Discussion and Faith Integration

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This week’s Discussion and Faith Integration:

Look at the vision statements at the end of Chapter 2. Consider some of your favorite products or services. How does the vison of the company influence your own buying behavior? There are several instances in scripture where vision is described. The most famous verse about vision is Proverbs 29:18. Different versions describe the verse differently. Jeremiah 29:11 is God’s vision for us. How does a vision affect behavior and performance?

Support your view from the readings. 250 words APA format

Gamble, J.E., Thompson, A.A; and Peteraf, M.A. (2017). Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest for Competitive Advantage, 5th edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill/Ir

Christian Ministry Administration

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Objective 2: Analyze the role of a Christian pastor or leader in growing a church or Para-church ministry.

Pulling from prior learning in this course along with the Smith text we will be considering a particular ministry situation. As we consider a particular ministry setting and ministry leader we will analyze it against this week’s reading and learning. This learning activity is intended to give you an opportunity to think critically about leadership and growth within a ministry environment of your choosing. This activity will help you provide a framework for you to build your ministry upon.

Learning Activity #3: Leadership Role Paper
Read Chapters 5-6 of your textbook by Smith, titled Making Your Church Grow.

Write a 2-3 page paper summarizing the role of a Christian pastor or leader in a growing ministry.

To achieve maximum points for content and analysis, the following elements need thoroughly addressed:

  • Succinct summary of a Christian pastor or leader’s role in a growing ministry.
  • Description of a pastor or leader’s efforts of whom you know is in a growing ministry.
  • Summary of that person’s role in the ministry.
  • Comparison and contrast of the text description with the person you identified.
  • Meet expectations provided in the Paper Writing rubric in the syllabus.
  • Provide at least 2 outside sources beyond the textbook, Bible, and dictionary.

Objective 3: Identify how a pastor can equip and deploy lay leaders for church growth.

Previously we briefly touched on recruiting, training, and leading volunteers for ministry. For this learning activity we will be looking deeper into the equipping and deployment of volunteers or laity. If we as leaders want to effectively utilize the people that the Lord has provided for ministry, we need to provide avenues for the equipping and deployment of these individuals. A good strategy will help the ministry leader provide significant and consistent resourcing for individuals that will empower them to be successful and effective.

Learning Activity #4: Grooming Leaders Discussion

Read Chapter 6 of your textbook by Smith, titled Making Your Church Grow.


Identify at least two strategies a pastor can use to equip and deploy lay leaders for church growth. Describe how you would implement the two strategies.

PLEASE USE INTERNET AS SOURCE FOR BOTH ACTIVITIES!

Changes in Gender Expectations

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300 words

Gender roles in US society have changed dramatically since the
1950s. This assignment requires that you adapt the perspective of
the gender opposite from yours. male, answer the following
questions about the changing female role in society. .

Using the
opposite gender’s perspective, discusses changes in the following
areas:

The male roles in the family and how they have changed from
the 1950s through today Changes in the male legal or political
rights from the 1950s through today

Male changes in the workforce
(such as statistics of how many men or women work full-time from
the 1950s through today)

Household or child care responsibilities
with what percentage of men and women take care of the children and
domestic responsibilities and how this has changed from the 1950s
through today

Changes in educational level attainment for males and
how this has changed from the 1950s through today Be sure to
discuss gender expectations today.

How do you think gender roles
will change in the future?

REAL WORLD Negotiation

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To encourage you to think about the many, everyday opportunities to negotiate, and to
improve your negotiating skills, you need to go out and negotiate in the real world. You can
negotiate for anything you like – a hotel bill, a signing bonus, a piece of jewelry, who will
clean the bathroom or do the dishes, who gets the bigger room in the apartment…anything
at all. Please note that you do not have to buy anything to complete this assignment. On the
contrary, you may be on the selling side in the negotiation, or your negotiation may not
involve a purchase at all.
Please note: This assignment requires that you engage in a NEW negotiation. It is not
sufficient to simply an analyze a negotiation that you experienced prior to the course.
There are two rules for the real world negotiation assignment.
1. You may not tell the person you are negotiating with that this is for a class project until
the negotiation is completed (and then you can decide whether or not you want to tell).
You are not allowed to resort to a plea of “Please help me out for a class.”
2. You are not allowed to engage in a negotiation that you do not intend to follow through
with if the outcome you desire is obtained. For example, you must be willing (at some
price, under some conditions) to acquire the item for which you are negotiating. Do not
start a negotiation in which you would never want to come to agreement.
Your paper should contain a description of the negotiation, your preparation for it, and a
description of the outcome. You should include several of the relevant course concepts that
played a role in the negotiation (e.g., issues, interests, priorities, BATNAs, aspirations, outside
parties, constraints, etc.). Stronger papers provide a better analysis, clear and correct links to
concepts, and are coherent and well-written.
Page 5 of 6
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Your grade for the real world negotiation paper will be based on the following criteria:
• Quality (5 points): Is it well written?
• Analysis (10 points): Have you correctly employed key concepts to assess the strategic
landscape of the negotiation? How well have you applied your learning from the
course to your analysis of this case?
• Self-Reflection (10 points): Have you linked your experiences with your goals for the
course, your strengths and weaknesses? What have you learned about your
negotiating style and skills from this negotiation experience? What would you do
differently in the future?
NOTE: You will not be penalized for writing about a failed negotiation – we can learn as much
from negotiations that fail as we can from those that succeed!
Your real world negotiation should be nearly 3 single-spaced pages in length. Your name and
section number should be at the top of the first page. Please do not add a cover sheet or
folder/binder. This paper is due at the beginning of our last class. See the schedule for details.

Cyberthreat

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Discussion Assignment Question

Chapter 5 of the course textbook states: “In 2013, cyberthreats were at the top of US intelligence reports for the first time. Cyberthreats are now the number one type of danger facing the United States, according to current National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who coordinates the CIA, NSA, and many other agencies” (Turban, Volonino, & Wood, 2015, p.152).

Question:

Perhaps you, a friend, or relative have been the victim of one of the recent cyber attacks at Target, BofA, or Citibank. Is it possible for businesses such as these to fully prevent such threats to your personal security or are they fighting a losing battle?

Remember, one goal in the Discussion assignments is to create an atmosphere of interaction by posting meaningful responses that advance and expand the depth of the discussion. Do this by providing additional support to your peers’ initial and response posts, or if appropriate, by challenging them if you feel that the data that they presented is weak. Likewise, when a peer challenges the data in your posts, debate the issue, and providing further support for your points of view on the topic

“What is a Cloud”

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Write a 3-4 page paper in which you address the following Cloud topics.

“What is a Cloud”

  • In 400 words or more – So, what is Cloud? Cloud is a set of pooled resources delivered over the Internet. Cloud allows you to deliver services globally to your customers at the least cost, and with the ability to service a variable workload by scaling the underlying resources up and down to meet the needs of the moment, and at the cost only of the resources consumed. Do some research on the topic and provide two substantive references that supports this position and two substantive references that is not supportive. Provide real word examples to back of your claims for both pros and cons.
  • In 400 words or more – List the Apple Cloud and define its functionality and capabilities. Do some research on the topic and provide two substantive reference that supports this type of functionality and capabilities and two substantive references that is not supportive. Discuss what your thoughts concerning the pricing schemes for Apple iCloud.

“Essential Characteristics of the Cloud”

  • In 400 words or more – On-demand, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, measure service, charge by usage (“pay as you go”) are the essential characteristics of the Cloud. Do some research on the topic and provide two substantive references that addresses each subject.
  • In 400 words or more – Describe essential characteristics to the cloud storage. Do some research on the topic and provide two substantive references that supports this type of functionality.

https://www.lynda.com/SABSA-tutorials/Defining-essential-characteristics-cloud/369625/391500-4.html.

Influencing

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It has come to your attention as the leader of a department that there are on-going statements being made that the “morale” of the organization is the lowest it has ever been. For this assignment you will need to prepare a 20-minute presentation on team building and motivation to be presented to your staff on how you are going to improve morale in the department.

You will prepare a minimum of 15 PowerPoint slides with no more than each bullet (sentence/point) having 5 words. You will attach your notes to the bottom of the PowerPoint slides. You decide the issues that you want to address. Please use your readings from this week to discuss yourself as a leader, influencing, motivating, and morale.

The overall goal of this assignment is to motivate and inspire your staff. Have some fun with this!!!

: The End of Music

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  1. Reflective Journal 7: The End of Music
    Due Week 7 and worth 50 points

    Write a 3/4 to 1 page journal entry (300 to 500 words) in which you:

    1. Predict one or two (1-2) ways people will obtain music if CD production were to be stopped completely.
    2. Complete the page requirement.
    3. Write with clarity, following mechanics and formatting requirements.

    The specific course learning outcome(s) associated with this assignment are:

    • Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues involving mass media and society.
    • Analyze various issues affecting the media business.
    • Evaluate the effects of the digital information expansion / explosion on society
    • Write clearly and concisely about media and society using proper writing mechanics.

    Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, and language and writing skills. Click here to view the grading rubric.

  2. By submitting this paper, you agree: (1) that you are submitting your paper to be used and stored as part of the SafeAssign™ services in accordance with the Blackboard Privacy Policy; (2) that your institution may use your paper in accordance with your institution’s policies; and (3) that your use of SafeAssign will be without recourse against Blackboard Inc. and its affiliates

Audit Process Proposal

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Topic Proposal

You have to submit a fictitious company name, as well as the type of business they conduct. In addition, you chose five items from the optional audit list below to include as part of your topic approval for this organization:

  1. Operates within a Microsoft Windows environment
  2. Houses a data center
  3. Completed a Disaster Preparedness Plan
  4. UsesUse a web server
  5. Employs a database
  6. The private network contains a wireless network segment
  7. Utilizes at least one instance of a virtual server
  8. Makes use of the cloud for a business process of your choice (storage, software as a service, etc.)

Proposal Outline
finalize and submit proposal outline identifying the areas on which you will need needed to focus. Your audit will include entity level controls, such as asset management, policies, standards and procedures, as well as employee management. Most organizations require the use of specific hardware, including switches, a firewall, and of course data storage. These areas should also be included in your audit proposal. Lastly, the five audit option items you selected as part of your topic proposal will make up the rest of your outline. Remember to use the audit outline located on page 13 of the textbook as a guide to help you formulate the proposal and steps within it to complete a successful IT audit.

Completed Project Due
Your well written 10- to 12-page proposal describing your informal audit, based upon your topic proposal and outline, will be completed and submitted by the end of Week 8. Your paper must be formatted according to APA Requirements, with any sources cited properly.

Note:

1. No Plagiarism, policy is strict

2. This requirement is for the entire project, where you need to complete all 3 sections.

3. Need to have inline citations for all the references used in APA format and the requirements needs to be addressed.

4. Text book is uploaded for the reference.

Data were collected on annual income, household size, and annual credit card charges for a sample of 50 consumers.

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ME International Bank is trying to investigate consumer characteristics that can be used to predict the amount charged by credit card users. Data were collected on annual income, household size, and annual credit card charges for a sample of 50 consumers.

Question 1

Use the attached data file to

  • Develop an estimated regression equation with annual income and household size as the independent variables.
  • Comment on whether the estimated regression equation provide a good fit to the data.
  • The predicted annual credit card charge for an average customer.

Question 2

Provide a brief summary report for your manager indicating

  • Summary statistics of consumer characteristics evident from the data set.
  • An overview of which of the two independent variables is a better predictor of annual credit card charges.
  • The
    predicted annual credit card charge for an average customer.