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Part I Self-Help or Self-Harm? Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the required Bemecker (2014), Kosovski and Smith (2011), Mullins (2014), and Roose, Fuentes, and Cheema (2012) articles. Flip through the channels on a television set or walk into any bookstore in the United States, and you are likely to encounter various self-help reality shows or books offering insights into how you can help yourself with mental health issues. For this discussion, pick one self-help television show or book to evaluate (Dr. Phil, Hoarders, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Managing Your Moods, Learn How to Boost Your Self Esteem, etc.). Identify your selection and provide enough information on the topic of the show or book to create adequate context. Analyze the validity, reliability, benefits, and value of the popular resource based on your reading and study of the science of psychology across the course. Describe the presentation of the content within the book or television show in terms of the role of authority the author or host takes. (Is the presentation informational or authoritative?) Explain any theoretical foundations or shortcomings found in the material. Evaluate the ability of the book or show to apply the methods within the presented material to the target population. Describe any efforts on the part of the author(s) or host(s) to apply ethical principles and professional standards of psychology in the delivery of the content. Note any ethical issues not addressed by the chosen resource. Part II Psychology Versus Pop Psychology There is often a wide discrepancy between content presented in the mainstream media and that which is presented in the scientific literature. In this discussion, you will choose one contemporary psychological issue that is prevalent today (depression, body image, bullying, media influences, self-esteem, etc.). Research your selected topic in a popular publication (Psychology Today, Newsweek, New York Times, etc.). Then, using the Ashford University Library, locate a peer-reviewed journal article on the same topic. In your initial post, briefly identify your topic and provide enough detail for an adequate understanding. Compare and contrast the information presented by detailing commonalities and differences that exist in the two sources. Assess the contributions of the peer-reviewed source to the topic and identify any missing element in the popular source. Evaluate how adequately the popular article addresses the major components of the selected contemporary topic in psychology for a general population.

Pick one book from the list below and write an overview about the book and why did you pick this book plus what you want to learn from this book by reading it and writing about it in the future in your book Appraisal paper which is due at the end of the semester.

– Make sure you write an overview about the book not a summary, you don’t need to read the whole book now you can read a summary about it if available online.
– Also, mention what is your expectation from this book like what you want to learn from it.
– Don’t forget to include two other books from the list that you want to compare and contrast with the first book you chose to write about in your book appraisal. You can just write the name of the books and the authors at the end of your book appraisal proposal. Also you can write briefly about the books (for example: the name of the book, the authors, the theme, and a few sentences about it in general) it’s up to you at the end be creative.
– All this must be in one page, no more than one page will be allowed.

Book Appraisal Suggestions books:

The Age of Supply: Overcoming The Greatest Challenge To The Global Economy by Daniel Alpert

Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions by Erin Arvedlund

Europe’s Financial Crisis: A Shorty Guide To How The Euro Fell Into Crisis And The Consequences For The World

by John Authers

Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Easther Duflo

In Defence of Globalisation

by Jhagdish Bhagwhati

The Globalisation of Inequality by Francois Bourguignon

Economics: The User’s Guide

by Ha-Joon Chang

The Money Machine: How the City Works

by Philip Coggan

Globalising Capital: A History of the International Monetary System , Exorbitant Priviledge, and Hall of Mirrors

by Barry Eichengreen

The Ascent of Money

by Niall Ferguson

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Freeman

Inequality and Instability and The End of Normal

by James K. Galbraith

That Used To Be Us by Thomas K. Friedman and

Michael Mandelbaum

The Undercover Economist

by Tim Harford

An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate

by Gareth Stedman Jones

Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin

Capitalism and Modern Social Thought and The Third Way

by Anthony Giddens

The Map and The Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, And The Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan

Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalisation

by David Singh Grewal

Global Community: The Role of International Organisations in the Making of the Contemporary World

by Akira Iriye

End This Depression Now

by Paul Krugman

The Geneva Consensus: Making Trade Work For All

by Pascal Lamy

Crisis in The Eurozone and Proftiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All

by Costas Lapavitsas

The Future of Power by Joseph Nye

The Little Big Number by Dirk Phlilipsen

Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis

by James Rickards

The Globilization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

by Dani Rodrik

The Failure of Political Islam and Globalised Islam

by Olivier Roy

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course In The Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm

What Money Can’t Buy

by Michael J Sandel

Developement as Freedom and

The Idea of Justice

by Amartya Sen.

Irrational Exuberance

by Robert J. Shiller

One World by Peter Singer

The Roaring Nineties and The Price of Inequality

by Joseph Stiglitz

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

by Richard H. Thaler

The Age of Cryptography

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey

Does Capitalism Have a Future?

by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian and Craig Calhoun

Fixing Global Finance and The Shifts and The Shocks: What We’ve Learned-And Have Still To Learn-from the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf

Creating a World Without Power

by Muhammed Yunnas

 

1. Research current approaches to the transformation of corporate strategy into programme/project strategy. Compare and contrast those different approaches. (30%)

Then:

(l) Suggest the types of scenarios in which certain approaches might be more appropriate than others. Use examples from the public domain to illustrate your answer.

(II) Discuss how effective these approaches were and how they might have been managed differently (if at all). (70%)

Compare and contrast those different approaches. (30%)

Then:

(l) Suggest the types of scenarios in which certain approaches might be more appropriate than others. Use examples from the public domain to illustrate your answer.

(II) Discuss how effective these approaches were and how they might have been managed differently (if at all). (70%)

This is an individual piece of coursework.

Word count: 1000 words excluding words already in the assignment template, and references (this applies to the references you paste in to show which articles were allocated to you, and any references in a reference list for the final part of the coursework). No abstract is required. This assignment is worth 30% of the total Inf6320 module mark. Remember that you have to pass both of the Inf6320 assignments to pass the module.

The aim of this assignment is to improve your skills in engaging with academic articles relevant to the module.

Description. You will be allocated a highly cited article from the Inf6320 reading list or the lectures (“Original Article (Article A)” on the allocation list) and an article which cites the original article (“Citing Article (Article B)” on the allocation list). Firstly, read both articles. Then carry out the following tasks.

1. Original Article (Article A)
I. Identify five items that Article A cites. For each of these five cited items, say why you think the author(s) of Article A cited the item, identifying one of the ten reasons below, and explaining why you think that reason applies. Note that you must use your own words, relating the explanation specifically to Article A.
2. Citing Article (Article B)
I. Say why you think the author(s) of Article B cited Article A, identifying one of the ten reasons below, and explaining why you think that reason applies. Note that you must use your own words, relating the explanation specifically to Article B.
3. Comparing articles A and B
I. Do one of the following:
a) Explain how the author(s) of Article B use Article A to develop their theory, framework, model or argument; identify whether you think this is a valid use of the material in Article A; and provide a judgment about the extent to which Article A has been important to the authors in writing Article B; OR
b) Compare and contrast the methodologies used in Articles A and B, bearing in mind the aims, hypothesis or research questions addressed in each; OR
c) Compare and contrast the conclusions drawn in Articles A and B, and say whether you feel they are soundly based on the arguments and research presented in the respective papers.

Case study:
You must answer the two questions:

1. Describe how the decision to implement SAP at Campbell Soup reflects an organisational perspective on information management. Discuss what you believe have been the critical success factors for Campbell Soup’s SAP deployment in terms of organisational design, leadership and culture.

2. What are the core benefits of IT outsourcing? Discuss how Campbell Soup managed its IT outsourcing project and the relationships with the vendors and explain why.

Company report
Wordcount: 2100 words word count excludes the bibliography and appendices

Description: An intelligence/business report. Your standpoint is that you are a researcher hired by an organization to provide a detailed analysis of a particular UK company and its competitive position in the industry it operates in or, in the case of a diverse company, one of its key markets. You will choose a company to work on from the list provided. No more than10 students may choose the same company. The final report should include a synthesis and integration of your research, and also conclusions and recommendations.

You will choose to research a UK company from an approved list, available on MOLE supplied by the module coordinator. You will select the appropriate analytical technique(s) to examine and analyze the company’s situation. Resources from online databases, the web, expert opinions, and any other appropriate print or online resources may be used. You will have to review and evaluate the materials you find, extract what you think are important trends, and analyse and synthesize information to construct a final report. Students will need to familiarize themselves with their chosen company as soon as possible.

In this assignment you will have to provide a critical appraisal of the research design of one of the four studies listed below. You may provide an appraisal of a study that you appraised in the first submission of this assignment.

1. Thomas, R., & Linstead, A. (2002). Losing the plot? Middle managers and identity. Organization, 9(1): 71-93.
2. Fanelli, A. & Grasselli, N.I. (2005). Defeating the Minotaur: The construction of CEO charisma on the US stock market. Organization Studies, 27(6): 811–832.
3. Wang, L., Malhotra, D., & Murnighan, J.K. (2011). Economics education and greed. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 10(4): 643-60.
4. Ralston, D.A., Egri, C.P., Stewart, S., Terpstra, R.H., & Kaicheng, Yu. (1999). Doing business in the 21st century with the new generation of Chinese managers: A study of generational shifts in work values in China. Journal of International Business Studies, 30(2): 415-428.

Specifically, in this assignment you will have to provide a critical appraisal of:
a. the research questions or hypotheses and their theoretical and practical relevance, i.e., a rationale for why the research was important;
b. the epistemological and ontological assumptions which underpinned the research, and their consistency with research questions or hypotheses;
c. the research design and it’s strengths and limitations for answering the research questions or hypotheses;
d. the sampling strategy that was used to select the sources of data and an appraisal of the rationale for why particular sources/respondents were selected;
e. the research methods that were used to generate the data and their strengths and weaknesses for addressing the research questions or hypotheses;
f. the analytical strategy or strategies that were used to analyze the data together with an appraisal of their strengths and weaknesses; and
g. the contribution of research to existing knowledge of the topic and to policy and practice.

“The key economic influence of the Japanese Colonial Administration in Taiwan was its transformation of the island’s agriculture from a traditional to a modern sector.” Discuss.

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