Best Writer Do you think self-awareness is overrated in leadership? Some of the most famous and successful CEOs are often described as having low self-awareness and being difficult to work with, however, often are liked by employees (not always) and achieve great success. If self-awareness is so critical for leadership, how do we explain their success?
Does self-awareness actually make someone a better leader, or can it sometimes hold them back?
All Country Insurance wants to upgrade its network protection based on a string of recent breaches. The chief information officer (CIO) boasts that his business network has never had security issues and already has a properly configured firewall. All Country has a number of field service representatives selling various insurance policies that require different levels of network access.
The ability to meet the requests for information and control network access of information has become difficult.
For your main post, develop a resolution summary describing how you can provide access to the network based on user credentials, maintain control over access points, and detect access attempts by unauthorized users. Your main post needs to address network access, tracking, and alerts that relate to the concerns of this situation.
TechNova, a mid-sized technology company, is facing increasing competition in the market. The company’s leadership has decided to transform its business model to focus on innovation and superior customer service to gain a competitive edge.
The CEO has tasked the HR department with aligning its practices with the new strategic goals. The HR team must ensure that the workforce is equipped with the necessary skills, behaviors, and attitudes to support the company’s transformation. Additionally, the company plans to enter new markets, which will require a significant shift in its talent acquisition and development strategies.
The HR manager, Mohammed, is now responsible for integrating HR practices into the strategic management process. He must ensure that the company’s human resources are aligned with the new strategic direction, which includes fostering a culture of innovation, improving customer service, and entering new markets. Mohammed must also address potential gaps in the workforce’s skills and capabilities to support the company’s goals.
1- What role does HR play in the strategy formulation process at TechNova?
2- How can HR ensure alignment between its initiatives and TechNova’s strategic goals?
3- What challenges might TechNova face in transforming its business model, and how can HR address them?
4- How can HR contribute to TechNova’s competitive advantage through talent management?
5- What HR practices should TechNova prioritize to support its new market entry strategy?
6- How can HR measure the success of its initiatives in supporting TechNova’s strategic goals?
Topic: After reading both Dr. Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression and Roger McNamee’s Zucked, your task is to select one issue/idea raised by the two texts, research it further, and create an argument that is either original or adds original content to an already established argument. Please do not merely restate what has already been argued by Noble and McNamee.
Scholarly Investigation/Adding to the Conversation
To get started, you’ll need to develop an original research question. To tackle this open-ended, “big burning” thinking question, you have to gather sources to help you develop your own analysis and discussion.
What you explore is up to you, but it should be something specific, something that calls for further analysis, and connected to some specific layer presented in Algorithms of Oppression and Zucked. Likewise, the essay should be exploratory in nature. Go beyond what you already know or think. Your research is a look into something new for you and your readers. Since the texts may just scratch the surface of many of these issues (and sparks many questions), your job as a writer and researcher is to go further in-depth on a specific layer.
Conducting Research/Using Sources (Analytically)
The research process is a chance for you to move outside of our class context and the lens of both Noble and McNamee by engaging with a wider range of sources, voices, and perspectives. The sources that you bring into the essay should act as a lens for you to test, develop, complicate, and evolve your initial claim or question you are setting up early on. Use of sources should be analytical so you do more than just bring in the source to provide facts or “proof” for points you already know to be true. Dealing with your sources, in this case, is a way for you to examine multiple perspectives and develop analysis/discussion.
In class, we will be talking about how to gather credible sources for your essay, including a close look at the GCC library databases. You may use any type of medium, as long as you can justify its credibility as evidence in your paper (this includes books, documentaries, newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, online clips, interviews, etc). Keep in mind that online resources are often not very credible nor scholarly; use the internet with caution. Wikipedia, for instance, is not a credible source. Just typing your topic into Google and going with the top choices isn’t really research, as we all know the biases relating to Google searches! Consider where you might gather a good mix of sources, with appropriate credibility, to help you engage your research question.
You’ll want to have a mix of sources to work with. For the essay, you will be required to build conversation with at least five secondary sources, plus Algorithms of Oppression and Zucked. In that mix of sources must be at least two sources (articles/essays/books, etc) retrieved from the GCC library databases. Therefore, you will have a total of at least seven sources listed on your Works Cited page. You must have at least one quote or paraphrase from each source, although I suspect you will have more.
Assignment Requirements:
❑ Your essay should follow strict MLA guidelines, with 1’’ side margins, 1” header and footer margins, Times New Roman, 12 point font, and at least 2500 words of essay text. Word Count does not include headings/headers/Works Cited etc.
❑ Your essay should include a strong working thesis to help focus your essay; this is a main complex claim or thinking question you set up early on and develop/refine/complicate as the paper unfolds. Your claims should represent complexity in thinking through your ideas and need to be supported or developed by evidence (details, sources, representative examples).
❑ Bring in at least five secondary sources, plus Algorithms of Oppression and Zucked, into your essay that you are “in conversation with.” You are required to have at least two articles/essays from the GCC databases. Keep in mind that you want your sources to be credible, or you have to make them credible through your own analysis.
❑ As you incorporate your sources, accurately summarize the ideas, theories, terms, or concepts you are using from that source to offer context (making sure your summary is understandable to a reader who is not familiar with the source you’re introducing). Always include both article name and author name upon first introduction of the text.
❑ Add to and help develop the ideas from the sources you bring in to help you introduce your own thinking about the topic you are writing about. Your sources should be a springboard for your own claims, questions, and analysis. In other words, you must “do something” with your sources. Be sure to clarify the meaning of the material you have quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and explain its significance in light of your evolving thesis.
❑ Support your claims with reasoning and evidence – making sure to link the evidence to the claim(s). You’ll want to include a few of the various kinds of evidence available to analytical writers. Head’s Up: If I suspect ChatGPT or any other AI is used, or if you have plagiarized in any way, I won’t read the paper and you will automatically get 0 points. Trust yourself and your writer’s voice. You are here to improve your writing. Give yourself that space!!
❑ As you move toward the conclusion, address the “so what?” question for your thesis.
❑ Clearly and explicitly explain your chain of reasoning – that is the thought-connections you are making throughout your draft between claims, evidence, & sources. The more clearly you explain connections to your readers, the more your readers will be able to follow your thinking.
❑ Cite all sources in MLA format (in text), in addition to a required Works Cited page. Remember that you must have a Works Cited page in addition to in-text citations for the paper to be eligible for passing.
❑ Proofread and edit your paper before turning it in. Make certain the work reflects your writing and ideas, unless otherwise cited in the text, and there is no plagiarism or academic dishonesty involved, including the use of AI generated language or ideas. If the work reflects any academic dishonesty, it will be a non-passing paper.
❑ Your essay must be turned in by the due date, on Canvas. No late essays will be accepted. Add your word count at the end of the paper.
Write minimum 2 pages total.
Attach your answers as a word document not a PDF file.
Separate your 4 answers so that it is easy to know where one answer ends and the other one starts.
No need to rewrite the questions in your report.
1 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Country of origin (COO)
Consumer ethnocentrism
2 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Glocalization
Cross-subsidization
3 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Qualitative data
Quantitative data
Structured question
Unstructured question
4 Describe in detail, in your own words the following terms:
Trade surplus
Trade deficit
Use APA 7 Format and list all your references.
For this assignment, your objective is to find a relevant and academic source, which relates to our current unit topic–one that you can reasonably understand–as they can often be dense and difficult to read. You will post the source link at the top of your post, and include a brief summary of your selected article which speaks to why the article has value.
Essential Tip: While many research articles are 40-50 pages in length, you don’t have to read the entire article. Since your objective is to find several value-rich quotes for your upcoming essay, you will probably find several sentences of value within the first 3 or 4 pages.
This is a college survival tip:
Search for the quote that “pops,” one that you can slip into a strategic point in your upcoming essay on our current topic — concepts, ideas, even tangential connections relevant to the material address by Frankl, Susan David and Emily Smith.
Assignment Objective
Your task will result in the production of an “annotated bibliography” format, which offers a short paragraph summary, followed by a second paragraph that states your opinion about the article (why you find the article interesting, useful, connected to our current topic in some way).
Annotated bibliographies are often required at the university level, when completing research style essays. Some professors here at SMC may require them, as well. It’s worth your time to have a brief experience with them.
Please check out this excellent resource (link below), Owl Purdue, which offers a writing resource for college students, who are completing writing tasks — including the details of MLA formatting, which you definitely want to know, not only for this course, but other basic college essays, as well.
View the following page for more details on writing annotated bibliographies:
Owl Purdue: Annotated BibliographiesLinks to an external site.
When you post your response below, include your research link.
Write a 8-10 sentence summary of the article,
Follow the summary with a second paragraph which attests to the potential “contribution” that your selected article might make (see sample). The contribution element attests to the article’s value and relevance. How/why is the article useful for this particular topic.
Read some/all articles listed below and uploaded in Brightspace (In Readings folder):
King and Kinzler (2020) LA Times Op Ed: Racism and bias against speakers of African American English
Ro (2021). The pervasive problem of ‘linguistic racism’.
Savini (2021). How professors can and should combat linguistic prejudices in their classes. Opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed
how-professors-can-and-should-combat-linguistic-prejudice-their-classes-opinion?
Wolfram and Schilling (2015) Chapter 1: Dialects, Standards, and Vernaculars
As you are reading, consider the following:
What are some views you have about speakers of different dialects?
How do you view your own dialect relative to “Generalized American English”
What biases do you have when listening to different people speak or reading texts written in different dialects?
How do you think a teacher or speech-language pathologist thinks about different dialects? (If neither of these are your major, that’s fine, you can still think about this idea)
This class will examine the different levels of linguistic structure (and how we process these structures) including morphology (how words are put together), phonetics/phonology (the particular sounds of a language), syntax (how words are put together to form sentences), semantics (how the combination of words has meaning). For this reflection paper, you should address one of the following based on the readings linked above:
Describe a time when your own dialect was treated as “less than” or “othered” in some way. Discuss how this relates to the readings/lecture.
Describe a time when you heard someone else speak who did not speak with “Generalized American English” and what thoughts you had about the person because of the way they spoke. Integrate what you have learned through these readings and class discussions so far.
How do you think most educators / Speech-Language Pathologists view dialect variation? If one of these is your chosen career path, how will you strive to address dialect differences? Be sure to integrate information from the readings / lecture.
Add some of your own research. In the readings and lecture, the terms “standard” or “mainstream” for “general” American English are used. What other terms could be used? What have others suggested? What are some pros/cons of these different terms?
You may also address something else. If you choose this option, please email me to discuss first.
In 450–500 words, address the following:
Learning From Experiences
Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan.
Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience.
Reflect on the three most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each?
What did you learn from this experience?
What resources were available?
What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?
What would you do differently?
How are you managing patient flow and volume?
Communicating and Feedback
Reflect on how you might improve your skills and knowledge and how to communicate those efforts to your Preceptor.
Answer the questions: How am I doing? What is missing?
Reflect on the formal and informal feedback you received from your Preceptor.
What is a scatter diagram and linear correlation? How can you use a scatter diagram to visually estimate the degree of linear correlation of two random variables?
Provide an example of two specific random variables and explain how can you use correlations, to forecast one of the variables.
This could be an example: The more classes a student misses, the more likely their grades are to decrease. One variable is the absences, the other is the grade. So you can forecast the final grade of an student, based on the number of absences. There are many real examples.
Note: Please review the video below regarding the subject matter.
It is easier to calculate the correlation data using MS Excel?
Review the case study and create a comprehensive case analysis report in a 4-page Word document.
Case Study Questions:
What do you recommend? (20 points)
What would Bob be willing to pay for a forecast that would accurately determine the outcome of demand in the future? (30 points)
Suppose Bob does not know the chance of the outcomes of the market (being poor, average, good, or excellent),
a) what do you recommend with a decision-making methodology of Maximin? (10 points)
b) what do you recommend with a decision-making methodology of Minimax Regret? (30 points)
c) Compare what you find from (a) and (b), which decision-making method do you believe is more risk-averse? (10 points)