Mary Contrary, age 42, is a single mom caring for two children – Peter, age 15, and Muffett, age 12. Mary is a full-time employee of the Garden Grow Company and works as a lead botanist.

Part 1: Mary participates in Garden Grow’s dependent care assistance plan. In 2017, Mary incurred the following dependent care expenses:

• $2,500 for a part-time housekeeper

• $1,500 for Peter’s private therapy (Peter is mentally incapacitated due to a tragic accident involving a spider bite)

• $1,000 for Muffett’s after school program

• $575 for Muffett’s summer day camp

Which, if any, of the above expenses are allowable as non-taxable?
 

Please write a memo answering this question, citing appropriate authority.
An IRAC-style essay is appropriate for this assignment.

Part 2: In February 2017, Mary relocated from Los Angeles, CA to Las Vegas, NV, to manage the new branch Garden Grow opened that year. She incurred the following expenses:

• $275,000 for the purchase of a house

• $5,000 for selling her Los Angeles home and finding a home in Las Vegas

• $500 for packing and moving her household goods.

• $175 for moving-related travel between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Garden Grow reimbursed her but did not exclude the reimbursements from her income

Which, if any, of the above expenses are deductible? Why?
 

Please answer in one or two paragraphs. An IRAC is NOT necessary for this part of the assignment.

TWO (2) journal entries must be submitted  (with 1 title page for both). 

• Each entry will critically assess the value that you have taken from any readings/class activities and relate the course material to real life events/issues (either your own, or those in the news). An informal (but respectful) writing tone is perfectly acceptable. 

Note! Concise, thoughtful reflections are required. Other than in section 1 of this deliverable (“Course Relevance”, described below), I am not interested in reading mini literature reviews that have little reflective element to them. You are expected to show independent, critical thinking.

Instructions

Introduction: Throughout this course, you will be working on a staged project researching a public policy issue as identified in your project proposal. At this point, you are being asked to present your findings and evaluation to your classmates and instructor.

Instructions: At this point, you will present your project to the instructor and your peers. Your presentation should include the following components:

1. An introduction to the policy issue and its background
2. Your methods and results from data collection
3. An evaluation of the impact of this policy, as supported by your findings. Include in your evaluation about how you would score this policy on the Public Value
4. Scorecard. If appropriate or relevant, consider including a Legitimacy and Support Perspective analysis of an Operational Capacity Perspective analysis as well
5. Recommendations regarding this policy and why you are making the recommendations
6. Conclusions based on your research, including any future research that may be needed

The Presentation should be 10-12 minutes in length. It should be narrated. Remember to be clear and professional in your delivery, as if you were delivering this to the appropriate governmental agency.

For some additional guidance on designing presentations, see the How to Design A Good PowerPoint Presentation page in this module. Remember that your presentation should be a narrated PowerPoint (or you may use Panopto or MoveNote). It helps to script what you are going to say before you narrate it.

You may submit your presentation as either a narrated PowerPoint or you may use Panopto or MoveNote to record it and submit this version. Instructions for recording your presentation as a video with these tools is available on the Recording a Presentation module page.

Instructions

Introduction: Throughout this course, you will be working on a staged project researching a public policy issue as identified in your project proposal. At this point, you are being asked to write and deliver your findings and evaluation to your classmates and instructor in a final Research Paper.

Instructions: At this point, you will submit your final Research Paper evaluating your chosen policy and making recommendations based on your research. Your Research Paper should include the following components:

   Abstract: Please provide an abstract (one paragraph) for your paper. (I did not see this in your instructions but I do want it included.)

:Introduction

• Identification of the issue
• Description of the background context and significance of the issue
• The research question behind this project
• Literature Review
• Methods
• Findings from your data collection
• Public Score Card
• Recommendations regarding this policy
• Conclusion
• Bibliography

Remember to support your evaluation of this issue and your recommendations with the data you collected and any additional information you learned from your literature review.

Submission: Your Research Paper should be about 12-15 pages (about 3,000-3,750 words) in length.

Page requirement 2500-3000 words, please read the instructions for the assignment

Based upon the course readings, supplementary materials, and your own literature search via the CTU online library, please submit Part 2 of your Organizational Change Action Plan.

This part of the Organizational Change Action Plan should include the following components:

Part 2: Review of the Literature (Continued)

Review the academic literature of organizational learning.

Review the practitioner literature of organizational learning. 

Synthesize the academic and practitioner literature. 

Use the LIBRARY or the MGMT Doctoral Library for help.

The objective for this assignment

 To analyze systems theories by considering different systems approaches and methodologies 

To comprehend the definitions of strategy and organizational systems 

To prepare organizational leaders to leverage concepts used in systems theories and strategy models