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Policy Research Paper

Research and write a 5 page academic research paper on one of the following policy related topics. Your research paper should fully address your chosen topic and be suitable for use as a policy brief distributed to an executive audience whose members are meeting to discuss IT Governance issues and policy needs within their respective organizations.

Your paper must present a summary of your research, discuss the applicability to IT governance, present a discussion of five or more policy issues related to the topic, and provide compelling reasons as to why busy executives should become more informed about these issues.

Your summary for the paper must address the question: How can this information be used to improve policy implementation? The summary should include five or more recommendations which you developed from your research.
Preapproved Topics
• Assessment and Authorization Requirements for IT Systems
• Audit Requirements for Finance Systems (Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA Compliance)
• Change Management (Configuration Control) for information systems and infrastructures.
• Implementing the NIST Risk Management Framework
• Information Security Metrics and Measurements (Audits and/or Governance)
• Information Sharing for Threats, Warnings, and Indicators (legal ramifications)
• Mobile Application Security
• Product Liability for Cybersecurity Products and Services

Requirements:
1. Your paper must be based upon 5 or more authoritative sources obtained from peer reviewed journals, published dissertations and theses, reports from public policy research organizations (e.g. Brookings, CSIS, PEW, etc.) or published government documents (not including Web pages). These authoritative sources must have been published within the last ten years.
2. You must submit your paper to Turn It In for originality checking. You must ensure that you have properly paraphrased and cited information obtained from your authoritative sources. Do not construct your paper by gluing together quotations.
3. Your paper must meet the APA formatting requirements as shown in the sample papers provided in the LEO classroom.

Managing Inventory and Cash Flow Crisis

Complete the following discussions:

• Inventory management is critical to success in the simulation. With respect to your team, discuss how you decide to balance the risk of stockouts against the costs of maintaining excess inventory.
• Every week, you have to consider the cash flow of your firm. This short-term financial consideration often creates serious difficulties for firms in the footwear industry. Looking at your industry to date, consider the following questions:
  • Why do firms have trouble managing their cash flow? What events cause a cash flow crisis in the simulation?
  • How does a short-term cash flow crisis impact a firm’s competitive strategy?
  • How does a short-term cash flow crisis spiral into bankruptcy for some firms?

Read the following vignette:

Christina is a 25-year-old Mexican American woman who has been working as an elementary school teacher since she graduated from college three years ago. Although she does well at her job, she has been feeling low ever since she left college. When she took this teaching position, she had to relocate to a city over four hours away from her family and the house she grew up in. Even though she has made some new friends, Christina still feels disconnected and lonely. She is also concerned about her mother, who has been diagnosed with a serious health condition.

For the past month, Christina has felt much worse. She reports feeling very sad and tired most of the time and is having difficulty concentrating at work. She says that she does not have enough energy to accomplish the things she would like to do. She admits to overeating and drinking every evening to “unwind” after school, and is concerned she is sleeping too much on the weekends. She also has very low self-esteem, despite being well-liked at her school and receiving good performance evaluations.

Christina describes her life as “heading nowhere” and says that lately she has felt extremely hopeless. She wonders if she will ever feel as happy as she did when she was in college. She does not have a history of ever feeling worse than this, and is in good health.

Based on the information presented, address the following questions in your discussion post:

1. What depressive disorder diagnosis would you consider giving to Christina? Describe the process you used for making this decision.
2. Knowing that substance use disorders can mimic and co-exist with other disorders, and that depressive disorders frequently co-occur with other disorders, including anxiety disorders, substance-related disorders, and eating disorders, what other information would you gather, or what other assessment instruments might you use, to help you make an accurate diagnosis for Christina? (Remember to refer back to the assessment information you read in Chapter 3 of theAbnormal Psychology text.)
3. What V and Z codes would you consider for Christina? How would including these systemic considerations help you in understanding Christina’s presenting symptoms and thinking about your treatment approach?
4. What social, cultural, and systemic factors would be important for you to consider when assessing and diagnosing Christina? How is the separation from her mother, family, and home impa

ssignment 2: Using Animals in Research

Click here to access the website, which explains the goal of the APA’s Committee on Animal Research and Ethics.

Click here to access the website, examine the guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Animal Research and Ethics (CARE).

Then, click here to read an alternative point of view from the animal rights perspective. Answer the following questions:

• What is your opinion about using animals for research?
• Was your opinion affected by the readings for this assignment?
• Under what circumstances, or for which types of research projects, would you advocate the use of animals in research?
• Do you think the use of advanced technology, such as fMRI, will eventually make animal testing obsolete?
• What safeguards do you think would be needed in order to protect participants in studies using neuroimaging methods?

Your response should be at least 2 pages long and should include at least two scholarly references. Save the response as AU_PSY350_M2_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. Submit your response to the M2 Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, February 3, 2016.

1. Discuss unipolar mood disorders, including dysthymic disorder and major depressive disorder.

2. Discuss several bipolar disorders and differentiate them from unipolar disorders.

3. Describe at least one example of each of the following categories of treatment for mood disorders: pharmacotherapy, alternative biological treatments, and psychotherapy.

4. Discuss the clinical picture of schizophrenia, including symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.

1. Discuss the faults of federalism over the political history of the United States. Please include at least two examples.

2. Contrast the differing opinions between liberals and conservatives in regard to the policy of grants-in-aid.

3. Discuss the difference between violence and protest.

4.  Explain how interest groups influence state politics.

Course Textbook

Individual Assignment: Marketing Research Paper

Purpose of Assignment

Marketing research is the foundation of marketing, and provides marketers with insight and information necessary to determine how to introduce new products and enter new markets. With the right information, marketers can reach solid conclusions and make the best decisions possible to reach their customers successfully, offer products and services that provide more value than the competitive alternative, and reduce their business risks.

Resources Required

Marketing Chapter 1, Marketing Chapter 5, Marketing Chapter 8, Marketing Chapter 10, Marketing Chapter 11

Grading Guide

Content
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Comments:
Choose the target market for your product, and describe it in detail.
Create a new product which would appeal to an environmentally-conscious consumer.
Develop at least one question for each characteristic of the target market that will be important for you as you determine the marketing strategy for this new product.
Recommend the best methods of conducting marketing research to answer these questions, and why you chose these particular methods.
Outline the steps you will take to bring your product to market from idea generation to commercialization.
The paper is 1,050- to 1,400 words in length.
Total Available Total Earned
7 #/X
Writing Guidelines
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Partially Met Not Met
Comments:
The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page, and reference page—is consistent with APA formatting guidelines and meets course-level requirements.
Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a reference page.
Paragraph and sentence transitions are present, logical, and maintain the flow throughout the paper.
Sentences are complete, clear, and concise.
Rules of grammar and usage are followed including spelling and punctuation.
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3 #/X
Assignment Total # 10 #/X
Additional comments:

Respond to the following questions:

• You have just been hired by a company as an economist and strategic planner. Your company has asked you to generate a report explaining the consequences of the market structure in which the company operates. Assume that the market structure is an oligopoly. Explain to management how this structure could influence decision making, especially pricing, output, advertising, and the use of resources in an oligopolistic market, as compared to other market structures.
• Outline what the kinked demand curve model of oligopoly seeks to explain. What are the major points of this theory? How does the kinked demand theory of oligopoly differ from other theories in terms of explaining the behavior of companies in an oligopoly? Explain the role of your company if it is considered the dominant company in the industry in terms of price leadership. Suggest and justify whether any other role should be recommended.
• Price discrimination is the practice of charging different customers or groups of customers different prices for the same product. Why does price discrimination occur? Describe the conditions that must be present for price discrimination to occur. Analyze why and how price discrimination is practiced in the following markets:
  • Airline tickets
  • Wholesale vs. retail markets
  • Movie theater tickets
  • Discount coupons

Justify your choices with valid assumptions and logically driven arguments. Cite any sources using APA format

Answer questions:

1. Describe various forms of internal and external threats to an organization.

2. Describe methods to detect internal and external threats to the organization.

3. Evaluate methods to protect the organization from internal and external threats.

4. Develop a proactive plan of environmental scanning to evaluate any existing threats to AGC.

Unit VIII Case Study Scenarios
SCENARIO # 1: An Unannounced Inspection
The Situation: An OSHA inspector arrives at your worksite requesting to talk with you about an inspection based on the health and safety complaints of a worker. You are in your office and the OSHA inspector is at the reception office. You know this worker to be a highly disgruntled individual who is constantly questioning all aspects of his job and the work environment. The area he works in is currently undergoing a major renovation for a process change for the product in the line, but it is still trying to produce the older version of the product at a lower volume than before. Your area supervisor is a competent individual, but he or she is working under a lot of stress with the changeover; therefore, you are only 80% sure that the claims listed in the complaint are groundless and without merit. The worker is also heavily involved in an effort to unionize the plant employees. In addition, your plant manager is in another state at corporate headquarters for some important meetings.

The Questions: How would you act, what actions should you take, and what would you do? Should you challenge the validity of the OSHA inspector’s request or their right to enter the workplace? Or should you request a warrant to enter the workplace and thereby gain some time to make sure everything is in order back in the plant? Can you gain any time to check with your in-area safety supervisor first? Or should you immediately comply with the request for the inspection? Explain your answers.

SCENARIO # 2: Serious Near-Miss Crane Incident
The Situation: You are the EH&S professional at your company’s shipyard. You have just received a call from a production supervisor that there has been a very serious near miss accident out in the assembly area. Your company is manufacturing the second Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the US Navy. This new generation high speed, trimaran design warship has been designed to carry out a wide range of tactical, combat, and support operations in the near-shore (littoral) environment. The project is over budget and has received a considerable amount of criticism for it. Successful completion of the project at this phase will be a prime determinant in whether or not your company can secure the very lucrative follow-up contracts for more LCSs. Everyone in the shipyard feels the pressure to complete this project ASAP.
Apparently a very large 20-ton overhead crane had some cables snap and has partially collapsed while trying to hoist a large section of the vessel into place for its final welding operation. When you arrive on scene, you see the section wedged overhead between some support beams and walkways. About a dozen hourly workers are scattered about as they leaped to safety after hearing the cables snap. There are many bumps, bruises and scratches on the workers, but they all are able to be treated internally at your nurse’s office. In this initial assessment, there appears to be no need for or request on the part of the employees to go to any outside medical consultant or hospital emergency room.
Almost immediately, you can hear the men complaining that the first attempt to lift the unit did not work, and the production engineer has decided to “jury rig” some extra cables to lift the unit into place. In addition, one individual said that they were trying to hoist about 28-30 tons, and that was just too much for the old crane. Another offered that the cables themselves had not been changed out in a couple of years, and that was against OSHA regulations. Everyone said that they could hear the unit groan and screech before the cables snapped and the crane partially collapsed.
Before you walk off with the supervisors to inspect the damage, one of the workers offers the opinion that this is an “imminent danger” situation. About 30 minutes later, you are meeting with the engineers and supervisors on one of the overhead platforms continuing your inspection of the damage when a supervisor comes up and tells you that he has heard that an hourly employee has just called OSHA and told them of the situation and that they used the term “imminent danger” in their conversation.

The Questions: What are your most important concerns? What should you do next? What information is the most critical for you to have right away? What directions would you give to the supervisors and engineers? When should you inform your facility manager, and what should you tell him/her? Should you meet with the hourly employees? What will you discuss with them? How will you handle the OSHA inspector should one show up in the next few hours? BOS 3525, Legal Aspects of Safety and Health 4

Instructions: For Scenario #1 AND #2, you are required to discuss a sequential Action Plan on your part that addresses all of the issues presented. Each scenario response must be at least 300 words in length. Your combined case study response must be at least three pages in length, not including the title and reference page. Your case study must be in APA format, including all references and in text citations.