Week 4 Discussion  

 Just as quickly as new technology is developed, hackers find new  ways to disrupt operations. As a result, security is an ongoing endeavor  in all organizations. Strategic planning can help organizations be  prepared to address new daily threats to information security.  Moreover, many of today’s organizations are adopting virtualization as a  way to reduce their footprint in hardware costs and to improve their  backup system capabilities at the client and server levels. At the same  time, virtualization poses security risks that organizations need to  consider as part of their strategic planning process.

Go to  to  locate and integrate at least two quality, academic resources (in  addition to your textbook) on the role of strategic planning in  mitigating information security threats, including those associated with  virtualization. You may also use government websites, such as from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 

As you write this post, keep in mind your current organization’s or a  previous organization’s strategic planning for information security,  its infrastructure, and its training.

Please respond to the following in a post of at least 200 words:

• Justify the importance of strategic planning to an organization’s information security.
• Identify and describe the topics to be included in strategic planning for information security.
• Specifically describe the security threats associated with virtualization.
• Explain how strategic planning can help to mitigate the security threats associated with virtualization.
• Provide full citations and references, formatted according to Strayer Writing Standards.     
  • For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing  Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your  professor for any additional instructions.

In 60 to 75 words, please respond to at least one other post. Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses. 

Note: You will find the information from this post  and the feedback you receive on it useful as you work on your  Virtualization assignment due this week.

Virtualization

Requirements

Virtualization offers organizations these benefits: 

• Savings on infrastructure and support costs. 
• Fast recovery of information systems in the event of an equipment mishap.
• New opportunities for disaster recovery and business continuity.

In addition to examining these  virtualization benefits in this assignment, you will also examine  challenges associated with virtualization. Specifically you will write a  23-page paper in which you: 

1. Define virtualization. 
2. Justify the need for organizations to use virtualization. 
3. Evaluate two virtual technologies/solutions.
4. Determine alternatives to virtualization.
5. Research security risks associated with virtualization and potential countermeasures.
6. Go to  to  locate and integrate into the assignment at least three quality,  peer-reviewed academic resources, written within the past five years.     
   • Include your textbook as one of your resources.
   • Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Formatting

This course requires the use of Strayer  Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the  Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.  Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Note the  following: 

• The preferred method is for your paper to be typed, double-spaced,  using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all  sides.
• Include a cover page containing the assignment title, your name,  your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is  not included in the required page length.
• Include a source list page. Citations and references must follow  SWS format. The source list page is not included in the required page  length.

Learning Outcomes

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is: 

•  Evaluate the hardware components of modern computing environments and their individual functions.  

 How would you characterize the impact of myth in early medieval life?  To start us off, would you say the intent of myth was a source of unification or separation? When thinking about this, think of the variety of themes, characters, and even audiences often incorporated into the teaching of myths. 

I DON’T NEED TOO MUCH OF A RESPONSE ( SIMPLE & SHORT)

Review the papers below and watch . 

what ethical situations came up in the video. How did the leaders decision impacted the results of the Challengers mission. What ethical values did you take away from this video that you can apply in your own leadership

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Ethical Leaders

Impact of Ethics on Leadership

Introduction

Leaders are the one that keep us on the right path, direction, and can lead us in better way. When we talk about leadership, we often think of famous individuals. We may think of great political personalities Wash- ington, Churchill, and Roosevelt. We may think of the personalities of so- cial movements Martin Luther King, Caesar Chavez. In fact, leadership is many different things to different people in different circumstanc- es (Ensley, Hmieleski, & Pearce, 2006). In short a leader is a character (object) ranging from one to many different attributes with which he/she influence others to make them their followers willingly. It is very easy to have a vision but to accomplish it, depends upon how tough is that path that takes you up to that vision and what strategies do you adopt to ac- complish it. A character who can utilize his abilities and recourses effec- tively and efficiently to produce maximum output while engaging his fol- lowers is an effective and efficient leader. An effective and ethical lead- er makes others feel good about themselves, as well as the work they are doing. The leader has a vision of what she/he wants to achieve and can communicate that vision to others in a way that makes people want to be part of it (Balthazard, Waldman, & Warren, 2009).

This article is based on previous findings which explain effects of ethical communication, ethical quality, ethical collaboration, ethical suc- cession planning, and ethical tenure over leadership standards.

Leadership standards

The leadership standard is the level at which a leader is to be seen by followers, competitors etc. The standard of leader ship is measured based on the different qualities an individual has and among those quali- ties ethics is one of them.

An effective ethical leader will create candor in the work place.

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Leaders always are willing to and have courage to bring innovation and change. The main objective of ethical leader is to bring relation of trust.

Figure 1: Impact of Ethics on leadership standards

Factor

Goal/Objective

Hypothesis 1: Communication enhances leadership standards

Hypothesis 2: Ethical quality enhances standard of Leadership

Hypothesis 3: Ethical collaboration has positive effect on leadership standards

Hypothesis 4: Succession planning enhances standard of Leadership

Hypothesis 5: Ethical tenure has direct effect on leadership

F1: Ethical Communication

F2: Ethical Quality

F3: Ethical Collaborations

Planning

F5: Ethical Tenure

Leadership Standards

F4: Ethical Succession

Ethical communication

Ethical communication plays vital role in enhancing leadership standards. Through effective and ethical communication, leaders always give proper directions. They set up standards and proper guideline for the team. During decision making process leaders have to communicate in groups, teams in and outside the organizations. It is very important for effective leader that he should be soft spoken because leaders always

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have to convince the followers and motivate the team members through communication skills (Simola, Barling, & Turner, 2009).

Through ethical and effective communication leaders have to face different challenges in a day to day life which could be in a form of con- flicts. It is the moral responsibility of leaders to remove all these conflicts from teams. Leaders are the one that keep us on the right path, right direction, and can lead us in better way (Gardner, Fischer, & Hunt, 2009).

Culture also plays important role in ethical communication and lead- ership. Its the culture which is actual surrounding set of standards which leaders have to follow. Motivation is also important in ethical communica- tion. Motivational behaviors refer to those behaviours which promote team members exerting continued effort, especially in times of difficulty. Behaviours indicative of this category include reward and recognition of performance as well as behaviours which insure that the needs and val- ues of members are met through the provision of support for individuals and their efforts (Shawn Burke, et al., 2006). Leaders behaviour is im- portant for team cohesiveness that might be influenced by societal cul- ture. There are no studies known to us exploring this moderating influ- ence of societal culture. Assumptions about relationships between lead- ership and team processes are generalized to other cultures, both in management literature and management training programs (Wendt, Eu- wemab, & Emmerik, 2009).

Communication standard means all the norms which all the individ- uals have to follow in an organization. In communication standards they usually define the truthfulness, openness, availability and accessibility. Leaders always communicate through those standards that they stand accountable for. They usually use an e-mail or an office memo because these are the two ways which can be used for inters office communica- tion and is accountable.

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Ethical quality

Ethical quality means to bring the standard of excellence and meet- ing the standards through quality, when we talk about quality we always think about cost because quality and cost has direct relationship. Quality always pays its cost, and ethical quality means that ethical leaders should always understand the three factors which ensure the global market and competitiveness of an organization which are as below.

•  Quality product
•  Quality customer service
•  Quality delivery (Morgeson & DeRue, 2006).
  When we think about quality we always think about innovation and leaders always try to push their followers so that they could bring innova- tion in the product. Most of the leaders try to implement the standard and implement the procedures of six sigma and lean production . Most leaders use the process of supply chain management so that they can re- move the bottle neck and fast the process Bob Galvin, Chairman of Motorola, implemented Six Sigma throughout the company in the early 1980s. Just two years after launching Six Sigma, Motorola was honoured with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (Shawn Burke, et al., 2006).
  Quality stands means to bring perfection in product line and quality control usually leaders try to implement the concept of total quality man- agement and use of six sigma, during the production life cycle, there are checks and controls of different points and usually they do the sampling to control the quality, there are also some set standards which leaders make sure the companies are following those like ISO (international standard organizational).

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Ethical collaboration

Ethical leaders always try to pick the most proper person for the work to get it done they always try to hire the perfect person for the right job, and they also hire from the other companies wise leaders al- ways try to concentrate and address issues which are in organiza- tion ,solve problems of the organization . The leaders who make collec- tive and celebrative decision always makes better decision for the organi- zation, effective and ethical collaboration is only possible when the legal advisors or leaders are more open and fluid, as we know that risk is al- ways associated with the organizations and they hire the legal advisors and experts who can guide the leaders the legality of the process and job. So when leaders are making decisions they always consult with there advisors and if the advisors are more fluid its more chances of ethi- cal collaboration (Lyons & Schneider, 2009).

As we know this is the era of cut throat computation and companies are trying to hire the right and perfect person for the perfect job before giving any responsibilities companies usually check the knowledge and skills so that they can evaluate weather the person is enough competent that he will be able to deliver.

Ethical Succession Planning

In ethical succession planning leaders set up the long term vision and mission for the organization in which they define that where they want to be in specific time period and where they are now in planning process leaders usually work with organization and they define the goals and strategies which are to be targeted in the long term and they usually follow the standards which are defined in achieving the quality (Wendt, et al., 2009). Succession planning enables your organization to identify talented employees and provide education to develop them for future higher level and broader responsibilities. Succession planning helps you

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“build bench strength. In ethical succession planning leaders always try to introduce training and development programs and they develop there employees according to the organization set standards , in planning pro- cess there is also control and leaders control the employees through ethi- cal planning because to have control on organization leaders always want to have some action plan and without planning you cant control in organ- ization Teams whose leaders set high-performance goals, exhort and en- courage members to adopt and achieve these goals, provide performance strategies to achieve these goals, and model appropriate performance strategies will display higher team efficacy and cohesion than teams with leaders who do not engage in such activities (Zaccaroa, Rittmana, & Marksb, 2001) .

The purpose behind the existence of the organization is vision and ethical leaders usually define the vision of the company before hiring when the new employees are in the hiring phase leaders usually define the vision and they then gave the tasks to employees to move forward as a mission. vision and mission are the back bones of the organizations which always keep the employees in certain direction so that they can al- ways move on the right track .vision the track which ethical leaders al- ways follow and always keep there followers on that track.

Ethical Tenure

Ethical tenure means the time period for leaders to stay as a leader in American culture it varies from four to eight years, but there are no standards for leaders to stay as a leader for certain time frame, the ten- ure of the leaders always depends upon the organization growth, if the organization is growing and its gain market share and market growth this means the leader is successful other wise if the organization is moving towards down turn. its the ethical responsibility of leader to quit (Balthazard, et al., 2009) . Industry and corporations, businesses,

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organizations have no length of tenure. But Organizations need to decide if their leadership, like its government counterpart, should have a shelf life. If the company, the customers, the board of directors, and stock- holders all feel that the leader of the company is ethically communi- cating, investing in quality, and efficiently collaborating in order to build a succession plan, then there should be no reason to have the leader step down, until he or she chooses so How duration affects the amount of time leaders spend intervening, however, is less clear. Longer events clearly provide the leader with a greater opportunity to become involved in the team, suggesting there may be a positive relationship between du- ration and time spent intervening by the leader (Friedrich, Vessey, Schuelke, Ruark, & Mumford, 2009).

As we know that leaders are always have some time frame in which they have to deliver because if they are not been able to deliver they are not been able to survive for the long terms so strategic leaders and ethi- cal leaders are for only for certain time frame in which they can deliver (Dubrin, 2010).

Conclusions

There is a lot which has been written on ethical leadership and standards on which leaders have to perform but if you just search the dot com world ( web pages ) you will see that leaders are only popular until an unless they perform , there are so many books about leadership but its very obvious to say that (Dubrin, 2010). Leaders dont write books they just do it so leaders always have to motivation and spirit to influ- ence the people and bring changes in environment. Ethical leadership has been examined from multiple perspectives. For example, ethical leadership may be viewed as a function of leader character or it may be viewed as a function of organizational structure or system. The view that ethical leadership is based on leader character proposes that the ethical

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leader must apply ethical standards and the degree that ethical standards are neglected or applied is a function of the leader’s individual personality characteristics and moral standards (Jones, 1995). Jones stated that to guarantee ethical leadership a leader must be chosen according to their high moral standards (Ford & Seers, 2006). The personality character- istics of an ethical leader include self-control, purposefulness, mindful- ness, and a regard for consequences. The ethical leader increases ethical awareness and accountability in an organization. In theory, the ethical leader would have high moral standards that would reign regardless of organizational structure. However, even the most moral and ethical indi- vidual may be faced with conflicting demands that challenge their stand- ards a distinguishable set of two or more people who interact, dynami- cally, interdependently, and adaptively toward a common and valued goal /objective /mission, who have been assigned specific roles or func- tions to perform, and who have a limited life-span of membership (Zaccaroa, et al., 2001). The higher the level of leadermember ex- change relationship quality within the team, the higher the level of within -group climate agreement among team members (Ford & Seers, 2006).

Discuss the organization’s financial health? use 10k for financial statements and calculating the ratios

A. Current financial position- is the organization financially sound? This should be based on financial statements. Explain the numbers, what they mean in terms of the fiancial health. 

B. Compare with competitors and industry standards. ( Use various financial analysis tools, mostly financial ratios.)

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the illustration of 10 clusters of world culture according to GLOBE in Northouse (2018).

Choose one of the 10 clusters and identify key elements a leader needs to understand to be effective in leading an organization in that country cluster. Your discussion post should be 250 words.

Compare strategies for safe, effective multidimensional nursing practice when providing care for clients with lower respiratory disorders.

Scenario

You are a nurse on a pulmonary rehabilitation team at an outpatient clinic in your community. You are updating educational resources to educate clients who want to know more about health promotion and maintenance and improving pulmonary health related to their lung conditions. 

Instructions

Create an infographic for a lower respiratory system disorder that includes the following components:

• Risk factors associated with the common lower respiratory system disorder.
• Description of three priority treatments for the lower respiratory disorder.
• Description of inter professional collaborative care team members and their roles to improve health outcomes for the lower respiratory system disorder.
• Description of three multidimensional nursing care strategies that support health promotion and maintenance for clients with the lower respiratory system disorder.
• Description of a national organization as a support resource for your client specific to the lower respiratory system disorder.

Resources

For assistance creating an infographic, review this .

1. Using a Web browser, perform some research on a newer malware variant  that has been reported by a major malware containment vendor. Using a  search engine, go to the vendors Web site; this could be Symantec, McAfee,  or any of their competitors. Visit one malware prevention software vendor.  Search for the newest malware variants and pick one. Note its name and try  to understand how it works. Now look for information about that same malware from at  least one other vendor. Were you able to see this malware at both vendors? If so, are there  any differences in how they are reported between the two vendors?  

Steam enters the turbine of a simple vapor power plant with a pressure of 60 bar, and a temperature of 500C, and expands adiabatically to a condenser pressure, p, where it fully condenses to a quality of zero at the condenser exit (x = 0). The isentropic efficiency of both the turbine and the pump is 85%.

a) Plot (1) the turbine exit quality, and (2) the cycle thermal efficiency for condenser pressures ranging from 10 kPa to 100 kPa. (Hint: increment condenser pressure in steps of no less than 10 kPa). Show sample calculations for one condenser pressure.

b) What design operating point would you choose so that the cycle has best performance?

c) What modifications to the selected cycle can you implement to improve its performance? Show one example modification along with the calculations of the improved performance.

Instructions:
1. The submitted report must have clear and detailed steps. The report can be prepared using MS Word  . 2. You may use MS Excel or any other plotting software to plot the results in part (a). 

 1. Reference: Complete an APA reference for each article

2. Annotation: Complete an annotation for each article.

• The annotation is not a summary or paraphrase. In this paragraph, you will interpret and evaluate the contents of the article itself. It is a narrative paragraph of about 100 words providing information and assessment about the article.

3. Reflection: Write a reflection for each article. The reflection should connect your intercultural communication experience(s) with information from the article as it applies to you personally (This section only can be written in first person).

• In this paragraph of about 100 words, relate the information that you have evaluated in the article to your own cultural identity and intercultural communication. This is a reflective piece where you are able to connect the information in theory to an understanding of your own identity.