Analyze the connection between music, poetry, prose, and visual art to the modern world and workplace.

Competency
Analyze the connection between music, poetry, prose, and visual art to the modern world and workplace.
Instructions
As a team leader in the Creative Department, your art tends to be edgier and more experimental. Perhaps unsurprisingly, your latest cubicle display of modern art has caught your co-worker’s attention. You’ve noticed the co-worker sighing a few times while passing your desk in the mornings. Now, you’ve received the following email:
As you have no doubt picked up on, I am perturbed by your latest cubicle “art.” We work in a large agency, and I don’t expect to agree with everyone on all matters. Nevertheless, I am reaching out to you in the hopes that you will kindly remove your current exhibition from the public eye. In my opinion, it is far below the standards of what should be considered art. Picasso and Monet are, without a doubt, rolling in their graves.
You feel very strongly that art should never be censored. You knew that your latest selection wouldn’t be everyone’s favorite, and that’s fine. But you still want to defend the infinite nature of art and your right to display all of it.
You reflect on the tricky task ahead and the balancing act you’ll have to embrace. After all, merely alienating your co-worker with insults would serve no purpose. You begin to sketch out a few questions that you think are essential to answer as part of your carefully composed email reply to your offended co-worker:
Is there or should there be limits to creativity and artistic expression? What is the overlap between life, culture, and art? How can art of all types positively impact office productivity and success? How does an awareness of local and global culture ease the acceptance of art?
With your questions now composed, you feel ready to get to work. As you push “reply” on your co-worker’s email, you remind yourself to be professional and polite. The best approach, you’ve decided, is to articulate your position clearly, supported by reasoned and deep analysis.
Grading Rubric

Examine the activities and roles of project integration, time, cost, quality, and resource management when managing projects within organizations.

Competency
Examine the activities and roles of project integration, time, cost, quality, and resource management when managing projects within organizations.
Scenario Information
You are assuming the role of the project manager for a company called SuperPacks to provide a new backpack product with a built-in refrigeration pouch and radio module. Your customer for this project is the U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations. As the project manager for your team, you will be submitting to your manager a project management report.
Instructions
You are now in the final phase of being a Project Manager for SuperPacks and need to create a closeout plan on how to terminate or closeout the project. Management has asked you to consider the following checklist below for your closeout plan in a presentation to your team. Your presentation can be created using PowerPoint, Prezi, or any presentation tool. You have been asked to address the following questions in your presentation as you will be giving it to the management team:
Create a closeout checklist for your project. What are the key components that you should include? Discuss how you would successfully close out this project, such as verifying project scope, contracts, administration, etc. In your closeout plan, identify the type of termination/closeout process you will use, and explain why that process is appropriate. Consider the control process you plan to use for managing this project to ensure quality is met.

As CEO what are your thoughts regarding the roles resources, capabilities and the concept of Distinctive Competencies play in strategic management and what sources and actions would you employ to achieve Distinctive Competencies within your Company?

Strategic Management Quiz Questions Chapters 1 – 4 from Textbook Strategy Management – An integrated Approach 10th ed. by Charles W. L. Hill) Please follow the following steps: DOUBLE SPACE. Answer each question FULLY. Make sure your answer conveys a well-developed understanding of the material and answer to each question should be not less than two pages. Please put a number to the answers. #I As CEO of your Company how would you explain the five (5) primary, irreducible steps to the strategic planning process and their usage / application to your employees? A diagram of the five steps may be helpful in formulating your answer. (Hint, this information was presented as a handout along with a diagram.) Materials are found in Chapter 1 #II As CEO what insight or knowledge would you expect to gain from the use of a “Competitive Forces Model “, as a planning tool? Fully discuss. ( Hint, Michael Porter’s The Five Forces Model, etc. ) Materials are found in Chapter 2 #III As CEO what are your thoughts regarding the roles resources, capabilities and the concept of Distinctive Competencies play in strategic management and what sources and actions would you employ to achieve Distinctive Competencies within your Company? Materials are found in Chapter 3 #IV As CEO how would you proceed so as to achieve and effectively use Superior Quality for a competitive advantage? Discuss both improving quality as Reliability and quality as Excellence.

How would you design an in-flight safety demo/video to follow the principles of good concept presentation?

What use is a good concept if you can’t take it to the stage? In Lecture Four, you learned all about presenting your concepts: how to simplify your concept, how to create an outline for your presentation, and how to choose among different presentation types, styles, and formats.
One concept presentation travelers see over and over is the in-flight safety demo. Your first flight, you probably pay attention. Thirty or forty flights in? Chances are you’re tuning out all those instructions about inflatable life vests and oxygen masks.
Airlines face a unique challenge with in-flight safety demos because the importance of this information doesn’t diminish, but it also doesn’t change. This makes it hard for audiences to remember and retain the same information over and over.
Virgin America devised a unique solution to this challenge by creating an in-flight safety video with a professional movie director and lots of snazzy dance moves, which Nancy Duarte wrote about on Duarte.com
Read Duarte’s article, https://www.duarte.com/creative-presentation-ideas… then hit the Internet to do some research on the history and techniques of different in-flight safety demonstrations and videos.
In your discussion post, you are going to report on your research by answering the following questions in 3-4 paragraphs:

Thinking of in-flight safety demos/videos as “concept presentations,” what are the concepts being presented?
What are the unique challenges presented by this genre, and how do the overall lessons about concept presentation from Lecture Four relate to the unique genre of in-flight safety demonstrations? Consider audience, tone, format, and more.
What were some of your favorite and least favorite examples of in-flight safety demo/video examples that you found in your research?
How would you design an in-flight safety demo/video to follow the principles of good concept presentation?

Select four people currently in the media and discuss their exertion of one of the sources of power.

Select four people currently in the media and discuss their exertion of one of the sources of power. Students must cover all four of the sources of power discussed on page 263 of your textbook. Apply only one source of power to each of the four people selected.
text book:
Negotiation, Lewicki, Barry, & Sanders, McGraw -Hill, 7th Edition (2015) ISBN 978-0- 07-802944-9
Instructions:

Atleast 300-350 words

For this task, you must have two academic peer-reviewed articles for references.

write a 1-page summary document explaining any relevant facts about the project duration, number or type of resources, critical task sequencing, or how duration estimates were arrived at, and any financial implications

The allocation and cost of resources need to be carefully monitored if a project is to be delivered on-time and on-budget.
At a minimum, this assignment will contain an update to the Microsoft® Project file submitted in Week Three, including the following:
Allocation of resources to project tasks (both labor and material), shown as resource assignments in the Microsoft® Project fileCost estimates for project resources, entered into the resources information portion of the Microsoft® Project fileDevelop a baseline for your project plan so that all future variances are captured
In addition, write a 1-page summary document explaining any relevant facts about the project duration, number or type of resources, critical task sequencing, or how duration estimates were arrived at, and any financial implications (for example, budget or cost reports of the project as well).
Submit your Microsoft® Project file and summary document using the Assignment Files tab.

discuss the importance of managing information systems, describe the techniques and tools used to manage the data, and explain how utilizing technology can help the organization.

Business Analytics Implementation Plan Part 2
You began writing your business analytics implementation plan in Module 3. In addition, you already have gained information about the various technological solutions discussed in the previous modules. In this assignment, you will now address ways to implement the plan along with any associated costs, as this will complete the proposal for management to make their decision.
Description of LASA
In this assignment, you will amend your existing business analytics implementation plan developed in Module 3. You will amend the existing proposal to discuss the importance of managing information systems, describe the techniques and tools used to manage the data, and explain how utilizing technology can help the organization.
Scenario
You have been hired as a business analyst for a well-known design firm. Currently, they utilize technology for their day-to-day operations but not to analyze data that could help with making business decisions. Your task is to convince management that the usage of business analytics would be a great benefit to the business and it would help the business to make well-informed decisions and thus action plans that would align with the business’s strategic planning.The firm currently has technology in place but does not have any connected systems. The databases are all independent of each other but they do utilize a client/server environment. The firm currently has one location but is looking to add a second location in another part of the state but is unsure about whether it would be beneficial to the firm.**The firm liked your implementation plan but have questions about how they will manage the data and how data driven decision making can help the organization versus just being an additional expense for the organization (cost of new equipment or resources).
Instructions
Using the online library resources and the Internet, research business analytics implementation plans, especially methods of developing a rationale in support of implementation. Select at least 6 scholarly sources for use in this assignment.
Amend your existing proposal addressing the importance of Management Information Systems and managing the data for the organization.
Objectives of proposals:
Revise the previous proposal based upon the comments from your instructor.Explain the importance of MIS in relation to data-driven decisions.Describe the techniques and tools that can be utilized to manage the data. Include at least 2 effective techniques and 3 effective tools.Explain how the techniques and tools can be utilized to present data to management and other organizational decision makers. Be sure to include at least 3 innovative examples that follow current best practices for managing data.Explain to management how the data can add value to the business in day-to-day operations as well as long-term strategic planning. Use examples to further demonstrate how value is added to an existing organization.
Write the paper from the perspective that it will be presented to the firm’s management team as you are trying to persuade them to utilize business analytics for data-driven decision making.
The paper should contain:
Cover Page (update date)Table of Contents (auto-generated by Microsoft Word and updated)IntroductionImplementation Plan (5–6 pages of content revised as per instructor feedback)Management Information Systems Section: (5–6 pages of new content)Importance of MISTechniques and Tools Utilized Along with examplesAdded Value to OrganizationConclusionReferences
Utilize at least 6 scholarly sources in support of your recommendations.
Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Submit a 10–12-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults?

Assignment 1: Research Proposal – Thesis, Major Points, and Plan Due Week 3 and worth 100 points
For this assignment, select a topic for your persuasive writing paper.
Write a one to two (1-2) page research proposal in which you:
TOPIC CHOSEN: Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults?
Identify the topic selected and explain two (2) reasons for using it. Include a relevant draft thesis statement and explain why you believe this statement will help you focus your paper. Describe three (3) major characteristics of your audience (official position, decision-making power, current view on topic, and / or other important characteristics).Describe the paper’s scope and outline the major sections. Note: Keep in mind that you will develop your paper in three parts (Assignment 2 – Assignment 4). Review the structure of each individual assignment and create your outline based on that structure. Identify and explain the key questions your audience needs to have answered. Next, describe where you will look to find the answers to these questions. Be sure to provide concrete examples of where you intend to look to find those answers. Explain your research plan, including the methods of researching and organizing research.

Discuss four types of perceptual distortions: stereotyping, halo effects, selective perception, and projection. Define each of these and provide an example.

Discuss four types of perceptual distortions: stereotyping, halo effects, selective perception, and projection. Define each of these and provide an example.
text book:
Negotiation, Lewicki, Barry, & Sanders, McGraw -Hill, 7th Edition (2015) ISBN 978-0- 07-802944-9
Instructions:

Atleast 300-350 words

For this task, you must have two academic peer-reviewed articles for references.

What, if any expectations does the employer put on employees to contribute to the company’s social responsibility?

CSR involvement by employers affects employee job satisfaction according to research (Robbins & Judge, 2019). Many job hunters are looking for employers who address the triple bottom line of profit, the consideration of people, and the environment. Do some research on the Internet on socially responsible companies.

Share a company name and the URL that provides evidence of addressing the triple bottom line.
Explain: What, if any expectations does the employer put on employees to contribute to the company’s social responsibility? Are the expectations motivating or not? [Note: The latter may be a guess, but you should justify your statement with the research on this subject from your text in Chapter 3].

Reference
Robbins, S. P. & Judge, T. A. (2019). Organizational behavior (18th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.