Included in this module are the suggested readings regarding staffing plans, along with examples for how to incorporate staffing in your agency. In a minimum of 300 words, you will post your answer to the Discussion Area.
Tasks:
Using at least 5 resources from the professional literature, respond to the following in a minimum of 400 words as it relates to the Human Services field. The literature may include the University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, and .gov):
• Using the same position in the Human Services field that you discussed in M1 Assignment 1 Discussion, assume that you are the hiring officer in your agency. Discuss a minimum of three things you will look for when choosing your staff. (This can include personality characteristics such as dedication, hard work, and efficiency; and/or job skills, such as understanding Microsoft Office programs, having experience working with children, and having tutoring experience.) How will you determine that the applicants have the desired qualities? Keep in mind the mission and vision of your agency.
• Determine and discuss how you will evaluate and hold employees accountable.
Suppose you have a supervisee who has earned a negative quarterly evaluation. Discuss how you would talk with this supervisee, including three examples of statements or questions you would ask during your discussion. Keep the ethics codes and multiculturalism values in mind when answering this question.

Complete the following readings early in the module:
• Module 4 overview
• From your course textbook in HS6010 An Introduction to Human Services: Policy and Practice, read the following chapters:
o Organizing and Changing Systems
o Understanding Legal Issues
• From your course textbook in HS6532 Program Evaluation and Performance Management: An Introduction to Practice, read the following chapter:
o Measurement for Program Evaluation and Performance Monitoring
• From your course textbook in HS6020 Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional: Cultural and Philosophical Foundations, read the following chapters:
o Ethics Codes, Codes of Conduct, Employer Policies, and the Law
o Teaching, Mentoring, Supervision
• From the University online library resources, read the following articles:
o ‘Accountability’: An Ever-Expanding Concept?
o An Integrated Analysis of Nurse Staffing and Scheduling Policies
o Performance-Based Contracting for Human Services: A Proposed Model
o Rediscovering Implementation: Public Sector Contracting and Human Services
o Ten Approaches for Enhancing Empathy in Health and Human Services Cultures
Suggested Reading:
From the Internet, read the following:
An Integrated Approach to Determine Hospital Outpatient Staffing Needs

In this assignment, you will work on the second component building toward the final LASA in M4 Assignment 2 LASA. You are required to create your funding proposal and community partnership outline for your agency. A funding proposal may be quite complex, depending on the mission and vision of your agency. Identifying appropriate community partners for your agency should include the community partner, services you will provide each other, and your justification to believe this partner is an appropriate one for your agency.
Tasks:
In a 3- to 5-page professional proposal, complete the following:
1. Develop a funding proposal for the agency. In the funding proposal, describe the resource needs in relation to the resource availability and the costs, in both human and other resource terms, in relation to the anticipated benefits (PO 8).
2. Identify community partnerships that would collaborate with the agency to advance its mission (PO 2, 4, 6, 7).
In addition, you will address the following program outcomes: Interdisciplinary Practice (PO 2), Research (PO 3), Personal Value Systems & Interpersonal Effectiveness (PO 4), Multicultural Competence (PO 5), Professional Ethics (PO 6), Policy Advocacy (PO 7), and Administration of Human Services
Complete the following readings early in the module:
• Module 3 overview
• From your course textbook in HS6022 Reading and Understanding Research, read the following chapter:
o Reading Reports of Quantitative Research—Critically: Things to Notice and Questions to Ask
• From your course textbook in HS6532 Program Evaluation and Performance Management: An Introduction to Practice, read the following chapter:
o Program Evaluation and Program Management
• From your course textbook in HS6020 Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional: Cultural and Philosophical Foundations, read the following chapter:
o Competence, Accountability, and Research: How We Know What We Should Know
• From the University online library resources, read the following articles:
o A Model to Translate Evidence-Based Interventions into Community Practice
o Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice and Organizational Performance
o Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Need to Revisit
Suggested Readings:
From the Internet, read the following:
• Building and Maintaining a Partnership
• Definition and Rationale for Partnerships
• Developing and Writing Grant Proposals
• Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
• Initial Steps in Creating Partnerships
• Key Characteristics of Successful Partnerships
• Sample Grant Proposal
Writing a Funding Proposal

Prior to beginning the final assignment, review the following chapters:

Chapter 7: Classical Macroeconomics and the Keynesian Challenge

Chapter 9: Taxes, Government Spending, and Fiscal Policy

Chapter 12: Banking and The Federal Reserve System

Chapter 14: Monetary Policy In Theory And Practice

Focus of the Final Paper

In an effort to move the economy out of a recession, the federal government would engage in expansionary economic policies. Respond to the following points in your paper on the actions the government would take to address expansionary fiscal and monetary policies:

Expansionary Fiscal Policy:

Explain the actions the federal government would take while engaging in expansionary fiscal policy in terms of the following:

• The necessary change in taxes and government spending,
• The effect on aggregate demand, GDP, and employment.

Expansionary Monetary Policy:

The three tools the Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed) uses when conducting monetary policy are the required reserve ratio, the discount rate, and open market operations.

Explain the actions of the Fed in regard to the three tools.

• When the required reserve ratio is increased or decreased
• When the discount rate is increased or decreased
• Buying or selling government securities when conducting expansionary monetary policy

Explain how these actions would affect the money supply, interest rates, spending, aggregate demand, GDP, and employment.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in your approved styled guide.
2. Must include a title page that includes:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
6. Must use at least four scholarly resources, including the textbook.   Two sources must come from the Ashford Library.
7. Must use APA style as outlined in your approved style guide to document all sources.
8. Must include, on the final page, a reference List that is completed according to APA style as outlined in your approved style guide.

Answer the follow question in APA format:

 

1.       How can employees benefit from alternative work arrangements?  Why?

 

2.       What are some of the possible negative outcomes for employers and/or employees regarding alternative work arrangements? Please explain your answer.

 

3.       What types of factors are influencing organizations to consider using alternative work arrangements? Explain how alternative work arrangements can address the problems/issues that are raised by these factors.

 

4.       Should the availability of alternative work arrangements to employees in the United States be mandated by law? Why or why not?

Identify an organized criminal enterprise. Research the organization’s activities for the last 10-20 years and identify common “legitimate” businesses they engage in or are associated with. Explain the “benefit” type relationship that exists between the organization and the local business community Explain the extent of the relationship, how each party benefits, the common activities/industries involved, and any successful efforts by l

RG-2 Discussion two ( With two response.)

 

1. Discuss the biggest lesson you learned in terms a business’s environment from the Malcolm Gladwell video. (Choice, Happiness, Spaghetti.)

 

2. Watch the following You Tube videos on the ideas of Gert Hofstedeand Chinese culture. Give examples of how Hofstede’s dimensions can cause problems if ignored by a manager expanding operations overseas.

• How do the US and China compare on these dimensions?
• What should you do if he/she finds the cultural traditions of another country morally offensive?

3. Consider the concept of diversity. Give examples of how you have seen diversity in terms of age, ethnicity, gender, nationality or religion help problem solving and how you have seen diversity cause conflicts

Week 1 eActivity

 

“Financial Statements”  Please respond to the following:

• From the e-Activity, analyze Apple’s most recent financial statements. Based on your analysis, predict whether Apple’s financial health will likely improve or deteriorate over the next five (5) years. Provide a rationale for your response.
• From the e-Activity, examine Apple’s statement of cash flows. Recommend at least two (2) actions that Apple could take in order to maximize the use of its cash flows. Provide a rationale for your response.

For each question I just need 4 sentencse.  Its our discussion for week 1.  Thank yo

ou are the lead investigator for a suspicious fire in the Novandon Fur Warehouse, which was cold storage for mink and sable fur coats. The fire scene investigative team tells you that the fire started in several points simultaneously, and it appears the telephone line that monitors the fire detection equipment has been cut. The fire was fully involved by the time the fire department arrived. The warehouse and the contents are a complete loss. You must consider the direction that your investigators must take to determine the possible motives for this fire. Direct them to look in at least 3 directions for a motive. Keep in mind the type of warehouse this was.

• Concerning the owner of the warehouse, what documentation would you get to help you establish potential motives? Why?
• When interviewing the owner of the warehouse, what specific threats might you ask about? Why?
  • How would the owner’s responses be helpful? Explain.

   

  4 paragraphs with references and no more the 25% plaigiarism.

Now that you have developed multiple drafts for your process essay, it is time to revise and edit one final time.

 

Complete the following steps:

 

1.    Review feedback you received from your classmates and instructor on your rough draft of the process essay.

 

2.    Evaluate and revise your writing based on the peer review documents you received from your classmates. 

 

3.    Complete the assignment in a document.

 

Remember that the essay should be…

 

• clearly organized with an introduction (with thesis statement), body (with topic sentences for each paragraph), and conclusion.
• a minimum of five paragraphs.
• approximately 520 words.
• unified, supported, and coherent.
• APA Format

Respond by sharing additional insights or alternative perspectives.

Reminder: Be sure to support your posting and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources and/or current literature. Use APA formatting to cite references in your posting and responses.

 

Prompt one: Stakeholder Engagement and Roles in Strategic Planning:

Organizations seek to develop collaborative support for new strategies and roadmap to exploit new trends to identify and establish, new opportunities through the use of meaningful stakeholder engagement. Though it is not linear rather iterative process in which an organization learns and improves its ability to perform meaningful stakeholder engagement, developing relationships is a mutual respect in place of one-off consultations. The early engagement is beneficial to outline the likely opportunities, risks, conflicts and constrains within the organization, and reinforce partnership.

As the organizational leader, the following aspects might be considered in terms of stakeholder management to establish an engagement process which will promote cross-cultural relationship and fostering widespread habit of tolerance and compromise within the organization built on common values and vision.

• Internal alignment of the concerns in expectations, roles and outcomes: This stream of action will help to appreciate a multitude of viewpoints, pressures and business objectives the organization has.
• Building trust with stakeholders: Building the level of trust in relationship aided by understanding their viewpoints or motivations through avoiding not be too quick to judge.
• Building transparent environment: recognizing and articulating the tone of participation will play a pivotal path to encourage viewpoints from across the population spectrum
• Allow representatives from all your stakeholders: This includes gender, race, age, class, education or religion attributable to diversified opinions flow.
• Organization’s culture: This will have an impact on how stakeholder engagement occurs (i.e. autonomy for local adaption and local relevance).Therefore assessing its culture is important for identifying enablers and barriers to your stakeholder engagement activities.
• Assessing past non-productive engagement behavior will help the organization to learn from past experiences. It is important to collate this information from both the organization and stakeholder viewpoints.
• Recognize the interplay the influences between leadership, and capabilities in creating strategies, processes and procedures.
• Perform effective communication.

References:

1. Bryson, J. M. (2011). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
2. Raj Sharma. (n.d). The six principles of stakeholder engagement. Retrieved from http://www.censeoconsulting.com/media/pnc/2/media.12.pdf