Author: chris

With the increasing numbers of retiring baby boomers come concerns about the need to substantially increase government spending for Social Security and Medicare. This in turn creates disputes over the distribution of government resources.

Those who believe it is not just to put the burden of supporting the 65+ generation on the backs of younger generations or to allocate a larger proportion of government spending to the 65+ generation support the concept of generational equity.

Moody (1996) states that the problem of generational equity should be a “wake up call” for aging advocates and that more serious attention should be given to other strategies (p.213).

Write a 3-4 page paper on a strategy or perspective that could be taken to counter generational equity.

Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

1. Is this a violation of the EPA? What about Title VII? If you cannot take a position, stipulate what specific additional information you need.

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2. Conduct a Web search to determine whether you can find pay data that are relevant to the claims in the letter. The legal implications aside, what should Dr. Boseman do?

3. Does Ms. Kate have a case?

The scientific method is useful in problem solving and decision-making in a wide variety of fields. In this assignment, you will demonstrate how to use the scientific method to make decisions and solve problems in your field of study or everyday life.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

Explain the scientific method and describe the overall manner in which you would apply it in your field of study or everyday life.
Identify a specific problem often faced in your field of study or everyday life. Research your problem and assess your data / research. Examples of such problems could be:
Business
Developing a new product that is superior to competitor’s brands; or
Establishing a price for a new product using the law of supply and demand;
Information Systems and Technology
The use of personal electronic devices for work purpose, or
Determining in the most cost-effective computer for your business;
Criminal Justice
The reliability of eyewitness testimony, or
Determining what evidence is revealing to you about a crime;
Everyday life
Selecting a particular brand of detergent, or
Determining the most cost efficient transportation/route for your commute.
Propose one (1) testable hypothesis to explain / solve the problem. State the expected outcomes of your actions and include criteria for determining whether or not these actions would succeed. Note: Your hypothesis should be stated very precisely.
Describe the main actions that you intend to put into place to test your hypothesis that you proposed in Question 3. Describe the way in which you would evaluate the success of your program. Include the results that you would deem as a success and the results that would be considered a failure.
Discuss the wisdom behind the strategy you used to test the hypothesis from Question 4, and describe the additional steps you might take depending on the results of your test. Note: These additional steps might be to revise your original hypothesis (if the results were unsatisfactory) or to propose new hypotheses. The goal is to continuously improve your understanding of the factors influencing your outcomes, to be able to achieve greater results over time.
Use at least two (2) quality resources / references in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and personal blogs do not qualify as quality resources. The body of the paper must have in-text citations that correspond to the references. Integrate all sources into your paper using proper techniques of quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing, along with proper use of in-text citations to credit your sources.

The article I selected is titled The Spontaneous Formation of Stereotypes via Cumulative Cultural Evolution (2014). Of the articles I read, researching this subject, I found this one particularly interesting because the researchers were investigating the origin of cultural stereotypes. In the experiment the researchers introduced participants to alien attributes and documented how that information was transmitted across a chain of participants. The experiment showed that people routinely discuss the attributes and actions of other people (Martin, Hutchison, Slessor, Urquhart, Cunningham, & Smith, 2014). According to the article, the findings suggest that the process of repeatedly passing social information from person to person may result in the inadvertent formation of cultural stereotypes (Martin, et. al., 2014). As the experiment progresses it appeared that the participants became better at remembering the attributes associated with social targets as the task became increasingly simplified through the loss of attributes and the development of a systematic categorical structure. The systematic categorical structure began as random attributes in a social structure and over time became a culturally passed stereotype.

The findings in this article can be applied to the evaluations conducted by a forensic psychologist by helping the psychologist develop an awareness of how stereotypes may be formed socially. A forensic psychologist must be careful to collect the data without tainting it with personal stereotypes. This can be compared to the data collected in my current career. In flight test we have to be careful of assumptions; in forensic psychology we must be careful of stereotypes. As we develop a test to determine the functionality of a particular change, we must keep our assumptions in check so they do not affect the way the test is developed. The test must be designed to log every step, without allowing our assumptions to skip any, so the pilot does not skip any. It is up to the flight test team to develop the test so all data is logged or the data will be useless. My point is, assumptions can be compared to stereotypes; they are present. We all have stereotypes that we apply to daily situations and encounters and we must be careful those stereotypes do not affect the way we conduct evaluations of others.

You are working in a rehab center for teenagers who tell you that drugs get them through the day because school is boring, their families are dysfunctional, and that they use them because their friends pressure them. Some tell you that their parents, aunts, and uncles gave them their first exposure to marijuana, cocaine, and meth. Others say they just like how some drugs calm them down and others speed them up.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 4 pages

What are four common reasons why people begin to use mood altering substances? Explain.
Briefly describe and summarize the four selected reasons.
With regard to your selected reasons, answer the following questions:
Once started, why do people continue to use mood altering substances? Explain in detail.
What are recreational drugs? Explain.
Since teens are most at risk for recreational drug use, what can be done to divert them away from recreational drug use? Explain.
What does current research suggest with regard to persuading teens to not partake in drug use?

The referenced can be viewed at http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/gina.cfm.

Review the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA).

Explain the purpose of GINA.

Summarize the five congressional findings that helped to create the final GINA law, including a description of at least two elements noted within those congressional findings.

Assignment 2: Global Business Experiences—Field Interview

Throughout this course, you have worked on your field interview. In M1: Assignment 1, you identified a businessperson with experience in global business or one who works for a company involved with global business. In Module 2, you created an eight-point questionnaire for the interview. By now you should have completed your interview and compiled your notes.

In this assignment, you will write a report based on your interview with your selected businessperson about his/her international business experiences, the opportunities and risks in global business, and his/her opinions on the impact of technology on global business.

Include the following in your report:

Title page: Add a title page with your name, date, and assignment title.
Introduction: Write an introductory paragraph providing background information about your interviewee, his/her company, job description, and other pertinent information.
Transcript: Write a transcript of your interview. Include your questionnaire and interviewee’s responses.
Summary: Summarize your interview and the information you have learned regarding international business. Comment on the opportunities and risks in global business and on the impact of technology on global business. Give reasons and examples in support of your statements.

Comparing Tactical and Strategic Decisions

During this simulation, you have been making tactical and strategic decisions. Keeping these in mind, address the following questions:

• What are the differences and similarities between the tactical and strategic decisions you have made?
• How often did you need to change your strategic decisions? How often did you change your tactical decisions?
• What dangers does a company face if it focuses only on tactical decisions?

Also, review the overall process by which your team worked together over the course of the simulation and answer the following questions:

• How did your decision-making process evolve over the sequence of decisions?
• Why did you make the changes that you did in the decision-making process, or why did you not change?
• Did your decision-making

You are the Director of HIM for an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System. Your chief medical informatics officer, Mary Watson, is creating a strategic plan for the new home care and skilled care services available in the system, including the skilled care unit affiliated with the Flagship hospital, swing bed services offered by the three rural hospitals, and the five nursing homes with skilled care beds that are part of your system. The system expects that there will be frequent transfers of patients and residents from one level of care to another within the system.

Discuss the following points:

1. What health information standards will you want to become familiar with in order to understand information management needs for the future for these facilities?

2. What knowledge, skills, and competencies might the HIM professionals in your organizations require to assist the clinical staff in these facilities with health record management and completion of the dataset? Explain.

Standards development is an ongoing, fluid process that relies on consensus-building negotiation among many public and private organizations. Standards are frequently modified, and new standards are developed. What are some techniques that the HIM professional uses to stay current about changes in the standards that apply to the services offered by the IDS organization? Explain.

Case Study Questions

Read the attached case study and answer the following questions.

1. Identify several concepts and characteristics from the field of organizational behavior that this case illustrates.

2. What advice can you give Tony? How would this advice be supported or tempered by behavioral concepts and processes?

3. Is it possible to find an “ideal” place to work? Explain