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Counseling

Review an experience you have had with a consultant, internal or external, in your workplace. If you have not had any direct experience with a consultant, base your responses either on your readings or on your research of a company you admire. Imagine how you would consult with them on a specific topic of interest to you. Support your responses using scholarly resources.
Keeping the consultant’s role in mind, answer the following questions:

Write a 150- to 300-word response to each question.

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Reportr: Diagnosing Organizational Systems

An organizational assessment is the process evaluation of the various areas within the organization in terms of what is working well and what could be changed. An organizational assessment determines how organizational factors in the internal environment affect the competitive situation. It is a full system view of where the organization stands in order to maximize the organization’s efficiency and effectiveness in achieving its mission. When viewed as an open system, an organization can be diagnosed at three levels: the organizational level, the group level, and the individual level.
For this assignment, you will complete an activity designed to simulate the process of evaluating an organization and selecting or designing and conducting an organizational assessment.
Directions:
For this activity, identify an organization to diagnose. It is best to select an organization where you are currently or were previously employed. Think of this organization as a system. Include the following in 4–5 pages:

  1. Identify and document all of the following at the organizational level: (1–2 pages)
    • The organization’s mission/purpose
    • All inputs from the system
    • All outputs from the system
    • All processes your organization performs to transform inputs to outputs
    • Organizational environments
    • Organizational alignment
    • Feedback mechanisms to determine correctness or performance measures
  2. Develop an organizational assessment tool (ten questions) at the individual level. This can be a format of your choosing, such as a written questionnaire or a SurveyMonkey form. (1–2 pages)
    1. Identify a situation in your organization to be assessed. It should consider funding streams, workflow processes, organizational structure, outcome measurement, client satisfaction, employee turnover, the capacity for change, etc. Develop questions you believe will assess the situation effectively. Again, write ten questions in total for your tool.
    2. Explain your rationale for your approach in developing the questions.
      (1 paragraph)
    3. Explain how you would administer the tool to the employees in your chosen organization. For example, is this a one-time event, an annual survey, or an as-needed assessment? Note: You do not have to administer the tool; just develop a plan for administering it.
      (1 paragraph)
    4. Assess and explain your organization’s capacity to change and achieve greater effectiveness including financial performance, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement.
      (1–2 paragraphs)
    5. Select an appropriate communication and feedback method for how you would want to present the assessment and intervention results to your identified organization.
      (1–2 paragraphs)
    6. Turn in a copy of the tool you created along with your paper.

Your final product will be a Microsoft Word document approximately 10–12 pages in length. Utilize four to five scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Reflection Paper

Description

I need to write two reflections on parts 1 and 2 below. The total length of my journal assignment must be a minimum of three pages in length, with each journal entry being at least one page. (For example, this means that you could have one reflection be on one page and the other be two pages, each could be one and a half pages, or some other means by which each is at least one page in length and your total overall pages total three). The reflection will need to reflect your understanding of the time period and need to avoid being anachronistic. To accomplish this, you will need to write both reflections as if you were a first generation immigrant (in the first person). Your first reflection entry needs to be from the viewpoint of an immigrant from Europe (e g., Ireland, Italy, germany, England, or France). Your second reflection entry needs to come from the standpoint of an immigrant from Asia (e g., China or Japan). Part 1. Are you treated as an equal by earlier generations residing here? a. What are others attitudes toward you? b. Why do you think they act this way? c. Would you feel pressured to pledge your loyalty to a political machine? d. Would you agree to engage in a strike?. e. Talk about some leisure opportunities and how they are divided by race or class or are for everyone? 2. a. What is the “American dream? b. How did the growth of big businesses impact the American dream?. c. Explain which leisure opportunities could be part of the American dream? d. What part did the anti-immigration sentiment play in the American Dream? As this is a point of view essay, a Modern perspective will not accurately address What the question is asking for. It is strongly suggested that you use at least one selection from the America: history and life with full text database. All sources used including textbooks, must be referenced;paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

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types of financing

PART 1
Find an article or video offering advice on choosing the best financing option for a business. Post a link to the article or video to the discussion thread and answer the following questions:
1. Which types of financing did they discuss?
2. What advice did they offer?
3. What information or data did the article suggest a business owner use to help decide on the best financing decisions?

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Employee Satisfaction and Sick Days Taken: Pearson Correlation Report

Assignment 2: RA 2: Employee Satisfaction and Sick Days Taken: Pearson Correlation Report

For this assignment, you will read a brief scenario, analyze two data sets, and conduct a Pearson correlation in Microsoft Excel. You will justify the results in a 10- to 12-page report following the directions below.
Background Scenario:
Company ABC has hired you to conduct an employee satisfaction survey. You have conducted the survey and received the satisfaction scores of twenty participants. Company ABC is asking that you work with human resources (HR) by obtaining a report on the number of sick days for the twenty employees who completed your employee satisfaction survey. You are to take both sets of data and conduct a Pearson correlation to determine whether there is a relationship between employee satisfaction and the number of sick days taken. Assume the survey and the sick days are being measured over a one-year time frame.
Click here to view the data.
Directions:
Using the data sets provided, conduct a Pearson correlation (in Microsoft Excel). In a 10- to 12-page report to company ABC, which includes the Microsoft Excel data results sheet, address the following:

  • Include an executive summary explaining your findings.
  • Summarize for the client what a Pearson correlation is and why it was chosen for this analysis. Discuss the validity and reliability of a Pearson correlation.
  • Explain the type of correlation you discovered, if any. State the specific correlation coefficient and be specific as to whether it was positive or negative. Also, indicate whether the results were significantly positive or negative.
  • Describe the results from your statistical analysis, indicating the relationship between employee satisfaction and sick days taken in a year.
  • Determine what other variables may have impacted this relationship and the scores of the employee satisfaction survey.
  • Justify what research, if any, supports your findings on satisfaction and sick days.
  • Include a copy of your Pearson correlation computations in Microsoft Excel.

Your final product will be in a Microsoft Word document of approximately 10 to 12 pages. Utilize four to five scholarly sources in your research. Your document should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Writing and communication

The War off tha Wordz
Writing and communication is such an important tool in your academic toolbox.  If you’re a clear writer, your audience has no problems in distinguishing your meanings, your purpose, and your support.  But, if your writing isn’t clear, then bad things can happen.
Let’s take a look at some scenarios where proofreading and stop your readers mid-sentence.  Choose one of these scenarios and comment on the best approach to fix the sentence and the ramifications of the proofreading issues.
1. U R constantly using text language in your English course.
2. You’re messaging your significant other and you mention that they are “defiantly bautiful”.
3. Your chose the topic, for your assignment sets in CIS105: “Dogs is better then cats”.
4. You’re getting into the Realty Business and you’re listing your first house.  In the listing you mention that the house “has a heated poo in the back yard.”

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Multiple Regression-quantitative methodology

For this assignment, you are to review the scenario below and develop an 8- to 10-page report (plus a cover page and reference page), following the directions below. Please also review the below description of the quantitative methodology called Multiple Regression and then watch the Lynda.com video Computing a Multiple Regression as well, to increase your familiarity with this method of analyzing data. Please note that you are not expected to use the program depicted in the video or use the language described in the video to write your report for this assignment.
Multiple Regression:
Industrial Organizational Psychology specialists often examine the ways in which one or more variables can predict another. Multiple regression is a popular statistical tool that is utilized for predicting an outcome (the dependent variable, or target) from two or more independent variables (the predictors).
In business, regression equations may be used to study or forecast salaries, hiring needs, sales, turnover rates, etc. In essence, the process both identifies the predictors, or combination of them, that best explain the variability in observations on the dependent variable. The resulting equation for the best fit of the data can then be tested on, or applied to, new observations to predict not-yet-observed outcomes.
Scenario:
You have been contracted by a company to hire the next chief executive officer (CEO). The company has given you a list of ten potential candidates for that position, and wants you to first gather data about the executives to help determine the best candidate. The candidates have been engaged in coaching and have also taken an emotional intelligence (EI) test. You suspect that variables such as years of experience as an executive, months of coaching, and years of education will contribute to the scores on the EI test, as well as the success of the right candidate. In this case, the higher the EI score, the better. More business experience, higher education, more months with a coach, and higher EI test scores indicate the more appropriate candidates. The assumption is that the company has offered coaching in the past. The data of the emotional intelligence test conducted on the candidates is given in the table below:
Years of Experience in BusinessLevel of Education
# of Months in CoachingEmotional Intelligence (EI) Test Scores515886247812395621388872597
Directions:
Using any research methods textbook that you may have and at least five additional scholarly sources from the Argosy University online library (regarding multiple regression and multiple predictor variables), create an 8- to 10-page report for company leadership. Complete the following to include in the report:

Your final product will be in a Microsoft Word document approximately eight to ten pages in length. Utilize at least five scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

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Assignment 2: RA 1: Organizational Development Intervention Presentation

Assignment 2: RA 1: Organizational Development Intervention Presentation

For this assignment, you will be creating an organizational development (OD) intervention strategy presentation of approximately 6–8 slides for a fictitious company. Your ability to persuade and influence leadership with precise and concise points is key to good consulting. Your knowledge and emotional intelligence are needed to assist this organization in increasing team performance and overall company effectiveness. You are to read the scenario provided and follow the directions below to create the presentation as an external consultant for the board of directors.
Background Scenario
Declining employee morale, conflict within and between workgroups, and employee performance problems led the newly appointed division manager of company X to search for an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology professional. The manager would like you to assist with the analysis and development of an organizational development (OD) intervention strategy that will improve team effectiveness and organizational performance. There are twenty-five staff members employed in the division. There is no union organization involved. After an initial meeting with the division manager, you have been asked to present the organizational development (OD) intervention strategy to the executive board. You will be bidding for the opportunity to assist company X in its efforts to improve morale and increase employee and group performance within the division.
Other consultants will be presenting to the executive board as well.
Directions:
In 6 to 8 slides (including detailed speaker’s notes):

  1. Describe your organizational development (OD) practitioner competencies.
    • What makes you the best candidate for this opportunity?
    • What are your credentials?
  2. Select an organizational development (OD) intervention strategy for the scenario above. Begin by reviewing the four categories of organizational development (OD) interventions. There may be multiple issues to be addressed at the same time.
  3. Develop and explain your intervention plan.
    • How will you organize the plan so the organization can change effectively and efficiently?
    • What will most likely transform the organization in the given scenario (i.e., structural, technical, or behavioral change or a combination of these)?
  4. Develop 8–10 pertinent interview questions you will ask management.
  5. Include your rationale for selecting your intervention strategy.
  6. Explain what assessments you will need to perform.
  7. Describe the data that you might need to collect from the organization. Explain how you will collect data and measure results. Justify your answer.
  8. Create and explain a reinforcement strategy or a transfer-of-skills plan. How will you be certain that the change has become the new normal and will continue once your consulting contract is terminated?

Your final product will be a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of approximately 6 to 8 slides in length (including detailed speaker’s notes). You will utilize three to four scholarly sources in your research. Your presentation should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Need Response

Need response to 2 posts, each response should be at least 200 words, 1 scholarly source of each, APA format, no title page needed.
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Post 1
 
Project management definitely has application to nursing practice in general but even more for those involved as advanced practice nurses. Sipes (2016) mentions within her writing, project management may be fairly new to some advanced practice nurses but management success requires it. Interestingly, she also describes how the process of a project manager and the process of nursing are very similar, however, the manager oversees a project rather than a patient (Sipes, 2016). Additionally, she describes the best way to accomplish project management is by using consistent organized processes to meet goals, which is also very similar to how the process of nursing approaches care for patients! The ability to manage projects is especially important for the advanced practice nurse because they are expected to lead nursing into the future and it will take development of many projects to conclude needs for the future therefore it’s pretty imperative and applicable that the advanced practice nurse have skills related to managing projects! IOM, ARRA and HITECH all support and/or mandate the increase of efficiency through the development and meaningful use of technology, however, doing so is a very complex mission that requires efficient management for success. Humbles, McNeal and Paul-Richiez (2017) view this as an opportunity to evolve students from providing care to managing care by creating opportunity for intercollaboration between disciplines which, to me, introduces project management early for students. The idea is to come together for a project where collectively identified needs are deficient by collaboratively understanding these needs, collectively developing a plan, implementing and evaluating its effect. If you think about it, we are now taking several disciplines and working together to efficiently solve issues, this cannot be done without an overall project manager who communicates and oversees the entire project, it’s just too large to do without. This is where managing these projects becomes obvious and necessary for the advanced practice nurse. Each community and/or organization will have its own issues, its own projects and its own need for managers to oversee these projects to successfully produce new information.
Post 2
 
The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) takes on many roles and responsibilities. Many of these responsibilities are additional to the basic nursing care that is provided to patients. Nurses use the nursing process to provide proper care. Four components of the nursing process used by nursing informatics specialists are assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation (Sengstack, 2012). Project management and the use of the nursing process are used by nursing informatics specialists to benefit both the clinician and the patient. Sengstack (2012) discusses the importance of a team of people to design healthcare informatics systems. Vendors who focus on infrastructure along with advanced practice nurses (APNs), which specialize in informatics, help create a user friendly and robust informatics system for the end user (Sengstack, 2012). The end user is very often the clinical nurse which uses the products on a daily basis when providing patient care. APN’s specializing in informatics take on project management responsibilities and can function as an important mediator between the informatics team and the healthcare team. APN’s in informatics have a vast pool of knowledge on their specialty topic, informatics, and the nursing process. Therefore, APN’s in informatics are great resources to bridge communication between the analytics, programming and clinical departments.
Project management concepts affect my practice as I am the end user of the project outcomes. As a registered nurse working in education I, unfortunately, have not had the opportunity to physically participate in project management frequently. I am, however, an end user of these products. I have experienced times where we as a company had to transition to a new electronic medical records (EMR’s). Although the system was built based on projects, when the date came to go live, teams of nursing informatics specialists were available. Their responsibility was to actively look for areas of opportunities, areas of success and hear the concerns of the floor registered nurses in order to improve and individualize the project. Therefore, I may not be an APN that’s specialized in informatics nor actively involved in project management, however, as the end user my opinion should and could be valued to continually improve efforts of said project.
Thank you in advance!