Develop a Complete Change Plan for a change initiative that you want to make happen.
Step 1) Review the following resources before creating the memo:
Week 5 Grading Rubric-Team
Memo Template & Format Guidelines
Guide to Peer-Reviewed References & APA Formatting
Responsibility Charting and AIDA Continuum Chart
Your team’s top selected strategy for the change initiative as well as the statement of the need for change and your vision for the change developed in Week 4.
Step 2) Develop a Complete Change Plan for a change initiative that you want to make happen. Use facts from the case study scenario that your team selected in Week 4. The team may add no more than three facts or characters, or a combination of facts or characters to the case study to assist in fleshing out the development of the Complete Change Plan.
Step 3) Prepare a memo of at least 250-300 words written in the third person voice to address the following issues. You must address the following topics below using the section headers (labels) in bold:
Section 16- Who Handles Details (<- Use this section header) – In this section, the learning team answers who will make the innumerable decisions required to handle the details.
Section 17- Who Provides Information to Impacted People (<- Use this section header) – In this section, the learning team shares who will provide information to those affected.
Section 18- How Change is Communicated (<- Use this section header) – In this section, the learning team explains how the change will be communicated to organizational members.
Section 19- References (<– this is a section header) – have at least 1 peer-reviewed sources in addition to the Organizational Change text, for a total of 1 peer-reviewed/scholarly references in APA format (with authors and dates). The references are incorporated throughout the memo with correct APA in-text citations.
Step 4) Post your assignment as a Microsoft® Word document.
Write a piecewise – defined function to model the water level L(x) (in inches) as a function of the number of days x since the beginning of the drought.
The water level in a retention pond started a 5 ft (60 in.) and decreased at a rate of 2 in./day during a 14-day drought. A tropical depression moved through at the beginning of the 15 days and proceed rain at an average rate of 2.4 in./day for 5 days.
Write a piecewise – defined function to model the water level L(x) (in inches) as a function of the number of days x since the beginning of the drought.
Graph the function
Do you agree with the results of the test? Substantiate why or why not?
In this Assignment you will gain a better understanding of your own personality and how your personality impacts your personal and professional demeanor.
You are required to complete the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) available at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp. This test should take less than one hour to complete.
After completing the MBTI and obtaining your own profile, provide an insightful 3-5 page Assessment and Analysis Paper sharing your MBTI (ESFJ, for example), your strengths, and challenges. In the Analysis Paper, please also address the following key points:
Do you agree with the results of the test? Substantiate why or why not?
Compare your type results (ESFJ, for example) to that of other types.
Indicate famous leaders mentioned in your type analysis.
Use APA with a cover page and reference page (no abstract page). Ensure that you use at least two additional references.
What accounts are included in each of the six major groups of accounts?
Major Groups of Accounts [WLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4] [CLO: 1]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapters 1 and 2 in the textbook. In addition, the MyLab materials listed in the Recommended Resources section this week may provide more in-depth information for this discussion (optional).
Write: Make sure your response addressing the following questions is more than 200 words and that you include an in-text citation or a brief quote from the reading material where appropriate. Use the Ashford Writing Center resource Citing Within Your Paper for guidelines on properly citing sources.
What accounts are included in each of the six major groups of accounts?
State the normal balance of each of the six major groups.
What effect does a debit and a credit have on each major group?
How might an imbalance in debits and credits impact a business?
Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates by commenting on their posts. Though two replies are the basic expectation for class discussions, for deeper engagement and learning you are encouraged to provide responses to any comments or questions others have given to you. Continuing to engage with peers and the instructor will further the conversation and provide you with opportunities to demonstrate your content expertise, critical thinking, and real-world experiences with the discussion topics.
Attendance Notification: To meet attendance requirements in this class, you must post to the discussion board at least once every 7 days. Completing work in MyAccountingLab does not count as attendance.
Describe the culture of Microsoft before and after Satya Nadella’s leadership. How did growth mindset play a part in that change?
Journal Entry for Class 5 (400 words):
1. Describe the culture of Microsoft before and after Satya Nadella’s leadership. How did growth mindset play a part in that change?
2. Talking about either Sara Blakely (Spanx) or Tony Hsieh (Zappos) from the “How I Built This” podcast, what is their leadership toolkit? You may wish to describe behaviors, values, and actions. What could you use from their toolkit in your own personal leadership toolkit?
Class 5 Readings:
1. “Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset”, Ibarra/Rattan/Johnston (Reader)
2. Podcast – How I Built This: Spanx/Sara Blakely
3. Podcast – How I Built This: Zappos/Tony Hsieh
What population (or populations) does the program seek to serve?
Write a 4–6 page preliminary program and stakeholder analysis for a human service program.
Every government administration spends millions of dollars on social programs. Some are meaningful and successful; others are not. Program evaluation is a key activity for making programs effective and sustainable. All your assessments in this course will be based on one social program of your choice.
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It is important to bear in mind that programs do not exist without people; they serve people and are carried out by people, and beyond those directly involved, other people are mainly interested in program outcomes. Collectively, we call all these people “stakeholders.” They bring a variety of interests, opinions, capacities, and functions that can impact programs in many ways. Program evaluators must win the cooperation of stakeholders to gather needed information and implement the evaluation process. And evaluators must take stakeholders’ interests into account so they will “buy in” to the evaluation outcomes. Therefore, evaluators need to understand stakeholders and how to skillfully manage interpersonal dynamics throughout the evaluation process.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Manage interpersonal dynamics of the program evaluation process.
Analyze interests of stakeholders involved with an evaluation.
Plan how to facilitate communication and collaboration with stakeholders.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
Write clearly, with correct spelling, grammar, syntax, and good organization.
Comply with APA guidelines for style and formatting.
In this assessment, you will be in the enviable position of choosing your own client—you will choose one social program on which all your assessments for this course will be based. In a later assessment, you will propose an evaluation for this program, but before you do, it is necessary to make a stakeholder analysis to determine who has interests in the program, what they desire for its outcomes, and any concerns they may have. This will help you, as the evaluator, to understand the audience for your proposal and how to best communicate with them.
Preparation: Identify and Research Your Client
Identify a human service program to work with in this course. All your course assessments will be based on one social program of your choice. Choose a program involved with issues such as unemployment, economic disadvantage, homelessness, adolescent pregnancy, infant mortality, crime, domestic violence, child abuse, substance abuse, mental illness, literacy, hunger, disease control, et cetera. It would be best to choose a program that is active in your own community. If you work with such a program, you may select it for your course work. Remember, you will be using this program for purposes of evaluation.
Go to the Web site of the agency that administers the program to research basic information about it. Choose a program that discloses most required information. However, if some details cannot be found, for the purposes of assessments in this course it is permissible to infer plausible findings.
Important note: While it is ethical to invent some information to complete these learning experiences, never do this for professional work or assessments that are supposed to be based on factual research.
Instructions
To successfully complete this assessment, write a 4–6 page program description and stakeholder analysis. This will be an internal planning document; its purpose is to gather information that you would share with other evaluators on your team.
Program Description
Describe the program of your choice and discuss why you selected this particular program. Answer the following:
What population (or populations) does the program seek to serve?
What is the general history of the program?
What are the main goals of the program? What would be recognized as operational definitions of “success” or “successful outcomes” for the program? Analyze what the desired benefits of the program would be for each type of program participant.
How could these outcomes be measured?
What sorts of evaluative research could be undertaken to assess how well the program meets its goal?
What other questions would you like to have answered about the program?
Stakeholder Analysis
Describe all program participants and other stakeholders. Think broadly to include all who could be involved at any level, including not only direct participants but also administrators and perhaps political authorities and others who would have a stake in program outcomes.
What are their roles and functions?
Detail how you would plan to facilitate communication and collaboration with them. (Readings in King and Stevahn’s 2013 book Interactive Evaluation Practice: Mastering the Interpersonal Dynamics of Program Evaluation are highly recommended for this.)
Despite the fact that it is beyond the scope of this assessment to actually meet with program stakeholders, what do you think the answers to following would be for each of the stakeholders you identified? Please keep in mind that while it is expedient for you to imagine the answers to these questions for this exercise, in an actual program evaluation it would extremely important for you consult with the stakeholders to research the answers to these questions.
Might there be any possible conflicts of interest among different types of stakeholders?
What risks or unfavorable outcomes might they be concerned about?
What are their desired outcomes from the program?
On the basis of the answers that you arrived at, what interpersonal or political considerations should you take into account to assure your program evaluation would be effective and appreciated?
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is well organized and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA style: Comply with current APA style and formatting.
discuss your experiences with ethics, including your ethical values, ethical theories, and an ethical decision you have had to make.
Ethical decision-making in health care is important to all stakeholders, including patients and staff. This assignment will help you understand keywords and definitions used in health care ethics, as well as ethical theories, your ethical values, and methodologies used in making ethical decisions.
This assignment has 2 parts. The purpose of Part 1 is to expose you to common keywords and definitions used in the health care industry regarding ethics. Part 1 prepares you to respond to Part 2, therefore it is important to complete Part 1 prior to starting Part 2. In Part 2, you will discuss your experiences with ethics, including your ethical values, ethical theories, and an ethical decision you have had to make. It is important to remember that as you share your ethical experiences with your faculty that you do not discuss information and details regarding a company or individual by name that are not public information.
Part 1:
Complete the Health Care Ethics Matching Exercise.
Part 2:
Complete the Ethical Decisions Matrix Worksheet.
Cite at least 2 reputable references used to complete your matrix. One reference must be your textbook, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues. Reputable references include trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, a textbook, or other sources of similar quality.
Format your references section and references used in your matrix according to APA guidelines. Include a title page at the beginning of your worksheet.
Submit your screenshot of the completed exercise and your matrix.
Give an account of Dawkins’ response to Gould’s view on the relationship between science and religion. For Dawkins, can religion answer the moral questions? Explain your answer
1. Give an account of Dawkins’ response to Gould’s view on the relationship between science and religion. For Dawkins, can religion answer the moral questions? Explain your answer. For Dawkins, did the Catholic Church keep itself away from the turf of science? Explain your answer. In the explanation of your answer, you need to include at least three of the five reasons given by Dawkins for his view on the Catholic Church and science. [30 points]
2. For Ruse, is it the case that all methodological naturalists are metaphysical naturalists? Explain your answer. What is Ruse’s argument for methodological naturalism? Some critics of methodological naturalism claim that natural selection is inadequate. Give an account of one of the objections given by such critics and an account of Ruse’s response. Other critics of methodological naturalism claim that there are certain things that Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection cannot explain. Give accounts of two things that Darwin’s theory cannot explain (according to the critics) and accounts of Ruse’s responses to such critics. Why does Plantinga think that methodological naturalism is incoherent from a Darwinist standpoint? Give an account of Ruse’s response to Plantinga. Why does Ruse think that a methodological naturalist should be a metaphysical naturalist? Explain your answer. [40 points]
3. What is morality and how is it different from other action-guiding principles? Explain the difference between the following claims: morality is objective and morality is relative. Give an account of Euthyphro’s view on the relationship between morality and religion. Based on Socrates’ responses to Euthyphro, what is wrong with Euthyphro’s view? In Plato’s Euthyphro, what, for Socrates, is the relation between morality and religion? Explain the difference between the following claims: morality is independent of religion and morality is dependent on religion. For Aquinas, what is the foundation of morality and what is the significance of God for determining the foundation of morality? For Aquinas, what is the role of reason in morality?
How would you gather information about the job context and environment? Explain what sources you would use and why.
1. You are the HR manager for a commercial airline. You have been assigned to develop a realistic job preview for flight attendants. Your objective is to give a balanced picture of the job so that applicants will better understand what they will be asked to do. Job duties, schedules, and other facets of the job should all be well understood early in the recruiting process to avoid poor P/E fit later on.(550 words)
a. How would you gather information about the job context and environment? Explain what sources you would use and why.
b. How could you use technology to show the positive and negative aspects of the job
2. Why is evaluating training an important part of strategic training?
Write a final report to document your growth during your internship and its application to your future career goals.
Summary:
Purpose: To synthesize and concisely articulate your internship tasks/accomplishments in written format, as well as understand growth & build awareness about professional skills and development.
Instructions: Write a final report to document your growth during your internship and its application to your future career goals. The report should be approximately three pages in length (0.5” margins, 11pt Arial, double-spaced) and clearly divided into the following sections:
General Information Section
Explain your role and how your work contributed to the company
Technical Skills (maximum one quarter-page sized picture/diagram)
Document the technical experiences you had during your work experience and discuss technical problems that you assisted in solving
Give examples of the principles learned through your coursework
Indicate any courses or subject areas that might have enhanced your work performance
Do NOT include confidential information from your employer.
Development of Professional Skills
Describe team and leadership building opportunities on the job
Address the ways in which you practiced oral and written communication on the job
Share the challenges you faced in the work environment and how you responded to those challenges
List and describe skills you relied on to complete your work assignments
Assessments
Discuss whether or not you met goals set out by your supervisor or that you set for yourself
Evaluate your performance of assigned projects, noting both areas of strength and improvement
Conclusion
Summarize by addressing the impact of the work experience on your education and career goals
Provide two “lessons learned” to share with any student that is considering an internship
