Category: Essays

Choose any song you wish (contemporary is fine). Look up the lyrics using a website such as http://www.azlyrics.com/ or http://www.elyrics.net/ (Make sure to cite the source you use!). Using AT LEAST one verse and the refrain, discuss the lyrics in terms of poetry. Be SURE to discuss the following: content (story), including poetic components such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, and personification. In addition, identify the rhyme scheme, and include imagery (symbolic or literal). Be sure to use examples from the song. Be sure to cite the song according to APA and cite all quotes using APA format

Prepare a presentation in PowerPoint, Prezi, or another online tool that meets or exceeds the following requirements:

Compose a bulleted summary of Texas Health’s strategy
Compare and contrast the values and challenges that they were addressing
Include the pros and cons of linking electronic health records (EHR) and how they addressed those challenges
Address how Meaningful Use affected Texas Health’s decisions

Requirements:

Your PowerPoint should be 8-10 slides in length and conform to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.
Include at least three scholarly references in addition to the course textbook.
Additionally, you must include speaker notes that describe the content and how you would present the information to others within the healthcare system. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.
Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references. All facts must be supported. In-text references used throughout the assignment must be included in an APA-formatted reference list

Human Resources Strategic Planning and Measurement Task Force

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Week 1 Assignment 3: Human Resources Strategic Planning and Measurement Task Force

In organizations today, the emphasis is on performance and the contribution of a function to the success of that organization. Senior managers demand evidence of effectiveness and efficiency. They need objective ways to measure achievement and strategically plan for the future. The heart of success at BANKS Industries is the HR department’s responsibility to guide managers in their ability to screen, hire, and retain quality employees.

As part of the BANKS management team, you have been assigned to a task force that is considering how the HR department should be strategically involved as the BANKS workforce becomes more diverse and experiences expansion, possibly into more countries. As part of a preliminary discussion, you have been asked to generate a report on the following issues:

What should be the basis of the HR department’s goals regarding their responsibilities to support management during the screening, hiring, and retention stages of employees?
How do these goals strategically align with success for BANKS?
How should the HR department interact with and implement these goals for management and employees?
How will you measure whether the HR department has been successful in achieving its goals? Based on your research, what assessments can be used to determine success?

Write an 8–10-page report in MS Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: By Wednesday, January 13, 2016, deliver your assignment to the

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria

Identified the basis of the HR department’s goals regarding their responsibilities to support management during the screening, hiring, and retention stages of employee management.

Explained how these goals are strategically aligned with the success of BANKS.

Described how the HR department should interact with and implement these goals for management and employees.

Elaborated on ways to measure whether the HR department has been successful in achieving its goals, including assessments used to determine success.

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Write an APA-formatted paper using no more than 1,050 words. In your paper, include answers to the following:

Define staffing system management and explain how it is applied in a SPECIFIC organization with which you are familiar.

What are the federal requirements the organization should consider when developing employment policies?

What are some of the legal issues the organization is facing related to staffing system management?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

The Situation:

The CEO of EducUS Corporation (EDUS), in conjunction with the EDUS board of directors, has decided to increase the corporation’s footprint and expand its international operations. After identifying global opportunities, the EDUS board of directors decided to explore the possibility of purchasing the Mekong Cham University (MCU) located in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This university is a small academic institution which has a strong technology school but is short on resources. Specifically, the Mekong Cham faculty members are highly acclaimed technologists who are widely published in the field of information technology and enterprise software application. However, while MCU enjoys an exceptional local reputation as an educational institution, it has difficulty in recruiting students outside the Southeast Asia region. One reason is that MCU has no capability, due to lack of funding, to provide online course offerings. Another reason for the low enrollment at MCU is the poor physical condition of the university building complex. EDUS Corporation also enjoys an excellent reputation as the third largest provider of nontraditional education in the U.S. EDUS is the parent company of 26 universities located throughout the U.S. and Canada. It has a strong international business and management program offering in most of its holdings and is known for its exceptional online delivery capability.

You have been selected to work on the EDUS research team in support of the steering committee for this acquisition. You are part of a high performance work team which will focus its research in 5 separate areas. The EDUS CEO has briefed the team and expressed the need for comprehensive research to ensure that the acquisition of MCU will be right for both organizations. She tells you and the team that acquisitions, like this, are often unsuccessful because of incompatible cultures, clashes in management styles, poor integration strategies, and inadequate communications. So she has requested that you particularly focus on these areas of inquiry. The EDUS CEO also informs you and the team that although she understands that this project will take some time, it is imperative that preliminary recommendations be presented within the next eight weeks. To meet the guidance of your CEO, you will lead the project team in a presentation of the team’s findings within this designated period.

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Topics for Research and Analysis

Promotional Goals: Identify specific objectives related to the promotion of EDUS’s acquisition of the institution. In addition, identify specific objectives related to informing potential students of new capabilities and offerings resulting from the acquisition. (Promotional goals vary. Some organizations need to create awareness of their product’s benefits compared to competitors. Other promotional goals may involve communicating new uses for an item, or informing customers or lower prices.)

Business Environment: Identify cultural and legal factors that might influence promotional decisions – both in announcing the acquisition within the region and recruiting new students to the institution. (In some countries, certain information is required in television commercials selling products aimed at children.)

Media Plan: Analyze media availability to determine cost-efficient methods of communicating with potential students within the country and within the geographic region. (While television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet may be common in industrialized countries, developing economies may require other different media. In some countries, advertising messages are broadcast through large speakers mounted on moving trucks.)

Promotional Strategy: Compare the benefits of push-and-pull promotions for acquiring new students at the institution. Devise a promotional strategy that will help EDUS expand the student body and also inform potential students of increased capability of the institution resulting from this acquisition.

Economic, Cultural, and Political-Legal Environment: Investigate the economic, cultural, and political-legal environment that might affect promotional messages and media relevant to this acquisition.

Recommended Actions: Recommend EDUS actions related to promotional goals, needed adaptations due to cultural or legal factors, and a media plan. Provide evidence to support your recommendations.

Conclusions: Draw conclusions about the material you have presented. The opinions or judgments you present should be supported by your research.

Submit a PowerPoint presentation (approximately 10 slides) providing your analysis and research findings on the topics indicated. You are expected to include statistical data when possible, including tables, graphs, and other visuals that support and enhance your study. Most importantly, all written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources

Organizational Design and Culture

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Many companies find they are forced to remodel their traditional hierarchical structures, which were originally built around functional specialization and centralized authority, to compete in today’s marketplace. Companies often draw on the following five tools of organizational design to make their organizations leaner, flatter, and more responsive to change. The five tools are:

Empower managers and workers
Reengineer work processes
Implementing self-directed work teams
Rapid incorporation of Internet technology applications
Networking with outsiders to improve existing capabilities and create new ones

In addition, there are many managerial tasks that shape corporate culture and the leadership skills needed to engage the full organization to produce great results. Examine the dynamics of the elements that must be brought together to create a corporate culture, such as core values and business principles, operating practices and behaviors, ethical standards and attitudes, and work climate and people management practices.

Considering the five tools of organizational design, managerial tasks and leadership skills, examine the practices followed by your selected organization and include the following in a 8–10 page APA formatted paper in MS Word:

Describe which of the five tools of organizational design your selected organization uses to maintain and improve productivity while achieving cost savings. Use detailed examples in your response.

Explain how work groups are utilized in your organization to accomplish the stated goals of the company.

Describe the motivational practices used by the organization to promote better strategy execution. Include some illustrative examples in your response.

Explain how, if at all, the reward system in the organization ties incentives directly to achieving higher productivity and performance targets.

Explain the evaluation and feedback process used in your company to assess employee performance.

Identify the elements in the organization that affect how cultural change is implemented.

Describe the ethical model being used by the company.

Present your overall opinion of the organization’s corporate strategy approach. Is the strategy execution effort delivering the expected results? Explain and illustrate your conclusions.

Describe what specific actions have been taken to delegate authority to middle and junior managers and to create a sense of empowerment among employees. Explain and illustrate your answers.

Research Project

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Provide a description of the company for Peapod.com – www.peapod.com using zipcode 60446
Explain the company’s purpose, mission, and structure.
Research information on the web and the Rasmussen Online Library to gain further insight into the company.
Describe the organization’s system in terms of inputs, processes, and outputs.
Describe how the company is organized, its people, and technology features; also, the importance of an MIS system to the company.
Your paper must be a minimum of 3 full pages long.
You will need to include a minimum of 2 credible sources for your research, with 1 being an academic source, such as a book or an academic scholarly journal.
Include an APA formatted title page and reference page. *Remember to use proper tone in your paper. You are speaking from a “consultant” point of view

Assignment 2: Dropbox Assignment

Current Epidemiological Studies: Critical Review

For your dropbox assignment, using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research and select three current epidemiological studies regarding risk factors that are associated with any health problem. You can also use the following websites to search for studies as they are often used as the major sources of information for health research and often report on the most current health problems affecting the United States and global populations:

U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
World Health Organization

Based on your research, create a report in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document addressing the following questions:

What were the criteria that you used to select these papers? (For example, only English language, peer reviewed articles, only a specific age group, only United States studies, etc.)
What were the types of risk factors studied in your chosen articles? (For example, environmental, socio-economic, behavioral, etc.)
Which study design was used for this study? Why do you think the researchers chose this specific study design? Provide examples from your research.
What are the proximate or underlying determinants of risk factors that are associated with any health problem for each study?

Answer the questions posted below in the Template for Assessment of Causality for Reviewing Epidemiological Studies, for each study. You should number each study, list the title, and state each question in the format it appears in the template.

Click here to download the template.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Submission Details

Name your document SU_HCM2001_W3_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

Submit your document to the W3 Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Explained the criteria used to select the papers for the research on epidemiological studies regarding risk factors that are associated with any health problem.
40
Analyzed the risk factors studied in the articles selected.
40
Provided judgments on the approach of the researchers in choosing a specific study design in the study on epidemiological studies regarding risk factors that are associated with any health problem.
40
Summarized the underlying determinants for each study.
40
Written Components.

Read Case 1-3 and case 6-6, focusing on the Coca-Cola company. Assume the role of a management consultant reporting to the CEO and Board of Directors at Coca-Cola. In your report, address the following points:

Define the marketing problems and opportunities.
Analyze Coca-Cola’s marketing and innovation strategy transformation designed to position the company on the cutting edge of consumer trends.
Evaluate Coca-Cola’s product strategy of developing healthy beverages.
Explain the underlying logic of Mary Minnick’s emphasis on understanding why people consume beverages.
Discuss the underlying logic of the non-carb drinks strategy.
Compare and contrast the performance of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
Provide recommendations to management.Pepsi.

Please use the Ashford University Library’s Mergent database in your research. Mergent offers detailed company reports and other company information that will be useful in writing your Final Paper.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a title page with the following:

a. Title of paper

b. Student’s name

c. Course name and number

d. Instructor’s name

e. Date submitted
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, including a minimum of three from the Ashford Online Library, in addition to the text.
Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

ASAP Due today by 2pm

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Goal assigned

Eating Disorders

Albert Stunkard

http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine your selected psychological disorder in the context of the chosen organization’s goals.

Research the organization’s website or speak to someone in the organization.
Identify multiple cultures the organization serves.
Identify symptoms of your selected disorder and describe how the interpretation of the symptoms varies across cultures.
Discuss how the impact of culture affects interpretations of symptoms and recommendations of services for that organizatio