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Write a 500- to 950-word paper outlining the critical need for public stewardship in budgeting. Detail the needs and methods for training public

officials and staff members for ethical public budget preparation and maintenance strategies. Make sure to include:

Detail the need and importance of public stewardship in budgeting
Ethical requirements for leaders to consider for proper public stewardship
Consequences of unethical or poor public stewardship
Consider utilizing a recent current events article for reference to a recent incident of unethical public stewardship of budgetary monies.

Include at least two academic sources in your paper and add a conclusion to it.

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Assignment 3: Proposal Video Presentation

Due Week 10 and worth 250 points

Using the same scenario from Assignment 1, Supporting Documents, and Assignment 2, you have completed your proposal and are ready to present the information to the CEO and the organization’s decision-makers. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a five to ten (5-10) minute video in which you present the findings and recommendations of your full proposal.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone, you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial located here.

Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Proposal Video Presentation

Tags: HRM562, Proposal

Description: First Name, Last Name – HRM562 Assignment 3 (Date Uploaded ex. 10-27-2014)

Note: Check with your professor for any additional instructions. If you do not have access to a video camera or necessary hardware to complete this assignment, please contact your professor.

Tips to prepare for your video:

• Create note cards
• Practice in front of a mirror and / or friends
• Review materials thoroughly
• Be persuasive
• Be professional
• Be creative
• Have fun!

Create a five to ten (5-10) minute video presentation in which you:

1. Present the major points of your proposal for addressing organizational learning issues. Include details on criteria one through nine (1-9) from Assignment 2.
2. Project your voice in order to clearly convey your ideas.
3. Present in a professional manner.
4. Use technology (e.g., audio quality, video quality, naming conventions) to convey ideas.
5. Use voice inflection and proper grammar.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the processes of how organizations learn and organizational barriers that impact the process.
• Examine the concepts of personal mastery and mental models and their related importance in a learning organization.
• Examine the driving forces related to organizational learning.
• Analyze the key components of a learning organization and the role of a chief learning officer.
• Evaluate strategies for creating a learning organization.
• Evaluate management behaviors that influence organizational learning.
• Analyze the shifts in organizational structure and processes to create a learning organization.
• Examine talent management as an essential element of the learning organization.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in developing a learning organization.
• Write clearly and concisely about developing a learning organization using proper writing mechanic.

Assignment 4: Part D: Your Marketing Plan – Video Presentation

Due Week 10 and worth 200 points

Imagine that you are pitching your hypothetical service-based company’s marketing plan to the Shark Tank Team for possible investment. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a three to five (3-5) minute dynamic video in which you present your full marketing plan from Assignments 1, 2, and 3.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

• Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Shark Tank Investment Video Pitch
• Tags: MKT500, Shark Tank
• Description: First Name, Last Name – MKT500 Assignment 4 (Date Uploaded ex. 5-23-2014)

Note: Check with your professor for any additional instructions. If you do not have access to a video camera or necessary hardware to complete this assignment, please contact your professor.

Note: If you receive an “Error while uploading” message and you are unable to upload your video file, let your instructor know right away. You can send the file in an alternate way such as sending it to your instructor’s email via a file sharing service such as Google Drive, or you can upload your video file to a video sharing service such as YouTube and then send the link to your instructor to view it from. If your video is unable to upload to any of these sources either, your computer may have insufficient bandwidth to upload video, and you should copy the file to a thumb drive and send it from a different computer or mobile device.

Tips to prepare for your video:

• Create note cards
• Practice in front of a mirror and / or friends
• Review materials thoroughly
• Be persuasive
• Be professional
• Be creative
• Have fun!

Create a two to five (2-5) minute video presentation in which you:

1. Present the major points of your marketing plan.
2. Project your voice in order to clearly convey your ideas.
3. Present in a professional manner.
4. Use technology (e.g., i.e. audio quality, video quality, naming conventions) to convey ideas.
5. Use voice inflection and proper grammar.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the marketing framework including the concepts of the 5Cs, STP, and 4Ps.
• Develop strategies to assess performance and achieve marketing goals.
• Create an effective marketing plan.
• Examine the marketing science of customer behavior and products in the marketing exchange process and create dynamic strategies for competing.
• Evaluate the basis for market segmentation and approaches to segmentation.
• Evaluate target customer segments and positioning products within these segments.
• Develop branding strategies for existing and new products.
• Develop pricing strategies and distribution channels for products.
• Analyze integrated marketing communications and its relationship to advertising strategy.
• Evaluate marketing research tools involved in the marketing process.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in marketing management.

 

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Please have a read through the information provided below and answer the question with relevant references.

Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) links itself closely with Human Resource Management (HRM) within an organisation, and can be described as an

approach towards making decision within a business that concerns the essential component of the businesses strategy, people. (Armstrong, 2016) Many

models of SHRM illustrate vertical integration between the businesses strategy, the objectives of the business, individual behaviour, and ultimately the

behaviour of individuals, teams, and organisational performance. (Beardwell, Thompson, 2014)

It is clear to see that SHRM aims to improve organisational performance through employing, maintaining, and developing talented individuals into the

organisation. To do this a business may look to offer scheme such as Graduate entry level schemes; this form of scheme will see a selection process take

place where you can only apply if you have a degree level education that is specific to the organisation. Talent management in this form, provides a

business with a talented individual or team of individuals that will assist in innovating the operation.

As described by Truss, Mankin, and Kelliher, (2012:18) when looking at the ‘Innovation and Knowledge’ model of SHRM, it is evident that businesses who

invest in talent management, have a more effective means of developing innovation and knowledge from within their business. This means that they can

push to the forefront of the market and strategically gain competitive advantage over other businesses. This in turn will deliver a more professional,

trusted, and respected image of the company adding value into their delivery.

SHRM does add value to a business if managed correctly, and assists in obtaining, maintaining, and developing talented individuals who can strategically

innovate the market to prevent a business from stagnating.

Do others feel talent management is an important part of SHRM and adding value to a business?

 

 

9 essay quality questions need to answer, no Plagiarism:

(TCO A) A hospital can be owned and operated either publicly (by a government) or privately (by either a for-profit entity or a not-for-profit entity). Administering the hospital may be quite different depending on whether it is publicly owned or privately owned. Please explain ways in which the hospital may respond differently to “The Market” (that is, market forces) if it is publicly held as compared to privately held.

(TCO B) Stabilization should be one of the goals of an effective public policy. Explain at least three of the actions that the federal government can take in times of economic crisis to try to achieve stabilization.

(TCO C) Statutes enacted by legislatures, whether the Congress of the United States or at a state level, often are vague. Hence, the policy mandates given to public administrators via the legislation are vague. This also shifts much of the policy making to public administrators. Explain the advantages to the public of the public administrators, rather than the elected representatives, making policy via rules and regulations.

(TCO D) Explain why it is critical for the effectiveness of a public policy or program initiative to be measured. Please also define, or otherwise explain, the terms “policy outputs” and “policy outcomes.”

(TCO E) As a public administrator seeking funding to achieve policy objectives, one tool that you may be able to consider is the use of dedicated tax revenue. That action would require the authorization of the legislative branch and would need to be signed into law. Yet you could initiate the request that legislation (or an ordinance at a local level) be passed that provides that specific tax revenue would only be used for purposes of your program and/or department. Provide one specific example at the federal level of such a tax. Provide an example in general of such a tax at a local level. What is one advantage of having a dedicated source of revenue at the local level?

(TCO F) Define the term “public-private partnership.” Explain at least two of the challenges facing the public sector and how this structure may help to alleviate those challenges.

(TCO G) As a conservation measure, your state has recently passed a law lowering the maximum speed limit in the state to 55 miles per hour. As a public administrator in charge of the implementation, describe the steps that you feel should be taken so that the policy can be placed in effect in a cost-effective manner.

(TCO H) A problem with government, some might say, is that once an agency is established to implement a new public policy, that entity may continue to exist year-after-year without evaluation as to its continuing relevance. A “sunset provision” when an agency is created may help to overcome this potential issue. Please define or otherwise explain the term “sunset provision” in the context of the creation of an agency. Also, explain how such a provision may help the public.

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Select two subjects from the following list of topics and write a 1,050-word analysis:

• Active monetary and fiscal policy
• Increased government spending to fight recessions
• Reducing federal government’s discretionary powers
• Zero-inflation target
• Balanced government budget
• Tax incentives for saving

Evaluate both the advocates’ position and the critics’ position.

Determine which position you support and defend your position.

Define and explain, using at least 5 on-task bullet notes for each. Perceptual of vernacular regions Map projections Age sex pyramid Continental drift Tsunami The Coriolis Effect Air masses The greenhouse effect Dryland Climates Demographic Transition Five shapes of states – prorupt, elongated, compact, fragmented, perforated Birth rates Acculturation Boundaries as sources of conflict Devolution European Union Centripetal forces in state cohesion Ethnicity and ethnic diversity Koppen climate classification Remote sensing

Read the scenario below and answer the questions that follow using APA style formatting where appropriate:

You are the new chief of the Greenfield Police Department. After 30 years of iron-fisted control, Chief Slaughter has retired. Slaughter believed in the military model of police management and a traditional crime-fighting policing strategy. He was fully entrenched in the war on crime and ran his department like an army unit. His book of rules and regulations was a foot thick, and he demanded absolute compliance. Decisions were made in the chief’s office and passed down to the officers through layers of captains, lieutenants, and sergeants. At Chief Slaughter’s retirement ceremony, the mayor slaps you on the back and says, “You’ve got some big shoes to fill, son. That guy knew how to fight crime, and his officers never stepped out of line. Our crime rate was below the national average every year he was here.” The City Council presents Slaughter the Meritorious Service Award for 30 years of crime fighting. As a student of police history you realize that most police departments battle complex social problems and seldom march off to war. You know that crime rates are minimally influenced by crime fighting and are a poor indication of policing success. You also know that traditional organizational structures and policing strategies are slow to change and often are out of sync with one another. Most of your questions to the captains about department operations have generated the same response: “Because that’s the way we’ve always done it. If it ain’t broke, why fix it?”

You decide to visit with members of the community. A homeowner tells you that Chief Slaughter’s officers do a great job of patrolling her neighborhood, but she’s worried about the future impact of the deteriorating apartment complex across the street. She realizes it’s not a police problem. The manager of a senior citizens’ residence tells you that there hasn’t been a crime reported in their neighborhood in over a year, but the residents are afraid to go out at night. He thinks it’s the rumors that spread from crime reports on the television news. The business owners in the shopping center complain that customers are being driven away by kids skateboarding in the parking lot. They understand that the police have more urgent crime problems to fight. The high school principal praises the police department’s stringent traffic enforcement before and after school. He wishes he could resolve the growing truancy problem as efficiently as the police handle traffic. None of the people you talk to is personally acquainted with a Greenfield police officer. It appears the Greenfield Police Department is trapped in the reform era. They rely on preventive patrolling and rapid response as their primary policing strategies and seldom interact with the community. You review their mission statement and find it emphasizes the professional model of crime fighting.

Questions

1. Suggest a mission statement that emphasizes the community era rather than the reform era.
2. What process would you use to develop a new mission statement? Who would you include in the process? Is it wise to order officers to accept a mission statement?
3. What changes would you introduce in policing strategies?
4. What changes would you make in the organizational structure to enable the new strategy?
5. Identify some quality-of-life issues that are not being addressed by the crime- fighting strategy of Chief Slaughter.

 

Instructions: The discussion topics below are based on course material information you have read; which includes the course text chapters, and the Module Week-1 Learning page information and handouts for Chapter 1 The Spirit of American Politics/ and Chapter 2 The Ideas That Shape America to response to discussion topic questions. Reading the relevant material will benefit students to answer relevant chapter questions on study guide number 1, and to Know terms associated with each chapter. [There  are also added areas or topics students should “know:” for exam number one.]

 

Democracy

Philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke’s and Jean-Jacques Rosseau’s theory on Social Contract implied agreements by which people form nations and maintain a social order. In laymen’s terms this means that the people give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order. Social contract theory provides the rationale behind the historically important notion that legitimate state authority must be derived from the consent of the governed.

 

Topic: Social Contract

1. Discuss: How does the theory of Social Contract mean to your participation

in a government of democracy?

 

Topic: Representative Democracy

2. Discuss: If you think that all election voting should be available to everyone on

home computers provided by government? Will it cure the low voting turnout problem

for elections? Will it increase the voice of the majority in reference to getting closer to

obtaining a true representative democracy?

 

Topic: Political Culture

3. Discuss: Which source(s) do you learn your American Political Culture from [which is

defined in the chapter 1 extra terms handout] the most out of the five main areas?

Explain how.

 

Topic: Political Ideology (handout)

4. Discuss: Which Political Ideology you like the most and why? Discuss which Political

Ideology you dislike the most and why?

Nevada Early History and Constitution

 

Topic: Nevada Early History and Constitution

[Read: resource notes on this topic located on Module-Week 1 course information module

page.]

 

Know: What are the three events that was the result of settlement in Nevada by the

1840s?

 

Know: some of the explicit reasons why Nevada Settlers wanted their own territory.

Settlers felt that they were receiving unfair treatments and it led to a chain of events in

which the settlers petitioned Congress and the President for their own territory, and to be

separated from the Western Utah Territory (currently Nevada), which was overseen by

Brigham Young. Settlers, who were predominately Non-Mormon, complained that some

laws made by the Utah territorial officials had “no separation of church and state.”

Settlers believed they had no true representation in their own interest, and felt their

interests were ignored within the jurisdiction they lived in. The capital was far away (first

it resided in Fillmore City and then in Salt Lake City which was 500 miles distance); and

the Western Utah Territory lacked law and order. The settlers eventually created a

squatter government; and hired an attorney to travel several times to Congress to

petition for their own territory, and statehood.

 

Know: how the leadership of the Utah territory affected the settlers’ liberty and equality?

 

Topic: Nevada Early History

1. Discuss: How would that type leadership affect our liberty and equality today?

 

Topic: Statehood and Territory

[Read: notes on this topic located on Module-Week 1 course information module page.]

 

Know: What were the two main barriers that stop the ratification of the first Nevada 1863

constitution?

 

Know: What are the four significant reasons Lincoln wanted Nevada to become a state?