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This essentially is a clearly articulated personal philosophy of leadership with specific comparison/contrast to other models learned through the Northouse text. Show your understanding of the difficulty of making ethical and socially responsible decisions and to develop a plan to personally make better decisions in the future
Articulate a framework for leadership using theories and apply it to a personal situation

Differentiate between effective leadership theories and how they are used in various situations
Describe various leadership issues and apply strategies toward addressing them
Evaluate their personal leadership effectiveness

Text:
Northouse, Peter (2016). Leadership: Theory and Practice (7th Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

If you can use this text as one of the sources that would be great, but if the text is not accessible to you that is fine. I have no way of providing a copy.

 

Joshua Chamberlain at Little Roundtop – Reflection Paper 5

Joshua Chamberlain ‘s story draws our attention to another striking leadership challenge. In the
Leadership Moment book, author Michael Useem draws our attention to some key dimensions to
ponder: ( 1) enlisting the troops; (2) small actions/great value; (3) taking responsibility. Review the way
the author describes each of those aspects (pp. 141-146). Choose one of them and apply the lessons to
another leader. How did that person address that aspect of leadership, and what were the effects?
How does this aspect of leadership apply to your life? Textbook: The Leadership Moment Nine True
Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All. Michael Useem, New York: Three Rivers
Press.

 

 

Discussmn 1 – Prewriting
First post , and at least two additional posts or responses
(60 points). 3
Due Dates and Particigation Reguirements
Learning Objectives Covered
0 Practice and use the first step of the writing process, specifically prewriting methods (brainstorming, Outlining, mapping,
and free writing), to generate ideas for the paper. 3
Media j
Please make sure you review the media for Week One before beginning your work. i
Background
This course is designed to teach the process of writing. There are a variety of processes that work for different
individuals-or even the same individual using different processes depending on the writing needs. The topic of this
discussion forum is Prewriting. Prewriting is the writing done before you actually start to write your paper. The objective with
this discussion forum is to explore the different ways of prewriting to find an activity that works well for you. Prewriting
exercises explored in this forum include free-writing, brainstorming, mapping, and questioning. These exercises will also
help you decide on a topic for your final paper.
Before you get started, review the reading on Prewriting or see examples of prewriting activities here Q {a},
Discusswn Prompt
Like any writing project, a discussion post requires some preparation as you figure out what to write about and how you will
write about it. Your primary post requires two preparation steps before you actually start writing. Step 3 below is what you
will put in your post.

 

Step 1: Prepare to write your post by choosing a topic angle.
For any paper, there are several steps in the writing process: prewriting, writing, revising, and editing. During this course, i
you will write one short research paper. We will take one step each week and, in Week 4, submit the final draft of the paper
you begin this week. i
For this week’s assignment, you will work on the first step of the writing process: Prewriting. You will need to select one of
three assigned topics, but you will choose an angle that is unique to you. The topic you select this week will be what you
write about for the remainder of the course.
Choose one of the three topics below for this discussion. It will also be the topic for the
paper you build in this course.
0 Topic 1: Is it more important to have soft skills or hard skills? Support your claim with research, including how
either soft skills or hard skills are used in your career. “Please note, you must decided if either soft skills or hard skills
are more important in this paper. Do NOT reuse assignments or material from previous courses.” 1
0 Topic 2: How do the skills you’re learning in General Education courses apply to your future career? Support 1
your paper with research (ex. communication, soft skills, importance of time management, etc.)
0 Topic 3: Convince a friend, family member, or coworker to consider earning a college degree. Identify 3-5
reasons why someone should be a college graduate. 3
There are many ways to approach each topic, so find an angle that interests you. Using a prewriting activity, or activities,
can help you determine which is the best topic for you.
Step 2: Prewrite about the topic you chose.
Choose a prewriting activity – free-writing, brainstorming, mapping or questioning. Perform the activity using the topic you
chose in Step 1.
Some questions to consider as you prewrite: 4
o What do you already know about the topic? What interests you about the topic?
0 Where might you learn more about the topic? (Friends? Family?) 3
o What sources would be helpful in learning about this topic?
For your research paper, you will need three reasons to support your topic. You should start thinking about these
reasons now as you prewrite. These reasons will be the supporting points in your thesis statement and the body of
your paper. For the outline portion of your assignment this week, you will need to list these reasons as well.”
Step 3: Post in the forum. 5
Once you finish the prewriting activity, post in the discussion forum about your efforts. Ii
o What prewriting activity or activities did you do? 1
0 Why did you select the prewriting activity or activities that you did?
o What was hard about the activity?

 

o What was easy about the activity?

0 Explain your reasons for selecting your topic, and how the prewriting process helped you in exploring the topic.
In your responses to other students’ posts, push the discussion further. Remember to be respectful to each other, but also
challenge the discussion-in other words, work with each other and the instructor here to explore this topic and figure it out
for yourselves as a group.

 

 

 

 

Then, in an essay that synthesizes at least three of the sources for support, take a position that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that schools would be improved if teachers were paid on the basis of performance.
You may refer to the sources by their titles (Source A, Source B, etc.) or by the descriptions in parentheses.
Source A (Meyers)
Source D (Johnson)
Source E (Ranney)

Source A: Meyers, Joseph P. “It’s time for Merit Pay.” in Fort Pierce Journal, May 17, 2003. 18.
Ask any student in any school in America, and you will hear the same refrain: some of the teachers in the school are terrible instructors leading boring classes in which students learn little or nothing, while other teachers do an outstanding job of motivating and instructing our children. If this were any other business, those high quality teachers would be bringing home the biggest paychecks, but that is not how it is in America. In America we pay the poor teachers the same as the good ones, or, even worse, we pay them more. The fact is, quality of work is not even a consideration in teaching pay scales, and it is time for that to change.
In almost all school districts today, teachers are paid according to the length of time in the district and the amount of graduate school credit they have accumulated over the years. A poor teacher who hangs on for 30 years, gathering credit in meaningless classes, gets the top pay, while a young, brilliant, hard-working teacher is at the bottom of the scale, despite the fact that he or she is doing twice the job of the teacher with the top pay.
This system started years ago, and it made some sense then. Teacher pay was very uneven, but for reasons that have nothing to do with quality. Specifically, women were paid significantly less then men, on the theory that if they were married, they had husbands who were earning enough money to support the family, and if they were not married, then they only had one mouth to feed. The current teacher pay scale was born to prevent abuses like that by making objective measures—experience and education—the basis for pay.
The idea was good, but experience and education do not guarantee high performance. It is time to put actual performance into play as the determiner of salary. Rewarding teachers by the quality of their performance will increase the job satisfaction for these hard workers and make them want to continue their performance. More importantly, it will motivate the poorer teachers to work harder, learn new skills, or get into another profession where they belong.

Source D: Johnson, Edwin R, ed. “Peter Jacobson” in Lives in Education: Award Winning Teachers Tell their Stories. New York: McMillan. 2003.
I actually had a good time at first in that school. I made a lot of friends, and we seemed to enjoy, in some perverse way, having to deal with that principal. It gave us something to talk about—and laugh about—when we got together. That ended, though, just before my third year in the building.
We had a merit pay system, in which the supposed top teachers in the school got a bonus for being so great. Of course, since our infamous principal was in charge of selecting the recipients, you can be sure greatness had nothing to do with teaching quality. We usually didn’t pay much attention to it—until we found out that one of the teachers in our department, one of the people we hung out with and laughed about the principal with—had gotten merit pay. He was a pretty mediocre teacher who had never used any of the tricks that others used to draw attention to themselves, so we could not figure out any way he could have gotten it—unless he was talking to the principal about what we all were saying about him.
A spy in our midst!
I don’t know if it was true, but the next year was not a good one. Whenever he entered the office, conversations would stop. He was pretty much exiled from all social activities. Did he really sit in the principal’s office and tell him everything that we were saying behind his back in order to win his performance bonus? I have no idea, but the fear that he might have done so destroyed the harmony we used to feel and made him in particular a pariah. The gloom of suspicion hung over the department for the whole next year.
I decided that this was no place for me to develop my career. I wanted to work in a school where we could all work together for the common goal of educating children without all that continual turmoil and suspicion. The principal was fired a couple of years later, but I was long gone by then. I was fortunate enough to find a school with a nurturing atmosphere that allowed me to grow and become the teacher I had always envisioned myself to be.

Source E: Courson, David P. “New Indicators of Teacher Performance” in The Fort Bisbee Journal. April 1, 2005. 18.
One aspect of the new state testing system that has not been considered is a happy side effect: we now have a good way to measure teacher performance. Critics of merit pay systems argue—with great justification—that there is no good way to measure teacher performance. In typical merit pay systems, the second rate teachers often get the merit pay, and the top teachers, the ones who truly deserve it, are demoralized and start to perform at a lower level. Thus, traditional merit pay systems actually lower school performance by rewarding the wrong teachers and harming teacher morale. State testing programs give us a solution to that problem by giving us the tool to identify the top performers.
All students are now tested to see how they measure against the state content standards. It will be a simple matter to see which teachers have the top performing students and give them appropriate bonuses as rewards for their excellent results. This perfectly objective measure would leave no room for complaints or loss of morale. The best teachers would be appropriately rewarded, and morale will increase instead of decreasing.

It is not justible for a goverment to restrict tourist access to any area of their country, The goverment may wish to protect the local population or the natural environment from the effects of tourism, but the local population has the right to boost thei

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Using existing literature and data, critically evaluate this claim in relation to at east 2 of the following areas

Health
Culture
Economics
Politics

Learning
Outcomes
1 Understand fundamental microeconomic theory and be able to apply
economic reasoning to the analysis of economic questions and policy.
2 Identify, present, and evaluate standard theoretical economic
models.
3 Apply standard theoretical economic models to economic questions
and policy issues.
Marking Criteria Undergraduate Marking Criteria for this assignment is available at the end
of this document.
Your Task Look at the following figure and text, and then answer all questions.
US software sales for games consoles
Companies have made significant changes in the toy market. Until quite
recently, we could regard toys as consumer goods bought solely for
children. Nowadays, adults buy toys for themselves. Children have been
losing interest in traditional toys, including action figures, moving instead to
video and electronic games. For example, in 2003, boys aged 9–12 who
played video games spent about 40 percent less time playing with action
figures than they did in 2002. This creates a big problem for the traditional
toy industry, but benefits the video games industry.
One reason for the changes taking place in toy markets is because of age
compression or kids getting older younger (KGOY). The group of ‘tweens’ –
children aged 8-12 – is the worst affected age group. Tweens face much
wider entertainment and media choices. They have more interest in
activities that tap into their world and less interest in traditional toys.
Recently, they have been moving out of traditional toys at a faster pace
than in the past. Toy manufactuers should start taking notice. In particular,
the trend towards electronic games is affecting boys. Portability is an
important factor which can attract ‘tween’ consumers. Children spend a lot
of time travelling in buses or cars en route to other activities. A toy also has
to fit with the social circle of a child. For boys, that generally means there
should be an internet, electronic or video component in a toy or it should
have a sports dimension. Almost 70 percent of money spent on toys is for
products which have a built-in computer chip. For girls, the key is fashion
and social interaction. At an earlier age, children are exposed to the
internet and are more tech-savvy than previous generations. Thus, they
look for more sophisticated toys.
1- Define the term ‘consumer goods’. (10 Marks)
2- Identify two significant changes in the sales of video game
software over the period shown by the data. (16 Marks)
3- With the help of the information in the text and a supply and
demand diagram, explain how the growth in the sales of video
games may have affected the market for traditional toys such as
action figures. (24 Marks)
4- Many of the video games aimed at the “tween” market are bad
for children. In any case, even when they are not bad, children
spend far too much time playing video games and not enough
time playing outdoor games. Discuss how economics would
distinguish between private costs of playing the games and social
costs of playing the games. Explain how any difference between
private and social costs can be addressed by public policy. (50
Marks)
Further Notes
You should make intensive use of the course text AND journal articles, case
studies, and peer-reviewed academic source materials. This is a research
project.
Use exhibits and appendices to provide succinct, relevant and clear
information. Focus on the important issues and the holistic framework
rather than minor detail.
Assessment Criteria
The value of your work will be ultimately assessed on its practical
usefulness and relevance to the business, and the demonstration of good
understanding of relevant theories. The specific assessment criteria are:
 Demonstrated competence, good understanding and practical application
 Demonstrated identification, evaluation and interpretation of appropriate
techniques
 Ability to analyse a range of complex scenarios and data for decision
making
 Ability to determine and evaluate appropriate planning methods and
techniques
 Evidence of relevant background research, supported by examples,
citation and a bibliography in Harvard format
Introduction and conclusion in each question have 25% of the total mark
each. The other 50% is considered for the main body.
Guidelines Please read all questions and information provided carefully. Answer should
be made in appropriate length keeping in view the requirement of each
question and total word counts allowed.
In addition, your assignment should demonstrate the following qualities:
A good appreciation of relevant literature and its use to support argument,
substantiate calculations and other aspects of the assignment.
Taking ownership of the content, being prepared to debate and argue a
personal position, and providing evidence of evaluative skills. A submission
made up of extracts from published sources that is descriptive or simply just
theoretical regurgitation is not acceptable. Your submission must have
interpretation and consideration of the challenges and issues of taking
theory into practice.
Logical flow of ideas and treatment; appropriate selection of real world
factors related to the companies under scrutiny.
Evidence of additional personal research, and the ability to analyse material
from a variety of appropriate relevant perspectives.
Presentation, structure, appropriateness of methodology, breaking into
section headings/subheadings, tidiness.
Marks will be awarded for proper referencing and originality of work. Also
note that plagiarism is a serious offence and your submission will be
electronically checked.
Your report must be handed in electronically no later than given date of
submission.

 

Maladaptive responses to disorders are compensatory mechanisms that ultimately have adverse health effects for patients. For instance, a patient’s

allergic reaction to peanuts might lead to anaphylactic shock, or a patient struggling with depression might develop a substance-abuse problem. To

properly diagnose and treat patients, advanced practice nurses must understand both the pathophysiology of disorders and potential maladaptive

responses that some disorders cause.
Consider immune disorders, such as HIV, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, and systemic lupus E. What are resulting maladaptive responses for

patients with these disorders?
To prepare:
Review the Yi, et al, article in the Learning Resources. Reflect on the concept of maladaptive responses to disorders.
Select two of the following immune disorders: HIV, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, and/or systemic lupus E (SLE).
Think about the pathophysiology of each disorder you selected. Consider the compensatory mechanisms that the disorders trigger. Then, compare the

resulting maladaptive and physiological responses of the two disorders.
Consider the types of drugs that would be prescribed to patients to treat symptoms associated with these disorders and why.
Select one of the following patient factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior. Consider how your selected factor might impact the

disorder. Then, reflect on how your selected factor might impact the effects of prescribed drugs, as well as any measures you might take to help reduce

any negative side effects.
By Day 3
Post a brief description of the pathophysiology of the immune disorders you selected. Explain how the maladaptive and physiological responses of the

two disorders differ. Then, describe the types of drugs that would be prescribed to patients to treat symptoms associated with these immune disorders

and why. Explain how the factor you selected might impact the pathophysiology of each disorder as well as the effects of prescribed drugs. Finally,

explain any measures you might take to help reduce any negative side effects.

 

IT 100 Final Project Scenario
You have graduated from SNHU and are now employed as a business analyst by Business Consultants
(BC), a business consulting firm. As a business analyst, you are responsible for analyzing businesses to
determine how your firm can help them meet their sales goals.
Your first business to analyze is New Hampshire Business Products (NHBP). NHBP is a small company
operating as a sole proprietorship desiring to expand its geographical reach. The products sold by NHBP
fall into three categories: office supplies, office equipment, and printing services.
NHBP has been in business since 2005 and operates one brick-and-mortar location selling various
products and services. The company operates a retail store from its one physical location and offers
services to customers in its current geographical area via a catalog published semi-annually. Customers
using the catalog call their orders in to the retail location by phone, and the company delivers
completed orders via delivery truck and third-party carriers such as United Parcel Service (UPS).
NHBP has concluded that its one retail outlet and its current catalog business have reached their
maximum potential and is seeking a means to expand sales as well as geographical reach. NHBP has also
concluded that adding internet sales is the best option to expand both sales and geographical reach. BC
has been hired to evaluate current operations and suggest paths that will satisfy the sales goals set by
NHBP.
In your capacity as a business analyst for BC, you have met with the management team at NHBP and
made an initial review of the current business operations. Your notes of the review show the following:
 The total current sales (2016) are $500,000, divided into the following categories:
o Office supplies: $150,000
o Office equipment: $300,000
o Printing: $50,000
 The company desires to increase sales by 20% per year in each category for the next five years.
 NHBP thinks that online sales will result in reaching its intended sales goals over the next five
years.
 The company is currently unsure how to implement online sales and is seeking guidance in
developing a website as well as the mechanics of online marketing and fulfilling online orders.

Disorders of Red Blood Cells
Henry is 77 years old and lives with his daughter and son-in-law. He has chronic renal failure, but likes to get out whenever he can to work in his daughter’s backyard garden. Over the last few months, he began to go outside less often. He said he was feeling unusually tired and he was running out of breath doing the simplest of tasks. He also said his head ached and he often felt dizzy. His daughter took him to his doctor who performed a complete physical examination and diagnosed Henry with anemia.
1. From what you know of Henry’s history, what type of anemia do you suspect he has? How would Henry’s red blood cells appear on a peripheral blood smear?
2. What is the physiological basis that would explain why Henry’s anemia would cause him to have the symptoms he is experiencing?
3. Predict the cellular adaptations erythrocytes undergo when chronic hypoxia is present. How would this be evident on an oxygen–hemoglobin dissociation curve?

In this exercise you will review and discuss the Big Five traits of effective leaders. Read the definitions and descriptions first, and then use this blog to write your answers and reflect on your own leadership characteristics while you critique the leadership characteristics of your former superiors. You might consider completing the Questionnaire for this chapter to get a better idea of your philosophy and style.
There are 5 applications and 1 reflection question