Consider the four approaches to individual change (behavioral, humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitve) and apply one of them to the situation you have chosen from the list.  Explain how you can use that approach to help the person change or improve.  As a manager, what steps would you take with the employee (or child)?   How would you monitor the success of your efforts?

 

1.    one of your employee’s has lost their husband in a tragic car accident a month ago.   The employee has been absent from work and when she is in work, she is not performing well.

 

2.    your employee comes to work about 5 – 10 minutes late every day.   Others are complaining.

 

3.    your child is doing very poorly in school and is not getting good grades because he is not submitting his homework.

 

4.    you have an excellent employee who is moving quickly through promotions knowing he is headed to the top.  Sometimes he is arrogant.

 

5.    your sales team is complaining about one member who is not pulling her weight.   She always lets the phone ring until someone else takes the call.

 

6.    the manufacturing plant you work for is moving to another state.  It is a wonderful opportunity for advancement for many and some are excited, but there is one employee with a bad attitude causing trouble and bad-mouthing management

 2 pages and no more than 3-page essay on how to process a crime scene. You may choose any type of crime scene. It must be typed, Times New Roman (12) point font, standard one-inch margins, and double spaced. Your paper must include a separate Title Page, and if necessary, a separate Reference Page.

Part One:

 

Define Scope and produce a Scope Management Plan

 

Define the scope of the project and detail how the scope will be managed. You should also restate the MOV you determined in Assessment 2. Your scope should align with your MOV.

 

Part Two: 

 

Using MS Project, Provide a list of Resources

 

Identify and detail the resources for the project using MS Project where appropriate, including:

 

• People (and their roles), plus any extra personnel that is required for the project.
• Technology – any hardware, network and software needs to support the team and your client.
• Facilities – where will most of the teamwork be situated?
• Other – for example, travel, training etc.  

 

 Using MS Project, develop a schedule using a high-level Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).  It should include:

 

• Milestones for each phase and deliverable
  • This will tell everyone associated with the project that the phase or deliverable was completed satisfactorily.
• Activities / Tasks
  • Define a set of activities / tasks that must be completed to produce each deliverable.
• Resource Assignments
  • Assign people and resources to each individual activity.
• Estimates for Each Activity / Task
  • Develop a time estimate for each task or activity to be completed.  

 

Include a high-level snapshot and description in your charter. YOU MUST ALSO SUBMIT AN MS Project or Project Libre file along with your Charter

 

Part Three:

 

 Project Risk Analysis and Plan

 

• Document any assumptions you have made about the project
• Identify at least five potential risks to the project using suitable methodologies.
• Analyse the identified risks. Develop a risk register, prioritise each risk, provide a mitigation strategy and assign each risk to an appropriate team member.

 

Part Four:

 

 Quality Management Plan.  

 

Develop 3 – 5 quality standards based upon your analysis of the project’s stakeholder requirements.

 

Part Five:

 

List and justify the monitoring and controlling tools and activities you will implement to determine the project’s progress and success.

 

Part Six: 

 

Develop a closure checklist that the project team will use to ensure that the project has been closed properly.

 

Rationale

 

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This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

 

• be able to identify and reflect on the key elements of the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) framework, including project stakeholders, communication management, the project management knowledge areas, common tools and techniques, and project success factors.
• be able to critically evaluate how a practising ICT project manager applies ICT project management techniques, skills, methods and software tools in the IT profession.
• be able to apply and analyse established ICT project management principles, skills and techniques to a case study.

 

Marking criteria and standards

 

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Criterion

 

High Distinction

 

Distinction

 

Credit

 

Pass

 

Fail

 

Produces a Scope Management Plan (SCM).

 

 (15 Marks)

 

Scope of the project is clearly defined and scope management well detailed.

 

Scope is well aligned with stated MOV.

 

Consistent application of industry standard language and formatting.

 

Scope of the project is clearly defined and scope management detailed.

 

Scope is well aligned with stated MOV.

 

Well written with some demonstration of industry standard language and formatting. 

 

Scope of the project is defined and scope management provided.

 

Scope is aligned with stated MOV.

 

Well written with demonstration of academic standard language and formatting. 

 

Scope of the project and scope management provided, but lacking some key details.

 

Scope is loosely aligned with stated MOV.

 

Well written but lacks acceptable formatting.

 

Scope of the project and scope management provided, but lacking significant key details. Scope is not aligned with stated MOV OR Scope / scope plan and MOV are not provided.

 

Writing is not of an acceptable standard.

 

Utilising MS Project,

 

evidences the processes involved with a WBS, including phases, milestones, deliverables, tasks, resources and budget.

 

 (20 Marks)

 

Demonstrates high level project management skills, integrating and applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of WBS design, correctly and comprehensively addressing all project requirements.

 

Demonstrates competent management skills, applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of the WBS design, correctly addresses the all project requirements. 

 

 Demonstrates essential management skills, applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of the WBS design. Essential project requirements addressed. .

 

Demonstrates minimal management skills and needs some improvement in applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of WBS. Not all project requirements are clearly addressed. 

 

The WBS design fails to correctly address one or more essential project requirements. 

 

Provides a project risk analysis and risk register including mitigation strategies.

 

 (15 Marks)

 

All steps in project risk analysis and mitigation strategies are comprehensively discussed. Risk register presented in the context of the project, with evidence of thorough consideration of the project scenario.

 

All steps in project risk analysis and mitigation strategies are clearly discussed.  Risk register presented in the context of the project, with reference to project scenario.

 

Evidence that key steps in project risk analysis and mitigation strategies are discussed. Risk register presented in the context of the project, with some linkages back to the project scenario. 

 

Key steps in project risk analysis and mitigation strategies are accurately presented. Minimal reference to the project scenario in analysis and risk register.

 

One or more key steps in project risk analysis and mitigation strategies are not presented. Risk register does not reference the project scenario or lacks key information. 

 

Produces a quality management plan which includes quality standards based on the analysis of stakeholder requirements.

 

 (15 Marks)

 

Five or more quality standards correctly identified and appropriately contextualised for the project scenario. 

 

Four or more quality standards are correctly identified and are applied to the project scenario with some contextualisation. 

 

Three (3) or more quality standards are correctly identified and are applied to the project scenario. 

 

Three (3) or more quality standards identified and loosely applied to the project scenario. 

 

Multiple project steps are missing or not applied to the selected project. 

 

Justifies the monitoring and controlling tools and activities that will implemented to determine the project’s progress and success.

 

(15 marks)

 

Explains and critically evaluates the selection of monitoring and controlling tools and activities and their suitability for the scenario project.

 

Explains and analyses the selection of monitoring and controlling tools and activities and their suitability for the scenario project.

 

Explains and examines the selection of monitoring and controlling tools and activities and their suitability for the scenario project.

 

Explains and discusses the selection of monitoring and controlling tools and activities and their suitability for the scenario project.

 

An extremely basic explanation of monitoring and controlling tools and activities.  Does not relate this to the scenario project.

 

A closure checklist is produced.

 

 (10 marks)

 

The closure checklist is comprehensively detailed. Captures all key details and is well explained.

 

The closure checklist is detailed. Captures all key details.

 

The closure checklist is appropriate to close the project. Captures most key details.

 

The closure checklist is appropriate to close the project. Some key details missing.
 

 

The closure checklist has not been adequately considered. 

 

Referencing of sources (APA 6th ed citation) to reinforce findings.

 

 (10 marks)

 

All written evidence is professionally communicated using correct referencing.

 

All written information is good with appropriate referencing 

 

 All written information is generally well organised but more clarity of communication is required in terms of referencing.

 

All written content is loosely connected, and there is ineffective use of referencing. 

 

 No apparent logical order of written content, and there is a lack of referencing.

 

Presentation

 

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Assessment tasks should be submitted on Turnitin as a Microsoft Word document. Do not submit as a PDF document.

 

• The first page should contain your name, student number, subject code and due date. Please use 12 point font.
• Use a report format layout.
• Proof-read your work so that it is free of spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes. Use language that is appropriate to academic and professional tasks. Ensure you use respectful and appropriate terminology. For assistance, see Learning Skills: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/learning
• Your reference list should contain all source documents that you refer to, quote or paraphrase from. It must conform to the APA referencing style: http://student.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/294977/APAReferencingSummary2013.pdf
• You must also submit your MS project or Project Libre file.  
• If you zip files, please ensure all files, including any folders use your surname and first initial

 

Requirements

 

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APA 6th referencing style must be used. Refer to http://student.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/294977/APAReferencingSummary2013.pdf;  and https://apps.csu.edu.au/reftool/apa-6 for guidance

 

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400 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.

 

Note: There are 2 parts to this assignment.

 

Part 1

 

Although homeland security strategy (HLS) was subsumed into the 2010 national security strategy, the following original 2002 objectives remain essentially unchanged:

 

• Prevent terrorist attacks within the United States
• Reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism
• Minimize the damage, and recover from attacks that do occur

 

In 100–200 words, answer each of the following questions:

 

• Of these 3 objectives, which do you think is most important, and why?
• Of these 3 objectives, which do you think is most difficult to achieve, and why?
• Of these 3 objectives, which one falls mostly within the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?

 

Responses to Other Students: Review at least 2 other posts. Do you agree or disagree with your peers’ responses?

 

Part 2

 

How well do you think Science and Technology (S&T) is performing? After 10 years, the most visible symbol of S&T development efforts is the airport passenger electronic scanner.

 

In 100–200 words, answer each of the following questions:

 

• Has the electronic scanner improved airport security? Why or why not?
• Will the electronic scanner prevent another hijacking? Why or why not?
• Is the investment made in added security measures worth the impact on passengers?

 You paper must be in correct APA format, use correct grammar, and will need to include at least seven (7) resources, ALL of which must:
1) Be current. Published within the last few years.
2) Be peer-reviewed. That means the paper must have undergone a formal peer review before being published in a journal or presented at a conference. You must ensure that your resources have undergone rigorous reviews. In most cases, you can find out the review process for a conference or journal by visiting the appropriate web site. Do not simply assume that a resource is peer reviewed – check it out.  

Create a seven-slide (minimum) PowerPoint presentation delineating the three most salient points that you have learned in this course. The purpose of the Salient Points Presentation is for you to review what you have learned so far and identify the most salient points that you have learned in this class. What content from these first four modules do you find most important? Why is it important? How does it affect you or your career?

The minimum word count for this assignment is 750.

 

Please keep the following in mind about your assignment response:

 

• Before you submit your assignment response, ensure that it includes the appropriate number and types of citations and references, presented in the appropriate format.
• Your submission will receive a Turnitin similarity score which must meet the required less than 20% threshold. This may take minutes, several hours and possibly up to 24 hours depending on Turnitin’s queue length so please ensure that you complete your submission within enough time to edit it and received a revised score prior to the due date. 
• If your score is greater than the 20% threshold, please redo your response and resubmit it here again. You will be able to edit and resubmit your response as many times as necessary until the deadline. Submissions that exceed the 20% threshold after the deadline on Sunday night at 11.55pm CST will be assigned a grade of zero.
• If you opt to reference the course text, this does NOT count as an external reference but is a reference that is internal to the course. It should be cited appropriately.
• Within this course, Wikipedia and other open source sites are NOT considered reputable sources.  Webster’s dictionary and other online dictionaries WILL NOT be counted as a valid external reference.
• Be sure to place a header “References” above your list of references to reduce the likelihood that Turnitin will include those items in your similarity score. 
• More detail is better than less. Be thorough in your responses and ensure that your submission reflects sufficient depth, analysis, and critical thinking consistent with a graduate-level business course. Look beyond the words provided in the case to assess what may have led to the situation presented and possible unidentified consequences.

 

ASSIGNMENT

 

To fully address this case assignment, please read and analyze the assigned case. Your response should be numbered and provide the following:

 

 1.     Define and summarize the key OB issues in the case relative to this week’s material (at least 2 key issues MUST be identified). Be sure to speak in OB language, using appropriate terminology to identify the concepts and issues you identify. OB issues MUST reflect concepts covered in this week’s chapters.

 

2.      Clearly link the key issues in the case back to relevant and specific course material covered. Be specific by identifying specific instances and scenarios in the case which demonstrate the OB issues and concepts identified. Explain how they are reflective of those specific OB issues.

 

3.      Make at least one recommendation(s) of how each of the key issues you identified should be handled at the organizational level of the case’s main character. Justify the merit of each of your recommendations and be sure to include your rationale for why you expect them to be effective in addressing the issues.

 

4.      Propose at least one executive or corporate level intervention for any one of your key issues to recommend how upper management can also play a part in addressing that issue. This response should be different from any of the recommendations offered in #3. Be sure to clearly identify which OB issue your organization level/executive level intervention is meant to address and how the intervention would be of benefit.

 

Case: Difficult Task Force 

 

José has been appointed chair of a steering task force to design the primary product line for a new joint venture between companies from Japan, the United States, and South America. The new joint venture company will make, sell, and service pet caskets (coffins) for the burial of beloved pets, mostly dogs and cats. One month earlier, each company had assigned personnel to the task force:

 

• From the Japanese company, Furuay Masahiko from Yokohama, assistant to the president of the Japanese company; Hamada Isao from Tokyo, director of marketing from its technology group; and Noto Takeshi from Tokyo, assistant director of its financial management department.
• From the United States company, Thomas Boone from Chicago, the top purchasing manager from its lumber and forest lands group; Richard Maret from Buffalo, the co-director of the company’s information systems group; and Billy Bob “Tex” Johnson from Arizona, the former CEO, now retired and a consultant for the company.
• From the South American company, Mariana Preus from Argentina, the head of product design for that company’s specialty animal products group; Hector Bonilla from their Mexico City division, an expert in automated systems design for wood products; and Mauricio Gomes, in charge of design and construction for the plant, which will be located in southern Chile to take advantage of the vast forest there.

 

These members were chosen for their expertise in various areas and were taking valuable time away from their normal assignments to participate in the joint venture. 

 

As chair of the task force, José had scheduled an initial meeting for 10:00 A.M. José started the meeting by reviewing the history of the development of the joint venture and how the three company presidents had decided to create it. Then, José reviewed the market for the new high-end, designer pet coffins, stressing that this task force was to develop the initial design parameters for the new product to meet increasing demand around the world. He then opened the meeting for comments and suggestions. 

 

Mariana Preus spoke first: “In my opinion, the current designs that we have in production in our Argentina plant are just fine. They are topnotch designs, using the latest technology for processing. They use the best woods available and they should sell great. I don’t see why we have to design a whole new product line.” Noto Takeshi agreed and urged the committee to recommend that the current designs were good enough and should be immediately incorporated into the plans for the new manufacturing plant. José interrupted the discussion: “Look, the council of presidents put this joint venture together to completely revolutionize the product and its manufacture based on solid evidence and industry data. We are to redesign the product and its manufacturing systems. That is our job, so let’s get started.” José knew that the presidents had considered using existing designs but had rejected the idea because the designs were too old and not easily manufacturable at costs low enough to make a significant impact on the market. He told the group this and reminded them that the purpose of the committee was to design a new product. 

 

The members then began discussing possible new design elements, but the discussion always returned to the benefits of using the existing designs. Finally, Tex spoke up: “I think we ought to do what Mariana suggested earlier. It makes no sense to me to design new caskets when the existing designs are good enough to do the job.” The others nodded their heads in agreement. José again reminded them of the task force’s purpose and said such a recommendation would not be well received by the council of presidents. Nevertheless, the group insisted that José write a memo to the council of presidents with the recommendation to use existing designs and to begin immediately to design the plant and the manufacturing system. The meeting adjourned and the members headed to the golf course at 10:45 A.M. 

 

José returned to his computer and started to write the memo, but he knew it would anger the presidents. He hoped he would not be held responsible for the actions of the task force, even though he was its chair. He wondered what had gone wrong and what he could have done to prevent it.