Summarize the main points of the selected articles.
The purpose of this assignment is to research one of the topics you have covered in this course. You will collect 10 scholarly research articles written within the last 10 years on a particular topic related to sex and sexuality (i.e. pornography, extramarital affair, teen pregnancy, homosexuality, etc.).
Articles should come from scholarly research sources. You will then write and submit a 10-page paper with the following 3 main sections relevant to these articles:
1. Article Summaries: Summarize the main points of the selected articles.
2. Compare and contrast the information presented in the articles with the content presented in class.
3. Explain how a therapist may use this information on your topic to help a client define healthy sexuality and how having that understanding can help the client make wise decisions in their relationships.
Papers will be written in current APA format and should include a title page, abstract, and reference page which are not part of the 10 body pages of the paper.
The paper should be a minimum of 10 pages of content (this does not include title page, abstract, or reference page).
Course Textbook to be used as a reference.
Balswick, J., & Balswick, J. (2008). Authentic human sexuality: An integrated Christian approach (2nd ed.). Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press. ISBN: 978-0-8308-2883-8.
Compare and contrast the differences in the ATOM methodology for large versus small projects
Post-Project Review Please respond to the following:
Compare and contrast the differences in the ATOM methodology for large versus small projects. Analyze the key reasons why it is important to address these differences when preparing the initial project plan.
Describe the characteristics of your selected audience for the instructional website
Instructional Website Assessment Plan [WLO: 4] [CLOs: 1, 4]
Prior to completing this assignment, please be sure to read chapter 9 of your text and view Tests: Assessing learning and providing feedback (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. In this assignment, you will continue assuming the role of the contract instructional designer you imagined for the Evaluating Learner Achievement discussion this week, and you will begin to develop an assessment plan for your instructional website. Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the Week 1 Instructor Guidance page and review the Grading Rubric.
In this assignment,
Describe the characteristics of your selected audience for the instructional website.
State the topics and objectives you have decided on for achieving the instructional goal of teaching the principles of instructional design and featuring Gagnés Nine Events of Instruction as a framework for designing effective learning experiences. At a minimum, the topics must cover the essential principles for instructional design represented most closely in Chapters 2 through 10 (i.e., analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation).
Describe three self-assessments you will design for at least three topics on your website. You do not need to create these now, only describe what these assessments will include.
Identify which objectives align to each assessment and justify your assessment choices.
Other than age, what factors may be both positively and negatively affecting your hearing?
Step 1:
Visit the TeenBuzz website at www.teenbuzz.org (opens in a new window). This site offers free ringtones that most adults cannot hear.
The website includes a chart of ringtones that start at 8kHz (everyone should be able to hear) and go up to 22kHz (only those below age 20 can hear). Starting with the 8kHz frequency, download* each ringtone one at a time and keep a list of which you can hear and make a note when you are no longer able to hear the ringtone.
*There are four options for downloading the ringtones, depending on what type of device you are using. Most students on a computer, laptop or Android device will click the green download button (MP3). Students using iPhones will click the blue/grey button (M4R format) and students using Windows phones will click on the red/orange button (WAV format). There is no need to save the ringtones.
Step 2:
Thoroughly discuss the following:
Other than age, what factors may be both positively and negatively affecting your hearing? For example, using headphones regularly or a history of ear infections may be negatively affecting your hearing while living in a rural area or rarely attending live concerts may have a positive affect on your hearing.
When writing your initial post, please include the frequencies you could hear and whether your actual age is consistent with the age ranges given by the website
Explain in an additional two-three paragraphs your understanding of the article as it relates to the assignment topic.
Purpose:
The purpose of the Environmental Scanning Article Review Assignment is to help students synthesize their understanding of the HRM3110 course outcomes to the current, real-world, HR environment of business.
Instructions:
· Research a current event article related to the assigned topic. Students should focus their research on relevant HR trade publications such as HR Magazine and Workforce Magazine.
Topics:
Module 7: Article Review 4 Union Role in Wages and Salary
· Prepare a two-three paragraph summary of the article.
· Explain in an additional two-three paragraphs your understanding of the article as it relates to the assignment topic.
· Explain in an additional one-two paragraphs whether you agree or disagree with the author and why.
· Explain in the final one-two paragraphs how knowledge of this topic will help you in your future HR career
How could commercial digitalization techniques can be applied to Agro businesses in Portugal?
I. Proposed Dissertation Title: The title (tentative) should be precise to allow the reader to comprehend the subject matter of the work.
How modern digitalization techniques in leading countries can be applied to family- owned Agro businesses in Portugal?
II. Research Question or Hypothesis: State clearly what your research interest is. Define your research question/hypothesis and the main objectives of your research (100 words).
The aim of this research is to be able to understand how the agriculture companies have been changing to become more digitalized in the past years. How the changes made in lading countries can be applied to family- owned agro businesses in Portugal.
Main hypothesis:
Can leading digitalization techniques applied in multi nationals attract more customers in the Portuguese market.
Main Research Question:
How could commercial digitalization techniques can be applied to Agro businesses in Portugal?
Research objectives:
– Understand which digitalization techniques were applied and how the Agro Business have benefit from them.
– Identify leading agriculture companies that have been the most successful in this transition to this digitalization and why?
– Determine How business KPI have changed thanks to digitalization.
– How has the digitalization in Agro business in Portugal have made them more profitable?
III. Review of Literature/Background: Make a synthesis of the contributions made in your research field by accredited scholars. Describe how your intended research will complement and expand on the current literature, and what contributions you intend to make to the existing knowledge (500 words).
Note: Should you opt for a Business Plan, then provide a full analysis of the business conditions.
The agriculture sector has the objective to simply feed people and to maximize their production. Since the worlds population is increasing continuously and is expected to continue to grow, the agriculture companies need to be able to supply food for the consumers. According to Pretty, J. (2010) The goal for the agricultural sector is no longer simply to maximize productivity, but to optimize across a far more complex landscape of production, rural development, environmental, social justice and food consumption outcomes.
Taking into consideration the recent global pandemic this last two years companies have understood
that the consumers have changed their habits and the Agro businesses able to explore new ways to adapt. Tasnim (2020) revers that in order to be more transparent to the consumers companies have become more digitalized. This allows them to make major changes with the objective of producing more and have more opportunities to grow.
This Thesis will discuss the digitalization of the agriculture companies to face the problems that have been faced recently and the acceptance of the consumer to this digitalization in the leading European Countries. Companies had the need to constantly adapt to achieve the demand. In this case the need to improve the supply chain, logistics and production are some aspects that agriculture businesses can create advantage by using more digitalized processes (Parviainen, P., Tihinen, M., Kääriäinen, J. and Teppola, S., 2017). Another important aspect is that modern technology allows the consumers to have a more present role in the activities of the company. Since Portugal is a country that still uses old agriculture techniques due to the fact the main sample that works in the Agro Business are older people. With the opportunity to understand digitalization techniques the sector would be able to grow and expand.
According to Burliai (2019) digitalization has changed the agriculture sector with the objective of being more transparent in terms of the consumer to understand better what he is buying but also in the way that the products are produced with more capable resources that allows companies to be more efficient (Burliai, 2019).
Lastly, in this study the research will be conducted by using an academic bibliography with the objective of understanding how the agriculture companies uses the modern technology and which is the impact in the business.
IV. Research Methodology: Clearly indicate the methods and techniques which you are planning to use to gather information and investigate the identified problem.
Primary research:
For this part, two different perspectives will be taken into consideration. First, interview the agriculture companies and then understand the consumer’s perspective. These interviews will focus on two prominent companies: both are Portuguese companies, one is with CEO of a winery in the south of Portugal that has already used digitalization techniques and the other is also with the CEO of a cork company that has few digitalizing techniques. It is crucial to analyze how the progress has been moving as well as, the expectations and concerns of this unexpected world.
A survey will be conducted in order to be aware of the other side of the business. From the client’s perspective. The sample will include 25 participants with the objective of having a more precise poll of results and to understand how the process of digitalization of the agriculture companies is responding to the customer’s needs. It is meaningful for this business area to find out what the clients are still missing and what they expect from the digital growth in this sector.
Secondary Research:
Many studies have been done to understand the movement of the agriculture sector to the online world. These books and case studies will be crucial to compare the findings and conclusions the primary research will provide and afterward draw a conclusion.
Qualitative Data:
The use of Qualitative data such as academic articles and Journals, has a major importance in
validation of the topic. Has the objective of supporting the topic that will be defended.
Quantitative Data:
Tables and charts from other studies will be used to drive more specific conclusions about
findings that other authors have achieved.
V. Selected Bibliography: Please indicate a representative list of the main bibliographical sources you intend to utilize for your dissertation (no more than 20). Please provide full citations
– Ulezko, A., Reimer, V. and Ulezko, O., 2019, May. Theoretical and methodological aspects of digitalization in agriculture. In IOP conference series: earth and environmental science (Vol. 274, No. 1, p. 012062). IOP Publishing.
– Rolandi, S., Brunori, G., Bacco, M. and Scotti, I., 2021. The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts. Sustainability, 13(9), p.5172.
– Kosareva, O.A., Eliseev, M.N., Cheglov, V.P., Stolyarova, A.N. and Aleksina, S.B., 2019. Global trends of digitalization of agriculture as the basis of innovative development of the agro-industrial complex of Russia. Eurasian Journal of biosciences, 13(2), pp.1675-1681.
– Smagulova, S.A., 2020. Digitalization of agriculture in the Republic of Kazakhstan: experience and problems. ???????? ?????????, (1), pp.149-155.
– Nikoli?, T.M., Popovic-Pantic, S. and Muller, I., 2020. 10 The impact of ICT and digitalization on consumer purchase behaviour of Millennials as emerging economic and social force. Society and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges, p.151.
– Kaine, G., 2004. Consumer behaviour as a theory of innovation adoption in agriculture. Social research working paper, 1(04).~
– Rehman, A., Jingdong, L., Khatoon, R., Hussain, I. and Iqbal, M.S., 2016. Modern agricultural technology adoption its importance, role and usage for the improvement of agriculture. Life Science Journal, 14(2), pp.70-74.
– Iqbal, M. and Ahmad, M., 2005, January. Science & Technology based Agriculture vision of Pakistan and prospects of growth. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual General Meeting Pakistan Society of Development Economics, Islamabad. Pakistan Institute of Development Economic (PIDE), Islamabad, Pakistan (pp. 1-27).
– Kamilaris, A., Fonts, A. and Prenafeta-Bold?, F.X., 2019. The rise of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 91, pp.640-652.
– Pretty, J., 2010. The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture.
– King, A., 2017. Technology: The future of agriculture. Nature, 544(7651), pp.S21-S23.
– Tasnim, Z., 2020. Disruption in Global Food Supply Chain (FSCs) Due to Covid-19 Pandemic and Impact of Digitalization Through Block Chain Technology in FSCs Management. European Journal of Business and Management,.
– Burliai, A., 2019. Ecological Consequences of the Digitization of Agriculture. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8(3C), pp.170-175.
– Krupina, G.D., Safiullin, N.A., Kudryavtseva, S.S., Savushkina, L.N. and Kurakova, C.M., 2020. Analysis of the digitalization efficiency in agricultural complex in the Republic of Tatarstan. In BIO Web of Conferences (Vol. 17, p. 00230). EDP Sciences.
– Amentae, T.K. and Gebresenbet, G., 2021. Digitalization and Future Agro-Food Supply Chain Management: A Literature-Based Implications. Sustainability, 13(21), p.12181.
Write a Report on the Role of Economics in a Private Energy Company
To be successful, the organisation must be capable of responding to changes in the sector in which
they operate.
As a manager, you are required to analyse the energy industry during and after the global pandemic.
Hence you should produce a 1,500-word business report on the micro and macro-economic factors
that have affected a private energy company (e.g., gas, electric, solar panel, wind, and oil) of your
choice.
Your report should review and reflect your knowledge and theory of economics. It must include an
analysis of the impact of the economy (including the micro and macro factors) on your case company.
Your audience is the senior management team. You should meet all the related learning outcomes.
Your choice of the organisation should be agreed upon with your tutor during tutorials.
Completion of this assessment will address the following learning outcomes:
1 Identify and evaluate the impact the economy has on business organisations
2 Appraise and apply economic theory to a range of contemporary business contexts
3 Analyse the micro and macro-economic forces on contemporary business
Critically discuss the economic, political and social foundations of the American welfare state
Type of Assessment: Essay
Students are invited to answer any ONE question with a 2000 word assignment
Please answer ONE of the following questions:
1. Critically discuss the economic, political and social foundations of the American welfare state. Offer comparative insights in terms of welfare regime typology in your answer.
2. Outline the key features of the Japanese welfare system and discuss it in relation to the debates around the East Asian welfare regime.
3. Outline the key features of the Russian welfare system and discuss it in relation to the debates around the post-communist welfare states.
4. Compare and contrast the liberal, conservative and social democratic welfare regimes using international examples.
Explain which Operations Management practice this article is most closely associated with
1. Find a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (or other reputable news source) that discusses an operational win or challenge that a company has gone through which has had a significant impact on its business. Focus on one of the topics we are covering that week. In selecting your article:
1. Do not limit your search to organizations in any particular sector. Remember that best practices are everywhere if you are willing to look for them.
2. Identify the wins/challenges that connect to one of the topics we are covering in the upcoming week.
3. You may select the same organization for your submissions or you may select a different organization for your submissions.
2. In the Forum for the week, write a brief introductory executive summary identifying the organization, the challenge and the current state of affairs. Remember to include a link to the article for easy reference.
1. Explain which Operations Management practice this article is most closely associated with
2. Summarize the problem and the impact that the tools had (or could have had) in addressing it
3. Explain how this example can be used as a lesson in your own organization to either point to an area of opportunity for a similar win, or to warn of a potential risk that could have significant impact on your business, if left unaddressed
The article I have chosen closely relates to a lot of the material in the chapters this week, specifically operations strategy, gaining a competitive advantage, and measuring performance (Collier, D. A., & Evans, J. R., 2021).
IT manufacturer Huawei (Links to an external site.) makes consumer products like PCs, Laptops, and wearables and is #2 overall in the world in smartphone sales. In 2019, the US placed restrictions on exporting chips to the Chinese-based company due to failures to adhere to US national security and policy. Huawei spends about $11-billion a year in the US on semiconductors and software (Strumpf, D, et al, 2019). To combat this issue, Huawei has invested in 56 companies through the fund Hubble Technology Investment Co. These companies are vying to produce semiconductors in response to the global chip shortage. Since the export restrictions, Huaweis revenue has been reduced by a third, so diversifying their supply chain is necessary (Strumpf, D, 2022).
Huawei has to reevaluate its supply and value chains due to these restrictions. Since its revenue and performance are down, investing in companies producing chips may set them up with a competitive advantage in the long run. Another tool Huawei is implementing to evaluate its operations is optimization. Optimization in regards to OM is when a company identifies the best way to maximize or minimize goals while meeting requirements and constraints (Collier, D. A., & Evans, J. R., 2021).
Since I am in IT distribution and have felt the long-lasting and, sadly, continuing impacts of the chip shortages, Huaweis efforts pose a competitive risk to vendors we source, affecting our supply. We distribute direct-competitors of Huawei, like Apple, Samsung, and LG, and our vendors could lose market share if they do not adopt similar practices of sourcing semiconductors for their devices. As a distributor, we cannot influence a vendors manufacturing process but we can have open dialogue about their initiatives and adjust and forecast accordingly.
The New York Times ran an article on December 30, 2021, titled Can a Tiny Territory in the South Pacific Power Teslas Ambitions? The article reported Tesla Inc.s operations supply chain strategy to directly procure nickel, critical to the production of its lithium electric car batteries, directly from a mine in Goro, New Caledonia, a French territory located in the South Pacific near Fiji. The action represents the companys intent to minimize the risk of disruption in its supply chain, preventing it from obtaining the mineral. China dominates the production of electric car batteries. Tesla is planning to manufacture batteries in the U.S. and Germany. A South American company previously operated the mine. It grossly mismanaged it from an economic and environmental standpoint. Workers at the mine and residents and activists forced the owner to leave.
Critical mineral mining operations typically exemplify environmental destruction and abuse of local populations, e.g., cobalt in Congo and nickel in the Philippines. Tesla strenuously reports it is committed to achieving benchmarks in environmental preservation and Indigenous peoples rights. Many interest groups will closely watch Tesla’s Goro mining operation. Tesla’s action exhibits risk mitigation of supply chain disruption and commitment to the long-term sustainability of its operations.
explain your particular perspective on the proper conduct of a political leader, the proper role of government, and the role of laws in an ideal society.
Pretend you are a wise, well-educated advisor to a young ruler in the ancient world and must teach this new leader the rules of good government, based on your extensive background in Persian or Chinese affairs. Your particular background depends on the first letter of your last name:
Last name starts with T-Z: You are Legalist scholar looking to impart your
understanding of the way that government should work.
In a brief essay (c. 250 words), explain your particular perspective on the proper conduct of a political leader, the proper role of government, and the role of laws in an ideal society. Give this young student some guidelines to follow as he/she rules over his/her domain. According to your philosophical background, what are the highest goals that a ruler should aspire to, and what are the proper methods of achieving those goals?
Note: look to the textbook for details on each philosophy. Some of the most important evidence will be in the Sources from the Past excerpts. You may personally disagree with the philosophy of your character, but find the merits in that philosophy as best you can, and give it a fair shot.
