Read the Job Choice Scenario.
Write a 350- 700 word paper answering the following questions:
What are the advantages and disadvantages for each job listed in the scenario?
Which job would you choose in this scenario? Why?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Please complete information on the worksheet NOT on a seperate page!!!
Resource: Ch. 12 Careers in psychology: Opportunities in a changing world
COMPUTER ESSENTIALS
1. How vulnerable are databases and how can they be secured?
Response has to be at least 150 words. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citation.
Parsons, J., & Oja, D. (2014). New perspectives on computer concepts 2014, comprehensive (17th ed.). Boston, MA: Course Technology.
2. In database jargon, cardinality refers to the number of associations that can exist between two record types. Identify the three types of relationships that deal with cardinality and explain each one.
Response has to be at least 150 words. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citation.
Parsons, J., & Oja, D. (2014). New perspectives on computer concepts 2014, comprehensive (17th ed.). Boston, MA: Course Technology.
3. What kinds of databases track relationships? Give a brief description and the advantages of at least three.
Response has to be at least 150 words. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citation.
Conduct a Business Audit
Choose a construction company for this assignment. You are contemplating purchasing a construction business, but before you decide, you need to review the internal workings of the business. Write a proposal based on information gathered about this business so you can ultimately determine whether or not you are going to purchase it. Your business audit needs to include the following:
1. Analyze how people, information, and information technology help the company remain competitive in the industry.
2. Analyze Porter’s Five Forces Model in relation to competition within the industry of that corporation.
3. Evaluate the organization’s use of supply chain management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, and customer relationship management systems. How are they currently used and how could they be improved upon within the organization?
4. Evaluate how a database management system and a data warehouse are currently used, or could be used, within the organization.
5. Analyze how the five agent‐based technologies are currently used, or could be used, within the organization.
6. Consider whether the organization uses any of the nine major e‐commerce business models. Recommend how these could work together to create value within the organization.
7. Analyze how the organization could benefit from using the systems development life cycle (SDLC), and what type of projects within the organization could benefit from this process.
8. Evaluate the phases of business continuity planning as they relate to the organization and make recommendations on improvements.
9. Analyze how the organization could use emerging trends such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cell phones, and RFID to remain competitive in the future.
10. Evaluate the organization’s measures to ensure that information is protected and free from security vulnerabilities. Recommend any improvements to their system.
Final Paper
The purpose of the Final Paper is for you to culminate the learning achieved in the course by describing your understanding and application of knowledge in the field of employee training through the analysis of a scenario related to the creation of a training course.
Focus of the Final Paper
In the course, you have examined several areas of employee training. For this paper, you will be applying this knowledge by examining the creation of a cultural diversity training course.
Imagine that you are in training and development for a global organization. You have been tasked with the creation of a cultural diversity training course that all employees will be required to take. Before designing the course, you must consider the ethical and cultural issues of the task.
In an eight- to ten-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), you must address the following:
Examine any legal implications in creating a training course that discusses culture. Identify what laws and regulations should be considered.
Explain how the demographic diversity of your employees affects discussions of cultural diversity.
Examine which ethical implications should be considered.
Examine if training can be standardized for all locations in a global organization. Analyze what media is best suited for training in a global setting.
Provide recommendations for implementing the training course.
Assignment 2: Resolving Intellectual Property Rights
Note: The companies mentioned herein are merely hypothetical organizations with characteristics developed to enable students to respond to the assignment. You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment if those assumptions are consistent with the facts presented. Do not make assumptions which obviate the need to conduct a legal analysis of the issues.
In this assignment, you will act as the fictional character of Betty Fuller, Head of Marketing at Simply Green Products, while you draft a memorandum to the company President. In this memorandum, you must explain how you would resolve the legal issues discussed in the scenario.
Scenario
Simply Green Products (SGP) is a $10 million company that produces biodegradable packing materials that orchards use in the Shenandoah Valley to transport their apples, peaches, and pears nationwide. Biodegradable materials are more eco-friendly because they break down into the environment. Such packing materials are marketed under the name “SafePac,” which is heavily advertised in trade journals. Simply Green Products have had the name “SafePac” imprinted on all of their packing material since 2008. Although SGP never filed for either state or federal trademark protection, following the advice of one of their summer interns, they did register the domain name “SafePac.com.” With the movement toward more eco-friendly agricultural production, the fact that such packing materials are biodegradable provides a primary marketing advantage over non-biodegradable competitors.
Despite the fact that SGP is highly eco-friendly, it is not particularly technologically advanced. SGP mostly advertises in trade journals and magazines, with most orders coming via the mail or phone orders. Shep Howard, President of SGP realizes his company needs to increase its marketing presence and recently hired Betty Fuller, a recent Strayer graduate with an MBA, to be the new Director of Marketing for the company. Ms. Fuller has been charged with bringing SGP’s marketing plan into the 21st century.
In preparing the new Marketing plan, Ms. Fuller, quickly noticed that although SGP owned Safepac.com, the name SafePac, itself had never been registered with the Trademark and Patent Office. Accordingly, one of the first things Ms. Fuller did was start the registration process. When searching the USPTO office database to see if a mark has already been filed she found the following entries shown below:
She immediately realized SGP had a problem. Ms. Fuller did some additional research and found that a company called Safe Choices, Inc. uses the SafePack name to market an emergency weather kit in the form of a backpack; and had received a federal registration for the mark from the Patent and Trademark Office in 2002. This backpack is sold both online at SafePack.com and in sporting goods stores nationwide.
Note: “A complete search is one that will uncover all similar marks, not just those that are identical. In this regard, searching for trademark availability is not the same as searching to register a domain name. A domain name search may focus on exact or “dead on” hits, with no consideration given to similar names or use with related products and services. Basically, a domain address is either available or it is not. The trademark process, on the other hand, is more complex. As part of the overall examination process, the USPTO will search its database to determine whether registration must be refused because a similar mark is already registered for related products or services (i.e., even identical marks may co-exist if used on goods or services not considered to be related in any way). Please note that the USPTO does not offer advisory opinions on the availability of a mark prior to filing of an actual application.”
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/search-trademark-database
Legal Issues
Ms. Fuller contacted Shep Howard to discuss SGP intellectual property problems and to devise a plan on how to proceed. In her meeting with Howard Ms. Fuller explained the legal issues to Howard as follows:
SGP has been using the product name SafePac since 2008 but never trademarked or otherwise registered that named. A company called Safe Choice had registered the names SafePack and SafePacs back in 2002 and those names were listed live marks by the USPTO. Arguably, SafePac may be confusingly similar to Safe Choices marks to preclude registration of the marks. Moreover, use of the name may “constitutes a false designation of origin which is likely to confuse customers as to the source of the goods”. However, safe Choice and SGP are in different product lines and, therefore, arguably are not competitors, a requirement for infringement. The intellectual property issue at hand involves the Lanham Act.
Even if the USPTO finds that SGP’s proposed mark and Safe Choices marks are not similar or that SGP and Safe Choice are not competitors, registrations may nonetheless be denied under the provisions of the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(c). For additional information, see Duvall, S.A. (2007). The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006: balanced protection for famous brands. The Trademark Reporter, 97(6), 1252-1285.
Since we purchased the domain name SafePac.com, Safe Choice may attempt to accuse SGP of cybersquatting and try to have that domain name transferred to their control. Any such action would proceed under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d).
Finally, she outlined her plan on how to proceed with the marketing plan based on how she though the legal issues would be resolved. Mr. Howard then asked Ms. Fuller to put the information she had just given him in memo form.
Assignment Requirements
In the role of Betty Fuller, prepare the memorandum requested by Shep Howard. The memo should be three to four (3-4) pages in which you:
Decide whether or not SGP can register SafePac as a trademark given the issues discussed in “legal issue: a”.
Decide whether or not the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 would be violated if the USTPO granted SGP a trademark on SafePac.
Decide whether or not the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act would be violated by SGP’s use of safepac.com.
Describe how your resolution would affect the marketing options available to the company.
Use at least three (3) quality academic or legal resources in this assignment, such as a government Website, Law school Websites, Restatements of laws, and other treatises
Write an essay on world history at global age
There are 2 DQ with two questions each. Please make sure that DQ 1 response to both question has a word count of 360 words, and DQ 2 response to both questions has a word count of 360 words. Also please include references as well.
Week 9 eActivity: Use the Internet or the Library to research a scholarly article on the trends surrounding telemedicine, tele-health and / or tele-care. Be prepared to discuss.
Discussion question 1 • Compare the key similarities and differences between the concepts of telemedicine, tele-care, and tele-health. Provide an example of how each method is affecting the quality of today’s health care services on a global scale. • Create an argument that e-Health has significant economic benefits to its users. Provide support for your argument.
Discussion question 2 • Suggest the stakeholder group that will benefit the most from e-Health. Provide support for your rationale. • From the e-Activity, determine a significant barrier to the advancement of e-Health models in the delivery of patient care. Suggest how this barrier can be minimized. Provide a rationale for your determination.
Write a 1000-1200-word paper in which you are the head of the United Nations and have broad authority (and persuasive ability) to introduce and promulgate new strategic initiatives to affect the global economy in a positive manner.
Explain and justify your top three (3) initiatives. What would they be, and why? How would you persuade your UN colleagues (and the world at large) to support these initiatives.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines, and cite at least three references (one in general support for each of your three (3) initiatives).
Second assignment
Write a 800 to 1200-word paper summarizing your findings from the previous Learning Team assignments. In addition, develop a strategy for entering the China country’s market. Be sure to include the following in your paper:
A description of your chosen functional strategies, such as marketing, HR, logistics, operations, or finance
Project managers do a lot more than calculations and reporting; they must keep the team on track, ensure ethical decisions are made, deal with conflict, and, depending on the type of organization, they may perform employee evaluations, issue bonuses, hire and lay off personnel, and other tasks. In this paper, you will discuss some of the project management activities that don’t produce deliverables.
Write a twelve to fifteen (12-15) page paper in which you:
Describe the different organizational structures as it relates to project management (i.e., functional, project-based, matrix).
Discuss at least two (two) different roles that project managers can play in organizational leadership.
Describe at least three (3) human resource factors that affect project management.
Recommend five (5) conflict resolution techniques that project managers can utilize to keep team members productive.
Explain at least three (3) leadership approaches and when they are best utilized.
Describe five (5) ethical situations or dilemmas that project managers might face in their role within an organization.
Summarize tools and techniques commonly used in project procurement.
Assess the role of technology in project management.
Provide your expectations for the development of the project management field aided by modern technologies.
Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Do an Internet search for timely and relevant journal articles related to deaf culture. Identify aspects of the culture that are surprising to you or that you did not know. Reflect on what you can learn from or about people who think differently than you because of their histories.
Next, do an Internet search on “whiteness” and consider the validity of the perspectives of the people you read about.
Choose another culture and do a third Internet search on it, considering its perspective.
Write a two-part essay (750-1,000 words) on what you found:
In the first part of the essay, carefully compare and contrast the three groups as to the factors that identify them as cultures. Consider the following in your essay:
What are their rules and values?
Describe the languages they speak or the gestures they use or do not use.
In the second part of the essay, thoughtfully reflect on what a person should know about these three cultures in order to effectively communicate with them. Consider the following in your essay:
If you are a member of one of these groups, continue to write in the third person as though you were writing from outside of your group.
Finally, reflect on how knowing these things about these three cultures should affect your intercultural communication.