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As a human services professional, it is important to recognize what constitutes family violence, what its causes and consequences are.

Write a 750- to 1,000-word paper, including the following information:

• Include a basic definition of family violence.
• Describe what indicators a counselor should be aware of when assessing a child and his or her family.
• Explore the long-term effects violence has on the family.
• Determine what triggers could be associated in family violence.
• Identify the implications associated with abuse and neglect.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

In a 3 – 5 page double-spaced paper, assess your diversity consciousness and create an action plan to strengthen it. Although this is your personal assessment and action plan, connect your analysis to course concepts and assigned reading. The paper should include appropriate citations and a reference page as well as written in APA Format. Please look at the Rubric CAREFULLY. It is attached below.

 
Book To be Referenced- Bucher, R. D. (2014). Diversity consciousness: Opening our minds to people, cultures and opportunities (4 th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0321919069

In this analysis,

• Describe your awareness and understanding of diversity comparing and contrasting your textbook’s definition with your own. What surprised you in the assigned readings and class discussions? What new insights have your gained?
• Evaluate your diversity skills and how they facilitate enhance your success at school and work. Strengthening what diversity skills could enhance your effectiveness as a leader?
• Identify personal and/or social barriers you face and discuss options to overcome them.
• Based on this assessment, prepare an action plan to increase your diversity consciousness by identifying two clearly defined and specific actions you will take by the end of OLCU 425.

Due Week 4 and worth 350 points

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
5. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality 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; 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 page

This week you will continue to work on your Final Project, which is due in Week 7. By Day 7, you will submit a business memo, written to your Instructor, that explains how you plan to incorporate your learning from the week into your Final Project. This will not be a “perfect” synopsis at this point, but it should capture the main themes and important ideas from the week. Your memo should include the following:

• Your preliminary summary of how you are planning to incorporate this week’s learning into your Final Project
• Your ideas and recommendations for how your organization can mitigate the short-term and long-term issues that can arise when selecting and using data resources and systems
• Brief descriptions of the types of data resources, data processing, and storage systems chosen
• An explanation of how the organization might manage the potential implications of those selections, while taking advantage of the opportunities they afford to sustain the business or gain a competitive advantage
• Other relevant recommendations or issues that you identified, with a brief analysis of why they are important

Note: If you are unable to find relevant information, you may want to look for similar information at /for other similar publically traded companies. You may find relevant information that will enable you to make appropriate inferences about your organization and make reasonable assumptions so you can proceed with your project.

If you have questions about how to apply what you are learning or how to find the most relevant information for your organization’s needs, please discuss your choice with your Instructor using the Contact the Instructor link in the classroom.

General Guidance on Assignment Length: Your Week 3 Assignment will typically be 1.5–3 pages (0.75–1 page(s) if single spaced), excluding a title page (not required for this Assignment) and references.

As a best practice for this course, as you engage and complete your weekly activities, you will capture notes on your learning for each week and add them to your Final Project Portfolio, which you will use to formulate your Final Project. By the time you turn in your Final Project in Week 7, your working Final Project Portfolio document will contain your notes on the resources you found relevant in each week, as well as your ideas for how your organization can improve its business information systems management with respect to each week’s main themes. You should also include your analyses of the implications of your recommendations, as well as reasons why your recommendations are important. You will update your Final Project Portfolio each week.

This week you are encouraged to begin setting up your presentation in PowerPoint. You should complete a title slide and 1–2 slides with your preliminary recommendations for your organization as they relate to this week’s learning.

Note: Neither your Final Project Portfolio nor your preliminary slides will be submitted for grading this week.

To complete your Assignment, click on Assignments on the course navigation menu.Books24x7. (Producer). (2011j). Tom Davenport: The DELTA Model: Targets. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Required

• Hernandez, R. R., Mayernik, M. S., Murphy-Mariscal, M. L., & Allen, M. F. (2012).  Advanced technologies and data management practices in environmental science: lessons from academia.BioScience, 62(12), 1067–1076.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.This study is an analysis of 434 graduate students’ survey responses on the topic of technological advances in the environmental sciences.

• Kant, C. (2009). Putting your enterprise data in the cloud? Top considerations. Siliconindia,12(8), 22–23.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.In this article, Kant discusses the factors IT leaders in India should consider before transitioning their organizations from on-premise data storage to cloud computing.

• Lakshmi, B., Venkata, P., Kumar, K., Shahnaz Banu, A. S., & Reddy, K. A. (2013). Data confidentiality and loss prevention using virtual private database. International Journal on Computer Science & Engineering, 5(3),143–149.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.This paper provides practical tools for maintaining database security, and preventing data loss and theft, through the use of the virtual private database.

• Shaffer, C. (2012). Managing data in the cloud age. Drug Discovery & Development, 15(8), 10–12.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.In this report, Shaffer takes a look at several pharmaceutical companies’ attempts to manage exploding data through partnerships and cloud computing.

• White, D. E., Oelke, N. D., & Friesen, S. (2012). Management of a large qualitative data set.International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 11(3), 244–258.

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.In this article, the authors suggest eight steps health services researchers can take to help maintain both the rigor and integrity of their studies involving large qualitative data sets. Must use robert hampton as CIO of Amazon on-line organization. than you.

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In Assignments 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3, you will be building up a formal, researched justification report (one part at a time) that culminates in a recommendation to implement a particular product, service, or program in your place of employment. This recommended product, service, or program should resolve a problem that you identify in your workplace and should be directed to your employer (even if you do not actually plan to share it with your employer).

Use the basic outline below to draft Assignment 2. Organize your responses to each question under the following section headings:

• Problem Statement (for Question 1)
• Overview of Alternatives (for Question 2)
• Criteria (for Question 3)
• Methods (for Question 4)

Using the provided template, write Part 1 of a single-spaced report in which you:

1. Discuss in detail a problem at work, persuading and convincing the reader that it needs fixing.
2. Provide a detailed description of two (2) possible solutions (“alternatives”) that could be implemented to resolve the problem identified in Question 1.
3. List and detail five (5) criteria that you will use to measure the worth of each alternative in Question 2. Note: The alternative that satisfies the most criteria to the highest degree will be the one you recommend later to your employer (in Assignment 2.3). Criteria are standards that the audience values and are therefore used to measure the worth of each alternative (common examples include cost, desirability, durability, efficiency, time it will take to implement, and practicality).
4. Describe in detail how you will conduct the research needed to determine the best alternative to recommend to your employer. Note: This is a one to two (1-2) paragraph description of what research needs to be completed in order to evaluate the alternatives. This is not a detailed procedure for solving the problem.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, single 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, your 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 firm is WALMART

This course requires research, analysis, and drawing conclusions on a firm operating in the international business environment. This paper will provide you an opportunity to explore the many strengths and weaknesses a firm encounters in the international business environment.

 

A 12-15 page (excluding appendices, table of contents, abstract, reference, and bibliography) research paper (case study) is required. This paper represents 35% of the final course grade. Students will select a firm operating in the international business environment. This paper will be prepared consistent with the current APA Manual and will have a minimum of ten different references (No Wiki’s or Pedia’s). Some of the bibliography and references will most likely come from the firm you have chosen: source documents, e.g., annual reports, and financial statements.  As such this reduces the need for peer reviewed sources. However, peer reviewed sources are still important and should be listed in the bibliography/reference section(s) and cited in the paper as appropriate. This paper is due the last day of class.

In addition, the research paper will be prepared consistent with the following guidelines:

1. This serves as an introduction to the Research Paper. Provide an overview of the research design of the paper. Introduce the various topics that will be addressed in the research paper. Identify the method(s) that will be used to collect the data for the topics and how that data will be evaluated. 2. There will be a brief discussion of the firm to include its principle goods and services, market share, geographic locations where it operates, and major competitors.  3. Evaluate and discuss whether the firm could benefit by using Activity Based Costing (ABC). The discussion should include what factor(s) influenced your decision, the ramifications of implementing ABC in the international business environment, and how you would structure the distribution of costs using ABC for your firm.  4. Evaluate and discuss whether the firm could benefit by using standard costs. The discussion should include what factor(s) influenced your decision, the ramifications of costs, quantity, and variances, and the ramifications of using standard costs in the international business environment. 5. Evaluate and discuss how the firm could benefit by analyzing future projects in terms relevant costs. This discussion should include the firm’s future plans, such as, expansion, consolidation, and downsizing and how relevant costs could be used in the decision making.  6. Summary and conclusion(s). The discussion should provide a brief summary of the previous sections, and the conclusions you have reached.

Imagine that you are in charge of water quality for a local branch of your state’s Department of Environmental Protection. It is an agricultural region with several large industrial farms and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). There have been several algal blooms in local lakes that have affected tourism and resulted in dead zones in the lakes. Your boss has asked you to write a report that describes the situation, analyzes three solutions, and uses one of those solutions in an overall management plan for the region.

 

Your report should address the following:

 Describe the environmental conditions and chemical processes that are leading to the dead zones.

 Include a two-paragraph summary of three different methods of controlling the agricultural runoff in the area. These methods should be from studies in a peer-reviewed journal. Each summary should consist of a description of the study, its methods, and its results.

 Prepare a plan of action for the region that uses one of the proposed solutions you have analyzed, along with your reasoning for choosing the solution.

 

Your paper should be a minimum of two pages in length (not including title and references pages) and follow

Paul and Elder encourage students to redefine grades as levels of thinking and learning. What do they mean by this? In your view, are grades necessary or unnecessary for self-assessment? Provide an example from your own experience to support your position.

Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

 

Describe the logic behind a field of study that is not covered in the text book. Answer questions about the elements of thought (assumptions, problems, point of view, etc.) for the subject.

Explore the “About Us” area of the Walden home page (http://www.waldenu.edu/about), paying particular attention to Walden’s Vision and Mission, which state:

Mission

Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can effect positive social change.

Vision

Walden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century learning community where knowledge is judged worthy to the degree that it can be applied by its graduates to the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing the greater global good.

Reflecting on these resources, consider what Walden’s mission, vision, and outcomes mean to you and how they relate to your professional goals and development. With these thoughts in mind, Write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you:

• Describe your professional goals and identify how your studies at Walden will help you to achieve them.
• Choose one particular goal described in the first part of your paper and elaborate on how this goal will affect your development as a scholar-practitioner at Walden.
• Identify how your role as a scholar-practitioner will help you to become an agent of change and innovation, both professionally and socially.