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❖ The three-page analysis of your findings will compare and contrast and identify similarities and differences between your two interviews, including:

❖ 1. organizational settings,

❖ 2. organizational politics,

❖ 3. industry environment and trends,

❖ 4. why the organizational challenges exist,

❖ 5. how are the challenges impacting individuals at that those workplaces,

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Review the team report on MPBS located in the Case Study Overview.

In this assignment you are expected to recommend the most appropriate method of job evaluation to use at MPBS and support your recommendations with your rationale. Your recommendation should consider the organization’s comprehensive job structure with major occupational groups including scientific, administrative, sales, management, and technical. Your rationale must be backed up with support from the text and/or other articles you may have researched.

Your recommendations must cover the following:

• Describe your recommended approach and the expected impact of that approach on job performance.   Address key HR and compensation issues identified at MPBS.
• Differentiate the components that would need to be included if MPBS were to use a point-based method as compared to a ranking and to a classification method.
• Provide a list of compensable factors for a point-based method and the factor weights you would suggest if using that method.
• Explain how your recommended method of job evaluation aligns with MPBS’s strategic focus.
• Describe the key challenges to effective implementation of the recommended approach to job evaluation at MPBS.

To complete this assignment, write a 3–5 page report in Word format and provide rationale and support.   Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

By Wednesday, November 18, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M2: 

Locate an article concerning conflict resolution and peacemaking using the course readings, the University Library, and other resources.

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze your article. Describe elements of  conflict resolution and peacemaking.

ourse Project: Week 4

Deliverables | Step 1: Update MS Project With Fixed Cost Information | Step 2: Update MS Project With Variable Cost Information | Step 3: Answer

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, November 21, 2015, post your response to the appropriateDiscussion Area. Through Wednesday, November 25, 2015, 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.

LASA 1—Operant Conditioning and Superstitions

Many people believe that superstitions are absolutely true. This often causes them to believe and act in ways that are out of the norm either to avoid a negative outcome or to bring about a positive outcome. However, the origins of all superstitions lie in operant conditioning (for example, wearing the same shirt worn during a victory game to all future games in order to ensure victory).

In this assignment, you will examine the process by which operant conditioning can lead to the formation of a superstition.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research the development of operant conditioning and its basic principles. Then, address the following:

• Describe the historical antecedents of operant conditioning. What factors led to the rise of operant conditioning?
• Describe the principles/concepts which can be applied to explain the process by which operant conditioning can lead to the development and maintenance of superstitions.
• Brainstorm to come up with a number of superstitions you may have heard or read about. Using your knowledge and vocabulary of operant conditioning, choose one of these superstitions. Then, describe in detail, the thinking processes involved that resulted in the acquisition and perpetuation of this irrational belief.
• Describe a specific aspect of the operant conditioning process that leads to these beliefs becoming so deeply ingrained and long standing in nature.
• Explain whether a person can ever be rid of superstitions. What methods can be used to help such a person?
• Interview a family member or friend to discover a superstition that he or she believes in. Explain the nature of the event that led to the formation of this superstition. Does this information fit with your understanding of how the operant conditioning process results in the development of superstitions? Why or why not?

Write a 3–4-page paper in Word format. The paper should be double-spaced and in 12 point, Times New Roman font with regular one-inch margins and free of typographical and grammatical errors. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Be sure to include a title page and a reference page. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, November 25, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Grading Criteria and Rubric

Each student will create a detailed, organized, unified technical solution given the scenario described below. The submission will be in a written format, with at least one diagram, and may include additional diagrams, charts or tables. The assignment is meant for students to enhance their mastery of the material and to provide a creative and realistic way in which to apply knowledge from this course.

Scenario
Worldwide Advertising, Inc. (referred to as “WAI”) has hired you as an IT consultant for their Windows network services infrastructure. WAI is a new advertising firm, and they have hired staff, are established in two locations, and have a need to get their internal IT services configured. They have an IT staff, but they do not have the in-house expertise to address their current infrastructure needs.

You are required to supply WAI with a solution which addresses the integration and configuration of their Active Directory updates. Cost is not a significant concern – WAI wishes to implement the “right” solution to address their acquisition of a new company and its Active Directory forest which is comprised of a single domain. More specifically, WAI is based out of Houston, TX and they have a Windows Server 2012 domain that is operating at the Windows Server 2012 functional level. They recently acquired Media Guru Group which is based out of Richmond, VA, which has a domain (running Windows Server 2008 domain controllers) operating at the Windows Server 2003 functional level.

There are several details about WAI which will have an impact on your proposal:
WAI has restructured their organization they have a total of 110 employees in their Houston and Richmond sites. Each location the following departments:
WAI will have two sites, one in Houston, TX, and one in Richmond, VA.
Executives (9 total with 5 in Houston, 4 in Richmond) – manage and run the company
Accounts and Sales Department (30 employees with 15 in Houston and 15 in Richmond) – perform market research and maintain accounts
Creative, Media and Production Department (49 employees in Houston) – advertising
Human Resources and Finances (12 employees in Houston) – perform HR and financial duties
IT (10 employees with 5 in Houston and 5 in Richmond) – manage IT for the company
Networking equipment is already in place for both sites, which are separate Active Directory Domains.
Security mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection) will be handled separately, and there is no need to describe them.
Some departments will want their data to remain private from other departments (e.g., Finances personnel will not want Production staff to see the company’s financial details). Your team may make assumptions about how data should be shared or kept private.
Assumptions can be made regarding any information not included here; all assumptions should be identified, however.
Assignment Requirements
There are specific requirements for the assignment: The final submission should contain at least 8 pages’ worth of text written by the student (not counting title page, images, diagrams, tables, or quotations), but may be longer, not to exceed approximately 12 pages’ worth of student-supplied text. (With the required diagram, and other images, title page, etc., the final submission may end up being more than 12 pages in length.) It must be double-spaced, have 1-inch margins, and use 12-point Times New Roman or 10-point Arial/Helvetica font. A title page is required.
At least one diagram must be included (not counted towards the minimum length described above); this could be a diagram describing Active Directory components, DHCP/DNS design, or anything else that is worth displaying graphically to enhance the reader’s understanding of the proposal. Additional diagrams, images, or tables are welcome.
The submission must cover all of the major topics outlined in the Topics to Cover section. Each choice should be explained with technical and business reasoning. The solution should be reasonably detailed. Additional topics may be covered as desired.
The structure of the final submission is flexible; however, it should be organized logically and represent a single, unified solution. It is likely that the format will include separate sections for each of the topics required, as well as a summary.
At least two non-textbook, non-LabSim, non-Wikipedia reference is required; preferably, this would be a “best practice” guide or similar content from Microsoft or an experienced provider of Microsoft solutions.
Be sure to properly quote or cite any sources used. APA format is required for in-text citations and the list of works cited at the end. It is expected that you are already familiar with “Policy on Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism.” It is available in the Academic Policies section of the Syllabus; there are also links in the Webliography. In its simplest form, if you are using text from a source, you must cite and/or quote it. If plagiarism is found, then there will be a penalty to the grade.

Topics to Cover
Your document should cover the content presented in the course. The outline below contains recommended points to cover. You are free to add other related information.

Describe the technical and business reasons for each choice, citing other resources as appropriate. The Windows Server 2012 operating system should be used for all aspects of the solution.

The topics include:
Active Directory Infrastructure
Describe features of Windows Server 2012 that will allow WAI to integrate the newly acquired company’s domain into their existing forest.
How will Forest Functional Levels be implemented?
How will cross-forest trusts be implemented?
How will replication be handled?
Read-Only Domain Controllers – how will they be used?

File and Storage Solutions
Will BranchCache be used? Why/Why not?
How can Dynamic Access Control benefit the organization?
What about storage optimization?

Disaster Recovery
How can Windows Server Backup be utilized?
Will the organization use Volume Shadow Copies?

DNS and DHCP
How had DHCP installation and authorization been implemented?
DHCP scope design (e.g., lease times, number of scopes, address range)
Will a form of DHCP fault tolerance be implemented?
Will DHCP reservations be used for servers?
How can IPAM be utilized?
How will IPv6 be utilized?
How will DNS be implemented?
DNS Security
How will DNS be handled for the second site?

High Availability
What implementation of Hyper-V would benefit WAI?
Network Load Balancing
Failover Clustering

Active Directory Certificate Services
Will AD Certificate Services used in both domains need to be modified?

Active Directory Rights Management Services
What use of AD Rights Management Services can be implemented?

Active Directory Federation Services
AD Federation Services

. Assignment 1: 400 words

Please address each of the following issues in a separate paragraph or two, with each response identified by the corresponding letter of the issue you are addressing. Your responses should reflect issues you have studied in the first four chapters, and must be your own work. If you do incorporate other sources, be sure to clearly identify them as such. All submissions are expected to be college level work, with appropriate spelling, grammar, formatting, etc., and must be submitted in .doc or .dox format

1. We examined various internal and external stakeholders. The economic concept of scarcity infers that if a company uses resources to fund local arts organizations, those funds cannot be used as dividends to stockholders (or vice versa). What balance do you should be generally be sought between the profit motive and various philanthropic efforts?

2. Not-for-profit organizations sometimes pay huge salaries to CEOs. Would you be in favor of limiting employee salaries as part of the requirements for being granted not-for-profit status? Explain the reasoning behind your opinion.

3. Visit www.federalreserve.gov . (Copy and paste if need be.)  Provide a list of the current members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

4.  Read both articles linked below, (Copy the addresses and paste into your browser), then tell me which insurance policies you believe you would need if you were the sole proprietor of a lawn care business. Remember, coverage is great, but it isn’t free, so you will need to keep in mind the costs of well as the benefits.

www.sba.gov/content/types-business-insurance

www.entrepreneur.com/article/241026

2. Assignment 2: Min 400 words

Please address each of the following issues in a separate paragraph or two, with each response identified by the corresponding letter of the issue you are addressing. Your responses should reflect issues you have studied in the first four chapters, and must be your own work. If you do incorporate other sources, be sure to clearly identify them as such. All submissions are expected to be college level work, with appropriate spelling, grammar, formatting, etc., and must be submitted in .doc or .dox format.

1.  Provide a listing of all the steps in the supply chain for a t-shirt being created, starting with the raw materials being produced and ending with the shirt being made available to the public.

2. If you were asked to recruit 2 salespersons, what steps would you include in the process? Begin with announcing the openings, and describe the steps in the process until a job offer is made.

3. Promotion is the “P” most generally identified with Marketing, but promotional efforts need to respond to an ever more difficult to reach target market. Describe yourself in the terms a marketer might use to describe you as a consumer, and tell 1. how you can best be reached, and 2. which traditional method of promotion is unlikely to be successful in attracting your attention.

4. Surfer Tom is going to sell his custom surfboards. He was able to rent a garage from his Uncle Ed for $1,200 a month, which includes utilities. He anticipates being able to sell his boards for $500 each. The raw materials (resin, foam, etc.) will cost an average of $200 for each board, and he plans to spend $60 per board to advertise them to local surfers. Assuming these are all the costs and revenues, what will be Surfer Tom’s monthly break-even point in units? Does this seem like a reasonable amount for him to produce and sell every month?  Please show your calculations.

The data set shows 48 samples (for 48 hours) of size n=7 collected to test the production process of a filling machine for soft drink bottling.  The target filling is 20 fluid ounces.

Your tasks:

Select a random sample of 24 hours of data.  [Feel free to do it manually, if you cannot use the sample selection procedure in the software. ]       Using the sample data, accomplish the following:

Part 1

1. Construct an x–barchart. Need to use graph paper.
2. Calculate and plot the centerline and upper and lower control limits for the charts.
3. Calculate and plot the A, B and C zone boundaries of the x-bar chart.
4. Plot the 24 sample means on the x-barchart.
5. Based on x-bar findings, is the process under statistical control? Explain and justify your answer.

Part 2

6. Construct an R-chart. Need to use graph paper.
7. Calculate and plot the centerline and upper and lower control limits for the charts.
8. Calculate and plot the A, B and C zone boundaries of the R-chart.
9. Plot the sample ranges on the R-chart.
10. Analyze the pattern of the R-chart.
11. Based on R-chart findings, is the process under statistical control?Explain and justify your answer.

Part 3

12. Theoretically, what is the difference between x-bar chart and R-chart? Explain briefly.
13. How are they used?That is, what is their purpose? Explain briefly.

Part 4

14. Compare the findings from your x-bar chart and R-chart.
15. Explain why rational sub-groupings are used in constructing control charts?
16. What are the major findings from the study? Explain briefly.
17. What are your conclusions from the study?Explain briefly.

Read, “The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Homeland Security,” Introduction by David Kamien and through your own research argue for, or against the statement, “Effective defensive measures influence a terrorist’s choice of targets or mode of attack but fail to deter terrorists who are smart, adaptive, and willing to undertake suicide attacks” (Kamien, 2005, 1).
http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/050923/21e7a5a94429516c6fc5002ff331ced6/Homeland%20Security%20Handbook%20Contents.pdf

Question 3

Watch the first half of the Frontline video, “Extraordinary Renditions,” and through your independent research, make an argument for, or against the program. Was the program legal, or illegal? Explain your answers in your own words.
http://video.pbs.org/video/1069968544/

Question 4
Read The Huffington Post article, “The Inside Story Of How The CIA Actually Caught The 9/11 Mastermind, But Nearly Didn’t,” by Kate Sheppard and then read The Washington Post article, “Tortured Credibility,” by Anne Applebaum. In the article, the author states, “This is concrete proof, as if more were needed, that it is not merely immoral to operate outside the rule of law; it is also ineffective and in fact profoundly counterproductive” (Applebaum, 2007, np). In your own words, make an argument for or against the statement and offer evidence to support your position on whether the enhanced interrogation techniques provided the tools necessary to capture Khalid Sheik Mohammed and was his information useful.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/09/mohammed-cia-torture_n_6295994.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/19/AR2007031901637.html

Question 5

Following our discussion from week four (4) concerning whether the Islamic State is an insurgency, or terrorist group, read the Foreign Policy article, “The Islamic State vs. al Qaeda,” by J.M. Berger. Explain, in your own words, the differences between the Islamic State and al Qaeda. What are the probable outcomes, i.e. competition, in regard to the anti-Islamic extremist movement between the two groups.
The Islamic State vs. al Qaeda