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Describe your commercial in writing or you can vide or audiotape your description.

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Commerical

Your textbook Chapter 2 presents theories or models of family systems. Select one that resonates with you. You’ve been asked to design an engaging TV commercial to help teachers understand that model. Congratulations! Your commercial will be aired during the SuperBowl! By the way, you were also told to let your imagination run wild, as you will be given an unlimited budget:-). Describe your commercial in writing or you can vide or audiotape your description.

Book for Chapter 2 Home, School, and Community Collaboration 4th By: Kathy B. Grant & Julie A. Ray

Choose and discuss one greater theme or context in the episode and the implications of the show’s conclusions and information.

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A Close Analysis of “Deadly Dressers” select scenes and impact

Choose and discuss one greater theme or context in the episode and the implications of the show’s conclusions and information. To help guide your discussion, use at least one concept, vocabulary word, or piece of terminology from either our Social Sustainability lecture, “Language of Oppression” and/or the “Defining Culture and Identities” chapter. How does your choice help us think about the show? What would social sustainability say about this subject matter? You should also incorporate one scene that you analyze closely in order to help prove your point.

How long do you expect the project to take? Will the chatbot be rolled out for the whole business at once, or will it be piloted for a small group first? If your business is large, will it be rolled out for specific regions or certain product lines? Will certain features be rolled out first and other features implemented later?

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Chatbot project

The president of Southwest Airlines has hired you to manage a new project to implement chatbots like the ones shown in the links below, associated with this assignment. You can decide exactly what the chatbot will do. Put together a high-level implementation plan and operational policies for this chatbot project. The plan should describe the business goals, the scope of the effort, the timeframe for the implementation, what resources are needed for the project. Please explain how the new chatbot will be used by your business and customers. You should also analyze the risk factors of using chatbots (e.g., deteriorated morale among customer service representatives, poor service for customers) and how those risk factors can be mitigated. In the operational policies, you should describe when people will use chatbots and what other options will be available. For instance, will a chatbot be the required first stop for all customers, or one of many mechanisms for customers to interact with your business? Will “preferred” customers have additional service options? If so, describe the process for identifying “preferred” customers.

This paper must follow the formatting guidelines in The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association [APA Manual] (2020), (7th ed.) using Times New Roman 12-point font. Remember to support your statements, including opinions, with factual information (i.e., attribution/citations). The paper is essentially an research driven, executive summary and, as the minimum, must contain:

A title page (see Figure 2.2 in the APA Manual)
Three to five pages of text-based content
At least, one paragraph for each bulleted item below. (A paragraph in academic writing normally has at least three sentences: beginning, middle, and end.)

One or more reference pages
Links for your business and the competitor in a separate section on the reference page (do not include the links in the reference list)

Business Goals – What is the business strategy and how does the chatbot fit with the strategy? How does this project potentially give the business a competitive advantage?

Scope of Project – What is the chatbot expected to do? What is out of scope for this project, meaning what will the chatbot not do? (For instance, the chatbot might document a customer’s problem, but notify the technical service group to actually solve the problem.) Will the chatbot be targeted at all customers, or a specific subset? How many people in your business are expected to interact with the chatbot? Will your bot be English only or multilingual? Will the chatbot use text or voice recognition or both?

Project Timeframe – How long do you expect the project to take? Will the chatbot be rolled out for the whole business at once, or will it be piloted for a small group first? If your business is large, will it be rolled out for specific regions or certain product lines? Will certain features be rolled out first and other features implemented later?

Implementation Resources – Who will implement the chatbot? Will company resources or outside resources by required? If training is needed, who will do that?

Expected Benefits – What specific benefits, such as increased sales, improved product quality, higher customer satisfaction, reduced costs, do you expect? How is the chatbot expected to deliver those benefits? What is the timeframe for achieving the benefits? How will this system give your business a competitive advantage?

Communication Plan – What groups in the business need to be informed about the progress of the project? How will each group receive updates, e.g. weekly meetings, newsletter, emails, webinars, project website, etc.?

Risk Analysis – What could go wrong with the chatbot project? How will you avoid or minimize those risks?

Operational Policies – What will be the terms of service for use of the chatbot once it is implemented? Who can access the chatbot data? How will customer information in the chatbot be secured to protect the privacy of the customer?

Critical Success Factors – What criteria will you use to judge the success or failure of this project? How are the critical success factors for this project tied to the business strategy and business goals?

Links to videos on Chatbot:

Identify and discuss the legal elements of negligent hiring. Apply those elements of negligent hiring to the facts given in the case. Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring. Identify and discuss the legal elements of respondeat superior.

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Week 2 – Assignment Negligent Tort Liability

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

• Review Chapter 7 and Chapter 36 of the course textbook.

• Review the cases Malorney v. B&L Motor Freight, Inc., 496 N.C.2d 1086 (Ill. Ct. App. 1986) Download Malorney v. B&L Motor Freight, Inc., 496 N.C.2d 1086 (Ill. Ct. App. 1986), and Raleigh v. Performance Plumbing and Heating, 130 P.3d 1011 (Colo. 2006) Download Raleigh v. Performance Plumbing and Heating, 130 P.3d 1011 (Colo. 2006).

• The Negligent Tort Liability paper

Superior Electrical

Superior Electrical (Superior) was in the business of installing electrical wiring and related components at new construction sites. Because some employees were assigned company vehicles equipped with company tools and materials and were expected to drive those vehicles to the work sites, Superior required all employment applicants to hold a valid driver’s license. Employees who were assigned a company vehicle were expected to drive for the company during the workday in order to transport job materials and company tools that were kept on the vehicle to job sites. These employees were expected to take the company issued vehicle home at the end of the work day.

Superior hired Cory Jones as an apprentice electrician. Jones had completed an employment application in which he stated that he had a valid driver’s license and had not been cited for any traffic violations. These statements were untrue. His license had been suspended because of numerous traffic violations, including careless driving and driving without a license. Superior did not check on his driving record at the time he was hired because, as an apprentice electrician, he was not being assigned a company vehicle and was not expected to drive for the company during the work day.

About a year after hiring Jones, Superior promoted him to electrician and assigned Jones a company vehicle equipped with a rack for transporting wiring and other materials to and from the work sites. Superior intended that Jones drive during the day for the company and to take the vehicle home after the end of the work day. On a later date, when Jones’s work hours had ended and he was driving home in the company vehicle, he collided with two cars. The collision resulted solely from Jones’s negligence. Carolyn Carson and her son were severely injured in the collision and they sued Superior. The Carson’s alleged two theories of recovery against Superior: respondent superior and negligent hiring.

• The Negligent Tort Liability paper

Superior Electrical

Write a four- to five-page paper that addresses the following:

• Identify and discuss the legal elements of negligent hiring.

• Apply those elements of negligent hiring to the facts given in the case.

• Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring.

• Identify and discuss the legal elements of respondeat superior.

• Apply those elements of respondeat superior to the facts given in the case.

• Analyze whether Superior would be liable on respondeat superior grounds.

• Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA style

• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

Identify the research design in the study that you will replicate by designing your proposal. Summarize the definition of that design from the textbook. List two threats to internal validity from from any of the research reports that you are using for your proposal.

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Research designs

Identify the research design in the study that you will replicate by designing your proposal.

Summarize the definition of that design from the textbook.

List two threats to internal validity from from any of the research reports that you are using for your proposal.

List and summarize (from the textbook) two research designs that you never heard of prior to this course.

Describe how you might use those designs in a future study that you conduct.

What is the organization’s mission and vision? How have you seen the organization’s mission and vision reflected in daily activities such as communication, management approaches, priorities, and so on? What does the organization value?

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Managing/Leading in Business

Overview

It is important to understand yourself as a leader and how you fit into an organization. In this journal assignment, you will discuss your individual experience with organizational culture and how it has impacted communication and leadership within an organization you are familiar with. This could be an organization you currently work for, or one you have worked for in the past. You may wish to revisit the results of your personality assessment from your previous work and discuss how your leadership style connects to the organizational culture you describe here.

Prompt

Revisit your Big Five personality assessment and the related journal assignment, and consider who you are as a leader. Think of the culture of an organization that you currently work for or have worked for in the past, and describe your role within it based on the organizational culture and your disposition.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Organizational Culture: Describe the organizational culture of the organization of your choice. Consider the following in your response:

What is the organization’s mission and vision?

How have you seen the organization’s mission and vision reflected in daily activities such as communication, management approaches, priorities, and so on?

What does the organization value?

Impacts of Culture and Leadership: Describe the impact of culture and leadership on the employees and day-to-day business, providing examples. Consider the following in your response:

How did organizational culture play a role in the examples you provided?

In the examples you provided, was the communication or behavior aligned with the culture the organization promotes? Why or why not?

Leadership Style and Personality Traits: Discuss your leadership style and personality traits; focus specifically on how your leadership fits into an organizational culture. Consider the following in your response:

What traits make you a strong leader, and how does this connect to the organizational culture you described?

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Describe the general functions of management as well as the purpose and benefits of using established management skills and practices, making sure to use course resources to support your explanation.

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Managing/Leading in Business

Overview

Using the management skills and practices that suit your team and its objectives can help to ensure the team’s efficiency and productivity. Analyze the provided scenario to determine how management skills and practices can help support the team.

Scenario

Imagine that you are an organizational consultant for the SNHU Pet Supply Company. The director of retail operations has asked you to evaluate the reason for some of the team’s drop in productivity and make recommendations for their improvement. Further conversations with the team members and managers reveal a conflict in the way productivity and efficiency is being measured and handled.

The team members say that their managers micromanage them. Each week, the managers send out a task list for the team and expect them to fill out detailed timesheets every day to cross-reference the task list. Any deviations from the list must be explained in a separate email. Moreover, some team members feel their skill sets are not being used correctly, and that they would be better suited to do tasks that are not being assigned to them. This has led to some resentment within the team, not to mention high levels of stress to meet the managers’ demands.

The managers maintain that they have just been following the process that’s been set out for years in the company. The many unresolved issues are taking a toll on the team’s productivity and efficiency, which then feeds back into the conflict, creating a vicious circle.

Prompt

Write a brief report to the director of retail operations that explains the management skills and practices you feel will improve team productivity and efficiency, using the module reading to support your recommendations.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Overview: Provide a brief overview of the problem you have been asked to resolve, making sure to note specific areas of conflict between management approaches and employee feedback based on the provided scenario.

Management Approaches: Describe the general functions of management as well as the purpose and benefits of using established management skills and practices, making sure to use course resources to support your explanation.

Recommendations: Recommend a new management approach, consisting of a blend of management skills and practices, that you believe will help improve the team’s productivity and efficiency. Explain why you believe these approaches will be effective, and make sure to use course resources to support your recommendations.

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

How do you imagine this text as a physical object? What type of writing is the text? Who is the intended audience? Who can/can’t access it? How is language used in this writing? Is it effective to its purpose? Comment on the historical nature of the language. Does it make it difficult to read or understand?

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Weekly Caption

 

You are asked to write reading responses for ten weeks. Instructions below. You have two weeks where you do not have to write reading responses.

 

  • Write a response for each reading on the syllabus. If there are two or three readings in a week, you may read them both and comment on them using the guidelines below. Or you can just focus more on one, if you prefer. Your choice.
  • Each week should be about 200-250 words.
  • Note that you may focus your analysis more on one reading each week but try to think of how the readings fit together thematically.
  • Hand in to your Tutorial Quercus Page in the dropbox corresponding to the week.

 

Part I: Meta or paratext (the “frame” around the work)

How do you imagine this text as a physical object?

What type of writing is the text? Who is the intended audience? Who can/can’t access it?

How is language used in this writing? Is it effective to its purpose?

Comment on the historical nature of the language. Does it make it difficult to read or understand?

 

Part 2: The “content” of the writing

 What is the writing about? What is/are he/she/they concerned with?

What is the aim of this writing? Or the purpose?

What assumptions does the author hold?

What quotes can you pull from the writing that exemplify the author’s argument?

Why do you agree with? What do you want to argue with?

Has it changed your views in any way?

Identify an organisational problem. Analyse the problem situation using concepts and theories of organisational behaviour; and Develop credible and feasible recommendations for change.

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Organisational management/ behaviour

Concepts from the book: Buchanan D and Huczynski A (2019) Organizational Behaviour. 10th ed. Harlow, Pearson
The aim is to apply the concepts presented to identify, analyse and propose recommendations for action, for a management problem in a health care organisation.

Objectives The objectives are, to:
• Identify an organisational problem.
• Analyse the problem situation using concepts and theories of organisational behaviour; and
• Develop credible and feasible recommendations for change.

Task instructions
WRITE UP A CASE STUDY OF AN ORGANISATIONAL PROBLEM IN HEALTH SERVICES or remotely
health–related organisation based on your experience.
Your case study should address the following four areas:

1 The problem situation: A concrete description of the problem in the particular organisational setting.

2 The diagnosis: What the organisational management literature contributes to an understanding of the core problem, drawing on the relevant concepts and theories presented in the module.

3 The wider organisational context: An analysis, which describes how other features of the organisation and its environment relate to the problem situation.

4 Recommendations for management intervention: A clear statement of feasible
recommendations, including an analysis of why these policies may work and others not

The essay should refer to a real–life problem from your experience, which is amenable to analysis by organisational management concepts and theories. It is a good idea to anonymise the organisation(s) you refer.

Section 1: State the problem situation clearly. For example, describe signs and symptoms indicating an organisational problem that should be addressed by management. Remember, problems can arise at individual, group, inter–group and organisational levels. If you have not worked in health services, you can choose any other health related organisation. However, make sure to choose an organisational problem that can be addressed appropriately by the concepts taught in this module.

Section 2: Analyse the problem situation in terms of organisational behaviour. From the range of concepts and theories covered in the module, select those you think are most relevant and discuss what each may contribute to an understanding of the core problem. Make sure to focus on a small number of key concepts and apply them to the concrete situation you are discussing.

Section 3: Examine the wider organisational context and identify issues (internal or external to the organisation, depending on your topic) you think are important to understand the problem. Your analysis should draw on the relevant concepts and theories from the module and discuss three or four management issues that are relevant to the wider organisational context. You may also refer to the wider environment at local, regional, national or international level, if these are directly relevant. You have discretion to decide what you discuss here or in Section 2, as this depends on your analysis and the nature of the problem. However, in both sections try to focus on a small number of key aspects and provide an in–depth analysis rather than a superficial discussion of many different topics.

Section 4: Finally, you should formulate a coherent set of recommendations, which are both practical and relevant. Make sure your proposal for management intervention is based on your previous analysis, is realistic and feasible, and addresses the core problem. Also, justify your recommendations and explain why these may work and others not.
An author and date referencing; the Harvard system should be used. The word limit is 2,500 words.

The final word count should include the main text, citations, captions, titles, subtitles and footnotes and should be within the limits noted above. • Tables, figures, bibliographies/reference lists and appendices should not be included in the count, but should be used appropriately and not as a way to keep within the word limit • may include up to a maximum of 10 figures, graphs and tables combined

Discuss how you might apply the CENAPS model of relapse prevention in your work with individuals seeking addiction treatment? Discuss the strengths and benefits of this model’s principles for the recovering individual and provide specific examples in what type of treatment setting you might apply the model.

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Discussion board on CENAPS

Read pages 23-38 in the attached document: National Institute on Drug Abuse – Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling.pdf ,

Discuss how you might apply the CENAPS model of relapse prevention in your work with individuals seeking addiction treatment? Discuss the strengths and benefits of this model’s principles for the recovering individual and provide specific examples in what type of treatment setting you might apply the model (i.e. group therapy, individual therapy, psychoeducational groups, etc.).