The executive summary is a one-page summary of what to expect in your
paper highlighting the main points of your proposal. It is the
marketing piece of the project. You should use the executive summary as a
tool to get the reader intrigued, so he or she wants to read your
proposal to get more information. To engage the reader, identify the
purpose and use appropriate tone and usage for the audience. Consider
addressing the situation and your audience’s views fairly and
respectfully.

TOPIC OR PROPOSAL-MEDICATION ERROR AT OUR HEALTH FACILITIES.

As you summarize, be sure to convey the understanding and scope of
the proposal. Give a thorough explanation of the proposal, and highlight
relevant research to support the main idea.

Your executive summary should be written as a professional document and should include these headings:

• Purpose
• Problem
• Solution or Plan
• Conclusion

Research Assignment #1

For this assignment, not only would I like you to seriously consider your research paper topic, but

start considering your approach to writing this paper. What types of sources you will be using.

For example, if you decide to write about the Haitian Revolution during the early 19th Century,

where would you begin? How and why the revolution began are important factors to consider as

you explore why it was so significant, not just as a historical event, but also how this impacted

other social, cultural, and political changes throughout Latin America. For something like this,

sources vary far and wide from letters, paintings, speeches, pamphlets that address other themes

such as racism, slavery, revolution, gender, public sphere. These are just some examples of what

you could do with a topic like the Haitian revolution. There are many more topics, so go through

your textbook carefully when selecting a topic from one of the chapters.

You are free to pick a

topic of your choice, but DO NOT pick a topic that goes past 1970 (for the sake of the length of

the class). Other topics include, but are not limited to: Simon Bolivar, Mexican Revolution,

California Mission System, etc.

What I need from you:

Please submit a write up (

between 1-2 pages!!

) on what your research paper will be about. This

is not the research paper you will submit, but a well thought out proposal for what your paper will

be about. Both Research Assignment 1 & 2 are assignments built into the paper (or to make the

paper flow more smoothly). Give me a clear idea of what your paper will be about, what you

hope to uncover or answer as you write it, and possibly what kind of sources and evidence you

will be using and working with. This corresponds to some of the Student Learning Outcomes

(SLO’s) I have included in the syllabus this semester.

**This research paper must incorporate both primary and secondary sources. There are various

primary sources within the textbook that you may consider using, which is fine. Be sure you are

able to distinguish between primary and secondary sources.

Any

secondary source

is how historians and scholars have written about a specific

topic/theme/time period

. This includes books, journal articles, and monographs. Please note that

you will likely find primary sources within the secondary literature, which is why it is important

to visit libraries and digital collections from academic databases and institutions. All of this will

consist of some preliminary research and possibly a visit to your closest library. I would highly

recommend that you consider research and writing about a topic or theme that is of interest to

you. Please be mindful of the time period I would like you to work with. Please submit Research

Assignment #1 via Canvas. Not all topics will be approved because some may lack historical

focus. This has happened in the past, let’s not repeat it (pun intended). I will send you a follow

up, giving you the approval, or may make some suggestions for you to consider as you move

forward in this writing process. Any comments or suggestions I make regarding this proposal is

intended to strengthen the quality of your work, and/or narrow the focus if your topic is too

broad, or similar to someone else’s. To avoid students writing their papers on the same topic, the

sooner you submit your proposal the more likely I am to approve it without major suggestions.

Avoid taking the shortcut, and please submit original work. I will submit assignments via

turnitin.com to check for originality and /or detect plagiarism. Turnitin.com is quite effective

when it comes to checking for online plagiarism, or info that is taken from papers submitted

online.

Important

:Keep in mind,

you must submit

Research Assignment 1/Proposal for approval and to move to

the next stage of the research and writing process (Research Assignment 2).

Students will not get

credit for their research paper without submitting both assignments.

Recommend Watching:

Video Link on Primary/Secondary Sources:

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word strategic objectives summary. Include your balanced scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.

Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.

Develop the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOT analysis and supply chain analysis.

Consider the following four quadrants of the balanced scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:

• Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Market share
  • Revenues and costs
  • Profitability
  • Competitive position
• Customer Value Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Customer retention or turnover
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Customer value
• Process or Internal Operations Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Measure of process performance
  • Productivity or productivity improvement
  • Operations metrics
  • Impact of change on the organization
• Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
  • Employee satisfaction
  • Employee turnover or retention
  • Level of organizational capability
  • Nature of organizational culture or climate
  • Technological innovation

Evaluate potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOT Analysis paper and table you completed in Week 3.

Create at least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas. Base your solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes the following:

• Identify potential risks and mitigation plans
• Analyze a stakeholder and include mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Incorporate ethical implications

Develop a metric and target for each strategic objective using a balanced scorecard format.

• Example: a strategic objective in the shareholder or financial perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective of market share increase is, “The percentage of increase in market share.” The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of “Increase market share” could be “Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years” of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.)

Outline a brief communication plan discussing how you will communicate the company’s strategic objectives that includes the following:

• Define the purpose.
• Define the audience.
• Identify the channel(s) of communication and why you selected that channel.

Format paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Please answer
each question no less than 120 words

Class, I have
long been a JCP customer. However, a few years ago when JCP placed a former
Apple leader in the CEO position, things began to change. It seemed to me that
JCP lost their way from a strategy perspective. As you have read the
information in the chapter, think about and discuss the following:

1.What
is a business-level strategy? What happened to JCP as they changed their
business strategy?

2.What
is the relationship between a firm’s customers and its business-level strategy
in terms of who, what, and how? Why is this relationship important? Did JCP
forget about the customer and focus only on what the new CEO wanted to
implement?

Class, GE is probably one of the most successful
organization in history from the perspective of diversity of their business.
They have everything from microwaves, ovens, washer and dryers, to aircraft
engines. What makes them so successful? Let us discuss:

1.What are three reasons firms choose to diversify
their operations?

2.How do firms create value when using a related
diversification strategy?

3.What are the two ways to obtain financial
economies when using an unrelated diversification strategy?

Class, today we hear a lot about the important of going
global or being an international company. That is not an easy task and many
that want to become international are not successful. With that in mind, let us
discuss the following

1.Suppose you are developing strategy for an
international company. What are the three international corporate-level
strategies? What are the advantages and disadvantages associated with these
individual strategies?

2.What are some global environmental trends
affecting the choice of international strategies, particularly international
corporate-level strategies?

3.What five entry modes do firms consider as paths
to use to enter international markets? What is the typical sequence in which
firms use these entry modes?

Class, in this chapter we learned about strategic alliances.
Why do company strategically align themselves with other organizations? Let us
discuss the following:

1.What are the four business-level cooperative
strategies?

2.What are the key differences among them?

3.What are the three corporate-level cooperative
strategies?

4.How do firms use each of these strategies for
the purpose of creating a competitive advantage?

You have been approached by a pharmaceutical company that has developed a new drug that is supposed to be effective in the treatment of schizophrenia. Before mass producing the drug they want to be sure that it is more effective than the drug they are currently producing. They have offered you an opportunity to pitch your design of a research study to determine the effectiveness of the new drug compared with the old one. The company will hire the person with the most effective research design.

To begin, create a PowerPoint presentation (refer to the PSY326 Research Design Template for formatting).  Your presentation should be a minimum of four to five slides and it must include the following elements:

• Compare and contrast the characteristics of non-experimental (descriptive and correlational) and experimental research designs.
• Specify whether the aim of the implied research question is to describe, predict, or explain.
• Choose a research design to evaluate the relative effectiveness of the two drugs.
• Provide a brief overview of the study you would design.

Then, using Screenr.com, you will create a screencast of your presentation. Please include a title for your presentation in the description box when you publish your screencast.  Refer to the Screenr.com instructions below for assistance. 

The pharmaceutical company has limited your presentation time to 3 to 5 minutes, so you will need to incorporate as many characteristics of an effective speaker as you can within this timeframe. These characteristics may include, but are not limited to, humor, storytelling, facts only, pace, and volume. Since there is no video of the presenter (just the presentation itself), you will not have the benefit of body language, so be sure you create a convincing screencast. 

Copy and paste the URL link to your screencast in your discussion forum response section. Your presentation must utilize at least two peer-reviewed sources, in addition to your textbook, cited in APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. All sources used within the presentation must be cited properly within the slides and included on the required reference slide, which will be the last slide of the PowerPoint presentation. Due to the time limit of your presentation, you are not required to speak or read through the reference slide. However, you must include your reference list within the discussion post along with your screencast URL link and submit your PowerPoint presentation file via the Doc Sharing link located in the top right-hand corner of the course’s navigation (near the Gradebook icon).  

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Taking on the role of the pharmaceutical company’s administrator, provide a substantive written response to at least two of your peers’ presentations. Discuss whether or not you agree with their idea for designing the study. If you disagree, explain what you feel would be a better approach and why. You may also comment specifically on the effectiveness of the presentation. In addition to responding to at least two other students’ presentations, it is recommended that you reply to at least one of those who responded to your original presentation either respectfully defending your choice of research design or listing how you might implement the changes your classmate suggested.

Using Screenr.com

Review the Screenr Quick-Start Guide and visit the Screenr.com website to get started.  You may view the Screenr demonstration video or contact Screenr Help directly for assistance using the software program.