Advocating for Public Health Policy, health and medicine homework help

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THE TOPIC I HAVE CHOSEN IS HIV/AIDS

Imagine that you have been chosen to represent a public health advocacy group as they begin a campaign to get legislation related to a health issue passed in your state legislature. You have been tasked with the role of presenting a proposed policy to the legislature and advocating that the legislature vote for the policy. You have been told that you will have 10 minutes to present to the legislature. Your presentation should be informative, but also persuasive. The legislature will need to make a decision about whether or not to vote for the policy based on your presentation. Your presentation should be structured exactly as if you were “live” in front of the legislature advocating for them to adopt the policy you are proposing.

For your assignment, you will need to select a public health topic of interest to you (you are encouraged to choose one related to your academic major or intended field of work) and a public health policy related to addressing the topic. You may select an actual proposed policy or create one that you think would effectively address the topic. Your presentation should provide enough information about the topic and the proposed policy that a reasonably educated legislator should be able to make an informed decision. Be sure to consider the various questions that a legislator might have about the issue and proposed policy, such as long-term costs and benefits, potential effects on business and industry (especially those that support politicians’ campaigns), and how the policy will support the health and productivity of state residents. THE TOPIC I HAVE CHOSEN IS HIV/AIDS

For this assignment, you should create an approximately 10 minute presentation* that addresses each of the following points:

  • Discuss the public health issue that your proposed policy is intended to address. Questions to consider:
    • Who does this health issue affect?
    • What is the impact of this health issue on the community?
    • Why does this health issue need to be addressed?
  • Explain the proposed public health policy. Questions to consider:
    • Who will be affected by this policy?
    • How will this policy address the health issue?
    • What will change by enacting this policy?
  • Evaluate the impacts of the proposed policy. Questions to consider:
    • What are the costs and benefits of the policy?
    • What are the risks of enacting or not enacting the policy?
    • How will the lives of people who are affected by the health issue change if this policy is enacted?
  • Create an influential presentation that affects voting behaviors of legislators. Questions to consider:
    • What information about this policy would potentially affect the voting behavior of legislators from across the political spectrum (eg. conservative, moderate, liberal, progressive; particularly those who might not support the policy based on political orientation)?
    • What are the most important messages that legislators need to hear about this policy?
    • How would the constituents of the legislators voting for this policy feel about this policy and a legislator who votes for it?
    • What information would a legislator need to “sell” the policy to consitutents who were perhaps not in favor of adopting the policy?

*Note: Your presentation can be created using screencast software on your computer, the camera and microphone on your computer or handheld device, or the voice recording functions within a presentation program (like PowerPoint). Please see the announcement posted in Week 2 for more information on how to create effective presentations using one of these methods.

The Advocating for Public Health Policy assignment

  • Must be an approximately 10 minute long formal presentation recorded as a video, screencast, or using the voice recording functions in a presentation program.
  • 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 scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • If the assignment is submitted as a video or screencast, your submission (via Waypoint) should be a document with the title page, a page that lists the URL of the presentation, and a page with your references. If the assignment is submitted as a voice recording within a presentation program, you should upload the slides from your presentation, and ensure that the first slide includes the information with the title page (as listed above) and a last slide that includes the references

international business, business and finance homework help

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Question: You manufacture wine goblets (fine glassware) in the U.S. In mid-June you receive an order for 10,000 goblets from Japan. You will ship the order to the Japanese customer in mid-December and payment of ¥400,000 is due at that time. You expect the yen to rise from its present rate of $1=¥130 to $1=¥100 by December. You can borrow yen at 6% per year. What should you do? (1-2pages.)Hint: There are different ways you can handle this transaction in your business. It is a common issue that exporters often face. There is no one right answer. Think about the possible scenarios, work the numbers, and select a course of management action that makes sense for your company. You should identify the pros and cons of each choice in writing up your answer. Note also that in possibly borrowing yen assume that you will convert it into dollars and invest in a US financial institution and then convert it back to yen when it comes to pay the loan back.

Impact of the scriptural sources upon Islamic ethics, writing homework help

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Length: 5-7 double-spaced pages

Font/margins: 12 point font, 1 inch margins, and use page numbers

Citations: Provide a citation for every point you make that is not purely your own. Put the citation in parenthesis after the text or idea you are citing.

Example: The most basic function of taqwa is to allow man to see right from wrong. (Rahman, 178).

*Only use sources we have listed on the syllabus—do not use outside sources.

*Provide citations from the readings, not from your class notes, unless the point is specifically something that arose in our discussion that was not in the readings.

Assignment: “The Impact of the Scriptural Sources upon Islamic Ethics”

Make sure your paper includes the following points:

  • How do the Islamic scriptural sources (Qur’an and Sunna) present and describe ethics, good and evil, human capacity, God’s nature, etc.? Do our authors vary in their assessments of the content or intent of scriptural ethics? Be sure to highlight points from the readings that seem to conflict with each other, and explain how each point of view could be seen as legitimate.
  • How did the scriptural sources lead Muslims to different methods of trying to understand God’s ethical directions for them? Pick either law, theology, or Sufism and show how the scriptures were used in them to identify ethical issues and to provide guidance for their resolution.

WEEK 1 HR Discussion

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Learn: Week 1 Discussion Question #1

Evaluate the pros and cons of an organization’s HR department aligning its strategy with the overall organizational strategy.

Post your response in the discussion area.

#1Diversity and Profitability

In addition to its morale and value based implications, diversity is proven to be a force-multiplier in achieving bottom-line results. As reported in chapter 2 of this week’s reading, a study of 654 stores of a leading retail chain reported a higher increase in sales in those stores where diversity was embrace by its management and leadership, and lower in stores where diversity was present but not celebrated.

Forbs, contributing writer, Glenn Llopis states authentic diversity management is the key to growth and increased profits. Approaching diversity from the perspective of quotas, tokenism or affirmative-action does not constitute authenticity.

Consumers are increasingly becoming more aware of companies stance on diversity and are voting their feelings about them with their dollars. Diversity must not only be relative to the demographics of the workforce, but must be reflected in their products and services the company provides.

#2Diversity Management

Equal Opportunity and the Law, addressed the chronology of Equal Opportunity Law, Defense Against Discrimination Allegations, The EEOC Process and Diversity Management. Each section provided insights to the dynamics and mechanics of their specific areas of interest.

I found particular interest in the section on diversity management. With the ever expanding global market and diversity in the workplace, I felt this was an area that deserved close examination.

Like most other business concepts and values, diversity has its pros and cons; diversity management is the administration of those positives and negatives. Diversity means to be varied or have the presence of differences. Whereas most people embrace the idea of diversity and it correlation to the symphony of an orchestra, it is seldom realized without an intentional design- strategy. The human resource function is vital to this strategy and its operational execution.

#3Functional Area #15 U.S. Employment Law & Regulation

Functional Area #15 is one of the fifteen areas addressed in Section 2: HR Expertise of the SHRM BoCK Document. Specifically, Functional Area #15 is one of five functional areas codified under the Workplace Knowledge Domain, one of three domains contained in Section 2.

Included in this domain are the six general categories of U.S. Laws and Regulations that provide protections for the American workforce: Compensation, Employee Relations, Job Safety and Health, Equal Employment Opportunity, Leave Benefits and Miscellaneous Protection Laws.

Furthermore, each category contains listings of several Supreme Court Cases that provide legal precedence relative to that category.

#4Message expanded.Message readThe aliginment of the HR department with an organization’s overall strategty can have many benefits

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The alignment of the HR department with an organization’s overall strategy can have many benefits to the organization. The HR department can “contribute to the organizations competitive advantage though human capital” (“Shrm Body Of Competency & Knowledge”, 2018). By utilizing effective management skills through policies and procedures, and business systems, the HR department can leverage its human capital to the organizations benefit. With the strategic alignment, HR and the organization, can collaborate and accomplish the vision of the organization. If the HR department is aligned with the organization, it can cause division between business lines and gaps in the way the business is operated.

#5HR Alignment with Strategic Objectives

Increasingly, top level executives are realizing that the alignment of HR objectives with the company’s overall strategic objectives is vital to the company’s success. With competition being fierce, and the business environment dynamic and rapidly changing, managers and executives have had to find ways to shorten response and change times.

The synergistic effort of homogenizing the strategic objectives of these two corporate entities creates a leaner and more agile organization. Teena Bagga, an Assistant Professor and Professor San jay Srivastava state this is possible because of five HR philosophies: Strategic human resource planning; Strategic recruitment and selection; Strategic training and development; Strategic performance management and Strategic compensation and reward management.

Employing these strategic concepts, allows managers to respond to the changing needs of the business climate and work force then identify, attract, capture, train and retain quality and high performance personnel capable of meeting the demands of aggressive markets.

#6 By Christopher Jones Human Resource Management is important to all managers. Every manager is involved in their recruiting, hiring, and development. At Nordstrom, as a manager, personally I know how difficult the hiring process can be, and how connecting the right people for the right job is so crucial to a company’s success. “Remember that you can everything else right as a manager… but still fail, for instance, by hiring the wrong people or by not motivating subordinates” (Dessler, 2005). For my department, I look for how an interviewee answers the questions – is it with enthusiasm, or are they shaky. The content of the answer, and of course their experience that is required for the job. In my team, I need leaders, and individuals with strong answers. If I can see leadership within an individual that I usually will hire then, because I can teach technical skills to a person, but cannot teach a person to be a leader.

The socializing institutes of family, school, peers, and the mass media, shape us throughout our lives. We often take for granted that others share in our experience with these institutes, in fact many people only socialize with others who have quite simi

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The socializing institutes of family, school, peers, and the mass media, shape us throughout our lives. We often take for granted that others share in our experience with these institutes, in fact many people only socialize with others who have quite similar experiences as do they.

In order to understand the various forms of socializing institutes please discuss socialization with someone who is not from the same social background as you. In your discussion please note if and how the four institutes differ from your own social life.

Example:

Zhenchao is a colleague from China. I know him through my graduate program at Ohio State University where he was a member of my Graduate Committee.

Family

(Important information could include: political structure of nation; family size; parental occupations; gender roles)

Zhenchao’s family was born in China under communist rule but he and his wife and child moved to the US in the 1990s. His parents are academics – his father is an economist and his mother is a bio-chemist. In China, women had more occupational equality than they did in the U.S. during the1950s. However, due to the one child policy to reduce China’s population he was, as an adult, only allowed to have one child. After moving to the U.S. he and his wife decided to have another child. In China he did not know anyone who was not Chinese.

My family is from Europe and my Mom stayed at home while my father worked as a machinist for Edison. They decided to only have 2 children. We moved from Canada, a Socialist nation with free medical and social services and different race relations to America, a capitalist nation where individuals must buy their own health care and where race relations have often been hostile. When I moved to America I had to learn that whites and people of color had a different social space which was not the case in Canada.

School

(Important information could include: costs of education; the age range of attendance; if the respondent attended higher education how was it funded; are boys and girls educated the same; what is considered important content in schools)

He was educated in a communist school – where all children attend school and all children have equal likelihood to attend college. Unlike many nations where education is linked with wealth, socialist and communist nations provide free schooling. His school stressed math and Chinese philosophy. Boys and girls attended school together but all kids wore the same state sponsored uniform.

I attended public school where many of my classmates dropped out by high school. I had to pay for college and took out loans even though I worked two jobs – I had to pay for books, tuition, transportation to and from school and basic life necessities. My schools focused on Language, Science and Math but also other content such as electives in music and art. Boys and girls were educated next to each other and we did not wear uniforms.


Peers

(Important information could include: was the respondent allowed to choose their own friends; who did they choose and why )

His peer group is comprised mostly of professors of sociology with children. His peer group helps shape his weekend activities. This group plans Saturday activities such as day trips to museums with their children. Often, the group takes turns caring for the children allowing the others some personal time to rekindle personal relationships and work.

My peers come from a variety of social places – some from school, some from playing music, some from my neighborhood. I choose to be my friends people who are positive and generally do not have children. The majority of my peers either have a college degree are working on one or plan to go back to school to earn a degree.

Media

(Important information could include: who controls the media; where do they get information; what sort of show/programs do they enjoy?)

The majority of his time with the media is spent reading scientific journals and his family watches little television. He has many after school activities planned for his children therefore they do not spend time watching television. While in China, the state controls the media outlets and there fore he did not learn to follow the media. He does enjoy traditional Chinese music and currently listens to this on the Internet radio.

I grew up with a television, radio and records in my house. I occasionally enjoy TV but still listen to my old LPs. I do not care for commercial news but rather get my information from independent news sources such as Democracy Now! on the Internet or on PBS. In the US the media is owned by private corporations that are highly concentrated.

Utilitarianism

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An English teacher in a two-year technical college has several students in his composition course whose ignorance of the English language has proved invincible. He has given them extra work and extra counseling from the first week of the semester. They have been diligent in their efforts to improve. Though they are in a construction technology program and will undoubtedly be employed in jobs that require little writing skill, the composition course is required for graduation. In the instructors’ judgement, the students would not be able to pass the course legitimately if they took it three times, so he raises their F grades to Ds.

Identify the moral issues and the parties involved and discuss with respect to the principle of utility, taking care to identify the benefits and burdens that pertain to the parties affected.

Multinational Corporations Case Study

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Purpose of Assignment

At times, multinational corporations encounter in-country issues that if not properly addressed, could place the viability of the company at risk. Thus, it is important to promptly recognize and understand these threats so management can employ an effective solution to the problem. An in-depth analysis of this assignment will provide students with a good understanding of the potential issues involved.

Assignment Steps

Select the following case from the textbook:

  • Starbucks Wins Key Trademark Case in China (Ch. 2, p. 56)

Prepare a minimum 700-word analysis addressing the following:

  • Analyze the legal, cultural, and ethical challenges encountered by the global business case you selected.
  • Determine the various roles host governments played in this particular global business operation.
  • Summarize the operational challenges global managers faced as illustrated in your selected case.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Ethics and Law

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to identify the form of intellectual property outlined, and to examine the different types of torts committed.

Assignment Steps

Scenario: Sam is an employee of ABC Paper Corp. He signed a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of his employment with ABC. Sam is approached by XYZ Paper Co. with an offer of employment, but only if he brings his client list with him. Sam was fully responsible for creating his client list, so he agrees to provide it to XYZ. When Sam downloads his client list onto an external flash drive, he is caught in the act by his boss Natalie. Sam grabs the flash drive and runs out of his office, shoving Natalie aside when she attempts to stop him. Natalie falls and hits her head against the doorknob, suffering a concussion.

Develop a 1,200-word analysis using the information posed in the scenario.

  • Identify if there is an intellectual property at issue here. If so, what type?
  • Discuss if Sam’s actions are ethical. Why or why not?
  • Discuss the types of tort, if any, Sam committed. Did any of the other parties in this scenario commit a tort?
  • Discuss if any of Sam’s actions subject him to criminal liability.

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.


Company Description and SWOT Analysis

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Assingment #1

n this assignment, you will conduct a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) analysis for the type of beverage you have selected, and for your company overall. As you work on the assignment, consider why you have chosen one type of non-alcoholic beverage over another and the reasons for that choice. As you complete your SWOT analysis, be sure to include external factors such as industry / market trends and competition, and internal factors such as your capabilities or abilities to reach certain market segments.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper, in which you:

My company information.. it can be revised at your discretion.

My company name is incredible hulk energy drink. The name is to invoke imagery of a green monster which signifies an energy drink from sativa cannabinoid compounds only.

The mission of this company is to provide an effective in tents energy drink without all of the dangerous chemicals and buy products. It’s a healthy alternative to Guarana and will be appealing to the growing segment of medical marijuana and recreational marijuana users

1.Create your revised NAB company name and explain its significance.

2.Develop your revised company’s Mission Statement and provide a rationale for its components.

oHints: Use the Statement of Mission template on pp. 72-73 on the course textbook: Successful Business Plan to aid your development. Click here for help accessing a specific page number in your eBook.

oExtracting appropriate information from the NAB company portfolio, where applicable. You should fill in other required items in the template using your personal preferences.

3.Describe the trends in the non-alcoholic beverage industry, especially the specific type of beverage category you have chosen. Justify at least three (3) reasons why you have chosen this type of non-alcoholic beverage.

oHints: Research and outline beverage industry trends. Consider the size and growth rate of the industry overall and the specific beverage type you have chosen. Use the worksheet in the course text (p. 88 | Past and Future Growth of Your Industry) to help you project the future growth rate. Consider the use of industry associations and search engines to find reliable, recent data.

4.Choose one (1) strategic position from the course text (pp. 142–143) that you believe is the best strategic position for your company. Explain the approach you will use to implement this strategic position in order to distinguish your beverage from other non-alcoholic beverages.

5.Provide an overview of your company’s distribution channels. Explain the manner in which your product will reach end users. Provide a rationale for your chosen method.

oHints: For example, will you sell your beverage in grocery stores, restaurants, or sports venues? If so, describe the types of resellers and distributors who will sell to resellers and fulfill their orders. If you are attempting to sell direct-to-consumers, such as online via a monthly subscription, how will you manage warehousing / fulfillment / shipping?

6.Outline at least three (3) types of risks (including any regulatory risks) that your business faces. Describe your company’s plan to mitigate such risk.

oHints: You may refer to the types of risk listed in the course text (pp. 148–149) as well as any risks not listed in the text. Regulation weighs more heavily on beverage and food businesses than many other types of companies, so be certain to consider any regulatory risks your type of beverage faces. For example, what kind of regulation and / or risks are you likely to face if you make health claims about your beverage?

7.Develop a SWOT analysis for your NAB company using the SWOT matrix worksheet in the course text (p. 153 | SWOT: Strengths / Weaknesses / Opportunities / Threats)

oHints: What are your company’s likely strengths? Have you chosen a beverage segment that is growing and lacks an entrenched competitor? Are you in a niche market that has great potential? What are the strengths that you and other team members bring to your company? Do you or other team members have previous experience in the food and beverage industry?

oHints: What are your company’s likely weaknesses? Is the competition in your industry segment entrenched? Is your own management team inexperienced? Will it be challenging to actually produce your product and maintain quality?

oHints: What are your company’s opportunities? Does your segment have more demand than supply? Have larger corporations stopped serving smaller or niche markets that you could enter? Is a new market emerging because of demographics, immigration, changing tastes?

oHints: What are your company’s threats? Is there a clear market leader that will be hard and expensive to displace? Are downward-pricing pressures in the segment making profit margins slim? Are there little or no barriers-to-entry for new competitors; if you have a novel idea that succeeds, can the competition easily enter your market? If you have a global aspect to your company, do factors such as currency fluctuations, political instability, offshoring or outsourcing pose threats?

8.Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:

a.Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

b.Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

c.Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze the role of a company mission, vision, and objectives and the impact to business strategy.

Describe strategic planning techniques used to formulate alternative strategies designed to achieve stated business goals.

Analyze the external and internal environment for opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic management.

Write clearly and concisely about strategic management using proper writing mechanics.

wk 9 Discussion: Effectiveness of Workplace Democracy

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Discussion: Effectiveness of Workplace Democracy

Many people view democracy solely through the lens of political institutions and governance structures and processes. They often do not consider the application of democratic principles and processes within the workplace to be relevant or feasible. Given various factors, public and private work environments within a democratic society may not be democratic in nature. Workers may have limited participatory involvement and may not have the opportunity to engage in their workplace through the decision-making process. Furthermore, hierarchical structures with clearly defined rules determine control and the placement of power. Challenging such a structure to enable bottom-up participation or to protect the needs of underrepresented groups can be difficult given the prevailing organizational policies and culture. Democracy, as it is applied in the workplace, may offer a different and even, some may argue, beneficial type of workplace experience. However, while advantages to a democratic workplace culture can be experienced by employees and the organizational as a whole, certainly many challenges are also present.

For this week’s Discussion, you will examine the effectiveness and sustainability of a workplace governed by democratic principles and processes.

To prepare for this Discussion:

  • Review the article “Workplace Democracy: Why Bother?” in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the rationale for workplace democracy.
  • Review the article “Evaluating Strategies for Negotiating Workers’ Rights in Transnational Corporations: The Effects of Codes of Conduct and Global Agreements on Workplace Democracy” in this week’s Learning Resources. Think about how workplace democracy can be effective in an organization.
  • Review the lecture “Workplace Democracy and the Global Financial Crisis” in this week’s Learning Resources. Take note of arguments for and against the presence of workplace democracy in terms of economics.
  • Identify democratic principles that might be present in a democratic workplace.
  • Reflect on your workplace environment or one with which you are familiar and think about the degree to which democracy is present in the organization.
  • Consider whether the organization would be more effective if it were more or less democratic.
  • Reflect on whether democracy is a sustainable option for the contemporary workplace.
  • Consider whether democracy in the workplace is actually an issue of democratic governance or it is a management style, possibly a variation of participative management.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post a brief description of your workplace or one with which you are familiar. Include an assessment of the degree to which democracy is present. Then, explain whether the organization would be more effective if it were more or less democratic and explain why. In your analysis, consider whether democracy is sustainable in the contemporary workplace and whether democracy in the workplace is a governance issue or a management issue.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.