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Write a word section for your business model and strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your objectives, measures, and targets.

Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.

Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally.

Explain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and then summarize the organization’s corporate social responsibility.

Develop a 350-word page executive summary defining the new division of existing business. Share your Vision, Mission, final business model, value proposition and list your key assumptions, risks, and change management issues. Quantify the growth and profit opportunity and planned impact on various stakeholders.

Note: Any investor should be eager to meet with you after reading your executive summary.

Mergers

Mergers are a way in which a company can grow its economic and influential footprint. They are, however, complex. If you were advising your Board of Directors on the pros and cons of a particular merger being considered, what would be some considerations on both sides that you would provide them?

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Training and Intervention Program

The value of a good assessment comes from the ability to conceptualize a situation and provide some language and a vehicle to promote change. Too many times in treatment, an assessment is completed as a task of the first few sessions and then left in the chart never to be reviewed again. This is a mistake, and good practice includes a constant review and update to the assessment as well as a plan of action.

Using the assessment that you completed for the LASA 1 in M3: Assignment 2, you will be able to practice making a difference in a child’s life by creating a training and intervention program for the adults in that child’s life.

Write a summary assessment of the case study to be handed out in the school meeting with the family and professionals. This summary should include the following:
Background information about the child, explaining his or her behavior and the current situation
Possible determinates of the stated behaviors focusing on the family
Possible determinates of the stated behaviors focusing on the school
Create a presentation, with detailed speaker notes, to train the parents and school personnel to better understand the socialization of this particular child and to create a training and intervention program for both parents and school personnel. The presentation should provide research support from at least two peer-reviewed articles and include the following:
Separate title and reference slides.
Provide a review of the role this child plays in his or her family, how that correlates with the expressed behavior, and specific interventions recommended to change problematic behaviors.
Provide a review of the role this child plays in his or her school and peer group, how that correlates with the expressed behavior, and interventions recommended to change problematic behaviors.
Create a guide for parents to find the resources needed in the community or methods to gain the services needed for their child. Be sure to also identify four or five resources in your own community, and provide a description of the services they provide that would be useful.
Provide information on resiliency and the research literature that best applies to this particular case study. Present the strength areas of the child, family, and school integrated with this resiliency literature to provide positive intervention strategies.

1) The definition of a human services agency is so broad that you likely visit one frequently. Go sit in the waiting room of a human services agency in your community. If you are not able to visit an agency in person, refer to one of the agencies featured in one of the optional resources for the module (Bringing Storytime to the Long Wait for Social Services or What if Our Healthcare System Kept Us Healthy?). Consider the following questions from the point of view of a worker at the agency and that of a client:

What do you think it is like to work at the agency? What might the agency look like through the clients’ eyes?

If you worked at the agency, what do you think your day-to-day challenges would be and why?

How could you suggest an improved experience or environment to support the agency’s clients?

It is important to understand the human services waiting room from the perspective of both an employee and a client in need of services. Submit your answers as a journal entry.

Write a word paper that analyzes the principal objectives of punishment within the U.S. corrections system.

Answer the following questions in your paper:

What are the state and federal objectives of punishment?
How does sentencing affect the state and federal corrections systems overall? Support your answer.
What is determinate and indeterminate sentencing? Which sentencing model do you feel is most appropriate? Explain why and provide an example.

Explain whether project management techniques are appropriate for this project and why.
Project management techniques focus on scheduling, resource allocation, and efficient utilization of time. The project is made of many different tasks, which much be completed within a specific timeframe (Kerzner, 2013). The project requires project management techniques to ensure tasks organized based on importance. It also ensures that there is an efficient use of resources to avoid wastage.
Describe the strategic planning process involved in this project.
The strategic planning process involves planning the achievement of the tasks within the project based on their deadline. Strategic planning accounts for resources, time, and labor, which are all needed for each task. It is smart to start with the assignment on the creation of multimedia learning tools and the update on textbooks. The strategic planning process involved determining the most urgent projects, the available resources, the source of funding, time, and labor. All these factors should be carefully utilized to ensure a plan that makes it possible to complete all tasks on time is developed.
Choose five key topics that you would use as criteria for prioritizing projects, and then use a weighted scoring matrix that includes at least two financial criteria to determine how you would evaluate the components of your project.
The five key topics that can used as prioritizing criteria are potential revenue, ease of implementation, the estimated cost of the project, customer satisfaction, and competitive advantage. Each criterion represents a factor that can either put the organization at an advantage or disadvantage.

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)
1. Which level of moral development does Kohlberg call the “principled level”?
a. Level I
b. Level II
c. Level III
d. Level IV
2. What is the first level of moral development, according to Lawrence Kohlberg?
a. Autonomous
b. Conventional
c. Preconventional
d. Postconventional
3. John Stuart Mill’s approach to ethics would be classified as what sort of general ethical
approach?
a. Theological
b. Deontological
c. Utilitarian
d. Ontological
4. What is the name given to philosophers who attempt to use only one ethical approach to ethical
questions?
a. Ethical monists
b. Utilitarians
c. Deontologists
d. Ethical pluralists
5. What is the name given to philosophers who construct their ethical approaches with mixed
approaches?
a. Utilitarians
b. Ethical monists
c. Ethical pluralists
d. Deontologists
6. This type of utilitarianism holds that the basic human values are pleasure and pain.
a. Hedonistic utilitarianism
b. Ideal utilitarianism
c. Eudaimonistic utilitarianism
d. Classic utilitarianism
7. This type of utilitarianism maintains that what has to be calculated is not pleasure or happiness,
but all intrinsically valuable human goods such as friendship and knowledge.
a. Hedonistic utilitarianism
b. Ideal utilitarianism
c. Eudaimonistic utilitarianism
d. Classic utilitarianism
8. This type of utilitarianism holds that the basic human value is happiness.
a. Hedonistic utilitarianism
b. Ideal utilitarianism
c. Eudaimonistic utilitarianism
d. Classic utilitarianism
9. This type of utilitarianism holds that utility applies appropriately to classes of actions rather
than to given individual actions.
a. Act utilitarianism
b. Ideal utilitarianism
c. Eudaimonistic utilitarianism
d. Rule utilitarianism
10. A Theory of Justice (1971) was written by:
a. John Rawls.
b. Lou Dobbs.
c. Ken Wilber.
d. Thomas Jefferson.
11. Normative ethical relativism claims that when any two cultures or any two people hold
different moral views of an action:
a. only one can be right.
b. both can be right.
c. one is superior.
d. none of the above.
12. The ____________ of an action is a careful statement or description of its essential features.
a. maxim
b. principle
c. rule
d. content
13. The first type of freedom is a human being’s ability to choose:
a. their religious beliefs.
b. to act morally or immorally.
c. to express their thoughts.
d. none of the above.
14. According to the deontological position, if a maxim passes all __________ tests, it is moral, if
it fails any one of them, it is immoral.
a. three
b. four
c. five
d. six
15. ___________ duties clearly describe actions that are prohibited by moral law.
a. Imperfect
b. Perfect
c. Moral
d. Immoral
16. ___________ duties cannot be specified with precision and the object of the action in question
is indeterminate.
a. Imperfect
b. Perfect
c. Moral

Read and correct grammar error (as well as fix unclear and confusing sentences) from my essay about Public-Private Partnerships on Infrastructure

The essay is already done so you just need to correct the grammar mistakes so the arguments sound powerful. It is a personal essay that I did about Private-Public Partnerships when I work for an infrastructure advisory firm.

Annotated Outline and Annotated Bibliography

In this assignment, you will generate and submit two documents; an annotated outline for your research paper, and an annotated bibliography of the materials you intend to use in that paper. The annotations in the outline should include any brief narrative description needed to provide direction to yourself in developing your paper along with the reference listings and annotations from your annotated bibliography. The required headings for the outline are provided below and you should place the reference listings and annotations under the headings where you will discuss that information in your paper.

The annotated bibliography is the scholarly part of the paper and will include the peer-reviewed journals that you intend to bring into your final paper. The annotated bibliography, specifically, will list your references for your paper with an annotation following each APA style reference listed. The annotations for the bibliography will be a paragraph summary of each resource and an evaluation of the usefulness of that resource in the development of your paper. The annotated bibliography list must include at least 10 references. At least eight references must be peer-reviewed academic journal articles. Please refer to the APA module in the Capella Writing Center to see the correct format for the references listed on the annotated bibliography. Please see the Capella Library resources for information showing how to search in the Capella library for peer reviewed journal articles.

To successfully complete this assignment, you will be expected to supply an annotated outline and annotated bibliography that covers both Part 1 – Analysis of Work Environment and Part 2 – Analysis of Ethical Dilemma.
Instructions

Begin with an annotated outline and annotated bibliography for Part 1 – Analysis of Work Environment, and then proceed to Part 2 – Analysis of Ethical Dilemma. Use the outline headings below to begin your annotated outline. The bolded phrases below are the required headings and sub-headings to be used in your outline.

Part 1 – Analysis of Work Environment

Use the outline below to begin Part 1 of your paper.

Identify a potential or current work environment, and describe your professional role within that environment. Include the reporting structure within that professional role; who you supervise and who supervises you.
Describe the population you will serve in your professional role, including social and cultural diversification.
Identify the appropriate code of professional ethicsfor the work environment. Describe the requirements of that ethical code, including requirements regarding:
Informed consent.
Customer rights.
Confidentiality.
Dual relationships.
Fees for service.
Use of distance technology.
Any other issue that might surround your hypothetical ethical dilemma.
Investigate and evaluate the work environment in relation to the legal, ethical, and accepted standards of practice for that setting.