Instructions:  The Final Project requires you to develop a training and Organizational Development (OD) proposal and presentation to senior management targeted at improving diversity training within an organization of your choice. Many organizations have extended managing diversity programs beyond HRD programs and processes by changing human resource management (HRM) policies and programs to meet the special needs of the new workforce. A growing number of organizations are holding managers formally accountable for diversity […]

Unit 9 Final Project  Instructions  Locate and review the document called Concierge Care Backgrounder found in Doc Sharing.  To prepare for this Assignment, you might also want to view the PBS NewsHour video, Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee, found here:  Source: Concierge Medicine: Greater Access for a Fee: PBS. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec12/medicine_07-09.html  Prepare a 3–4 page (1000-1200 words) analysis for Dr. Green that […]

Write a blog post analyzing your chosen familial trend  which is ELDER ABUSE….using the three relevant sociological perspectives: conflict perspective, structural functionalism perspective, and symbolic interactionism perspective. Sociologists use paradigms, or sociological theories, to help explain social life. For example, a functionalism theorist might look at the changing mealtime experience in purely structural terms. Quite simply, a family may be unable to coordinate its schedule […]

You are a staff member in a before/after school program at a local community center.  When working with a 5-year-old girl in the program, you discover that she has a cast on her foot and that both of her legs and arms are covered in bruises, which are in different phases of healing. The child’s parents tell you that she is sickly and is prone […]

For a major part of your grade, you are going to research and complete an environmental issues paper. This will help you build the skills necessary to develop an informed opinion and present that opinion in written form. This project will serve as a final assessment for the course. Using the content of the course, critically evaluate and analyze a controversial environmental issue of your […]

Prepare a 5-6 page report (excluding the cover page, the reference page, and any tables and graphs), which describes the uses of business forecasting. You need to include at least one real world example and apply at least two different methods of forecasting presented in Chapter 5. Please present both your raw data and your two numerical forecasting results from your two chosen forecasting methods. […]

After reading Chapters 2 and 3 of the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide, choose one of the Emergency Support Functions to research.  Write a minimum of 2 pages (not including cover page and reference list) on the function and its contents. External research will generally be required but some are also discussed in Appendix C of the guide. Please create your response in a Microsoft word document, following APA […]

Prior to engaging in this discussion, please read Chapter 12 in the text and review any relevant Instructor Guidance. It is suggested that you review the recommended articles to glean any helpful information. Imagine that you run a nursing home facility in your area. Analyze and comment on the role public policy has in the economic aspect of running this type of health services center. […]

Efforts to accurately and completely describe the job of managing have met with considerable frustration. One of the areas of discussion, for example, is mentoring. Many feel managers should be mentors. Others disagree about the details. Why do you think the job of managing has proved so difficult to pin down? Which of the ideas and models offered so far do you believe to be […]

Successful public policies often hinge upon the ability of talented leaders to develop, promote, and execute those public policies.  In a two- to three page paper (not including the title and reference pages), discuss which leadership traits you feel are the most important in the creation of sound public policies.  Some questions to consider are: does a leader’s educational background matter significantly in providing leadership […]