Step 1: Read the Week 1 Discussion Overview Below

Stephen Covey (a popular author) once explained that highly successful individuals begin each day with ‘the end in mind’. These individuals begin each goal, task or day with a clear vision of the desired direction and destination. Beginning with the end in mind allows for the creation of steps leading toward the accomplishments of those goals and/or tasks.

Since it is the first week of your course, it is important to take some time to reflect on who you are and where you are going. The discussion forum is the perfect learning tool to foster this conversation because it helps you build academic skills within a community of learners.

Briefly, how do you see universities as contributing to the problem of climate change? *

Make sure to think sociologically!

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Consider an idea that would address the problem you identified.

Make sure that your ideas is focused on one of these ? *

1- Educational. Ideas that address how we learn/discuss issues relating to climate change.

2- Institutional. Ideas that relate to the university as an institution that adopts certain policies or practices.

3- Campus community. Ideas that focus on the fact that the university creates a space for people to gather or work together.

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Explain your idea for how the campus can address climate change. How does it address the problem you identified above? What is the intended impact? Who would be involved? *

Make sure to be specific and concrete in your responses!

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WHAT EVIDENCE WOULD PROVE THAT YOUR IDEA WOULD HAVE THE IMPACT YOU PROPOSE? *

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Think about either qualitative or quantitative data that could be useful in measuring your success: surveys, observations, etc.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 3: The Psychology of Learning in the course textbook.

Address two of the three scenarios (your choice) listed below. (Clearly use headings in your post to designate which options you are addressing.)

Option A: A recent psychology graduate named Kaylynn is currently seeking a career position with the local community college as a marketing director.

• How can her understanding of learning psychology support this position?
• How can she express these acquired skills most clearly in her interview?
• If you were Kaylynn, what knowledge or skills would you be sure to include? Please provide a rationalization.

Option B: The retail department store that Nikky, a psychology graduate, works for, is changing how they address customer service, and over the next several weeks the store will be requiring all sales personnel to attend training sessions. As a sales manager, Nikky has heard her employees make comments reflecting their frustration with this requirement; they believe they do an adequate job, so why change what they are currently doing?

• How can Nikky, based on what she knows about the psychology of learning, encourage the employees to be more open to learning the new procedures?
• What rationales does learning psychology offer us to explain why we may believe we do not need to learn new things?
• Again, based on this area of psychology, how might the attitude of the employees affect their ability to effectively learn, even if they were to attend?

Option C: Larry is the senior vice president of a lucrative manufacturing company. He recently hired a young man, Jackson, to work in the warehouse. After observing his work, Larry feels that, with some additional training, Jackson has a lot of potential to advance. But Jackson seems disinterested in advancing any of his skills and knowledge to achieve higher pay or stature in the company.

• Based on learning and motivation theories, if Jackson is required to attend training geared to advancement, without the desire himself, how effective might he be at accommodating the new information?
  • Identify and summarize a theory that supports your response.

Discussion posts should equate to approximately 350 to 400 words.

TURNITIN SCORE MUST BE AT OR BELOW 20%

REMEMBER TO CITE YOUR SOURCES

IMPORTANT NOTE: The thread discussion questions are an opportunity to go outside the box to demonstrate your analytical, integrative, problem- solving and critical thinking skills using the knowledge acquired in your readings. As a result, it is very important to pay close attention to the questions and be able to conduct your discussions in the context of your question.– Please keep this in mind when you complete this week’s assignments for me.

You must expand your ideas further. Analysis must be deep and very instructive.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. Each question should be answered in at least 250 words. Quality of content and use of course and outside-of-course resources to support your position or analysis. When applicable, refer to your workplace using it and your own job as examples. The answers should not be in the form of essay, just straight to the point, in full sentences- Work must be original and cite your sources.

text book: https://vk.com/doc-77652506_340859945?dl=9e4506fed8154b2ff5

1. Your company which began with one of the selected projects has now been in operations for several years and consistently has shown a net profit each of those years.  While the number of shareholders has grown during the years your company has never paid any dividends.  The company treasurer would like to consider paying out dividends.   How would the payment of dividends affect your company’s free cash flow?   What concerns should you address related to future growth of your company if you pay out dividends to stockholders?

2. If you do decide to pay out dividends to stockholders you would also like to understand how investors might value the company based upon the dividend amounts.  Discuss the factors you would need to consider to estimate the company value using the dividend-discount model and assuming a constant dividend growth pattern.

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1. Now your company wishes to sell more stock to raise capital for an expansion program.  If you company’s stock has a beta of 3.0 and other competitors in the same industry have an average beta of 1.75 what impact will that comparison have on the sale of a new issue of your company stock?  Describe the equation used to calculate beta and what actions could your company take to reduce the 3.0 beta.

2. You are still planning to sell more of your company stock to raise capital for the expansion program.  However, in your preparation for this stock sale you realize that your stock could be viewed as risky because of the possibility of crop failures and other natural disasters.  Discuss the differences between the various types of such risks and identify which risks investors can use diversification to reduce.

Original responses should not be a word for word rehashing of what is stated in the readings, but rather an integration of the concepts and additional insights, either from real world experience or additional sources. It should be a 350 word response to the question . Your primary posting may end with a tag-line or a related question of your own. See APA criteria for citing resources. You must provide a minimum of a reference, in APA format, in your original response. note: 1.References (this does not count toward the required paper length)

FINALLY, you must cite your sources after every sentence which contains information from one of your sources. Just putting a citation at the end of a paragraph or section is not sufficient.