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Assignment 1: Jury and Work Group Decision Making

You must gain an insight into how a group’s decision-making process that works in juries can also work in small-group decision making in the human services field. Specific learning will occur when comparing the similarities and differences between jury decision making and organizational decision making in groups.

In this assignment, you will conduct a research on professional literature using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet to address how the jury’s decision-making process is both similar to and different from the group’s decision-making process in the human services field. The literature may include relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).

Tasks:

In a minimum of 400 words, respond to the following:

Discuss how the jury’s decision-making process is related to group decision making in human services, such as a governing board of an organization making a decision about an infraction by one of the clinicians.
Compare and contrast the jury’s decision-making process with the group’s decision-making process of the governing board of an agency.

Research and locate 1 scholarly journal article on each of the following 3 topics for a total of 3 scholarly journal articles. Scholarly journal articles must be articles from scholarly or academic journals. “Christianity Today” and Bible dictionaries/encyclopedias (in printed form or online) do not count as scholarly articles. Also, books and book reviews cannot be used. Instead, find a scholarly article from an academic journal to use; they will usually be more than 5 pages. If you question if an article is acceptable, contact your professor. Part of the grade derives from your ability to summarize scholarly journal articles.

Using proper, current Turabian format, summarize the main points of each article in your own words in a 1-paragraph summary. Include the bibliographic information for each of the 3 articles. The 3 topics are as follows:

1. The conversion of Constantine.
2. The impact of the fall of the Western Empire on the church.
3. The role of heretical Christianity on the advent of Islam.

Your research findings must be submitted in 1 document via the SafeAssign submission link in the Assignments folder and uploaded to Discussion Board Forum 2.

Use Microsoft Project to:

Create a project plan (summary and detailed) using Microsoft Office Project. The project plan should:
Record all tasks, subtasks, resources, and time related to the project.
Outline the planning, analysis, design, and implementation phases.
Develop in accordance with the systems development life cycle (SDLC).

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

You are the HR manager for a small retail company that sells a high volume of products over the Internet. Your company is growing rapidly due to increased Internet sales. Your company prides itself on providing high-quality products and services. The Customer Service department is integral to the success of the company. Over the past few months, the Customer Service department has been unable to fill its openings for Customer Service Representative positions. You suspect there could be a number of reasons for this, but you know you first need to look at the job, the work flow, the knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience the company is seeking to ensure the job reflects the current workload and expectations.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

Examine at least three (3) approaches that you can take as the HR manager to conduct a job analysis of the Customer Service Representative position. Suggest the major pros and cons of each selected approach. Recommend the approach that would be most effective in conducting the job analysis for this organization. Justify your recommendation.
Select two (2) out of the four (4) approaches to job design that are the most important for you to consider. Suggest two (2) challenges that you may encounter when designing a job using each of the selected approaches. Support your response with specific examples to illustrate the potential advantages and disadvantages of using each approach.
Using the four (4) approaches to job design, create two (2) strategies that the organization can implement to attract and select qualified applicants for the Customer Service Representative position. Justify the main reasons that the selected strategies would be effective.
Propose three (3) ways that you can use the information obtained from a job analysis to measure the performance of Customer Service Representatives. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

In about 4 pages (excluding title page and reference page), research retirement in the United States. In your paper discuss the retirement age of 65. Where did this age come from? Does this age still work? Are more people working past the age of 65? Is retirement as stress free as it is portrayed in the media or is it dependent on other factors such as financial security, capacity, etc.?

Assignment 1: Jury and Work Group Decision Making

You must gain an insight into how a group’s decision-making process that works in juries can also work in small-group decision making in the human services field. Specific learning will occur when comparing the similarities and differences between jury decision making and organizational decision making in groups.

In this assignment, you will conduct a research on professional literature using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet to address how the jury’s decision-making process is both similar to and different from the group’s decision-making process in the human services field. The literature may include relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).

Tasks:

In a minimum of 400 words, respond to the following:

Discuss how the jury’s decision-making process is related to group decision making in human services, such as a governing board of an organization making a decision about an infraction by one of the clinicians.
Compare and contrast the jury’s decision-making process with the group’s decision-making process of the governing board of an agency.

Topic: Obesity Surgery

You will comprehensively evaluate an article of your choice that reports on a quantitative study. (Remember, a quantitative study uses numbers as data). Locate an article in the professional literature that addresses a topic you are interested in. The article you select should describe a quantitative study and should have all or most of the expected sections, either with their own headings or embedded in the article: Introduction, Literature Review, Methods, Results, and Discussion.
Do not simply tell what is in the article, but evaluate it using the questions in your text. Explain and justify your evaluation based on specific examples from the article.
Your paper should be 6 pages (not counting the title, abstract and reference pages) and comprehensively evaluate an article of a quantitative study. Use proper APA formatting and good writing and organization in your evaluation paper.
The following questions may help you in evaluating your articles, though you do not have to follow this format exactly.
I. Evaluate the Introduction and Literature Review.
• Do the researchers present an adequate rationale for conducting the study? Explain.
• What is the significance of the study? What difference will it make to the field?
• Is the literature review thorough and comprehensive?
• Do the researchers demonstrate any potential biases in the literature review?
• Are all-important concepts clearly defined by the researchers?
• Do the researchers clearly describe previous methods that are relevant to understanding the purpose for conducting this study?
II. Evaluate the Purpose Statement and Hypotheses.
• Does the article clearly state the purpose statement?
• What is the purpose statement as expressed in the article?
• Is the purpose statement clearly based on the argument developed in the literature review?
• Are the variables of interest (i.e. independent and dependent) clearly identified in the purpose statement?
• What type of hypothesis is presented (alternative nondirectional, alternative directional, or null hypothesis)?
• Do the investigators provide a clear rationale for the direction of their hypothesis, based on the literature review?
• Is the hypothesis testable and falsifiable?
• Is the hypothesis stated with brevity and clarity?
III. Evaluate the Methods Section.
• What type of sampling method is used? Is that appropriate?
• Are relevant demographic characteristics of the sample clearly identified?
• Do the methods of sample selection used by the researchers provide a good representative sample, based on the population?
• Are there any apparent biases in selection of the sample?
• Is the sample size large enough for the study proposed?
• Is a particular quantitative research design used (e.g. true experimental, quasi-experimental, etc.)? If so, what is it?
• Is the research design consistent with the purpose and hypothesis presented in the introduction?
• Are the independent variables clearly defined so that they can be replicated using the information provided in the procedures section?
• What are some of the potential threats to internal validity? How are they threats?
• What are some of the potential threats to external validity? How are they threats?
• Is there a clear and adequate description of the instrument (data collection measures) used?
• What types of measures were used in the study (direct observation, behavioral measures, self-report, etc.)?
• What are some of the potential problems or limitations with the types of measures used?
• To what extent are the instruments standardized, and what types of standardized scoring were used?
• Does the instrument appear to be appropriate for the sample?
• Is the reliability of the instrument reported? Is the reliability adequate?
• What types of validity are reported for the instrument used? Is the validity adequate?

1. Develop a list of critical interventions that need to be integrated at AGC.

2. Identify changes that you and the core team could recommend to Shawn to optimize learning and development opportunities.

3. Describe at least 1 training program that you would develop to improve cultural diversity problems.

4. Describe the advantages of using cross-cultural teams.

5. Identify opportunities for improving global staffing and recruiting strategies.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Assignment Objectives:

Apply HCM approaches locally and globally

Research Public Servant careers in criminal justice.

For this week’s Individual Work, you will identify ten job search websites useful for criminal justice students. Using the “Table” function in Microsoft Word, create a chart with following information.

First Column Heading – Name of Website
Description of Website
Types of jobs found on website
Name of the person or department you would send your resume to
Preferred method of resume submission (i.e. mail resume directly, fill out company form, in person drop off, etc.)
The deliverable length of your homework assignment is 400-500 words, one or two double spaced pages (does not include title page or reference page).
Remember to create in-text citations for every source you use to create a sentence for your paper. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference on the reference page of your paper.
All homework assignments must be in APA format.
They must have a title page, body, and reference page.
They must be double spaced, using 10-12 point font, with one inch margins all the way around.
Tip: Website addresses are NOT references; they are links to websites only.
A reference contains four basic parts: An Author, year, title, and publisher. A website address does not contain those parts and is, therefore, not a reference.
Please do not include only a website address as a “source” in your references list.

Decide upon an initiative you want to implement that would increase sales over the next five years, (for example, market another product, corporate expansion, and so on).

Using the sample financial statements, create pro forma statements of five year projectionsthat are clear, concise, and easy to read. Be sure to double check the calculations in your pro forma statements. Make assumptions that support each line item increase or decrease for your forecasted statements.

Discuss and interpret the financials in relation to the initiative. Make recommendations on potential discretionary financing needs.

Write a 350 – 700 word analysis of the company’s short term and long term financing needs and determine strategies for the company to manage working capital.