Extinction: Rebel or Else

Paragraph One: [Background information: story? facts? Question? A general statement about the big issue of the article?]

Paragraph Two:[More background information about issue, but more specific]

Paragraph Three: [formally introduce the author, the article, where it was published, it’s purpose/thesis]

Paragraph Four +: [Summarize the article.]

Paragraph: [Critique Question One: Author succeed in purpose?]

Paragraph: [Critique Question Two: Agree or disagree and why]

Community Assessment

For your first project assignment, you will be conducting a community assessment.

Begin by providing an overview of the community in which you live (large or small, urban or rural).  Then, complete the following:

Identify community demographics, including social, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

Use local papers and other media to identify and describe two social change concerns appropriate to the community.

Identify the main actors (different ones for each concern) who may be involved in participating in a policy development process to address the concerns. 

Identify the potential implementing actor (for-profit organization, non-profit, or government) or the combination of actors for each concern.

Draft a statement of public policy for each of the two social change concerns you have identified for the community, taking into consideration public policy elements. Refer to the resources in your Social Policy Toolbox for developing these statements.

Becoming a Good Thinker

The goal of this assignment is to progress as a questioner and, therefore, as a thinker. For this assignment, select an important problem faced by society today (e.g., income inequality, gun violence, online privacy), and construct three questions that will result in critical thinking using the assignment template.

· In the template, under the first column, provide your own original questions related to your chosen important problem.

· In the second column, identify the domain of thinking.

· Examples of these can be found on pages 139–140 of your textbook.

In the third column, list the intellectual standards and element of thought that relates to your question. Briefly explain why the question is important in this context (i.e., the elements of thought or reasoning that led you to this thinking).

· The eight elements of thought can be found beginning on page 62 of your textbook.

· The intellectual standards are on page 58 of your textbook and are defined on page 103.

· In the fourth column, label your question as fact, preference, or judgment.

· This information can be located on pages 126–127 of your textbook.

Assignment: Practicum – Week 1 Journal Entry

As a future advanced practice nurse, it is important that you can connect your classroom experience to your practicum experience. By applying the concepts, you study in the classroom to clinical settings, you enhance your professional competency. Each week, you complete an Assignment that prompts you to reflect on your practicum experiences and relate them to the material presented in the classroom. This week, you begin documenting your practicum experiences in your Practicum Journal.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Analyze nursing and counseling theories to guide practice in psychotherapy*

· Develop goals and objectives for personal practicum experiences*

· Create timelines for practicum activities*

In preparation for this course’s practicum experience, address the following in your Practicum Journal:

· Review the media Clinical Interview: Intake, Assessment, & Therapeutic Alliance in your Learning Resources.

· Select one nursing theory and one counseling theory to best guide your practice in psychotherapy.

Rate yourself using the results from the “Nurse Manager Skills Inventory”:

Write a reflection of 750-1,000 words in which you identify your strengths and weaknesses related to the four content areas below:

Personal and professional accountability

Career planning

Personal journey disciplines

Reflective practice reference behaviors/tenets

Discuss how you will use your current leadership skill set to advocate for change in your workplace.

Identify one personal goal for your leadership growth and discuss your implementation plan to achieve that goal.

A minimum of Five scholarly references are required for this assignment. solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, an abstract is not required, CITE WEBSITE SOURCE

Performance Management

Performance management systems usually include measures of both behaviors (what an employee does) and results (the outcomes of an employee’s behavior). The definition of performance does not include the results of an employee’s behaviors but only the behaviors themselves. Performance is about employee behavior, or what employees do; it is not about what employees produce or the outcomes of their work.

Imagine you are establishing performance standards to enhance organizational performance for a relatively new organization.

Discuss the following:

Create a rubric for two performance standards that will help enhance the      organizational performance.

Explain your rationale for creating these standards.

Predict how these performance standards will help increase organizational      performance.

Justify your rationale with statistical data.

Specify and explain the expected outcomes after implementing these performance      standards in 6 months and then in 12 months.

Your paper should be 6 pages in length and conform to the APA format. Include at least 4-6 scholarly references

What changes in employment relationships are likely to occur as the population ages?

Do you think increasing age diversity will create new challenges for managers? What types of challenges do you expect will be most profound?

What types of policies might lead to charges of age discrimination, and how can they be changed to eliminate these problems?

Discuss some other challenges organizations often encounter while trying to build a diverse workforce.

Describe some of the actions an organization should take to overcome diversity challenges, explaining why those actions would be helpful. Provide examples to support your conclusions.

What are some of the important benefits of having a diverse workforce?

Your case study analysis must be in APA format. Be sure to include a separate title and reference page, a brief abstract, an introduction, subheadings, and a conclusion.

•  What role do you think goals would play in planning the change in direction for the company? List some goals you think might be important.
• What types of plans would be needed in an industry such as this one? Explain why you think plans would be important.
•  What contingency factors might affect the planning Garmin executives have to do? How might those contingency factors affect planning?
•  What planning challenges do you think Garmin executives face with continuing to be the global leader? How should the cope with those challenges? 

Read “Case Study 3: Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges,” located on page 407 of the textbook. Then, read the article titled, “The Good, the Bad, and Wal-Mart”, located at http://www.workplacefairness.org/reports/good-bad-wal-mart/wal-mart.php.

Write a four (4) page paper in which you:

Examine the manner in which Walmart’s business philosophy has impacted its perception of being unethical towards supply and employee stakeholders. Provide one (1) example of Walmart in an unethical situation.

Determine the major effects that Walmart’s business philosophy has had on its human resource practices and policies.

Analyze two (2) of the legal mandates that workers and U.S. government has accused Walmart of violating. Provide an explanation as to why these legal mandates were violated, citing specific violations.

Evaluate the efficiency of the structure of the ethical decision making framework that Walmart has used in making its decisions. Provide a rationale for your response.

Recommend two (2) actions that Walmart’s Human Resources Department should take in order to improve the employees’ perspectives of Walmart’s human resources policies. Provide a rationale for your recommendations.

Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Describe the business ethics issues and definitions, theories, and frameworks important to organizational ethical decision making and the role of a human resource professional.

Determine the role of stakeholder interests, the interrelationship of ethics and social responsibility, and the role of corporate governance in ethics.

Examine ethical issues and dilemmas in business.

Write clearly and concisely about issues in ethics and advocacy for HR professionals using correct grammar and mechanics.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics and advocacy for HR professionals.

Describe your intellectual journey and the education that you are pursuing. Examine your perspective on education using the elements of thought.  Some questions that you can use to motivate your writing are:   a.What is the purpose of your education? b.What information do you need to be successful? c.What questions do you have about your field of study?  Your explanations should have reasons that support them and you should make use of the concepts in the textbook.