Day: September 6, 2019

Module 7 DQ 1

 

Describe what an innovation measurement system
would focus on in your organization. Identify how you might use it to support your innovations.

 

 

 

Module 7 DQ 2

 

Create two measures of innovation for your
organization. Why would these measurements be valuable?

 

 

 

Topic 7 DQ 1

 

Effective managers can successfully locate and apply relevant human resources laws and regulations. The United States Department of Labor website is an excellent source of reliable information.

 

Access the search box of the U.S. Dept. of Labor website located at www.dol.gov.

 

Choose three laws from the list below to research. For each of your three chosen laws, provide a bulleted list of five or six relevant facts that you believe have significance for line managers.

 

1. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
2. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA)
3. Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
4. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
5. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
6. Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
7. National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
8. Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)
9. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (see whistleblower protection provisions)

 

 

 

Topic 7 DQ 2

 

Should executives receive bonuses if the organization is underperforming? The response may seem apparent, but if you think they should not, would you apply the same standard to your position (assuming you are not an executive)? That is, should you receive a bonus or pay increase only when your company is doing well, even though you do not have a direct impact on the company’s bottom line? Provide an explanation for your response. Support your response with APA cited reference(s).

The benchmark assesses the following competency:

 

4.2 Communicate therapeutically with patients.

 

The RN to BSN program meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities.

 

Note:  The teaching plan proposal developed in this assignment will be used to develop your Community Teaching Plan: Community Presentation due in Topic 5. You are strongly encouraged to begin working on your presentation once you have received and submitted this proposal.

 

Select one of the following as the focus for the teaching plan:

 

1. Primary Prevention/Health Promotion
2. Secondary Prevention/Screenings for a Vulnerable Population
3. Bioterrorism/Disaster
4. Environmental Issues

 

Use the “Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal” resource to complete this assignment. This will help you organize your plan and create an outline for the written assignment.

 

1. After completing the teaching proposal, review the teaching plan proposal with a community health and public health provider in your local community.
2. Request feedback (strengths and opportunities for improvement) from the provider.
3. Complete the “Community Teaching Experience” form with the provider. You will submit this form in Topic 5.

 

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is not necessary.   

 

Attachments NRS-428VN-RS3-CommunityTeachingWorkPlanProposal.docx

Data Analysis Project 1

 

For this project each student will learn and demonstrate competency in researching economics; that is, creatively designing a research question, locating pertinent and credible data to support an answer, and presenting results in a professional and articulate manner. The skill set practiced in this project is highly valued in business and government occupations. Follow these steps to complete the project:

 

1. Using the data covered in the Demography and Housing slides, generate five research questions to study (e.g. “Have home prices in the U.S. increased since 2010?”, “What is the racial composition of U.S. males?”). You are to create two research questions from Demography, two from Housing, and one from either category. You are to use at least 3 different data sources (e.g. census, CDC, NAR, etc.) in the overall project.  

 

2. Excel File: For each research question create an Excel sheet with your data set and one graph. You are to use each of the following graphs once in the overall project:

 

ü Bar chart (horizontal or vertical)

 

ü Pie chart

 

ü Histogram

 

ü Frequency table, 

 

ü Scatterplot (lined or unlined). 

 

3. PowerPoint Presentation: For each question, create a PowerPoint slide containing one graph, up to three bullet points (optional), and hyperlinks to your data source website (make sure the links work and ). The PowerPoint should also contain an introduction slide (e.g. name, project #, and class). 

 

4. Submission: Upload the Excel and PowerPoint file into the link provided in Blackboard by the due date (no e-mailed copies). 

 

5. Grading: Project grade is weighted 50/50 for Excel/PowerPoint; however, both must be submitted to receive a score. Excel graphs must be derived from the data input in Excel.  The PowerPoint is graded subjectively as a presentation to your fellow classmates so cosmetics, spelling, character size, color, creativity all matter. 

 

6. Academic Integrity: Do not copy graphs from websites nor replicate another student’s work. 

Your Project Sponsor has approved your project proposal and has asked you to come up with a proposal for the execution, control, and closure for the project.

 

Instructions:

 

For this assignment, you will provide a four to six (4-6) page paper, in which you must:

 

1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
2. Identify and discuss your project’s greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.
3. Examine how you manage your project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM). Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.

 Demand function specifies other factors that management will often consider, including the design and packaging of products, the amount and distribution of the firm’s advertising budget, the size of the sales force, promotional expenditures, the time period of adjustment for any price changes, and taxes or subsidies. For this discussion forum, consider your favorite consumer product (e.g. cell phone, car, cereal, restaurant, hair gel, etc.) and describe the variables that might be part of the demand function (i.e. substitute good, complementary good, income level, advertisement, consumer preference, etc.) for this product. How would you describe the elasticity of demand for this product – is it highly or somewhat elastic or inelastic? Why? 

1. What are the core competencies and capacities that public managers and policy analysts will need to lead the next generation of policyinformatics integration? — 400 words with 3 references.

2. In what role will technology, such as big data, social media, and e-business, change public managers integration of performance and informatics? — 400 words with 3 references.

3. Topic  Combining Disciplines in E-government Policy-Making  and address below questions — all combine 300 words with 3 references,
    a.Provide a very brief overview of what you think are the key points (a literature review).
    b.What about the policy area interests you?
   c.What about the information systems involved in the article interested you?
   d.How might this article’s research approach help you in your dissertation research project? 

Text book:  Fraser, J., Simkins, B., & Narvaez, K. (2014). Implementing enterprise risk management: Case studies and best practices. John Wiley & Sons

 

——After reading and analyzing chapter 3 from the above  textbook, ERM at Mars, Incorporated: ERM for Strategy andOperations, please consider the following:

 

• From your analysis, what are the key success factor contributed to the Mars’ ERM project?
• Do you view Mars’ ERM project as a success?  Please elaborate on your answer?
• What improvements would you make? 

 

To complete this assignment, please do the following:

 

1. Please write between 300 to 400 words.
   APA format. 

 When responding to the peers post, consider whether you see a clear connection between the questions they ask and the natural sciences. Based on this review, do you think you could further clarify your own post? Remember that when you respond to your peers in the discussion forum, your tone and language should be very respectful. Your feedback should be constructive, meaning that it focuses on positive aspects and how the presented ideas might be strengthened. 

 

 

 

 CODY POST

 

My name is Cody Ater and I am from a small farming village in Ohio. I am finishing my Bachelor’s in Computer Science currently. I live with two cats, a dog, multiple fish in our aquarium, and my fiance Brandon. I recently began an internship with a company in the city to gain some experience and knowledge (and hopefully networking!) to future my career opportunities. 

 

The topic I read about was

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190905090931.htm

 

“Role of earthquake motions in triggering a ‘surprise’ tsunami”

 

Summary: In September, 2018 tsunami that struck Sulawesi, Indonesia that left scientists scrambling to understand what caused the incident. The initial shock and confusion was caused by the fact that the earthquake that took place before the tsunami “primarily offset the ground horizontally” (Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, 2019), which was contradictory to the precedent of tsunamis being caused by vertical displacement instead. A new implementation of supercomputing models has shed more light on what caused this tsunami to take place in such a short period of time, as well as information about the factors that can lead to them.

 

Questions:
How can this new information be used to improve the way that similarly situated fault lines are alerted and prepared for the speed of an upcoming earthquake, or the potential for a tsunami following close after?

 

With the successful application of this new supercomputer model for earthquakes and tsunamis, how can this application be altered and applied to other fault line setups around the world?

 

 

 

JESSIE POST

 

My name is Jessie. I have a beautiful 2 year old daughter who is the one motivating me to do better and get my degree. I currently live in South Carolina in a small town right outside of Charlotte, NC. (We are far enough inland that I should not be affected by the hurricane so no worries there.) I just recently moved here from Tennessee to get a better job in a bigger city. My goals for taking this course are to learn to let curiosity take over and want to learn more about everything.  

 

 

 

Questions about the eruptions:

 

 

 

Is there any way we can accurately monitor the fault lines for us to know about eruptions and earthquakes in advanced?

 

 

 

What are we to expect with the eruption happening under the ice? Is the ice going to stop the lava and the lava be a river under the ice, or is the lava going to erupt straight up through the ice?

 

 

 

My Article:

 

 

 

School readiness impaired in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms

 

 

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190722085826.htm

 

 

 

Just because a child has reached a certain age does not mean that he/she is ready for school. Toddlers already have ADHD like symptoms (that is just toddler behavior), but not all of them grow out of this phase and are ready to transition into a classroom setting at such a young age.

 

 

 

Is it something that is happening at home that does not have him/her ready for a classroom situation?

 

 

 

Does his/her parents childhood correlate with his/hers? It behavior genetic or learned?