Carefully review the background materials regarding sources of power within an organization and influence tactics. Examples of sources of power include reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, and expert power.

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INFLUENCE TACTICS AND SOURCES OF POWER

Assignment Overview
Koch Industries is one of the most profitable privately held corporations in the country. In spite of being owned primarily by four brothers, it has not been immune from intense internal power plays and intrigue. A decades-long dispute between CEO Charles Koch and his younger brother Bill Koch led first to an internal battle for control of the company and ended with a lawsuit between the brothers.

Carefully review the background materials regarding sources of power within an organization and influence tactics. Examples of sources of power include reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, and expert power. Examples of influence tactics include forming coalitions, pressure, and exchanging favors. Make sure to understand the main power sources and influence tactics and know the vocabulary and definitions from the background materials before starting the assignment.

The epic battle between two of the Koch brothers tested the limits of both of their power bases within Koch Industries. Both used multiple tactics before Charles Koch ultimately secured his position of almost unrivaled power within the corporation. Do some research about this power struggle using the Trident Online Library and online news sources. Here are some articles to get you started:

Schulman, D. (2014, Jul). Koch vs. Koch. Mother Jones, 39, 16–27,64,2

Tomsho, R. (1989, Aug 09). Blood feud: Koch family is roiled by sibling squabbling over its oil empire: Fired by his brother, William sues often, helps feds to probe Koch Industries, haling mother into court. Wall Street Journal [ProQuest]

Once you have finished your research, write a 4- to 5-page paper addressing the following issues. Make sure to cite at least 3 of the required background readings in addition to articles about the Koch brothers in your paper:

What were Charles and Bill Koch’s sources of power within Koch Industries? Did they have reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, or expert power? Any other sources of power? Refer to Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or Luthans et al. (2015) in your answer, as you should demonstrate a solid understanding of these readings as part of your answer.

What influence tactics did each of them use in their battle for control? Refer to Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or Luthans et al. (2015) in your answer.

Ultimately what do you think led to Charles Koch’s victory in this battle, and what do you think are the most important lessons on organizational power that you learned from reading about this power struggle?

Concrete Experience is the personal involvement in a specific, direct experience with this topic. Who, what, why, how long? Reflection and Observation on this experience are important. Ask yourselves: What did I think? What did I notice? What worked/did not work? Will I do something differently now as a result of this experience?

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Volunteer Management

Writing Experiential Learning Essays
GOAL: To describe (articulate) the learning so the evaluator can recognize it.
REMEMBER: Credit is awarded for learning not the experience! Experience is the framework or the environment learning takes place in.
BEFORE WRITING: A lot of time is spent identifying knowledge before the actual writing occurs.
COMMON ERROR: Writing about experience and not showing learning.
DAVID KOLB, a noted professor and researcher from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, developed a model to help adults get learning out of their experience.
Kolb’s Premise: Learning involves a CYCLE OF FOUR PROCESSES which must each be present for learning to occur most completely.

THE FOUR PROCESSES:
1.Concrete Experience is the personal involvement in a specific, direct experience with this topic. Who, what, why, how long?
2.Reflection and Observation on this experience are important. Ask yourselves: What did I think? What did I notice? What worked/did not work? Will I do something differently now as a result of this experience?
3.Abstract Concepts are the logical conclusions drawn from your reflection. This is the brainwork. You should ask yourselves: What did I learn? Did I see a trend or pattern? Think beyond your situation –would this work for others? This is the place to interact with the theories of others. You should cite theories from books or articles you have read about this subject.
4.Active Experimentation is the application of knowledge in a new situation. You must go outside of the situation you are in and use the learning differently.

In what ways does your volunteer site in the law firm working with prisoners enact (or violate) principles of trauma-informed care? How may this affect the prisoners? Are there any changes you would recommend?

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Journal Entry 8

In what ways does your volunteer site in the law firm working with prisoners enact (or violate) principles of trauma-informed care? How may this affect the prisoners? Are there any changes you would recommend?

(definition of trauma informed care)

Develop a video case presentation, based on your progress note of this patient, that includes chief complaint; history of present illness; any pertinent past psychiatric, substance use, medical, social, family history; most recent mental status exam; and current psychiatric diagnosis, including differentials that were ruled out.

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Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation and Patient Case Presentation

Comprehensive psychiatric evaluations are a way to reflect on your practicum experiences and connect the experiences to the learning you gain from your weekly Learning Resources. Comprehensive notes, such as the ones required in this practicum course, are often used in clinical settings to document patient care.

For this Assignment, you will document information about a patient that you examined during the last 5 weeks, using the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template provided. You will then use this note to develop and record a case presentation for this patient.

To Prepare

  • Select a patient that you examined during the last 5 weeks. Review prior resources on the disorder this patient has.
    • It is recommended that you use the Kaltura Personal Capture tool to record and upload your assignment.
    • Review the Kaltura Media Uploader resource in the left-hand navigation of the classroom for help creating your self-recorded Kaltura Personal Capture video. The Personal Capture Quickstart Guide will walk you through creating your video, uploading it to Blackboard and placing it into the assignment area.
  • Conduct a Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation on this patient using the template provided in the Learning Resources. There is also a completed exemplar document in the Learning Resources so that you can see an example of the types of information a completed evaluation document should contain. All psychiatric evaluations must be signed, and each page must be initialed by your Preceptor. When you submit your document, you should include the complete Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation as a Word document, as well as a PDF/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your Preceptor. You must submit your document using SafeAssign.Please Note: Electronic signatures are not accepted. If both files are not received by the due date, Faculty will deduct points per the Walden Late Policies.
  • Develop a video case presentation, based on your progress note of this patient, that includes chief complaint; history of present illness; any pertinent past psychiatric, substance use, medical, social, family history; most recent mental status exam; and current psychiatric diagnosis, including differentials that were ruled out.
  • Include at least five (5) scholarly resources to support your assessment and diagnostic reasoning.
  • Ensure that you have the appropriate lighting and equipment to record the presentation.

Assignment

Record yourself presenting the complex case for your clinical patient. In your presentation:

  • Dress professionally and present yourself in a professional manner.
  • Display your photo ID at the start of the video when you introduce yourself.
  • Ensure that you do not include any information that violates the principles of HIPAA (i.e., don’t use the patient’s name or any other identifying information).
  • Present the full case. Include chief complaint; history of present illness; any pertinent past psychiatric, substance use, medical, social, family history; most recent mental status exam; and current psychiatric diagnosis, including differentials that were ruled out.
  • Report normal diagnostic results as the name of the test and “normal” (rather than specific value). Abnormal results should be reported as a specific value.

Be succinct in your presentation, and do not exceed 8 minutes. Address the following:

  • Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their personal and medical history? What are their symptoms of concern? How long have they been experiencing them, and what is the severity? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning?
  • Objective: What observations did you make during the interview and review of systems?
  • Assessment:What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three (3) possible diagnoses. List them from highest to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis, and why?
  • Reflection notes:What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?

Divide the data into twining set and test set. The training set should contain the first 2/3 of spammessages and first 2/3 of ham (i.e., non-spam) messages. The test set should contain the last 1/3 spam messages and last 1/3 ham messages. Write a logistic regression program (function) using gradient descent algorithm.

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Homework Assignment #2

Through this homework assignment, you will refresh on the concepts of derivatives and convexity, and will practice on programming of logistic regression for binary classification. For Problems 1-3, you may write the solutions by hand, and then scan them into a pdf file using a digital scanner. Photo imaging is not accepted. Typing the solution is optional. For Problem 4, you will need to type the report, and submit the source code as well. Except for the source code, please combine all your solutions into one pdf file. and submit online via Blackboard. Submit your homework solution, including both Python code for Problem 4 and a single PDF file for all problems. Problem 1. Logistic Regression

A) Which of these is the logistic loss” function (for the i-th sample)? (a) LOVV/Y(0) = (no logry(n) + -Y(0)1.61 -AO (b) 1400,^01Y(0) = -A01 (c) Lo(1fnyto) = Irv) -Ao12 (4) 44/WM = max(0,y(n-Y44 ram (400010)

B) Derive de , where L(000,),9 is the logistic loss function, ‘)A0 = °(WO) h) and 6,0 is the logistic function. Show your steps. b; X. y)

C) The loss function of logistic regression ET, LW (IP), F(•)). Derive -(Pi’.and mAl eb Show your steps. Problem 2. Write the derivatives /(x) of the following functions of x A) (x). 1r. B) (x) = log(14- rrz) C) R.) = W. where x E FO and a = [2,3,1],

D) f(x) = xrAx where x E W and A= [2,3;1,2] E E) R.) = (y – ‘Ja)y where x E = 1 and a = [2,3,1],Problem 3. The softplus function is given by f(r) = log(1 o A) Plot/(z) as a function of z. If you plot by hand, mark a couple of critical points on the curve. B) Show that /(z) is convex in z by showing that its second derivative is positive for all.

Problem 4. Logistic Regression with Real Dataset
The Spambase Data Set contains email spam data for 4601 email messages. You can download the data from https://archiveics.ucledu/m1/datasets/spambase.

(a) Divide the data into twining set and test set. The training set should contain the first 2/3 of spam messages and first 2/3 of ham (i.e., non-spam) messages. The test set should contain the last 1/3 spam messages and last 1/3 ham messages.

(b) Write a logistic regression program (function) using gradient descent algorithm. And train the weights using training set and then test the result on the test set. Compute both the training and test errors, measured by the percentage of incorrect classification. Experiment with the step size (learning rate).

(c) Next, normalize the features, so that each feature in the training data has mean 0 and variance 1. Then run logistic regression on the normalized data.

(d) For the report, you need to submit in the homework report a summary of the results you obtained,the results on the learning rate used, and training and test errors.
Not. You need to write the code using Python. You will be graded based on two artifacts: 1) the figures generated (need to be included in the submitted homework report), and 2) the source code submitted.

Prepare a memorandum to the tax partner of your firm that discusses the transfer tax and income tax consequences of the proposed transactions described above. Also, make any recommendations that you deem appropriate.

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Tax savings

Your client,Karen Kross, recently married Larry Kross. Karen is age 72, quite wealthy, in reasonably good health. To date, she has not made any taxable gifts, but Larry made taxable gifts totaling $900,000 in 1998. Karen is considering giving each of her five college-age grandchildren approximately $34,000 of cash for them to use to pay their col-lege expenses of tuition and room and board for the year. In addition, she is considering giving her three younger grandchildren $3,000 each to use for orthodontic bills. Karen wants to give her daughter property valued at $400,000. She is trying to choose between giving her daughter cash or stock with a basis of $125,000. She would like to give her son $400,000 of property also but prefers to tie the property up in a discretionary trust with a bank as trustee for the son for at least 15 years. An agricultural museum approached Karen about contributing to it and, as a result, she is contemplating deeding her family farm to the museum but retaining a life estate in the farm.

Required: Prepare a memorandum to the tax partner of your firm that discusses the transfer tax and income tax consequences of the proposed transactions described above. Also, make any recommendations that you deem appropriate.

Provide students with proper curriculum guides according to their major. Organize and complete travel arrangements for the Dean, faculty and staff utilizing the University eProcurement purchasing system.

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NYC Triborough Express

Experience

Executive Assistant to the Dean/Associate Deans         January 2015 – Present

Florida A&M University – College of Education, Office of the Dean

Gore Educational Complex Suite 300 A

Tallahassee, Florida 32307                                                         (850) 599-3045

  • Ensure all sign-in logs are complete and contain all necessary information needed by the College of Education, Office of the Dean for statistical purposes.
  • Assist the College of Education’s Dean and Associate Deans with all official documents for faculty, staff and students utilizing the upmost level of confidentiality.
  • Ensure that all minutes for faculty, department chairs and administrative support meetings are properly transcribed.
  • Interact with the Office of Academic Affairs on behalf of the Dean on matters, which concerns the University Provost and Vice President and other Leadership Members.
  • Assist/Advise student as it relates to Change of Major, Grade Changes, Class Withdrawals, and Grievances/Complaints
  • Maintain College of Education student grievance, appeals petitions or complaints ensuring that the appropriate representative receives the information and returns a resolution in a timely manner according to the policies and procedures of the University.
  • Assist director and academic advisors in the Center for Academic Success with various documents.
  • Provide students with proper curriculum guides according to their major.
  • Interface and communicate with the University Office of the Registrar on various administrative actions for the College of Education such as the submission of curriculum autogens and grade changes.
  • Ensure that all faculty members have the proper credentialing documents for accreditation purposes.
  • Organize and complete travel arrangements for the Dean, faculty and staff utilizing the University eProcurement purchasing system.
  • Arrange and attend college faculty meetings ensuring that the meeting minutes are transcribed and accurate. Responsible for scheduling and calendar management of meetings as it relates to the Dean and Associate Dean.
  • Maintain a currant filing systems for all faculty, staff, and students, which contain all documents, which require approval from the Dean of the College of Education.
  • Assist the front desk receptionist when needed by answering the multi-line phone system providing exceptional customer service to incoming callers who have various questions as it relates to the policies and procedures of the College of Education, student request or general inquiries.
  • Onboarding, New Employee Orientation/Training and supervise work study/OPS students assigned to the College of Education, Office of the Dean.
  • Assist Coordinator with special task as it relates to AIM Higher/Black Males College Explorers program.
  • Assist Principle Investigators with grant processing and new hire processing of grant personnel. Effectively communicate with PI and staff within the Division of Sponsored Research as it relates to grant stipulation and compliance.
  • Assist Dean and Associate Deans with ensuring that the College of Education Office of the Dean and all the departments are compliant with the requirements of SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools).

 

Night Auditor | Manager on Duty                                       April 2006 – Present

McKibbon Hospitality/Courtyard by Marriott Tallahassee, Florida

 

Recipient:  McKibbon Hotels Education Scholarship Program, 2012-2014

Awards:  Marriott “The Spirit to Serve” Outstanding Achievement, 2009

Courtyard by Marriott Excellence Award, 2013

 

  • Functional knowledge of Fosse system
  • Reconcile daily shift reports for Front Desk Associates and Bistro ensuring all procedures are according to company standards.
  • Assist guest with check in and check out process by accurately entering guest information and payment methods.
  • Collect and process payments utilizing cash handling/cash management, credit card or direct billing options. Issue refunds as needed with proper documentation and General Manager approval.
  • Prepare various daily reports for General and Assistant General Manager.
  • Input and ensure daily reports are accurately transmitted to cooperate office through company acknowledge system.
  • Assist guest with scheduling reservations via telephone
  • Resolve guest disputes utilizing effective listening and problem-solving techniques
  • Provide training for new associates as needed or directed by management
  • Supervise night housekeeping staff
  • Ensure that guest wake-up calls are accurately entered into multi-line phone system
  • Process and submit payment to vendors (special project)

 

Legislative Intern, Tallahassee, Florida                      January 2009- May 2009

Office of Florida State Senator, Chris Smith

  • Review and reply to all constituents from District 30, Broward County of behalf Senator Smith.
  • Prepare all proclamations recognizing and honoring community leaders and organizations
  • Research bills and amendments prior to them being present to various committees
  • Prepare and submit information to the Senator’s official website such as press releases and E-alerts.
  • Assist constituents via telephone regarding any matters.
  • Research bills, statutes and laws for compliances and regulation.

 

Staff Assistant, Tallahassee, Florida                 December 1999 – January 2007 

Manpower transfer to State of Florida

Department of Management Services 

  • Prepare, prioritize, review, and manage invoices for seven (7) State of Florida telephone systems (SUNCOM)
  • Meet with various telecommunications representatives to resolve billing discrepancies
  • Prepare, submit, and manage payment documentation to the Office of Finance & Accounting for monthly accounts payables. Monthly payments exceeding $900,000.
  • Implement and manage a filing system for all billing and payment records.
  • Attend appropriate meetings with venders, telephone companies, and department staff.
  • Compile, submit, receive, and reconcile all office supply orders
  • Initiate process for a new purchasing card applicant
  • Manage and monitor the usage of all purchasing card transactions approving all valid charges with have been appropriately approved.
  • Manage monthly reconciliation reports.
  • Coordinate and facilitated training as it relates to policies and procedures of the State of Florida Purchasing Credit Card.
  • Coordinate the annual Leadership Giving (United Way Campaign) for Executive Team
  • Assist Bureau Chief and Section Supervisor with personnel issues such as application screening, background checks, employment verifications, interviews, disciplinary actions and annual performance evaluations, salary determinations and increases.
  • Prepare and manage spending plans for each fiscal year and monitor usage of funds for the Division of Enterprise Management.
  • Manage all confidential departmental personnel files
  • Liaison for State Records Center
  • Accompany Bureau Chief and Supervisors to all departmental meetings.

Senior Clerk, Tallahassee, Florida                       December 1988 – March 1996

State of Florida, Department of Revenue, Office of Child Support        Enforcement

Award:  Employee of the Month, 1994

  • Case Management – make request for reissuance or void of outdated, lost, or stolen child support warrants. Update the case narrative with the correct customer information to ensure that absent or custodial parent file are current.
  • Assist customers via telephone and in person with question regarding child support warrants, which have not been received via US mail. Verify mailing address and all other related information to ensure warrants are delivered to the correction location and on time.
  • Data Entry- Input all child support payments received in the Office of Child Support Enforcement ensuring that the amounts are input accurately and in a timely manner
  • Maintain a high level of confidentially as it relates to customer’s information and data only providing information to authorized persons on client cases.
  • Communicate with staff and clients verbally and in writing as it related to the policies and procedures of Child Support Enforcement Collections.
  • Utilize a high level of confidentially and security as it relates to Child Support payments and warrants.

Provide an excellent analysis of the issues for the required topic. Address at least three separate issues and provide appropriate examples for each. Appropriately use and cited information from authoritative sources.

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IT:N Why do we need OPSEC for the Test Range?

Provide an excellent introduction to the deliverable which clearly, concisely, and accurately addressed the topic of the short paper. Appropriately paraphrase information from authoritative sources.

Provide an excellent analysis of the issues for the required topic. Address at least three separate issues and provide appropriate examples for each. Appropriately use and cited information from authoritative sources.

Include an excellent summary section for the short paper which was on topic, well organized, and covered at least 3 key points. The summary contained at least one full paragraph.

Include and properly cite three or more authoritative sources with complete publication or retrieval information. No formatting error

No formatting, grammar, spelling, or punctuation errors. Submitted work must show outstanding organization and the use of color, fonts, titles, headings and sub-headings, etc. is appropriate to the assignment type

What is plagiarism? Explain how you will avoid plagiarism for your assignments and dissertation. Provide examples of how you would best acknowledge your sources, suggest some valid and relevant sources that are relevant to your topics and critically discuss effective strategies to reference your work.

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Plagiarism

INSTRUCTIONS
– What is plagiarism?
-Explain how you will avoid plagiarism for your assignments and dissertation.
– You should provide examples of how you would best acknowledge your sources, suggest some valid and relevant sources that are relevant to your topics and critically discuss effective strategies to reference your work.

FORMAT
Your submission must meet the following formatting requirements:
Submit one file(s) only.
Required file format for main submission: PDF.
Additional file format for additional deliverables: Choose an option.
Additional file requirements: Type additional requirement info or “None”.

All refencing and citations require Harvard referencing style.
 Understand: the different philosophies and techniques of referencing which act as a guide and filter to formulating appropriate research designs and findings.
Knowledge: acquire knowledge of the different referencing approaches; techniques and methods.
Identify: which referencing method(s) best correlate to their research.
Apply:referencing and research methods skills developed in this course will be applied to any research conducted by the student; dissertation process; the mandatory Cases module at EU Business School; as well as in other courses requiring independent research work.
Analyze and Evaluate: the results of their research findings as a basis and context for real world business decision making.

Derive the governing equations for heat transfer under steady-state conditions (for x and y directions). Apply the finite difference method to find the algebraic representation of the governing equations for each node. Pick a temperature for each side of the sample (last integer ending with the last digit of your student ID) within the given range and calculate the temperatures at the internal nodes. Use two different methods for solving simultaneous eqiations in MATLAB.

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Engineering Mathematics 2

Introduction
The main aims of this mathematical analysis and computer modelling tasks are twofold; firstly, to get a deeper insight and increase your understanding of the mathematical theory and the various methods used in engineering analysis. Secondly, to gain experience in computer modelling techniques by using an industry–leading mathematical simulation package such as MATLAB The coursework consists of Tasks 1 and 2. The first one involves the application of ODEs in chemical reaction engineering. The second one deals with the use of numerical methods to solve PDEs obtained for 2d conductive heat transfer. Use the template provided on Moodle to prepare your submission.

TASK 1: Application of ODEs in chemical reaction engineering (50%)

Reactions in series are commonly occurring in chemical engineering. This task is an open–ended assignment regarding the application of advanced mathematics in analyzing the reaction kinetics in a series of reactions. To keep the flow of the solution at a consistent level, use the below set of reactions in a batch reactor and find the changes of concentration over time for all the species via the general mole balances approach. Solve the resulting ODEs using three methods stated below and compare the results via MATLAB:
𝐴 𝑘1
→ 𝐵 𝑘2
→ 𝐶
a) The analytical solution using the exponential functions
b) Laplace transformation pathway with presumed initial conditions
c) Numerical methods and approximation of derivations
d) Using parameter tuning in your programming, obtain various trends under which B concentration peaks and degrades. What parameters influence this behaviour and how?

TASK 2: Applications of PDEs in 2d conductive heat transfer (50%)
For a two–dimensional heat transfer in the figure below, find the temperature at the four internal nodes while addressing the questions:
a) Derive the governing equations for heat transfer under steady–state conditions (for x and y directions).
b) Apply the finite difference method to find the algebraic representation of the governing equations for each node.
c) Pick a temperature for each side of the sample (last integer ending with the last digit of your student ID) within the given range and calculate the temperatures at the internal nodes. Use two different methods for solving simultaneous eqiations in MATLAB.
d) Create 9 internal nodes (instead of 4) and find the temperature distributions in that case. Research the suitable approaches to build the resulting equation system and solve it using