Scenario: An insurance company has hired you to do an evaluation of its training program. Members of management are particularly concerned about the new-hire training for new insurance agents. This training teaches the agents about all of the different policies offered by the company for life, auto, home, and health insurance. The current situation is that the company is paying each agent taking the course $300 a week while in training. The training course lasts for 8 weeks. This costs the company $2,400 in salary per agent during the training. The instructor is paid $5,000 for the 8 weeks. Other overhead expenses include site rental, supplies, and equipment, and they cost approximately $3,000. At the end of the training, the agents are assigned a trained agent to work with for 2 weeks (new agent pay is still $300 a week), and then they are assigned a territory. 45% of the agents trained quit before the end of the time with the trained agent. Another 20% quit or are fired within the first 3 months on the job. The company needs to find out what needs to be done to improve its hiring and training practices so that it retains more of the agents hired.

Your assignment is to develop a proposal (in APA-manuscript format) for data collection. Specifically, you will be required to clearly explain and justify the data-collection plan you would follow to do the training program evaluation.

Be sure to include the following:

• The data you will collect
  • Construct a data collection tool with a Likert scale.
  • The data collection tool should use 5 survey statements.
  • The Likert scale should include 5 categories from “agree” to “disagree.”
• Classification of the data as quantitative or qualitative
• Description of why the data are needed
• Description of who you will collect the data from (sample) and what method you will use to determine the sample
• Technology options that you might use to collect data and why the selected technology is appropriate

Be sure to use appropriate peer-reviewed sources (other than the textbook) to support and reinforce your choices. Because you have not yet collected data (your paper is just a proposed plan), do not make recommendations regarding the solution to the problem.

Using the library, unit resources, and the Internet, select a curriculum approach for further research. Try to select an approach that matches your area of expertise or interest.

For your selected curriculum approach, answer the following questions in an APA-formatted paper:

• How is this approach similar or different from your personal approach to the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum?
• How effective would this approach be as a guide to curriculum within your current or anticipated curriculum area (K–12, higher education, corporate training, or military)?
• What is the value of this theory for educators or trainers who are designing, implementing, or evaluating curriculum today?

Your research must include sources outside of the textbook. Be sure to use APA manuscript format for your submission.

For this week’s assignment, you will write a 300-word minimum essay about criminal omission. Be sure to address all prompts and cite your sources in APA format. This is worth 100 points, so be thorough and give your best effort.

There are two kinds of criminal omission: the simple failure to act (usually the failure to report something required by law), and the failure to intervene to prevent injuries and death to persons or the damage and destruction of property. Both omissions are criminal omissions only if defendants had a legal duty to act, even if there is no actus reus requirement.

In your essay, please address the following:

• • Define, compare, and contrast the “Good Samaritan” rule and the American bystander rule.
  • Which rule is dominant in the United States?
  • Which rule is best?
  • Explain your position

1a) Define and illustrate the concept of competitive advantage in the service and in the product industries; what are the most prominent differences, if any? Explain.

1b) If you were your company’s CEO (present or past company), how would you promote a sense of urgency for sustaining a competitive advantage? Explain.

2) Review the product life cycle concept, and reflect on what might be some of the unethical practices that a manager could engage during the introductory stage to increase the company’s market position? What can you do to prevent this in the future?

3) Define the strategic concept of a Joint Venture, provide an example of a successful JV and an example of a failed JV somewhere in the world -what are the leadership lessons learned from each example?

4) Many firms fail when they enter into strategic alliances with firms that link up with companies based in other countries. What are some reasons for this failure? If you were a strategist, what would you do differently? Support your view with an example, and substantiate your view with theory. What approach would you consider using when delivering this opposing view to the Board of Directors, in hopes of convincing them of your view?

Facebook, email, electronic commerce, and collaborative sites for both work and leisure are a normal part of our everyday computing activities. Personal information entered on these websites become partially owned by the sites themselves. Deleting items never really gets rid of them. After reading this week’s course materials, describe what Internet users should know about one of the following topics: What should you know about website privacy? How do you know when an online transaction is secure? Why is Anti-spyware software important to my online security?

i want put in my words as to what i think along with facts all 3 questions answered

Assignment 2.1: Justification Report – Part 1

Due Week 3 and worth 150 points

In Assignments 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3, you will be building up a formal, researched justification report (one part at a time) that culminates in a recommendation to implement a particular product, service, or program in your place of employment. This recommended product, service, or program should resolve a problem that you identify in your workplace and should be directed to your employer (even if you do not actually plan to share it with your employer).

Use the basic outline below to draft Assignment 2. Organize your responses to each question under the following section headings:

• Problem Statement (for Question 1)
• Overview of Alternatives (for Question 2)
• Criteria (for Question 3)
• Methods (for Question 4)

Using the provided template, write Part 1 of a single-spaced report in which you:

1. Discuss in detail a problem at work, persuading and convincing the reader that it needs fixing.
2. Provide a detailed description of two (2) possible solutions (“alternatives”) that could be implemented to resolve the problem identified in Question 1.
3. List and detail five (5) criteria that you will use to measure the worth of each alternative in Question 2. Note: The alternative that satisfies the most criteria to the highest degree will be the one you recommend later to your employer (in Assignment 2.3). Criteria are standards that the audience values and are therefore used to measure the worth of each alternative (common examples include cost, desirability, durability, efficiency, time it will take to implement, and practicality).
4. Describe in detail how you will conduct the research needed to determine the best alternative to recommend to your employer. Note: This is a one to two (1-2) paragraph description of what research needs to be completed in order to evaluate the alternatives. This is not a detailed procedure for solving the problem.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, single 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, your 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:

• Support ideas or claims in body paragraphs with clear details, examples, and explanations.
• Organize ideas logically by using transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
• Use sentence variety and effective word choice in written communication.
• Apply writing process strategies to develop formal business reports and / or proposals.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues related to selected topics.
• Write clearly and concisely using proper writing mechanics.