What are the different budgeting methods? Explain them
Nursing leadership
1. What are the different budgeting methods? Explain them (Two paragraphs)
2. Which budgeting method is used in your organization (Telemetry medsurge floor) ? (One paragraph)
Describe the aspirations, ideologies, and concerns you have as a nurse
Decision making
Think of your most recent day in practice. Close your eyes and imagine yourself back there.
1. Describe the aspirations, ideologies, and concerns you have as a nurse (Telemetry medsurge floor) (One paragraph)
2. How are they shaping the way you are relating within the situation? What does all of this tell you about yourself? (One paragraph)
3. What effects does it have? (One paragraph)
Explain the associations in the scatterplot, including the direction, strength, form in the context of your model.
Median Housing Price Model for D. M. Pan National Real Estate Company 2
[ Note: To complete this template, replace the bracketed text with your own content. Remove this note before you submit your outline.]
Report: Housing Price Prediction Model for D. M. Pan National Real Estate Company
[Your Name]
Median Housing Price Prediction Model for D. M. Pan National Real Estate Company 1
Southern New Hampshire University
Introduction
[ Describe the report: Include in this section a brief overview, including the purpose of the report and your approach.]
Data Collection
[ Sampling the data: Outline how you obtained your sample data, including the response and predictor variables.]
[ Scatterplot: Insert a correctly labeled scatterplot of your chosen variables.]
Data Analysis
[ Histogram: Insert the histogram of the two variables. Be sure to include appropriate labels.]
[ Summary statistics: Insert a table to show the summary statistics.]
[ Interpret the graphs and statistics: Describe the shape, center, spread, and any unusual characteristic (outliers, gaps, etc.) and what they mean based on your sample data and the graphs you created.]
[Explain how these characteristics of the sample data compare to the same characteristics of the national population. Also, determine whether your sample is representative of the national housing market sales.]
The Regression Model
[ Scatterplot: Include the scatterplot graph of the sample with a line of best fit and the regression equation.]
[Based on your graph, explain whether a regression model can be developed for the data and how.]
[ Discuss associations: Explain the associations in the scatterplot, including the direction, strength, form in the context of your model.]
[ Find r: Calculate the correlation coefficient and explain how it aligns with your interpretation of the data from the scatterplot.]
The Line of Best Fit
[ Regression equation: Insert the regression equation.]
[ Interpret regression equation: Interpret the slope and intercept in context.]
[ Strength of the equation: Interpret the strength of the regression equation, R-squared.]
[ Use regression equation to make predictions: Use the regression equation to make a sample prediction.]
Conclusions
[ Summarize findings: Summarize your findings in clear and concise plain language. Outline any questions arising from the study that might be interesting for follow-up research.]
Conduct research online and provide two specific examples describing how globalization has impacted workers.
(Module 5)
This is the third of six journal entries you will write in this course. You will self-select four of your best entries for submission and grading to your Open Learning Faculty Member. Each submitted journal entry is worth 4% of your final grade.
Topic: In union-management relations and, more specifically in collective bargaining, we talk about the importance of trust and having a good working relationship. In your journal, write down your thoughts on how good working relationships could be achieved. What happens when there is a lack of trust in the relationship? Given what you have learned about unionized environments, what kinds of things might occur when one or both sides are not honest and forthright.
You are encouraged to do some additional research on how trust can be developed in a unionized work environment. Tip: Progressive HR practices matter.
We recommend that you keep your journal entry between 450 words.
· Journal 3: Globalization (4%)
(Module 10)
This is the last journal entry you will write in this course. You will self-select four of your entries for submission and grading to your Open Learning Faculty Member. Each submitted journal entry is worth 4% of your final grade.
Topic: Globalization has impacted organizations significantly, and in particular pressure has arisen to manage or maintain reduced labour costs to keep prices low. Be sure to describe how wages and working conditions have been impacted by globalization.
Conduct research online and provide two specific examples describing how globalization has impacted workers. Keep your journal entry between 450words.
What is the role of the local or union?
Research a Unionized Group (4%)
This is the second of six journal entries you will write in this course. You will self-select four of your entries for submission and grading to your Open Learning Faculty Member. Each submitted journal entry is worth 4% of your final grade.
For this journal entry you will research a unionized group (preferably from your community). You will find unionized workplaces are schools and universities, city hall, mining and pulp and paper.
As you conduct your web-based research consider the following:
1. What is the role of the local or union?
2. Can you find a listing of the shop stewards?
3. When is the next union meetings?
4. Is the union part of a larger group?
5. What do you envision to be some of the challenges experienced by the local?
6. Keep your entry between 350 words.
Journal 2: Fostering Trust and a Good Working Relationship (4%)
How do these concepts and theories inform your understanding of this relationship?
Key Communication Technology Theories Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: For this assignment, select one relationship in your life to analyze and briefly describe why you selected this relationship (approximately one paragraph). Then, apply at least four relevant concepts and theories from class to this relationship, using at least four sources, including the course text. This should be approximately four pages; one page roughly per concept/theory.
i. Define the concepts and theories. ii. Differentiate between these concepts and theories.
a. What are the similarities? b. What are the differences?
iii. Explain why you believe these concepts and theories apply to this relationship. iv. How do these concepts and theories inform your understanding of this relationship?
a. Have these concepts and theories taught you anything about how to communicate (or not communicate) in this relationship? b. Have these concepts and theories taught you anything about how to communicate (or not communicate) in other relationships similar to this
one?
Discuss who would be invited to the presentation of results at the institution and your plan for how you will present the information.
in 300 words, the student will present the plan for sharing the results of the practice change project ( Oral Health Promotion to Improve the Quality of Life in Older Adults Living Independently) within the institution and within the professional community . Discuss who would be invited to the presentation of results at the institution and your plan for how you will present the information. Also, discuss your plans for presentation at regional or national meetings and/or publication (currently working as a nurse and living in Miami, florida). If publication is planned, discuss what journal you will submit your manuscript to and why.
Briefly define a republic and identify when it was first established by the Romans.
After learning about the rise of Roman Civilization (Chapter 5 lecture), answer the following question. Follow the directions carefully in order to receive full credit.
Chapter 5 Lecture Question:
In my lecture, we discussed the establishment of a republican government for the Romans. If you were living in ancient times, would you have preferred to live under Athenian democracy or the Roman republican government?
Directions for Answering the Question:
- Using information from the lecture,
- Briefly define a republic and identify when it was first established by the Romans.
- Identify the various political offices and groups of the Roman republic and explain which class/es of Romans could serve in those offices and groups.
- Make sure to include the political offices/groups that were added later to make political power more equal in society.
- Note which type of government you would have preferred to live under.
- You must choose one type of government- Roman republicanism or Athenian democracy.
- Explain why you would have preferred that type of government using specific information and examples from the lecture.
- This question is specifically asking you about governments. Although you may also consider non-government topics like baths and religion, the focus of your answer should be on why you prefer one of the two governments.
- You may need to refer back to the Chapter 3 lecture to jog your memory about Athenian democracy and you are permitted to use information from that lecture in this answer.
Important Rules for all Lecture Questions:
- Only use information from the lecture to answer the question. These questions are intended to check that you watched and understood the lecture. If you use information from an outside source/s, your assignment will receive a zero.
- Fully explain your statements and include specific examples from the lecture.
- Explain all information in your own words. Do not quote or copy and paste from the lecture or my powerpoint. Doing so will earn your assignment a zero.
- Use good grammar, including complete sentences and correct punctuation. You may use bullet points, but the information you write out beside those bullet points should be complete sentences, not single words or sentence fragments.
Is Apple a successful company? Justify your answer (compare Apple’s financial performance with its main competitors).
Deconstructing Apple — Part I
In 1997, or about three centuries ago in tech years, I bought an e-tablet from A.T. Cross, the pen company. Co-developed with IBM, the CrossPad was heralded as a game changer that would open up a whole new product category—Portable Digital Notepads. I’m a copious note-taker, so the idea of turning my scribblings into digital files was too seductive to ignore. Yet within a month, the CrossPad was sharing shelf space with all the other paradigm-busting products that had promised, and failed, to change my life.
Truth is, I’m not so much an early adopter as an easy mark—a sucker for the utopian dreams of technology mystics, no matter how commercially tainted their visions might be. Who was I to argue with “Ozzie” Osborne, head of IBM’s Pen and Speech Business Systems business unit, when he declared the CrossPad would “redefine how users perceive pen and paper?” i And why, today, should I question Steve Jobs’ claim that Apple’s soon-to-be-shipped iPad will break open a huge new market for personal media devices? (Though I’m baffled by the idea of a “pad” without a pen—what’s up with that?) As the love child of a Kindle and an iPhone, the iPad is certainly winsome—but only time will tell if consumers come to regard it as an essential gap-filler between a mobile phone and a laptop.
There are many in the blogosphere who are betting against the iPad. Much of the skepticism seems to be a visceral reaction to Apple’s recent triumphs. Apparently it is easier to tolerate jaunty immodesty when a company is a struggling also-ran and not a high-tech juggernaut. Yet despite the alleged shortcomings of the iPad (no camera, no Java, no Flash, no stylus), you’d have to be at least a tiny bit stupid to bet against Apple.
Over the past decade, the pride of Cupertino has produced a mind-boggling parade of accomplishments.
– Having been dismissed as a footnote in the personal computer industry, Apple is now the market leader in computers costing more than $1,000. In one recent month, its market share in this segment exceeded 90%. ii – Though it was a late entrant into the mobile phone business, Apple currently makes more money from roughly 3% of the global handset market than Nokia makes from more than 30%. iii – Within six years of launching its online music store in 2003, Apple had become the world’s largest music retailer. iv – Apple’s first physical store opened in 2001. Five years later, Apple’s sparse, elegant shops were generating four times more revenue per square foot than its big box competitors,v and its Fifth Avenue store in New York is thought to be the most profitable retail outlet in the world.vi – At $180 billion, Apple’s market value is currently three and half times that of Nokia, and more than 60% higher than Hewlett-Packard’s—a company with three times Apple’s revenue.
So rather than fretting about the prospects for the iPad, clever Apple watchers and envious wannabes should be asking themselves: How in the world could one company have accomplished all this? How do you build an organization that is capable of reinventing not just one industry but four—computing, music, electronics retailing and mobile phones. How do you do the unprecedented repeatedly?
Some might say you have to start with Steve Jobs, Apple’s prescient and exacting boss. While it’s impossible to imagine Apple without Jobs, the company’s unparalleled success is more than the product of one fertile mind. In his role as CEO, Jobs inspires and arbitrates, but he authors only a fraction of the innovation that permeates Apple’s products.
Competitors and business analysts would probably credit Apple’s gravity-defying success to a contrarian strategy that . . .
Focuses heavily on design. For years, Apple’s focus on design and ease-of-use has differentiated it from competitors, who have often seem determined to create products that are as ugly and non-intuitive as possible.
Fuses hardware and software. While most of Apple’s competitors have specialized in either hardware or software, Apple has pursued excellence in both. By tightly integrating the hardware and software design, the company has been able to optimize system performance to the benefit, and relief, of its customers.
Integrates a broad array of complementary technologies. With the possible exception of Samsung, Apple encompasses a broader array of technological capabilities than any of its competitors. While it does little of its own manufacturing, Apple’s mastery of advanced materials, batteries, power management, component packaging, application development and industrial design gives the company a distinct advantage in launching ground-breaking products—and in controlling its own destiny.
Locks up customers with velvet hand-cuffs. Apple has found ways of locking customers in and competitors out—all with the goal of delivering a great end-to-end user experience (and making boatloads of money). That’s why the only place you can buy music for an iPod is at the iTunes store—and why the iPad will probably work best with books purchased from Apple’s own iBook store. Bill Gates would be proud.
Harnesses the efforts of independent software developers. The vibrant network of developers that Apple assembled around the iPhone is unique within the mobile phone industry. With more than 140,000 applications created thus far, Apple has again shifted the grounds for competition. Today it’s not just phone versus phone, but ecosystem versus ecosystem. And since Apple owns the channel through which these “apps” are sold, it garners a share of the profits. Undoubtedly Apple hopes to turn the iPad into another developer magnet.
Leverages the company’s core competencies into new markets. There is always a risk that a company becomes tethered to a particular product or market (like Kodak). Over the past decade, Apple has avoided this fate by leveraging its core capabilities into new industry segments. The company’s self definition isn’t centered on one particular industry, but on a portfolio of deep competences. It is telling that in his recent iPad pitch, Jobs described Apple as the world’s large “mobile devices company,” ahead of Nokia, Samsung and Sony. A decade ago, no one would have lumped Apple in with these companies—the comparisons would have been with Microsoft and Dell.
But as logical as this analysis may seem, it’s also unsatisfying. It reveals something of the “how,” but nothing around the “why.” Why has Apple been able to rewrite the rules in a handful of industries when most companies struggle to do it in even once? Why does the company seem to take such pride in defying conventional wisdom? And most importantly, why is it able to routinely deliver the exceptional?
These are the questions I’ll tackle in my next post, but for now a few questions:
Question:
1. Is Apple a successful company? Justify your answer (compare Apple’s financial performance with its main competitors).
2. What are the main sources of its success? (Value chain, resources? valuable/rare/difficult to imitate/difficult to substitute?)
More than 300 word.
What would you do? What if the driver were a fellow police officer? What if it were a high school friend?
ETHICAL DILEMMA
Situation 1
As a patrol officer, you are only doing your job when you stop a car for running a red light. Unfortunately, the driver of the car happens to be the mayor of your city. You give her a ticket anyway. However, the next morning you get called into the captain’s office and told in no uncertain terms that you messed up, for there is an informal policy extending “courtesy” to city politicians. Several nights later, you observe the mayor’s car weaving erratically across lanes and speeding.
PART 1:
- Ethical Judgment: What would you do? What if the driver were a fellow police officer? What if it were a high school friend?
2. Moral Rules:
3. Ethical Systems:
