Details of the task
Each short piece will provide your response to a question, discussed in class, relating to the lecture topic and set reading for the week. Each short piece should be written in your own words. This task is designed to gradually develop your ability to engage with, think about, and write about the sociological concepts and materials we cover in the early topics of the unit. The task is also designed to develop your ability to draft, develop, and edit your work for submission.
Submissions will marked as quickly as possible. Pieces 1, 2, and 3 will be marked against the following criteria:
• Demonstrated engagement with unit content covered in lectures, tutorial discussions and set reading 2 marks
• Developing understanding of sociological ideas and concepts 2 marks
• Correctly submitted, proofread and free from errors 2 marks
Total 6 marks
The two final short pieces, due Friday 9pm weeks 4 and 5, will be marked according to the following criteria:
• Demonstrated engagement with unit content in lectures, tutes and set reading 1 mark
• Developing understanding of sociological ideas and concepts 1 mark
• Developing clear and effective written expression 1 mark
• Developing skills in editing and polishing 1 mark
• Developing appropriate use of academic language and conventions of referencing 1 mark
• Correctly submitted, proofread and free from errors 1 mark
Total 6 marks
Questions for the pieces will be provided each week in lectures, and writing and editing opportunities will be included in workshop activities.
Your completed pieces should be submitted to the relevant VU Collaborate Dropbox by 9 pm on each due date.
Short pieces should be submitted as Word documents, in 11 or 12 font, and 1.5 or double spaced. Each piece needs to have your name, student number, assignment number and question or topic indicated on a cover page as the first page of the document.
Assignments should be carefully proofread prior to submission.
1. What can Sociology offer you for your understanding of your social world and for your future career (accounting student)
(150 Words)
2. Which of these theoretical perspectives interest you the most? Why?
(150 Words)
3. In What ways can Culture be both freedom and Constrains?
(150 words)
4. Do you think your experience in Socialisation and development of yourself has been different from your parents?
Why and what ways?
(200 words) (reference need)
5. In what ways in australia an unequal society?
(200 words) (reference need)
Assessment 2: Short Essay 30%
Overview of Tasks
Task: Short essay
Length: 750 words
Due Date: May 7th
Details of the task
Assessment Task Two: Short Essay (750 words – 30%):
Drawing upon the lectures, readings and discussions from the early weeks of the unit, write a short essay presenting a thoughtful and informed response to one of the following questions:

Question 1. What is the sociological imagination? Draw on Willis’s model to describe it, and explain how it can improve our understanding of our lives and our social world.
Question 2. Describe and discuss one or two of the major sociological theoretical perspectives.
Question 3. Is what ways is Australian society equal or unequal? Discuss with reference to inequalities of class OR gender OR ethnicity.

The short essay builds upon the thinking and writing completed during the first assessment task, and will be marked according to the following criteria:
• Demonstrated engagement with unit content from lectures, tutorials and set reading
• Developing understanding of sociological ideas and concepts
• Developing clear and effective written expression
• Developing use of essay and paragraph structure
• Developing appropriate use of academic language and conventions
• Correctly submitted, proofread and free from errors
Assessment Submission
Your completed Short Essay should be submitted to the relevant VU Collaborate Dropbox by 9 pm on the due date. Once you submit your essay, you will be able to see Originality Report (via Turnitin), which you can use to improve your essay based on the report. You will be able to submit multiple files per submission and submit your files more than once.

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Assessment and Submission Details
Marks: 35 % of the Total Assessment for the Course
Due Date: 9:00am Friday, Week 12
The assignment MUST be submitted on time.
Assignments are to be submitted by SafeAssign.
The assignment will be marked out of a total of 100 marks and forms 35% of the total assessment for the course. Once marked, ALL assignments will be checked for plagiarism and/or collusion between individuals.
Refer to your Course Outline or the Course Web Site for a copy of the “Student Misconduct, Plagiarism and Collusion” guidelines.
Note: Each student MUST make a second copy of the assignment and this copy MUST be produced within 24 hours of it being requested by the Course Co-ordinator. Failure to produce the second copy of the assignment when requested may result in loss of marks or a fail grade for the assignment.
Requests for an extension to an assignment extension MUST be made prior to the date of submission and requests made on the day of submission or after the submission date will only be considered in exceptional circumstances.

Case Study: Comfort Quilts Limited.
Background:
Comfort Quilts Limited is a Sydney based business which at the moment sells imported silk eiderdowns (doonas) such as the ones shown here to retail stores, wholesale outlets and through a website. The business purchases home-wares from many sources in China, with delivery through the postal service.
The business was started by the business owner, Alison Williams who undertook all the ordering and selling however the business has now grown to include both part-time and full-time employees. The organisation is also looking to expand further. Currently the business has just completed a project to replace a manual stock control and customer relationship systems with a custom system. They also use an accounting system which is used to manage the accounts receivable and accounts payable of the business. However, Comfort Quilts Limited is now looking to expand their range of goods sold.
Comfort Quilts plan to expand their range of quilts to include other natural materials such as cotton and wool. As part of their strategic planning they are also investigating including bed linens in natural materials such as linen and cotton sheet sets and quilt covers in their range. This expansion in the range of good offered will significantly affect their current purchasing systems.
They currently have online sales for the silk eiderdowns to private people rather than businesses, so this is a straight business to consumer transaction. They also offer a wholesale service for bulk purchases where they organize to have their brand labels sown on the quilts. This is an important part of their business, making up 50% of their sales.
Currently, an off the shelf accounting package is used and email for communication with suppliers and customers plus the new customer relationship management and sales system. There is a recognition that this new system now contains data which would be very useful for supply chain management. For Comfort Quilts the personal relationship they have had with suppliers is very important and they want to maintain this level of trust by sharing some sales data with suppliers.
Currently their suppliers are all in China however they are planning to import from other countries also such as India and Indonesia. They will store name, business number, address, telephone, email, country, currency goods sold in, payment terms. They plan to use a number of customs clearance agents to clear shipments through customs. For goods coming into Australia over the value of $1 000 GST is applied and a duty value ranging from zero to ten percent.
Purchases from suppliers are made in bulk (normally over 500 pieces) and are sent over a number of shipping channels, including couriers like UPS, air freight or shipping dependent on the quantity ordered and the urgency for the order. Sometimes a single purchase might be split between a number of shipping channels, with a smaller quantity being sent by a faster channel like a courier and the rest of the purchase being sent through a cheaper shipping channel. being Each of these shipping methods had a number of different attributes, including shipment leaving date and arrival date. Comfort Quilts want to be able to associate each purchase with the shipping method and maintain a record of the cost and length of time taken for each shipment. They also need to maintain details of each purchase.
Gary Tallent, would like to know stock levels of each item and how long each shipment of products takes to sell. He would also like to make bigger orders less often to take advantage of smaller shipping costs per piece of silk product and bulk ordering discounts offered by their suppliers.
Business Processes:
A JAD session with key stakeholders revealed the following information. The business processes described below are the system requirements for this information system solution:
• The customer relationship management application and sales application has already been completed therefore do not model any of these systems.
• Before Comfort Quilts Limited can buy from suppliers they must fill in an application. Applications are reviewed by the suppliers and not all applications are approved.
• Gary Tallent, the purchasing manager wants to be able to run reports on individual purchases, individual shipments and purchasing/ shipping reports at the end of the month.
• Alison Williams also wants to run a purchasing report showing details of each purchases, shipping method and the expected date of arrival of shipments on the first of every month.
• Any payments for salaries or expenses to purchases people are outside the scope of this system
End of Case Study

Part A
Question 1: Report
Your manager has done some reading and is sure that an adaptive systems development approach is necessary for the new information systems project to develop a project management system for Comfort Quilts Limited.

Your manager has asked you to write short report on one adaptive systems development methodology suitable for this project, choosing from methodologies such as Scrum, XP and UP. State what makes this methodology in particular align with this project. It is expected that you use the detail from the case study in your essay.
Your target audience is executive business people, who have extensive business experience but limited computing knowledge.
Your essay should be no less than one thousand (1000) words and it would be best to be no longer than one thousand five hundred (1500) words long.
Appropriate referencing is required. The textbook Satzinger et. al is a valid resource, however it is expected that at least five (5) other resources will also be used.
25 23 19 16 13 8 0
Outstanding: High Distinction: Distinction: Credit: Pass: Fail: Not Submitted:
An outstanding attempt – well formatted and professionally presented piece of work. An excellent piece of work that meets all the specified criteria with very minor omissions or mistakes More than competently meets the criteria specified with only minor mistakes or omissions. Competently meets the criteria as specified with few minor mistakes or omissions. Satisfactorily meets the criteria. Did not sufficiently meet the criteria to pass. No attempt made or different from what is acceptable

Part B
Modelling and Diagramming
Review the Comfort Quilts Limited case study and answer the following questions with reference to the information in the case study.
Do NOT extend the scope for any of the following solutions beyond that specifically described in the case study above.
You are permitted to make reasonable assumptions where necessary but these should be noted.
It is recommended that you review all documentation for this case study before finalising any single solution. Ensure that the required consistency has been included within and between each question solution.

Simpson v. Ohio Reformatory for Women 

1. Using the Internet, research the legal case that Susan Simpson filed against the Ohio Reformatory for Women. 

2. Review Notes on Case Questions below. 

3. Outline the case, using the standard outline headings. Submit your outline in a Word document to the Discussion. 

Notes on Case Questions: 

1. The court's reasoning seems to blend the two together. On one hand, the court began its opinion by noting that the lower court (the Claims Court) ruled in favor of the defendant-employer on plaintiff's "claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligent supervision, and constructive discharge." But then the court goes on to consider whether the Supreme Court's test of vicarious liability for worker-to-worker sexual harassment was properly applied by the lower court to this case, where the harassment was not sexual in nature. 

2. Then both vicarious liability and negligent conduct by the employer are irrelevant, since the supervisor stands in the shoes of the organization and acts on its behalf, even when that supervisor acts wrongly. 

3. This is open to discussion. Could jurors disagree on this point? Should it matter that the plaintiff was an overly sensitive person? 

4. Probably not. The court seems to accept the lower court's decision to apply the Supreme Court's test, and then ends up agreeing with the trial judge's determination that the plaintiff failed to carry her burden. 

5. Views may differ, depending one experience, point of view, gender, etc.

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 Describe one internal and one external method for the dissemination of your EBP project results. For example, an internal method may be the hospital board, and an external method may be a professional nursing organization. Discuss why it is important to report your results to both of these groups. How will your communication strategies change for each group? 

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Assignment: Ethical and Cultural Issues in Group Work

As a human and social services professional, it is likely that you will often be called upon to work within a group. Whether in your organization or within your community, the ability to successfully work within a group setting and to navigate group dynamics is essential to providing services to your clients.

  For this Assignment, you consider ethical and cultural issues that may present when working with groups, such as pre-existing relationships within the group, hierarchy or seniority of members, and traditional roles and expectations of inclusion in the process.  To Prepare: •Choose a specific group work scenario that you either encounter regularly or that is of particular professional interest to you (e.g., group social work within hospitals, youth groups in schools, substance abuse co-led groups in prisons). •Review Chapter 12, “Ethical Issues in Group Work,” in the Corey course text, and reflect on the guidelines related to your chosen scenario. 

 The Assignment (3 page): •Briefly describe the group scenario that you are using for the Assignment. •Explain the skills necessary to be a successful group facilitator for this population and/or issue type and within your chosen setting. •Explain the ethical and cultural issues that must be addressed before you can begin a group in this scenario. •Identify the three most important guidelines for multicultural and social justice competence that would guide you professionally and ethically once the group was underway. Explain why you selected these guidelines in particular. •Of the three guidelines you described, explain which one(s) you believe you need to develop additional knowledge or experience with as part of your professional development and why.

•Chapter 12, “Ethical Issues in Group Work” (pp. 432–459)

https://cengagebrain.vitalsource.com/books/9781305479838/pageid/457

Diller, J. V. (2015). Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services (5th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.

  •Chapter 11, “Working With Latino/a Clients: An Interview With Roberto Almanzan” (pp. 253–267) •Chapter 12, “Working with Native American Clients: An Interview with Jack Lawson” (pp. 268–283)

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Research Paper 2
Due date: 6 OCtober 2017
Value: 35%
Objectives
The course objectives met by this assignment include:
• Course specifications are available online from the USQ website
http://www.usq.edu.au/course/specification/ . Always check the website for the latest version.
Background
This assessment item covers the chapters 5-8 of your textbook. In the previous assessment item you selected an organisation, and provided information on the current security state and made suggestions of improvements to their security. Use this organisation for this assessment item as well. Depending on the size of the organisation (small, medium, large) you are asked to assist in developing a security program. Reflect on the current roles and titles of the security personnel and make suggestions of improvements. Provide a plan to make these changes incorporating training requirements. Determine if the organisation uses any ISO security standards and provide reasoning which security model would be more suitable. Determine the suitability of certification. Justify by using threat identification and provide risk assessment for this organisation.
As in the previous assessment item, please make sure NOT to divulge any sensitive information. If you are working for an organisation, use the internet to determine what information is available to the public. To protect security of the organisation, you are requested to invent the current security situation of this organisation. This will allow you to create a scenario that you can then use to apply your knowledge of the course material.
Write a report in accordance to the recommendations of the links on the study desk. The wordcount limit for the introduction, body and conclusion of this report is set at about 3000 words. Use five (5) or more resources for your citing and referencing in Harvard style.
Submission requirements
• Submit your word document through your study desk – a link will be available on the study desk.
Marking criteria for research paper 2 – CIS8018
Student name: ___________________________ Student number: ____________________
Marks
Structured development of report
Logical flow leading the reader from start to finish on a clear path of addressing the assessment requirements; clear identification and description of current state; clearly leading into the solutions; application of correct report format.
/30
Excellent meets all the requires for this objective 21-30
Good work – minor issue 11-20
Requires more work 5-10
Very poor effort 0-5
Comment:
De

pth of research/ critical reflection
Reason to support findings: showing depth of unders issues of an organisation; being able to reason for th model, training, roles to address these issues; showe threat identifications, ISO, model, etc. (chapter 1-4 c addition journal articles specifically address and supp

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ort.
21-30
/30
Good work – minor issue 11-20
Requires more work 5-10
Very poor effort 0-5
Comment:
Un
derstanding of key ideas and concepts
Understood the course material; able to identify key i a real life scenario of issues; able to explain an issue and concepts; able to relate own experience to cours introducing own perspective deas and concept within
with the use of key ideas e material and issue by
/30
Excellent meets all the requires for this objective 21-30
Good work – minor issue 11-20
Requires more work 5-10
Very poor effort 0-5
Comment:
Evidence of support
Citing and referencing: Correct within text Harvard citing; correct Harvard referencing; used more than five (5) sources (book, journal article, report, news article on the internet) in addition to the course text book.
/10
Excellent meets all the requires for this objective 9-10
Good work – minor issue 7-8
Requires more work 4-6
Very poor effort 0-3
Comment:
Total /100
General Comments:

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Assessment 3: Reflective Practice Assessment-Developing your Communication Competency General Overview:
This assessment accounts for 40% of your final grade.
The assessment is due in Week 12 on Friday 6th October 5.00 pm.
The essay must be 2500 words in length. Two points will be deducted for those essays that are over or under 200 words.
The essay must include a minimum of 12 academic references, one of which by the standard textbook for this course. Students should note this is the minimum standard for demonstration of research. Students who only meet the minimum will receive the minimum grade for this component.
There is a late deduction of 2 points per day after the due date.
The essay must include a cover page that contains your name, student number, resident campus, assessment title, and lecturer. The essay must conform to the APA style guide.
This is a summative assessment so marks will not be released until after Certification of Grades.
Task Description:
The purpose of this assessment is to provide students with the opportunity to engage in reflective practice, using a range of diagnostic tools and feedback, only to identify two key areas of personal capability that can be addressed (improved) increase their communication effectiveness.
This assessment is intended to assess your ability to demonstrate advanced knowledge in written communication and your skill to autonomously reflect on good practices in workplace communication. Through the process of self-reflection you will be able to improve your communication competencies through your knowledge of and ability to perform contextually appropriate communicative behaviors.
This assignment has three specific components:
1. Diagnosis and Reflection. 1000 words
a) Using 5 diagnostic tools related to communication, you are to analyze your own communication style across various areas such as verbal communication, active listening, non-verbal, and assertiveness perception. You will be given the individual diagnostics during the tutorials. Your tutor / lecturer will check and sign-off that you have completed each individual diagnostic during the tutorials. This means that if you fail to attend any of the tutorials you will not be able to receive and complete the diagnostics. The signed diagnostics must be attached to the end of the essay after the references.
b) You are to present the findings of the tools. In doing so you will understand the results as they apply to your personal situation.
c) Based upon your analysis of the findings you are identifying two key communication issues that you have identified as requiring development.
d) Reflect on two recent professional interactions that you have had within the past 12 months. Analyze these interactions from the perspective of the two key communication issues that are identified as requiring development. To what extent are these evident and support the need for personal communication development?
2. Literature review 1000 words
You are to identify and explain the two issues from your diagnosis and reflection. You are to define the concepts, outline key models and or behaviors that need to be developed to demonstrate effective practice. This literature review needs to outline both the conceptual (theoretical) and behavioral (interpersonal) skills that you need to acquire to demonstrate competence in your chosen area of ​​communication.
3. Action Plan 500 words
As a conclusion you are to develop an action plan of key events and activities that you can undertake over the next 6 months to acquire the knowledge, skills and behaviors identified as requiring development in component 1. This can include the following:
to be able to develop conceptual skills, to be able to develop skills (must be current courses), undertaking advanced post-graduate courses in CQU or other institutions, ), maintaining of personal journals reflecting on communication interactions, Identification of a mentor (evidence must be provided).
This section should include actionable items with timelines (such as a Gantt Chart) and an indication of how you will measure your successful completion.

Logic models are made up of several components: inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes. These components are placed in one of six vertical columns to designate the resources needed for the program, the services offered by the program, the quantifiable products or outputs of the services, the immediate impacts of the program, the intermediate outcomes of the program, and the long-term outcomes of the program. Accordingly, it is imperative that you identify all the required components and place them in the correct columns. Otherwise, your program may not make sense, lack appropriate resources to meet its outcomes, or even fail to show outcomes at all.  There are many ways to approach the creation of logic models. Some scholars believe you should approach them with the “end in mind”—meaning, figure out where to begin today, then work forward from there. Other scholars believe that you should “think backward”—meaning, figure out what goals you want to achieve first, and then work backward from there.  

In this Discussion, you post two ways you think the logic model could be useful in evaluating human and social services programs. Then, you explain whether you support creating logic models using the "plan with the end in mind" approach or the "think backwards" approach. To Prepare • Review the Logic Model Workbook in this week's Learning Resources. • Consider your impressions of logic models and how they can be applied to human and social services programs. • Think about the arrows in the example logic model. Do they move in a way that makes sense? Could you look at logic models another way and get a better result?  backwards” approach.  To Prepare •Review the Logic Model Workbook in this week’s Learning Resources. •Consider your impressions of logic models and how they can be applied to human and social services programs. •Think about the arrows in the example logic model. Do they move in a way that makes sense? Could you look at logic models another way and get a better result?  

  Post two ways you think the logic model could be useful in evaluating human and social services programs. Be sure to support your post with the Learning Resources. Finally, explain whether you support creating logic models using the "plan with the end in mind" approach or "think backward" approach. Be sure to justify your response.

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When negotiating in an emerging market, it is critical to understand the variety of internal and external workings of the country in which you will be launching a product. For example, the negotiator would need to understand the emerging market's regulatory environment, the market itself, distribution channels, supply chains, tariffs, taxes, and culture.

Your team is negotiating a new product launch with an emerging market in Asia, and your company needs to negotiate the specifics for the launch product. You are the lead in your company's negotiation team and you have been asked to create and distribute the Negotiation Plan that includes strategies, tactics, guidelines, and a pre- and post-marketing checklist.lead in your company’s negotiation team and you have been asked to create and distribute a Negotiation Plan that includes strategies, tactics, guidelines, and a pre- and postmeeting checklist.

Do the following to complete this assignment:

• First, create the negotiation strategy for your company.
• Then, provide an explanation of the stages to the rest of the negotiation team.
• Identify and explain your planned negotiation tactics.
• Finally, identify factors that may affect your company's negotiation plan.

Write a 3-5-page report in Word format. Use at least two scholarly sources. Apply APA standards to the citation of sources

Write 350 words answering the question below 

How did the Double V campaign spark a civil rights movement? How successful was the Double V campaign?