Please choose a Power Point presentation topic within one of the following focus areas:

Focus Area A: Choose a social issue and relate this issue to deviant behavior/deviance and crime/ACJS   (for example–Status Characteristics and Judicial Discretion).  There are many issues you can choose from that you can related to social psychological theories. For example, if you choose bullying as an issue, you will need to present bullying within the lens of a social psychological theory (again, this is just an example).  To help you develop your project, possible ideas of emphasis in relation to the example above, would include the gender treatment/perception of sexual promiscuity by gender, or a historical construction, etc.   The key is to relate the project specifically to deviant behavior/deviance and crime/ACJS .

Focus Area B:  Choose a specific group and present a criminological constructive critique of the various actors/agents within the group.  There are many types of groups you can choose from (e.g. a religious group, drug users, prostitutes, consumers, political parties, ideologies, a social movement, workplace, specific crime types, etc.).   Remember that it must relate to deviant behavior/deviance and crime/ACJS  in some logical manner.

Focus Area C:  Provide a criminological critique of two or more or a combination of the following:  book, movie, a genre of music or dance, play, or TV show and its impact on attitudes and perceptions it creates (for example) of a group.

Focus Area D:  Provide a social psychological theoretical critique of the US Criminal Justice System and how it does/does not serve as  (you fill in the blank with a topic of interest to you—just remember that you have to tie it to our class material)____________.

Your Power Point must be 10-12 slides (not including your intro and reference page) and include written text as well as 4 supplemental items (you-tube videos, clips, photos, etc). Supplemental items can be visual, such as photos, artwork, videos, or graphs; or auditory, such as music or sounds. Please note that having 4 pictures does not constitute having 4 supplemental items. The supplemental items should be a combination of items, for example you may want to include music, pictures, and graphs in your Power Point. 

You must gather 6 to 8 (scholarly) sources for you presentation.  The sources should be a combination of either books or articles from professional journals

Southwest Airlines begins a “Bags Fly Free” campaign, charging no fees for the first and second checked bags. Does this situation best represent producer–producer rivalry, consumer–consumer rivalry, or consumer–producer rivalry?

The media portray many images of nursing, some favorable and some unfavorable.

Does media portrayal of nursing affect how patients perceive nurses as authority figures? Why or why not? Think about nursing stereotypes and discuss the ways you can influence the public image of nursing.

Discuss the various roles nurses can play that support the real image of nursing. Think about community health care and preventive services for all, but especially the underserved.

In order to receive full credit, you will need to clearly respond to both parts of the question using subtitles or bullets AND cite at least one scholarly reference in your response.

TOPIC:Policy Analysis

PART ONE OF TWO OF THIS ASSISGNEMNT

This assignment will be the first of the two-part policy process assignment in which you will identify and analyze a public health policy. The first assignment is a policy analysis essay and the second assignment will be a redevelopment of the same policy. Visit the National Conference of State Legislation website and select a policy of interest to you. Examples of public health policies include HPV vaccinations, allocation of resources for epidemics, and tobacco and smoking to name a few.

Instructions

For this assignment, do the following:

Describe a public health issue and an existing policy related to that issue. Discuss the series of events that led to the development of the policy, including epidemiological data that substantiated it. 

Analyze how current policy impacts outcomes for the public health issue and the key stakeholders.

Evaluate who has the greatest interest in the implementation of the policy.

Include the alternatives that were considered before this policy was implemented. 

Evaluate whether the policy is achieving its goals and identify the parts of it that are less effective.

In relation to the public health policy, analyze how cultural values and practices impact its effectiveness.

Identify the ethical dilemma or trade-offs policymakers must consider regarding this policy. 

Review the scoring guide BELOW before developing to ensure you meet all evaluation criteria.

Additional Requirements

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free from errors that detract from the overall message.

APA formatting: Your paper should demonstrate the current APA style and formatting.

Number of resources: Include a minimum of FOUR resources, appropriately cited throughout your paper and in your reference list.

Suggested length: 3 typed and double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference list.

Whether or not you’re a criminal justice major, it is important that you know your rights as a citizen. Although I’ve been in law enforcement for over thirty years, I’ll be the first to admit there are many officers who aren’t fully versed in the law and your rights, and unfortunately, they will try to take advantage of you. If you know your rights, you can use them to ensure you are not put in a situation where you are disadvantaged. 

Below is a video of a First Amendment Audit. There are hundreds of them online on YouTube. The purpose of these audits to to ensure public accountability of public officials when it comes to First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment protections. 

View the video, which is from Pooler, Ga. just outside of Savannah. Make note of what is said by both the auditor and the police and note things that are right and wrong. 

In general, discuss your views and opinion on the encounter.

Prompt

In a cover letter of 350-400 wor/ds, reflect on how you have developed as a reader and writer this semester. Comment on your greatest successes and/or challenges. Reference specific readings, assignments, or concepts that furthered your thinking on a matter or helped you to improve your reading and writing. Consider at least one area in which you’d like to continue to strengthen your knowledge or skills: Set a goal for yourself moving forward, and describe how you intend to reach it.

Requirements

Address the prompt.

Write a reflective cover letter of 350-400 words.

Adhere to MLA general format.

Do not plagiarize: Cite sources according to MLA style for in-text citations and Works Cited pages.

Include a title that describes what your cover letter is about.

Comment on your greatest successes and/or challenges.

Reference specific readings, assignments, or concepts that furthered your thinking on a matter or helped you to improve your reading and writing.

Set a goal for strengthening your knowledge or skills, and describe how you intend to reach it.

———————-***** IMPORTANT ******———————–

For referencing

use “Rhetorical Analysis” as the assignment that helped me to improve my writing skills

use “Formatting and Citation” as the concept that helped to understand how to use MLA  format (as I was not able to do it before studying this concept)

From Prompt, “reflect on how you have developed as a rea/der and wri/ter…” no need to be true.

My goal is to increase the quality of my essa/ys and decrees the amount of time I spend on it

List 5 risk factors for gestational diabetes (GDM).

What is the diet treatment?

How is treating GDM different than regular DM?

Name 2 physiological age-related changes that affect cognitive functioning.

Complex carbohydrates do not cause a rapid rise in blood glucose when eaten in small amounts.

Identify 5 foods from this group.

You are preparing to infuse D5LR 1L over 4 hours. The available IV tubing supplies 15 gtt/mL.

How many drops per minute will you regulate the infusion? Show your work.

Compare and contrast delirium and dementia.

Describe 2 types of dementia.

How is Alzheimer’s disease different than dementia?

List 5 of the most common signs of depression in the older adult.

Interpret these lab results and Vital Signs:

Hemoglobin 12.2 g/dL

Hematocrit 44%

Red blood cells (RBCs) 4.2 dL

BP 110/68

HR 88

RR 22

Name 3 s/s of lithium toxicity.

Identify 3 negative symptoms of schizophrenia. What is a positive symptom?  Name 2.

Name 6 types of delusional thinking and briefly describe each.

What are s/s of paranoid schizophrenia? 

What are common side effects of antipsychotics such as Zyprexa?

How is a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa determined? How is anorexia nervosa different than a patient who is anorexic?  (Hint…elderly can have anorexia)

Identify 8 clinical signs or symptoms of anorexia nervosa.

How does bulimia nervosa differ from anorexia?

List 5 behaviors that a patient with anorexia nervosa may engage in other than self-starvation.

Instructions: Write a report narrative about the scenario below. Remember the fundamental steps in narrative reporting.

Scenario: At 1:30pm today, you were dispatched to 11 Clover Lane. When you arrived, you saw Karen Billing (WF, DOB 02/10/1999) standing in her front yard talking to a woman (WF, later identified as Joan Murray DOB 11/23/1932) in a blue bathrobe and bedroom slippers.

Karen told you that she had gone outside to mail a letter. She saw Joan Murray walking along the sidewalk, looking, anxiously from side to side. She looked lost. Karen asked for her name and address, but Joan didn’t respond. She kept talking about wanting to find her canary, Buttermilk. Karen moved into the neighborhood recently and did not recognize Joan. She called the police.

While you and Karen were talking, a man came running along the sidewalk, waving his hands. He grabbed Joan’s hand and explained that that he was her husband (Stephen Murray, DOB 05/15/1930). Joan has Alzheimer’s. She apparently opened the front door and walked out of the house.

You gave Stephen the telephone number for Elder Services and instructed him to install a hook and eye on all doors to prevent Joan from leaving the house again. Stephen escorted Joan to their home at 35 Clover Lane.

Why is it important to write the narrative report so that it can be easily understood? What are the consequences of an incomplete and/or grammatically incorrect report?

Deliverable 6 – Analysis with Correlation and Regression

Assignment Content

Competency
Determine the linear correlation and regression equation between two variables to make predictions for the dependent variable.


Scenario
According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the probability of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake in the Greater Bay Area is 63%, about 2 out of 3, in the next 30 years. In April 2008, scientists and engineers released a new earthquake forecast for the State of California called the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF).


As a junior analyst at the USGS, you are tasked to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to support the claim of a linear correlation between the magnitudes and depths from the earthquakes. Your deliverables will be a PowerPoint presentation you will create summarizing your findings and an excel document to show your work.


Concepts Being Studied

Correlation and regression

Creating scatterplots

Constructing and interpreting a Hypothesis Test for Correlation using r as the test statistic

You are given a spreadsheet that contains the following information:

Magnitude measured on the Richter scale

Depth in km

Deliverable 6 – Analysis with Correlation and Regression.xlsx

Using the spreadsheet, you will answer the problems below in a PowerPoint presentation.


What to Submit
The PowerPoint presentation should answer and explain the following questions based on the spreadsheet provided above.

Slide 1: Title slide

Slide 2: Introduce your scenario and data set including the variables provided.

Slide 3: Construct a scatterplot of the two variables provided in the spreadsheet. Include a description of what you see in the scatterplot.

Slide 4: Find the value of the linear correlation coefficient r and the critical value of r using α = 0.05. Include an explanation on how you found those values.

Slide 5: Determine whether there is sufficient evidence to support the claim of a linear correlation between the magnitudes and the depths from the earthquakes. Explain.

Slide 6: Find the regression equation. Let the predictor (x) variable be the magnitude. Identify the slope and the y-intercept within your regression equation.

Slide 7: Is the equation a good model? Explain. What would be the best predicted depth of an earthquake with a magnitude of 2.0? Include the correct units.

Slide 8: Conclude by recapping your ideas by summarizing the information presented in context of the scenario.

Along with your PowerPoint presentation, you should include your Excel document which shows all calculations.

Instructions

Read the assigned chapters of the Heike, then participate in our discussion of the text.

You have been randomly assigned to small discussion groups, and should plan on posting your initial response to our discussion outlined below by Tues before midnight.  Plan to return to the discussion later and respond at least 2 more times to your peers at any point before midnight on Thursday of this week.  

Discussion Guidelines

Please follow these guidelines when participating in the online discussions:

Share your thoughts and experiences as your own. Try not to generalize or speak for others.

Listen to the content of what others say. If you don’t understand someone’s view, ask them to explain, don’t judge.

Disagreement shows the complexity of these issues and helps us learn. Feel free to disagree, but do so in a respectful manner. This is an open forum for all participants to brainstorm and explore new ideas.

Keep personal information confidential (within this course).

Remember that it is easy to misinterpret written communication. Sometimes written comments may inadvertently seem impolite or could otherwise be taken the wrong way – strive to really explain yourself and avoid making assumptions about other people’s intentions.

See Course Syllabus for Online Discussion Rubric.

Discussion Focus:

Consider the characterization of the warrior in The Tale of the Heike. What are the traits and values associated with the warrior? What is the warrior class ethic? How does this characterization interact with the opening lines of the work? Do you think there is a gap or disjuncture between the warrior ethos and the overarching theme of Heike, or not? What specific examples from Heike support your interpretation?

What do you think the “affective and philosophical goals of the epic” might be, and how does Heike work to achieve those goals?  Cite specific episodes and page numbers.

48

STA3215CBE Section 01CBE Inferential Statistics and Analytics (11 Weeks) – CBE – 2022 Winter Quarter

Deliverable 7 – Statistical Analysis Report

Deliverable 7 – Statistical Analysis Report

Assignment Content

Competencies

Describe the data using the measures of central tendency and measures of variability.

Apply the normal distribution, standard normal distribution, and central limit theorem.

Develop a confidence interval for a population parameter.

Evaluate hypothesis tests for population parameters from one population.

Evaluate hypothesis tests for population parameters from two populations.

Determine the linear correlation and regression equation between two variables to make predictions for the dependent variable.

Student Success Criteria
View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.


Instructions
You are currently working at NCLEX Memorial Hospital in the Infectious Diseases Unit. Over the past few days, you have noticed an increase in patients admitted with a particular infectious disease. You believe that the ages of these patients play a critical role in the method used to treat the patients. You decide to speak to your manager, and together you work to use statistical analysis to look more closely at the ages of these patients.


You do some research and put together a spreadsheet of the data that contains the following information

Client number

Infection disease status

Age of the patient

Deliverable 7 – Statistical Analysis Report.xlsx

You are to put together a PowerPoint presentation that explains the analysis of your findings which you will submit to your manager. The presentation should contain all components of your findings. For review, the components of the report should include:

Brief overview of the scenario and variables in the data set

Discussion, calculation, and interpretation of the mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, and variance

Discussion, construction, and interpretation of the 95% confidence interval

Explanation of the full hypothesis test

Conclusion

The calculations should be performed in your spreadsheet that you will also submit to your manager. You can find additional information on what to add to your PowerPoint presentation in this Word document. 


Deliverable 7 – PowerPoint Instructions.docx

Use the questions in the worksheet as your guide for the contents of your presentation.


For your final deliverable, submit your PowerPoint presentation and the Excel workbook showing your work. Do not submit your Word document.

Deliverable 07 Worksheet

Scenario

You are currently working at NCLEX Memorial Hospital in the Infectious Diseases Unit. Over the past few days, you have noticed an increase in patients admitted with a particular infectious disease. You believe that the ages of these patients play a critical role in the method used to treat the patients. You decide to speak to your manager, and together you work to use statistical analysis to look more closely at the ages of these patients.

You do some research and put together a spreadsheetof the data that contains the following information:

· Client number

· Infection disease status

· Age of the patient

You need the preliminary findings immediately so that you can start treating these patients. So, let’s get to work!

Background information on the Data:

The data set consists of 70 patients that have the infectious disease with ages ranging from 41 years of age to 84 years of age for NCLEX Memorial Hospital.

Requirements:

1) Answer the questions below in a PowerPoint presentation.

2) Include the summary calculations and the formulas in your slides either symbolically or from Excel. Do not round your results.

3) Show calculations in your Excel spreadsheet.

Submit both the PowerPoint and Excel files.

PowerPoint Presentation Requirements

Slide 1 Title	Title Slide
Slide 2 Overview	Provide a brief overview of the scenario you are given above and the data set that you will be analyzing.
Slide 3 Classification	Classify the variables in your data set. Which variables are quantitative/qualitative? Which variables are discrete/continuous? · Describe the level of measurement for each variable included in the data set (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)
Slide 4 Measures of Center	What are the measures of center and why are they important? Describe each individually and list any advantages or disadvantages that each may have.
Slide 5 Measures of Variation	What are the measures of variation and why are they important? Describe each individually and list any advantages or disadvantages that each may have.
Slide 6 Calculations	Show your results for the following calculations. Include formulas used in Excel. Interpret your results in the context of the scenario and include units of measurement for each. Mean Median Mode Mid-range Range Variance · Standard Deviation
Slide 7 Confidence Intervals	Show your responses for the follow questions: What are confidence intervals? What is a point estimate? What is the best point estimate for a population mean? Explain. · Why do we need confidence intervals?
Slide 8 Confidence Intervals	Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean ages of the patients. Assume that your data is normally distributed and σ is unknown. Show results for the following calculations in constructing the confidence interval. Include formulas used in Excel. Interpret the confidence interval. Critical Value Margin of Error · Upper and Lower Bounds
Slide 9 Hypothesis Testing	Perform the following hypothesis test based on the claim that the average age of all patients admitted to the hospital with infectious diseases is less than 64 years of age. Write the null and alternative hypothesis symbolically and include the following additional information: Which hypothesis is the claim? Is the test two-tailed, left-tailed, or right-tailed? Explain · Which test statistic will you use for your hypothesis test, z-test or t-test? Explain.
Slide 10 Hypothesis Testing	Continue the hypothesis test based on the claim that the average age of all patients admitted to the hospital with infectious diseases is less than 64 years of age. Show your results and formulas used for the following calculations: Test Statistic Critical Value · P-value
Slide 11 Hypothesis Testing	Complete the hypothesis test by explaining the following: Decision to reject the null hypothesis or to not reject the null hypothesis. Explain your decision using the critical value method. Explain your reasoning using the P-value method. · Restate your conclusion in non-technical terms.
Slide 12 Conclusion	Conclude by recapping your ideas by summarizing the information presented in context of the scenario. Include the mean, standard deviation, confidence interval with interpretation, and result of the hypothesis test. What conclusions, if any, do you believe we can draw as a result of your study? What did you learn from the project about the population based on this sample? · What did you learn about the specific statistical tests you conducted?

Four Functions of Management

Present and future managers benefit from becoming proficient in the four functions of management (i.e., POLC), as addressed in your reading and learning activities. Address the following questions regarding POLC below.

Describe an example when you have used each of the four functions in either a personal, school, or work experience.

Have you ever used all four functions in a civic, personal, or work experience? Explain.

Which function(s) do you believe you personally need the most additional training in? Explain.

In which of the POLC functions do you believe you are strongest? Why?

JOURNAL

Journal: EBM

You will post a minimum of 250 words in the textbox for this journal in response to the bulleted items listed below. The journal is a private communication that is shared only with your instructor for grading purposes.

Access the textbox by going to the Assignments tab, and choose the Unit 1 Journal Dropbox. When it opens, scroll down to the textbox area.

According to Robbins and Judge (2019) in Chapter 1, a combination of the study of relationships and causes and effects, evidence-based management (EBM), and an individual manager’s intuition should be the basis for decision-making.

Define EBM in your own words.

Explain why EBM is appropriate in this scenario.

Provide an example of what EBM a recruiter might rely on in a hiring situation to make the best decision regarding hiring a leader to create and lead a virtual customer service team. Explain.

After checking your spelling and grammar, post your minimum 250-word response in the Unit 1 Journal textbox on the Assignment tab. Be sure to use 12-point Times New Roman font.

Reference

Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2019). Organizational behavior (18th ed.). Pearson.

DB.2

As you read in your text, organizations must consider diversity because the workforce has become increasingly diverse, as have the customers. Read the scenario below and then discuss the bulleted item below concerning diversity issues.

Diversity and Job Satisfaction

Scenario (fictional): Silvan Container Works is a mid-sized organization that is also global. They sell most of their containers internationally, although they are based in the U.S. The company’s containers are made with natural raw materials such as clay, stone, and natural woven fibers to create containers that are safe for a multitude of personal and industrial uses.

They have a customer service department call center that is located in India where the customer service representatives (CSRs) are quadrilingual. At this call center, all of the CSRs’ first language is Hindi. Management required they be native-born citizens with at least 10 years’ customer service experience when they were hired. The CSRs are a close-knit group and share stories with each other regarding their customers between their shifts and during their scheduled breaks in the employee break room. Their biggest complaint has been their lack of control over affecting results or problem resolution for their customers on the job.

Lately there have been excessive complaints logged into the customer relationship management (CRM) system to which all the managers have access. There are customer complaints that the CSRs misunderstand the customers’ concerns and that they demonstrate a lack of empathy.

Discuss the potential problems and opportunities based on the limited information in the scenario and based on your Chapter 2 reading concerning diversity.

DB.3

Although emotions and moods impact on-the-job performance, employees are often chosen for their personality traits. Along with a person’s personality type, the organization’s culture is considered. The company recruiter tries to hire decision-makers they think will fit into the existing company culture. In this discussion, you will consider all three aspects impacting employee hiring and employee effectiveness.

Label the three parts of your response as Part A, Part B, and Part C.

Topic: Emotions, Moods, Traits, and Values:

Part A: Based in the reading, which emotions and moods have you experienced in your past or current job, and how did they impact your performance?

How was affective events theory or trait activation theory (see Chapter 5) involved or not? Explain.

Part B: Characterize the personality of your past or current boss (do not use any names or organization names) using one of the major personality theories presented in your reading.

Part C: According to your reading, how do someone’s values relate to their culture and to organizational outcomes?

DB.4

Topic 1.You looked at motivation theories in the learning activities. Now you will practice applying these theories to real life.

Based on your review of the learning activities, address the topic questions:

Topic 1: Motivation

What are your motivators to work?

If you had to list your motivators in order, what would this look like? Explain.

Do you think that your family members or siblings are motivated by the same motivators and in the same order? Why or why not?

Topic 2: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

CSR involvement by employers affects employee job satisfaction, according to research (Robbins & Judge, 2019). Many job hunters are looking for employers who address the triple bottom line of profit, the consideration of people, and the environment. Do some research on the Internet on socially responsible companies.

Share a company name and the URL that provides evidence of addressing the triple bottom line.

Explain: What, if any expectations does the employer put on employees to contribute to the company’s social responsibility? Are the expectations motivating or not? [Note: The latter may be a guess, but you should justify your statement with the research on this subject from your text in Chapter 3].

Reference

Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2019). Organizational behavior (18th ed.). Pearson.

Journal

You will post a minimum of 250 words in the textbox for this journal assignment in response to the bulleted items below. The journal is a private communication that is shared only with your instructor for grading purposes.

Motivation at Didi

Applying motivation theory to the workplace can assist you in motivating others, whether working in your community, working with colleagues, or leading a group or team. In this journal, you will apply motivation concepts to a real-world company leader to look at how motivation affects decision-making.

Look for videos and interviews on the Internet with President Jean Liu of “Didi Chuxing” (referred to as Didi), the world’s largest ride-sharing company (Khan, 2017). Then respond to the following questions with a minimum of 250 words.

Checklist:

Based on your reading and learning activities on motivation (the Motivation Parts 1 and 2 presentations), determine what you think is Jean Liu’s motivation to propel her company Didi to success. Include at least two motivation theories in the response.

Defines the motivation theories.

Explain how the motivation theories are relevant in this scenario.

How does culture impact this president’s decision-making? Provide two specific examples.

After checking your spelling and grammar, post your minimum 250-word response in the Unit 4 Journal textbox on the Assignment tab. Be sure to use 12-point Times New Roman font.

Reference

Khan, S. (2017, November 27).  Exclusive: Didi world’s biggest ride-hailing company, in no hurry for IPO  [Technology section]. The National. http://www.thenational.ae/internationalMGT360 Team Project – Leadership Challenge Project Detail and Rubric

Objectives

Enhance knowledge about leadership topics that build upon and extend class material.

Develop research, oral communication, and written communication skills.

Practice leadership by taking on a formal leadership role for one part of the project.

Teams will research and develop solutions to common challenges faced by leaders in today’s organizations. The research collected will include background material and best practices about your topic, as well as examples of how real organizations have faced similar challenges. Your team will read and analyze this research, develop solutions to the specific challenge, and share your expertise in a written report and in-class presentation.

This assignment is worth a total of 70 points: Team project plan (10 points), Written report (30 points), and Presentation (30 points). See syllabus for due dates.

Instructions

Conduct research on your challenge topic. Each team member is responsible for finding at least one source from List A and at least one source from List B to help your team analyze the challenge and develop solutions. Teams may also use organizations’ websites, the class textbook, and assigned class articles as sources, but these are additional and do not substitute for finding sources from List A and B.

Note: each team member will summarize their research as an individual assignment

List A:	List B:
Harvard Business Review	Fortune
MIT Sloan Management Review	Fast Company
Business Horizons	Inc.
Organizational Dynamics	The Economist
Academy of Management Perspectives	Entrepreneur
Other business journals – approval required from Professor	Wall Street Journal
	New York Times
	Financial Times
	City-based newspapers (e.g., Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune)
	Other news media – approval required from Professor

Write a two-page (double-spaced; one-inch margins; Times New Roman) Executive Summary of your analysis and solutions (10 points). Please follow the guidelines below:

Quality standard: This is a case analysis that should be academically rigorous but professional enough for you to feel comfortable showing it to your boss or using it in a job interview as an example of your analytical capabilities.

Format for the report:

Include a cover sheet (not included in page length total) with the title of your leadership challenge topic, team name, date, and class section. Do not repeat this information in the body of your report.

You must properly cite your sources (use APA or MLA) in the body of the report and include a References page at the end of your report (not included in the page length total). Failure to properly cite sources will have a detrimental effect on your grade. Do not plagiarize.

Recommended report structure:

Introduction (maximum 1/2 page): In an introductory paragraph, summarize the leadership challenge. Place the challenge within the broader context of leadership in organizations (e.g., why is this topic important). This section should answer the basic question: “What are we talking about here?”.

Analysis of Challenge (1/2 page): Use this section to more fully demonstrate your understanding of the leadership challenge, for example, the key topics and issues underlying this challenge, the importance of these topics and issues to effective leadership, and the consequences of failing to address this challenge as a leader. Support this analysis with at least two concepts from the research you collected as a team.

Potential Solutions and Obstacles (1/2 page): Describe three potential solutions to your challenge. Identify each solution’s advantages and what obstacles might exist to implementing each. Support your recommendations with your research. Your ideas should all be things that can realistically be implemented. Where possible, show how real leaders/organizations have approached similar challenges.

Final Solution (1/2 page): Given the advantages and obstacles you identified above, close your

paper by developing an argument to support the solution you think is the best of the three alternatives you

presented. We are now down to what you think should be done to fix things. Support your choice with your

research.

APPENDIX A: Leadership Challenge Topics

Leadership Challenge #4: Getting a New Team Member On Board

You recently hired a new employee, Sarah, from a different area of your company. The transition is difficult because Sarah will work part-time for you while she phases out of her other job. The other members of your team have never met or worked with Sarah before. As a leader, why should you be concerned about onboarding? What can you do to more effectively integrate a new member into the team?