From the various cases, many recommendations on processes and structures have come to light. Using the three collaborations you located, analyze best practices and practices to avoid in these collaborative efforts. Evaluate what has worked well in these cases, and what you would have done differently. Assess what this means for the future of these projects

Identifying Best Practices
From the various cases, many recommendations on processes and structures have come to light. Using the three collaborations you located, analyze best practices and practices to avoid in these collaborative efforts. Evaluate what has worked well in these cases, and what you would have done differently. Assess what this means for the future of these projects

What do you think are the key components within a performance management plan? Which component is the most challenging to implement? Why? Should evaluators have the ability to easily quantify key performance indicators in an objective format from the plan? What is the role of a manager’s subjective assessment of performance management?

What do you think are the key components within a performance management plan? Which component is the most challenging to implement? Why? Should evaluators have the ability to easily quantify key performance indicators in an objective format from the plan? What is the role of a manager’s subjective assessment of performance management?
Today, some organizations use the S.M.A.R.T. (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) objectives method when establishing personal performance objectives. Should they continue to use this method or modify to another system? Explain your answer. How does establishing personal performance objectives contribute to the development of an employee’s career development plan?
Watch the “Week Three Difficult Concepts” video.
In the Difficult Concepts video, Sarah states, “…if you’re doing a great job with feedback during the year, there should be no surprises.” What is “great feedback?” How often should a manager provide performance feedback to an employee? What is the employee’s role in the feedback process?
Watch the “Appraising: Weather Channel” video.
The Weather Channel video reviews the concept of mutual accountability for performance management. Do you track your performance and record significant accomplishments and areas in need of improvement? When you meet with your manager to discuss performance, are you prepared with a record of your performance that you can share with your manager? Do your coworkers view the job of performance appraisal as the manager’s job and not the employee’s job?

The Writing Commons discusses the role of revision in writing. After reading the Writing Commons “Writers on Revision,” what tools and advice do you think you can use in your writing, both collaborative and individual? Make sure to view the videos as well! If the link does not open, copy and paste this URL into your browser:http://writingcommons.org/open-text/writing-processes/revise/108-writers-on-revising

Revision and Collaboration
This week’s discussion thread focuses on two topics, revision and collaborative writing. Although the topics seem very different, they are actually closely related in professional writing. For example, in a collaborative writing project, peer revision is frequently continuous.
The essence of writing a business proposal is to secure approval for the project or action. Besides providing the supporting evidence and facts, it is important to revise the report; however, there is little time, and people sometimes consider that their first efforts are the best. Nevertheless, revision is critical in order to produce a successful piece of writing.
1. The Writing Commons discusses the role of revision in writing.

After reading the Writing Commons “Writers on Revision,” what tools and advice do you think you can use in your writing, both collaborative and individual? Make sure to view the videos as well! If the link does not open, copy and paste this URL into your browser:http://writingcommons.org/open-text/writing-processes/revise/108-writers-on-revising

2. In addition, at the bottom of the page is a “Next” key; follow it to the page on“Revising a Paper to Deliver,” a useful site for your PowerPoint presentation. If the link does not open, copy and paste the URL into your browser:http://writingcommons.org/open-text/writing-processes/revise/785-revising-a-paper-to-deliver

How can it help you develop your PowerPoint from the justification report?

3. In practice, writing business reports is usually a collaborative effort.

Read the article, “Building a Collaborative Writing”    (if it does not open, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/publications/best-practices-newsletter/2011-best-practices-newsletter/building-a-collaborative-writing-strategy/
Based on the article and your textbook, what are the advantages and disadvantages to collaborative writing? Which do you prefer under what circumstances?

Martin Luther King, Jr. was many things, a civil rights activist, nonviolent protestor, organizer, teacher, son, husband, father, and a black man. Many forget that he was first, a Christian Southern Baptist minister and preacher. His religious faith informed his ethical actions. After reading selections from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Letters from the Birmingham Jail (http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/205008318), explore the role of Christian ethics in King’s actions during the turbulent times in the South in the 1960s. Consider the following: King was in Birmingham to address the issue of injustice by organizing a protest. Define the injustice and the protest and explain how Judeo-Christian ethics were applied to allow for civil disobedience. How was the injustice in Birmingham tied to all communities in the South?

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Assignment: 
Martin Luther King, Jr. was many things, a civil rights activist, nonviolent protestor, organizer, teacher, son, husband, father, and a black man. Many forget that he was first, a Christian Southern Baptist minister and preacher. His religious faith informed his ethical actions. After reading selections from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, Letters from the Birmingham Jail (http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/205008318), explore the role of Christian ethics in King’s actions during the turbulent times in the South in the 1960s. Consider the following:

King was in Birmingham to address the issue of injustice by organizing a protest. Define the injustice and the protest and explain how Judeo-Christian ethics were applied to allow for civil disobedience. How was the injustice in Birmingham tied to all communities in the South?
King lists four steps to nonviolent campaigns. Name them. How did these flow from King’s Christian ethical principles? How did King reconcile the “eye for an eye” Jewish ethical principle with the Christian “love one another” ethical principle of nonviolence?
How do King’s ethical principles help him defend against the charges that his protests and law breaking were “untimely” considering the political situation in Birmingham at the time?
Consider areas of conflict in the world today. Pick one and discuss how King’s actions and his ethical principles might resolve the issue.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Defines the injustice and the protest and explains how Judeo-Christian ethics were applied to allow for civil disobedience.

28

Discusses how the injustice in Birmingham was tied to all communities in the South.

16

Identifies and defines non- Judeo-Christian ethical principles at work in the Birmingham community along with their proponents.

24

Names four steps of non-violence and discusses how these flow from King’s Christian ethical principles?

24

Reconciles the “eye for an eye” Jewish ethical principle with the Christian “love one another” ethical principle of nonviolence.

20

Discusses how Dr. King’s ethical principles help defend him against the charges that his protests and law breaking were “untimely” considering the political situation in Birmingham?

20

Considers areas of conflict in the world today and discusses how King’s actions and his ethical principles might resolve the issue in nations that do not follow Judeo-Christian ethical principles.

24

Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choiceOrganization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structureAPA Elements (16 points): In text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style

44

Total:

200

 
Attach is the work that I have done. Apparently 75% of the wording is similar to someone else’s work. Please re-write what I have done. 
 
 

An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization This includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position. Use the framework implied in Michael Porter’s (1997) article “What is Strategy.” When describing the business strategy of your organization, consider the following questions: What is the target market (target customer)? What is your organization’s value proposition (How does it deliver value that satisfies the target’s wants and needs?)? How is your product or service positioned in the market (What specific features and attributes define the product/service and how is its value reflected in its pricing, distribution, marketing communications, etc.?)?

Assignment 2: Required Assignment 1—The Leader as a Strategist Report
For this assignment, you will choose an organization to analyze. This organization can be one you are personally familiar with, or one you have observed to be an effective organization, You now become a newly appointed senior leader in that organization.
As a new leader, you must prepare a report for the CEO that assesses the organization’s overall alignment between its vision, mission, values, and strategy. This report should consist of the following sections:

An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization This includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position. Use the framework implied in Michael Porter’s (1997) article “What is Strategy.” When describing the business strategy of your organization, consider the following questions:

What is the target market (target customer)?
What is your organization’s value proposition (How does it deliver value that satisfies the target’s wants and needs?)?
How is your product or service positioned in the market (What specific features and attributes define the product/service and how is its value reflected in its pricing, distribution, marketing communications, etc.?)?
How is your organization sustainably different from your competitors (What is the source of uniqueness and how sustainable is it from being diminished by competitors?)?

A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis A SWOT analysis is a strategy planning tool that examines both internal and external environments for factors and trends that should shape planning and operations over the next five years. Environmental factors internal to the company are classified as strengths (to be leveraged) or weaknesses (to be mitigated), while external factors are classified as either opportunities (to be pursued) or threats (to be monitored and responded to).
Some primer questions for the SWOT analysis include the following:Strengths

What advantages does your organization have?
What do you do better than anyone else?
What unique or lowest-cost resources can you draw upon that others cannot?
What do people in your market see as your strengths?
What factors mean that you “get the sale”?
What is your organization’s unique selling proposition (USP)?

Weaknesses

What aspects of your product or service could you improve?
What market segments or competitive areas should you avoid?
What are people in your market likely to see as weaknesses?
What factors can make you lose sales?

Opportunities
Threats

What obstacles do you face?
What are your competitors doing?
Are quality standards or specifications for your job, products, or services changing?
Is changing technology threatening your position?
Do you have bad debt or cash-flow problems?
Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your business?

A summary of the internal environment, including the organization’s values and the key elements of the organization architecture that influence worker behavior.
Include the following characteristics when analyzing the internal environment:

Structure: This includes the ways the organization assigns formal roles and responsibilities, decision-making authority, expertise and skills, and work tasks. Think of the organization chart and how its implied structure directs the decision making, resource allocation, and workflow of the organization. Is it consistent with the strategy?
Systems: This comprises the information flows that coordinate activities between groups and across the organization structure while helping direct worker behavior, including performance management, financial management, operating, forecasting and planning, and other regulating mechanisms. How do these systems help align workers and their actions with the strategy?
Culture: This consists of the unwritten rules and norms that govern worker behavior and help coordinate the activities across structural boundaries. Is the organization culture an enabler or impediment to the corporate strategy? What specific behaviors embedded in the culture support the strategy? What specific behaviors block the strategy?

A synthesis of the information evaluating the ability of the organization to implement the strategy using Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices (for example, modeling the way) as a framework.
Include answers to the following:

Company Culture

Describe the values and culture of your organization.
What are the values of your organization?
How are they reflected in the behaviors you see at work?

Employee Behaviors

Describe the behaviors in your organization.
Are these behaviors consistent with the business strategy?
Where do they conflict with the strategy?
What new behaviors are required to align with the strategy?

Leadership

How might you and other leaders create new behaviors to support the strategy?
What specific actions would you implement to communicate, motivate, model the way, coach, inspire the vision, challenge the process, and encourage the heart?

Your response to each part of the assignment should be approximately three pages.
Write a 10–12-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.
By Wednesday, September 18, 2013, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Assessed the organization’s current vision, mission, and strategy to ensure that they are current, appropriate, actionable, and integrated.

36

Analyzed the “strategic cascade” of the organization (includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position using the framework implied in Porter’s article “What is Strategy?”) and completed a SWOT analysis.

48

Summarized the internal environment, including the organization’s values and the key elements that influence worker behavior.

48

Synthesized data to state the ability of the organization to implement the strategy using Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices as a framework including answers to additional required questions.

48

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

20

Total:

200

Explain the central limit theorem. (Ch 22(07), 10 points)2. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of stratified random sampling, cluster sampling, and systematic sampling. (Ch 22(07), 10 points)3. Describe hypothesis testing and explain how to develop null and alternative hypotheses. (Ch 23(09), 10 points)4. Compare type I and type II errors. (Ch 23(09), 10 points)5. Explain and compare independent simple random samples and matched samples. (

   Provide detailed answers for each1. Explain the central limit theorem. (Ch 22(07), 10 points)2. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of stratified random sampling, cluster sampling, and systematic sampling. (Ch 22(07), 10 points)3. Describe hypothesis testing and explain how to develop null and alternative hypotheses. (Ch 23(09), 10 points)4. Compare type I and type II errors. (Ch 23(09), 10 points)5. Explain and compare independent simple random samples and matched samples. (Ch 24(10), 10 points) 

Carefully read Theodore Dalrymple’s The Frivolity of Evil What is the author’s main argument? How does he support his main argument (evidence, ancillary arguments, etc.)?

 
Carefully read Theodore Dalrymple’s The Frivolity of Evil
What is the author’s main argument?
How does he support his main argument (evidence, ancillary arguments, etc.)?
Relate the author’s discussion of human happiness and misery to the issue of virtue ethics with specific reference to Aristotle’s Virtue Theory (in Chapter 2).
Do you agree or disagree with Dalrymple’s analysis? Why or why not? (Feel free to include observations from your own experience or that of friends, relatives, or acquaintances.)

Explain what most excites and/or concerns you about pediatric clinical experiences. Include a description of your strengths and weaknesses in terms of working with children and how these strengths and weaknesses might impact your Practicum experience. Discuss your personal definition of family and family roles that might impact the assessment of a child and his or her family. Also expand your discussion on the challenges of working with families. Explain how you would handle parents that do not want to vaccinate children.

 
Refer to your FNP Clinical Skills and Procedures Self-Assessment Form from your previous assignment in this week and consider your strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Journal Entry (450–500 words):?
 
Explain what most excites and/or concerns you about pediatric clinical experiences. Include a description of your strengths and weaknesses in terms of working with children and how these strengths and weaknesses might impact your Practicum experience.
Discuss your personal definition of family and family roles that might impact the assessment of a child and his or her family. Also expand your discussion on the challenges of working with families. Explain how you would handle parents that do not want to vaccinate children.
Then, explain how culture (both the culture of the provider and that of the child and his or her family) may further influence the assessment.
Select and explain a nursing theory to guide your practice with pediatric patients.
 

If drugs were legalized, operations such as the buy and bust would no longer apply. Generally speaking, do you feel that drugs should be legalized? Why or why not?  What effect might legalization have on your children and families? Explain. What positive or negative effects might it have on the United States? Explain.

 
The typical undercover operation is known as a buy and bust. That means that an undercover officer buys the drugs from the dealer and then arrests the seller. Or, the officer could do just the opposite by posing as a drug dealer and arresting the drug users after a purchase. That is known as a reverse sting, or a sell and bust. Undercover operations may include wiretaps, inspection of all legal records and documents (in which legal channels must be followed), and surveillance. 
In 5–6 paragraphs, address the following:

Do you consider a “buy and bust” or a “sell and bust” to be entrapment? Why or why not? 

What types of offenders do you think are most susceptible to these strategies? Explain. 

If drugs were legalized, operations such as the buy and bust would no longer apply. Generally speaking, do you feel that drugs should be legalized? Why or why not? 

What effect might legalization have on your children and families? Explain.
What positive or negative effects might it have on the United States? Explain.
What effect would it have on U.S. borders? Explain. 

What challenges would legalization pose to law enforcement strategies? Explain. 

The forensic psychological professional can add great value when considering perspectives of national intelligence. However, there is a debate over how involved forensic psychologists should be in the US Intelligence Community (USIC). Explain both sides of the debate on how involved forensic psychologists should be in the USIC.

Assignment 1: Forensic Psychologists and the USIC
The forensic psychological professional can add great value when considering perspectives of national intelligence. However, there is a debate over how involved forensic psychologists should be in the US Intelligence Community (USIC).
Explain both sides of the debate on how involved forensic psychologists should be in the USIC.
Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and independent resources, research the roles and responsibilities of the forensic psychology professional in the USIC.
Tasks:

Explain both sides of the debate on how involved forensic psychologists should be in the USIC.
Provide your perspective on the issue and the side with which you concur. There is no right or wrong side.

Give reasons in support of your responses. Be sure to cite your sources.
Submission Details:

By Saturday, August 16, 2014, post your responses to thisDiscussion Area.
Through Wednesday, August 20, 2014, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. While responding, identify the similarities and differences between what you have constructed and what your classmates have.