Looking at the nature of the curriculum and topics included, which training topics do you think might be added to help combat the above issues? Why would that help?
You are consulting with a large-size police department that has been criticized in the media for its high levels of recent incidents involving police errors in procedure, police misconduct, and revelations of inappropriate use of force. The police department and the police chief have come under extreme criticism from the media, the community and the city officials. On page 127 of Policing America: Challenges and Best Practices is a list of common curriculum implemented in a police academy. Answer each of the following questions pertaining to that curriculum and defend your answers:
Looking at the nature of the curriculum and topics included, which training topics do you think might be added to help combat the above issues? Why would that help?
Which topics should be expanded in their duration? Why?
Which topics should be refreshed and included in continuing education of experienced officers? Why?
Which curriculum topics should be deleted altogether? Why?
Discover the various responsibilities of a project manager by organizing a project.
This assignment is intended to help you use leadership skills to gather project members from cross-functional departments and skill sets and lead them in the fulfillment and implementation of a mock project.
Discover the various responsibilities of a project manager by organizing a project. See Chapter 19, sections 19.9 and Cases.
Apply project management tools and a PM outline type of your choice to structure and plan the project by defining, planning, and controlling. The project will be a continuation of how to improve the process you chose in Weeks 1 and 2.
Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint (supported by Excel and Word as needed) presentation, with detailed speaker notes, that includes the following:
o Project description
o Project Management Charts (Critical Path, Gant Chart, etc.)
o Improved Process Flow Chart from Week 1
o Meeting cadence/rhythm and timing
o Metrics to measure the projects success
o Financial and budgetary considerations
o Description of the project reporting structure
Think about how even this current or most recent presidential election was impacted by the ruling you have analyzed.
Tell the reader which of the five key Supreme Court ruling you selected to analyze.
What was the law being challenged in the case? Tell me any of the states or government entities that were part of the case. Who was the Petitioner in the Case? What was the Petitioners argument? Who was Respondent? What was the Respondents argument? What part or parts of the Constitution were discussed in the case? Why were those parts of the Constitution discussed in the case? What was the final Supreme Court ruling? What was the final score of the case was (for example, 5 to 4 or 7 to 2 or some other combo that, in most cases, adds up to 9). What was the date that the case was decided? Which side won? Was it the petitioner or the respondent? What did it mean that this particular side won? This is the most important part of the assignment: how does this case currently impact your life and the lives of Americans? Explore the political and electoral consequences of the ruling. Dont just say, for example, in the case of Roe v. Wade; women can now have abortions because only a small percent of the population is of childbearing potential how did the case impact everyone else more generally? Think about how even this current or most recent presidential election was impacted by the ruling you have analyzed.
Provide a reference list.
Write a brief analysis of the connection between EBP and the Quadruple Aim.
Write a brief analysis (no longer than 2 pages) of the connection between EBP and the Quadruple Aim.
Your analysis should address how EBP might (or might not) help reach the Quadruple Aim, including each of the four measures of:
Patient experience
Population health
Costs
Work life of healthcare providers
Identify an industry of interest that you are going to make ergonomic plan for.
The subject of term paper will be application of ergonomics at a workplace. So far we have
learned various workplace related health and safety issues and how to prevent them. In this
project, you will use the following points to create an ergonomic plan to address an industry
specific problem.
1. Identify an industry of interest that you are going to make ergonomic plan for.
2. Discuss why you chose this sector.
3. Describe the problems workers face in their typical work day.
4. Explain the strategies that can be used to resolve these problems.
You need to find and study (research) sources. You can take help from available ergonomic
plans but make sure that your plan is original. Discuss scientific vs. non-scientific approaches in
your plan as appropriate. Here is the link to help you distinguish between these two sources-
Cite all the resources used for this activity
Develop a short paper in which you compare and contrast informative messages and persuasive messages
Instructions
Develop a short paper in which you compare and contrast informative messages and persuasive messages. Discuss the approaches to an informative message versus a persuasive message and when each should be utilized. Do you think that the indirect approach is shrewd or unethical?
Explain your answer with sound reasoning. Explain the common types of evidence in persuasive messages. What are the differences in logical, ethical, and emotional appeals? Why is it important to establish common ground when communicating with a hostile or resistant audience?
Textbook: Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, Chapter 8 and review Chapter 2
Based on your research, what are the key drivers for success in the large office supply store industry?
Organizational Resistance to Change (and Why Good Companies Fail)
Assignment Overview
In the Module 1 Case Assignment, you will write a 5- to 6-page paper in which you analyze in-depth the reasons that good companies fail due to their reluctance to respond to changes in the internal company and the external environment.
Case Assignment
To begin the Module 1 Case assignment, read the following article:
Butt, J., & Ivanov, S. (2017). Study of a large office supply retail organization: How good companies slowly go out of business. International Journal of Organizational Innovation, 9(4), 100-116. Retrieved from EBSCO Business Source Complete.
After you read the foregoing article, visit the library, and consult IBISWorld (download the IBISWorld Academic Overview). Search for Office Supply Stores in the U.S. Scan through the various pages associated with the large office supply retail industry, noting key areas of opportunity, key areas required for success, and key threats. Then, in a well-written 5- to 6-page paper (not including Cover and References pages), respond to the following:
Based on your research, what are the key drivers for success in the large office supply store industry? This section should be at least 2 pages in length.
What were the reasons for the failure of the Fortune 500 office supply company as discussed in the Butt and Ivanov (2017) journal article? Are these reasons consistent with the reasons for organizational failure as identified by Sheth & Sisodia (2005)? What other reasons, if any, have you identified? Are there any practical difficulties that served as barriers to needed organizational change? (This section should be at least 2 pages in length).
What recommendations would you have given the leadership of the foregoing Fortune 500 company relative to how the company may have avoided organizational failure? (This section should also be at least 2 pages in length).
Conclude your paper by identifying the key lessons you have learned from Module 1 (as taken from both the Background materials and the Module 1 Case assignment) concerning the need for ongoing adaptation on the part of the organization and the need to avoid organizational inertia and resistance to change. This section should be at least 1 page in length.
submit a scholarly paper in which you will identify, describe, research, and apply the concepts that underlie your personal philosophy for professional nursing practice.
Instructions
Concept Synthesis Paper on Personal Nursing Philosophy
You are required to submit a scholarly paper in which you will identify, describe, research, and apply the concepts that underlie your personal philosophy for professional nursing practice.
This will help you identify your own values and beliefs about the established metaparadigms and metatheories of the discipline. It will also help you identify and articulate concepts relevant to your specific practice. This paper is intended to be an exercise in clarification and organization of your professional foundation. You are also required to provide a list of assumptions from personal nursing practice that illustrate the concepts and framework of your theory.
Your paper should follow a format that includes:
Nursing Autobiography: A brief (1 page) discussion of your background in nursing.
The Four Metaparadigms: Identification, discussion, and documentation from the literature of your perspective on the basic four metaparadigms/concepts of patient, nurse, health, and environment.
Two Practice-Specific Concepts: Identification, discussion, and documentation from the literature of your perspective on at least two other concepts specific to your own practice.
List of Propositions: A numbered list of at least five propositions or assumption statements that clearly connect the concepts described.
Each week, you will complete various segments of your Concept Synthesis Paper and submit it to the Submissions Area for facilitator feedback when necessary. Your paper should integrate these discrete elements and reflect your personal nursing philosophy.
Your Concept Synthesis Paper on your Personal Nursing Philosophy is due in Week 3. However, it is recommended that you begin working on your paper from Week 1 onwards and complete the various components related to the paper week wise as you progress through the course. The suggested tasks for each week are:
Week 1: Nursing Biography and The Four Metaparadigms of Nursing
Week 2: Two Practice-specific Concepts, and List of Propositions/Assumptions
Week 3: Due: Concept Synthesis Paper on Personal Nursing Philosophy
Consider the following questions as you complete your various tasks related to this assignment.
1.
How do I define and employ the four basic metaparadigms of nursing theory in my professional practice?
2.
What are the major concepts I employ that are unique to my professional practice?
3.
What philosophies and theories from the literature of nursing and other disciplines/domains are consistent with these concepts?
4.
How are the concepts of transcultural nursing, the health promotion model, skill acquisition, role theory, and change theory specifically integrated into my philosophy and practice?
5.
What research supports these theories and concepts?
6.
How do I integrate role and change theory into my professional practice and how may these theories be applied to the organization in which I practice?
If you were to conduct a research study today, which approach would you use and why?
Respond to each question in 1-1 ½ pages per question.
Total assignment should be 4-6 pages total plus a Title and Reference Page
Do not copy the questions in your responses. See APA style on how to create Topic Headings. Suggested Topic Headings follow each question. You may use them or create your own.
Question One: The text discusses three main approaches to personality research: case studies, experimental studies conducted in laboratory settings, and correlational studies. If you were to conduct a research study today, which approach would you use and why?
Suggested Topic Heading: Personality Research
Question Two: It has been said that psychoanalytic theory suffers from a number of cultural biases due to the limitations in kinds of patients seen and the Victorian era from which the concepts were originally derived. Which concepts or parts of the theory do you think could become a particular target for arguments of cultural bias?
Suggested Topic Heading: Cultural Bias in Psychoanalytic Theory
Question Three: As you will see in subsequent chapters, many personality theorists developed ideas that differed markedly from those of Freud and the various neo-Freudian theorists. What aspects of Freudian theory would you least want to lose in such developments i.e., which features seem so important that they should be taken into account by any other personality theory?
Suggested Topic Heading: Positive Aspects of Freudian Theory
Question Four: Rogers proposed that the fundamental human motive is self-actualization: a positive, growth-oriented human motive. That sounds like a very nice idea. And it is easy to think of cases in which people seem to be striving toward self-actualization. But it naturally raises the question of how, in Rogerian theory, one could explain the personality of people who seem oriented toward evil rather than positively-oriented growth. In other words, what about Hitler? Mass murderers? Etc. How could one posit a self-actualization theory in the face of such cases?
Suggested Topic Heading: Self-Actualization and Evil
research two contemporary accounting topics, such as valuing intellectual capital and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and how these standards differ from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and sustainability and environmental accounting.
For this assignment, research two contemporary accounting topics, such as valuing intellectual capital and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and how these standards differ from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and sustainability and environmental accounting.
There are several articles and one video in this weeks recommended resources section of the course guide that can help get you familiar with these terms and aid in your research. If you would like to choose a different contemporary accounting topic not listed, email your instructor to obtain approval prior to starting your paper.
In your paper,
Define and describe the topics, citing real-life examples of their uses.
Critique the pros and cons of the topics.
Assess the popularity of the topics and what type of global companies or individuals use them.
Hypothesize the future use of the topics; be sure to support your position with facts.
