Change is often difficult but also necessary for the long-term success of any organization. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses had to quickly pivot away from business as usual to adapt to a new reality. Formal sit-down restaurants started offering takeout, hotels changed their check-in and cleaning processes, sports venues operated without spectators, and schools switched to a distance-learning model. Even more challenging than these operational changes, however, is a change in culture. Our textbook defines culture as “the shared values, norms, rules, and behaviors of an identifiable group of people who share a common history and communication system” Because values, norms, rules, and behaviors normally evolve over a considerable period of time, changing the culture represents a significant challenge. Your task is to persuade an audience of decision makers at an organization of your choosing to commit to a cultural change. Your task is to convince your organization to make one of the following changes.
· Take an active stance on issues of social justice in your community.
· Commit to environmental sustainability.
· Focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring and promotion practices.
· Make your organization welcoming to people with disabilities.
· Provide a living wage and retirement benefits to all colleagues.
· Allow colleagues paid time off to engage in volunteer work.
· Include nonmanagement colleagues on the organization’s Board of Directors or leadership team.
These are not all of the possible topics. If you have a different idea, please check with your instructor first to make sure it is appropriate.
Important Note: Although reusing and recycling is great for the environment, it is not allowed here. You must use an original idea and original research for this assignment. You may not resubmit an assignment from another class.
In choosing an organization, you have a few options.
· Your current employer
· A previous employer
· An organization you have never worked for that is aligned with your career goals
· A fictional organization that may be similar to your current or previous employer or to an existing organization you might wish to work for in the future
Similarly, as you approach this assignment, you have some leeway in imagining your role in your chosen organization. You may choose to inhabit your current job title, or you may imagine yourself in a different role, or even create a brand-new job title. Take some time to think about your topic, organization, and role, because you will be creating the entire assignment based on these choices.
To Do:
You will write a three-paragraph memo to convince your instructor to approve your topic. (Please choose a topic).
You will write a memo addressed to your instructor in which you share your plans for your Course Project. In order to convince your instructor to approve your topic, you must explain what your topic is, why you have chosen it, and how you plan to complete it successfully. You may find it helpful to divide your memo into three paragraphs: the what, the why, and the how. The recommended length of this assignment is one page. See Appendix B, Formatting for Letters and Memos, to learn more about the memo format and to see a sample memo.
Part B: Project Idea – Addressing LGBTQ+ Discrimination
Project Description: My proposal addresses LGBTQ+ housing, employment, and healthcare discrimination. The project’s key aims include awareness, legislative reforms, and tools to help LGBTQ+ individuals overcome these problems.
Needs Addressed: The initiative addresses the urgent need to end LGBTQ+ systematic discrimination in vital life areas. Housing instability, employment uncertainty, and healthcare inequality affect their well-being. The initiative promotes diversity, equality, and social justice through meeting these requirements.
Attraction to Potential Funders: This project’s social justice and human rights goals may attract donors. Funders promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion may realize the need to fight LGBTQ+ discrimination. The project’s multi-faceted approach—awareness campaigns, legislative lobbying, and resource provision—shows a complete plan for a substantial effect.
Distinguishing factors: My project’s approach differentiates it from other LGBTQ+ discrimination campaigns. I provide a more holistic approach by addressing housing, employment, and healthcare discrimination. The project’s emphasis on policy advocacy and equipping citizens with fundamental tools distinguishes it from projects that raise awareness or modify laws.
In conclusion, requesting a grant to address LGBTQ+ housing, employment, and healthcare discrimination is worthwhile. This initiative fulfills my objective and addresses a social need. By raising awareness, campaigning for legislative changes, and offering resources, we empower LGBTQ+ individuals and create a more equitable and inclusive society. Careful research and strategic presentation will overcome grant writing hurdles, including articulating the project’s relevance and sustainability, to make a convincing case for supporting this vital effort.
Choose one of the three social change literature review articles found in this week’s Learning Resources and review the article in detail.
· Explore the Walden Social Change website and locate an additional document, video, or webpage that will inform your understanding of the meaning of positive social change. Reflect on any additional sources you find.
· Next, write field notes based on the information you gathered from the Walden social change website and any other documents or websites that might inform your changing impressions about the meaning of positive social change.
· Finally, review the media programs related to coding and consider how you will use this information to support this Discussion. Note: In your Excel Video Coding template there is a tab for your website data. Use this tab to place your content and codes for the website.
· BY DAY 4
· Prepare a brief explanation of your understanding of the meaning of positive social change thus far. Refer to the additional sources you have reviewed this week, and comment on how they are shaping your experience. Use the data you gathered from your analytic memo to support your explanation.
· 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.
RESOURCES
The following articles are examples of literature reviews on the aspects of social change. Choose one of the articles for this week’s Discussion 2.
As you review this website, think about Walden’s meaning of social change and how this website will guide you as you consider positive social change for your Major Assignment 2.
Review this Excel template as you view this week’s media programs. Also, you will use this template for organizing your transcripts and preparing them for coding.
Respond to three of your peers, suggesting another possible framework for their study. Respond again to check in with your cohort by asking a question, sharing an experience, responding to someone else, or adding helpful links and resources.
DEKONTEE
Summarize your research problem.
Building a wellness center that provides trauma therapy in underserved populations; to survivors of the Liberia civil war who are struggling with Long-term posttraumatic stress disorder also known as Complex-PTSD.
Identify and define two theories that might provide a framework’
In last week’s discussion I posted about Conceptual framework and Theoretical framework. I narrow it down to Theoretical framework because it describes everything I am trying to do within my research. “Set of concepts, theories, ideas, and assumptions that serve as a foundation for understanding a particular phenomenon or problem. It provides a conceptual framework that helps researchers to design and conduct their research, as well as to analyze and interpret their findings” (Theoretical Framework Hassan, 2023). Although Theoretical frameworks provide a particular perspective, or lens, through which to examine a topic, there are many different lenses, such as psychological theories and organizational theories.
Explain how both of your chosen theories or conceptual frameworks could work in your study.
Organizational theory seeks to understand how social organizations and companies operate. This theory is important because this information is needed for me to successfully fulfill the business side of my organization that will handle the wellness centers projects. The main elements of organizational also focus on people, environment, technology, and structure. These elements interact to help organizations achieve set goals and objectives (Forsyth, 2022).
According to K.S. LaBar, 2015 “Psychological theories explain the long-term consequences of human behavior and provide robust evidence-based clarifications as to why people believe, behave, and react how they do. These theories discuss factors of personality, early experiences, and interpersonal relations” (LaBar, 2015). This theory aligns perfectly with my research problem because the traumatic experiences from the civil war affected many people. Those who were severely affected and did not receive proper help after the war, behavior and how they treat others were affected and forever changed for the worse. They have turned to crime and violence. Repeating those same traumas, they went through. Which is why building wellness centers to provide treatments and therapy is important. Rehabilitation is desperately needed.
Explain how once you choose a framework it will influence the entire study.
It will influence the entire study because the framework helps with communication, prevents chaos inconsistency, bias in your research and confusion. It provides a clear and coherent structure for your research project.
The research problem that I would like to address is why is the Black maternal mortality rate so high. African American women face substandard health care which leads to a high rate of deaths during childbirth or shortly after. Racism has existed throughout human history. It may be defined as the hatred of one person by another or the belief that another person is less than human because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth, or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. According to the Kaiser Foundation (2023), “Black women are twice as likely than white women to have a preterm birth, which can lead to death or lifelong health problems. And pregnancy-related mortality rates among Black women are more than three times higher than white women.”
The two theories that I have identified as possibly providing a framework for my research would be Critical Race Theory and Conflict Theory although there are many theories that could be used to examine racism, prejudice, and discrimination in American society. Critical Race Theory was first developed by legal scholars in the 1970s and ‘80s following the Civil Rights Movement and explains that racism is rooted in laws, policies, and institutions that uphold and reproduce racial inequalities (Sawchuk, 2021). Conflict Theory was developed by Karl Marx and is rooted in the assumption that inequalities contribute to social differences and that social problems are inevitable (Marx, 1848).
Critical Race Theory can work in this study because it explains why societal issues such as Black Americans’ higher mortality rate, over-exposure to police violence and brutality, mass incarceration, lack of affordable housing, and the death rates of Black women in childbirth are not unrelated anomalies (Sawchuk, 2021). Additionally, Conflict Theory could work in this study because it addresses the vast differences in Black and White maternal death rates.
The theory I ultimately choose can guide the research, the questions, and the respondents which could lead to facilitating change and development in academia, and the research process will require that many different areas be researched to gain valuable background information (Walden, n.d-a).
The research problem is barriers to educational outcomes in minority men lead to research of experiences of incarcerated college minority males expelled from primary school. There are Barriers of implicit bias/systemic racism that lead to criminalizing students who face behavioral or emotional issues, leading to incarceration while experiencing high poverty rates.
Theory and Framework-
The theory that guides this study is Institutional Racism and its concept in a conceptual framework. In Institutional Racism, systemic and structural biases create an unfair and unjust racism that creates barriers in many areas, including expulsion in education.
Researching the theory of Institutional Racism is to research the adverse experiences of those incarcerated college students who were expelled. The implications of systemic racism of expelled students would suggest that if they weren’t removed, it would have prevented incarceration as remaining in school would have been an opportunity instead of criminal activity. Griffith (2007) The theory would aid in hypothesizing that those expelled didn’t experience an advocate who would assist in school success. With reading prior research on the school-to-prison pipeline, there is a gap in researching incarcerated males attending college, previously expelled from primary education, and unable to obtain an education.
Work within my study-
Within the conceptual framework, the study aims to determine the adverse experiences of incarcerated minority males attending college who were expelled in middle school, that the barrier to educational outcomes is due to treatment experiences of institutional racism of treatment of being expelled.
Theory and Framwerok utilized in my study-
The theory will assist my student in discussing the experiences of institutional racism with the students who had adverse experiences with expulsion rates due to systemic racism versus those who weren’t expelled. The student was removed from school and criminalized, which prevented educational outcomes.
References:
Purdy, E. R. (2021). Poverty and Social Exclusion. Salem Press Encyclopedia. (b) Correlation to poverty and outcomes in society (c) Living in poverty decreases social health opportunities (d) Social and economic factors prohibit benefits for education.
Griffith, D. M., Mason, M., Yonas, M., Eng., E., Jeffries, V., Plihcik, S., & Parks, B. (2007). Dismantling institutional racism: Theory and action. American Journal of Community Psychology, 39(34), 381–392.
HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPANY YOU CAN CHOOSE: SONIC HEALTHCARE
Go to the website of your allocated company. Then, go to the Investor Relations section of the website. This section may be called: “””Investors”””, “”Shareholder Information”,” or similar titles. In this section, find the ‘company’s annual report and other related reports. Download the ‘firm’s latest annual report and other related information and reports and save it to your computer. For example, these reports may be dated 30 June 2021 or 30 June 2022.
Questions
Assume that you have been appointed as the external auditor for your allocated company for the financial year ending June 2021 or 2022. Prepare a report to adequately address the following:
Examine and assess the Revised ASA315 with a focus on identifying risks, including risks associated with information technology and the auditor’s obligation to utilize automated tools and techniques to perform the audit in a professional, effective and efficient manner
Use the template below as a worksheet/workspace. The question prompts provided are intended to help you to gain a better understanding of the public health issue or need associated with your advocacy action plan. As you complete this template, you are allowed to make informal notes, use bullet points and copy and past links to websites, articles and other resources that will help you to better identify factors related to your advocacy action plan.
As you complete this template, please keep in mind the following:
· Although it is important to consider macro-level factors (i.e., what is happening at the societal level), for the purposes of this assignment you are asked to place more emphasis on micro-level factors (i.e., what is happening at the community level).
· Although all questions may not apply to your advocacy action plan, be sure to answer each question under all four categories (Political, Economic, Socio-Cultural, & Technology).
Template Components
Step 1: Identify the Political, Economic, Socio-Cultural and Technological Aspects of the Proposed Change in Your Advocacy Action Plan
KINE 4354 Assignment 4.1: Advocacy Action Plan Part II: PEST Analysis
Factor
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Threat
POLITICAL
Political factors to consider: · When is the country’s next local, state, or national election? How could this change government or regional policy? · Who are the most likely contenders for power in your community? What are their views on public health policy, and on other policies that affect your organization? · Depending on the country, how well developed are property rights and the rule of law, and how widespread are corruption and organized crime? · How are these situations likely to change, and how is this likely to affect you? · Could any pending legislation or taxation changes affect your business, either positively or negatively? · How does government approach public health policy, areas of social justice or social responsibility, and environmental protection legislation? What impact does this have, and is it likely to change? · Are there any other political factors that are likely to change?
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ECONOMIC
Economic factors to consider: · How stable is the current economy? Is it growing, stagnating, or declining? · What is the financial condition of the organization you plan to work with? Is the organization financially stable? Is there revenue to fund your idea? If not, how will you address this? · Are there any other economic factors that you should consider?
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SOCIO-CULTURAL
Socio-Cultural factors to consider: · What is your target population’s growth rate and age profile? How is this likely to change? · Are generational shifts in attitude likely to affect what you’re doing? · What are your target population’s levels of health, education, and social mobility? How are these changing, and what impact does this have? · What social attitudes and social taboos could affect your advocacy action plan? Have there been recent socio-cultural changes that might affect this? · How do religious beliefs and lifestyle choices affect the population? · Are any other socio-cultural factors likely to drive change for your proposed advocacy action plan?
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Threat
TECHNOLOGICAL
Technological factors to consider: · Are there any new technologies that you could be using? · In which areas do governments and educational institutions focus their research? Is there anything you can do to take advantage of this to address your proposed advocacy action plan? · Are there existing technological hubs that you could work with or learn from? THINK COLLABORATION! · Are there any other technological factors that you should consider?
Step 2: BRAINSTORM OPPORTUNITIESNow that you have identified some of the changes that are taking place in the proposed setting for your advocacy action plan, look at each of those changes and brainstorm the potential OPPORTUNITIES that might be available for you or for the organization which you are proposing the advocacy effort for.
Potential Opportunities for Your Advocacy Action Plan
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Step 3: BRAINSTORM THREATSNow think about the changes and think about how some of those might be barriers to the implementation of your advocacy action plan. How might you plan in a manner that the potential threats might be minimized, or avoided?
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Step 4: Notes for TAKING ACTIONNow it is time to TAKE ACTION! You will take this next step in Assignment 6.1 as you write up your final plan. Use the section below to write your main takeaways as you start to develop the main sections of your advocacy action plan.
Joanna, a psychiatrist, has a busy clinical practice. She is widely recognized as a leader in reducing the number of psychotic episodes that patients with schizophrenia experience. Her treatment modalities are largely informed by her research. She has performed numerous clinical trial studies combining various antipsychotic and other medications to achieve longer intervals without episodes. She has cultivated a trusting relationship with her patients as many have seen her for more than five years as she has provide hope and relief to a great number of them.
Joanna is enrolling participants into a randomized placebo-controlled study with a promising new drug to treat schizophrenia. Although two other psychiatrists in her practice are referring patients to the study, she also decides to offer the protocol to patients in her practice that meet the inclusion criteria.
As part of the consent process, she explains to patients that there is a 50-50 chance whether they are placed in the group receiving the investigational drug or in the group that receives the placebo (sugar pill). She tells them that those who are given placebos will not be offered standard-of-care medicine so that important drug-placebo differences can be identified. Joanna also tells them that rational decision-making does not seem to be affected during short periods of medication-free intervals, according to the most recent research. She does acknowledge that studies have had mixed results about the increased risk of suicidality, however.
One of Joanna’s patients, a potential participant named Duncan, asks how long the study is supposed to last. Joanna knows that Duncan has failed other attempts of reducing the length and severity of his schizophrenic episodes. She also believes that he may be a good candidate for the study—as long as he’s not in the placebo group. There’s no guarantee that he’ll receive the treatment, or do well on it. If he doesn’t enroll, then his clinical care will go on uninterrupted. If he does enroll, this new experimental drug may be his best shot at receiving an effective treatment so that he can lead a more normal life.
Joanna asks if Duncan is interested. Duncan responds, “Whatever you think is best. You’re the doc.”
Questions:
1. How many different kinds of conflicts of interest does Joanna have?
2. How concerned should she be that her patient(s) might not grasp the risks of participating in a drug trial?
3. In your own words, what is a therapeutic misconception?
4. What do you think motivates patients like Duncan to respond “Whatever you think is best”?
5. Should clinical researchers be allowed to enroll their own patients in a study?
Look Out Below: A Case Study on Bone Tissue Structure and Repair Mrs. Debbie Morgan is a 45-year-old female who works as a stocking clerk for a local home improvement store. While she was at work today a large box of metal rivets fell from a 20-ft.- high overhead shelf, striking her outstretched arm and knocking her to the ground. The ambulance personnel reported that she had lost quite a bit of blood at the accident scene and was “knocked out” when they arrived. To minimize further hemorrhage, the paramedics applied a pressure bandage to her arm. You meet the paramedics as they bring Mrs. Morgan into the emergency room and begin to assess her for injuries. She is awake and alert, but complaining of severe left arm and back pain, plus she has a “killer headache.” To fully examine her injuries you remove four blood-soaked bandages from her arm. You notice a large open wound on her arm with what appears to be bone tissue sticking out of the skin. She also has bruises covering her left shoulder, left wrist, and lower back. To determine the extent of her injuries Mrs. Morgan undergoes several x-rays, which reveal the following: 1) fracture of the left humerus at the proximal diaphysis, 2) depressed fracture of the occipital bone, 3) fracture of the 3rd lumbar vertebral body. Short Answer Questions 1. Define the following terms, used in the case and also in associated questions:
a. hemorrhage b. fracture c. proximal d. diaphysis
2. One way bones are classified is by their shape. How would you classify the bones fractured
by Mrs. Morgan? 3. The body of Mrs. Morgan’s vertebra is fractured. What type of bone tissue makes up the
majority of the vertebral body? Describe the structure and function of this type of bone. 4. The diaphysis of Mrs. Morgan’s humerus is fractured. What type of bone makes up the
majority of the diaphysis of long bones like the humerus? Describe the layers of bone tissue found here.
5. Most connective tissue, including bone, is highly vascular. Which anatomical structures in
Mrs. Morgan’s compact bone house blood vessels? What sign or symptom in Mrs. Morgan’s case is directly related to disruption of these structures by her bone fractures? How is the sign or symptom related to these anatomical structures?
6. Within days after a fracture, a “soft callus” of fibrocartilage forms. What fibers are found in
this type of cartilage? Identify the cells required for fibrocartilaginous callus formation and list their functions.
7. As a fracture is repaired, new bone is added to the injury site. What term is used to describe
the addition of new bone tissue? Identify which bone cell is responsible for this process and explain how it occurs.
8. In the final stage of bone repair, some of the osseous tissue must be broken down and
removed. What term is used to define the breaking down of osseous tissue? Which bone cell would be best suited for this task?
9. The extracellular matrix (ECM) of bone is considered to be a composite material made up of
organic and inorganic matter. What makes up the organic and inorganic portions of the matrix? Describe the cellular mechanism involved in breaking down this matrix; include the bone cell required for the process.
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Competing needs arise within any organization as employees seek to meet their targets and leaders seek to meet company goals. As a leader, successful management of these goals requires establishing priorities and allocating resources accordingly.
Within a healthcare setting, the needs of the workforce, resources, and patients are often in conflict. Mandatory overtime, implementation of staffing ratios, use of unlicensed assisting personnel, and employer reductions of education benefits are examples of practices that might lead to conflicting needs in practice.
Leaders can contribute to both the problem and the solution through policies, action, and inaction. In this Assignment, you will further develop the white paper you began work on in Module 1 by addressing competing needs within your organization.
To Prepare:
DEVELOPING ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
Review the national healthcare issue/stressor you examined in your Assignment for Module 1, and review the analysis of the healthcare issue/stressor you selected. Identify and review two evidence-based scholarly resources that focus on proposed policies/practices to apply to your selected healthcare issue/stressor. Reflect on the feedback you received from your colleagues on your Discussion post regarding competing needs.
The Assignment (1-2 pages):
Developing Organizational Policies and Practices
Add a section to the 2-3 page paper you submitted in Module 1. The new section should address the following in 1-2 pages:
Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor. Describe a relevant policy or practice in your organization that may influence your selected healthcare issue/stressor. Critique the policy for ethical considerations, and explain the policy’s strengths and challenges in promoting ethics. Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies. Be specific and provide examples. Cite evidence that informs the healthcare issue/stressor and/or the policies, and provide two scholarly resources in support of your policy or practice recommendations. Due to the nature of this assignment, your instructor may require more than 7 days to provide you with quality feedback.
Submit your revised paper.
Before submitting your final assignment, you can check your draft for authenticity. To check your draft, access the Turnitin Drafts from the Start Here area.
1. To submit your completed assignment, save your Assignment as WK3Assgn_LastName_Firstinitial
2. Then, click on Start Assignment near the top of the page.
AMC is the largest movie theater operator in the world. AMC recently became a popular meme stock. Take a few minutes to learn more about AMC Theaters.
Construct a five-page analysis of AMC Theaters using the following criteria.
Analyze the market before the COVID-19 pandemic. Describe how the pandemic affected the movie theater industry.
Explain price discrimination in the movie theater market.
Movie theater employees are generally paid hourly. Design an incentive pay structure for AMC Theaters and explain how it would work.
Apply the concepts of economies of scale and economies of scope to AMC Theater’s business model
Apply the concepts of game theory to short selling and meme stocks as it relates to AMC Theaters
Assess AMC Theater’s potential for international expansion and potential trade policy issues.
Explain the asymmetric information issues that lead to short selling and meme stocks.
Apply the concepts of moral hazard to short selling and meme stocks, using AMC as an example.
Your essay must be at least five pages in length (not counting the title and references pages) and include at least three peer-reviewed resources, at least one of which must be from the CSU Online Library. Adhere to APA Style when writing your analysis, including citations and references for sources used. Be sure to include an introduction. Please note that no abstract is needed.
