Assignment 1:Question: Prosocial Behavior and Altruism
By 10/28/17, respond to the following question.
Consider and discuss how the phenomena of prosocial behavior and pure altruism relate to each other and how they differ from each other.
Pure altruism is a specific kind of prosocial behavior where your sole motivation is to help a person in need without seeking benefit for yourself.
It is often viewed as a truly selfless form of behavior.
Provide an example each of prosocial behavior and pure altruism.
Macroeconomic Data: Discussion Forum Post
Discuss the various ways inflation can hinder economic activity. What are some strategies you might use in your life to deal with rising inflation? How might these strategies change if we experienced deflation?
Stockholders’ Equity Section Of The Balance Sheet
Answer the following questions in 1,050 words using the Lachlin Corporation Balance Sheet located on p. 575 of Financial Accounting:
•How many shares of common stock are outstanding?
•Assuming there is a stated value, what is the stated value of the common stock?
•What is the par value of the preferred stock?
•If the annual dividend on preferred stock is $36,000, what is the dividend rate on preferred stock?
•If dividends of $72,000 were in arrears on preferred stock, what would be the balance reported for retained earnings?
Use the Week 4 Excel® spreadsheet and submit with your answers.
Compensation And Motivation
Critique Compensation Theory Paper
Assume that, as the compensation professional, you are to present your reasoning, based on theory, for recommending certain compensation strategies. Explain at least two theories and identify how they impact compensation and the work environment.
For this assignment you will develop a 3-5 page, APA-formatted paper. As the compensation professional you will be writing the report for the owners of a new organization. In your paper cover the following:
- Examine two theories that impact compensation.
- Discuss how each of the theories can motivate employees.
- Discuss specific types of compensation providing examples on how theory can influence employee performance.
Instructions:
- Write a 3-5 page paper, or about 1500 words, not including the title and reference pages, which are required.
- Your paper must be properly cited and formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.
- Include a formal works cited page. This is an individual paper; however, you should reflect on our discussion forums and incorporate ideas from there, as appropriate.
- You must support your analysis with at least two scholarly references and can include resources from this course.
- The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources. You cannot use Wikipedia or any CSU-Global assignment. For this assignment, a credible source is defined as:
- A scholarly or peer-reviewed journal article.
- A government-based website or publication.
- A trade or industry journal article, publication, or website, including those from trade organizations such as SHRM.org and TD.org.
- The paper must be formatted correctly using APA style.
- Submit your paper using the submit assignment button in the Critical Thinking folder.
Brief The Following Cases: Phase 4 IP
As a part of your Phase 4 IP, you are to review the following cases with regard to wiretapping:
- Olmstead v. United States
- Nardone v. United States
- Goldman v. United States
- Berger v. New York
- Katz v. United States
During trial preparation, you are directed by the Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) to bring the tapes of intercepted conversations involving a prime suspect in your case to her office. You provide the evidence custodian with the necessary paperwork and are waiting for the tapes to be produced. After 20 minutes, the custodian comes back and asks if you are sure you have provided the correct case and exhibit numbers. You verify the numbers and are told the original tapes cannot be found.
You immediately inform your supervisor, who is understandably concerned. You have the paperwork documenting the fact that the tapes were transferred to the custody of the evidence custodian. The other agents in the office are asked whether they have any knowledge of this matter. No one has any idea as to what happened to the original tapes.
You and your supervisor call the AUSA and explain to her what has happened. She is furious and tells you not to be surprised if the judge throws out the entire case. You remind her that she has duplicate copies in her possession and that you have your working copies as well. She says her copies were barely audible, and apparently there was some problem with the recording equipment. You decide to do some research on the best evidence rule.
Assignment Guidelines
- Address the following in 1,250–1,500 words:
- What is the best evidence rule? Explain in detail.
- Why was the best evidence rule implemented into the U.S. court system? Explain.
- What is the rationale behind its application?
- Review the following cases with regard to wiretapping:
- Olmstead v. United States
- Nardone v. United States
- Goldman v. United States
- Berger v. New York
- Katz v. United States
- Summarize the current status of wiretapping restrictions according to the reviewed cases above.
- How must evidence derived from wiretapping be packaged and preserved? Explain.
- How does wiretapping evidence relate to the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine? Explain.
- What is the likely outcome of your case in court if the originals are not located? Explain.
- What is the best evidence rule? Explain in detail.
- Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
WK7 DISCUSSION CA499
- Representing Your Research
In order to fulfill the requirements of this week’s discussion forum assignment, you are asked to craft a 150 word abstract of the argument you have developed over the course of two essay drafts. Your goal here is to make the purpose of your research project clear to your readers (i.e. in this instance, your fellow students).
should be a minimum of 150 words. If you use any source outside of your own thoughts, you should reference that source. Include solid grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling.
MGT 435 Organizational Change
Change Model Assignment
Assume you are the Sales and Marketing Director for Sea Treasures, a small group of well-known retail stores specializing in exotic sea life and high-end accessories for aquariums. The company has been in business for over 50 years, but the customer base is shrinking, sales are slow, and you are faced with reducing staff and closing stores. Sea Treasures will be out of business within a year if innovative and creative changes are not made quickly. After many months, you have finally been able to convince the owner that the only way to sustain the business and increase revenue is to create an Internet Website to sell the large inventory of aquarium decorator items (currently gathering dust in a costly warehouse) . This will be a short-term, small scale change. Six months later, you will expand the Website to sell live sea creatures such as tropical fish and small sea turtles online, which is a long-term, large-scale change.
You face many challenges in this transformational change initiative, beginning with strong employee resistance, new technology, and shipping methods. Many small businesses have been faced with these same issues, and have made the transition successfully. Consider the humble beginnings of Amazon, and look where they are today. Selecting the best change model for this business, and implementing it step by step provides the foundation for creating an exciting new company.
In 3 – 5 pages, explain which change model you would follow for the short-term change and which you would follow for the long-term change. Provide rationale for your decision and discuss the effects that these changes would have on the employees, managers, and executives within the organization. Include at least three references and follow standard APA formatting for your paper.
Personal Philosophy Of Education Paper
Complete the Philosophical and Educational Perspectives assessment.
As you read through the Philosophical and Educational Perspectives, which perspective do you find yourself agreeing with the most and the least?
Write a 300- to 750-word paper in which you describe your philosophy of education.
Include your theories on three to five of the following topics:
- The purpose of education
- The role of the student in education
- The role of the teacher in education
- The role of the teacher in the community
- What defines a community of learners
- How children learn
- How educational philosophies relate to classroom practice
- Classroom management
- Instructional strategies
- Curriculum design
- Assessment
- Your personal educational philosophy
Develop a word cloud or other infographic to reflect your personal philosophy of education. Imagine you will use this infographic as a visual representation of your teaching for parents.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
Discussion on social engineering attacks or reverse social engineering attacks
Perform a search on the Web for articles and stories about social engineering attacks or reverse social engineering attacks. Find an attack that was successful and describe how it could have been prevented.
Note: Your responses should not be a word for word rehashing of what is stated in the readings, but rather an integration of the concepts and additional insights, either from real world experience or additional sources. It should be a 250 word response to my question
My School And Its Culture
As illustrated in the introduction discussion this week, each of you has experienced a unique journey through a variety of educational experiences throughout your lives. Naturally, some of these experiences will have contributed to your personal development and identity with greater impact than others. Furthermore, many in-school variables have affected your educational journey.After reading selected materials from Week One, you should now be familiar with the research that describes the relationship between social class and school success (Chapter 7 and the Funds of Knowledge (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. help by students and their families). You will use this knowledge as a foundation for completing this assignment.For this assignment, describe a school-related experience that you believe influenced your identity either positively or negatively or both. You will analyze this experience and reflect on all the factors that might have shaped it, and the different ways these experiences shaped you. This analysis will include an examination of factors related to school (such as social class, socioeconomic status, diversity, family issues, etc.) that you believe influenced your schooling. This type of analysis provides a powerful introduction to learning more about the relationship between culture, education and how such factors can impact school.In your paper, include the following:Describe your selected school experience that influenced your personal identity development. (1 points)Describe the school where your experience took place including (a) school characteristics, (b) student population characteristics, (c) socio-economic background of the families affiliated with the school, (d) the family structures represented, and (e) values, behaviors, and symbols that would be considered normal in that community (microculture). (2 points)Explain the influence that your family’s “funds of knowledge” and social capital had on your ability to succeed in your school; address your success in the following three areas: academic success, social success, and emotional success. (1 points)Explain, using specific examples, how educators could use information about culture and individual student identities to make effective instructional decisions. (1 points)If you are enrolled in the MAED Program, it is imperative that you keep copies of all assignments completed in this course. You will return to them for the portfolio that you will create in your final MAED course. This portfolio is a culminating project that will demonstrate that you have met program outcomes.Review this week’s Instructor Guidance for additional information about completing this assignment. Contact your instructor for clarifications about this or any assessment in the course before the due date using the “Ask Your Instructor” forum. Then, also using the Grading Rubric as a guide for your performance on this assignment, construct your assignment to meet each of the content and written communication expectations.Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to be sure you have achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion and submit the assignment for evaluation no later than Day 7.The My School and Its Culture paperMust be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..Must include a separate title page with the following:Title of paperStudent’s nameCourse name and numberInstructor’s nameDate submittedMust use at least 3 scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible sources in addition to the course text.The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.