What specific negotiation element of the Arab style do you find more difficult to deal with and why?

STEP 1: ROLE PLAY
You are the lead negotiator of a high-profile American trade delegation. Your assignment: Approve a new trade deal with either the Chinese or the Arabs (Saudi Arabia) by Jan 1 of the coming year for the current administration. You will have equal time to negotiate with both countries, but the U.S. government can only approve one of the two trade proposals.

The Chinese trade deal will bring billions of dollars in savings for the US steel industry by offering our market access to low-cost raw materials; in turn, this should help the ailing U.S. housing and construction industries recover from their slump. The savings should translate into lower house prices for American consumers.

The Arab trade deal will bring in billions of dollars in savings for the U.S. oil and gas industry by negotiating subsidies from OPEC oil producers, lowering the import price of OPEC oil for the next 5 years. This will relieve cost pressure on U.S. refineries and service stations. The savings should translate into lower fuel prices and automobile costs for American consumers, and help the ailing US auto manufacturers like Ford and GM.

You are receiving intense lobbying pressure from both sides: the steel/housing industry and the oil/auto industry. At the end of negotiations, your decision will make one group extremely happy and the other group will be extremely upset. Apart from benefiting one group of U.S. stakeholders over another, your decision must realistically consider with which foreign government your negotiations will have a better chance of success.

STEP 2: Read the following four articles:
Read the following four articles:
Conflicting Negotiation Styles and Strategies: comparing perspectives from Saudi Arabia and the USA.

It takes special savvy to negotiate with Arabs

STEP 3: Answer the following questions in your first post:
What specific negotiation element of the Chinese style do you find more difficult to deal with and why?
What specific negotiation element of the Arab style do you find more difficult to deal with and why?
Decide which of the 2 trade deals (Arab or Chinese) you will recommend for approval to the administration and why.
Explain why you made that choice: Will you have more successful, more friendly, or more productive negotiations with one culture compared to the other? Why?
Include any tactics or strategies your delegation will employ to ensure a successful cross-cultural negotiated outcome.

Strengths and Weaknesses: Describe any strengths or weaknesses with respect to the proposed sampling, design, and data collection methods. What will not be “proven” though your study?

Final Research Proposal
The goal of this assignment is to integrate Step One, Step Two, Step Three, and Step Four of your research proposal. The research proposal should be at least 15 pages (but not more than 25 pages), double-spaced, not including your title page, abstract, Appendix, and references page, and should contain the following sections:

Title Page
Abstract
Introduction: Explain your topic. Make a case for why this topic is important to the field of psychology.
Research questions you have developed for your topic: Conclude your discussion of the research topic by identifying specific research question(s) about the relationships between two or more concepts.
Literature Review: A minimum of 8 pages on the 5-7 articles you selected: Read your articles thoroughly and provide a literature review that synthesizes what was theorized and discovered about regarding your topic. Do not write separate “summaries” for each article; rather, find connected themes or relationships in the different areas you cover. Use these relationships to frame your discussion of how variables were indicated, samples were obtained, and research designs were constructed. Are there any gaps or weaknesses present in the literature that can be investigated further? You will not necessarily refer to all the information from each article; instead, relate only that which is relevant to your topic and research question. Thus, your literature review should justify your study and support why conducting your proposed study would answer a problem that is not already well understood. Information should be drawn from appropriate sources, such as professional journals, books, and dissertations. Information gathered from literature sources must be appropriately cited, following APA guidelines.
Hypotheses: Considering your research question or statement of the problem, formulate a null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis for each of your research questions.
Dependent and independent variables: Operationally define the dependent and independent variables for each hypothesis.
Method: Describe detailed information about how your study will be conducted. Include the following in your method sections:
Participant Selection: Explain who your participants will be and what method you will use to select them. Be specific as possible as if you were giving directions to someone on how to choose and obtain the participants. Include instructions on how to get informed consent from the participants. Be sure to discuss how informed consent, privacy, anonymity, and confidentiality will be addressed in the study.
Data Collection Measure: Discuss how you will collect the data (observations, surveys, documents, etc.). Thus, who will be collecting the data, where will the data collection occur, what measures are you using to collect the data, how will the data be recorded, etc.? Include a copy of the survey or systematic observation you developed in an Appendix.
Research Design: Discuss the research design (either experimental, factorial, quasi-experimental, or non experimental), that you will use to examine your variables.
Discussion: Provide a discussion of the following information:
Validity: Describe any potential threats to the internal and external validity of your proposed study. Do you believe the results can be generalized to other populations?
Strengths and Weaknesses: Describe any strengths or weaknesses with respect to the proposed sampling, design, and data collection methods. What will not be “proven” though your study?
Ethical Considerations: What impact might participation in this study have on participants in the short and long-term? If there are relevant ethical issues, discuss them along with possible solutions.

What should you include when performing your initial physical assessment?

A 59-year-old female presents with complaints of low back pain. She reports having difficulty standing upright and must change position frequently when sitting or lying down. She denies any specific incident that preceded the pain, stating that it just started as stiffness, but it has progressively worsened. When asked about pain radiation, the patient confirms that pain is radiating down to her mid-thighs, bilaterally. The patient reports that her activities are limited by the pain despite the use of acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and ice. A full physical exam is needed to determine the cause of pain and to identify treatment options.

The patient reports activity intolerance as a result of the low back pain. What should you include when performing your initial physical assessment?
What questions should you ask to appropriately gather this patient’s history?
The patient seems surprised when you begin asking questions about her psychosocial status. Why is a psychosocial evaluation important for patients with low back pain?
Concerned that “something serious” is going on, the patient insists on having an x-ray to be certain. To warrant an order for an x-ray (radiograph) for acute low back pain (ALBP), what conditions should exist?
You inform the patient that most ALBP episodes (almost 90%) resolve within 1 to 6 weeks and that pain management will focus on symptom control through pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods. What is your plan of care for this patient? Provide full prescriiption details if medications are ordered.
What will you include in patient education and instructions?

Discuss the phenomenon of “everyday sadism,” how this might relate to the Dark Triad, and its relation to criminal or antisocial behavior.

Hi,

-There are 3 topics (a/b/c) to choose from.

CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

a) There is evidence to suggest that the Dark Triad of personality traits may in fact be a Dark Tetrad, with the fourth component involving sadism. Discuss the phenomenon of “everyday sadism,” how this might relate to the Dark Triad, and its relation to criminal or antisocial behavior.

b) When children are victims of abuse, they may be called to testify in court against their alleged abuser. To make this process less traumatic for children, in-court accommodations may be used (e.g., screens, CCTV). Some have argued that this creates a disadvantage for the defendant, as it may make them look more guilty to a jury. Discuss the research surrounding the use of in-court accommodations for children and whether they do in fact compromise a fair trial for the accused.

c) Choosing one type of neurodiversity (e.g., autism, ADHD, FASD), outline the traits associated with that form of neurodivergence and discuss research that might explain whether/why this population would be at a greater risk of giving a false confession.

Instructions:

-Please pick one topic and write a 7-page double-spaced paper using 6 academic peer-reviewed research articles to support each paragraph in the paper (1 elaborated paragraph per research article = 6 paragraphs).

-Academic sources do not have to be Canadian, but they should be published within the past 10 -12 years (excluding foundational theories).

-Paper must follow the APA 7 guidelines

-Please discuss one peer-reviewed research article per paragraph – a total of 6 paragraphs

-Discussion of research articles

For each article discussed in a paragraph:

-Discuss the choice of the article: relevance to the main topic, peer-reviewed academic research (no dissertations, no Wikipedia or blog posts, etc.), recent within the past 10-12 years

-Provide a summary of the article: do we know what kind of source this is (experiment, meta- analysis, literature review, etc.)? Do we know the main research question addressed? Have you described the methods use to answer that question in appropriate detail? Have you presented the main findings of the paper? Have you connected this back to the main research question?

-Provide conclusions – summarized the main findings presented in the essay, tied concepts together, closed off with concluding remarks

Thank you so much and I hope all goes well!

Identify and Organize the Defining Attributes: When you’ve completed your reading and review of the texts, begin organizing your observations into an order that makes sense to you.

Central Essay Prompt: Your assignment in this interpretation and application essay is to demonstrate your understanding of the virtue of studiousness and the vice of curiosity, and then to apply those interpretive descriiptions to the particulars of your pursuit of knowledge at Salve Regina University.

Extra information and tips: The scope and focus of your research should be limited to the required readings listed below (you are permitted, but not required, to consult the additional supplementary materials listed below). Although the specific approach, aim, and descriiptions found in each essay varies, for the purposes of this assignment, you may assume that these texts are all aiming to describe the same thing. Because you will be articulating definitions and descriiptions (i.e., of studiousness and curiosity) that are belong to particular way of thinking about out intellectual appetite, it will be unnecessary and possibly counterproductive to consult dictionary definitions or encyclopedia entries on “studiousness” and “curiosity.” Nevertheless, if you do consult accounts of the virtue of studiousness and the vice of curiosity beyond the selections provided in our seminar, each resource consulted must be included in your bibliography and what you learned should be appropriately cited.

Tips for your process and organization:

Read the Texts Carefully, Asking Questions: Before you begin writing your essay, you will need to have a thorough understanding of the assigned texts. Read and review them slowly, focusing your attention and notes on the concepts you want to understand and any related terms, concepts, or descriiptions that may be helpful. Underline, highlight, and take notes as you read.

Identify and Organize the Defining Attributes: When you’ve completed your reading and review of the texts, begin organizing your observations into an order that makes sense to you. To do this, determine the defining attributes of each concept, keeping track of characteristics that regularly appear. These characteristics will become the critical or defining attributes of the concept. Important attributes include, for example: what it is; what it isn’t; what it includes or does not include; what it seems like; common points of confusion or misunderstanding; where it comes from, how it works, what it is for, etc.

Your essay should have two equal parts: an interpretive descriiption and a personal application.

1. A good interpretive descriiption of the virtue of studiousness and the vice of curiosity will answer the questions: What is meant by those who classify “studiousness” as a virtue and classify “curiosity” as a vice? Feel free to provide examples and illustrations to help your reader understand the descriiption you develop.

2. A good applications of those concepts will answer the question: It what ways might this distinction between studiousness and curiosity apply to the particulars of your pursuit of knowledge at Salve Regina University? Reminder: Although the descriiptions of studiousness and curiosity we’ve read have been formulated in Christian religious terms, one does not need to be a Christian to apply these concepts. (Similar to “the virtue of truth-telling and the vice of lying”; or “the virtue of peaceableness and the vice of wrath”; or “the virtue of healthy eating and the vice of unhealthy eating” — in each of these cases, the practical performance of studiousness, truth-telling, peaceableness, and healthy eating are recognized as morally good across many cultures and religious traditions, while the actions of curiosity, lying, wrath, and unhealthy eating are recognized as moral wrongs across many cultures and religious traditions.)

Required Readings:

Paul Griffiths, Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar, 1-11, 19-22.
Littlejohn, “Addicted to Novelty: The Vice of Curiosity in a Digital Age,” JSCE, 179-196.
Griffiths, “The Vice of Curiosity,” Pro Ecclesia, 47-63.3/23
Griffiths, “Studiousness: How (and What) Christians Should Want to Know,” The Vice of Curiosity, 60-79.

Write a Dialogue between myself and my professor regarding this assignment:

Please see the attached instructions for this assignment.

Topic Info:

A strategic organizational issue that I would like to analyze for my week seven assignment would be converting many positions to virtual positions within my organization. Like most organizations, the company I work for was forced to convert many of their in-person positions to virtual positions during the pandemic. This was a temporary thing for most organizations. However, my organization saw an opportunity to cut some of its overhead costs and improve its employees’ work/life balance. While most of our employees loved this change, we have been experiencing a few problems.

Our more senior staff members have not adapted to the change very well and hate depending on new technology to complete their daily workload. We are also having trouble training new employees in a virtual environment. We need to establish a way of training all of our employees that transitioned into the new virtual environment and refine our onboarding procedures to ensure our employees are adequately trained before entering a 100% virtual environment. My role in this change would be leading the organizational change.

Write a Dialogue between myself and my professor regarding this assignment:

Organizational Issue Descriiption:
The strategic organizational issue that I would like to analyze for this assignment would be initiating a successful transition of employees from an in-person work environment into a virtual work environment. My role during this transition would be leading the organizational change. I feel that the most significant issues we have faced during my current organizations transition to a virtual work environment have been a lack of training and our senior employees resisting the change. My goal would be to ensure new employees are adequately trained in their position and the technology we are using before releasing them into a virtual workspace. I will also be identifying methods to get senior employees onboard with my organizations decision to convert their positions to virtual positions. Many of these employees are leaving our organization due to not wanting to rely on technology to do their job. During this change I would like to:

Feedback to Learner:
Bubba, you have clearly stated the focus, addressed areas of concern and shown importance of this research. You have positioned yourself as a leader. I look forward to seeing how this evolves.

This assignment needs to be in APA 7th Edition.