week 6 management

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Option 1: Influence

Evaluate the relationship between the United States and Iran. Apply the Six Universal Principles of Influence to these negotiations. Based on these principles, what is the likely outcome of the negotiation process? Predict how likely is the United States to influence Iran to the United States’ preferred outcome.

Your paper should adhere to the following standards:

  • Be four to six pages in length, not including the title or references pages.
  • Include at least three academic references, including one peer-reviewed article, preferably from the CSU-Global Library.
  • Review the grading rubric in the Module 6 folder.
  • Be sure to follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.
  • Include an introduction, a body with at least two fully developed paragraphs, and a conclusion.

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY – LEAN SIX SIGMA MASTER BLACK BELT (LSSMBB) Test 1

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Week Two (2) – Test One (1).doc

  VILLANOVA
UNIVERSITY – LEAN SIX SIGMA MASTER BLACK BELT (LSSMBB)


  WEEK TWO (2) – TEST ONE
(1)

Question 1:The person most likely to be the
resource supporter who negotiates issues and works to  ensure handoffs is

A

The
Master Black Belt

B

The
Champion or Sponsor

C

The
Black Belt

D

The
Process Owner

Question 2:During the Improve phase of DMAIC,
the Master Black Belt is likely to be doing which of 
the following with Black Belts?

A

Reviewing
lessons learned

B

Exploring
statistical methodologies

C

Exploring
ROI alternatives

D

Reviewing
data gathering plans

Question 3:When doing a force field analysis,
both problems and opportunities can also be identified 
as
a driving force for change.

A

True

B

False

Question 4:The ideal communications strategy for
stakeholders will ____________________.

A

Get
the right information to the right people at the right time

B

Be
proportionate to the level of stakeholder interest

C

Be
proportionate to the level of stakeholder involvement

D

Be
proportionate to the level of stakeholder influence

E

Eliminate
requests for changes later in the project

Question 5:Which of the following are financial
metrics that can impact the implementation 
of your Lean Six Sigma Program?

A

Lean
Six Sigma programmatic return on investment

B

Individual
project return on investment

C

Organizational
financial metrics

D

Company
bottom line

E

All
of the above

F

None
of the above

Question 6:You have been asked to manage a
project to upgrade the software that call center  employees
use to answer customer questions. Which one of the following would be the
external 
stakeholder in this project?

A

Customers

B

Call
center staff

C

Human
resources department

D

Legal
department

Question 7:In order to minimize resistance later
in a Lean Six Sigma project and create “buy-in,” 
the Master Black Belt should encourage Black Belts to use what tool
earlier in the project?

A

Criteria
Based Decision Matrix

B

Gantt
Chart

C

Stakeholder
Analysis

D

Charter

Question 8:What are the three primary
characteristics of a stakeholder?

A

Informed,
involved, influential

B

Involved,
important, influential

C

Interested,
involved, influential

D

Active,
important, motivated

Question 9:A key leadership practice for Master
Black Belts to embrace is to

A

Help
others deal with the current state

B

Help
others break from the past

C

Communicate
compelling reasons

D

Both
B and C

Question 10:Which approach shows a balance
between a concern for people and a concern for 
production?

A

Autocratic

B

Democratic

C

Behavioral

D

Lassez-faire

Question 11:What is the best strategy for high
influence/low interest stakeholders?

A

Manage
them closely

B

Keep
them well-informed

C

Monitor
them periodically

D

Keep
them satisfied

Question 12:The primary goal of analyzing project
stakeholders is to

A

Determine
the best communications strategy

B

Understand
their relative importance to the project

C

Determine
where their interests agree or conflict

D

Map
the political terrain and how to navigate it

Question 13:One of the tools that the Master
Black Belt should ensure is used to help move a team toward 
goal completion and best help minimize conflict is

A

Role
and Responsibility Matrix

B

Network
Schedules

C

Gantt
Charts

D

Risk
Management Plans

Question 14:What type of change is seen as a
large improvement?

A

Transformational

B

Incremental

C

Logical

D

Itemized

Question 15:Key objectives of the processes to
develop the project team include

A

Ensuring
that the project team has smooth entry and exit throughout the project’s
life cycle to minimize the overall risk level on the project

B

Increasing
participation in the activities outlined in the communications plan and
scheduling activities to offload the team leads and PM

C

Improving
skills of team members and amending levels of trust and cohesiveness to
achieve better productivity through greater teamwork

D

Reducing
the possibility of stakeholder complaints by assigning each key stakeholder
a main team member point of contact to manage communications

  Question 16:One of the biggest resistance factors blocking implementation of
competitive intelligence 
and benchmarks is

A

Lack
of knowledge by Master Black Belts

B

Factors
associated with a learning organization

C

The
Not-Invented-Here (NIH) syndrome

D

Forces
of change

Question 17:Which type of leader relies on
legitimate, reward, and coercive power?

A

Autocratic

B

Democratic

C

Behavioral

D

Lassez-faire

Question 18:When coaching and educating Black
Belts concerning the Cost of Poor Quality, the 
Master Black Belt needs to direct attention to which of the following
items?

A

Assets,
Liabilities, and COGS

B

Profits,
Expenses, and Revenues

C

Number
of Incidents, Actual Labor Cost, Material Cost, and Multiplication

D

Number
of Defects, Variation, and Control Limits

Question 19:Key process steps in successfully
selecting projects include

A

Identifying
your current state

B

Developing
criteria for consideration

C

Developing
a list of projects based on pain, goals

D

All
of the above

Question 20:Which one of the following is the
most important reason for analyzing stakeholders?

A

To
determine the best communications strategy for them

B

To
understand their needs and expectations

C

To
manage their expectations

D

To
determine which metrics are most appropriate

Cognitive Development and Friendships

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Your original response to the Discussion topic should be at least 350 words and should reflect the fact that you have completed the assigned readings and activities for the week. Use your words wisely so that the posting has substance and includes examples and explanations. Best practice is to include citations and a reference list.

Cognitive Development and Friendships

After you have completed the Reading, and watched the videos on cognitive development and friendships in middle childhood on pages 206 and 231, post your initial response to the following questions and statements.

  1. Using the video on cognitive development in middle childhood, compare what Piaget and neoPiagetians, would say about the cognitive development occurring in the video.
  2. Explain some of the cognitive changes that occur during middle childhood. Were any of them present in the video? In your answer, assess the cognitive changes in the context of school and academic achievement.
  3. After watching the video related to friendships in middle childhood, conclude how theorists, such as Sullivan and Selman, would explain the concepts being discussed in the video. Identify the stage of development this child is in according to Selman, and some of the details related to social cognition in this stage. Are there other features of social cognition in middle childhood that were not discussed in the video?

Chapter 6: “Realms of Cognition in Middle Childhood”

Chapter 6 will introduce you to cognitive development and social cognition in the developmental stage of middle childhood. The chapter will discuss different theories related to cognitive development, as well as various cognitive changes that occur during this stage as they relate to school and academic achievement. The chapter will also discuss theories and concepts related to social cognition, and the influence of family members and culture.

TEXTBOOK INFORMATION

Title: Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals Edition: 4th (2014) Author: Patricia C. Broderick and Pamela Blewitt Publisher: Pearson Book ISBN: 978-0133785647 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-13-355096-2

Capstone Week 10 Select a publicly traded corporation

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Assignment 5: Capstone
Due Week 10 and worth 400 points

Select a publicly traded corporation for which you would like to work or are currently working.

Research the corporation on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

  1. Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success.
  2. Analyze the five (5) forces of competition to determine how they impact the company.
  3. Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
  4. Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
  5. Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
  6. Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
  7. Select two (2) corporate governance mechanisms used by this corporation and evaluate how effective they are at controlling managerial actions.
  8. Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership within this corporation and make at least one (1) recommendation for improvement.
  9. Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.
  10. Use at least five (5) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • 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.
  • 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Determine ways in which the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall success.
  • Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
  • Identify the five forces of competition.
  • Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
  • Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
  • Identify various levels and types of strategy in a firm.
  • Predict ways in which corporate governance will affect strategic decisions.
  • Assess the relationship between strategy and organizational structure.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Assignment 1: The Scavenger Hunt

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My research topic: Do Graduate college students make more money than Undergraduate college students?

Assignment 1: The Scavenger Hunt

Let’s put your investigative skills to work! In this assignment, v find four (4) peer-reviewed quantitative articles related to your topic.

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

  1. Summarize each article [approximately one to two (1-2) paragraphs per article] and identify the:
  2. Purpose of the research.
  3. Problem statement.
  4. Gaps in literature that studied the problem.
  5. Research question and/or hypotheses.
  6. Theory or conceptual framework.
  7. Findings of the research.
  8. Describe one to two (1-2) aspects of each article that are relevant to the research topic you have chosen.
  9. Provide a preliminary reference page in APA format of the articles you summarized.
  10. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed quantitative or qualitative articles related to your topic.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • 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 assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Conduct a literature review for a given research topic.

Public Speaking Critique Assignment help

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Public Speaking Critique Assignment

1. Find and attend a formal public presentation that is being given on campus or in your
community. You can go online to look for a presentation. (www.cspan.org is a very good
place or www.ted.com).

  •  Your goal is to listen so that you remember and can critically evaluate what you have
    heard. Be sure to take notes and record the main ideas the speaker presents. After you
    have heard the speech, analyze what you heard. You can use the following questions to
    guide your initial thinking:
  •  What was the purpose of the speech? What was the speaker trying to explain to you or
    convince you about?
  •  Was it easy or difficult to identify the speaker’s main ideas? What did you notice about
    how the speaker developed each points she or he made?
  •  Did the speaker use examples or tell stories to develop a point? If so, were these typical
    examples, or did the speaker choose examples that were unusual but seemed to “prove
    the point”?
  •  Did the speaker use statistics to back up what was said? If so, did the speaker tell you
    where the statistics came from? Did the statistics surprise you? If so, what would you
    have needed to hear that would have helped you to accept them as accurate?
  •  When you have finished your analysis, write a short essay using the questions above
    backed with examples from the speech. Your essay not be less than 3 pages
  •  Font size 12, double spaced.
  •  Do you think that the speaker did a good job? If so, why? If not, what should the
    speaker have done to be more effective? (This can be your conclusion)

Foro III: Factores hematopoyética, Infección e Inmunidad

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Foro III: Factores hematopoyética, Infección e Inmunidad

Favor de contestar las siguientes preguntas en el portal y no utilizando documentos adjuntos.Su opinión es importante en este curso y todos los estudiantes deben ver sus respuestas a los temas discutidos. Recuerden reaccionar a dos aportaciones de los estudiantes del curso.

1. Una mujer de 28 años tuvo su bebe hace tres días, ingresa al hospital con dolor torácico. El medico le diagnostica una trombosis venosa con embolia pulmonar. A. ¿Qué factores contribuyen al riesgo de esta mujer para desarrollar una tromboembolia? B. Mencione y discuta algunos de los signos y síntomas adicionales de las enfermedades de la paciente.

2. Un hombre de 40 años se presenta a la sala de emergencia con disnea marcada; después del examen físico y una radiografía, se le diagnostica neumonía por P. jiroveci. El medico le ordena la prueba de HIV, que resulta positiva. En las pruebas adicionales, el recuento de las células CD4 es de 100 células /μl y su carga vírica es de 250,000 copias / ml. A. Explica brevemente lo que es Neumonía por P. jiroveci. B. Discute algunas formas para prevenir este tipo de neumonía. C. Redacta un diagnóstico de enfermería actual y de riesgo con sus objetivos e intervenciones para este paciente.

Qualitative Data Checklist

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Assignment Instructions:

  1. Review the handout entitled “Chapter 4: Trustworthiness of the Data.”
  2. Create a one-page checklist to be used to evaluate the data to be collected from your selected method.
  3. Divide the checklist into the four criteria used to evaluate data trustworthiness from the handout.
  4. Under each of the four criteria, itemize at least three checks for data quality you will use to assess the final data set after data collection has closed.

Length: 1 page

References: Cite a minimum of 2 scholarly resources used to design the checklist

Your checklist should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

I want someone who could help with literature assignment and it’s short about 250 words

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Read: Evie Shockley’s “You Can’t Deny It”

Write: an analytical response (now located in this week’s module) in which you detail a clear definition of the word “play” as you understand it. Specifically, I want you to discuss whether all plays have to be perform-able, whether every performance is a type of play, and how/if these lines are blurred. You can use the Evie Shockley play/poem as well as your own understanding of plays and/or the movie you’re watching for class to inform your reasoning for what substantiates a play/performance. You can also use examples from outside of class to back up your reasoning. Your response should be at least 250 words.

Econ Discussion

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1 pages discussion

After this write 2 reply on others discussion

about 100 words for each reply.

Prompt:

Look up W.S. Gossett and read the story of his developing Student’s distribution. (Have a Guinness while reading about him if you’d like).

Are there situations in economics where a biased estimator is used for the estimation of some model? Please describe.

Lesson

This module focuses on how a statistic calculated from a sample is distributed. For example, if we know we have an iid sample from a Gaussian distribution, then the distribution of the sample mean is relatively straightforward because it is a linear combination of Gaussian distributed random variables (that is, each observation) and so the distribution of the mean would also be Gaussian with its mean that of the population from which the sample came. But what is the distribution of the sample variance? The distribution of the square of a statistic isn’t merely its distribution squared. It turns out that the distribution of the sample variance is chi-squared with degrees of freedom equal to the number of observations in the sample.

A special property of the Gaussian distribution is the statistical independence of the sample mean and sample variance. That property is unique to the Gaussian distribution. That’s a property that is often unknowingly exploited by researchers.

We don’t usually know the population mean and variance when we’re doing our data analysis. When drawing a sample from a Gaussian population with unknown mean and variance, the standardized, or Z-score, versions of the observations, that is, each of the observations has had the sample mean subtracted from it and that result is then divided by the sample variance, follow a Student’s t distribution. This distribution has an illustrious past. It was discovered by W.S. Gossett, who was employed for quality control by Guinness, the famous Irish brewery. He wrote a paper deriving it which was published in Biometrika, a British statistics journal. Because his employer didn’t want his name to be known, nor that they were using Gossett’s test for quality control, he used a pen name instead and signed the paper Student. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset (Links to an external site.))

We then discuss the very thorny issue of confidence intervals. This is one of the least understood and often frequently abused statistical concepts. We will spend some time trying to make sure that you understand the use of confidence intervals well enough not to get into trouble once you’ve left this class. (No guarantees, though).

Finally, we will discuss the concept of an unbiased estimator. Unbiasedness in estimation is a positive property for estimators, but there are situations where the mean-squared error of a biased estimator is smaller than that of an unbiased estimator. Also, we’ll see that in some situations that for some biased estimators, as the size of your sample grows, the bias gets smaller and the biased estimator converges to the unbiased estimator. An example of this is the sample variance calculated using the sample size in the denominator versus using one less than the sample size in the denominator in calculating the sample variance. The first sample variance is biased by the additive factor 1/n, while the second sample variance is unbiased, but the biased sample variance converges to the unbiased variance as the sample size increases.