Conduct an interview with a top-level administrator and complete a 3-5 page double-spaced report and analysis of the interview

Conduct an interview with a top-level administrator and complete a 3-5 page double-spaced report and analysis of the interview. Select the person you will interview early in the course. (Instructor approval of your interviewee is not required.) Upload your report as a doc, docx, or pdf file by the due date in the syllabus. Your report should include the following sections, using headings:

1. Introduction of the leader you interviewed including title, organization, qualifications, etc. (Avoid a selecting a relative for this assignment.)
2. Interview questions — a minimum of 5 using topics from our text, e.g. leadership style, teamwork, motivation, conflict resolution, ethics, change, communication.
3. Interview answers — these can be summarized and do not need to be verbatim.
4. Description and analysis of interviewee’s leadership style and skills. Refer to at least one theory of leadership from our text.
5. Statement of what you learned to enhance your development as a leader.

Below is a list of interview questions used by students in previous classes. These are examples only. You are not required to use them.

• Please describe your leadership style. What is your strongest trait?
• What do you think is the key to effectively managing others?
• What do you think is the most challenging thing about transferring to a leadership role?
• How do you share your vision and enlist others in a common vision?
• As a leader, how do you motivate employees?
• How do advances in technology affect your goals?
• What do you feel is the most important thing to remember when handling conflict with employees?
• Throughout your career, what do think has changed most about leadership?
• What is one of the things you do to open up communications with your employees?
• What advice would you give a new leader?

Describe your experience in delivering your communication to policymakers or stakeholders.

Communication to Policymakers or Stakeholders

 Determine whether your communication will be to policymakers or stakeholders. Consider what you know about this audience and, thus, what type of information and messages would best capture their hearts, minds, and interests about the issue/challenge/need you chose. Then, determine how best to present this information (e.g., PowerPoint presentation, letter, speech, video, proposal, historical timeline, report with statistics, etc.)

With these ideas in mind, prepare your communication piece and then either meet with your audience face to face or send the communication to your audience via e-mail or other means. If you meet with your audience, be sure to engage in dialogue and solicit their responses to the information, messages, and appeals for help. If you send the communication via e-mail or other means, request a response in writing, a phone call, or other form. You will submit your communication piece with this assessment. If it is a PowerPoint, video, or oral presentation, you will submit it as a separate file when you submit the Assessment.

Your communication should include:

• Statement of issue/challenge/need being addressed
• Brief explanation of the research you found
• Description of the initiative you are spearheading and a rationale for its importance
• Initiation of dialogue or an appeal for support
• Request for a response
• Proposal of next steps

Part III: Summary and Next Steps

Once you have received responses from policymakers or stakeholders, reflect on your experience and write a 2- to 3-page summary. Your summary should:

1. Describe your experience in delivering your communication to policymakers or stakeholders. What worked well? What could you have done differently to better communicate the issue or to better position your intentions related to advocacy?
2. Describe in detail the responses you received from individuals to who you delivered the communication. What did you learn? Explain how the responses serve to support or present challenges to your advocacy initiative.
3. Determine at least three action steps for continuing your advocacy efforts (e.g., responding to one or both of the stakeholder groups, communicating with other stakeholders, organizing for action, conducting further research, etc.)

Describe the advocacy issue/challenge/need and its impact on children and families.

Research Brief

Select a topic of interest.

What current problems, policies, or issues affect the health, safety, or education of young children and families? Which of these issues are of greatest interest to you? Perhaps you are concerned about the increased focus on high-stakes testing in primary grades, the lack of opportunity for young children to engage in creative and experiential play, or the need to increase children’s access to books in the home. Explore the web resources provided with the Assessment and/or other resources to gain information and insights on pressing issues, needs, and challenges that affect children and families.

Based on your initial exploration, select a topic of interest, one for which you want to advocate for action that can positively impact the lives of children and families. With this issue in mind, continue exploring reputable resources and investigate advocacy organizations and initiatives that are already in place. Consider how this issue relates to your sphere of influence (e.g., workplace, local community, state, national, global level) and what actions you might take to promote positive changes within this sphere.

Based on your exploration, prepare a 2- to 3-page Research Brief as follows:

1. Describe the advocacy issue/challenge/need and its impact on children and families.
2. Include a synopsis of major, compelling research findings that support your position on the cause for which you want to advocate.
3. Explore local, regional, state, national, and/or global advocacy efforts that have been devoted to this issue. Identify one or more organizations and describe their work in supporting the advocacy issue.
4. After reading about how established organizations have advocated for your issue, describe an initiative of your own that could further your cause. Your initiative should be one that you can spearhead within your sphere of influence. Your initiative might involve activities that will increase awareness, educate others, change a policy, bring in resources to your workplace, start a community project, create a service to families, or any other forms of advocacy.
   • State at least two measureable goals that you believe can be achieved within the next six months to a year.
   • Include specific action steps you plan to take and a timeline for implementation.
   • Identify any roadblocks you anticipate and plans to overcome them.
   • Identify one or more policymakers or stakeholders to whom you will communicate your advocacy initiative.
   • Explain the purpose of your communication to these stakeholders.

Propose the IS architecture for the IS for the bike sharing system

BUSINESS CASE
A healthy lifestyle advocacy group is aiming to build a bike sharing system within a medium size
metropolitan area. The group has signed a contract with a company to provide the bike sharing
technology and hardware (bike stations, bikes, network equipment, a server, and bike sharing software that automates the process of checking out and returning bicycles, and billing customers).
DOCKING STATIONS & BIKES
The docking station provides a limited number of bike parking spots, and is characterized by its location, bike capacity, and by real time number of bikes parked. Docking stations have computers running on them, credit card reader, and a networking module which allows it to be connected to the Internet. The fleet of bikes has also been purchased.
FUNCTIONING OF THE SYSTEM
There are two ways a user can get access to the system:
1) Using her annual subscription ($70)
2) Buying day pass ($5)
Every ride under 30 minutes is free. User is charged $1 dollar for a ride between 30 and 1 hour, 3 dollars for rides between 1 hour and 2 hours and a flat rate of 7 dollars for any ride over 2 hours. The users who haven’t returned a bike within 10 hours are billed with a $50 fine.

Description of the IS Architecture, Software and Database Components, and Hardware Architecture

The information system designed for this case should connect docking stations, as well as manage user registrations and billing. We learned about different architecture models (e.g. centralized, distributed, and cloud).

Directions

In a Word document, provide the following information:

1. Propose the IS architecture for the IS for the bike sharing system. Explain the rationale behind the choice (between half of a page and a page);

2. List all the software, and database, and hardware components;

3. Draw a architecture of the system showing the components using Word shapes, use arrows to show business process and major data flow between them.

Find the answers to the following problems by providing line-by-line (step-by-step) solutions for each applicable question.

 Find the answers to the following problems by providing line-by-line (step-by-step) solutions for each applicable question. You must show your work for questions 1-4 to get full credit for each question. Each question is worth 20 points. Please be sure to include the appropriate units as part of your final answer. 

 1. Mercury, the only metal that exists as a liquid at room temperature, melts at 234.3 K. Convert this melting point to degrees Celsius. 

2. Mercury has a boiling point of 356.58°C. Convert this temperature to degrees Fahrenheit.

 3. Mercury metal is poured into a graduated cylinder that holds exactly 22.5 mL. The mercury used to fill the cylinder weighs 306.0 g. From this information, calculate the density of mercury, in grams per cubic centimeter.

 4. What is the density of mercury in pounds per cubic inch (lb/in3)? a. 1 lb = 454g, 1 in= 2.54 cm.

 5. What are some of the physical and chemical properties of Mercury? Mention at least two of each

How does the form help the artist express the content?

Part 1: If subject matter is what is being depicted in a work of art, what is the subject of non-representational works such as Blue, Orange, Red by Mark Rothko (p. 436) and Autumn Rhythm by Jackson Pollock (page 434 in your text)? What is Donald Judd communicating in his piece titled 100 untitled works in mill aluminum? What do you think the content is? How does the form help the artist express the content? Identify visual elements and principles of design in your analysis. 

Part 2: Create your own Pollock Drip Painting on the interactive web site link in the content area and share your experience with the class. Attach your painting with answer!!

Usability journal assignment, | Computer Science homework help

For the Usability Journal assignment, you are to write three (3) journal entries.

• Each entry shall be approximately 300-400 words each.
• Each entry shall focus on an object that contains a bad usability design.
• Explain why the object being described does not maintain good usability practices.
• The deliverable shall include citable examples of best practices from academic literature explaining why the product/object does not follow best practices.

Example:

• A remote control.
  • What about the remote control makes the device both a good and bad example for the usability perspective?
  • Each deliverable will contain:
  • Three entries with 300-400 words for EACH entry
  • APA citation with examples from scholars explaining best practices that should be followed
  • An example image of the bad design practice followed

observe emotion work as you go about your daily life.

For this assignment, you will observe emotion work as you go about your daily life.  What emotion work do you and others do in any given day?  How does it vary by situation?  Analyze two examples.

• Begin your report with a paragraph that summarizes patterns in the emotion work you observed and introduces the two examples you will analyze.  
• After that introductory paragraph, spend the rest of the report analyzing two concrete examples.  Be sure to describe the interactional contexts in which it occurs, including the feeling rules of that space.  Utilize concepts from our Hochschild reading (e.g. feeling rules; the “pinch” between how you wanted to feel and how you actually felt; evocation and suppression; cognitive, bodily, and expressive techniques; deep acting and surface acting).  
• In the concluding paragraph, reflect on what you learned and make connections with other concepts, etc.

This report should be 2-3 pages long and formatted correctly (see syllabus for formatting guidelines).

How does improving educational opportunities for women help reduce population growth

A. How does improving educational opportunities for women help reduce population growth (in those nations seeking to do so)?  Cite specific scientific, demographic, socioeconomic and/or geopolitical evidence from one (1) nation that is working to reduce its population growth rate and where improving education for women has worked / is working.

Be sure to back up your explanations with some research before discussing this topic online with your classmates. Be sure to read relevant sections of your text (and supplementary readings from this Module) and look online.  Start with these background readings:

A1. Identify a nation that has been / is working to reduce its population growth. For how long?  Note: if you choose to discuss China’s one-child policy from the past, be aware that is no longer their policy, that which changed in 2021, and address the new policy as well.  (1 points)

A2. Describe what this nation has done to improve the educational opportunities for its women?  Cite also statistics/data. (2.5 points)

A3. How have increased educational opportunities for these women changed their socio-economic status?  Cite also statistics/data. (2.5 points)

Should you admit you smelled alcohol on Karen’s breath last week? Why or why not?

Case Study: Ethical Dilemma

You work at a paper supply company that employs 50 people. A coworker, Karen, is not your favorite person to work with. She is often late to work, can be unprofessional with coworkers, and isn’t someone you can routinely count on to go above and beyond her job duties. Last week you even noticed that her breath smelled like alcohol when you spoke to her about some last-minute orders that needed to be filled. But, you don’t like to rock the boat and you don’t like to be disloyal to your coworkers, so you didn’t say anything. However, David Chan just approached you and asked whether you smelled alcohol on Karen’s breath last Thursday. You are surprised and ask him why. David mentions that he heard some gossip and wants to confirm if it is true or not.

What will you do?

1. Should you admit you smelled alcohol on Karen’s breath last week? Why or why not?

2. What are the implications of each course of action?

3. Would you change your answer if, instead of working at a paper supply company, you worked as a nurse?