Art in the World and in the Workplace

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Instructions

As a team leader in the Creative Department, you run bi-monthly strategy and brainstorming sessions with all agency employees. Your boss sat in on the last session and expressed mild disappointment in the general lack of groundbreaking innovation by the team (though you still managed to shine individually). Consequently, your boss has directed all agency employees to complete a unique exercise in creative thinking.

Your boss presented it this way: “All employees must submit an electronic portfolio of photographs and explanations.” When the team expressed confusion, he clarified this way: “There should be a significant number of photographs in your portfolio, and the photographs should be of your real workplace items.” As final enlightenment, he offered the following: “Placing workplace items into unique environments and arrangements will prompt you to reconsider and repurpose the familiar and mundane.”

Following your boss’s instructions, you went to your workspace and started thinking. As you pondered the tricky task ahead, you identified some elements that you considered essential to demonstrate as part of your portfolio submission:

  • How technology can aid in repurposing everyday items.
  • How innovative repurposings can solve problems in the workplace.
  • How everyday items can be repurposed as forms of logos or branding.
  • How Apollonian and Dionysian perspectives can expand creativity in the repurposing of everyday items.

With those elements in mind, you feel ready to get to work. As you pull out your camera, you remind yourself that explanations are a key part of this project. With clever pictures and clear analysis, you can be sure that your submission will reflect your guiding principle: My portfolio should reveal plainly that I gave real thought and consideration to how workplace items can be refashioned into something different or better.You believe that everyone has natural creativity, and you’re excited to tap into yours for this endeavor.

Assignment 1: LASA II—Disorders of Sensory and Perceptual Systems

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Assignment 1: LASA II—Disorders of Sensory and Perceptual Systems

Throughout this course, you have looked at all of the sensory and perceptual systems in the human body. One subject not discussed to a large degree is disorders of the sensory and perceptual systems.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research sensation and perception disorders. Based on your research, do the following:

  • Imagine you are teaching your peers about the disorders of the sensory and perceptual systems.
  • Select one sensation or perception disorder (such as sensory processing disorder, anosmia, apperceptive visual agnosia, glaucoma, verbal auditory agnosia, or developmental dyslexia resulting from auditory processing deficit).
  • Using at least two peer-reviewed journal articles discussing the disorder you have selected, develop a presentation to provide an overview of the disorder. Explain the following points in the presentation:
    • Sensory system affected by the disorder—including the specific physiological structures that are affected
    • Perceptual processing affected by the disorder
    • Analysis of the disorder from both top-down and bottom-up perspectives
    • The more appropriate approach for viewing this disorder—top-down or bottom-up
    • Etiology of the disorder
    • Coping strategies and treatment, if any
    • Related and/or co-occurring disorders
    • Psychological impact of the disorder (outside of the perceptual deficit)
  • Be sure to include the following in your presentation:
    • A title slide
    • Headings
    • A slide with references
    • Detailed speaker notes to accompany each slide to further discuss the topics

Develop an 8–10-slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt.

Company Strategy Analysis on New Oriental Company, business and finance homework help

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I wanna do a 40 pages paper on “Company Analysis Project”. I can pay $100. 

The contents should include:

a. Organizational Vision, Mission, and/or Values (include Goals and Objectives)

b. Internal Analysis: Resources & Capabilities

c. Strategy assessment

d. Recommendations for achieving or modifying current strategy.

To make your report stronger and credible, apply strategic planning and analysis models you have studied and researched; be sure to use external sources when appropriate and cite within the paper.

I have an A+ paper as an example. If you wanna do it for me, I can sent the example to you. I need this paper before Feb 13. You have 5 days to do it. Thank you very much

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MGT 407 Discussion

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Hiring the Best

How to Work at Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-baHBzWe4k

Also watch Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people:

Please respond to the following:

  • As an HR professional, what selection processes would you recommend to learn whether or not an applicant is a good fit, not only for the position that is currently open but also for the company as a whole and future roles they may inhabit? Discuss what you have learned about employers’ approaches to staffing their organizations.

Provide source citations if you utilize information from other authors/speakers (so that your peers can find the information if they wish).

Contemporary Issues: HR Periodicals

Check current periodicals to find an interesting current event article related to developing and/or rewarding employees for higher productivity.

  1. Read the article.
  2. Provide a summary of the article.
  3. Provide additional recommendations, arguments, and ideas.
  4. Include a citation for the article.

Feel free to use any business-related journals or periodicals. A good place to find HR-related journals is in ProQuest in the Trident Online Library. The following are other suggestions:

The Economist. Available at http://www.economist.com/

Society for Human Resource Management. Available at http://www.shrm.org/pages/default.aspx. HRMagazine, SHRM’s publication, is found in ProQuest in the Trident Online Library.

The Wall Street Journal. Available at http://online.wsj.com/home-page

Managing Employee Relations

View the video Advantages and Disadvantages of Unions.

Optional source: Want a Raise? Join a Union

Please respond to the following:

  • Are unions good or bad for America? If they are good, why are numbers of union members in the private sector dwindling?

culture

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Indigenous peoples are the oldest living cultures in the world. They represent 300–500 hundred million people alive today in over 72 countries around the world. They also encompass as many as 5,000 distinct cultures. Their way of life, identity, and existence is threatened because of continued effects of colonization, which began during the exploration of Europeans in the 1400s. Many times, indigenous people are forced to assimilate into the cultures of those who invade them.

Around the world, indigenous peoples make up the major categories of the poor and disadvantage. According to World Council of Churches,

In most indigenous communities, people live in poverty without clean water and necessary infrastructure, lacking adequate health care, education, employment and housing. Many indigenous communities still suffer the effects of dispossession, forced removals from homelands and families, inter-generational trauma and racism, the effects of which are manifested in social welfare issues such as alcohol and drug problems, violence and social breakdown. Basic health outcomes dramatize the disparity in well-being between Indigenous Peoples and European descendants. (WCC Executive Committee, 2012)

Initial Post: Write 100 words within the Discussion Board responding to the following questions. Create a substantive and clear post expression your research, thoughts, and ideas:

Choose a specific group of indigenous people, and briefly describe their culture prior to the arrival of the Europeans and how their culture changed after contact with Europeans.

Please be sure to include academic sources to support your informatio

PSY301 Social Psychology Discussion Post

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The Acting Self

As Feenstra (2013) states in your textbook:

“Social psychologists are interested in who we are. We know a great deal about ourselves, and that knowledge affects how we process information and view the world around us. The self is a powerful force. The self affects how we feel, what we think we can do, and what we in fact do.”

(pg. 52).

Expanding on the quotation above, describe how individuals develop a self-concept and self-schema.  Discuss the cultural, social, and environmental influences on that development. In what ways does our sense of self determine how we think about others and how we interact with individuals and groups of people? What is the significance of the acting self? In your response, be sure to address at least three of the key concepts presented in Table 2.1 of the reading.

questions

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1.List and briefly describe (in your own words) the three main reasons for government regulation of businesses.
2.List and describe (in your own words) the six principles for organizations to become an Employer of Choice.
3.List and describe (in your own words) three of the crucial keys to development of an effective ethics program.
4.List and explain (in your own words) the benefits of government regulation of business.
5.List the six rights of the consumer and explain (in your own words) why each one is important.
6.Explain why you think consumer protection laws are effective or ineffective.
7.Explain social responsibility in your own words.

8.Describe (in your own words) two advantages and two disadvantages of business regulations.

Read the cases and Answer the questions

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Required: Read the Mini cases, Answer the questions at the end of the mini cases, One page for each mini case.

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(Case One:)

Marketing in Action Case: Real Choices at Target

When can offering too many choices become too much to handle? Target has gone through a period of bad press as a result of an unacceptable level of stock-outs that upset customers and decreased sales. The discount retailer believes that it can solve the problem by reducing the number of brands and varieties of product options on the shelves. Brian Cornell, CEO, believes that the increasedefficiency will allow for more focus on priority categories “like wellness, stylish home goods, apparel, and baby products.” Target’s distribution process became more complicated with the expansion of its grocery business to include perishables like meat, fresh produce, and dairy products. Then, the situation became even more complex when it began allowing online customers to receive orders directly from its warehouses or pick up their online orders in stores. Because of the mess, Target has committed to redesigning its supply chain to make it more streamlined.

Target has a rich history of success. In 1902, George Dayton founded a company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, called Dayton Dry Goods Company. Over the years the company went through various retail format changes and in 1962, the first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota. It called itself the “new idea in discount stores” differentiated by merging key department store features with the lower prices of a discounter. Target became “a store you can be proud to shop in, a store you can have confidence in, a store that is fun to shop and exciting to visit.” The retailer is the third largest U.S. store chain, operating over 1,800 retail locations throughout the United States.

Despite this lofty history, more recently growth at its established stores has been hindered by unacceptable stock levels because of their overly complicated supply chain. Target is spending more than $5 billion (yes, BILLION), to upgrade its distribution network and technology infrastructure to reduce stock shortages and facilitate the capability for online growth. In addition, the retailer is shrinking the number of different products it keeps in stock and reducing the number of sizes across those products. These changes will result in less overall inventory and improved handling efficiency. Amy Koo, an analyst with Kantar Retail, says, “In theory, everything can move faster, and they will have less stuff in the system.”

Target’s supply chain transformation includes other changes as well. Store shelves are being physically restructured to hold more product, pushing inventory out of backrooms and onto the sales floor. Suppliers are being required to adjust case sizes (how many individual items are inside a shipped carton) to increase inventory turnover and decrease the number of times a store employee has to handle the merchandise. In addition, Target wants suppliers to give a single-day arrival date for shipments to Target’s warehouses, eliminating the prior practice of a “grace period” that allows shipments to arrive a few days after the promised date without penalties. These and other changes will help Target achieve its goal of better inventory management.

John Mulligan, chief operating officer, thinks that including suppliers in planning and executing the transformation is a key to success. Stock-outs not only hurt Target, the lost sales also mean that everyone in the supply chain suffers. How well the company uses this reinvigorated supply chain to deliver its value proposition to customers will be critical to its future competitive success.

You Make the Call

  1. 11-34.What is the decision facing Target?
  2. 11-35.What factors are important in understanding this decision situation?
  3. 11-36.What are the alternatives?
  4. 11-37.What decision(s) do you recommend?
  5. 11-38.What are some ways to implement your recommendation?

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(Case two:)

Marketing in Action Case : Real Choices at Disney

What happens when you are no longer “the Happiest Place on Earth”? The Walt Disney Company doesn’t want to find out and is “reimagining” its pricing strategy. Responding to the ever-increasing demand for theme park tickets, especially at peak times, Disney has implemented “demand-based pricing” at both Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California.

Airlines and hotels have used demand-based pricing for years by charging higher prices during summer vacation season and around holidays when demand for flights and hotel accommodations is highest. Similarly, demand-based pricing has been in use by Disney competitor, Universal Studios, and other theme park operators in the United States. The idea is to redistribute customer demand by lowering prices during times with less demand to encourage more sales and increase prices at times when demand is higher to encourage customers to switch some of their visits to lower-priced times.

Visitors to Disneyland were previously charged a single-day ticket price of $99.00. Under demand-based pricing, there are three prices. “Value” tickets for Mondays through Thursdays during weeks when children are in school are only $95, a reduction of $4.00. “Regular” tickets for most weekends and summer months are $105. “Peak” tickets for visitors during December, spring break weeks, and July weekends are highest at $119. For Orlando’s Disney World, the pricing is similar but more complex as a result of having four different parks at the site. The new demand-based pricing is only for single-day tickets and does not affect the price of annual passes or multiday tickets, which most families buy when they travel to Disney.

The unknown is how consumers will respond to this new pricing strategy long term. Will they see it as a more equitable system in which you pay more if you want to visit Disney at the “best” times to travel and pay less if you can vacation at “off” times. Of course, consumers may perceive the new strategy as a pricing gimmick to gouge consumers during heavy travel times to increase Disney profits.

Certainly, demand-pricing tactics airlines employ are not thought of kindly and have contributed to negative consumer attitudes toward the airlines. Although Disney stresses that it is using the new demand-based pricing to more efficiently manage its customer experience, it should be obvious that this policy can also lead to greater profits. Even more important, how will consumers think of Disney and its theme parks long term? Will Disney still be the happiest place in the world?

You Make the Call

  1. 10-36.What is the decision facing Disney?
  2. 10-37.What factors are important in understanding this decision situation?
  3. 10-38.What are the alternatives?
  4. 10-39.What decision(s) do you recommend?
  5. 10-40.What are some ways to implement your recommendation?

Developing a Premise and a Research Question

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Assignment: Developing a Premise and a Research Question

As highlighted in this week’s Discussion, the clear formulation of a research problem and research question(s) is central to all research, because this leads to the identification of relevant and useful variables for measurement.

For this Assignment, you will first develop the problem statement for your Premise, using the topic you selected for your Premise in Week 1, and then you will complete your development of 1 to 2 research questions that will help to address the problem.

By Day 7

Submit a 3-page paper that includes the following:

  • A brief review of the topic you chose for your Premise in Week 1 and the broader system or ecosystem of which your topic is a part
  • A clear and extended statement of the problem you plan to address in your doctoral study research
  • At least one research question that you plan to answer from a secondary data source that you will select next week
  • An explanation of why the research question(s) you have chosen will help in understanding and addressing the identified problem

DQ2 response to Deborah Marrs

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********** please respond to the discussion below add citations and references 😉 ************

Watch the “Diary of Medical Mission Trip” videos dealing with the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in 2010, was heart wrenching and attention grabbing to say the least.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines Primary Prevention as “intervening before health effects occur, through measures, such as vaccinations, altering risky behaviors (poor eating habits, tobacco use), and banning substances known to be associated with a disease or health condition. Secondary Prevention as screening to identify diseases in the earliest stages, before the onset of signs and symptoms, through measures such as mammography and regular blood pressure testing. Tertiary Prevention as managing disease post diagnosis to slow or stop disease progression through measures such as chemotherapy, rehabilitation, and screening for complications. (CDC, Prevention, n.d., p. 1)”

My first primary nursing intervention would be to try to get clean water to the community, it the water is not clean it could spread diseases. My secondary nursing intervention would be to do screening exams on each community member I could, like blood pressure checks, screen whether they had their routine medications. The tertiary prevention would be to see if they had been referred treatment for any diagnosed complications from the disaster, such as rehab for a twisted ankle, or to screen and make sure complications haven’t arose from a disease process that may have started with the disaster. In an effort to not duplicate other students responses I did not read any posts prior to posting.

My first two interventions would fall under the immediate response to a disaster, as one is a screening tool and the other (obtaining clean water) is a basic necessity.

I would work hand in hand with the red cross to make my interventions happen and the reason why is because they are usually first on the ground when a disaster happens. They are very good at what they do and could tell me where I could be utilized the best in the situation. Another agency would be FEMA, local churches usually band together to offer temporary housing and immediate needs too.

References:

Center for Disease Control and Preventon. (n.d.). Prevention: Picture of America [Pdf]. CDC. Retreived from https://www.cdc.gov/pictureofamerica/pdfs/picture_…

Center for Disease Control and Preention. (n.d.). Emergency preparedness and response. Retreived from https://emergency.cdc.gov/

Grand Canyon University (Ed). (2018). Community & public health: The future of health care. Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs427vn/community-and-pub… 5

USA.gov. (n.d.). After a disaster. Retrieved April 12, 2019, from https://www.usa.gov/after-disasterhttps://www.usa….