Select a relatively current event that deals with one or more ethical dilemma. Compose and essay that addresses the ethical factors from an organizational perspective. National examples may include Department of Defense contracting events, Hurricane Katrina (or similar catastrophic events), election campaign funding, BP oil spill, or lobbyist operations. Local or state events may include nonprofit or public organizations.
You may also use international events. Be sure to address the following requirements in your essay:
Identify the key stakeholders, and introduce the organization.
Summarize the context of the ethical dilemma with specific facts (who, what, where, when, why).
Using Svara’s (2007) problem-solving model (as depicted in this week’s lesson) as a point of reference, identify the selected ethical decisions and obligations. Be specific if the actions resulted in best consequences or a full, open and honest process projected to the public.
Identify implications that resulted in successful or unsuccessful future operations. Summarize what you have learned from an analysis of this event.
Your response should be at least 500 words in length (not including the references page) in APA style. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.
The Effects, Politics, and Regulatory Control of Tobacco Use
Effects, Politics, and Regulatory Control of Tobacco Use
Tobacco use is the primary cause of mortality in the United States today. Tobacco use is responsible for cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, and heart disease and has caused the deaths of nearly half a million people per year. Tobacco control, prevention, and treatment are compelling and urgent public health issues. The development of tobacco control laws have been passed by a number of states.
Write a comprehensive overview of the health effects, politics, and regulatory control of tobacco use control efforts. Your paper should be based on the following points:
- What are the factors (biological, environmental, economic, and political) that contribute to tobacco addiction? What are the medical consequences (morbidity and mortality) for tobacco users?
- What is the public health impact (epidemiological and economic) of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure?
- How do tobacco control regulations relate to positive and normative economics?
- How do tobacco control regulations impact individual health care
- What is the public health policy regarding tobacco control? What is the role of the state and Federal Government in policy making?
- What is the history of regulatory tobacco control? What is the current state of tobacco control in the United States (states that have passed tobacco control regulations)?
- What is the evidence that tobacco control is effective?
Based on your understanding, create a 6- to 7-page Microsoft Word document that includes the answers to the above questions. You need a minimum of five scholarly sources that should be in APA format for both in-text citations and citations on the reference page.
This assignment requires a title page, an abstract, an introduction, a body, a conclusion, and a reference page.
BUS437 Project Procurement Management-Technology and Organizational Behavior Issues
1. Assignment 3: Technology and Organizational Behavior Issues (200 points)
You are to write a six to eight (6–8) page paper that answers the following: During the 1970s, the U.S. Air Force Program for Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) sought to increase manufacturing productivity through systematic application of computer technology. As companies, systems products and markets become even more complex we will need even more complex modeling to guide and help us make decisions.
· Describe the culture of your organizational behavior issues and what challenges are present.
· Discuss the systems that are the most appropriate to introduce into your organization.
· Analyze a few of the systems that can have the greatest impact on your organization.
The format of the report is to be as follows:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and 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 assignment page length.
Note: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.
Pursuit of Italy and Civilization of the Renaissance-What are the positives and negatives of the relatively stable but somewhat tyrannical Milan
ITALY
Pursuit of Italy and Civilization of the Renaissance
A. Did Florence’s political and economic culture create the conditions that made it such a hotbed of brilliant art and science, or did the city’s strong humanist thinking shape its politics and economy? What made it so much more successful artistically and culturally than, say, Milan, Rome, or Naples?
B. Which of the Italian city states would strike you personally as the best place for the era? What are the positives and negatives of the relatively stable but somewhat tyrannical Milan? Elite-led commercial republic of Venice? Guild and commerce -driven Lucca and Florence? Church-centered Rome? Naples with its landed gentry?
A. Did Florence’s political and economic culture create the conditions that made it such a hotbed of brilliant art and science, or did the city’s strong humanist thinking shape its politics and economy? What made it so much more successful artistically and culturally than, say, Milan, Rome, or Naples?
B. Which of the Italian city states would strike you personally as the best place for the era? What are the positives and negatives of the relatively stable but somewhat tyrannical Milan? Elite-led commercial republic of Venice? Guild and commerce -driven Lucca and Florence? Church-centered Rome? Naples with its landed gentry?
Copyright and Fair Use-provide an overview of the types of intellectual property
Copyright and Fair Use
You are tasked with creating a presentation for your organization which defines guidelines for copyright and fair use that is applicable to your organization’s use of communication and media. (Your organization can be real or fictitious, but the organization you represent should reflect current or future career goals.)
Your presentation must include the following elements directly applied to the organization’s needs and uses:
- An overview of the types of intellectual property
- An explanation of what is copyrightable
- Conditions under which copyrighted material can be used
- An explanation of public domain, creative commons, and fair use
- Copyright and media use recommendations for your organization
Presentation requirements:
Review the Change Management versus Change LeadershipDiscuss why organizations must consider change and under what circumstances change is desirable and beneficial to a healthcare organization
Critical Thinking paper
Assignment
review the Change Management vs. Change Leadership
Change Management vs. Change Leadership — What’s the Difference?
What’s the Difference?
Research other articles about change management.
Discuss why organizations must consider change and under what circumstances change is desirable and beneficial to a healthcare organization.
When would change and innovation not be appropriate for a healthcare organization to adopt?
Your well-written report should meet the following requirements:
- Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external.
- Use headings of your choosing to organize the content in your work.
- Introduction
- Change Management
- Change Leadership
- The Differences Between Change Management and Leadership
- The Need for Change
- Conclusion
- References
Developing use cases to support the ATM service-Identify and explain ethical issue that the use case exposes in connection with the development or use of the ATM system
As an intern software developer for a retail bank, you have been tasked with developing use cases to support the ATM service.
Prepare a 5-6 page paper in which you:
- Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case, complete with typical and alternate courses, that documents the event of a bank customer withdrawing money from an ATM.
- Illustrate the use case using Visio or a similar product.
- Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case dependency for making an account deposit. Illustrate this use case with Visio or a similar product.
- Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case dependency for making an account transfer. Illustrate this use case with Visio or a similar product.
- Identify and explain at least one (1) ethical issue that the use case exposes in connection with the development or use of the ATM system.
- Research and cite at least three (3) authoritative academic sources.
also do the following
- Summarize the various requirements modeling techniques.
- Create a use case based on relating functional requirements.
- Analyze and articulate ethical, cultural, and legal issues and their feasibilities among alternative solutions.
- Use contemporary CASE tools in process and data modeling.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in systems analysis and development.
- Write clearly and concisely about Systems Analysis and Development topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Strategies of Business and Corporate-Level:Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice
Assignment
Strategies of Business and Corporate-Level
Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1.Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
2.Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
3.Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
4.Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
5.Use at least three (3) quality references. 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.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
•Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
•Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
•Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics
organization’s product life cycle: determine the strategies that the organization needs in order to strengthen the operation
Assignment 2
Vice President of Operations
1. Evaluate two to four (2-4) weaknesses that are evident in the selected organization’s product life cycle. Generate a new product design and product selection, and then determine three (3) strategies that the organization needs in order to strengthen the operation. Provide support for the rationale.
2. Determine the key components of supply chain management for the company you have selected. Determine three (3) major issues that could affect the structuring, sourcing, purchasing, and the supply chain of your organization. Provide a solution to each issue.
3. Develop a total quality management tool that identifies and analyzes any future issues. Provide a rationale for developing the selected tool.
4. Analyze three (3) advantages in employing the just-in-time philosophy in your organization. Evaluate three to five (3-5) means in which the philosophy could potentially impact quality assurance. Provide specific examples to support your response.
5. Determine a qualitative and quantitative forecasting method for your operation. Next, create a table in which you identify the characteristics of the operation that relate to each method. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each method.
6. Use at least three (3) 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; citations and 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 assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Determine the key components of supply chain management including structuring, sourcing, purchasing, and managing the supply chain
· Examine how the total quality management process is a strategy for a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
· Idetify the key elements of just-in-time manufacturing and its impact on quality assurances.
· Develop a forecasting method appropriate to a production or service operation.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management.
· Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.
Meal Assessment-Discuss any certifications or descriptions that may have been involved in mean assessment
Meal Assessment
The purpose of this project is to get students to look deeper into the implications of their personal food choices by evaluating a dinner that they consume (it could be a lunch or a breakfast, but dinners tend to have more components which is why I have chosen to suggest that you analyze a dinner). What we are asking you to do is to -‐ in as much (real) detail as you can manage – analyze the components of the meal and to ask questions about where the food items came from, where they may have been processed, and how they may have gotten to wherever it was that it was purchased. You can make this as complicated or as simple as you want, but the grading will be done on the following, and you must use up at least 2 pages (double spaced, times new roman font, 12 point size font; or 1000 words if you use charts and bullet points):
• Analyze at least 5 ingredients •
Discuss any certifications or descriptions that may have been involved
(organic, gluten free, etc)
• Succinct but detailed (and hopefully correct) definitions of any terms
you choose to use (ie “natural”, “healthy”, “local”, etc)
• Choose one of the items and look more indepth (easiest to do with the
protein or main item of the meal – for example if you are having chicken, look at the different classifications of chicken; or if you are having fish, discuss the differences (both good and bad) between farm raised and wild, etc.)
The purpose of this project is to get students to look deeper into the implications of their personal food choices by evaluating a dinner that they consume (it could be a lunch or a breakfast, but dinners tend to have more components which is why I have chosen to suggest that you analyze a dinner). What we are asking you to do is to -‐ in as much (real) detail as you can manage – analyze the components of the meal and to ask questions about where the food items came from, where they may have been processed, and how they may have gotten to wherever it was that it was purchased. You can make this as complicated or as simple as you want, but the grading will be done on the following, and you must use up at least 2 pages (double spaced, times new roman font, 12 point size font; or 1000 words if you use charts and bullet points):
• Analyze at least 5 ingredients •
Discuss any certifications or descriptions that may have been involved
(organic, gluten free, etc)
• Succinct but detailed (and hopefully correct) definitions of any terms
you choose to use (ie “natural”, “healthy”, “local”, etc)
• Choose one of the items and look more indepth (easiest to do with the
protein or main item of the meal – for example if you are having chicken, look at the different classifications of chicken; or if you are having fish, discuss the differences (both good and bad) between farm raised and wild, etc.)