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For this unit assignment, write an essay on social styles following the steps below.

Open the “Identifying Social Style” inventory (Word document) by clicking here. Answer each question as to whether you feel each item describes you, using the scale of 1 for Strongly Disagree to 5 for Strongly Agree. On the second page of the form, use the two charts to tally your scores. For example, if you marked a question as 2 – Disagree, then write two points for that question in the appropriate chart. The first chart determines your assertiveness score and the second chart determines your responsiveness score. Scores above 34 indicate high assertiveness or responsiveness. Scores between 26 and 34 indicated moderate assertiveness. Scores below 26 indicate low assertiveness or responsiveness.

Using your scores as a jumping off point for the essay, begin your essay by describing different ways of responding to others, including what steps you would need to style flex.

Share your scores with a family member or friend. Evaluate his or her perceptions in your essay. How did he or she consider the scores accurate or not accurate? What perceptions or suggestions did he or she have about your social style?

Describe how your social style affects your listening skills and how you can improve as a listener. Describe how style flexing can assist with communication effectiveness.

Your essay should be a minimum of three pages, not counting the title or reference pages. Remember to use APA style with citations and references from the textbook and other sources.   

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• Conduct a case study analysis on the different characteristics of the supply chain strategy of a company you choose from a list of possibilities, and provide that analysis in a Word document of approximately 800–1000 words.

All operational activities begin with an estimate of what customer demands will be. Production schedules, modes of transportation, warehouse space, and other supply chain activities are all dependent on the accuracy of the company’s demand forecasting. The information management system must provide thorough, accurate, and timely information so that supply chain managers can prepare and execute short and long-term plans. Satisfying the customer is the No. 1 challenge for all demand forecasters.

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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Design a supply chain to support an organizational strategy. o Describe an organization’s business model.o Explain an organization’s supply chain strategy.• Competency 2: Improve efficiency in the supply chain. o Analyze the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain.o Explain the importance of aggregate planning to an organization’s supply chain and its partners.o Describe the role demand forecasting plays in an organization’s supply chain strategy.o Explain how pricing promotions are used to change demand.• Competency 4: Communicate in a professional manner that is consistent with the expectations for supply chain managers and participants. o Exhibit proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources• Questions to Consider 

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

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• For the following questions, refer to Fujitsu Limited’s case study, “Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc. Customer Success,” listed in the Resources. o What is the role that demand forecasting plays in Sony’s supply chain strategy?o What factors make a demand forecasting strategy necessary, and how is Sony able to be more responsive to its customers due to this SCM strategy?• For the following questions, refer to Hitachi Consulting’s article, “Six Key Trends Changing Supply Chain Management Today: Choosing the Optimal Strategy for Your Business,” listed in the Resources. o From your perspective, what are the two most important trends from the list of six? o Why do you feel it has the most impact on supply chain management today?o What is a real life example of a company that has been impacted by each of the two trends that you have selected?• For this assessment, consider that you work for a company that develops and sells case studies and case study analyses. Your company’s primary customers are colleges and universities wanting to use them within their courses, but your company also has customers using them for management training and development. Your manager asked you to conduct research and develop a case study analysis. She’s specifically interested in you doing the analysis on one of the companies from this list:• L. L. Bean.• Amazon.com.• Starbucks.• Intel.• Johnson and Johnson.

Research and write about the company that you have selected from the above list.

You and your manager discussed the high-level outline of your analysis and agreed you should address the following items. As the basis for your research, you can use any of the resources noted in this course, in the Capella library, and on the Internet:

• Describe the organization’s business model (particularly related to their supply chain strategy) and provide a diagram or visual to explicitly describe that same business model.• Compare and contrast the organization’s supply chain strategy with another organization’s strategy.• Analyze the global challenges the organization faces in its supply chain and discuss strategies to minimize the challenges.• Explain and validate the importance of aggregate planning to the organization’s supply chain and its partners.• Analyze the role demand forecasting plays in the organization’s supply chain strategy.• Analyze how pricing promotions are used to change demand.

Based on the intended audience, your report should be well organized and written in clear, succinct language. Target 800–1000 words. Attributing sources in your professional and academic work supports your analysis and conclusions and demonstrates ethical behavior and academic honesty. Following APA rules for attributing sources provides consistency and ensures that readers can locate original sources if desired.

Academic Integrity and APA Formatting

As a reminder related to using APA rules to ensure academic honesty:

12. When using a direct quote (using exact or nearly exact wording), you must enclose the quoted wording in quotation marks, immediately followed by an in-text citation. The source must then be listed in your references page.13. When paraphrasing (using your own words to describe a non-original idea), the paraphrased idea must be immediately followed by an in-text citation and the source must be listed in your references page.

SCM Case Analysis: Forecasting and Planning Scoring Guide

SCM Case Analysis: Forecasting and Planning Scoring Guide 

Criteria 

Non-performance 

Basic 

Proficient 

Distinguished 

Describe an organization’s business model.

Does not identify an organization’s business model.

Identifies an organization’s business model, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Describes an organization’s business model.

Provides a diagram or visual to explicitly describe an organization’s business model. 

Explain an organization’s supply chain strategy.

Does not identify an organization’s supply chain strategy.

Identifies an organization’s supply chain strategy, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Explains an organization’s supply chain strategy.

Compares and contrasts an organization’s supply chain strategy with another organization’s strategies. 

Analyze the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain.

Does not identify the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain.

Identifies the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain, but does not explain their significance or impact.

Analyzes the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain.

Analyzes the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain and discusses strategies to minimize the challenges. 

Explain the importance of aggregate planning to an organization’s supply chain and its partners.

Does not identify the importance of aggregate planning to an organization’s supply chain and its partners.

Identifies the importance of aggregate planning to an organization’s supply chain and its partners, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Explains the importance of aggregate planning to an organization’s supply chain and its partners.

Validates the importance of aggregate planning to an organization’s supply chain and its partners. 

Describe the role demand forecasting plays in an organization’s supply chain strategy.

Does not identify the role demand forecasting plays in an organization’s supply chain strategy.

Identifies the role demand forecasting plays in an organization’s supply chain strategy, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Describes the role demand forecasting plays in an organization’s supply chain strategy.

Analyzes the role demand forecasting plays in an organization’s supply chain strategy. 

Explain how pricing promotions are used to change demand.

Does not explain how pricing promotions are used to change demand.

Explains how pricing promotions are used, but does not connect the explanation to change demand.

Explains how pricing promotions are used to change demand.

Analyzes how pricing promotions are used to change demand. 

Exhibit proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources.

Does not exhibit proficiency in writing and critical thinking; does not appropriately attribute source.

Exhibits inconsistent proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and appropriately attributing sources.

Exhibits proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources.

Exhibits proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources, and supports analysis with relevant research. 

Appraise the key functions of Human Resources Management (HRM) and state your opinion as to whether or not HRM should be part of the strategic planning process for medical group practices. Support your rationale with specific examples.

Application: Responding Organizations

The Stafford Act specifically points to national agencies’ involvement in crisis responding. These agencies include the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army along with others. The National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) is one of the oldest crisis response agencies; it was originally established to aid crime victims. Professionals at responding organizations have a number of intervention models available to them. Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) is a model that has been subject to some criticism because the usefulness of a debriefing or a reliving of a crisis is not always appropriate or helpful. More recently, Psychological First Aid was developed by the National Center for PTSD and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network as an evidence-informed modular approach for intervening with children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism. In this Application Assignment, you explore both responding organizations and the crisis intervention models they employ.

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review Chapters 13 and 17 in your course text, Crisis Intervention Strategies, and focus on which types of agencies or organizations would be helpful during a disaster/crisis.
• Review the article, “Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended, and Related Authorities,” paying particular attention to the sections describing response teams and relief organizations.
• Review the article, “In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: Delivering Crisis Mental Health Services to Host Communities,” focusing on multicultural lessons learned. Think about how you would address those using various models of crisis management.
• Review the article, “Preparation, Action, Recovery: A Conceptual Framework for Counselor Preparation and Response in Client Crises,” and pay attention to phases of crisis reactions and interventions.
• Review the article, “Toward a Positive Perspective on Violence Preventions in Schools: Building Connections,” and think about which violence-prevention models would work best with children.
• Research crisis management organizations’ crisis-intervention models, such as the American Red Cross’s model, and think about how they compare with each other.
• Review the American Red Cross model and select an additional model with which to compare it in this Assignment.
• Think about the recommendations you might make to counselors about choosing a crisis-intervention model.

The assignment: (3-5 pages)

• Briefly describe the second organization you chose (the organization other than the Red Cross).
• Explain the similarities and differences between the American Red Cross model and the other one you selected in terms of their elements and applications.
• Explain what recommendations you might make to aid counselors in terms of their selection and/or use of the models.

Articles

• Article: FEMA. (2007). Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended, and Related Authorities. Retrieved from http://www.fema.gov/pdf/about/stafford_act.pdf
• Article: Marbley, A. F. (2007). In the wake of Hurricane Katrina: Delivering crisis mental health services to host communities. Multicultural Education, 15(2), 17-23.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

PowerPoint presentation consisting of 5 slides not including the cover slide and the reference slide. Every slide needs to include 100 words .

Times New roman 12-point and APA Format.

DeVito, J. A. (2016). The interpersonal communication book (14th ed.). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu

• This text is a Constellation™ course digital materials (CDM) title.

  prepare a brief outline in which you will draft the main content areas to be examined in greater detail in the Final Project. To begin, select one of the following groups in need from which you will base your outline:

• Children and families
• The elderly
• The homeless
• Mental illness
• Physical disability

Prepare an outline that identifies (lists) and describes each of the content areas below (three to five sentences for each area) that you might use with clients from this group if you were a human services professional. Some of these areas will be addressed in later weeks, which will require you to refer to specific chapters of The Interpersonal Communication Book.

Communication Book:

• Describe one communication theory that can be applied in a health and human services setting.
• Describe an effective verbal communication technique in a health and human services setting (Chapter 4) and how you would use it.
• Describe an effective nonverbal communication technique in a health and human services setting (Chapter 5) and how you would use it.
• Describe one empathy skill in interpersonal and group settings (e.g., one-on-one client interaction, facilitating a group session, etc.) (Chapter 6) and how you would use it in both situations.
• Describe the impact of family, culture, and gender related to your communication with clients (varies by Chapter).

The Summative Assessment Outline:

• Must be three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

What does “white anti-racist” mean? How can guilt get in the way? And what’s all this talk about being “colorblind”? Teaching Tolerance asked community activists to share their thoughts on these questions, and others. Their answers shine light on the concepts of comfort, power, privilege and identity.

Read the following panel discussion on race and social justice, and then address the following discussion questions.

1.  Guilt and white privilege, these activists say, can sometimes get in the way of white people being effective allies in the struggle against racism. What qualities or actions can help white people be effective allies?

2.  The activists all reject the idea of “colorblindness.” Many people contribute the “goal” of colorblindness to a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Was Dr. King advocating that people ignore color? Ignore racism? Why?

As noted in the text, the concept of affirmative action originated with President Lyndon Johnson’s issuance of Executive Order 11246 in 1964, the same year the landmark Civil Rights Act was enacted. While affirmative action has been upheld by courts in a number of cases, it has also been criticized and overturned in a number of decisions. 

• What are the differences between a judicial (i.e.      court-ordered) affirmative action plan and a voluntary affirmative action      plan?