Author: chris

Your consulting services have been requested by the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.  The CEO is concerned about the use of the internet at work and employs your consulting services to discuss her concerns. Primarily, she is concerned that employees might be abusing the internet and is wondering what repercussions the company might face in a variety of legal areas, specifically with respect to the legal environment of business, ethics, and human resources issues. She is also concerned with preventing abuse of the internet at all levels, from low-level employees to the Board of Directors.

She requests a memo from you regarding:

1. Possible torts that could be committed by employees who use the internet at work
2. Possible crimes that could be committed by employees who use the internet at work (and indicate whether the crimes are white collar or blue collar)
3. Liability of the corporation versus liability of the individual employee through commission of tortsor crimes using the internet at work
4. Whether violations of the duty of care or duty of loyalty could exist through use of social media sites at work
5. Employee privacy rights or concerns that exist regarding use of the internet at work
6. Employment laws that protect the employee or the employer with respect to use of the internet at work.

Identify two policies that this CEO could put in place to curb the potential for abuse of the internet at work, with one policy that addresses low-level employees and one policy that is targeted for the board of directors. Keep in mind the business judgment rule with respect to the latter policy and discuss whether it might ever be invoked to enforce or ignore such a policy. Articulate your ideas on how to remedy the issue of corporate malfeasance that occurs through abuse of the internet at work.  Proffer some clear recommendations to the CEO about how to improve overall corporate governance by reducing the potential for abuse of the internet at work.

You must also clearly address ethical issues that arise regarding your policies; note that ethical issues might exist on behalf of the employee if your policies are not utilized, but ethical issues might exist on behalf of the employer if the polices are implemented.

The CEO intends to pass along this memo to other employees in the company who might not have a strong understanding of these concepts. Thus, you are also requested to clearly explain and define the legal concepts you raise. She also is concerned about offending employees with policy suggestions and requests you keep this in mind with your suggested policies.

This issue exists in many companies and corporations, so you are encouraged to research outside sources for data supporting policies to reduce abuse of the internet at work. Demonstrate critical thinking by analyzing, evaluating, and interpreting appropriate policies to provide an original perspective to enhance corporate legal and ethical environs as they relate to use of the internet at work.

• At least 5 APA style references from peer reviewed or major publications
• Times New Roman Font 12 point 1″ margins
• 9-10 pages in length not including cover and references pages.
• All original work, plagarism check done
• Great American Grammer. If I have to perform multiple grammer corrections, will ask for rewrite.

Read Chapter 8
Write programs to solve following two tasks:

Task#1
Write a method smallestIndex, that takes an integer array as its parameters and returns the index of the (last occurrence of the) smallest element in the array. Also, call the method smallestIndex to test the method.

Task#2
Three employees in a company are up for a special pay increase. You are given a file, say InputData.txt, with the following data:

Miller Andrew
65789.87
5
Green Sheila
75892.56
6
Sethi Amit
74900.50
6.1

First line contains an employee’s name, next line his current salary, and the next line is percent pay increase. For example, in the first input line, the name of the employee is Miller Andrew, the next line contains his current salary is 65789.87, and the line after contains his pay increase is 5%. The same pattern repeats 3 times.

Write a method ReadingWriting which accepts a file of the following format as input. The method ReadingWriting does the following:
reads data from the InputData.txt file
Write output in the output file out.txt.

For each employee, the data must be outputted in the following way:
name, updatedSalary.

Calculate updatedSalary using the formula:
updatedSalary = current salary + (current salary * pay increase)
Format the updatedSalary of decimal numbers to two decimal places.

Note

Question 1
What do the acronyms WLE & RLE means?  Please explain the relationship between these two things and how each has changed and ultimately impacted the role of the financial planner over time.

Question 2
What are the 3 methods for analyzing retirement capital needs?  Please define each and explain the tradeoffs clients need to understand when determining which method may meet their needs.
Question 3
Please explain the qualitative factors that must be considered when helping a client plan for retirement.  How do those factors impact and integrate with the quantitative methods of analysis?

Question 4
Joe has $100,000 in his 401k. This year he will make $50,000. At the end of each year he saves 10% of his salary. His company matches up to 5% of his salary. If Joe expects his salary to increase at 5% per year, and his 401(k) to grow at 7% per year. How much will Joe have saved at the end of 10 years? After 20 years? After 25 years?
Question 5
Jane is buying a house for $365,000. She plans to put 20% down and finance the rest. She has 2 options: A fixed rate 30 year mortgage at 4% with no points. Or a fixed rate 30 year mortgage at 3.375% plus 2 points. What would the monthly payment be of each mortgage?

Question 6
Jane is buying a house for $365,000. She plans to put 20% down and finance the rest. She has 2 options: A fixed rate 30 year mortgage at 4% with no points. Or a fixed rate 30 year mortgage at 3.375% plus 2 points.
From question 5 (restated above), how would you advise Jane to make a decision between these two mortgage options? White her a short email explaining the difference.
10 points
Question 7
Describe the similarities and differences between a 529 Plan and a Coverdell Savings account.

Question 8
Jesse wants to save for her daughter’s college education. On her first birthday, Jesse starts saving $150 per month. The account earns 8% per year and Jesse’s total tax rate is 25%. How much will she have saved in the 529 by her daughters 18th birthday?

Question 9
Explain the difference between active and passive investing
Question 10
Name 3 types of risk that corporate bonds have. Define the risk, then give an example of how a financial advisor can work to reduce the effect this risk has on a client.

In this assignment, you will be introduced to a real-world case that requires a high-level analysis of theoretical, ethical, and legal factors to explain how an abused child should have been handled by the human services agency. This exercise will demonstrate the types of cases that are common in human services. You will learn how to approach such types of cases from necessary perspectives that always need to be considered by a human services worker.

Tasks:

In this assignment, you will read a scenario, analyze its legal and ethical implications, and discuss options to address the human services needs. Consider the following scenario.

You are working in a human services agency that provides diagnostic services and residential placement to youth in the court system. A female Italian immigrant teenager was placed in this center by Children and Youth Protective Services due to suspected sexual abuse by her father. The agency conducted an assessment on the child to determine the effects of the suspected abuse on her functioning, provided her with a safe environment for twelve weeks, during which time she was allowed supervised visitation with her father, and encouraged her to trust the staff members. During this period, her case went to trial and was dismissed despite strong indications of sexual abuse. The court ruling was based largely on the results of the assessment conducted by the agency professional in addition to the client’s activity in residential placement, including visitation with her father during that period of time. As a result, the agency lost its funding for residential placement. Therefore, the girl was returned to her home the following week.

Apply scholarly theory, practice, and ethics to write an 8- to 10-page paper that includes the following:

• Identify the legal and ethical obligations to both the girl and the father.
• Identify the multiple levels of system failure in this case.
• Discuss the distinction between the legal justification for the release of the girl and the ethical problems with such actions. In your discussion, explain how an individual human services provider might come to deal personally with such a conflict.
• Identify the cultural considerations needed when working with this family.
• Describe the original or historical intent of child welfare systems in caring for vulnerable children.
• Discuss to what extent the agencies have fulfilled their responsibilities to their mission and the original intent in creating such agencies.
• Propose two to three culturally and legally appropriate strategies that may be provided to the girl that will address her human services needs.

Submission Details:

• By Monday, November 23, 2015, prepare an 8- to 10-page report. Your response should rely upon at least three sources from professional literature. This 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). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

One of the very first cases that caught Freud’s attention when he was starting to develop his psychoanalytic theory was that of Anna O, a patient of fellow psychiatrist Josef Breuer. Although Freud did not directly treat her, he did thoroughly analyze her case as he was fascinated by the fact that her hysteria was “cured” by Breuer. It is her case that he believes was the beginning of the psychoanalytic approach.

Through your analysis of this case, you will not only look deeper into Freud’s psychoanalytic theory but also see how Jung’s neo-psychoanalytic theory compares and contrasts with Freud’s theory.

Review the following:

The Case of Anna O. One of the first cases that inspired Freud in the development of what would eventually become the Psychoanalytic Theory was the case of Anna O. Anna O. was actually a patient of one of Freud’s colleagues Josef Breuer. Using Breuer’s case notes, Freud was able to analyze the key facts of Anna O’s case. Anna O. first developed her symptoms while she was taking care of her very ill father with whom she was extremely close. Some of her initial symptoms were loss of appetite to the extent of not eating, weakness, anemia, and development a severe nervous cough. Eventually she developed a severe optic headache and lost the ability to move her head, which then progressed into paralysis of both arms. Her symptoms were not solely physical as she would vacillate between a normal, mental state and a manic-type state in which she would become extremely agitated. There was even a notation of a time for which she hallucinated that the ribbons in her hair were snakes. Toward the end of her father’s life she stopped speaking her native language of German and instead only spoke in English. A little over a year after she began taking care of her father he passed away. After his passing her symptoms grew to affect her vision, a loss of ability to focus her attention, more extreme hallucinations, and a number of suicidal attempts (Hurst, 1982).

Both Freud and Jung would acknowledge that unconscious processes are at work in this woman’s problems. However, they would come to different conclusions about the origin of these problems and the method by which she should be treated.

Research Freud’s and Jung’s theories of personality using your textbook, the Internet, and the Argosy University online library resources. Based on your research, respond to the following:

• Compare and contrast Freud’s view of the unconscious with Jung’s view and apply this case example in your explanations.
• On what specific points would they agree and disagree regarding the purpose and manifestation of the unconscious in the case of Anna?
• How might they each approach the treatment of Anna? What might be those specific interventions? How might Anna experience these interventions considering her history?

Write a 2–3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

 

Compared and contrasted Freud’s view of the unconscious with Jung’s view and applied Anna’s example in explanations.	32
Identified points of agreement and disagreement between the two theorists regarding the purpose and manifestation of the unconscious with examples from the case study.	28
Analyzed how Freud and Jung would approach Anna’s treatment with specific interventions and discussed how these would affect Anna.	20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Erikson and Freud are two of the few theorists who have developed a lifespan approach to development. Freud’s approach to development was psychosexual while Erikson’s was psychosocial. Even though Freud’s theory is better known, Erikson’s theory remains a leading and very much applied model in personality and developmental psychology today.

When considering these two stage-oriented theories, you can directly compare the majority of their stages. These are matched in the following table:

Approximate Age	Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development	Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial development
Infancy (Birth to 1 year)	Oral stage	Trust versus mistrust
Early childhood (1–3 years)	Anal stage	Autonomy versus doubt
Preschool (3–6 years)	Phallic stage	Initiative versus guilt
School age (7–11 years)	Latent period	Industry versus inferiority
Adolescence (12–18 years)	Genital stage	Identity versus role confusion
Young adulthood (19–40 years)		Intimacy versus isolation
Middle adulthood (40–65 years)		Generativity versus stagnation
Older adulthood (65–death)		Integrity versus despair

When considering Erikson’s eight stages of development, the way a person moves through each stage directly affects their success in the next stage. Their personality is being built and shaped with each stage. At each stage, there is a turning point, called a crisis by Erikson, which a person must confront.

In this assignment, you will observe or interview two different people, each at a different stage of development. For a third observation, take a look at yourself and the stage that you are in (this stage must be different from your other two observations).

• Record your three observations in a template. Include the following information:
  • Name
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Current developmental stage
  • Status within the stage (i.e., identity achievement or role confusion)
  • Events that have lead to this status

Download a Development Template from the Doc Sharing area to record your observations.

• Summarize what you have learned about psychosocial development through these observations/interviews.
• Summarize the trends you see in your observations/interviews regarding psychosocial development.
• How does movement through Erikson’s stages influence personality development? Again, be specific.
• How do Erikson’s stages of development compare to Freud’s stages? How are they similar? How are they different?
• Between these two theories, which one do you feel best explains your own personality development? Justify your answers with specific examples.

Chart identifies general characteristics of people being observed Chart identifies each person’s Erikson’s stage of development (Course Objective [CO] 2)	20
Explains which events of this developmental stage influence this outcome (CO 2)	24
Summarizes learning about psychosocial development, applies observations (CO 2)	24
Explains the connection between Erikson’s stages of development and personality development (CO 2)	28
Compares and contrasts Erikson and Freud’s stages of development (CO 1)	32
Determines which theory best fits own personality development, applies self-observations (CO 1, 2)	28
Presentation Components: Organization (12) Usage and Mechanics (12) APA Elements (16) Style (4)

Part 1- 3 page assessment to illistrate personal learning and growth as a result of the learning objectives and outcomes from the course.

 

Part 2 – 1 page journal on current events within the context of globlization (articles, media, or television)

 

Part 3- 1 page reflection paper on Chapter 14 and 15 from the text Introduction to Global Business: Understanding the International Environment and Global Business Functions. Gaspar, Arreola-risa, Bierman, Hise, Kolari & Smith (2014)

 

 

 

 

Deliverable Length:  2 pages and 5 PowerPoint slides

 

 

Assignment Objectives

Discuss the impact of technology on business

Appropriately use effective communication techniques

Assignment Details

Deliverable Length:  4-5 pages

Winsome Manufacturing Company produces plastic storage containers and sells them to the home consumer through home sales events. At the company’s quarterly meeting, the head of marketing described a new product to be introduced in the first quarter of the next fiscal year, approximately 9 months from now. The product will be a room-sized plastic storage unit suitable to the outside of the home; it is similar to a competitor’s product but will have significantly more features. This product will open new markets for the sales channel, lay the foundation for add-on products, and generate new revenues. Management has only seen preliminary sketches of the potential product but are very excited by the new product.

The project will require participation from the design, production, purchasing, shipping, sales, and marketing departments. Winsome Manufacturing owns a line of suitable injection molds, so all manufacturing will be done in-house. The project manager for this project has not yet been selected, but that decision is expected to be made in the next week.

A preliminary project initiation meeting will result in the identification of the project sponsor, selection of a project manager, and creation of the project charter. A manager in the production department who knows you are taking a college project management course asks you to prepare a brief report to help him prepare for the meeting by answering the following questions:

• Who are the project stakeholders? How will they be involved in the project?
• Who should be the project sponsor? Why?
• From which department should the project manager come? Why?
• What skills and experience are likely needed by the project manager for each phase in the project life cycle, and how do they differ between the various phases?
• What type of communication plan will likely be needed during the project?

o   What information should be shared with the project stakeholders?

o   What is the mechanism that could be used for each type of information?

o   What is the frequency with which information should be shared?

o   What should be done if project communications are not proving to be effective?

o   What technology could be used for project communications?

o   At what point could communication about the project become an ethical or legal issue?

• What information should be included in the following elements of the project charter:

o   What is the problem the project proposes to address?

o   What business opportunity might project completion create?

o   What is the business case for undertaking the project?

o   What is the financial impact of the project?

o   What are the expected results of the project?

o   What value will the project add?

o   What are risks that might be involved with undertaking the project?

o   What is the potential impact to the company if the project is not undertaken?

Present your findings as a Word document of 4–5 pages (not including title and reference page

Branches of GovernmentThe three branches of our government each play crucial roles in the U.S. national government. Each branch has specific power, duties, and responsibilities that are the most apparent features of our system of separate powers. Nevertheless, each branch has been critiqued for having definite strengths and weaknesses that become obvious in certain situations. Analyzing these strengths and weaknesses will enable you to evaluate and recommend ways to enhance and correct these fundamental assets and deficiencies of the branches of our national government.To complete the assignment, save the Week Three Learning Activity Worksheet to your computer, fill it out, and submit it.Develop a detailed outline of your third main point using the Week Three Learning Activity Worksheet.

• Branches of Government:
  1. Provide a paragraph that briefly describes one strength and one weakness of one branch of our government: executive, legislative, or judiciary.
  2. Provide a paragraph that recommends one option to maintain the strength and one to correct the weakness.
• Scholarly Support: (For assistance with your research, the Ashford University’s Library provides tutorials and recorded webinars on a variety of topics. To access these helpful resources look for the links located under the FindIt@AU search box on the library home page. For help with writing, please review the APA Style Aid, and Ashford Writing Center’s Sample Annotated Bibliography for additional help.)
  1. Provide two credible sources in APA format to support your main points.
  2. Briefly discuss how these sources support your main points.
  3. Briefly evaluate your sources for bias, validity, and reliability.

View the POL201 Research Guide for help on how to find and evaluate sources for assignments in this course.

 

	Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion question, read Chapters 5 and 6 in American Government. In addition, read the following articles: “What Are the Arguments Made in Favor – and Against – the Electoral College?,” “GOP Leaders United in Defense of the Electoral College,” and the ProQuest article “Why the Electoral College is Bad for America.” Also, please watch this week’s videos,Episode I – A More Perfect Union and Episode II – It’s a Free Country regarding the U.S. Constitution.
	Reflect: As the textbook author asserts, the Framers intentionally designed a process for selecting presidents that would minimize the president’s political power – the Electoral College. They hoped this institution would insulate the chief executive from the public because they feared the power of presidents who might be elected by the people. However, the Electoral College has also spawned a long ongoing debate about whether the Electoral College should be abandoned in favor of new methods, which would ensure that the candidate elected has the most popular votes. The controversy over the Electoral College must be understood in order to better understand how and why U.S. presidents are elected.
	Write: In your initial post, summarize how the Electoral College works. Explain some of the main pros and cons in the debate about whether to keep or abolish the current Electoral College process. In addition, evaluate one proposal to change how the system works without formally abolishing it. Would this proposal effectively address some of the cons that you identified earlier in your post? Please explain your response. Fully respond to all parts of the question and write your response in your own words. Your initial post must be 200 to 250 words. Support your position with APA citations from two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly. (Discussion 1) Due 11/19
Week Three Reflection
	Prepare: Prior to beginning your reflection this week, read chapters 5, 6, and 7 in American Government. Review the videos, Episode I – A More Perfect Union and Episode II – It’s a Free Country regarding the U.S. Constitution.
	Reflect: The executive and judicial branches of the U.S. national government often seem to operate independently and with little conflict. Many laws are signed by the President and then implemented without a word from the judicial branch. However, there are times when executive decisions are challenged by the judicial branch in a process called judicial review. In addition, there are times when a judicial review has direct impact on your life. For example, when the Supreme Court declared the Affordable Care Act constitutional, many people without health care insurance were finally able to purchase health care insurance. Additionally, when the Supreme Court declared sections of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, some of the constraints that prevented many gay and lesbian couples from marrying were eliminated. Executive Order 13658 on February 20, 2014 also had a direct impact on many business people that contract with the federal government by increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. Clearly, the actions of the executive and judicial branches often directly affect our lives.
	Write: In your initial post, explain how and why the actions of the executive and/or judicial branches have personally affected your life. Fully respond to all parts of the question. Write in your own words. Support your position with APA citations to two or more of the assigned resources required for this discussion. Fully respond to all parts of the prompt and write your response in your own words. Your initial post must be 200 to 250 words. Please be sure that you demonstrate understanding of these resources, integrate them into your argument, and cite them properly.   (Discussion 2) Due 11/19