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In every course you take at PG, you are a member of a learning community. All members are working to strengthen their professional skills and achieve their academic and career goals. Discussion allows you to see new perspectives and achieve further personal growth. Discussion Boards are an important part of your learning, allowing you to asynchronously interact with your classmates and instructor.

Using the assigned readings and supplemental academic research, you will address the topics presented on the Discussion Board. Be sure to review the Discussion Board rubric to review all expectations.

Access the Unit 3 Discussion Board

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Research Paper Assignment
You are required to complete a double spaced, 5-7 page Research Paper using the APA style
of writing. The paper can address any current issue from the field of Management Information Systems. It should have a minimum of 4 references and citations from scholarly journals, industry trade publications, or U.S. Government published resources. The Research Paper is due in Week 8. The Research Paper is worth 200 points or 20% of your grade. The following will be assessed: 

1.The extent and quality of research
2.Balance of fact (from literature) and opinion
3.Quality of writing (level of readability, grammar, spelling)
4.Quantity of effort 

5. The acceptability of perspectives in the theory and practice
The structure of your paper should contain at minimum the following (formatted in alignment with APA guidelines).
1.Title Page
2.Abstract
3.Body
a.Introduction
b.Review of the Literature
c.Summary and Analysis
4.References

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

• Human Resources, Competitive Advantage, and Global Talent

Discussion Questions

Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link “Doing Discussion Questions Right” and any specific instructions for this topic.

Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your classmates’ responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses in the Discussion Area.

Introduction:

By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub-questions of each bullet point. The sub-questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your peers have already posted so that we can engage in several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to reuse the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

Tasks:

Question 1:

Evaluate the correlation of a competitive strategy, an organizational structure, and an HRM orientation.

Question 2:

Analyze an emerging market and a developed market.

Submission Details:

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

Your initial posting should be addressed at 500–1,000 words as noted in the attached PDF. Submit your document to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.

Set up a linear system and solve for the following problems:

1. The sum of two integers is 41 and their difference is 5. Find the integers.

2. The sum of two integers is 74. The larger is 13 less than twice the smaller. Find the two integers.

3. A $5,000 principal is invested in two accounts, one earning 1% interest and another earning 6% interest. If the total interest for the year is $170, then how much is invested in each account?

4. A cash register contains $10 bills and $50 bills with a total value of $1080. If there are 28 bills total, then how many of each does the register contain?

5. Pens are sold in a local store for 80 cents each. The factory has $1200 in fixed costs plus 5 cents of additional expense for each pen made. Assuming all pens manufactured can be sold, find the break-even point.

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 ControllingPMO 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 #2: PMO Planning Results Presentation

For the assignment Option #2, develop a multimedia-rich presentation to address the Module 4 Common Assignment Requirements.

• Your multimedia-rich presentation must contain logically cohesive flow including audio, video, and graphical content.
• The length of the presentation, beyond the title and reference portions, should be 8 slides with speaker notes (or narration transcript) which should be equivalent to five to seven minutes of narrated presentation.
• Please present your content clearly, concisely, and cohesively. The presentation must be submitted as a completely self-contained file (e.g., PowerPoint, Screencast-O-Matic, or Prezi) or as a link to a hosted Internet site.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least four current (within 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.
• Format your submission per the C (Links to an external site.)SU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.), which includes an introduction and conclusion.

You may wish to review the Visual Presentations (Links to an external site.) section in the CSU Global Writing Center for help creating, formatting, and recording audio for your presentation according to the 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.

Interview 2 grandparents. Compare what their expectations of grandparenting have been as compared with the reality of the experience.

Present you findings and analysis in a full 2 page typed. Double spaced report.

Using a texas prison, analyze the six (6) rules for evaluating needs and solutions based on fact and evidence and how they can be applied to the workplace. Choose at least two (2) tools and two (2) techniques that you feel would benefit the organization. Develop a plan that could be used to introduce and utilize the tools and techniques into the workplace.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

·  Write at least 4 pages using Microsoft Word in APA style.

·  Use font size 12 and 1” margins.

·  Include cover page and reference page.

·  Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

Discussion #2

Directions:  Reflect on each of the previous seven weeks. Briefly describe seven leadership concepts (one from each week) that you can apply to your leadership career. Be as specific as you can.  Consider both information from the course materials and the experiences you had in your group work.  Whenever referencing concepts from course materials, be sure to provide in-text citations and references. Post due by Saturday at 11:59 p.m. 

Respond to a minimum of three classmates by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time in the following manner: select ONE of the concepts highlighted by your classmate and describe how you could also use that new knowledge in your leadership career.

(Note the Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. Discussion deadline.)

Completing the Discussion

• Read the grading rubric for the project.  Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.
• Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.
• Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotation from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You are to put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA in-text citation format,  to the source document. In other words, once you paraphrase a source document, the source document must be shown in an in-text citation.  
• Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotation from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You are to put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA in-text citation format,  to the source document. In other words, once you paraphrase a source document, the source document must be shown in an in-text citation.  
• Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks.  Paraphrase means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA  in-text citation format, to the source document.  Not using direct quotation marks means that there should be no passages with quotation marks and instead the source material is paraphrased as stated above. 
• Provide the page or paragraph number when using in-text citations.  Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.   
• You may only use the course material from the classroom.  You may not use books or any resource from the Internet.

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   Assignment 2: Position Paper Two – Media and Society

   
  This is the second of two (2) position papers based on the following scenario to be completed in this course.
  Again,  imagine that you are running for a state office (e.g., governor,  senator, or Congressional representative) and you have to prepare a  position paper for a debate on controversial issues in the news. [Select  one (1) of the topics addressed in Weeks 5-9 of this class.]  Remember  that you are addressing a significant segment of your state’s  population and you want to be elected to public office, so your topic  will have to have a broad appeal, such as public trust and the media,  the loss of privacy, safeguarding the First Amendment, online  harassment, and the dangers of privatizing public information, among  other topics from those chapters.
   
  You  will want your position paper to demonstrate critical thinking, sound  logic, valid claims, personal passion, and credible support that is  cited correctly because the paper will be provided to the news media  before the debate and will be scrutinized by the media and reported on  regarding these criteria. 
   
  Write a two to three (2-3) page (500 to 750 words) paper in which you:
   

1. Introduce  your position using a thesis statement in the first paragraph,  including a quote, question, or statistic from your reliable sources and  an overview of the main points you will cover. (It’s important to grab  the audience’s interest and inform the audience of what the main and  support points are.) 
2. Provide two or three (2-3) major points to support your thesis statement. (Put each major point in a separate paragraph.)
3. Provide one (1) paragraph in which you identify and answer an expected argument against your view. 
4. Organize arguments and support your claims effectively. 
5. Demonstrate  personal passion for your position and critical thinking with  persuasive language, sound logic, valid claims, and credible support for  the claims. 
6. Use  the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to  locate and provide two to three (2-3) credible and reliable sources (in  addition to the textbook) about current events, which have been  published in the last five (5) years and are cited correctly in the  position paper. (Wikipedia, dictionaries, and encyclopedias are unacceptable and will not count toward your number of credible sources.)
7. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
   Be  typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references..Include  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover  page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment  page length.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
   Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues involving mass media and society. 

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in media and society.
• Write clearly and concisely about media and society using proper writing mechanics.