Category: Management

The Impact of Early 2000s Disasters on Comprehensive Emergency Management

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Topic: Early 2000s Disasters and the Impact on EM
Assignment: Provide an approximate 1500-word document analyzing important concepts in the readings. Ensure your apply the discussion points and assume you are writing for an uninformed reader that knows nothing about the topic and has not read what you read. Provide an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Analyze, discuss, and apply the following:
1) The interagency (local, state, and federal governments, NGOs, volunteer organizations, etc.) response to 9/11. Please include lessons learned, and the impact of the disaster on comprehensive emergency management including preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.
2) The interagency (local, state, and federal governments, NGOs, volunteer organizations, etc.) response to the 2005 Hurricane Season (Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, and Hurricane Wilma). Please include lessons learned, and the impact of the disasters on comprehensive emergency management including preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.
3) The interagency (local, state, and federal governments, NGOs, volunteer organizations, etc.) response to Deepwater Horizon. Please include challenges, lessons learned, and the impact of the disaster on comprehensive emergency management including preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.
Discuss the consequences of the lack of interagency cooperation on comprehensive emergency management including preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.

 

The Benefits of Waterfall Planning in Construction Projects

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Purpose and Context
Planning for anything, including projects, is for the purpose of removing uncertainty. Waterfall planning and rolling-wave planning are both useful techniques in different circumstances. Waterfall planning is important in projects with a high degree of uncertainty. Rolling-wave planning is useful in Agile projects where an adaptive approach is best.

Describe a situation in your experience, or from research, where waterfall planning would be better, and one where rolling-wave planning would be better. Explain your reasoning for your choices. Explain how both waterfall planning and rolling-wave planning could be used together.

Work to demonstrate your understanding of the material from this module and, where necessary, include your sources. Feel free to pull from this list of Recommended Journals Download Recommended Journals.

Dissecting the Effectiveness of Jingles in Radio Advertising

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Jingles are a popular creative form in radio advertising. Even so, there may be as many jingles that you don’t want to hear again as there are ones that you do. Identify one jingle that you really dislike and another one that you like.
Analyze why these jingles either work or don’t work and present your critique to the class. Explain your thoughts.

 

Modifying the Contract from the Employer’s Perspective

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Overview:
Information for this assignment can be found at www.thezinnia.com http://www.thezinnia.com/.. Refer to the chapters we have covered, and especially Ch.9, as you will use this information to help you with the assignment.
Our assignment covers the collective bargaining agreement (“contract” for short) between between The Zinnia, a 300-room hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Local H-56 of the International Union of Service Workers and Allied Employees. You should already be familiar the Zinnia Hotel http://jbudd.csom.umn.edu/ZINNIA19ND/zinnia.html. and Local H-56 http://jbudd.csom.umn.edu/ZINNIA19ND/localh56.html. and their current contract http://jbudd.csom.umn.edu/ZINNIA19ND/h56_contract.html. from our prior Assignment 2. Spend some time reviewing this information.
Instructions:
Divide your answers into 3 sections:
Submit a 2-3 page paper – 600 words, double spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman, 1″ margins, to include the following:
You represent the employer, the Zinnia Hotel. What one part of the contract http://jbudd.csom.umn.edu/ZINNIA19ND/h56_contract.html. would you choose to modify? State the article and section number, and explain why you would choose to modify this section. Discuss how would you change it, and how that would benefit the company (increase company profits).
You represent the union, Local H-56 of the International Union of Service Workers and Allied Employees. What one part of the contract http://jbudd.csom.umn.edu/ZINNIA19ND/h56_contract.html. would you choose to modify? State the article and section number, and explain why you would choose to modify this section. Discuss how would you change it, and how that would benefit the union members (employees).
Overall, do think that the contract http://jbudd.csom.umn.edu/ZINNIA19ND/h56_contract.html. between the Zinnia Hotel and Local H-56 is fair? Why or why not?

The Benefits of Prescribed Burning for Wildfire Mitigation

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A very current issue, but one that has been debated for a long time, is the use of prescribed burning for wildfire mitigation. In a larger sense, it impacts emergency management issues through using mitigation vs. repetitive response. After viewing the assigned video and reviewing the U.S. Forest Service document, write a short paper identifying at least 6 benefits from the use of prescribed burning.