INSTRUCTIONS: All responses must be prepared in Microsoft Word format and uploaded to the appropriate online assignment. Please include your name, course number, week number and assignment name at the top of your submissions (for example MargaretFoltz-ISSC366-Week4 Assignment).
Read chapters 10, 11 & 12. Answer each question with at least 350 words. (Total of 700 words minimum)
1) With respect to disaster recovery – describe the difference between hot, warm, and cold recovery sites.
2) Does the organization where you work have a disaster recovery site? If so, what type do they have? Do you agree with their recovery site strategy (why or why not)? If you are unable to determine if your organization has a disaster recovery site – what type of site do you feel would be best for your organization?
Journal Entries Anthropology
just watch the video and answer the five questions
300-500 word
this is the link for the video :
http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=111643&tScript=0
In this week’s lecture, we focused on the history of evolutionary thought. Your text situated this discussion within a broader discourse on alternative points of view, particularly that of divine creation. In this video, we visit the tiny town of Dover, in Pennsylvania, where in 2004, the local school board ordered science teachers to read to high school biology students a statement that suggested there is an alternative to Darwin’s theory of evolution called “Intelligent Design.” NOVA captures the emotional conflict in the historic six-week trial, Kitzmiller v. Dover School District, which was closely watched by the world’s media. Keep the following questions in mind while watching the video. Answer each question as fully as you can; answer freely, this is your opportunity to explore the class material; you are not graded on specific content, merely on addressing the question. No additional research is required.
1. Communication is important, and both sides are failing in this task. Why do the two sides of the argument seem to have difficulty talking to each other? Are we more likely to uncritically accept ideas that are similar to those we already hold?
2. Is there anything wrong with presenting multiple ideas? Is this not what science encourages?
3. If you were a policy maker in the educational system, how would you deal with this problem?
4. The theory of evolution as a scientific concept, Christian creationism, and Intelligent Design are only a few ways of seeing the world. Should other viewpoints, perhaps based on other world religions or popular belief systems, be given equal time in science classes?
5. Did this video change your position (it is okay to say no)? What did you like and what did you find challenging? What elements of the argument, on both sides, did you find unconvincing?
BUS 521 WEEK 4 DISCUSSION LATEST
BUS 521 WEEK 4 DISCUSSION LATEST
“Money Management and Financial Planning” Please respond to the following:
• From the case study, suggest a new business strategy for this company, forecasting potential growth for the next five years. Determine the steps that the company should explore to improve the business while minimizing financial risk. Note: Use the PlanningShop’s Business Plan Financial package to support your strategy. The PlanningShop’s Business Plan Financial package is located in the online course shell.
• Evaluate the financial planning process for new business ventures in terms of how it both challenges and benefits new ventures. Provide an example of each (i.e., challenges and benefits) from industry to support your position.
What is meant by the term national interest, and what are the dangers of using national interest as a rationale for nation-state behavior?
Assignment Option 1: National Interests and Nation State Behavior
What is meant by the term national interest, and what are the dangers of using national interest as a rationale for nation-state behavior?
Requirements:
· Write a formal essay 2-3 pages in length, complete with citations from at least two outside academic sources f
You have recently been appointed head of human resources and are now in charge of managing a small team. Your next project is to revamp the compensation and benefits package employees are receiving at your company. Design a plan for the human resource project without the use of MS Project or similar software.
Assignment 3: Human Resource Project Plan
Due Week 6 and worth 280 points
You have recently been appointed head of human resources and are now in charge of managing a small team. Your next project is to revamp the compensation and benefits package employees are receiving at your company. Design a plan for the human resource project without the use of MS Project or similar software. Note: You will have to make assumptions or create fictitious data for this assignment. Be clear about these assumptions and data for your professor to follow along.
Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:
1. Construct a project charter to revamp the compensation and benefits package.
2. Design a communication plan for the project.
3. Define the scope of the project.
a. Create a work breakdown structure including numbered components. Submit your WBS by creating a table inside your assignment.
b. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment.
Your assignment must:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Determine the characteristics of a successful project plan.
· Deconstruct the project planning process and how that affects human resource management.
· Identify the scope of projects and the structure of the accompanying work.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing human resource projects.
· Write clearly and concisely about managing human resource projects using proper writing mechanics.
Chapter 4 Discussion Board
Chapter 4 Discussion Board
Part 1
Review ABC’s Strategic Plan for 2017 – 2022 online at http://www.abc.edu/cs-acad/strategicplan/index.cfm. The Metrics and Framework link includes metrics that ABC will be working towards achieving in the coming years. Choose three (3) of the nine (9) metrics listed and revise them to represent a SMART goals for the University. I am looking for your ability to apply the SMART goal concept to this information.
If you are unsure what a SMART goal is, please read below.
When writing goals, it is helpful to remember the acronym SMART. Different people associate different words with each of the letters in the SMART acronym, but for the purposes of this problem, SMART means that effective goals are:
| 1. | Specific. A good goal defines exactly what you expect to accomplish. When your goals are specific, the behaviors required to accomplish them are clear. Many people say that they want to recycle to save the environment, but a better goal would be “Place every used bottle or can in a recycling container within five minutes of finishing its contents.” |
| 2. | Measurable. You can measure the outcomes of a good goal. When you measure how much of a goal you have attained, you get feedback on your work. For example, compare the goal “I want to be skinny” with “I want to lose 10 pounds by the end of the month.” How can you measure skinny? But by measuring the pounds you have lost so far, you know exactly how close you are to meeting your goal. |
| 3. | Attainable. Good goals are hard to reach, but not impossible. If a goal is too easy, you will not have to work hard to attain it, and your overall performance will not improve. If a goal is too hard, you will be discouraged from attempting to reach it. One way of making sure that goals are attainable is to break larger, difficult goals into smaller, more easily accomplished subgoals. |
| 4. | Result-oriented. A good goal contains only one outcome or accomplishment. If you combine two or more outcomes in one goal, it will be difficult to decide where to focus your attention. For example, “To increase produce sales by 3% and to achieve a 5% market share” is a less effective goal than “To increase produce sales by 3%.” |
| 5. | Time-bound. Good goals specify precisely when you will meet them. Doing so provides you with a deadline for your actions. For example, it is easy to say “I want to be a millionaire,” but you are more likely to accomplish that goal if you say “I will have a million dollars in a bank account by January 1, 2020.” |
Part 2
Conduct a mini SWOT analysis for ABC University. List each two (2) strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Remember – strengths and weaknesses are internal and opportunities and threats are external. Many students misstate opportunities as something internal. An opportunity is not an action that a company would take. The action must be based upon a factor in the external environment that has created an opportunity for the company to pursue.
THE ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ENHANCING POSITIVE ORGANIZATION, THE CASE OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Assignment 3:
3.1 Research conceptual framework (up to 5,000 words)
A conceptual framework is defined by Miles and Huberman (1994) as: “explains either graphically, or in narrative form, the main things to be studied – the key factors, concepts or variables …. and the presumed relationship among them”.
Not all research projects necessarily lead to a conceptual framework. If you have already carried out the literature review to the standards required at the PhD level, you will have already a deep understanding of the research issues and concepts associated with your research project.
Research planning requires a good understanding of how the research concepts being investigated are linked. Also, you must be able to explain the relationships between the concepts associated with your investigation. Probably, you are already aware that you need to follow logical research processes to generate the necessary information to support your investigation.
The literature review assists you to develop your topic knowledge on what to do. The frameworks help you to explain the why and how aspects of your research. It is also a very important tool to use to filter research questions, variables and methodologies. To do so, you need to clearly understand how the elements of your research are mapped together on a sound theoretical scientific base. Thus, the necessity of a research framework to guide the direction of your thesis study.
Creating your research conceptual framework:
Essentially, the framework provides you with the structure and content for the investigation based on the literature and to certain extent in-depth knowledge of a student and his DOS. Developing research conceptual frameworks is an iterative process. The concepts and variables incorporated in the framework should be derived from the literature. These should capture the underlying principles of the theories you want to investigate. The background studies (carried out in part one of this assignment) should help you to understanding the theories that describe relationships between your conceptual framework variables of interest. To create your research framework, you need consider:
• The research background to define concepts and their relationship. You also need to investigate how past researchers have framed similar research problems;
• Identify the key elements (e.g., independent and dependent variables) of your research;
• Represent the framework in the form of flow charts, mind maps, tree diagrams, mathematical equations, etc;
• Scientifically explain the association between the elements of your framework
If the framework is developed based on a solid background this help you to define and refine your thesis objectives, research questions, propositions, hypotheses and the methodology you need to deploy to investigate them.
Output:
This will depend on the nature of your investigation. It is most likely that you will end up with a chapter documenting the relationships and links between the key elements of your research. This will help to define your research instruments, which are the next logical step in the development of your research study.
You must work closely your DoS and academics in your field of research to identify, develop, review and refine your research framework.
3.2 Research methodology (up to 5,000 words)
You need to justify the validity and robustness of the scientific methods you are planning to deploy to achieve your research aims and objectives. Precisely how you will approach this issue will depend on your selected research problem (and also the field of research) that you are investigating. Thus, you need to discuss with your DOS the range of possible methodologies.
Broadly speaking, in this section you must justify the scientific and philosophical theories that underpin the process and methods you are planning to choose to collect and analyse/model data to answer your research questions.
For example: are you using qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods? Is the research theoretical or empirical? Does it develop new theory or find new applications of existing theory?
Output:
The output from this exercise will form the bulk of your methodology chapter in your thesis
What research tradition are you going to be working in; and remember, you may be drawing on more than one field of research. You need to consider all the relevant intellectual traditions, theories, and types of analysis for your research.
You may use the following to help you to justify your research approach.
• Investigating an issue or problem?
• Applying a theory/theories or model/models?
• Developing simulation models
• Testing a specific hypothesis?
• Investigating a policy formation, methodology, approach or its implementation?
• Gathering existing research to revise, modify, or expand an existing theory or model?
• What relevant research methods exist to choose from?
• Why have you chosen the one you have?
• Why are the others not appropriate?
The answer to the above list of inquiries in conjunction with the literature review from Term 1 will help you to develop strategies for designing and implementing your research. This is the most important of part of your research methodology chapter. You need to assure the examiners that the methods and tools you used to deploy you study, analyse and interpret your results are valid and reliable.
Ethical Considerations
You should demonstrate an awareness of the ethical and micro-political implications of working as a researcher and discuss how your own values and perspectives may influence your research approach and design. Use the ethics guidelines material from the core textbooks provided in RM1. Include in an Appendix the relevant ethical approval documents, e.g. letter of verification that the study has been submitted to the University’s Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee for review regarding research with human subjects.
Limitations
• What are the boundaries of your research project?
• What topics are you not researching?
• What aspects are you not covering?
• What subject groups are you not including?
• What locations or sites are you not investigating?
• What contextual factors are you not covering?
• What causal factors are you not including?
• What time period(s) are you not covering?
Note:
Output:
The output from this exercise will form the bulk of your methodology chapter in your thesis
Research future plans
You are to work closely with your DOS to produce a draft work plan for the remaining period of your research project. The plan should describe, including the timeline, all of the following tasks:
1. Data collection
2. Data analysis
3. Writing up
4. Dissemination
5. Resources/support may need for data collection and analysis
6. Risk for not completing the above tasks
CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT
The overriding assessment criterion for your work is its suitability for incorporating in the final doctoral thesis. Thus, before submitting your work please check with your DOS that he/she is satisfied that the draft content you write achieves the standard for the PhD level and can be incorporated into your final thesis.
Assessment Indicative Criteria Yes Partiality No
3 Literature Review in-depth and critical review of literature – gap identification in existing knowledge – relevance of literature to the research aims objectives and questions
FEEDBACK:
4 Theoretical Understanding of the research conceptual framework Comprehensive understanding of theoretical background of their research – clear statement of assumptions and limitations of study
FEEDBACK:
5 Methodology/Numerical/Experimental/modelling Formulation IF Applicable systematic description of methodology, numerical and experimental methodology – discussion of significance, sample size, population and experimental problems
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6 Research gap or novelty Systematic demonstration of the novelty and relevance of the proposed research through scientific understanding of the subject area
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7 Future research plans Realistic plan for further work and risk of completion
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8 Technical Writing Appropriate structure of content
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9 Overall Comments Overall impression about the quality of the report
FEEDBACK:
Urban Geography
- ● What are the key focus/foci of this sub-discipline?
- ● What the key/typical questions or problems this sub-discipline tries to answer?
- ● What types of methods are used by this sub-discipline?
- ● Who uses the information generated by this sub-discipline?
- ● What is one key theories of this sub-discipline?
Your response should be presented in proper English, written in paragraph style, and involve at least 3 academic sources. All sources of information need to be presented in full American Psychology Association (APA) referencing. (300 words)
Explain the alignment of the marketing plan with the organization’s strategic plan and business goals, and describe major elements of a marketing strategy
Objective: Explain the alignment of the marketing plan with the organization’s strategic plan and business goals, and describe major elements of a marketing strategy. Introduction The primary role of marketing is to create, manage and communicate a company’s brand to consumers. Consumers want to believe, trust and have access to information about a product or service. To accomplish this, a company must have a detailed and effective marketing plan and strategy that is clearly aligned with their company strategic plan. This essay will allow you to explain the alignment of the marketing plan with the organization’s strategic plan and business goals, as well as describe major elements of a marketing strategy.
Deliverable The essay for this lesson is required to be a minimum of 750 words that clearly demonstrate your understanding of the activity. Essays should have a clear introduction, thesis statement and conclusion, written in APA format (APAstyle.org). A minimum of three sources must be cited in-text and in the Reference list. Activity Details
Step 1: Read the following questions and directives, and apply what you have learned about this lesson’s objective to summarize your responses.
•What is the role of marketing in an organization and why is it important to organizational success?
•How is marketing integrated into an organization and its structure? Address how/why the marketing plan should be aligned with the strategic plan, mission and vision.
•What are some planning tasks necessary for marketing to be successful?
•What is a brand and what role does branding and brand equity play in the marketing strategy? How is this aligned with the strategic plan?
•How is branding established, managed and measured?
•Explain the benefits to a company of having a social media component as part of the overall marketing strategy. Can social media impact a brand? Is social media marketing right for every company?
Describe how a consumer's attitudes and beliefs about CAM could hinder objective assessments of reliability and credibility in CAM
Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on a methodology you create for assessing credibility and reliability of an Internet source of CAM information. Include detailed speaker notes and reference citations.
Describe how a consumer’s attitudes and beliefs about CAM could hinder objective assessments of reliability and credibility in CAM.
Create five objective criteria to judge the credibility and reliability of a source of information on CAM.
Select a CAM therapy or modality of interest.
Research the Internet for websites on this therapy or modality. Be sure to not use the same therapy you used for the CAM paper, discussion or a website from class. Then, perform the following:
- Describe the therapy.
- Examine the type of training or education that is required.
- Discuss whether a license or certification is required to practice this therapy.
- Identify the overseeing or regulating organization for this therapy.
Using your criteria, review one of the websites and determine how reliable the site is for CAM information.
- Explain how you reached your conclusion about the website. Consider using a grading scale or grid for this exercise.
- Describe steps the website could take to increase its credibility.
Present the Assessing Reliability and Credibility of CAM ResourcesPresentation.
- For Local Campus students, these may be (at the discretion of faculty) oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft® PowerPoint®presentations.
- For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with speaker notes.