Resource: Riordan Manufacturing Virtual Organization

Amend the Riordan IT budget, according to the following requirements:

• An increase in spending on items related to hardware, software, and outside IT support services by 4 percent
• A decrease the overall budget by 2 percent

Write a 4- to 6-page paper that presents your revised budget. Explain your rationale for any changes you made to the budgeted amounts.

Unit IV Annotated Bibliography

For your second submission towards your research paper, you will expand upon the Unit I Research Paper Topic by

creating an annotated bibliography.

Your annotated bibliography will include five outside sources from the CSU Online Library that you can use for the

research paper due in Unit VII. In the Unit I Research Paper Topic, you located two scholarly sources. You may continue

to use these sources for this assignment or choose all new articles.

Within your annotations, you will include a brief summary of the source. The summary should include answers to the

following questions:

What are the author’s main points?

How does this source fit into my research?

Is this source objective, or does it have a bias?

How could I use this information in my paper?

Also, be sure to avoid including your own opinion on the contingency theory of leadership you selected and any

information not related to your theory.

Each of your five sources should include a 100-150 word annotation.

Attachments:

annotatedbib.pdf

As an employee of the World Bank, you have been asked to research 1 economic concern in a South American country and write a report on your findings.

• Select a South American country to research.
• Select 1 of the following economic concerns to research:
  • Quantities of specific goods and services
  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
  • Unemployment
  • Inflation
• Research data sets for the one economic concern within the South American country that you have chosen.
• In a 3–4-page report, answer the following questions:
  • What are 2–3 relationships between the economic concern you selected and that specific country’s economy?
  • What trends do you see in the data sets?
  • Support your assertions of the trends with statistical evidence.
  • Cite all of your sources correctly and include a reference list, both in APA style.

Assignment 2: Weekly Assignment—The Trial Process

Activity Details

As you learned in your reading, there are several stages to a trial process. Once a crime is reported, the police begin to investigate, collect evidence, and report evidence to the prosecutor. The involvement of the police continues from the beginning of a case to its end.

Tasks:

In this assignment, imagine you are an officer at your local police station. Your supervising officer assigns you to a prestigious unit that receives special projects, including education development. As your first project, you are assigned the task of creating and presenting a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation concerning the trial process to new recruits at the police academy.

Perform the following tasks:

Step 1: Research and develop a plan for the trial process. Use information from both the textbook and the Argosy University online library resources. Refer to the attached terms as a road map and make sure that the terms pertaining to your state criminal court system are present in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Clickhere to download the road map.

Step 2: Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation describing the local criminal trial process from the beginning to the end. Give thought to the difference between the misdemeanor and the felony processes. In addition, differentiate between the defendant’s choice of taking a case to a trial or as a plea. Discuss why a defendant may want to consider a plea instead of continuing with the trial. Explain possible penalties, sentences, and alternative programs available to the defendant.

Step 3: Include speaker notes to explain the contents of each slide including more research and information. Direct your speaker notes to your audience (for example, you may tell recruits that they may have to testify at the preliminary hearing and inform them what the judge would consider).

Step 4: After completing the assignment, save the presentation.

Submission Details:

1. Save the presentation as M4_A2_Lastname_Firstname.ppt.
2. By Week 4, Day 7, submit your presentation to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

magine that you own a small, local clothing store along the Jersey Shore boardwalk and decide that you want to engage in e-Commerce.

Write a 4-5 page paper on the following:

1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis. Include 2-4 items in each category.
2. Because the Internet connects computers all over the world, any business that engages in e-Commerce instantly becomes an international business. The key issues that any company faces when it conducts international commerce include trust, culture, language, government, and infrastructure. Explain how you would address each of these issues.
3. Businesses that operate on the Web must comply with the same laws and regulations that govern the operations of all businesses, but they face 2 additional complicating factors as they try to comply with the law. First, the Web extends a company’s reach beyond traditional boundaries. Second, the Web increases the speed and efficiency of business communications. Explain how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.
4. Law enforcement agencies have difficulty combating many types of online crime. Describe 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify the basic elements of the technology infrastructure used to conduct electronic business.
• Explain the basic communications and network concepts used in electronic commerce and the basic functioning of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
• Describe the critical legal and ethical issues related to electronic commerce.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in fundamentals of e-business.
• Write clearly and concisely about fundamentals of e-business using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and

ssignment 1: Employee Turnover

Due Week 4 and worth 150 points

Employee turnover in the hospitality industry averages 400% annually. This means that, on average, 100% of the staff of a restaurant, hotel, airline, cruise ship, etc. is replaced four (4) times per year. There has been extensive research on employee turnover and employee job satisfaction. Using the Internet or the Strayer Library, select one (1) hospitality industry type such as fast-food restaurants, luxury hotels, specialty hotels, or any other type of hospitality interest and identify the main problems associated with that industry and employee turnover. Suggest ways and methods to address the high turnover rate.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the type of hospitality industry and its main categories of employees.
2. Summarize three (3) primary reasons that turnover is so high in this industry.
3. Recommend one (1) method to address each of the three (3) primary reasons that turnover is so high in this industry.
4. Recommend one (1) method to improve job satisfaction in general for this industry.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Develop a plan for managing and improving quality in a hospitality operation.
• Describe the management attributes contributing to providing service quality.
• List and describe basic service paradigms.
• Differentiate between high- and low-performance organizations and identify contributing factors.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in quality service assurance.
• Write clearly and concisely about quality service assurance using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organiza

Assignment 1.2: Conflicting Viewpoints Essay – Part II

Synthesizing and Writing

Due Week 4 and worth 100 points

When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking.

The assignment is divided into two (2) parts.

For Part I of the assignment (due Week 2), you read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes, reviewed the Procon.org Website in order to gather information, and engaged in prewriting to examine your thoughts.

* Remember that in the Week 2 Discussion, you examined the biases discussed in Chapter 2 of the webtext.

In Part II of the assignment (due Week 4), you will write a paper to synthesize your ideas.

Part II – Writing

Write at three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. State your position on the topic you selected for Assignment 1.1.

2. Identify (3) three premises (reasons) from the Procon.org website that support your position    and explain why you selected these specific reasons.

3. Explain your answers to the “believing” questions about the three (3) premises opposing your position from the Procon.org website.

4. Examine at least two (2) types of biases that you likely experienced as you evaluated the premises for and against your position.

5. Discuss the effects of your own enculturation or group identification that may have influenced your biases.

6. Discuss whether or not your thinking about the topic has changed after playing the “Believing Game,” even if your position on the issue has stayed the same.

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

• Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
• Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
• Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

You must follow these submission guidelines:

• Submit the essay to Turnitin.com and then submit the originality report and final essay with any needed revisions to Blackboard.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify the informal fallacies, assumptions, and biases involved in manipulative appeals and abuses of language.
• Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic.

Grading for this assignment will be based on quality, logic / organization, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Believing Game

Reasons to Allow Death Penalty

Introduction

In any discussion that happens in any environment, we are plunged into a situation where we might be forced to believe a thing. The cause for this is that most people are put into a situation of doubts. Doubting is but of belief as it is out of it that we have to introduce believing as a game. It is true that any idea can be considered depending on how much has been done by the parties to inculcate the belief as (Tannen, 1998) explains.

When a person does a crime, the magnitude of the punishment must match the extent of the penalty. For instance, when one kills, death penalty becomes enough as a punishment meted on that person. However, capital punishment has both negative and positive explanations. When we then focus on the pros and cons of the death penalty, the cons take a larger extent of the discussion. For that matter, we need to make people believe in capital punishment as a way to correct the ills that are a cruel to the growth of society (Maimonides, 1993). The death penalty is voted for its reasons on morality, constitutionality and deterrence (Maimonides, 1993). Following this discussion, it is important to have a death penalty as a way to prevent more ills in the society.

But before believing on the essence of the death penalty, there are cons that exist on it. Thus opposes the pros brought up by the death penalty. As (Schabas, 2002) explains, the moral reason that exists for the need to apply the death penalty. Is on the fact, those who perform immoral acts do not respect their human dignity. Therefore, are ready for death. It is true that death penalty gives honor to human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor for being able to control his destiny for good or for ill. But in the same case, the opposing facts on it is that, as much as it has been perceived to act on the moral ground, it is not better off as it allows the criminal justice system to treat one better if he or she is rich and guilty than if one is weak and innocent.

The other opposition on constitutionality according to William J. Brennan is that death penalty will always treat human beings as the vilest beings or else non-humans (Schabas, 2002). It is opposed to the defense that death would always subject human beings to be fate forbidden by the principle of humane treatment. In that case, the assumption has been made that, death is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Clause on both Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Lastly, the opposition on the need to have capital punishment as a way to prevent crime is that there is no actual proof of the fact that death penalty would help reduce crime. Many states that have the death penalty have no indicated cases that when the death penalty was introduced crime rates reduced in any way. It is therefore believed that death penalty has no deterrent effect. Further proofs have been made by the social science research to discredit the beliefs on the death penalty (Schabas, 2002).

It is interesting to believe in this view because not all the states can buy into the ideas but then can be bought. Imagine a situation where people are involved in cases of crime, but the only means of punishment is death. Of course, no one would wish to die. In that case, the death penalty can way help to reduce the number of crimes and murder.

It is interesting to have put across this believe in that (French, 1995), if the state had no laws and that can help in the deterrence of crime, it could not be comfortable to live. It is helpful to accept this belief because, constitutionally, it is the mandate of the justice system to prevent murder and crime in the society. Further, Common sense, bolstered by statistics and analyzes, tells us that the death penalty will deter crime since people fear nothing more than death.

It is helpful to put the focus on this belief in that; it is also a source of retribution. It is expected that the society is exposed to get what it exactly deserves. It is true that crime disturbs and reduces order but then again if we don’t have enough policies such as a death penalty, it cannot be any easy to put all in order. While we show our belief in this fact, in a deserved punishment, it protects society morally by restoring this just order, where the wrongdoer is made to pay a price that is equivalent to the harm he has done to the people. Focusing keenly, it is important to have this rule passed across in the society (French, 1995).

In conclusion, if we have the death penalty, it is easy to correct and reduce the number of crime that happens in the society. The weaknesses in the decisions made by the states will encourage an increased cases of murder. The death penalty, therefore, provides a finality of the issues of crimes as people fear death.

References

French, H. (1995, June 6). Constitutional Court. The New York Times.

Maimonides, M. (1993). Capital Punishment. Pp. Pp 1–68.

Schabas, W. (2002). The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law. Cambridge

University Press.

Tannin, Deborah. The Argument Culture: Moving From Debate to

Dialogue. Random House, 1998