1. The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (“the Stafford Act”) authorizes the President to issue two types of declarations that can potentially provide federal aid to states and localities in response to a terrorist attack (e.g., the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 9/11 attacks, and the 2013 Boston marathon attacks). The two types of declarations are (1) a “major disaster declaration,” and (2) an “emergency declaration.” For role-playing purposes, you are the senior deputy administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In this role you are the chief FEMA liaison to the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”). 2. It was learned and confirmed in the past three hours that five days ago a domestic terrorist group “poisoned all the major water supplies and reservoirs” of Chicago, Illinois. This “poison” is described as the bacteria, “necrotizing fasciitis,” otherwise described in this case in layperson terms as a biological weapon for types of bacteria that can cause the “flesh-eating disease.” Symptoms from this disease can occur within 24-hours if the epidermis (i.e., the outermost layer of skin on the body) is compromised, for example, through cuts or scratches. It is forecasted that fatalities from this disease can potentially exceed 3.153 million, because even with treatment, 1 out of 3 people dies from this disease. You have been tasked with finding academic-based legal and social science research for creating a pre-disaster mitigation program that would not be subject to annual appropriations from Congress. The three issues you need to address from your research are: (1) Does this Chicago event meet the criteria for the President to declare this “man-made catastrophe” an emergency disaster or a major disaster? (2) Can FEMA and DHS make a good-faith argument that this Chicago event qualifies for pre-disaster mitigation funding or is recovery going to be limited to post-disaster mitigation funding? (3) Should FEMA and DHS make recommendations to focus only on Stafford Act authorizations, or should the recommendation also include considerations for the President to declare a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act? . Your position paper needs to be based on research from U.S. based academic peer reviewed articles from scholarly journals. Therefore, the assignment requires a minimum of three academic peer reviewed articles from scholarly journals. DO NOT USE as sources the textbook, nor .org, .gov, and .com publications. 4. Your “position paper” must have (i) a cover page, (ii) subject matter content or text that SHALL NOT be less than 850 words and not exceed 950 words. See the SAMPLE for guidance on how to APA-format your position paper for APA Level 1 headings. DO NOT pay attention to the subject matter of the sample. The subject matter of the Sample is irrelevant. Rather, PAY ATTENTION to the formatting of the Sample, so that you can learn what is called “APA-Level 1 formatting,” that is critical for you learning how to write your papers for this course. 5. DO NOT USE titles and sub-titles from Samples as titles for your paper, nor in your headers. YOUR TITLES NEED TO BE ORIGINAL, as based on your academic research, AND titles CANNOT CONTAIN WORDS LIKE “Week” and “Position Paper.”
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For this Assignment, you are required to review the Healthy People 2030 Social D
For this Assignment, you are required to review the Healthy People 2030 Social Determinants of Health. Consider each condition listed and how technology might be used to identify conditions impacting quality of life outcomes and risks. This week you will describe the SDOH and propose a modification to an EHR allowing nurses to collect data and determine conditions with the potential to impact patient outcomes. Write a 3-4 page, APA formatted, paper describing the SDOH and applying the knowledge through a proposed intake form for an EHR to identify at risk patients. You will summarize and describe the positive social change the intervention will create. Support your work with at least 3 peer reviewed references. Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references.
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The course project will engage you in a real-world coaching experience. Under t
The course project will engage you in a real-world coaching experience. Under the supervision of your instructor and using the material learned in the course, you will coach a working professional who is not affiliated with this course. The individual may be a colleague, friend, or acquaintance but may not be a family member, supervisor, or your employee.
As a student coach, you will help your coachee determine a few professional development objectives that will be the focus of a four-week coaching relationship. Acceptable objectives include (but are not limited to): managing time, improving communication skills, setting goals, improving task completion, creating long-term career goals, identifying new areas of learning and skill development, and taking positive risks.
Although in real life, most any personal or professional objective can be the topic in coaching, for the purposes of this exercise, you should guide your coachee towards work-related objectives to enhance your experience and professional skill.
During the four-week coaching experience, you will lead the coachee through a process of weekly, one-hour sessions that will include brainstorming strategies, solutions, and actions designed to assist and support the coachee in meeting the professional development objectives.
As a student coach, you will provide a weekly coaching report to the instructor in the form of a Microsoft Word document. Your coachee will provide an evaluation of your performance at the end of the course.
Week 1 Assignment
For Week 1, submit a one- or two-paragraph statement that describes your coachee and evaluates why it is a suitable relationship for the project.
Submission Details:
Due by 9/27/24 at 12pm CST
Requirements
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Zenger, J. H., & Stinnett, K. (2010). The extraordinary coach: How the best Leaders help others grow (1st ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN: 9780071703406
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than -
Select an entry level job under marketing or management one would like to hav
Select an entry level job under marketing or management one would like to have (include the type of company/firm you would like to work for) and create a job description, a recruitment plan, and an advertisement posting for the job.
Start by creating details for the various elements of the job description. you can look up other Job Descriptions that are similar to the Job Description you are trying to create for your company. However, keep in mind, the job description MUST be your own work and CLEARLY reflect the company you want to work for.Job Title
Department or division
Date the job was analyzed
Job summary
Supervision
Work performed
Job context2. Write a paragraph planning how you would go about recruiting for this position. Consider the following:
Will you be recruiting your current employees? If yes, will you use job postings or talent inventories. Explain why.
Will you be recruiting from the external labor market? If yes, what method of recruitment will you be using? Explain why.3. Based on where you are going to recruit and what method of recruitment you will be using, create a job advertisement. It can be a flyer or something that would be appropriate for a job board online. Or it could be a post on social media.
N/B: 2pages maximum
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Your midweek assignment in this course will be a continuous project. You will b
Your midweek assignment in this course will be a continuous project. You will be assuming the role of a consultant. Each week, you will engage in a different aspect of an organizational development activity. The focus of the project will be the professional development needs of the members of the organization. In other words, you will examine how well your organization develops its members towards building a sustainable and competitive organization. You will use the same organization for each week’s assignment.
Company Name: Amazon
A key part of consulting activities is clarification of expectations with the client. Those expectations are then formalized into a contract. For the purposes of this skills-building exercise (each week during the course), we will assume that the client has asked to receive a series of memos as progress and planning updates for the project. We will also assume that the client has asked you to focus on individual, team, and leadership development in the organization. Each week during the course, you will be preparing a one or two page memo.
As needed for the organization you select for the project and your weekly memos, you may either use the real leader (e.g., CEO) or a hypothetical top leader as your client.
Week 1: Scouting Memo
Week 2: Diagnosis Memo
Week 3: Individual Interventions Memo
Week 4: Team Interventions Memo
Week 5: Leadership Development and Succession Interventions Memo Week 5: Leadership Development and Succession Interventions Memo
Week 1 Assignment:
In an organizational diagnosis and development project, a consultant usually begins with a scouting stage. In the scouting stage, the consultant gets to know the client and the expectations. Additionally, the consultant will often observe organizational activities, conduct some interviews, and read available organizational documents to get a feel for processes, attitudes, and potential areas for attention. The scouting stage helps the consultant develop some initial ideas about areas for improvement. Then, the consultant can design data collection (which you will do in next week’s work) to confirm those ideas or identify other concerns.
Planning and Execution:
In this week’s work, you will do an opening assessment (i.e., scouting) of your organization. Research answers to the following issues (bullet point questions below). You may use your own observations, interviews with other organizational members, internet research, and research in organizational documents as part of your review. Due to time constraints for the project, you may also include hypothetical data as needed to fill in some gaps. However, you should do your best to collect as much real data as possible. The following themes should guide the planning and execution of your scouting work.
What is the organization? What does it do/what is its purpose?
How well does your organization develop its members? Does it appear to operate from a comprehensive PDP?
What evidence or symptoms do you see that support your conclusion (about whether your organization develops its members)?
What are some of the possible reasons why your organization does or does not develop its members well?
Who would need to get involved to improve your organization’s development philosophy and practices?
What benefits might individuals in the organization experience if a more robust developmental philosophy and practices were in place?
What benefits might the organization experience if a more robust development philosophy and practices were in place?
Where are the most important opportunities for organizational development (remember, the focus of the project is the professional development needs of members)?
Deliverable:
Prepare a one to two page (500 to 1000 words, single spaced) scouting memo that synthesizes the issues and the most important opportunities for organizational development
Review the memo tips guide attached as reference guide.
You do not need to provide a title page
Cite any resources using APA even though the rest of the paper is in memo format rather than APA
Due by 9/27/24 at 12pm CSTRequirements
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Zenger, J. H., & Stinnett, K. (2010). The extraordinary coach: How the best Leaders help others grow (1st ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN: 9780071703406
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than -
Papers will be checked for plagiarism and AI generation. Neither are acceptab
Papers will be checked for plagiarism and AI generation. Neither are acceptable.
Create a company (it could be imaginary, one you’re familiar with, or a combination of both).
Company Description:Name: Provide a unique name for your company.
Industry: Specify the industry your company operates in.
Products: Describe the products or services your company offers.
Size: Indicate the size of your company in terms of employee count and market reach.
Organizational Structure:Type of Structure: Describe whether your company uses a matrix, simple, organic, team, bureaucratic, or virtual organization structure. You might also consider a combination of these or something else.
Rationale: Explain why you chose this structure for your company.
Strategy: Discuss your company’s strategy (e.g., innovation, cost minimization, imitation).
Environment: Describe the business environment including competitors, suppliers, customers, and relevant government rules and regulations. Explain how these factors impact your company.
Company Culture
Culture and Values:Core Values: Outline the core values of your company.
Artifacts: Provide examples of physical artifacts that represent your company’s culture.
Stories and Rituals: Share important stories, rituals, and traditions that help define your company culture.
CSR and Sustainability: Explain your company’s stance on corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Describe how your company lives these values.
Include any other information about culture and values you think is important
Organizational Dynamics
Power, Communication, and Participation:Power Structure: Discuss the beliefs around power within your organization.
Communication: Explain how communication is managed and facilitated.
Participation: Describe the level of employee participation in decision-making processes.
Onboarding and Socialization:Onboarding Process: Detail the process for onboarding new employees.
Socialization: Describe how new employees are socialized into the company culture.
Ethical Issues:Common Ethical Issues: Identify ethical issues that employees are likely to encounter.
Handling Ethical Issues: Explain how employees are expected to handle these issues and the consequences of not adhering to ethical standards.
Employee Well-being:Well-being Initiatives: Describe initiatives to ensure employee well-being.
Stress Factors: Identify potential sources of stress for employees.
Stress Management: Outline strategies for managing and mitigating employee stress.
Conclusion
Summarize the key elements of your company, emphasizing the alignment between structure, culture, and strategic goals (if there’s no alignment, it’s not serving the business). Reflect on the importance of creating a cohesive and ethical organizational environment.
Formatting:
Use APA or MLA format (whichever you’re most familiar with)
Make sure you include an introduction and conclusion. 3.5 pages Cover pages and references don’t count as part of the requirement.
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choose a chronic disease or condition and select a particular, narrow focus
choose a chronic disease or condition and select a particular, narrow focus as the topic of your Literature Review Assignment due in Module 4. A chronic disease is a long lasting condition that can typically be treated, but not necessarily cured (for example, atherosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, and cancer). Find at least four recent (less than 3 years old), peer-reviewed, primary research articles that concisely explain the pathophysiology of your topic.
You may use more than the minimum number of sources, as needed, to support your Literature Review paper, but your Annotated Bibliography should rely mainly on primary research. You may also utilize a high quality review article or meta-analysis, but note that a review article is secondary, so does not count as one of the required four primary studies. If you use any secondary sources, make sure they are of good quality, from a scholarly source.
Title page
Concise description of the focus
Sources: Four recent (less than 3 years old), primary, peer-reviewed research articles that support the topic of your paper. Beyond the minimum four primary research articles, you may add additional, high quality secondary literature (reviews or meta-analyses), and you may use websites—if from a scholarly and relevant source (e.g., CDC, NCHS, etc.). Note: Your sources must follow APA formatting.
Annotation: For each research article, include the study aim, the methods used, and the findings. For each non-research source, provide a concise description of the relevant key points addressed in the source. Include in the annotation a brief description of how you plan to use each source (e.g., provides statistics for the problem, etc.).
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Please read/view these short selections: bell hooks Ch. 10 “Race & Gender”
Please read/view these short selections:
bell hooks Ch. 10 “Race & Gender” Download Ch. 10 “Race & Gender”(note that she intentionally does not capitalize her name)
Audre Lorde, “There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions”Download “There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions”
Notes:
Privilege & Oppression
I mentioned the concept of intersectionality briefly in our discussion of the most recent waves of feminism and although it is a newer term, it is critical to gender studies and activism. As we continue through the course it will remain crucial to every topic we discuss so it is important to fully explore and understand. But before we can develop a solid grasp of intersectionality, we must understand the concepts of oppression and privilege.
What is oppression? First, we must distinguish oppression from suffering. Everyone in society can potentially suffer in some way. Any person can be bullied or treated unfairly or just have bad luck. What separates the two is that unlike general suffering, oppression is systematic and targets individuals as members of groups. Because it is so ingrained in society and social systems, oppression is often internalized and invisible. Feminist theorist Marilyn Frye illustrates this definition of systemic oppression as a birdcage. If you only focus on individual bars or barriers (for example wage gaps or voting rights) you will not see it as oppression, you’d expect people to fight against that single issue and learn to break free. However, systems of oppression work together like the bars of the cage. We cannot study the elements of an oppressive structure independently, without studying the entire system.
Thinking about oppression in this systematic and inter-related way can also draw our attention to those do not exist in those cages. The groups free from this inequality are in a position of privilege. Like oppression, privilege is not an individual judgment, it is systemic and built into social structure. By definition, privileges are unearned advantages granted to people in dominant groups whether they asked for those privileges or not. You can see the cage of oppression contrasted with the freedom of privilege in Maya Angelou’s poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. Links to an external site.
We can also illustrate the structural nature of privilege by thinking about which members of a category are “unmarked”. For example, if I say I want to discuss issues of gender, race or sexuality many people will assume I am referring to women, trans, and nonbinary people, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, or Asian experiences, and the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) community, respectively. In each of these examples, dominant identities are treated as the default, and others as variations of that default. The fact is, men still have a gender, white people still have a race, and heterosexual or straight people still have sexuality. Privilege and advantage is conveyed through this illusion of neutrality, which allows it remain invisible to those that have it, but highly visible to those who experience oppression or marginalization.
We all have some form of societal privilege. Having privilege doesn’t mean we didn’t earn our accomplishments or that we never had any barriers in our way. It just means that our barriers were not systemically connected to others like the example of the cage. Privilege can still be a hot button term- this short video delves more into how we can understand and better apply its meaning:
“Decoded: Why Does Privilege Make People so Angry”
Intersectionality
So how can we look at what is to encounter both privilege and oppression in our lives? How can we understand what it means to experience oppression in more than one area? Gender oppression for example is not isolated but instead intersects with all of our social identities such as age, race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical ability simultaneously. Your life is not influenced by JUST one of these- it is all of them at the same time. Since we experience the world through the combination of our identities, using intersectionality as a framework for studying gender allows us to recognize the ways oppression is linked.
Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, intersectionality acknowledges everyone has their own unique experiences of privilege, discrimination, and oppression and we must consider each aspect if we are to achieve equality. A Black woman may experience both sexism and racism, but will experience sexism differently from a white woman and racism differently from a black man. Similarly, having privilege in one area does not mean someone automatically has privilege in all areas. Intersectionality recognizes that we can be privileged and unprivileged/oppressed at the same time. As we learned from our examination of feminist history, any feminism that purely represents the experiences of dominant and privileged positions will fail to achieve equality for all. The work towards gender equality must be intersectional.
Intersectionality is an important concept and we will continue to practice intersectionality throughout the semester so it is important to understand. This short video from helps demonstrate intersections and their impact.
“Kimberlé Crenshaw at Ted + Animation”You can also listen along to the piece by Audre Lorde read aloud by Lauren Lyons, if this is a method of taking in the material that would be helpful to you:
After completing the reading and lecture notes, choose one quote from either the reading by hooks or Lourde that you found meaningful or that helped you connect to the concept of intersectionality. Write down the exact quotation and explain your thoughts on it by discussing your interpretation of what it means, why it stuck out to you, how it helps you understand intersectionality, and it’s significance to the study of gender.
Your discussion should be at least 200 words not including the quote and include at least 2 meaningful responses to classmates’ posts by either sharing your ideas of how their chosen quote connects to other important concepts such as oppression, privilege, or the metaphor of the cage or by offering a new interpretation/significance that you think is relevant. -
Introduction: In this task, you will analyze ethical challenges related to inf
Introduction:
In this task, you will analyze ethical challenges related to information security and develop a training plan for an organization, which will raise awareness of these challenges, convey strategies, and prevent unwanted developments.
Scenario
Review the attached “TechFite Case Study” for information on the company being investigated. You should base your responses on this scenario.
Requirements
A. Address ethical issues for cybersecurity by doing the following:
1. Discuss the ethical guidelines or standards relating to information security that should apply to the case study.
a. Justify your reasoning.
2. Identify the behaviors, or omission of behaviors, of the people who fostered the unethical practices.
3. Discuss what factors at TechFite led to lax ethical behavior.
B. Describe ways to mitigate problems and build security awareness by doing the following:
1. Describe two information security policies that may have prevented or reduced the criminal activity, deterred the negligent acts, and decreased the threats to intellectual property.
2. Describe the key components of a Security Awareness Training and Education (SATE) program that could be implemented at TechFite.
a. Explain how the SATE program will be communicated to TechFite employees.
b. Justify the SATE program’s relevance to mitigating the undesirable behaviors at TechFite.
C. Prepare a summary directed to senior management (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs) that states TechFite’s ethical issues from Part A and the related mitigation strategies from Part B.
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Your task: You have been asked to give a presentation at Business Round Table Ev
Your task: You have been asked to give a presentation at Business Round Table Event. Attendees are owners of small businesses and corporate managers whose employees are now working from home due to the global pandemic. The need for physical security to protect equipment and other assets has risen in priority for these business owners and managers as they realize that they have a gap in their business continuity planning and response which needs to be addressed.
Background: During the global pandemic, many companies throughout the region, both small businesses and larger corporate entities, successfully transitioned to “work from home” allowing them to continue operating despite the issuance of “work from home” and “stay at home” orders from governmental entities. Storefronts and offices for non-essential businesses and services were shuttered or reduced to minimal staffing. Concerns about the potential for thefts, break-ins, and other forms of unauthorized entry have been raised in many organizations who were not prepared for extended periods in which their facilities would be unoccupied / unattended.
For this presentation, identify and discuss five or more technologies and countermeasures which can be implemented to address the problem of providing physical security in an unoccupied/unattended facility (you should not propose any measures that rely upon guards or other personnel who would need to be physically present). Your presentation should address both preventive and detective controls for physical security, e.g. perimeter fencing, gates, bollards, lighting, CCTV, audio scanning, alarm systems, key-card controlled entry, etc.
Format: This week, the format for your deliverable (posting) will be “Talking Points.” Talking points are presented in outline format and contain the content that you would put on slides in a slide deck. Your outline should include 5 to 7 major points (“slide titles”) followed by 3 to 5 supporting points for each. Remember to put enough information into the talking points that your peer reviewers can understand what you intend to cover in each section of your briefing. Remember to introduce the topic at the beginning, present your analysis, and then close your briefing with an appropriate summary. Include a list of sources (3 or more) which attendees could refer to if they wish to fact check your work.