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A.     What is the leadership paradox? Give some reasons why a leader can encounter difficulty in newly formed teams or groups using a participative management system. Support your discussion with at least two (2) external sources.

B.     Present a discussion of the strategies for encouraging participative management in the workforce, and how to implement each of these strategies. Support your discussion with at least two (2) external sources.

C.    What serious biases or misassumptions do groups that are involved in inter-team conflict sometimes experience? How do these biases and prejudices affect the ability of teams to accomplish their goals? Support your discussion with at least two (2) external sources.

This is the Practical Connection Assignment for this course. The purpose of this assignment is to help connect the concepts learned in this course to real-world situations that you may face as an IT professional.

For this assignment, you will write an essay addressing the applications and implications of a law or regulation discussed in this course to the conduct of your duties as an Information Technology professional. Your essay should address the following.

• a definition and overview your selected law or regulation
• consideration of the duties of an Information Technology professional
• an analysis of the application of that law or regulation in the context of the identified duties
• a reference page(s)

To complete this assignment, upload a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) that contains your complete paper. This is not a formal paper, but should maintain scholarly tone and rigor, and you MUST cite your references in the body of the paper using APA in-text citation format. A source is any paper or article that you will reference in your paper. If you need more information on APA format (for references list AND in-text citations), visit this reference: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

This assignment must be YOUR OWN WORK!  This is an individual assignment. Plagiarism detected in your work will be addressed as discussed in the plagiarism section of the syllabus. 

Here are a few details about the overall research paper.

• Your paper does not require a Title page.
• Your paper must include a Reference page.
• Your paper should NOT include an abstract.
• Your paper must include a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed resources (articles or papers)
  • Cited sources must directly support your paper (i.e. not incidental references)
• Your paper must be at least 500 words in length 
  • Reference pages are NOT included in calculating the paper length. (Neither are Title pages or abstracts if present).

If you are not sure how to identify peer-reviewed papers or articles, please visit the following resources:

http://diy.library.oregonstate.edu/using-google-scholar-find-peer-reviewed-articles
http://libguides.gwu.edu/education/peer-reviewed-articles

Write in essay format not in outline, bulleted, numbered or other list format.  

Use the five paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences. Include 3 quotes with quotation marks and cited in-line and in a list of references. Include an interesting meaningful title. 

Include at least one quote from each of 3 different articles.

Cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end. Do not copy without providing proper attribution (quotation marks and in-line citations).

Operations Security

IT Policy Compliance and Compliance Technologies

Discuss tracking, monitoring, and reporting of various compliance systems and explain the relevance of such compliance systems. 

What would your story look like if someone asked you to present the relation of the analytical view to its paradigm.

Analyze your story from the perspective of the Virtual Business Model.

400 words with 3 references. 

Students will create a Disaster Recovery Plan for either the organization they work for or one they wish to work for in the future.  The plan will follow the template/example provided.

 Student should request prior authorization of company to be addressed to ensure that all students are working on unique companies.

**Even though this is a technical document, for academic purposes, all sources should be cited and referenced.

Pinto – Case Study 14.1 (516-517) – New Jersey Kills Hudson River Tunnel Project

Note if you already did this case study in a prior course you can instead complete another journal article review instead (on an article that you haven’t done a review on previously – be sure to relate it to a topic from the course).

This assignment involves that the student read the case study and answer all questions at the end of the case study in a 4-5 page paper. Your answers must include substantial support from at least two (2) scholarly journal articles on project management. See below for advice on how to find these journal articles. Refer to the course schedule matrix for due dates for all case assignments. All case study assignments are due at 11:59 p.m. EST (Sunday) on the assigned week.

This course requires that the student is able to conduct weekly online library research by utilizing UC’s Library (online) in order to locate scholarly journals such that the student can successfully complete weekly papers regarding cases and/or articles in project management, and such that the student can engage in the weekly assignments.  The following is one example of how to navigate iLearn and the online Library in order to conduct research:

Log onto your course on iLearn

Go to the home page for this course

Click on the “Library Resources” icon in the left-hand column of this webpage, This will open the Library webpage.

Under the search boxes for the UC Mega Search click the box to the left of the phrase Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Articles. Then click the Search box.

This will give you a Basic Search page. Under the Search boxes click Advanced Search.

The Advanced Search will appear with three (3) search boxes.

In the first box type “project management”

Change the “Select a Field (optional)” selection to “SO Journal Source/Title”.

In the second box type any of your search terms (“scope”, monitoring”, etc.)

Change the “Select a Field (optional)” to “TX All Text”.

You can either add an additional search term in the third box or hit the blue Search button.

This will bring up a large selection of potential articles based upon your search parameters. You can narrow down your search by using additional search terms.

 Every paper typed in this course should be in APA formatting (title page, reference page, NO abstract page, in-text citations, running head, page numbers, Times New Roman 12 font, 1 inch margins, double-spacing, etc…).  Points will be deducted for papers that are not typed in APA formatting.  Also, every paper in this course needs to be based on research from a scholarly source that is retrieved from UC’s Library.  Your weekly research papers should include two sources, the textbook and the scholarly case/article that you found.  Papers that are not based on a scholarly source(s) will receive a grade of “0.”   

 
After reading chapter 3, analyze the history of Caesar Cypher and its impact on cryptography. You must use at least one scholarly resource.  Every discussion posting must be properly APA formatted. 

How do you feel blockchain will change the global economy or will it?  Explain your answer.

This week, you will continue building the components of your business requirements document for Hollywood Organic Co-op. Last week you outlined how to electronically move data around in an EDMS. This week, you will further analyze Hollywood Organic Co-op’s workflow process as the e-documents move through the life cycle, with a focus on the disposition of the documents.

Create a 2- to 3-page list in which you:

Define the policies to apply to documents so that document-related controls are audited, documents are retained or disposed of properly, and content important to the organization is protected.

Describe how documents are converted as they transition from one stage to another during their life cycles.

Explain how e-documents are treated as corporate records that must be retained according to legal requirements and corporate guidelines.

Recommend tools that are required to support disposing of information assets.