Monthly Archives: February 2023

 Managers are often overwhelmed by their day-to-day activities and postpone important aspects of their jobs, including performance appraisals. What is the purpose of performance appraisals within an organization? Do you think performance appraisals are effective? Give a reason for your position. What components should be included in a performance appraisal? 

DeVito, J. A. (2016). The interpersonal communication book (14th ed.). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu

• This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM) title.

As the saying goes, “With great power comes great responsibility.” For human services professionals, a high degree of care must be exercised when it comes to engaging with others, particularly as it relates to being mindful of the power dynamic that exists between the worker and client. In this final discussion forum, you will consider the course text and the ethical principles of the National Organization for Human Services in recognizing positive and negative elements of power you possess in a fictional or actual human services scenario.

Read Chapter 12 from The Interpersonal Communication Book and answer the six statements related to your interpersonal power (p. 311-312); read the National Organization for Human Services Ethical Standards for Human Service Professionals (Links to an external site.) and consider the issue of power and influence in human services. Then, review your answers to the six statements and consider the degree of interpersonal power that you believe you possess.

Initial Post: Please prepare a 300-word minimum post that sufficiently addresses each of the items below. Don’t forget that it is critical to cite your sources of information, including the textbook, using APA formatting.

• What would you identify as some of your personal communication strengths with respect to how you exercise power?
• What would you identify as some of your personal communication growth areas with respect to how you exercise power?
• If you were to imagine (or if you are currently) a human services professional working with a client population of your choice (e.g., children and families, the mentally ill, the homeless, etc.), how would (or do) you use your knowledge of your strengths and limitations, in addition to the ethical standards for human service professionals, to reduce the presence of negative power and influence that you might have in a situation with a client?

 Assignment 5: Sustainable Talent Management
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points

With the same talent management strategy in mind from Assignment 3, write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Determine which performance management process you will employ to measure employee talent.
2. Analyze the key concepts related to the talent pools and the talent review process.
3. Develop appropriate talent management objectives to measure functional expertise.
4. Assess the key elements of global talent management as they apply to your organization.
5. Recommend a process that optimizes a sustainable talent management process.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.
• The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Determine the effects of leadership in the management of talent pools and the talent review process.
• Compare and contrast the talent assessment and employee performance management processes.
• Review the process of developing functional expertise and setting and measuring talent management objectives.
• Discover how the management process affects global talent management.   
• Determine the organizational benefits of strategy-driven talent management and building a sustainable process.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in talent management.
• Write clearly and concisely about talent management using proper writing mechanics.

Read the case study titled “Revitalizing a Brand”, located in the online course shell. Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the branding and communication strategies of one (1) health services organization that is similar to the health services organizations mentioned in the case study.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
2. Conduct a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) analysis associated with the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
3. Assess the importance of benchmarking in Plaza Home Health Services’ development and implementation of an effective brand strategy (marketing communication, identity, and brand position).
4. Compare branding and communication strategies of a similar health services organization with that of Plaza Home Health Services. Determine whether or not Plaza Home Health Services should apply additional best practices into its current branding and communication strategies. Provide a rationale and support for your response.
5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the marketing research process and market segmentation strategies in the health care industry.
• Analyze business planning based on an analysis of domestic and global operating environments, market dynamics (supply and demand), commercialization, and product-market expansion.
• Explain how branding strategies apply to the health care market for existing and new products.
• Determine the marketing communications strategy used in health care services.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services strategic marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.

As you continue to prepare for your booth at the diversity fair, you along with your fellow committee members, want to provide the participants with information related to coexisting in a diverse environment. Through your coursework in your Ethics Around the Globe class, you feel that a brochure that provides information on Pluralism, Relativism, and Absolutism could be beneficial. These three terms address different ways that people with different ethical views can interact.

Your brochure will include the following:

• An introduction that provides an overview of ethical diversity.
• Definition of Pluralism and an applicable example
• Definition of Relativism and an applicable example
• Definition of Absolutism and an applicable example
• Available credible resources so that participants can learn more: this can be from valid websites, your text book, additional readings from the class, videos etc.

The brochure that you are creating is to be a tri-fold design, double-sided. Draw attention to your brochure by using well-placed art, an easy to read design with your content, and effective use of color.

 With your experience in face-to-face and online learning, together with synchronous and asynchronous discussion, you should be able to express your thoughts and provide recommendation to our program quality improvement (MS in Industrial Management or MS in Technology). To complete this part, students are required to think, analyze, and evaluate based on your past learning experience. There is no need to search for additional resources or any other supplements. Environmental scanning, internal and external factors, should be considered in your writing (e.g. student, faculty, course materials, technology, delivery methods, interaction among classmates, environment, and others). Answer the following questions with details and create diagrams (if needed). 

1. About the class virtual chat meeting, list advantages and disadvantages. Should each online class continue to have virtual meetings with students 2-3 times a month? What should be improved and What can faculty and students do to make it better? 

2. Within this program, what teaching strategies and/or teaching characteristics have been effective for you as a learner? Create a SWOT analysis of your program major based on your experience. 

3. Creating a quality model in MS in Industrial Management OR MS in Technology using a diagram (e.g. fishbone) and explaining in details of influencing factors.  Tips: to create a professional look diagram, you can use a template from asq.org (Learn/Learn about quality), or using SmartArt from Word Document. 

4. Any other helpful comments or suggestions? 

Discuss your thoughts on the importance of a performance appraisal.

Must be 200 words

Part 3: Budget, Budget Narrative, and Sustainability Plan (3–5 pages)

The project Budget delineates all expected costs associated with a project. The Budget Narrative expands upon the line items, offering further explanation of costs and needs as appropriate. A Sustainability Plan explains to funders how you will continue a project after funding has been exhausted.

Constructing a budget requires time and attention to detail. This section of the grant proposal should include the narrative or justification and the financial details associated with funding the project. While the tabulated costs address the financial requirements associated with the budget, the narrative or justification should explain anything that is not apparent in the itemized budget. Be careful not to get redundant with the budget narrative. It is best to review examples to understand the required balance. Finally, as you consider developing your budget, make sure that you have fully examined the requirements of the RFP. Determine the timeline of the grant as well as your activity timeline and management plan to ensure you have covered all the nuances of project work that has associated costs. Ask yourself: Does this budget reflect all activities? Are all the project costs as well as the in-kind donations and volunteer resources documented? Is this budget realistic?

For this Assignment:

• Review the Final Project Guidelines provided in this module’s Learning Resources.
• Carefully review the Learning Resources focused on project budgets. You also may find additional online information from reputable grant-related organizations.
• With consideration to feedback in Discussion 1 that you received from colleagues and your Instructor, and to your continued evaluation of the literature and funder guidelines, finalize your project Budget, Budget Narrative, and Sustainability Plan.

For your Assignment:

Part I: Budget Template

• Use the budget template provided in the Learning Resources.
  • Fill in the budget template for your project.
• Part II: Budget Narrative and Sustainability Plan
• The Budget Narrative expands on the line items of the budget, providing a reviewer detail and justification for how you arrived at the projected dollar amounts. For example: If hiring a consultant for $2,000 is a line item, the narrative might explain that this is based on 40 hours @ $50/hour.
• The Sustainability Plan explains how your agency plans to continue operating this program once the funding has run out.
• It also indicates where future funding and other resources might be obtained.

1. Explain personal Financial management and why it is important to your professional success. What tips could you give to a colleague who may be struggling with personal financial management.

2. Explain one of your goals using the specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) method. What is one area of strength and one area of weakness of your goal? What can you do to improve the weakness you identified

3. How would you describe your own personal learning style, and how does it affect your ability to communicate and remain professional in he workplace?

Each questions response must be at least 200 words in length

The BA.GST degree is a tremendous asset to your professional goals. The key will be persuading people to see the value of this degree. Now that you have started thinking about your personal brand, how are you going to pitch yourself to your potential employers? What is your thirty-second elevator speech?

Consider the following in your response:

• What makes this degree so important to your goals and how does it make you stand out from others?
• How will this degree reflect the skills that employers today are looking for in college graduates?
• In what ways have you effectively communicated this so far in your LinkedIn profile?