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 Research suggests that being a good public speaker can help individuals grow their business, advance their careers, and form strong collaborations (Tsaousides 2017). However, communicating your ideas clearly and presenting them in public can prove to be a challenge. For this forum, discuss what researchers believe are the top reasons for public speaking anxiety or fear. Determine if any of these reasons are applicable to you and what would be the best remedy to overcome these fears. 

Information Privacy  

1. Watch the video “Massive cyberattack strikes Anthem” (1 min 43 s.)  
2. Review  the Case Study: Practical Applications of an Information Privacy Plan  on page 443 of the textbook. Based on the video, your readings this  week, and the case study, please respond to the following questions:  

• What information privacy principals have been breached?  
• How were the information privacy principals breached?  
• What would you do to address the situation?

NOTE: MORE THAN ONE ANSWER POSTED CHOOSE ANY

Choose 1 of the following questions to answer and include 2 references. Your post should be at least 250 words.   The references (in APA format) are not included in the word count! 

Discussion 1

Identify strategies and resources that contribute to older adults’ well-being and mental health

Discussion 2

Discuss death and bereavement as well as attitudes about death and dying across the lifespan

Stereotype Threat Definition

Steele (2010) reports that stereotype threat affects many types of identity groups across multiple performance areas:

The effect has been observed in women, African Americans, white males, Latino Americans, third-grade American school girls, Asian-American students, European males aspiring to be clinical psychologists (under the threat of negative stereotypes about men’s ability to understand feelings), French college students, German grade school girls, U.S. soldiers on army bases in Italy, women business school students, white and black athletes, older Americans, and so on. It has been shown to affect many performances: math, verbal, analytic, and IQ test performance, golf putting, reaction time performance, language usage aggressiveness in negotiations, memory performance, the height of athletic jumping, and so on (pp. 97–98).

Define stereotype threat. Use the Steele (2010) text and summarize one group’s experience with stereotype threat. (For example, African-Americans, whites, Asians, women, older persons, or lower socioeconomic class.)

Prepare:

• Read Module 1 in your course textbook and At Sea in a Deluge of Data from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Complete the TATIL Exam (Links to an external site.) and view your report.

Accessibility Statement: If you have a disability that impacts your ability to successfully participate in this or any other course activity, please provide your instructor with your authorized Accommodation Request form from the Office of Student Access and Wellness so that he/she can discuss and arrange an alternative plan with you.

• Complete the APA Skill Check – In-Text Citation (Links to an external site.) and APA Skill Check – Creating References (Links to an external site.).

Reflect:

• Make a list of the different components of information literacy covered in your textbook.
• Consider how each of these components affect your daily life and your chosen career.  Pay particular attention to the information literacy skills that employers expect from their employees.
• Review your TATIL exam report and consider how the information provided there relates to the information you read in Module 1 of your textbook.  Think about how you can implement your personal recommendations from the report.

Write:

• Explain your understanding of information literacy. Choose three example concepts or skills from Module 1 of your course textbook and explain how these concepts illustrate your understanding. Be sure to cite your course textbook.
• Explain how these concepts apply to you as a college student. Why do students need to learn information literacy?
• Explain why these concepts apply to your personal or professional life and how you will apply them.

Your initial post must be at least 350 words and address all of the prompt’s elements.

You must cite and reference any sources that you use in your posts, including your textbook or any other sources of information that you use. Please refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) and Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) for help with citing and referencing your sources.

• Outline a five-step plan for designing a performance management program in your current organization or for a selected organization of your choice. Elaborate on each step.
• Recommend two best practices for evaluating an individual’s or team’s performance. Decide on two reward systems that are best aligned with increased performance of the individual or team. Provide a rationale for your response.

Discussion – Week 1

The Logic of Inference: The Science of Uncertainty

Describing and explaining social phenomena is a complex task. Box’s quote speaks to the point that it is a near impossible undertaking to fully explain such systems—physical or social—using a set of models. Yet even though these models contain some error, the models nevertheless assist with illuminating how the world works and advancing social change.

The competent quantitative researcher understands the balance between making statements related to theoretical understanding of relationships and recognizing that our social systems are of such complexity that we will always have some error. The key, for the rigorous researcher, is recognizing and mitigating the error as much as possible.

As a graduate student and consumer of research, you must recognize the error that might be present within your research and the research of others.

Post a very brief description (1–3 sentences) of the article you found and address the following:

1. Describe how you think the research in the article is useful (e.g., what population is it helping? What problem is it solving?).
2. Using Y=f(X) +E notation, identify the independent and dependent variables.
3. How might the research models presented be wrong? What types of error might be present in the reported research?

Be sure to support your Main Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.

Chapter 8-Case Study 2-Performance Management System Helps Freeport-McMoRan Switch Strategic Gears

Answer the following questions:

·  Why did Freeport-McMoRan need a performance management system? How might it have helped the company adjust its strategy?

·  Do you think a pen-and-paper performance management system could have been as effective as the web-based system Freeport-McMoRan adopted? Why or why not?

The following requirements must be met:

Write 1,500 words using Microsoft Word in APA 6th edition style.

Use an appropriate number of references to support your position, and defend your arguments. The following are examples of primary and secondary sources that may be used, and non-credible and opinion based sources that may not be used.

Primary sources such as government websites (United States Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Census Bureau, The World Bank), peer reviewed and scholarly journals in EBSCOhost (Grantham University Online Library) and Google Scholar.

Secondary and credible sources such as CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal, trade journals, and publications in EBSCOhost (Grantham University Online Library).

Non-credible and opinion based sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. should not be used.

Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased statements, information, etc.) in the paper and list each source on a reference page using APA style. An overview of APA 6th edition in-text citations, formatting, reference list, and style is provided here.

Download an APA sample paper from the Purdue OWL here.

View your assignment rubric.

EXPOSITORY PAPER. You are to write an expository essay on a contemporary issue facing the Army in one of three category Leadership usingyour personal experience and at least three references (Wikipedia IS NOT an acceptable reference) to support your context. This paper must set forth an argument concerning your own experience, in one of those three categories, in a clear and concise manner; using correct grammar, sentence structure, and word usage. Provide a coherent transition from one topic to the next using transition sentences.

Attached is the “observation” material for Portfolio #2.  Once again, after you’ve “done” them, select 3 values from them and write a full page on each of the three; then write a full page on what you think about these values.  Due date will be November 11 (on Blackboard).  Let me know ifi you have problems getting into the list!