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Policy Briefing Paper

It is very important that this paper is written on the level of a graduate student. Pay close attention to grammar and word choices.
For this paper, you will assume the role of a staff member for an elected policymaking body, such as a city council, a county commission, or a state legislative or Congressional committee. In that role, you have been asked to prepare an economic policy briefing paper for the group.

For the briefing paper, the policy topic is the Supreme Court decision from June that overthrew state bans on same-sex marriage.

Each of the policy areas mentioned above is very broad. When preparing your briefing paper, you should narrow your focus to a particular policy within the policy area. Your policy can be a specific law, ordinance, legislative proposal, regulation, or court decision. You should provide an authoritative source for the policy, for example, a city code, state statute, administrative regulation, or federal law.

Your briefing paper will include the following major sections related to your specific policy:

1. A detailed description of the policy on which your paper will focus, including primary source materials.
2. An explanation of the position that would follow from the classical liberal, radical, and modern liberal theoretical perspectives for your specific policy.
3. The position preferences related to one political party associated with one of the economic theoretical perspectives. For example, the Democratic Party is most closely linked to a modern liberal or to a radical theoretical perspective, while the Republican Party might be most closely linked to the classical liberal perspective. This section should include an explanation of your rationale for linking the particular party you selected with the theoretical perspective you have chosen. You should also note similarities and differences between the theoretical perspective and the party position related to your policy. Does the party follow a particular perspective, or does it combine elements of the perspectives?
The briefing paper should accurately describe the contesting views of appropriate economic policy. In this paper, you should not express a personal preference for a specific policy. We will leave the choice of policy outcomes to the elected officials for whom you are preparing this report. Your goal is to both provide the members with concise, accurate summaries of the key theoretical arguments related to a specific policy, and to demonstrate how one perspective gets translated into a political party’s policy position.

You are writing sections of the paper that explain how proponents of each theory would view the policy being analyzed. In describing the application of each theory to the policy, you should put yourself in the position of someone who supports the theory. So, for the classic liberal section, you should explain not only how the theory applies, but why proponents of the theory think their view is best. For example, classic liberals argue that their principles will produce the best economic outcomes. You should make that case, even if you disagree with it.

Your paper should have the following sections:

I. Introduction: Provide a preview of the contents of the paper.

II. Policy Description:
1. Public problem the policy addresses (don’t mention the policy yet)
2. Policy description

III. Classic Liberal Approach
1. Overview of classic liberalism
2. Classic liberal approach to the policy problem
3. Classic liberal view of the policy

IV. Radical Approach
1. Overview of radicalism
2. Radical approach to the policy problem
3. Classic liberal view of the policy

V. Modern Liberal Approach
1. Overview of modern liberalism
2. Modern liberal approach to the policy problem
3. Modern liberal view of the policy

VI. Policy Recommendation
Based on the above analyses, what would you recommend with respect to the policy? Continue, revise, or repeal?

VII. Conclusion: Provide a summary of the contents of the paper.
If you offer your opinion of the theories, make sure you do so based on evidence. Don’t praise or denigrate the theories using inflammatory language. Your assessment should be logical, not emotional. The sources used for each perspective need to be from scholars from that view.

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Human Resources- Individual Performance Pay

question is: “Critically assess the benefits of individual performance pay. Discuss whether individual performance pay is harmful for team performance”
– For my Human Resource Management class
– I have to hand it in on “Turn it In” so must be original
– Max 2250 words
– You are able to answer and discuss the first question in the beginning of the essay and move onto the 2nd question in the last part of the essay if you want
– Should mention both sides of the argument (you dont have to conclude to one side..it could be completely dependent on what type of setting it is in, but you can conclude to one side if you want)

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Masonic History

is a paper for presentation to a social group, not a formal academic requirement. I need approximately 5 pages to present to a group about the history/customs of Freemasonry. I am open to options should you have a better topic but I am leaning towards a discussion of the history and origins of the language used. It discusses how the phrases and words used in ceremony don’t make sense in English. Please contact me directly to discuss or elaborate.

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Heuristic Evaluation

make sure to answer 3 questions

Starbucks application OR Chase Bank

Assignment instructor:
Heuristic Evaluation
Usability is one of the most important aspects of any technology. If it is not designed intuitively, users are very quick to ‘bail’ on the technology in favor of something else. As such, designers are always looking for ways to engage users in the quickest way possible. Please provide a screenshot of a technology that you feel violates a usability principle from Nielsen.
In your post, please describe what is wrong with the interface according to Nielsen and how you might redesign it in order to avoid errors. In your response to peers, please also add at least 2 additional ways that the interface could be redesigned.
1. Please post your initial design by
make sure to answer 3 questions

Starbucks application OR Chase Bank

Assignment instructor:
Heuristic Evaluation
Usability is one of the most important aspects of any technology. If it is not designed intuitively, users are very quick to ‘bail’ on the technology in favor of something else. As such, designers are always looking for ways to engage users in the quickest way possible. Please provide a screenshot of a technology that you feel violates a usability principle.
In your post, please describe what is wrong with the interface and how you might redesign it in order to avoid errors. In your response to peers, please also add at least 2 additional ways that the interface could be redesigned.
1. Please post your initial design
2. Please respond to two peers
3. Please post your redesigns

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Employment Relations

Should American Government legislate to establish mechanisms for employee voice beyond the traditional (collective/indirect) union mechanism? Why? Why not? Draw on academic literature and examples
from workplaces and industry to support the argument of your report.
it needs at least 10 academic refrences and needs in text refrencing.
needs to be set out like this;
Assessment title page;
• Executive summary;
• Table of contents;
• Introduction;
• Body;
• Conclusions;
• Recommendations;
• References.

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Article Review

The purpose of this assignment is to engage in the sort of writing that is the basis for literature reviews,research proposals (both of which are common types of “term paper assignments”) and the introductions of researchreports. While this assignment is somewhat rudimentary, it does have the major elements of this type of writing: 1)the ability to read and critique a research article, 2) the ability to integrate the information from two articles (the premiseis that if you can do this for two articles in this assignment you will be able to do so for more articles in laterassignments), 3) the ability to propose a piece of “new” research that is related to the research you reviewed, and 4)the ability to present these using the APA style and format.
The assignment is based on the two articles you have been given, and has four parts, each of which can beaccomplished in a single well-written paragraph: 1) A critique of the “first article, 2) A critique of the “second article”,3) An “integration” of the information in the two articles and 4) a proposal of an original research project that is drawnfrom the critique and integration of the two articles.

Critiquing Each Article
This is very similar to what we did during the in-class research critique activity (the specific things to includeare listed on the Rubric). The challenge is to coordinate the information from each article and to compose itinto a well-structured summary paragraph, while striking a proper balance between completeness and brevity. Carefulreading of the introductions of the articles you have been given is a good way to see examples of this type of writing.

Integrating the Two Articles
The “Integrating” of the two articles is often the hardest part of this assignment. The idea is to help the readerunderstand why you have told them about each of the articles by tying the two articles together. The three majorcomponents of this kind of integration are: 1) telling the similarities between the articles (focusing more on theprocedures used and results obtained than on the purposes of the two studies); 2) telling the differences between thearticles (especially when procedural differences may have produced the differences in the results); and 3) telling whatwe learn when we consider the information from these two studies taken together that we didn’t know from readingeither one of them in isolation.

Proposing a New Research Project
The description of the proposed research project will include, a) the purpose of the proposed research, b) thespecific research question or research hypothesis, c) the sample that will be used (description and number), d)research materials (stimuli, apparatus, psychological tests, etc.) and procedures (what the participants will do that willproduce the data) that will be used.
While there is no “formula” for combining the information from two studies into a novel research idea, there area few basic approaches that can lead to new research ideas, such as…

• Extending a research finding to another population. Example — you critique two articles that demonstrate thereis a relationship between locus of control (a measure of the extent to which a person believes that “internal” versus”external” forces control their lives) and consistency of contraceptive use in college-aged students, and propose astudy of whether these two constructs are related in high school students. (An obvious variation on this is tocritique two articles that deal with two populations and propose research involving a third.) This approach won’tget you many points on this assignment — see the Grading Sheet.
• Extending a research finding to another situation. Example — you critique two articles that demonstrate the utilityof a treatment in one situation (say, inpatient therapy) and propose a study of whether this same technique canprofitably be applied in a different situation (say, outpatient therapy).
• Explicit comparison of two procedures/techniques/treatments that have each been compared to some control,but not to each other. Example — “first article” demonstrates that cognitive-behavioral technique “A” for socialanxiety works better than a control treatment, the “second article” demonstrates that cognitive –behavioraltechnique “B” also works better than a control, and you propose a direct comparison of techniques “A” and “B”.
• Resolving apparent contradictions is another good basis for proposed research. Sometimes two articles thatseem to be contradicting each other aren’t really comparable, because of differences in the population, materials,or procedures that were used. For example: The “first article finds a relationship between locus of control (using Rotter’s I-E scale) and consistency of contraceptive use (measured as a self-report of the % sexual encounterswhen contraceptive was used) in college students. However, a “second article” reports finding no relationshipbetween locus of control (using Hareleson’s controlling forces index) and consistency of contraceptive use(measured as whether or not they used a contraceptive each time they have had sex) in high school students.You would note that there are three differences between these studies (the population used, the measure of locusof control, the measure of contraceptive consistency) and propose a study that uses all four measures in bothpopulations. This approach isn’t always available — there has to be a contradiction, and it has to have goneunnoticed (except by you).
• Perhaps the most common basis for proposing new research is to combine two findings to predict a third. For example: The “first article” reports a relationshipbetween how well people can interpret body language (e.g., that folks tend to lean towards a speaker who issaying something in which they are interested but to lean away from one who is not) and how well they enjoyconversations with strangers. The “second article” reports that many socially anxious people say they don’t likestarting conversations with people they don’t know well, because they don’t enjoy the conversations. Combiningthese two findings, you propose research to test the hypothesis that teaching socially anxious people how to moreaccurately interpret body language will lead them to better enjoy conversations with people they don’t know.

Remember — this is the sort of writing (summarizing, integrating & proposing) that you arelikely to be doing not only during the rest of this semester, but in most of your otherPsychology classes. Now’s the time to learn how to do it well!!

How Do I Learn to Write This Way???
A good way to learn how to organize research findings to produce ideas for new research is to read theintroductions of other’s research reports carefully. These usually “tell a story” about the history of research in an area,including how previous researchers have combined various findings to create new ideas. The introduction will alsogive you an example of how the author combined the ideas of others to produce the idea for the article that you arereading.

There’s Lots of Help with this Assignment!!
Besides this set of instructions, there are four handouts that will help you with the assignment: 1) There is agrading sheet that tells how the points for this assignment will be awarded. Read it carefully and be sure to includeall parts that are worth points! 2) All slides and handouts on APA format. 3) Examples of papers in your textbook and presented in class. 4) Finally, there is a handout that shows examples of a “poorer” and a “better” write-upof this type.

So, you should review the handouts on general APA style and citations, compare the “Poorer” and “muchimproved” versions of the write-up of today’s Design Critique and follow the Grading Sheet to be sure you have all theright stuff in the right place.

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worksheet

Prepare a written response to the following questions.

Chapter 1

1. Explain and give an example for each of the following types of variables:

a. Nominal:

b. Ordinal:

c. Interval:

d. Ratio scale:

e. Continuous:

f. Discrete:

g. Quantitative:

h. Qualitative:
2. Following are the speeds of 40 cars clocked by radar on a particular road in a 35-mph zone on a particular afternoon:

30, 36, 42, 36, 30, 52, 36, 34, 36, 33, 30, 32, 35, 32, 37, 34, 36, 31, 35, 20
24, 46, 23, 31, 32, 45, 34, 37, 28, 40, 34, 38, 40, 52, 31, 33, 15, 27, 36, 40

Make a frequency table and a histogram, then describe the general shape of the distribution.

3. Raskauskas and Stoltz (2007) asked a group of 84 adolescents about their involvement in traditional and electronic bullying. The researchers defined electronic bullying as “…a means of bullying in which peers use electronics {such as text messages, emails, and defaming Web sites} to taunt, threaten, harass, and/or intimidate a peer” (p.565). The table below is a frequency table showing the adolescents’ reported incidence of being victims or perpetrators or traditional and electronic bullying.

a. Using this table as an example, explain the idea of a frequency table to a person who has never had a course in statistics.
b. Explain the general meaning of the pattern of results.

Incidence of Traditional and Electronic Bullying and Victimization (N=84)
Forms of Bullying N %
Electronic victims 41 48.8
Text-message victim 27 32.1
Internet victim (websites, chatrooms) 13 15.5
Picture-phone victim 8 9.5
Traditional Victims 60 71.4
Physical victim 38 45.2
Teasing victim 50 59.5
Rumors victim 32 38.6
Exclusion victim 30 50
Electronic Bullies 18 21.4
Text-message bully 18 21.4
Internet bully 11 13.1
Traditional Bullies 54 64.3
Physical bully 29 34.5
Teasing bully 38 45.2
Rumor bully 22 26.2
Exclusion bully 35 41.7

4.the effects of a new antibullying program, among students in grades 1–3 and grades 7–9 in 147 schools. The schools were randomly assigned to receive the new antibullying program or no program. At the beginning, middle, and end of the school year, all of the students completed a number of questionnaires, which included the following two questions: “How often have you been bullied at school in the last couple of months?” and “How often have you bullied others at school in the last couple of months?” The table below is a frequency table that shows students’ responses to these two questions at the end of the school year (referred to as “Wave 3” in the title of the table). Note that the table shows the results combined for all of the students in the study. In the table, “victimization” refers to students’ reports of being bullied and “bullying” is students’ reports of bullying other students.

a. Using this table as an example, explain the idea of a frequency table to a person who has never had a course in statistics.

b. Explain the general meaning of the pattern of results. (You may be interested to know that the KiVa program successfully reduced victimization and bullying among students in grades 1–3 but the results were mixed with regards to the effectiveness of the program among those in grades 7–9.)

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key internal factors

For the organization where you work ideas about strategy and their framework to identify the key internal factors that are likely to have implications for enterprise performance and strategic goal accomplishment. In Week One you looked at your organization’s mission, vision, values and key objectives and began the process of evaluating strategic alignment. Now you will take this a step further and examine more systematically the resources, capabilities, systems and processes, and other internal factors that are important for successful strategy implementation. Later in the semester, (in week 7) you will have another opportunity to apply what you have learned to your own situation but your focus will then be on external factors and forces and their implications for both your industry and your organization.
For this week 5 paper, submit your work in your assignment folder in the form of a 2,500 word (approximate) double-spaced APA formatted report. The title page, abstract, reference list, and appendices are not included in this word count. (Note: Supplementary information should be placed in Appendices rather than in the body of the paper.)
Scenario: To tackle this week’s assignment, assume you are in the role of an internal consultant who is able to couple your knowledge about strategy with the excellent research and analytical skills needed to fill any gaps. Imagine your boss, who knows you are taking this course and are almost finished your graduate management degree program, has asked you to put together a report that will help the executive team gain a richer understanding of the organization’s resources and capabilities and the extent to which these might be leveraged for competitive advantage. During this conversation your boss says, “The things you have been telling me about strategy and this VRIO framework have made me look at things differently and make me want to learn more about where we stand with respect to the value, rarity, imitability of our resources and capabilities, and whether we are organized as well as we should be. I want you to look at our current situation and share any recommendations you may have as a result of your analysis.” He adds, ” I know I can count on you for a strong objective analysis that relies on independently verifiable evidence. I think it will help you to be objective if you rely only on information that is publicly available rather than “digging around” in any of our confidential organizational documents. I hope I can use your report to put together a presentation for the executive team. If you do a good job with this it might also prove useful for a briefing for our Board. Remember, this is not something I want shared with others until I have a chance to read what you have found.”
As you leave this imaginary meeting with your boss, you take comfort in knowing that your report is actually just for your professor who is required to treat everything you will share as confidential. You also remind yourself that because this is for academic credit you will need to include and cite sources to relevant scholarly and professional work. These things said, you look forward to the opportunity to apply what you are learning to your own organization and practice using your “consultant’s eye.”
1. Begin your research process by clarifying your organization’s current corporate/enterprise-wide and business-level strategies. As you will recall, these are the prevailing shared assumptions (or theories) about how the organization will be able to achieve or maintain competitive advantage. This is something you began thinking about in week one. You may find this resource provides some useful reminders and additional guidance:
2. Recall from Barney and Hesterly’s Chapter 2 that you can apply the Resource-Based View (RBV) to help you identify both the tangible and intangible assets your organization may be able to use to accomplish its intended strategies.
3. Identify internal resources that are or may be critical for implementing the organization’s strategy and analyze the extent to which they are recognized as such. Preform a preliminary analysis of the extent to which the resources you identify qualify as valuable, rare, costly to imitate, and whether your organization has the capability to leverage them for competitive advantage. Note that, while there will be important differences, the criteria apply equally to organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sector. Your analysis will be preliminary because you will have an opportunity later to conduct a more comprehensive evaluation of your organization’s situation compared with its competitors, which will be part of your task in week 7. You will also think more about value creating options as you read additional chapters in our textbook.
4. Consider and discuss the things that may make your organization’s potentially valuable and rare resources and capabilities difficult for others to imitate. Use Value Chain Analysis to help you deepen your understanding of the relative value of the resources and capabilities you have identified. Seek objective and independently verifiable evidence of potential rarity of the resources and capabilities.
5. Analyze the extent to which your enterprise is organized and managed to fully exploit its key resources for competitive advantage. Consider, for example, whether the organization’s structure, size, operations, and key systems align with and are therefore likely to support successful accomplishment of the strategy.
6. Present a preliminary summary of your organization’s strengths and potential (or currently verifiable) competitive capabilities. Also summarize the organization’s weaknesses. (Note: You will have an opportunity to revisit and complete a full SWOT analysis, including threats and opportunities, as part of your week 7 paper.) Put your summary in a table and include a brief narrative explanation of your supporting rationale.
7. Extend your analysis to include a preliminary discussion and analysis of your organization’s business-level strategies. Consider whether you organization currently uses or might use a cost leadership strategy (gains an advantage by reducing or keeping costs lower than others). If you believe this is an intended strategy in your organization, look at how this is being achieved, whether it appears to be successful, and whether there are or may be associated risks/concerns. When analyzing your organization’s business-level strategies, look also at the extent to which product/services differentiation may be applicable and evaluate associated benefits and risks.
8. When analyzing business-level strategies, be sure to include an evaluation of the extent to which the organization has the resources and capabilities required for sustainable competitive advantage.
9. In your conclusion, include things you might suggest for your manager’s “worry list”
10. Finally, include and appropriately support a set of preliminary recommendations for action. These should be shared only with your professor. You will have an opportunity to revisit these recommendations again in your week 7 report.

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Topic: Discrimination in relation to mental illness

A business report in managing workplace relations. The report is about developing a policy in Discrimination in relation to mental illness in Australia. The specification of the paper requirements will be attached.

A business report in managing workplace relations. The report is about developing a policy in Discrimination in relation to mental illness in Australia. The specification of the paper requirements will be attached.