Entries by Mary Wright

The Team That Is Not a Team

Assignment: The Team That Is Not a Team 9 Assignment: The Team That Is Not a Team 9 In the Discussion you addressed the unproductive team that needs motivation. You reviewed leadership in the Reading area, and leadership styles and negotiation strategies in the Learning Activity. In this Assignment you address leadership and the use […]

Visual Explanation PowerPoint

Assignments_Visual Explanation PowerPoint In the PAD 510 Assignments_Visual Explanation PowerPoint, I make the distinction between a policy area and a policy. For example, healthcare is a policy area. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“Obamacare”) and the American Health Care Act of 2017 (“Trumpcare”) are two different presidential policies for the policy area called healthcare. For this […]

Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

Assignment: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture     This week, you have an opportunity to use that method and ask other people what they think about diversity and culture. You can then blog about the answers you received as well as your new insights. For this assignment: Call, write to, or talk to at least […]

Personal Strategy,

Assignment: Personal Strategy, Using “The Prophet” (Kahlil Gibran) as a reference, create a short position paper on the topic of personal strategy. Consider the following: Personal strategies, when embraced by the individual, can impact a community or perhaps society as a whole. [NOTE – The text is divided into numerous chapters including self-knowledge, friendship, time, freedom, good […]

Generalist Practice

Assignment: Generalist Practice Generalist practice in social work is an approach to client service that makes use of a variety of methods, schools of thought, and perspectives. The term describes social work practice that is not limited to only one method or point of view. Generalist social work practitioners stay informed of current research in their […]

Compare and Contrast Two Famous Educators

Assignment: Compare and Contrast Two Famous Educators Week 3 – Assignment: Compare and Contrast Two Famous Educators using APA Style Instructions For this assignment, read the Lourenco (2012) article listed in the Books and Resources for this Week as the primary information required completing the paper. If you like, you can include other scholarly articles […]

Captains of Industry

Assignment: “Captains of Industry” or “Robber Barons” Question description   For this assignment, I would like you to write an essay concerning three of the Industrialist of the late 1800’s; Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and Jay Gould. Some areas of investigation for your essay could be where were they were born; did they serve during […]

Is unskilled labor really unskilled

Is unskilled labor really unskilled Assignment: Assignment: Minimum wages are normally associated with unskilled labor or apprentices. Because you support fair trade and local, sustainable, and organic products, you feel compelled to be fair to your less skilled staff and decide to pay them above minimum wages. In the long run, do you think you […]