Must follow outline attached and answer the following questions:
1. According to Socrates, must one heed popular opinion about moral matters?
2. Does Socrates accept the fairness of the laws under which he was tried and convicted?
3. Would Socrates have been wrong to escape?
The first two questions are to be researched and summarized. The last is your evaluation of if you think Socrates did the right thing and why or why not.
Need to be completed by 2/24/2020 1:00 PM EST.
Onboard Assignment
STRATEGIC TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT
This assignment is worth 20% of your final grade. It gives you an opportunity to investigate, analyze, and report on the strategic role of training and development in an organization. You must complete this assignment individually, without contacting other students, and you may not use a paper or any part of a paper from a previous class or from another person. If you have questions about this assignment, please post them in the Ask the Professor discussion forum so that everyone can benefit from the answers. The assignment addresses Course Objectives 1, 2, and 3.
The Training Top 125 for 2019
For the past 19 years, Training magazine has ranked organizations based on their employer-sponsored training and development programs (Freifeld, 2019). The list below contains the top five organizations for 2019.
Company
2019 Rank
2018 Rank
Dollar General Corporation, LLC
1
5
Leading Real Estate Companies of the World
2
1
Best Buy
3
10
Nationwide
4
7
BNSF Railway Co.
5
4
Details about the selection process and about all 125 organizations ranked by Training can be found at the magazines website at
You can obtain a link to a PDF with profiles of all of the Top 125 companies here (scan down to the bottom of the article):
You should also browse the website for additional articles related to the 2019 Top 125 list. The March/April 2019 issue, which you can find in Trainings , has feature articles on the top five companies for 2019.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Choose one of Training magazines top five organizations and investigate the organizations strategic training and development initiatives.
In addition to researching articles on Trainings website, you should explore the organizations web site for business information (hint: look for the organizations annual report, which can be a source of information about financial expenditures, company priorities, and competition) and use the UMUC library to conduct a search for references to the organization. Dont forget to look for YouTube videos by or about the organization.
Prepare a 3-5 page report based on your research.
Using the criteria Training uses to rank organizations as well as information from your own research, prepare a 3-5 page report about strategic training and development in your chosen organization. Your report should include, but is not limited to, the following elements:
1. A description of the organization and its major products and/or services (a brief description — no more than two or three paragraphs). Try to find information about the organizations mission and/or goals and how its training function is organized. The organizations website and its annual report, particularly the letter to shareholders at the beginning of the annual report, are good sources of information. Be sure to cite the specific web page where you found information used in your report.
2. An assessment of the characteristics of the organization that help it excel in training and development. Include factors such as (but not limited to) the total budget for or amount of money spent on training and development; the level of employee involvement in training and development activities; the type(s) of training and development opportunities offered; the organizations investment in and/or use of technology for training; and the availability of benefits such as tuition assistance.
3. An assessment of how the TD function operates in the organization. How is the TD function organized? For a description of three training organizational models, read Organizational Models in Training (Training Industry, 2013), available at . Does the organization use training needs analyses (TNAs) to identify performance gaps or the need for new skills to support business strategies and initiatives? Does the organization employ the ADDIE, RID, or Agile approaches to design training? Does the organization embrace any of the TD competencies described in the ATD competency model mentioned in the Week 1 lecture?
Support your opinions and statements with a minimum of four references from sources published within the last ten years. You can cite scholarly and practitioner-oriented journals, course materials, newspaper articles, YouTube videos by or about the organization, the organizations annual report, and the organizations web site, but not Wikipedia, vendor websites, or other non-academic sources. The UMUC library can help you identify appropriate sources.
Use APA format for citations, references, and quotations. This means your list of references should start on a separate page, and should be double spaced, with a hanging indent and no spaces between entries. For help with APA format, please consult the Writing Resources module in the Course Resources section of our classroom. Your report should be three to five pages (not counting the cover or reference pages), double spaced with one-inch margins and a font size of at least 11 points.
Submit your assignment.
Please add the following statement to the cover of your paper:
This paper is my own work that I created specifically for this course and this section. All research or material I used in preparing this paper has been properly acknowledged within the assignment in accordance with academic standards for complete and accurate citation of sources.
Submit your assignment electronically via the Assignments folder.
Name your file this way: YourLastNameFirstInitial_TrainingReport
(Example: DoeJ_TrainingReport)
Due date: Sunday, February 23, 11:59 p.m. Eastern time
Please see the next page for the grading criteria for this assignment.
References
Freifeld, L. (2019, February 26). Training Magazine ranks 2019 Training Top 125 organizations. Retrieved from
Training Industry. (2013, May 23). Organizational models in training. Retrieved from
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Complete the following by writing a response to three of the four following questions. For each question, your response should be 2 or more paragraphs. Make it clear which question you are answering and use correct grammar throughout. If you answer all four questions, only the first three provided will be graded.
Your responses are to be based on your own experiences and insights. Do not use materials and examples from other sources, including the Internet. Students have used examples from outside sources in the past and have failed this final assessment and in some cases, failed the course due to evidence of plagiarism.
3 pages
Your topic should be related to the reading from the etext. Once you have chosen a topic of interest, please email me so that I can approve. My suggestion is that you skim through the etext for some ideas. Choosing a topic that you are interested in will make this more enjoyable. You are not limited, you can choose anything related to Human Resources Management as long as it is appropriate.
Requirements
6 slides
1st slide should include title (your topic of choice) and your name
slides 2 -6 should include one key word that relates to your topic and related picture(s).
Your heading will be the only text allowed on the slide (No bullet points). You will have to know your topic and present based on your research.
Example:
Slide 1 Title Page: Biggest Mistakes made by HR Managers
Slide 2: Hiring
Slide 3: I-9
Slide 4: Terminations
Slide 5: Compensation
Slide 6: Discrimination
In the world of marketing, two specific environments exist: business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C). What are the two primary differences in these environments? Give an example of a company engaged in each environment and describe the primary product being marketed in each. What is the environment of the marketing simulation in which you are participating? Please use 2 references.
Introduction
(The Introduction paragraph is the first paragraph of the paper and will be used to describe to the reader the intent of the paper explaining the main points covered in the paper. This intent should be understood prior to reading the remainder of the paper so the reader knows exactly what is being covered in the paper. Write the introduction last to ensure all of the main points are covered.)
Alternative Strategy Generation
To generate a pool of strategies, you will look at the organizations business level strategy, corporate level strategy and global strategy. Using the information and data collected from your research, and the analytical outcomes from (a) external factor analysis in your Project 1 and (b) internal factor analysis in Project 2, you will generate a pool of strategies.
Strategy Prioritization
Strategy Selection
Strategy Implementation
Strategy Evaluation
Use frameworks and tools discussed throughout the course. Support the reasoning and conclusions made.
Conclusion
Unit7ProgDev DUE 02.26.2020
Unit7Assign
As a human services leader, you are aware, through direct or indirect work, of a government agency’s unique context of practice. Developing a program within a government agency presents its unique challenges and resources.
This paper will give you the opportunity to practice how to develop a program within a government agency. This program should address the social problem and unmet community need you previously identified in the Unit 5 assignment (u05a1), regarding your local community. Utilizing your needs assessment information, you will provide a rationale for the need for this program and describe how it will meet this need.
Since good program design comes with strong program evaluation, you will also determine an appropriate program evaluation strategy for your program. The government program that you, as a civil servant, design must address issues of diversity and inclusion and maintain ethical standards. To further validate and support your proposal, you will use reputable sources.
Write a 35 page proposal to develop a program for a government agency. Recognizing the unique resources and context of a government agency, develop a program to address the need you presented in your community needs assessment (in Unit 5). Highlight key components of the community needs assessment that support the need for the new program, and address how the new program addresses this need. In the proposal, include an appropriate strategy for program evaluation. Integrate ethics, as well as issues of diversity and inclusion. Support your proposal with the required course readings and other reputable sources.
To complete this assignment successfully, be sure to address the following:
Support your paper with the required readings and other reputable sources.
To complete this assignment successfully, your paper will need to meet the following specifications:
Refer to the Program Development for a Government Agency Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment. ***SEE ATTACHMENTS***
Unit7Disc
Discuss what local government agency or department would be the primary stakeholder for hosting the new program that you are designing for this week’s assignment. Support your choice with rationale and literature from the field.
A relational database must be designed and normalized before it can be created, populated with data, and used. Database design depends on the business scenario(s) a database architect needs to model, but all relational database designs benefit from being normalized.
Follow the instructions on the Normalized Database Design document. The document is attached. You must use and follow the attachment. The scenario is also attached. It must be used and followed as well.
Note: For this assignment, you will be given a business scenario. If you make changes during the normalization process (and usually this is the case) you will update your ERD to reflect the changes. Later in this course, you will be asked to implement the ERD from this week.
Submit your ERD and your normalized database design.
No plagiarism. APA format Microsoft Access is to be used for the database.
Respond to one of the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Discuss the differences between storing data in a spreadsheet verses storing data in a database.
In what business scenarios might one approach be superior to the other?
What are the pros and cons of each approach?
Why do you think many businesses today use both spreadsheets and databases to manage their data?
Respond to one of the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Share at least one real-world example of the following types of data relationships:
1:1
1:M
M:N (many-to-many)
Your example can be from work, school, a hobby, or daily life.
Discuss why you think making the distinction between these types of relationships is important for database designers. How does each of these types of relationships affect the complexity of storing and retrieving data? How do database architects apply the concepts of primary and foreign keys to each type of data relationship?
