Post by an IRA (Insights, Resource, and Application) in the Discussion as follows from these resources when read:

Readings

• Cooper, T. L. (2012). The responsible administrator: An approach to ethics for the administrative role(6th ed.). New York, NY: Jossey-Bass.
  • Chapter 9, “Applying the Design Approach to Public Administration Ethics” (pp. 243–254)
• Frederickson, H. G. (2005). The state of social equity in American public administration. National Civic Review, 94(4), 31–38.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Glaser, M. A., Bartley Hildreth, W., McGuire, B. J., & Bannon, C. (2011). Frederickson’s social equity agenda applied: Public support and willingness to pay. Public Integrity, 14(1), 19–37.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Hacker, J. S., & Pierson, P. (2010). Winner-take-all politics: Public policy, political organization, and the precipitous rise of top incomes in the United States. Politics and Society, 38(2), 152–204.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Kranich, N. (2005). Equality and equity of access: What’s the difference? Retrieved fromhttp://www.ala.org/offices/oif/iftoolkits/toolkitrelatedlinks/equalityequity

Media

• Ted Conferences (Producer). (2011). Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals 

  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 17 minutes.

Optional Resources

• Gospath, S. (2007). Equality. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Spring 2011 ed.). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/equality/
• Fleurbaey, M. (2008). Economics and economic justice. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Summer 2012 ed.). Retrieved fromhttp://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2012/entries/economic-justice/

1. Insights: As you read the resources, create bullet points that capture what you have learned about the relationship between equality and social equity, and critical insights you gained from each article. Summarize these key points and insights by using APA format.
2. Resource: In addition to the assigned readings, share one other resource that amplifies the themes for this week, such as the relationship between equality and social equity. Note a book, article, news items, website, or film with similar ideas, thoughts, and themes. Cite your resource by using APA format, and explain,  in no more than three sentences, how this resource is relevant to the assigned readings.
3. Application: Provide an example from current or past experience (about one paragraph) on a threat to equality or equity. (Multicultural and/or international examples are welcome but not required.) Then, explain a strategy you believe that a public administrator might use to promote equality and equity in this example and explain why you chose this strategy.

Support your postings and responses with specific references to the resources.

Reply to your classmate who explored a different scenario than that which you examined. Will the advice they provided be helpful in the future for the individual in the scenario? What might your classmates add to their advice to make it even more helpful? 50 words or more. 

What I learned about the seriousness of
plagiarism is that, no matter how you plagiarize, and no matter what you try to
do to cover it up, it can still be noticed. There is no excuse for plagiarism,
and there are serious consequences behind every act. I wouldn’t necessarily say
that the video fully changed my prospective and or understanding of plagiarism,
but I would say that it more so gave me some more insight when it comes to the
subject of plagiarism. I never really sit and think about that of plagiarism,
because when it comes to writing, I’m very long winded, and good at providing
needed detail to examples and topics given. I do not know of any other
instances of plagiarism either in school or beyond. 
  To Serena, copying and pasting
is a form of plagiarism, and is wrong. Doing this could not only get you in
trouble, but it is also punishable by law. Upon submitting the copied and
pasted work, you had a bad feeling about it. Instead of submitting the work,
you should have researched ways to incorporate work from another source into
your work, and then properly completed the assignment. Seeing how the
assignment called for you to brainstorm, you should have given yourself enough
time to go and look into what the “democratic system of government”
is, as well as what it stands for. Upon doing this you would have had a good
idea of what you needed to begin on your assignment. We all possess likes and
dislikes when it comes to specific things, especially when those things deal
with and involve that of our government. With that being said, I feel that you
could have taken the things you disagreed with, and created a list of things
that you felt needed improvement, as well as provided details for how those
certain areas could be improved, and what steps could be properly taken to
reach those goals for improvement and change if needed. It’s never a good idea
or action to go and take someone else’s work and use it as your own. If you
don’t fully understand the work given to you, one way to handle this is by
first taking your time to read the materials given to you, and asking for help
when needed. Plagiarism can always be avoided at all costs. Upon reviewing
“6 Ways to Avoid Plagiarism and Generally Be a Cool Person.” I
noticed that the steps call for, “Planning Ahead, Using a Citation
Generator, Using Turnitin, Paraphrasing, Quoting and Summarizing”. Reading
about this would be really useful for those struggling with plagiarizing, and
for those who are unaware of what plagiarism is as well.

Scenario: You are an employee of Cabot Nutrition, a company that manufactures various vitamins, minerals, and other supplements including infant formula. An employee was found to have tampered with infant formula during production, and has since been terminated. On his termination day, the employee became violent and struck his supervisor. Several infants have become ill as a result of the tampering, but all injuries have been reported as non-life-threatening. Two of your employees used this infant formula with their infants, and both infants are ill. You have been tasked with creating a response to this product-tampering crisis.

Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes explaining your response to senior management.

Include the following in your memo:

• Describe the crisis in detail, including additional facts that you create and the results of your investigation.
• Create a Crisis Management Taskforce, and list the job titles and responsibilities of each member.
• Develop a Crisis Management Plan to address this incident and help mitigate/prevent this type of crisis and workplace violence in the future.
• Summarize key components of a Workplace Violence Prevention Policy.
• Explain how you will communicate your response to this crisis both internally (to the company) and externally (to the public), and include any support or recompensing plans.
• Include a reference slide with citations for all references used in APA format

For this essay assignment, your focus will be on the project plan that you began in Unit II (INFORMATION ATTACHED AS P1 AND P2). This assignment will consist of an essay that contains the following information:

• the name of the project leader (i.e., your name),
• the leadership traits that are necessary for leading the project,
• the team members and their roles in the project,
• the traits that make one a productive team member,
• a brief explanation of the eight traits associated with being a successful project manager,
• the five conditions that support the development of high-performing teams, and
• a brief description of five strategies that can be used to manage dysfunctional conflict within project teams.

Your essay should consist of at least two pages and should include at least two references.

All sources must be cited and referenced according to APA standards. Utilize APA formatting for your title and reference pages.

Developing Human Resources

HR and You

Now that you are familiar with human
resource management concepts, write a paper that describes a situation you
experienced in the workplace where HR functionality could have improved the
outcome or process.

The requirements below must be met
for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 600 – 900 words (approximately 3 – 5
  pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original
  content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come
  from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course
  material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and
  other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the
  three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs,
  quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a
  reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources
such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as,
The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis,
Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.
 

A detailed explanation of how to cite a source using APA can be found here (link).  

Download an example here.