Author: chris

Organizations work to improve overall written and verbal communication to encourage a win-win situation for improved patient or customer care, increased team motivation, and supportive management. Effective communication encourages active listening among people and improved understanding of a situation embracing both similarities and differences in each employee. Let’s read the following scenario to emphasize the importance of effective communication in a workplace.

You are the keynote speaker to improve overall communication effectiveness in your organization. Your presentation consists of 12–15 Microsoft PowerPoint slides (not including the title and reference slide) along with speaker notes. You are addressing an audience comprising all department heads and management staff.

Your overall focus is on common communication problems, various methods of learning, issues with feedback, and improving overall attitude through communication.

Address the following areas including detailed speaker notes. The speaker notes area is the white space below the slide where you can type information similar to a Microsoft Word document. Your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation consists of professional color slides, with detailed speaker notes to include examples to support each slide.

• Describe four forms of communication used in the work environment. Discuss the benefits and concerns with each communication method. For example, body language, written, oral, and e-mail.
• Describe four methods of learning and listening. How does a person learn (auditory, visual, etc.) if he or she has a preferred method? How can the person adjust to learning in ways not in his or her preferred method?
• What environmental and personal barriers hinder communication? Be specific and provide at least three examples.
• What impact can diversity in the work environment have on effective and ineffective communication according to age, gender, cultural, or religious diversity?
• What three errors do managers commit when providing ineffective feedback?
• Describe three issues managers and team members face if they are not prepared to provide instant communication? What negative result can occur if one is not prepared?
• Describe four methods to overcome communication barriers and provide detailed examples.
• Provide three key elements with specific examples on how effective communication can reduce errors, improve professional relationships, and assist staff with clear communication.

Note: Ensure slides are professional in appearance, color contrast, and font. Provide references in APA format. Use correct spelling and grammar. Speaker notes below the slides should contain substance.

Support your responses with examples.

Submission Details

Present the additional information in the Notes section.

You are a forensic psychologist working with Forensic Consultants, Inc. An attorney is using your services as a consultant in a case. During a meeting with the attorney, the attorney tells you that the client, while undergoing police interrogation, confessed to murder. When the attorney asked the client, the client reported to being not guilty.

As you conduct a preliminary investigation, draw up a plan on how you will assist your the attorney with this case. The plan should answer the following questions posed by the attorney:

1. What specific factors about police interrogative tactics do you think will be important to the defense strategy? Discuss interrogation tactics that lead to false confession, specifying at least two examples and explain the reason they are considered coercive. Include information about how this would look in an actual interrogation and how the client experienced this behavior.
2. Will you look for any specific personality characteristics in the client? What are they and why will they help or hurt your case? Are issues of competency going to come up? Discuss information about what types of people are more at risk with coercive interrogation tactics. Include at least one research study that has demonstrated this risk.
3. What type of personality assessment instrument will you want to use to either identify or rule out the characteristics listed in question 2? Be specific and support your answer: Identify at least one psychological test that can be used and include information on why it would be useful in determining whether a person was vulnerable.

Based on the client’s response to police interrogation, how should you conduct your interview? Specifically, what should you avoid when attempting to gather accurate information from the client?

Create a presentation to give to the attorney. You will need to explain each of your arguments. You should expect to have 30 minutes to present your arguments. You should include detailed speaker notes to assist in your presentation. Please make sure to have at least 12 slides for review besides a title slide and a References slide. Each slide should be thoroughly referenced and cited based in psychological research, using APA formatting.

Questions?
Choose a research paper topic that explores African-American history up to 1865 this will require research materials that are outside those assigned for the course. Be creative, but be sure to have a clearly stated thesis and then support that thesis with a strong, effective evidence and clear writing. All papers should meet the high standards of college level essays.
You will need to include both primary and secondary sources

Intruction Writing Format:
-double space including bibliography

Topic: (chose one) to write about
Slavery and Capitalism
Thomas Jefferson
The Atlantic Slave trade
Reconstruction
Write a 5 pages Paper
No Wikipedia
No non-academic references.

Articles, books and newspapers are accepted.

Be sure to explain your work in paragraph form and ensure there is an excel spreadsheet that coincide with the analysis.

Transaction Analysis
Analyze the following scenario: The Unified Path is an umbrella organization that solicits donations to support its many charitable suborganizations. One of these is the Millbridge Family Service (MFS). All transactions for MFS are handled through the MFS special purpose fund. For both the United Path general operating fund and MFS special purpose fund, show the impact of the fundamental equation of accounting of each of the following events.

Unified Path transfers cash to the MFS bank account for $50,000 for the MFS family counseling program. This is a direct subsidy to MFS. No repayment is required.
Unified Path has a bookkeeping department which assists the suborganizations with their purchase of insurance, supplies, payroll, and other items. This centralized approach is less expensive than if each part of the larger organization had its own bookkeeping staff. Unified Path charges MFS $400 for bookkeeping services for the month. No payment is made at this time.
MFS borrows $20,000 from Unified Path’s general fund to meet a current operating shortfall. MFS will repay this loan from money received from charges to its clients within six months.

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.

For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by Saturday, November 28, 2015.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment by Wednesday, December 2, 2015.

Radical Mastectomy

This week, your case for review is about a radical mastectomy. Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about the healthcare insurance, facility, and provider practices involved in the care of patients suffering from radical mastectomy.

Based on your readings and research, answer the following:

• Discuss the process by which the patient in the case study is referred through the healthcare system from primary care to tertiary care and rehabilitation. What parts of this process works well and what can been improved?
• What is the significance of the patient’s payer in determining her care?
• Do you feel that the patient’s referral from primary care to specialty care is handled appropriately? If no, why not?
• What is the role of Telemedicine in this week’s case study?

When evaluating statistics for business from a samples & surveys perspective, answer the following questions:

1. a) What is understood as a “population” in statistics?

   b) How is a sample different than a population?

   c) Why do we use samples instead of populations?

 

2. How do we perform convenience sampling?
3. Populations are characterized by their parameters, while samples are characterized by their statistics. When we use a sample instead of the population, what we can obtain is an estimate of the population’s parameter(s). We should also calculate the confidence interval of the estimate.

 

1. a) What is a confidence interval?
2. b) Assuming we’re working with the same data, would the 90% confidence interval be wider or narrower than the 95% confidence interval?
3. c) How would you describe the concept of Margin of Error (E)?

 

4. A chemical firm has been accused of polluting the local river system. State laws require the accuser to prove the polluting by a statistical analysis of water samples. Is the chemical firm worried about a Type I or a Type II error?

 

5. The research labs of a corporation occasionally produce breakthroughs that can lead to multibillion-dollar blockbuster products. Should the managers of the labs be more worried about Type I or Type II errors?

 

6. A stock market analyst recorded the number of stocks that went up or went down each day for 5 consecutive days, producing a contingency table with 2 rows (up or down) and 5 columns (Monday through Friday). Are these data suitable for applying the chi-squared test of independence?

 

7. A bank makes loans to many types of customers. Some of these customers default on their loans. How could analysts at the bank use χ2 to identify characteristics associated with customers who default on loans?

 

8. Managers in the human resources department suspect that sick-day absentee rates are higher on some weekdays than others. What test can they use to investigate this claim?

 

 

9. What are the possible outcomes in an experiment that consist in rolling a single die?

Licensing rather than purchasing has become a dominant method of transaction for many types of copyrighted digital works. Analyze the effects of licensing on the notion that copyright should support a balance between rewarding creators and

CAREER ASSIGNMENT – 5% of Grade (30 pts)
0. Pre-assignment
Find three companies you would like to work for and look at job descriptions; register with ‘Hire Centennial’; if you are sure then print off the three job desc. of interest
https://my.centennialcollege.ca/cp/home/displaylogin
Attend the in-class presentation from career services the week of Jan 19-23
1. Research XYZ company(s) and find three Jobs and the job descriptions in which you are interested. You will then proceed to do the following (10 pts):
Print and keep these job descriptions (download a pdf or MS doc if possible)
Update (or create) a resume and a skills bank (skills, talents & achievements) re: summarize your strengths or skills
A list of weaknesses or general skill gaps is also a good idea
Review each job and determine what your skill gap may be in terms of education and experience
Chart a plan of action to fill the skill gaps; include timelines; costs if available; other actions required to support plan (Eg. Job as a IA within 12-18 months earning $50,000 will support pursuit of MBA part-time, within 18-24 months)
2. Arrange to interview someone doing the job (from the three selected) in which you are most interested (10 pts)
Arrange the interview within the next 3-4 weeks (earlier is fine)
Make 10 interview questions in preparation (send these to the interviewee in advance)
Get help from career services, if you are unsure of appropriate questions
This is an ‘informational’ interview
Ask about the job
How the interviewee proceeded through their career
Suggestions for your career path
If time, do a mock interview with either your group or career services
3. Write a report of no more then 3-4 pages, which summarizes (10 pts):
Your three jobs and why/how you selected them (did you use some criteria?)
Your skills gap for each of these jobs and how you plan to fill this gap
Use of a Gant Chart or a table to show actions with time lines
Your interview. What happened? What did you learn? How did the interview inform your action plan?
Your action plan as a table or Gant Chart; Interview questions; Resume and skills bank (also weaknesses); list of skill gaps; the three job descriptions should all be includes in your appendices and properly referenced in your report
Use 12 pt Arial font; double spaced; APA for any references
Hard copy at start of class on due date (Lose 1% per day late)
Submission of electronic version to dropbox (Turnitin is in effect)