sessions. Instead, a new “performance partnership” became the focus. At all levels of BMS, managers were trained to hold regular meetings with their employees. At these meetings managers and employees review performance goals expectations. Together they set expectations and timelines for accomplishing the goals. Rather than meeting just once a year, the performance partnership update occurs throughout the year.

The changes in the performance management system have led to several positive results. First, employees are more active participants, rather than just getting their ratings on forms and then passively listening to the managers. Also, a greater amount of time is spent on coaching because managers were trained on use of a guided feedback approach. This approach has led to more discussions in which employees and managers emphasize joint problem solving and goal achievements. Although the system takes more managerial and employee time, the coaching and employee involvement have created a more positive relationship and improved individual and managerial performance.

Case Study Questions

1. Discuss how this case illustrates the contrasts between the administrative use and developmental use of appraisals.

2. Identify some of the advantages and disadvantages of eliminating the use of appraisal forms and ratings.

It is not sufficient to state your opinions alone; you must back up your responses by applying human resource management concepts from the text with the case data that supports your findings. By writing your responses to the case study, you will be required to demonstrate how to integrate human resource management concepts with the case data, conduct research using the GMC Library, and properly cite sources using APA Style. You will be responsible for using a minimum of 2 scholarly/peer-reviewed sources. Textbooks are not considered scholarly/peer-reviewed sources; however, they may still be included as a supplemental reference.

The case study should have an APA title page and an APA reference page. The APA title page and APA reference page DO NOT count towards the minimum page requirement! Your body of work needs to be a minimum of 1 complete page in length. Note that an APA abstract page is NOT required!

Interpret the actions involved when utilizing the intervention.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapters 7, 8, and 9 of the course textbook, read the following articles, What We Can Learn from Evaluating OD Interventions (Links to an external site.), The Benefits of Creating A Diverse Workforce (Links to an external site.), and What Are the Advantages of a Diverse Workforce? (Links to an external site.), and watch the video, How Can You Influence Others? (Links to an external site.).

Last week, you prepared the foundation of your final project by selecting a case study and applying the appropriate action research process to the OD challenge. Based on your knowledge of intervention types, you proposed a recommended interaction for the challenge. This week, you will have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of individual, team, group, and organizational interventions, and what they look like during problem solving and decision-making.

Intervention is the “doing” phase of action research. This paper will solidify your intervention selection. You will explain the actions used during your selected intervention and comprehensively apply the process to the case study. The paper must be at least two full pages in length, and must include the course textbook as a reference, as well as three additional scholarly and credible sources to support the content of the paper.

In your paper,

  • Select an appropriate intervention for your case study.
  • Evaluate why the intervention is applicable to the case study.
  • Interpret the actions involved when utilizing the intervention.

The Intervention Selection and Application paper

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Describe recommended data collection and evaluation methods during the intervention.

Prior to beginning work on this final assignment, read Chapter 10 in the course textbook, and review Chapters 3 through 9 if you need to (it is recommended). Additionally, read Finally! Global OD Competencies (Links to an external site.) and Dialogic OD (Links to an external site.).

The Action Research Case Study assignment in Week 3 had you select a case study, identify the change challenge of the case, and design an action research process for the change process. During Week 4, the Intervention Selection and Application assignment had you select an intervention method that best suited the change challenge within the organization. You are now ready to complete the final paper based on the case study selected in the Action Research Case Study assignment from the Week 3 – Assignment. Be sure to incorporate all instructor feedback from prior weeks’ assignments in your final paper.

Consider that you have been hired as a consultant to help the organization with the change challenge. In your paper, you will introduce the overall purpose of the project as related to organizational development and change challenges.

Section 1

For Section 1 of your paper, you will

  • Summarize the Action Research Case Study assignment in Week 3.
  • Justify why it is a problem and the type of problem.
    • Example: is it turnover, diversity, ethical, job satisfaction, downsizing, restructure, or other?
  • Define the selected action research process based on the Week 3 Action Research Case Study assignment paper.
  • Identify the intervention type selected in the Week 4 Intervention Selection and Application assignment.
  • Describe the intervention process.

Section 2

For Section 2 of your paper, you will

  • Describe the role of the consultant during the intervention.
  • Categorize the competencies and ethical behaviors needed for the intervention.
  • Define the recommended research methods that will be utilized during the intervention.
  • Describe recommended data collection and evaluation methods during the intervention.
  • Define a timeline for the intervention process.
  • Identify anticipated resistance to the change and the process for reconciliation.

Section 3

For Section 3 of your paper, you will

  • Hypothesize the projected outcomes for the OD change project.
  • Validate your reasoning for the projected outcome.

Conclusion

Conclude your paper with a comprehensive summation of the project.

Determine the legislative intent of the bill you have reviewed.

Assignment: Legislation Grid and Testimony/Advocacy Statement

As a nurse, how often have you thought to yourself,  If I had anything to do about it, things would work a little differently? Increasingly, nurses are beginning to realize that they do, in fact, have a role and a voice.

Many nurses encounter daily experiences that motivate them to take on an advocacy role in hopes of impacting policies, laws, or regulations that impact healthcare issues of interest. Of course, doing so means entering the less familiar world of policy and politics. While many nurses do not initially feel prepared to operate in this space effectively, the reward is the opportunity to shape and influence future health policy.

To Prepare:

· Select a bill that has been proposed (not one that has been enacted) using the congressional websites provided in the Learning Resources.

The Assignment: (1- to 2-page Legislation Grid; 1-page Legislation Testimony/Advocacy Statement)

Be sure to add a title page, an introduction, purpose statement, and a conclusion. This is an APA paper.

Part 1: Legislation Grid

Based on the health-related bill (proposed, not enacted) you selected, complete the Legislation Grid Template. Be sure to address the following:

· Determine the legislative intent of the bill you have reviewed.

· Identify the proponents/opponents of the bill.

· Identify the target populations addressed by the bill.

· Where in the process is the bill currently? Is it in hearings or committees?

Part 2: Legislation Testimony/Advocacy Statement

Based on the health-related bill you selected, develop a 1-page Legislation Testimony/Advocacy Statement that addresses the following:

· Advocate a position for the bill you selected and write testimony in support of your position.

· Explain how the social determinants of income, age, education, or gender affect this legislation.

· Describe how you would address the opponent to your position. Be specific and provide examples.

· At least 2 outside resources and 2-3 course specific resources are used.

By Day 7 of Week 4

Submit your completed legislation grid and testimony/advocacy statement.

Milstead, J. A., & Short, N. M. (2019).  Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

· Chapter 3, “Government Response: Legislation” (pp. 37–56)

· Chapter 10, “Overview: The Economics and Finance of Health Care” (pp. 180–183 only)

https://www.congress.gov

https://www.nursingoutlook.org/article/S0029-6554(17)30262-2/fulltext

https://www.house.gov

https://www.senate.gov

Write an email to a friend telling him or her about the entire incident and why you will not be able to do your work.

Part 1: (150 words) Imagine that you are unable to attend complete an assignment because of a family emergency. Write an email to a friend telling him or her about the entire incident and why you will not be able to do your work. Relate the incident in the casual register, using simple words, slang, jargon or dialect—the “insider” language you speak among friends and the type of language McWhorter discusses in the video above. If you speak English as a second language, you might mix your two languages even to the extent of using a few made-up or combination words. Let your sentences be incomplete, your grammar incorrect, your word choice colorful or even mildly offensive. Just make it sound like you might really write this way to your friend. In other words, keep it real.

Part 2: (150 words) Using the same story you related above, now rewrite the incident as an email to your instructor in the formal register. Your goal in this email is to maintain credibility with your instructor while asking for her to accept your excuse. This means you must carefully decide which details of the story you include and which details you omit. Remember, communicating with your instructor should be done in the formal register only, and you should use the conventions of professional communication. You will also need to include your name, student ID number, and course and section number, just as if you were sending a “real” email message.  Click here to read a little about how to write a professional email message.

For what purpose does he relate his story about learning to read?

After reading Malcolm X’s text above, think about the audience and purpose he has for writing. To whom does he seem to be speaking? For what purpose does he relate his story about learning to read? After you’ve thought about it, write a response that shows what you think his audience and purpose are and why you think the way you do. Be sure to provide support for your thinking by using examples from the text.

Why would the price-earnings ratio be higher for the software company?

Activity

You have just won $2 million in lottery! Congrats! Realizing how fortunate you are, you have spent some of this money on a new car, a new condominium and a trip around the world. You have now returned back from your trip and would like to take the remaining $500,000 in the shares of one publicly traded Canadian company. You seek advice on which company to invest from one of your friends, who is a computer programmer. She tells you to invest in a new software company that just went public (the company’s shares begun trading on the stock exchange). The new technology company develops new online games and receives fees from players along with advertising revenue. This company has not had many sales yet, but expects to in the future due to the popularity of its product. Its price-earnings ratio is 80 times earnings, its return on common shareholder’s equity is 2.0% and its return on assets is 1.8%. (you may need to refresh your understanding of the underlined terms). Your uncle, on the other hand, suggests that you purchase shares in a large bank that has consistently paid dividends for over 100 years and has increased its dividends every year for the past 45 years. This bank has a price-earnings ratio of 11 times earnings, but unlike the software company, it has a dividend yield of 3.0%. The bank’s net income has barely risen over the past two years but its return on common shareholders’ equity is 10.2%, while its return on assets is 2.7%.

Instructions

1. Research and find the meaning of the bolded and underlined terms. Include this in your response.

2. Why would the price-earnings ratio be higher for the software company? (3 marks) 3. Why would the bank have dividend yield and the software company would not? (3

marks) 4. Why would the software company have lower returns on both assets and equity? (3

marks) 5. Why would a bank have such a large difference between its return on common

shareholders’ equity and return on assets? (3 marks) 6. Which company would you invest in? Explain your reasoning. (5 marks)

Please ensure that your response is written in full sentences and that you provide an explanation and/or a calculation to support your answers.

What is the procedure for administering and scoring the test?

Reading/Resources

Brookhart, S., & Nitko, A. (2019). Educational assessment of students (8th ed.).

· Chapter 19: Scholastic Aptitude, Career Interests, Attitudes, and Personality Tests

Part A-

After reading this week’s readings & resources, respond to the following prompt. How has this course informed your understanding of classroom assessment and evaluation?

Part B-Prepare at least a 15-slide presentation on the various types of tests: aptitude tests, career interest tests, aptitude tests, and personality tests. Identify the type of test and find an example of that type of test to report. For example, a type of personality test is called the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator. The slide presentation will include the required information below for each type of test.

Provide the type of test along with a general description. Make sure to provide a test example

by identifying the specific test you researched and briefly address the following:

· What does the test measure?

· How are the results used?

· Who uses the results?

· What is the procedure for administering and scoring the test?

· Sources – APA format

Part C-

Use the Data for Class Case Study document to complete the assignment.

Calculate the composite score for each student using the given grading model.

Calculate basic statistics (mean, mode, median, standard deviation, percentile ranks, and Z scores), do not include calculations – simply report the values in a table.

Identify and justify any grading category that may have bias.

Provide suggestions for the teacher to address any biases you identified.

Prepare a final report for the teacher. The report should include grading categories where instruction might be improved and identification of any student(s) who may need remediation in any particular area. Make sure you justify your decisions using evidence from the data and what you have learned throughout the course.

Prepare a final report for an individual student that will be shared with parent(s)/legal guardian(s). The report should include standing, growth, strengths, and suggestions.

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