Capstone Performance Project Final PaperCongratulations! You have an opportunity to bid for a performance improvement job.Submit a proposal consisting of a comprehensive evaluation of an organization

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Capstone Performance Project

Final Paper

Congratulations! You have an opportunity to bid for a performance improvement job.

Submit a proposal consisting of a comprehensive evaluation of an organization. Please chose an existing organization from your current industry (could be your current employer). The evaluation should be 5-7 pages in length including a formal proposal.

The submission must include the following sections:

Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. 

Section\CriteriaPoints

Introduction10

Evaluation of exisiting situation20

Identify two or three observable problems15

Strategy Formulation 15

Meaurement and Assessment 15

Conclusions and Recommendations including budget15

Follow APA Guidelines 10

Total  100

l examine the value and limitations of utilizing indicators to define adulthood

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Discussion 1: Defining Adulthood4-5 paragraphs. How cultures define adulthood vary dramatically. For some, adulthood may be religious celebration milestones and for others it may be based on a physical change or event. In still others, it may be based on legal factors such as, chronological age or marital status.For this Discussion, you will explore cultures and factors that establish adulthood. Also, you will examine the value and limitations of utilizing indicators to define adulthood.To Prepare From your Learning Resources, select two cultures in relation to one factor that may mark adulthood. Search the Internet and/or the Walden University Library to select an additional scholarly article related to at least one of the two cultures and the one additional factor that mark adulthood to support your Discussion post.Post, describing the two cultures in relation to the one factor you selected that may mark adulthood. Next, explain one potential value and one potential limitation related to the factor that define adulthood in both cultures you selected.Note: Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.Readyour colleagues’ postings.2-3 paragraphs Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts and explain one additional value and one additional limitation to the factor they presented.Note:Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.Required ResourcesHollis-Sawyer, L., & Dykema-Engblade, A. (2016). Diversity among older women. In L. Hollis-Sawyer & A. Dykema-Engblade, Women and positive aging: An international perspective (pp. 146-166). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.Janike, B. R., & Traphagen, J. W. (2009). Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and eldercare in Japan. In J.Sokolovsky, (Ed.), The cultural context of aging: Worldwide perspectives (3rd ed., pp. 240–258). Westport, CT: Praeger.Norwood, F. (2013). A window into Dutch life and death: Euthanasia and end-of-life in the public-private space of home. In C. Lynch, & J. Danely, (Eds.), Transitions and transformations: Cultural perspectives on aging and the life course. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.Online ReadingsGire, J. (2014). How death imitates life: Cultural influences on conceptions of death and dying. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 6(2), pp.1–22.Journal ArticlesJensen, L. A., & Arnett, J. J. (2012). Going global: New pathways for adolescents and emerging adults in a changing world. Journal of Social Issues, 68(3), 473–492.https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01759.xPatton, G. C., Sawyer, S. M., Santelli, J. S., Ross, D. A., Afifi, R., Allen, N. B., …. Viner, R. M. (2016, June 11). Our future: A Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. The Lancet,387(10036), 2423–2478. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00579-1

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Has to be 350 words per employee. Read the following employee profiles:Employee #1Jimmy Brown is a manager with Solomon Industries, Inc., (SII) a supply company in South Carolina. SII serves as a w

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Has to be 350 words per employee.

Read the following employee profiles:

Employee #1

Jimmy Brown is a manager with Solomon Industries, Inc., (SII) a supply company in South Carolina. SII serves as a warehouse for other companies that deliver and store their goods using SII’s facility as temporary storage.   Jimmy was born in 1955 and spent 20 years in the military. Upon retiring, he was hired as a production supervisor for SII.  Originally from SC, he is the night shift supervisor working 12 hour shifts from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am Monday through Thursday supervising 12 employees.  Jimmy is a traditional Baby Boomer as he grew up in the 60’s, his dad worked, his mom stayed home, and he is the oldest of three children; a brother and a sister 2 and 4 years younger, respectively.  Jimmy received his bachelor of arts degree while in the military in chemical engineering.  Turnover is pretty high at SII as Jimmy is constantly training new employees. He had the option of moving to the day shift but he worked nights his whole military career and likes this shift so he asked to continue working this shift.   His present staff consists of 1 employee over the age of 50 and the rest of the employees range from 20-40 years of age.

Employee #2

Michael Johnson was born in 1976 in Ohio.  He has a technical background graduating in 1997 in computer science and moved to SC in 2010 with his new bride.   Michael’s parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he rarely saw his biological father. His mom worked two jobs almost 7 days a week until she remarried when he was 10. His step dad travelled often with his job and had two daughters from a previous marriage.  Their mom died 3 years before he married Michael’s mom.    Michael applied for the Information Technology position but at the last minute the position was closed because the employee decided not to leave the company so Michel took on the responsibility of being the day shift supervisor.  He works 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Monday through Thursday with Solomon Industries, Inc., (SII) a supply company in South Carolina. SII serves as a warehouse for other companies that deliver and store their goods using SII’s facility as temporary storage.  Turnover is not as high as his night shift counterpart, but still has some turnover.   The company allows tenured employees to move to the shift they desire if positions are available.  Michael manages 15 employees, 8 are over the age of 50, 2 are new employees under 21 years old, and the remaining are between 21-50 years of age.

As a manager, you are tasked with creating a 350-word performance management plan for Employee 1 and Employee 2.

  • Include how your management approach would change to fit the employees’ needs
  • Assess the approaches you would use to monitor the behavior of each employee
    • What are the legal implications?
    • How would you evaluate the effectiveness of your approach?

Have to make a Word document of 2500-2600 words, NO PLAGARISM and on time with all the sections mentioned in the file should be in the paper, including the comparision chart mentioned in the document

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Have to make a Word document of 2500-2600 words, NO PLAGARISM and on time with all the sections mentioned in the file should be in the paper, including the comparision chart mentioned in the document below

What types of living situations ensure happier and healthier elders?

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Later Life ConsiderationsAs more and more of the U.S. and world population ages into old age, it is becoming increasingly critical that societies have a better understanding of what works well and what perhaps does not work so well when considering eldercare. What types of living situations ensure happier and healthier elders? What factors in eldercare may impact working adults and loved ones? What’s the effect of varied living situations on societies and economies as a whole? Finally, what does the way a family or society treat elders say about that family or society in terms of values and belief systems? As you consider these questions, further think about how building your understanding of eldercare might help you not only in your professional work but also how it might impact you on a personal level as well.For this Discussion, you will explore the advantages and disadvantages of eldercare living.To PrepareConsider the following:Imagine you are middle-aged and belong to a family where your children are late adolescents. You have two teenage children and two very elderly parents. In some cultures, it is common for elders to live in an independent living community, retirement community, or assisted living communities. In other cultures, elders will come live with an adult child.4-5 paragraphsPost and describe at least one advantage and one disadvantage of each living arrangement (i.e., independent living, assisted living, and living with an adult child).Note: Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.Readyour colleagues’ postings.2-3 paragraphsRespond to at least twoof your colleagues’ posts and pick one disadvantage related to one of the living arrangements they posted and suggest one possible solution for the disadvantage.Note:Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.Hollis-Sawyer, L., & Dykema-Engblade, A. (2016). Diversity among older women. In L. Hollis-Sawyer & A. Dykema-Engblade, Women and positive aging: An international perspective (pp. 146-166). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.Janike, B. R., & Traphagen, J. W. (2009). Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and eldercare in Japan. In J.Sokolovsky, (Ed.), The cultural context of aging: Worldwide perspectives (3rd ed., pp. 240–258). Westport, CT: Praeger.Norwood, F. (2013). A window into Dutch life and death: Euthanasia and end-of-life in the public-private space of home. In C. Lynch, & J. Danely, (Eds.), Transitions and transformations: Cultural perspectives on aging and the life course. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.MediaWalden University (Producer). (2017, May). Evaluating resources: What about stuff I find on the Internet? Knowing when to use and trust what you find on the Internet [Video file]. Retrieved from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/c.php?g=80773&p=6110321Online ReadingsGire, J. (2014). How death imitates life: Cultural influences on conceptions of death and dying. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 6(2), pp.1–22.Journal ArticlesJensen, L. A., & Arnett, J. J. (2012). Going global: New pathways for adolescents and emerging adults in a changing world. Journal of Social Issues, 68(3), 473–492.https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01759.xPatton, G. C., Sawyer, S. M., Santelli, J. S., Ross, D. A., Afifi, R., Allen, N. B., …. Viner, R. M. (2016, June 11). Our future: A Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. The Lancet,387(10036), 2423–2478.https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00579-1

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. To what extent is the administrative model at your agency egalitarian and informal on one hand, or bureaucratically stratified and formal on the other?

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1. To what extent is the administrative model at your agency egalitarian and informal on one hand, or bureaucratically stratified and formal on the other?

2. Have you had an opportunity to interact in any manner with the CEO of the agency? How has that experience been? If not, how would you see this s a valuable learning experience?

3. Have you been able to interact with or observe the governing body of the agency (i.e., the Board of Directors or Trustees)? How has that experience been? If not, how would you see this as a valuable learning experience?

Each question must be answered with 150-200 words and have a cite in the answer. Must look like this

Discuss the effectiveness of psychotherapies in the treatment of mental health problems.

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QUESTION 1: Discuss the effectiveness of psychotherapies in the treatment of mental health problems.

For doing this, please choose one specific diagnostic category, i.e. major derpresssive disorder or shizophrenia, that we have covered in this term in this course.

Review the literature, and discuss the findings of two outcome studies that assess the effectiveness of specific psychotherapies on the diagnosis you would like to discuss.

Make sure that you critically review the articles and refer to why outcome studies are important.

It is preferable that you present outcome studies that compare outcomes of different psychotherapy approaches

QUESTION 2 : The dimensional model of personality disorders in DSM-5 includes 5 higher-order domains (negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism) and 25 lower-order facets, or constellations of trait behaviors that constitute the broader domains.

Choose one of those higher order domains and discuss the ways a specific psychotherapeutic approach may engage with this domain.

For example, present the ways a clinical psychologist with the cognitive behavioural therapy orientation may help a client with disinhibition problems or the ways a psychodynamically oriented psychologist work with negative affect.

Make sure that you review the basic principles and understanding of the therapy you choose and that your discussion is clear enough for the reader to see your proposed links between a specific therapeutic understanding and a specific personality domain.

Do not describe the domain or principles of the chosen approach; just refer to issues that are relevant to you arguments.

For example, psychodynamically oriented therapist works on transference relationship, this work helps the client to ………………………….as regards to antagonism; for cognitive behavioural approach working with cognitive biases is very important this work helps the client to……………………………………………………….. as regards to antagonism

Original, thorough, on topic, cited and referenced properly using APA 6th edition. The post is cited and referenced. = 60 points Spelling, Grammar, Writing: Posts are free of errors and demonstrate un

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Original, thorough, on topic, cited and referenced properly using APA 6th edition. The post is cited and referenced. = 60 points Spelling, Grammar, Writing: Posts are free of errors and demonstrate university level writing using standard American English = 10 points

Your project this week is to discuss the cases on pages 223-226, “Home Healthcare Case: Joan and Jerry“, “Hospice Case: Pierre”, and “Adult Day Care Case: Wilma and Karen“:

1. Home Healthcare Case: Given what you have learned about the accessibility and financing of home care services, are such services as readily available to other consumers as they were to Joan and Jerry? Should Joan and Jerry have applied for home health care sooner, and, if so, who should have made them aware of the benefits of home health care?

2. Hospice Case: The doctors were pretty sure Pierre had less than six months to live, so he fell within the guidelines for hospice coverage. Should hospice coverage be limited to those with six months or less to live, or should others be covered? Why?

3. Adult Day Care Case: Although Wilma is clearly benefiting from day care, so are Lorenzo and Karen. Should society (Medicaid) be paying for something that benefits them, even though they are not poor? If there was not a day care center available for Wilma, do you think she would be able to continue living with Karen and Lorenzo? If not, to what type of long-term care facility would she likely be admitted?

Respond to the post. APA Cite 250 wordsHospice care is different than nursing home care. Pratt stated, “Both Pierre and Alicia are being treated as consumers here. This is because the surviving spous

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Respond to the post.  APA Cite 250 words

Hospice care is different than nursing home care. Pratt stated, “Both Pierre and Alicia are being treated as consumers here. This is because the surviving spouse or other family members need hospice services as well as the patient” (pg. 224). There are many services provided by hospice, including counseling. Looking at nursing home care, the patient is sent to a place away from home, and taken care of. Hospice care is for patients that have a terminal diagnosis. Nursing home care takes care of patients that are too hard to be cared for at home, or for people that have no family. Hospice care pretty much prepares the patient and family for the death that is going to happen. It progressively becomes more and more prevalent to the patients as their condition worsens. Pratt said, “Hospice agencies focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than curative treatments” (pg. 201), Hospice care is given to patients in a nursing home. It is given to patients wherever they reside. It is given to patients and their families in order to make the time from diagnosis to the passing easier, even though nothing will make it easy.

Contribution of Classical Theorists to Contemporary Developmental Theorists

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The Contribution of Classical Theorists to Contemporary Developmental TheoristsWhile all major developmental theories attempt to explain the growth of individuals, each theory has a slightly different perspective. Some theories emphasize environmental (nurture) more than biological (nature) influences. Some theories focus on a particular construct (e.g., cognition), while others emphasize the impact of age range in shaping development. Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory emphasizes fixed stages during which the mind’s capacities allow an individual to learn about the world. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, on the other hand, is not stage-based and describes growth as an interaction between the individual and his or her environment.Contemporary theories (e.g., Langer’s theory of mindfulness) typically build upon the foundation generated by earlier theories. Langer’s theory of mindfulness contains similarities to classical theories, such as Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, in that they both agree that development is contextual and the organism is an active “mindful” participant. Langer took Vygotsky’s theory to a new level, focusing specifically on education and the learner. Other contemporary theories include neo-Piagetian cognitive developmental theories, which attempt to address the limitations found within Piaget’s classical theory. Robbie Case, Andreas Demetriou, and Kurt Fischer proposed theories that were extensions of Piaget’s theory. These theorists added concepts that expanded on cognitive functioning within the stages of development. Most developmental psychologists today do not believe that a single perspective or theory can sufficiently explain lifespan development; rather, an eclectic approach accounts for development better.For this Discussion, you will examine classical and contemporary developmental theories as they relate to current applications in developmental psychology.To prepare for this Discussion: Review the course text and other Learning Resources related to mid-20th-century theories and recent theoretical perspectives Select two theories from the following list, one from each column (classical, contemporary), that examine the same developmental processes (i.e., cognitive, physical, and/or social-emotional).Classical TheoriesContemporary Theories Psychoanalytic/Psychosexual Psychosocial Behaviorism/Learning Social Learning Cognitive-Developmental Information Processing Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Ethology/Evolutionary Developmental Sociocultural Systems Theory4-5 paragraphsPost a brief description of the two theories you selected (one classical and one contemporary). Contrast the theories you selected. Specifically, identify important similarities and differences, including an explanation of the strengths and limitations of each theory in explaining developmental processes (i.e., cognitive, physical, and social-emotional). Note: Your descriptions should be in paragraph form, not bullet points. Use your Learning Resources and/or other scholarly sources to support your post. Use proper APA format and citations.2-3 paragraphsRespond to at least one of your colleagues’ posts and search the Internet and/or the Walden Library and select a current article (within the last 5 years) that is related to the same developmental process (i.e., cognitive, physical, and social-emotional) that your colleague posted. Summarize the article and describe the theory identified within the article.