Month: October 2015

– Definition of additive manufacturing or 3D printing. Its advantage over traditional subtraction method.
– Various methods of additive manufacturing for metallic and polymeric materials.
– Future of 3D printing or additive manufacturing

Read the articlel that i will upload and watch the video on the you tube and write the essay about it,and follow the rubric that i will upload and write the Essay .This is the video on the youtube the RSA Animate – The Truth About Dishonesty

Find a research article from a nursing journal (or any other source) and discuss briefly: ◦Population used in the study
◦Sampling method
◦Any measurement used
◦How data was collected.
◦Be sure to include title of the article and authors and journal in which was published. Also, mention type of research: quantitative OR qualitative.

•Discuss this with your peers. Express your experience: how difficult or simple was for you to do this search. Discuss also significance of the study.
•Article must be submitted

From a single breach, a hacker gained access to customer information from several of the company’s restaurants and other properties, and then downloaded it to an off-site URL. The information included names and credit card numbers of guests, the cards’ expiration dates, and other data from the magnetic strip on each card. The chain notified the U.S. Secret Service, which investigates counterfeiting, as well as the attorneys general of several states. Wyndham hired an outside investigator to appraise the damage and advise on improving security and a firm that specializes in credit-card industry standards to look into each compromised property to improve compliance. In addition, Wyndham notified American Express, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover of card numbers that may have been involved. It offered affected guests free credit monitoring and set up a special toll-free line that all guests could call for more information.

Based on your own research, share an example of an organization that has faced a breach of customer security.

What measures has this organization taken to address the situation? 

What was the public relations response by the organization to address consumer confidence in the company? 

How did this experience affect the company’s financial bottom line in the short and long term?

Topic #2

Compare and contrast three common types of production processes: make-to-order, make-to-stock, and mass customization. What are the advantages and disadvantages to each? Why are more companies devoting at least a portion of their operations to mass customization? Identify three goods that could probably be adapted to mass customization and three that probably couldn’t.

Topic #3

View the video segment from the CBS Sunday Morning show about BMW and an aging workforce in Germany, and share your thoughts. The link to the video is under the Week 7 Schedule in Course Content.

Is this model being applied in the U.S. and other post-industrialized countries? If so, provide examples. If not, would you recommend this model to American businesses and why?

The purpose of the annotated bibliography is to assist you in developing research analysis skills including critical thinking, writing, and literature research skills. The annotated bibliography should include a paragraph for each source containing the following information:

• Name of the article, including the complete bibliographic citation, using APA format.
• Summary/abstract of the article – annotation (sometimes it is helpful to ask yourself the following questions in synthesizing the information:
  • Who? (author)
  • What was done? (e.g., an experimental study investigating the interaction of short term memory and attention)
  • How? (was it done)
• What were the findings? (identify the major ones)
• Contributions? (new findings, applications, etc.)

Review the complete instructions for the Final Paper in Week Five. To conduct accurate research for the annotated bibliography, consider the following:

• Research in peer-reviewed journals or other journals that are considered to have reliable information (do not use sources from the secular press (e.g., Time, Newsweek, or Wikipedia). Review the guidelines for acceptable sources by reading the “Academic Research” section within the Student Responsibilities and Policies tab under Course Home on the left navigation toolbar in your online course.
• Identify at least ten academic sources at least six of which can be found in the Ashford Online Library. If you do find something on the World Wide Web, it must be authored and be a reliable source.
• In these journals, the research and information is either reviewed by an editorial team (such as for the Academy of Management Review) or a group of peers (such as in many journals you find through the Ashford Online Library).

Describe and conduct research on yourself (Sachteleben, n.d.). Reflect on the following questions and explain your answers to these attributes and questions in paragraph form.

1. Describe your personality (choose 3 power words)
2. Explain your primary ethical perspectives.
3. What are the ways that you try to live an ethically good life and why do you think that these ways are the best ways?
4. Feel free to include ethical theory and analysis that you have learned about in your study of the text and articles.
5. What are your primary values?
6. What specific activities reflect your primary values? (e.g., “saving money to help the needy” or “protecting the environment”)
7. What are your primary beliefs about life and the way that you interact in your place of business or work?
8. What causes do you participate or hope to participate in?
9. What are your pet peeves?
10. What are your goals, dreams, or plans for the future both professionally as well as personally?
11. Have you ever had any unusual experiences? (e.g., “Worked in the peace corps in the Sudan,” “Went to school in Germany,” “Survived a severe storm,” “Met a famous person,” “Home-schooled my kids.”)
12. Do you belong to any groups or have any affiliations that help to orient your life?

Reference

Sachteleben, M. (n.d.). How to write a profile: Online or off, write about your personal goals and skills. Retrieved from http://www.howtodothings.com/computers/how-to-write-a-personal-profile

Reflection Prompt for Personal Profile Activity

Once you have completed your personal analysis, please reflect on the following and provide your thoughts in paragraph form.

1. If you were running a business, what are the three ethical virtues or principles that you would use to create the optimally ethical environment for your company?
2. Please explain why you chose each virtue or principle and how it would foster good business. Feel free to be creative here and to not abide by common standards of morality if you do not think that it is important to abide by certain standards in business. For example, you might claim that honesty is the best policy. However, someone might claim that it would actually be best to foster deception in order to maximize profits. Either way, explain why you chose the various principles.

You will likely recall from the course objectives that a large portion of this course is focused on having you examine your ethnic heritage, cultural identity, values, and assumptions and analyze their impact on the provision of culturally competent services.

In this assignment, you will be asked to write a 2-page paper outlining how you define yourself culturally. If you recall from Module 1, you were asked to reflect on how the person you are today has been influenced by your group affiliations. You can include components of that discussion in this assignment although you will certainly need to substantially expand on what you wrote in Module 1. In fact, you will need to indicate your ethnicity, race, gender, religion, language, and age and discuss how each of these has contributed to who you are today. You will also need to think critically about which of these factors is the most important to you (i.e., on which factor do you base your decisions, values, and opinions?) and which is the least important to you. You will be asked to apply what you have learned so far (you can do this by incorporating content from scholarly sources) to what you write.

Tasks:

Write a 2-page paper outlining how you define yourself culturally. This can be an expansion of the discussion that you posted in Module 1 with content added from what you have learned in the course so far.

• Indicate your ethnicity, race, gender, religion, language, and age and discuss how each of these has contributed to who you are today. You may discuss these in terms of where you are at present (e.g., what religion you currently follow), and, if you wish, you can include information from when you were younger (e.g., what religion you were raised with).
• Explain which of these factors is the most important and which is the least important to you and share why you believe this to be the case.

THIS IS DUE IN 12pm 10/1/15

Part I. – Introduction (2 slides)

1. – Overview of your presentation
2. Provide a detailed outline which identifies your agenda and learning outcomes.

Part II. – Subject Overview (4 slides)

1. Provide an overview of your cost accounting topic
2. What functions within an organization would your topic be relevant
3. Provide an example of an organization which implements your subject-matter as part of their operations.

Part III. – Conclusion (2 slides)

1. Provide a wrap up.
2. Any final analysis you want to leave your audience with (you can get creative here!)
3. Are there any addition readings, articles, literature you would recommend to the audience if they wanted to research your topic further?

Part IV. – Problem (2 slides)

1. Take the class through your problem and provide an eloquent solution and analysis.

One of the main objectives of this course is for you to examine your ethnic heritage, cultural identity, values, and assumptions and analyze their impact on the provision of culturally competent services; therefore, in each module, you will focus on how a specific component of culture relates to this. In this module, you will focus on sex and gender and discuss the differences between the two.

As you work in the human services delivery sector, you will encounter males and females (both clients and colleagues) who may have different gender identities and different sexual orientations other than your own. In this discussion, you will want to critically think about how sex and gender differences can impact the work equation between a service delivery provider and a service delivery recipient and also between the agency staff members.

Tasks:

Given what you have learned in Module 3 regarding the relationship between sex and gender, post your responses to the following:

• Illustrate the difference between the two.
• Elaborate on how (or whether) sex and gender impact the work equation between a service delivery provider and a service delivery recipient.
• Discuss how sex or gender impacts the work equation between agency staff members. Be specific in your responses and illustrate using examples. Make sure that you support your points using scholarly sources.