Author: chris

Human services administrators have to be conscientious about the services being provided to clients by all of the providers in the agency. This means that in addition to being familiar with the laws and rules of practice for each type of professional employed by the agency, the administrator may also have to assist direct services providers in identifying and resolving potential ethical dilemmas in their work.

Different agencies and administrators have their own approach for resolving ethical issues in different types of cases.

In this assignment, you will identify a personal approach for resolving ethical dilemmas in situations that you might face as an agency administrator in human services.

Tasks:

Using the resources available in professional literature, select your approach to resolve ethical dilemmas. 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).

Present your resolution in a 3- to 4-page paper.

Select your approach to resolving ethical dilemmas in the following situations:

• When providing direct services to clients (such as, counseling, teaching in an alternative school environment, case management) as the direct services provider.
• As an administrator responsible for oversight of direct services providers. Specifically, address ethical dilemmas faced by the direct services providers in working with their clients.
• When the agency faces ethical dilemmas resulting from unethical behavior by direct services providers.

Note: Choose your approach for each situation based on a model found in your assigned readings (e.g., social constructionist model, moral decision-based model) or from your own research. Additional models may include a standards-based model, principles-based model, virtues-based model, or a practice-based model.

Include a discussion about the personal values that would influence your decisions.

Submission Details:

• Save your paper as M4_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc. By Wednesday, December 2, 2015, post it to the M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 4: Southern Company Case Study
From the Goldsmith & Carter textbook, select either the Porter Novelli (Chapter 12) or Southern Company (Chapter 13) case study for this assignment.

Write a (5) page paper in which you:
Evaluate the effectiveness of the roles that the strategic leaders played in the formation of the performance management strategy.
Develop a five (5) point criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the talent management strategy and how the data could be collected.
Critique the components of your talent management strategy and suggest alternative ways to achieve effective results.
Outline the functional expertise component of this strategy and how it optimizes the company’s ability to identify highly qualified individuals.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic 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; 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 page length.

Assignment 2: LASA 1: Ethical Case Study Analysis Paper

Materials Needed:

Case Study

Directions:

• Read the case study provided and identify all three of the ethical dilemmas presented.
• Describe the nature and all dimensions of the three ethical issues.
• Identify the ethical code numbers and definitions of each issue presented using both the APA and ACA codes.
• Discuss alternative courses of action that could be taken by the counselor to rectify each dilemma.
• Describe the implications of each alternative action; lay out the limitations and advantages of each alternative considered.
• Choose one course of action and provide a justification for this selection.
• Describe the ethical decision-making model (from your course materials) you used throughout the process to arrive at a final decision (i.e., Forrester-Miller and Davis). Make sure you outline each step.

You will be graded on the process you used to arrive at your recommendations and the reasoning behind picking a specific recommendation (and not the actual recommendation itself).

You should utilize and cite at least two peer-reviewed journal articles to include in your research.

The body of the paper should be no less than 5 pages in length. Your paper should be double-spaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font, with normal 1-inch margins, written in APA style, and free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract, and a reference page.

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Due Week 10 and worth 150 points

In this last assignment,you will present on the issue you identified in Assignment 1 and provide your recommendations to improve or resolve the issue.

Create a ten to twelve (10-12) slide presentation in which you:

1. Create a title slide and references section (as indicated in the format requirements below).
2. Narrate each slide, using a microphone, indicating what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience. Note: If you do not have access to a microphone, then you should provide detailed speaker notes with your presentation.
3. Summarize the issue you selected in Assignment 1..
4. Summarize the primary ways that organizational, human, and budget resources impact the issue.
5. Summarize the primary ways that policy and politics impacts the issue.
6. Summarize the ethical concerns surrounding the issue.
7. Summarize the relationship of constitutional law to the issue.
8. Provide two (2) recommendations to resolve or improve the issue.
9. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other websites ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length.
• Include a reference slide containing the sources that were consulted while completing research on the selected topic, listed in APA format. The reference slide is not included in the required slide length.
• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide, two to three (2-3) colors, two to three (2-3) fonts, and two to three (2-3) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Slides should abbreviate the information in no more than five or six (5 or 6) bullet points each.
• Slide titles should be based on the criteria being summarized.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Reconstruct the historical development of the field of public administration.
• Rearrange public administration, both the traditional and the new approaches, from structural, functional, and process perspectives, as well as the key goals of the public and private sector.
• Evaluate the role and functions of public administration as it relates to executive branches of government and public policies at federal, state, and local levels.
• Organize the concepts of public budgeting and policy formation essential to the study of public administration as it relates to political choice.
• Organize the concepts of planning and human resource management essential to the study of public administration as it relates to political choice.
• Compose the concepts of public leadership and management essential to the study of public administration.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in public administration.

In order to complete this assignment, refer to the Case Study titled “Two Entrepreneurial Titans – Mary Kay Ash and Anita Roddick” found in Chapter 10 of your Reeves textbook.

Based on the Case Study, write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Compare and contrast three (3) aspects of both Mary Kay Ash and Anita Roddick as managers and as leaders. Next, give your opinion as to who you believe is the better manager and leader. Justify your response.
2. Analyze the significance of Ash and Roddick’s achievements on women leadership during their respective eras. Next, give your opinion as to what you believe were each woman’s greatest accomplishments. Justify your response.
3. Analyze the following quote from Mary Kay Ash and suggest three (3) ways it is relevant to a successful business: “People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” Provide support for your response.
4. Evaluate the importance of one (1) of the following quotes from Anita Roddick, and speculate about two (2) lessons managers can learn from it:
   1. “For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.”
   2. “If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.”
5. Examine both Ash’s and Roddick’s leadership styles. Next, select either Ash or Roddick, and specify whether or not you would emulate her style if you were in her position. Provide a rationale for your response.
6. Must have 3 references.

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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain how women can prepare themselves to be leaders.
• Evaluate trends that shape the development of women leaders.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in women leadership.
• Write clearly and concisely about women in leadership using proper writing mechanics.

Early social smiles are elicited:

A.Primarily by faces, so long as they look human.

B.About equally by faces and high-pitched voices.

C.Primarily by faces in the frontal position.

D.Primarily by the principal and secondary attachment figures.

2.Ainsworth describes insecure-avoidant children as:

A.Avoiding new situations whenever possible.

B.Avoiding strangers at all costs, but clinging to the mother.

C.Consistently independent in both the home and the Strange Situation.

D.Reacting defensively to the threat of maternal unresponsiveness.

3.Montessori materials with “control of error:”

A.Enable children to detect their own errors.

B.Keep errors to a minimum.

C.Stimulate thinking by presenting carefully controlled errors.

D.Guide children toward mastery in gradual steps.

4.In Montessori’s view, the teacher should be:

A.An authority to whom the child can turn for sound advice.

B.Mainly out of the picture.

C.Sociable and creative.

D.Affectionate but not smothering.

5.The text criticizes Werner for:

A.Being unclear on the discontinuity issue.

B.Not taking clear stands.

C.Overvaluing children’s experience.

D.Being too phenomenological.

6.In Kohlberg’s just community approach:

A.Moral dialogue and moral atmosphere frequently advance moral thinking two or more stages.

B.High school students are frequently friendlier to one another, but their moral thinking remains about the same.

C.There is little relationship between moral thought and moral behavior.

D.The moral thinking of high school students advances somewhat, primarily from stage 2 to 3.

7.Briefly contrast the views of Locke and Rousseau on how children develop.

8. Two part question:

a) What do ethologists, such as Lorenz, mean by imprinting on a parent-figure?

b) What observations led Bowlby to suggest that imprinting occurs in human infants? That is, what parallels between human infants and other species did he point to?

9.”For children to learn, we must praise their correct responses and correct their mistakes.” Would Montessori agree? Explain.

10.What did Werner mean by “microgenesis” and “microgenetic mobility?” Give examples. Discuss some valuable aspects of these concepts.

11.Piaget’s critics charge that he made development appear too slow. Discuss this criticism with respect to either: a) object permanence, b) conservation training, or c) Kamii’s teaching methods. Then, describe the Piagetian approach.

12. Compare conventional and postconventional morality in Kohlberg’s theory.

Week 5 of our course which address structuring organizational change and organizational change strategies. When you have a basic understanding of those concepts, consider a problem which you have encountered at your workplace.

Now design an intervention which would help to alleviate this work problem. Go to the South University Online Library and find literature concerning the design and implementation of an intervention.

As you design the intervention, analyze, evaluate, and explain in detail the answer to these questions about the work problem and the project which you are undertaking:

1. What are you trying to “fix” in your organization?
2. What are the critical questions to be answered by the organizational change?
3. Why is the change needed by the organization and its members?
4. What would happen if the change was not made?
5. What are the possible pitfalls of implementing this organizational change?
6. What problems might be encountered if the organizational change was made?
7. What are the benefits of such an organizational change intervention?
8. What are the possible results of this organizational change?
9. As you begin the implementation of this organizational change, how will you communicate the goals of the intervention to organization members?
10. How will you start the organizational change intervention at your workplace?

Good luck, change agent!

Submit your response in an 8- to 10-page Microsoft Word document.

In the 1820s, 1830, and 1840s, the Second Great Awakening helped to inspire a reformist impulse across the nation. As History in the Making points out, one of those movements centered on an effort to abolish slavery in the United States; of course, the desire to eliminate slavery did not go unchallenged. In this activity, you will examine the views of antislavery (abolitionist) and proslavery writers in the antebellum years. This essay will help you better understand a controversy that permeated American life in the years leading up to the Civil War. (Meets Course Learning Objectives: 1, 8, 15, and 16)

Primary Sources

Read the following pro- and anti-slavery documents

• Pro-Slavery
  • George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery
  • Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race
  • James Henry Hammond Advocates Slavery
  • Excerpts from Edmund Ruffin’s, “The Political Economy of Slavery”
• Abolitionists
  • David Walker’s Appeal
  • Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
  • The American Antislavery Society: Declaration of Sentiments

Directions

Part 1: Essay

Focus Questions:

1. What stereotypes do these documents promote about African-Americans?
2. How do these men justify slavery? Or what points do they make about the need to abolish slavery? Should the emancipated slaves remain “on-soil,” that is, in the United States?
3. How do these men envision civilized society and slavery’s place in it? What remarks do the abolitionists make about the conditions under which the slaves worked and lived? The pro-slavery writers?
4. What are your impressions about the attitudes these men had about slavery, whether they were slavery proponents or abolitionists?
5. In what ways are the arguments of these men reflective of racial prejudice?

Format:

For your essay, you must read the primary sources listed above and examine the descriptions of, and defense or attack of slavery offered in the documents. After selecting one side of the debate, you must write a two to three page essay (between 500 and 750 words) that addresses the focus questions. Your essay should have an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. In the supporting paragraphs, you should include specific examples  or support of your position (quotations or paraphrases) from the primary sources for this activity.

You must also follow the conventions of grammar, style, and citations covered in a freshman level composition course. Regarding grammar and style, you should proofread your work carefully because spell and grammar check do not catch all errors. FYI: It is best to write about the past in the past tense as the events you discuss have long since ended. If you struggle with grammar and spelling, you have the option to submit your essay to Smarthinking Online Tutoring for assistance. Regarding citations, you must provide citations for all of the information that you looked up in your sources and you must include a works cited page for those sources.

When you complete your essay, submit your work to the Dropbox for the Unit 7, Essay: Take a Stand on Slavery. You can also access this dropbox on the next page.

Identify Funding Opportunity

After you have completed your public health needs assessment matrix template, you will create a presentation that addresses the following:

• Identify your chosen public health intervention that relates to your MPH coursework.
• Explain how (using the MAPP Model) you completed the matrix template to identify your chosen public health intervention.
• Explain why the intervention is an important initiative.
• Identify whom the intervention will assist (target audience).
• Explain the general requirements of the FOA.
• Describe, at a high-level, your intended approach, in response to your chosen public health intervention