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When most people think about identifying a crisis or disaster, the first ones that come to mind are usually natural disasters like tsunamis, earthquakes, or draughts. Others may first think of wars, terrorism, or genocide. As counselor educators, you should be aware of all types of crisis that may occur, including business crises such as those that involve the global outsourcing of jobs or de-centralization of business functions. Political, personal, financial, or technological crises also are important categories to consider. For this Discussion, however, the focus is on the first types of crises mentioned—natural disasters and terrorist events.

Regardless of the type of crisis/disaster, the duration and intensity—or scope—of a crisis directs how your organization, community, or region will be impacted and the extent of the disaster response. The scope of a disaster also dictates whether an area is declared a disaster area by a nation’s leaders, whether assistance from outside your area will be needed, and the length of time necessary for disaster recovery efforts.

Another area counselor educators should investigate relates to the demographics of the crisis/disaster population. Knowing this information will inform you and first responders of cultural considerations involved. The U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts provides age, gender, ethnicity, home ownership, language, median income, and education level for your state, county, and city. This demographic data may be explored online.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review Chapter 2 in your course text, Crisis Management in the New Strategy Landscape, focusing on the types of crisis trends presented.
• Review the article, “Crisis in Context Theory: An Ecological Model,” and consider the proposed model for understanding the impact of crises.
• Review the articles, “Latina Mothers’ Perceptions of Mental Health and Mental Health Promotion” and “Risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression in Survivors of the Floods in Bahir, India” to help you understand multicultural considerations related to crisis responding.
• Review the articles, “Disaster Response: Mental Health Effects among WTC Rescue and Recovery Workers” and “Rescuing the Rescuers: First Responders at Risk,” for examples of health provider responses.
• Review Chapter 3 of the video, The Soldier’s Heart, and consider the impact of combat on those in the military.
• Review the articles, “The Hierarchy of Needs and Care Planning in Addiction Services: What Maslow Can Tell Us about Addressing Competing Priorities?” and “Basic Need Status and Health-Promoting Self-Care Behavior in Adults.” Think about how basic need satisfaction is correlated to health-promoting, self-care behavior and how this relates to crisis management and response.
• Choose a natural disaster or terrorist activity that would affect your community to use for this assignment. Think about the ways in which it would affect your community. Please choose an event other than Hurricane Katrina.
• Review demographics online at the U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts website to determine the characteristics of those who might be affected by this particular event. If you live outside the U.S., research your location.
• You should obtain data such as age, gender, ethnicity, home ownership, language, median income, and education level for your state, county, and city.

If managers could have just one wish, many would ask for a crystal ball. With this tool, there would never be any worry about risk. The manager could look into the crystal ball and know exactly what will happen with each decision. Unfortunately, we do not have this luxury and must use other tools and techniques to determine the risks we face for the decisions we make. Understanding the types of financial risks will be the focus of this week’s discussion question.

For this discussion question, you will prepare a 3–5 slide narrated PowerPoint presentation that addresses different types of financial risk. You will also discuss the implications for decision-making in healthcare organizations.

Use these questions to guide your development of the presentation:

• What is risk?
• What is financial risk as it relates to required return?
• What is stand-alone, corporate, and market risk?
• What is the relevance of risk measures in the financial decision-making process?

Instructions:

1. Your initial post must include your presentation attached.
2. Provide constructive feedback to each of your response posts. 

Each student will be responsible for completing 3 annotated bibliography assignments throughout the semester.  For each assignment, you are required to read two articles and complete an annotated bibliography for each article (scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles). See syllabus for example.  

Introduction

Mentoring is an aspect that is often overlooked by both the leader and the employee looking to improve his or her career position. This discussion is designed to raise awareness for mentoring relationships and mentor planning.

Tasks

• Discuss your experience as a mentor and as one being mentored. If you do not have experience in either of these roles, describe how you would begin a mentoring relationship as a leader.
• If you have only been a mentee, please discuss how you would approach that relationship differently from the leader’s perspective.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 500–1000 words as noted in the attached PDF. Submit your document to this Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.

Please complete in detail

Common Assignment Requirements 

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your comprehension of project planning as a key function for enabling PMO success and business outcomes. To satisfy this objective, address the following assignment key elements:

• In your own words including scholarly reference support, 
  • Define project planning in context of the PMO.
  • Describe the primary rationale for PMO project planning.
• Compare and contrast the project planning functions between Supportive and Controlling PMO types as described in the PMBOK Guide (6th ed.), Part 1 Section 2.4.4.3 page 48.
• Describe the application of PMO standards and metrics in PMO project planning.
• Summarize how the project planning enables PMO success while recognizing ethical considerations and challenges unique to an international PMO.

Option #1: PMO Planning Results Essay 

For the assignment Option #1, write an essay to address the Module 4 Common Assignment Requirements.

Submit your Module 4 Critical Thinking assignment as a single Microsoft Word document to the submissions area established for this purpose.

Your essay should address the following requirements:

• Your well-written PMO recommendation essay thesis should be 5 pages in length, which does not include the title, reference, or appendix pages. You need to add headings and subheadings associated with each of the bullet points listed in the common assignment requirements.
• Format your paper per the CSU Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.) standards, which includes an introduction and conclusion.
• Include title and reference pages.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least four current (published within the past 5 years) scholarly resources (peer-reviewed, official governmental reports, and other scholarly sources) to support your suppositions, assertions, and conclusions. To enhance your learning experience, scholarly resources are available from the CSU Global library.
• Include an appendix for tables and figures as appropriate.

Please write clearly, concisely, and cohesively; use section level headers to organize the key elements of your thesis.

Consult the assignment template (Links to an external site.) for a more complete list of requirements. If you need assistance with your writing style or you need writing tips or tutorials, visit the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

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• Discussion: Time Management Techniques
  • Watch the video titled “More Management Techniques from The One Minute Manager”
    (6 min 28 s), shown below. From the video, give your opinion on the three (3) approaches discussed in the video (goal setting, praise, and reprimand). Assess how these are or are not applicable to a team setting, and whether this is still pertinent in today’s workforce given that the video is nearly three (3) decades old.

Title: Management Techniques from “The One Minute Manager”
Date: Sep 6, 1982
Duration: 00:06:28 

Review and reflect on the following major topics in this course that address the various aspects of cultural diversity:

• Cultural Diversity
• Global presence
• Personal and Societal Mindsets
• Developing Diversity Consciousness
• Communication
• Leadership

  Select one of these topics for which you have a personal interest and write a scholarly article suitable for publication in a related HRM professional magazine or journal. Make sure to incorporate knowledge gained from the first seven weeks of this course. Consider the following:

• Why did you choose the topic you chose to write about?
• What do you recommend as an outcome to this topic or issue? How has this topic affected you personally at work or in your community?
• Why this particular topic is of interest to you and why society should also share this same concern as you.
• Evaluate how this topic relates to the human resources profession, and cite experiences and ideas that would support the need for this topic to be addressed at the human resources level within an organization.

  Support your paper with at least seven (7) resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included. Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

Length: 12-15 pages (not including title and reference pages).

Dismissal Meeting

Instructions

Imagine that you are an office manager and you have been tasked with the job of coordinating and leading the dismissal meeting for an employee layoff.

Requirements

Write a 6 to 8 page paper in which you:

• Propose three ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
• Describe a step-by-step process for conducting the dismissal meeting.
• Determine the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
• Create a chart that depicts the timeline for the disbursement of the compensation.
  • Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.
• Predict three ways that this layoff may affect the company.

Use at least three high-quality academic resources in this assignment. Consider beginning with your course textbook and quality sources that can be found in the Strayer Library.

Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

Option #1: Addressing Culture and HRM in Mergers

Why would a company based in Scandinavia that is very historic, rigid, as well as focused on employee welfare and security invest in an attempt to change the culture of a company in a country that is almost exactly the opposite in cultural, operational, and social responsibility focus? The scenario presented in “Merger, Culture, and HRM: The Marel and Stork Case” in chapter 8 (Edvardsson & Danielsdottir, 2012) is one that many organizations face as they work and potentially merge with companies with vastly different national and societal cultures.

Create an alternative solution to the one implemented by Marel that integrates the following:

• What steps would you suggest to a company to address work culture, general culture, and work processes that are so different from its own?
• What opportunities and potential traps might be part of your proposed alternative?
• What solution do you believe has the greatest potential for long-term success? The solution implemented by Marel or your alternative? Explain.

Your paper should be:

• Three to four pages in length (not including cover and reference pages).