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Assignment 3: Using Leadership to Improve Ethical Performance

Due Week 9 and worth points 300

At this point, you should have identified the leader you would like to interview. You should also have already contacted him / her and have scheduled an interview time / date. If not, do it as soon as possible. The intention of this assignment is to describe leadership skills, ethics, and communication which impact motivation and improve ethical performance.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Create five to seven (5-7) questions to ask your chosen leader to determine his / her views of motivation, ethical leadership and performance. Then, conduct the interview based on your selected questions.

HINT: The following are some examples of questions. Feel free to select them from here. However, we urge you to revise your Assignment 2 for some ideas of what you would like to know from an experienced leader.

How would you define leadership?
As a leader, what do you do when people on your team aren’t pulling their weight?
What is one of the greatest leadership challenges you have ever faced? What did you do? What was the result?
How would you describe your communication style?
Describe a situation in which effective interpersonal communication skills contributed to your success.
Describe your personal actions by which you convey to your staff that ethics/ethical behavior is a high priority with you and that you also expect it to be a high priority with your staff.
Related to the previous question, describe how your personal actions (demonstrating ethics is a priority) have impacted your staff and/or colleagues.
Describe a situation where you recognized a need to communicate clear expectations for ethical practice. How did you recognize that expectations had to be clarified? What did you do or say to clarify the expectations?

Analyze the leadership, motivation, and ethical values of the leader interviewed and assess its impact in the ethical performance of the organization.

HINT: You should summarize the answers that you gathered in your interview. Thereafter, you should compare and contrast his / her point of view about leadership with your own perception of it.

Use at least two (2) quality academic resources you have located using the Strayer Library resources / data bases in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource, and neither do web-based blogs.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
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.
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:

Explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations.
Explain the variety of leadership theories and roles.
Evaluate ways organizational culture can be managed and promote ethics in an organization.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in leadership and organizational behavior.
Write clearly and concisely about leadership and organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics

Building on the work that you prepared for Milestones One through Three, submit a document that builds upon the previously completed milestone summaries to provide an overall summary of the distribution company’s IT system as a whole. This should illustrate how each individual system component (network, database, web technology, computers, programming, and security systems) interrelates with the others and summarize the importance of IT technologies for the overall system

You are to identify the author’s purpose for the book, its major themes, principles and concepts, and describe how those themes, principles, and concepts relate to the themes, principles and concepts presented by DuBrin in the text.

For this analysis paper, you are to read one of the four books listed below. You are to identify the author’s purpose for the book, its major themes, principles and concepts, and describe how those themes, principles, and concepts relate to the themes, principles and concepts presented by DuBrin in the text. In other words, I want to see at minimum four (4) concepts from your ���chosen author��� and how they to compare to DuBrin: where they agree and where they don’t or if they don’t.��This is not a book review but rather it is an analysis of an outside reading and the documentation of that reading’s relatedness to the material you have been studying throughout this class.

The paper is to be completed in APA; it is to be between 6-10 pages no more no less (double- spaced pages, 12 point font) in length, and must include, at a minimum:

an APA title page with running header;
an Abstract Heading and Section;
an Introduction Heading and Section;
a Discussion Heading and Section;
a Conclusion Heading and Section; and
the Reference page in alignment with APA 6th edition

The book I choose is

The Zen leader: 10 ways to go from barely managing to leading fearlessly by Ginny Whitelaw (2012)

After reading case 2-2 in your text, “The Dangerous Morality of Managing Earnings” (attached) write an essay that includes the following elements:

A formal introduction.
Discussion of the five generalizations from the findings in this study relating to managing earnings.Please Note: Do not simply restate the generalizations. You are being asked to discuss each in the context of professional experiences or examples given in the case itself.
Discussion of management’s ability to manage earnings in the long-term given the operational manipulations discussed in the case.

Your submitted paper should be at 2-3 pages and written according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements, following APA style, and properly referenced.

Please note that the textbook author is citing a source in this case, which must be considered when forming your references and citations.

Refer to the grading rubric titled Critical Thinking assignment, Week 2, found under Course Information to ensure you are meeting all assignment criteria

Hello everyone, let’s work on an example so that we can discuss further!…..Let’s say a company produces a single product with a sale price of $50 per unit. The variable costs per unit is $30 and the company incurs fixed costs of $75,000 per month. What is the breakeven point in dollars and in units for this company? AND, for each unit sold over breakeven in this example, by how many $$’s does the company’s NOI increases? Anyone? 🙂

Q3

Hello everyone! Let’s also discuss the main differences between the variable costing income statement and the absorption costing income statement! Are “all” product costs inventoriable regardless of the income statement format used? Anyone?

Q4

Hello everyone! Let’s describe, in detail, one of the steps in job order costing…. Why is this step important? Let’s try and cover all the steps! Who wants to get us started?

Q5

Hello everyone! What are the differences between actual costing and normal costing? 🙂 An example, anyone?

Q6

Hello everyone, for practice, let’s prepare the journal entries related to a job-order costing system…using the example in the lecture, what would be the journal entries for the given transactions? (This is for the Heath Corp. example)…anyone?

AIS

Q1

With respect to fraud against companies, which do you think is more prevalent: inside or outside jobs? Explain your position. Describe what you think is the number one target of an inside job versus that of an outside job- I work in the A/R dept.

Q2

Class: Many factors affect customers’ electronic transactions experience, including an AIS. How does an AIS affect customer experience? Can customers perpetrate fraud against a company?

Q3

Class: Doing business on the Internet may be unsafe. However, customers and companies have their part to play as far as ensuring the security of eCommerce is concerned.

What is the role of the AIS in ensuring the security of ecommerce?

Q4

Segregation of duties (SoD) and other classic internal controls, such as management oversight, have been adapted to consider technology. Compare/contrast the classic controls with their adaptations for technology. Have one or more of the classic controls become obsolete when applied in technology? On the flip side of that, describe any new controls that have become necessary because of technology.

Q5

Class: When security is compromised a company faces potential financial and non-financial losses. What are some of these losses? Please give examples.

Q6

Class: Microsoft Access is a database management system. You may learn about MS Access basics on your own: creating tables and running queries. How useful is a database management system to an accountant? Are there securities issues that are of concern to accountants?

Please share your experiences (class work or business experience) here

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12 questions total in Accounting, due today! Questions are not related and should the answered separately with the correlating question number on top. References are required, and should be creditable.

Cost Acct

Q1

How would you explain CVP analysis to a second grader? Why is this analysis so important?

Q2

Hello everyone, let’s work on an example so that we can discuss further!…..Let’s say a company produces a single product with a sale price of $50 per unit. The variable costs per unit is $30 and the company incurs fixed costs of $75,000 per month. What is the breakeven point in dollars and in units for this company? AND, for each unit sold over breakeven in this example, by how many $$’s does the company’s NOI increases? Anyone? 🙂

Q3

Hello everyone! Let’s also discuss the main differences between the variable costing income statement and the absorption costing income statement! Are “all” product costs inventoriable regardless of the income statement format used? Anyone?

Q4

Hello everyone! Let’s describe, in detail, one of the steps in job order costing…. Why is this step important? Let’s try and cover all the steps! Who wants to get us started?

Q5

Hello everyone! What are the differences between actual costing and normal costing? 🙂 An example, anyone?

Q6

Hello everyone, for practice, let’s prepare the journal entries related to a job-order costing system…using the example in the lecture, what would be the journal entries for the given transactions? (This is for the Heath Corp. example)…anyone?

AIS

Q1

With respect to fraud against companies, which do you think is more prevalent: inside or outside jobs? Explain your position. Describe what you think is the number one target of an inside job versus that of an outside job- I work in the A/R dept.

Q2

Class: Many factors affect customers’ electronic transactions experience, including an AIS. How does an AIS affect customer experience? Can customers perpetrate fraud against a company?

Q3

Class: Doing business on the Internet may be unsafe. However, customers and companies have their part to play as far as ensuring the security of eCommerce is concerned.

What is the role of the AIS in ensuring the security of ecommerce?

Q4

Segregation of duties (SoD) and other classic internal controls, such as management oversight, have been adapted to consider technology. Compare/contrast the classic controls with their adaptations for technology. Have one or more of the classic controls become obsolete when applied in technology? On the flip side of that, describe any new controls that have become necessary because of technology.

Q5

Class: When security is compromised a company faces potential financial and non-financial losses. What are some of these losses? Please give examples.

Q6

Class: Microsoft Access is a database management system. You may learn about MS Access basics on your own: creating tables and running queries. How useful is a database management system to an accountant? Are there securities issues that are of concern to accountants?

Please share your experiences (class work or business experience) here

Jim and Laura Buyer visit the local car dealership because they are interested in buying a new car. The car they currently have is aging and is starting to have mechanical problems. Jim and Laura would share the new car, and use it to go back and forth to work and school. Before going to the dealership, Jim and Laura decide that they can only afford $400.00 a month in car payments.

Once at the car dealership, Jim and Laura meet Stan Salesman. Stan shows them several vehicles and Jim and Laura test-drive several of the cars. Jim and Laura particularly like the blue 4-door sedan. Therefore, they agree to give Stan Salesman a $100.00 deposit to hold the car for a day. Stan Salesman does not give them the receipt but guarantees that the $100.00 is refundable. No documents were signed.

The next day, Stan Salesman calls Jim and Laura to ask them when they would like to take delivery of the car. Jim and Laura, on the way home from the dealership, decided that they were not going to buy the car because they did not want to spend that money each month. Therefore, Jim and Laura tell Stan salesman that they have decided not to buy the car and request their $100.00 deposit back.

Stan insists that the $100.00 was a deposit on the car and was meant to be part of the contract to buy the car. Stan is very persistent and insistent that Jim and Laura have contracted to buy the car; therefore, the $100.00 will be applied to the purchase price of the car. Jim and Laura are shocked and angry as not only do they not want to spend the money, but now feel as though they are being duped by Stan Salesman.

Jim and Laura have an appointment to see a lawyer in a few days, but know you are a student taking a business law class and come to you for advice. They are very frazzled, and understandably upset that they may have just purchased a car. Since you have been taking business law, you have read and understand the elements of a contract and the defenses to a contract. Therefore, although you are not a lawyer, you provide some basic advice from what you’ve learned in your business law class.

In three to five (3-5) pages, advise Jim and Laura based on the above facts as presented, the material provided in the text, and material covered in the lecture. In your paper, be sure to address the following:

Define the elements of a legal contract using examples from the scenario where applicable.
Decide whether or not there was a contract for the purchase of the automobile.
Identify the facts from the scenario which support your decision on whether or not a contract exists for the purchase of the automobile.
Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
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.
Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric

To complete a holistic/variable assessment, utilize the same person that you obtain a health history from to perform an assessment of variables. Assessment of the variables provides a holistic view of the client and which attribute to their overall health. The variables assessed are to be as follows:

Developmental – includes physical and cognitive development. Document stage of development that your patient is currently experiencing (i.e. integrity vs. despair); describe the stage of development that your patient is in and why this whole development stage is important to nursing care. References two peer reviewed articles on development.

Sociocultural – includes your patient’s culture. What values, heritage, and culture he or she is practicing or adhering to from their culture. How does your patient socialize? i.e, having family visits every week, month etc., what culture environment does your patient reside in, Chinatown etc. Explain why the patient’s sociocultural background is important to the nurse in relationship to delivering nursing care. Chapter 2 – Jarvis textbook . References two peer reviewed articles on Sociocultural impact on delivery of care.

Spirituality – includes your patient’s religion, religious background, and spiritual well-being. Explain why the nurse needs to know this information in order to provide nursing care. Chapter 2 – Jarvis textbook. includes your patient’s religion, religious background, and spiritual well-being. Explain why the nurse needs to know this information in order to provide nursing care. Chapter 2 – Jarvis textbook. References two peer reviewed articles on Spirituality effects on patient physiologic well-being.

Psychological – includes your patient’s orientation, mood and affect, ability to respond and carry on a conversation with you. Explain why the nurse needs to know this information in order to provide nursing care. Chapter 5 – Jarvis textbook . References two peer-reviewed articles on the effect of psychological health on physiologic well-being.

The paper should be in APA format 6th edition. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you purchase this book in order to complete this assignment. Please proof read your paper prior to submission to ensure you have completed a spell check, grammar check and the paper is in the correct format, this section counts for 10% of your paper. Visit PurdueOWL or APAstyle.org for assistance

To complete a holistic/variable assessment, utilize the same person that you obtain a health history from to perform an assessment of variables. Assessment of the variables provides a holistic view of the client and which attribute to their overall health. The variables assessed are to be as follows:

Developmental – includes physical and cognitive development. Document stage of development that your patient is currently experiencing (i.e. integrity vs. despair); describe the stage of development that your patient is in and why this whole development stage is important to nursing care. References two peer reviewed articles on development.

Sociocultural – includes your patient’s culture. What values, heritage, and culture he or she is practicing or adhering to from their culture. How does your patient socialize? i.e, having family visits every week, month etc., what culture environment does your patient reside in, Chinatown etc. Explain why the patient’s sociocultural background is important to the nurse in relationship to delivering nursing care. Chapter 2 – Jarvis textbook . References two peer reviewed articles on Sociocultural impact on delivery of care.

Spirituality – includes your patient’s religion, religious background, and spiritual well-being. Explain why the nurse needs to know this information in order to provide nursing care. Chapter 2 – Jarvis textbook. includes your patient’s religion, religious background, and spiritual well-being. Explain why the nurse needs to know this information in order to provide nursing care. Chapter 2 – Jarvis textbook. References two peer reviewed articles on Spirituality effects on patient physiologic well-being.

Psychological – includes your patient’s orientation, mood and affect, ability to respond and carry on a conversation with you. Explain why the nurse needs to know this information in order to provide nursing care. Chapter 5 – Jarvis textbook . References two peer-reviewed articles on the effect of psychological health on physiologic well-being.

The paper should be in APA format 6th edition. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you purchase this book in order to complete this assignment. Please proof read your paper prior to submission to ensure you have completed a spell check, grammar check and the paper is in the correct format, this section counts for 10% of your paper. Visit PurdueOWL or APAstyle.org for assistance