For this assignment, first carefully review the required background materials. Make sure you are highly familiar with the main steps involved in action research and organizational development discussed in the readings. When you are finished reviewing the background materials, take a close look at the four scenarios below.

For each scenario below, think about the reasons why things did not work out well for the company in question. More specifically, think about which standard action research or organizational development step was not taken.

Your task for this assignment is not to explain what steps the organization should take—you would need to go into the company and do some lengthy action research in order to do this! Instead just review the standard action research and organizational development steps covered in the background materials and try to assess which key step was missing in the scenarios below.

Then write a 4- to 5-page paper addressing the following for each scenario:

1. What action research or organizational step was missing and
2. Why missing this step might have led to failure.

Make sure to discuss at least one of the required readings in your discussion of each scenario, and to cite all three of the required readings in your paper.

1. Sales have gone down at the XYZ Widget Corporation and nobody in the organization, including the CEO, seems to know why. They decide to hire an organizational development consultant to do some action research. The consultant and the CEO spend a lot of time discussing how to proceed. It is agreed that the consultant will look at many different types of data, including sales data and interviews with most employees. After interviewing a few employees, the consultant decides that the problem faced by this company is almost the same as one of his previous clients who underpaid its sales staff. The consultant writes up a report recommending a large pay increase for the sales staff, which is immediately implemented. However, six months later sales are still down.
2. HN Motors is a large manufacturer of both cars and motorcycles. Given the new demand for high mileage vehicles, the company has decided to develop a car/motorcycle hybrid that has three wheels and looks like a tiny race car. However, neither the car department nor the motorcycle department wants to take the lead and the project keeps getting stalled.

   HN Motors decides to hire a consultant to mediate the differences between the car and motorcycle departments. During interviews with both departments, the consultant finds that the car department doesn’t want to work on the hybrid vehicle because of safety concerns.

   The consultant recommends that they “split the difference” between the two departments and that a cross-functional team be created with an equal number of employees from both departments working on the project.

   HN Motors’ management likes this recommendation and pay the consultant, but say that they can take it from here and don’t need the consultant’s services anymore. A few months later the project is still stalled and they don’t know why. They call up the consultant to try to get him to come back, but by now he is busy working with other clients.

3. Dr. Joseph Hotshot is a leading management consultant who charges huge fees for his Extra Special Action Research System®. His patented system involves conducting a survey, using a standard set of questions, of every employee of any company that hires him. Then he conducts a special seminar to motivate the employees, modifying his motivational speeches for each client slightly based on the answers to the survey.

   One day the CEO of Ace Carpet Cleaning runs across Dr. Hotshot’s website and sees that he has a special 50% discount on his consulting services this month. Not wanting to miss out on this bargain, the CEO decides to hire him. All of the employees become very motivated by Dr. Hotshot’s speech and work very hard for a few weeks. But after a few months nothing has really changed and the CEO starts to wonder if the large consulting fee was worth it even with the 50% discount.

4. The Kooltrendy Internet software company has recently purchased Hardwrk, a competing Internet software company. Kooltrendy wants the merger to go through as smoothly as possible with minimal conflicts between employees of the two companies, so they have hired an organizational development consultant to look at ways to help ease this transition for all employees.

   Kooltrendy interviews several consultants, but settles on one consultant who has a lot of experience with these types of mergers. The consultant conducts extensive one-on-one interviews with employees as well as a large-scale survey that assesses employee values and attitudes. After carefully reviewing the survey and interview data, the consultant concludes that Kooltrendy has a very fun and laid-back corporate culture, whereas Hardwrk has a more competitive and serious corporate culture.

   Satisfied that it knows how to fix the problem, Kooltrendy immediately decides to implement “Fun Fridays” for Hardwrk employees that involve water gun fights, costume contests, or other activities every Friday in order to bring Hardwrk’s culture more in line with the laid-back culture of Kooltrendy. However, they are puzzled to see that every Friday more and more Hardwrk employees quit and they are unsure why the “Fun Friday” solution did not work.

 

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Competencies Addressed in This Assignment

• Competency 1: Examine criminal law and procedure.
• Competency 2: Articulate the historical development of criminal law.
• Competency 3: Distinguish between legal and social parameters in criminal law.
• Competency 4: Analyze the elements of a crime.
• Competency 5: Communicate effectively in writing.

Overview

The criteria in the Scoring Guide for this assignment are directly aligned to Competencies 1–4 for the course.

• Competency 1: Examine criminal law and procedure.
• Competency 2: Articulate the historical development of criminal law.
• Competency 3: Distinguish between legal and social parameters in criminal law.
• Competency 4: Analyze the elements of a crime.

Throughout the class, you have examined the rules of criminal procedure that govern its application and historical development of criminal law. Through various scenarios and analysis of specific crimes, you have learned to distinguish between the social and legal definitions of crime through the dissection of the various elements of crimes. The challenge was to delve deep into these scenarios from the perspective of a criminal justice professional and exchange opinions based on these analyses to further your learning.

Instructions

Prepare a 4- to 6-page paper (1–1.5 pages per competency for Competencies 1 through 4), focused on the course competencies and address two key areas of learning for each competency. Competency 5 will be showcased through your coverage of Competencies 1–4. This paper should showcase your learning proficiency and describe the importance of your learning relative to application in a career context. This assignment should be placed in your ePortfolio for future reference, and to demonstrate your learning connections for future employment purposes.

Be sure to review the Connecting Your Learning Scoring Guide to ensure you understand the criteria for this assignment.

Requirements

• Written communication: Must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Resources and citations: Format according to APA (current edition) guidelines.
• Required page count: 4–6, not including the title page or the references page.
• Required number of references: One reference per competency.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

 

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Try to include at least 5-7 professionals that you think might be effective way to help this patient obtains a better treat.. in other words use at least 5-7 professionals that will help in patient Get the best treatment. The attachment below is the list of professionals profile choose 5-7 of whichever you think apply to the treatement plan for this patient

Case Scenario: Outpatient Care

Despite her adversities and difficulties, Mrs. Fox did extremely well at Helen Hayes Hospital. She displayed only mild impairments to short-term memory, was able to functionally communicate with others, and regained most of the function of her right upper extremity. Furthermore, she learned how to use her prosthetic limb to walk again without the use of an assistive device.

Mrs. Fox was finally able to return to her home in Stony Point. She was elated to see her family and the home environment and was immediately greeted by her golden retriever, Sonny. Occupational, physical, and speech therapy services continued on an outpatient basis for the next 3 months to address any unresolved impairments.

One day, Mrs. Fox drove her customized mini-van to the local high school. Her son Jeff was playing in the first soccer game of the season. As Jeff was running for the ball, he twisted his knee and immediately fell to the ground. In a panic, Mrs. Fox stormed down toward the field but caught her left foot on the bleacher step. With adrenaline flowing through her body, Mrs. Fox hoisted herself back up to check on her son. After some time, it was determined that Jeff had sustained a mild strain of his knee. Although he was out for the rest of the game, Jeff would be back to playing after a few weeks of rest and rehabilitation.

The following day, Mrs. Fox stepped outside to take Sonny for a walk. For some reason, Sonny wouldn’t walk and the abrupt tension on the leash caused Mrs. Fox to firmly hit her left foot onto the ground. She immediately remembered that she had caught her left foot on a step the day before as she fell to the ground in pain. As she made her way back into the house, Mrs. Fox realized that her prosthetic was damaged during one of her recent falls and needed to be repaired. She also noticed that Sonny had not touched his food or water. After a check-up, it was determined that Sonny had a stomach virus from which he recovered in a few days.

Mrs. Fox eventually made it to a specialist to take a look at her foot. Radiographs demonstrated that she had sustained a fracture and needed to keep weight off of the foot for several weeks. While waiting for her foot to heal, Mrs. Fox spent most of her time reading and watching movies with her family.

Six weeks later, Mrs. Fox returned to the outpatient rehabilitation facility for treatment of her left foot. She mentioned to her therapist that she had also been experiencing headaches which increased in intensity when driving, watching television, and when eating/chewing. It was noted that Mrs. Fox’s posture had significantly changed for the worst since she was last assessed. After further assessment, Mrs. Fox was referred out for further testing as it appeared that changes to visual acuity may have led to poor posture, and poor posture may have led to TMJ dysfunction.

Based on the case scenario above, answer the following questions:

1. Of the health professionals discussed since the last case study, which may be involved in Mrs. Fox’s or her family member’s care?

2. What would be the role of each provider?

3. Why might providers need to communicate with one and other specific to this case?

4. How might they communicate?

5. What other healthcare team members, discussed prior to the last case study, might be involved and what would be their roles?

 

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Instructions:  Looking for some serious help in accounting assignment.  I needed honestly and will meet my dead line.  Respond to the following questions using grammatically correct language and appropriate APA citations. All questions need to be answer and with APA citations

Proficient-level:

-Identify and describe the three basic forms of business organizations.

-What are the advantages and disadvantages of each form of ownership?

Distinguished-level:

-Business entities can also be categorized by the type of business activities they perform. Identify and describe the three types. What do all three types have in common?

Question 2:

Proficient-level:

-Identify the primary objectives of every business.

-What are the four basic financial statements that measure the primary objectives of every business?

-Describe what information each statement presents and which of the primary objective(s) can be met through the information presented on the statement.

Distinguished-level:

-Describe the difference between an asset, liability, and equity on a company’s balance sheet.

Question 3:

Proficient-level:

-Identify the framework for the entire accounting process and describe its components and how they fit together to form this framework.

Distinguished-level:

-Define the nature of an accounting transaction and provide multiple examples of these transactions.

Question 4:

Proficient-level:

-To allow the accounting process to run smoothly, accountants must rely on a set of underlying concepts or assumptions. Identify and describe each of the five concepts or assumptions.

Distinguished-level:

-Match each of the concepts or assumptions to one or more of the financial statements that it applies to.

Question 5:

Proficient-level:

-Many accounting transactions will apply to one or more of the financial statements. In the case of the balance sheet, multiple account types can be affected. For each of the following items, provide an example of a transaction that would have the following effects on the items in a firm’s financial statements. Provide five correct responses:

-Increase an asset; decrease some other asset.

-Increase an asset; increase a liability.

-Decrease retained earnings; decrease an asset.

-Increase an asset; increase retained earnings.

-Decrease an asset; decrease a liability.

-Increase a liability; decrease retained earnings.

Distinguished-level:

-Correctly provide an example for all of the effects on the items in a firm’s financial statements.

Question 6:

Proficient-level:

-Consider this scenario. James Stevens was taking an accounting course at State University. Also, he was helping companies find accounting systems that would fit their information needs. He advised one of his clients to acquire a software computer package that could record business transactions and prepare financial statements. The licensing agreement with the software company specified that the basic charge for one site was USD 4,000 and that USD 1,000 must be paid for each additional site where the software was used. James was pleased that his recommendation to acquire the software was followed. However, he was upset that management wanted him to install the software at eight other sites in the company and did not intend to pay the extra USD 8,000 due the software company. A member of management stated, “The software company will never know the difference and, besides, everyone else seems to be pirating software. If they do find out, we will pay the extra fee at that time. Our expenses are high enough without paying these unnecessary costs.” James believed he might lose this client if he did not do as management instructed. Discuss whether you believe this is an ethical violation.

Distinguished-level:

-Identify any laws that may have been broken as a result of this

 

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