QUESTION: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, HERMAN MELVILLE, EDGAR ALLAN POE ALL EXPRESS SKEPTICISM ABOUT AN UNLIMITED HUMAN POTENTIAL SEEING OUR NATURES AS INHERENTLY FLAWED, IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. USING “THE MINISTER’S BLACK VEIL” BY HAWTHORNE, “THE BIRTH MARK” BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, AND “THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE” BY EDGAR ALLAN POE DISCUSS HOW THIS WRITERS PORTRAY HUMAN NATURE AS LIMITED IN ITS POTENTIAL.
Assignment:
Create 3 to 4 diagrams to model a software system that you are familiar with. These diagrams should meet at least these criteria below:
There should be more than seven major components in this software system.
There should at least be one dynamic view.
Prepare a summary that discusses how the diagrams portray the software system and how it is benefitting the organization it was designed to assist.
Use appropriate external citations and references (minimum of 2), in addition to including references to the required readings/videos where relevant, within the assignment. Be sure citations and references follow the University of Phoenix approved style guide format (the Written Assignments Guidelines, along with properly cited APA references). Please Note: Dictionary and Encyclopedia citations and references will not count towards your reference/citation count. Refer to the Instructor Policies to identify External and Internal references.
Taking Sides and Collaboration by Ronald Hardwood: Both Taking Sides and Collaboration by Ronald Harwood have been written with such intentional
ambiguity that taking the ethical, political, or cultural “side†of an individual protagonist in each work is essential to
the process of making the texts comprehensible. Using evidence from the selected text, support the ethical, political,
or cultural superiority or acceptance of the protagonist of your choice in either (A) Taking Sides or (B) Collaboration.
Go on a global vacation…. Virtually. Use google earth to explore four continents and see the world without the long plane trip. Specifically, download google earth to your device, using the program, visit at least three countries on any four continents. Visit at least one historic landmark per country visited ( Europe: france tower, Germany: berlin wall, England, big ben, Italy: leaning tower of pisa) . write out a trip summary sharing your itenerary and a short commentary on the most beautiful or awesome landmark for each continent you visited.
Explain the importance of maintaining accurate and objective employee records, indicating the consequences that may result from lack of record keeping. Provide support for your rationale.
Provide an example of formal and an example of informal documentation that would normally be maintained in an employee file, indicating how each is likely to protect an employer.
Determine the most significant factor that will ensure an effective legal termination, indicating the most likely way employees can protect themselves from termination in a downsizing situation. Provide support for your rationale.
Analyze two (2) major challenges that today’s health care leaders face in trying to uphold the ethics of critique, justice, and caring, indicating how managers can balance the need for ethics with employee and organizational needs.
Create a detailed outline of an effective succession planning process that will help ensure a smooth transition as members of the management team at your organization begin to retire. (The plan should prescribe, at a minimum, how to identify employees for advancement, training and development programs, mentorships, and a timeline for preparing leaders for their role.)
From both a management and employee perspective, justify or dispute unionization. Provide support for your rationale.
Suggest the best way in which HR can continue to be an effective strategic partner in helping this organization achieve its future goals. Provide support for your rationale.
Digital Transmission. Please respond to the following:
Compare and contrast the data communication technologies of guided media and unguided media. This should include transmission media, data link control protocols, and multiplexing.
Compare digital transmission to analog transmission to determine the advantages of digital transmission. Provide at least one example to support your response.
Discuss the following question. Write about 250 words.
Attempting to address environmental concerns across national lines is extremely difficult. Why? Can you think of historical examples of success and failure that suggest models of action for the future?
View the“Flexibility in Seeking Solutions” Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation located in this week’s Media Enhancements link.
Write a word paper in which you identify an occurrence of invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization that you have experienced. Address the following in your paper:
Explain how to stop invidious comparison.
Identify strategies you currently use to avoid vicarious traumatization in your personal life.
Will those strategies help you avoid vicarious traumatization as a human services worker?
What strategies could you develop to avoid vicarious traumatization?
Taking Sides and Collaboration by Ronald Hardwood: Both Taking Sides and Collaboration by Ronald Harwood have been written with such intentional
ambiguity that taking the ethical, political, or cultural “side†of an individual protagonist in each work is essential to
the process of making the texts comprehensible. Using evidence from the selected text, support the ethical, political,
or cultural superiority or acceptance of the protagonist of your choice in either (A) Taking Sides or (B) Collaboration.
Assignment 1: Leadership and Motivation
You were recently appointed as a new manager. You face a number of issues in your new position. Please address each.
The previous manager used a transactional leadership approach, which has been relatively ineffective. Evaluate one leadership style and describe which you would take.
An experienced executive assistant discovered that she made the same amount of money as a newly hired janitor. Consider the role the human resources department plays in driving organization performance. What HR strategies would you employ to address this?
To keep people motivated in a tough economic environment, the company has shifted from annual to semiannual bonuses. Do you think offering semiannual bonuses is a good way to motivate the kind of behaviors organizations need to survive the economic downturn? What might be some potential problems associated with this approach? What other strategies would you use?
Post your answers in paragraph form (minimum of 500-600 words) to all the questions located at the end of the case study to the Discussion Area. Be sure to justify your responses by using material from your weekly readings. Participate in the class discussion by providing meaningful substantive feedback to two of your peers.