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You, as a HR Generalist, have been asked by your HR Director for your recommendations in terms of what tools your organization could use to better manage the talents of your employees. This will help to develop policies and procedures in managing your human capital. Please develop a PowerPoint presentation to your Director addressing the following:

• Describe and analyze the broad range of talent management efforts that use software applications to help you Director to make an educated decision.
• Give some examples of firms that have successfully used these applications.
• Describe how these efforts are useful in terms of strategic human capital management.

Complete the following for this assignment:

Compare and contrast the management information systems (MIS) in place in 2 distinctly different organizations.
Compare each organization’s use of information systems to help manage internal operations and to make decisions.
Assess how these two organizations use information technology for competitive advantage.
Appraise the individual and organizational consequences of the use of information technology, and recognize potential security breaches and computer crimes.

Assignment 2: LASA 1— Presentation on Shifts in the Healthcare Industry

You are a newly hired VP of mergers and special projects. You have noticed that there are shifts in the healthcare industry and you want to ensure your facility can continue to sustain itself in the future. You want to make a recommendation to pursue a specific population to increase funding, but you must make a logical explanation to the board.

Create a PowerPoint presentation (8-10 slides) and make a recommendation to the board. Use the notes section in PowerPoint to provide detailed speaker notes with your presentation that fully explain each point and justification for your recommendations.

Create a timeline of the development of the US healthcare system which includes the following :
The shift from physician power to insurance company control.
Public versus private sector institutions.
Medicare and Medicaid, Prospective Payment System, and the trend shift from private insurance to HMO.
Potential impact of U.S. healthcare system reform.

Discuss long-term care, special populations and palliative care. Also address insurance types for different populations and settings, systems for measuring quality, and types of providers working in each type of facility.

Argument Paper Section 1

Your local town is addressing the following issues in its law-making:

1. Should people under 18 be subjected to legal curfews or restricted driving privileges?

2. Should libraries be required to install filtering software or otherwise censor the materials that they provide?

3. Should insurance companies in your state be required to pay for breast reconstruction, birth control pills, or Viagra?

4. Should the use of camera phones be banned in local gymnasiums or other locations?

As an active citizen, you ask to research and present to the town’s citizens one of the above issues. The governing body has agreed and asks that your presentation be specifically designed to show citizens of the community how and why one of the issues above is controversial and how to be educated consumers of information regarding this issue. They ask this because the citizens will be voting on these issues in future elections and the governing body wants its citizens to be properly educated on these topics.

In your presentation, make sure you include the following:

Remember, you are giving a presentation to an audience that does not know much, if anything, about your topic.

Explain the issue, including definitions of common terms involved in the issue and why this issue is controversial.
Identify and describe three to four different conclusions that are drawn when arguments related to the issue are made.
Summarize the kinds of evidence typically used for each constructed argument related to the issue. Be sure to discuss the reasons these kinds of evidence are used and/or are most effective.
Analyze how each of the different conclusions regarding the topic use particular evidence to support their claims, paying particular attention to analyzing how the conclusions rely on different facts, different sources of evidence, or different reasoning from other conclusions. In other words, explain why certain groups would use a particular type of evidence while an opposing group would use a different type of evidence, or how two groups can represent that same data in two completely different ways.
Utilize at least three different sources and properly cite them throughout the presentation.

The Trait Model of Personality

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 8 in your text as well as the article by Allemand, Steiger, and Hill (2013), and view the The Big Personality Test video. In addition to the required resources, go to the Ashford University Library and research a minimum of one scholarly source on the trait model of personality and one scholarly resource on the big five theory of personality.

It is recommended that you go to the The Big Five Personality Test and complete the free, confidential personality test that is based on the big five theory. The results of this test may be used to aid in the completion of this assignment. Please note that you do not need to register or give any personal information to obtain your results from this website. After you have completed the assessment, click on the “No, just give me my results” link. This link will take you to a page that will tell you how you scored on each of the five traits in this theory.

In this assignment, you will provide an overview of the trait model of personality in which you identify at least one principal theorist associated with the model. Compare and contrast the basic assumptions of this model and the psychodynamic model of personality. Describe the difference between healthy and unhealthy personalities as they are explained in the two models. Use your researched as well as this week’s required resources to support your statements.

Identify and describe each of the five traits included in the big five model: extroversion, agreeableness, conscienciousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. If you chose to take the online The Big Five Personality Test, reflect on your results from the test and discuss how you scored on each of the five traits. If you chose not to take the online test, use the assigned readings, video, and your research to explain how the five trait theory describes your personality.

Assignment 1.

 

Smith-Trudeau (2002) wrote that the ability to creatively manage internal conflict in the organization is a standard requirement for clinical leadership. For this discussion, you will need to review the literature and choose a leadership style that you believe is ideally suited to manage conflicts that arise in clinical settings. Describe these leadership strategies that would be effective in conflict resolution. Explain your rationale. Respond to at least two of your colleagues, citing the literature to support your position.

SC160 Basic Biology

Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double-spaced pages; refer to the “Assignment Format” page located on the Course Home page for specific format requirements.

Discuss the applications of each of following in biology today and include three examples of each with a brief description.

DNA in forensic science

Population evolution and microbial life

Biological diversity evolution

Plant and animal evolution

Population growth

Biomes and ecosystems

Assignment 2: Required Assignment 1—Intercultural Employee Motivation and Rewards

Culture plays a major role in the motivation of employees. Consider that though you have a mix of ethnicities on your team, you also need to be aware of cultural differences including gender, generation, and other categories of human differences.

Write an 8–10-page report on employee motivation, including a recommendation for an employee reward system that will meet the needs of the variety of cultural groups you manage based on the following motivation factors:

Job security
Professional development
Job performance
Goal setting
Employee recognition
Compensation

Discuss employee motivation as it relates to culture, and consider how you might develop a reward system that recognizes diversity and is equitable and legally sound. Support your recommendations with scholarly references.

Write an 8–10-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

Assignment 2: Marketing Plan

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a marketing plan and sales strategy, and a marketing budget. Note: You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment.

For the first six (6) months your company is in business—to give you time to perfect your product and to learn from actual customers—you will start marketing and selling in your own community, a radius of twenty-five (25) miles from where you live.

For most non-alcoholic beverages, marketing (as opposed to the actual product itself) is key to success. Cola drinks, for example, are fairly undifferentiated, as are many energy drinks, juices, bottled water, and the like. Companies producing these types of beverages differentiate themselves and attract market share through marketing and brand awareness—both of which are critical to success.

Section 1: Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy (MS Word or equivalent)

Write the three to five (3-5) page Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy section of your business plan, in which you:

Define your company’s target market.
Analyze the types of consumers who will be drinking your beverage in demographic terms (i.e., age, education level, income, gender, ethnic group, etc.). Support your analysis with actual data on the size of the demographic groups in your local community (nearby zip codes).
Outline the demographic information for your company specified on the worksheet in the course text (p. 107 | Demographic Description).

Write a proposal of no more than 750 words, outlining the research approach you will use for your Strategic Plan, due in Week 6. Include the following:

How you intend to ensure the organization’s vision, mission, and people strategies and values statements are aligned with the proposed strategic plan.
Sources you expect to use to perform an external environmental analysis
Sources you expect to use to perform an internal environmental analysis