Ethical Decision Making

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 Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. 

View this Ethical Dilemma to learn more about the relationship between Joe, the salesman for UWEAR, and Bill, the customer. Bill and Joe have a history of business dealings which you will analyze using ethical principles. It seems that their dealings are in the grey area of business conduct and it’s important to discuss the dilemma to understand the implications of this behavior.

Once you have read the ethical dilemma, discuss the following questions with your classmates:

  • Are Bill’s gifts a form of bribery? 
  • Which ethical theory supports your view? Why?
  • What other ethical issues might be associated with the relationship between Bill and Joe?

Ethical Decision Making IP

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View this Ethical Dilemma to learn more about Bill and Joe’s relationship. 

Joe has scheduled a meeting with his management team for next week to talk about the Peninsula Hotel chain contract. He hopes that he will be able to work with them to draft a contract favorable to Peninsula that will ensure its renewal for another year. He is reasonably sure that the contract renewal will ensure his continued success and employment with UWEAR. Bill invites Joe and his family to join them on his yacht for the weekend.

Joe is relieved to get the invitation from Bill because their relationship has been strained lately due to the contract negotiations.

Joe must decide how he will answer Bill’s invitation to join him and his family on their yacht.

Using ethical principles that you have learned thus far to justify your answers, please respond to the following questions in a paper of 500–700 words:  

  • What are some reasons why Joe should turn down the invitation?
  • What are some reasons why Joe could accept the invitation?
  • Does Joe’s relationship with Bill meet the definition of a conflict of interest?

6

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Assume that you have been asked to prepare a visual presentation for the recruitment panel for the position of chief resilience officer in your community. 

First, you will want to locate and review your community’s hazard mitigation plan. If your local jurisdiction does not have a hazard mitigation plan published online, utilize the county-level or parish-level plan, or use the hazard mitigation plan of a nearby jurisdiction. 

Next, create a PowerPoint presentation that shares key points of your evaluation of your community’s hazard mitigation plan. You are not limited to any particular approach but you might (a) compare the local plan to the checklist in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) hazard mitigation plan review guide, (b) choose a couple of the elements in the review guide checklist for an in-depth evaluation, (c) evaluate the hazard mitigation plan against best practices or the course textbook, or (d) focus on priority hazard mitigation actions that you would take if you are appointed as the chief resilience officer. 

Your presentation must include an assessment of the plan’s strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Support your presentation with one academic reference. 

Your PowerPoint presentation should include speaker notes to support the key concepts on each of the visuals. Include a minimum of three visuals in your presentation. The speaker notes area is where most of the text should exist, and the visual area is where you should provide photos, graphs, screenshots, and other visually interesting information to keep the panel’s attention. Ensure the notes on the title slide will provide a few sentences to frame your approach. 

Your PowerPoint presentation should be a minimum of eight slides in length, not counting the title or reference slides. The presentation must follow APA format.

6A

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For this assignment, you will utilize the online Library to search for information about nonprofit organizations that volunteer during times of disaster. You will choose one, and write a case study that contains a review and analysis of the organization. Your paper should address, at a minimum, the following points.

  • Include the mission of the organization and the sources of its funding. 
  • Explain how the organization interacts with governments.
  • Give examples of how the organization has assisted in disasters.
  • Share your opinion on why people volunteer with this particular organization.
  • Explain the effect volunteering with this organization has on volunteers and the community.

  • Your case study should be a minimum of three pages, not including your title and reference pages. You must use at least three sources,  All sources used should be cited. Your case study and all references should be formatted in APA style.

human resource management

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Job Offer Negotiations

you are the applicant in this case

The Applicant

You are considering a job offer from a highly respected consulting firm and have requested a meeting with the person who would become your future boss, a partner at the firm, to negotiate the terms of the offer. The proceedings have come to a point at which you must make a decision to accept or reject the offer during this meeting or at the end of the day at the latest. You are quickly approaching the conclusion of your MBA degree and would like to make a decision as to where you will be working afterwards.

The Recruiter

You are a partner at a multinational consulting firm. During the recent financial crisis, the demand for strategy consulting services decreased significantly and a hiring freeze swept your firm, paired with isolated lay-offs. However, the past three years have been favorable to the industry. Your firm has performed particularly well during this period, and the resulting promotions and firm retention has left your firm in need of human capital. You are looking to hire another consultant to alleviate some of the overwhelming workload.

A student assigned as “the Applicant” and a student assigned as “the Recruiter” shall negotiate an employment contract within the parameters defined in the respective case studies.  The areas that need to be negotiated are: Base Salary, Signing Bonus, Performance Bonus, Pension, Health Coverage, Paid Vacation, Moving Expenses and Start Date.

In order to complete this project, students will need to purchase the case at Harvard Business Publishing by following this link:   https://hbsp.harvard.edu/import/743068

Students must present a one-page paper that lists the negotiated terms.  Additionally, each student must submit a paper, describing each of the following:

  1. What were the easiest terms to negotiate?  Why do you believe they were easier to negotiate, and did it surprise you that these terms would be among the easiest terms?
  2. What were the hardest terms to negotiate?  Why do you believe they were harder to negotiate, and did it surprise you that these terms would be among the hardest terms?
  3. Describe the negotiation process that took place.  For example, but not limited to, how many sessions, how long were the sessions, how did the parties separate the topics to be negotiated.
  4. What strengths and weaknesses did you observe about yourself in the negotiating process.

Understanding Social Change

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Understanding Social Change

As Weinstein explains in our text on Social Change, our contemporary understanding regarding social change is that it may be intentional or it may be unintentional. In other words, individuals or social movements can intentionally cause social change (either progressive or regressive). It is equally true that unintended changes in society can result from environmental changes, migrations of people responding to war, climate change, cultural clashes, and urbanization.

  1. Drawing from your readings, discuss one example of intended or unintended progressive social change and one example of intended or unintended regressive social change.
  2. In light of the probability that there will always be proponents of change as well as persons seeking to maintain the status quo, discuss how human services professionals may play a role in advancing progressive social change or regressive social change.

Public Policy and Response to Social Change

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Public Policy and Response to Social Change

Discuss three models for the development of public policy (public choice, group theory, and elite theory) and the suitability of each model for human services. Recognizing that community opinion, informed small groups, or the political elite may be the dominant source of social problem identification, make a judgement about the best source on which to rely, depending on the subject matter. Draw on your reading of Simon’s Public Policy text, Chapter 2 when considering your analysis of whether one or another of the models is most suitable.

Who Makes Public Policy?

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Who Makes Public Policy?

In Chapter 1 of the Simon Public Policy text, we see that in a governing entity (whether a government, for-profit, or non-profit organization), values are fundamental to the understanding public policy. Since Simon mainly focuses on the U.S. federal or state government as the principal actor in the making of public policy, we should note that the governing bodies of for-profit and non-profit organizations are influenced by the same ideas and practices. In other words, governance by any organization may serve to implement public policy. But, in these different governing bodies, who are the actors actually making public policy? Can we say it is people in a community, officials in program agencies, or governing officials? Can we envision a role for human services professionals? 

Drawing on Internet sources, identify one example of social change initiative promoting progress and one example of degeneration that can occur. Note in your discussion who the principal actors are in developing public policy in response to either progressive social change or degenerative social change.

Social Change Experience

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Social Change Experience

What is your experience with social change?

Drawing on your readings on progress and degeneration, and considering D. B. Bury’s and Benedict Morel’s perspectives, describe your personal experience in defining social needs for change either progressively or in degeneration (social worsening) as a professional in your community.

Include the following in your discussion:

  • Identify the problem.
  • Explain how the problem was first identified.
  • Describe the population or individuals affected.
  • Identify what or who was responsible for responding to the need for change.
  • Explain whether the community, business, non-profit, or government agency was expected to implement social change policy.

Use a minimum of two references (and their associated citations in your discussion narrative), applying APA style.

Community Assessment

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Community Assessment

For your first project assignment, you will be conducting a community assessment.

Begin by providing an overview of the community in which you live (large or small, urban or rural).  Then, complete the following:

  1. Identify community demographics, including social, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
  2. Use local papers and other media to identify and describe two social change concerns appropriate to the community.
  3. Identify the main actors (different ones for each concern) who may be involved in participating in a policy development process to address the concerns. 
  4. Identify the potential implementing actor (for-profit organization, non-profit, or government) or the combination of actors for each concern.
  5. Draft a statement of public policy for each of the two social change concerns you have identified for the community, taking into consideration public policy elements. Refer to the resources in your Social Policy Toolbox for developing these statements.

Assignment Requirements

  • Page Length: 3–5 double-spaced pages.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • Formatting: Present your paper in APA format. 
  • Written communication: Written communication must reflect graduate-level writing skills and successfully convey the message.

Reference the resources provided in your Social Policy Toolbox as well as the assignment scoring guide to help you complete this assignment.

Submit your Community Assessment assignment in the assignment area.

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