Discuss strengths and opportunities for improvement in terms of these initiatives.

Initiatives for Diversity Management in Academia

After reviewing this week’s materials (Module 2: Lecture Materials & Resources) and conducting your own research, identify a few initiatives going on in academia today to support diversity.

In addition, discuss strengths and opportunities for improvement in terms of these initiatives. Feel free to share your own ideas as it relates to new initiatives in this field.

Submission Instructions:

Your initial post should be at least 300 words, formatted and cited in proper APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.)
All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.
Please post your initial response by 23:59 ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 23:59 ET Sunday.
Late work policies, expectations regarding proper citations, acceptable means of responding to peer feedback, and other expectations are at the discretion of the instructor.
You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date.

Discuss the three streams Kingdon has identified where problems originate, and provide your opinion on which one most accurately reflects how and why policies come about.

Assignment: Kingdon: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies Agenda building is often the first step in your policy practice tasks. Building a solid agenda may well determine the success of the development of a policy proposal and may also determine your success in placing an issue in front of a decision maker. For this Assignment, you evaluate the accuracy of the Kingdon model of policymaking. To prepare: Review Chapter 6 in your text, paying special attention to the section entitled “Three Challenges in Agenda Building.” Submit a paper evaluating the accuracy of the Kingdon model in policymaking. Address the following: • Discuss the three streams Kingdon has identified where problems originate, and provide your opinion on which one most accurately reflects how and why policies come about. • Discuss the assertion that certain kinds of issues receive preferential treatment in problem solution and political streams. • Discuss tactics that policy practitioners use within each of the three streams to increase the odds that a specific issue will be placed on decision agendas. Make sure that your assertions are supported by appropriate research and reputable resources. Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice. (8th ed.).

In your opinion, what are some of the most important things that employers can do to protect themselves from negligence in human resources activities like hiring, retaining, supervising, and training?

To prepare for this assessment, use the Capella library and the Internet to research a legal case that addresses the legalities of employment screening exams used in the selection process.

Then, complete a 2–3-page analysis in which you include the following:

  • Provide a description of the case.
  • Summarize the important issues in this case.
  • Include a detailed discussion of the outcome.
  • Address the evidence of discriminatory effects, and discuss the distinction the court is drawing between job-relatedness and business necessity.
  • Finally, offer your opinion regarding the reasons you are for or against the outcome of your case, along with your supporting rationale.

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.

  • In your opinion, what are some of the most important things that employers can do to protect themselves from negligence in human resources activities like hiring, retaining, supervising, and training? Include rationale to support your opinions.
  • What elements do you think need to be in a diversity training course?
  • How would you sell your course to one of the companies you have seen in any of the worst-case settlements?
  • Affirmative action and Executive Order 11236 were intended expressly to support the law. Originally they were aimed specifically at government contractors, but now many employers voluntarily choose whether or not they want to adopt a voluntary affirmative action plan. In your opinion, is this something all employers should do? What is your rationale?

Discuss why a company should consider using a consultant to oversee a cloud migration and list specific skills you would expect the consultant to have.

Discussion Topic: Discuss key items that should be included in an SLA. Define predictive analytics and discuss how an IT manager might use such analytics.

Please select Reply to this initial response to discuss how cloud computing has changed how companies budget for software solutions. If you have personal experiences, please include those in your response. You must provide references in your responses and document according to APA formatting requirements.

 

you will write a paper on migrating to the cloud. The following are the items to discuss in the paper:

  • List and describe common system requirements one should consider before moving an application to the cloud.
  • Discuss why a company should consider using a consultant to oversee a cloud migration and list specific skills you would expect the consultant to have.
  • List and discuss resource utilization characteristics one should monitor for an application prior to moving the application to the cloud.
  • List possible training requirements for a SaaS solution integration, a PaaS application migration, and an IaaS application migration.

How would leaders of the organization know that their efforts were paying off?

Five ways that you think organizations, for instance counseling centers, could support a healthy work environment. This work environment would be protective against vicarious trauma. Offer specific details about what the work place would do to support employees and how these efforts would be helpful to those employees. How would leaders of the organization know that their efforts were paying off?

Describe potential consequences of deciding on a research question without conducting a review of the literature.

In this week’s video, you meet Eboni Logan, a teenager who reveals that she is pregnant. Eboni explains to her social worker that no one at her school talks about methods of birth control, as their only focus is on abstinence. Imagine that you are a social worker in Eboni’s school and you begin to notice an increase in teen pregnancy. This causes you to wonder about the effectiveness of abstinence-only education. This curiosity propels you to investigate further, but you are not sure what you should do first—develop a research question or conduct a literature review.

For this Discussion, review the literature on abstinence education. View the Sessions episode on the Eboni Logan case.

Post your explanation about what should come first—the development of a research question or a thorough literature review. Justify your answer by adding your thoughts about which process you believe to be more realistic and/or appropriate, and why. Finally, describe potential consequences of deciding on a research question without conducting a review of the literature. Please use the resources to support your answer.

Respond to a colleague’s post by suggesting two ways of avoiding the consequences he or she described. Please use the resources to support your post.

Eboni Logan is a 16-year-old biracial African American/Caucasian female in 11th grade. She is an honors student, has been taking Advanced Placement courses, and runs track. Eboni plans to go to college and major in nursing. She is also active in choir and is a member of the National Honor Society and the student council. For the last 6 months, Eboni has been working 10 hours a week at a fast food restaurant. She recently passed her driver’s test and has received her license.

Eboni states that she believes in God, but she and her mother do not belong to any organized religion. Her father attends a Catholic church regularly and takes Eboni with him on the weekends that she visits him.

Eboni does not smoke and denies any regular alcohol or drug usage. She does admit to occasionally drinking when she is at parties with her friends, but denies ever being drunk. There is no criminal history. She has had no major health problems.

Eboni has been dating Darian for the past 4 months. He is a 17-year-old African American male. According to Eboni, Darian is also on the track team and does well in school. He is a B student and would like to go to college, possibly for something computer related. Darian works at a grocery store 10–15 hours a week. He is healthy and has no criminal issues. Darian also denies smoking or regular alcohol or drug usage. He has been drunk a few times, but Eboni reports that he does not think it is a problem. Eboni and Darian became sexually active soon after they started dating, and they were using withdrawal for birth control.

Eboni’s mother, Darlene, is 34 years old and also biracial African American/Caucasian. She works as an administrative assistant for a local manufacturing company. Eboni has lived with her mother and her maternal grandmother, May, from the time she was born. May is a 55-year-old African American woman who works as a paraprofessional in an elementary school. They still live in the same apartment where May raised Darlene.

Darlene met Eboni’s father, Anthony, when she was 17, the summer before their senior year in high school. Anthony is 34 years old and Caucasian. They casually dated for about a month, and after they broke up, Darlene discovered she was pregnant and opted to keep the baby. Although they never married each other, Anthony has been married twice and divorced once. He has four other children in addition to Eboni. She visits her father and stepmother every other weekend. Anthony works as a mechanic and pays child support to Darlene.

Recently, Eboni took a pregnancy test and learned that she is 2 months pregnant. She actually did not know she was pregnant because her periods were not always consistent and she thought she had just skipped a couple of months. Eboni immediately told her best friend, Brandy, and then Darian about her pregnancy. He was shocked at first and suggested that it might be best to terminate. Darian has not told her explicitly to get an abortion, but he feels he cannot provide for her and the baby as he would like and thinks they should wait to have children. He eventually told her he would support her in any way he could, whatever she decides. Brandy encouraged Eboni to meet with the school social worker.

During our first meeting, Eboni told me that she had taken a pregnancy test the previous week and it was positive. At that moment, the only people who knew she was pregnant were her best friend and boyfriend. She had not told her parents and was not sure how to tell them. She was very scared about what they would say to her. We talked about how she could tell them and discussed various responses she might receive. Eboni agreed she would tell her parents over the weekend and see me the following Monday. During our meeting I asked her if she used contraception, and she told me that she used the withdrawal method.

Eboni met with me that following Monday, as planned, and she was very tearful. She had told her parents and grandmother over the weekend. Eboni shared that her mother and grandmother had become visibly upset when they learned of the pregnancy, and Darlene had yelled and called her a slut. Darlene told Eboni she wanted her to have a different life than she had had and told her she should have an abortion. May cried and held Eboni in her arms for a long time. When Eboni told her father, he was shocked and just kept shaking his head back and forth, not saying a word. Then he told her that she had to have this child because abortion was a sin. He offered to help her and suggested that she move in with him and her stepmother.

Darlene did not speak to Eboni for the rest of the weekend. Her grandmother said she was scheduling an appointment with the doctor to make sure she really was pregnant. Eboni was apprehensive about going to the doctor, so we discussed what the first appointment usually entails. I approached the topic of choices and decisions if it was confirmed that she was pregnant, and she said she had no idea what she would do.

Two days later, Eboni came to see me with the results of her doctor’s appointment. The doctor confirmed the pregnancy, said her hormone levels were good, and placed her on prenatal vitamins. Eboni had had little morning sickness and no overt issues due to the pregnancy. Her grandmother went with her to the appointment, but her mother was still not speaking to her. Eboni was very upset about the situation with her mother. At one point she commented that parents are supposed to support their kids when they are in trouble and that she would never treat her daughter the way her mother was treating her. I offered to meet with Eboni and her mother to discuss the situation. Although apprehensive, Eboni gave me permission to call her mother and set up an appointment.

What makes a behavioral-based interview different from other types of interviews?

  • What makes a behavioral-based interview different from other types of interviews?
  • What steps will you take to prepare for the interview?
  • What do you need to bring with you to the interview?
  • What are 5 to 6 interview questions you will be prepared to answer in the interview? How will you apply the STAR process when answering these questions?
  • What questions will you ask during your interview?
  • What do you need to remember about each of the 5 stages of an interview?

What database management system configuration allows Google such rapid results, no matter geography?

Google is one of the largest IT companies in the world, known first and foremost for its ability to perform rapid, relevant searches. Perform research and provide links to the sources for the following task.

What database management system configuration allows Google such rapid results, no matter geography? As a cloud-based system, is there other innovations that Google must use to achieve its results?

Determine the average round-trip-time of packets between Adelphi University and www.switch.ch using IPv4 and IPv6.

Write a report that answers the questions below. For each question, include the exact command that you ran, a sample of the output, and an interpretation of the results. Make sure that you have watched the lesson demonstrations prior to starting this assignment.

Using ping:
Determine the average round-trip-time of packets between Adelphi University and www.switch.ch using IPv4 and IPv6.
Determine the average round-trip time of packets between Adelphi University and www.google.com using IPv4 and IPv6.
Can you make a determination, based on the outcomes of question (1) and (2) which site is physically closer to your location?
Using traceroute:
Trace the route from your computer to IP address 130.130.215.2.
What can you tell me about the most likely physical location of the IP address?
Based on the packet round-trip times, which hop most likely spans the largest distance?
Using nslookup:
What is the hostname of IP address 130.130.215.2?
If I would want to send an email to the domain to which that IP address belongs, what is the IP address of the most preferred mail server would I need to send it to?