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 Measure of Success 

Purpose of Assignment: This reviews the SMART goals model and challenges students to apply their knowledge by creating SMART goal scenarios and responses. 

Transferable skill: Digital Fluency

Effectively employing and understanding digital tools to express ideas in appropriate contexts. In the human services field, digital fluency manifests through mastery of apps and software that can help a worker organize data, locates services and track client progress.

Instructions:

You now have an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the SMART goals model. Respond to the following scenarios and include the following in your submission:

• Write a goal for each scenario.
• Using each part of the S.M.A.R.T goal acronym explain how the goals you have established for the client to fit the SMART model.
• Use clear and concise grammar.

Scenario A:

Sally is ten years old and has outbursts at school that include verbal aggression towards teachers and the destruction of physical property. This behavior occurs daily.

Scenario B:

Marion is 50 years old and is socially isolated. She does not work and rarely interacts with other people. She feels lonely.

Scenario C:

David is 40 years old and recently divorced. Three weeks ago, he was laid off from his job of ten years. He is looking for work and struggling financially.

Format:

Submit as a Word document with a title page.

· Watch the video “The Boston Marathon Bombings: Lessons Learned for Saving Lives |

o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcg4BqJsyVI

· Write a 3 page review of the video focusing on the content learned in class. 

o Thoroughly and thoughtfully discuss how the team moved through the phases of emergency management (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery)

o Thoroughly and thoughtfully discuss 2-3 Public Health Preparedness Capabilities and how they are applied within this scenario 

Discuss your reaction to the video (your thoughts, opinions, reaction to first responder’s testimonies, the mental health recovery after the fact, communication as events are happening, involvement of the media.

Please see attached

Short Reflective Essay

a short reflective essay that examines the mission of the College and your written communication skills.

The instructions to complete this assignment are as follows:

The short essay must be written in an appropriate business format, single-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, page numbers, with a minimum of 2 pages in length. Appropriate headers should be used and the paper should include a cover page with your name, concentration and student ID number. NOTE: The final essay should be attached in either Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Adobe PDF format – do not use the Blackboard text submission feature. Save the file with the following naming convention: LastName_StudentID_Comp2 (Example: Smith_004999100_Comp2).

To write the essay, use the following prompt:

The Jack H. Brown College of Business and Publics Administration Mission Statement reads:

“The Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration is committed to nurturing a high quality educational environment that ensures student, faculty, and staff success in its pursuit of academic excellence and achievement. We seek to transform the lives of our students and alumni, ensuring that they become responsible management professionals within a dynamic region and a globally connected world.”

After careful consideration, how has your experience either met or failed to meet the mission of the college? How have your studies as a business student embodied the statement?

Your response is organic to you and we welcome your honest feedback. Some areas to consider, but are in no way required are your classes, job prospects, learning, diversity, ethics, faculty, staff, accommodations, or the physical environment.

Select and complete Option 1 or Option 2 below.

Option 1: Build Your Personal Brand for a Future Career in Health Care

Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word plan for building your personal brand. Include the following in your plan:

• Skills you will need to develop for your future career
• Strategies you will employ to gain the required skills needed for your career choice
• How you will project a professional image to potential employers, considering the effect of professionalism and etiquette
• Strategies you will employ to search for, find, and get a job
• How you will measure the effectiveness of your strategies to build your brand
• Strategies for continuing your professional growth and advancement once you are employed in the health care field
• Your top 5 practices for career success, with descriptions

500 words total with references (text attached)

Question A

Suppose that you are the manager of an accounts receivable unit in a large company. You are switching to a new system of billing and record-keeping and need to train your three supervisors and 28 employees in the new procedures. What training methods would you use? Why

Question B

What sources could be used to evaluate the performance of people working in the following jobs?

• Sales representative
• TV reporter
• Director of nursing in a hospital
• HR Manager
• Air traffic controller

 Write a critical review of the article. The review should be at least 3 pages long from introduction through conclusion. Be sure to provide in-text citations when you paraphrase or directly quote from the article. Also include a reference page with an APA style citation of the article. Follow the writing requirements for this course when preparing the paper. Use the following format for the paper:

1.  Introduction, including the purpose of your paper and a preview of your paper. Be sure to also provide the article’s title and author(s)’ name(s) in the introduction of your paper.

2. Discuss the purpose and problem the article is addressing.

3. Elaborate on the content of the article.

4. Discuss the findings and conclusion(s) drawn by the article’s author.

5. Discuss the author’s point of view and assumptions. Indicate whether unsubstantiated assumptions were made and whether there is bias that exists in the article.

6. Discuss the significance of the article. Why it is important? On what do you base your assertions?

7. Conclude your paper. Summarize the important aspects of the review.

8. References

Your paper should include 8 centered and bolded headings that correspond to each of the required sections (Introduction, Article’s Purpose and Problem, Content, Article’s Findings and Conclusions, Point of View and Assumptions, Significance, Conclusion, References).

Writing Requirements for all Written Work:

• References MUST be cited within your paper in APA format. Your reference page and in-text citations must match 100%. Papers without in-text citations will earn failing grades.
• Always include a cover page and reference page with ALL submissions (even initial discussion posts)
• Provide the EXACT web link on the reference page citations for all online sources – do not provide just the home page, but the EXACT LINK – I check all sources
• No abbreviations, no contractions – write formally
• Write in the third person formal voice (no first or second person pronouns)
• Write MORE than the minimum requirement of the word count assigned
• As always, the word count is ONLY for the BODY of the paper – the cover page, reference page, and / or Appendix (if included) do not count towards the word count for the paper
• Indent the first line of each new paragraph five spaces

Powerpoint enhancement for better oriented presentation, will be introduce to high mangers. 

Explore and discuss the major changes that have come to public employee unions. 

 at least 350-400 words, including at least 2 citations 

Background:
Pay for Performance in America’s public schools is an extremely controversial issue. Although the process has made inroads in business and is a means to help determine promotions, pay, and retention, pay for performance has not been consistently well received in the public school systems. There are some successful examples where teacher pay has been linked to student test scores. In Minnesota, for example, some districts have stopped giving automatic raises for seniority and base 60% of all pay increases on employee performance. In Denver, unions and school districts designed an incentive program where teachers receive bonuses for student achievement and for earning national teaching certificates.

On the other hand, some plans have not worked. For example, Cincinnati teachers voted against a merit pay proposal and Philadelphia teachers gave their bonus checks to charity rather than cashing them. It appears that having teachers involved in planning the incentive system is one key factor to success. The same can be said for all incentive plans – if employees do not buy into them, they will not work.

Assignment:

You have been asked by the organization’s senior leadership to explore the practicality of implementing such a program for your organization.

Questions to Research:

1. How could an organization measure the effectiveness of their pay-for-performance plans?
2. From an employee’s perspective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pay-for-performance plan? 
3. From an employer’s perspective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pay-for-performance plan?

The course objectives addressed by this assignment are as follows:

• Explain the various classifications of rewards.
• Describe competency-based compensation programs.
• Describe relative standards in the performance management system.
• Discuss ethical issues in HRM