Category: Essays

Choose one ethical issue arising from the use of ICT that has been reported in the press in the last one year.

APA format. Be sure to use in-text citing. For the references, include the URL (web address) of all references used, as in the above example.

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The Final Assignment is a 5 page paper that analyzes the following case study:

Case Study: Tracey

Tracey is a twenty-one-year-old student diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Tracey can have difficulties with transitions and requires that her routine is predictable.

Tracey is a friendly young lady, but is frequently impulsive and this can result in grabbing and sometimes even pushing another peer.

Tracey’s dream is to attend college and work in an office like her father does. She can read at about a second grade level. Tracey needs reminders to choose appropriate clothing and change her clothes on a regular basis. She is able to complete her daily living skills relatively independently and follows directions when they are paired with pictures to help her understand the steps in completing more complicated tasks. She would like to share an apartment with a school friend when she graduates.

Instruction

For each of the following, include potential supports her family may provide. Identify some of the concerns or challenges that might be expressed by community members. Identify the role of educators in assisting Tracey to meet her goals.

Your paper should include a description of goals in the following areas:

Education/Training
Employment
Independent Living

Describe which of the supports she will need on a job and explain why:

Clustered placement
Individual Placement
Sheltered Employment

Describe the Residential Alternative that you are recommending for her (from those listed below) and why:

Apartment Living
Foster Home
Group Home

Complete the major components of a behavior assessment and intervention plan for one of Tracey’s problem behaviors:

Define the problem behavior.
Identify the function of the problem behavior.
Describe at least one intervention to reduce the instances of problem behavior.
Identify one alternative behavior that Tracey will learn to replace the need to engage in the problem behavior.
Describe how you will collect behavior data to determine the effectiveness of interventions.

Successful papers will be those that incorporate information from your readings with ideas of how those concepts can be applied to the case study. Each of the four sections should be about one page or more (4-6 pages total). Your Assignment should be double spaced, using 12 pt. Times New Roman font using APA format. Please use at least three sources and include citations in the body of the paper as appropriate.

When analyzing new markets to enter, companies need to perform an environmental screening to be sure about which potential candidates would be the most likely to provide the right conditions for achieving expected results. In doing that, economic conditions and growth patterns always play an important role for decision making.

Using the University online library resources and the Internet, research recent growth trends for developed and emerging countries and answer the following:

After the 2007/2008 world economic crisis, what has been different about emerging markets with regard to growth patterns, economic conditions, and trends? Justify your answer by providing some examples.
If you were the person in charge of growth strategies for a retail company, what market(s) would be your primary targets for an expansion? Why? Explain your reasoning and substantiate your claims with citations from your research.

Give reasons in support of your responses. Be sure to cite any relevant resources.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail; include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA style; and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

By Saturday, September 26 post your response to the below Discussion Area.

Assignment 2:Ethnocentrism

In M5: Assignment 1, you evaluated some aspects of the economic/market conditions that should be part of the environmental scanning that any company needs to perform before making a decision to enter new markets. In this assignment, you will focus on the social-cultural dimension of the analysis of international opportunities. Understanding a new culture and all idiosyncrasies and differences between the company’s original culture and that of the new market being considered as a new target is fundamental for achieving success. Your company should never assume that values, ethics, needs, and expectations are the same in all markets. Ethnocentrism can be a major problem when a company looks at new markets.

Using the University online library resources and the Internet, research the topic of ethnocentrism in business and answer the following:

What is the impact of ethnocentrism on companies that want to expand their operations to new markets? Illustrate your answer with real-world examples.
How can a company mitigate the impact of ethnocentrism? Provide suggestions and give examples to illustrate your points.
If you were the person in charge of growth strategies for a retail company, what market(s) would be your primary targets for an expansion? Explain your reasoning.

Give reasons in support of your responses. Be sure to cite any relevant resources.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail; include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA style; and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

By Saturday, September 26 post your response to the below Discussion Area

Describe the 8 basic perspectives used to define “personality”.
Explain how a personality develops through shaping and conditioning.
Imagine that TWO of the theorists below were invited to speak at a symposium on personality theory development and are both on the stage. Someone in the audience raises her hand and asks, “So what do you think was your theory’s greatest contribution to our current understanding of human personality?” What would each of the theorists you chose say in answer to the question? Freud Jung Adler Rogers Horney
McCrae and Costa (1990) think their “Big 5” Five Factor model is THE most complete personality theory. Some theorists would beg to differ! What theorist would say the Big 5 is thorough but by no means a complete model and describe what the theorist would say is missing?
What did you learn about your own personality from this course. What “spoke” to you…what did you learn about you?

You have been hired by XYZ as a consultant. They are currently facing a union organizing campaign. You have been asked to write a briefing memo for senior management. Your memo must address:

a. What are the basic differences, from the employer’s viewpoint, in operating in a union-free environment vs. a unionized environment?

b. What are management representatives permitted to say and do during the campaign? What, if any, actions or statements are prohibited?

In responding, you must use three references. They should be from a scholarly journal or credible news source from within the past three years.

Review Chapter 12 of the Field text for a description of the analysis of covariance and an example of conducting an analysis of covariance using PASW.

Raise or Lower Tuition?

The Eastern Seaboard Super Express Train (ESSET) is a high speed train service between towns on the eastern seaboard of Australia. See a section dedicated to this in the Assignment 4 tab of this subject’s Interact2 site for details on ESSET. The company has proposed the establishment of a Help Desk for all passengers. The following are basic parameters.

Location:

The nationwide service number is 131-278 (13-FAST). It will be served concurrently from two locations with automatic load balancing of calls. A comprehensive website has also been set up (the discussion of this site is not part of your assignment).

Operations:

The Help Desk will operate 24 hours, 7 day week by 100 customer support representatives in each centre.

Q1 – List three best practices that could be established for the ESSET Help Desk? [300 words] – 3 marks

[You might want to read Chapter 6 of the textbook.]

Q2 – In the initial training of help desk support staff, the standards of information and service level given by the staff differs greatly. A few give wrong information, some are not courteous and do not know the information that has to be given out to customers. How would you ensure the appropriate level of expertise of each customer support representative? [300 words] – 6 marks

[You might want to read Chapter 7 of the textbook.]

Q3 – You have just spoken to a customer and gave provided information about timetabling of trains. She is “on hold” while you look for the fare for her. While searching for this, you realise that you have been reading the timetabling off the wrong list (northbound instead of southbound). What would you do? How would you prevent this from happening in future? [200 words] – 2 marks [You might want to refer to Chapter 5 for some tips]

Q4 – How does the principles of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) apply in the above help desk setup? Give any two examples that apply. Relate the task to literature read. – [400 words] 7 marks

[You might want to re-read the chapter by Moeller recommended in Topic 8]

For all questions, you are also required to substantiate with literature. Along with in text citations throughout each question include one reference list at the end of this assignment. The following (journal) articles may also assist you (all articles can be found in the CSU Journal Database). Please do not post PDFs of these journals as attachment on the subject Discussion area as this is a violation of copyright law

Assignment: Fraud at Furniture World

You have been reading about current fraud cases in the news to keep up-to-date on the latest fraud schemes. Read the following case summary and then answer the questions that follow.

Case summary: An employee of Furniture World, a retail outlet based in North Carolina, has been charged with theft for allegedly embezzling over $250,000 from the company. Elizabeth Pine, 52, is scheduled to make her initial court appearance on Wednesday. According to Police Detective Dick Berry, Pine was Furniture World’s payroll clerk and was a trusted employee for over 15 years. Pine’s fraudulent activities, which included arranging payments for fictitious employees, had taken place over the last 16 months. The payments were electronically deposited into bank accounts controlled by Pine, Berry reported. Berry said the fraud was discovered when the company accountant had trouble reconciling the company’s accounts. An internal audit revealed several names on the payroll that did not have valid Social Security numbers. The company subsequently contacted police for help in the investigation. Berry also reported that Pine was recently divorced, has three children to support, and has several credit cards with high balances. Berry added that Pine has resigned from the company and intends to pay the money back.

Checklist:

How did the three components of the Fraud Triangle enable the fraud to occur?
Using Dr. Steve Albrecht’s fraud risk factors, which factors allowed this fraud to occur?
Based on your chapter reading, how would theorists Hollinger and Clark assess this fraud case?
What did the business do correctly in this situation?
What could have been done to prevent this fraud?

Prepare your 2–3 page paper in APA format and make sure to add an additional title and reference page

Read “Case 15.3 Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board” in Ch. 15 of the text.

Write a paper of 700- to 1,050-words in which you answer the following:

If auditing of financial statements is required for the protection of public investors, should not all PCAOB members be taken from the investment community that uses audited financial statements? Why or why not?
How does the decision in this case impact the validity of the Board and other provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?