PRACTICAL APPLICATION ASSIGNMENTS
Waung, M. ( 1995). The effects of self-regulatory coping orientation
on newcomer adjustment and job survival. Personnel Psychology,
1. You just started working at a government agency that provides services to veterans. Within a few
weeks, you realize that most of the staff members are not satisfied with their jobs and this is negatively
influencing their productivity. In a private conversation, you tell your boss that using psychological
interventions could improve your coworkers’ job satisfaction. Your boss tells you that she does not
believe in psychology and that psychological interventions are not effective. Write an official letter to
your boss and her supervisor explaining why implementing a psychological intervention (Cognitive
Behavioral Training) at the workplace has the potential to promote job satisfaction.

2. Your cousin, who has been working for a life insurance company fOr a year, called you to ask for
your advice regarding a cognitive=~~avioral training ~9r!:sshop that is being offered at his company.
He is not sure if he should p&rli~i”Pafe in this activity.1{~ifon the Proudfoot et al. (2009) article,
try convincing him to participate by providing four potential benefits for participants in the cognitivebehavioral
training workshop (e.g., less psychological distress).
3. You are the newly appointed CEO of an Internet company that serves 45 million people. One of the
problems your company faces is a 35% employee turnover rate. As the CEO of the company, write
a letter to the shareholders explaining why it is a good idea to fund psychological research that a!ms
to promote employee well-being and productivity and reduce turnover. In your letter, make sure
you convince the shareholders by providing two reasons relevant to the organizational outcomes
expected by referring to psychological interventions discussed in the research .

Your final written assignment is related to a section of the 2010 federal health reform law. As we begin to study the law you may want to consider which of its features appeal to you as a term paper subject. The paper is due at 03/28/2013, no later than Thursday, April, 02

Here is the assignment: Discuss a section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, relate it to your work, profession or industry sector, and describe its connections to at least one other title or major section of the Act, e.g. Medicare and long term care, coverage and workforce, etc. This paper should be 15 – 20 pages in length. If you can be concise and thorough, it need not take the full length.

 

Debtor Prison

The Federal government cut the GST (the federal sales tax on goods and
services which Ontario later blended into the PST to create the HST)
by two percentage points. The federal government could have
transferred this cut to income taxes instead, i.e. it could have
decreased taxes on income instead of on the GST. Sources of income
that taxes are paid on include labour (work) as well as investment
earnings. Assuming that taxes are to be cut, which tax cut do you
believe is more beneficial for long run economic growth, a GST/HST
reduction or an income tax reduction? Assume that either of the
reductions would be revenue neutral, i.e., the federal government
would forfeit the same amount of revenue with either tax that is cut.
You are to back up your argument with sound economic reasoning and
concepts that you have learned in this course.

Introduction
Finnmarkslopet is a non-stop race of sled dogs that takes place during winter. Finnmarksløpet is a sled dog race organized by alta Trekkhundklubb first time in 1981.The race is usually 1000km and the racers should not stop at any point. This is a very interesting game and race. Alta Mashing Association hosts it. It was started in the year 1981 and since then the race has grown to be very big with people volunteering to participate in the game. More people are willing to participate in the game because it only takes place ones in a year and it is interesting to be a participant or even an audience.
The Race
The race; Finnmarkslopet has two classes FL-500 whose race is 500km and has a maximum of eight dogs while the second class FL-1000 goes up to 1000km. The FL-1000 can have a maximum of fourteen dogs.  The dogs are the ones that actually race, they pull the racer all the way from the start line to the finish line. The racer controls the dogs and ensures that they run first in order for them to be the winners. Both groups start the race at the same time. They start their race from Finnmark County and finish at the same point they started at. The FL-1000 goes all the way to Kirkenes and back to Finnmark while the FL-500 reaches the plateaus and back (Arctander, 2012). The FL-500 goes only half the race and that is why they are given few dogs to race with. The more the dogs, the higher the speed they will run and that is why FL-1000 has more dogs than FL-500.
For those who want to participate in the FL-1000 sled dog race, they must have participated in the FL-500 before and managed to at least race for 400km. The entry fees increase every year because of the demand of those who are willing to participate in the race. People travel all over the world to witness the race that takes place every Saturday of the tenth week of the year. It is a tourist attraction site for Norway (Arctander, 2012).
During arctic winter, the weather is very cold and there is always snow and it is also very windy. The temperature can go below 40 degrees Celsius. This condition is harsh to both the dogs and the racer. Therefore, they have to undergo numerous exercises before the race. The racers train for some weeks or even a month before the race. They stay in areas where the weather is extreme so that they can be fully prepared during the race. They have to race the dogs during the preparations, timing them in order to ensure that they meet the required time period and that they are the fastest. They have to be fast because despite the weather condition, they have to be fast if they are to be the first ones to finish the race (Arctander, 2012). The dogs must also be subjected to medical care in order to enable them to persevere in the cold weather, which could kill them.
In conclusion, the mashers have to be fully prepared just as athletes do. They prepare for the Olympics in order for them to be the winners. The mushers do the same for their dogs.

References

Arctander, S.-M. (2005). Finnmarksløpet: The world’s northernmost sled dog race. Røyse:  Norsk bokforlag.
www.finnmarkslopet

The thesis is that Satan is the literary hero of Paradise Lost.

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Scolar Press, 1667.
<http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MilPL67.htm

 

FOREX Dealing Report (20%)—Due date is Friday of Week 10 at 5pm local time

You are a FOREX dealing team working for a large Singapore bank or a large Singapore Corporation. The goal of the assignment is to paper trade foreign exchange over a period of five consecutive days in either week 8 or week 9. The task involves the completion of one FOREX dealing report per group and is due two weeks after we have covered all materials about the Foreign Exchange market (Topic 5). The expected submission time is 5pm local time on the Friday of Week 10.

Report presentation and format

The report must be completed in accordance with the University’s published “Written Reports and Essays: Guidelines for Referencing and Presentation in RMIT Business”, that is available on the University’s web page and MyRMIT.

Formatting is important. Reports are to be well written and students are expected to follow the guidelines set out in the document entitled “Written Reports and Essays: Guidelines for Referencing and Presentation in RMIT Business”.  This can be found at the web site:

http://prodmams.rmit.edu.au/s9sx559hurvc.rtf

There is considerable information in this document and it is well worth reading.  There is also material on the web site:

http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/bus/public/referencing/

 

The report should not exceed 2,500 words in total. This excludes the table of reference and reference list. The document should be formatted following the guidelines below and the RMIT presentation guidelines:

• Text should be justified
• 1.5 line spacing
• Character  size 12 point
• font, Times New Roman,
•  1”margins.

 

• References should be presented using the Harvard (author-date) referencing system. A copy of the referencing and presentation guidelines is available at http://mams.rmit.edu.au/s9sx559hurvc.rtf
• Your report should be presented as a business report to your senior manager.  As such, it should be clear and concise.  Include all relevant information, but only relevant information.
• You are the treasury team for your company.  You are free to make any decision that you believe will benefit your firm.  However, you must be able to explain and justify your actions and convince your Senior Manager that you did a good job.
• We are expecting you to follow the exchange rate closely over the period that you will develop your trading strategy
• 20% of the mark will be deducted if the report does not follow these guidelines.
• Once the first draft of the assignment is available, the report must be uploaded by the students on the Turnitin website. Only reports that have been loaded on the website will be marked by the academic staff. The goal is to minimise PLAGIARISM (see section I). Instructions regarding Turnitin will be provided later in the semester on the learning hub. Note that Turnitin upload is not a formal submission of the assessment but rather a test of how much of your work is plagiarised. Our advice is to upload your work into Turnitin at least two days before the due date as it may take up to 48 hours to get an adequate response from the server. You must correct all the plagiarised section until it reaches the green colour—which is the acceptable level of plagiarism for this course. For more information about Turnitin, visit the following website http://www.rmit.edu.au/academicintegrity. The penalty for plagiarism is as follows:

 

Level of Plagiarism (%)       Up to 20      21-40   41-60   61-above         No report

Penalty (%)                                                0           -30       -50         -70                  -70

 

• Turnitin upload is not a submission to RMIT for assessment. You must submit your essay through the RMIT learning hub system and you will find a folder for the online assignment submission. Yes only submission via the learning hub is regarded as an electronic submission for our assessment. All essays must be submitted electronically via the learning hub by the due date. Students may submit their any essay at any time point in time as long as it is by the deadline. You will find the submission box for the essay under the assignment folder. Hard copies of the assignment will not be accepted at any time. Do not make more than one submission into one allocated area as the system will count the last essay submitted.
• Make sure that the title page of each essay contains the student details i.e. surname, first name, student number, email address, and phone number.
• Unless extension has been granted by the course coordinator or the Special Consideration Unit, late submission of assignment the mark awarded will be reduced by 10% for each day (or part of a day) it is late. Assignments that are late by 7 days or more will not be marked and will be awarded zero marks. Note: Extensions to submission deadlines beyond 7 days are allowed only as a result of a successful application for Special Consideration.
• The assignment will be marked by the local lecturer and will be moderated by the course coordinator.

 

Content of the Reports

The following structure and guidelines are provided to assist you in writing your reports.

Executive summary or synopsis

• Your report must include an executive summary or synopsis.
• What is the name of your organisation?  Are you a bank or a corporate?  What are your objectives?  How do you plan to achieve your objectives at the beginning of the dealing session?  What factors do your particular team need to take into account in trying to achieve your objectives?

Introduction

Body of Report (Do not use “Body of Report” as a heading)

Market view

• You are required to conduct some research before forming a view about current and future market conditions.  Do you think that exchange rates will go up or down in the next 3 to 6 months?  What are the reasons behind your views?  As a starting point, you can first identify the economic factors that influence the foreign exchange rates (check the lecture notes/textbook).  Using the most recent media releases, you will identify which economic factor(s) will influence the exchange rates. You must rely on both domestic and international financial news. Students are required to select two pairs of currencies for formulating their market view (e.g. SGD/USD and GBP/JPY).

 

• Do not simply quote other people’s opinions. You should present your opinion, and explain in your own words why you hold that opinion in a way that shows that you understand the theory behind the determination of the exchange rates. You can certainly quote evidence that supports your opinion, and this evidence must be correctly referenced (do not submit copies of your collected articles with your report). For your view you should use at least five references.

Very important: you should do some research and discuss your market view prior to developing your trading strategies.

 

Trading strategy

• First explain how you intend to achieve your objective.
• Given your view about current and future market conditions, you should devise a strategy that you will try to implement over the 5 days of trading.  This strategy will specify how you will go about achieving your objective in a way that benefits your organisation – which currencies you will buy or sell.  Where appropriate you should also devise a speculation strategy which will allow you to create a portfolio of currencies which will enable your organisation to take advantage of your predicted changes in the exchange rates.
• What do academics think about this? Check the website of Professor Imad Moosa—an RMIT academic who has worked extensively on forecasting exchange rates. Read some of his articles and books.
• The market view and your strategy are critically important components of the report.  You will not get a passing grade on the report without these components.

 

Performance analysis

• Discuss what actually happened during the five-day session.  Were you able to stick to your strategy?  Why or why not?  Did you achieve your objectives?  Why, or why not?
• Record all your paper trades over that trading period. Use the output from your accounts section to discuss your performances: what are your final positions, realised profit or losses, average rates, etc…. Ultimately, to what extent have you been able to complete your objective?
• Do you feel that you have set up your organisation to take advantage of movements in exchange rates, if they move as you have predicted?  Why or why not?  This is more important than making a profit during the session.  For instance, for the FX session, did you finish up being long or short of on SGD?
• Can you identify any transactions where you have bought and sold the same currency and made a profit or a loss?  If you were buying a currency, how far were you off your benchmark?
• If you are a corporate, you are unlikely to make a profit for your objective over the course of the session. They will be profit only if you have bought and sold the same currency.  It is important to comment on whether you have set up your organisation so that it will be able to take advantage of future movements in the rates (minimise cost).
• Looking at your trade you should explain which currencies you have bought and sold expecting to make a profit in week 11 based on you market view.
• Justify your actions and your final positions to your senior manager. If you made an error during the session, explain what occurred and what you have learned from it.
• Analyse the session in terms of how you performed as a team.  How did you divide your responsibilities?  Outline what your learned from the session.  How could you improve in future sessions?
• A conclusion is compulsory. Failure to present a conclusion will result in loss of marks.
• Your appendices should include all your dealing sheets, i.e. your paper trades. The appendices. Label appendices clearly and refer to them in the body of the report. Ensure that you include cents in your accounts as every cent must be accounted for.
• The reference list is compulsory. Failure to provide a reference list will result in loss of marks. The format of your reference list should follow the Harvard referencing style.

Conclusion

Appendices

Reference List

This assessment enables students to have a practical view about trading FOREX. Students will learn about both domestic and international markets, drivers of FOREX, use the appropriates terms/languages in the field, calculate the profit and loss from their transactions, develop trading strategies, work in a team environment, financial reporting and the financial regulations surrounding this instrument.

design a program to reduce morbidity and mortality for a city, county or state that addresses the key content areas of the course – policy, organization, financing, quality, epidemiology, diversity, disparities and social issues.

• Access to Quality Health Services
• Adolescent Health
• Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Chronic Back Conditions
• Blood Disorders and Blood Safety
• Cancer
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Dementias, including Alzheimer’s Disease
• Diabetes
• Disability and Health
• Early and Middle Childhood
• Educational and Community-Based Programs
• Environmental Health
• Family Planning
• Food Safety
• Genomics
• Global Health
• Healthcare-Associated Infections
• Health Communication and Health Information Technology
  • Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being
  • Hearing and Other Sensory or Communication Disorders
  • Heart Disease and Stroke
  • HIV
  • Immunization and Infectious Diseases
  • Injury and Violence Prevention
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
  • Maternal, Infant and Child Health
  • Medical Product Safety
  • Mental Health and Mental Disorders
  • Nutrition and Weight Status
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Oral Health
  • Physical Activity
  • Prepardness
  • Public Health Infrastructure
  • Respiratory Diseases
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Sleep Health
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Substance Abuse
  • Tobacco Use
  • Vision

Managing Diversity in the Workplace

Kinship systems in Foraging and Horticultural based societies provide support for people in all stages of their life. Address the following in a two- to three-page paper:

Identify and describe the kinship system of one of the cultures listed below:
-Australian Aborigines
-Btsisi
-Inuit of the Artic
-Iroquois
-San
-Yanomamo

Briefly describe the culture and identify three specific examples of how the kinship system of the chosen culture impacts the way this culture behaves (i.e. thinks, acts, lives).

Compare this to your own society. Does kinship impact these same behaviors in your own life? Why or why not?