Introduction paper

use police brutality as the topic

For this assignment, you are to submit the introduction to your paper. It should be fairly well refined (although you may still be working on the thesis statement). However, the thesis statement should have at least two reasons that support your thesis.

For this assignment, include the following in your introduction in essay format:

A general opening statement about your problem
A definition of your problem (that is cited from a reliable source)
Statistics on your problem that verify it is an objective social problem (these need to be cited)
Then, your FABULOUS THESIS Statement — this is what you are going to argue! You should have your three reasons here!
Please proofread for errors.

Define the importance of purchasing and supply management and how this relates to selecting a qualified supplier.

Focus of the Research Paper
Use at least one project you have been a team member of, or a project manager for, as an example to contextualize the research topics below:
All of the following topics must be addressed in order for the paper to be complete:

Define the importance of purchasing and supply management and how this relates to selecting a qualified supplier.
Discuss how to select strategies for negotiating prices.
Assemble the steps of the creation of a project supply, service, and material budget from detailed requirements. Illustrate the benefits and costs of outsourcing, and the growth pattern of outsourcing.
Evaluation of the various organizations that are benchmarks in purchasing and supply management, and their best practices. Provide specific examples of companies who show market leadership in purchasing and supply management.
This is an assignment with a length of eight to ten pages that should integrate the reading, multi-media and class discussions. It is mandatory to have research from the classroom text, as well as three sources from scholarly sources to support your views.
Consider the validity of your resources carefully before using them in academic papers. It is recommended to use examples from your professional experience where possible, or build from your learning in the discussion boards.

This is the book we use:

Johnson, P. F., Leenders, M. R., & Flynn, A. E. (2020). Purchasing and supply management (16th ed.). Retrieved from https://redshelf.com/

Code of Ethics in operations management

Professional Code of Ethics Analysis
You will be writing a paper that identifies, summarizes, and applies a published code of ethics for your profession. The paper will include 2-3 pages of content, a title page and reference page, for a paper that is 4- to 5-pages in total length.
Using the internet and Library, locate an industry organization’s code of ethics. For example, the American Marketing Association, American Psychological Association, and the American Medical Association all have extensive codes of ethics. An excellent source is the Ethics Code Collection. Once you have located and examined the code, summarize the main points of the code. Provide an example of an ethical decision or issue that may arise in your profession. Explain how the code of ethics could be used to provide guidance regarding the decision or issue. Conclude your paper with an explanation regarding the importance and benefits of codes of ethics.
Content Requirements:
The paper should consist of an introduction, body (points below), and a conclusion.
Identify your profession, and a professional code of ethics for your profession.
Summarize at least three main points of the code, and how they apply to your career.
Explain the benefits of a code of ethics with two specific examples
Discusses how the chosen code of ethics can guide logical decision-making and provides two specific examples.
Demonstrate how the code of ethics can be applied to a specific ethical issue that could arise in your profession.
Demonstrate consistency of your clearly established viewpoint throughout the paper with a clear logical flow as you apply ethical reasoning.
Make sure your writing is original and insightful.
Two in-text citations and references used as support for ideas presented (one must be the code of ethics).

What are the benefits/disadvantages of this schedule?

IDQ: Watch this video for a fun example of behavior modification. Reinforcement is being used in this case. Answer these questions here:
What schedule of reinforcement is being used?

How do you know?

What are the benefits/disadvantages of this schedule?

Chapter 4 defines positive and negative reinforcement and gives examples of each. You can think of the terms “positive” and “negative” in more of a mathematical sense than a “good or bad” sense. A positive reinforcer in a reinforcer that is applied (or added) while a negative reinforcer in a reinforcer that involves taking something aversive away (or subtracting). It is fairly intuitive to think of positive reinforcers such as giving a child a cookie for good behavior. Negative reinforcement is a bit more difficult. However, you simply have to picture a scenario in which something unpleasant is going on, you do something that successful ends that unpleasant stimulus, and you are now more likely to perform that behavior again because of the reward you experience. For example, many cars sound a nagging, dinging alarm when you sit in the driver’s seat without a seatbelt. In order to make this aversive stimulus stop, you put your seatbelt on. The removal of the dinging is reinforcing and you are now more likely to put your seatbelt on in the future. Escape and avoidance are also covered as two other types of negative reinforcement described in Chapter 4.

How can an operating company use currency swaps to manage currency risk. Discuss this in general terms but also provide a specific example.

1. How can an operating company use currency swaps to manage currency risk. Discuss this in general terms but also provide a specific example.
2. How do you think the current interest rate environment has impacted the market for interest rate swaps. If a company issues debt how can the company use interest rate swaps to guard against adverse movements in interest rates?

What role does research play in addressing these natural tendencies?

WK3 BSM 315 DF: For the Week 3 Discussion Forum, you will review the following information and you will answer the questions that follow:
Alan Lafley, former President and Chairman of the Board for Procter & Gamble observed, “Most human beings and most companies don’t like to make choices. And they particularly don’t like to make a few choices that they really have to live with.”
1. Why does change and commitment make us uncomfortable as individuals and as managers?
2. What role does research play in addressing these natural tendencies?

Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy

For this assessment, you will be writing a letter to the editor of an academic or professional journal as a means to advocate for adoption or development of policies that will improve the quality of care and outcomes around your chosen health care issue and vulnerable population. Refer to the resource listed below.
· Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC].
Scenario
Throughout this course, you have focused on a specific health issue occurring within a specific population. You researched position papers regarding this health concern, and you developed a health policy proposal to positively impact the health of the affected individuals. It is now time to reach a greater audience regarding your policy proposal.
Develop a letter to the editor of a peer-reviewed academic or professional nursing journal based on the policy proposal that you created for Assessment 2. Choose from one of the journals on the Ultimate List of Nursing Journals and go to that journal’s Web site to find out the requirements for submitting a letter to the editor, such as format requirements, topics, and word counts. Make sure you select a nursing journal that covers the topic about which you are going to write. If you want to use another journal that is not on this list, please make sure the journal does address health care, because this is the purpose of the assessment.
The goal of your letter is to be informative about the policy that you developed for Assessment 2, while also being persuasive about the need for and benefit of similar policies in other health care settings. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Letter to the Editor: Population Health Policy Advocacy [DOC] document to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.
· Evaluate the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
· Look back to the data or scenario you used in Assessment 1 to address this criterion.
· Analyze how the current state of the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population necessitates health policy development and advocacy.
· Justify why a developed policy will be vital in improving the quality of care and outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
· Advocate for policy development in other care settings with regard to a specific issue in a target population.
· Analyze the ways in which interprofessional aspects of a developed policy will support efficient and effective achievement of desired outcomes for the target population.
· Communicate in a professional and persuasive manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
· Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style (or the journal’s preferred style).
Example Assessment: You may use the assessment example, linked in the Assessment Example section of the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.
Additional Requirements
The submission requirements for your editorial will depend on the journal you choose. To find out the requirements, go to the journal’s Web site. There should be a section regarding submissions that will address how to format letters to the editor, and whether there is a word count limit (there usually is a limit).
· If the journal does not have submission guidelines for the number of resources required, use 3-5 sources.
· To be sure that your instructor knows the submission and formatting requirements for your letter, include the journal’s guidelines on a separate page at the end of the document you submit for this assessment.

Visual Search Experiment

This is a research proposal for a visual search experiment we did in class.
1. ABSTRACT
Goes on separate page. Length
120-150 words. Short paragraph (120 to 150 or fewer words) describing the four
major sections of your article (Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion).

2. INTRODUCTION
General: The introduction
is the first page of full text following the abstract. The function of the
introduction is obvious, so it is not labeled “Introduction”. Instead, the full
title of your paper is the title of this section.

First Paragraphs: The introduction
is to inform the reader of the specific research question. In writing the
introduction, consider: What is the question being studied? What psychological theory supports the study?
The beginning of the introduction should let the reader know your general
topic, and why it is important. You may want to start with a real-life example
that illustrates the issue. It should be easy to understand. This will get the
reader involved and interested. Keep in mind that scientific writing avoids
speaking directly to the reader (e.g., “Have you ever been in a situation…..”).
This is too informal. At the end of the opening paragraphs, make sure to
include a clear goal statement (e.g., “The purpose of this study is to
investigate the relation ….”).

Previous Literature: After the
initial paragraphs, discuss previous literature. You do not need to include an
exhaustive historical review. Only cite studies that are in some way pertinent
to your research question. If you cite a study, you have to list it in the
References section! In summarizing earlier studies, avoid nonessential details.
Emphasize major conclusions and findings. Try to give the reader a general
understanding of the study, but your main goal is to convey the significance of
the study. Keep in mind what we went over in class. [Use Scholar Google and/or
Psychinfo with keywords such as ’visual search’ to find articles]

Proposed Study &
Hypothesis:
Next, you will move from talking about what others have done to what we have
done in our experiment. The general introduction and review of previous work
should motivate your proposal. The reader should be at a place where they can
understand the proposal. Describe what you expect to find. This is where you
state your hypothesis. After you stated your hypothesis, include a clear
prediction about how your results should pan out. You already know the results,
so it should be easy to formulate a prediction.

Additional Suggestions: Note that in
order to state your hypothesis, you must have determined the variables (IV and
DV) that you were using. If necessary, include operational definitions of your
variables. So, it is a good idea to answer the following questions before you
begin writing the introduction: What variable was manipulated by the
experimenter? What results do I expect to find? Why do I expect them? Is there
anything in the previous literature that helps me answer these questions? How
can I use the previous literature to help motivate my question? Is my project
an experiment or a quasi-experiment?

• find at least 7
references (no books or book chapters allowed, all references have to be peer-reviewed
articles from google scholar)

4. METHOD
•The method section is where you tell the reader what you did to test your hypothesis.
Your description should have enough detail
so that other researchers could replicate
your study.

•Participants: You need to describe who your participants were and why
they participated. For experiments completed in this class, it will suffice to
say that “12 psychology students
participated as part of a class demonstration.”

•Materials: Here you describe unique materials or equipment

•Design: Here you explain what variables were included in the experiment and how they were used (Typically you don’t just name them).
Remember – the Independent Variable
is manipulated by the
experimenter and we hope that it has an effect
on the Dependent Variable that we measured. Mention if your IV was
within-subjects or between-subjects.

•Procedure: Here you tell the reader what (exactly) you did.
You need to describe the task of the
participant, and how different
conditions differed from one another. However, DO NOT include information
that is irrelevant to the study. (For example, you do not need to mention
turning on the computer or entering passwords, etc.)

5.
REFERENCES (start on separate page)

Chris White, TEDX video: 3 Ways to create a work culture that brings out the best in employees

Watch the video at the attached link, then write and submit a reflection answer the following: Which of these three suggestions by Chris White have you seen enacted at your workplace? What did these changes do for your workplace/team? If you have not witnessed these strategies, comment on how you might enact these within your team. What do you think about his question #4. 1. Unblock communication 2. Become responsive 3. Aim higher 4. Search for problems. ASK: What don’t we talk about that we should be talking about here?