For this assignment, read the article indicated below that discusses the differences between the generations within the workplace and how to develop interpersonal skills for better employee involvement and interaction with fellow employees. Also, this article identifies how the values are placed upon each generation (Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers) and leads into how to better manage and involve the multiple generations within the workforce.

Instructions

For this assignment, read the article indicated below that discusses the differences between the generations within the workplace and how to develop interpersonal skills for better employee involvement and interaction with fellow employees. Also, this article identifies how the values are placed upon each generation (Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers) and leads into how to better manage and involve the multiple generations within the workforce.

In order to access the resource below, you must first log into the myCSU Student Portal and access the ABI/INFORM COLLECTION database within the CSU Online Library.

Kelly, C., Elizabeth, F., Bharat, M., & Jitendra, M. (2016). Generation gaps: Changes in the workplace due to differing generational values. Advances in Management, 9(5), 1-8.

Note: The birth year range for Baby Boomers in the article differs from the range found in the textbook (p. 41) and the generally accepted range of 1946-1964.

Complete the article review by showing your understanding of the article’s contents by addressing the questions and directives below. Your paper should be a minimum of two pages, not including the title and reference pages. The following are questions and directives to be used in completing the review:

  1. What is the author’s main point?
  2. Who is the author’s intended audience?
  3. Identify and address the differences in the interpersonal skills from the generational differences and how they might be overcome.

Be sure to apply the proper APA format for the content and reference provided.

For this assignment, you will annotate an article, “Which English You Speak Has Nothing to Do with How Smart You Are”

Instructions:

For this assignment, you will annotate an article. Make sure you have read the information on Critical Reading in eCampus before beginning this assignment.

 

Read this document and follow each step carefully. There are three steps to complete this assignment.

Step 1: Predict and preview

After reading the title and glancing over the text, what do you think the text will be about? What do you understand about the text from the title? What do you know already about this topic? What questions do you have before reading? Type your response to these questions here:

 

Response:

Step 2: Read, summarize, and annotate

As you read the article, use the Track Changes function or a different colored text to annotate the article below.

 

  1. Annotate the text as you read. Use the functions in Microsoft Word to highlight sections or words and underline sentences or sections that are important, just like you would if you were annotating a hard copy of the essay. Use the following key to annotate your text:
  • Highlight the main ideas of paragraphs, including the thesis
  • Underline supporting details or interesting quotes/facts/ideas
  • Bold anything that confuses you or you do not understand.

 

  1. Throughout the article below, you will see the word Summary after each few paragraphs. Each time you see Summary, you should type one sentence that summarizes the main point of the paragraphs that you just read.
  2. At the end of the article, you will see Vocabulary. In this section, you should look up and define the words listed using dictionary.com. Some words may have multiple meanings in the dictionary. Only put one definition for each word; choose the one that makes the most sense in this article.

 

Which English You Speak Has Nothing to Do with How Smart You Are

by Anne H. Charity Hudley

 

How can linguists and educators work together to help maintain the linguistic voices of the next Zora Neale Hurston or Albert Einstein while at the same time support students on the Common Core, SATs, GREs, and LSATs?

 

In classrooms across the U.S., there are kids who speak a wide variety of types of English. Even though it’s historical accident that anyone considers “isn’t” better than “ain’t” or “wash” better than “warsh,” those kids who just axed a question may feel dumb and be treated as if they’re dumb by the people around them. And it starts young: Even by the end of kindergarten, many students have absorbed messages that their language is wrong, incorrect, dumb, or stigmatized.

 

For example, when I studied the language patterns of 4- and 5-year-old black children in several U.S. cities, many of them were worried that just talking with me would somehow cause them to be held back a grade if they did not do well in the conversations. You can see how these feelings of insecurity, anxiety, and apprehension when communicating—what the linguist William Labov calls linguistic insecurity—would make it disheartening to try and learn higher skills like math and reading when you’re told you’re wrong as soon as you even open your mouth.

 

Summary: Summarize the main point of the first three paragraphs here:

 

But where does this idea that certain varieties of English are worse come from, does it have any basis in reality, and what can teachers—and all of us—do about it?

 

First of all, let’s lay to rest this idea that English—or any language—has one dialect that’s just right and a whole bunch of others that are wrong. Not only has English changed throughout the ages, but there isn’t even any logic behind what’s currently in style: As the linguist Steven Pinker explains, “The choice of isn’t over ain’t, dragged over drug, and can’t get any over can’t get no did not emerge from a weighing of their inherent merits, but from the historical accident that the first member of each pair was used in the variety of English spoken around London when the written language became standardized. If history had unfolded differently, today’s correct forms could have been incorrect and vice versa.”

 

So why do people think of speakers of standardized English as being smarter, of a higher status, and as having more positive personality traits than speakers of nonstandardized English varieties? These values have more to do with who is in power: If people are devalued for some reason or another—race, gender, socioeconomic class, and so on—their language gets the same association. For example, the way that the British upper class speaks may sound snobby to some, but it’s most always judged academically acceptable. The language of Southern African-Americans may sound warm and fun but it’s often judged to be academically unacceptable or undesirable. It’s even in our media: As the linguist Rosina Lippi-Green points out, the way that cartoon characters speak, like the Lion King’s hyenas or Shrek’s donkey, reinforces our racial and linguistic stereotypes, encouraging kids to think of their classmates who sound like Simba or Shrek as “good guys,” people who sound like the hyenas as “bad guys,” and people who sound like Donkey as buffoons.

 

Summary: Summarize the main point of the three paragraphs above here:

 

All too often, what happens is something like this story I heard from a math teacher in a first grade classroom, “One of the kids, an African American kid, was playing a game and he said, ‘I don’t got no dice.’ He didn’t have the materials he needed. And the teacher said, ‘You know, Joshua, we speak English in this class.’ Really harshly. And I just thought, oh gosh. There must be a better way to respond.”

 

But what’s a teacher to do? On the one hand, they need to help students prepare for a world that—like it or not—isn’t particularly accepting of linguistic variation. But on the other, they want to do so in a way that lets students continue to be proud of who they are and where they come from, rather than pushing them into tongue-tied linguistic insecurity.

 

It’s not a solved problem yet, but the educators I’m working with have two main approaches. The first is to talk in terms of being able to use and understand many varieties of English. Educators have also used the terms code-switching and toggle talk to express the idea that it’s useful to speak standardized English in certain contexts, like academia, but that it doesn’t have to come at the expense of speaking your own way in other contexts, with friends or at home.

 

Summary: Summarize the main point of the paragraphs above here:

 

The second is to point out that, in fact, many famous authors take great care in learning several language varieties. For example, in the preface to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain notes:

 

In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.

 

I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.

 

When we encourage students to creatively mix their own varieties of English with the standardized version depending on the time and circumstances, we help them develop both their self-confidence and their own unique voices: Think how much blander the literature of Mark Twain or Maya Angelou would be if every character talked the same way. For more ideas on how to do this, my colleague Christine Mallinson and I have a list of resources here.

 

Summary: Summarize the main point of the paragraphs above here:

 

In fact, this kind of linguistic flexibility is a skill that’s becoming more and more recognized. For example, the recently-implemented Common Core Standards state that students need to “appreciate that the twenty-first-century classroom and workplace are settings in which people from often widely divergent cultures and who represent diverse experiences and perspectives must learn and work together…[and be] able to communicate effectively with people of varied backgrounds.”

 

But the task of challenging linguistic insecurity isn’t just the job of classroom teachers. From animated caricatures to the next great work of literature, we all need to start with this basic premise: Which variety of English you speak has nothing to do with how smart you are.

 

In a 1979 essay called “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?,” James Baldwin states: “A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo…” Otherwise, Baldwin warns: “it may very well be that both the child, and his elder, have concluded that they have nothing whatever to learn from the people of a country that has managed to learn so little.”

 

Summary: Summarize the main point of the final three paragraphs here:

 

 

 

Vocabulary:

Stigmatized:

 

Linguistic:

 

Dialect:

 

Caricatures:

Step 3: Answering questions about the text (after you read it!)

 

  1. What does this article teach you about language?

 

  1. How do you feel about the points in the article? Do you agree, disagree, relate, feel angered by, etc,?

 

 

 

 

While it is generally accepted that behavior is strongly affected by the nature of individual value systems, what level of managerial attention has been directed toward understanding and using values to design organizational systems?

for this article assignment, I want to make sure that you are able to access journal articles in our library databases. The article that I would like you to find is entitled “The Importance of Values in Understanding Organizational Behavior” written by Barry Z. Posner and J. Michael Munson in 1979. Articles published in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s tend to be much simpler and shorter, so I thought it might be a good one to start with. In the space provided below, provide the complete citation for this article (as you would on a reference page of a paper you would write in a college course), following the APA Guidelines that I provided you in the “Course Materials” tab of D2L. This part of the assignment is worth 10 points. Then, read the article and answer the five questions listed below, in the designated “Answer:” space that I have provided. Each question is worth 3 points. Submit your completed assignment to the appropriate “Submission Folder” in D2L. This assignment is due by 11:30 PM on February 2, 2021.

Reference

Delete this sentence and provide the reference citation here, in proper APA format (as you would cite it on a reference page). *Hint: The date follows the authors’ names…

Posner, B.Z., & Munson, J.M. (I started it for you, now use the APA guide to finish the citation).

Article Questions

1. While it is generally accepted that behavior is strongly affected by the nature of individual value systems, what level of managerial attention has been directed toward understanding and using values to design organizational systems?

Answer:

2. What do values describe?

Answer:

3. Knowing something about an individual’s value system and what s/he wants is a necessary prerequisite to designing what types of organizational systems?

Answer:

4. In what percentage of cases were the researchers able to use value profiles to successfully differentiate managers from non-managers?

Answer:

5. Some researchers contend that value differences between managers and their subordinates is the major underlying source of what?

Answer:

BONUS QUESTION (1 POINT): Name a popular values-measuring instrument.

Answer:

For this story, my main questions will be simple and basic but I will ensure that the story has a more visual impact through the interviews I will conduct. In the story, I will interview few homeless people, to understand their side f the story and how they can be helped. 

Story Pitch:

The idea of this topic came to my mind when I was reading the essay which was writing during high school. I saw how homeless people were shivering and trying their best to stay warm and cozy using different materials like worn-out blankets and clothes. It is therefore very important to look at how homeless people survive and how they can be helped.

For this story, my main questions will be simple and basic but I will ensure that the story has a more visual impact through the interviews I will conduct. In the story, I will interview few homeless people, to understand their side f the story and how they can be helped.

I will also get in touch with some shelter homes to help understand their roles, especially during the winter season. I will also get their views on the role of the government in helping these people. I will shoot this interview by starting with a short clip of the life of the homeless and their daily struggles, especially during the winter season. This story will help people to see the struggle that these people go through and think of a plan of helping them out.

  • This initial Q&A assignment is chance to try out your interviewing and basic construction skills before we get into more complex story types
  • As with every assignment, the topic you focus on here should be newsworthy and include the following:
    • 500 words
    • A clear angle
    • A brief intro/setup before you get into the questions and answers (Could be a couple lines)
    • Distinct structure (Intro, clear distinction between questions and answers)
    • AP style (punctuation, etc.)
    • For this assignment, the subject can be someone you know — again as long as the topic is still relevant
  • The assignment will be graded based on the criteria above as well as your overall voice and tone.

For this assignment, research two contemporary accounting topics, such as valuing intellectual capital and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and how these standards differ from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and sustainability and environmental accounting.

For this assignment, research two contemporary accounting topics, such as valuing intellectual capital and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and how these standards differ from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and sustainability and environmental accounting.

There are several articles and one video in this week’s recommended resources section of the course guide that can help get you familiar with these terms and aid in your research. If you would like to choose a different contemporary accounting topic not listed, email your instructor to obtain approval prior to starting your paper.

In your paper,

  • Define and describe the topics, citing real-life examples of their uses.
  • Critique the pros and cons of the topics.
  • Assess the popularity of the topics and what type of global companies or individuals use them.
  • Hypothesize the future use of the topics; be sure to support your position with facts.

The Contemporary Global Accounting Topics Paper

  • Must be four to five pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

Most successful public health programs are implemented on six key areas. These key areas include: Innovation to develop the evidence base for action. A technical package of a limited number of high-priority, evidence-based interventions that together will have a major impact.

Public Health Interventions

Most successful public health programs are implemented on six key areas. These key areas include:

  1. Innovation to develop the evidence base for action.
  2. A technical package of a limited number of high-priority, evidence-based interventions that together will have a major impact.
  3. Effective performance management, especially through rigorous, real-time monitoring, evaluation, and program improvement.
  4. Partnerships and coalitions with public- and private-sector organizations.
  5. Communication of accurate and timely information to the health care community, decision makers, and the public to effect behavior change and engage civil society.
  6. Political commitment to obtain resources and support for effective action.

Of these six key areas, which ones are the most critical for program intervention success? Cite resources to support your answer.

significant and dynamic interrelationships exist among these different levels of health determinants, educational and community-based programs are most likely to succeed in improving health and wellness when they address influences at all levels and in a variety of environments. Looking at your selected health issue or problem from Unit 2, how will your proposed program intervention address multiple levels?

Levels of Health Determinants

Health status and related health behaviors are determined by influences at multiple levels: personal, organizational or institutional, environmental, and policy. Because significant and dynamic interrelationships exist among these different levels of health determinants, educational and community-based programs are most likely to succeed in improving health and wellness when they address influences at all levels and in a variety of environments. Looking at your selected health issue or problem from Unit 2, how will your proposed program intervention address multiple levels?

Assume the role of a senior financial analyst who has been assigned to complete a thorough and detailed review for a company of your choice from the list below. Access the company quarterly financial statements (10-Q) for the past two quarters on EDGAR

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

  • Read Chapters 12 and 13 in the course textbook, Using Financial Accounting Information: The Alternative to Debits and Credits.
  • Read Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the textbook, Warren Buffet Accounting.
  • Read pages 625–626 regarding horizontal analysis in the course textbook, Using Financial Accounting Information: The Alternative to Debits and Credits.
  • Read pages 629–630 regarding vertical analysis in the course textbook, Using Financial Accounting Information: The Alternative to Debits and Credits.

For this assignment, you are required to upload your work to your ePortfolio in addition to Waypoint. Learn more about Folio, Ashford’s ePortfolio tool, by viewing the Folio Quick Start Guide (Links to an external site.).

Submit your file to Waypoint using the button below. Then paste the link to your Folio page as a comment in Waypoint so your instructor can access your ePortfolio.

In prior weeks, you learned about the financial statements and financial statement ratios. This week, you will utilize that information, along with Chapter 13 from the course textbook, Using Financial Accounting Information: The Alternative to Debits and Credits, and tips from the textbook, Warren Buffet Accounting, to take a deep dive into one company.

Assume the role of a senior financial analyst who has been assigned to complete a thorough and detailed review for a company of your choice from the list below. Access the company quarterly financial statements (10-Q) for the past two quarters on EDGAR, which is available on the web page, EDGAR Company Filings (Links to an external site.).

Select one of the following companies:

Name

Ticker Symbol

Home Depot

HD

Bloomin Brands

BLMN

Apple

AAPL

Starbucks

SBUX

Gap

GPS

Verizon

VZ

Target

TGT

Cisco

CSCO

Ulta

ULTA

Dollar Tree

DLTR

In your thorough and detailed review, analyze the company’s quarterly financial statements (10-Q) for the past two most current quarters and perform the following:

  • Prepare a balance sheet and income statement horizontal analysis for the last two quarters.
  • Prepare a balance sheet and income statement vertical analysis for the last two quarters.
  • Prepare a liquidity analysis by computing and using the appropriate ratios to assess liquidity.
    • Compute a minimum of three ratios and show your supporting calculations.
  • Prepare a solvency analysis by computing and using the appropriate ratios to assess solvency.
    • Compute a minimum of three ratios and show your supporting calculations.
  • Prepare a profitability analysis by computing and using the appropriate ratios to assess profitability.
    • Compute a minimum of three ratios and show your supporting calculations.
  • Analyze the methods and tips provided in the textbook, Warren Buffet Accounting, to address the following questions:
    • What is your company’s primary revenue, secondary revenue, and gains?
    • What is your company’s primary expenses, secondary expenses, financial activity generated expenses, and losses?
    • What is the revenue trend? Does the 10-K or 10-Q discuss primary revenues, as well as other revenue types?
    • What do the accounting policies say in the annual report (footnotes) regarding the cost of revenue? What are the drivers to the cost of revenue and the trends?
    • Are there any trends in sales and marketing expenses or research and development? Are these amounts reasonable for the type of business?
    • Compare general and administrative expenses to similar companies. Are they reasonable?
    • What is the ratio of net interest income (expense) to income from operations? Is this a safe ratio for the company? Why or why not?
    • What is the income taxes trend? Is the effective tax rate reasonable over time?

Formulate your analysis on the above requirements to discuss the financial health, performance, strengths, and weaknesses of the company, as well as any identified positive or negative trends.

In addition to your written financial statement analysis, you will also need to communicate a high-level summary of your analysis to your selected company’s executive team using Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.). If needed, review the Screencast-O-Matic Quick-Start Guide (Links to an external site.). The summary should be documented with three to five PowerPoint slides, including speaker notes. In addition, include the company’s

  • financial health,
  • performance strengths and weaknesses, and
  • identified positive or negative trends.

Read the case study DMV a case study in modernization.  In a single Word document, minimum of 7 full pages (excluding cover page and citation), APA 7th ed format, answer the following questions.  Refer to the week’s reading materials and video to guide your responses.   Identify the most important facts surrounding the case.

Summary:

Read the case study DMV a case study in modernization.  In a single Word document, minimum of 7 full pages (excluding cover page and citation), APA 7th ed format, answer the following questions.  Refer to the week’s reading materials and video to guide your responses.

  1. Identify the most important facts surrounding the case.
  2. Identify the key issue or issues.
  3. Specify alternative courses of action.
  4. Evaluate each course of action.
  5. Recommend the best course of action.

 

Reflecting on the opportunities you have had throughout your practicum experience, how have you seen theory applied? Provide a specific example in which you, your mentor, or someone else in the organization used a particular public health or behavior-changing theory in an intervention design.

Your Practicum and Theory Practice

Reflecting on the opportunities you have had throughout your practicum experience, how have you seen theory applied? Provide a specific example in which you, your mentor, or someone else in the organization used a particular public health or behavior-changing theory in an intervention design. Explain the theory and how it was applied to creating and implementing the intervention. Do you think this theory was most appropriate to address the public health issue? Does it do a good job of addressing cultural sensitivities, promoting equity, and taking advantage of the tools and resources available to the organization and the community? Be specific and cite literature and texts as appropriate.