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An outline for persuasive essay topic  should sex education be taught in public schools? Should sexual education be abstinence only? Please use a visual organizer in a bullet form and integrate one of these sources, Douglas Kirby and J Barzelatto, Arthur Caplan and Emma Elliot .

This week, you will build your draft financial plan. You only need to do it for the first year. You will have a chance to carry the plan out to the out years in next week’s assignment. For this week complete the following:

1. A list of key assumptions that drive your financial model. It is strongly encouraged that you find comparable companies and use industry ratios to justify your assumptions. Assumptions should be on one of the pages of the spreadsheet workbook. ONLY SUBMIT ONE FILE!
2. Year 1: Monthly and year-end income statements and cash flows; and a year-end balance sheet.

Note: Use Excel or compatible spreadsheet to build your first year pro-forma. Templates are available here to make this MUCH easier.

i have attached also a copy of my paper, in which it talks about the company I want my to base my financial plan on. Also make sure work is completed in one file. Thanks.

No trial and error please, again don’t bid if you can’t do this task

Betty Smith was recently hired as the Director of HR at Company XYZ. On her third day at work, the CEO called her in his office. He asked her to review the following terrifying timeline:

Date	Event/Location
September 25, 2014	A man fired from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official.
January 29, 2013	A gunman, 70-year old Arthur Douglas Harmon, allegedly shot and killed 48-year-old Steve Singer, CEO of the Scottsdale-based Fusion Contact Centers LLC, a call center company.
December 14, 2012	Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
December 11, 2012	Jacob Tyler Roberts, a masked gunman opened fire at Clackamas Town Center, a mall in suburban Portland, Oregon, killing two people, injuring one, and then killing himself.
July 20, 2012	James Eagan Holmes, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises.
April 2, 2012	Seven people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting rampage by 43-year-old One Goh at an Asian religious vocational school in east Oakland, California; police later detained the suspected gunman.
January 8, 2011	Jared Lee Loughner killed six people and injured more than a dozen others, including a congressional lawmaker, outside of a supermarket in Arizona.
February 12, 2010	Amy Bishop went on a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university, killing three colleagues and wounding three others as a result of being denied tenure.
November 5, 2009	U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is alleged to have killed 13 people after he went on a shooting spree at the busy U.S. military base in Texas.
April 16, 2007	Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and himself on Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
April 20, 1999	Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school’s library.
June 18, 1990	James Edward Pough shot people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Florida, killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.
August 20, 1986	Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shot 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma.
July 18, 1984	James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, killed 21 people in a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California.

After reviewing the timeline, the CEO asks Betty what their organization can do to prevent such tragedies. After a brief conversation, the CEO mentions that the organization will be laying-off 10 employees in the next two weeks. The CEO asked her to think of some safety measures to be considered at their upcoming meeting with the entire management team.

Later that day, she receives an email from the CEO asking if it would be a good idea to bring his personal gun to work (for protection) and have it locked up in a safe. She is troubled and calls her friend who is a “Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)” to help analyze this situation.

Case Study Questions

1. What questions would her SPHR friend ask Betty Smith?
2. Do you think it is a good idea for the CEO to bring a gun to work? Justify your response. Consider the Second Amendment.
3. Should there be covert “armed” employees at each organization that are carefully selected (after a thorough background check) by HR managers? Explain why or why not.
4. What are some issues with the traditional way of having an unarmed security guard sitting at the front desk?
5. What rules and regulations must be taken into consideration when making the decision? Interesting enough, Indiana is one of 13 states that signed into law a measure that bans employers from telling workers that they can’t have guns in their cars. Should all states consider such laws? Justify your response.

Case Assignment

Drawing on the material in the background readings and doing additional research, please prepare a 3- to 5-page paper (not including the cover and reference pages) in which you:

• Address the five questions relating to the case study. It imperative that you use your critical thinking skills when addressing each question.

Assignment Expectations

Your paper will be evaluated on the following points:

• Precision: Does the paper address the question(s) or task(s)?
• Clarity: Is the writing clear and are the concepts articulated properly? Are responses made through paraphrasing and synthesis of concepts? (Or is there excessive use of quotations?) Are headings included in all papers longer than 2 pages?
• Breadth: Is the full breadth of the subject addressed?
• Depth: Does the paper address the topic in sufficient depth?
• Grammar, spelling, and vocabulary: Is the paper well-written? Are the grammar, spelling, and vocabulary suitable to graduate-level work?
• Referencing (citations and references): Does the paper use citations and quotation marks when appropriate?
• Critical thinking: Is the subject thought about critically (i.e., accurately, logically, relevantly, and precisely)?

Designing jobs for employees must be a strategic initiative because optimizing productivity levels without overworking an employee can be difficult to accomplish. Job design refers to organizing tasks, duties, responsibilities, and other components into a productive unit of work. As such, there is a correlation between job design and job performance; job design and job satisfaction; job design and organizational commitment; and job design and physical and mental health. Once the job and tasks are defined, a detailed job description needs to be developed.

A job description will usually indicate the different tasks for which a potential employee will be responsible. Organizations are known to come up with job descriptions that provide a general standard for interested applicants. Organizations are also notorious for including the following sentence at the end of a job description: Employee may be asked to perform other duties as required. This significant sentence legally allows an employer to modify job descriptions at any time and without notice. The Occupational Information Network (or O*NET) is a useful website for learning about different jobs and the tasks associated with each job (www.onetonline.org). The following job description illustrates the tasks for which an Assistant Professor of Marketing is responsible.

Job Description Example

                                                        

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Responsibilities: Teach general Marketing courses and/or concentration courses as appropriate per academic credentials, advise students, and serve on Department and University committees. The preferred candidates will be able to conduct research in their areas of expertise and/or related fields. Participate in the ongoing development of the curriculum. Continue professional development and scholarship in teaching areas, research and academic writing. Positions require teaching excellence and scholarly productivity. Employee may be asked to perform other duties as required.

It can be concluded from the brief job description above that a potential employee is responsible for researching (creative), performing other duties as required (adaptive), and teaching (routine) at the university. Task-based job performance has three general categories: creative, adaptive, and routine. The “CAR” acronym, can be used for recalling the task performance criteria.

 

Task Performance Criteria

 

 

Creative task performance is the degree to which employees develop and implement ideas that are both novel and useful. The reality is that creative task performance is playing a larger role in all jobs. For example, Google engineers can spend up to 20 percent of their time on a project of their choice because creativity is valued and encouraged by the organization. By the same token, the employees of 3M are allowed to use 15 percent of their time to think creatively. Both companies credit these unique programs as the source of their most successful products. In some professions (e.g., marketing or advertising), creative task performance is considered more important than any other task performance. Furthermore, professors are also encouraged to be creative and publish in prestigious academic journals. As a matter of fact, the example above illuminated the importance of a professor being able to publish. The classic saying, “publish or perish” holds true in academia. Imagine one-third of a professor’s job (or more) being dependent upon his or her ability to be creative and publish novel concepts. With globalization and competition, creative task performance will continue to play a major role in all jobs of the future.

Adaptive task performance requires an employee to be able to “adapt and overcome” novel or unusual situations. A case in point is when Chesley B. Sullenberger, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 (January 15, 2009), discovered his plane had lost power and he decided to land in the Hudson River. Captain Sullenberger’s heroic actions saved the lives of 150 passengers and crew. A different example (occurred on January 9, 2011) is when U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona and her aide (Daniel Hernandez Jr., who was only five days into his new job) came to her rescue and performed first-aid. Both examples elucidate adaptive task performances that are novel and unusual. All jobs have a component of adaptive task performance that can be extreme or insignificant.

Routine task performance is associated with being responsible for the same task each day with very minimal variety or change. A classic example of routine task performance would be an employee who works on an automobile assembly line. Each person who works on an automobile assembly line has a very specific job such as screwing on doors or bumpers. This “division of labor” concept is used in many organizations to help enhance productivity levels. For example, contemporary hospitals have been known to request radiologists to specialize and analyze specific digital images (e.g., CT scans, MRI scans, or mammograms) to help productivity, efficiency, accountability, and efficacy levels. In some situations, it makes more sense to divide work amongst a group of employees as opposed to having a group of employees working on the same tasks and doing double-work.

Drawing on the material in the background readings and doing additional research, please prepare a 3-5 page paper (not including the cover and reference pages) in which you:

• Analyze your current occupation using the task performance criteria (CAR acronym).
• Discuss how your job aligns with the task performance criteria (CAR acronym). Provide specific examples. What percent of your job focuses on creative, adaptive, and routine task performances? Discuss your findings.
• Based upon the task performance criteria (CAR acronym), how can your job be changed to make it more meaningful?
•  Create a new job description for your current job that you could use to attract applicants.

Assignment Expectations

Your paper will be evaluated on the following points:

• Precision – Does the paper address the question(s) or task(s)?
• Clarity – Is the writing clear and the concepts articulated properly? Are paraphrasing and synthesis of concepts the primary means of response to the questions, or are excessive use of quotations how thoughts are conveyed?  Are headings included in all papers greater than 2 pages?
• Breadth – Is the full breadth of the subject addressed?
• Depth – Does the paper address the topic in sufficient depth?
• Grammar, spelling and vocabulary – Is the paper written well – is the grammar, spelling, and vocabulary suitable to graduate level work?
• Referencing (citations and references) – Does the paper use citations and quotation marks when appropriate?
• Critical thinking – Is the subject thought about critically, i.e., accurately, logically, relevantly, and precisely?

Using a company of your choice, determine the strategic business goals. Develop an IT strategy that aligns to the business goals. You can use the balanced scorecard approach or you can develop your own method for defining and aligning the IT strategy to the business strategy. You will need to cite at least two credible sources that will provide justification for your strategy or approach.

Finding a company: If you are employed, it is best for you to use your current place of employment so you can practically apply the concepts in this assignment. Alternatively, you can use a nonprofit organization or any other organization you may have ties or access to.

Your IT strategy should include:

• Business Goals and Objectives
  • List at least two or three specific business goals for the next year or two with an explanation of the business’ rationale for the goal.
  • List an objective for each business goal to explain what the company needs to do to achieve the goal.
• IT Strategies aligned with business goals and objectives
  • List one or two IT strategies for each business goal
    • These should be recommended strategies that would enable the business goals and objectives to be achieved.
    • If your company already has IT strategies, you may provide an analysis and justification or new recommendation for each of the strategies
• Organizational Structure
  • Describe the structure of the organization including:
    • Organizational design
    • Organizational culture
    • Leadership factors (the types of leadership displayed within the company)
    • Business processes
    • Physical layout (i.e., how many offices, virtual offices, international locations)
• IT Infrastructure
  • Describe the current IT infrastructure including:
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Network
    • IT resources
  • This should be a high-level overview
• IT Challenges
  • Describe internal and external challenges IT faces in meeting the business needs
  • Include social and/or ethical considerations
• Risks
  • Describe risks IT might face when implementing change

As you develop your strategy, you may want to consider the following:

• An effective IT strategy will enable the business operations, helping business leaders achieve business goals more efficiently and effectively.
• Focus on top priorities. Take the time to understand organizational issues, how they are related, and how they affect performance. Determine what will happen if nothing changes and where IT can have the greatest, positive impact.
• Identify how IT supports business processes. The business is relying on their capabilities to achieve the business goals. The IT strategy should include a plan for supporting those business capabilities, creating efficiencies, and competitive advantage for the business.
• Define IT priorities and governance for IT. Without priorities and a process for IT governance in place, progress will be slowed. An agreed upon plan for governing IT will enable the decision process.

Understand the challenges. Improving processes and increasing efficiencies through IT implementation also requires behavioral and sometimes organizational change. With these changes come inherent challenges. Understanding and planning for those challenges will increase the chance of success in meeting the business goals.

Write an 8–12-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A2.doc.

By Week 5, Day 7, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

 

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Listed specific business goals (minimum 2–3) for the next year or two. For each goal: Explained the rationale of the goal. Provided one objective. Explained what the company needed to do to achieve that goal.	36
Explained how the IT strategies will provide a competitive advantage for the business.	36
Aligned the IT strategies with business goals and objectives and provided a justification of how those strategies support business goals.	36
Described the structure of the organization including: Organizational design Organizational culture Leadership factors Business processes Physical layout	36
Described the current IT infrastructure. This should include hardware, software, network, and IT resources.	36
Described internal and external challenges IT faces in meeting the business needs.	44
Described risks IT might face when implementing change, including any ethical and/or social issues brought about by the implementation of the new system.	48
Ensured academic writing, such as grammar, spelling, and attribution of sources, is appropriate.	28
Total:	300

Sociologists research and write about current topics that are culturally, politically, socially, and economically important. One such subject is same-sex marriage.

For this assignment, you will research a few court cases. Your goal here is to study this subject as a scientist would. Therefore, it does not matter whether you agree with the ruling or not, you can still write objectively about it. Use the Internet to find court cases and news articles from mainstream news outlets to use for your references, along with the textbook.

Begin by looking up the Loving v. Virginia case. Next, list the states that allow same-sex marriage. What were some of the arguments the states used in their legalization? What were some of the legal arguments against same-sex marriage? (Note: When looking for information, please refrain from religious reasoning or personal opinions; remember, you are looking at this as a scientist.) Do you think that the Supreme Court’s ruling on Loving v. Virginia changed much about American attitudes and practices? Does this case set precedent for same-sex marriage? How has this view changed over time? Do you see a shift in America’s view towards same-sex marriage? In what way is it changing?

Finally, briefly discuss how you feel about the subject. To what groups do you belong that help to shape your feelings about this issue? How do they help shape them?

Your assignment must be a minimum of two pages in length. As always, use APA formatting. Pay special attention to the proper citation of Internet resources.

 

Marion is a 92-year-old patient who weighs 78 pounds.  She has had poor eating habits for at least 20 years and refused all attempts by her two daughters to improve her nutrition.  In addition, Marion had been a heavy smoker all her life and suffered frequent respiratory problems.  During the past two years she has become quite forgetful, has suffered a broken hip as a result of a fall out of bed, and has been treated for pneumonia.  Her daughters, who have their own family responsibilities and cannot bring their mother to live with them, have found an excellent nursing home near them.  In spite of Marion’s protests, she enters the nursing home.  However, she quickly adjusts to her new home and likes the care and the attention that she receives.

 

During her third week in the nursing home, Marion develops a cough, high temperature, and respiratory problems.  She is hospitalized with a diagnosis of pneumonia.  Marion immediately becomes disoriented and attempts to remove her intravenous and oxygen tubing.  Since she tried to climb out of bed, her daughters must remain at her side.  The attending physician tells the daughters that in addition to treatment for pneumonia, Marion will also need to have a pacemaker inserted to regulate her heartbeat.  Marion would then be unable to return to the nursing home since the facility is not equipped to care for someone recovering from surgery.

 

One of Marion’s daughters has been granted a medical power of attorney for her mother.  Before Marion became confused, she clearly explained to her daughters her wishes not to receive extraordinary measures to prolong her life.  She also signed a living will indicating her wishes.  After thoughtful discussion with other family members, Marion’s daughters tell the physician that they do not want to put their confused mother through the surgical procedure.  They state that they want to spare her the pain of recovery from a surgical procedure since she is quite confused and elderly.  Further, they are concerned that their mother will not survive an anesthetic and a surgical procedure in her frail condition.

 

The physician seems to be understanding of this decision.  He says that he will place their request in Marion’s chart not to have the pacemaker inserted.  However, the floor nurses take the daughters aside on several occasions to tell them that this is not a dangerous procedure and that they need to sign a permit for surgery.  In fact, the nurses make the daughters feel that they are not acting in their mother’s best interests by not signing the surgical permit.  Marion returns to the nursing home without a pacemaker.  She lives another four years without any cardiac problems.

 

1. Were the nurses carrying out their responsibility as licensed healthcare professionals or were they overstepping their role?

 

2. Were Marion’s daughters acting in the best interests of their mother since they knew that if she had the surgery she could not return to the nursing home where she was receiving good care?

 

3. What should happen when a physician agrees with the family members and the nursing staff does not?

 

 

Case Study II

 

Jerry McCall is Dr. William’s office assistant.  He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and a LPN.  He is handling all the phone calls while the receptionist is at lunch.  A patient calls and says he must have a prescription refill for Valium, an antidepressant medication, called in right away to his pharmacy, since he is leaving for the airport in 30 minutes.  He says that Dr. Williams is a personal friend and always gives him a personal supply of Valium when he has to fly.  No one except Jerry is in the office at this time.  What should he do?

 

1. Does Jerry’s medical training qualify him to issue this refill order?  Why or why not?

 

2. Would it make a difference if the medication requested were for control of high blood pressure that the patient critically needed on a daily basis?  Why or why not?

 

3. If Jerry does call in the refill and the patient has an adverse reaction to it while flying, is Jerry protected from a lawsuit under the doctrine of respondeat superior?

 

4. What is your advice to Jerry?

 

 

PART II: LIRN ACTIVITY

 

Directions: After reading the following LIRN article in your Module 3 Lecture Notes, please answer the question below.  Your response should be 1 to 2 paragraphs in length.

 

• Feng, Z., Wright, B., & Mor, V. (2012).  Sharp rise in Medicare enrollees being held in hospitals for observation raises concerns about causes and consequences. Health Affairs, 31(6), 1251-9.  Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1021174889?accountid=141600

 

According to the article, hospital observation services can be seen as a halfway point between emergency department treatment and full inpatient admission.  There has been a rising trend in the prevalence and duration of hospital observation services in the fee-for-service Medicare population.  Please discuss whether these hospital observation services are a damaging and unethical practice.

 

 

PART III: RESEARCH

 

Directions: Discuss the type of information that is available on the website for the American Medical Association (www.ama-assn.org).  Click on the Resources tab and then click on Legal Issues.

 

 

Then read the Hot Topics: Important and timely medical-legal issues.

 

 

 

Read and summarize some of the important points mentioned.  Your response should be 100 to 200 words.  Please remember to use proper APA citation.  Please visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC) for helpful APA guidelines.

For this Case Study complete the three requirements below:

1. A supplier of aircraft parts to an aircraft manufacturer has noticed an increase in inventory. As a result of this, will absorption costing or variable costing income be greater for the supplier? Explain why?
2. You are a management analyst for XYZ aircraft manufacturing company. Your company is considering either to use absorption costing or variable costing for internal financial analysis. Which method would you recommend and why would you recommend it?
3. Refer to Case 8-43 at the end of Chapter 8.

• Build or use an existing Excel Spreadsheet and complete requirements 2, 3, and 4.
• Comment on the results obtained from requirements 2, 3, and 4.
• The spreadsheet must accompany the submission.

For this case study, you will demonstrate your ability to correctly calculate the problem and demonstrate creative thinking by analyzing the case and answering the questions that are intended to interpret the data. Please refer to the case study section of the syllabus for additional guidance and your Case Study Rubric to review the criteria that will be used to evaluate and grade your submission.  This activity is due the last day of this module. If you have chosen to complete this activity as a group assignment (optional), one member of the group will submit the assignment. Include the names of all participating group members in the top left corner of the first page of the document

ndividual Marketing Plan ( Business Report)
Following the segmentation and targeting you have carried out in CW1, you are asked to work INDIVIDUALLY to design a marketing offering with a recognised positioning strategy to fill in a gap you identified in your chosen market.
Your marketing offering should be based on a gap in the market. This gap could be a neglected segment that has not been targeted before, a newly evolving segment, a niche that you think you can serve better than existing competitors, etc. Based on CW1 you should already have full awareness of the possible and the most effective segments within your chosen market. Your marketing offering is about creating, delivering and communicating value to your target market, you should discuss these in detail in your report showing a clear positioning of your marketing offering.