Category: Arts

Travis and Aronson (2008)

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Read the three chapters below in the book by Travis and Aronson (2008). It might be helpful to read over the Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) article that is used in your article review prior to reading the chapters (Aronson was Festinger’s student and much of the work is based on ideas in the classic article). Please discuss these chapters with these specific questions in mind:

Tavris, C., & Aronson, E. (2008). Mistakes were made (but not by me): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chapter 4: Good intentions, bad science: The closed-loop of clinical judgment
Chapter 5: Law and disorder
Chapter 6: Love’s assassin: Self-justification in marriage
Describe how self-justification affects science? Apply these ideas to how you are going to conduct science in your dissertation or master’s thesis. You can also describe how these ideas generalize or recent reports where self-justification in science may have been seen.
Describe how self-justification affects the law? Take these ideas and generalize them to other areas.
Describe how self-justification affects relationships? Without going into too much personal information, how can this information help people make better (or worse) relationships?

Premiere US motorcycle maker

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  1. What the hell is going on with the premiere US motorcycle maker?

Please discuss the internal control considerations at Harley-Davidson.
(tip: has Harley achieved its business objectives? what are the internal control perspectives? what are internal control’s function when a corporation is experiencing major changes?)

  1. How the Facebook scandal has impacted employees?

Infrastructure Design

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create an infrastructure design that considers the key elements of software, hardware, security, and business process flow for your e-commerce startup company. You will also use graphics tools to create a supporting data flow diagram (DFD) for your infrastructure design. The infrastructure design provides an opportunity to visualize the key elements and how they are connected for maximum effectiveness.

Bargaining process now begins.

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The employees at your organization have formed a union, and the bargaining process now begins. Write a case study in which you analyze the situation. First, begin with background information about the negotiation, and make certain to address the areas below.

Identify the state where the organization is located. Is the state a right-to-work state? If yes, explain what this means. If no, explain what this means. Why are the employees deciding to unionize? What are the mandatory bargaining subjects? Other than wages and hours, what are five other terms and conditions of employment? What are permissive bargaining subjects that will be negotiated? List at least five.
Second, you need to select members of your bargaining team. You will select four supervisors who were identified in the Unit VI Lesson. Discuss why you selected each supervisor, and compare/contrast their conflict management styles. Each supervisor must have a different conflict style. Explain how each supervisor can contribute to conflict resolution strategies used during negotiation.
Third, explain the two collective bargaining strategies, and identify which one you will recommend your team to use. Explain and support your rationale.
Finally, what will you propose happens if a labor management agreement is not reached by your team and the employee representatives?
Your case study must be a minimum of three pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. Your case study should present an insightful and thorough analysis with strong arguments and evidence. You must use three academically reliable sources to support your analysis.Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, and make certain to include in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Team-building process and its significance

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You will use your knowledge about each step of the team-building process and its significance in a final report for your VP. You will explain what makes teams important and effective. This assignment gives you an opportunity to analyze your leadership potential while applying business writing skills.

Scenario
Your VP has asked you to create a 5–7 member team that you will lead for a new product or service the company is introducing. You have taken steps throughout your course to begin building your team. You will deliver a business report to your VP for your final team proposal.

Instructions
Write a 3–4 page report to the Vice President to include the following sections:

  1. Title Page
    Include a title page with the following information:Project name.Date.Prepared by: your first and last name.Prepared for: your VP first and last name.Company name.
  2. Introduction
    Your introduction should be 1–2 paragraphs summarizing what you will cover in the report as well as your reason for writing the report. Be as specific and concise as possible when writing your introduction so that the reader can clearly understand what they will find in your report.
  3. Body
    The body of the report will include three labelled sections:Envisioning the Team Based on the Week 3 assignment and feedback, describe your team’s purpose, its roles, and critical skills. Include the following:The team purpose statement (the shared goal).The specific roles that will make up your team and what each is responsible for. That includes description of responsibilities and the types of tasks each member performs.The skills/traits each role will require and why those are critical.Picking Your PeopleDescribe your plans for researching, recruiting, and evaluating the best candidates. Don’t forget to review the Week 5 assignment on evaluating candidates and the instructor feedback. Support your rationale with examples and references from course resources. Use the following suggestions to get started:Share your scouting techniques to recruit for the team members.Share your plan to research applicants or potential candidates, including the supporting rationale.Share how you will attract and persuade the most valuable candidates to join your team.Provide examples of key roles on your team and explain the evaluation or testing recommended for those roles and why those are appropriate.Leading an Effective TeamExplain what makes the team and you as a member of your own team effective. Include the following:Identify and explain four characteristics that will be important for your team to be effective and successful and why those are key. Provide support for your points from course resources.As a member of your own team explain strategies you will use to be the leader your team needs. Provide support from course resources and your DiSC assessment.Consider strategies for increasing team effectiveness.Think about what you learned about your personality traits from the DiSC assessment and complementary strengths in your team members.
  4. Conclusion
    Summarize the findings or results discussed in the report and reiterate the most important recommendations.

Systems errors, human errors, and process issues can lead to sentinel events in a hospital.

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Systems errors, human errors, and process issues can lead to sentinel events in a hospital. Create your initial post and then use the response prompts to reply to the scenarios or examples created by at least two peers.

Initial Post
In 200–250 words, construct a scenario or example of an error that would result in harm to a patient for your initial post. This scenario or example can be something you have witnessed or a hypothetical example of a sentinel event. DO NOT post the same scenario or example as a peer.

JP Morgan Survey

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What sampling plan (strategy) should be adopted for the JP Morgan Survey in your opinion. What is their sample size. We will learn how to determine this
next week but in your opinion, do you think the sample size is adequate to generalize to the population?

OS Hardening

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You provide a lecture to the working group regarding the importance of security education, awareness, and training due to the oft-quoted security maxim that users/humans are the weakest link in the security chain. While making users aware of security risks and training them how to protect company assets will reduce risk, it is important to put technical controls in place to protect the operating systems and applications that employees use every day.

Discuss the importance of “hardening” the PCS client workstations and servers. Make recommendations for operating system hardening options and describe how these are related to the concept of “system-specific policies” discussed earlier in the course. One of the working group members blurts out that antivirus protection is a waste of computing resources and patching applications takes too much time. Be sure to address these two concepts in your initial thread. Include at least one research reference and associated in-text citation using APA standards. In your replies to your peers further discuss the importance of software security.