Why are the three selected indicators – exchange rates, major industries, government spending, debt, and deficit/surplus discussed in the report the strongest for decision-making in your judgement?

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Guidelines for the summary:

Why are the three selected indicators – exchange rates, major industries, government spending, debt, and deficit/surplus discussed in the report the strongest for decision-making in your judgement?

Connect the data/information with economic and finance theory.

Keep in mind that the managers and advisors will use the summary for decisions.

How and why the managers should use the information given in the report for decision making.

Include the corporate tax rate in Thailand and compare it to the other countries in the ASEAN region. Does it make it more or less attractive for investment?

The summary should also include the reasons for investing in Thailand, but also note the cautions and make a recommendation.  However, if it is not recommended as an investment, state the reasons.

 

 

Identify a new export country, and describe the country’s challenges and advantages; Prepare a supply chain assessment.

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International Logistics, Inc. is a conglomerate based in the United States that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of high tech equipment. It has seen a marked trend in the competition’s exportation of goods around the world. As the manager of international logistics for this company, you have been asked by senior management to help identify a new export region. First, you must identify a country to export to. Using the material developed for Weeks 1 through 4, write an eight- to ten-page recommendation to International Logistics, Inc.’s senior management advising them of a potential export country based on research conducted throughout this class. Your proposal should address the following:

• Identify a new export country, and describe the country’s challenges and advantages.
• Prepare a supply chain assessment.
• Develop a transportation plan that addresses how to move goods to the chosen country.
• Suggest recommendations for implementing the transportation plan.

Writing the Final Paper

Personal Reflection on Values an Ethics; Develop a statement that encompasses an overall picture of your values and ethics.

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Personal Reflection on Values an Ethics
Guidelines and Format
The objective of this assignment is for you to relate the material from the textbook readings, videos, and course discussions to your life experiences.
First, develop a statement that encompasses an overall picture of your values and ethics. Are your values based on family, health, achievements, wealth, job success, happiness, faith, love, or anything else that you hold in great esteem? Think of your value statement as what defines you as a person. Describe your understanding of the origin of the values you hold important. Try to describe your ethical beliefs. If possible, offer a story to illustrate your ethical behavior. Try to explain the roots of your ethical beliefs, where they came from, how you were influenced, whether any particular events in your life greatly impacted your beliefs. Have your ethical beliefs undergone any major changes? If so, describe what they were and why they changed.
Second, drawing on the various ethical frameworks we have studied this term—utilitarianism, deontology, etc—explain your ethical perspective. You do not need to limit yourself to one ethical framework and can draw from more than one. If you draw from more than one framework, you will need to explain your reasoning in your answer. Be sure to reconcile any contradictions between these perspectives (for example, utilitarianism vs. virtue ethics). Use the textbook as evidence in this section of your paper as a form of support.
After you have explained your ethical perspective, consider why and how you have adopted this perspective. This section of the paper will ask you to think about your personal life and the way you were brought up in terms of a specific ethical framework or frameworks. Explain why and how this framework was taught to you. For example, you could use a deontological perspective to represent how a duty/rule-based approach was used by your parents. If you grew up in different places, if you are an immigrant or the child of immigrants, perhaps you were taught a different ethic in school than you were at home? If this was the case, how did you reconcile any ethical conflicts? Which ethical framework do you draw on most as an adult and why? You do not need to answer all of these questions; however, you do want to present a nuanced, concrete discussion of your ethical perspective. Be specific and explain the role of culture and the historical time period when thinking about the particular ethical framework was used in your education or upbringing.
Lastly, conclude your paper. In your concluding paragraph, describe the person you are today and address the person you want to become. Are they the same person or different? Why?
Your paper must have an APA-formatted title page. The paper should be at least 1500 words in length (not including the cover page and references). It should be grammatically sound and free of spelling errors. You must integrate the ethical theories discussed in the readings and class. Be sure to include in-text citations and a reference page for this material. Outside sources are not required, but any use of such material must be cited.

Conduct a literature search using Medline/CINAHL databases (at a minimum) and identify literature relevant to the research question.

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Please use the template provided to complete the essay.
The aim of Assessment is to identify a clinical issue and propose a research question about this clinical issue. You are to then to conduct your literature search and determine whether there is existing evidence to answer the clinical question.
Once you have identified a research question you will need to:
1. Conduct a literature search using Medline/CINAHL databases (at a minimum) and identify literature relevant to the research question. Append the search history from your two database searches to the assignment.
2. Write a Literature Review that describes what is already known about the research question. (NOTE: in addition to papers located from your database search, additional reports/ guidelines can also be accessed and included in your Literature Review).
3. Consider how well the existing literature addresses your research question? (Consider if your research question has been fully answered, partially answered, or not answered at all)
4. (a) Identify what further research could be conducted (and its characteristics such as design, sample, outcome measures) that might provide important information to answer your research question AND (b) what are some ethical considerations that apply to these possible research studies.

Please use CINAHL and Medline research databases for this essay and append the history search from both and enter to into the template.

Select a company that you work for now or have worked for in the past, or a company in your community of which you have sufficient knowledge.

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Focus: Strategic Planning Implications Concerning Resource Allocation and Budgeting Revenues and Expenses

Scenario Analysis for the Aire Serv Franchise for the Dwyer Group

Instructions: Select 1 of the 2 techniques/concepts discussed in your Discussion Board Forum 1 thread and develop a real-world application paper. Select a company that you work for now or have worked for in the past, or a company in your community of which you have sufficient knowledge. Show how the selected technique/concept would be applied to that particular business in its strategic allocation of financial resources in the area of budgeting revenues and expenses. Your paper must be in current APA format and must include references from at least 7 peer-reviewed journal articles. The paper must be at least 5–7 pages, not including the title page and reference page.

What type of threat to internal validity does this present and what could the researcher do to address this issu? What threats to external validity might exist?

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A researcher measures effects of accident reduction interventions in a safety program initiated in the organization among maintainers who were mandated to participate. One problem that arises is that many maintainers are deployed temporarily or transferred during the course of the study. Make sure to address the following:

1) What type of threat to internal validity does this present and what could the researcher do to address this issue?
2) What threats to external validity might exist?
Must demonstrate an understanding of the task and be able to address the requirement using creativity and application of research design knowledge.
Must demonstrate an understanding of tests for reliability and validity as used in their example.
Must include both merits and limitations that apply.

Does the author use pictures or graphs? If so, are they helpful? If not, would the use of them have been helpful? Do you think there is a better way for the book to have been written?

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Instructions:

Book Review Guidelines–Final Draft

You will write a book review on Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard.

First and foremost a book review is not a book report. Your job is not to summarize the book but to recognize certain key aspects of the book and critique them.

As with any scholarly writing, you should have an introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph. You should also check for grammar and spelling issues.

You will discuss five topics in your book review:

Major Theme—what is the thesis of the book? In other words, what is the author trying to tell the reader?

Sub-themes—what are the underlying themes in the book? Are there certain topics the author keeps coming back to?

Methodology—how is the book written? For example: Does the author use pictures or graphs? If so, are they helpful? If not, would the use of them have been helpful? Do you think there is a better way for the book to have been written?

Sources—what sources does the author use in the book? Are they good and reputable? Are there enough sources? Are they varied? Does the author use both primary and secondary sources?

What do you think?—once you have addressed all of the topics above you can give your opinion—your educated opinion. Talk about what you liked or disliked in the book. Are there things you would have done differently? And, most importantly, do you think this book is worthwhile? Does it contribute to the topic?

Of course in answering these questions you will be discussing what the book is about, but you will be doing it in a way that fosters critical thinking, not just summarizing what someone else said.

Remember: This is NOT a book report, but a book review. Do not merely summarize the book.

For the final draft:

Write at least 3-4 FULL pages of book review content
Address ALL 5 questions above
You must include at least two quotations from the text
You must consult and cite three additional scholarly sources
You must have sources footnoted.
You must include a Bibliography page.
You must address the feedback given to you by your instructor in the rough draft assignment. Failure to correct those errors may result in a lowered grade.

Plan lifelong learning strategies to incorporate the CLPNA Continuing Competency Program into professional.

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NURS2303 Nursing Trends and Issues

Continuing Competency Assignment (25%)

NURS2303 Nursing Trends and Issues brings many of the concepts and issues learned in detail throughout your practical nursing program together to prepare and support you for your preceptor experience and for life after graduation.

By now, you should be familiar with the competencies that are outlined by the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA) and have an understanding of the requirements of the Health Professions Act and how these relate to your practice. This assignment is designed to assist you in reflecting on your nursing practice and summarizing some of the experiences and learning that you have encountered throughout your program. This assignment is modeled after the actual CLPNA Continuing Competency process that you will engage in yearly to maintain your license.

Learning Outcomes

This assignment relates to the following course Learning Outcomes:

  • Evaluate the challenges facing Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) as part of an inter-professional, interdisciplinary health care.
  • Analyze situations where the LPN must address issues of ethics and jurisprudence.
  • Analyze the inter-relationship of the LPN roles as advocate, leader, and
  • Plan lifelong learning strategies to incorporate the CLPNA Continuing Competency Program into professional.

This assignment has 2 parts: Part A and Part B. please read the instructions thoroughly and use the provided form to complete this assignment.

Pre-Assessment

This portion of the assignment does not need to be submitted. Reflect on your own practice prior to your preceptor experience. The competencies listed below have been chosen from the Competency Profile for Licensed Practical Nurses, 4th Edition (2019) and are important to have a solid understanding of as a graduate nurse.

The attached tables contain excerpts from the Competency Profile that relate to these chosen competencies. In Part A, you will provide a description of how you have demonstrated these competencies during your schooling.

Competencies (retrieved from Competency Profile for Licensed Practical Nurses, 4th Edition (2019))

B: Nursing Process

C: Professional and Leadership

D: Communication and Technology

Part A

For this portion of the assignment, you will conduct a self-assessment of specific competencies chosen from the Competency Profile for Licensed Practical Nurses, 4th Edition (2019) and provide examples of how you have demonstrated these competencies during your schooling in the (PN) Program.

Complete the following table. Choose 3 specific competencies from W: Professionalism, B: Nursing Process, and D: Communication and Interpersonal Skills. For each of these competencies, provide 3 examples of how you demonstrated this competency during your Practical nurse (PN) program before your Preceptorship Experience. Type your answers. Answers should be no more than 3 sentences in length. A copy of the form in Word format will be available in D2L to complete and submit via D2L Drop box. 

Part B: Learners Participating in the Preceptorship Experience this Term

If you are not participating in the Preceptorship Experience this term, please see “Alternative Part B: Learners NOT Participating in the Preceptorship Experience this Term”.

If you are participating in the Preceptorship Experience this term, the following instructions are for you. Complete the following table relating to your first preceptor experience. This document has been modified from its original version found on the CLPNA website to make it applicable to your experiences as a learner. To maintain your license after graduation, you will need to complete this form yearly as part of a demonstration of your learning throughout the year and be prepared to submit it to the CLPNA as part of the validation process if you are selected.

An example of a completed Record of Professional Activities can be found at Completed Record of Professional Activities on the CLPNA website. Though the version below is modified from its original state, it has been designed to prepare you for practice after graduation.

 

Refer the assignment. Type your answers. Answers should be no more than 3 sentences in length. A copy of the form in Word format will be available in D2L to complete and submit via D2L Dropbox.

 

Date  (3 different dates) Competency Code (Pick a variety from the competency profile) Summary of Learning

(Provide detailed summary of your learning. Explain and give example(s): Why did you choose this learning objective / competency? What did you learn? How has the learning changed the way you think and behave in your practice? How will the learning affect your practice in the future?)
 

 

 

 Why did you choose this learning objective / competency?
What did you learn?
How has the learning changed the way you think and behave in your practice?
How will the learning affect your practice in the future?
 

 

 

 Why did you choose this learning objective / competency?
What did you learn?
How has the learning changed the way you think and behave in your practice?
How will the learning affect your practice in the future?
 

 

 

 Why did you choose this learning objective / competency?
What did you learn?
How has the learning changed the way you think and behave in your practice?
How will the learning affect your practice in the future?

 

Alternative Part B: Learners NOT Participating in the Preceptorship Experience this Term

If you are NOT participating in the Preceptorship Experience this term, the following instructions are for you:

  1. Complete the following table below.
  2. On 3 separate dates, choose one of the competency codes from the CLPNA.
  3. Access the library database and select a peer-reviewed article, which discusses this competency.
  4. For each competency answer the questions. Provide detailed summary of your learning. Explain and give example(s). Answers should be no more than 3 sentences in length.
  5. You should have 3 competencies in all, which are supported by 3 different peer-reviewed articles.
  6. Create a reference list for your articles which are itemized and labeled 1 to 3 and which correspond to the numbered competencies. For example, if your first selected competency is C-2 (Safety, Protective Equipment), then the first article in your reference list will be labeled “1” and relate to using protective equipment to promote competency in regards to safety in practice.
  7. Type your answers.
  8. Answers should be no more than 3 sentences in length.
  9. A copy of the form in Word format will be available in D2L to complete and submit via D2L Dropbox.

 

Date  (3 different dates) Competency Code (Pick a variety from the competency profile) Peer-Reviewed Articles

(3 different articles)

 Summary of Learning

(Provide detailed summary of your learning. Explain and give example(s): Why did you choose this learning objective / competency? What did you learn about this competency from the article? How did the article change the way you think and behave in your practice? How will the learning affect your practice in the future?
 

 

 

 Why did you choose this learning objective / competency?
What did you learn about this competency from the article?
How did the article change the way you think and behave in your practice?
How will the learning affect your practice in the future?
 

 

 

 Why did you choose this learning objective / competency?
What did you learn about this competency from the article?
How did the article change the way you think and behave in your practice?
How will the learning affect your practice in the future?
 

 

 

 Why did you choose this learning objective / competency?
What did you learn about this competency from the article?
How did the article change the way you think and behave in your practice?
How will the learning affect your practice in the future?

 

 

 

 

Identify and describe the company’s key stakeholders. Justify why they are key stakeholders in relation to your focal question.

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Your assignment is to become more acquainted with the organization you will study, and begin preparing the front part of the report. A template for the final report, which you should use, and a rubric for this assignment will be available for download in the assignment created for this assessment in the ‘Assignments’ folder of Blackboard. Please include the following in your report. You should use the template to fill out the following sections, and leave the remaining sections blank (you will fill them out when you do the Final Scenario Planning Report assignment:
• A short overview of the company.
• State your focal question and time horizon. You aren’t expected to answer the whole question in this initial report, but keep it in mind to help you stay on track for your final report.
• Identify and describe the company’s key stakeholders. Justify why they are key stakeholders in relation to your focal question.
• Based on the scenario planning work we’ve covered in class so far, identify four driving forces that you feel might affect the company by the time horizon in relation to your focal question. Be sure to justify your arguments with evidence.

Do not write an essay – this is a report. Use the self-explanatory headings and sub-headings suggested in the template. Use short paragraphs and sentences, and use graphs, tables and illustrations where necessary. Careful occasional use of bullet points is acceptable if they add clarity to the report, but don’t overuse them. Support all your arguments and recommendations with relevant proof and/or your own analysis.
Treat this report as either an employee of or consultant to the organization. The report is to be written for an executive audience. Use professional language and layout, cite reputable sources for all facts you state, draw on your own analysis for insights you have, highlight key points in an executive summary, be thorough in your analysis, and justify your recommendations. Proofread your work (or have someone do it for you). Check spelling, grammar, layout, coherence, sentence and paragraph structure, and logical flow of arguments.
This report should be no more than 1500 words long (about 6 pages), but that doesn’t include your reference list. It should be double-spaced (not 1.5), Calibri font size 11 (this is the Microsoft Word default) or Times New Roman size 12 (or similar), and prepared in Microsoft

What Leadership Styles were used in the recent echinacea crisis? Discuss the leadership style of every person involved.

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The purpose of this project is to apply leadership concepts to a crisis leadership situation and to make recommendations for a crisis-ready culture.

External sources are not permitted.

The Scenario

Read the Case Scenario that follows and answer Mr. Barney’s questions in the form of a report.  Address the report to Mr. Barney.

You walk into your office one morning and see an article on your desk. You pick it up and realize that Mr. Barney, the CEO, placed it there! He also has some questions on a post-it note and a request for recommendations.  

Max Barney was exhausted. He had just finished a long meeting with his current VP of Headquarter Operations, Michael Brown. Michael, who was himself getting ready for retirement, was giving Barney a rundown of a recent crisis that impacted the company. While the dust seemed to be settling, Barney recognized that this was one of the worst things to ever happen to his company.

Michael recalls the crisis in the following way: 

“On the morning of January 19th, I got a call from Joanne Edwards, my contact at our major distributor, Happy and Healthy Foodmart.  She told me that three of her customers had complained that Biotech’s echinacea had made them ill.  I called our legal department immediately to put them on alert.  By noon that day, the number of reported illnesses had risen to seven.  By January 22nd, the worst possible news came in – one of those people had actually died.

I called my team together immediately to come up with a plan for an immediate Recall. We needed to manage this crisis with our employees, our distributors, and most of all our customers.  Controlling the message to the public and the media was critical.  We’d had Recalls before, but never in reaction to a customer death. This was a whole new ball game for us.

Once the Recall had been put in place, we needed to get to the bottom of the echinacea problem. We started looking at the suppliers and ended up in the Purchasing Department. When we discovered that Henrietta Higgins, the Assistant Director of Purchasing, had cut a deal with a new supplier I became furious, Max. I mean, it was not one of my proudest moments.” 

“That’s understandable,” replied Max, “go on. Tell me more.” 

“Well, Higgins received an offer from a new supplier to buy genetically modified echinacea.  She explained that she thought it was a good move because it would save the company over 20% on the wholesale price.  She made the decision unilaterally, Max, without every going to her supervisor or to me to discuss it.”

“What did you do when you found this out?” asked Max.

“I fired her, of course. We had no other choice, Max.  It’s because of her we have this crisis. And on top of that, we’ve decided to halt all sales of all echinacea in the foreseeable future.”

“Who’s we?” Max asked, with concern in his voice now. 

“My team, of course. I told my managers about my decision and they’re all behind me 100%.  We all know how important it is to act quickly in this situation, Max.  You can trust me to turn this situation around.”

Max left the meeting sure about two things. First, he was secretly relieved that Michael was nearing retirement. The new VP of Headquarter Operations could start fresh. Second, he had just finished reading an article about a “Crisis Ready Culture”. He knew that it was time for Biotech to start developing a crisis-ready culture.

Max drops by your office with a copy of that article. He has a post-it note on the article, with the following questions and a request for recommendations:

  1. What Leadership Styles were used in the recent echinacea crisis? Discuss the leadership style of every person involved.
  2. What Leadership Styles would be most beneficial in a crisis-ready culture?
  • What leadership competencies were evident in the recent echinacea crisis? Discuss the leadership competencies of every person involved.
  1. What leadership competencies would be most needed in a crisis-ready culture?
  2. What role did Emotional Intelligence (or lack of Emotional Intelligence) play in the echinacea crisis?
  3. What role would Emotional Intelligence play in a crisis-ready culture?
  • What role did Authentic Leadership (or lack of it) play in the Echinacea crisis?
  • What role would Authentic Leadership play in a crisis-ready culture?
  1. What role (if any) did Biotech’s current culture play in the Echinacea crisis?
  2. How can Biotech align its current strategy, culture and organizational structure to develop a crisis-ready culture?
  3. Give three specific and actionable recommendations that could be implemented to develop acrisis-ready culture for Biotech. (Each recommendation should be supported by course materials).

Step 2: The Questions to Answer

You will answer the 11 questions above provided in Step 1.