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Assignments and Evaluations POL100-01 (T+R) – Introduction to Politics and Government Summer 2020 – Capilano University Wiki (15%) May 26 (submit via Moodle) You are to write a short report (1000 words) resembling a “Wiki” page on one of the following key concepts from the course. Absolute monarchy Anarchism Autocracy Capitalist economic system Civic nationalism Classical liberalism Communism Conservatism Constitutional monarchy Deep ecology Democratic socialism Direct democracy Ecofeminism Ethnic nationalism Fascism Hybrid regimes Islamism Leninism Neo-liberalism Populism Social Conservatism Theocratic dictatorship A good “Wiki” report should be able to provide someone who has no knowledge of your concept with a good understanding of it. As such, you will need to clearly define and describe your concept, explain its theoretical or practical importance, explain how it has featured in the political world, and discuss any debates that have arisen around it. Just as in a “Wiki” page, subtitles ought to be used to divide your different sections.

Think about your experience with government. This could include the federal government in Washington (the Internal Revenue Service, the military, the forms you fill out for federal financial aid, for instance), state government (the Registry of Motor Vehicles or this college, for example) or local government (K-12 school systems, departments of public works, or the policeman who stopped you for a moving violation). Generally speaking, have you found government to be efficient? Fast? Friendly? Easy to understand? Caring? Cost-effective? In approximately two pages, please give some examples of how actual government agencies or employees have either exhibited or not exhibited these characteristics from your own experience. What changes, if any, would you make in the operations you observed?

You have been given the task as an external project management consultant to provide preliminary research as to why the HS2 Rail Project in the UK is now facing up to 5 years delay of its intended target (BBC Sept.19). Research some of the critical factors that have accounted for this delay and critically analyse whether some of them could have been avoided. The project has also raised several key ethical and sustainability issues. With a focus on the project mission, write an analytical report sticking to credible facts; on the impact of the new rail lines, taking into consideration stakeholder theory and other professional tools, as to whether the project should proceed as planned or why your recommendations should be taken on board.

Assignment: Essay Topic Prompt: In the article “Stage-Based Challenges and Strategies for Support in Doctoral Education: A Practical Guide for Students, Faculty Members, and Administrators,” Pifer and Baker (2016) identified three stages of doctoral education, explaining each one and suggesting strategies to overcome challenges that arise in each stage. The excerpted reading below includes the explanations and strategies aimed at doctoral students in the first two stages of doctoral education: knowledge consumption and knowledge creation. Read through these paragraphs from Pifer and Baker (2016), and then compose an essay in response to these questions: •Based on the challenges and strategies discussed by Pifer and Baker (2016), what challenges do you anticipate you will face in your doctoral program? •What strategies will you apply to work through these challenges in your doctoral journey? Article: http://ijds.org/Volume11/IJDSv11p015-034Pifer2155.pdf Question #1 Based on the challenges and strategies discussed by Pifer and Baker (2016), what challenges do you anticipate you will face in your doctoral program? Question #2 What strategies will you apply to work through these challenges in your doctoral journey? Reference Pifer, M. J. & Baker, V. L. (2016). Stage-based challenges and strategies for support in doctoral education: A practical guide for students, faculty members, and program administrators. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 11, 15-34. https://doi.org/10.28945/2347

“King of Queens” You have watched and answered the Significant Questions from the Vocal Discord episode of the King of Queens. Write your answers to the questions below: 1. Describe (using contextual statements) at least 2 examples of when Doug and Carrie send confirming messages to each other. 2. Describe (using contextual statements) at least 2 examples of when Doug or Carrie send disconfirming messages to each other. 3. How would you describe the climate of their relationship? Based on what you’ve learned in this chapter (and the entire semester), what steps can they take to communicate (thus make their relationship) better?

Introduction Provide an overview of the products/services sold by the company and then select and explore one major product line sold by this company. For that one product line, you will describe the marketing mix. Are the company’s product offerings growing or shrinking? Why? You will analyze this information, thinking critically about the information you found in your research. This should be an interesting and compelling explanation of this one product line which is presented in a narrative format with sub-section headings for each area listed and described below. The Corporate Companion Information page contains an overview of the project, a template you can use to complete the assignment, research approach advice and videos, and the list of companies being researched. All sources should be cited in APA style. Content Expected: Introduction: Provide a brief introduction of the company for a reader who is not familiar with the company, and as you’ve come to assess the company through your critical thinking/analysis. Overview: Provide a high-level overview of all of the company’s major product lines or business units/areas. Select one key product line/service line. For this, describe: Relate the specific products and/or services sold. Explain and categorize the target market (consumer? business? location?) for this product line. Explain the pricing and sales (promotion) strategies for these product/services and explain the operational locations (place) and how relates to product/service delivery (distribution). Analysis: Have there been any major (large-scale) or minor changes in the company’s product offerings in the past several years? What is driving these changes? What are the competitive pressures on this company and how can they address the competition? How this works: Write your report in a word processor, checking for grammar and spelling errors. Proofread it, and ask someone you know to also proofread your work. Consider the Basic Business Report guidelines and refer to our Business Writing Workbook for assistance. This content (not counting the cover page and references) should be presented in 2 to 3 pages of 1.5 line spacing which should be about 700 to 1,200 words.

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Answer both case/scenarios with recommendations that thoroughly address all issues presented. Your recommendations should be comprehensive in nature and should include concepts, case law and appropriate legislation from course work completed this term. Each recommendation should be approximately 600 words in length. You are writing recommendations that a personnel manager would send to a legal unit for review. Accordingly, you will not be required to write a summary, identify key players, or suggest three alternatives, etc., You will prepare two final recommendations while providing a full justification for each using information from your textbook with a discussion of whatever supporting material you use. Do not cut and paste information directly from the textbook. Your narrative should be in your own words using specific terms and ideas with explanations. The more details the better the grade. Remember to define, discuss and write clearly clarifying cases, concepts and other data from the Nigro and Kellough (NK) textbook supporting your points. There are several areas each of the cases address that you must clearly address. Your textbook should be specifically stated in your answers as to where the information came from (feel free to use the acronym NK for time considerations). The name of the book is: The New Public Personnel Administration 2014 7th Edition by Nigro, & Kellough ISBN:978-1-133-73428-4 Human Resource Management Applications: Cases, Draft Ms. Snapp’s recommendation for each case/scenario comprehensively using all information you have learned that is applicable to each situation. In other words, show how much you have learned from this course. You will answer each case/scenario with a justified response from the perspective of the personnel director. Realize that the format being required here is not like the case analysis used in the capstone exam. Accordingly, you will NOT summarize the case, cite key players or complete an analysis of the alternatives. In the format being used here, you will only prepare the response of the personnel director as to her recommended resolution of the multiple issues posed within each case. You will have a fully written recommendation for each scenario and justifications that thoroughly addresses each area discussed (for example, employee rights, union rights, grievance procedures, First Amendment free speech rights, Hatch Act provisions, Freedom of Association issues, sexual harassment issues, etc.) Be sure there is a solid recommendation and make sure each area is fully supported. Where you use your textbook as a source, write “NNK” and give appropriate credit to the authors (for example, you would say… “According to NK, strikes are illegal in the public sector and therefore…). This will save time. Each case/scenario response should be approximately 600 words or more. You must work on your own and responses are subject to turnitin. Plagiarized materials will result in zero credit for submitted responses. Again make sure you label your responses Case One and Case Two. The two cases/scenarios are listed below. Make sure you label each case: Case One Recommendation with justifications; Case Two Recommendations and justification. Background Scenario: Ms. Anita Snapp is a new personnel administrator at the Oakland Federal Health Department. The previous personnel administrator, Mr. Bill Board, made several poor decisions in the past and was dismissed. Ms. Anita Snapp has been hired to take Mr. Board’s place to review personnel concerns and respond to them with justifications for her recommendations. However, Ms. Snapp has to forward her decisions to the legal department to ensure that her recommendations meet legal requirements and to have someone double-check her work. Ms. Snapp knows that in order to look professional in the eyes of the legal team, she must base all of her responses on appropriate legislation, previous cases and sources (your textbook) that serve as precedents for her decisions. She wants to be accurate in her responses and very thorough. The past administrator demonstrated that he had limited personnel knowledge and several of his justifications were overturned. Many of his decision were resolved with penalties to the agency because he had never consulted with the legal staff prior to taking action. Anita Snapp does not intend to make the same mistakes. A thorough review and justification of cases, along with solid support from past case decisions, legislation and other sources (NK), will demonstrate Ms. Anita Snapp’s knowledge and abilities to her superiors and the legal team. CASE ONE Summary: Ms. Ida Claire alleges that she has had an issue with her Supervisor, Mr. Amos Manley, not liking her party affiliation ever since she was moved into his division. Ms. Claire claims that Mr. Manley had stated this fact to her and she says she has witnesses to support her statements. In addition, Ms. Ida Claire also asserted that she should be able to talk with her coworkers about her political beliefs and about the candidate she is supporting inside or outside of the office. As indication of the problems cited here, recently Mr. Manley asked Ms. Claire to pull a Republican poster off of her desk as well as her support sticker for one of the local candidates. He also asked her to stop discussing her political beliefs with co-workers in the office. Because of the problems she had with Supervisor Manley, Ida Claire has gone to the newspapers to express her belief that Mr. Manley is treating her badly because of her political affiliations and that he is harassing her for this because she is a woman. She gave no indication that anyone else was treated this way and gave the impression that she was the only one being singled out by Mr. Manley. She even hinted in the newspaper article that he should be removed for incompetency in his supervisory position. Because of her actions, Mr. Manley submitted a request to the personnel administrator, Ms. Anita Snapp, that Ms. Claire be fired. After learning of Mr. Manley’s actions, Ms. Claire asserted that Mr. Manley’s action are all because she has claimed sexual harassment by him as well as her party affiliation rights being violated. She further claimed that his actions are based on her going to the newspapers in violation of her freedom of speech rights. Action Request: What does Ms. Anita Snapp decide? To begin, Ms. Snapp realizes that there are several laws she must address in reviewing this case and dealing with Ms. Claire and her supervisor. She must not only discuss the cases and other legislation that apply to the claims, but discuss the employee rights and provide a recommendation for the legal unit as to how she must proceed. Ms. Snapp is fully prepared to write details and support for this information using a textbook she used in a course entitled Public Human Resource Management. She intends to cite this textbook to support and explain her decisions and recommendations. CASE TWO Summary: Ms. Anita Snapp has one other case that she needs to decide quickly before it becomes a much larger issue and possibly a labor union battle. Mr. Joe King was hired to be an X-Ray technician to include running the MRI equipment. He had previous training in the position as well as recommendations from his previous jobs. However, all other x-ray technicians have complained that Mr. King was dangerous to work with because of his incompetence with the technology and his failure to follow safety procedures. Accordingly, his supervisor, Lance Boyle, sent Mr. Joe King to a three week, $5,000 training program with the agency covering all boarding, travel and food expenses. He returned from the training program, but still displayed poor procedures in completing his work. Other technicians that had undergone the same program came back and performed in a competent manner. Supervisor Boyle sent Mr. King a second time through the training with the agency paying all fees. Upon his return from a second training program, Mr. Joe King, injured a patient in the MRI because he did not follow a safety procedure of ensuring all metallic objects were cleared from the room prior to starting the MRI. A cigarette lighter that he left next to the machine became a projectile that flew into the activated MRI and hit the patient’s face leaving a deep gash and narrowly missed the patient’s eye. This is a safety protocol that is taught over and over again to all MRI technicians ever since the death of a 6 year old that was hit in the head by a flying metal oxygen container while in an MRI. Mr. Lance Boyle wants to fire Joe King due to incompetence. At a planned meeting to discuss Joe King’s pending dismissal, the union representative, Mr. Lou Pole, requested to sit in on the meeting as Mr. King’s union representative. At one point in the meeting the union representative leaped to his feet exclaiming that Mr. King was being discriminated against because he is Asian and that there were few Asians considered in the hiring process and nor did Oakland Federal Health meet the Affirmative Action requirements in the union contract. Thus, Union Representative Lou Pole stated that the Oakland Federal Health Department could not fire Mr. King. Supervisor Boyle responded that affirmative action selection are considerations only under the contract, but are not mandatory for hiring and firing. He pulled out his collective bargaining agreement to prove the point. Union representative Lou Pole had no further response on this point and then said that the firing of Mr. Joe King could become grounds for a strike of many of the Oakland Federal public health employees. At that point, Supervisor Boyle halted the meeting to confer with the agency’s personnel administrator, Ms. Anita Snapp. Action requested: Mr. Boyle has elevated the decision to Ms. Snapp and requested her assistance in helping him assess his next step in firing Mr. Joe King. Ms. Snapp realizes she must look at the legality of any strike and be clear on what she can or cannot do in dismissing Mr. King. She must also assess the claim of discrimination as being an issue in this case as well as claims by Mr. Lance Boyle that not only is Mr. King incompetent, his continued employment poses a danger to patients. She also knows that her decisions and justifications will be reviewed by the legal unit before any actions are taken. Ms. Anita Knap has her work cut out for her in this situation and realizes she must provide a strong and convincing recommendation to the legal unit. She must address the issue of the legality of strike threats, claims of discrimination and claims by Supervisor Boyle that Mr. Kings poses a threat to his co-workers and the hospital’s patients.

Most Web browsers now use “128-bit encryption” to exchange data with secure Web sites. But what does this mean? What is “128-bit encryption”? In terms of software available to the general public, is “128-bit encryption” the strongest? How does this compare to encryption tools used by corporations or government agencies?

For the Unit 2 Case Connections assignment, you will address two of the four case connection problems in an original 10-minute video presentation. To earn full credit, you will need to describe why your chosen answer is correct while also discussing why the other answers are incorrect. Your presentation will be graded on your logic and accuracy as well as on the clarity and organization of the overall assignment. Create a script for your presentation. You will submit your script along with your video presentation. References in AMA format are also required. You may utilize any resources you like as you discuss your solution and methods, but you should include a reference page at the end of your script. This assignment is submitted through SafeAssign which is a plagiarism prevention tool that allows your instructor to check the originality of a homework submission. If your submission is has a SafeAssign score of >50% your instructor may request that you resubmit your assignment or justify this level of percent overlap. Scores of >50% raise concern over academic integrity. Record your presentation as a video using a free screencast application such as Screencast-o-matic.