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1. Read the Chipotle Case Study in Case Study section of the text.
2. Write a summary of the case study. Be sure to discuss reasons why Chipotle would use internal governance mechanisms to monitor and control managers’ decisions.

Your summary should be a minimum of 2-3 double-spaced pages and must be in your own words. Use APA style. You must include 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia). The other references must be located within the Grantham University online library. Only the body of the paper will count towards the page requirement. Please see the rubric below.

Over the course of this class, your Learning Team will develop a comprehensive Managing Change Paper. Each week, your team will add more elements to this paper. By the final week, you will have a cumulative paper that addresses the complete change cycle.

Select a team member’s work organization. Identify a specific change that your Learning Team feels should occur in the selected organization.

Prepare a 800 -word paper describing the cycle of change, and the specific change that needs to occur within the cycle of change. Be sure to:

• Compare and contrast continuous and discontinuous change in this scenario.
• Differentiate between the two types of change agents and how one or both can be used in this scenario.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

A sale is a sale, and a profit is a profit, right? Not always. While an organization’s financial statements should fully and transparently reflect the organization’s actual financial situation, sometimes they do not. Sometimes there is intentional deception or fraud. Yet, even when an organization uses legal and accepted accounting practices, financial statements may fail to present risks or explain unusual costs, profits, or assumptions.

To prepare for this Discussion, think about a time in your professional experience when a decision was made based on inaccurate financial information or unethical behavior resulting in fraudulent financial information. If you do not have professional experience directly related to accounting and decision making, research a situation where inaccurate or fraudulent financial information was provided by a company. Consider the outcomes of utilizing fraudulent financial information for decision making and research how to avoid such situations.

Post by Day 3, the following:

• Describe the situation from either your professional experience or your research.
• Explain the steps you would take to address unethical behavior and remedy the situation of utilizing the inaccurate or fraudulent financial information you described and why you would take these steps.
• Explain the steps that you, as a manager, might take to ensure that all financial information you review accurately reflects the organization’s true financial situation and why this is important to prevent unethical behavior and the use of inaccurate or fraudulent financial information.

General Guidance: Your initial Discussion post, due by Day 3, will typically be 2–3 paragraphs in length as a general expectation/estimate. Refer to the rubric for the Week 1 Discussion for grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use the rubric to assess your work.

Respond by Day 5 to two or more of your colleagues in one or more of the following ways:

• Comment on the scenarios and remedies presented by your colleague, providing your insights based on your experience or knowledge.
• Suggest additional steps that managers might take to ensure accurate data and provide examples of when such steps have been taken, including the resulting outcomes.
• Ask a probing question of your colleague, based on your readings from the week and/or your experience. You should be sure to include the context for your question and why it is important to address.
• Compare your colleague’s situation with the one you presented and share any insights you gained.

Develop your responses based on your own experience, the resources for the week, and additional research.

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A sale is a sale, and a profit is a profit, right? Not always. While an organization’s financial statements should fully and transparently reflect the organization’s actual financial situation, sometimes they do not. Sometimes there is intentional deception or fraud. Yet, even when an organization uses legal and accepted accounting practices, financial statements may fail to present risks or explain unusual costs, profits, or assumptions.

To prepare for this Discussion, think about a time in your professional experience when a decision was made based on inaccurate financial information or unethical behavior resulting in fraudulent financial information. If you do not have professional experience directly related to accounting and decision making, research a situation where inaccurate or fraudulent financial information was provided by a company. Consider the outcomes of utilizing fraudulent financial information for decision making and research how to avoid such situations.

Post by Day 3, the following:

• Describe the situation from either your professional experience or your research.
• Explain the steps you would take to address unethical behavior and remedy the situation of utilizing the inaccurate or fraudulent financial information you described and why you would take these steps.
• Explain the steps that you, as a manager, might take to ensure that all financial information you review accurately reflects the organization’s true financial situation and why this is important to prevent unethical behavior and the use of inaccurate or fraudulent financial information.

General Guidance: Your initial Discussion post, due by Day 3, will typically be 2–3 paragraphs in length as a general expectation/estimate. Refer to the rubric for the Week 1 Discussion for grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use the rubric to assess your work.

Respond by Day 5 to two or more of your colleagues in one or more of the following ways:

• Comment on the scenarios and remedies presented by your colleague, providing your insights based on your experience or knowledge.
• Suggest additional steps that managers might take to ensure accurate data and provide examples of when such steps have been taken, including the resulting outcomes.
• Ask a probing question of your colleague, based on your readings from the week and/or your experience. You should be sure to include the context for your question and why it is important to address.
• Compare your colleague’s situation with the one you presented and share any insights you gained.

Develop your responses based on your own experience, the resources for the week, and additional research.

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• Identify your assigned article as quantitative or qualitative and support your assertion with an analysis of three defining characteristics.
• Describe, and critique the theoretical framework using the “Use of Theory Checklist” as a guide.
• Analyze at least one assumption in your assigned article.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the same article you were assigned to last week. For example, if you were assigned to Article A last week, continue with Article A this week. (Remember also to review the article to which you were not assigned so that you can respond effectively to one colleague who read the other article.)
• Review Chapter 2 and pp. 79–87 of Chapter 4 in the course text, Research Design and the “Literature Review” media segment.
• Review the annotated journal article “Examining Contextual Factors in the Career Decision Status of African American Adolescents,” which is annotated to reveal how the literature is used.
• Look to the Use of Literature Checklist for more guidance in analyzing and evaluating the author’s use of literature in your assigned article.
• Locate where in each article that the literature is used. For example, is it used as background, in a literature review, or in the conclusion? Why is the literature located in a particular part of the article?
• Determine if the literature is used to introduce a problem or a theory, or to direct readers to the research questions and hypotheses.
• Evaluate the use of literature in each article.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis and evaluation of the author’s use of literature in your assigned research article.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the reading(s) and/or media segment(s) and use APA format.

istinguish between correlation and causation, providing one (1) significant difference. Provide 2 (two) examples that would show both causal and non-causal relations between some psychological values.

2. Describe two (2) specific practical examples of reliability of a test and two (2) specific practical examples of validity of a test.

3. Describe two (2) strengths and two (2) weaknesses of group administered achievement tests and two (2) strengths and two (2) weaknesses of individually administered achievement tests. Which do you think is more effective? Provide two (2) supporting facts to justify your position.

One aspect of raising healthy children is understanding how to best provide correction when they make poor choices or behave in unacceptable ways. Over the years, there has been much debate over the most effective form of punishment for children. As part of this debate, you have to take into consideration operant conditioning as this is the basis for how effective correction works. Operant conditioning should be considered when choosing how to best administer corrective actions whether the parents choose to use corporal punishment, time outs, or loss of privileges.

• Discuss the differences between negative and positive punishment. What are the factors that make punishment effective?
• Discuss the effectiveness of corporal punishment and elaborate upon when you think it should be used.
• Discuss how culture affects the type of punishment used.
• Give reasons in support of your responses based on your readings and personal experiences.

Write your initial response in 2–3 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, January 2, 2016, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, January 6, 2016, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. In your responses, consider the following:

• Have your peers accurately identified the differences between negative and positive punishment? Explain your answer.
• Can you suggest any other factors that make punishment effective? If so, state them.

Grading Criteria and Rubric

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