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Reflect on the leadership style of either yourself or your supervisor. What leadership style do you have, or what leadership style does your supervisor have? What are the benefits and drawbacks of this style for your team?

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Companies like Target and Walmart often works with outside consultants—people who are not employees of the company but who are hired on a contract basis to help with a specific project. As a Leadership Consultant, you’ve been hired by a large discount retail company to help the company improve its leadership structure and approach to management.

Take a look at the Organization Chart provided by the company.

  • Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that this team has tall structure or flat structure?

Underline your selection:

  • Tall Structure
  • Flat Structure

The company would like to improve the culture of its team and the quality of its work. Its leadership has provided you with a Process Chart detailing how it currently applies Human Resources best practices.

You have been asked to help improve the leadership style of the team leader in order to meet the team’s performance goals. The team leader has given you a description of what is most comfortable in terms of leading others.

  • Identify this leader’s style of leadership. Underline your selection:
  • Pacesetting
  • Visionary
  • Affiliative
  • Coaching
  • Coercive
  • Democratic

Explain your reasoning and list two benefits and two drawbacks to the style of leadership you identified as it

Apply the thinking in Steps 1-3 as if you were a Leadership Consultant hired by the company where you work or for a previous employer.

  • Review the organization chart for your company. Based on your knowledge of hierarchies, would you say that your company’s team has a tall structure or flat structure? How does this affect the way your team works? Explain your answer.
  • Consider the work conducted by the Human Resources team at your company. What steps of the Human Resources Cycle do they implement well? What steps of the Human Resources Cycle might be missing from your company or are not implemented as well as they could be? What is the effect of this on you and your team? Explain your answer.
  • Lastly, reflect on the leadership style of either yourself or your supervisor. What leadership style do you have, or what leadership style does your supervisor have? What are the benefits and drawbacks of this style for your team? What might you or your supervisor do to improve leadership? Explain your answer.

Identify an education-related research topic of interest to you that may be used to develop a related problem statement. Develop an overall purpose statement for your research, based on the research problem statement that communicates the intent or objectives of the research.

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Identify an education-related research topic (i.e., the broad subject matter area to be investigated) of interest to you that may be used to develop a related problem statement.

1. Develop a problem statement that addresses the research topic.

B. Develop a narrative literature review that logically flows from the broadly defined problem to more specific research questions, using fifteen sources that meet each of the following guidelines:

• contains relevant academic or professional literature related to the research topic

• is published by a scholarly source

• can be retrieved online

C. Develop an overall purpose statement for your research, based on the research problem statement that communicates the intent or objectives of the research. The purpose statement should align with your two possible research questions.

D. Develop two open-ended research questions that adhere to the following guidelines:

• appropriate for one of the major research approaches (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, or action)

• researchable (i.e., you can collect and analyze data to answer it)

• directly addresses the research problem statement

• cannot be answered with simply a “yes” or “no” response

1. Justify which major research approach (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, or action) you would recommend using to answer each research question.

Write a thought paper (3-4 pages) on the organization change through exploring how an unsafe oil rig business can build up a change management plan to safe oil rig Business

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Organizations can be designed to respond to the environment through internal change and development. There are two main key aspects of organizational change and innovation: introducing new products and technologies and changing people and culture. Sometimes change and innovation are spurred by forces outside the organization and other times, managers within the company want to initiate major changes. Watch the following videos, read about Piper Alpha explosion in July 1988 and create a change management plan for unsafe oil platform to safe oil rig business.

Write a thought paper (3-4 pages) on the organization change through exploring how an unsafe oil rig business can build up a change management plan to safe oil rig Business.

Write a research paper on the most discriminated group of people throughout United States history. The 4 largest groups to research would be African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans

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“ write a research paper on the most discriminated group of people throughout United States history. The 4 largest groups to research would be African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Of all groups listed, and after doing research which group encountered the worst discrimination? Explain who, what, when, where, how, and why. Provide examples and conclude with an opinion. The report is is to be a minimum of 6 pages and a maximum of 8 pages. 12 font double spaced.

Develop a nursing plan of care that includes assessment information to formulate a priority nursing diagnosis for Millie with at least one goal using SMART Language (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic & timely)

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Utilize Millie Larsen Case Study to develop a nursing plan of care that includes assessment information to formulate a priority nursing diagnosis for Millie with at least one goal using SMART Language (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic & timely). Then critically think about which nursing interventions would be appropriate to reach your chosen goal/outcome. The nursing interventions need to include an assessment, a physical intervention that the nurse would do, and a patient education or teaching intervention. You will then evaluate at the end by addressing what and how you would measure if you were able to meet your goal/outcome or would need to revise the plan of care. You will need to give some supporting evidence that you would see if the goal was met.

Utilize the attached Module 5 Nursing Care Plan Form to complete all aspects of the nursing process for the nursing diagnosis that you chose to develop for Millie. You can see the grading Rubric for Module 5 Nursing Care Plan Form her to assist you. Your Ladwig resource will help you identify specific NANDA-I diagnoses that might apply to Millie Larsen

If we assume that the power elite’s status is always passed down from generation to generation, how would Edwin Sutherland explain these patterns of power through differential association theory?

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If we assume that the power elite’s status is always passed down from generation to generation, how would Edwin Sutherland explain these patterns of power through differential association theory?
What crimes do these elite few get away with?
How have digital media changed social interactions?
Do you believe it has deepened or weakened human connections? Defend your answer

Answer the essay questions thoroughly in no fewer than 400 words.
Be written in standard essay format:
Introduction; includes an overview of your main points and a thesis statement.
Body; complete paragraphs, each discussing one main point with support and details.

Elaborate on the concept of comparative advantage and how this concept is the determining factor in the long-term stability of a country and profitability of an organization.

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Comparative Advantage
International economics is dominated by the idea of comparative advantage – that different endowments and activities in different countries make them relatively more or less efficient at different economic activities. In other words, countries (and organizations) should specialize in the economic activities where they have a competitive edge against the competition.

In a two to three page research paper in APA style, elaborate on the concept of comparative advantage and how this concept is the determining factor in the long-term stability of a country and profitability of an organization. In particular, research and determine the following:

Define and explain the concept of comparative advantage.
Select any country that interests you. Then, determine one product or service where the country has a comparative advantage and one where they have a comparative disadvantage. Discuss the factors within the country that created this comparative advantage, and also the factors that contributed to their comparative disadvantage.
Finally, where the country has a comparative advantage, detail the strategy the country should adapt to maintain this advantage for the next five years. Importantly, comparative advantages fade rapidly and countries (and organizations) should constantly strive to maintain and expand their existing comparative advantages.

Consider how well the exhibit portrays its subject matter, the degree to which it sparked your interest, the degree to which it increased your knowledge, and the points in history which relate to the exhibits.

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Description: Visit the museums listed below. After visiting the museum, write a review of one of the exhibits you saw. In your visit, consider how well the exhibit portrays its subject matter, the degree to which it sparked your interest, the degree to which it increased your knowledge, and the points in history which relate to the exhibits. In your paper, explain how well these displays represent the era and/or historical events which they relate to. • Chicago History Museum 1601 N. Clark, Chicago Illinois 60614, 312-642-4000 (Lincoln’s Chicago; Chicago: Crossroads of America; Chicago: Law and Disorder; Sensing Chicago;Vivien Maier’s Chicago;Ride Around Chicago;The Dramas of Haymarket; Ride Around Chicago; The Great Chicago Fire):  • How was the information in the exhibit presented and how effective was it in conveying the themes of the exhibit? • To what degree did the exhibit enhance your historical knowledge of the period? • If possible, include at least one photograph of the exhibit in your paper. Format: This paper should be at least three pages (800 words) in length, following APA style format

Define and explain the concept of globalization. Compare and contrast the growth of globalization over the past thirty years, in general, and then specifically for one industry of your choice.

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Globalization refers to the increasing integration of national and regional markets and economies and the domination of the world economy by massive multinational firms. It has affected nearly every organization, and industry, in the competitive marketplace today.

In a two to three page research paper in APA style, detail the following in relation to the changing nature of global competitiveness:

Define and explain the concept of globalization.
Compare and contrast the growth of globalization over the past thirty years, in general, and then specifically for one industry of your choice. For instance, you may present the growth of imports and exports over the past thirty years, and then detail the impact globalization has had on United States toy manufacturers.
Finally, evaluate how globalization has altered the competitive landscape. In particular, elaborate on how a globalized marketplace affects the profitability and productivity of an organization and an industry.

In what ways was the fur trade in the West an economic relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples? In what ways was it a social relationship?

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In what ways was the fur trade in the West an economic relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples? In what ways was it a social relationship?

General Instructions: Write an essay on ONE of the following topics. Your essay should make use of all the materials in the course that deal with your topic as well as at least one book and one article or book chapter; OR the course materials plus two books from the list provided for your topic. The works that you use in addition to the course materials must be by at least two different authors. You are, of course, encouraged to use more materials than this minimum, but you are not required to do so. All the materials listed are available online via the AU Library, unless otherwise indicated. Many are also available in print through the Athabasca University library or a library in your vicinity. Jennifer Brown, Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1980). Shepard Krech 111, The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1984).