For this Assignment, you will analyze a state, federal, or global social welfare policy that affects an at-risk, marginalized, oppressed, underrepresented, or over looked group population.

Sometimes, during heated discussions and debates about social policy, the underlying reasons for the policy go unnoticed. Advocates and policymakers may become so committed to their perspectives and to winning the debates that they lose focus on the larger context surrounding an issue. The purpose of policy is to improve the lives and well-being of individuals and groups in our society. As you assume the role of a social work policymaker, consider the importance of keeping the needs and experiences of vulnerable populations at the forefront of your mind in your advocacy efforts. This can help to assure effective policy practice. 

For this Assignment, you will analyze a state, federal, or global social welfare policy that affects an at-risk, marginalized, oppressed, underrepresented, or over looked group population.  Finally, consider the impact of social policy from the perspective of the group you selected.

(5-7 double-spaced pages, APA format). In addition to a minimum of eight scholarly references, which may include electronic government documents and reputable websites, your paper should include:

A description of the current policy approach for addressing the social issue you selected (HOMELESS POPULATION-SOCIAL ISSUE)

A description of the current policy goals for addressing the social issue you selected

A description of the population the current policy approach covers

An explanation of the funding levels for the current policy approach and whether they are sufficient to address the issue 

An explanation of how this policy may affect at-risk, marginalized, underrepresented, overlooked, or oppressed populations. 

Identify a specific at-risk population.

An analysis of whether or not the policy meets the needs of the population groups most affected by the policy.

Recommendations for alternative policies that would address the gaps identified in the policy. Please be specific in recommendations.

Conduct research and develop a contract for hiring temporary contract employees.

Conduct research and develop a contract for hiring temporary contract employees. Assume you are negotiating with a staffing agency to bring on two temporary contracted employees. Write a 3-4 page paper that addresses the staffing needs of your organization.
Be sure to do the following: 

• State the purpose of the contract with the staffing agency. 
• Address the fees paid per employee. 
• Address the roles and responsibilities the employees are expected to perform that are related to the admission’s department of a hospital. 
• Address the duration and additional terms of the project and any extension expectations. 
• Address any fees associated with any offer to permanently hire a project-based employee and any associated benefits. 
• Use a minimum of 3 sources, at least 1 from Rasmussen’s Online library. 
• Use proper APA format. 
• Resources:
  Library Databases:
• Discovery: https://guides.rasmussen.edu/discovery
• Business via ProQuest: https://guides.rasmussen.edu/pqbus
• Health Policy Reference Center: https://guides.rasmussen.edu/healthpolicyref
• APA Guide: https://guides.rasmussen.edu/apa/Home
• Use the Writing Lab for timely feedback to help you fine-tune your deliverable before you submit it for grading.

How you would improve security for this system.

Given the following, describe how you would improve security for this system.

There is a system containing unencrypted sensitive information (Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, first names, last names, and credit card numbers). The system, running a Windows 2008 server, is used only by employees but is on the public Internet, as employees need to access the system from home. Authentication is provided by NTLM, using username and password. The machine is currently directly plugged into its own dedicated cable modem.

Can you recommend five ways we can improve the security of this system, given a $10,000 budget? We should make sure to recommend solutions for software, hardware, and network security improvements. The data is used by 15 users and is secured using a powerful system with decent authentication.

Make sure to provide costs for all features.

Parameters:

• 12-point font
• Double-spaced
• 2 pages

Criteria

Discuss how the software can be improved.

Discuss how the hardware can be improved.

Discuss how the network can be improved

This assignment focuses on how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling

This assignment focuses on how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented in your workplace. Using the University Library and other credible online resources, find three Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources. that provide information on Amazon.com’s business structure. 

Here is the scenario and situation: 

Assume you are an employee working in the Amazon warehouse, and you pack orders and categorize them into small, medium, and large batches. You are considered a packer. You have experience packing all sizes and have been with the organization for two years. You are considered one of their best employees, you have a solid reputation for being a hard worker, and all of your orders are packed correctly. You have also been busy; you recently completed Amazon’s management training program, and you have completed your BABA degree.

Congratulations: You have just been promoted to manager. You will be relocated to a new plant that is two hours away that employs 100 employees. You will oversee a team of 10 supervisors and 90 packers and will now oversee the entire warehouse operation. How will you work to use and apply the five functions of management? 

Now let’s apply the five functions: planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling. In your paper, include the following sections: 

• Planning: Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.

o For example, what might be some of the things you will plan to do and implement to build an effective team and culture? People are the most important resource in any business, what do you plan to do to build a positive team culture? What processes and systems do you plan to use? 

• Organizing: Assess if the present structure that Amazon has set up is working.

o Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure. 

• Staffing: Analyze your staffing needs.

o How do you intend to staff your organization and replace members that leave or are promoted? How does the HR process apply? What things (if any) will you suggest? 

• Leading: Justify the leadership theory (Locke’s goal setting theory, Vroom’s expectancy theory, and/or Adams’ equity theory) and style you will follow to ensure efficiency.

o Will you use transformational or transactional leadership? Why or why not? 

• Controls: Identify what controls and measures you will implement.

o How will you apply the four steps of control (establishing standards, measuring performance, comparing performance, and making decisions)?

Be sure to integrate vocabulary learned throughout this course and citations from the text to support your analysis. The paper should be five to six double-spaced pages in length, must include at least three scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook, and be formatted according to APA style guidelines. 

The Team Management Activity and Reflection paper

• Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style. 

Explore the environmental dimension of learning and suggest some specific learning activities that address this dimension.

Dimensions of Learning

Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link Doing Discussion Questions Right,the expanded grading rubric for the forum, and any specific instructions for this topic.

From the bullet point list below, select one topic for which you will lead the discussion in the forum this week. Early in the week, reserve your selected topic by posting your response (reservation post) to the Discussion Area, identifying your topic in the subject line. Be specific about your topic so that someone else could select the same bullet point but focus their post differently. By the due date assigned, research your topic and start a scholarly conversation as you respond with your initial or primary post to your own reservation post in the Discussion Area. Make sure your response does not duplicate your peers’ responses.

Topic:

• Explore the environmental dimension of learning and suggest some specific learning activities that address this dimension.

Additionally, provide a brief paragraph describing your personal experience with different learning dimensions and how that experience impacted your understanding of the material this week.

As the beginning of a scholarly conversation, your initial post should be:

• Succinct—no more than 500 words.
• Provocative—use concepts and combinations of concepts from the readings to propose relationships, causes, and/or consequences that inspire others to engage (inquire, learn). In other words, take a scholarly stand.
• Supported—scholarly conversations are more than opinions. Ideas, statements, and conclusions are supported by clear research and citations from course materials as well as other credible, peer-reviewed resources.

Analyze the organization and develop a set of HRM practices that help align HR practices to the firm’s strategy

Final Project

You work for a HR consulting company and an organization (the same company you have been writing about during this course) has hired your firm to conduct an HRM analysis and make recommendations to better align HR practices to the key business initiatives of the company. In order to accomplish the goal:

·Analyze the organization and develop a set of HRM practices that help align HR practices to the firm’s strategy. (Keep in mind the firm’s overall strategy in regards to Porter and Snow and White’s theories). Develop a 3200-3500 word research paper (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper should also:

·Identify the firm’s history, strategy, market position, and specific area of alignment.

·Provide job pricing and compensation package for three to four key positions in the organization.

·Describe and analyze the current and targeted HR work processes as well as the respective knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required to achieve the organization’s objectives.

·Incorporate a discussion of relevant technology considerations to achieve work output in the context of the organization’s goals.

·Provide a discussion of the labor market and the appropriate labor law context.  Identification of companies that are preparing to address any legal or regulatory changes.

·Prescribe a set of HRM recommendations, specifically tailored for the selected firm. Insert a table with deliverables, accountable people and a timeline for the recommendations.

·Describe other HRM issues as applicable.

In addition to the requirements above, your paper:

·Must be double-spaced and 12 point font

·Must be formatted according to APA style

·Must include a cover page that includes:

o Title of paper

o Student’s name

o Course name and number

o Instructor’s name

o Date submitted

·Must include an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement

·Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph

·Must reference at least eight scholarly resources

·Must include a reference page written in APA format.

How might salespeople use their knowledge of the multiattribute evaluation model to plan and deliver their sales presentations to a buyer?

1.  How might salespeople use their knowledge of the multiattribute evaluation model to plan and deliver their sales presentations to a buyer? 

2.  Discuss and give examples of an  open-ended question and a closed-end question and describe how each of  these question formats might best be used in the trust-based selling  process. In your follow up replies, discuss which situations work best  for both types of questions 

3.  

You have been hired as a  consultant by a new company to develop a strategic prospecting strategy.  The company brews and bottles a specialty tea beverage. The tea is rich  in vitamins, anti-aging nutrients, and natural anti-carcinogens. The  tea is expensive to brew and has suggested retail price of $3.00 per 16  oz. bottle. The company is located in your town. It can produce 5,000  bottles per day and does not sell the tea directly to consumers.

Answer the following:

1- How leads will be generated?

2- How will leads be qualified?

3- How sales prospects will be prioritized?

4- How information to prepare for sales dialogue will be obtained?

5- How the strategic prospecting strategy will be tracked and evaluated?

You are a psychoanalytic analyst and therapist. As a psychoanalytic expert, how would you explain the hoarding of toilet paper during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic?

answering question ( 1.5 pages)

Humanistic Framework

1. Who developed the Hierarchy of Needs (First and Last Name):
2. What is the highest level of his hierarchy?
3. What is the quality of this state of being?
4. What are three reasons that people don’t pursue this purpose of their lives?

A.

B.

C.

Behavioral Framework

1. What behavioral method did Ivan Pavlov develop? How did it work in a word?
2. What behavioral method did B.F. Skinner develop? How did it work in a couple words?
3. What behavioral method did Albert Bandura develop? How did it work in a couple words?
4. What did John Watson’s experiment with Little Albert demonstrate?
5. According to behavioral theory, behavior has consequences. If you want a behavior to persist or increase, what do you do when that behavior is displayed?
6. If you want that behavior to end, what will you do when that behavior is displayed?

Psychodynamic Framework

1. If you smoke or bite your nails or chew your hair or overeat (etc.), a Freudian analyst might say that you have a fixation from which psychosexual stage of development?
2. If you are cheap with your money and rarely clean your house, a Freudian analyst might say that you have a fixation from which psychosexual stage of development?
3. From what emotion do ego defense mechanisms protect the person?
4. If you buy and use O-So-Sexy-Seduction-No-Escape-Always-Works-Lipstick in the hope that a guy you like will also develop a crush on you, you are using whiich defense mechanism?
5. You are punching a pillow with your boss’s photo taped to it. You are using which ego defense mechanism?
6. What were the two capacities that Freud identified as evidence that someone has made it successfully through the developmental process?

A.

B.

Very Brief Essay Question ( 1 page)

You are a psychoanalytic analyst and therapist. As a psychoanalytic expert, how would you explain the hoarding of toilet paper during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic?

Ethically questionable situation relating to ict

Task

Proceed according to the following instructions.

1. Identify a recent (within the last six (6) months) moral dilemma or ethically questionable situation relating to ICT that you are familiar with. This situation can be either in the media (for example one you have sourced from a newspaper, or online through social media) or through your workplace.
   1. If using a workplace example, to maintain confidentiality,do not use real names.
   2. If you use a media article you must include a copy of the media article in the Appendix of your assignment.
2. Undertake further research about your chosen topic to assist you in analysing and discussing it in your essay.
3. You are required to completetwo separate analysesof the ethical dilemma you have identified above. The combined word limit for the both analyses is 1,500 words ± 10%.Note:Headings, citations, references and any appendices do not count towards your word limit,butquotations do. At the start of the assignment indicate in brackets the word count of your assignment excluding those items mentioned above.
   The components of the assignment are:
   1. Analysis One– use the Doing Ethics Technique (DET), ensuring you address each of the DET questions;and
   2. Analysis Two– Use theAustralian Computer Society Code of Professional Conduct(or similar), relating specific clauses from this code to the ethical issue/s, you have identified.
4. Write anOverall Conclusion that ties the results of both Analysis One and Analysis Two together and which justifies the recommendations you have made through the two analyses.
5. Include aReferencelist at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations. You must include at leastfive (5)qualityreferences from different sources. Please note that these five references are in addition to those provided to you through this subject (for example, you still must reference, the DET, the ACS code, Tavani, the Interact subject lecture notes etcBUTthese referencescannotbe used as one of your five quality references from different sources). Only use references that have been cited in the body of your assignment and ones that support what you have presented in your assignment.

NOTE: Format your assignment according to the instructions given in the Assessment Information, Presentationsection.

Rationale

The assessment item is designed to help you to build skills towards achieving the learning objectives, by requiring you to:

• identify an ICT-related ethical issue in your workplace or a contemporary media article;
• using an analysis technique (the Doing Ethics Technique (DET)), analyse the situation and the arguments it presents, to:
  • identify the ethical issues involved;
  • assess the implications of those issues; and
  • develop solutions to the issues
• apply the ACS Code of Conduct to the analysis of an ethically questionable situation to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions/decisions made therein;
• derive logical and justifiable conclusions to resolve the ethical issue(s);
• develop structured, coherent and logical arguments to support or refute claims; and
• apply proper academic referencing.

Which social hierarchies are involved in shaping the consciousness of the individual or group you are considering?

See the reading “Black Feminist Thought,” which can be accessed through the course website.

Collins (no relation to Randall Collins) is regarded as an advocate of critical theory, with a perspective that emphasizes both social structural relationships and the importance of social agency, the capacity of individuals to challenge the oppressions and inequalities that structure imposes on them. In the reading, you should be able to recognize the influence of the conflict tradition, especially Weber’s approach to stratification, and the microsociological branch of the Durkheimian tradition, with its emphasis on nonrational collective representations of group interests and identities formed through social interactions.

Collins is well known for her use of the concepts of standpoint and intersectionality. Standpoint refers to the necessity of accounting for the position and identity of the observer of social reality in evaluating their knowledge claims about that reality; pure objectivity is not possible. Intersectionality refers to the situation of individuals in multiple and cross-cutting social hierarchies and inequalities, resulting in complex identities and experiences of domination and subordination.

In this reading Collins is applying these ideas to the experience and activism of African American women in the United States. Note that Collins writes “…while common experiences may predispose Black women to develop a distinctive group consciousness, they guarantee neither that such a consciousness will develop among all women nor that it will be articulated as such by the group.” (p. 171).

For this exercise, try to expand her analysis by focusing on some other intersectionality of social hierarchies (such as race, gender, social class, religion, sexual orientation, or citizenship status) and their impact on identity and activism. You can apply it to your own situation or to that of some other group you are familiar with.

1. Which social hierarchies are involved in shaping the consciousness of the individual or group you are considering? How do the positions of the individual or group in those hierarchies confer overlapping or conflicting dominant or subordinate status in US society?
2. What evidence or examples, if any, do you see of specific awareness, identities, and activism on the part of the individual or group based on their intersectionality?