Day: April 24, 2018

Attached problem scenario A to learn more about Bill and Joe’s relationship. This scenario will provide you with key information to help formulate your answers for the assignment.

Phase 1:

You are having a lunch meeting with Bill Bateman, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Peninsula Hotel chain, and Joe Smith, the sales rep for UWEAR. During the meeting, Bill raises the topic of the upcoming contract renewal.
?I?m glad you brought that up, Bill,? Joe says. ?We?re really looking forward to working with you again this year. I was happy that we were able to reach an agreement last year, and it?s been a pleasure working with you and your team.”
Joe, like most of the UWEAR and PALEDENIM employees, is feeling the pressure to perform, fearing cutbacks and layoffs because of the merger. Sales have been down, and profit margins are very slim. Last year, Joe was reprimanded when he signed the contract with Peninsula Hotels because the price that he offered was so low. However, he had no choice because his competitor, Threads4U, was also a very shrewd bidder, and Joe would have lost the contract otherwise.
?Well, it has been good working with you too, Joe. I?ve really enjoyed our friendship, and the contract was very beneficial for our company,? Bill continues, ?The reason I wanted to talk about the contract today is because I just got a call this week from Samantha over at Threads4U. She?s offering to beat your price by 10% to win back our business. What are you going to do to counter that offer??

Answer the following questions:
What should Joe do in this situation?
What ethical theory supports how you think Joe should react to this situation?
Why would you use this theory?
What might others with a different view than yours say in this situation?
How would you refute those opposing perspectives?
Is there a compromise or creative solution to this problem? If so, what is it? Why is it feasible?
PHASE II:

The meeting between Bill and Joe did not go very well, and the Peninsula Hotel chain contract is in jeopardy. Despite their personal relationship, Bill is threatening to sign a contract with Joe?s competitor, Threads4U, because it is undercutting UWEAR?s price.
Joe is desperate to save the contract because the Peninsula Hotel chain contract accounts for over 50% of his territory’s sales; without them, his future with UWEAR is uncertain. He realizes that he needs to gain approval from his management team before he moves forward with any further contract negotiations with the Peninsula Hotel chain. Complete the following in a paper of 2-3 pages:
Who are the stakeholders in this situation?
What are the responsibilities of each stakeholder to the company?
Provide at least 4 ethical responsibilities for each stakeholder.
For each stakeholder, what would be the appropriate response to the situation?
What should Joe propose to the management team?
How should he support his proposal?
APA Format, 2-3 Pages per phase. Total of 5 to 6 pages

Problem A: Ethical Dilemma
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Note: All character and company names are fictional and are not intended to
depict any actual person or business.
Your meeting with the chief executive officers (CEOs) of UWEAR and
PALEDENIM went well. In a discussion following the meeting, Tom Tramlin,
the CEO of UWEAR, mentioned that he would like you to spend some time in
the field with his top sales representative to get a feel for what the
salespeople face every day selling in the current business environment.
Today, you are scheduled to spend the day with Joe Smith.
As you walk across the lobby of UWEAR, you see Tom talking to a tall,
distinguished-looking man. ?This is Joe Smith,? Tom introduces when you
step up to them. ?You’ll be spending some time with him today in the field.?
?Nice to meet you, Joe,? you respond, shaking Joe’s hand.
Tom says goodbye and makes his way to elevator while you and Joe head
toward the parking garage. ?We’re going to meet with a couple of clients
today,? Joe explains. ?First, we’ll have lunch with Bill Bateman, the CEO of
the Peninsula Hotel chain. He’s a great guy and I’m sure you’ll enjoy meeting
him.?
?Where are we meeting him for lunch?? I ask, getting into Joe’s car.
?Bill’s hotel, the Peninsula, has a great restaurant that I frequently use to
meet clients,? Joe answers. ?The food is outstanding. We’re going to meet
him there to discuss the renewal of his uniform contract.?
As you continue the drive to the hotel, Joe elaborates on his business history
with Bill. ?I was able to win the contract for the Peninsula chain last year,? he
explains. ?We were just able to underbid our competitor, Threads4U. In fact,
Bill said that I underbid them by about $5 per uniform. Great victory on my
part.?
?It sounds like you’ve established a great working relationship with Bill,? you
say.
?Oh, yeah,? Joe agrees. ?He’s a great guy. The first time we met, I was on
my way to buy a nice bottle of cabernet as a birthday gift for my wife. She
loves the expensive wines. I happened to mention this to Bill, he said he
orders it all the time and offered to give me some for free. I told him it wasn’t
Problem A: Ethical Dilemma
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necessary, but he insisted. When I got my car back from the valet, I found
not just a bottle, but an entire case of high-end cabernet in my trunk.? Joe
shakes his head, smiling. ?But that’s just the kind of guy Bill is.?
?It sounds like it worked out for you and your wife,? you comment. ?Did she
enjoy her birthday gift??
?Yes,? Joe says. ?We both enjoyed it for quite some time. Well, here we are,?
he adds, pulling up the Peninsula Hotel.
As you park and exit the car, Joe explains, ?Since Bill and I have been doing
business, he?s referred three other hotel owners to me to supply their
uniforms. Except for when I?m meeting with one of his competitors, I usually
conduct business meetings with clients here at the restaurant in Bill?s hotel.?
?It?s a beautiful hotel,? you comment as Joe leads you through the lobby,
admiring the elegant d?cor. ?No wonder you enjoy coming here. I wouldn?t
mind bringing my family here for a weekend sometime.?
?Actually,? Joe says, ?My wife and I have become really good friends with Bill
and his wife. He often invites us out onto his yacht with his family, we go to
social events with them, and we?ve stayed at the hotel several times. We
really enjoy it. You should bring your family sometime, too. Kids love the pool
with the waterfall.
You nod, following Joe into the hotel?s restaurant. After all you?ve heard about
Bill, you are very interested in meeting him.

-Write a research paper concerning this scenario: You have been charged with the development of a Crisis Management Plan for the real or hypothetical health care organization that you chose earlier in this course. Your research should be based on the following criteria:
Select a real or hypothetical crisis such as a natural disaster (hurricane, tornado, flooding, or earthquake), a catastrophic building failure, or an act of terrorism.
Discuss resource management based on ethical approaches used during crisis management.
Consider issues such as patient triage or current as well as incoming patients, supply, and personnel availability.
Discuss and develop an authoritative chain of command for crisis management.
Include such responsibilities as Incident Commander, Communications Officer, and other members of the chain of command for the incident.
Discuss the importance and implementation of community communication, involvement, and coordination.
Discuss the necessary policies for personnel management and safety.
Include provisions for lock-down status and family communication abilities.
Outline the steps for supply chain management both for personnel and the supplies needed to provide care.
7?10 pages, not incl. cover page, abstract page, and reference page

Select a company with which you are familiar. This could be your place of employment, a place you would like to work, or a business you frequent.
Create a 14-slide presentation in which you analyze and evaluate the current state of the selected company’s supply chain and an identified process. Include the following in the presentation:
Describe the company’s supply chain.
Identify an internal process you wish to evaluate.
Select an appropriate design approach for the chosen process.
Create a high-level AS IS process flow chart using an appropriate design tool.
Identify at least one metric to measure the process and its application (how, what, when, and who).
Use an appropriate tool to collect data for each step of the process.
Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the process using data collected.
Determine areas for improvement.
Design an improved process flow chart using an appropriate tool.
Summarize two items from this improved process and include an application of these items to a process in your own personal or professional life.
Format the assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Influence Processes

You have been encouraged by a colleague to write a brief article about “CEOs and presidents” for a management journal. You have decided to compare the leadership styles of three leaders. Using the Library, the Internet, and your course materials, write a 4-5 page document via Word that elaborates on the following:

In your article, provide the following:

An introduction to the concept of influence processes
A summary of the various types of influence processes and the factors that can affect them
An analysis of the processes used by the three leaders. Identify the processes that the leaders and top management team (TMT) are using to impact the organization. Use the table below to organize your answers (you can copy the table from this browser window and paste it into your Word document). Please enter into each cell in the table how that leader is using that particular influence method (if applicable).
Influence Method Leader 1 Leader 2 Leader 3
Direct decisions
Allocation of resources
Reward system
Selection and promotion of other leaders
Role modeling
Use the Library or other Web resources to support your argument. Be sure to cite your sources using APA Style 6th edition guidelines.

he DiSC Assessment looks at behavioral characteristics that can be grouped together into four “personality styles”. People with similar personality scores tend to exhibit specific behavioral characteristics common to that profile. Each of these personality styles has unique needs and likes for communication, behavior, and leadership. Being aware of your own needs, allows you to understand your own reactions to situations. Being aware of other styles needs allows you to better communicate with those styles.

Additional Materials :

Review information on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) which is another popular leadership personality test.
References

Complete an Internet search for a free DiSC personality test; take the test and note your results. You will use these results in reflecting on how your personality can affect your decisions in the professional environment.
References

Share the findings of your DiSC assessment. How can you integrate and relate to individuals with different personality and leadership styles? Include some specific examples.

MODULE ONE FORMAT ? this assignment is DUE BY WEDNESDAY, Jan 4, 11:59PM:

Discuss DiSC assessment findings:

How can you integrate and relate to individuals with different personality and leadership styles?:

Discuss some specific examples:

Discuss each question separately. Follow this format: Use EACH question as a HEADING. Do not co-mingle your answers in one paragraph. Assignments not following this guidance with lose (- .75) automatically.

In the United States, there are many policies and programs in place to provide financial assistance to individuals in various ways. Some of these policies and programs include tax deductions for children, child care, mortgage interest, marital status, and/or student loans. These examples represent financial considerations the U.S. government provides to specific groups of people in society.

While many individuals appreciate the benefits of the policies and programs indicated earlier, there are many stereotypes associated with people who utilize certain public assistance programs like food stamps, subsidized housing, etc. It is important for social workers to understand the impact these stereotypes have on recipients of and service providers for such programs. Also, it is essential that you have the facts about social welfare policies in order to dispel the myths about recipients of assistance programs.

For this Discussion, review this week?s resources. Consider whether you think means-tested programs, such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), create dependency among its recipients. Then, think about how the potential perception of dependency might contribute to the stigma surrounding welfare programs. Finally, reflect on the perceptions you might have regarding individuals who receive means-tested welfare and how that perception might affect your work with clients.

In the Discussion for this week, you addressed one of the threats to the internal validity of a study, that is, confounding variables. This Application Assignment will challenge you to consider possible threats to external validity. Generalization is the extent to which relations among variables in research studies can be demonstrated among a wide variety of people and across different settings. When the results of a research study are generalizable to additional populations and settings, the study demonstrates external validity. However, if a research study is only valid for the particular sample used in the study, then it is not very helpful to the study of psychology.
In the example provided in the Discussion introduction, two online student groups used different study strategies. Now imagine a human resource (HR) manager at a corporation, struggling with the concept of reading comprehension among employees in the workplace setting, wanted to try the new study strategy that the online course instructor had researched. Assume that the online college course instructor had resolved possible issues relating to internal validity and found that the new study strategy was effective at improving reading comprehension. The HR manager presumes that the results of the study with online college students will generalize to her training course at work. However, the replication of the study revealed that, although the new strategy was found to work well for online students, the results did not generalize to the training course in the work setting. Therefore, the original study lacks external validity.
Replications of studies, such as the one in this example, are essential to demonstrate generalization and external validity. This week, you will learn about four types of replication procedures, and you will develop original examples of each procedure with the goal of demonstrating generalization and external validity.
To prepare:
Review Chapter 13 from the course text.
The Assignment (1?2 pages):
Explain the four different types of replications and the purpose of each. Include for each type of replication a brief original psychological study example (i.e., make up your own) that is different for each type of replication (i.e., do not build on the same example). Plan to devote a short paragraph for each.
Briefly explain how replications relate to the concepts of generalization and external validity.
Note: Support the responses within your assignment with evidence from the assigned Learning Resources. Provide a reference list for resources you used for this Assignment.

1) What is the nature and scope of the alcohol and drug abuse problem in the United States today? For example, is this problem more significant today than it was in the past?
Course Objective One

Identify specific social problems and their cause-effect patterns.

Course Objective Four

Apply class concepts to support opinions about social problems.

Course Objective Five

Illustrate how the sociological process enables us to identify various social concerns.

Course Objective Seven

Apply sociological theories to explain the occurrence and scope of these problems.
Leon-Guerrero, A. (2015). Social Problems, 5th edition. Los Angeles: Sage
Publications, Inc.

Prepare an applied ethics presentation (12-15 slides, with speaker notes) on an ethical issue related your academic discipline, program, or area of study or interest. Select an ethical dilemma topic for analysis and evaluation from one of the Topic 8 articles, or the Issues & Controversies and Opposing Viewpoints databases. (You may select an alternative topic from a different database or website with instructor approval.) Be sure to address all of the following in your slide presentation.
Outline both sides of the debate. Address all relevant issues associated with your topic. Note both positive and negative arguments concerning each side of the issue.
State the topic in terms of an ethical debate/dilemma (within your academic discipline, program, or area of study or interest). Relate the issue to at least two ethical theories and/or thinkers discussed in the course (one of which must be Kant and the Categorical Imperative). Propose how each ethical theory and/or thinker presumably would response to the ethical dilemma.
Incorporate applicable biblical, theological, philosophical, and/or historical Christian ethical norms or principles that bear (or may well have a bearing) on the ethical dilemma.
Utilize an ethical decision-making model in helping to determine your ethical position vis-?-vis a step-by-step process. Review ?Making Ethical Decisions? located in the Topic 8 materials.
Give your own well-argued and reasonably supported conclusion regarding the ethical debate, including specific moral actions envisioned from your conclusion.

The psychology of gender can be significantly influenced by interpersonal interactions and environment. You often learn to communicate emotionally from the people around you and the expected social norms in your community.
In this assignment, you will explore your own emotional development and how it has supported your gender expression. You will also learn how expression of emotions has an impact on relationships.
Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research emotional development and gender expression.
Respond to the following:
Explain how the expression of emotion has affected your ability to have successful personal and professional relationships.
Describe what or who has influenced your ability to express emotions successfully.
Describe in which areas of your life you have struggled to communicate emotion. Describe what or who has contributed to the development of these challenges.
Be sure to provide personal examples and experiences along with research in support of your responses.
Write your initial response in 300?400 words