Describe how you have used data to determine a strategy.

Overview Company leaders need to keep a watchful eye on the economy and how micro- and macro-environments affect their business. Successful leaders are always a step ahead. They stay there by leading with data-driven decisions that allow their companies to anticipate and respond to challenges. In this module, you’ve learned how information is key in making decisions and solving problems; however, research and analytical skills are also needed to extract value from data. Information-gathering should align with research objectives. Qualitative and quantitative data alongside relevant and credible primary and secondary sources are fundamental ingredients for informing good judgement. Prompt In a report by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 4.8% in the first quarter of this year. For this assignment, you will take on the role of an HR manager at an air transportation supply company. The company is currently struggling with a significant loss of revenue and considering operational costs. You have been asked to analyze employee performance over the last year and make sense of the data. Using a summary (provided below) of the company’s employee salaries, bonuses, and performance data, address the following rubric criteria: Interpretation: Discuss your interpretation of the data. What questions emerge from your analysis of the data? What story can they tell about the company’s employees? Analysis: Explain how the provided data helps you understand your employees and how the company is using its financial resources. Identify potential gaps or issues in the data. What is the quantitative and qualitative data telling you? Are there any underlying issues or perspectives? What is the data not telling you? What additional primary and secondary sources would help the company make a decision? Conclusion and related outcomes: Describe how you have used data to determine a strategy. Use evidence to support your explanations. What would your strategy be if you were asked to recommend a 10% reduction in the budget? How would you synthesize and defend your decision process? This resource will assist you as you complete your paper. Air Transportation Supplier HR Performance Data Spreadsheet. This summary table of your company’s HR performance data will inform your work on this assignment. Guidelines for Submission Complete the Making Decisions and Overcoming Bias Using Research worksheet in your Soomo webtext, download your completed work, and submit it in Brightspace for instructor feedback. You should write using a professional voice, and any sources should be cited according to APA style. Your assignment must be between 400 and 800 words in length.

What are the steps to improving Organizational Performance through motivating others and the cultivation of effective relationships?

**What are the steps to improving Organizational Performance through motivating others and the cultivation of effective relationships? Utilize M & H Chapter information as you create this initial response* Use this space to start a discussion! Make an initial post to start a discussion. Participants can add responses and replies. As you review these important leadership strategies, which are the top 3 that you observe in your own workplace? If you are in a leadership role, which are the top 3 behaviors you integrate each day? What impact do these strategies have on staff? DISPLAY 18.4 STRATEGIES TO CREATE A MOTIVATING CLIMATE (Marquis & Huston, 2020, ch 18) 1. Have clear expectations for workers and communicate these expectations effectively. 2. Be fair and consistent when dealing with all employees. 3. Be a firm decision maker using an appropriate decision-making style. 4. Develop the concept of teamwork. Develop group goals and projects that will build a team spirit. 5. Integrate the staff’s needs and wants with the organization’s interests and purpose. 6. Know the uniqueness of each employee. Let each know that you understand his or her uniqueness. 7. Remove traditional blocks between the employee and the work to be done. 8. Provide experiences that challenge or “stretch” the employee and allow opportunities for growth. 9. When appropriate, request participation and input from all subordinates in decision making. 10. Whenever possible, give subordinates recognition and credit. 11. Be certain that employees understand the reason behind decisions and actions. 12. Reward desirable behavior; be consistent in how you handle undesirable behavior. 13. Let employees exercise individual judgment as much as possible. 14. Create a trustful and helping relationship with employees.1 5. Empower employees to have as much control as possible over their work environment and the decisions that impact it. 16. Be a positive and enthusiastic role model for employees. Chapters 14 & 18 in Marquis & Huston text have info as to how to motivate others and assure good relationships. Org Performance relates to Motivational Theory. Leaders improve organizational performance through their relationships with their employees by focusing on the needs and wants of their individual staff and uses motivational strategies which are personalized for each person in each situation. Leaders help staff discover what they want out of their work..to help the staff meet their individual goals — the chapters this week in Marquis & Huston do cover this. You could also search in our library for an article on the topic. Hope this is helpful to get you started **

Contrast the components of the juvenile justice system to those of the adult justice system.

This competency assessment assesses the following Outcome(s): CJ150M3: Contrast the components of the juvenile justice system to those of the adult justice system. Juvenile Justice System vs. Adult Justice System The Juvenile Justice System and the Adult Justice System both have similarities and differences in the overall handling of offenders. In your learning activity, you identified those processes that are the same for both juveniles and adults or those processes that are different for both juveniles and adults. In this assessment, you will: • Select four (4) of the processes identified in the learning activity and clearly compare and contrast their treatments in the juvenile and adult courts. (At least one full paragraph per comparison). • Do you feel there are enough significant differences between the two systems to justify having a separate juvenile system? Justify your rationale. Minimum Submission Requirements • Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource. • This assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 1–2 page) document, in addition to the title and reference pages. • Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused. • Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose. • Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. • Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar, and mechanics. • A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research. • Be sure to include references for all sources and to cite them using in-text citations where appropriate. Your sources and content should follow current APA citation style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center. • Your submission should: o include a title page; o be double-spaced; o be typed in Times New Roman, 12 -point font; and o be free of spelling or punctuation errors. https://purdueuniversityglobal.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9781337413497/epubcfi/6/6%5Bidloc_002.xhtml-itemref%5D!/4%5Beid357%5D/2%5Bpage_break_inline_1%5D Chapter 9: “Schools and Delinquency” Chapter 9 explores how educational achievement and delinquency are related. Educational institutions are among the primary instruments of socialization, and as such they are bound to influence the amount of delinquent behavior by school-age children. The chapter begins with an overview of the modern-day school and the factors in the school experience that appear to contribute to delinquent behavior. Student misbehaviors, which may have their roots in the school experience, range from minor infractions of school rules for example, smoking and loitering in the halls, to serious crimes such as assault, arson, drug abuse, and vandalism. As school crime has become a national concern in recent years, delinquency in the school setting, with a focus on school shootings, is examined. The chapter presents research that indicates that the causes of school violence can be found at the individual, school, and community level. The chapter concludes with an examination of the efforts attempted by schools to prevent delinquency. Chapter 10: “Drug Use and Delinquency” This chapter addresses some important issues involving teenage substance abuse. The chapter begins with a review of the kinds of drugs adolescents are using and their frequency of use. Next, a variety of annual national surveys that measure the extent of teen drug use, including Monitoring the Future, the Parents’ Resource Institute for Drug Education (PRIDE) Survey, and the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), are evaluated. Many explanations for why youth use drugs have been offered, including growing up in disorganized areas in which there is a high degree of hopelessness, poverty, and despair; peer pressure; parental substance abuse; emotional problems; and those that are suffering from general problem-behavior syndrome. The multiple pathways to drug abuse are then examined, followed by an exploration of the link between drug use and delinquency. The chapter concludes with a review of efforts to prevent and control the use of drugs among teenagers. A number of drug-control strategies have been tried; some are designed to prevent drug use, some deter drug use by targeting dealers, and others treat users who are already addicted.

Explain the importance of analyzing artifacts for understanding culture.

Project Overview: For this project, you will analyze artifacts—physical objects made by societies for use by the people who live in them—and describe how the artifacts relate to your workplace culture. Then, you will present your findings in a report. Scenario: In this project, you will be choosing objects used in a workplace and looking at them as cultural artifacts. These objects can be from your actual workplace, one you are familiar with, or a one where you might like to work in the future. You will analyze how well these artifacts reflect the culture of the workplace they come from and write a report on your findings. Your task is to describe and analyze workplace artifacts to show the importance of aligning them to company culture. Artifacts are real, physical objects made by people that embody the ideas of the creators, users, and the culture in which they were made. Choose two objects that fit the descriiption of artifacts above. Examples of artifacts include training materials, a piece of equipment, a decoration, a business card, a newsletter, water cooler, furniture, open-floor environment, placard in the lobby, or something else. Analyze the artifacts. Use the questions in the Artifact Analysis Guide to help you do this. Write a report. In your report: Identify the type of organization or workplace you used. Briefly explain why artifact analysis is relevant to workplace culture. Explain the importance of analyzing artifacts for understanding culture. Provide specific examples of ways your workplace could improve its culture based on the results of the analysis. Describe your chosen artifacts in detail. Be sure to identify who created them and who uses them. Explain the purpose of your chosen artifacts. State whether you think the creator(s) succeeded in achieving that purpose. How do different people interact with the artifacts? Discuss how the artifacts reflect the norms, beliefs, and values of the organizational culture. To do this, compare your artifacts with specific workplace culture statements. These might include a mission statement, motto, vision document, slogan, and so on. Do the artifacts reflect the workplace culture in which they are found? Remember to cite any sources you use. What to Submit Report You will analyze two workplace artifacts and report on your findings. Use the questions in the Artifact Analysis Guide to guide your artifact analysis. These questions provide key points that you can address in your report.

What lifestyle changes could you make that would reduce one or more of the three footprints?

Ecological Footprints [WLO: 3] [CLOs: 3, 6] Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, view video The Ecological Footprint Explained (Links to an external site.). The ecological footprint is a tool for helping us to visualize the impacts we make on the environment. In this week’s class discussion, you will have the opportunity to learn more about how connected you are to the ecosystems and biosphere that you inhabit. In a course-long project beginning this week, you will take on the challenge of lessening your impacts on the environment through reducing the size of your ecological footprint. Specifically, you will identify possible lifestyle changes that would reduce the amount of resources you use and/or the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that you produce. In a course-long experiment, you will determine whether or not it is possible to make a measurable difference in your environmental impact through a few simple actions in your daily life. The first step, of course, is to determine your ecological footprint right now. To do that, you will calculate three footprints: an overall ecological footprint that takes most of our daily behaviors into consideration; a carbon footprint that focuses on our daily carbon emissions that are contributing to global climate change; and a water footprint that assesses daily water use. Part A: Ecological Footprint Use the footprint tool from the web page What Is Your Ecological Footprint? (Links to an external site.) to calculate your ecological footprint. At every opportunity, please select the “add details to improve accuracy” option. At the end of the footprint activity, make a note of how many Earths would be required if everyone lived like you. Then click on “see details” to obtain the following information: Your ecological footprint, in global hectares (a hectare is about 2.5 acres). Your top three consumption categories. Finally, research some ways you might reduce your footprint, identifying a few specific ones that you might put into practice throughout the course. Part B: Household Carbon Emissions Footprint Next, use the Carbon Footprint Calculator (Links to an external site.) to calculate your household carbon emissions footprint. After answering all the questions, Make a note of your carbon emissions footprint in pounds. Is that above or below the average household carbon footprint in the US? Explore specific actions you might take to reduce your footprint. Which of them might be practical to undertake in the next five weeks? Part C: Water Footprint Finally, use the Water Footprint Calculator (Links to an external site.) to calculate your daily water footprint. After answering all the questions, Make a note of your gallons-per-day water footprint. Record the top three contributors to it. Scroll down the page to access a series of “Tips” buttons you can click on for advice on reducing your footprint. Again, make a note of some specific ideas you see that might be practical to implement over the next five weeks. Discussion Post Requirements Your discussion should include all the information you gathered about your consumption habits from your three footprint calculations, including all numbers with units. Footprint Table Week 1 ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT Hectares: # Earths: Top 3 Consumption Categories: CARBON FOOTPRINT Carbon Emissions (lbs): WATER FOOTPRINT Gallons per day: Top 3 Contributors: Copy the table above and paste into your post, then add your data for each category. You can also access the Footprint Table here Download Footprint Table here. Then, in a well-crafted post of at least 200 additional words, examine the numerical results of your three footprint calculations by answering the following questions: What did you learn that surprised you about your consumption habits? What lifestyle changes could you make that would reduce one or more of the three footprints? Propose a minimum of five. (These do not have to be the ones you use in this course-long project; over the course of the discussion, you may opt to select other ones based upon classmates’ recommendations. You will be recording your final choices for lifestyle changes in your Journal at the end of the week.) For each lifestyle change, which footprint would you be lowering? Discuss potential obstacles to making those changes, and then suggest ways you might overcome those obstacles. https://content.bridgepointeducation.com/curriculum/file/4798d204-682f-4b7b-afdf-85bd7c6d9e5e/1/SCI207_WEEK_00_v4_SCORM.zip/story_html5.html Text Bensel, T., & Carbone, I. (2020). Sustaining our planet. Retrieved from https://content.uagc.edu This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM) title. Multimedia University of Arizona Global Campus . (2018). SCI207 – The scientific method (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://ashford.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/SCI207+-+THE+SCIENTIFIC+METHOD/1_5325onvq Moovly. (2015, January 8). The ecological footprint explained (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/fACkb2u1ULY National Public Radio. (2010, August 28). ‘The sound of a snail’: A patient’s greatest comfort (Links to an external site.) [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/templates/transcriipt/transcriipt.php?storyId=129475625 npcCONV. (2010, May 25). Disposability consciousness (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/72Z2wmgLiTc TEDx Talks. (2016, July 6). Two adults, two kids, zero waste | Bea Johnson | TEDxFoggyBottom (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/CSUmo-40pqA Web Pages Global Footprint Network. (n.d.). What is your ecological footprint? (Links to an external site.) Retrieved from http://www.footprintcalculator.org/ United States Environmental Protection Agency. (n.d.). Carbon footprint calculator (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/ Website Water footprint calculator (Links to an external site.). (https://www.watercalculator.org) Supplemental Materials Carolina Distance Learning. (n.d.). Ground and surface water interactions Download Ground and surface water interactions[Investigation manual]. Retrieved from https://ashford.instructure.com Carolina Distance Learning. (n.d.). Oil spill bioremediation Download Oil spill bioremediation[Investigation manual]. Retrieved from https://ashford.instructure.com Carolina Distance Learning. (n.d.). Properties of soil: Agricultural and water availability impacts Download Properties of soil: Agricultural and water availability impacts[Investigation manual]. Retrieved from https://ashford.instructure.com Laboratory Supplies Please purchase the following kit from Carolina Biological Supply: Carolina Biological Supply Lab Kit http://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/ Home https://ashford.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/SCI207+-+THE+SCIENTIFIC+METHOD/1_5325onvq https://www.npr.org/transcriipts/129475625 my area is florissant mo 63031

Describe the steps of the quality improvement model you chose.

Develop a quality improvement plan that is based on the scenario by doing the following: A. Discuss how to initiate a quality improvement project for this clinical problem. 1. Identify three areas of focus for quality improvement in the scenario. a. Describe the types of quantitative and qualitative data gathered for part A1, including an example of each type of data. b. Explain your process for gathering the data. 2. Identify a quality improvement model that can be implemented. a. Describe the steps of the quality improvement model you chose. 3. Discuss the influence external agencies have on the quality improvement process. a. Describe the focus of one organization that helps to drive quality standards for the department. 4. Discuss one example of how you will use benchmarking and performance measures to monitor the progress made toward quality improvement goals. B. Identify the team members from the scenario who would contribute to the quality improvement team. 1. Describe the professional roles and responsibilities of each team member identified in part B. 2. Explain how each team member contributes to the project. 3. Discuss the qualities the team needs in order to facilitate project success. C. Summarize why a quality improvement project is needed for the given scenario. D. Create a professional memo to communicate your ideas for quality improvement project implementation to organizational leaders. 1. Describe the steps you will take to implement the quality improvement project in the organization. E. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. F. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

After watching these videos, reflect upon the federal acquisition process and then research some aspect of the federal acquisition process.

Assignment 1 Watch these videos regarding Federal Acquisition Process. Link: https://youtu.be/PBf4pduLgzo Link: https://youtu.be/3k1qB-y0NFg After watching these videos, reflect upon the federal acquisition process and then research some aspect of the federal acquisition process. For this paper, you will need to find an article in the library that relates to any aspect of the federal acquisition process and summarize and discuss the article in the required paper. Feel free to compare your article to which aspect of a Smores and remember to include a link to the article. Write a two-page paper, plus the title page and a reference page. As always, read all the lesson notes in Week 2 before you start this assignment as new or current events may have been updated since the start of class. Instructions: •Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. •APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting. •Length of paper: typed, double-spaced pages with no less than a two-page paper. •Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point. RESEARCH and WRITING APUS Online Library Tutorial Center http://www.apus.edu/Online-Library/tutorials/index.htm PLAGIARISM Avoiding accidental and intentional plagiarism http://www.plagiarism.org/

Define the term “American exceptionalism” and discuss its relevance (or lack thereof) to post-World War II American security policy.

Define the term “American exceptionalism” and discuss its relevance (or lack thereof) to post-World War II American security policy. Answer the assignment with a clear argument and refer to theories, authors and cases from the syllabus! It is expected that the answers have a good and clear structure, with a clear introduction, main part and conclusion Remember that it is your ability to show understanding and the ability to reason around an issue that is being tested. It is therefore important that you write in your own words and show that you have understood the topic you are writing about and do not write about aids minimum 220 – Maximum 600 words.

What sorts of gender relationships/roles occur in the play and what do these relations reveal about Greek culture?

What sorts of gender relationships/roles occur in the play and what do these relations reveal about Greek culture? Note that “gender relationships/roles” does not mean a discussion on the dominance of the patriarchy in ancient Greece. Instead, you should discuss roles and responsibilities that are restricted/specific to members of a specific gender in ancient Greek society. What specific responsibilities are expected of all men based on the evidence supplied by the play? What duties are expected of all women, based on the scenario/situations presented in the play?All papers for this course should… Be double spaced Include page numbers on the top right of each page Have a title that is appropriate to your essay, centered and on a separate line All of the topic options require you to consider the role the play fulfills in the ancient world. DO NOT mention how this myth affects the modern world. This is not the focus of the paper. You need to investigate why this play is important to the ANCIENT GREEK world. This should not be written as an opinion paper. DO NOT use of the first- or second-person is not permitted (I, we, you, etc.). DO NOT write “this paper will…”. Justify your thesis and main points with examples and evidence (with appropriate citations). Students must have BOTH parenthetical citations and a bibliography. This bibliography must have at least one additional source beyond the play (therefore, your bibliography will have at least two sources). DO NOT use websites as sources. PLEASE use scholarly articles ONLY

Create a scenario that describes a crime in which there is at least one of each type of biological evidence, controlled dangerous substance (CDS) evidence, and questioned document evidence to be collected.

For this Lab assignment you are to: Create a scenario that describes a crime in which there is at least one of each type of biological evidence, controlled dangerous substance (CDS) evidence, and questioned document evidence to be collected. Also include at least one type of evidence from CCJS 301 (trace evidence, impression evidence, or firearms or toolmarks evidence). Assume that you are responsible for collecting this evidence from your scenario. Discuss the difficulties that you may encounter during the collection of the scenario evidence and ways in which following the scientific method helps to diminish these ethical concerns. Explain the documentation necessary to present the scenario evidence with integrity in court. Format Requirements Paper must be double spaced, 11 or 12 pt font and 1” margins all around. All APA 7th edition format requirements must be followed (cover page, in text citations, reference page). Refer to APA/UMGC – learning resources found in the content page of this course. You must have resources to support your thoughts/opinions/information. These must be cited both in text as well as at the end of the document. Your paper should not contain direct quotes, sourced material must be paraphrased.