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I want you to spend time practicing brainstorming and writing. I want you to think about your most enjoyable reading and writing experience and your least enjoyable reading and writing experience. Maybe jot down a few ideas to help you brainstorm, then narrow down the list. Choose one of each (most and least enjoyable) and write about those experiences.

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Hello.. Develop a process map for the accounts payable process at Frizz Master Hair Product Manufacturer, as described in the word document page. I’ve attached 2 documents Ass 11.1 is the assignment,

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Hello.. Develop a process map for the accounts payable process at Frizz Master Hair Product Manufacturer, as described in the word document page.

I’ve attached 2 documents Ass 11.1 is the assignment, WK 12 business process modelling is the reference material to follow in order to the process map

Hello.. Develop a process map for the accounts payable process at Frizz Master Hair Product Manufacturer, as described in the word document page. I’ve attached 2 documents Ass 11.1 is the assignment,
SCM. 5502 Business Processes II BPM_v2 Frizz Master Hair Product Manufacturer – Confidential 1 of 2 11.1 In -Class Assignment Week 1 1: This exercise is to help you develop your skills in converting business requirements into business process maps. This is a skill that is in demand for any organization that engages in process improvements and that wants to remain competitive. Develop a process map for the accounts payable process at Frizz M aster Hair Product Manufacturer, as described on the next page. You may use Word, Excel or Visio to document your process. Any Visio charts however need to be resaved as .PDF files before posting t o BlackBoard as it is not a readable format in BB and your instructor may not have Visio on their home computer. You will be expected to post an electronic copy on or before the due date. Please ensure all group member names are on the document, as wel l as in the 11.1 assignment file name. This assignment will be graded out of a possible 7 marks. The criteria for grading will include the following: • Use of proper shapes where appropriate • Correct use of decision boxes where appropriate • Identification of content and labels for each step • Correct use of boundaries and connectors (where necessary) • Overall visual display and ease of understanding SCM. 5502 Business Processes II BPM_v2 Frizz Master Hair Product Manufacturer – Confidential 2 of 2 Accounts Payable Process https://www.bobandpaige.com The accounts payable process at Frizz Master Hair Product Manufacturer begins when specific departments ask to purchase certain products or equipment. The department manager then approves the requests so that the buyers in the Purchasing department may purchase the requested m aterials or products. Once the necessary product has been bought and the invoice has been generated, an invoice for payment is sent to the Accounts Payable (A/P) department. The A/P tasks are divided between two people. One person handles invoices for c ompanies with names that start with the letters A through M, while the other person handles invoices for companies with names that begin with N through Z. As each A/P worker opens the invoices, he or she sorts them according to the department responsible f or the payment. All invoices that involve overhead (and therefore do not get directed to a specific department), such as utility and shipping invoices, are coded by the A/P clerk and entered into the accounting system for payment. All other invoices are sent by intercompany mail to their respective departments. Invoices for amounts under $1,000 are directed to the person who requested the purchase, while invoices over $1,000 are sent directly to the manager in charge of the specific department where the request originated. Once the originator or manager approves the invoice, it is sent back to the A/P clerk, who enters it into the accounting system. The A/P clerk selects all approved invoices that have been entered into the accounting system and prints them as a list for the accounting manager, who marks the list to show which invoices are to be paid during the current check cycle. The accounting manager gives the annotated invoice list back to the A/P clerk, who reports to the staff accountant to retr ieve a special disk that allows access to the check -printing system. The disk must be kept under lock and key, which is the responsibility of the staff accountant. The A/P clerk uses the disk to connect to the check -printing system and print checks to be immediately mailed to the vendors, along with the corresponding invoices. The A/P clerk must keep written records of the check numbers and the amount of each check that is printed and mailed. Finally, the account manager double -checks for errors and signs off on the check number and dollar amount of each check, after each check run.
Hello.. Develop a process map for the accounts payable process at Frizz Master Hair Product Manufacturer, as described in the word document page. I’ve attached 2 documents Ass 11.1 is the assignment,
SCM.5502 Business Processes II Week 12 Course Schedule 1. Credit & Receivables 2. Pricing 3. Accounting I 4. Accounting II / MT Exam Review 5. Mid -Term Exam 6. Thanksgiving – no class 7. Case Study 1 – Intro ** READING WEEK ** 8. Case Study 2 9. Case Study 3 10. Case Study 4 11. Case Study – conclusion 12. Process Modeling 13. SCOR 14. Final Exam 2 Agenda ◼ Discussion on Business Process Reengineering, Process Modelling, and Flow Charts ◼ In Class Exercise ◼ Homework 3 Process Flow Modelling Objectives ◼ Develop an understanding of: ❑ Business Process Reengineering (BPR) ❑ Business Process modelling ❑ Various types of process models and their components ◼ Develop process improvement suggestions ◼ Use basic flowcharting techniques to map a business process 5 Business Process Reengineering ◼ Defined as: ❑ “A quality improvement philosophy that recommends radical change to achieve radical improvements” ◼ Purpose: ❑ Achieve significant levels of improvement in quality, time management, and cost ▪ Source: searchcio.techtarget.com . 6 Business Process Reengineering ◼ Made popular Michael Hammer and James Champy when they published their best – selling book, ” Reengineering the Corporation “ in the early 1990’s. ◼ Promoted the idea that sometimes, radical redesign and reorganization of an enterprise was necessary to lower costs and increase quality ◼ Hammer and Champy argued that information technology was the key enabler for that radical change in BPR. 7 Hammer and Champy’s 7 Steps to BPR 1. Organize around outcomes , not tasks. 2. Identify all the processes in an organization and prioritize them in order of redesign urgency . 3. Integrate information processing work into the real work that produces the information. 4. Treat geographically dispersed resources as though they were centralized . 5. Link parallel activities in the workflow instead of just integrating their results. 6. Put the decision point where the work is performed and build control into the process. 7. Capture information once and at the source. 8 What is Business Process Modelling? ◼ An activity used to generate documentation of business processes from beginning to end ❑ Visual representation ( e.g. a “map”) ❑ Written documentation ( e.g. “instructions”/details) ◼ Often used to analyze: ❑ The existing “As Is” state ❑ Potential future “To Be” states ◼ “Successive Refinement/drill down” concept ❑ Models can be viewed at several levels of detail 9 Purpose ◼ Document and understand current processes ◼ Analyze potential processes ❑ Compare and contrast ◼ Identify weaknesses and opportunities for improvement ◼ Support in: ❑ Redesigning processes ❑ Implementing software systems ( e.g. SAP) 10 Process Modelling ◼ Business processes can be quite complex ◼ Process model : ❑ Any abstract representation of a process ◼ Process -modelling tools provide a way to describe a business process so that all participants can understand the process 11 Process Modelling (cont’d.) ◼ Advantages of process models ❑ Graphical representations are usually easier to understand than written descriptions ❑ Provide a good starting point for analyzing a process ◼ Participants can design and implement improvements ❑ Document the business process ◼ Easier to train employees to support the business process 12 Flowcharting Process Models ◼ Flowchart ❑ Any graphical representation of the movement or flow of concrete or abstract items ❑ Clear, graphical representation of a process from beginning to end ❑ Uses a standardized set of symbols ◼ Process mapping ❑ Often used interchangeably with flowcharting ❑ Specifically refers to activities occurring within an existing business process 13 Flowcharting Process Models (cont’d.) 14 Figure 7 -1 Basic flowcharting symbols Flowcharting Process Symbols (cont’d.) ◼ Process Boundaries (oblong shape) define which activities: ❑ are to be included in the process ❑ are considered part of environment, and therefore external to the process (and/or out of scope) ◼ All processes should have only one beginning point but could have one or more ending points (eg . if decisions are used) 15 Flowcharting Process Symbols (cont’d.) ◼ Operations (rectangle shape) define the tasks or steps required to execute the process ◼ Decisions (diamond shape) ask a question that can be answered with “yes” or “no” ❑ If you find you have choices between 2 options, you almost always need a decision box ❑ One decision can be followed by another ❑ Keep it simple – more than 2 outcome choices may make it confusing for reader to follow. 16 Flowcharting Process Symbols (cont’d.) ◼ Direction of Logic (arrow) define which direction to follow for the next process step ◼ Connectors (# in a circle) provide a way to continue process maps from one page to another, and can ❑ be used to simplify the map even if it is a single page ❑ eliminate long winding arrows that might otherwise criss -cross over operation steps ❑ Make the map visually easier to follow 17 Flowcharting Process Symbols (cont’d.) ◼ To use a Connector : ◼ Each connector would be a circled number ( eg . at the bottom of page 1) ◼ a matching connector of the same number placed elsewhere in the flowchart is where you should start reading again (eg . top of page 2 or middle of page 3, etc.) ❑ See the example in figure 7.2; page 186 of textbook ❑ Connectors could also be used to loop back within the process on a single page, or multiple pages to reduce creating redundant Operation steps 18 Standardization ◼ Why is it necessary? ❑ Consistency in documentation/communication ❑ Collaborative processes that span many organizations ❑ Software tools exist for implementing business processes in software 19 Process Modelling Example Fitter Snacker Expense Reporting Process 20 FS Expense Report Process ◼ Maria, Fitter Snacker salesperson ❑ Completes a paper expense report after travel ❑ Makes a copy for her records ❑ Attaches receipts for any expenses over $25 ❑ Mails it to her zone manager at the branch office 21 FS Expense Report Process ◼ Kevin, zone manager ❑ Reviews expense report ❑ Approves report or mails it back to Maria asking for explanation, verification, or modification ❑ After approval, mails it to corporate office ◼ Process at corporate office ❑ Accounts payable (A/P) clerk 22 Figure 7 -2 Partial process map for Fitter Snacker expense -reporting process 23 Extensions of Process Mapping ◼ Hierarchical modelling : ❑ Ability to flexibly describe a business process in greater or less detail , depending on the task at hand ◼ modelling software that supports hierarchical modelling ❑ Provides user the flexibility to move easily from higher -level, less detailed views to the lower -level, more detailed views 24 Figure 7 -3 Hierarchical modelling 25 Extensions of Process Mapping (cont’d.) ◼ Deployment flowcharting ❑ Swimlane flowchart ❑ Depicts team members across the top ❑ Each step is aligned vertically under the appropriate employee or team ❑ Clearly identifies each person’s tasks in the process 26 Figure 7 -4 Deployment, or swimlane, flowcharting of the FS expense report process 27 Process Improvement – Value Analysis Value Analysis ◼ Each activity in the process is analyzed for the value it adds to the product or service ◼ Value added is determined from the perspective of customer ❑ Real value : value for which the customer is willing to pay ❑ Business value : value that helps the company run its business ❑ No value : an activity that should be eliminated 28 Coil Movement 29 Coil Storage 30 Uncoiler & Small Press 31 Value Analysis of Coil Steel Process No. Step Description Time (hrs) Space (M Sq) Distance (M) VA/NVA 1 Unload coil of steel from truck into receiving area with inspection status 0.50 3.00 15.00 2 Verify steel type and weight 0.25 0.00 0.00 3 Perform SAP Purchase receipt transaction 0.13 0.00 0.00 4 Request crane to move the coil to inspection 0.13 0.00 0.00 5 Crane moves the coil to incoming inspection laydown area 0.25 3.00 20.00 6 Perform Quality inspection 1.00 3.00 0.00 7 Create inspection tag and attach it to the coil 0.13 0.00 0.00 8 Request crane to move the coil to putaway laydown area 0.13 0.00 0.00 9 Crane moves the coil to putaway laydown area 0.25 3.00 20.00 10 Location is selected and crane is requested to move the coil to selected storage location 0.13 0.00 50.00 11 Material waits until it is scheduled to a press line 36.00 3.00 0.00 12 Request crane to move the coil to scheduled press line storage area 0.13 0.00 0.00 13 Material waits until it is required for use on the press line 12.00 3.00 0.00 14 Request crane to load the coil onto the uncoiler on the press line 0.13 0.00 0.00 15 Load coil onto the uncoiler feed into press 0.25 3.00 10.00 16 Make Parts as scheduled 2.00 0.00 10.00 53.38 21.00 125.00 32 Evaluating Process Improvement ◼ Disrupting the current process to make changes can be costly and time consuming ◼ Dynamic process modelling takes a basic process flowchart and puts it into motion ❑ Uses computer simulation techniques to facilitate the evaluation of proposed process changes ◼ Computer simulation ❑ Uses repeated generation of random variables that interact with a logical model of the process ❑ Predict performance of the actual system 33 Lucidchart Demo ◼ How Lucidchart can help you visualize your business processes – YouTube 34 SAP Plan to Manufacture Process Example Demand Management Production Order Execution Vendor Customer Fin.Goods Inventory Supply Planning (MPS/MRP) ATPPlan Capacity Eval. Customer Sales Orders Exception Monitoring Pur. Req. → Pur. Orders to Vendors Raw Materials Inventory Dispatching Sales & Operations Planning Long Term (“what if”) planning Non -Operative Planning Planned Orders ATPCRTD ATPREL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 35 Cross Reference With Testing Scripts Index Number Script Number and Description 50 EXEC101 -1 Convert Planned Orders to Production Orders using COHV EXEC101 -2 Release Production Orders using COHV EXEC101 -3 Confirm Production Order Header for a quantity smaller than planned EXEC101 -4 Close out the Production Order using TECO 51 EXEC201 -1 Create Ref Op Set and Trial R&D Production Order EXEC201 -2 Execute and Confirm the Trail R&D Production Order 52 EXEC301 -1 Set up Phantom Assembly; produce F and use up some W stock; G/R some W stock with 531 movement 53 EXEC401 -1 Create and Process a Repack Prod Order in DC1010 or 1015 55 EXEC501 -0 Set up settings per user one time setup EXEC501 -1 Run the Production Schedule report for a single work center; print it EXEC501 -2 Run the Production Schedule report for several work centers EXEC501 -3 Run the Production Schedule report for a Capacity Planner Group Cross Reference With SAP Tcodes Production Execution Process Summary ◼ Business processes ❑ Process modelling : fundamental tool in understanding and analyzing business processes ◼ Technology ❑ ERP systems are designed to provide the information, analysis tools, and communication abilities to support efficient and effective business processes ❑ Most challenges to ERP implementation involve managing personnel and their reactions to the change , rather than managing technical issues 39 Summary (cont’d.) ◼ Process mapping: ❑ Process -modelling tool that uses graphical symbols to document business processes ❑ Other methodologies: hierarchical modelling, deployment flowcharting, event process chain diagramming, value analysis, and business process improvement 40 In – Class Assignment ◼ Complete assignment 12.1 using Excel, Word or Visio to map the process ❑ Note: if using Visio you must save as a .PDF file ! I do not have Visio on my home computer so any . vsd submissions will be unreadable and therefore receive a mark of zero! ◼ Assignments can be completed in groups of no more than 3 people or individually ◼ Be sure to include the name(s) of all students who participated in the 12.1 file name as well as in the submission comments area of BB. ▪ File name example: “12.1 Thomas_Angelo_David ” 41

Instructions: Read and annotate the attached essay and then answer the questions below. 1. What is the title of the essay and who wrote it? 2. What is the essay’s thesis statement? (this may hav

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Instructions: Read and annotate the attached essay and then answer the questions below.

1.    What is the title of the essay and who wrote it?

2.    What is the essay’s thesis statement? (this may have to be put in your own words if not directly stated)

3.    In your own words, what is the essay about? (try to express this objectively in 2-4 sentences- avoid a lot of detail)

4.    Is the author credible/believable? Provide two or three examples of how you know (give page numbers for specific examples).

5.    Are the arguments logical? Provide two or three examples of logical arguments (give page numbers for specific examples).

6.    Are there any examples that don’t express the writer’s emotion but try to affect the emotions of the reader? Give one or two examples and a brief explanation of what the writer is trying to make the reader feel (give page numbers for specific examples).

7.    Is the writer’s purpose for writing to persuade the readers to believe or act a certain way or simply inform them about the subject?

8.    In what way(s) are the examples and explanations the writer uses effective or not effective for the writer’s purpose for writing (above)?

9.    So what could readers gather about the strategies for writing about a subject similar to the one the author chose?

10.  Use the following template to express what you would want your readers to know about how and why the author uses the rhetorical appeals. (Replace the lines with your words)

____________________ effectively / ineffectively (choose one) uses the rhetorical appeals of ___________________ to support his / her argument that ______________________.

Instructions: Read and annotate the attached essay and then answer the questions below. 1. What is the title of the essay and who wrote it? 2. What is the essay’s thesis statement? (this may hav
ZORA NEALE HURSTONo HOW IT FEELS TO BE C OLORED ME I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando. The native whites rode dusty horses, the Northern tourists chugged down the sandy village road in automobiles. The town knew the So utherners and never stopped cane chewing when they passed. But the Northerners were something else a gain. They were peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid. The more venturesome would come out on the porch to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the village. The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town, but it was a gallery seat for me. My favorite place was atop the gatepost. Proscenium box for a born fir st-nighter. Not only did I enjoy the show, but I didn’t mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually spoke to them in pa ssing. I’d wave at them and when they returned my salute, I would say something like this: “Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you- where-you-goin’?” Usually automobile or the horse paused at this, and after a queer exchan ge of com- pliments, I would probably “go a piece of the way” with them, as we say in farthest Florida. If one of my family happened to come to the front in time to see me, of course negoti ations would be rudely broken off. But even so, it is clear that I was the first “welcome-to-our-state” Floridian, and I hope the Miami Chamber of Commerce will please take notice. During this period, white people differed from colored to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there. They liked to hear me “speak pieces” and si ng and wanted to see me dance the parse-me-la, and gave me generously of their small silver for doing thes e things, which seemed strange to me for I wanted to do them so much that I needed bribing to stop, only t hey didn’t know it. The colored people gave no dimes. They deplored any joyful tendencies in me, but I w as their Zora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotels, to the county–everybody’s Zora. Z 2 But changes came in the family when I was thirteen, and I was sent to sc hool in Jacksonville. I left Eatonville, the town of the oleanders, a Zora. When I disembarked f rom the river-boat at Jackson- ville, she was no more. It seemed that I had suffered a sea change. I wa s not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl. I found it out in certain ways. In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a fast brown–warranted not to rub nor run. But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing sch ool of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelin gs are all but about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more of less. No, I do not weep at the world–I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter o f slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The ope ration was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said “On the line!” The Reconstruction said “Get set!” and the generation before said “Go!” I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worth all that I have paid through my ancestors for it. No one on earth ever had a greater cha nce for glory. The world to be won and nothing to be lost. It is thrilling to think–to know that for a ny act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or to weep. The position of my white neighbor is much more difficult. No brown spe cter pulls up a chair beside me when I sit down to eat. No dark ghost thrusts its leg against mine in bed. The game of keep- ing what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting. I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Z ora of Eatonville be- fore the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp wh ite background. For instance at Barnard. “Beside the waters of the Hudson” I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again. Sometimes it is the other way around. A white person is set down in our midst, but the con- trast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the drafty ba sement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we ZORA NEALE HURSTO23 fifl fl fl fl 3 have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way tha t jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts the thorax and splits the heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies. This orchestra grows rambunctious, rears on its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with pri mitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it breaks through to the jungle beyond. I follow those heathen- -follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to sla ughter something–give pain, give death to what, I do not know. But the piece ends. The men of the orchestra wipe their lips and rest their fingers. I creep back slowly to the veneer we call civiliza tion with the last tone and find the white friend sitting motionless in his seat, smoking calmly.“Good music they have here,” he remarks, drumming the table with his fi ngertips. Music. The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. H e has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored. At certain times I have no race, I am me. When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue, Harlem City, feeling as snooty as the lions in front of the Forty-Second Street Library, for instance. So far as my feelings are concerned, Peggy Hopkins Joyce on the Boule Mich with her gorgeous raiment, stately carriage, knees knocking together in a most aristocratic manner, has nothing on me. The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time . I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads. I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong. Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weigh t of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is t he brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held–so much like the jumble in the bags, could th ey be emptied, that all might ZORA NEALE HURSTO23 fifl fl fl fl 4 be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place–who knows? Authof: Zofa Neabe Hufston; Afticbe Titbe: oHow It Feebs to Be Cobofed Me; Soufce Titbe:o The Wofbd Tomoffow; Pubbication Date: May 1928; URL: http:o//www.cengage.com/custom/static_ content/OLC/s76656_76218bf/hufston.pdf. ZORA NEALE HURSTO23 fifl fl fl fl

Ethical Dilemma Project: Topic : Technology Using company technology for personal useCyberloafing–shopping, using social media etc. during work timeHacking competitors to gain an edgeBegin by stating

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Ethical Dilemma Project:

Topic : Technology

  • Using company technology for personal use
  • Cyberloafing–shopping, using social media etc. during work time
  • Hacking competitors to gain an edge

Begin by stating which topic you’ve chosen, why you’ve chosen it, and why people should care about it. Explain the business challenges posed by this topic. Write a thesis or purpose statement for the entire paper explaining your goal of identifying and analyzing an ethical dilemma in the workplace. Cite and document one good-quality source related to your topic choice using APA style. This section should be two well-developed paragraphs.

Empirical Article Worksheet #2 Read the following Empirical Article, and then complete this worksheet. Look at the file called “Tips for reading empirical articles” if you need help. Name and Author o

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Empirical Article Worksheet #2

Read the following Empirical Article, and then complete this worksheet. Look at the file called “Tips for reading empirical articles” if you need help.

Name and Author of Article: The Intersectionality of Discrimination Attributes and Bullying Among Youth: An Applied Latent Class Analysis by Bernice Raveche Garnett, Katherine E. Masyn, S. Bryn Austin, Matthew Miller, David R. Williams & Kasisomayajula Viswanath (2013)

Please answer the following questions with complete sentences, in your own words. Your answers will be graded on accuracy and thoughtfulness.  Do not use direct quotes from the original article, or from any other sources. Check your Originality report to make sure you do not have any direct quotes (you may do this up to three times before the due date). Make sure to proofread for grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors.  Download the following document, type in your answers, save as a new file, and upload your completed work to the Turnitin link on C

Empirical Article Worksheet #2 Read the following Empirical Article, and then complete this worksheet. Look at the file called “Tips for reading empirical articles” if you need help. Name and Author o
Empirical Article Worksheet #2 Read the following Empirical Article, and then complete this worksheet. Look at the file called “Tips for reading empirical articles” if you need help. Name and Author of Article: The Intersectionality of Discrimination Attributes and Bullying Among Youth: An Applied Latent Class Analysis by Bernice Raveche Garnett, Katherine E. Masyn, S. Bryn Austin, Matthew Miller, David R. Williams & Kasisomayajula Viswanath (2013) Please answer the following questions with complete sentences, in your own words. Your answers will be graded on accuracy and thoughtfulness.  Do not use direct quotes from the original article, or from any other sources. Check your Originality report to make sure you do not have any direct quotes (you may do this as often as you like before the due date). Make sure to proofread for grammatical, spelling, and punctuation.  Download this document, type in your answers, save as a new file, and upload your completed file into the Turnitin link on Canvas. This assignment is worth 20 points. 1. What was the purpose and importance of the study? 2. What did the researchers do? What was their scientific research method? 3. Who were the participants in the study and what did they have to do? What kind of information did researchers collect? 4. What were the results of their study? 5. What was the take-home message from the study? What new information did they find and how will it benefit youth and families?
Empirical Article Worksheet #2 Read the following Empirical Article, and then complete this worksheet. Look at the file called “Tips for reading empirical articles” if you need help. Name and Author o
Empirical Article Worksheet Rubric Name:______________________________________ Date:_______________________ Excellent Good Marginal Needs Improvement Unacceptable Score Question #1 Purpose and Importance of Study Strong response is present. All important points are included. Credible response is present, but one important point is missing. Credible response is present; but some important points are missing. A response is provided; however the responses are inadequate and missing many points. No response is provided. Contains direct quotes. /4 Question #2 Research Method Strong response is present. All important points are included. Credible response is present, but one important point is missing. Credible response is present; but some important points are missing. 0.5 A response is provided; however the responses are inadequate and missing many points. No response is provided. Contains direct quotes. /3 Question #3 Participants and Information Strong response is present. All important points are included. Credible response is present, but one important point is missing. Credible response is present; but some important points are missing. 0.5 A response is provided; however the responses are inadequate and missing many points. No response is provided. Contains direct quotes. /3 Question #4 Results Strong response is present. All important points are included. Credible response is present, but one important point is missing. Credible response is present; but some important points are missing. A response is provided; however the responses are inadequate and missing many points. No response is provided. Contains direct quotes. /4 Question #5 Take-Home Message and Benefit of New Information Strong response is present. All important points are included. Credible response is present, but one important point is missing. Credible response is present; but some important points are missing. A response is provided; however the responses are inadequate and missing many points. No response is provided. Contains direct quotes. /4 Mechanics No spelling, punctuation, or grammar errors. 1-2 spelling, punctuation, or grammar errors. 0.5 3-4 spelling, punctuation, or grammar errors. 5+ errors or difficult to read. /2 Total: /20
Empirical Article Worksheet #2 Read the following Empirical Article, and then complete this worksheet. Look at the file called “Tips for reading empirical articles” if you need help. Name and Author o
Tips for reading empirical articles 1. What is an empirical article? Empirical articles can be called by many names including peer reviewed, scholarly, refereed, scientific or academic. These articles are typically found in academic journals, which you will find on the USM library website. There are many different types of journals for different subjects, such as Child Development, Health, Aging, Psychology, and many, many more. It is important to understand the difference between an empirical article and some other source. Empirical articles are found in scholarly journals, are reviewed by experts in the field, and have strict publication requirements. Magazine, newspaper, or Internet website articles (wikipedia) are NOT empirical. Empirical articles can be intimidating, so here are some tips on how to read and understand empirical articles. 2. There are basically 2 types of articles that you might find in a scholarly journal: Original (Primary) – This is where a person, or a group of people, have performed their own research, collected their own data and are reporting the unique results of their findings. This is an empirical article. Review (Secondary) – This is where someone has looked at other people’s research and has compiled information about a certain topic from several different sources. Reviews can be helpful in determining trends or getting a general overview of what has already been researched about a topic. However, these are NOT considered empirical because they are not based on original research. 3. Read the abstract first. This is a summary of what the article is about, and will help to give you the main idea before you start. 4. Ask yourself a few questions: Who is being studied? (teenagers, the elderly, women, a certain ethnic group, college students, etc) What are they trying to figure out? (attitudes about something, links between two variables, effectiveness of a certain program, this list could go on and on…) How did they figure this out? (a questionnaire, interviews, an observation, a long term study, an experiment, etc.) What did they find? (was the hypothesis correct?, a correlation between two things, something is causing something else, how people really feel about a topic, etc.) What does this mean for you? (does this information support your stance on an issue? refute it? did you learn something about a group of people, how can we use this information to help people? etc.) 5. Journal articles are divided into sections (these may vary a little bit from article to article, but this is a basic outline of what you will typically find): Abstract – This is a basic summary of the entire article. Introduction- This explains why this topic information is important, and gives a general explanation of the topic, etc. Literature Review – This explains what we already know about a topic based on previous research. The authors will typically use data from several other empirical articles that have been previously published to give a history of what has already been found out about this topic. Methodology – This gives the step by step explanation of how the authors conducted their research. This section will tell you who was studied, how many people, their ages, ethnicity, etc. It will also explain how the data was collected, such as an interview, a questionnaire, an experiment, etc. This section basically just explains the exact process that the authors went through to get to their findings. Results – This section gives the actual data that resulted from the research. There will typically be a lot of numerical data, graphs and charts, and a lot of technical terms in this section. For example, the authors will state how many participants answered a certain way, or give a breakdown of percentages of how subjects scored on an assessment, etc. Discussion – This is the section that actually explains what the results mean. The results section can be difficult to understand, but they usually give a more clear picture of the findings in the discussion section. Read this section carefully, as it will explain what the researchers found during their study. Conclusion – This tells the reader how the information can be applied to real life, and explains what these findings mean for the field of study. Some suggestions might be given on what further research needs to be done, or how professionals can use this information. References – This is the section where the authors give appropriate credit for the sources they used when writing their paper. If the author refers to previous research in the literature review or introduction, the details of that previous research will be found in the reference section.

LSM 404 University of Phoenix Lifespan Management Essay

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Imagine that you are currently working in the lifespan management industry, and you have been asked to help with a community education initiative. More specifically, you have been asked to write various pieces for different publications regarding lifespan management. For your first task, you have been asked to contribute to your local community newsletter. The newsletter will focus on health care, and you have been asked to write about viewpoints on aging from birth through death.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word article regarding viewpoints on aging that includes:

  • A definition of lifespan management
  • 10 to 15 terms relevant to lifespan management in bold with an explanation of each
  • A brief explanation of lifespan management considering:
  • The history of lifespan management
  • Culture
  • Mentality and philosophy of aging
  • Changes to services
  • Changes to the industry

 

Amphiphilic Molecule in Biomedical Engineering Discussions

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I’m studying and need help with a Health & Medical question to help me learn.

Find an application of an amphiphilic molecule in biomedical engineering. Give the name of the molecule and the application.

Unit #7 There are large business organizations in the United States that are profoundly intertwined into the economic system, such as General Motors. Many experts suggest that failure of those busine

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There are large business organizations in the United States that are profoundly intertwined into the economic system, such as General Motors. Many experts suggest that failure of those business organizations would be catastrophic to the financial system. Defend or reject the idea that the U.S. government should bail out fiscally stressed corporations. Provide support for your position. Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

SEU Issues Around the Adoption of eHealth in the Kingdom Presentation

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eHealth Adoption  

Create a PowerPoint presentation that reviews four peer-reviewed articles written in the last five years on the issues around the adoption of eHealth in the Kingdom. Your presentation should contain the following concepts. Discuss at least 4 of the following perceptions that physicians may have that could be causing them to hesitate in using this technology. 

Usefulness

Technical support available

Increased workload

  • User-friendly technology
  • Staff attitudes
  • Cost
  • Patient privacy
  • Your presentation should meet the following structural requirements:
  • Be 10-12 slides in length, not including the title or reference slides.
  • Be formatted according to Saudi Electronic University and APA writing guidelines. 

Provide support for your statements with citations from a minimum of six scholarly articles. These citations should be listed in the Notes section of the slide in which they appear. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but four must be external. 

Each slide must provide detailed speaker’s notes to support the slide content. These should be a minimum of 100 words long (per slide) and must be a part of the presentation. The presentation cannot be submitted in PDF format, which does not make notes visible to the instructor. Notes must draw from and cite relevant reference materials. 

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Summary and Descriptive Statistics 

   

There is often the requirement to evaluate descriptive statistics for data within the organization or for health care information. Every year the National Cancer Institute collects and publishes data based on patient demographics. Understanding differences between the groups based upon the collected data often informs health care professionals towards research, treatment options, or patient education.

Using the data on the “National Cancer Institute Data” Excel spreadsheet, calculate the descriptive statistics indicated below for each of the Race/Ethnicity groups. Refer to your textbook and the Topic Materials, as needed, for assistance in with creating Excel formulas.

Provide the following descriptive statistics:

  1. Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode
  2. Measures of Variation: Variance, Standard Deviation, and Range (a formula is not needed for Range).