Day: April 25, 2018

The Brisson-Banks (2010) article in the required reading for this unit compares the five different change management
models presented in this unit, and it describes various situational variables that could influence the effectiveness of each.
Utilizing all of the knowledge accumulated through this and the previous units, write a critique of the article.
In your paper, be sure to include the following:
Evaluate different aspects of organizational change.•
Discuss the role that leader vision and organizational climate plays in a change management strategy.•
Discuss how the leadership style that was identified as your primary preference would fit into the models of•
change presented.
Discuss how effective change initiatives can influence organizational performance.•
Be sure to follow the guidelines below:
Accurately identify the premise and supporting points from the article.•
Provide an insightful and thorough analysis of information from the article, including using evidence and•
reasonable and compelling interpretations.
Link material to course content and real-world situations.•
Demonstrate solid critical evaluation by providing well-supported opinions and conclusions using additional peer reviewed articles.•
Organize the material logically by using smooth transitions and grouping similar material together.•
Your paper should be at least two pages in length.•
All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in•
APA format.

Brisson-Banks, C. (2010). Managing change and transitions: A comparison of different models and their
commonalities. Library Management, 31(4), 241-252.
doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01435121011046317

Discuss power within group relationships by answering and discussing some of the following questions. However, do not simply answer these, one by one; treat them as overview for you to prepare to write your entry.
o Why does someone who holds a recognize base of power, not use it?
o Why does someone who holds a position of high ability to influence, find the need to constantly “one-up” others with whom
she/he is already up?
o What does it mean when we say we can give up our power or give away our power to someone?
o How is it that two people can perceive themselves to be powerless in the face of each other?
o How is it that two people can want to be equitable with each other, but more often than not, behave inequitably?
o How much does a belief in power as a finite quantity contribute to our approach to using our own power bases?

Required: Use TWO references from Ch. 6 & 7 and ONE reference from the mini-lecture. Cite sources appropriately. Do not include your own experiences or your opinion. You want to formally discuss power between members within their groups. Stay on track. Demonstrate a deepened understanding of power and influence.

In closing, you are to write your own eulogy. Google up the meaning of Eulogy. Then type your own. Include a picture(s) or representation(s) of yourself with your name and dates of birth and death. You may choose the age at which you ideally die as well as cause(s). Or you may keep the current date as your date of death. It’s your choice. You may also indicate at the beginning of your 1-page essay whom you have chosen to read your eulogy. But before you do anything, make sure you know what a eulogy is. So, let’s see how you would like to be remembered. Send it as an attachment: Page 1 is your pic(s), name and dates. Page 2 is your eulogy. Send as Word or RTF doc via assignment tool. Attachment must be typed font 12 Times New Roman double spaced standard margins and two pages long.

In closing, you are to write your own eulogy. Google up the meaning of Eulogy. Then type your own. Include a picture(s) or representation(s) of yourself with your name and dates of birth and death. You may choose the age at which you ideally die as well as cause(s). Or you may keep the current date as your date of death. It’s your choice. You may also indicate at the beginning of your 1-page essay whom you have chosen to read your eulogy. But before you do anything, make sure you know what a eulogy is. So, let’s see how you would like to be remembered. Send it as an attachment: Page 1 is your pic(s), name and dates. Page 2 is your eulogy. Send as Word or RTF doc via assignment tool. Attachment must be typed font 12 Times New Roman double spaced standard margins and two pages long.

This is our last assignment!

Silver Stars

Through this project we will celebrate the growth and development of all domains. Reflect on adults age 65 plus who have graced our society (nationally, internationally,or globally recognized) and represent the more modern view of aging. That is, rather than wait for old age to take them, these individuals capitalized on old age and took old age by the horns. Include female and male figures. Select positive and nationally, internationally, or globally recognized individuals.

Create a power point of 10 influential elder (late adulthood) icons who have made lasting contributions to the nation or world in a diversity of fields. I do not want pictures of people who made a contribution when they were young and now they are elderly. I want pictures of people who in their late adulthood have made lasting contributions. They must have made their contributions during this stage of their lives. You may look for poets, writers, journalists, doctors, philosophers, politicians, actors, artists, educators, math, science,religious people, etc. Use various areas and not just one or two. Again, make sure that they made their active contributions during late adulthood. You may choose from different parts of the world. Include 10 elders. They must mean a great deal to you in order for you to select them. But they must be nationally renowned or globally renowned. No grandparents and so on, please. Use formal sources.

What would our sky look like without our Silver Stars!

I look forward to seeing your power-point presentations.

Instructions:

1. You will create 12 frames. A cover page with Assignment Title and any other designs you’d care to put.

2. Then 10 frames, each frame will have a substantial size picture (1/3 to 1/2 page) of a special silver star (deceased or alive role model). The pic must be of them in their late adulthood stage. On each frame, tell me in 2-3 sentences when (year) and where (city, state,nation) they were born; and, what they are remembered or known for.

3. The last frame will be the bibliography. Cite a complete APA format bibliography so that I will know where you got the information from. Do not use wikipedia or similar wiki sources.

Cover Page, Research Paper and Bibliography 20%
Due: November 10, 9:00 pm.
Submit to ‘Submit Research Paper Here’ ‘folder’ on UR Courses

Eight pages, page numbered, type-written, double spaced, 12 font in New Times Roman, APA (6th Edition) style, no abstract needed. In addition to those pages the paper must have a cover page and bibliography (in APA format).

It will be marked on strength of content, clarity, flow of information and writing skills (capitalization, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure). At least three of your sources of information must be academically accepted sources (peer reviewed journal articles and books) or you WILL NOT get full marks. Additional resources can be included – Wikipedia is not allowed as a source. Marks will be lost if this is not followed. NO personal interviews are allowed at the 100 level so DON’T USE them – choose a topic that does not require this type of information.

It is your responsibility to learn how to develop this paper in the required format and an APA ‘how to’ file is available both on UR Courses and in FNUC library. There are also examples available through a GOOGLE search for proper techniques (example http://libguides.unco.edu/content.php?pid=933&sid=20774). Both U of R Student Services, International Student Services, and FNUC Student Services have tutorial assistance available

A critical evaluation of the employee relations issues in participation and involvement within the UK and Germany.

You should identify and evaluate the ways in which the relevant actors*, that is, the state, employers and employees (including the trade unions) play a role in the employee relations issue that you have identified. It will also be appropriate and important to critically evaluate the way that these three sets of social actors impact on and influence the balance of power in the employee relations issue you have identified.

In addressing your chosen topic please note the following assessment criteria
1 Demonstration of critical understanding of Employee Relations issues

2 Analysis of the roles of the state, employers and employees (and their trade unions) with regard to your identified topic as appropriate

3 Analysis of the balance of power between the actors (employees & their trade unions, employers and the state) as relevant to your topic

4 Integration of theory and practice (include examples of organizational or government policy and practice where relevant)

AD Law Unit 7 IP 1

In this assignment, you will develop questions and then interview a professional law enforcement officer about his or her perceptions of, and experiences with, intelligence-led policing. It is preferable to interview an officer in the same jurisdictional area as the two interviews you conducted for the Unit 4 assignment. This would enable you to successfully develop your strategic intelligence plan for your final paper as well as complete this assignment.

The purpose of this assignment is to investigate the practices and procedures of intelligence work from the perspective of someone with personal experience in the system. By learning first-hand about the important concerns and experiences of professionals in the field, you will see how it is, from the insider’s view, to work with intelligence in complex organizational and community structures. You will learn how your respondent deals with the challenges, stressors, opportunities, and needs for effective, legally-framed, professionally ethical, and personally moral approaches to intelligence collection, analysis, and application.

Make sure that your approach demonstrates full respect for the legal, professionally ethical, and personally moral rights of your professional interviewee to privacy, propriety, security, and dignity. Guarantee the confidentiality of the interview process by protecting the identity of your law enforcement interviewee. Do not reveal any information that could be used to his or her professional or personal detriment. The foundation of your interview must be to build and uphold trust so you obtain the most candid responses possible. Take a nonjudgmental, neutral, and understanding approach to the interviewee.

Focus your questions on how this professional views the tools of intelligence activities. These activities include any interactions with persons in the officer’s jurisdiction during his or her official duties. Specifically, field inquiries (commonly termed “stop and frisk”), traffic stops, observations of actions by persons, direct contacts both verbal and nonverbal—any interactions that produce information useful to the pursuit of policing services are features of intelligence work. Additionally, ask your interviewee about how tools such as statistical data, crime pattern data, CompStat, and other crime mapping methods are used on a regular basis.

Some of the questions you might ask your respondent:

Background Questions:
How would you describe the basic functions of your agency, department, or unit?
How would you describe your current duties and responsibilities?
How would you describe your general background and training in relation to your work?
How would you describe your political and social views in general?
What values are most important to you?
What do you think are society’s major problems?
Ask additional questions that delve into the background foundations of the interviewee’s perceptions.

Questions About Intelligence Work:
What are some intelligence policies and practices that you feel are most beneficial and effective to law enforcement? What intelligence practices do you feel are least beneficial or effective? Can you describe an incident of each kind of experience that you have observed?
How do you use community-related crime information provided by your agency and other community agencies and sources to organize and prioritize your enforcement duties on a regular basis?
What are your views and experiences with regard to due process and how it has been actually implemented in the course of police work? Please describe incidents of note, both positive and negative, regarding due process.
How do you feel about the legal rights of possible and likely offenders? How do you understand, perceive, and manage the human and civil rights of possible and likely offenders?
What are some crime patterns and trends that you feel are most encouraging and why do you feel positive about these trends? What crime patterns and trends do you feel are most disturbing and even most threatening to public safety in the community you serve?
How effective is the intelligence work you and other persons and agencies are doing in promoting public safety? What tools do you feel could most enhance the effectiveness of your work?
How does the special knowledge of your jurisdiction that you and others in your agency develop help to reduce crime? What tools of your profession do you feel are most useful in helping to predict and prevent crime incidents?
What changes in intelligence operations or procedures would you like to see implemented in your agency?
Ask additional questions that delve into the perceptions of the interviewee regarding intelligence-led policing.

Instructions for Writing Your Paper:
Analyze the police professional’s perspective of intelligence activities in relation to his or her training, background, roles, and other factors expressed in the interview.
Assess and evaluate the usefulness and benefits of the practices and policies discussed by your interviewee. In what ways do you think these practices and policies are effective, legal, professionally ethical, personally moral, and broadly humane? Do you feel the practices advocated by the professional tend to build rapport, trust, and collaboration with the community?
Assess and evaluate the trends and directions of the intelligence practices and policies discussed by your interviewee. Discuss how the professional uses a variety of community intelligence sources to accomplish his or her daily work. To what degree do you feel these trends, activities, and sources are useful and beneficial?
Assess the impact of your respondent’s perceptions of intelligence work on gaining community support for policing. Do you think this kind of professional perspective, based on reliable intelligence, guides effective policing operations?
Offer suggestions in your paper (but not to the interviewee) on how to enhance the intelligence function described by the professional by improving the quality, effectiveness, legality, morality, ethicality, and humanity of police intelligence activities.
In Addition:
In your analysis, you must apply:
Concepts from your required readings.
Concepts from at least one peer-reviewed scientific research article from a scholarly journal in the Capella library. These sources must be quoted, cited and referenced. Use your conceptual sources to penetrate beneath what the professional tells you to independently analyze and assess the quality of intelligence-led policing derived from the interview

Assignment: Over the first two-thirds of this semester, we’ve focused on the larger relationship that nature has with how our individual, cultural and species identities are formed.
Your assignment is to write a 2000-word paper outlining for your audience to make a significant change in one of the below prompts for the sake of our continued existence. The problem in question should be focused on a global scale and must incorporate some discussion of how our identity is impacted.
You must explain what makes this problem worthy of our attention; in other words, explain its importance and relevance to our lives. This necessitates you explaining the problem, proving the problem’s existence, identifying the solution, and providing ample evidence that your solution can answer the problem in question. Your thesis is, therefore, a variation of: “Because of X, there is an increasingly probability of Y. Therefore we should Z.”
Your essay should be structured simply with an introduction, body paragraphs to explain your thesis, and a conclusion. Evidence from legitimate sources is key to arguing your point. Use your common sense. Blogs are unacceptable unless they are written by documented experts. News sites are acceptable unless they’re opinion pieces. Evidence from a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal is, generally, fine.
You should fully research your subject, educating yourself about what both sides of the argument are saying. If you do this, you will have no problem meeting the page requirements.
1. Sustainable Agriculture Practices
2. Deforestation
3. Conservation of the Oceans
4. The Impact of Mining
5. Fracking for Oil
6. Participation in Cap and Trade Carbon Markets
7. Eco-City Planning
As with any argument, your goal is for the reader to change their beliefs. The essay will not simply be an overview of your topic. While a strong description of its background is necessary, your essay must pass the basics of the Toulmin Test: a claim, reasons to back that claim and evidence to support your reasons. Don’t forget that your audience doesn’t believe that their beliefs are wrong. Establish your authority as a knowledgeable writer, but you must also build commonality and find empathy. If the answers to these questions were obvious, we’d all be on the same side. It’s your job to explain why your perspective is the best for everyone.
Requirements:
– a minimum of 2000 words
– a clear and concise thesis statement
– an introduction that captures the reader’s attention
– an interesting title
– focused, developed body paragraphs
– a conclusion that sufficiently summarizes your argument without being repetitive
– at least 6 credible sources
– use of diction and style appropriate to a formal essay
– be free of grammatical and mechanical errors
– double-spaced and in Times New Roman, 12-pt.
– an abstract AND annotated bibliography
– MLA style for paper formatting, quotes, in-text citations, and Works Cited page (Works Cited is not considered in word count)

A critical evaluation of the employee relations issues in participation and involvement within the UK and Germany.

You should identify and evaluate the ways in which the relevant actors*, that is, the state, employers and employees (including the trade unions) play a role in the employee relations issue that you have identified. It will also be appropriate and important to critically evaluate the way that these three sets of social actors impact on and influence the balance of power in the employee relations issue you have identified.

In addressing your chosen topic please note the following assessment criteria
1 Demonstration of critical understanding of Employee Relations issues

2 Analysis of the roles of the state, employers and employees (and their trade unions) with regard to your identified topic as appropriate

3 Analysis of the balance of power between the actors (employees & their trade unions, employers and the state) as relevant to your topic

4 Integration of theory and practice (include examples of organizational or government policy and practice where relevant)

5 Effective written communication

6 Appropriate referencing to academic texts and journals