Using Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions as a point of reference noted in the case, what are some of the main cultural differences between the United States and France?
6: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, DIVERSITY, AND DECISION-MAKING
Euro Disneyland
This week you were introduced to several decision-making tools in the course content. Using the Decision Matrix Analysis along with the Decision Matrix Analysis video, make the following decisions relative to the case study about Euro Disneyland (p. 262):
The first section of your paper should be an explanation of this process and how you decided on each of the factors in the matrix.
List all of the cultural challenges posed by Disney’s expansion into Europe. (Side of matrix.)
Next, list the variables that influenced these challenges. (Top of matrix.)
Decide on a score (1-5) for each of these challenges according to the relative importance of the factors. Multiply each of these scores by 2 to find the weighted scores for each option/factor combination.
Next, respond to the following questions in the rest of your essay:
Using Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions as a point of reference noted in the case, what are some of the main cultural differences between the United States and France?
In managing its Euro Disneyland operations, what are three mistakes that the company made? Explain your response with examples.
As a conclusion, reflect on your overall thoughts on this case.
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Be 6 pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract, or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
Use University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least 5 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
What measures can organizations take to improve employee mental health?
Increasingly, companies and employers are allocating their resources in ways that enable them to become change agents in community mental health. However, corporate entities with profit-based interests may be fundamentally antisocial and, consequently, the modern corporate spirit could lead to conformity within the employee base. Additionally, the hierarchical power dynamic that exists between employer and employee may be doomed to create and perpetuate conflict. For this discussion, you explore how someone trained in the field of social psychology or industrial-organizational psychology could help to foster positive social initiatives in the workplace.
First, title your post “Employee Mental Health.”
For your initial post, review How Prosocial Behavior Is Trickling Into the Workplace and Prosocial Behavior at Work Through the Lens of Character Strengths. Then answer the following questions:
What measures can organizations take to improve employee mental health?
What is the relationship between mental health and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the workplace?
How can organizations avoid the dangers of conformity and groupthink?
Considering the various roles within any organizational environment (e.g., executive administrators, managers, team leads, staff), whose responsibility is it to promote and maintain workplace well-being?
What are some examples of organizational core values that could promote a prosocial workplace environment?
How does the concept of employee mental health apply to any of the following programmatic course themes:
Self-care
Social justice
Emotional intelligence
Career connections
Ethics
Have social media platforms helped us become more social?
In an ideal world, social networking would promote knowledge, enhance awareness, strengthen social bonds, and provide us with an opportunity to connect as a human family. Unfortunately, our interactions on the various social platforms do not always feel so humanistic, which leads us to ask: Has social media helped us to become more social? Or has it further isolated us? In this discussion, you are asked to consider whether or not advancements in social networking have contributed to group mentality. Is communication through social media an effective way to engage in productive and meaningful dialogues and debates?
First, title your post, “Group Behavior.”
For your initial post, review the videos The Plague That Made People Dance Themselves to Death, How to Understand Power, and A Black Man Undercover in the Alt-Right. Then answer the following questions:
Have social media platforms helped us become more social? Or have they isolated us more? What does social psychology suggest?
Are echo chambers changing the way we see the world? How can we avoid being a victim of what some refer to as the social media bubble?
How can social media developers encourage users to engage in a constructive, respectful dialogue with others—both within and outside of their communities? Make sure to provide concrete examples.
Should social media users be restricted to people older than 18? At what age might a person become able to begin using social media in healthy, adaptive, and socially responsible ways? Explain your response.
How does the concept of group behavior apply to any of the following programmatic course themes:
Self-care
Social justice
Emotional intelligence
Career connections
Ethics
write a short explanation of how the MapReduce framework can be used to count the number of occurrence of each words within a large paragraph.
Question 1
6 pts) Assume the following data about a student. (6pts)
Student_ID : 1234
Name : First name : Sidney
Last name : Prescott
Academics: Major : Criminology GPA : 3.8
Using the studentID as identifier, illustrate how you would store the data using
a) Key-value store (3 pts)
b) Wide-column store (3 pts)
You can use similar illustrations as in the textbook/slides.
Question 2 (6 pts)
In class, we discussed the use of MapReduce in a words count scenario. Using your own words, write a short explanation of how the MapReduce framework can be used to count the number of occurrence of each words within a large paragraph.
Your explanation should contain the various MapReduce components discussed in class with indication on the task of each of the components.
Question 3
(8 pts) For each of the situations described below, select the type of analytics that would address the specific organizational need and justify your selection.
(8pts) a. To support staffing analysis for a holiday season, a clothing store wants to improve its understanding of the number of customers that are likely to visit each of its stores during the November 15–January 15 time frame.
b. A virtual assistant AI, such as Siri or Alexa, keeps asking its user for feedback about the AI response to specific user voice commands. The objective is for the AI to automatically tune its voice recognition components and improve the accuracy of its future responses based on the user feedback.
c. For a class project, a student searches the different factors which contribute to heavy migration of population during the 20th century. The student will likely derive tables and graphs showing and comparing the influence of these factors between various periods of high migration.
d. A couple wants to travel for the upcoming holidays seasons. However, with flight prices always fluctuating, they are having a hard time deciding when is a good time to purchase those tickets. Since they both have data analysis skills, they decide to analyze the last 3 years prices changes in order to hopefully find out a pattern and derive the best day to buy their tickets this year
Explain the four types of business models for blockchain networks.
1. Explain the four types of business models for blockchain networks. 2. Explain how blockchain has the potential to change business models.
500 words paper: Introduction, Question 1, Question 2, Conclusion, References
References
1. Morkunas, V. J., Paschen, J., & Boon, E. (2019). How Blockchain technologies impact your business model. Business Horizons, 62, 295-306.
2. Bussgang, J. J., Berk, E. B., & Schwalb, N. (2019, January 15). AirFox (A): Embracing the Blockchain and an ICO. Harvard Business School.
Using your understanding of DNA technology and evolution, summarize changes that would need to take place in order to create organisms such as the Jabberjay and mockingjay
Instructions
Read this New York Times article by author James Gorman which will introduce you to the idea of DIY biology. After reading it proceed with the activities below.
Part 1: Using your understanding of DNA technology and evolution, summarize changes that would need to take place in order to create organisms such as the Jabberjay and mockingjay.
Part 2: Conduct further research into the idea of DIY biology and genetic engineering. Briefly summarize your findings and provide a specific bioengineering example. Cite references using MLA format.
Part 3: State your opinion of the DIYbio movement and whether you believe government regulation or publishing restrictions should be put into place. Why or why not? Provide specific evidence and a logical argument to support your opinion. Simply stating you ‘feel’ or ‘believe’ something is insufficient justification.
should be prepared and cited using MLA format. Submit your final work as a single document.
Identify evidence of bias in each of the three letters. How can you describe the notion of bias?
In this assignment, you will apply your knowledge of bias, perspective, and critical thought to a given example.
Step 1: Consider the scenario:
Most college instructors require students to turn off their cell phones in class so that their phones will not ring and also to prevent students from texting during class. The policy has become a serious point of contention among students, many of whom rely on cell phone applications to help organize their ever-changing schedules. Parents, too, have begun raising concerns over their children’s safety. Parents are worried that they will be unable to reach their children during an emergency if all phones are shut off. As a member of the College Board, it is your responsibility to read all such incoming mail. The following is a small sample:
Letter 1: Our civil liberties should never be subject to change. What the school board is attempting to do here is remind students that their rights can be given and taken away by authority. This particular case may be insignificant, but a larger philosophical debate regarding the inherent rights of the people is anything but minor.
Letter 2: I worked hard to get into college. The classroom encompasses everything I value in higher education. It is not the right place or time for students to be fiddling with their cell phones. As a student, I support the new initiative. I hope other students will understand why this move is so important.
Letter 3: I put my trust in the authority at hand. If school officials believe that having cell phones in the classroom is a distraction, I trust their judgment. The public is generally ignorant anyway, and it’s likely that they are expressing opinions out of emotion, not a sense of truth.
Step 2: Analyze different perspectives and biases.
In a two to three-page (minimum) written speech, to be given in front of an audience of parents and college faculty, in which you support the school’s decision to turn off cell phones during class, address the following. Use the aforementioned letters as examples to refute:
Identify evidence of bias in each of the three letters. How can you describe the notion of bias?
Define perspective. How does the concept of perspective influence the opinions of the speaker in each letter?
Is the school’s new proposal fair? Give your view with a set of arguments to support your view.
Give an opposing view to each letter and its arguments, and give your explanation for why your arguments should be more persuasive than the opposition’s.
Is there a bias at work in your view as well?
Briefly explain the perspectives of both sides of each argument. How does critical thought affect perspective?
Define one mechanism by which bacteria can gain resistance to an antibiotic.
Word format to the assignment Submission page.
1. Antibiotic resistance is a critical component of understanding infection rates. Define one mechanism by which bacteria can gain resistance to an antibiotic.
2. Diseases are transmitted by a variety of methods. If you were a nurse, what advice would you give a parent dealing with a child with pink eye to prevent transmission to a sibling?
3. How does the World Health Organization define pandemic? In what ways does this differ from an epidemic?
4. What is the difference between active and passive surveillance of disease? Provide an example of diseases that are surveilled by each method.
As a police officer, would you welcome this new technology of wearing miniature video cameras ? Explain.
View the following videos: How Effective are Police Body Cameras? Body Cams Make Police Accountable, and Body Cameras: Information Every Officer Should Know; then read The Baltimore Sun article “More police now sporting cameras on their bodies”:
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CBS News. (2018, June 15). How effective are police body cameras? [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/xba8o_yG828
Parenthetical citation: (CBS News, 2018)
NBC News. (2017, August 27). Body cams make police accountable. YouTube. https://archivesbb.nbclearn.com/portal/site/BbHigherEd/browse?cuecard=71935
Parenthetical citation: (NBC News, 2017)
AZ Lawyer. (2019, February 24). What you don’t know about body cameras: Police uses, benefits, concerns, limits [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/hBn5NF5Oxvs
Parenthetical citation: (AZ Lawyer, 2019)
READ: Police Sporting Cameras
Anderson, J. (2014, January 4). More police now sporting cameras on their bodies. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved from http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-police-body-cameras-20140104-story.html
(Anderson, 2014)
More police sporting cameras.pdf
DISCUSSION:
Using key terms and concepts from the textbook reading, answer the following questions in a balanced way.
(Please do not hyperbolize or generalize.) (Reference should be made to all materials provided in this assignment.):
There’s a growing demand that police officers wear miniature video cameras during their tour of duty. Police administrators will soon be able to sit in the police station and monitor what their officers are doing in the field. The media, lawyers, and civil rights groups will make public requests to obtain video footage of incidents.
What effect do you think this will have on police work (pros and cons)?
As a police officer, would you welcome this new technology? Explain.
As a citizen, would you welcome it? Explain.
Provide a thorough assessment of the Information Assurance Team’s initial findings;
Overview
In order to fully comprehend the many aspects that factor into information forensics and risk management, you must examine a situation from the perspective of a computer forensic specialist. For the Final Project Assignment, you will be placed in a hypothetical scenario in which you must utilize all of the information gained throughout this course.
Instructions
Assume that you are the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of <Place your full name here> Corporation. If your name is “Mariah Smith” the name of the company should be named the Mariah Smith Corporation. While performing your regularly scheduled duties, you receive a call from the Senior Vice President of the Human Resources Department informing you that, in the past 4 days, there have been 4 occurrences of money transfer to unauthorized recipients. Given your position and your understanding of recent cyber and information security attacks, you assume that an attack of some sort is at fault for the unauthorized transfers.
During the conversation, you are given the name of the department where the fund transfers have occurred. The department is internal to the organization but only certain fund transfers were committed internal to the network. In addition, you know the external public IP address of the system that executed the transfers. Privilege escalation, man-in-the-middle attacks, buffer overflows, and malicious code were all present during the Information Assurance Team’s initial investigation. Some of this is puzzling, given the IP address location that seems to be the source. You are given specific instruction not to engage anyone from the department where the money transfer have occurred; however, you are permitted to engage law enforcement and third party agencies if appropriate. This is to preserve any ongoing investigations and to allow the greatest opportunity to catch the suspect.
Refer to the Final Project Network Diagram. The enterprise network is much larger, with many additional pieces of hardware. Regardless, these are the only systems the initial investigation indicated were affected. The organization fund/money transfer systems are comprised of Microsoft, Linux, and Solaris servers. The firewall prior to the Cisco core switch only allows access to necessary web facing application ports. The Microsoft servers are responsible for authentication through directory services. Despite one firewall and some group policy being verified as sound and uncompromised by the investigation, the current information system components identified play certain roles in the unauthorized transfers.
The Final Project Network Diagram will be used as a point of reference in determining what is necessary to determine how this incident could occur in a real organization; this includes applications, information systems, human experts, and any other stakeholder involved in such an incident. Your goal is to identify where vulnerabilities and threats could exist specific to anauthorized transfers in this scenario and how to mitigate future occurances.
The final plan must identify the technology and equipment and all access and file data that is compulsory—including log files, auditing, group policies, firewall rules, and other information system elements—to determine the root cause. Upon the successful completion of the investigation plan, a subsequent plan will determine a superior information system and plan for future mitigation and prevention. This can include everything from firewall rules to policy.
Before being graded, all code, access control rules, diagrams, and/or Visio diagrams (each) must include screenshots with a valid date and piece of data that shows completion on the student’s personal computer. The Final Project Assignment must be comprehensive and include a minimum of 5,000 words (excluding the title page, diagrams, and reference page). Each project deliverable should be well supported by related, relevant, and current scholarly literature. In total, it should contain at least 20 peer-reviewed sources. The Final Project Assignment must also be written in current APA format, include a title page, table of contents, introduction, conclusion, references, and appendixes with appropriate data. You are encouraged to utilize Microsoft Visio or a similar application in order to provide visual aides to assist in your assessment of the situation as well as Microsoft Project and/or valid alternatives. In your analysis, be sure to include the following:
· A comprehensive literature review of unauthorized transactions, how this can occur, and a comprehensive review of the affected IT infrastructure;
· A project adhering to an industry standard methodology (such as PMBOK) to manage the Final Project completion;
· An appraisal of the situation using the knowledge gained from this course and personal experience;
· A thorough assessment of the Information Assurance Team’s initial findings;
· A performance of a forensic investigation on the matter;
· An illustration of your strategy for conducting this investigation;
· The formulation of a complete plan including: a proposed personnel structure/team, mechanisms of defense, budget, schedule, risk management, procurement management, secure systems analysis, and design to prevent this incident from occurring in the future;
· Over two (2) new unique IT architecture diagrams using at least two (2) network security frameworks that highlight the new strategy and design that could mitigate future unauthorized transactions. Diagrams must have screenshots from the user’s computer in the program they were designed and include the operating system date and time from the student’s person computer.
· A strong attempt to integrate a biblical worldview into the secure enterprise solution.
Introduction – More than 3 scholarly sources and 250 words
Review of literature – 2,500 words 10 scholarly journal articles
Mitigation Plan – Over two (2) new comprehensive network architecture diagrams with proper screenshots and over 20 pieces of hardware that 2,000 words 10 scholarly sources
Conclusion – More than 2 scholarly sources and 250 words
