1. Identify seven characteristics attributed to those with learning disabilities, and explain why it is difficult to characterize this group
2. Identify five types of interventions or supports used with people who have learning disabilities, including two that use assistive technology.
3. Compare learning disabilities in childhood and adolescence by listing four challenges that individuals experience as they move into secondary school and beyond.
4. Identify six essential features of the federal definition for emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD)
5.Identify five general characteristics of children and youth with EBD.
6.Cite three reasons why classification systems are important to professionals who identify, treat, and educate individuals with EBD.
One of the student leaning outcomes designed for this course asks you to “Apply microeconomic frameworks, theories, and concepts to analyze one’s choices in a market economy and then reflect on how those choices interact with the experiences of others in society.”
To do this, this board is broken up in two parts:
In the first part, think of a recent purchase you made for yourself or family member where you enjoyed a large consumer surplus… because you valued the good a lot more than what you paid for it, you may have felt like you made a tremendous ‘deal’. What were your feelings then? OR, have you ever purchased something at an unusually high price? Why were you willing to pay such a high price for the item? Describe your transaction as a story, and include any details that highlight your overall market transaction experience.
Then, as a second part of the DB2 assignment, read this article and see how people change their WTP depending on changing individual goals and circumstances and how companies can use measurements of willingness to pay to determine how to price their product, in this case, subscription to a meditation app. Please discuss what you can take away from this article.
Audience Personas help paint an accurate, research-based picture of your target audience. For this assignment, you will be creating attitudinal personas representative of the target audience for the Husqvarna robotic lawn mower (learn more (Links to an external site.)). Using the segmentation strategies outlined in your textbook, come up with an “ideal customer” for this product, and write a persona profile (approximately 1 page). Include demographic data, but also dig deeper. Name your persona, give him or her a job, hobbies, media consumption habits, etc.
The specific requirements are as follows:
· As a graduate student, the expectation is quite high for your required quality and effort. Your Case Study must be written near the standard and quality of journals and other published materials.
· Cover page, abstract, reference page, and appendices do not count toward the minimum page length requirement.
· At least 5 scholarly sources are required.
· Use the current APA manual to ensure that you correctly cite your sources.
· The use of sources such as Wikipedia, Investopedia, blogs, personal or corporate websites, or even pay-for-paper or solutions-type websites will result in an automatic 0.
· Do not write in question/answer format; you will receive an automatic 0 if you do. Instead, use the questions to guide and form your paper.
Note: Meeting the minimum specifications will result in the minimum passing grade. You are expected to provide an in-depth, analytical review of the case topic. Assignments that do not meet the minimum criteria will not receive a passing grade.
Each Case Study is due by 10:59 p.m. (CST) on Sunday of the assigned modules/weeks.
Case Nutriment’s New Hires
With the demand for more nutritional food options growing, Nutriment Biotech is positioned to become a leader in agricultural biotechnology. Nutriment is a start-up biotech company that is working to develop genetically engineered food crops that offer enhanced nutrition along with easier production for farmers. Emily Hart and Harold James established Nutriment as a research organization through national grant funding 5 years ago. Nutriment is one of only a few agricultural biotechnology companies focused on enhancing nutrition in food crops. The company currently has an edge over competitors as its research has led to some scientific discoveries that now position them to grow their company significantly. As a result, Nutriment is ready to start hiring staff to get operations started.
Emily and Harold have hired Jack Stewart, an HR management consultant, to help them determine how to hire the most talented staff to grow their business. Jack works mostly with start-up technology-based companies and plans to help Nutriment implement a recruiting and hiring plan and establish its preliminary HR management practices such as its pay structure.
Nutriment has secured additional funding to allow it to ramp up full operations quickly. An analysis of its projected workload suggests it will need to hire approximately 15 new employees to get started. It will need to hire not only 10 new scientists but also administrative staff members including a receptionist, an office manager, a lab manager, a marketing professional, and an accountant.
As an experienced recruiter, Jack is confident that he will be able to quickly identify strong candidates for the administrative staff positions. The current labor market works in Nutriment’s favor, and, therefore, Jack will be able to easily generate a pool of qualified applicants. The scientists, on the other hand, will be challenging to find as they need specific expertise related to agricultural biotechnology and genetic engineering. The number of scientists with this combination of skills is limited, and the scientists are in demand by competitors. However, Nutriment is located in a geographic area rich with research universities and other biotech firms, so Jack is confident that it can attract a good pool of talent if it is able to offer an opportunity that is attractive to the scientists.
To start the recruiting process, Jack must first establish a pay structure. Before he starts researching market rates, Jack plans to meet with Emily and Harold to establish pay level policies and discuss other strategic aspects of determining the compensation structure for the new employees. Nutriment must offer a pay package that will allow it to attract and retain both the administrative staff members and the scientists. Establishing the right pay practices will help ensure that the recruitment process allows it to put talent in place to position Nutriment for success.
Questions:
7-6. What are some strategic considerations in establishing a pay structure at Nutriment?
7-7. Should Jack suggest a pay policy to lead, lag, or match the market? Explain your recommendation.
Many businesses follow NIST guidance for identifying, managing, remediating, and monitoring Information Systems Risk. Some follow the guidance because of contractual mandates (i.e. they’re under contract to the US Federal Government). Other businesses follow the NIST guidance because it represents “best practices” and is a widely accepted source of guidance.
Write a position statement in which you identify and describe 3 to 5 contributions that your chosen framework (CSF or RMF) will make to effective management of enterprise IT risk.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Capital Budgeting Decisions
Describe the six models of a capital budgeting decision, which are typically defined as a ‘go or no-go’ decision. These are –
1. Payback period (standard)
2. Discounted payback period (modified from payback period)
3. Net present value (NPV) (standard)
4. Internal rate of return (IRR) (standard)
5. Modified internal rate of return (MIRR) (modified from IRR)
6. Profitability index (PI) (modified from NPV)
In reviewing these, which one(s) is appropriate for small projects and which one(s) is appropriate for larger projects? Or all they all necessary for any capital budgeting decision? Please choose one of these models and provide an example by showing the model’s calculation in action.
Analyze your decision-making process for the persona you created. Why is he/she a good target audience for the product? How has focusing on this persona helped you better understand how to target your offering? What are some pitfalls you see of using personas, and how can you avoid them? Tie in marketing concepts from your readings and resources throughout the week.
Use the same organization as in previous weeks’ projects. Research the ethical challenges regarding employees (i.e., diversity, discrimination, sexual harassment, privacy, employee theft, bad leadership, etc.) that your chosen organization has faced over the past five to ten years and that they should prepare to face in the next five to ten years. Once you have developed a list of challenges, consider how having faced those challenges (or knowing that you will be facing them) will impact and be impacted by the social cause you’ve selected.
Tasks:
Propose your findings on the ethical challenges faced by your organization in recent history and the near future. Be sure to:
What is strategic human resources management and how can it be instrumental in helping a company create a competitive advantage in organizational change? What are examples?
What is the workforce planning process? What does it include? Why is it important?
