Explain the importance of performance measurement in organizations.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 11 from the textbook, the webpage article What is a Balanced Scorecard? A Quick Overview (Links to an external site.) , and the weekly lecture.

In your discussion post,

• Explain the importance of performance measurement in organizations.
• Explain what the balanced scorecard is. Describe its four components.
  • Select an organization that applies the balance scorecard. Access the UAGC Library online database, which offers company financials, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers, and directors, and the Business Insights database. For assistance, view the Mergent Online (Links to an external site.) and Business Insights: Global (Links to an external site.) tip sheets for suggested methods of searching UAGC Library databases generally, as well as specific advice for searching these two databases.
• Search and select an article of an organization that has successfully implemented the balanced scorecard, and provide a brief summary of how the components of the scorecard have added value, improved quality, and increased performance.

Reference: Evans, J. R., & Lindsay, W. M. (2020). Managing for quality and performance excellence (11th ed.).

Describe the Baldrige Award process. How does it ensure that organizations are truly worthy of receiving the award?

The image above is a systems perspective of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework for your review and may assist in your completing the below prompts. In your discussion post, address the following:

• Discuss the purpose of the Baldrige Award.
  • Describe the Baldrige Award process. How does it ensure that organizations are truly worthy of receiving the award?
• Explain the Baldrige core values and concepts.
  • What are the five groups of results measures in the Malcom Baldrige Criteria? Provide two examples of measurements and indicators in each group. Why do you think they are important for any organization to pursue?
• Please choose two of the Baldrige core values, and apply them to an organization of your choice.
  • How do these two values impact the organization and increase performance?
• Regarding the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, on which a Baldrige examination is based, please provide a brief description of each of the seven categories, and explain how they all come together and form an integrated management system.

Reference : Evans, J. R., & Lindsay, W. M. (2020). Managing for quality and performance excellence (11th ed.).

When and how does alcohol increase aggressiveness?

Aggression

Case Study 4

• This case study assignment requires that you apply information about concepts from Chapter 10 of the textbook and from lecture. Read the case study carefully and answer the five questions in detail. If you have any questions regarding this assignment please ask.

Case Study: Basketball Brawl

On Friday, November 19, 2004, near the end of an Indiana Pacers – Detroit Pistons game, two Indiana players stormed in the stands and brawled with spectators. The fight started with pushing and shoving between players on the opposing teams and then spilled over into the audience. Some fans got involved in the melee by throwing things at the players. Beer, ice and even a chair were some of the items thrown. Several people suffered minor injuries and were taken to a local hospital.

The Pacers were ahead 97-82. The fight began when Piston’s Ben Wallace was jumping up to make a shot. Ron Artest, a Pacer player, fouled Wallace from behind. Wallace turned around and shoved Artest in the face. Players from both teams then joined in the fight with a lot of shoving and pushing. The coaches from both teams intervened to get their players to calm down. By this time, Artest was laying on his back on the scorer’s table – no longer part of the players’ fight. But then Artest was hit by something thrown from the stands, and that’s when he charged the audience. He was joined by another Pacers’ player. Spectator, Mike Ryan, says that Artest attacked him. “He was on top of me, pummeling me. He asked me, ‘Did you do it?’ I said, ‘No, man. No!’”

This is the version of events Artest gave in an interview:

“I thought it was an OK foul. The refs told me it wasn’t a technical and it wasn’t a flagrant. I think Wallace’s reaction was too much. I don’t mind him pushing me. But he also caught me in my nose. I’m not sure what will happen regarding that…I was lying on the table when Wallace threw a towel at me. I got up and then was lying down again when I got hit with a liquid, ice and glass container on my chest and on my face. After that it was self-defense.”

1. How does the textbook define aggression? Do any of the following behaviors by a basketball player qualify as aggression? a) Punching a fan. b) Blocking a shot by an opposing player. c) Accidentally fouling another player. d) Yelling at and insulting a teammate when the teammate misses a shot. Explain your answers – why does or why doesn’t a behavior meet the definition of aggression?
2. All the players and fans involved in the melee were males and the fans involved in throwing objects at the players had been drinking.
   1. When and how does alcohol increase aggressiveness?
   2. Could alcohol have contributed to the fight at the basketball game? Explain your answer.
   3. What is the relationship between testosterone levels and aggression?
   4. Could testosterone been a possible influence in the fight at this game? Explain your answer.
3. Answer the following:
   1. What is frustration? Might any of the basketball players be experiencing frustration? Explain your answer.
   2. According to Leonard Berkowitz how does frustration sometimes contribute to aggression?
   3. Apply Berkowitz’s model to the brawl at the basketball came.
4. Arousal has been linked to aggression. For example, Zillman et al. found that people who just exercised and were thus physically aroused were more aggressive. Certainly playing basketball, a demanding physical game, would increase arousal. With this in mind answer these two items:
   1. Describe Zillman’s Exhitation transfer model of aggression. (The theory is discussed in lecture)
   2. Apply the model to this situation. E.g., Take the player, Ron Artest, step by step through the model. You may have to speculate about what was on his mind or how he interpreted events.
5. The video of the fight at the Pacers – Pistons game was shown on several network news and sports programs. No doubt this video was seen by many young fans.
   1. Have psychologists found a link between viewing media violence and aggression in children? (A simple answer of yes, no or sometimes, is not an adequate answer to this question!)
   2. What predictions would social learning theory (observational learning) make for young fans who watched the brawl?
   3. Some people argue that watching violence can be cathartic. What is catharsis? Have psychologist found evidence to support this idea?

Reference

ESPN.com News Services. Artest, Jackson charge Palace stands./ Retrieved March 20, 2007 from http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1927380&type=story ———— TEXTBOOK: Social Psychology 13th Edition David G. Myers and Jean M. Twenge. Publication Year 2019, ISBN # 978-1260397116.

post your EIGHT Best Practices that you observed in the 4-hour and 2-hour House videos.

One of our tasks this week was to review the “Four Hour House” video, and another similar video “The 2-Hour House.”

These amazing stories show “Project Management” at its finest. As you watched the videos, you were asked to jot down notes about the project management “Best Practices” you observed taking place during the construction projects.

For this week’s discussion board, please post your EIGHT Best Practices that you observed in the 4-hour and 2-hour House videos.

What purposes do goals serve in a police department?

1. Watch Video & Answer Questions. Very urgent, tip will be given!
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00wXgEyo4fk
3. Documentary following the installment of William J. Bratton in the Los Angeles Police Department. Bratton is famous for bringing the violent crime rate in New York City down dramatically. This documentary begins with a snapshot of the LAPD and its inherent problems, then proceeds to show the changes that take place when leadership changes.Review the video and for this assignment: 1. What purposes do goals serve in a police department? (Response should be one-two paragraphs) (20 points) 2. What purposes do objectives serve in a police department? (Response should be one-two paragraphs) (20 points). 3. Were they present in the video? (Response should include a yes/no answer and why you chose that response) (20 points). 4. What goal would you add? (20 points). 5. What objective would you add? (20 points)

Prepare a memo that clearly addresses the issue, discusses each company’s facts, and provides a clear conclusion regarding the appropriate presentation of each company’s financial information on Dynamic’s consolidated income statement.

OPTION 1: A CODIFICATION EXERCISE ON THE REPORTING OF DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

Read the following case study:

McNellis, C. J. (2018). Dynamic divestures: A codification exercise on the reporting of discontinued operations. Issues in Accounting Education, 33(1), 53–63.

Case Requirements:

During the first week of 20X8, Dynamic’s corporate controller, Anne Smith, prepares to initiate the closing activities for 20X7. The closing process at Dynamic is very extensive, as it includes routine activities for consolidating the activities of several subsidiary companies for the creation of the consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, Dynamic’s reporting personnel must also address the unique complications of each acquisition and divesture.

As Ms. Smith awaits the final financial statement numbers prepared by the reporting personnel at each subsidiary, she is anxious to determine the appropriate financial statement presentation of the three subsidiaries discussed above. Most specifically, she is curious as to whether the financial performance of each of the three subsidiaries qualifies for reporting under discontinued operations. Ms. Smith has asked you to review the intricacies of ZD Consulting, Hope Industries, and AM Mining Operations to determine which type of reporting (i.e., continuing operations versus discontinued operations) is appropriate for each subsidiary on Dynamic’s consolidated income statement.

To complete the case requirements, you should perform the following tasks:

• Consider the facts presented for each company within the case.
• Consult the FASB Accounting Standards Codification for guidance on the specific income statement presentation issue to which the controller has requested answers.
• Prepare a memo that clearly addresses the issue, discusses each company’s facts, and provides a clear conclusion regarding the appropriate presentation of each company’s financial information on Dynamic’s consolidated income statement.

In constructing this memo, you should expect to incorporate Accounting Standards Codification references as required to support your conclusions.

Include any basic calculations used in your analysis from the data provided as part of your submission.

Paper Requirements:

• Write a paper (memo) of a minimum of six double-spaced pages, not counting the title and reference pages (which you must include).
• Copy and paste each one of the questions into your paper in bold type to ensure you have answered each of the assignment requirements.
• Use terms, evidence, and concepts from class readings, including professional business language.

What makes these overhead costs and what cost driver should be used to apply the overhead costs to the products? 

Using the company in your Week 1 post(ExxonMobil), please identify some overhead costs in the manufacturing operations.  What makes these overhead costs and what cost driver should be used to apply the overhead costs to the products?

Discuss three benefits of using performance objectives, and share at least one example you might consider using for your project.

Discuss three benefits of using performance objectives, and share at least one example you might consider using for your project. Discuss three benefits of using performance objectives, and share at least one example you might consider using for your project.

ANSWER THE ABOVE DISCUSSION THEN REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE’S RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE? (A MINIMUM OF 200 WORDS EACH

Discuss how it relates to your relationship with technology in your everyday life OR why you disagree with something in the quote.

Review the following quotes from the article “From Technological Autonomy to Technological Bluff: Jacques Ellul and Our Technological Condition” in the Learning Materials.

Choose one of these quotes and do the following:

1. Place the quote at the top of your post.

2. Paraphrase the quote in your own words. Please see  tips on paraphrasing here .

3. Discuss how it relates to your relationship with technology in your everyday life OR why you disagree with something in the quote.

4. Use at least one or two specific examples from your life or our culture to illustrate your points.

5. Use at least one additional quote from this article in your discussion.

6. Make sure to cite your quote in MLA style.

What are social determinants of health? 

What are social determinants of health?  Explain how social determinants of health contribute to the development of disease.  Describe the fundamental idea that the communicable disease chain model is designed to represent. Give an example of the steps a nurse can take to break the link within the communicable disease chain.