Electronic Records

Write a paper of 1,000- not including the title and References page that analyzes the chosen policy. Include the following in your paper:

Meaningful Use—Electronic Health Records (EHRs), HITECH Act

1. Summarize how key elements of health care reform impact the economy on a macro level.
2. Research the governmental policy process that was involved with the development, implementation, and assessment of the chosen policy. Explain how the governmental policy process affected the way the policy was developed, implemented, and assessed.
3. Explain how the policy proposal you selected may impact three major stakeholders within the health care system (e.g., consumers, insurers, hospital systems).

Cite a minimum of five references to support your rationale.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

 

Mat543_Quantmetwk10hmewrk_Louisechisolm – Week 10 Homew

Week 10 Homework Chapter 15: Exercises 15-1 through 15-3 15-1 Using the following data set on hospital admissions, define the service area for Hospital A, based only on quantitative factors (Table 15-5). Community Percent of total hospital admissions for Hospital A Percent of total in community using Hospital A North 8.8% 14.6% South 31.1% 15.6% East 12.7% 4.9% West 28.3% 34.4% Central 6.3% 9.8% Upper 5.7% 3% Lower 7.2% 31.9% The service area for Hospital A, based only on quantitative features represented in the tables should be the communities of North, South, West, and Lower. I made this assessment based upon any percent of either total hospital admissions or total in community utilizing Hospital A of a percent that rounded to 15% or higher. 15-2 Compute the target bed capacity of Cheswick Community Hospital 10 years from now, based on the following information: Assume current population of Cheswick Community Hospital’s service area = 145,000 Assume projected population increase of 8% in service area over the next 10 years.

 

 Public Health

In this assignment you write a paper on the levels at which policy can be operationalized. You will be assigned a topic at the beginning of the term by your instructor. If you do not receive your assignment topic by the first day of the term, be sure to ask your instructor. When you receive your topic from the instructor, you will need to find an example of Policy (big “P” legislative) and another of policy (little “p” non-legislative). You may wish to identify examples from your place of residence or you may choose another community. This paper must address specific policies, their impact on public health and health equity, their time of implementation, and any results. Organize your paper around these two levels of policy (P and p). Be sure to review the required learning resources for details about types of law, policy implications, and the levels by which policy is created.

 

 

To complete: Submit a 3-4 page (not including title page and references) paper addressing the following items:

Include a title page with your name, date, course and section, and title

• Include section headers for each section, below
  • Describe the key information on public health policy, including the stakeholders.
  • o Discuss one example of a legislative and one example of a non-legislative policy for the same content area and describe how they work within one jurisdiction
  • Evaluate each of the policies for their impact on public health and health equity. Be sure to support your evaluation with appropriate scholarly resources.
• Cite the sources in your text, wherever you referred to them.
• Include an APA formatted reference list

TOPIC: Students will examine forms of policy related to improving access to healthy foods.  (Remember, you must identify one legislative policy and one non-legislative policy enacted at the community level.)

Forecasting for Decision Making (BUSS 5427)

all the information you may need are in school website, the school website is https://lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=15385, the account name is LIUYY171, the password ***
Complete the “Outline proposal for a forecasting for decision-making project” form for a forecasting project of your choosing and submit via the course Learnonline site.
Present your proposal orally to the class in no more than 2 minutes.
Choose a forecasting project that is relevant to your work, or knowledge and interests.
If you do not have a work or knowledge and interest relevant project, consider a project addressing some aspect of South Australian or Australian inbound tourism using the resources available, here.
The project should have the objective of providing accurate forecasts so as to lead to better decisions.
The more knowledge and data you are able to obtain about the subject of your forecasting project (the forecasting problem), the better.
Check the suitability of your idea for a project by emailing the Course Coordinator a working title for your forecasting problem (e.g., “Forecasting demand for a new recipe pasta sauce”, or “Forecasting tram patronage on the North Terrace extension.”)
Check the suitability of your idea as early in the course as you are able to, so as to get feedback and change plans if necessary.
Resubmission is not available.
these are the reference you can use, you can find them with link in school website, under subject Forecasting for Decision Making (BUSS 5427), couse outline.
Armstrong, J. S. (2001). Principles of forecasting: a handbook for researchers and practitioners. Springer.
Armstrong, J. S. (1985). Long-range forecasting, 2nd edition. Wiley.
Armstrong, J. S. & Andress, J. G. (1970). Exploratory analysis of marketing data: Trees vs. regression. Journal of Marketing Research, 7, 487-492.
Armstrong, J. S., Collopy, F., & Yokum, T. (2005). Decomposition by causal forces: A procedure for forecasting complex time series. International Journal of Forecasting, 21, 25-36.
Armstrong, J. S., Du, R., Green, K. C., & Graefe, A. (2016). Predictive validity of evidence-based persuasion principles: An application of the index method. European Journal of Marketing, 50 (1/2), 276–293.
Armstrong, J.S., & Graefe, A. (2011). Predicting elections from biographical information about candidates: A test of the index method. Journal of Business Research, 64(7), 699-706.
Armstrong, J. S., & Green, K. C. (2018). Forecasting Methods and Principles: Evidence-Based Checklists. Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, 28, 103–159. https://doi.org/10.1080/21639159.2018.1441735
Armstrong, J.S., Green, K.C. & Graefe, A. (2015). Golden Rule of Forecasting: be conservative. Journal of Business Research, 68 (8), 1717-1731.
Dillman, D. A., Smyth, J. D., & Christian, L. M. (2014). Internet, phone, mail, and mixed-mode surveys: The tailored design method. (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
Fair, R. C. (2002). Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Gardner, E. S., Jr. (2006). Exponential smoothing: the state of the art–Part II. International Journal of Forecasting, 22, 637-666.
Goodwin, P., Dyussekeneva, K., & Meeran, S. (2013). The use of analogies in forecasting the annual sales of new electronics products. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 24, 407-422.
Graefe, A., Armstrong, J. S., Jones, R. J., & Cuzan, A. G. (2017). Assessing the 2016 U.S. presidential election popular vote forecasts. In The 2016 Presidential Election: The causes and consequences of an electoral earthquake. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Graefe, A. (2011). Prediction market accuracy for business forecasting. In L. Vaughan-Williams (Ed.), Prediction Markets (pp.87-95). New York: Routledge.
Graefe, A. (2015). Improving forecasts using equally weighted predictors. Journal of Business Research, 68, 1792-1799.
Graefe, A. & Armstrong, J. S. (2011). Conditions under which index models are useful: Reply to bio-index commentaries. Journal of Business Research, 64, 693-695.
Green, K. C. (2002). Forecasting decisions in conflict situations: a comparison of game theory, role-playing, and unaided judgement. International Journal of Forecasting, 18, 321-344.
Green, K. C. (2005). Game theory, simulated interaction, and unaided judgement for forecasting decisions in conflicts: Further evidence. International Journal of Forecasting, 21, 463-472.
Green, K. C. & Armstrong, J. S. (2015). Simple versus complex forecasting: The evidence. Journal of Business Research, 68 (8), 1678–1685.
Green, K. C. & Armstrong, J. S. (2007). Structured analogies for forecasting. International Journal of Forecasting, 23, 365-376.
Green, K. C., Armstrong, J. S., Du, R., & Graefe, A. (2016). Persuasion Principles Index: ready for pretesting advertisements. European Journal of Marketing, 50 (1/2), 317-326.
Green, K. C., Armstrong, J. S., & Graefe, A. (2007). Methods to elicit forecasts from groups: Delphi and prediction markets compared. Foresight, 8, 17-20.
Hyndman, R. J. & Athanasopoulos, G. (2016) Forecasting: principles and practice. oTexts.
Linstone, H. A. & Turoff, M. (2002). The Delphi method: techniques and applications.
Miller, D. M. & Williams, D. (2003). Shrinkage estimators of time series seasonal factors and their effect on forecasting accuracy. International Journal of Forecasting, 19, 669-684.
Miller, D. M. & Williams, D. (2004). Damping seasonal factors: shrinkage estimators for the X-12-ARIMA program. International Journal of Forecasting, 20, 529-549.
Morwitz, V. G., Steckerl, J. H., Gupta, A. (2007). When do purchase intentions predict sales? International Journal of Forecasting, 23, 347-364.
Savio, N., Nikolopoulos, K. (2010). Forecasting the effectiveness of policy implementation strategies. International Journal of Public Administration, 33, 88-97.
Simon, J. L. (1996). The ultimate resource II: people, materials, environment. Princeton.
Wright, M. J. & Stern, P. (2015). Forecasting new product trial with analogous series. Journal of Business Research, 68, 1732-1738.

Ol 645 phase 2

This is a one-three page submission in which you will compare and contrast the two companies you have identified for case study comparison. As a reminder, a compare and contrast instruction means that you will discuss the similarities between the organizations, and then differences.

Instructions: Compose a 1-3 page (not including the cover and reference pages) written document that will include the information identified below. In order to rise to the level of exemplary, your submission must achieve the following:
– Describe the strengths of both companies in mitigation of ethical and legal risk using specific examples to support your discussion
– Describe the weaknesses of both companies in mitigation of ethical and legal risk using specific examples to support your discussion
1. Identify two or more case studies on legal and ethical workplace situations that are influenced by society, culture, politics, health, safety, and security. It is recommended to select two case studies relevant to your selected organization. There are many resources to use. One recommended website is
Business in the Community Case Studies at https://web.archive.org/web/20170921104856/https://www.bitc.org.uk/our-resources/case-studies

The following article provides excellent sources on HR’s role in the mitigation of social and environmental risk and opportunities.
• The Executive Summary by HRM’s Role in Corporate Social and Environmental Sustainability by Elaine Cohen, Sully Taylor and Michael Muller-
Camen https://web.archive.org/web/20160731145810/http://www.shrm.org/about/foundation/products/pages/sustainabilityepg.aspx

 

Congressional Roles – American Government

In this lesson’s content, the term "home style" was used to refer activities that members of Congress (House and Senate) engage in to communicate with constituents and address problems and interests back in their home districts. Your Assignment: Assume that you are a Congress person from your district. Discuss what activities you would be engaged in both in Washington D.C. and back in your home district. Make sure to discuss the role of committee and sub-committee work, meeting with other politicians, drafting pieces of legislation, etc. that would occur in Washington, but also activities like meeting with constituents, answering questions, and pork-barreling back in your home district. Writing Guidelines: 250 word minimum – 1000 word maximum Write in complete sentences. Bullet points or lists will not be accepted. The name can be changed to fit the writer’s work and this is a MLA style paper. I’m not 100% sure on what type of paper I should have choice for this writing assignment so I went with essay.

Developmental Red Flags

Discussion: Developmental Red Flags
Wellness visits are an important part of pediatric primary care. During these visits, patient growth and development are assessed. As an advanced practice nurse who performs these assessments, you must be able to distinguish between normal and abnormal growth and development to recognize red flags. While some patients may not meet milestones due to differences in rates of development, abnormal development might also be a red flag of an underlying problem. In this Discussion, you examine the following case studies and consider potential developmental red flags:

Case Study
Jose is a 36-month-old who presents for a preschool evaluation. His father reports the following development:
• Physical: Walks, runs, and jumps independently, walks up stairs alternating feet, pedals a three-wheeler, scribbles, copies circles and squares, and is able to balance on one foot for 2 to 3 seconds.
• Social: Recognizes three colors; speech is 75% understandable; uses three- to four-word sentences; talks about friends, favorite activities, and family; frequently engages in imitative play; has an imaginary friend; does stutter on occasion when excited or when intent on getting something said. Will typically repeat the first word in a sentence three to four times, but does not repeat syllables or consonants. This happens three to four times a week.
To prepare:
• Review this week’s media presentations, as well as “Developmental Management of Infants” and “Developmental Management of Toddlers and Preschoolers” in the Burns et al. text.
• Think about how physical, social, and cognitive development vary during infancy, toddlerhood, and the preschool years. Reflect on normal versus abnormal growth and development and consider the decision-making process of identifying and managing red flags of abnormal development.
• Select one of the three case studies provided. Reflect on the patient information included in the case study and consider any developmental red flags.
• Reflect on standardized screening tools, clinical guidelines, and management strategies that would be used to assess and manage the patient in your selected case study.
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Post an explanation of any developmental red flags that presented in the case study you selected based on the stages of normal physical, social, and cognitive development for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Explain how you differentiated between normal and abnormal growth and development for this patient and identify which standardized screening tools, clinical guidelines, and management strategies you might use to assess and manage this patient and why.

Writers choice, has to pertain to port security

The topic for your research paper can be anything pertaining to port security. Choose your own academically rigorous port security focused research question and hypothesis.

Here is the specific format:

Title Page (APA format)
Abstract
Introduction (Research Question and Hypothesis)
Literature Review (Note this is not an annotated bibliography but a Literature Review)
Methodology – don’t simply state qualitative methodology.
Analysis & Findings
Conclusion and Recommendations
Reference list

Methodology: This section provides the reader with a description of how you carried out your qualitative research project, and the variables you identified and analyzed. It describes any special considerations and defines any limitations and terms specific to this project, if necessary. This section can be brief or more complicated, depending on the project, written in a single page.

Analysis and Findings: They are not the same as conclusions. In the analysis component of this section you identify how you analyzed the data. The second part is the finding you got from your analysis of the data. The findings are the facts that you developed, not your interpretation of the facts. That interpretation is conducted in the conclusions and recommendations section of the paper. Findings will come from the prior research you examined and your analysis of those prior findings to create new findings for your paper. While there may be some facts that are such that they will stand and translate to your paper, the intent is to create new knowledge, so you will normally analyze the data to create your own findings of what facts that data represents.

Conclusions and Recommendations: This is the section where you give your interpretation of the data. Here you tell the reader what the findings mean. Often the conclusions and recommendations sections will mirror the findings in construct as the researcher tells the reader what that researcher sees as the meaning of that data, their conclusions. Then, drawing on those conclusions, the researcher tells the reader what they believe needs to be done to solve/answer the research question. This section may include recognition of any needs for further research and then finishes with a traditional conclusion to the paper as a whole.

Remember, your paper should seek to answer a question that helps to solve the research question and validates or culls your hypothesis.

Technical Requirements:

Length: Minimum of 10-12 pages double spaced, 1″ margins, 12 pitch type in Times New Roman font.

Citations/References: You must use the APA style for this assignment. A minimum of 10 outside references required.

 

Derivatives Class Paper-Derivative Scandal: Tax Payer Supported Gambling – JP Morgan’s CDS trades, 2012

PPA605

Final Paper

Consider a real life bargaining and negotiation situation that involves two parties and the multiple issues to be negotiated that has already occurred, currently in progress, or will occur in the near future in your personal life or at work.  Be sure to address the following:

1. Describe the situation and negotiation environment.
2. Identify the parties (e.g., yourself, the persons on your side, and/or the opposing parties) including the bargaining positions.
3. Present the type of third party intervention and procedures if required, (e.g., arbitration or mediation).
4. Explain how the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) is derived.
5. Evaluate the theoretical models, methods, sources of power, and analytical procedures required to be utilized in the negotiation process.
6. Examine the mechanics of the procedures in terms of framing, packaging, use of questions, and types of proposals.
7. Assess the strategies utilized and the results achieved and/or anticipated in the settlement.

The Final Paper:

• Must be at least 8 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion paragraph that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must be written in third person.

Withholding Information Case

Read the Withholding Information Case on pages 193-194 and address the following:

1. Identify ethical systems that may guide the parties to a negotiation.
2. Determine the substantive fairness of the negotiation.
3. Ensure the procedural fairness of the negotiation.
4. Distinguish between concealment behaviors in negotiations that are ethical and those that are unethical among the parties in the negotiation.
5. Describe how the parties can learn to create trust in a one-shot negotiation and in a long-term negotiation relationship.

The Withholding Information Case paper:

• Must be 3 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least three to four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Master of economics essay

Evaluate the validity of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) in view of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Assessing the arguments for and against EMH in light of the GFC experience, on balance, does the GFC refute the EMH, or is EMH still valid despite the GFC? What have we learned about EMH from the GFC, and what can we learn about the GFC from EMH? The readings below are sufficient for the assignment, you are not expected to research additional resources （2500  words）

1. Ball: The Global Financial Crisis and the Efficient Market Hypothesis – What have we Learned?. 2009 (Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall), pp. 8-16
2. Harper & M. Thomas: Making sense of the GFC: Where did it come from and what do we do now? (Economic Papers, Vol. 28: No. 3, September 2009, pp. 196-205)
3. Easton & P. Kerin: Market efficiency and the Global Financial Crisis. 2010 (Australian Economic Review, Vol. 43: No. 4, pp. 464-468)
4. Siegel: Efficient Market theory and the Recent Financial Crisis. 2010 (Working Paper, Institute for New Economic Thinking: Cambridge UK)

Homeland Security Organizations and Agencies

The homeland security system in the United States is a “national” system in the sense that it includes all levels of government—federal, state, local, and tribal—as well as the private sector and volunteer organizations. It does not refer to the federal government exclusively, nor just to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It is a comprehensive, integrated, multidisciplinary, and multijurisdictional system including a wide variety of organizations and agencies at all levels. Organizations and agencies must work together and effectively coordinate their efforts to prevent and respond to natural and man-made disasters and hazards. Documents such as the “National Incident Management System” (NIMS), the “National Response Framework” (NRF), and the “National Preparedness Guidelines” were created to help organizations and agencies coordinate their efforts. In this Discussion, you examine how specific organizations and agencies interact and coordinate their efforts when responding to a threat to homeland security.

2-3pages.

• Review the assigned pages of the article “National Preparedness Guidelines,” focusing on the description of target capabilities and their corresponding elements.
• Review the assigned pages of the article “National Incident Management System.” Focus on the purpose, key concepts, and components of NIMS, such as the standardized Incident Command System (ICS).
• Review the assigned pages of the article “National Response Framework.” Focus on the overview of the framework and its guiding doctrine, as well as on the description of the various agencies and officials at all levels of government and the private sector that have roles and responsibilities in disaster response.
• Think about the likely threats that might affect your state or locale, such as terrorist attacks; natural disasters, such as tornadoes and hurricanes; and hazardous chemical spills. Select one threat for this assignment.
• Based on the threat you selected, anticipate the federal, state, and local organizations and/or agencies that would respond.
• Think in terms of, and in reference to, the roles and capabilities of each respective organization and/or agency you identified and how they might interact and coordinate their efforts.

With these thoughts in mind:

A brief description of the threat you selected. Then describe at least two organizations and/or agencies in the national homeland security system that would respond to this threat. Include how and why they might respond. Finally, explain how the organizations and/or agencies might interact and coordinate their efforts when responding to the threat. Be specific, and use examples to illustrate your explanation.

• Article: Kettl, D. F. (2003). Contingent coordination: Practical and theoretical puzzles for homeland security. TheAmerican Review of Public Administration, 33(3), 253–277.
  Use the LegalTrac database, and search using the article’s title.
• Article: Wise, C. R. (2006). Organizing for homeland security after Katrina: Is adaptive management what’s missing? Public Administration Review, 66(3), 302–318.
  Use the ABI/INFORM Global database, and search using the article’s title.
• Online Article: Homeland Security. (2008). National incident management system. Retrieved fromhttp://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/NIMS_core.pdf

  Note: You are only required to read pages 1–8 of this article.

• Online Article: Homeland Security. (2007). National preparedness guidelines. Retrieved fromhttp://www.hsaj.org/?article=2.3.4 2.3.4.pdf

  Note: You are only required to read pages 1–11 of this article.

• Online Article: Homeland Security. (2008). National response framework. Retrieved fromhttp://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-core.pdf

  Note: You are only required to read pages 1–26 of this article.

• Online Article: Homeland Security Council. (2010). Quadrennial homeland security review report. Retrieved fromhttp://www.iaem.com/documents/QHSRReportFeb2010.pdf

Note: You are only required to read pages 21–36 of this article.

• Online Article: Emergency Management Institute. (2007). Principles of emergency management supplement. Retrieved fromhttp://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/08conf/Emergency%20Management%20Principles%20Monograph%20Final.doc

Optional Resources

• Online Article: Bach, R., & Kaufman, D. J. (2009). A social infrastructure for hometown security: Advancing the homeland security paradigm. Homeland Security Affairs,V(2). Retrieved from http://www.hsaj.org/?article=5.2.2

 

Forensic Psychology-330

Provide an illustration of a treatment program for each of the following special populations: violent offenders, criminal psychopaths, woman offenders, and sex offenders. Also, discuss the advantages of supervising low-level offenders in the community as opposed to incarcerating them in jails and prisons.

Human Capital Management – Session 5 Assignment

Assignment: Read Case Study: Chambourcin Wine Company of Virginia; a to-be-formed B-Corporation.

 

Please complete the following section of the business plan:

 

Scheduling

 

An example of a business plan for a winery can be found at: https://www.wesst.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/virginias-winery-business-plan-may-14-2009.pdf

 

I have attached the files you need for this assignment.

History Essay

Describe the relationship between climate change and human activity historically including examples from at least three distinct historical periods. How has this relationship changed over time? What do you think is the main reason why the issue of climate change is so political today?

Your essay must contain:

• a thesis/central argument (see Writing a Thesis)
• utilize assigned readings, films, and discussion forums to support your argument
• use one source not assigned in class. This may be an article, book, or news report. Your outside source must come from a recognized academic press or main stream news source.
• reflect an understanding of change over time and across space
• consider the implications of the historical processes in question on myriad and diverse groups of people in order to recognize that we do not all experience things in similar or equal ways.

You will be evaluated not only on the clarity of your thesis, but also on the degree to which you provide a clear framework with which to organize your evidence in support of your thesis. Since you are asked to address origins and change over time, a chronological organizational framework seems most appropriate.

You will also be graded on the mechanics of writing, spelling, sentence structure, organization, grammar, etc. as well as their appropriate inclusion of citations, with an emphasis on source analysis and integration.

Essays should be a minimum of 1000 words in length, employ appropriate grammar and sentence structure, cite sources using proper Chicago-style footnoting, and be free of typographical errors.

Short essay

What are the historical origins of the idea of race? How have the idea of race and the practice of racism changed over time?

Your essay must:

• contain a thesis/central argument (see Writing a Thesis),
• engage Ali Rattansi’s Racism: A Very Short Introduction AND films, and discussion forums to support your argument
• Use one source not assigned for this unit. This may be an article, book, or news report. Your source should be from a recognized academic press or main stream news source.
• reflect an understanding of change over time and across space.
• Your essay should also consider the implications of the historical processes in question on myriad and diverse groups of peoplein order to recognize that we do not all experience things in similar or equal ways.

You will be evaluated not only on the clarity of your thesis, but also on the degree to which you provide a clear framework with which to organize your evidence in support of your thesis. Since you are asked to address origins and change over time, a chronological organizational framework seems most appropriate.

You will also be graded on the mechanics of writing—spelling, sentence structure, organization, grammar, etc.— as well as their appropriate inclusion of citations, with an emphasis on source analysis and integration.

Essays should be a minimum of 1000 words in length, employ appropriate grammar and sentence structure, cite sources using proper Chicago-style footnoting, and be free of typographical errors.

Freshman Comp 2

Literary Research Outline Essay Assignment

Introduction

One of the most important skills a burgeoning college-level writer must master is the art of essay organization. Being able to adequately organize any writing assignment is important to successfully completing a writing assignment. Now that we’re nearing the end of the literature unit, it’s time to test your ability to properly organize a literary research essay. Follow the guidelines below to properly execute this assignment.

 

Essay Parameters

●        Outline format

●        Research Question

●        Select one of the resource options below

 

Essay Resource Options

●        Option 1: “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Reading the Rest Cure”

●        Option 2: A Raisin in the Sun and “In Search of Equality”

 

Essay Guidelines

●        Select one of the options above

●        Start outline with the Research Question.

●        Organize the outline using the following format:

â—‹        Introduction: author, work title, thesis

â—‹         Body paragraphs: topic sentence, evidence (quote), short explanation

â—‹        Conclusion

●        3-4 quotes throughout (at least one from the original work); quotes cannot be longer than 3 lines

●        MLA format

â—‹        Header, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, last name with page numbers in top right-hand corner

â—‹        In-text citations and Works Cited page

●        Page limit: 2-3 pages

 

Essay Assessment

Outline Essay will be graded using the rubric, with the actual content being graded holistically. Those essays not including in-text citations and/or a Works Cited page will not receive a grade higher than 69% due to plagiarism. Those essays not using any quoted material will not receive a grade higher than 75%. Other forms of plagiarism fall under the plagiarism guidelines in the syllabus.

Recruiting (power point)

Overview

Create a 10 slide presentation that includes your findings about Internet recruiting and a job posting for a sales representative position.

Context

Employment selection decisions are significant for managers and organizations. Poor decisions can result in a tremendous loss for the company. Employee performance is critical to organizational effectiveness because an organization will only be as productive as its workers.

The Assessment 4 Context document contains additional information about the types of assessments used to select personnel.

Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

• Have you ever taken a test in school or for a job that simply did not make sense to you? Which test would you have chosen instead?
• Which type of hiring strategy (for example, permanent hire, using a temporary agency, et cetera) would you use for CapraTek’s new manufacturing employees? Why?
• Which type of recruiting strategy (for example, permanent hire, contract-to-hire, et cetera) would you use to fill the four CapraTek sales positions? Why?
• How might social media fit into your hiring plans?

Required Resources

Arthur, D. (2012). Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and orienting new employees (5th ed.). New York, NY: AMACOM.

• Chapters 1–4.

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

To prepare for this assessment, complete the following:

• Read Chapters 3 and 4 and review Chapters 1 and 2 in Arthur’s Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting, and Orienting New Employees e-book, linked in the Resources.
• Read the scenario below.

Scenario

As part of CapraTek’s human resources team, you have been asked to research other employers and their Internet recruiting practices. This assessment has three parts:

1. Evaluate two employers’ online application processes.
2. Evaluate two general online job search sites for ease of use and information available.
3. Develop a job description for the CapraTek regional sales representative posting.

Present your information in the form of a PowerPoint presentation deck of 10 slides. Ensure your slides are uncrowded, visually appealing, and easy to read.

Requirements

Part 1: Identify two employers whose Web sites permit candidates to apply for positions online. You may choose any employer but preferably ones you might work for. Select only employers that allow online applications. Evaluate the user-friendliness of the application process and the value of the general job information found online. Consider whether the posted job information provides candidates with what they would want to know regarding the organization.

Using information from your research, create a PowerPoint slide presentation with bulleted points highlighting your key findings. Include the sites’ links. Add information in the slides’ notes section addressing the following:

• Articulate the user-friendliness of the Web sites.
• Compare the quality of the job information for each Web site from an employer’s point-of-view.

Part 2: Select two general job search Web sites (such as CareerBuilder, Indeed, SimplyHired, Monster). You may choose local or specific job sites. Look at the ease of use and the value of the general information provided on these Web sites.

Create additional slides for your presentation in which you include the links to the two Web sites and highlight your findings about them. Add information in the slides’ notes sections that includes the following:

• Articulate the user-friendliness of these Web sites. Would you use them to search for a job? Why or why not?
• Compare the quality of the job information for each Web site from an employer’s point-of-view.
• Summarize findings for or against CapraTek using these selected Web sites for posting positions and searching for applicants.

Part 3: Using your job analysis information for CapraTek’s regional sales representatives, develop a job posting for this position. Make location, salary, and working conditions assumptions as needed. Finish the presentation with slides outlining the essentials for the regional sales representative job description as follows:

• List the necessary qualifications, including educational background, technical experience, skills, and abilities.
• Describe the physical environment and working conditions.
• List the most important duties and responsibilities, with percentage of time spent on each, classifying each duty as essential or non-essential.

 Conducting a Job Analysis

Overview

Write a 3 page memo outlining O*Net findings used to prepare a CapraTek regional sales representative job description.

Context

Job analysis can be seen as the foundation on which the entire staffing process is built. An effective job analysis informs which knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) are needed to effectively perform the job.

Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

• How would you go about gathering data for a job analysis? From whom would you get the data, and why that person?
• What value would a job analysis have for the employer and candidate alike?
• Which strategies are most appropriate for a lower-level hire as opposed to a manager?

Required Resources

• Arthur, D. (2012). Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and orienting new employees (5th ed.). New York, NY: AMACOM.
  • Chapters 5–7.

Internet Resources

Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.

• U.S. Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration. (n.d.). O*NET online. Retrieved from http://www.onetonline.org/

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

To prepare for this assessment, complete the following:

• Read Chapters 5 and 7 and review Chapter 6 in Arthur’s Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting, and Orienting New Employees e-book, linked in the Resources.
• Read the scenario below.

Scenario

Alfred! will be produced in a new manufacturing facility. Groundbreaking on the new facility will begin this summer with full operations to be accomplished in three phases over the next two years. Distribution of the Alfred! device and components will be through existing distributors and retail outlets. While most of the new hires associated with this product line will be at the new manufacturing facility, four regional sales representatives will be hired to support the new product line.

Requirements

You have been asked to develop a job analysis, job specifications, and a job description for the four regional sales representative positions. To develop the initial information for this assessment, use O*Net OnLine, a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site of occupational information containing a database of both standardized and occupation-specific descriptors, linked in the Resources.

Hint: Begin your search by clicking Find Occupations. Then, under the Career Cluster heading, go to Marketing, Sales, and Service. From there, you can search for a sales representative in any of the technical fields.

Write a memo to your supervisor outlining your findings, and explain why a job analysis is required for any recruiting and selection process. In addition, address the following:

1. A tentative wage plan and the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for this job.
2. The job duties, qualifications, education, work experience, and job competencies required.
3. Wage information and employment trends for this position in your chosen state.

Additional Requirements

• Required length is 3 pages.
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Double space your memo.

Examining the Legal Environment

Overview

Write a 4 page report in which you analyze data concerning CapraTek’s hiring and promotion practices.

Context

Organizations use several methods to find job candidates. The Assessment 2 Context document contains information about the complexities involved in recruiting, hiring, retaining, and promoting employees.

Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

• How should organizations respond to allegations of workplace discrimination?
• What are significant legal issues that you need to be cognizant of during the recruiting and selection process? How would these issues affect the recruiting process for CapraTek’s regional sales representatives?
• As social media becomes a growing hiring influence because of its reach and information prospective applicants freely share, how can organizations protect themselves against charges of invasion of privacy?

Required Resources

Arthur, D. (2012). Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and orienting new employees (5th ed.). New York, NY: AMACOM.

• Chapter 6.

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

To prepare for this assessment, complete the following:

• Read Chapter 6 of Arthur’s Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting, and Orienting New Employees e-book, linked in the Resources.
• Read the scenario below.

Scenario

While planning for expansion, CapraTek is also concerned about its hiring and promotion practices at existing facilities. Management has asked for an analysis of the workforce in its flagship manufacturing facility. As the Recruiting Director for CapraTek’s major manufacturing facility you are concerned about the company’s hiring posture relative to women and minorities. Your manufacturing plant in a nearby major city especially worries you. You recently checked the latest statistics for the SMSA the plant is in and found the following:

• Females in the labor force: 35%
• Blacks in the labor force: 10%
• Hispanics in the labor force: 5%
• All other groups are 0%

To address your concerns you first looked at the selection statistics for the past 12 months. Note: This plant hires mostly unskilled laborers and then trains them. Here is what you found:

Hiring Statistics
	Total	Females	Blacks	Hispanics
Number applied	80	20	10	5
Number hired	20	6	3	1

Next you looked at your existing work force and found the following:

• Total: 450
• Females: 50
• Blacks: 22
• Hispanics: 20

Finally, you looked at how protected classes are being moved up in the plant. While workers are hired as unskilled laborers, that is not the whole story. There are two higher paying options open to them: they can become skilled machine operators (by passing an in-depth company run training program) and from there they can become line supervisors (this pays even more than the skilled jobs). You are concerned about how that program works also; the statistics are as follows:

Positions Within the Company
	Total	Females	Blacks	Hispanics
Unskilled workers	350	45	20	15
Skilled operators	50	1	2	3
Line supervisors	25	2	1	1

Note: The above totals do not add up to 450 or the work force totals because there are other jobs in the plant not used in this analysis.

Requirements

Using what you know about CapraTek’s hiring and promotion practices, prepare a report for top management addressing the following:

• Analyze the data for evidence of adverse impact using the 4/5ths rule. Consider the applicant flow.
• Analyze the data for evidence of adverse impact of employee utilization based on the relevant labor market for the state you chose in Assessment 1.
• Analyze the data for evidence of adverse impact on any protected class concentrated in lower-paying jobs.
• Assess CapraTek’s hiring and promotion practices to support its growth strategy.

Additional Requirements

• Write 4 typed, double-spaced pages (not including title page or references).
• Use Times New Roman font, 12 point.
• Include a title page and, if needed, a reference page.

Planning an Organization’s Staffing Needs

Overview

Write a 2 page memo analyzing a U.S. state of your choice as a possible location for a new manufacturing plant.

Context

The following is one way to estimate the number of sales representatives needed next year:

Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

• To what extent do trends affecting workforce planning (such as increasingly diverse populations, aging workers, uneven geographic growth, and changing governmental economic policies) impact an organization’s ability to forecast its workforce needs?

Required Resources

• Arthur, D. (2012). Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and orienting new employees (5th ed.). New York, NY: AMACOM.
  • Chapters 1–2.

Internet Resources

Access the following resources by clicking on the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permission for the following links have either been granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.

• Fortune.com. (n.d.). 100 best companies to work for. Retrieved from http://fortune.com/best-companies/

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

To prepare for this assessment, complete the following:

• Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Arthur’s Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting, and Orienting New Employees e-book, linked in the Resources.
• Browse Fortune.com’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, linked in the Resources.
• Read the scenario below.

Scenario

CapraTek, a fictitious technology company, has a long history as a leader in the design and manufacture of computer server components and continues to provide innovative solutions to industry needs. They are currently leveraging this culture of innovation to expand into emerging wireless technologies. As part of that diversification, CapraTek is developing advanced smart-home technology.

Last month, CapraTek announced that it will begin developing a wireless system providing seamless integration of newer home electronics and appliances capable of being controlled electronically. Security, heating and cooling, lights, locks, telephone, home entertainment, computers, and gaming devices all controlled through a single wireless device and a simple Web-based interface—”It’s better than a butler, it’s Alfred!” Alfred! will be produced in a new manufacturing facility currently in the planning phase. Groundbreaking on the new facility is planned within the next six months with full operations to be accomplished in three phases over the next two years. Distribution of the Alfred! device and components will be through existing distributors and retail outlets.

As part of the human resources team, you have been asked to support locating and staffing this new manufacturing facility in order to meet CapraTek’s strategic growth needs. The plan is for Phase 1 to be needed in one year and Phases 2 and 3 at one-year intervals after that. Here is some data you have uncovered when looking at similar CapraTek facilities opened within the past five years:

• Phase 1 = 140 production employees.
• Phase 2 = An additional 80 production employees.
• Phase 3 = An additional 120 production employees.

CapraTek’s facilities management has informed you that the initial training will take place on-site, and staff from other CapraTek locations will conduct the training over approximately a six-week period. Past experiences suggest that only one in five employees interviewed will be both qualified and willing to accept the job, and 20 percent of those hired will not complete the training.

Requirements

Select a U.S. state to analyze as a possible location that will support CapraTek’s hiring projections for the new facility. (Normally, this duty is not an HR function.) Using the described CapraTek hiring scenario, write a 2 page memo to CapraTek’s VP of operations in which you include the following:

• Identify the number of production employees to recruit and hire. Note: This is to include the number of applicants needed to meet Phases 1, 2, and 3 as well as the number of hirings needed to meet production of the new product.
• Describe how employment and demographic trends for your selected state impact CapraTek’s future workforce planning.
• Assess elements of CapraTek’s workplace culture that could be developed for it to become an employer of choice. Include at least three elements, and support your answer from readings and other credible sources.

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STAT517 Project #1: Supervised Learning

 

Question 1: Predicting Job Salary

A project for Data Mining at the University of Southampton. The aim is to predict a job’s salary with statistical learning, based on information within a job advert.

The main dataset consists of roughly 250k rows representing individual job ads, and a set of variables descriptions about each job ad. A simplified data of 10k could be retrieved at

salary=read.csv(“http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~stevel/Datasets/salary_uk.csv”,header=TRUE,sep=‘,’)

 

The variables are described as follows:

• Id – A unique identifier for each job ad
• Title – A freetext field supplied to us by the job advertiser as the Title of the job ad. Normally this is a summary of the job title or role.
• FullDescription – The full text of the job ad as provided by the job advertiser.
• LocationRaw – The freetext location as provided by the job advertiser.
• LocationNormalized – Adzuna’s normalised location from within our own location tree, interpreted by us based on the raw location. Our normaliser is not perfect!
• ContractType – full_time or part_time, interpreted by Adzuna from description or a specific additional field we received from the advertiser.
• ContractTime – permanent or contract, interpreted by Adzuna from description or a specific additional field we received from the advertiser.
• Company – the name of the employer as supplied to us by the job advertiser.
• Category – which of 30 standard job categories this ad fits into, inferred in a very messy way based on the source the ad came from. We know there is a lot of noise and error in this field.
• SalaryRaw – the freetext salary field we received in the job advert from the advertiser.
• SalaryNormalised – the annualised salary interpreted by Adzuna from the raw salary. Note that this is always a single value based on the midpoint of any range found in the raw salary. This is the value we are trying to predict.
• SourceName – the name of the website or advertiser from whom we received the job advert.

 

 

 

Present useful graphics to understand and/or reveal sensible info about the data set. Develop feasible models and compare their predictive accuracies and performance as a whole. Discuss the pros and cons of these models. Summarize and critique your modeling and findings.

Question 2: Predicting Income >$50k or not

This study focuses on the US Adult Census dataset; a repository of 32,561 entires carefully extracted from the 1994 US Census database. We would like to determine if an individual has a salary greater than or less than $50,000 annually based on the variables provided.

Present useful graphics to understand and/or reveal sensible info about the data set. Develop feasible models and compare their predictive accuracies and performance as a whole. Discuss the pros and cons of these models. Summarize and critique your modeling and findings.

The data can be retrieved as follows:

adult=read.csv(“http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~stevel/Datasets/adult.csv”,sep=‘,’)

Nominal Attributes

• workclass:
  • Private, Self-emp-not-inc, Self-emp-inc, Federal-gov, Local-gov, State-gov, Without-pay, Never-worked Without-pay, Never-worked.
• education:
  • Bachelors, Some-college, 11th, HS-grad, Prof-school, Assoc-acdm, Assoc-voc, 9th, 7th-8th, 12th, Masters, 1st-4th, 10th, Doctorate, 5th-6th, Preschool.
• marital-status:
  • Married-civ-spouse, Divorced, Never-married, Separated, Widowed, Married-spouse-absent, Married-AF-spouse.
• occupation:
  • Tech-support, Craft-repair, Other-service, Sales, Exec-managerial, Prof-specialty, Handlers-cleaners, Machine-op-inspct, Adm-clerical, Farming-fishing, Transport-moving, Priv-house-serv, Protective-serv, Armed-Forces.
• relationship:
  • Wife, Own-child, Husband, Not-in-family, Other-relative, Unmarried.
• race: Descriptions of an individual’s race
  • White, Asian-Pac-Islander, Amer-Indian-Eskimo, Other, Black.
• sex:
  • Male, Female
• native-country:
  • United-States, Cambodia, England, Puerto-Rico, Canada, Germany, Outlying-US(Guam-USVI-etc), India, Japan, Greece, South, China, Cuba, Iran, Honduras, Philippines, Italy, Poland, Jamaica, Vietnam, Mexico, Portugal, Ireland, France, Dominican-Republic, Laos, Ecuador, Taiwan, Haiti, Columbia, Hungary, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Scotland, Thailand, Yugoslavia, El-Salvador, Trinadad&Tobago, Peru, Hongkong, Holand-Netherlands.

Continuous Attributes

• age
• fnlwgt
• education-num
• capital-gain
• capital-loss
• hours-per-week

Question 3: Purchasing Insurance

Caravan_train<-read.csv(“http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~stevel/Datasets/Caravan_train.csv”,header=TRUE,sep=’,’)

Caravan_unk<-read.csv(“http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~stevel/Datasets/Caravan_unk.csv”,header=TRUE,sep=’,’)

dim(Caravan_train)
# [1] 4630   86

dim(Caravan_unk)
# [1] 1064   85

 

The data above contains 4630 real customer records. Each record consists of 86 variables, containing sociodemographic data (variables 1-43) and product ownership (variables 44-86). The sociodemographic data is derived from zip codes. All customers living in areas with the same zip code have the same sociodemographic attributes. Variable 86 (Purchase) indicates whether the customer purchased a caravan insurance policy.

 

Based on a direct marketing problem, the goal is to \(predict\) and \(interpret\) caravan insurance policy ownership on the basis of product usage and sociodemographic data supplied about the customer.

 

Consider using all prediction models you learned for the prediction task, suppose your supervisor has limited time and resources to only approach 50 customers. You are asked to recommend to your supervisor a subset of 50 customers from these 1064 customers in the Caravan_unk file who would most likely buy a caravan policy. Report just the row numbers of your selected 50 customers as they appear in the Caravan_unk file in increasing order (say, row #4, 7, 11, 59, 113, …), then explain how you come up with this selected subset and your entire modeling process.