NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 Review the competencies for the nurse educator role of your choice in the Nurse Educator Competencies textbook. Select one competency and share it with your classmates. Be sure to address why you selected the one you did. Discuss how you have already met it or how you plan to meet it as you embark on your journey as a nurse educator. Support your response with literature.

DQ2 How do you see health care reform affecting the role of the nurse educator? Use the literature to support your response. Be specific to your selected area of interest.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 2 Discussion

DQ1 Find an article on a societal factor that is affecting nursing/patient education curriculum. Summarize your article for your classmates in one or two paragraphs. Discuss why you chose the article and what can be learned from this trend – how would you use it to improve the quality of nursing/patient education? This article and those posted by your classmates may become the foundation of your paper due in Topic 2. Be sure to include the entire citation in APA format. The article you select cannot be from any of the course materials or supplemental readings. Please note: It is a violation of copyright law to post the entire text of the article to an online discussion board. So be sure to post only the citation information so that the article can be located if someone is interested in reading more. The article should come from a graduate-level journal, like an advanced practice journal or nursing education journal – not an entry-level journal like AJN, RN, Nursing, etc.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 Identify one group of stakeholders in curriculum development . How could you include your identified group of stakeholders in curriculum development for a program in your area of interest (academic/hospital-based or patient education)? Be specific in the steps to carry out your plan to include this group. Support your response with literature.

DQ2 Who would you include in the community of interest when you are contemplating beginning a new nursing education program? Support your response with literature.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 4 Discussion

DQ1 When you review various curricular plans, you may see a variety of terms. Some programs use the term “program outcomes” while others use the term “terminal objectives” for those actions that the student is expected to accomplish upon graduation. The same is true for individual courses. Some programs call the knowledge and skills that a student should master by the end of the course “course outcomes” while others use the term “course objectives.” All of the terms have a specified definition in literature and according to accreditation agencies. What are the similarities and differences between the terms according to the literature and to accrediting agencies? Select a program or course (other than GCU) and critique their use of these terms. Do they use them in a manner consistent with the literature and/or accreditation agencies or do they use them differently? Include your review of the program in your response to this discussion question. Support your response with literature. Your critique could be at the program level or at the course level. You do not need to do both levels.

DQ2 What would be important for you to know about the program’s philosophy, mission, and goals if you were interviewing for a position at that university? Why? Support your response with literature.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 The term andragogy is often used to describe Malcom Knowles’ theory of adult learning, while the term pedagogy was traditionally used to describe curriculum developed for children. Select a course you took lately and look for the principles of andragogy or pedagogy in the course structure. Share your findings with your classmates and whether or not you thought the curriculum was effective. Support your response with literature and with examples.

DQ2 What learning theory do you see as the foundation for this course? Support your response with literature and with examples.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 Complete the Learning Styles Inventory found at:

http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles.shtml.

This is a free tool that you can take called the Learning Styles Inventory. Once you have obtain your results by answering the 20 questions, you will then answer the following questions: What is your personal learning style? How did your results compare to what you already knew about your personal learning style? How do you think your learning style affects your teaching style?

DQ2 How would Maslow’s hierarchy of needs affect a person’s readiness to learn? Include an example from your selected area of education (academic, staff, or patient). Support your response with literature.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 7 Discussion

DQ1 Find a current (less than 5 years old) research article on domains of learning. Summarize the article for your classmates in one or two paragraphs. Explain why you chose this study and how you could use this information in your selected area of education (academic, staff, or patient). Be sure to include the entire citation in APA format. The article you select cannot be from any of the course materials or supplemental readings. Be aware that it is a violation of copyright law to post the entire text of an article by someone else to an online discussion board. So be sure to post only the citation information so that the article can be located it if others are interested in reading it.

DQ2 Select a topic regarding the diversity in health care and write an objective from the affective domain for that topic.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 8 Discussion

DQ1 Find a research article on teaching diverse learners. Summarize the article for your classmates in one or two paragraphs. Explain why you chose this study and how you could use this information in your selected area of education (academic, staff, or patient). Be sure to include the entire citation in APA format. The article you select cannot be from any of the course materials or supplemental readings. Be aware that it is a violation of copyright law to post the entire text of an article by someone else to an online discussion board. So be sure to post only the citation information so that the article can be located it if others are interested in reading it.

DQ2 Present two variables that you would consider when selecting a teaching strategy. Support your response with literature.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 2 Assignment

Benchmark – Societal Trends in Nursing and Patient Education Paper

Select a societal trend that is affecting curriculum in nursing or patient education.

In a paper of 1,000-1,250 words, describe how the selected societal trend affects nursing or patient education.

Relate the issue to appropriate professional standards and competencies.

Explore strategies to enhance the positive affect or minimize the negative affect of the selected issue.

Use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed resources less than 5 years old in addition to the course materials.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 4 Assignment

Benchmark – Curriculum Development Issue Paper

Read “Reconceptualizing Program Outcomes” and “Leveling EBP Content for Undergraduate Nursing Students” for a better understanding of issues within curriculum development.

Select an issue within curriculum development that is of interest to you.

Write a paper of 1,000-1,250 words on the issue, discussing its affect and relevance to nursing, staff or patient education.

Why is this issue a problem at your place of employment?

What are your proposed strategies to resolve these issues?

Use at least three to five scholarly, peer-reviewed resources less than 5 years old in addition to the course materials. Make sure that you do not use the two sources given in this assignment.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 6 Assignment

Benchmark – Learning Styles

As faculty members, you have been asked to design a 4-hour Leadership Strategies course that would accommodate the learning styles for a selected 10 students. The students have all completed a learning style inventory in which three of the students are determined visual learners, four are kinesthetic learners, and the rest are auditory learners. Note: The intended audience for the course can be either newly graduated nurses or experienced staff nurses as you choose.

Compose a 1,000-1,250-word paper which describes your plan to accommodate the learning styles of each student. This plan starts with defining course objectives; use the “A-B-C-D Method of Writing Objectives” resource as a guide. The objectives should incorporate Bloom’s taxonomy, be written at the appropriate level for the audience, and include at least two learning domains (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective). Make sure to include the following:

An outline of the course content and agenda that will be covered.

Descriptions of the learning activities and the rationale for the learning activities selected

Strategies to assess learning, based on the learner objectives

Use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed resources less than 5 years old in addition to the course materials.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

Refer to “Learning Styles Rubric,” prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 7 Assignment

Personal Class Design Project – Part 1

Complete this assignment according to the following:

Design a class that you would like to teach someday. The class must be at least 4 hours in length and must be multiple sessions. It can be four sessions of 1 hour each, or two sessions of 2 hours each, depending on your topic and target audience.

Begin by describing the institution that is sponsoring the class (e.g., academic, hospital, or community agency). Include the philosophy of the sponsoring organization and how that will affect the course you are developing.

Explain how you determined a need for this class (needs assessment).

Write a one-paragraph description of the class.

Identify the target audience.

Identify the learning resources you will use for the class (textbooks or other resources).

Write the program outcomes for the course and the learner objectives for each class session. Indicate which domains of learning are represented by each learner objective.

There is no predetermined length criterion for this assignment. It is intended that each student will develop a class that they can use in their selected area of education. You will complete this project in your next course, NUR-649E.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

NUR647E Nursing Education Seminar 1

Week 8 Assignment

Benchmark – Teaching Diverse Learners Presentation

For this assignment you will prepare a 10-12-slide PowerPoint presentation on teaching techniques for diverse learners.

Presentation Criteria:

Prepare a plan for designing and delivering instruction that addresses both the needs of the selected population as well as other diverse students.

Select a population that represents a type of diversity, which may include ethnic, learning styles, age, or cognitive ability. The selected population may be nursing students, staff members, or patients.

Explain how your selected population’s characteristic impacts their learning styles.

Provide three teaching strategies an educator could use with that particular group of learners.

Include a rationale for each strategy as to why it would be effective.

Use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed resources less than 5 years old in addition to course materials.

Presentation Requirements:

Online students are required to provide comprehensive speaker notes.

Students in traditional classes are not required to include speakers’ notes, but will present their work in class and be evaluated on professional teaching style.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 1 Discussion

Action Research and Organizational Development Videos

There are a huge number of individuals and firms who are out there selling their organizational development services. Take a look at videos and/or webpages of OD consultants and find a company or individual that really stands out in a good or bad way. Share the link to the video or webpage, and explain what made this particular consultant or consulting firm stand out to you. Also, discuss whether or not the material presented in the video or webpage seems to be consistent with what you read about in the background readings. For example, does this consultant seem to practice a form of action research or do they do something entirely different?

One consultant whose videos or webpage you may want to check out is Dr. Jeremy Lurey, as he is the author of one of your readings for this module and the CEO of Plus Delta Consulting. Take a look at one of his videos if you find one that looks interesting, and let your classmates know how the video is similar or different to his reading in the background materials.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 2 Discussion

Gurus of Large Group Interventions

Sandra Janoff and Marvin Weisbord are the original developers of the Future Search method and are the founders of the Future Search Network. Corporations pay a lot of money for their services, but fortunately they have a few videos up on YouTube so you can get a taste of what kind of material they go through when giving a seminar. Find some videos from one or both of them and share the link to the video that you find the most useful.

owen-open space technologyHarrison Owen is the developer of Open Space Technology. He also has a few videos up on YouTube as well. Take a look at some of his videos and share the link to one that you found to be the most useful.

Answer the following questions concerning the videos on Future Search and Open Space:

Did the videos help you understand any of the concepts from the background readings? Be specific as to what concepts were covered in the videos that were also covered in the readings.

Was the video well organized and presented? Based on the video, are you surprised that Weisbord, Janoff, and Owen are successful consultants?

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 3 Discussion

Job Design and Job Crafting Surveys

For this discussion, you will be filling out some surveys based on the concepts of job redesign and job crafting. The job design survey is pretty simple, self-explanatory, and follows the five core job dimensions discussed in the background readings: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/jobsurvey.html

The job crafting survey appears in a complicated article, but the survey is relatively straightforward and appears on page 177 of the article linked below. For each question, a “5” indicates strong agreement, a “4” means moderate agreement, a “3” means neutral, a “2” means mild disagreement, and a “1” means strong disagreement. There are four dimensions of job crafting on this survey. All of these dimensions have five questions, with the exception of “decreasing hindering job demands,” which has six questions. The total possible score on each dimension is either 25 or 30, depending on the number of questions: http://www.academia.edu/2796261/Development_and_validation_of_the_job_crafting_scale. You may also click the following link to access the Job Crafting Survey.

Report your scores on both surveys to your classmates and explain whether or not the results accurately describe your current job situation and the overall usefulness of each survey.

Also, discuss any practical implications that the results of each survey has on your organization. Do the results indicate that any specific job redesign or job crafting intervention should be done? Would you recommend either survey be used for a wider range of employees at your organization to assist in deciding on a job redesign or job crafting strategy?

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 4 Discussion

Appreciative Inquiry Interview Questions

Suppose your supervisor has asked you to lead an Appreciative Inquiry process and as a first step you need to conduct some interviews with your coworkers. Do a search on “Appreciative Inquiry Questions” or “Appreciative Inquiry Interview Questions” and find two or three questions that you think would work best for interviewing your coworkers.

For your first post, list the questions that you found and the links to the Web pages where you found the questions. Explain why you chose the questions and why you think they would work well with your coworkers. Don’t just use the first two Web pages that pop up when you do your search unless you really think these links provide the best questions.

Remember to follow up and comment on the posts of your classmates. For those of you who are brave or are especially interested in Appreciative Inquiry, try asking a coworker or two some of the questions that you found and see how they respond. Share your experiences with your classmates.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 4 Reflection Discussion

Summary and Reflection

For this discussion, carefully reflect upon what you’ve learned both in this class and in your elective concentration. Many of you may be taking this class as a capstone for the management or leadership concentration so think about how this class builds upon prior classes that you’ve taken.

More specifically, answer the following questions in your first post:

1. What concepts from this class did you find the most useful or most likely to use for your career?

2. What concepts from prior management or leadership classes did this class reinforce the most?

After responding to the Reflective Discussion questions above, please complete an anonymous Course Evaluation Survey. Instructors are not able to view course evaluation reports until after the grade submission period is over. Thank you for your feedback.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 1 – Case

ACTION RESEARCH AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Case Assignment

For this assignment, first carefully review the required background materials. Make sure you are highly familiar with the main steps involved in action research and organizational development discussed in the readings. When you are finished reviewing the background materials, take a close look at the four scenarios below.

For each scenario below, think about the reasons why things did not work out well for the company in question. More specifically, think about which standard action research or organizational development step was not taken.

Your task for this assignment is not to explain what steps the organization should take—you would need to go into the company and do some lengthy action research in order to do this! Instead just review the standard action research and organizational development steps covered in the background materials and try to assess which key step was missing in the scenarios below.

Then write a 4- to 5-page paper addressing the following for each scenario:

A. What action research or organizational step was missing and

B. Why missing this step might have led to failure.

Make sure to discuss at least one of the required readings in your discussion of each scenario, and to cite all three of the required readings in your paper.

1. Sales have gone down at the XYZ Widget Corporation and nobody in the organization, including the CEO, seems to know why. They decide to hire an organizational development consultant to do some action research. The consultant and the CEO spend a lot of time discussing how to proceed and create a contract. The contract specifies that the consultant will limit his scope to finding factors that led to the decrease in sales and he will come up with a plan of action within one month. The consultant is busy with several other clients and doesn’t get much time to spend at XYZ. Facing the one month deadline, the consultant decides to repeat a recommendation he gave to several previous clients. The consultant then writes up a report recommending a large pay increase for the sales staff, which worked well for his previous clients. This change is carefully planned, and is implemented with strong support and enthusiasm from the sales staff. However, six months later sales are still down.

2. The Allmart Corporation is very concerned about the poor functioning of their inventory control and accounting processes. They hire a consultant who is an expert in this area who makes a good impression on them during the interview, and they immediately put him to work the day after the interview. The consultant conducts a survey with all employees in the accounting department and also has in-depth interviews with all managers in the department. The consultant shares his findings with Allmart’s top management team, and makes the primary recommendation that they implement a newer and more expensive accounting software package as he believes it is out of date software that is leading to inefficiencies in the department. Allmart’s CEO gets extremely upset that the client relied only on interviews and surveys and did not spend time directly observing the department’s accounting practices in action. Allmart ignores the consultant’s advice, and decides to hire a new consultant instead.

3. The Kooltrendy Internet software company has recently purchased Hardwrk, a competing Internet software company. Kooltrendy wants the merger to go through as smoothly as possible with minimal conflicts between employees of the two companies, so they have hired an organizational development consultant to look at ways to help ease this transition for all employees.

Kooltrendy interviews several consultants, but settles on one consultant who has a lot of experience with these types of mergers. After extensive discussions, it is agreed that the consultant will conduct extensive one-on-one interviews with employees as well as a large-scale survey that assesses employee values and attitudes. After carefully reviewing the survey and interview data, the consultant concludes that Kooltrendy has a very fun and laid-back corporate culture, whereas Hardwrk has a more competitive and serious corporate culture.

Satisfied that it knows how to fix the problem after hearing the consultant’s report, Kooltrendy immediately decides to implement “Fun Fridays” for Hardwrk employees that involve water gun fights, costume contests, or other activities every Friday in order to bring Hardwrk’s culture more in line with the laid-back culture of Kooltrendy. However, they are puzzled to see that every Friday more and more Hardwrk employees quit and they are unsure why the “Fun Fridays” solution did not work.

4. HN Motors is a large manufacturer of both cars and motorcycles. Given the new demand for high mileage vehicles, the company has decided to develop a car/motorcycle hybrid that has three wheels and looks like a tiny race car. However, neither the car department nor the motorcycle department wants to take the lead and the project keeps getting stalled.

HN Motors decides to hire a consultant to mediate the differences between the car and motorcycle departments, with the agreement that the consultant will spend a lot of time with both departments to get to the bottom of why they are so resistant to working on the new vehicle. During interviews with both departments, the consultant finds that all employees think the new hybrid vehicle is a good idea but they hate the idea of having “two bosses” and none of them wants to be in the position of having to report to both the director of the motorcycle department and the director of the car department.

The consultant recommends that HN Motors create a new “Hybrid Department” that only focuses on the new hybrid vehicle, and that this new department bring in a mix of employees from both the car and motorcycle department as well as some new employees.

HN Motors’ management likes this recommendation and pay the consultant, but say that they can take it from here and don’t need the consultant’s services anymore. A few months later the project is still stalled and they don’t know why. They call up the consultant to try to get him to come back, but by now he is busy working with other clients.

Assignment Expectations

• Answer the assignment questions directly.

• Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

• Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

• Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 1 – SLP

ACTION RESEARCH AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

For the Session Long Project in this class, you will be applying the principles of organizational development to an organization you currently work for or have worked for in the past. For this first SLP, think carefully about the background readings and how they might apply to a specific organizational situation or problem that you have experienced firsthand. Then write a 2- to 3-page paper answering the following questions:

1. What do you think the biggest problem your current organization or one of the previous organizations you worked for faces? Why do you think management has had difficulty with this problem?

2. Do you think this problem could be mitigated by hiring an organizational development consultant based on what you’ve read in the background materials? Why or why not? Make sure to cite some of the readings in your answer.

3. Of the action research and organizational development steps listed in the required readings, which ones do you think would be the more challenging steps that an organizational development consultant would face coming into your organization? Explain your reasoning and cite at least one of the required background readings.

SLP Assignment Expectations

• Answer the assignment questions directly.

• Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

• Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

• Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 2 Case

LARGE GROUP INTERVENTIONS

Case Assignment

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First and foremost, remember to go very carefully through all of the required materials before starting this assignment. There are two short videos and two short articles, plus two in-depth book chapters to go through. There are also some optional readings in the background materials that you can use for your paper. It is important to make sure you understand the ins and outs of Open Space Technology and Future Search before starting on this assignment, so make sure to go through the readings and videos carefully before you start on this paper.

For this assignment, you will be going through four scenarios. For each scenario, cite at least two of the readings from the background readings to support your answer. You need to cite at least four of the readings total for your paper—these can include both required and optional readings listed in the background materials. Your paper should be 4–5 pages in length:

Suppose you win the lottery. Not sure what to do with all of your money, on an impulse you decide to buy a local college as you want to make a positive impact in your community. However, you soon find yourself a bit over your head as all day you have employees or students coming to your office with all kinds of advice, suggestions for changes that should be made, complaints, etc. Never having run a college before, you are a bit confused about how to deal with all of this input and you don’t really have a good idea about what to focus on. The college has about 300 employees and 800 students and want to find a way to get some more organized input and creative ideas for improving the college. Should you use Open Space Technology, Future Search, or neither? Explain your reasoning and justify your answer using at least two of the readings from the background materials.

A video game company starts out with five undergraduate students living in a dorm, but rapidly grows within three years to around 50 employees and $10 million a year in annual revenues. While the company is still expected rapid growth, there is still sharp tension between the very young video game designers and the older and more experienced executives who run the finance and marketing departments. In particular, the younger employees strive to develop new video games that are unique and much different than any other games available. However, the more experienced executives wish to take a more conservative route and come out with games that are similar to popular games produced by their competitors. The five founding partners are not sure which of these two directions to take and wish to receive input from all of their employees through some type of formal process. Should the CEO use Open Space Technology, Future Search, or neither? Explain your reasoning and justify your answer using at least two of the readings from the background materials.

An insurance company has most of its employees in three different departments – sales, accounting, and information technology. The CEO is always receiving input from the sales department, as most of the salesforce is very outgoing and they don’t hesitate to give their opinions or make requests. On the other hand, employees in accounting and information technology tend to be quiet and shy and rarely speak up. The CEO notices that there is considerably higher turnover in the accounting and information technology departments, and thus becomes concerned that perhaps employees in these departments are leaving because they are dissatisfied with decisions the CEO has made or because they feel the salesforce is overly favored. There are about 50 employees in each department. The CEO wishes to find a process by which a wider range of employee input can be obtained. Should the CEO use Open Space Technology, Future Search, or neither? Explain your reasoning and justify your answer using at least two of the readings from the background materials.

A CEO initiates an Open Space Technology conference. At the start of the conference, the CEO provides a list of topics he wants covered and also gives his opinion on what kind of outcomes he wants from the conference. He also makes attendance at the conference mandatory. When the conference starts, participants all volunteer to give sessions on the topics proposed by the CEO. A few participants propose to give sessions on other topics not mentioned by the CEO, but very few employees come to these sessions and instead go to the sessions covering topics suggested by the CEO. At the end of the conference, the CEO is presented with a carefully worded summary of the conference and given conclusions that the CEO wanted to hear. However, after the conference ends and employees go back to work they are very slow at implementing the recommendations from the conference. What do you think went wrong? Which major principles or concepts of Open Space Technology do you think the CEO violated? Explain your reasoning, and cite Leith (1996) and at least one other source on Open Space Technology to support your answer.

Assignment Expectations

Answer the assignment questions directly.

Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 2 SLP

LARGE GROUP INTERVENTIONS

For this assignment, continue to write about the current organization you work for or one that you worked for in the past. Before writing this paper, make sure to thoroughly review the background readings. Think carefully about how Open Space Technology and Future Search could be used at your organization. Then write a 3-page paper addressing the following questions. Make sure to cite at least three of the required readings in your paper:

What issue facing your organization would be most appropriately addressed using Future Search? Explain the issue and why Future Search could effectively address this issue.

If you organized a Future Search Conference to address the issue identified in Question 1 above, who would you include in the initial planning before the conference? Who you invite to the conference? How many people would you invite, and why? Any other specifics planning details that you would address to ensure the success of the conference?

What issue facing your organization would be most appropriately addressed using Open Space Technology? This should be a different issue than the one you discussion in Question 1. Explain the issue and why Open Space Technology could effectively address this issue.

If you organized an Open Space Technology Event to address the issue identified in Question 3 above, who would you include in the initial planning before the conference? Who you invite to the conference? How many total people would you invite, and why? Any other specifics planning details that you would address to ensure the success of the event?

SLP Assignment Expectations

Answer the assignment questions directly.

Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 3 – Case

JOB REDESIGN

Case Assignment

In the background materials you had a chance to view some videos and read about the traditional “top down” approach of job redesign as well as the newer “bottom up” approach of job crafting. Before starting on this assignment, make sure you have thoroughly reviewed the videos and readings and understand the key job redesign and job crafting strategies. Once you have finished reviewing the background materials, apply what you’ve learned to the specific scenarios and questions below. Make sure to cite at least one of the required readings for each answer, and try to cite at least four of the readings or videos in your answer. Your paper should be 4–5 pages in length:

1. Relax Lines, Inc. is a luxury cruise line that has hired you as a job crafting consultant for two groups of their employees. The first group is the ship crew. The crew have responsibility for safety, navigation, and maintenance of the ship. The second group is the hospitality staff. The hospitality staff is tasked with making sure the passengers are enjoying themselves and are properly entertained with various events that this staff plans and prepares. Before arriving at the cruise line to do interviews and make recommendations, you first need to do some reading on what general approach you will use. As a first step, review Dik and Duffy (2012), where they discuss task crafting, relational crafting, and cognitive crafting. Which of these three types of job crafting do you think would be most appropriate for the ship crew, and which one do you think would be most appropriate for the hospitality staff? Also, read up on “job-crafting swap meets” in Wrzesniewski (2014). Do you think a swap meet would be appropriate for either ship crew members or hospitality staff? Any other strategy from Wrzesniewski (2014) that you think would be useful for either pilots or online marketers?

2. The ABC Corporation has a team of telemarketers. The job description for the telemarketers is pretty basic: They call up potential customers who have visited his company’s web page and requested information about the product. Telemarketers’ performance evaluations depend mostly on their monthly sales as well as customer satisfaction surveys, and they receive monthly feedback reports. Their supervisor gives them some initial training, but these telemarketers have a lot of freedom to choose how and when to call customers. For example, they are free to customize their own sales pitch as long as they don’t mislead potential customers. Also, they are not required to fill out a time card or work at the office (they can work from home, if they want). As long as they are making enough monthly sales they are free to set their own schedules. While the telemarketing team is performing well, the company is concerned about high turnover among telemarketers and wants to do some job enrichment. Which of the five core job dimensions discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or page 9 of Griffin (2007) do you think should be revised the most during a job redesign intervention? Which ones do you think do not need to be revised? Explain your reasoning and cite some of the required readings in your answer.

3. Suppose a sports injury clinic has three main practitioners. First, there is a general practitioner doctor who does the basic diagnosis of the injury and works with the patient to come up with an overall treatment program. This doctor also prescribes medicine as needed. Then there is a surgeon who specializes in sports injuries. This doctor only does surgery. Finally, there is a physical therapist who helps patients with exercise programs to help them recover. The owner of the clinic though becomes worried that these three practitioners are becoming bored and dissatisfied with their jobs and there is concern they might all leave unless their jobs change. However, given the high degree of training required for each of their specializations management is not sure how to go about making their jobs less monotonous and more rewarding. In general, would you recommend management undergoes a traditional job redesign approach or a job crafting approach? Which specific job redesign strategy or job crafting strategy would you recommend? For example, if you choose job redesign discuss whether you would recommend job rotation, enlargement, enrichment, etc. If you choose job crafting, refer to one of the specific strategies or interventions discussed in Wrzesniewski (2014) or Dik and Duffy (2012).

4. Create a table with the definitions of the three main types of job redesign (job enlargement, job rotation, job enrichment) and the three main types of job crafting (task crafting, relational crafting, and cognitive crafting). Then write two paragraphs explaining which of the three types of job crafting are most similar to any of the three types of job redesign, and on what you think are the key differences between job crafting and job redesign based on the definitions in your table.

Assignment Expectations

• Answer the assignment questions directly in 4 to 5 written pages.

• Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

• Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

• Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 3 – SLP

JOB REDESIGN

As with the Case Assignment, make sure you have thoroughly reviewed the background readings and understand the key concepts of job redesign and job crafting. Then think about your own job and workplace and how these concepts apply to your own work life. Once you have finished reviewing the background readings and have carefully thought about how these concepts relate to your own job, write a 2- to 3-page paper answering the following questions:

1. Of the three main types of job redesign (job enlargement, job rotation, job enrichment), which one do you think would be the most effective in your current workplace? Explain your reasoning, and cite Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or Griffin (2007) as part of your answer.

2. Suppose your supervisor decides to use job enrichment to redesign your job. Of the five core job characteristics discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or page 9 of Griffin (2007), which one do you think should be changed as part of your job redesign?

3. Which specific job crafting strategy or intervention do you think would be most effective at your organization or for your specific job? Refer to one of the specific strategies or interventions discussed in Wrzesniewski (2014) or Dik and Duffy (2012).

SLP Assignment Expectations

• Answer the assignment questions directly in 2 to 3 written pages.

• Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

• Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

• Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 4 Case

APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Case Assignment

For this assignment, first carefully review the required background materials. Make sure you remember the standard organizational development approaches covered in Module 1. Then make sure you understand the main principles of Appreciative Inquiry and how they compare to traditional organizational development approaches (action research, problem solving). It is also important to understand what is involved in each of the “4 Ds” – Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny.

When you are finished reviewing the background materials, go through each of the scenarios below and apply what you’ve read to these scenarios. For each scenario, cite at least one of the required readings to support your answer. You should cite at least three of the four required readings in your paper. Your paper should be 4–5 pages in length:

1. A corporation notices that suddenly turnover in the human resource department has been extremely high. This corporations prides itself on having a dedicated and committed workforce, so this high turnover in one department is highly troubling for this company. Normally the human resource department investigates when there is a high turnover rate in a department. But since the human resource department is now the department with the high turnover rate, the CEO decides that an outside consultant should be hired to investigate the high turnover rate and propose solutions. Should this team use an Appreciative Inquiry consultant, or hire a more traditional Organizational Development consultant? Explain your reasoning with references to the required readings.

2. An organization hires an Appreciative Inquiry consultant to help the company get back on track and improve the performance of its product design team. The consultant starts by asking members of the team how they would like the team to perform and what their ideal vision of the team would be. The consultant collects all of this input and designs a detailed plan regarding how to achieve this ideal future that the team dreams about. However, once this detailed plan is presented to the team they are all shocked that the consultant came up with such an unrealistic plan. Team members say that the expenses involved in this plan are far beyond their budget, and they would also need to hire many new team members in order to achieve this plan in a realistic time frame. They all agree it would be great if they had the time and money to implement this plan, but they also are in consensus that this plan presented by the consultant is highly unrealistic. What do you think went wrong? What steps do you think the Appreciative Inquiry consultant could have taken to make the consulting process go better? Refer to the specific “4 Ds” of Appreciative Inquiry in your answer.

3. A group of ten friends decide to start a new social networking company and put their savings together to start this new business. The company grows rapidly for the first five years and morale is very high in the company during this time. Everyone gets along very well and they work together cooperatively in order to continuously improve the company and its services. However, after five years the company stops growing and seems to reach a plateau. Morale seems to drop and there is now noticeable tension between employees including the top leadership team. They are not sure what to do revive the company, so they decide to hire a consultant. Should this team use an Appreciative Inquiry approach or a more traditional organizational development approach? Explain your reasoning with references to the required readings.

4. A large supermarket chain decides they would like to expand to have an online division where consumers can order online and have their groceries delivered directly to their homes. The supermarket decides to create a special taskforce to come up with a detailed plan on how they should develop and manage the new online division. This taskforce includes a diverse variety of employees including those from the marketing department, accounting department, inventory department, and most of the main departments. These employees do not have much experience working with each other since they are from different departments. After meeting regularly for a few months, the taskforce makes almost no progress and are constantly bickering. Management is concerned that the online division will never get off the ground. To get back on track and find a way to function more smoothly, should this taskforce use an Appreciative Inquiry approach or a more traditional organizational development approach? Explain your reasoning with references to the required readings.

Assignment Expectations

• Answer the assignment questions directly.

• Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

• Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

• Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

MGT 423 Organizational Development and Change

Module 4 SLP

APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

For this assignment, think about a team you currently work with or have worked with in the past and how well this team has functioned. Think about both the positives and the negatives, and how the material from the background readings applies to what you’ve experienced. Then write a 2- to 3-page paper answering the following three questions below. Make sure to cite at least one of the required readings for each of your answers, and to cite at least two of the required readings in your paper:

1. What are some of the key positive aspects of this team? Discuss some specific positives and include some stories of times when the team functioned especially well. Do you think these stories could work in an Appreciative Inquiry approach to come up with a plan to improve the performance of the team?

2. How is the effectiveness or performance of this team usually measured? Could a traditional organizational development approach help identify problems in this team as well as find ways in which team performance could be improved?

3. Overall, do you think an Appreciative Inquiry or a traditional organizational development would be better for this team? If your team was to hire a consultant, what type of approach would you want the consultant to take?

SLP Assignment Expectations

• Answer the assignment questions directly.

• Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

• Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

• Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.

CASE 7-1 The Greater Providence Deposit & Trust Embezzlement
Nino Moscardi, president of Greater Providence Deposit & Trust (GPD&T), received an anonymous note in his mail stating that a bank employee was making bogus loans. Moscardi asked the bank’s internal auditors to investigate the transactions detailed in the note. The investigation led to James Guisti, manager of a North Providence branch office and a trusted 14-year employee who had once worked as one of the bank’s internal auditors. Guisti was charged with embezzling $1.83 million from the bank using 67 phony loans taken out over a three-year period.
Court documents revealed that the bogus loans were 90-day notes requiring no collateral and ranging in amount from $10,000 to $63,500. Guisti originated the loans; when each one matured, he would take out a new loan, or rewrite the old one, to pay the principal and interest due. Some loans had been rewritten five or six times.
The 67 loans were taken out by Guisti in five names, including his wife’s maiden name, his father’s name, and the names of two friends. These people denied receiving stolen funds or knowing anything about the embezzlement. The fifth name was James Vanesse, who police said did not exist. The Social Security number on Vanesse’s loan application was issued to a female, and the phone number belonged to a North Providence auto dealer.
Lucy Fraioli, a customer service representative who cosigned the checks, said Guisti was her supervisor and she thought nothing was wrong with the checks, though she did not know any of the people. Marcia Perfetto, head teller, told police she cashed checks for Guisti made out to four of the five persons. Asked whether she gave the money to Guisti when he gave her checks to cash, she answered, “Not all of the time,” though she could not recall ever having given the money directly to any of the four, whom she did not know.
Guisti was authorized to make consumer loans up to a certain dollar limit without loan committee approvals, which is a standard industry practice. Guisti’s original lending limit was $10,000, the amount of his first fraudulent loan. The dollar limit was later increased to $15,000 and then increased again to $25,000. Some of the loans, including the one for $63,500, far exceeded his lending limit. In addition, all loan applications should have been accompanied by the applicant’s credit history report, purchased from an independent credit rating firm. The loan taken out in the fictitious name would not have had a credit report and should have been flagged by a loan review clerk at the bank’s headquarters.
News reports raised questions about why the fraud was not detected earlier. State regulators and the bank’s internal auditors failed to detect the fraud. Several reasons were given for the failure to find the fraud earlier. First, in checking for bad loans, bank auditors do not examine all loans and generally focus on loans much larger than the ones in question. Second, Greater Providence had recently dropped its computer services arrangement with a local bank in favor of an out-of-state bank. This changeover may have reduced the effectiveness of the bank’s control procedures. Third, the bank’s loan review clerks were rotated frequently, making follow-up on questionable loans more difficult.
Guisti was a frequent gambler and used the embezzled money to pay gambling debts. The bank’s losses totaled $624,000, which was less than the $1.83 million in bogus loans, because Guisti used a portion of the borrowed money to repay loans as they came due. The bank’s bonding company covered the loss.
The bank experienced other adverse publicity prior to the fraud’s discovery. First, the bank was fined $50,000 after pleading guilty to failure to report cash transactions exceeding $10,000, which is a felony. Second, bank owners took the bank private after a lengthy public battle with the State Attorney General, who alleged that the bank inflated its assets and overestimated its capital surplus to make its balance sheet look stronger. The bank denied this charge.
• 1. How did Guisti commit the fraud, conceal it, and convert the fraudulent actions to personal gain?
• 2. Good internal controls require that the custody, recording, and authorization functions be separated. Explain which of those functions Guisti had and how the failure to segregate them facilitated the fraud.
• 3. Identify the preventive, detective, and corrective controls at GPD&T, and discuss whether they were effective.

• 4. Explain the pressures, opportunities, and rationalizations that were present in the Guisti fraud.

• 5. Discuss how Greater Providence Deposit & Trust might improve its control procedures over the disbursement of loan funds to minimize the risk of this type of fraud. In what way does this case indicate a lack of proper segregation of duties?

• 6. Discuss how Greater Providence might improve its loan review procedures at bank headquarters to minimize its fraud risk. Was it a good idea to rotate the assignments of loan review clerks? Why or why not?
• 7. Discuss whether Greater Providence’s auditors should have been able to detect this fraud.

• 8. Are there any indications that the internal environment at Greater Providence may have been deficient? If so, how could it have contributed to this embezzlement?

JWI 575 week 3 assignment 1

JWI 575: New Business Ventures and Entrepreneurship

Assignment 1

Assignment 1: Business Plan for Room for Dessert

Due Week 3, Day 7 (Weight: 14.5%)

Within the context of the “Room for Dessert” case study,
take on the role of an investor. Determine if you would make an investment in
RFD by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed business plan.
Consider the Sahlman article “How to Write a Great Business Plan” as you
complete the assignment.

For this assignment, write a 5–7 page paper in which you do
the following:

1. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the “people”
factor.

2. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the “opportunity”
factor.

3. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the “context”
factor.

4. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the “risk and
reward” factor.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12)
with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow JWMI style guide and
writing format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.

The following are specific course learning outcomes
associated with this assignment:

• Evaluate the competitive landscape, sales, and
distribution channels for new business ventures.

• Use technology and information resources to research
issues in new business ventures and entrepreneurship.

• Write clearly and concisely about new business ventures
and entrepreneurship using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the
following grading criteria.

JWI 575 week 6 assignment 2

JWI 575: New Business Ventures and Entrepreneurship

Assignment 2

Assignment 2: Case Study – Ockham Technologies: Living on
the Razor’s Edge

Due Week 6, Day 7 (Weight: 17%)

Referencing the Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor’s
Edge case study, write a 5–7 page paper in which you do the following:

1. Determine the best funding alternative for Ockham
Technologies and how it will affect the formation of the Board of Directors
(look at Resource Dependency Theory to understand how to select members for a
Board of Directors/Advisors)

2. Discuss how you would handle the increasing tension
between you and Mike Meisenheimer if you were Jim Triandiflou.

3. Determine if Ockham should outsource its
system-development efforts, and if so, to which company, and if not, how it
should it complete development of the system for IBM.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12)
with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow JWMI style guide and
writing format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
page length.

The following are specific course learning outcomes
associated with this assignment:

• Synthesize the basic components of a business plan.

• Evaluate the competitive landscape, sales, and
distribution channels for new business ventures.

• Use technology and information resources to research
issues in new business ventures and entrepreneurship.

• Write clearly and concisely about new business ventures
and entrepreneurship using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the
following grading criteria.

JWI 575 week 7 assignment 3

JWI 575: New Business Ventures and Entrepreneurship

Assignment 3

Assignment 3: Case Study – FEED Resource Recovery

Due Week 8, Day 7 (Weight: 17%)

Referencing the “FEED Resource Recovery” case study, write a
5–7 page paper in which you do the following:

1. Determine FEED’s most likely source of competition in
both the short and long term.

2. Discuss why venture capitalists are interested in this
business.

3. Assume you are a venture capitalist. Determine whether
you would you invest now and what questions would be on your mind.

4. Determine if Shane and Ryan should approach family and
friends and what issues they would face seeking family investment.

5. Determine another source of capital available and what
Shane and Ryan would have to do to get it.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12)
with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow JWMI style guide and
writing format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
page length.

The following are specific course learning outcomes
associated with this assignment:

• Understand funding options for new business ventures.

• Use technology and information resources to research
issues in new business ventures and entrepreneurship.

• Write clearly and concisely about new business ventures
and entrepreneurship using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the
following grading criteria.

JWI 575 week 10 assignment 4

JWI 575: New Business Ventures and Entrepreneurship

Assignment 3

Assignment 4: Workbrain Corp. – A Case in Exit Strategy

Due Week 10, Day 7 (Weight: 17%)

Imagine that you are Matt Chapman. Prepare a memo that
recommends which strategy Workbrain should pursue and why.

Write a 5–7 page paper in which you do the following:

1. Discuss if the company even needs to raise money.

2. Discuss what other financing alternatives are available.

3. Discuss whether Workbrain should prepare for an IPO.

4. Determine if now is the right time for an IPO.

5. Determine which exchange would serve the company better
(TSX or NASDAQ) and why.

6. Determine if the shareholders would be better off if the
company pursued potential acquirers rather than an IPO.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12)
with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow JWMI style guide and
writing format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the
assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
page length.

The following are specific course learning outcomes associated
with this assignment:

• Evaluate exit strategies for new business ventures.

• Use technology and information resources to research
issues in new business ventures and entrepreneurship.

• Write clearly and concisely about new business ventures
and entrepreneurship using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the
following grading criteria.

JWI 575 week 1 discussion

“Personal Entrepreneurial Skills”Please
respond to the following:

From the preparation activity, discuss your results from the Personal
Entrepreneurial Skills Assessment with your classmates. Do you think that this
assessment is a good predictor of your abilities as an entrepreneur?

JWI 575 week 2 discussion

“Starting Anew” Please respond to the
following:

In one of the reading assignments this week Jack Welch
states, “ There may indeed be no time like the present to start anew.”

· Identify a company, product, service, or ‘big idea’ that
came to market during the recent economic downturn.

· Discuss some of the reasons why this company’s launch was
successful (or possibly unsuccessful) in the current US economy.

JWI 575 week 3 discussion

“Initial Target Markets” Please
respond to the following:

Identify the total addressable market and the initial target market of the
company’s signature product (or service) for one of the companies you
identified in the discussion question last week. Why did the company pick that
initial target market?

JWI 575 week 4 discussion

“Unique Products”Please respond to the
following:

Choose a product or service and explain why it has a unique place in the
marketplace.

Describe the unique features and benefits of the product or service, and
discuss how it measures up to the competition point by point.

JWI 575 week 5 discussion

“Top Three Qualities” Please respond
to the following:

What are the top three qualities you would look for in a management team for a
new business venture? Do these qualities match those typically sought by
venture capitalists?

JWI 575 week 6 discussion

“IPO Investing” Please respond to the
following:

Read theNasdaq article listed below. Select one of the
companies and state why you would be willing to invest in the IPO as part of
your investment portfolio. Investigate the reasons as to why the company is
issuing an IPO at this time given that many analysts believe there could still
be a correction in the stock market during the next 12 months.

Article link:http://www.nasdaq.com/article/week-ahead-9-ipos-set-to-raise-1-billion-during-the-week-of-november-9-cm540328

JWI 575 week 7 discussion

“Types of Legal Entities”Please respond to
the following:

Read the case study “Starting a New Health Care
Services Company” on page 152-153 of Patterns of Entrepreneurship text.
Identify the legal structure and discuss issues involved in starting the
business.

· Based on the above discussion, what type of legal
structure, or type of entity, would you recommend and what formation documents
are necessary for that type of entity?

· Are there additional initial legal contracts you would
want in place as you start the business? If so, please identify the type of
legal document and state why you deem itto be important.

JWI 575 week 8 discussion

“Copyright Protections”Please respond to
the following:

Setting up the right legal entity and ensuring that the
appropriate legal documentation is in place for a new venture is extremely
important. However, trademark and copyright protections are another vital part
of the legal landscape for a new start-up.

These issues are exemplified by these cases:

· Trademark Protection: Apple Corps vs. Apple Computer.

· Copyright Protection: My Sweet Lord (George Harrison song)
vs. He’s So Fine (The Chiffons)

Briefly research and discuss the merits of one or both
cases. You may also share alternative examples.

JWI 575 week 9 discussion

“Bringing a New Product/Service to Market” Please
respond to the following:

Compare the challenge in bringing a new product/service to
market from inside your company to the option of spinning it out into a
free-standing venture? Why do you think one is more challenging than the other
and why?

JWI 575 week 10 discussion

“Your Learning Inventory”

Distill your learning from this course into a succinct list.
Use the following questions as your guide:

· What have you mastered about New Business Ventures and
Entrepreneurship?

· What do you now understand but may want to learn more
about?

· What questions can you now articulate about New Business
Ventures and Entrepreneurship based on what you have learned in this course?

JWI 575 week 11 discussion

This question is designed for personal reflection and does
not require citations. It is a required, non-credit entry and will impact
attendance records. Please answer the following:

Reflect on this class as a whole. Identify and briefly
describe a concept that was especially relevant or meaningful. How did this
concept challenge your understanding or prompt you to grow as a leader?

JWI 575 week 1 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you have
learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will apply
a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 2 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 3 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 4 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 5 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 6 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 7 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 8 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

JWI 575 week 9 weekly wrap up discussion

Summarize the most important concepts and approaches you
have learned this week. Provide at least one concrete example of how you will
apply a key principle or idea in your workplace or professional life.

HUM 410 Academic Success: Strengthening Scholarly Writing

Module 1 Assignment

Assignment (2 parts)

Part 1: Now that you have your chosen topic for this course, write at least three paragraphs that explore the questions on your topic answering such items as Who? Which aspects? Where? When? How? and Why you have selected this topic. You are attempting to narrow down your topic. (Place this section into a Word or PDF document)

Part 2: After narrowing down your topic above, choose an Invention Strategy (clustering, listing, freewriting, or outlining) to brainstorm the subject you narrowed down.

Complete the Invention Strategy you choose and attach your strategy work either in the same document of part 1 or submit as a separate file

Answer these questions in a well-developed paragraph: State which strategy you chose, and why. Then, discuss how the strategy worked for you and if you will use it again in the future (place into the Part 1 document labeled Part 2).

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Module 2 Assignment

Create the “shell” of your synthesis paper in APA format. Create your title page with proper running head, title/author section and page numbers, as well as add the Abstract section heading starting on page 2, and then the main essay sections start on page 3. The main essay section should start with the introduction heading which is the title of the paper again on page 3 (centered on line 1, not bold), followed by the level one subheadings (bold and centered): Literature Review, Discussion, Conclusion. Then heading for References starting on following page (line 1 – not bolded), and heading for Annotated Bibliography on the following page after References (line 1 – not bolded). You are not actually writing any of the essay this week, so no text is needed, but you will be setting up a document where you can add your text in future modules.

Synthesis Shell Example

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Module 3 Assignment

Professional Development Assignment Description:

There are 4 parts to the assignment. Please place all four assignments into one paper. The different parts should be clearly marked so your professor knows which question you are addressing.

Rewrite the following essays. Correct all errors in capitalization, spelling, and punctuation. Divide the passage into appropriate paragraphs.

Essay #1:

When my husband Joe had cancer surgery five years ago, each of his family members responded just as I knew they would. John, his father, decided to organize the family’s calls. Because, of course, everything would run so much more smoothly. Thus Jane, Matt, and Jim received detailed sheets of instructions in the mail. Telling them which days to telephone r.j. smith hospital to talk to Joe and what presents to send. Jane, enraged, promptly threw a tantrum. Calling Matt and me to complain about her father’s overbearing behavior. “I,” she yelled, “am a Psychiatrist who knows how to handle these situations, i am not still a child.” Matt also responded predictably. By avoiding the situation. He threw himself into his work. Normally a late sleeper, Matt took to leaving at 5:00 a.m., driving on the deserted expressway and arriving at work before six a.m. In addition, he didn’t return until 11:00 p.m. When he would fall into bed so exhausted that he couldn’t worry about Joe. Jim, too, responded predictably. He fumed inside for weeks, ignored John’s instructions, and sent cartons of books to Joe. So that he would never be bored. The books were funny. Because Jim had read Norman Cousins’ book about the healing power of laughter. Within a few months, Joe recovered from the surgery-in spite of his family

Essay #2:

Treatment of atrial septal defect depends upon the size and symptoms and therefore is individualized an atrial septal defect of less than 3mm usually closes spontaneously (The Merck Manual, 2006). When the defect is between 3mm and 8mm it closes spontaneously in eighty percent of cases by the age of eighteen months, however, atrial septal defects located in the anteroinferior aspect of the septum (ostiumprimum) or in the posterior aspect of the septum near the superior vena cava or inferior vena cava (sinus venosus) don’t close spontaneously. If the defect is very small does not close spontaneously and the patient is asymptomatic. The treatment may be simply too monitor via an annual echocardiogram. Of course their is a risk of patients’ becoming symptomatic.

Moderate-sized atrial septal defects or larger or patients’ who are symptomatic require closure of the shunt this is usually done between the ages of 2 and 6 years. A catheter-delivered closure device, such as AmplatzerSeptalOccluder or Cardio-Seal device.May be used for closure of atrial septal defects less than 13mm in size, except than primum or sinus venosus defects.If the defect is greater than thirteen milimeters or located near important structures. Surgical repair becomes necessary. If the atrial septal defect is repaired during childhood there mortality rates approach 0 and the patient’s life expectancy approaches that of the general population prior to surgical repair, patients may need to be treated with diuretics; digoxin; ACE inhibitor; or beta blockers to prevent congestive heart failure (Moser &Riegel, 2007). Following surgical repair patience will receive aspirin to prevent clots, and be monitored closely for dysrhythmias and pulmonary hypertension. Oxygen and nitric oxide therapy have proven to be beneficial in treating postoperative pulmonary hypertension. Also patients who have primum atrial septal defect will need endocarditis prophylaxis.

Guided writing exercise:

Think about a recent experience you have had that required you to use critical thinking skills. Set a timer for five minutes. Write about your experience. Do not worry about grammar, punctuation, or spelling. Just write, but stop at five minutes. Now go back and write your experience with correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Submit both written pieces. Add a concluding paragraph that answers the follows questions: How was the formal writing experience different from the timed writing experience? What did you do differently? Was there any difference in the time it took you? How did you ensure your spelling, grammar, and punctuation were correct?

Describe when the following words would be used in a scholarly essay (define each word). Then, use those that are appropriate to a scholarly essay in a sentence.

Their, there, they’re

Affect, effect

Its, it’s

your, you’re

then, than

accept, except

Describe the use of apostrophes in writing in general. When should apostrophes be used in formal writing? When should apostrophes be avoided in formal writing?

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Module 4 Assignment

Synthesis Paper Assignment Description: (please make any and all corrections that are needed based on your professor’s comments from the last submission)

Write your thesis statement and introduction (one paragraph). The first page of your paper will be the title page, followed by your abstract page (it has its own page!), and then the next page will start with the introductory paragraph.

Add the introductory paragraph to your APA “shell” to begin forming your final paper. Submit the entire document. However, only the introduction and thesis statement will be graded in this module.

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Module 5 Assignment

Professional Development Assignment Description:

Prepare an annotated bibliography on your topic. You should have a minimum of six sources. At least four sources should be scholarly papers and at least two sources should be from credible websites. Your annotated bibliography will be added after the reference section with the title of, “Annotated Bibliography”. Submit the entire document. However, only the annotated bibliography will be graded in this module.

Reminder of Proper Format: The annotated bibliography starts with the reference in APA format, with hanging paragraph indentation. Following the reference, you will need a paragraph describing the contents of the source. This entire paragraph should be indented .5 inches. The entire bibliography should be double-spaced, per APA format. Do not add extra space between references.

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Module 6 Assignment

Professional Development Assignment Description: (please make any and all corrections that are needed based on your professor’s comments from the last submission)

Prepare the Literature Review section of your paper. Begin with an introductory paragraph that describes your search parameters and what databases were used. Be sure to avoid first person (I, we, me, us, etc.). Include at least one paragraph for each of your sources chosen in your Annotated Bibliography. This is not a repeat of the annotations in the annotated bibliography, but should be written as an essay that flows easily from one point to the next. Remember, your literature review should be at least seven paragraphs, but not more than twelve paragraphs. Each paragraph should be at least three sentences in length, but only contain one or two main points and support. Review your APA resources for how to properly cite references in your text. This is where you will apply in-text citation rules, as each paragraph will indicate the reference from which the information is taken.

Also prepare your reference page. Please review your APA resources as mentioned previously. Submit the entire document. However, only the literature review and reference page will be graded in this module.

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Module 7 Assignment

Synthesis Paper Assignment: Discussion Section Description: (please make any and all corrections that are needed based on your professor’s comments from the last submission).

Prepare the Discussion section of your paper. Submit the entire document. However only the discussion section will be graded in this module. The discussion section should contain two to five paragraphs and should be a discussion of how the literature review impacts your topic. Go back to your thesis statement and be sure to clearly apply your literature review to your thesis statement. This is where you might choose to add practice examples.

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Module 8 Assignment

Synthesis Paper Assignment:

Prepare a one to two paragraph conclusion to your paper. Prepare the abstract section (150-250 words in a block paragraph). The abstract is the 2nd page of the paper and it has its own page. Submit your final paper with all corrections completed. In other words, be sure you review all of your professor’s correction from your previously submitted synthesis papers to ensure this paper is correct. Submit your entire completed paper. The entire synthesis paper will be graded at this time.

The synthesis paper was based on a healthcare topic of your choice. It is in APA format and was completed over several modules. The final synthesis paper will be graded during Module 8. The following components will be included in the paper:

Title page, running heads, page #s

Abstract

Body

Introduction paragraph with thesis statement

Literature Review section

Introductory paragraph explaining search parameters and databases used

At least 7 paragraphs, but no more than 12.

At least six scholarly sources (4 journals and 2 websites)

Not simply annotations, but an essay that flows from point to point

Discussion section

Two to five paragraphs that apply the literature review to your topic, drawing conclusions and supporting the thesis statement

May contain practice examples

Conclusion

One to two paragraphs that support and finalize the thesis argument

Reference page

Annotated bibliography

Must contain at least four scholarly literature sources and two credible websites

Must contain annotations

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