Assignment 3 (20 points) This is similar to Assignment 2. However, instead of a case you will select an OD topic for your presentation. Topics can be: Managing Change, Transformational Change, Appreciative Inquiry, Talent Management, Consulting as a Management Practice, Workforce Diversity and Wellness, Team Building, Story Telling, Motivation, etc.
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Asthma Please label each section of the paper like this outline. A. Investigate Asthma. 1. Pathophysiology-Analyze the pathophysiology of Asthma. 2. Standard of Practice-Discuss the standard of practice for Asthma. a. Pharmacological Treatments - Discuss the evidence-based pharmacological treatments in Texas and how they affect management of the selected disease in Fort Worth. b. Clinical Guidelines-Discuss clinical guidelines for assessment, diagnosis, and patient education for Asthma. c. Standard of Practice of Disease Management -Discuss the standard practice for managing the disease within your community with state or national practices. 3. Managed Disease Process-Discuss characteristics of and resources for a patient who manages the selected disease well, including access to care, treatment options, life expectancy, and outcomes. a. Disparities -Analyze disparities between management of the selected disease on a national and international level. 4. Managed Disease Factors-Discuss three or four factors (e.g., financial resources, access to care, insured/uninsured, Medicare/Medicaid) that contribute to a patient being able to manage Asthma. a. Unmanaged Disease Factors - Explain how a lack of the factors discussed in part A4 leads to an unmanaged disease process. i. Unmanaged Disease Characteristics -Describe characteristics of a patient with Asthma that is unmanaged. B. Patients, Families, and Populations - Analyze how Asthma affects patients, families, and populations in your community. 1. Costs - Discuss the financial costs associated with Asthma for patients, families, and populations from diagnosis to treatment. C. Best Practices Promotion - Discuss how you will promote best practices for managing Asthma in your current healthcare organization. 1. Implementation Plan - Discuss three strategies you could use to implement best practices for managing Asthma in your current healthcare organization. 2. Evaluation Method - Discuss an appropriate method to evaluate the implementation of each of the strategies from part C1. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.
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TEXT CRITIQUE Purpose: To analyse one of these well-known articles and identify its major attributes 1. Robert Kagan, 'Power and Weakness,' Policy Review, 13/2, June/July 2002 2. Charlmes Krauthamer, ‘The Unipolar Moment’, Foreign Affairs 70,1 (‘America and the World’ 1990/91) 3. David Dunn “Isolationism Revisited: Seven Myths in US Foreign Policy”, Review of International Studies, Volume 31, pp. 237-261, April 2005. Task: Read one of the above articles and provide a brief analysis of it (maximum 400 words) to the e-tivity 3 Forum. An article analysis is an opportunity for concise and critical reflection on the detractions, merits, and implications of your chosen article. This analysis should reflect on how other authors have thought about this topic, you should reflect on your weekly reading posts to aid you in this task. Then proceed to the respond section Respond: In the e-tivity 3 Forum please post comments on the analyses provided by other students by way of illustrating there are multiple approaches to understanding the same text. Consider such issues as whether you agree with the analysis provided by others, or whether other students have focussed on different aspects, or drawn different conclusions. Comment constructively in no more than 400 words on how comparing these interpretations have helped improved your own understanding and your own original view of the article.
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Paper Assignment PS 130! 08 Intro to World Politics Carefully read all of the instructions on this document. Essay Question: You are a foreign policy expert who works in a Washington, D.C. think tank focused on world politics and foreign policy. After the 2016 election you would like to be appointed to the new White House staff as "Special Foreign Policy Adviser to the President on the Syrian Crisis." To be selected to this position, you have decided to write an essay explaining the best two or three options the U.S. can take on the Syrian Crisis from two different theoretical frameworks. *You will send your essay to the two 2016 presidential candidates who you believe will win their party's nomination and compete in the 2016 general election. Your essay must meet the following content requirements: 1. Each set of options must be presented from both the Realist and Liberal (influenced by Constructivism) theoretical perspectives; 2. The arguments supporting both Realist and Liberal options you present must be based on the concepts and theories you have learned this semester on the following topics: ? the theoretical frameworks; ? the history of the great powers from 1900 to the present; ? the global south and global north; ? foreign policy decision making; ? conflict; ? international organizations (IGOs & NGOs), law and human rights *Note: Were you to actually write such an essay, you would edit it to fit the views and overall political ideology of each candidate before sending it. Paper Essay Instructions. Write this paper using APA style and a minimum of 2000 words. If you use Calibri font and double spacing, 2000 words is equal to 6.9 double-spaced pages (see http://wordstopages.com). Type your name, PS 130 08, the essay title and the word length on the title page of your essay paper. Remember to use a running header with your name and page #. Double space your essay. You may use short (30 words or fewer) quotations in your essay, but quotations do not count toward the 2000 word length. In-text citations do not count toward the 2000 word length. A Grading Rubric for this paper assignment is listed at the bottom of this document. APA formatting. 1- Do not include the essay question itself in the essay. Websites on Syrian Crisis: To give you a better understanding of the conflict in Syria, you are encouraged to consult some of the following websites. Keep in mind we are using the Syrian Crisis as a "case" for this assignment. • http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14703995 • http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=61724 • http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/syria.html • http://www.syriadeeply.org • http://www.cartercenter.org/peace/conflict_resolution/syria-conflict-resolution.html • http://www.pbs.org/search/?q=Syria • http://www.iamsyria.org • http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/timeline-unrest-in-syria/207/ • http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/syria/index.html?8qa Paper Assignment PS 130! 08 Intro to World Politics Carefully read all of the instructions on this document. Essay Question: You are a foreign policy expert who works in a Washington, D.C. think tank focused on world politics and foreign policy. After the 2016 election you would like to be appointed to the new White House staff as "Special Foreign Policy Adviser to the President on the Syrian Crisis." To be selected to this position, you have decided to write an essay explaining the best two or three options the U.S. can take on the Syrian Crisis from two different theoretical frameworks. *You will send your essay to the two 2016 presidential candidates who you believe will win their party's nomination and compete in the 2016 general election. Your essay must meet the following content requirements: 1. Each set of options must be presented from both the Realist and Liberal (influenced by Constructivism) theoretical perspectives; 2. The arguments supporting both Realist and Liberal options you present must be based on the concepts and theories you have learned this semester on the following topics: ? the theoretical frameworks; ? the history of the great powers from 1900 to the present; ? the global south and global north; ? foreign policy decision making; ? conflict; ? international organizations (IGOs & NGOs), law and human rights *Note: Were you to actually write such an essay, you would edit it to fit the views and overall political ideology of each candidate before sending it. Paper Essay Instructions. Write this paper using APA style and a minimum of 2000 words. If you use Calibri font and double spacing, 2000 words is equal to 6.9 double-spaced pages (see http://wordstopages.com). Type your name, PS 130 08, the essay title and the word length on the title page of your essay paper. Remember to use a running header with your name and page #. Double space your essay. You may use short (30 words or fewer) quotations in your essay, but quotations do not count toward the 2000 word length. In-text citations do not count toward the 2000 word length. A Grading Rubric for this paper assignment is listed at the bottom of this document. APA formatting. 1- Do not include the essay question itself in the essay. Websites on Syrian Crisis: To give you a better understanding of the conflict in Syria, you are encouraged to consult some of the following websites. Keep in mind we are using the Syrian Crisis as a "case" for this assignment. • http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14703995 • http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=61724 • http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/syria.html • http://www.syriadeeply.org • http://www.cartercenter.org/peace/conflict_resolution/syria-conflict-resolution.html • http://www.pbs.org/search/?q=Syria • http://www.iamsyria.org • http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/timeline-unrest-in-syria/207/ • http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/syria/index.html?8qa
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Grammar and the construction of meaning 2015 Final Assessment 2 PART 1 In this Part you need to analyse each ranking clause for transitivity. Ranking clauses are indicated by double parallel bars ||. Then analyse each ranking clause on a separate line. You do not need to analyse the transitivity structure of embedded clauses. You must label Process as to type. This is the level of delicacy you need to specify: Process: material Process: mental Process: verbal Process: behavioural Process: attributive Process: identifying Process: existential Remember that only certain Participants occur in each Process type. The Participant labels you must use are: Process: material Actor, Goal, Recipient, Client, Range Process: mental Senser, Phenomenon Process: verbal Sayer, Receiver, Verbiage Process: behavioural Behaver, Behaviour* Process: attributive Carrier; Attribute Process: identifying Token, Value Process: existential Existent Note: Do not use the general label Beneficiary; you need to specify whether the Participant is a Recipient or Client. You do not need to label Circumstances as to their type – you can simply label them Circumstance. *(Behavioural processes may borrow Participant labels from mental and verbal process under certain conditions as seen in the learning guide.) Sample analysis. I forgot || that sometimes he could be quiet and kind, || and I hated him. I forgot Senser Process: mental that sometimes he could be quiet and kind Carrier Process: attributive Attribute and I hated him Senser Process: mental Phenomenon Analyse the following ranking clauses for transitivity 1. He ran into the kitchen. 2. Mr Green was thrown into the Cabramatta creek. 3. Many burglars enter through a back or side door. 4. She sighed with relief. 5. And it is a loathsome term, I detest it. 6. There's no greater choice for the patients there. 7. She must have said something. 8. Lily covered her face with her hands and began to sob. 9. Clarke is a purposeful batsman. 10. You interest me. 11. He was pleased by the outcome. 12. Dustin's parents were thrilled by the reception and the money the film was making. 13. Triangulation has many important uses. 14. You talk like Marlene Dietrich. 15. And you dance like Zizi Jeanmair. 16. Your clothes are all made by Balmain. 17. And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair. 18. Neither of the girls was impressed by Venice. 19. Snails belong to a group of animal called molluscs. 20. Snails move with a fleshy foot. 21. She was shivering uncontrollably, but not because she was cold. 22. This normally happens only in the summer and lasts for an average of one to five days. 23. National Anthem was played a lot at one time. 24. Pass me my handbag, dear! 25. Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world. 26. ‘I'm not going to say that,’ said Camille. 27. The future seemed so bright. 28. What a delicious lunch this is! 29. It takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth. 30. Pope John Paul II stated that hostility towards Jews was at odds with the Christian faith. 31. Nicolo Rizzuto, the last of the real godfathers and head of the most important mafia group in Montreal, has been shot dead at his home. 32. LAPTOP computers may be damaging male fertility because they overheat men's scrotums, new research suggests. 33. On April 5 Giulio Andreotti was asked to form a new government. 34. The hawksbill turtle was the original source of tortoiseshell and is protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. 35. Their first project, the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness, exemplifies this belief. Part 2B TEXT extract for THEME/RHEME analysis Analyse the following text for Theme. You should set you analysis out as a table. Follow the example below for how to set out your analysis. Each ranking clause will occupy one line. Analyse each clause for theme. Please number clauses. Sample text: What is a didjeridu? Didjeridus are traditional Australian aboriginal musical instruments, and are handcrafted from the branches of small trees. Often the didjeridu is an accompaniment to ceremonial song and dance. How do you play a didjeridu? To produce the various sounds and notes, you must learn to manipulate the tongue, lips and breath while blowing into the instrument. Playing sounds in the continuous manner characteristic of this music requires the use of a process called “circular breathing”. THEME RHEME Textual Inter-personal Topical 1 What is a didjeridu 2 Didjeridus are traditional Australian aboriginal musical instruments 3 and [...] are handcrafted from the branches of small trees 4 Often the didjeridu is an accompaniment to ceremonial song and dance 5 How do you play a didjeridu 6 To produce the various sounds and notes 7 you must learn to manipulate the tongue, lips and breath 8 while blowing into the instrument 9 Playing sounds in the continuous manner characteristic of this music requires the use of a process [[called “circular breathing”]] Analyse the following text extract for Theme. The text has been broken up into ranking clauses for you. 1. Languages are made up of meaningful sounds, called phonemes. 2. These sounds are important 3. because they are the basic units that make up words 4. and indicate a difference in meaning. 5. For example, in English, /r/ and /l/ are different phonemes 6. because words like “rock” and “lock” have different meanings 7. and refer to different objects. 8. However, different languages use different phonemic distinctions: 9. for example, in Japanese there is no meaningful difference between /r/ and /l/. 10. At birth, infants can distinguish between more phonemic differences than adults. 11. Interestingly, they can hear differences in their native language as well as in unfamiliar languages. 12. Japanese babies are able to hear the English distinction between /r/ and /l/ 13. even though there is no meaningful difference between the two sounds in Japanese. 14. However, after their first year of life babies lose their ability to distinguish phonemes in unfamiliar languages 15. and can only discriminate between phonemes that indicate a difference in meaning in their native language (Werker & Lalonde, 1988).
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This assignment is worth 20% of your final mark. Due date: 24 November 2016 Word count: no more than 3000 words. Text book: The set text required for this course is: Dale, B.G., van der Wiele, T. & van Iwaarden, J. (2007). Managing Quality (5th ed.). United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. Instructions 1. You should be able to complete this assignment in no more than 3000 words. A 10% variance on this word count is acceptable. 2. Where you are directly using ideas from other sources or quoting, you should appropriately acknowledge this with citations and references using APA referencing. Case Study: Krayoz Services Ltd is considering introducing a quality management system into its organisation. The business was started by Ozzie Krayski and has been in existence for about five years, growing from a single home service provider into a large franchise with twenty providers in New Zealand. While still involved in his own service provision organisation, Ozzie is not part of the current franchise management team. However, his son Sergei is on the board, and his granddaughter Natalia has just been appointed as Quality Manager for the overall franchise. They often meet as a family, and Ozzie keeps in touch with the whole organisation. Ozzie loved his work from the earliest days and his first employees also found great fulfilment in providing their home services to people. The main focus of the franchise group is providing quality home-based services, including housework and gardening. Since the concept has been franchised, the organisation now has one hundred owners and employees scattered around the country. Most of the employees are part-time, but there are also full-time service providers and administrators among them. Each of the franchise holders provides home services to their clients. The overall group is very successful with this, and there are also a number of the group members who have good contacts within the service community. For example, Ozzie’s group works with local health providers to ensure quality service provision for recovering surgical patients. The steps in the business process begin with keeping in touch with local clients or customers. The next steps are to contact individual prospects or lodge proposals, locate service employees, make timetables for service, undertake the service and evaluate the provision. At any time, the quality of the interaction between staff and stakeholders is important. In fact, one of the most important areas overall is managing relationships. The local franchise holders keep in touch with others in the service area and rely on good information to obtain customers. Service providers also need to make sure that the clients are satisfied with the work and the interactions involved in providing good home services. Recently, Natalia sent out an email to all the franchise holders about improving the overall management of quality. She highlighted some issues she had identified and also possible improvements and her email reflected her enthusiasm about quality. However, some of the recipients were not so receptive – indeed, one of Ozzie’s old friends (Charlie) has contacted him with some problems. He has a number of questions about what this new system will mean for his business, particularly as some of the employees are not happy – they are concerned that such a process change will increase their workload without any increase in reward. Your task Ozzie has contacted Natalia, and she wants to provide a simple explanation of quality systems to him. She has asked you to assist with this. Using the information available, your brief is to present an analysis that includes the following. 1. 1. Quality management a) Provide a simple definition of quality management as it could relate to Krayoz Services Ltd (10 marks) b) Consider how the introduction of a quality management system might affect the following three groups at Krayoz Services Ltd. (15 arks) • External customers. • Franchise owners. • Part-time employees. 2. 2. Creating or adopting a quality culture a) Discuss the requirements of adopting a quality culture. (10 marks) b) Analyse how adopting quality management can have both costs and benefits. Your analysis should include a discussion of two costs and two benefits that relate to Krayoz Services Ltd. (20 marks) 3. 3. Identification of ways to improve quality a) Explain each step in the overall business process at Krayoz Services Ltd and: - highlight any two areas that you consider to be a value add opportunity - identify two moments of truth (15 marks) b) Briefly discuss how understanding the importance of value add opportunities and moments of truth might contribute to quality improvement (10 marks) 4. 4. Recommendation In the light of the available information, recommend and explain two steps that the management at Krayoz Services Ltd can take to begin their quality journey (10 marks) Marks will also be awarded for presentation • Overall presentation includes introduction, any appendices (as required), appropriate referencing, structure, clarity, and length. • Note that while you may use any appropriate format for your analysis, please use the four identified topic areas as main headings. (10 marks) [Total: 100 marks ] Module 1 We will be spending quite a bit of time in this course looking at Module 1. In fact, the Study Plan puts aside three weeks for the study of this section. A number of topics are covered in Module 1. These include: o What is quality and who determines quality? o The cost of quality, customers and moments of truth o Total Quality Management. You may have head of some of these topics before, or even thought about aspects of them. For example, you probably have some idea about what you think quality is. However, in this study will will go into some more depth about quality itself, and what affects quality management. In the Learning Guide, there are some activities to help you focus your study. For example, the first activity looks at the definition of quality, and then you are asked to think about different perspectives on quality. There are other activities which you might like to try as you work through the Module.
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