Part 1: Explain the steps involved in establishing a mentoring program in an organization. How would this provide opportunities to the employee as part of an employee improvement plan?
Part 2: How do changes to health care policies affect how well a health care organization operates? What legal issues should you consider?
Include an introduction to your submission. Support your response with at least one article from the CSU Online Library. You should include appropriate APA citations and a reference list as part of your submission.
Your response to both parts in total must be at least 500 words in length.
What options can health leaders use in developing a performance improvement plan for a nonperforming employee? Summarize and explain at least three options or methods.
Determine at least two methods a health care leader could use to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Identify at least three needs of internal and external stakeholders.
Discuss the importance of ensuring opportunities for all employees to pursue continuing education to keep their job skills up to date
Discuss two fundamental leadership practices relevant to contemporary organizations. How do health leaders measure success?
In this assignment, you will develop strategies to protect the data and file systems of a fictitious software development company.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Determine an access control strategy based on existing documents.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all supports. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Scenario
Independent Software Incorporated (ISI) is a small software development company with eight employees that work at the home office. Their primary accounts are associated with major market retailers, the federal government, and large state governments. The computer environment for ISI contains a Linux file and print server, a Linux Web server, and ten heterogeneous workstations running multiple operating systems. ISI's coding development projects often encompass classified information and personally identifiable information (PII).
Instructions
Write a 2- to 4-page paper in which you:
Explain why ISI needs an access control plan and the goals of the plan, citing specific, credible sources that support your assertions and conclusions.
Develop at least three-layered access security strategies that can be used to protect ISI's data at rest, data in motion, and file systems; citing specific, credible sources that support your proposed strategies.
Explain a best practice process and procedures for implementing ISI's access security strategies and the overall framework in which they will reside, citing specific, credible sources that support your assertions and conclusions.
Describe the verification process that can be used to ensure that ISI's access control plan is effective, citing specific, credible sources that support your assertions and conclusions.
Explain how ISI's verification process will be maintained and updated in response to future changes in access requirements.
Support your main points, assertions, arguments, or conclusions with at least three specific and credible academic references synthesized into a coherent analysis of the evidence.
Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.
For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
Write clearly and concisely in a manner that is well-organized; grammatically correct; and free of spelling, typographical, formatting, and/or punctuation errors.
Use section headers in your paper to clearly delineate your main topics.
In this assignment, you will develop strategies to protect the data and file systems of a fictitious software development company.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Determine an access control strategy based on existing documents.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all supports. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Scenario
Independent Software Incorporated (ISI) is a small software development company with eight employees that work at the home office. Their primary accounts are associated with major market retailers, the federal government, and large state governments. The computer environment for ISI contains a Linux file and print server, a Linux Web server, and ten heterogeneous workstations running multiple operating systems. ISI's coding development projects often encompass classified information and personally identifiable information (PII).
Instructions
Write a 2- to 4-page paper in which you:
Explain why ISI needs an access control plan and the goals of the plan, citing specific, credible sources that support your assertions and conclusions.
Develop at least three-layered access security strategies that can be used to protect ISI's data at rest, data in motion, and file systems; citing specific, credible sources that support your proposed strategies.
Explain a best practice process and procedures for implementing ISI's access security strategies and the overall framework in which they will reside, citing specific, credible sources that support your assertions and conclusions.
Describe the verification process that can be used to ensure that ISI's access control plan is effective, citing specific, credible sources that support your assertions and conclusions.
Explain how ISI's verification process will be maintained and updated in response to future changes in access requirements.
Support your main points, assertions, arguments, or conclusions with at least three specific and credible academic references synthesized into a coherent analysis of the evidence.
Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.
For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
Write clearly and concisely in a manner that is well-organized; grammatically correct; and free of spelling, typographical, formatting, and/or punctuation errors.
Use section headers in your paper to clearly delineate your main topics.
A country, Country A, has a civilian population of 300 million. Of these:
80 million are under 16 years old or in institutions (e.g., prisons, long-term care facilities)
48 million adults do not want to work and are not looking for a job
160 million people are employed
12 million people are unemployed and actively seeking work
Answer the following:
(a) How many people are not in the labor force in Country A? (3 points)
(b) What is the size of the labor force in Country A? (3 points)
Part II: Country B – Unemployment Types and Rates
A different country, Country B, has the following labor market data:
Labor force: 200 million
Unemployed: 14 million
Frictionally unemployed: 3 million
Structurally unemployed: 5 million
Answer the following:
(c) What is the actual (total) unemployment rate in Country B? (2 points)
(d) What is the natural rate of unemployment in Country B? (2 points)
(e) What is the cyclical unemployment rate in Country B? (3 points)
f) What might the unemployment data suggest about the overall state of the economy in Country B? Explain briefly. (2 point)
2. Suppose you borrow $3,400 at 10% annual interest to buy gold, which you expect to be worth $4,000 in two years. Should you make this investment? Justify your answer using either a present value or a future value calculation. (3 points each)
3.Individual A spends $3,000 on consumption when her income is $0, and $10,000 when her income is $8,000. Individual B spends $4,000 on consumption when his income is $0, and $15,000 when his income is $12,000. (9 points)
a. Write the consumption function for individual A and B.
b. Interpret the meaning of individual A’s marginal propensity to consume, and individual B’s marginal propensity to save.
c. If most households behaved like A versus B, how would the overall multiplier differ, and what would this imply for the effectiveness of a fiscal stimulus?
4. Answer all questions below:
I. What is a recessionary gap, and what condition(s) in the economy can lead to one? (3 points)
II. In your own words, explain what the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is. How is it calculated? Provide a numerical example. (3 points)
III. Suppose the recessionary gap is $5,250,000 and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is 0.85. How much should autonomous spending increase to close the gap?
(3 points)
V. An economy has an income multiplier of 15. Explain what this implies about the effect of a $200 million increase in spending on total income, and note one real-world factor that might prevent the full effect from occurring. (4 points)
Homework assignment for weeks 3 and 4: (50 points total)
1. Using the factors affecting aggregate demand (AD) and short-run aggregate supply (SRAS) discussed in the textbook and throughout the course, explain—or use diagrams to illustrate—how each of the following three events affects either AD or SRAS. Focus exclusively on the impact on AD or SRAS, even if other variables are also influenced. Be sure to indicate how the equilibrium price level and output are affected. (6 points)
a. Optimal weather conditions resulted in a substantial rise in global crop yields, other factors unaffected.
b. To reduce the budget deficit, the government announces that households will pay much higher taxes beginning next year, other factors unaffected
c. The government increases military spending, other factors unaffected
2. Fiscal policy and income multiplier (TE and TP are in millions of dollars): (12 points)
a) What happens to business inventories if the economy is at $200 level of Real GDP? Will inventories increase, decrease, or remain unchanged? Briefly explain
b) If the economy is at $1,000 level of Real GDP will businesses increase production, decrease production, or maintain production at 1,000 level of Real GDP? Why?
c) Based on the TE and TP model in graph above, at what level of Real GDP ($0 to $1,200) will the economy finally rest? Briefly explain
d) Assume the economy is currently at $500 in Real GDP, with a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) equal to 88%. What level of autonomous consumption is required to raise total expenditure (TE) to achieve full employment at $1,000 in Real GDP?
3. Money and Banking:
Your local bank retains $400 of the $5,000 you deposited into your new checking account, as required reserve, and lends out the remaining $4,600. (8 points)
a. Why does the Federal Reserve require banks to hold required reserves? (3 points)
b. How does the bank's decision to lend out all your $4,600 impact the total money supply in the economy, given a required reserve ratio of 9%, and the corresponding multiplier effect? (2 points)
c. By how much would the total money supply expand if you kept $1,000 of the $5,000 deposit in cash, assuming a required reserve ratio of 6%? (3 points)
4. Demand for money: (2 points each)
Discuss how each of the following events affects the demand for money. For each scenario, determine whether it causes a shift in the demand curve or a movement along it, and specify the direction of the change.
a. There is a rise in the interest rate from 5% to 10%.
b. Thanksgiving arrives and, with it, the beginning of the holiday shopping season.
c. The Fed engages in an open-market sale of U.S. Treasury bills.
5.Monetary policy: (10 points total)
An economy is experiencing a real GDP gap, as shown in the diagram below. Question: What policy actions could be taken to eliminate this gap?
a. Should central bank use expansionary or contractionary monetary policy? ________________
b. Regardless of the policy choice in part a,should interest rates fall or rise? _______________
c. Regardless of the policy choice in part a, should consumer spending fall or rise? _________
d. Will the correct policy lead to an increase or decrease in Real GDP? __________________
e. Will the correct policy contribute to an increase or decrease in price levels? _____________
6. Open-Economy Macroeconomics: (8 points)
Based on the exchange rates from the first trading days of 2023 and 2024 shown in the table below:
a) Did the U.S. dollar appreciate or depreciate during 2024?
b) Did this change in the value of the U.S. dollar make American goods either more or less attractive to foreign buyers?
Week Three Assignment: Current Event #2 Hide Assignment Information Instructions You are required to complete a short assignment which involves a current or historical event (no more than 5 years) at your STATE level (no higher than the state level). Research a homeland security or emergency/disaster management issue that applies to what you have learned in the course thus far. You may use the textbook readings or course lecture materials. In a minimum of three (3) pages (about 750 typed words), students are required to: Provide a synopsis of the State (no higher than the State level) emergency or disaster. What occurred? When? Who was involved? What parties or agencies? Describe the impact of the event at your State level. Who was affected and how was the incident managed? Discuss what you learned from the disaster as it relates to Homeland Security or Emergency Management to this point in the course. Remember what we have covered thus far (History of EM, Natural & Technological disasters and Risk Assessments, Mitigation, Preparedness, Communications, Response, Recovery and Terrorist Threat). Link the real world event, to the course textbook and course material. Conclude with a critical review of the lessons learned and the actions taken at the State level to mitigate, prepare, respond and recover to the incident.
Week One Assignment: Risk Assessment Hide Assignment Information Instructions Follow these steps to complete this assignment:
Conduct a Risk Assessment on a specific target in your community, a school, hospital, business or government office (be sure to choose an actual specific target for this assignment).
Next describe the natural, technical or man-made hazard which is most likely to threaten your target. For example, the Ambassador hotel in my town of Mayberry is most likely to face a natural hazard such as a tornado. Mayberry is a small midwestern town so terrorism and earthquakes are unlikely to occur. However, the threat from tornadoes are a real possibility.
Conduct historical research of past hazards to establish a baseline for how much risk your community faces from this hazard. What is the frequency of this hazard? Is it predictable and or cyclical (tornado or hurricane season)?
Describe what the impact of the hazard and the loss of your target would have on your community.
Discuss how the risk to your target can be mitigated?
Which agencies and or private entities may be involved in the risk analysis process and mitigation process.
Be sure to demonstrate your understanding of the terms and concepts associated with Risk. For example, RISK (R) can be calculated as follows: R = f (C, V, T) • C = the CONSEQUENCES of an attack on a particular target • V = an assessment of the VULNERABILITY of the target • T = the THREAT or likelihood that a specific target will suffer an attack or disaster Assignment Requirements:
Length: The report must contain a body of text approximating 750 typed words (about 3 pages double-spaced, 12 point font).
A reference page containing a minimum of three (3) course-external resources used and cited in the report. References cited at the end of the report must be cited in text to illustrate how they were used.
Week Two Assignment: Current Event #1 Hide Assignment Information Instructions You are required to complete a short assignment which involves a current or historical event (no more than 5 years) at your local (no higher than the county)level. Research a homeland security or emergency/disaster management issue that applies to what you have learned in the course thus far. You may use the textbook readings or course lecture materials. In a minimum of three (3) pages (about 750 typed words), students are required to: Provide a synopsis of the local (no higher than the county) level emergency or disaster. What occurred? When? Who was involved? (what parties or agencies? Describe the impact of the event at your local level. Who was effected and how was the incident managed? Discuss what you learned from the disaster as it relates to what you have learned in the course to this point. Remember what we have covered thus far (History of Emergency Management, Natural & Technological disasters and Risk Assessments, Mitigation and Preparedness). Link the real world event, to the course textbook and course material. Conclude with a critical review of the lessons learned and the actions taken at the local level to mitigate and prepare for the next incident.
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