Academy of Careers and Technology the Nature of Things Discussion Writing Assignment Help

Assignment 1

Evaluating Employee Characteristics

This course has major project assignments due in Week 3 and Week 5. It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete them. Plan time to start the research and work on those assignments earlier than the week in which they are due.

Evaluating Employee Characteristics

Some research studies (Ilies & Judge, 2003; Saari & Judge, 2004) report that genetics play a very important part in whether an employee has a high level of job satisfaction. Their work suggests that the attitudes, personality, and values that a person brings to the workplace are better predictors of whether the employee will be satisfied than any of the external factors a company or manager might provide the employee. In fact, their studies indicate that a person with high satisfaction will generally report being highly satisfied, no matter the situation within the company. Similarly, a person who reports low satisfaction will consistently report low satisfaction, no matter what the company may do to increase the employee’s satisfaction.

If these studies are correct, then there would seem to be some rationality in only hiring applicants with positive personalities.

In this assignment, you will develop a ten item survey that will be given to all applicants at your company. The purpose of this survey is to determine whether the applicant is a positive or negative person. First determine what attitudes, personality characteristics, and values you want to look for based upon your reading and research. You may ask up to nine questions to determine those individual characteristics. Let question ten ask whether the applicant is satisfied with the company.

Once you’ve completed your survey, write a well-researched, convincing paper to be read by your company’s head of the Human Resources Department in which you do the following:

• Analyze how personality, values, and attitudes contribute to an employee’s satisfaction. Include support from your reading and research.
• Justify why you chose to include the questions you did. Explain how each question will contribute to determining whether the applicant is a positive person.
• Include your full survey as an appendix to your paper.

Submission Details:

• Submit your plan in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
• Name your document SU_MGT3002_W1_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

References:

Ilies, R., & Judge, T. (2003). On the heritability of job satisfaction: The mediating role of personality. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(4), pp. 750–759.
Saari, L., & Judge, T. (2004). Employee attitudes and job satisfaction. Human
Resource Management, 43(4), pp. 395–407.

You will receive feedback and suggestions from your facilitator.

Note: On the basis of the suggestions and feedback from your facilitator, refine your work for the course project going forward. If additional input is needed from your facilitator, please arrange for a consultation.

Assignment 2

Motivation

This course has major project assignments due in Week 3 and Week 5. It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete them. Plan time to start the research and work on those assignments earlier than the week in which they are due.

Employee Motivation

Select any four of the following motivation theories you read about this week:

• Self Determination Theory
• Goal Setting Theory
• Self-Efficacy Theory
• Equity Theory/Organizational Justice
• Employee Involvement
• Job Design

Based on research using the course text and other scholarly materials, write a paper that describes how you would use each theory to motivate your employees. Be very detailed and support what you say with research.

Submission Details:

• Submit your 3 to 4 page paper in Microsoft Word, using APA style.
• Support your responses with examples and research.
• Name your document SU_MGT3002_W2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Assignment 3

Multicultural Team

This course has major project assignments due in Week 3 and Week 5. It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete them. Plan time to start the research and work on those assignments earlier than the week in which they are due.

Recently, you have been assigned the task of assembling a multicultural, team in your organization. The purpose of the team is to design and implement a leadership development and succession process for the organization.

Based on research using the course text and other scholarly materials:

• Analyze the stages of group development the teams should expect to experience. At each stage, make recommendations that will help move the team into the next stage.
• Multicultural project teams often face problems with communication, expectations, and values. How do you think some of these challenges can be overcome?
• Explain some of the group decision-making challenges the team may experience and recommend ways to overcome them.
• Discuss at least three recommendations to help make these teams effective.

Submission Details:

• Submit your paper in a 4 to 5 page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
• Support your responses with examples and research.
• Name your document SU_MGT3002_W3_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Assignment 4

Leaders and Their Leadership Styles

This course has a major project assignment due in Week 5. It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete it. Plan time to start the research and work on the assignment earlier than the week in which it is due.

Leaders and Their Leadership Styles

This week you learned about a number of different leadership theories. Choose two of today’s leaders listed below and research on their leadership styles:

• Richard Branson
• Michael Dell
• Debbi Fields
• Bill Gates
• Suze Orman
• Donald Trump
• Meg Whitman
• Oprah Winfrey

For each leader, you choose, describe why these individuals are so successful and identify which theory or theories best exemplify their leadership style.

Find at least three to five articles that will support your research.

Submission Details:

• Submit your answers in a 5- to 6-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
• Support your work with examples and research.
• Name your document SU_MGT3002_W4_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Assignment 5

Organizational Behavior

The field of organizational behavior can be organized around three levels: individual level, team level, and organizational level. In other words, some theories focus on factors influencing individual behavior (e.g., personality, motivation). Some theories focus on factors influencing team or group behaviors (e.g., group development, conflict, roles). Still other theories focus on factors that tend to operate at an organizational level (e.g., structure, culture, leadership).

During the course, you have studied a variety of theories and perspectives at all these levels. Which ones seem most meaningful to you?

For your last paper:

• Select one theory or perspective that you have studied that seems to be an individual level theme. One that you have studied that seems to be a team level theme. And one that you have studied that seems to be an organizational level theme. Summarize what those theories are and why each pertains to its corresponding level (individual, team, or organization).

• Analyze those three theories based on this question: Why do people do what they do in organizations? That is, how do the theories you have selected help explain “organizational behavior?”

• What are the challenges, problems, or difficulties in behavior as suggested by each of your theories?

• What are the potential strategies and solutions (to the challenges) as suggested by your theories?

• How do your three theories seem to fit together? How do they seem to interact with each other? What important lessons can you derive from thinking about the interaction of the theories?

Submission Details:

• Submit your answers in a 6 to 8-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
• Support your work with examples and research.
• Name your document SU_MGT3002_W5_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

ALL WORK IS COMING FROM THE TEXTBOOK BELOW PLEASE FOLLOW!!! ALSO PLEASE USE CORRECT REFERENCES AS SHOWN!

Griffin, G. W., Phillips, J. M., Gully, S. M., (2020). Organizational behavior: Managing people and organizations (13th ed.). Cengage. ISBN: 9780357042502.

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Question 18 (1 point)

How much storage space is needed for Jan.?

Question 18 options:

	60,000 sq. ft.
	80,000 sq. ft.
	20,000 sq. ft.
	40,000 sq. ft.

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Question 19 (1 point)

After some algebra, ABC finds out that Feb. needs a total of 100,000 sq. ft. storage space. Therefore, ABC needs to rent some storage space from a public warehouse. How much does ABC pay for the public warehouse in Feb?

Question 19 options:

	$60,000
	$100,000
	$120,000
	$160,000

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Question 20 (1 point)

After some algebra, ABC finds out that March needs a total of 60,000 sq. ft. storage space. Therefore, ABC will fully utilize its own private warehouse and will not need to rent any space from a public warehouse. In March, what’s ABC’s total monthly cost which includes amortized fixed cost and variable cost?

Question 20 options:

	$60,000
	$199,000
	$120,000
	$109,000

First, read and write Dunn’s reading (see attached file), then write the rest 4 readings, each these 4 readings write one paragraph for section B.

reading 1. Clapp_The Political Economy of Food Aid in an Era of Agricultural Biotechnology

reading 2: the view from agribusiness—Harvard Business School Executive Seminars

reading 3:Hightower excerpt

reading 4:The Sociopolitics of Food Deserts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-socio-economic-significance-of-food-deserts

reading five : The Food of Sorrow (Dunn’s article)

Readings Analysis (need to answer all these two questions) :

1. 1. Briefly explain “bare life” and the “problem of nothingness” as discussed in the Dunn chapter from Nutritional Anthropology.
   2. Summarize the other Week 2 Module 7 readings in relation to the chapter by Dunn. What do these populations have in common? Using examples from the readings to explain how the “problem of nothingness” is both biological and cultural.

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review this Sample Final Paper GEN499 for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.

The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list:

• Climate change
• Pollution
• Religious conflict and violence
• Rise of artificial intelligence
• Lack of education
• Unemployment and lack of economic opportunity
• Government accountability and corruption
• Food and water security
• International drug trafficking
• Poverty and income inequality

Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.

Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.

In your paper,

• Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.
  • Conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solutions to the problem. (For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)
• Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
  • Show why this is a societal problem.
  • Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
• Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.
  • Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
• Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.
  • Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.
  • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)
• Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
  • Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.
  • Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)

• Develop a conclusion for the last paragraphs of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. (For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)

The Global Societal Problem, Argument, and Solution Paper

• Must be 1,750 to 2,250 words in length (approximately between seven and nine pages; not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.)resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least eight scholarly sources.
  • Source Document Requirements:
    • Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
    • Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, and so forth. These websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed solution within the argument.
    • Where documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
    • Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
    • Religious texts must not be used.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for an assignment. The Integrating Research (Links to an external site.)tutorial will offer further assistance with including supporting information and reasoning.
  • Must document in APA style any information used from sources, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.).
  • Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the Turnitin report. References list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Good Critical Thinking Tips:

• Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
• Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
• Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
• Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.

Writing Tools:

• • Before you submit your written assignment, you are encouraged to review the The Grammarly Guide: How to Set Up & Use Grammarly (Links to an external site.) tutorial, set up a Grammarly account (if you have not already done so), and use Grammarly to review a rough draft of your assignment. Then carefully review all issues identified by Grammarly and revise your work as needed.