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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. 

Based upon the course readings, supplementary materials, and your own literature search via the online library, write the following:

• Discuss  the implementation of your new change initiative.
• Provide at  least 2 scholarly resources to support your response

Attached you have my last Assignment# 5, along with Instructions and Rubrics. Please! pay very close attention to instructions, especially where the PowerPoint requirement is concerned. Please, pay attention to the highlighted portions and the very IMPORTANT comments in red for emphasis. I have also attached a narrative example as well as the PowerPoint to support the narrative. Also, make sure that the PowerPoint presentation has speaker notes to support actions being made that cannot go on the slide itself, and support that speaker note with a citation. There should be a minimum of twenty (20) pages of PowerPoint, not including the Cover and Reference page. Therefore, it should be 22 PowerPoint pages all combined. Also, make sure that the paper is at least three full pages, not counting cover and reference page, making a total of 5 pages for the paper. If any other questions or concerns, let me know. Thank you.

1. What symptoms of resistance to change have you experienced? Have you experienced both active and passive forms? Have you experienced them as a resistor yourself (as a recipient of change)? Have you experienced them as someone responsible for the management of change (as an initiator of change)?

2. Which of the various reasons for resisting change do you believe to be the most common? What are your “top three” in this regard?

3.Which of the various reasons for resisting change do you believe to be the most difficult to deal with (as a manager)? What are your “top three” in this regard?

4. When senior managers resist change at the strategic level, they are in a position to cause more damage than employees resisting changes at the operational level. Have you worked in a company where you believe that management resistance to change may have existed? As a manager yourself, what would you try to do to prevent this from happening?

5. Which approach to the management of resistance attracts you? What is the reason for your choice? For example, is it because you think it to be the most effective or does it also relate to a view that you have about how people should be managed?

Read the following two cases: Ethical Issues in Using the Internet in Research—1 PDF and Ethical Issues in Using the Internet in Research—2 PDF. Address the following:

• Identify three ethical issues that might arise in the conduct of the research present in the cases. For each, explain why it is an ethical issue and how it may pose a challenge in conducting the research.
• Select one of the issues you identified and describe how you would address this issue to comply with both legal and professional standards of practice.

You are in the role of a seasoned supervisor who has been invited to participate in a poster session at an upcoming leadership conference for managers and supervisors. Poster sessions at conferences allow professional presenters in a specific field to share their knowledge on a topic using a creative poster. The poster can be a combination of condensed text, tables, graphs, pictures, and other presentation formats as long as it makes the point.

 The purpose of your poster presentation is to share effective practices with fellow supervisors to motivate employees who resist efforts to support positive organizational change. Explain how supervisors at various levels of their organization can successfully do this. With this in mind, using the assignment template provided or any template you find appropriate, create a 1-page poster for the session that is informational, visually interesting, and engaging. Your poster should include a short title, an abstract, information on your topic, and any conclusions or recommendations.

 The length should be between 300-500 words total. This would allow a person to read your poster quickly to grasp the concepts in no more than 5-10 minutes. 

 Support your work with at three scholarly resources. Include a separate Word file with your reference list.

In last week’s Discussion, you proposed a project idea and explained why it might be attractive to funders. You also distinguished it from other projects that have tried to solve the same problem or meet the same need. As you have no doubt discovered, locating an RFP that aligns to your project idea is a big task. The search can be complex, requiring skilled use of key words, the capability to navigate different websites, and the ability to critically evaluate a funder’s mission and goals as well as its guidelines for funding. You also need to decide whether public or private funding is most desirable for you and consider why.

At this point in your review of the literature, it is a good idea to begin thinking about how you will support the need in your proposal. Proof of need might include numerical data/statistics (e.g., client-related, local, state, national). In other cases, surveys and/or focus groups might be required for collecting preliminary data that will support the need. As you look at evidence-based practices and/or what is currently being done to solve the problem or address the need, keep in mind that a funder will not fund an identical project, but if an applicant is proposing to build on what someone else has done, that might be acceptable.

With consideration to feedback received from your colleagues and to your continued review of the literature, in this Assignment you will finalize your project idea. In deciding upon a project, it is important to consider carefully the breadth of elements that will be addressed in the proposal. Although you will not have worked out all the issues yet, you should have confidence that you will be able to resolve them. From this project idea, you will continue through the steps of writing a grant proposal. Additionally, considering the feedback you received from your colleagues for the three RFPs you posted in last week’s discussion, and to the continued analysis of your search results for state, federal, and foundation grants, you will finalize your funder selection.

For this Assignment:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources.
• Review the Gitlin & Lyons textbook pp. 82–83 for information on Abstracts.
• Review a wide variety of grant RFPs. The funding agency grant can be either an active or a closed grant.
• While reviewing the RFPs, think of how you could use each grant in a project.
• When you find an RFP that matches your project idea, review the literature to determine if your project idea has been addressed in the way you are proposing. If it has, then move on until you have a novel project idea that can be funded by an RFP.

In a 3- to 5-page paper, address the following:

Part I:

• Provide the title or description of the grant for which you will apply. Add the most appropriate hyperlink (URL) for identifying the RFP.
• What makes you confident that this RFP is worth pursuing?
• How did you evaluate the RFPs?
• What type of search engine did you use?
• What are the selected funding agency’s goals and applicant eligibility?
• Finally, explain why you selected this RFP.

Part II:

• Locate the abstract section in the APA course paper template. In the abstract section of the template, write an abstract that does not go over one page and that includes the following:
  • Describe your project. What are you proposing to do?
  • Why is it significant and innovative?
  • Explain what led you to this project.
  • Describe the purpose of your project and why you believe it should be funded.
  • Explain how and why your project is a better solution than what is currently being done to solve the problem.

One standard that corporations use to evaluate their performance against their competitors is the set of rankings developed by Fortune magazine. These include the Fortune 500, the 100 Best Companies to Work For, and other lists. The public also uses these rankings to decide to what companies they should give their business.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Discuss who gains and who loses when an economy opens for trade.
• Explain what determines exchange rates in the short and long run.

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

*** CLASSMATE RESPONSES ATTACHED***

 175 words to Discussion Post

125 Words Per Classmate Response (250 in total)

Planning Considerations for the HR Project 

Assignment 6

Overview

At this point, you’ve organized your HR project team and you are  familiar with the importance of leading and managing the project and  team. It is now time to plan your project, which happens to be a large  and critical part of project management. Project planning tends to be  collaborative and integrative in that many factors, such as scope,  resourcing, budgeting, and risk, need to be considered.

Instructions

Write a 5–6 page paper in which you:

1. Define and discuss scope and scheduling as they each relate to  project management, and provide a statement of importance to your  project team so they know the relevance of each task.
2. Review the behavioral skills associated with project resourcing  listed in the textbook in Section 9.1, and select any four of the skills  you consider more critical. Be sure to explain why.
3. Explain to the management team and your project team how you have  determined the budget associated with project costs. How are costs  aggregated? How would you explain determining cash flow for separate  activities? Be specific with your responses.
4. Discuss at least three ways the project manager is able to identify possible project risks.
5. Go to Strayer University Online Library to locate at least three quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources for this assignment.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards  (SWS). For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer  Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Review project management tasks and skills, including project scope, scheduling, resourcing, and determining costs and risks.

Learning Activity: Creating a Severance Package

Completing this activity will help you prepare for the upcoming assignment in Week 7. Think of it as practice for the assignment. As such, focus on content, not formatting. Your paper should be no more than 1 to 2 pages in length.

For this activity:

• Create a severance package for a separated employee in a fictitious company.
  • At a minimum, include:
    • Position differences.
    • Years of service.
    • Actual compensation amounts.
    • Any additional benefits that you want to add.
• Determine whether severance pay is taxable.
• Create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation.
  • Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.

Use at least one quality academic resource in this activity. Consider beginning with your course textbook and quality sources that can be found in the Strayer Library.

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Read and answer the question at the end of each Discussion, IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

There are 2 short Discussion Topics

When answering the questions, answer them within the the paragraphs.

DO NOT just answer the questions.

Answers HAVE to be, NO LESS, than 100 words. 

NO PLAGIARISM!!!!!! 

The 4th Discussion is a Case Study. 

Answer the questions at the end of the reading within your writing. DO NOT just answer the questions. 

This case study has to be in your own words.

It CAN NOT be less than 100 words.

NO PLAGIARISM!!!!!!