Written Assignment: Strategic Plan •Write a 3-5 page paper that describes the role of ethics and social responsibility in developing a strategic plan, considering stakeholder needs.
Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.
Employer of Choice (EOC)
After reading both of the weekly readings Employer of choice: the new corporate imperative and The Employer of Choice, identify two companies to compare and contrast in terms of EOC. The companies should be similar in size based on annual revenue or number employees, but do not have to be competitors or in the same industry. Also, address the questions below in your paper.
•How the companies’ EOC policies and practices create advantages or disadvantages for their sustainability and growth? •What could the companies learn from each other? •Which company would you find more attractive as a potential employee? Why?
The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded: •Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below. •Use font size 12 and 1” margins. •Include cover page and reference page. •At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing. •No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references. •Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement. •Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.
References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.
presentation
- Explain power and compare how it relates to leadership
- Analyze the five sources of power
- Summarize the relationship between influence and power
- Determine how relationships between leaders and staff affect influence and power
Cite a minimum of two references other than the text.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
Environmental Choices and Policies
This is a two part assignment – both need to be submitted separately but will be graded as one.
PART 1 –
Local government leaders have asked you to provide information and recommendations for increasing sustainability in the community.
Perform an initial search to learn about green initiatives for a city in your area. New York City
Write a 350- to 525-word proposal to your local government.
Include the following:
- A summary of green initiatives for a city in your area.
- Recommendations to your local government for creating a greener, more sustainable and livable community.
- The proposal should include recommendations both for actions by the local government and by individual homeowners.
- Explain how implementing these recommendations would promote sustainability and improve like for residents.
Include appropriate images.
Include a list of the sources you use.
PART 2 –
Perform an analysis of an environmental issue.
Prepare a 5- to 8-slide PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes (if you fail to include detailed speaker notes you will not receive credit). If you first discuss options with your faculty member, you are also welcome to use a tool such as “Voice Thread” to add audio to your presentation.
Include the following:
- A description of an environmental issue including the cause of the issue and its effects on the environment and people.
- An explanation of how economics and personal lifestyle choice are involved in this issue.
- An explanation of how individuals, communities, and/or governments are working to address the environmental issue.
- Your opinion as to whether the issue is being adequately addressed and suggestions of ways it could be better addressed.
Include at least 2 outside resources for your presentation.
Format your presentation according to APA guidelines.
Adoption of New Technology Systems
As a nurse, you can have a great impact on the success or failure of the adoption of EHRs. It is important for nurses to understand their role as change agents and the ways they can influence others when addressing the challenges of changing to a drastically different way of doing things. Everett Rogers, a pioneer in the field of the diffusion of innovations, identified five qualities that determine individual attitudes towards adopting new technology (2003). He theorized that individuals are concerned with:
1. Relative advantage: The individual adopting the new innovation must see how it will be an improvement over the old way of doing things. 2. Compatibility with existing values and practices: The adopter must understand how the new innovation aligns with current practices. 3. Simplicity: The adopter must believe he or she can easily master the new technology; the more difficult learning the new system appears, the greater the resistance that will occur. 4. Trialability: The adopter should have the opportunity to “play around’ with the new technology and explore its capabilities. 5. Observable results: The adopter must have evidence that the proposed innovation has been successful in other situations.
For this Assignment, you assume the role of a nurse facilitator in a small hospital in upstate New York. You have been part of a team preparing for the implementation of a new electronic health records system. Decisions as to the program that will be used have been finalized, and you are now tasked with preparing the nurses for the new system. There has been an undercurrent of resistance expressed by nurses, and you must respond to their concerns. You have a meeting scheduled with the nurses 1 week prior to the training on the new EHR system. Consider how you can use the five qualities outlined by Rogers (2003) to assist in preparing the nurses for the upcoming implementation.
To prepare:
1. Review the Learning Resources this week about successful implementations of EHRs. 2. Consider how you would present the new EHR system to the nurses to win their approval. 3. Reflect on the five qualities outlined by Rogers. How would addressing each of those areas improve the likelihood of success?
Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:
A. Using Rogers’ (2003) theory as a foundation, outline how you would approach the meeting with the nurses. Be specific as to the types of information or activities you could provide to address each area and include how you would respond to resistance. B. Analyze the role of nurses as change agents in facilitating the adoption of new technology.
business management
Select someone in a leadership position at your organization or at a local company where you might seek employment. This individual could be a director, manager, supervisor, or CEO of the organization.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word profile of the individual that you interviewed for your company’s newsletter, and include the following:
Identify the individual and their position within the company, and briefly describe the organization.
Interpret the individual’s leadership style based on the Five-Factor personality model, and offer one or more examples of the management and leadership roles of this individual.
Explain one incident where this individual had to solve a difficult problem or situation because things did not go as planned.
Describe the lessons that she/he learned from being able to problem solve, even when what she/he had been taught did not work.
Format your profile in the form of a newsletter (the final format may vary depending upon the company’s style; please feel free to use either the provided template or to check the Internet or Microsoft® Word for additional newsletter templates).
Part 2
Create a 2-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes that contains the following components
Showcase some of the best practices needed by companies in order to prepare future leaders. Include at least one video presentation within a slide. (2 slides with at least one including video)
Algebra
1. How do you write an equation of a line so that it is parallel or perpendicular to a given point and a given line?___________________________________________________________
Part A: Create an example of a polynomial in standard form. how do you know it is in standard form?
Part B: Explain the closure property as it relates to polynomials. Give and example 1 Explain a method of determining the correct degree and classification of a polynomial.
2 Why is the polynomial 4x^2y + 5xy classified as a 3rd degree binomial?_____________________________________
The table below shows the number of hours some business people in two states spend in meetings each week:
State A: 21|23|24|22|24|25|23|23|22
State B: 24|22|20|23|23|50|20|46|21
Part A: Create a five-number summary and calculate the interquartile range for the two sets of data.
Part B: Are the box plots symmetric? Justify your answer
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Meg has a can that contains 80% of orange juice and the rest water. The can has 1 liter of water.
Part A: Write an equation in one variable that can be used to find the total number of liters of orange juice and water in the can. Define the variable used in the equation.
Part B: How many liters of orange juice are present in the can? Show your work.__________________________________________________________________________________________
Part A: Solve -np – 70<40 for n.
Part B: Solve 4w-7k=28 for
K___________________________________________________________
Critical thinking
1.Critical thinking to the issue of health care.please discuss this issue and your critical thinking about it. Is health care a right for all people? If so, who should pay for it? In essay,after presenting the important parts of this longstanding debate,be sure to state your case as a formal arguments premises that lead to a clear conclusion.please write one page essay .
2.please define confirmation bias.explain the challenges of it and suggest some practical ways,which we as critical thinkera can overcome it.please write one page essay
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
For this assignment, Part One of your course project, assume the role of Dr. Madness. Your rogue nation seeks global domination. With a bare bones laboratory and your exhaustive microbiological and epidemiological knowledge, you (Dr. Madness) decide that the best way to rule the world is to create and disseminate the perfect biological weapon.
For this part of the assignment, you will develop your weapon from the ground up. Discuss nearly all of the epidemiological criteria related to it, and justify and discuss why it is used and how effective it is. This agent could be a hybrid of other biological pathogens or an entirely new one. If the agent is newly created, there must be some basis and epidemiological support of a similar agent by which you can base your justification. In other words, it will be unrealistic to create an airborne virus that inoculates and kills within one hour. There must be a realistic exposure and incubation time and must be supported through current agent biology or biochemistry (for example, influenza exposure and incubation takes 1–4 days).
CHOOSE – MRSA- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Name of Agent: Explain why you chose the name. If it is a biological agent, be sure to provide a taxonomic name
- Etiology: This will talk about the genesis of your agent. Where was it discovered? How was it made? How long has it been around? Why was this agent created? What were the social and economic factors of your rogue nation that made Dr. Madness focus on this element of the agent? What are the environmental precursors to this agent? Discuss the interaction among agent, host, and environment.
- Identification: This will describe the basics of the agent. Is it a bacteria, virus, toxin, parasite, hybrid, or something else? Discuss how your agent presents within the human population. What are the symptoms in humans? What are the (zoonotic) symptoms in animals? How does the disease progress? Are there stages? Discuss the various stages including length of infection, severity, and the like. What are the diagnostic indicators? How would a doctor be able to identify this agent in a clinic or emergency room?
- Laboratory Analysis: How will the agent be identified? Can it be grown in media? What type of laboratory methods can be used to identify the agent (microscopy, chromatography, PCR, and so on)?
- Occurrence: This is the epi: who, what, when, where, how, and why of the disease. Where does it happen? When can it be found? Who is most and least susceptible to the agent (risk factors). More exotic and hard to find agents are harder to prevent and control but are also more difficult to initiate an epidemic or pandemic, whereas more generalized and known agents may be easier to cure, but have a much wider swath of causing pandemics. How do socioeconomic factors foster or inhibit the spread of disease?
- Reservoir: What is the natural reservoir of the agent? Are there other organisms where this agent can reside without causing disease? Increasing the reservoir can enhance transmission but can also allow for easier identification and treatment in response to it.
- Mode of Transmission: Consider inhalation, absorption, digestion, contact, and so forth. If you use multiple modes, justify your selections.
- Incubation Period: Provide the range with an average (median) day of disease onset. Does the period change in different socioeconomic status identifiers (sex, age, race, creed, and so on)? Why or why not?
- Period of communicability: How long is a person with this agent contagious? Increasing this period also increases the opportunity for study and thus treatment and control.
- Susceptibility: Is the agent susceptible to reinfection of the same person? Allowing for this increases morbidity but usually mortality wanes in subsequent infections.
Taking on the role of Dr. Madness, generate your superweapon and describe the weapon using the above mentioned criteria. Remember, the focus in on creating something that becomes difficult to identify, monitor, or treat with prophylaxis. You will write out the proposal as Dr. Madness submitting this to his lead researcher to develop. This proposal should be approximately 6–8 pages in length, but some submissions may be longe
Mitigating Legal Issues
“Mitigating Legal Issues” Go to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website and review an EEOC case from within the past three (3) years. Assess the main problem or issue from the case, then create a brief intervention summary for the organization in the case you chose. Include in your intervention summary any necessary staff training for the organization. Explain at least one (1) method you will use to ensure effective communication of the summary to a diverse (deep-level) group of staff. Hint: Deep-Level Diversity (e.g., Personality, Work Preference, Values, etc.)