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government—PAD 540 Week 4 Assignment 2

Assignment 2: Debate It Powerpoint Presentation
Due Week 4 and worth 140 points
Most people perceive international public administration to be a set of state structures, institutions, and processes. Opponents of globalization argue that it weakens states, making it difficult for them to sustain social welfare and environmental policies, and create fiscal redistributive initiatives.
According to James Bovard, a libertarian author who focuses on writing about government, proponents and businesses seeking to expand a broad claim there is little or no evidence of national governments’ decline. Congress, along with many policy strategists, seem to think that whatever the effects of globalization on governments, they are likely to be beneficial for long-term economic growth (Bovard, 1987).
Analyze the claims laid out in this controversy, and try to argue the strongest case you can in favor of the view(s) you find most convincing. In doing so, be sure to seriously consider the case that your opponents might make against your position, and why you would reject it. Use the Internet and / or Strayer databases to research evidence that supports your opinion. Determine your point of view on the issue, and support your position with information from at least three (3) reliable, relevant, peer-reviewed references (no more than one [1] used previously), published within the last five (5) years.
Create a PowerPoint presentation that covers the following:

  • Provide a brief description of the issue.
  • Present evidence that supports both sides of the argument.
  • In the note section of each information slide, you must write a narrative of what you would say if you were giving your presentation in person.
  • Provide at least three (3) reliable, relevant, peer-reviewed references (no more than one [1] used previously), published within the last five (5) years at the end of your video.

Note: Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Your presentation should include a minimum total of 12 slides:

  • 10 information slides
  • Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
    1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    2. 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 is not included in the required page length.
    3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the core controversies, theories, and rationale surrounding global public
  • Formulate domestic and international public policy alternatives and arguments.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in international public administration.
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English Week 4 Discussion 1- Article writing

It is helpful to look at your opening and closing paragraphs to determine if they “frame” your paper effectively and appropriately. Looking at them side by side gives you a different perspective. You can, for example, see if the paper has addressed the issues raised in the introduction–and if the conclusion finalizes your thoughts on those issues.
In the discussion, post your introduction and your conclusion.
Please provide a sentence or two explaining what strategy you chose for writing your conclusion.
Address what you have in the introduction and for your thesis to demonstrate how the conclusion resolves, answers, or supports the idea of the conclusion.

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Financial Ratios

Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is for students to analyze financial ratios.
Assignment Steps
Search the internet for financial statements of publicly traded companies.
Evaluate financial ratios in a minimum 1,050 words which includes the following:
Explain the uses for each of the three classifications of ratios: liquidity, solvency, and profitability.
Calculate the current ratio, profit margin, and after tax ROE, of a real company whose financial information you found on the internet, any company will do.
Display your calculations.
Cite a minimum of one peer reviewed reference from the University Library.
Format assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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Managing Business Level Strategies:  Supporting the Business Level Strategy:  Competitive and Cooperative Moves

Week 4 Readings
Strategic Management:
· Chapter 5:  Managing Business Level Strategies
· Chapter 6:  Supporting the Business Level Strategy:  Competitive and Cooperative Moves
Blue Ocean Strategy and Red Ocean Traps
Making Sense of Digital Disruption
Strategic-Formulation Analytical Framework
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix
BCG Matrix
The IE Matrix
How to Prepare the Internal External Matrix
Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM)
QSPM Slideshare
The Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) Applied to a Computer Store (download the full text PDF – you do not need to register)
Porter’s (1980) Generic Strategies as Determinants of Strategic Group Membership and Organizational Performance
Week 4 Learning Activity 1
 
Using the same company you selected for Week 3 Learning Activity, it is now time to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that you uncovered, and determine what strategy is best suited, based on the outcome of the IFE and EFE.
 
Discuss which generic business-level strategy is best suited to keep your company competitive in full alignment with the generic strategy for the same focal company (you selected and analyzed in Week 3).
 
Requirement 1:
 
Reiterate the same focal company and identify the generic strategy for that focal company
 
Requirement 2:
 
Discuss the generic strategy in the context of focal company. [Note that your chosen generic strategy must be among one of the generic strategies that are discussed in Chapter 5]
 
Requirement 3:
Support the rationale for your explanation.
Requirement 4:
Use the appropriate APA formatted scholarly reference sources and corresponding in-text citations in all your postings.
Week 4 Learning Activity 2
 
Below is a pool of three strategy-formulation analytic tools:
 
· Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix
· IE Matrix
· SPACE Matrix
 
Based on the information that you have gathered from your Week 3 Learning Activities, please select one matrix from the above-mentioned pool and complete your selected analytic tool on that same company.
 
Requirement 1:
Reiterate the same focal company that you used in W3 DQs and W4 DQ1, and identify the analytic tool for your analysis
 
Requirement 2:
Discuss the reasons why you chose that analytic tool.
 
Requirement 3:
Complete your actual computations and/or analysis with the chosen tool.
 
Learners need to show their required steps such as in (a) doing the actual computations, (b) determining the position of the point (that is, the coordinates) in the matrix, (c) drawing the intersection or line on the matrix, or deciding “which products go into which quadrant” within the graphic representation. In other words, the analysis must include both the detailed inputs and outputs of the selected analytic tool.
 
Requirement 4:
Once you have completed the analytic tool, (a) discuss the outcome(s) of your analysis in terms of what strategic direction the selected company should take, (b) then devise one corporate strategy, and (c) explain “why” of this corporate strategyin details to support the generic strategy.
 
Please note sequential levels of strategies
 
Generic strategy → Corporate-level strategy
 
Requirement 5:
· Support the rationale for your explanation throughout the analysis.
· Use the appropriate APA formatted scholarly reference source and corresponding in-text citations in all your postings.

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Building Learning Organizations

Building Learning Organizations Draft
Due: Sunday midnight Week 5 Final Paper due in Week 7 Length: 8 – 10 double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) Points for Week 5 Draft: 50 for 5% of the final grade
Building Learning Organizations Paper Guidelines The final paper give you’re the opportunity to discuss and apply the concepts and strategies of learning organization to a specific team, department or organization. The paper consists of two parts
1. As a case analysis, identify a challenge a specific organization that is not a learning organization faces; diagnose the issue by describing the impact of one or more system archetypes, and one or more learning disabilities
2. Recommend a plan to build a learning organization in the specific organization described in the case analysis by applying each of Senge’s five disciplines
The final paper must adhere to APA standards and cite five or more scholarly sources including three peer-reviewed journal articles. The purpose of submitting a draft in week 5 is to ensure you are on the right track in selecting an appropriate challenge for the case study, and proposing actions that will facilitate building a learning organization. Your grade for the draft will be based on timely submission, completeness and accuracy of your draft. Part I: Case Analysis Select an organization that is currently not a learning organization in which one or more system archetypes and learning disabilities are evident; the case analysis works best when you select a team or department with which you are familiar. For example, rather than selecting the entire military, focus on the specific unit where you are (or were) assigned. Briefly describe the organization, identifying a specific problem or challenge that exists. Diagnose the problem by describing one or more system archetypes, and one or more learning disabilities that impact it. Your analysis must include theoretical definitions of the selected system archetype and learning disability as well as a description of how each affects the problem or challenge in this organization (3 – 4 pages). Part II: Recommendations and Action Plan For the organization discussed in the Case Analysis, recommend an action plan to transform it into a learning organization. The action plan must include one or more specific activities for each of the five disciplines that could be utilized over time to create positive change with the organization; these activities may come from The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook or other academic sources. For example, in preparing a recommendation for systems thinking, begin by identifying leverage point(s) for change for the system archetype(s) discussed in the case analysis, and then discuss strategies to address it (4 – 6 pages).
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self- evaluative introspective and analytical text

New Text Document (3).txt

Read first 3 chapter of (Getting to yes Negotiation Agreement Without Giving In) 3rd edition 2011 carefully and write self- evaluative introspective and analytical in your view. you have to ask questions and gives suggestions. you must have accsess to the book. I won’t upload it or send links. NO plagiarism and must be your work and uniqe.

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How do you believe public safety administration should be defined?

Week 1
Readings
· Neumann, F. X.,Jr. (1996). What makes public administration a science? or, are its “big questions” really big? Public Administration Review, 56(5), 409-415. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/197167281?accountid=14580
· Laurence, E. L.,Jr. (2001). The myth of the bureaucratic paradigm: What traditional public administration really stood for. Public Administration Review, 61(2), 144-160. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/197171142?accountid=14580
Activity 1
How do you believe public safety administration should be defined?
Activity 2
Give five examples of public safety related agencies one can find in county or municipal governments.  Select one of these and tell us who that agency’s stakeholders are, and why you believe they are stakeholders.

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Law And Constitutional

Assignment 2: The Statutes
Research, review, and analyze Anti-Miscegenation Statutes in the United States and chose two (2) relevant cases. Then, write a 4-5 page paper in which you:

  1. Analyze and evaluate each case independently by providing the following (about two paragraphs per case):
  • Facts of the case
  • Issues
  • Rule
  1. Compare and contrast both cases in regards to the Anti-Miscegenation Statutes.
  2. Analyze how this statute could have influenced Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and the Fourteenth Amendment.
  3. Explain the significance of this statute to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOM).

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:

  • Apply and rule on moral and ethical analysis to issues relevant to the public administration decision-making process.
  • Interpret the language of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. legal system in order to explain the principles and process of constitutional, regulatory, and administrative laws at the federal and state levels.
  • Use the “case” approach to the U.S. legal system for researching cases, laws, and other legal communications using technology and information resources.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in constitution and administrative law.
  • Write clearly and concisely about issues in constitution and administrative law using proper writing mechanics.
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Assignment 2: Needs Assessment

Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Due Week 4 and worth 125 points
You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and your team members must determine how best to approach the automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to design and develop the automobile dealership’s training programs. These could include software, models, or analysis methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs assessment.
From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

  1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected.
  2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them.
  3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field.
  4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
  5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • 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.