Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the field of organizational psychology. In your examination, be sure to address the following items:
Define organizational psychology.
Explain the role of research and statistics in organizational psychology.
Describe how organizational psychology can be used in organizations.
Format according to APA standards.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Evaluate the existing compensation plan to determine if it is the most appropriate for your company. Explain your rationale.
Determine the most beneficial ratio of internally consistent and market consistent compensations systems for the company you selected.
Evaluate the current pay structure used by your company and assess the recognition of employee contributions.
Make two (2) recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the discretionary benefits provided by the company you selected.
Evaluate the types of employer-sponsored retirement plans and health insurance programs provided by the company you selected and compare them to that company’s major competitors.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify 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.
Collaboration among health care professionals is the key to positive patient outcomes. Each member of the health care team has been trained with specific knowledge and skills, which allow them to do what they do best. Working together as a team brings specific strengths of each discipline to focus on the care of the patient and supplements any weaknesses of other teammates. Effective interdisciplinary relationships decrease costs and improve patient satisfaction, while improving overall health care worker satisfaction.
Research different health care interdisciplinary relationships (such as radiology, working with the emergency room, or working in a pharmaceutical company) that the marketing department needs in order to collaborate with the development department.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper summarizing your findings.
Include ways to avoid and resolve conflict, how to work as a team and collaborate with other departments, and ways to make the process better. You may also include a personal experience with an interdisciplinary relationship and describe if it worked well or if there was a breakdown.
Describe how interdisciplinary relationships affect your organization and the patients and families that use your health care organization.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Assignment 2: LASA 2—Case Study: Evaluating an Emerging Market
In this assignment, you will select a nation that is considered to have an emerging market and you will evaluate the nation on the following factors that affect an emerging market: Gross domestic product, inflation, political risks, economic risks, country demographics, and liquidity of local debt.
Scenario:
You have been hired as a financial analyst tasked with evaluating an existing emerging market and writing an executive report on your findings about the emerging market.
Using the following report, select one of the top 30 emerging markets to research:
Top 30 Emerging Markets 2012-2017
http://www.globalintelligence.com/insights-analysis/emerging-markets/top-30-emerging-markets
Instructions:
Produce an executive report that includes the following:
Provide statistical and qualitative information of each of the following factors: Gross domestic product, inflation, political risks, economic risks, country demographics, and liquidity of local debt.
Differentiate the level of market efficiency between a nation that is considered an emerging market to one that has already developed, including factors such as liquidity of debt, government regulations, GDP, etc.
Compare and contrast the emerging market you selected against another emerging market on factors such as market liquidity of local debt, equity market, market exchange, and regulatory bodies.
Evaluate and discuss the political, economic, and technological trends of the emerging market. Remember to discuss any financial actions that have been taken and should be taken due to the trends.
Write a 7 page report in Word format. Utilize at least four scholarly sources. Apply APA standards to the citation of sources.
Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A2.doc.
Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Click here to download the APA guidelines document. Use these guidelines to format your assignment.
By Monday, August 21, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 2 LASA 2 Dropbox.
Global Intelligence Alliance. (2013). Top 30 emerging markets 2012-2017. Retrieved from http://www.globalintelligence.com/insights-analysis/emerging-markets/top-30-emerging-markets
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Assignment 1: You Are an Entrepreneur!
Due Week 7 and worth 240 points
Student life does not generally afford a great deal of free time to pursue your personal interests; however, at one point, you may have considered turning a personal interest or hobby into an official enterprise. Today, you have finally decided to turn that hobby into a business but have realized that you need start-up capital from a lender or investor.
To obtain funding, you need to convince a lender / investor that your business is more than a hobby. You need to demonstrate that you have a firm grasp of your business, the accounting practices that impact your business, the controls needed to safeguard assets, and which accounting system will produce accurate and relevant financial information.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page business plan in which you:
Describe the type of business you have created including:
The product or service, and general staffing plan. Provide a rationale for your plan.
The form of your business and the benefits it offers your particular business,
A chart of accounts specific to your business, including a rationale as to the selection of each account. (Note: The chart of accounts is a blueprint of your business for the lender/investor. It should report the expected resources that you will consume in your business (assets), the sources of those resources (liabilities and equity), the sources of revenue, and expenditures that you expect to incur to earn those revenues. You may build a detailed chart that includes business units, divisions, product lines, etc.)
Based on the form of your business, analyze whether or not you will be required to use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting methods and how the IFRS / GAAP convergence will impact your business. Suggest how you will incorporate any changes into your books and records. (Note: You need to demonstrate to the lender/investor that you have recognized possible changes to GAAP that may impact the accounting and reporting of your accounting events.)
Prepare a pro forma balance sheet and income statement providing the assumptions made and support the valuations assigned.
Considering the value of assets (assigned per your balance sheet) used within your business, recommend two (2) specific internal controls that you will implement to protect your company’s assets and resources, justifying how each will provide assurances to management. (NOTE: Safeguarding assets and protecting personal data are paramount to ensuring the viability of a business. Demonstrate to the lender/investor that your assets will be safeguarded and customer information (if applicable) will be protected.)
Based on the internal control recommendations that you made, suggest how you will implement each within your business environment, indicating how challenges or resistances will be overcome.
Evaluate the impact of the regulatory environment, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulatory requirements, on your business venture, giving considering to how you intend to comply with the requirements and the general impact to decision making within your business.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify 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:
Examine accounting principles and concepts used in businesses.
Assess appropriate internal controls, regulatory requirements according to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and fraud prevention and detection.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial accounting.
Write clearly and concisely about financial accounting using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Description of Your Project
Individual project
*You must select an ethnic restaurant of specific population group (ex. South American or Southeast Asian) to dine in and then to provide a presentation on the following topics:
· Provide an overall introduction to the restaurant and your experience dining at the restaurant
· Describe the specific population group that you have chosen, food and culture habits
· Provide a thorough description of the food patterns (every day and holidays).
· Discuss special food habits related to any stage of lifespan, i.e. infancy, pregnancy, teenagers, older adults
· Discuss nutritional adequacy in reference to the population (support your description with appropriate references).
· Discuss any nutritional contraindications in regards to diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.
Your presentation must be supported by at least 3 peer-reviewed articles, in addition to your book. This assignment should be between 20-30 slides excluding the cover slide, table of contents or bibliography slides.
Full credit will be given for preparation, how well the topic was covered and organization of material, presentation skills, and completeness of information.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1. Describe the key characteristics of a stakeholder and determine all the stakeholders within the PharmaCARE scenario.
2. Analyze the human rights issues presented by PharmaCARE’streatment of the Colberia’sindigenous population versus that of its executives. Recommend at least three (3) changes PharmaCARE can make to be more ethical going forward.
3. Assess PharmaCARE’senvironmental initiative against the backdrop of its anti-environmental lobbying efforts and Colberianactivities. Support the position.
4. Decide whether or not PharmaCARE’s actions with respect to the indigenous people of Colberiawould be ethical in accordance with each of the following ethical theories:
a. Utilitarianism
b. Deontology
c. Virtue ethics
d. Ethics of care
e. Your own moral / ethical compass
5. Compare PharmaCARE’s actions with those of at least one (1) real-world company, whose corporate activities led to ethical, environmental, or workplace safety issues and financial loss. Analyze the similarities and differences between PharmaCARE and the company that you chose.
6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
1. 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.
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 and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
3. Analyze and evaluate laws that protect against discrimination in the workplace.
4. Examine and assess employee rights to health and safety in the workplace.
5. Analyze environmental protection laws and assess their impact on organizations.
6. Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
7. Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics.
Assignment 1: LASA 2: Conducting and Analyzing Statistical Tests
By Monday, August 17, 2015, post your results to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox. Your written presentation to the following problem situation should be a formal academic presentation wherein APA guidelines apply.
A study wants to examine the relationship between student anxiety for an exam and the number of hours studied. The data is as follows:
Student Anxiety Scores
Study Hours
Why is a correlation the most appropriate statistic?
What is the null and alternate hypothesis?
What is the correlation between student anxiety scores and number of study hours? Select alpha and interpret your findings. Make sure to note whether it is significant or not and what the effect size is.
How would you interpret this?
What is the probability of a type I error? What does this mean?
How would you use this same information but set it up in a way that allows you to conduct a t-test? An ANOVA?
The final assignment for this course is a Summary Project. The purpose of the Summary Project is for you to culminate the learning achieved in the course by describing your understanding and application of knowledge in the field of strategies of organizational leadership.
Write a ten-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) that addresses your personal best leadership experience. Personal best is a time when you believe you had performed at the peak as a leader. Be sure to incorporate elements from our reading in regards to your leadership approach, the type of leadership application; transactional, transformational, situational, etc. Some questions to address in the essay are:
What characterized the situation? Who was involved? Where and when did it take place? Who initiated it?
What approach did you apply to the situation?
What type of leadership would you classify yourself as in this situation?
What motivated you to engage in this project? How did you challenge yourself and others?
What did you aspire to achieve? How did you build enthusiasm and excitement?
How did you involve others? How did you foster collaboration? How did you build trust and respect? How did you build the capacity to excel?
What values and principles guided you and others? How did you set the example? How did you progress from one milestone to another?
How did you recognize individuals? How did you celebrate success?
What lessons about leadership did you learn from the experience?
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
Must use at least six scholarly sources.
Must document all sources in APA style.
Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style
As you develop your strategy, you may want to consider the following:
An effective IT strategy will enable the business operations, helping business leaders achieve business goals more efficiently and effectively.
Focus on top priorities. Take the time to understand organizational issues, how they are related, and how they affect performance. Determine what will happen if nothing changes and where IT can have the greatest, positive impact.
Identify how IT supports business processes. The business is relying on their capabilities to achieve the business goals. The IT strategy should include a plan for supporting those business capabilities, creating efficiencies, and competitive advantage for the business.
Define IT priorities and governance for IT. Without priorities and a process for IT governance in place, progress will be slowed. An agreed upon plan for governing IT will enable the decision process.