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Application: Design-Build

Floods, storms, landslides, earthquakes, and many other types of natural disasters can leave an affected area without the ability to evacuate or to receive needed provisions. For example, transportation was severely limited on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina due to the destruction of major highways and bridges. Several communities became “islands” due to the destruction of these bridges. Because people could not leave or receive needed materials and goods, a different approach was applied to re-building the highways and bridges there.

Design/Build was the process used, and this provided for the quick rebuilding of three major bridges. This process contrasts with Design/Bid/Build and combines the design, permit, and construction into one overlapping process. Design/Build involves hiring the same designer/contractor to oversee a project’s design, bid, and construction. This process was so successful in Mississippi that the first bridge built, the St. Louis Bay Bridge, won an America Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Transportation Award in 2007. Might this same process be applied to disaster recovery when re-establishing communication, business and industry, housing, and human services?

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review Chapter 9 in your course text, Crisis Management in the New Strategy Landscape, and think about challenges to organizational learning in crisis management and how you might address them.
• Review the article, “What is Design-Build?,” and focus on the strategies involved in the design-build model and the challenges that might be presented by it.
• Think about the importance of keeping cultural and social justice considerations in mind when developing a design-build model.
• Use the natural disaster you chose for Week 8 or choose a different one, other than Hurricane Katrina, and research the demographics for the area where the disaster occurred. Think about the various cultures involved and challenges there might be regarding languages or traditions.
• Review the article, “Design-Build Effectiveness Study,” and think about how the concept of design-build can be applied to the natural disaster you chose.
• Review Table 9-2 in your course text, Crisis Management in the New Strategy Landscape, and think about the new learning areas related to the natural disaster you chose.
• Keep the natural disaster you chose in mind as you review the article, “The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Failures of the Hurricane Katrina Response and How Psychology Can Help.” Think about ways to avoid the failures presented in the article.
• Review the discussions related to grief and loss in Chapter 12 of your course text, Crisis Intervention Strategies, and think about how they might impact the survivors of the natural disaster you chose.
• Review the article, “Social Justice Advocacy: Community Collaboration and Systems,” and think about related issues as they apply to the natural disaster you chose.
• Review the PBS video, “The Journal: Katrina Recovery Gone Wrong,” and think about how programs like the STEPS program might effect design/build strategies.
• Consider ways to incorporate cultural and social justice consideration solution strategies into your design/build plan.

The assignment: (4-6 pages)

• Briefly describe the natural disaster you chose. Be sure to include a brief description of the demographics of the area and references for information used.
• Describe ways you would address multicultural and social justice issues related to rebuilding and recovery.
• Describe and justify “design/build” strategies for the natural disaster you chose.

Articles

• Article: Design-Build Institute of America. (2010). What is design-build? Retrieved from http://www.dbia.org/about/Pages/default.aspx
• Article: U.S. Department of Transportation. (2006). Design-build effectiveness study. Retrieved from http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/designbuild/designbuild2.htm

This final SLP assignment is going to provide you the opportunity to explore a challenge in the area of logistics. You have now gained an understanding of supply chains and issues that occur within a specific extended set of enterprises. And these enterprises all depend on infrastructure within the US and its cities for logistics and logistical support. The number 4 challenge on a list of ten, as reported by DC Velocity (http://www.dcvelocity.com/), is “The nation’s deteriorating infrastructure”.

Lynch, Clifford. (2010). Top ten logistics challenges for 2011 (and beyond). Retrieved from http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/2010121310_logistics_challenges_in_2011/

Session Long Project

Your challenge is to independently research this key logistics issue and report on it. Define the problem and its scope, and provide some possible solutions. Write an SLP paper that follows the guidelines and expectations.

SLP Assignment Expectations

The report should thoroughly address these aspects in depth and breadth:

• Problem: clearly elucidate the problem
• Assumptions: what are the assumptions about this issue and your critical evaluation
• Possible Solutions: articulate some solutions
• Evidence & Explanation: clear reasoning as to why these solutions will work. Elucidate your evidence coherently
• Clarity & Organization: well-formed sentences and paragraphs, well organized with flow of reason, and good use of language that pertain to concepts and terminology
• Use of references & Citations: at least five (5) proper references should be used correctly, cited in the text, and listed in the references using an appropriate style; use APA format!
• Length: The paper should be three to four pages – the body of the paper excluding title page and references page.

Lynch, C. (2010). Top ten logistics challenges for 2011 (and beyond). DC Velocity. Retrieved from http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/2010121310_logistics_challenges_in_2011/

Review the “Hexagon of Excellence” in Chapter 7 in your text and write a two- to four-page (not including title and reference pages), APA style article review paper.

• Select and describe at least three characteristics that make the performance of a company excellent in terms of how they approach project management. 
• Provide details on how a current or previous employer used any of these areas for success in the marketplace.
• Analyzes how an employer aligns projects to organizational strategy.

You must use a minimum of one to two sources, including the textbook.

Respond to mitch Jessip statement 

 From your readings and discussions in the course, let us know what parts of your life could benefit from a little or a lot of project management?  

 What different considerations do human resource professionals need to examine when handling voluntary separations and involuntary separations? Explain your response, and use at least one academic source to support your points 

Discuss the following for this assignment:

• What is organizational change capacity? 
• What are ways in which organizational change capacity be measured? 

 Discussion: Project Management Advice

• Thinking back on everything you have learned in this course, identify the top three (3) most important topics that anyone working in human resources needs to know about project management. Explain your rationale.
• Discuss three (3) best practices that you have acquired in this course that you either will apply in your career or could recommend to any project manager. Next, recommend at least one (1) additional best practice that is not specifically mentioned in the course. Justify your response.

you will present on the issue you identified in Assignment 1 and provide your recommendations to improve or resolve the issue.

Create a ten to twelve (10-12) slide presentation in which you:

1. Create a title slide and references section (as indicated in the format requirements below).
2. Narrate each slide, using a microphone, indicating what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience.You should provide detailed speaker notes with your presentation.
3. Summarize the issue you selected in Assignment 1.
4. Summarize the primary ways that organizational, human, and budget resources impact the issue.
5. Summarize the primary ways that policy and politics impacts the issue.
6. Summarize the ethical concerns surrounding the issue.
7. Summarize the relationship of constitutional law to the issue.
8. Provide two (2) recommendations to resolve or improve the issue.
9. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other websites ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length.
• Include a reference slide containing the sources that were consulted while completing research on the selected topic, listed in APA format. The reference slide is not included in the required slide length.
• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide, two to three (2-3) colors, two to three (2-3) fonts, and two to three (2-3) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Slides should abbreviate the information in no more than five or six (5 or 6) bullet points each.
• Slide titles should be based on the criteria being summarized.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length

Please follow all directions given above

Absolutely no plagiarism

Follow the upload below to discuss the topic to be presented 

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APA format/Citations dated no more than  years 

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The journal entry assignment is a reflective essay writing assignment. You will post, to your journal, a reflective writing essay describing your current understanding of your personal stance on ethics in healthcare. The Instructor will post one response to your journal entry, and this begins the journaling that will continue throughout the course. This initial essay is important because it will begin the processing of information and deep insight you will need on this topic as you work toward your final project in the course (due Wednesday of Week 4). The final project requires you to develop a personal ethics statement based on legal and ethical criteria in healthcare.

Journal Entry for Week 1 is a reflective essay describing your personal stance on ethics in healthcare. Review the theorists by reading Chapter 1 “Practical Theory” in the text and then develop your own definition of ethics. Answer the question, “How do you define ethics in a personal and professional sense?”