BUS 310 Week 9 Assignment 4: Annual Review

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BUS 310 Week 9 Assignment 4: Annual Review

BUS 310 Week 9 Assignment 4: Annual Review

 

Imagine you work at a company and it is time for an employee named Jim’s annual review. While he was a model employee the first nine (9) months of the year, recently Jim has been coming in late. It has not been just a few minutes each day, either. It is starting to cause problems in the production line. In this assignment, write a one (1) page summary of your conversation with Jim. How will you address his recent performance issues while still praising him for his previous nine (9) months of good work? Your goal is to balance the negative and positive feedback so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.

 

Write a one (1) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Explain how you will address Jim’s recent performance issues.
  2. Suggest both constructive and positive feedback designed so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.
  3. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
    1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals.
  • Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

homework

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Your blog is an on line personal journal or diary.  It is a place to share your thoughts and feelings about significant topics based on The McGraw Hill Reader and on line sources.  Unlike a journal or discussion, a blog requires a visual presence.  Think of it as your own website. Some prompts will require visuals, photographs, or web links, but you are encouraged to use these in all your posts.  Be sure to familiarize yourself with the tools in the text box in order to take advantage of the full scope of the blog.  Each week there will be two prompts requiring your response. Responses may be posted in one blog entry or two, but each response should be clearly titled.  While blogging is more relaxed than formal essay writing, it requires a minimum word count (see individual instructions), good grammar, and correct spelling.  It also requires APA documentation of sources when quoting or citing from a website or using any on line source.  Remember, it’s your world and your blog!

 

Wk. 1 Blog: Family and Identity

Chapter Five asks: “How do we become who we are?”

Many factors affect who we are, and how we become who we are today.  As noted in our textbook by Muller (2014),

As much as our identities are shaped by powerful institutional forces like the family, what we are might be even more powerfully determined by the forces of sexuality and gender. Freud asserted that human behavior is rooted in sexuality, that gender (rather than family or school or social institution) is destiny. Clearly, notions of what it means to be a man or a woman have an impact on the construction of our identity. (p. 229)

Prompt #1.  For your first blog, consider a person, place or thing that had a major influence on you.  Find a photograph, graphic, or video that captures the feeling of that influence.  It might be an actual photograph, a music video, or an inspirational graphic or quotation.  Perhaps, you might browse social media like Pinterest or Instagram.  Post the photo or graphic along with 300 words sharing what that influence meant to you and its effect on your goals and dreams.

 

Prompt #2.  After reading Annie Dillard’s “An American Childhood” (pp. 241-246).  Then, write a short descriptive essay about someone you know very well, using several anecdotes or examples from that person’s life, so that by the end of the essay, the reader will have a mental picture of your subject’s personality, values and attitudes.  This could be someone in your biological family or someone else with whom you are or were close.  Minimum 300 words.

Requirements:

  • Respond to two prompts with a minimum 300 word each
  • Graphic, photo, or other visual required (Prompt #1)
  • Cite any sources used or quoted material.

E-mail using social media

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Week 9 Assignment 5: Email Using Social Media Scenario
Due Week 9 and worth 150 points

Your best friend has asked your help in securing a job where you work. You want to help your friend, but you know her social media sites have photos and other material that violate your company’s social media policy. You also know that the human resources department of your company always does a thorough search of social media sites of prospective hires. You need to write an email to your friend that explains which content needs to be deleted from her social media accounts and why. You need to discuss how refusal to delete the inappropriate photos and material might impact her ability to get the job. Your memo should clearly and specifically state the relevant rules from your company’s social media policy.

Create a one to two (1-2) paragraph memo in which you:

  1. Review your friend’s inappropriate social media content here.
  2. Review your company’s social media policy here.
  3. Create a one to two (1-2) paragraph email.
  4. Target the appropriate professional audience.
  5. Use appropriate language for professional audience.
  6. Use correct email formatting.
  7. Follow appropriate etiquette rules for electronic communication.
  8. Meet the 250-to-500-word minimum requirement.
  9. Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.

Your assignment must follow these APA and other formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, single-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides. 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 is not included in the required length.
  • Include a “To” “From” and “Subject Line” to represent an email format.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Demonstrate understanding of the basic fundamentals of communication.
  • Develop and practice communication skills, including skills in verbal, nonverbal, listening, writing, interpersonal, perception, and critical thinking as appropriate for the audience.
  • Relate to the interpersonal and organizational dynamics that affect communication in organizations.
  • Analyze and assess effective communication.
  • Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in communications.
  • Write clearly and concisely about communications using proper writing mechanics.

Assignment 2: LASA 1: Analyzing and Preventing Network Attacks

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Assignment 2: LASA 1: Analyzing and Preventing Network Attacks

Consider the following scenario:

You work for a large online retailer that specializes in selling fishing equipment. This company has the majority of the market share for online fishing equipment sales and receives thousands of hits on its website every day.

Recently, three disgruntled employees were dismissed from the company. Later, the company noticed that the company web servers were being overwhelmed with bogus connections and web requests during peak utilization hours. Management suspects that one or more of these employees may be initiating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt company operations and sales.

As the senior network specialist, you have been asked to analyze these attacks, recommend methods to enhance security to prevent future attacks, and describe how enhanced authentication can increase security.

Tasks:

Part I: Create a 3-page report on the following aspects:

1.     Create an After-Action Report for management that describes how this type of attack could have occurred.

2.     Analyze and explain how using specific industry best practices can protect the company network.

3.     Determine and explain security measures, in detail, that you would recommend to enhance security.

4.     Include how cryptography and authentication can support security.

Part II: Overview to Management (approximately 3 pages)

In Part I of this assignment, you provided a background about how the DDoS attack occurred and also described how industry best practices could help prevent future attacks. Assume that the online retailer is using Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

1.     Create a memo to management recommending specific enhancements to improve security on the Windows Server 2008 web server.

a.     Describe the common vulnerabilities of IIS 7.5.

b.    Describe the countermeasures to DDoS using Window native technologies or services.

c.     Recommend security enhancements or software to lockdown the web server.

Your final report will be in a Microsoft Word document and be approximately 5–7 pages in length; utilize two scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Submission Details:

·         Save the document as M3_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc.

·         submit your document to the M3 Assignment 2 LASA 1 Dropbox.

LASA 1 Grading Criteria and Rubric

All LASAs in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth 200 points. Download the rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

 

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Created an After-Action Report to include how the attack occurred and explaining industry best practices to protect the network.

60

Created an After-Action Report to also include explanation of security measures and how cryptography and authentication can support security.

60

Created a memo to management recommending specific enhancements to improve security on the Windows Server 2008 web server.

36

Writing components:

·         Organization (12)

·         Usage and Mechanics (12)

·         APA Elements (16)

·         Style (4)

44

Total:

200

 

Literary Analysis

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The major writing assignment for this week is to compose a 600- to 800-word paper that analyzes how gender—masculinities and femininities—is portrayed in The Odyssey.

One way to approach this assignment is to consider how male characters think and speak about female characters (human and/or divine). How do the males treat female characters? How do the female characters treat the males? What patterns emerge? Based on those patterns, can you identify models of femininities and masculinities in The Odyssey? In other words, are particular behaviors, conditions, or roles associated with men but not women and vice versa?

Second, analyze at least two major male characters. What does this reveal? Now carefully consider two female figures (human and/or divine). How are they represented? Using the data that you gathered, describe what the ideal ancient Greek woman and man might have been like.

Next, decide if any of the female and male characters violate rules that apply to women’s and men’s behavior and, in so doing, offer the audience negative models of gender. Reflect on The Odyssey’s ending—who wins and loses and why? What do the ultimate fates of the female and male characters reveal about ancient Greeks’ ideas about gender?

Do not simply answer all these questions in order to develop your paper. These questions are designed to catalyze critical thinking, and you should use the writing process described in the online lectures to compose your essay. 

As you prepare to write this week’s paper, make sure you understand how many things you are being asked to do.

Develop a Tentative Thesis

  • How is gender portrayed in The Odyssey?
  • With regard to gender, what do different elements of The Odyssey reveal about the culture and its important philosophies and values?

Prewriting

Choose one of the prewriting techniques discussed in chapter 3c, “Invent and Prewrite,” of The New Century Handbook and begin prewriting.

Rough Draft

Write your rough draft. You are not required to submit it, but you should get in the habit of writing one for every essay you compose in this and other classes.

Revise and Edit

Proofread the rough draft to check if the:

  • Thesis is clear and well focused, and the introduction includes all the necessary information.
  • Discussion of evidence includes quotes, paraphrases, or summaries and synthesizes this material and your ideas.
  • Conclusion is appropriate and reinforces the paper’s main ideas without repeating the introduction word for word.
  • Essay is formatted in APA style throughout, and it uses appropriate grammar, spelling, and mechanics.
  • Quoted material does not exceed 25% of the essay.

 

Double check your final copy for spelling and grammar. Name your document SU_ENG2002_W1_A3_LastName_FirstInitial.doc. By Tuesday, October 21, 2014, submit your final draft in a Microsoft Word document to the W1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Wrote a complete introduction that engages your classmates’ interest, explains the topic, provides a detailed thesis that identifies your argument, briefly states the main evidence, and maps the paper for your audience.
10
Used key passages and quotations from the text to support and defend your thesis. Supporting examples and quotations are fully analyzed. The link between the thesis and the evidence is clearly explained.
20
Examined in your essay’s discussion of evidence what the text suggests about the culture, philosophies, or ideologies that influenced it.
10
Organized the paper effectively with unified paragraphs, each of which has a topic sentence and effective transitions to the next paragraph.
20
Provided an appropriate conclusion that reinforces the paper’s main ideas.
10
Met the word requirement.  
10
Communicated clearly using your own words for the majority of the paper with correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling throughout.
10
Formatted the paper in APA style throughout, including a title page, running head, headings between sections, in-text citations, and a reference list.
10
Total:
100

Role of Vision and Mission Statements

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Role of Vision and Mission Statements

In this assignment, you will learn the significance of the vision and mission statements of an organization.

Visit the websites of the following organizations and read about the organizations’ missions and visions as well as about their leaders.

 

•    National Center for Healthcare Leadership

•    American College of Healthcare Executives

•    Institute for Diversity in Health Management

•    Association of Hispanic Healthcare Executives

•    National Association of Health Services Executives

 

Based on your research and reading, complete the following tasks in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document:

 

•    Critically analyze the vision and mission statement of each of the five organizations.

•    For any one organization, identify its leader. Do you find the identified leader to be effective? Why or why not? Support your answer using concepts learned in the week.

•    What do you think is the greatest difficulty in achieving the vision and mission of these organizations? In other words, are the organizations’ vision and mission statements clear, concise, measurable, and realistically achievable?

•    If you were an employee or member of these organizations, would the vision and mission statements of the above mentioned organizations motivate you? Why?

•    For the selected organization, what action would you suggest to help the organization overcome the difficulties in achieving the vision and mission?

 

 

i need 250 words for my career just talk about empire beauty school about me one day opening up a barbrshop

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Week 2 Assignment: Concept Map & Short Paragraph

 

Before you begin, take a moment to look ahead to Week 7 Assignment. Read the assignment carefully. Shape your work in this Week 2 Assignment, and all other assignments, around the goal of producing a multi-media presentation.

 

PART 1: Choose a career interest topic for your final project due later in the course. Your career interest topic should be realistic and one that you are actually interested in learning more about. The career interest might be a field in which you could become employed after completing your APUS degree program or additional training.

 

Using your career interest topic, create a concept map OR an outline to define the task in your research process. Use the process of outlining or mapping the topic for your final project so that you can focus your topic and determine the nature and types of information you will need later in our course. This assignment is a brainstorming activity, not a research task.

 

In your outline OR concept map, include the following:

 

  • One (1) topic sentence stating which career interest/discipline you will explore
  • Four (4) or more specific, critical thinking questions about your career interest that can be later answered through source searching and presented in your final project
  • For each question, two or more supporting detail statements that describe the type of information needed to answer the question (the actual answers are not yet needed)
  • For each detail statement or statement pair, a description of what kinds of sources might be helpful in providing the information you need
  • Format appropriately designed for either an outline or concept map

Formal, detailed outlines are useful organizational strategies–the more detail you include, the easier the final project will come together. If you choose to use an outline, it must be very detailed. Consider searching outlining strategies and designs.

 

Concept maps can be developed through one of several available websites:
 

Assignment 1: The New Frontier: Data Analytics

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Assignment 1: The New Frontier: Data Analytics

Due Week 2 and worth 120 points

In this highly competitive business environment, businesses are constantly seeking ways to gain traction and understand what is on the minds of current customers and potential customers in order to increase business efficiency. Many companies have turned to business intelligence (BI) and data analytics. 

Use the Internet or Strayer Library to research articles on data analytics. Select one (1) industry or one (1) company that is currently using data analytics. Use the industry / company you have selected as the basis for your written paper.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1.     Define data analytics in general and provide a brief overview of the evolution of utilizing data analytics in business. 

2.     Analyze the main advantages and disadvantages of using data analytics within the industry or company that you have chosen. 

3.     Determine the fundamental obstacles or challenges that business management in general must overcome in order to implement data analytics. Next, suggest a strategy that business management could use to overcome the obstacles or challenges in question. Provide a rationale for your response.

4.     Analyze the overall manner in which data analytics transformed the industry or company you selected with regard to customer responsiveness and satisfaction.

5.     Speculate on the trend of using data analytics for the chosen industry or company in the next ten (10) years. Next, determine at least one (1) additional type of data that one could collect by using data analytics. Provide a rationale for your response. 

6.     Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

7.     Here is the rubric to the assignment

8.      

1. Define data analytics in general and provide a brief overview of the evolution of utilizing data analytics in business.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely defined data analytics in general; did not submit or incompletely provided a brief overview of the evolution of utilizing data analytics in business.

Partially defined data analytics in general; partially provided a brief overview of the evolution of utilizing data analytics in business.

Satisfactorilydefined data analytics in general; satisfactorily provided a brief overview of the evolution of utilizing data analytics in business.

Thoroughly defined data analytics in general; thoroughly provided a brief overview of the evolution of utilizing data analytics in business.

2. Analyze the main advantages and disadvantages of using data analytics within the industry or company that you have chosen.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletelyanalyzed the main advantages and disadvantages of using data analytics within the industry or company that you have chosen.

Partially analyzed the main advantages and disadvantages of using data analytics within the industry or company that you have chosen.

Satisfactorily analyzed the main advantages and disadvantages of using data analytics within the industry or company that you have chosen.

Thoroughlyanalyzed the main advantages and disadvantages of using data analytics within the industry or company that you have chosen.

3. Determine the fundamental obstacles or challenges that business management in general must overcome in order to implement data analytics. Next, suggest a strategy that business management could use to overcome the obstacles or challenges in question. Provide a rationale for your response.

Weight: 20%

Did not submit or incompletely determined the fundamental obstacles or challenges that business management in general must overcome in order to implement data analytics. Did not submit or incompletely suggested a strategy that business management could use to overcome the obstacles or challenges in question. Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for your response.

Partially determined the fundamental obstacles or challenges that business management in general must overcome in order to implement data analytics. Partially suggested a strategy that business management could use to overcome the obstacles or challenges in question. Partially provided a rationale for your response.

Satisfactorilydetermined the fundamental obstacles or challenges that business management in general must overcome in order to implement data analytics. Satisfactorilysuggested a strategy that business management could use to overcome the obstacles or challenges in question. Satisfactorilyprovided a rationale for your response.

Thoroughly determined the fundamental obstacles or challenges that business management in general must overcome in order to implement data analytics. Thoroughly suggested a strategy that business management could use to overcome the obstacles or challenges in question. Thoroughly provided a rationale for your response.

4. Analyze the overall manner in which data analytics transformed the industry or company you selected with regard to customer responsiveness and satisfaction.

Weight: 15%

Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the overall manner in which data analytics transformed the industry or company you selected with regard to customer responsiveness and satisfaction.

Partially analyzed the overall manner in which data analytics transformed the industry or company you selected with regard to customer responsiveness and satisfaction.

Satisfactorilyanalyzed the overall manner in which data analytics transformed the industry or company you selected with regard to customer responsiveness and satisfaction.

Thoroughlyanalyzed the overall manner in which data analytics transformed the industry or company you selected with regard to customer responsiveness and satisfaction.

5. Speculate on the trend of using data analytics for the chosen industry or company in the next ten (10) years. Next, determine at least one (1) additional type of data that one could collect by using data analytics. Provide a rationale for your response.

Weight: 20%

Did not submit or incompletely speculated on the trend of using data analytics for the chosen industry or company in the next ten (10) years. Did not submit or incompletely determined at least one (1) additional type of data that one could collect by using data analytics. Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for your response.

Partially speculated on the trend of using data analytics for the chosen industry or company in the next ten (10) years. Partially determined at least one (1) additional type of data that one could collect by using data analytics. Partially provided a rationale for your response.

Satisfactorilyspeculated on the trend of using data analytics for the chosen industry or company in the next ten (10) years. Satisfactorilydetermined at least one (1) additional type of data that one could collect by using data analytics. Satisfactorilyprovided a rationale for your response.

Thoroughlyspeculated on the trend of using data analytics for the chosen industry or company in the next ten (10) years. Thoroughlydetermined at least one (1) additional type of data that one could collect by using data analytics. Thoroughlyprovided a rationale for your response.

6. 3 references

Weight: 5%

No references provided.

Does not meet the required number of references; some or all references poor quality choices.

Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.

Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.

7. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements

Weight: 10%

        

 

 

Assignment 2: Supply Chain Management

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Assignment 2: Supply Chain Management

Assignment 2: Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management is the integration of activities that procure materials and services, transform them into intermediate goods and final products, and deliver them to customers. The production, distribution, and sale of both goods and services are bound by constraints in demand, supply, capacity, capability, and a myriad of other parameters. 

In this assignment, consider the strategic implications of how an organization produces and interacts with its partners, customers, and suppliers.

Using the module readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research supply chain management processes. Based on your research, complete the following: 

  • Describe the overall goal of a supply chain.
  • Describe the difference between a supply that is responsive (service) and a supply chain that is efficient. Can a supply chain be both?
  • How can an organization optimize supply chain management to improve results and remove obstacles? Support your answer with two current examples.
  • Based on your learning from your research, what additional recommendations might add to what was accomplished? 

Write a 3–5-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, August 9, 2017, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria 
Maximum Points
Described the overall goal of a supply chain, differentiated between a supply that is responsive (service) and a supply chain that is efficient, and examined whether a supply chain can be both.
24
Provided two examples of organizations where optimization of supply chain management has helped the organization improve its results.
24
Provided additional recommendations to add to what was accomplished.
32
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
20
Total:
100

 

 

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Business Continuity Plan for a Business

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Assignment 1: LASA 2: Business Continuity Plan for a Business

Consider the following scenario:

You are a security consultant working for a company that does not have a business continuity plan. You have been asked to meet with internal customers and the IT department to determine the core competencies of the business. Then, you will use that information to develop a business continuity plan.

Tasks:

For this assignment, create a business continuity plan, not to be confused with a disaster recovery plan.

·         Introduce the company and its core competencies. The company can be real or imaginary; however, it should be described so that the reader understands exactly how you are relating each element of your business continuity plan to business needs.

·         Identify the sector in which the company operates as well as its core values, mission, and objectives.

·         Choose at least eight elements of a business continuity plan that you have studied in this course. Be sure to include elements in disaster recovery; business operations; business continuity; customer communication; staffing contingencies; employee communications; ethical and legal obligations; and system integrity.

·         Map each element of the plan to a specific business requirement. Each of the elements noted in the business continuity plan should be aligned with an organizational need, including department and customer base (if any), and the element it is related to. Base recommendations on expert’s opinions from white papers, journals, or magazines that are credible in IT. (If you have a question about whether a source is credible, be sure to ask your instructor.) You should use at least three sources, not including your textbook.

·         Identify who is responsible for carrying out each element of the plan and identify the scope of the individual’s work within the framework of business continuity.

Your final deliverable will be a 10- to 12-page, all inclusive, business continuity plan in APA format. Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA); display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Submission Details:

·         Save the final assignment as M5_A1_Lastname_Firstname.doc.

·         , submit your final assignment to the M5 Assignment 1 LASA 2 Dropbox.

LASA 2 Grading Criteria and Rubric

All LASAs in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth 300 points. Download the rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Introduced the company and explained its core competencies.

32

Identified the sector in which the company operates as well as its core values, mission, and objectives.

36

Created a business continuity plan with at least eight components studied in the course.

48

Mapped each element of the plan to a specific business requirement.

48

Identified who is responsible for carrying out each element of the plan.

40

Identified the scope of the individual’s work within the framework of business continuity.

32

Writing components:

·         Organization (16)

·         Usage and Mechanics (16)

·         APA Elements (24)

·         Style (8)

64

Total: