Workforce Planning Paper: Process or an Event?

Examine and accurately assess the talent needs of your own organization or a peer’s organization. Use the following areas to determine where that organization is in terms of Talent Management:
· Recruitment and retention
· Lifecycle
· Culture
· Values
· Generational requirements
· Cost/benefits
· Environment
· Strategy
· Legal considerations

Consider your organization or a peer’s organization and address the following:
1. Identify talent management issues organization-wide using an environmental scan. Be sure to include multi-cultural/international issues related to all stakeholders (the community, employees, employers, prospective customers, and stockholders).
2. Evaluate the important ethics and laws (in your analysis) relevant to this situation.
3. Discuss at least four talent management recommendations for policies and procedures for selection and recruitment based on the information you gathered. Justify your recommendations.
4. Use your textbook, online library resources, and the Internet, to address your assessment of this issue.
Critique the organization of which you are currently or previously a member. Address the following questions and topics:
Provide a brief overview of the key elements of the Recruitment and Selection processes, including strengths and weaknesses.
If job descriptions and position competencies provide those involved in the recruitment and selection process with clarity and agreement on the purpose, content, duties, and responsibilities of the job, then why do few organizations utilize these tools? How might utilization be improved?
How do organizations best measure skills, experience, qualifications, and other relevant factors?
Define the most effective monitoring and evaluation processes and metrics for the recruitment and selection process.
Is there a relationship between the recruitment and selection processes and engagement and/or employee retention? Explain.

Textbook Readings: Chapter 4-8. (Strategy-driven talent management: A leadership imperative)
Book Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jgPxtXb8KhpeLBO9_p6KnvfkmgBMkHrK/view?usp=sharing

SBIRT: Benefits of SBIRT and Motivational Interviewing

Find at least two (2) peer-reviewed journal articles (not ones provided in the course), then provide a critical discussion of the following:
Is using the SBIRT approach with Hispanic families important?
Does cultural awareness play a significant part in screening Hispanic clients? If so, to what degree. If not, why?
Is motivational interviewing (MI) beneficial when working which Hispanic clients?

Define suicidal ideation and parasuicide. How do the rates of suicidal ideation, parasuicide, and completed suicide compare for adolescent males and females in the United States?

Essay questions (6 questions total, 10 points each)
A response will earn full points if 1) the question is fully answered, relevant, and coherent, and 2) the response has a minimum of two paragraphs each with a minimum of 3-4 sentences in each paragraph. Sentences should be complete and provide more than a repeat of the prompt.
Submitted responses that are returned from turnitin.com more than 20% plagiarized will earn 0 points and will not be graded
DO NOT COPY THE QUESTION. NUMBER THE RESPONSES.
1) What are some consequences of neurological sensitivity in adolescence? Explain, citing research to support your answer. Be sure to mention differences in the brain activity of adolescents versus adults.
2) Define suicidal ideation and parasuicide. How do the rates of suicidal ideation, parasuicide, and completed suicide compare for adolescent males and females in the United States?
3) Briefly discuss the predictors of secure attachment in infants and how does it affect development in childhood and adolescence?
4) What is conservation? Describe an example of a conservation task noting the initial presentation of the material, the transformation of the material, and the questions that children are asked. What is the preoperational child’s response?
5) Discuss the concept of “language shift” in bilingualism. What is it, and how do young children exhibit it?
6) Discuss the development in emotional regulation in early childhood, including the concept of “effortful control.” How do culture and family contribute to its development?
each question has to have at least 3-4 sentences in each paragrapj but they have to be descriptive enough

Source Reliability Worksheet

In this survey course, many topics had to be dropped or treated very lightly. Which topic in U.S. history do you think should have been included which was not OR which topic do you think should have been discussed in greater detail? The topic can be a person or group, a specific event, or a long-term trend.
We looked at reliability of a source for Colonial America. Now you evaluate the source you find yourself. Find an article, website, or video online (which was not included in this course in Canvas) which explains the topic, but make sure it meets the reliability criteria below. The source must have an identified named author (or two people), not simply be Editor. It must have been created after 2000.
Answer the questions below. You do not need to repeat each question, just use the number and a key word like “author”. Your answers should be in proper English, including complete sentences. Explain everything in your own words. Be specific enough so that no one has to go back and read or watch your source to understand what you mean. Most questions can be answered with a single sentence. Questions 1, 2, 6, and 7 require one to two paragraphs each and so are worth more.
Questions to Answer
1. Briefly explain why the topic is important: what consequences did the event or trend have, what did the person or group do?
2. Identify your source (title, series/journal title if any) and briefly summarize what your source says about the topic.
Now, prove your source is reliable. When we analyze reliability, we analyze how the film, book, article, or website, was prepared. We don’t want to have to duplicate the work the writer did by looking at the bones and letters or interviewing the experts ourselves. We don’t compare with other sources because how do we know those sources are correct? Use only the criteria below. Whether something has an .edu or a .com or something else doesn’t matter.
3. Who wrote it: provide the person’s name. If the author is not actually named, pick a different source. There can be two authors, but no more than two. For a film, you can pick the producer.
4. Is the author (s) an expert in the subject (Colonial America or World War II or whatever)? Explain. Do not Google the person, but use only the information on the website, in the film, or with the article.
5. Was there someone else either controlling what was said or certifying it was accurate (the editor of the journal and a broadcast network are two examples)? Coca Cola running an ad in a PBS special would not control the content but PBS would. If there is someone controlling the content or certifying it, identify that person or company or government agency and say whether that provides more confidence that the material is accurate. If not, say there isn’t.
6. What secondary and primary sources did the writer rely on? You don’t have to list every source the writer used, but group them by interviews of historians, articles and books by historians, letters of George Washington, pandemic graves, etc. Provide two examples of each group the author relied on.
7. Is the film/website/article itself biased? For example, in a film or other source discussing relations between Native Americans and Europeans, does it do anything to make you on the side of the Indians or the side of the Europeans? What specifically does it do? Does it use certain wording that puts it on one side? Does it show one side attacking the other but omit to show the second side being aggressive? Provide specific examples. Those are the kinds of things we are looking for. We are looking at whether the article/film/website you chose is biased. The people interviewed or underlying sources can be biased but the author of your source should balance them or deal somehow with their biases. If it isn’t biased, then provide specific examples of presenting different viewpoints or otherwise being not biased. Need two examples of either bias or lack of it.
8. When was it written? It must be after 2000. Explain if that is recent enough for any new discoveries which changed things to have happened.
9. Was it professionally done? Does it look like someone took time to do a good job and did a good job or was it something done in an hour? Are there a lot of typos? Do the links work? Content is more important than looking great, but one must make some effort.
10. After discussing all six criteria with specific examples, conclude: is is reliable overall? It might not meet all of the criteria, but should meet most. For example, an article written by a journalist or a documentary might have an author who doesn’t know the subject. But if there are experts interviewed in the article or documentary, it can still be reliable. Some of the criteria are more important than others. If it isn’t reliable, pick something else

Abnormal Behavior paper

The purpose of this three-page essay is for students to explore and explain the various components of abnormal behavior, taking into consideration research, historical views, and faith integration. (CLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). This Essay is worth up to 100 points.

A successful essay will address the following areas:

Introduction (1 paragraph): Briefly introduce the reader to the topic, using citations when necessary. Outline what will be covered in the paper.
Literature Review:
Components:
In your own words, define each of the components and offer specific examples of each (cultural inappropriateness, subjective distress, psychological disability).

Research:
Discuss how research is useful in our understanding of abnormal behavior (ie., How do experimental studies, correlational studies, sampling, case studies or other aspects of research help shed light on what is viewed as normal/abnormal?) Be sure to offer specific examples.

Historic Perspective:
Select one historical perspective (ie., Demonology, Organic View, or Psychological View) that you believe explains best explains abnormal behavior. Describe your view and explain why it best explains abnormal behavior.

Faith Integration (1-2 paragraphs):
Share your personal perspective on how Christians can approach mental illness/abnormal behavior (How might Christians provide support for those who are suffering from mental illness? Can faith or belief in a higher power be helpful in enduring mental illness?). Provide at least one scripture to support your perspective.

Paper Requirements
Paper must be three to four pages in length
APA Formatted (Title page, No Abstract required, Reference Page)
Subheaders are required (Introduction paragraph is not labeled; however, the remaining sections must be labeled).
A minimum of three peer-reviewed sources (no websites) are required. The textbook can be used as one of the three sources.

character study

Overview: The purpose of this project is to get you think critically about how to assemble a thesis, outline, and individual arguments for a lengthier essay (say 5-6 pages) on a literary topic. You will be practicing how to write a solid thesis, how to outline your argument with multiple examples, how to find quotes to support your examples, and be writing one portion of this actually argument in essay form. Think of it as the prep work for a full length research paper, but you will only be writing one portion of the essay.
Directions: Complete the following steps to get full credit for this assignment. Each question below must be clearly numbered and labeled. Do not do all of it as if it is an actual essay. Show me the individual numbers for the questions and your answers. All of your questions will be based on the prompt I give below–do not stray from this prompt, or you will not get credit for the piece.
Prompt: The critical method you will practice for this project is a character study. In this type of character study, you will pick one character from one of the short stories we’ve read for this week, and you’ll do a deep dig on the character. First off, establish simple things such as whether the character is static, dynamic, the antagonist or protagonist of the tale (see this week’s literary terms). Second, and more importantly, write a thesis that critically examines a character and the growth or lack of growth they undergo. Be sure your thesis and the structure you put together is one that would give you a lot of chance for critical thought and deep discussion.
1) Thesis: Write a one sentence thesis that shows your interpretation of this character and their growth or lack of growth through the story. It must be one sentence long and be argumentative (not a simple statement of a fact). It should be something you have to prove through evidence and deep thought, not something that a single quote could prove as true.
Bad Sample Thesis: “In the movie The Matrix, Neo learns how to fight.” First, it is a bad thesis because it isn’t one of our short stories. Second, it is a bad thesis because there is nothing to argue here. You point to one scene where he learns kung fu, and you’ve done your job. You need dig deeper and be more sophisticated.
Better Sample Thesis: “In The Matrix, Neo goes from an innocent and bored every man to the savior of the world; his mentor Morpheus, his trials and tribulations, his love of Trinity, and his computer hacks, all help to get him there, but eventually his faith (and Morpheus’s faith in him) are what make him a true savior.” This is a much better thesis because I see all the elements of the paper unfold here, and I get a unique argument about faith that other students may not have had.
2) 3 Arguments: Next, using bullet points, write out three clear arguments you plan to make to prove your thesis. For the good thesis about The Matrix above, these could be his mentor, his trials, and his faith. Give a couple well written sentences to each argument you plan to make on your own character.
3) Quotes and Evidence: For each argument you detail in #2 above, find two direct quotes that support what you plan to say. These quotes much include a parenthetical MLA citation.
4) Essay: The final part is the essay itself. This needs to be one of the arguments you detail in #2 above, and it must contain the quotes you identify in #3 above. It should be between 100-150 words, and it must include a word count. Pretend this is just one part of a longer paper where you are focusing on just ONE element of your overall thesis and arguments. Don’t try to do everything in this portion. Simply write one thorough essay response to fulfill one part of your overall paper’s plans. Then, that’s it. You’re done!
Requirements:
This project must be submitted as an PDF document, and it must be in full and proper MLA format. You must have all the elements of an MLA document layout and all elements of parenthetical citations here as well as a full MLA works cited page.
I will be grading closely based on grammar, punctuation, syntax, and mechanics. Take your time and proofread each step.
As stated on the syllabus, you must submit this project or you cannot get a passing grade in this class. For this class to meet state standards, you must write a certain word count and must write about a variety of different literary genres. If you fail to submit this, you will fail to meet those requirements and cannot get a passing grade.
You must adhere to all the elements found on the How to Write About Literature Handout.

Decreasing Stress

Imagine you have been asked to write a blog post about decreasing stress with the use of mentors in your healthcare environment. Explain how you can help alleviate harmful workplace stress for your employees and describe the advantages of using capable senior employees as mentors or trainers for newer employees. Explain a suggested approach to employee mentoring. Support your points with examples and illustrations for your blog.

Why does Hawthorne seem to like symbolism so much in both THE SCARLET LETTER and “The Birthmark”? What point is he able to make through symbols that he can’t with dialogue or description?

Two questions:

1. Why does Hawthorne seem to like symbolism so much in both THE SCARLET LETTER and “The Birthmark”? What point is he able to make through symbols that he can’t with dialogue or description?

2. Define Fanny Fern’s idea of womanhood.