What are the morally relevant facts of the case? What happened? Why did it happen? Who made the key decision(s)? Who was affected? What are (or will be) the long-term consequences? What is the most important moral issue raised by the case?

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Case Study 1: Millions of Facebook profiles secretly harvested for data by Cambridge Analytica

Read the case then answer the questions below:

Between 2014 and the 2016 U.S. election, Cambridge Analytica, a big data political consulting firm chaired by Alexander Nix, was founded by Donald Trump’s future campaign strategist, Steve Bannon, who acted as vice president of the company for a time. A famous Republican donor, Robert Mercer, invested to help Bannon start the company. The company provided targeted advertising to more than 40 U.S. campaigns in 2014 and provided its services to LeaveEU during the Brexit campaign and most famously to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The company was built on the expertise of Michal Kosinski who researched at the Psychometrics Centre of Cambridge University. Kosinski showed how psychological profiles of users could be formed based on social media activity such as “liking” posts, thus allowing smart, targeted advertising. Targeted advertising is not illegal, nor is data gathering per se, but Cambridge Analytica did not acquire its data legally nor with the informed consent of the users.

An app developed by another researcher at Cambridge, Alexander Kogan, called “mydigitiallife” was advertised to Amazon’s Mechanical Turks and Qualtrics as a personality quiz. The app gave permission to access the users’ Facebook account and gather information from their profile and from their contacts. In fact, the personality quiz was little more than a rouse to obtain data from Facebook activity—including of the users’ contacts—so as to form a personality profile. Over 320,000 people downloaded the app, and information was gathered from, on average, 160 of their friends. Ultimately, the personal data of 80 million Facebook users was collected and used to make psychological profiles. This gathering of data in and of itself was not illegal because Kogan had permission from Facebook to collect such data for academic purposes. However, Kogan sold that data to Cambridge Analytica in a violation of Facebook’s protocols (it is illegal to sell such data to a third party without the permission of the person). From there, Cambridge Analytica made an algorithm to profile even more people for use in elections.

The role that Facebook played became clearer when Christopher Wylie, the employee at Cambridge Analytica who worked on the algorithm, came forward and blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica primarily but also exposed Facebook’s inaction. Facebook initially downplayed the data breach, and Wylie’s recollection indicates that Facebook was well aware of the breach but did very little to rectify the situation. Wylie explained that the only actions Facebook took upon discovering the illegal handling of the data was to have lawyers contact him about the data being obtained illegally and demand that he delete it. He did. Since Wylie gave his public interview, Facebook has suspended Wylie’s Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. Critics say this is retaliation, but Facebook released a statement saying in effect that the suspension is due to Wylie’s admission of misusing user data and that the suspension will be lifted when Wylie talks to Facebook about the data breach.

Answer the following questions about the case:

  1. What are the morally relevant facts of the case? What happened (or will happen)? Why did it happen (or will happen)? Who made (or will make) the key decision(s)? Who was (or will be) affected? What are (or will be) the long-term consequences?
  2. What is the most important moral issue raised by the case? Try to formulate the moral question in a single sentence.
  3. Define the key terms of the case and clarify any unresolved conceptual issues. (For example, what is a whistle-blower and does anyone count as a whistle-blower in this case?)
  4. Apply the relevant code(s) of ethics. Do the code(s) issue clear and coherent verdicts? If not, why not?
  5. How robust is the moral verdict issued by the code(s)? Check this by applying the ethical theories discussed in chapters 5 and 6 (specifically, Act-/Rule-utilitarianism, Duty Ethics, Virtue Ethics, and Rights Ethics). Do all ethical theories yield the same verdict? If not, develop a strategy for managing this moral uncertainty.

 

Briefly discuss how the agency can incorporate those best practices into the current intervention/treatment plan. Provide a brief summary of the similarities and differences between the intervention/treatment plan used at the agency and the suggested practices in the literature.

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Agency’s intervention/treatment plan

Submit a 1-2 page paper in which you:

  1. Briefly describe the agency’s intervention/treatment plan.
  2. Briefly discuss best practices about interventions identified in the literature.
  3. Briefly discuss how the agency can incorporate those best practices into the current intervention/treatment plan.
  4. Provide a brief summary of the similarities and differences between the intervention/treatment plan used at the agency and the suggested practices in the literature.

 

Provide an overview of the importance of retention. Identify and explain 3 costs associated with turnover. Describe your retention recommendations.

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Turnover

Human Resources staff and all of management are tasked with retention of staff. Turnover is costly. Some managers are natural retention experts; others need help. Most of all, managers need to become conscious of their critical role in retaining talented employees. They need to be held accountable for building a culture of retention in their departments. HR has to lead retention efforts by making managers the owners of this process; responsible and accountable for keeping good employees. You are their recruiter tasked with assisting your managers with their retention efforts. What are some retention strategies you would suggest to them?

After reading this assignment, conduct independent research to help support your paper. Then in a 2 – 3 page paper address the following:

  • Provide an overview of the importance of retention.
  • Identify and explain 3 costs associated with turnover.
  • Describe your retention recommendations.
  • Provide your conclusion and make sure to address the importance of retention efforts in human resources
  • Be sure to use APA style with at least two sources cited

 

Describe how the expectancy and equity theories apply to compensation. Give an example of how expectancy theory has affected your motivation or that of someone you work with or have worked with.

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Human Resources

The prompt for the discussion board is “Describe Expectancy Theory as it applies to employee compensation.”

Describe how the expectancy and equity theories apply to compensation.

Give an example of how expectancy theory has affected your motivation or that of someone you work with or have worked with. Be sure to specify the expectancy and valence.

How does this theory affect the compensation of our workforce?

 

Explain how the above mentioned topics can benefit you as a coworker and as well as an individual.

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Relationships growth

Relationships grow stronger when people are willing to reveal more about themselves and their work experiences

• People can work together for years and never really get to know each other

• Self-disclosure can lead to a more open and supportive environment in the workplace

Explain how the above mentioned topics can benefit you as a coworker and as well as an individual

As a supervisor of a social service unit, what will you do to improve the work performance of your team member.

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As a supervisor of a social service unit, what will you do to improve the work performance of your team member.

Conduct a needs assessment for your proposed training program.

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Assess the Draft Training Proposal and peer feedback you received in Week Two, and finalize the topic and objectives for your training program. In a 25-slide PowerPoint presentation, not including the title and references slides:

  1. Conduct a needs assessment for your proposed training program. This should include both a person and a task analysis.
  2. Develop SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely) training objectives based on the needs assessment and any assumptions you may need to make.
  3. Create an original, detailed training proposal. This should include:
    • A title and description of the program.
    • A discussion of training methods to be used, and a rationale (justification) for using them, based on training theory.
    • Proposed instructors and the reason for using them.
    • A tentative training outline.
    • A tentative list and description of training materials needed.
  4. Develop a plan for evaluation of training effectiveness including both short-term and long-term evaluation where appropriate.

Your presentation must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center. Support your work with cited sources from the textbook and at least four additional scholarly sources

Give two examples of works in the humanities that show the significance of the arts in giving form and meaning to the human event

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. Give two examples of works in the humanities that show the significance of the arts in giving form and meaning to the human event (you can choose the area of the arts to explore). In other words, name two works of art and then make a case for how they have shaped and added value to people’s lives. The works selected can be from any area of the arts, any time period, and any place/culture.

2. Give two examples of works in the humanities and explain how they were impacted by history, social institutions, tradition and/or geography. In other words, how were the works selected impact by the context in which they were created. We don’t do anything in a vacuum free from influence and this prompt is asking you to explain the impact of world on the arts. The works selected can be from any area of the arts, any time period, and any place/culture.

Consider the appropriateness of the examples selected, the strength of the argument made, the clarity of writing, the depth of understanding and analysis.

Describe and analyze the broad range of talent management efforts that use software applications to help you Director to make an educated decision.

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You, as a HR Generalist, have been asked by your HR Director for your recommendations in terms of what tools your organization could use to better manage the talents of your employees. This will help to develop policies and procedures in managing your human capital. Please develop a PowerPoint presentation to your Director addressing the following: Describe and analyze the broad range of talent management efforts that use software applications to help you Director to make an educated decision. Give some examples of firms that have successfully used these applications. Describe how these efforts are useful in terms of strategic human capital management.

Write a memo to the CEO of your hospital. Identify each opportunity during Mr. Roberts’ time within your hospital where consent may have been obtained and whether that consent was implied or express and if express what type of express consent.

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In this assignment, you will consider situations when consents may or may not be appropriately obtained.

In less than 600 words, you are to write a memo to the CEO of your hospital. Identify each opportunity during Mr. Roberts’ time within your hospital where consent may have been obtained and whether that consent was implied or express and if express what type of express consent. Since your CEO may not understand the difference, you need to include a short definition of any type of consent identified. You also need to identify whether the consent was appropriately obtained, including why or why not. Lastly, you should provide your opinion regarding whether Mr. Roberts (or his guardian or heirs) has a possible claim against the hospital for permanent injuries and how that claim arises (for example an intentional tort and/or negligence).