Discussion response on article summary for forensic populations | COUN 6511 – Treatment of Forensic Populations

 In 200-250 words, read the below and provide one of the following:

Ask a probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Validate an idea with your own experience.
Make a suggestion.
Expand on your colleague’s posting.

For this assignment I selected a meta-analysis article on the effects of Day Reporting Centers (DRC) on recidivism. A DRC is a court-ordered form of community supervision that is more intensive than traditional probation though less restrictive than incarceration. Individuals ordered to participate in a DRC are required to report to a center each day for programming and / or treatment but are then allowed to return to their homes at night.
This meta-analysis included a review of nine studies published between 1996 and 2017 that were found through a search criterion for crime, evaluation, and DRC. The researchers noted that a primary limitation in this study was the heterogeneity amongst studies in the sample. This means that studies varied in terms of DRC structure, program availability, and how recidivism was defined. As Geyer (2009) noted, recidivism is often a dichotomous measurement. However, some studies in the sample defined recidivism by whether the individual was arrested, convicted, reincarcerated, or a combination of these, adding to the heterogeneity of the studies. Overall, the findings in this study suggest that DRCs for adult offenders are no different in terms of recidivism outcomes than traditional supervision options (Wong et al., 2019). However, it was noted that front-end DRCs (i.e., those used as a means of supervision prior to incarceration) had a more significant impact on recidivism than back-end DRCs (those used to help transition an individual from prison to community). The researchers noted that the statistical significance of treatment impact varies based on how recidivism is measured. They recommend that future studies involving DRCs should deliberately include details of the program so they can be better compared and contrasted with other programs (Wong et al.).
Though recidivism can be easy to measure (Geyer, 2009), the definition of it becomes more complex. As Wong et al. (2019) noted, the studies in their sample varied in terms of how recidivism was defined. Additionally, the variance in what the DRCs were offering in terms of treatment or services creates several moderating variables. What I took from the study is that when you are trying to determine an effect on recidivism, you need to be very specific in how you are defining recidivism as well as which intervention you are measuring effect for. For example, it would not be enough to say you want to determine if a DRC reduces recidivism but rather if a specific drug treatment program administered through a DRC has an effect on re-arrest rates for drug offenses.
References
Geyer, M.D. (2009). Treatment outcome models. Walden University.
Wong, J.S., Bouchard, J., Lee, C., & Gushue, K. (2019). Examining the effects of day reporting centers on recidivism: A meta-analysis. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 58(3), 240-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509674.2019.1583300

Marketing plan [wlos: 1, 2, 3, 4] [clos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Chapter 9 of the course text, Principles of Marketing
Chapter 10 of the course text, Principles of Marketing
It is recommended you review the course text and other resources read or watched throughout this course.

Instructions:
Throughout this course you have explored all elements of a marketing plan. Now it is time to put your marketing plan together for the company you selected for your marketing manager internship.
Part A – General Information and Situational Analysis
Section 1 – Company Background

Describe the selected company and brand and a brief history.
Summarize the core products and services the company offers.
Identify direct current competitors and explain why they are direct competitors.

Section 2 – SWOT Analysis

Complete a SWOT analysis.
Propose the product or service line you want to develop a marketing plan for.
Justify your proposal with a SWOT-based argument for why it warrants marketing investment.

Section 3 – Macro- and Microenvironment

Analyze at least two elements from each quadrant of Table 8.1 in the course text as the micro- and macroenvironment factors that affect the company’s overall marketing strategy.

Part B – The Marketing Plan
Section 1 – Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning (STP)

Describe your segmentation approach for your proposed product or service and provide rationale for this approach.
Describe the target audiences or markets.
Create a positioning statement.

Section 2 – The Marketing Mix

Formulate the four Ps for your proposed product or service:

Product

Describe your core product, extended product, and the product concept.
Explain how you plan to achieve competitive differentiation through creating customer value in four areas

Branding
Packaging
Support
Quality

Price
Place
Promotion with a special focus on digital media and integrated marketing communications (IMC)

Section 3 – Global and Ethical Considerations, and Conclusion

Identify three business or sociocultural considerations in translating your marketing plan for use in a foreign market.
Discuss the company’s policy or philosophy on one of the areas below:

corporate social responsibility (CSR
green marketing practices
ethics
ethical marketing
diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.

Conclude with a summary of your plan and why it deserves to be funded.

Helpful Tips

Part A

Section 1: Understanding the background of the company will help you complete the SWOT analysis. Use your Week 2 assignment and make sure you incorporated your instructor’s feedback and have improved your previously submitted work.
Section 2: Propose a new idea to market the product or service line. Avoid writing about or proposing the current marketing strategy. This is your idea, so use the SWOT analysis to defend it. Use your Week 2 assignment and make sure you incorporated your instructor’s feedback and have improved your previously submitted work.
Section 3: Use the information you researched and analyzed in the Week 4 video presentation to complete this section. Analyze some micro- and macroenvironment factors that affect the company’s overall marketing strategy globally. You need to provide enough details about the information you included in your slides to incorporate it with the rest of the paper.
Make sure you incorporated your instructor’s feedback.

Part B

Section 1: Use the information you researched and analyzed in the Week 4 discussion forum, Finding and Targeting Your People. You need to beef up the information you discussed in that discussion forum to align it with your overall marketing plan. Also, review and refer to Section 7.3 of the course text, Principles of Marketing.
Section 2: Spend considerable time completing the four P’s of your marketing plan; this is the essence of your plan. Someone should be able to understand your plan just by reading this section only.
Section 3: Research, analyze, and discuss your internship brand at the global level or in a foreign market. Also, discuss its CSR and DEI efforts.

Upload Your Project to Folio
It is recommended that you upload your completed paper to Folio. Skills, that were reviewed in Week 4, can be tagged on your Folio page along with a description of the project’s purpose. For more information on these skills, review the Marketing Skills: Developing Career ReadinessLinks to an external site. module in Week 4. For information on how to set up and use your Folio account as well as tag skills, check out the Folio webpage in the Student Success Center.
Project Submission Instructions

At the end of your marketing plan, add an APA-formatted appendix.

Save your marketing plan as a Word document.
Upload it to Waypoint.

Directions
Click each tab to review the instructions to complete and submit your project.
Formatting Requirements
The Marketing Plan final project paper

Must be 9 to 11 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages or slides) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word Links to an external site.resource.
Must include a separate title page and slide with the following:

Title of project in bold font

Space should be between title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph and subject headers for all parts, sections, and subsections. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

Must use at least four scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.

Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

Law assignment 4 | Law homework help

IRAC FORMAT
4-5 PAGES NOT INCLUDING REFERENCE AND TITLE PAGE
MUST INCLUDE PROPER CITATIONS
REFERENCE PAGE REQUIRED
3 UNITED STATES STATUTES
3 UNITED STATES CASES
ASSIGNMENT 4 – PRIVACY LAW
Olivia is the CEO for “Freedom Enterprises,” a financial services conglomerate with over 10 billion in assets. Among Freedom’s primary businesses are banking, health insurance and property and casualty insurance. Olivia comes to your office seeking counsel relative to certain events that have transpired over the past few months at Freedom.
Freedom recently fired an employee over an email that was intercepted by Freedom’s Information Security Team. Freedom has a written policy that states that it does not monitor employee email or internet usage. Although all employees are provided with a company email address, the email in question was sent through the employee’s personal Yahoo account to an unidentified third party. The employee accessed his personal email through a company issued laptop via the company’s internet service provider.
The email stated the following:
Subject: Information
Hey X, nice meeting with you yesterday. To follow up on our conversation, I have managed to find the information you were requesting:
1. I attached a file listing all policyholders living in New Tudor. The document lists all policyholders by first initial and last name, address, policy number and phone number.
2. I attached a second file, which lists 30,000 Social Security Numbers. As we discussed, we will split the money after you sell them. What did he agree to? $1 per SSN? I can also confirm that on 5/1/2018, Freedom disclosed the attached 30,000 SSNs to “System F Industries.” Our regulators are sniffing around this a bit but I wouldn’t worry about it because our Board of Directors ran it though our outside counsel before signing off on it.
3. Stop worrying! Our Human Resources and Information Security Team is a pretty incompetent group. There is no way they read any emails that employees send. They don’t check to see if we wear our badges. They don’t even have a written information security policy! I have done deals like this many times so don’t be worried, I have everything under control. In fact, many of our employees have a little “side business” going on with all the data we keep. It is obviously very profitable. We need it with the lousy salaries we get here anyway.
4. I was told by Freedom’s Senior Vice President to hack into the IRS’s database and uncover their algorithm for determining which businesses to audit. I just cracked it yesterday and I am sending it to you first. I am sure this will be very valuable on the market. As discussed, we will split the profits once it is sold.
Alex Young
Senior Regulatory Analyst
Freedom Enterprises
Olivia is obviously concerned with what liability or sanctions may be imposed on Freedom. Your supervising attorney asks you to prepare a memo discussing all potential privacy-related issues in Freedom’s case. Please advise your supervising attorney on the likely outcome of each issue, and cite appropriate authorities.

Business finance – management week 2 assignment due by mar 19. | BUS 405 Principles of Investments

Investment Analysis
Throughout this course, you will work on different portions of your final paper, which is an investment portfolio based on the scenario described below.
For this week’s assignment, you will identify and examine at least two stocks and one other investment type you are interested in to build your investment portfolio.
Scenario: Imagine you have just won $100,000 in a lottery. You want to invest this money wisely so it can grow over time and help you achieve your overall investment goals.
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
•  It is strongly recommended that you look ahead to future weeks’ assignments because you will need to plan and prepare to complete all tasks and assignments by the deadlines.
•  Read How to Set SMART Goals for Your Investments Links to an external site. .
•  Read How to Set Investing Goals Links to an external site. .
•  Research stocks of publicly traded companies and other types of investment you want to invest in. Two suggested sites you can use to conduct independent research are Yahoo! Finance Links to an external site. or MarketWatch Links to an external site. .
In your paper,
•  Describe your current financial situation at a high level. For example, consider discussing your current and future income potential, current debt, current investments, and anything else significant that can impact your investment strategy.
•  Create at least two investment goals (Pay off Mortgage $740k and Save for retirement) for yourself that are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound).
•  Identify a type of investment you would like to consider as part of your investment portfolio that is not a stock (e.g., bonds, mutual funds, real estate, etc.).
•  Explain why you chose or are interested in that type of investment.
•  Identify at least five stocks of publicly traded companies you want to invest in.
•  Explain why you chose those stocks using specific data or information about the company.
•  Explain how your investment choices align with your overall financial goals.
The Investment Analysis paper
•  Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style Links to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word Links to an external site.
•  Must include a separate title page with the following:
?  Title of paper in bold font
?  Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
?  Student’s name
?  Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
?  Course name and number
?  Instructor’s name
?  Due date
•  Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice Links to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
•  Must use at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed or credible sources in addition to the course text. Wikipediaand Investopedia are examples of sources that are NOT acceptable for this assignment.
•  Must document any information used from sources in APA Style. 
•  Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style.

Ai chat -demonstrating ai chat applications in business and social

 Objective: The purpose of this assignment is for students to explore  and demonstrate the use of various AI chat tools in different business  fields, such as entrepreneurship, accounting, marketing, information  systems, or social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube. Students  will create a 7-10 minute video showcasing how an AI chat tool can be  applied to a selected area and share it with their classmates for  discussion on an online platform. The video can be longer. You can use  Zoom, your phone, or any camera to record. It can be non-traditional and  not a presentation. 
Instructions:

Group Formation (Optional): Form a group of up to 2 students or choose to complete the assignment individually. 
Understand your topic: Conduct topic research on various AI chat  tools, focusing on their applications in your chosen business field or  social media platform. Identify specific tasks or scenarios where the AI  chat tool can be beneficial. 
AI Chat Interaction: Use the chosen AI chat tool to engage in a  conversation related to the tasks or scenarios you have identified.  Record the conversation or take screenshots to include in your video. 
Video Demonstration: Create a 7-10 minute video demonstrating the use  of the selected AI chat tool in your chosen area. The video should  include: a. A brief introduction to the AI chat tool and its  applications in the selected field or platform. b. A walkthrough of your  interaction with the AI chat tool, highlighting its relevance to the  chosen tasks or scenarios. c. A discussion of potential benefits and  challenges associated with using the AI chat tool in the chosen area. d.  A conclusion summarizing your experience and potential implications for  users in the field or platform. 
Video Description: Write a brief description of your video to  accompany the YouTube upload. This is the only written component of the  assignment. The description should include: a. Title of the AI chat tool  used. b. A link to the AI chat tool. c. Cost of using the AI chat tool  (if applicable). d. Pros and cons of using the AI chat tool in the  chosen area or platform. 
Discussion: Upload your video on YouTube, making sure it is  accessible to your classmates. Share the video link and description in  the designated online class discussion platform. Watch and comment on at  least two other videos uploaded by your classmates. In your comments,  provide constructive feedback, ask questions, or share your own  experiences using AI chat tools in the chosen area or platform.  Encourage a dialogue by responding to comments on your video as well. 

Grading Criteria:

Quality and depth of research on AI chat tools and their applications in the chosen area or platform.
Clarity and relevance of the AI chat interaction in the context of the selected tasks or scenarios.
Effectiveness of the video demonstration in showcasing the use of the AI chat tool in the chosen area or platform.
Analysis of the benefits and challenges associated with AI chat adoption in the chosen area or platform.
Engagement in the class discussion, including the quality of feedback and responsiveness to comments on your video.

How children benefit from family engagement in early childhood settings

   
Overview
For this Performance Task, you will be adopting the role of the  director of Scribbles Early Learning Program who is invested in  supporting family engagement through culturally responsive practices. As  a tool for furthering this goal, you have decided to hold two  workshops—one for staff and one for families. These workshops will be  designed to support staff and families in understanding 1) the  importance of family engagement, and 2) how engagement can be fostered  through culturally responsive strategies. For this Performance Task you  will develop an outline for each workshop.
Submission Length: Two workshop outline templates, 1-2 pages in length each.
Professional Skills: Written Communication and  Engaging Multiple Social and Cultural Perspectives  are assessed in this Competency.
This Assessment requires submission of two files, a completed Family  Engagement Workshop for Staff Outline and a completed Family Engagement  Workshop Outline. Save your files as follows:

Save the completed Family Engagement Workshop Outline for Staff as CL3004_staff_ firstinitial_lastname (for example, CL3004_staff_J_Smith).
Save the completed Family Engagement Workshop Outline as CL3004_families_ firstinitial_lastname (for example, CL3004_families_J_Smith).

You may submit a draft of your assignment to the Turnitin Draft Check area to check for authenticity. When you are ready to upload your completed Assessment, use the Assessment tab on the top navigation menu.
 
Instructions
Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This  is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and  it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the  Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of  the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and  use their time most productively.
 
Access the following to complete this Assessment:
RUBRIC
 
Promoting Family Engagement at Scribbles Early Learning Program
The Scribbles Early Learning Program is committed to supporting the  development and learning of each child within the program community.  Within each of the classrooms and the larger program, families are  embraced as partners. As the director for the program, your goal is to  work to enhance and strengthen the current model through integration of  evidence-based practices. You have gathered information about the  program, as reflected in the “Scribbles Early Learning Center Program  Description” document. In your conversation with program staff, you have  identified that although there are many opportunities and structures in  place to support family engagement, the majority of families within  Scribbles Early Learning Program are not presently engaged as partners  in the early childhood classroom/program community. You have decided to  develop two workshops, one for staff and one for families, with the goal  of sharing information that will increase and enhance family  engagement.
  
Part 1: Family Engagement Workshop for Staff
 
For this portion of your Assessment, you will complete a workshop  outline for staff that promotes knowledge of culturally responsive  practices that support family engagement. The objectives of your  workshop include explaining:

Benefits of family engagement for families
Culturally responsive communication and collaboration skills that support family engagement
Culturally responsive practices/strategies that can be implemented  in early childhood settings to promote meaningful family partnerships  and support family engagement

   
Part 2: Family Engagement Workshop
 
For this portion of your Assessment, you will complete a workshop  outline for families that is designed to support their engagement within  the early childhood environment. The objectives of your workshop  include explaining:

How children benefit from family engagement in early childhood settings
Culturally responsive ways families can become meaningfully engaged in the Scribbles Early Learning Program

Term 6 week 7 discussions

  
Week 7 Discussion Forum (MKT6250 Healthcare Marketing)
1.    Discuss the value of monitoring market share compared to using the absolute measure of performance.
2.    Discuss the scope of an organization’s marketing audit and elements of that audit.
Week 7 Discussion Forum (ECO550 Managerial Economics)
Keds-the traditional maker of white canvas tennis shoes-was near oblivion in the early 1980s because competitors like Nike, Reebok, Adidas, and Brooks took away many of its customers. If you were at the helm of Keds, what would you have done to turn the company around? 
Unit 7 DB: Existing Conditions and Different Industry Environments (BUS411 Business Policy Seminar)
Linda A. Hill, Harvard Business School professor, discusses several paradoxes that exist having to do with innovation including fostering the need to experiment and discover while still meeting product deadlines.
After watching Hill’s three videos provide responses and explanations to the following questions:

If diversity creates conflict, in what ways can it lead to      innovation?
Is it effective for a leader to set a vision for      innovation?   Should innovation be planned?
What element or elements are necessary for innovation to occur in      the workplace?
Building a culture that stimulates ‘collective genius.’ Innovation      is less about breakthrough moments and more to do with channeling      organization-wide intelligence and diversity. Do you agree with Linda, and      why?

Unit 7 Discussion (ACC450 Advanced Accounting)
What Happens if a Partner Becomes Insolvent? Page 712.
In 2010, three dentists—Ben Rogers, Judy Wilkinson, and Henry Walker—formed a partnership to open a practice in Toledo, Ohio. The partnership’s primary purpose was to reduce expenses by sharing building and equipment costs, supplies, and the services of a clerical staff. Each contributed $70,000 in cash and, with the help of a bank loan, constructed a building and acquired furniture, fixtures, and equipment. Because the partners maintained their own separate clients, annual net income has been allocated as follows: Each partner receives the specific amount of revenues that he or she generated during the period less one-third of all expenses. From the beginning, the partners did not anticipate expansion of the practice; consequently, they could withdraw cash each year up to 90 percent of their share of income for the period.
The partnership had been profitable for a number of years. Over the years, Rogers has used much of his income to speculate in real estate in the Toledo area. By 2020 he was spending less time with the dental practice so that he could concentrate on his investments. Unfortunately, a number of these real estate deals proved to be bad decisions, and he incurred significant losses. On November 8, 2020, while Rogers was out of town, his personal creditors filed a $97,000 claim against the partnership’s assets. Unbeknownst to Wilkinson and Walker, Rogers had become personally insolvent.
Wilkinson and Walker hurriedly met to discuss the problem because Rogers could not be located. Rogers’s capital account was currently at $105,000, but the partnership had only $27,000 in cash and liquid assets. The partners knew that Rogers’s dental equipment had been used for many years and could be sold for relatively little. In contrast, the building had appreciated in value, and Rogers’s creditors’ claims could be satisfied by selling the property. However, this action would have a tremendously adverse impact on the dental practice of the remaining two partners.
What alternatives are available to Wilkinson and Walker to deal with this situation, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Week 4 | Biology homework help

 
This Discussion also has two parts. Please respond to both. 
Part 1: Evaluating Web Resources
As regular users of the World Wide Web, both for personal and instructional purposes, we all share a concern over the accuracy of information available on the Internet.  Indeed, one of the Internet’s most powerful and novel features (its ability to provide a world-wide forum for the ideas, opinions and beliefs of anyone with access to a server) can also be one of its biggest liabilities.
Many members of the scientific community have made statements to the effect that scientific information on the Web is often inaccurate, flawed or unreliable.  However, as scientists we are trained to be skeptical of generalizations until we have data to support them.
Many people would argue that a teacher’s most important role is to build/develop a student’s skills in CRITICAL THINKING and CRITICAL READING.  This creates a student who can teach themselves, enabling lifelong learning.
One of the Internet’s potential liabilities (its ability to provide false or inaccurate information at the click of a button) also creates an opportunity to build and reinforce skills in CRITICAL THINKING and CRITICAL READING.
For this week, I want you to do a little web research. Choose a topic, perhaps something like “Smoking and Cancer”. Limit your topics to the sciences. Use your favorite search engine and look at the first several items that come up. For “smoking and cancer” on Google the first item that comes up is a bunch of ads (unfortunately), then this –
Smoking and cancer | Cancer Research UK
www.cancerresearchuk.org/…cancer/…cancer/smoki…
Cancer Research UK
Smoking is the most preventable cause of cancer in the world. Smoking account for more than 1 in 4 UK cancer deaths. Quit smoking and reduce your risk.
?How smoking causes cancer – ?Smoking facts and evidence – ?Passive smoking
On Bing, I get this, after the ads –

smoking causes cancer – National Cancer Institutewww.cancer.gov › … › Causes and Prevention › Risk Factors › TobaccoA fact sheet that lists some of the cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco smoke and describes the health problems caused by cigarette smoking and the benefits of …

I want you to look at the article that comes up for your search and evaluate it for suitability of the reference. Use the following questions to guide your conference post.

Look at the scope of the article (does it cover the subject appropriately)
Who it the targeted to (is it a scholarly article, or is it written for a lay person)
The timeliness of the article (is the information current)
The authority of the article (who is writing it). 
What about the documentation of the article (does it site other good references). 
Finally, is the article objective.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/evaluation.html  This is the reference that inspired these questions and will provide an expanded explanation of the questions. This discussion was inspired by an article on evaluating the accuracy of scientific information on the internet by Dr. Jory Weintraub, as a matter of fact I pulled some of this discussion from Dr. Weintraub’s article.
Part 2: Discussion- Sexual Reproduction
During week 4, cellular division is described for organisms undergoing sexual and asexual reproduction. In addition, the concept of genetic inheritance through Mendel’s work and Morgan’s research on fruit fly are introduced. Answer the following questions on Mitosis, Meiosis, and genetic inheritance.

During the cell cycle, cell progression in that process is tightly regulated. Provide an example of a disorder resulting from errors in Meiosis. Is this disorder inherited? Explain.
There is a database summarizing all genetically inherited disorders. I encourage you to take a look at the database (https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition ). It is a great resource. As you browse the database, you may find that most disorders are recessive. Why do you think there are not many dominantly-inherited disorders? (Think about the individual with a dominantly inherited disorder).

Human resource management human resource management week 4 assignment

Each answer should be at least one paragraph long (500-750 words) and accurately reflect the text’s key points. Your answers should include direct evidence from the reading to support your argument. Please make sure to cite any quotes or paraphrased information. Make sure to proofread your work before submitting it.
Case Study 1. Whirlpool Mixes up Its Managerial Training: Closed-Looped Method Brings Learning Full Circle
Most Americans are familiar with Whirlpool. Whirlpool, which is based in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been in business for more than century and is perhaps best known for the washers and dryers it makes. In addition, the company makes refrigerators, freezers, and cooking appliances that it sells under various other brand names around the world (Amana, Maytag, KitchenAid, and Roper are some of them).
During the last economic recession, appliance sales plummeted, and Whirlpool was forced to lay off thousands of workers. Although budgets were being slashed, Whirlpool needed to develop managers who could lead the company through the downturn as well as provide training that would have a measurable impact at a lower cost.
Previously Whirlpool University, the company’s 100-acre learning division located at its corporate headquarters, had used mainly classroom learning. The university now has a learning management system and conducts online training. A series of 30-minute modules are used to help familiarize and onboard new hires. In addition, Whirlpool now takes a “closed-loop” approach to training. Instead of just doing the popular types of training that other companies have adopted, it surveys managers to find out what types of training Whirlpool truly needs and what types it doesn’t, and then designs training programs based on those specific needs.
Because managers are central to the training and development of their employees and are in the best position to observe and coach rank-and-file employees, Whirlpool utilizes a 12-month-long intermittent training program for its managers called Leading People. The program consists of blended learning, including prework modules managers do online, followed by classroom training, business projects, and seminars with top managers. A manager’s direct reports provide an initial baseline assessment of the manager’s skills, and then the manager is assessed again following the training. James Crawford, in Whirlpool’s Chicago division, said the training helped him become a better leader: “It helped me pinpoint weak spots in my leadership practices and then gave me a strategy for turning those weaknesses into strengths.” The managers are later surveyed on how well the training is working and what can be done to improve it. In other words, there is a feedback system in place—hence the “closed-loop” moniker. With this approach, the design, delivery, and redesign of the training is a continuous circle and constantly being improved over time.
Its closed-loop feedback system has helped Whirlpool continue to assess and alter its training to adapt to new conditions. For example, today Whirlpool isn’t laying off employees; it’s trying to hire more of them as its older workers retire. To attract Millennials, the company has partnered with high school and colleges to offer an on-site apprenticeship program called “Work, Earn, and Learn.” In 2017, Whirlpool’s CEO, Jeff Fettig, was one of a number of corporate executives who met with President Donald Trump to talk about saving American jobs and encourage government support for the vocational training that today’s high-tech skills manufacturers today. “The jobs are there, but the skills are not,” said one executive at the meeting.
Questions

Why are a needs assessment and ongoing training important for firms like Whirlpool to conduct?
How do you think Whirlpool’s training strategy will need to change in the future?

ART HISTORY 3020 Saving Private Ryan and Goodfellas Discussion

Student a post (180 words response for the post is required)The lighting that I think is in the movie I chose (Saving Private Ryan) is low-key lighting. I say this because in the book it defines low-key lighting as the use of deep shadows with high contrast between the brightest parts of the scene and the darkest parts. Since most of this movie is outside this was the only one that made sense to me. The book also states that low-key lighting is often used in intense dramatic scenes and sense Saving Private Ryan is a movie about war this made the most sense to me. I think the techniques of low key lighting and why it is used is to make your mind think that something bad is about to happen. You see this type of lighting in horror films and other that the music the lighting is what scares you most of the time. The lighting advances the story because it leaves you wondering what is coming next in the case of horror films. It set the mood of the scene as well, if it is bright then you can think that something good is going to happen and if the scene stays dark or you cannot see anything you can assume something bad will happen. I think that if different choices where made then the scene would not be as impactful as it was. I do not know a lot about film but from the little bit that I have read it seems to me that light is a huge part of the movie because I believe that lighting sets the tone.ReferencesGoodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2014). Film: From watching to seeing (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.Eric mack attacks, Student b aus post (180 words response for the post is required)The film I chose to explain the type of lighting is Goodfellas. In the opening scene of the film the use of low-key lighting is very apparent. Three gang members are driving down the street in a vehicle, after hearing banging coming from the trunk they decide to pull over to the side of the road. At this point the scene uses low-key lighting by having the camera focused on the three men facing the trunk of the vehicle, with the only source of light being the tail lights of the vehicle. For a few seconds the scene builds suspense by showing the men covered by a red blanket of light coming from the tail light as they nervously prepare to open the trunk. With the red being the only break in the surrounding darkness the scene creates an ominous feeling, making the viewers anticipate something bad is going to happen. Sure enough the gangsters open the trunk to show a man they intended to kill but only ended up severely injuring, and showing the gangsters finishing what they started. With the opening scene being very dark and using red lighting it signifies events to come later on in the film, as we later find out how the protagonist ended up in the situation, and explains his life that’s surrounding by crime and murder. The scene is very significant because the death of the victim later on leads to the death of one of the main supporting actors, which contributes to the downfall of the tight-knit group of gangsters.Goodfellas – Opening Scene (1080p) (Links to an external site.) ReferencesGoodfellas (2016 Dec 4). Goodfellas- Opening Scene . Retrieved from