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Advocacy Project

 
Before this research paper, I have done a earlier paper discussing about a current problem we have regarding mass incarceration and prisoners’ mental illness. I will submit that paper later. Now in this paper, I have to talk about the solutions to the current problem. But instead of thinking of a solution on my own, I need to find solutions which have been published by any credible personnel or organization, analyze and evaluate the policies they proposed. Maybe you will find several proposals but choose only two possible policies and evaluate and compare which one is better (ADVOCATE). You have to choose a side: which policy are you leaning towards.

The criteria for determining “which policy is better” is constructed in five different aspects: 1. comprehensiveness; 2. feasibility/practicality; 3. cost beneficial; 4. compatibility; 5. urgency/priority.

General Outline:

I. Introduction: demonstrative rhetoric
a. establish/describe the current problem;
b. introduce the policies that you are going to evaluate;
c. clarify the criteria and introduce the thesis: “I will argue that policy A is better than policy B because X, Y, and Z…”
*HOW YOU DESCRIBE THE CURRENT PROBLEM MUST BE TIED WITH YOUR CRITERIA*

II. Body: deliberative rhetoric
a. introduce policy A: who is proposing; when was it proposed; what is the person or organization proposing; where is the policy targeting/who will the policy affect, and how;
b. introduce policy B: similar outline as policy A;
c. evaluate both policy A and B according to your criteria. *MAKE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS FOR BOTH POLICIES (WHO IS AGAINST THE POLICY AND WHY)*

III. Conclusion (call for action)
The policy solution should be super clear. It is either policy A or policy B. Also move your reader, suggest some practical actions of what they can do to adopt the policy or make changes to the problem.

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Internal Influences and Motivation

 
In this rather open-ended analysis, you will discuss how internal influences relate to marketing practices and the building of a marketing strategy for your selected product or service. Identify at least three marketing tactics to be developed as part of the overall marketing strategy you will develop in Unit 6.

Assignment Instructions

In this assignment:
1.Return to the product or service selected for the Unit 3 assignment. Visit the Web site of a competitor’s product or service.
•How does the competitor use or infer income, social class, age, and subcultures to sell its products or services?
•How do cultural elements such as income, social class, and age, as well as subcultural elements such as religion, ethnicity, and race influence the consumer behavior?

2.Interview briefly three consumers who fit the target profile for your product, and ask them questions about a recent purchase or consideration of a purchase of the product category you selected. These are informal interviews and can be with family members or friends.
•Ask what specific factors led them to problem recognition. Also ask them to explain the similarities or differences that existed between their choices at decision time.
•Ask them what attitudes they have about the product and the actual purchasing experience.
•Determine the influence of cultural elements such as income, social class, and age, as well as subcultural elements such as religion, ethnicity, and race on consumer behavior.

3.Summarize your findings from steps one and two.
4.Review your summarized information. Identify at least three marketing tactics to be developed as part of the overall marketing strategy you will develop in Unit 6.

You will want to fully explore and research this topic by raising questions that may be pertinent to your specific product or service. Note: Keep in mind that your previous assignment focused on external influences, and this assignment should focus on internal influences.

To successfully complete this assignment, you are expected to:
•Identify consumer characteristics of the selected product.
•Analyze contemporary issues that impact consumer purchasing patterns of the product.
•Describe how internal influences impact consumer behavior within different product or service segments of the consumer market.
•Demonstrate how internal influences relate to marketing practices when building a marketing strategy.
•Identify marketing tactics and strategies specific to the product or service.
•Present the analysis in a smooth manner, supported by properly cited resources.

Your paper should be 3–5 pages in length. Be sure to include at least 2–3 scholarly sources supporting your work, cited and referenced per current APA.
Internal Influences and Motivation Scoring Guide Grading Rubric
Criteria

Non-performance

Basic

Proficient

Distinguished

Identify consumer characteristics of the selected product.
10%
Does not identify consumer characteristics of the selected product. Identifies consumer characteristics but not for the selected product. Identifies consumer characteristics of the selected product. Identifies consumer characteristics of the selected product and describes possible segments.

Analyze contemporary issues that impact consumer purchasing patterns of the product.
20%
Does not identify contemporary issues that impact consumer purchasing patterns of the product. Identifies but does not analyze issues that impact consumer purchasing patterns of the product. Analyzes contemporary issues that impact consumer purchasing patterns of the product. Analyzes contemporary issues that impact consumer purchasing patterns of the product and supports with relevant real-world examples.

Describe how internal influences impact consumer behavior within different product or service segments of the consumer market.
20%
Does not identify how internal influences impact consumer behavior within different product or service segments of the consumer market. Describes internal influences but not the impact of these on consumer behavior within segments of the market. Describes how internal influences impact consumer behavior within different product or service segments of the consumer market. Describes how internal influences impact consumer behavior within different segments of the consumer markets, and links description to relevant concepts or theories.

Demonstrate how internal influences relate to marketing practices when building a marketing strategy.
20%
Does not address how internal influences relate to marketing practices when building a marketing strategy. Demonstrates how internal influences relate to marketing practices when building a marketing strategy, but elements of the explanation are missing or associated impacts are unclear. Demonstrates how internal influences relate to marketing practices when building a marketing strategy. Demonstrates how internal influences relate to marketing practices when building a marketing strategy, and links conclusions to relevant examples or theories.

Identify marketing tactics and strategies specific to the selected product or service.
20%
Does not identify marketing tactics and strategies specific to the product or service. Identifies marketing tactics and strategies but these are not specific to selected the product or service. Identifies marketing tactics and strategies specific to the selected product or service. Identifies marketing tactics and strategies specific to the selected product or service, and provides insights for developing new tactics or strategies.

Present the analysis in a smooth manner, supported by properly cited resources.
10%
Does not present analysis in a smooth manner, supported by properly cited resources. Supports analysis but does not use academically appropriate sources or has errors that distract from meaning. Presents the analysis in a smooth manner, supported by properly cited resources. Provides well-supported analysis, using appropriately formatted references that support the credibility of information presented.

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Hand Hygiene – The aim of this assignment is for the student to demonstrate an understanding of quality and safety in healthcare, including organisational and nursing strategies for care delivery, and evaluation of standards of care.

 
Aim:
The aim of this assignment is for the student to demonstrate an understanding of quality and safety in healthcare, including organisational and nursing strategies for care delivery, and evaluation of standards of care.

Task Details and Criteria
All Australians have the right to receive safe, high quality health care, regardless of the setting
(ACSQHC, 2008). Information about quality of care within health care organisations is discussed under three (3) categories: Structure, Process and Outcome (Donabedian, 1988).
• Structure – the context in which health care is delivered, inclusive of its buildings, its staff, its financial structures, and all its varied equipment.
• Process – activities, procedures, processes that are actually conducted in giving and receiving care.
• Outcomes – the effects of the care on the health status of the patient or patient population.
Information gathered about the processes used to deliver care is identified as Process data. Information about the resultant outcomes is identified as Outcome data. A clear relationship is identified in literature between Process and Outcome (Donabedian, 1988).
For this Assignment, you are required to:
1. Identify and explain the aims and core business of health institutions from the perspective of both the organisation and the nursing sector within the organisation
2. Identify and explain Process data and Outcome data in the context of quality and safety in health care
3. Use one (1) example of a clinical care activity for which process and outcome data is collected to:
• Discuss the clinical care activity in relation to quality and safety,
• Critically analyse scholarly literature and relevant resources to discuss the process and outcome data collected about that activity,
• Discuss how these data are used in relation to quality and safety in health care institutions.
Refer to the marking criteria for specific details
Presentation
To be presented in Essay format:
• Please refer to the Assignment Writing and Referencing Guidelines on the course site for information, on formatting, (including line spacing, font, page number and title page information) as well as referencing
• Ensure that you use scholarly literature (digitised readings, research articles, relevant Government reports and text books) that has been published within the last 7 years.
• Include an assignment cover sheet, and title page with your essay, but you do not need to include the marking guide.

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Music in Events

Attend an event in which music plays a large ceremonial, spiritual or religious role.
Describe the event.
What was the purpose of the gathering?
Who was there?
What happened?
What was the atmosphere like?
What type of music was used?
Describe the music in as much detail as you can.
Was it performed live or recorded?
Was it performed by professionals for the attendees to listen to, or did attendees participate in the music-making in any way?
What would this event have been like without music?
Did you have any particular emotional response to the music?
If so, describe what you felt.
Try to describe why you think you felt that way.
Why do you this this particular type of music was chosen for this event?
Can you imagine a different type of music at this event?
How might the atmosphere changed with different music?
What about if there had been no music?

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Social Change

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you are asked to consider the work of two thinkers–Erich Fromm and the Dalai Lama–who are addressing the same kinds of questions in a similar kind of way. It is hoped you will gain a richer understanding of the thinking process involved in the construction of a social systems theory by comparing two theorists engaged in similar approaches. The learning goal of the assignment is less about the specific theories or critiques of them, but rather for you to become immersed in the kinds of questions involved when someone designs a broad-based social systems theory, thereby facilitating your own ongoing process of social systems theorizing and related social action.

This assignment is based on the following readings:

Chapters 1-4, in Fromm, E., (2002). The sane society: With introduction by David Ingleby. (2nd enl. ed.). London, England: Routlege. (Available in Ebrary database Ebooks.)

Part I (Chapters 1-5) and Part III (Chapters 11-16), in Dalai Lama, H.H. (1999). Ethics for the new millennium. New York, HarperPerennnial: 1993.

In The Sane Society, Erich Fromm posits a social systems theory that includes a model of a healthy (“productive”) individual and of a healthy (“sane”) society that facilitates individual health, and the implication that societies can be more or less healthy based on those standards. The most important part of the book is thus in the opening chapters (chapters 1-4). The rest of the book is his attempt to make sense of how well society is doing in relation to the standards of healthy society he enumerated in the early chapters, and then how society might do better (“roads to sanity,” etc.).

In Ethics for the New Millennium, the Dalai Lama similarly posits a theory of human happiness (in Part I of the book), and then proceeds to explore the implications of this theory for global social system contexts.

The assignment is to write a 8-10 page paper analyzing and critiquing the social systems theories presented in the Sane Society and Ethics for the New Millennium. Compare and contrast Fromm’s notion of “productive orientation” with the Dalai Lama’s notion of “happiness.” Compare and contrast Fromm’s concept of “productive love” with the Dalai Lama’s concept of “compassion.” Compare and contrast their theories of a healthy self in relation to the health of various social systems, including society as a whole. Does each writer’s theory of societal health/illness make sense to you, in general? If so, in what way, and if not, why not? In what ways are the two theories complementary or conflicting? In what ways is each one a systems thinker–or: in what ways is each one putting forward a systems theory? Does one of these theories of human nature / human psychology / mental health ring truer to you? If so, in what ways? If not, why not? Can you suggest alternative approaches?

Option II

In an 8-10 page essay, complete the assignment as stated in Option I, only shift the emphasis of the majority of the essay to answering the final question of Option I: “Can you suggest alternative approaches?” Construct your own social system theory that includes a theory of the human potential, a critique of existing social systems and institutions in light of that potential, and social system paradigm shifts that might better enable the fulfillment of the human potential in your conception of it.

Please note: whichever option you choose, this is a traditional research paper assignment, in which you should use standard APA format. The essay should be posted as a Word document in the Assignment IV essay posting area, under Week 10 on the course home page.
Supplemental Material
Recordings of talks by Dalai Lama (2007) and Erich Fromm (2012) are available on the internet. Though, in each case, the talks do not go as far in depth or breadth as the readings for this assignment, listening to them directly adds wonderfully rich dimension to our understanding of how each one formulates and emphasizes their ideas–and how they connect the personal dimension of human happiness and development to larger social systems.

The Essential Erich Fromm is a documentary film-in-the-making about Fromm’s life and work. Below is the trailer for the film.

There are thousands of videos of the Dalai Lama on the internet; you are encouraged to check these out on your own. Many of these videos are longer than the one linked below. But this video, an invitation to attend the Seeds of Compassion (Links to an external site.) conference that took place in April 2008 in Seattle, Washington, captures, in a very brief amount of time, the essence of the Dalai Lama’s message about spirituality, ethics, and their application to social systems at all levels.
In an 8-10 page essay, complete the assignment as stated in Option I, only shift the emphasis of the majority of the essay to answering the final question of Option I: “Can you suggest alternative approaches?” Construct your own social system theory that includes a theory of the human potential, a critique of existing social systems and institutions in light of that potential, and social system paradigm shifts that might better enable the fulfillment of the human potential in your conception of it.

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Case Study_:

 

You are the hospital administrator, and this situation has been brought to your attention. The mother of a pregnant minor seeks to obtain the daughter’s medical records because she wishes to see if the daughter indicated to hospital personnel the identity of the father of her unborn child. The patient is a 12-year-old, unmarried youth who lives at home with her parents, and her parents are paying for her obstetrical care. The patient does not consent to the release of her medical records to her parents. The mother has made it known to you that she intends to sue if she does not get the records as a result of this request.

· Identify the main facts of the case. You may itemize these in a bulleted list.

· Identify any legal issues that are present, as well as the doctrines and/or duties that apply. You may itemize these in a bulleted list.

· Based on HIPAA and confidentiality laws, who provides the consent to treat this young, pregnant woman?

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Neuroscience, Movement and Learning

 
6 pages on the links between learning and neuroscience, plasticity and neurogenesis.

6 pages on the links between learning and movement/physical activity.

For both sections (Neuroscience & Movement) they need to address these three criteria
1. What does it do?
2. What experiences are provided?
3. What does it look like?

Internet sources are fine but mainly need to address what does the research on these topics say.

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Book Approsal

 
Book Appraisal Paper INSTRUCTIONS:

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DIRECTIONS: STUDENTS ARE TO COMPLETE A TYPED AS WELL DOUBLE SPACED BOOK APPRAISAL ABOUT ANY ONE OF THE SUGGESTED BOOKS IN THE BOOKS SUGGESTION LIST. NONETHELESS, STUDENTS MAY SELECT AN BOOK WITH AN ECONOMIC, POLITICAL OR CULTURAL HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND SUGGEST IT TO PROF W SEAY AS WELL AS TO THE THE CLASS AS LONG AS THE PROFESSOR HAS APPROVED IT.. **DO NOT SUMMARISE THE BOOK. RATHER, ILLUSTRATE AND ANALYSE FIVE MAIN ARGUMENTS OR POINTS OF SIGNIFIGANCE THE AUTHOR MAKES AND WHY YOU THE READER AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THEM. **

**FOOTNOTE ALL PARAPHRASED DATA
** AND CERTAINLY MAKE REFERENCES FROM OTHER SCHOLARLY **BOOKS AND ARTICLES TO DEFEND THE PRESENTED ARGUMENT

PAPERS MUST BE 8-10 PAGES IN LENGTH. STUDENTS,

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assigment1

 
Where to start?
The following text describes the working life of five successful individuals with high levels of job satisfaction. You are asked to read this text and then discuss five questions presented in a table immediately after. You will find each of the assignment questions that you need to address on the left column, and the instructions to answer each question on the right column. READ this very carefully as these instructions give clear guidelines about what it is expected to be discussed in each question.
In order to answer these questions, you will need to draw on the material we work through in Term 1: job attitudes, personality and organizational context.

TESTIMONIALS: DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A SATISFYING JOB?
1) John Bishop, 31, is an investment banker who works for Citigroup’s global energy team in New York. A recent workday for Bishop consisted of heading to the office for a conference call at 6:00 pm. He left the office at 1:30 am and had to be on a plane that same morning for a 9:00 am presentation in Houston. Following the presentation, Bishop returned to New York the same day, and by 7 pm he was back in the office to work an additional three hours. Says Bishop “I might be a little skewed to a workaholic, but realistically, expecting 90 to 100 hours a week is not unusual”.
2) Irene Tse, 34, heads the government bond-trading division at Goldman Sachs. For ten years, she has seen the stock market go from all-time high to recessionlevels. Such fluctuations can mean millions of dollars in either profits or losses. “There are days when you can make a lot, and other days when you lose so much you are just stunned by what you’ve done”, says Tse. She also states that she hasn’t completely slept completely through the nights in many yearsand frequently wakes up several times during the night to check the global market status. Her average workweek? Eighty hours. “I’ve done this for 10 years, and I can count on the fingers ofone hand the number of days in my career when I didn’t want to come to work. Every day I wake up I can’t wait to come here.
3) Tony Kurtz, 33, is a managing director at Capital Alliance Partners and raises funds for real-estate investments. However, these are not your average properties. He often travels to exotic locations like Costa Rica and Hawai, wooing prospective clients. He travels more than 300.000miles a year, often sleeping on planes and dealing with yet lag.Kurz is not only one he knows with such a hectic work schedule. His girlfriend, Avery Baker, logs around 400,000 miles a year, working as the senior vice president of marketing for Tommy Hilfiger. “It’s not easy to maintain a relationship like this. But do they like their jobs? You bet
4) David Clark, 35, is the vice president of global marketing for MTV. His job often consists of travelling around the globe to promote the channel as well as to keep up with the global music scene. If he is not travelling (Clark typically logs 200,000 miles per year) a typical day consists of waking at 6:30 am and immediately responding to numerous messages that have been accumulated throughout the course of the night. He then goes to his office. Where throughout the day he will respond to another 500 messages or so from clients around the world. If he’s lucky he gets to spend an hour a day with his son, but then is back to work until he finally goes to bed around midnight. Says Clark “there are lot of people who would love this job. They are knocking on the door all the time. So that’s motivating.
Many individuals would balk at the prospects of a 60-hour or more workweek with constant travelling and little time for anything else. However, some individuals are exhilarated by such professions. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2004, about 17% of managers worked more than 60 hours per week. But the demands for such jobs are not for everyone. Many quit with turnovers around 55% for consultants and 30% for investment bankers. However, it is clear that such jobs which are time consuming and often stressful, can be satisfying for some individuals.
Case Study extracted from Robbins and Judge (2007, p. 98)
ASSIGNMENT QUESTION INSTRUCTIONS FOR EACH QUESTION
1) What are the characteristics of the job that might contribute to high levels of job satisfaction in these examples? (500 words)
-Identify these elements from the text and explain to what extent the literature on job design and satisfaction supports these findings

Support your arguments with relevant sources using Harvard Reference in both questions (start with notes from week 5)
2) Pick one of these individuals (1,2, 3, or 4 ) and explain potential cultural manifestations that might be experienced in the organisation.
What surface manifestations and values seem to be supportive of/consistent with the “satisfying” job characteristics discussed in Q.1? (500 words)? -Identify and discuss some of the cultural manifestations of the chosen companies.
-Critically analyse how these cultural elements seem to be consistent (or not) with the satisfying elements the job discussed in Q1.
Support your arguments with relevant sources using Harvard Reference in both questions (start with notes from week 2, mention Schein’s levels of culture)
3)Discuss the role of personality in finding this type of jobs satisfying (500 words) -Use the Big 5 model of personality as a theoretical framework to explain some of these individuals’ behaviour
-You can also use other personality traits if you think are relevant for the answer
Support your arguments with relevant sources using Harvard Reference (start with notes from week 4)
4) These individuals seem satisfied with their jobs. Discuss how this relates to (500 words):
 Their performance
 The perceived organizational support
 The possibility of them leaving the organization
 Their general attitudes and
 Their general behaviour -Use relevant research to back up your arguments about how job satisfaction is associated with other attitudes and behaviour

Support your arguments with relevant sources using Harvard Reference (start with notes from week 5)
5)Write a conclusions and “lessons learned for managers” that discusses the following:
a. Discuss the relative value of personality, job design and culture to explain job satisfaction. (250 words)
b. All these individuals had very long hours work, what are the aspects that a manager can still use for individuals working in lower ranked jobs? (250 words)
(a) Evaluate how the individual and organisational factors play a role in job satisfaction. Is it enough by looking at an individuals’ personality? Or the way we design the jobs? Do we need both? How does this reflect the contingent element of this discipline?
(b) Identify the key learning points about job satisfaction that can be extrapolated to different (probably less glamorous jobs)
Support your arguments with relevant sources using Harvard Reference
In particular the following materials will be useful for you;

• Critical thinking and logical argument skills
• Building an argument
• Analytical thinking
• Report writing and report layout

What format?
1) Like any other assignment, it should have an introduction, body and a conclusion
2) The intro makes clear to the reader the topic to be discussed and how you will do so
3) In the body you begin to discuss each of the questions. A recommended heading structure is as follows:
1. Job design and Job satisfaction
2. Organizational culture and Job satisfaction
3. Personality and Job satisfaction
4. Outcomes of Job satisfaction
5. Lessons learned
4) Within each heading, there should also be a logical structure. You should start by introducing the “theme” that you are discussing (in other words, the general topic or heading), follow up with some theory/published findings about it/then application of this theory to the testimonials/ look for agreements but also discrepancies and extract some conclusion.
For instance, the first question discusses job satisfaction and characteristics of the job. Thus, you could start your answer to Question 1 by arguing that “The way jobs are designed affects individual’s attitudes towards it, in particular their job satisfaction. Studies have found that X, Y, Z elements seem to be highly correlated with job satisfaction (Reference)…In this particular case (examples from the testimonials), respondents seem to agree that their jobs provide them XXX . According to (Reference) these aspects are key drivers of job satisfaction.
5) In your overall conclusions you draw together all of the main points without adding anything that has not been discussed in the body

6) You must stick to the limit of the word count for each section. Your marks are distributed evenly to each of the five questions so avoid doing great in one and limit your efforts for the rest
Use of sources?
1) Use a wide range of sources including textbooks (as a start) but mostly peer-reviewed journal articles
2) Answers that read like “opinions” without any sources to backed them up and no evidence of reading will not be counted
MARKING CRITERIA
1) Business –. Appreciation of international, national and organisational context
a. 20%
2) Knowledge of subject matter. Evidence of wide reading and a comprehensive familiarity with the topic reinforced by citation from appropriate third part sources, rese4arch and relevant literature
a. 30%
3) Critical thinking. Demonstration of the ability to analyse and evaluate both theory and research and to make objective and impartial judgments and proposals
a. 30%
4) Application capability. The development of firm conclusions which reflect the analysis undertaken
a. 10%
5) Presentation and persuasion skills. The systematic organisation and presentation oif the assignment so that it is coherent, convincing, accurate, reader friendly and business like.