Author: chris

Assessment titleWorking with and Leading People

In this assessment students will have opportunities to provide evidence against the following criteria.

Learning Outcome DescriptionsAssessment Criteria
To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that the student is able to:Task no.Evidence
LO1
Be able to use recruitment, selection and retention procedures1.1 Prepare documentation to select and recruit a new member of staff1Documentation and presentation

1.2 Assess the impact of legal, regulatory and ethical considerations to the recruitment and selection process1Review legal requirements

1.3 Take part in the selection process1Role play written up
1.4 Evaluate own contribution to the selection process1Self reflection
LO2
Understand the styles and impact of leadership2.1 Explain the skills and attributes needed for leadership2Summary and copies of relevant documents
2.2 Explain the difference between leadership and management2Documentary
Explanation
2.3 Compare leadership styles in different situations2Comparison of the two concepts
2 2.4. Explain ways to motivate staff to achieve objectives
2Comparison of the two concepts
LO3
Be able to work effectively in a team 3.1 Assess the benefits of team working for an organisation3Explanation of Motivation theories
3.2 Demonstrate working in a team as a leader and member towards specific goals, dealing with any conflict or difficult situations3Reflection of activity
3.3.Review the effectiveness of the team in achieving goals
3Personal reflection of task
LO4
Be able to assess the work and development needs of individuals

4.1 Explain factors involved in planning the monitoring and assessment of work performance
3Explain performance management and include some examples of performance management procedures
4.2 Plan and deliver the assessment of the development needs of individuals
3Plan of a performance management
4.3 Evaluate the success of the assessment process
3Self reflection of the process

Assessment Brief

Assessment titleWorking with and Leading People
Purpose of this assessment
The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate an understanding how understand and apply skills and theories learnt about the people in organisation and applied practical examples to demonstrate skills learnt and understanding of the concepts.
Scenario The assessment of this module is in 3parts:

Assignment 1: (LO1.1, LO1.2 & LO1.3 LO1.4) Undertake a recruitment and Selection process

Assignment 2: (LO2.1 – LO2.4) Identifying and assessing effective leadership styles in different contexts to motivate staff to high performance.

Assignment 3: LO3.1, 3.2, 3.3, & 4.1, 4.2, 4.3) This assignment is in two parts: (i) Understanding management of effective team work (ii) Explain the performance management process and how you would go about identifying and planning development needs

Task 1
Task 1: Undertake a Recruitment and Selection process
You have been tasked by the HR manager of a well-known, established manufacturing and retail business is looking to grow its marketing team with the appointment of a Marketing Manager. You need to prepare a full Recruitment and selection process, including the relevant documents and outline the key stages of the recruitment process. You need to start by identifying and producing the relevant documentation and determine the recruitment and selection process. Explain how you would generate a pool of candidates, what strategy you would use to generate applicants and how you would filter applicants for testing and selection. Having completed the preparation, you need to undertake a role play exercise to test the effectiveness of the procedure with your team. As part of your personal development, review your experience and contribution to this exercise.
Prepare a presentation of the process and any critique you may have about its effectiveness. Please ensure that you have identified key legal and regulatory issues. Undertake a selection process within your group and comment on the process.

Group Task is to be written up individually.
Criteria coverage (LO1.1, LO1.2 & LO1.3 LO1.4)

Word count: findings in an individual business report in 600 words excluding cover sheet and reference list, Appendices.

Task 2
Task 2: Identifying and assessing effective leadership styles in different contexts to motivate staff to high performance.

Leadership scenario: The current level of motivation and performance of the organisation is well below expectations, morale is low and the staff lack clear direction as to the objectives and strategy of the organisation. As a senior manager, you have been asked to undertake a review of current management practices in terms of motivating staff to be more committed and enthusiastic about organisational aims and improving performance. It is clear to you that staff lack a clear vision of organisation mission.

You have decided to determine whether the managers are affective in providing sound leadership and motivation to help achieve desired outcomes. One of your first tasks is to identify which leadership characteristics and style would best suit the organisations and staff needs, starting with a comparison of leadership style applied in different organisations so that you can identify relevant characteristics. You decided to undertake a critical analysis of leadership characteristics and styles, you make a proposal to management about which particular style of leadership would be most effective to implement. Your analysis will also include a review of motivation theories in order to determine which leadership style would have a positive impact on staff motivation.

Present your findings in an individual business report in 600 words excluding cover sheet, reference list and Appendices providing evidence.

Criteria coverage (LO2.1 – LO2.4)

This provides evidence for e.g. P2, P4
Task 3
Task 3: Effective Team-working and assessing development needs.

Team working is an essential part of organisational operations as tasks become increasingly complex and cannot be undertaken on an individual basis. Therefore it is important to understand group dynamics and how to develop effective teams. Referring to the group work you undertook for task one, explain the benefits of teamwork and the resolution of any conflict that may have occurred.

In order to maintain effective organisational performance, it is important to ensure that staff have the necessary skills and competencies to achieve organisational goals. Continuous skills development is therefore important. Explain how you would identify and develop a plan for staff..

Present your findings in an individual business report in 600 words excluding cover sheet, reference list and Appendices.
Criteria coverage: LO3.1, 3.2, 3.3, & 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

This provides evidence for e.g. P2, P4
Evidence checklist Summarise evidence required, e.g. leaflet, presentation notes etc.
Evidence checklistSummary of evidence required by the studentEvidence presented
Task 1 Individual report of 600 words Individual report
Task 2A written assignment of 600 wordsWritten assignment
Task 3A written assignment for part (i) and part (ii) each of 600 words and copies of relevant documents Development plan and written assignment
Sources of information insert useful publications, websites, etc.

Analyze and evaluate one major drawback to air traffic control automation. Then discuss the degradation in operational safety that could result from this drawback. Finally, creatively apply the knowledge of improving liveware and hardware to that analysis, and develop a proposed means for mitigating this drawback.

Provide an account of the social context in Jamaica West Indies, considering issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and religion. Compare these social influences with those from the British (community of London) and consider how these influences could have different or similar impacts on the perception of children and childhood within these communities. In turn, discuss how these different perceptions could influence the development of children. You should draw on current literature on child development in support of your discussion.

1.Write an analytical essay on a topic of your choice by drawing on two or three of the literary texts (that is, fiction, such as Ghassan Kanafanis Men in the Sun, Nella Larsens Passing, or the various poems we read) that we discussed since (and including) Week 8. The essay should contain a clear focus and well-articulated thesis (such as a focus on gender, race, immigration, colonialism); avoid long descriptive and summarizing sections.

OR

1.Write an analytical essay on the persistent relevance of the history of colonialism in the contemporary world by drawing on at least two of the texts that we discussed since (and including) Week 8. The essay should contain a clear focus and well-articulated thesis; avoid long descriptive and summarizing sections.

Assignment 2: Literature review
Deadline: Week 12, Friday, 18th December, 2015 (on-line submission) Length: 3000 words
Weighting 70%
Choose ONE of the three titles below:
1. EFL teachers who wish to move from other levels to work with young children have a major orientation to undertake with regard to their expectations of teaching – at least as great a change as for an experienced primary school teacher learning a new language (Brumfit 1991). Discuss the changes in approach that must be made by an EFL teacher used to working with teenagers or adults.
2. Through stories and drama, children develop understanding of themselves and the world around them, (Read, 2007:114) There are various approaches to using stories in class. Discuss these approaches to highlight how story telling can be a useful vehicle for organising a Foreign Language programme for young learners. In your discussion, you should refer to specific skills which would be required on the part of the teacher. You should support your arguments, where necessary, with examples from popular story books or childrens plays you are familiar with, or those covered in the course.
3. Learning to learn is the most important aspect of childrens overall educational development. As a vitally important part of their education, children need to develop awareness, strategies and attitudes that will enable them to constantly adapt to change and meet new learning challenges competently and confidently in a life-long way (Read, 2007). Discuss this statement taking into account the main aims and objectives of the primary school curriculum.
4. It is important for teachers to be familiar with the universal aspects of childrens development; however, it is equally important that this is balanced out with focus on the individual child. Discuss and exemplify, with reference to educational and psychological theories about how children learn. Analyse these theories and discuss:
(i) how they relate to good practice in the teaching of a foreign language to primary school children; (ii) how children are very different as individuals with their strengths and weaknesses as learners; (iii) how primary school curriculum, and the teachers, can take these differences into account to enhance childrens learning.
END OF ASSIGNMENT TASKS

WEEK 11 FINAL QUESTION TO ANSWER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSU6OsNxQk (PLEASE VIEW)
“Issues and Solutions / Reflections and Viewpoints to Solving Health Care Problems” Please respond to the following:
•Compare and contrast the type of health care patients obtain in the U.S. as compared to other countries providing universal or national health care. Assess the efficacy of the U.S. health care system overall.

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THIS IS DICUSSION ONLY, AND PLEASE ANSWER BY NUMBERS, ALSO I INCLUDE EXAMPLE OF EACH QUESTION FROM MY CLASSMATE POST.

1.Enter key words for your topic (from this module’s assignment) into the CINAHL database. Explore the results yielded by your search. Examine the various options and tools available on the results page to further refine your search. Discuss how you used this information to locate the most relevant information for your assignment.
This example from my classmate: My
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Re:Topic 1 DQ 1

The capstone project that I am interested in doing is readmission prevention. I was able to input this subject in the CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) database and it came up with over 7,000 different results. I was then able to refine my search to about 1700 articles related to this subject. CINAHL databases are the most widely-used and respected research tools for nurses, students and allied health professionals around the globe (). This information will let me develop a detailed capstone project to help others in preventing readmission of patients. New regulations from insurance companies are preventing reimbursements for healthcare facilities from readmissions within 30 days of discharge. Today’s healthcare is on preventative care and education is a large part of the transition. Hopefully through researching this subject, educating nurses on preventative measures for patients will reduce the amount of readmissions of patients with the same ailments. This includes databases on readmission statistics and numerical data, staff development, and nursing personnel education. These journals will help develop ways to prevent readmission for the nurses to teach the patients.
References:
CINAHL Databases. (2015). CINAHL Complete : EBSCO Nursing Resources Industries. Retrieved from https://www.ebscohost.com/nursing/products/cinahl-databases
Grand Canyon University. (2011). Identifying a Problem, Developing a Question, and Selecting Sources of Literature. Retrieved from NRS 441V Lecture 1 Retrieved from https://lc-ugrad1.gcu.edu/learningPlatform/user/users.html?operation=home&classId=b1773535-84df-472d-8d81-a506cd7cc8ea#/learningPlatform/loudBooks/loudbooks.html
2. Describe two techniques that you can apply to narrow or broaden a search. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. Which approach will improve the effectiveness of your searches?
This is the example of my classmate:
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When searching for research that applies to your topic you can narrow the search by selecting limiters such as “peer review”, “scholarly journals”, creating specific dates, and choosing whether you want full text or just the abstract. Eliminating the specific terms and using more general terms in relation to the topic can broaden the search. Advantages to this are it helps sort thought the research that is not relevant as there is a ton of research available. The disadvantage is that there may be great research that is missed due to wording. The good think is you can always change the wording with in the subject lines to improve or change some of the research that the site finds relevant. Often when you restrict to just “full text” journals you may miss relevant journals, which are actually available on other databases. If the journal is not found you can always submit a request to the librarian and they can help retrieve the article from different institutions.
When searching thought Lope Search at the GCU online library, there are several rows to which you can add key words. For instance when searching this afternoon I entered “Driving” into the first subject area. I then checked the box “All Subjects” and selected “Nursing & Health Science”. Next I checked the “Peer Review” box and then selected search. Once in, in the second subject box I put in the word “opioid” and then in the 3rd box I entered “adverse effects”. At this point I was able to narrow my search to the last five years and find the most relevant research for my topic.

Reference
Limiting Your Search Result. (n.d.). Retrieved December 9, 2015, from http://tutorials.gcumedia.com/libraryWalkThrough/vp02.swf

o plagiarism will be accepted!!  The length requirement is 10-12 pages.  The assignment must follow APA 6th edition formatting which includes an abstract and reference page in addition to the 10-12 pages already mentioned.

 

Select a publicly traded company using the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR System at http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html and submit to the instructor for approval. Please note that each student must research a different company. Once the instructor has approved the company selection, obtain the Annual Report (Form 10K) and Proxy Statement (Form DEF 14A) of the company for the immediate past fiscal year. Review these documents in addition to Earnings Releases and other financial information available on the company’s Investor Relations website to evaluate the following items.

Independent Auditor’s Report

• Based on the selected public traded company, what type of auditor’s report was issued on the financial statements.
• What kind of evidence the auditors found that indicated the company did not follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Audit Committee

• Identify members of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, its functions, and number of meetings held.
• Determine if the composition of this committee satisfies Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) requirements in terms of independence and accounting knowledge.
• Review the audit committee report and discuss Committee actions. Determine how these actions ensure the integrity of the audited financial statements.

Independent Registered Public Accountants

• Identify the company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
• Determine how long this firm has served as the external auditors.
• Determine other services, if any, provided to or on behalf of the company.
• Determine fees paid to this firm by type of service provided.
• Discuss changes in or disagreements with the accountants on accounting and financial disclosures, if any.

Reports of the Independent Registered Public Accountants

• Review the report of the independent registered public accounting firm on internal controls. Determine if the report and its contents meet the criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and the PCAOB.
• Review the report of the independent registered public accounting firm on the audited financial statements. Determine what type of opinion was issued and whether the work performed meets the criteria of COSO and the PCAOB, in addition to GAAP and GAAS.

Prepare a 10-12 page research paper (excluding title page, abstract, references page, and appendices containing financial analysis) in APA format that presents the findings of your analysis of the company’s SEC filings. Your paper should also discuss the following:

• The type of auditor’s report that was issued.
• What kind of evidence the auditors found which indicated the company did not follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Roles, responsibilities, and objectives of internal and external auditors.
• Types and assessment of audit and Internal control risks.
• Ethical standards in auditing and the implications of unethical behavior.
• Internal control system, its role in a business and its significance in the auditing process.
• Use of computer assisted auditing techniques.
• GAAS, GAAP, PCAOB, and COSO requirements for audits of publicly traded companies.

In addition to the SEC Forms, a minimum of five (5) peer-reviewed academic or professional references must be used in the paper.

Biological causal factors of anorexia nervosa include genetic predisposition, serotonin regulation, and physiologic weight set points.

Research eating disorders. Based on your research, respond to the following:

• Comment on the relative strengths of biological causes compared to sociological or individual causes. Consider the types of anorexia nervosa in your argument.
• Explain any treatment strategies that would support your argument.
• Does obesity share anything in common with anorexia nervosa? Consider obesity causal factors and whether obesity is truly a mental disorder.

Write 3–4 paragraphs

 

Cite sources applying APA standards

Software companies have increasingly turned to the Internet to help them maintain the software they have sold or licensed to their customers. Software maintenance tasks include updates of the software and updates to data used by the software.

• Use the Library and Internet to find information about the use of scripting for software maintenance through the Internet.
• Select an application that uses updates on your computer.
  • Discuss the type of updates that are performed by this software.
  • Identify where scripting might be used in the update process.
  • Discuss what the scripting might do and how it would perform the tasks.
• Include at least 1 reference to research sources.
• Cite all references using APA format.
• Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format should be correct and professional.