"Communicating a Salary Freeze"  Please respond to the following:

• Prepare a communication draft for your organization that outlines a freeze on salary increases or benefit reductions for the upcoming calendar year. State the company’s rationale for this action and point to external forces that make this action necessary.
• Analyze the elements of media choices for conducting an internal total rewards campaign to determine which is hardest to evaluate from the return on investment standpoint and then recommend how you could make it easier.

"Code Of Conduct Memo – Draft"

Assignment 1

You are a manager at a call center. The company frowns upon phone calls and texting during work hours. You have looked the other way a few times, but it has started to get out of hand. You need to write a memo reminding everyone that private phone and text message use on company time is viewed as a violation of the company’s code of ethics. 

Write a 1-page memo in which you address the situation, emphasizing the violation of the company’s code of conduct. In your document, you should:

1. Ensure the memo is clear and brief.
2. Choose language to match the purpose and tone for the situation and audience.
3. Format the memo accurately and according to the details in the textbook.
4. Create an effective opening that establishes goodwill without obscuring the message.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

1.  Select a different article from a current academic journal (last ten years) that deals with gender issues related to criminal justice (this may be interdisciplinary).  An academic journal is not a magazine, a book, newspaper, etc.  Examples of acceptable academic journals include:  Criminology, Social Forces, Criminal Justice Education, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Black Psychology, etc.  Topics of selected articles should focus on a theoretical explanation of criminal behavior.

NOTE:  Academic journal articles may be obtained from electronic journals found on the internet or from traditional library sources.

2.  Each student should have her/his selected article approved by the instructor.

3.  Read the article.

4.  Write a critique of the article selected.  The guidelines and grading rubric are shown below.

General Guidelines: Writing 20%

• Paper meets APA/Graduate School standards. • Paper is organized; each paragraph flows logically into the next paragraph. • Appropriate terminology it used; writing is clear and concise. • Proper spelling and grammar is used; sentences are properly constructed.

Content 80% • Appropriate article selection (scholarly and/or empirical); recent (last ten years). • Brief overview of the article is provided; the thesis of the article is clearly stated. • A description of the research problem is provided. • Research methods used to study the problem are discussed and critiqued in detail. • The authors’ conclusions and recommendations are provided. • Contributions to the literature are discussed in detail along with a brief discussion of conclusions/recommendations. • The critique addresses the following questions: What methods did the author use to investigate the topic?  Were the appropriate methods used?  Did the author's approach to supporting the thesis make sense?  Did the author employ the methods correctly?  Did you discover any errors in the way the research was conducted?

Learning two or more languages can be beneficial to cognition in several ways. After reading the textbook and the article The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual, sum up some of the major findings of research on being bilingual. For example, what advantages or disadvantages do bilinguals have? Given what you have learned about being bilingual this week, how do you think second language acquisition should be approached? How do you think your approach could increase cognitive function in different professional settings? Be sure to defend your answer with scholarly research.

Your paper should include all of the following elements:

·A summary of major research findings on being bilingual

·A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism

·A description of a recommended approach for second language acquisition

·An explanation of how your recommended approach could increase cognitive function in different professional settings

·A defense of your approach with scholarly research

Guidelines for Submission:12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA-formatted citations for all sources used. The paper should be 3–4 pages, not including references. 

Discussion Question- Price Is Firm

Operational Plan. What information did you find that is relevant for  your CLC Business Plan? Is it included – and why or why not? 

250 words/references

Suicide And Grief

Plagiarism free, APA style is not required but, solid academic writing is expected. Citations and four references should be presented for this assessment. Need back on Tuesday 23, 2018 by 6:30 pm. 

As a mental health worker, you have been assigned the task of presenting, for training purposes, a staff development on assisting families dealing with suicide and grief. (650 words)Please List each questions for this assessment.

Address the following:   

1. Discuss the impact of suicide on the family system:

a. Parents – When a child commits suicide, how does it affect the parents?

b. Siblings – How are siblings affected by the suicide of a family member?

c. Grandparents – How do grandparents handle the suicide of a family member?

d. Friends and community – How does suicide impact the community and friends of the family dealing with loss? 

2. Explain how mental health workers can prepare to assist families dealing with the following:

a. A teenager who is thinking about committing suicide

b. A woman with small children who has just lost her husband to suicide

c. An elderly male client who is dying of cancer and wants to overdose on sedatives to end his misery and spare his wife any more pain.

3. Recommend resources (websites and other local resources) that mental health workers in your agency can use to assist families dealing with suicide and grief. 

4. Lastly, address the significance of cultural competency when dealing with various religious and social views about suicide and assisted suicide.

a. Examine philosophical arguments and perspectives on suicide of different world religions.

b. Explain why it is important for mental health workers to understand the different cultural views on suicide and assisted suicide. 

Instructions: Develop a 10 pages comprehensive written risk assessment and risk management strategy for a particular infrastructure system(s). 

Students will construct a risk analysis of a key infrastructure sector.

 It should include a protection strategy for the key infrastructure sector. 

As part of the paper, an evaluation of the risk management program development process should be included. 

Proper APA format should be used.

"Code Of Conduct Memo – Draft"

Assignment 1

You are a manager at a call center. The company frowns upon phone calls and texting during work hours. You have looked the other way a few times, but it has started to get out of hand. You need to write a memo reminding everyone that private phone and text message use on company time is viewed as a violation of the company’s code of ethics. 

Write a 1-page memo in which you address the situation, emphasizing the violation of the company’s code of conduct. In your document, you should:

1. Ensure the memo is clear and brief.
2. Choose language to match the purpose and tone for the situation and audience.
3. Format the memo accurately and according to the details in the textbook.
4. Create an effective opening that establishes goodwill without obscuring the message.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Law & Ethics

The purpose of this assignment is to differentiate between law and ethics, understand how both affect today's business environment, and identify the importance of alternative dispute resolution in business. 

Assignment Steps 

Develop a 1,050-word summary contrasting law and ethics describing the following: 

• Describe how laws or regulations affect your past or current job or industry.
• Describe how ethical rules affect your past or current job or industry and explain why ethics are considered an asset to a workplace.
• Discuss the various types of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and analyze which types of ADRs are regularly used in your workplace.

Cite a minimum of two peer-reviewed references. 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. 

• write a research paper (4pages) on methods of quality measurement.

  must include the following:

  1) Detailed summary of at least two different methods of quality measurement.

  2) Examples of how the methods may be used to improve organizational effectiveness.

  3) Evaluation of the methods.

  4) At least four references.