Power Tactics and Sources of Power

For this assignment you will be continuing to write about your own workplace experiences as they relate to power and politics. Think of one of the largest political battles you witnessed or were apart of during your career, and think carefully about how the concepts from the background materials apply to what you experienced.

In preparation for the SLP, make sure you have a thorough grasp of the terminology from the background materials including the main individual and organizational factors that lead to political behavior and the types of political behavior. Once you are comfortable with the terminology and concepts from the background materials, write a 2- to 3-page paper addressing the following issues:

1. Briefly describe a political battle that took place in your workplace. Explain who the main players were and what issues were at stake.
2. What individual and organizational factors lead to this political battle? Refer to the background readings in your answer, and in particular, pages 370–372 of the Nair textbook in your answer. Refer to Nair (2010), Aswathappa (2010), or the Pearson tutorial in your answer.
3. What types of political behaviors did your coworkers exhibit in your political battle? Be specific and use the types of political behaviors discussed by Nair (2010) and Aswathappa (2010).
4. Do you think any of the participants behaved unethically during this political battle? Consider the factors of utility, individual rights, and distributive justice discussed by Nair (2010) and Aswathappa (2010) in your answer.

affirm that the assignment was completed individually, and all work presented is your own.

Problems need to include all required steps and answer(s) for full credit. All answers need to be reduced to lowest terms where possible.

Answer the following problems showing your work and explaining (or analyzing) your results.

1. Describe the measures of central tendency. Under what condition(s) should each one be used?
2. Last year, 12 employees from a computer company retired. Their ages at retirement are listed below. First, create a stem plot for the data. Next, find the mean retirement age. Round to the nearest year.

       55   77   64   77   69   63   62   64   85   64   56   59

3. A retail store manager kept track of the number of car magazines sold each week over a 10-week period. The results are shown below.

       27   30   21   62   28   18   23   22   26   28

1. Find the mean, median, and mode of newspapers sold over the 10-week period.
2. Which measure(s) of central tendency best represent the data?
3. Name any outliers.

4. Joe wants to pass his statistics class with at least a 75%. His prior four test scores are 74%, 68%, 84% and 79%. What is the minimum score he needs on the final exam to pass the class with a 75% average?
5. Nancy participated in a summer reading program. The number of books read by the 23 participants are as follows:

       10    9    6    2    5    3    9    1    6    3    10    4    7    6    3    5    6    2    6    5    3    7    2

1. Complete the frequency table.
2. Find the mean of the raw data.
3. Find the median of the raw data.

6. The chart below represents the number of inches of snow for a seven-day period.

1. Find the mean, median, and mode.
2. Which is the best measure of central tendency?
3. Remove Wednesday from the calculations. How does that impact the three measures of central tendency?
4. Describe the effect outliers have on the measures of central tendency.

7. A dealership sold 15 cars last month. The purchase price of the cars, rounded to the nearest thousand, is represented in the table.

1. Find the mean and median of the data.
2. Which measure best represents the data? Use the results to support your answer.
3. What is the outlier and how does it affect the data?

8. What do the letters represent on the box plot?

9. The test scores from a math final exam are as follows:

64   85   93   55   87   90   73   81   86   79

1. Create a box plot using the data.
2. Label the five points on the box plot and include numerical answers from part “a.”

10. Using the data and results from Question 9, answer the following questions.

1. What is the median?
2. What is the range?
3. What is the interquartile range?
4. In a short paragraph, describe the data in the box plot.

Using the data you collected in the Module 1 SLP, write a paper (1–3 pages) including all of the following content:

• Calculate the mean, median, and mode of your collected data. Show and explain your calculations.
• Are these numbers higher or lower than you expected? Explain.
• Which of these measures of central tendency do you think most accurately describes the variable you are looking at? Provide your justification.
• Create a box plot to represent the data, labeling and numerating all 5 points on the box plot. For the plot, you may draw and insert it in your paper as a picture. Make sure it is legible.

Submit your paper at the end of Module 2.

The Industrial Revolution, which began in the eighteenth century, has had an ongoing influence on society as well as the relationship between humans and their environment. With the onset of industrialization came the drastic increase in urbanization, setting up of factories in places which were once biomes, and the rapid development of land. All this occurred without assessing the long-term impact to the environment. Recognizing the importance of the Industrial Revolution era and the ongoing impact it has had on the environment is essential to learning how to help the environment and correct the damage of that era.

Using the readings for this module, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, complete the following:

• Identify three of the most environmentally negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution and justify your choices. For example, the invention of the automobile revolutionized travel in a positive manner. However, this invention is causing some of the biggest environmental problems as a result of the extensive use of oil extracted from the earth.
• Examine how these three negative impacts changed the environment; list the mechanisms through which this happened. For example, factories caused an increase in pollution through the release of toxic waste, which led to diminished and lost fish populations in rivers.
• Explain the effect of the environmental movement on the process of industrialization in the United States during the 1970s.
• Identify the laws passed to help ameliorate the environmental issues in the U.S. or around the world related to these three impacts. Have any laws been passed since this movement in the 1970s? If there have been laws implemented, summarize the spirit of the law and comment on the effectiveness of the law.
• Based on your research, examine whether the state of the environment has become worse or has improved as a result of these laws. Suggest steps to improve the environmental situation.

Support your statements with appropriate examples and scholarly references. Be sure to include an additional page for references.

Write a 4–5-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

each needs to be 75-150. except 1 and 2 those can be a total of 75-150 together.

1.Question B

What are the reasons a legislative body might designate specific conduct as criminal? What are the reasons a legislative body might not designate specific conduct as criminal? Discuss the relative importance of each of these reasons.

2.Question C

Why is criminal law important in our society? What are some issues you think present problems within the criminal law system today and why?

3.Nazi Jurisdiction

Please respond to the following discussion prompt and submit it to the discussion forum as your initial post. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. Your initial post should be at least 150 words and each of your responses should be approximately 75 words in length.

Watch this video and discuss how the military court had jurisdiction over the Nazi war criminals. How did the military court gain jurisdiction? What were the advantages of trying the Nazi’s by such a court?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsOpcMFkrFs

4.Question B

Based on the reading,

• Define Public Administration as best as you can. Explain the subject matter of Public Administration and also indicate your prior knowledge

  on Public Administration and what you wish to gain from this class

5. Case Study 2:  How Kristin Died

Read the following Case Study:

https://content.grantham.edu/at/PA301/9780618993017%20pg%2064%20to%2075%20BA301.pdf

Respond to the following questions (be sure to reflect upon the elements of the bureaucracy described in Chapter 2 prior to the case study):

• Was this the best way to go to protect Kristin. Do you suggest any other ways to go about it? What are your suggestions and why?
• Explain and discuss if the system failed to protect Kristin and if so why?
• There were many elements of bureaucracy that were present, which one was the biggest issue and why was it?

 Reflections on Racial Discrimination ALL WORK MUST BE COMPLETELY ORIGINAL AS IT GOES THROUGH A TURNITIN PROGRAM. PAPER MUST ALSO BE APA AND HAVE NO LESS THEN 4 SOURCES 

Franklin hears about people being discriminated against at the workplace and in society but rarely experiences it first hand. Cortez, on the other hand, speaks English poorly and is often subject to derogatory comments from peers and coworkers.

Reflect on your experience with racial discrimination.

Identify examples of racial discrimination and provide examples you have personally witnessed or heard about firsthand from the following three realms:

• family
• work place
• community

Write a brief summary that includes the following:

• Describe a racial incident pertaining to each realm in detail. Explain why you believe this is racial discrimination.
• Explain how this situation could have been handled to avoid discrimination against those belonging to another race.