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Unit 4 – Discussion Board

Write a letter of 3–5 paragraphs of reprimand or recognition to an employee who has performed problematically or magnificently during a specific festival preparation activity. Remember to remain civil, on task, and very precise in your description of circumstances that warranted the letter. Near the end of the letter, state the consequences resulting from the employee’s performance, and mention that this letter will be placed in the employee’s permanent files.

 

Unit 4 – Individual Project

Write an instructional guide of 1–2 pages that explains how to set up a festival booth. Be sure to offer a clear heading that summarizes the task, use numbered lists if and when necessary, and do not mix instructions with conceptual information. Your level of detail should r

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Ethical Profile Paper

Directions:

You are to write an ethical profile paper that recognizes the formative influence of your family, heroes, and personal style on you as an ethical professional. This paper will provide a profile of you in regards to your ethical and professional practice. You will be required to include information on who you are as an ethical professional, how this course has shaped your unique ethical decision-making style, and the areas in which you feel still need further development.

Include the following four sections in your paper:

1. Ethical Autobiography: First, explain how you think through and determine what is “right” and “wrong” (personally and professionally) in your own daily life. Second, identify four examples of ethical behaviors and explain how your cultural heritage has shaped your values. Third, describe the nature of the four ethical behaviors you see in yourself.
2. Professional/Ethical Hero: First, identify an ethical “hero,” an individual that has most impressed you and serves as your role model because of their professional/ethical presence (i.e., sensitivity, appropriate boundaries, and respect for privacy, ethical commitment, and ethical courage). Elaborate on his or her ethical characteristics. Discuss how this person can (or does) serve as a role model for others in the helping profession. Second, describe how this “hero” has influenced your value system. Click here to read an article on ethical hero.
3. Ethical Decision-Making Style: This section will articulate your implicit style in terms of ethical decision making. Although there are specific models that help facilitate ethical decision making, everyone has his or her own unique style. Taking into consideration the ethical decision-making models presented in this course, identify the style that reflects your early and ongoing experiences with moral values and issues that has been influenced and shaped by your parents, relatives, peers, and valued adults in your life, such as a teacher or coach. Use what you have written from your autobiography to supplement this discussion. In summary, explain your implicit ethical decision-making style, including how this course and your cultural heritage have served as influential factors.
4. Professional and Ethical Development: Ethical development is, for most, a career-long process. In the last section of your paper, please identify at least two areas discussed in this module/course where you feel you would benefit from more development. Lastly, suggest ways in which you can acquire your further development.

Please include information from two or more external scholarly references using APA formatting for all citations.

Your paper should be approximately 6–8 pages in length, be double-spaced, in 12 point, Times New Roman font with normal 1” margins; be written in APA style; and be free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract, and a reference page.

Define business operations.

 

List the three primary functions of a business’s operations.

 

List the six key functions that all businesses need to address just as part of doing business

 

Define managing versus leading

 

Describe one of the major differences between leaders and managers

 

What are the four key factors that a newly promoted leader needs to focus on?

 

Identify the 4 main functions of management.

 

Define the role of Human Resource Management or HRM as it’s often referred to.

 

Explain how HRM professionals are now viewed and what their main goal is.

 

What is the marketing mix?

Research the South University Online Library and the Internet to read more about the behavioral patterns. Conduct an interview (via phone or face-to-face) of ten or more people in the age group of fifteen to sixty-four years, to survey the impression of their health, health problems, and lifestyle choices.

Ask the following questions, while conducting the interview:

• Do you smoke?
• Do you drink alcohol?
• Do you wear a seatbelt while driving a car?
• Do you talk on the phone while driving?
• Do you exercise four to five times a week?
• Do you eat a healthy diet with fruits, vegetables, fish, chicken, and whole grain?
• Do you suffer from any of the following conditions: high blood pressure, stress, weight issues, or diabetes?

Compile the data collected through the interview for each category of questions, taking into consideration the age group to which they belong.

For doing so, create a three column chart.

• In the first column, list the health behaviors for which people were interviewed.
• In the second column, list the percentage of individuals interviewed against each behavior.
• In the third column, list the percentage of people who believe they have healthy lifestyles (information can be found in the text readings or from the Internet).

Next, analyze the chart to understand how these columns differ from each other.

In a Microsoft Word document, create a 3- to 4-page report of your analysis, answering the following questions:

• Are you surprised to see the trends of the most common behaviors? Discuss.
• Did an individual’s age relate to his or her health behavior? For example, do individuals in the age group of fifty to sixty years have different behaviors than individuals in the age group of thirty to forty years?
• What are some of the changes that the people you interviewed could implement in their lifestyles and behaviors to improve their health status?

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Analyzed and researched about the behavioral patterns of different people in the age group of fifteen to sixty-four years old by conducting interviews.	60
Summarized the data collected through the interview for each category of health behavior, taking into consideration the age group to which the individuals belong.	60
Analyzed and created a three column chart, comparing the percentage of individuals interviewed against each health behavior and the percentage of people who believe they have healthy lifestyles.	40
Written components.	40
Total:	200

Project Requirements Document

Imagine that you have been selected as the Project manager (PM) for a process or product improvement activity or the design of a new product or service in your organization. Prepare a three- to four-page Project Requirements Document (not including the title and reference pages) for this project that describes the following items:

1. Background information
2. The problem or opportunity
3. Impact or effects of the problem
4. Who or what is affected by the problem
5. Consequences of ignoring the problem
6. Voice of the Customer Analysis (VOC) or Market Analysis
7. Strategic alignment
8. Key assumptions

The Importance of Physician-Patient Communication
Patient and physician communication is the key to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. For many patients, talking to a physician can be an intimidating process. Effective communication can be reduced by the limited time that patients often have to express their health concerns with their health provider.
Explain how miscommunication in physician-patient interaction might impact recovery of a patient. Justify your answer.
According to you, which are the two most critical examples of miscommunication between physicians and female patients according to Sue Fisher (1984)? What are Eric Cassell’s (1985) criteria for effective communication? Justify your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.
Cassell, E.J. (1985). Talking with patients, Vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Fisher, S. (1984). Doctor–patient communication: A social and micro-political
Performance. Sociology of Health and Illness, 6, 1–27.
Managed Care

Managed care is designed to help control health care costs. It regulates the costs of health care by capping the costs of certain procedures. Docs in a box are clinics that can rapidly see patients for lower costs.
What do you understand by the term “managed care”? What is the influence of managed care in regulating the medical profession?
Describe the term “Docs-in-a-Box” and its relation to cost containment and managed care. Justify your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.

Our book: https://digitalbookshelf.southuniversity.edu/#/books/9781323109304/cfi/4[s1]/4
Medical Sociology
Thirteenth Edition
William C. Cockerham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
(Cockerham i)
Cockerham, William C. Medical Sociology, 13th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions, 01/2015. VitalBook file.

1. Think of something you want or need for which you currently do not have the funds. It could be a vehicle, boat, horse, jewelry, property, vacation, college fund, retirement money, or something else. Pick something which cost somewhere between $2000 and $50,000.
2. On page 270 of Elementary and Intermediate Algebra you will find the “Present Value Formula,” which computes how much money you need to start with now to achieve a desired monetary goal. Assume you will find an investment which promises somewhere between 5% and 10% interest on your money and you want to purchase your desired item in 12 years. (Remember that the higher the return, usually the riskier the investment, so think carefully before deciding on the interest rate.)
3. State the following in your discussion:
4. The desired item

• How much it will cost in 12 years
• The interest rate you have chosen to go with from part b

1. Set up the formula and work the computational steps one by one, explaining how each step is worked, especially what the negative exponent means. Explain what the answer means.
2. Does this formula look familiar to any other formulas you are aware of? If so, which formula(s) and how is it similar?
3. Incorporate the following five math vocabulary words into your discussion. Use bold font to emphasize the words in your writing (Do not write definitions for the words; use them appropriately in sentences describing your math work.):

*  Power

• Reciprocal
• Negative exponent
• Position
• Rules of exponents

Your initial post should be 150-250 words in length

Discussion Question 1
Do the voice and tone of doctoral writing differ from the voice and tone of writing at other academic levels? Explain your view. What are some ways that voice and tone can enhance the scholarly image of your writing? Explain.
Discussion 2
While Caffarella and Barnett (2000) indicate that critique is the most influential element in helping learners produce a better writing product, critique can be an emotional event. Cameron et al. (2009) note that it proved helpful in their workshops to discuss the emotions that emerged as students prepared to critique and be critiqued. What emotions come up for you when you consider someone else reading your work and offering critiques? How do you plan to work through these feelings?

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DUE BY SATURDAY, JANUARY 30^TH    5pm est

 

Explain the best solution to the scenario below, be sure and use proper legal citations both in text and references at the end in APA format.   No more than 20% can be quoted material.

 

Part 1

 

Tim Taylor operates a home improvement business performing various fix-it-up projects, including some car repairs.  Tim is well known for his fun personality and quality work, so he has plenty of loyal customers to keep him busy, along with one full time employee, Al.  Tim occasionally rents out some of his tools and equipment to friends and clients.

About a year ago, Tim started purchasing foreclosed homes, renovates them and then rents or sells the homes.  Some of the homes are financed through various banks.

Tim and his wife, Jill, own a home, in which they have a reasonable amount of equity.  Jill manages the books and other accounting responsibilities for the business.

Which type of business organization is best for Tim?  Explain the advantages and disadvantages of your selection and why your answer is best based upon the applicable law.

 

Part 2

 

Create a new business that you would like to operate. Would you select an LLC, an LLP, or a corporation to form your company? Provide a detailed explanation as to why that entity would be appropriate for you. Support your choice with the applicable law and/or text materials. Search for information related to doing business in your state and provide the requirements for the option you selected, as applicable.

 

My state is Ohio so please use that as the guideline for the state requirements.  Also cite all in legal, APA format.

 

This is all 1 discussion assignment so 1 Reference section at the bottom is fine and include any in text citations and be sure to do any “quotes” properly