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Assignment 6 : Change Management, Communication, and Leadership

During this course, you have developed many of the artifacts utilized by project managers. You have learned that, contrary to common misconceptions, project managers are involved in more than scheduling. In this paper, you will cover some of the other areas in which project managers are involved including procurement, change control, communication, and leadership.

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

1. Explain the project procurement process.
2. Explain how change control is implemented in the information technology processes.
3. Analyze the required elements of a communication plan.
4. Describe the different organizational structures as it relates to project management (i.e., functional, project-based, matrix).
5. Assess the importance of the project manager’s role in organizational leadership.
6. Examine the different leadership approaches and determine when each approach is best utilized.
7. Describe three (3) conflict resolution techniques that project managers can utilize to keep team members productive.
8. Describe five (5) ethical situations that project managers may face in their role.
9. Explain the role of technology in project management.
10. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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; 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, 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 assignment page length.

Discussions

1. “Rocky Road”Please respond to the following:

• Based on the lecture and Webtext materials, address the following:

o    Some of the most serious abuses taking place in developing countries deal with child labor, human slavery, sweatshops, bad governance, and environmental degradation. Select one (1) developing country, and examine the extent to which two (2) of these five (5) issues are occurring. Support your response with specific examples.

2. Act Local”Please respond to the following:

• Based on the lecture and Webtext materials, address the following:

o    Select one (1) developing country, and discuss the fundamental actions that the leadership of the selected country is — or is not — taking to improve the living standards of its people. Next, using this same country, cite one (1) specific example of progress or regress that its government is making in terms of the economy, the political system, and the environment

3. Application and Recommendations”Please respond to the following:

• Determine two (2) ways to apply what you learned in this course in your current or a future position.
• Create a list of three (3) best practices to follow that would improve the quality of life in developing countries.

Assignment

Assignment 2: Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital

Due Week 9 and worth 200 points

Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of lending institutions, health care, and human capital, as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 6 through 9.

Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:

1. Explore whether or not funding from international lending institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are helping or hindering the social, economic, or political development of the country that you have selected. Support your response with examples.
2. Discuss, with examples, at least four (4) substantive ways in which a healthy population strengthens the economy of the country that you have selected.
3. Ascertain the degree to which the leadership of your chosen country has used foreign aid to improve its health care system. Support your response with concrete examples.
4. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment.Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.

When referencing the selected resources, please use the following format:

• Webtext Format:
• Name of the author. Name of title. Retrieved from website url.
• Example:

Soomo. Understanding Development [Webtext]. Retrieved from http://www.webtexts.com/courses/9218-cathey.

• Lecture Format:
• Name of the Author. Name of the lecture [lecture type]. Retrieved from lecture url.
• Example:

Strayer University. (2013). Understanding Development [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from /bbcswebdav/institution/SOC/300/1136/Week1/lecture/story.html.

• Internet Resources:
• Author’s Name. (Date of publication).Title of the resource. Retrieved from website url.
• Example:

Wuestewald, Eric. (2014). Portraits of people living on a dollar a day. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/04/living-on-a-dollar-a-day-photos-renee-byer-thomas-nazario.

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; 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, 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 requir

Potential students often look for guidance regarding the programs that they are considering. You are a program assistant at a local university. You have been asked by your department chair (psychology) to create a booklet about the field of forensic psychology for potential students. This booklet will be given out at information sessions and will be sent to students requesting more information. The department chair asks you to create this booklet with the undecided student in mind, remembering that while you don’t want to scare students away, you also want to be truthful about the field. She asks for the following information to be included:

• A description of the educational levels required and recommended (i.e. what can a MA level forensic psychologist do, versus a Doctorate level professional). Different roles that a forensic psychologist can take. This can include roles in the court and out as well as research possibilities. (2 pages)
• A discussion of each of the following and discuss why is it important that all forensic psychologists need to be well-versed in them (3 pages):

• • • Case Law
    • Specific Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and why they are important
    • Important past research in the field
    • Diversity issues
    • Ethical considerations

• An analysis of at least three aspects of the American judicial system (such as eyewitness testimony, transfer of juveniles to criminal court, etc.), which are impacted most heavily by psychology and psychological research (3 pages). Be sure to discuss:

• • • Three aspects of the American judicial system
    • How psychology has impacted these aspects
    • One research study for each aspect that is considered pivotal, classic or ground breaking in the field.

Your booklet needs to be at least 8 pages long. Because it is an informational booklet, it will not be formatted like a formal paper, but should be professionally and attractively presented. Please remember that all citations should follow APA formatting rules, and the majority of the information should be in a formal academic writing style. However, a minority of the information can be written in bulleted format.

nstructions: Research the strategic planning practices of recent Baldrige Award winners. Discuss a minimum of three (3) different strategic planning approaches that these firms use and why they seem appropriate for their organizations. How do they reflect the leading practices described in Chapter 11 of your textbook?

Educational Websites

Baldrige Award Winners / Recipients Application Summaries: Access to all the winners in one place (2015). Retrieved from http://www.baldrige21.com/Baldrige Winners Application Summaries.htm

NIST (2015). Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. Retrieved from http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/

Young, R. (n.d.). Perspectives on strategic planning in the public sector. Retrieved from http://www.ipspr.sc.edu/publication/perspectives on Strategic Planning.pdf

Please support your ideas, arguments, and opinions with independent research, and include at least three (3) to five (5) supporting references or sources (NOT Wikipedia, unknown, or anonymous sources),and format your work in proper APA format. Include a cover page, and a minimum of 3 FULL pages of written content; double space all work, include a reference page, and cite all in text references properly in accordance with the 6th edition of the APA manual, chapters 6 & 7.

Access to material will be given once a handshake is made

Guide to Writing Literature Reviews

Assignment Conception:

Literature Reviews gives students the opportunity to show their comprehension of assigned readings. Lit-Reviews also help students develop critical writing and reading skills. Successful lit-reviews show that students have read, comprehended the main concepts of an author’s argument and show the ability to critique and/or analyze the ideas being set forth by assigned authors. Thus, students are asked to be critical readers as well as analyzers of given arguments and concepts espoused by scholars.

Directions:

Lit-Reviews should consist of at least four major paragraphs. (See the creation of 5-step paragraphs below as a good guide)

• Paragraph 1:
  •  Introduce the scholar’s general topic and its relevance in contemporary society, academic study, or specific field.
  • What is the author’s overarching argument?
  • What is his/her concern?
  • What is the Big Picture concept in the essay?
• Paragraph 2:
  • What resources, studies, or evidence provided by the author?
  • Analyze the author’s research and provide an example (quote from the reading)
  • Why is the quote or evidence you present important? Explain?
• Paragraph 3:
  • What is the author missing?
  • What other views that could have been discussed?
  • Is the author’s argument bias?
  • Provide an alternative viewpoint and scholarship.
• Paragraph 4:
  • What do you conclude from the author’s argument?
  • What are some new ideas or directions that the author can follow or develop?
  • What community or communities’ best served with this scholarship?

5-step process to paragraph development

Step 1. Decide on a controlling idea and create a topic sentence

Step 2. Explain the controlling idea

Step 3. Give an example (or multiple examples)

Step 4. Explain the example(s)

Step 5. Complete the paragraph’s idea or transition into the next paragraph

English 106: Self-Reflection

For your final essay in this course, you will write a reflection on your writing process.  The purpose of this essay is to provide all of us with a backward glance at the semester that is quickly approaching an end and to offer you an opportunity to share your personal story of development.  While I encourage you to consider previous writing experiences, you should focus primarily on the last three months and on your experience in this course.

Grade: 10% of final course grade

Requirements:

–3 pages

–must address your personal development as a writer and reader in this course during this semester

–must have a clear and well-developed thesis, topic sentences, and paragraphs

–must follow the English 106 Papers handout for the course

Audience: Yourself

Objectives for this assignment:

–to focus on critically evaluating your individual writing process and how you have improved your written and oral communication skills

–to continue to develop a sense of who you are as a writer and your personal tone, style, and voice

–to continue to develop your sense of confidence in your writing and your written communication skills

–to produce a final draft that includes consistent and correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and usage

–to demonstrate the ability to write well organized and well developed body paragraphs

plz add my self experience in this class:

writing center-tutor always stay with me to go over the paper and fix my papers’ mistake

PART ONE:

PART TWO:
Browse the Internet to acquire a copy of the most recent annual report for a publicly traded company.
Analyze the information contained in the company’s balance sheet and income statement to answer the following questions:
⦁ What are the company’s total assets at the end of its most recent annual reporting period? Why is this important?
⦁ What are the total assets at the end of the previous annual reporting period?
⦁ How much cash and cash equivalents did the company have at the end of its most recent annual reporting period?
⦁ What amount of accounts payable did the company have at the end of its most recent annual reporting period?
⦁ What amount of accounts payable did the company have at the end of the previous annual reporting period?
⦁ What are the company’s net revenues for the last three annual reporting periods?
⦁ What is the change in dollars in the company’s net income from its most recent annual reporting period to the previous annual reporting period?
⦁ What are the company’s total current assets at the end of its most recent annual reporting period?
⦁ What are the total current assets at the end of the previous annual reporting period?
⦁ What in the information above would be important to a potential investor, employee, and so on?
Summarize the analysis in a 700- to 1,050-word paper in a Microsoft® Word document.
Include a copy of the company’s balance sheet and income statement.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

,  Discuss the following as they pertain to qualitative research:

Reflexivity and Researcher’s Voice. How will you address these two items in regard to your project? ( Leader’s Attitude on Employee Performance)

By Tuesday, December 1, 2015 post your response. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Assignment 2: Final Project

Now that you are familiar with three of the approaches to qualitative analysis, coding and analyses, select one that would be best suited for the phenomena you described in Module 1. Create the final project paper. This should demonstrate your understanding of qualitative research and should be edited and revised according to feedback previously received. Describe your phenomena, the approach you have selected, develop three research questions pertaining to your phenomena, and describe why that approach would be well suited to your topic. Include details on methodology, data coding and analysis, as well as any quality, credibility or ethical issues that may be involved. Support your findings with relevant existing research.

Submit your response as a Microsoft Word document by Thursday, December 3, 2015 All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Using the same data set and variables for your selected topic, add the following information to your analysis:

1. Discuss the importance of constructing confidence intervals for the population mean.

• What are confidence intervals?
• What is a point estimate?
• What is the best point estimate for the population mean? Explain.
• Why do we need confidence intervals?

2. Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

• Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
• Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and ÃÆ’ is unknown.
  • Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
• Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.

3. Based on your selected topic, evaluate the following:

• Find the best point estimate of the population mean.
• Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and ÃÆ’ is unknown.
  • Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations.
• Write a statement that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic.

4. Compare and contrast your findings for the 95% and 99% confidence interval.

• Did you notice any changes in your interval estimate? Explain.
• What conclusion(s) can be drawn about your interval estimates when the confidence level is increased? Explain.

This assignment should be formatted using APA guidelines and a minimum of 2 pages in

Just need to do the red words parts

APA style, Formatting for the body of the report is one and a half spaced line spacing; 12 point Times New Roman font, with one inch margins all sides.  Citations will be in accordance with the APA in-line citation format (no footnotes) and APA formatting for the reference section.

Based on the textbook (organizational theory design, and change Canadian edition)

And need one more academic article for reference

500 words

Requirement:  This study will consist of an analysis of an actual organization that your group has selected and has had approved previously.  Your focal organization may be an actual business, not-for-profit, or other organizational form selected from the local area (Yarmouth to Halifax).  Your essay will include;

1. b)   An analysis of the organization showing the inter-relation between structure of the organization and Culture
2. c)   A discussion in your analysis which demonstrates your understanding of these OT concepts/theories as presented in class, the textbook, and other relevant publications.

Reference/Reading:  As required.

The selected organization is Acadia Student Union

Chapter 7- Creating and Managing Organizational Culture

Organizational culture- the set of shared values and norms that guides organizational members interactions with each other and with people outside the organization.

Interrelation- the way in which two or more things or people are connected and affect one another

About ASU – http://theasu.ca – Randy

Organizational Culture – He

Values pg. 214 (terminal & instrumental values)- Randy

culture transmitted to members P221- David

Characteristic of People within the ASU (Org. Culture come from) – Simon

Organizational Ethics P230 – Simon

Property Rights system P233 – Nadia (managers rights & workforce rights)

ASU structure P238 -He

Social Responsibility pg. 241 – Nadia

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