Organizational development Assignments (several short papers)

The first 3 papers are one page and the fourth is 2

First :
1 page
Read, “How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy” and Watch: “Make Work Better – Prasad Setty, Google People Analytics & Compensation” Focus on one aspect of your workplace where you feel there is a need for an OD intervention (i.e. talent development, workplace diversity). Identify at least two resources outside of your assigned readings that support this intervention.
How can your organization utilize People Analytics in diagnosing the need for an intervention and/or implementing and/or evaluating an intervention?

2d: 1 page
You are an OD practitioner and have been called to help in the merger of two financial organizations (both international organizations).
One organization is primarily in the property and casualty business but has also recently purchased an HMO organization focused on healthcare and insurance. The other organization is a large provider of life insurance, pension insurance, and other financial investment businesses. The first company mentioned has an entrepreneurial culture. The second company is very process-driven, and approaches work in a team-based manner.
Your job is to assist leadership in facilitating an effective merger so that the overall organization can quickly return to profitability and be perceived by shareholders as an effective combination of talent and business units.
• How would you diagnose what is needed?
• What suggestions might you make to have competing cultures merge into one that works together effectively?
• What types of information might you collect and what tools might you use to effectively diagnose what is needed?
• What type of suggestions would you suggest to the new leadership to effectively manage change?
• What type of human resource or process interventions might be required to handle resistance to change?

3d: 2 pages
The analysis should be between 500 and 750 words long. You are required to compose a film/literature analysis on the story, “Things Fell Apart. Okonkwo was willing to be exiled for seven years in punishment for inadvertently killing a fellow clansman. Why would such a dutiful follower of the clan’s way of life be willing to break the prohibition against suicide?
Is it possible Okonkwo felt he wouldn’t be seen as breaking a prohibition? How flexibly do members of the clan interpret their duties?
Is Okonkwo making a statement? If so, what is the statement about?
Did Okonkwo change during the course of the story? If so, how?
Achebe presents us with three choices: Okonkwo’s resistance, Obierika’s accommodation, and Nwoye’s joining the missionaries. What are we to learn from this story about choices and actions in the midst of change?
What fell apart?

4th:

Identify a professional networking event through a professional association that you will attend that occurs during the timeframe of the course. Acceptable events can include: continuing education workshops, association meetings, and professional conferences. Other activities can include engagement in charitable networking events/governmental meetings/career expos. Please note: If the cost of registration is prohibitive, please discuss your concerns with your instructor who can help find a suitable accommodation. Potential Opportunities:
www.deshrm.org (Links to an external site.)
https://hrasnj.shrm.org/ (Links to an external site.)
https://delmarva.shrm.org/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.td.org/ (Links to an external site.)
After attending the event, write a 1-2 page reflection paper that contains the following:
Name of event and event Details
Why the event is/was significant to you or your professional development?
How attending the event contributes to your professional development, through self-improvement planning, relationship-building, goal-setting, or giving back to your community.
Your instructor may require additional questions.
Include proof of attendance at the event. Proof of attendance may include: program brochure, registration receipt, a picture from the event, ticket stub, etc.

A multi-energy microgrid integrates multiple energy resources to achieve maximum energy utilization efficiency. The energies may include fossil-fuel, wind, solar, nature gas, as well as other forms of energy such as heat and cooling, etc. The combined cooling heat and power (CCHP) system is a promising approach to enable such multiple energy integration.

Write a 1000 words Literature Review based on the following below

A multi-energy microgrid integrates multiple energy resources to achieve maximum energy utilization efficiency. The energies may include fossil-fuel, wind, solar, nature gas, as well as other forms of energy such as heat and cooling, etc. The combined cooling heat and power (CCHP) system is a promising approach to enable such multiple energy integration.

You need to including the following 2 articles and add in a few more from your end.
https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1049/enc2.12002
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8979403

Case Study – Ohio Lottery

For each thread, there are multiple questions based off the case study; each question response must be supported with at least 1 peer-reviewed source. Each thread must also include 1 biblical application/integration.
From the Ohio Lottery case, answer the following questions:
Detail the overall research design in the Ohio Lottery case (See Exhibit OL1). What are the advantages and disadvantages of this design?
Evaluate the MET process (Exhibit OL-2). What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the MET technique?
What measurement scales are used in the sample questions provided (Exhibit OL-3)? Why might the lottery attitude and lottery importance questions have presented the most challenge to the professional researchers?
Using text Exhibit 12-2, map out the likely quantitative instrument content.
The survey contained several questions that would alert the researchers that the participant was not taking the research process seriously (see case exhibit OL-3). Is this a good or a poor idea? Why?
Evaluate the MET discussion guide for the Ohio Lottery Research.

preliminary design

Task 4 – Preliminary design
Produce an information pack
consisting of a written report (max 2500 words), technical drawings and a promotional
poster drawing. The pack should contain the following items:
1. Site
plan at an appropriate scale indicating existing features and proposed
buildings, access roads, drainage network and pond.
2. Technical
drawings for the following items:
a. Construction
details for road and drainage
b. Foundation
plan, typical floor plan and section for multi-storey carpark
3. Written
report outlining the following items:
a. Analysis
including a risk assessment for project sustainability and embodied carbon
assessment for the multi-storey carpark[1].
b. Structural
design of the multi-storey carpark including full-set of calculations and
accompanying narrative.
c. Design
of access road including full-set of calculations and accompanying narrative.
d.
Design of surface
water drainage and SUDS including pond including full-set of calculations and
accompanying narrative.
4.
Promotional
poster to present to the client that summarises all items of the project.
The site plan and technical drawings are to
be drawn in CAD, though if you cannot access CAD, hand drawings to a technical
standard are acceptable.

[1]
Frame and foundations only.

Using the Spiral Evolution of Knowledge Conversion, critically discuss which aspects of the conversion of knowledge may have been affected by the working-from-home approach.

During the coronavirus lockdown in the United Kingdom (2020-2021), 45% of workers reported to be working from home (fully online). Using the Spiral Evolution of Knowledge Conversion, critically discuss which aspects of the conversion of knowledge may have been affected by the working-from-home approach.

Reflecting Journals

Choose quotes from Braiding SweetGrass pages 105-117, 121 – 127 and Learning is in Bloom chapter 3 and 4 for this week reflective journals.
Reflection journals should be
organized in the following way.
Date – list the date
when the reading and/or experience occurred. There should be 4 or more dates
listed for ever reflection assignment turned in.
Reading reflections
should include the title and chapter of the book, and a quote or summary of the
passage that impacted you, followed by your thoughts.
Reflections
on outdoor experiences should include the place and time the experience
occurred followed by your thoughts and how it connects to either the reading
material or other course content/objectives

Discussion Board – Health Informatics – Reply to 2 classmates

Discussion Board Forum 1
Reply to 2 classmates – Each reply must be at least 150 words and must include at least 1 citation in current APA format and at least 1 Scripture reference.

Topic: Introduction to Health Informatics

Question/Prompt: Health informatics is both a discipline and a profession. Describe how health informatics as a discipline influences health informatics as a profession, as well as how the profession influences the discipline.
create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread must be at least 300 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. Each thread must include at least 1 citation in current APA format and at least 1 Scripture reference.

Final paper of ASMT 235 AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE

Must cite from the materials I sent. Can not outside resourses. And read the follow instructions carefully.
Final Essay: For your final exam you will write an essay that asks you to consider all that we’ve covered throughout the course, as well as the role of popular culture in the United States. Be sure to address all parts of the prompt. Your essay should contain a well-developed introduction which explains and defines popular culture based on one of the scholars we’ve used from Week 1. Your work should ONLY include course assigned materials (readings, media, films, etc.) that were used and/or discussed in the class; do not use outside material or sources. Do not rely solely on my lectures to inform your work – I will mark off major points.
Essay requirements:
1. The essay must be double-spaced, no less than 750 words and no more than 1000 words. (If you need to go over the maximum, that’s fine, but make sure it’s because of good writing and analysis.)
2. Again, you should not use any materials that have not been assigned by me in the course.
3. If you do not properly cite your work you will receive a ZERO for the assignment. Be sure to remember that even when paraphrasing information from the readings you should cite your sources. You may use Chicago or MLA to cite your work. You do not need a Works Cited/Bibliography page.
4. Your take-home essay question must be submitted to Blackboard before midnight on July 12. Failure to submit the essay to the link below by this time will result in no credit for the exam. Do not wait until the last minute to attempt to submit your essay. There will be no exceptions or extensions.
5. Plagiarism, either reported by Turnitin.com or discovered by the professor, will result in no credit for the essay question and a formal charge of academic dishonesty filed with the Dean of Students.
Essay Prompt: Popular Culture as Entertainment?
Some people claim that they are unaffected by the messages found in popular culture. Select any THREE case studies discussed in the course this semester and reflect on the role of popular culture in the United States. (Please note: You may only use the articles in Week 1 on the Introduction to Popular culture to help frame your definition of Popular Culture – this unit may NOT be used as one of your three case studies.) Your essay should either defend or question/refute the notion that popular culture is “merely entertainment.” You must refer to course materials support the position you are taking in your essay. Do not merely summarize the case study, but rather use it as a way to defend/support the position you’ve taken. Your introduction should include: a definition of popular culture (and explain which scholar you’re borrowing from) AND an explanation as to whether or not popular culture is something that is important to study. (Regardless of which side you fall on, you must work hard to develop a strongly backed up and convincing essay). Your essay should also have a strong thesis that helps to set up your paper, along with the case studies you’ll be addressing as examples for your stance. Remember, just like in anything you write, you must cite all of your work, and your argument must be well developed.
Make sure you follow the directions CAREFULLY. If you do that you will do great!! The big thing to remember with this paper is that you’re not just rehashing the arguments we covered in the DB posts, but you’re arguing how those specific case studies prove/show/demonstrate that they are or are not merely entertaining – that, perhaps they can (or cannot) tell us something more about our own culture in that specific historical moment.
*You may not re-use any of the writing you have done for the discussion board posts, if you do, that’s considered plagiarism.*

The Social History of Pop Music

Must cite from the articles I sent, and use the following materials.
In readings, film clip, and as you heard in the music from this week, we see how the struggles both before and after the riots were felt by the Black community in Los Angeles in the 1990s, and how that manifested into the hip hop and rap that was coming from within it. We hear the struggles being sung about in hip hop/rap, and about how those struggles culminate to explosive tensions in Southern California with the LA Riots. What led to these tensions? Do you think anything could have been done if the music was taken seriously by those outside of the community? (This question is completely subjective, but music, just like other art mediums can help to give us a glimpse in to what people and communities are experiencing. And there were some very loud messages attempting to be amplified.) In you conclusion, if you want to, you can address any contemporary music (so post 1990s) that you feel might mirror some of the messages echoed by that in the 1990s and earlier regarding some of the difficulties and struggles experienced. (10 points)
No formal lecture this week – you have a lot of materials to help guide you.
•Make sure that when you take notes this week you pay attention to the numerous factors that lead up to the chaos of the riots.
Reading:
“Out of Many – LA Riots 1990s” (provides historical context – read first)
Ejiofor, “The L.A. Riots as Told Through Rap and Hip-Hop” (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/l-riots-told-through-rap-hip-hop-n751896)
Alvarez, “Epilogue” (pgs 241-244)
Pick One or read both:
Rose, “Just Keeping it Real”
Starr & Waterman, “Early Hip Hop from the 1980s & 1990s”
Media:
(REQUIRED) This is a short clip from another earlier Vh1 documentary about Hip Hop: “Gangsta Rap And L.A. Riots 1992” from Vh1, Time Machine
(REQUIRED) Read the short article and watch the 2 minute clip regarding the LA Riots here: “Black History in Two Minutes: The LA Riots”
(Optional documentary) LA 92, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaotkHlHJwo (1:53:46)
Music:
Spotify: Music from Uprising: Hip Hop and the L.A. Riots (2012)
Check out some of the music you’re reading about. They’ve got explicit lyrics, and some very problematic language, but you can still weed through it for content.
Some examples of music pre-riots:
N.W.A. “Fuck the Police.” Straight Outta Compton. Priority, 1988. CD
Ice Cube. “Black Korea.” Death Certificate. Priority/EMI Records, 1991. CD.
After the Riots:
Ice Cube. “We Had to Tear this Muthafucka Up.” The Predator. Priority/EMI Records, 1992. CD.
Dr. Dre. “The Day the Niggaz Took Over.” The Chronic. Death Row Records, 1992. CD.
Sublime. “April 29, 1992.” Sublime. MCA, 1996. CD.
Question to consider: How did Hip Hop shape American culture, society, and politics and how was it shaped by these things in return?
Key words: Hip hop, music, American consumerism, race, police profiling, history, politics, society

Analyze and respond to the respective case study in a two to three paged paper. All questions provided in the case study should be addressed in the narrative.

University Town’s (UT) revisit to the City Charter:
Analyze and respond to the respective case study in a two to three paged paper. All questions provided in the case study should be addressed in the narrative. Please support your analysis with a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources. This assignment is due by Sunday 11:59 p.m. PST of this week.

The government of University Town (UT) revisited the city charter as part of the routine 10-year renewal. Most of the components, such as governmental structure, city property, public safety offices, and political units were reviewed without any major discussion or changes. However, an overwhelming number of citizens attended an open meeting and requested language in the charter surrounding municipal citizenship and vaccinations. When questioned for the reason surrounding this request, it turns out several UT’s newer residents have not vaccinated children according to CDC guidelines, and UT’s existing residents are frightened. Despite healthcare provider education from UT Hospital, fear presides.

1. Should UT add mandatory vaccinations to the city charter? Why or why not?
2. Consider the implications to both those supportive of the change and those opposed. What issues may there be with enforcement of such a change? What exemptions, if any, should be included in the wording?