Author: chris

In this course, you will complete two RAs that make up 50% of your total class grade. In RA 1, you will write a reaction paper to evaluate the research methodologies used in a particular study.

In RA 2, you will use what you have learned about research questions and literature reviews to write a well-structured research question on a human services topic that interests you, in addition to writing a literature review on this topic.

As you are working through this course, one aspect of both analyzing a study and considering the development of your own study is being able to apply the ethical standards of research as set for by the APA. In addition to formulating your plan for completing your two assignments, you will also apply what you learned from the article by Nagy (2011) to a research study of your choice.

Click here to review the detailed descriptions of the RAs.

Tasks:

Part 1:

• Carefully review the descriptions of the RAs. Prepare a time line for each assignment for completing each part of these assignments.
• For each task that you include in the time line, describe what you will do to complete it. List the types of resources and information you will need to obtain in order to complete each task, as well as the strategy you will use to collect information from these resources.
• Submit the research question that you would like to use as the foundation for your literature review due in Module 5.

Part 2:

Using the Argosy University online library resources, locate a research study (professional literature) from the human services field. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).

In a 2–3 page paper, respond to the following using the APA style:

• Provide a brief overview of your selected study, making sure that you cover the purpose of the study, the methodology used, the participants, the way the data was collected and analyzed, and the outcomes.
• If you were the researcher conducting this study and found that you were not familiar with the particular research population, what steps would you take to prepare yourself to conduct the research with this population?
• In developing an informed consent form for participation in research, what are the eight basic elements you would include in the form as applied to your selected study? Make sure that you provide the details of each element as though you were constructing an informed consent form to provide to your participants.
• How does this research study contribute to the field of human services? How does it benefit society? Does this benefit outweigh the possible risks associated with the study? Discuss.
• Was any deception used in this study? If so, why was this deception necessary? If not, do you think that the study would have benefited from any kind of deception? Explain.
• What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and what role does it play in research? Explain with reference to your selected study.

Reference:

Nagy, T. F. (2011). Ethics in research and publication. In Essential ethics in

psychology: A primer for understanding and mastering core issues

(pp. 199–216). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Submission Details:

• Save your time lines and descriptions in a Microsoft Word document with the name M1_A3_Lastname_Firstname.doc and by Wednesday, December 16, 2015, upload it to the M1 Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Provided a detailed timeline for accomplishing each of the two RAs.	20
Listed tasks and described how each step will be completed including resources that will be used.	16
Submitted a testable quantitative research question.	10
Selected a human services related research article and submitted a 2-3 page analysis that clearly addresses the six points outlined in the assignment.	42
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.	12
Total:

3-5 pages
The Executive Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors has asked your CFO to develop a report of what has transgressed in the area of executive compensation in U.S. corporations to ensure that they are aware of what has happened in this area. Your CFO has asked you to develop a report that includes the areas of executive compensation, the complaints from employees, the rationale from the executives, and what the U.S. government has done about these complaints.
The student should write report to the CFO that addresses the following:
Explain why you believe that employees are outraged about outlandish executive compensation while their own pay has been reduced.
Describe your assessment of at least 1 example of compensation packages that appeared to be for the benefit of the executives, regardless of the cost.
Analyze the rationale of executives in cases when their compensation package is outwardly perceived as excessive.
Explain what the government has done in the attempt to curtail these apparent abuses in compensation.
Recommend what you believe constitutes an ethical executive compensation plan.
Include at least 3 properly researched facts as they apply to the debate of CEOs and excessive compensation.
Follow APA guidelines in citing the references.

This is a two part written project that will focus on the marketing aspects of your start up business. Please submit as one written assignment.

Part 1:

In three to four pages, address the following areas:

Part 2:

In five to six pages, address the following areas:

Part 1.

Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.

 

Part 2. 1600 Words

A regional bank has decided to open an office overseas for serving those businesses that are expanding internationally. Choose a country with a large financial center that you believe would be helpful to your customer base.

• Discuss some of the challenges you may face in this new environment.
  • What are the cultural, ethnic, social, and educational characteristics?
• Describe the political and legal systems.
• How much does the government intervene in the private sector?
  • How will that affect your financial institution?
• What type of economic system does it have?
  • What is the history of that economic system?
• How is the country involved in international trade?
  • How does the government get involved in trade issues?
  • Will that help or hurt your financial institution?
• Will your presence in this country be helpful in your attempts to invest in other developing countries?
• Is this country involved in any regional integration efforts? How so?
• Why did you choose this location for your bank?
• As a manager, what would be your overall assessment about whether you want to pursue opening an office there?
  • Are the financial risks worth taking?
  • Will it be beneficial to all of the stakeholders?

In pursuing this, what type of presence do you think would be best suited to your objectives?

• How should the plant be financed?
• Should they hedge foreign exchange or something else? Explain.
• Identify 3 foreign exchange instruments you would recommend?
• What, if any, government regulations that would affect earnings and cash flow should they be aware of?
• Include the need to be aware of inflation and interest rates and how it affects exchange rates.

 

You should have used the same company for all five of Jack Welch’s Five Slides. To construct the practicum’s Assessment Slides:

1) Make any necessary changes in the first four Jack Welch Slides.

2) Add the content for the fifth slide.

3) Present them in one video.

What’s Your Winning Move?

• What can you do to change the playing field—is it an acquisition, a new product, globalization?
• What can you do to make customers stick to you more than ever before and more than to anyone else?

Practicum Presentation

• Submit the Practicum Presentation video file.

In this assignment, you will evaluate the research methodologies used in a particular study to apply the knowledge you have gained in the course. This will be your opportunity to explore a research study in depth and gain a stronger understanding of both conducting the research and also reporting the outcome of that research.

Tasks:

Read the following article from the Argosy University online library resources:

• Multicultural development in human services agencies: Challenges and solutions

Then, in a 5- to 6-page paper:

• Evaluate the research methodologies used. In your evaluation, make sure that you:
  • Examine the theoretical framework used in the study and assess its appropriateness for the selected research question.
  • Evaluate the way in which the literature review portion of the article informed and supported the research.
  • Analyze the instruments used in data collection and discuss how they were an appropriate selection to achieve the desired outcomes.
  • Evaluate the results and conclusions drawn and discuss the extent to which they supported the research question.
  • Evaluate the ethical considerations that the researchers kept in mind regarding multicultural diversity in data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

Submission Details:

• Write your paper in a Microsoft Word document and save it as M3_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc. Include a title and reference page and apply APA standards to the citation of sources, including use of in-text citations and full references.
• By Wednesday, January 6, 2016, post your saved paper to the M3 Assignment 2 RA 1 Dropbox.

RA 1 is worth 200 points and will be graded according to the following rubric.

1- My topic is Process Sales Order (stander) GP10 comparing to Process Sales Order in Microsoft including all the requirments below

 

2- Requairments

Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Systems (Individual assignment)

Students will compare the SAP ECC ERP 6.0 platform with a second ERP system.  Student may use the Microsoft GP 10 platform, available from the instructor, or select another ERP platform including new enhancements to SAP (Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle ERP options, SAP S4 HANA, or others).  

Students will select one business area on which to focus their analysis.  Using system documentation, online documentation and possibly live systems, students will compare and contrast the use of each system as used in their selected business area.  Students will prepare a paper with their analysis.  

The paper and the executive summary will be graded for content in the areas listed below.  Papers will use APA style, including citations and references.   Executive summary highlighting major points of each area is limited to one page single spaced.

INTRODUCTION OF ARTICLE

State the title of the Article

Make an opening thesis statement and then introduce the topic your article.

(ONE-TWO PARAGRAPHS ONLY)

(25 Points)

SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE

Summarize the beginning, middle and conclusion of what the article is about, in your own words. Do NOT make any judgments or opinions in your summary. Your summary should include the main points/ideas of the article and it should be written in such a way that when you end your summary, I know the essence (beginning, middle and conclusion) of the article, even if I had not read it.

(TWO-FOUR PARAGRAPHS (ONLY) – NO EXCEPTIONS!

(25 Points)

 

ANALYSIS /CRITIQUE OF THE ARTICLE

(TWO-THREE PAGES MINIMUM)

(100 Points)

This part of the paper MUST be detailed. Use specific examples (where applicable) to clarify your discussion!

YOU MUST INCLUDE ALL 5 QUESTIONS.

Type (or copy and paste) each question and then answer it.

1. What are the strengths of the article? (10pts)

Discuss the strengths and include 2 (or more) detailed, concrete examples to 4 support your argument(s)

2. What are the weaknesses of the article?

Discuss the weaknesses and include 2 (or more) detailed examples) (10pt)

I will NOT accept that there were no weaknesses. Use your critical thinking skills to analyze two concrete weaknesses of the film (Use examples to support your argument(s).

3. What makes this article sociological? (10pts)

Discuss what you believe makes this article sociological. Include 3 (or more) detailed examples to clarify your arguments.

Use 3 (or more) sociological terms/concepts with examples and definitions to support your arguments) in context to what the article is about.

Do not include the terms/concepts without relating them to the article.

(Underline each of the three sociological terms and definitions).

4. How does the issue/topic impact society? Are there specific groups impacted by this topic more than others?

Discus how this topic impacts society and specific groups within society

(Include 2 or more detailed examples to support your arguments). (10pts)

5. Which sociological perspective(s) would you use to analyze this article?

Structural Functionalist, Conflict, Symbolic Interactionist or a combination

of all three perspectives? (Refer to Ch. 1) (10pts)

In your discussion, use concrete example(s) and explain WHY you saw the article from one, two or all three perspectives. (BE DETAILED by using examples to support and defend your position.

Select and review an episode of a television show or a film depicting a character that represents a psychology professional.

Review the following:

• ACA Code of Ethics
• Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct: Including 2010 Amendments

Using the readings, analyze the selected episode or film and complete the following:

• Describe the character and the character’s role in the television show or film. Cite the source (include the citation of the show or film).
• Evaluate the credibility of the character portraying the psychology professional (job title, credentials, level of experience, etc.).
• If information on credibility is not clearly provided, identify the character’s role (psychologist, counselor, etc.) and describe the likely level of education, type of licensure, and estimated number of years of experience. Does the character seem well trained, professional, and experienced?
• Do you have any concerns regarding the ethical behavior of the character? Be sure to cover the following:
  • Identify at least one ethical dilemma encountered by the character as well as one example of the character behaving unethically in the episode or film.
  • Either discuss how the character made the right ethical choice or describe the ethical behavior the character should have demonstrated.
  • Provide the relevant ethics code or standard in quotation marks from the readings.
• How realistically has the show or the character depicted the profession of psychology? Does the show harm the image of psychology or help it? Be specific in your response.
• Identify any multicultural issues that arise in the show or film. Does the character demonstrate multicultural competency? In what ways? If not, how does the character demonstrate a lack of sensitivity and what should the character have done instead?
• Support your statements with information from academic sources, such as your textbook and assigned readings and articles you find in the Argosy University online library resources.

Submission Details:

• Write your initial response in a minimum of 300–400 words. Apply APA standards to cit

What is the chase strategy?

• Identify 2-3 companies that might use the chase strategy

• What are some of the challenges associated with using the chase strategy and why?

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Prepare a 350- to 1,050-word paper detailing the findings of your discussion.