This is a required assignment worth 15 points (15-points/1000-points). Assignment must be submitted by the due date. No late assignments are allowed. Please discuss the following topics and provide substantive comments to at least two other posts. Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.  The discussion questions this week are from Chapter 6   (Jamsa, 2013).Chapter 6 topics:

• Define and describe a SAN.
• Define and describe NAS.
• Describe how cloud-based data storage works.
• Assume that you must select a cloud-based data storage solution for your company. List the factors you would consider when selecting a vendor.
• Many users do not yet feel comfortable storing data within the cloud. Discuss some steps you can take to reduce their concerns.
• Assume that you must select a cloud-based data storage solution for your company. List the factors you would consider when selecting a vendor.
• List the pros and cons of cloud-based data storage.
• List the pros and cons of a cloud-based database.

Note: You are required to use at least two-peer reviewed sources (besides your textbook) to answer the above questions.  The initial post is due by Wednesday at 11:59pm ET.  You must engage on at least three separate days (by Wednesday for the first post and two additional days of peer engagement).  Do not wait until Sunday to engage with peers, this should be an active conversation with your peers.  When replying to peers be sure to engage with substantial posts that add to the conversation.
 

• After completing the reading this week, we reflect on a few key concepts this week:
  1. Discuss and identify leader traits and attributes that are most beneficial in implementing the best decisions in an organization. 
  2. Explain the differences in charismatic and transformational leadership and how both leadership styles impact organizational effectiveness.  Please note how these leadership styles affect implementing new innovative technologies.
  3. Review table 8.1 in the reading this week, note the work characteristics and the traditional versus high-performance focus, note which focus is best for strategic decisions and which is best for operational decisions.  Please explain.
  4. Please be sure to answer all the questions above in the initial post.Please ensure the initial post and two response posts are substantive.  Substantive posts will do at least TWO of the following:
  • Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
  • Expand on the topic, by adding additional thoughtful information
  • Answer a question posted by another student in detail
  • Share an applicable personal experience
  • Provide an outside source
  • Make an argument
  • At least one scholarly (peer-reviewed) resource should be used in the initial discussion thread.  Please ensure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library.  Use APA references and in-text citations.Please be sure to engage by Wednesday at 11:59pm ET and then engage on two more days throughout the week (for a total of three days of engagement, before Sunday at 11:59pm, ET.
• This weeks journal articles focus on empowering leadership and effective collaboration in geographically dispersed teams, please answer the following questions:
  1. How do geographically dispersed teams collaborate effectively?
  2. Please find at least three tools on the market that teams can use to collaborate on a geographically dispersed team.  Please note the pros and cons of each tool. 
  3. Based on the research above, note which tool you would select if you were managing the geographically dispersed team and why.
  4. Be sure to use the UC Library for scholarly research. Google Scholar is also a great source for research.  Please be sure that journal articles are peer-reviewed and are published within the last five years.The paper should meet the following requirements:
  • 3-5 pages in length (not including title page or references)
  • APA guidelines must be followed.  The paper must include a cover page, an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
  • A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.
  • The writing should be clear and concise.  Headings should be used to transition thoughts.  Dont forget that the grade also includes the quality of writing.

DISCUSSION 1

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Discuss the role of employee training and development at your organization.
• How does employee training and development factor into your organizations strategic planning and contribute to its competitive advantage?
• What recommendations would you make to your leadership to improve training and development at your organization?

Your response should demonstrate your ability to relate this week’s readings in the textbook to your experience.

DISCUSSION 2

Respond to Carolyn and Jerry post. Be constructive and professional. Your replies should be at least 100 words each.

Carolyn post 

At my current job training and development is very important. I have actually been with my company or 16 years and when I first started with the company I was in the first training class. It was trial and error but I feel as though it was good. As time went on the program grew and the training became bigger and better. At this time the Training and development program is a active department in our company. The person that was my trainer is now the Senior Director of the Training and Development department.

I think that in my current position our training and development department is great. We always have on line trainings that are specific to every job that all employees have access to. Sometimes your management will assign you trainings but if you have free time or want to try to learn a different position you can do that any time. I feel that is an advantage to employees that we have on line access to training when ever we want to use it.

Jerry post

At my job, you go to a different store to train and you learn what to do. they send them to another store so they can see how a different store runs and train the workers well at a different store. They send them to the store for a few days then you go to your store so you can get more training until you get it. The training is good for new people because if you don’t know about cars you can use the training to help you out and if you know your town you can take part in the place that needs them. it helps them to understand what the customer needs from auto parts. The training help with knowing how to look up part and the number it teaches them all about the thing that a car is made. I would say that if they don’t know much about cars they will need more training. the train they get to help the customer with their vehicles the better that can be for them.

Post a brief description of your topic of research interest. Next, state the philosophical orientation that reflects your worldview and explain the epistemological and ontological assumptions of this orientation. Then, explain how these assumptions lend themselves to one or more research approaches.

Be sure to support your paragraph with reference to the Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.

    Topic of interest: Hows the relationship between job satisfaction and employee turnover

Reference
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J. H.  (Eds.). (2020). Research designs and methods: An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Students will be expected to write and submit weekly journal entries throughout the semester, in which they reflect on disability issues that we will address during the course. . Points will be awarded based on the student’s self-reflection, understanding of the topic, and use of complete sentences and proper grammar.

Students will be expected to write and submit weekly journal entries throughout the semester, in which they reflect on disability issues that we will address during the course. . Points will be awarded based on the student’s self-reflection, understanding of the topic, and use of complete sentences and proper grammar.

Analyze 1 of the following government intervention programs:
Countercyclical fiscal policies (countering economic disruptions such as the housing bubble and the Great Recession)
US agriculture support programs
Assistance for families with lower incomes (choose 1)
Housing vouchers
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), including Child Tax Credit
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Health care resources for people with lower incomes (choose 1)
Medicaid, including Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Affordable Care Act expansion
Social insurance programs (choose 1)
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)
Medicare
Unemployment insurance

Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary of your analysis. Identify the intervention and the market failure leading up to the intervention. Complete the following in your paper:
Analyze the arguments for government intervention as opposed to arguments for market-based solutions. Hint: See the information about market failures.
Examine who has been helped and who has been hurt by the selected government intervention.
Examine externalities and unintended consequences of such intervention. For example, consider whether the SNAP program and health coverage for families with lower incomes result in higher future tax revenues because children from families with lower incomes grow up healthier and produce higher incomes over their lifetimes.
Analyze whether cost of the intervention you selected as a share of GDP or the number of participants is increasing, decreasing, or varies with the state of the economy, based on the cost trend(or number of participants) since its inception or since 2000.
Analyze credible economists opinions on the success or failure of the intervention that you chose in achieving its objectives.
Recommend whether the program should be continued as is, discontinued, or modified based on your conclusions. Defend your recommendation.

Note: Use of charts and graphs is encouraged with appropriate citations. Any charts or graphs retrieved from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED website may only be included when the data sources used by FRED are US government sources such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis or the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Cite at least 2 academically credible sources. 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Analyze 1 of the following government intervention programs:
Countercyclical fiscal policies (countering economic disruptions such as the housing bubble and the Great Recession)
US agriculture support programs
Assistance for families with lower incomes (choose 1)
Housing vouchers
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), including Child Tax Credit
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Health care resources for people with lower incomes (choose 1)
Medicaid, including Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Affordable Care Act expansion
Social insurance programs (choose 1)
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)
Medicare
Unemployment insurance

Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary of your analysis. Identify the intervention and the market failure leading up to the intervention. Complete the following in your paper:
Analyze the arguments for government intervention as opposed to arguments for market-based solutions. Hint: See the information about market failures.
Examine who has been helped and who has been hurt by the selected government intervention.
Examine externalities and unintended consequences of such intervention. For example, consider whether the SNAP program and health coverage for families with lower incomes result in higher future tax revenues because children from families with lower incomes grow up healthier and produce higher incomes over their lifetimes.
Analyze whether cost of the intervention you selected as a share of GDP or the number of participants is increasing, decreasing, or varies with the state of the economy, based on the cost trend(or number of participants) since its inception or since 2000.
Analyze credible economists opinions on the success or failure of the intervention that you chose in achieving its objectives.
Recommend whether the program should be continued as is, discontinued, or modified based on your conclusions. Defend your recommendation.

Note: Use of charts and graphs is encouraged with appropriate citations. Any charts or graphs retrieved from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED website may only be included when the data sources used by FRED are US government sources such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis or the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Cite at least 2 academically credible sources. 

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Please ensure the paper has these sections:
background
data
trends
analysis
evidence
2 SMART goals (School Improvement SMART Goals

The goal is clearly stated and includes language/music terminology that fully describes the goal.

The goal can be easily assessed and evaluated. Progress and achievement can be measured and described.
The goal is appropriate for the individual student but provides enough challenge for personal and artistic growth.

The goal is realistic and directly correlates to the musical content that is being learned in class.)

Examine testing data for a school, or school/ district of your choice for the past two years in Broward County Florida. Be sure to note the performance of all subgroups including Exceptional Children and ESO, gender, and if possible socio-economic. Chart the performance in a table or spread sheet / document to demonstrate the performance over time for two selected areas- Ex. Math/ Reading, Reading, Social Studies, etc. What trend is observed? Have scores increased / decreased overall? Have they changed radically for any particular subgroup, etc. What are the notable changes/ consistencies? What have you learned about School Improvement that is reflected in what you are observing? Be sure you cite your sources for data and literature in your paper that you will submit- (see below).

Next, what can you attribute the changes / trends/ constants to? What does the school mission / vision/ and School Improvement plan, web page, other artifacts reveal to you about the school? Are there any areas you would endorse/ applaud, or make recommendations for? Include this is your report with recommendations/ commendations based on what your data and artifact analysis have revealed. If you have an opportunity also, attend a School Improvement meeting, but also definitely look on line or at the school for minutes of the school improvement team meetings. Do these evidences concur w/ your conclusions? What seems to be the school’s priorities for improvement based on your analysis and observation of artifacts, etc.

Records appropriate quantitative data and associated qualitative raw data, including units and uncertainties where relevant.

I’m doing research for a company and need to format a resolution for current issues that they’re having. The first page will be for the intro and the second page will be to discuss the problems and solutions. The information that is to be annotated on the two pages have been added in the attached document. 

REFLECT (use this info to complete the assignment below): Keep in mind that Uber has presented itself into the market not as a transportation service but as a service that pairs consumers with ride sharing services by means of a unique phone app. But some sourcesincluding the taxi industry and one California court finding (details in the required material), as well as the characterization of Uber presented in Section 2.5 of the textbookseem to challenge this branding. According to these sources, Uber is avoiding laws that apply to the transportation industry and, thereby, usurping a rightful place that the taxi industry has carved for itself. Consumers, on the other hand, have shown their preference for Uber by a high demand for its services in the USA and abroad, including those countries in which Uber has been banned. Compared to taxis, Uber offers consumers an efficient system for procuring a ride even in remote areas where taxis do not frequent, a convenient payment method (no need for cash, and fares can be split among different users on the same ride), and significantly cheaper fares compared to taxis. In many instances, Uber cars come equipped with water, candy, and magazines, all for free. Uber drivers are also better off because they keep the majority of the fares for the rides that they service, which is exactly the opposite case of taxi drivers, and they can choose when they want to work. Clearly, this is a controversial case and thus very apt for the examination for this discussion.
Keep in mind that a nations economic system is shaped by the laws that are in place. Accordingly, laws (including state regulations and local ordinances) will give you a clue for the kind of economic system that exists. Keep in mind also that most nations have mixed economies and there is probably no economic system that purely represents socialism or capitalism. So you will find a different combination of both socialism and capitalism in any nation that you are examining.

ASSIGNMENT: You have four tasks for your initial post. In order to present an organized post, address each one of these tasks in a separate paragraph and in the following order. Your first task is to articulate the economic system (or combination of characteristics of both socialism and capitalism) that such laws depict. Your second task is to examine the laws that either support or limit the operations by Uber. Your third task is to analyze how your findings from your first and second tasks affect Uber. And your fourth task is to present your moral position with regard to Uber. For this latter task, you will need to identify one of the three ethical theories covered in the Week 1 (utilitarianism, deontology, or virtue ethics) as support for the moral position that you are taking. For example, you may hold the moral position that Uber is morally justifiable because it provides a good for consumers that fills in a gap that had not been met by the taxi industry. Or you may take the position that Ubers positioning in the market is morally wrong.

Sources:
Friedman, M. (1970, September 13). The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits (Links to an external site.). New York Times Magazine. Retrieved from http://umich.edu/~thecore/doc/Friedman.pdf

Friedman presents a two-part clarification of what we may understand as social responsibility. The first part states that the responsibility of business is to its shareholders by using its resources to increase profits. Most stop here and assume that Friedman is advocating an ethics of egoism. But the important second part is that Friedman argues that business must be bound by the law and rules of honesty and decency toward others.
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Smith, J. W. (2015). The Uber-all economy (Links to an external site.). Market News, 49(6), 26. Retrieved from http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_20_03_10_smith.pdf

This article outlines the characteristics of the Uber business model.

Steinmetz, K. (2015, June 17). Why the California ruling on Uber should frighten the sharing economy (Links to an external site.). Time. Retrieved from http://time.com/3924941/uber-california-labor-commission-ruling/

This article examines the effects of the ruling on the growing independent contractor sector.
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