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Read the case study on Influenza and Influenza Vaccine and discuss the following: 1. What are the main symptoms of influenza? 2. Would you expect a flu shot to protect against the “stomach flu”? Why or why not? 3. Identify some of the various causative agents of “stomach flu” and compare them to the influenza virus. 4. Karen described the upper respiratory infection (URI) that she suffered last year and thinks that her well being is a matter of fate. How many infectious agents cause URI? How can these infections be prevented? How can they be treated? .

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Read the case study and write an essay on the issue. Please offer your own views on the topic...not just a rehash of what someone else has written - Thanks! 1. John and the Habitat for Humanity Dilemma Imagine yourself in John Reynold's position. What would you do? What are the social (or contextual) influences on how John thinks about his situation? Are they all equally relevant? John Reynolds is a Research Chemist in Alabama. He also volunteers for Habitat for Humanity. In his volunteer work, he receives a lot of personal fulfillment as well as lines on his vita and credit towards "service in the community" at the laboratory where he is employed. One weekend, John sees a documentary film called Blue Vinyl . It essentially criticizes the polyvinylchloride-related industries for not using environmentally safe procedures, and for allowing PVC derivative compounds to leach into water tables. The current theory is that these compounds can later cause cancer in the human body. John was especially surprised to learn that vinyl siding on homes is considered to be one of the main contributors to groundwater and water table pollution. The documentary noted that a variety of home builders receive special incentive discounts to use vinyl siding. One such builder is Habitat for Humanity, which has used inexpensive vinyl siding in its homes for years, because Habitat receives vinyl siding at a reduced rate from the vinyl industry as a corporate tax shelter contribution. John does some research in respected journals, and decides that the link between vinyl products and cancer gives him cause for concern. What would you do in this case? Blue Vinyl is a 2002 documentary film directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand. Dubbed the world's first toxic comedy, it highlights the hazards of bio-accumulation, pollution, and the make-up of what we commonly hope are benign plastics. It was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and received rave reviews from Roger Ebert. To be fair, some of the critics noted the final version of the film was edited to eliminate conflicting information and a woman who claimed to have a vinyl-related cancer later changed her diagnosis to another disease. There were other issues raised about the documentary’s credibility. Still, the film became the centerpiece of a campaign to educate and persuade industry change in producing vinyl products. You may use your own resources and research to view the film and obtain any relevant information. ESSAY GUIDELINES ▪ Factually and succinctly describe the case. ▪ Apply one of the theories of reflective learning from our course to the case. ▪ Imagine yourself in the character’s position. What would you do? What are the social (or contextual) influences on how the character thinks about his situation? Are they all equally relevant? Your Case Study shall be between 3 to 5 pages (excluding cover page and reference page) and shall have the following sections: Title page (Not i.

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Read the Case Study: Olson, M. H. (1982). New Information Technology and Organizational Culture. MIS Quarterly, 6(4), 71-92. Answer this question: How has the idea of IT in the organizational culture changed from this article to today. Writing Requirements 2-3 pages in length (excluding cover page, abstract, and reference list) Include at least two peer reviewed sources that are properly cited APA format, Use the APA template located in the Student Resource Center to complete the assignment. Please use the Case Study Guide as a reference point for writing your case study. .

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Read the case study in the attachment What can be done to minimize the risk of the situation recurring? Can these types of situations be completely avoided? If you were in Iris’s position, how would you approach your interaction with the second-shift operator? How should RWW go about notifying its peers? What other procedures should Iris have the technician perform? When would be the appropriate time to begin the forensic data collection process to analyze the root cause of this incident? Why? .

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Read the case study in Chapter 12 of the Bidgoli textbook titled “Collaboration Systems at Isuzu Australia Limited”. Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: 1. Summarize the main reason(s) that prompted Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL) to use collaboration technologies. 2. Identify the platform that IAL chose as an online portal and content management system, and describe the main reason(s) why IAL chose such a specific platform. 3. Discuss the significant attributes of a wiki, and describe the overall manner in which IAL uses wikis for its internal collaboration. 4. Speculate on the main challenges that IAL could face when implementing groupware, and suggest one (1) step that IAL could take in order to mitigate the challenges in question. 5. Use at least three (3) quality reference. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: .

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Read the case study "Consolidated Products" at the end of Chapter 3 and answer the questions at the end of the reading. Consolidated Products is a medium-sized manu- facturer of consumer products with nonunion- ized production workers. Ben Samuels was a plant manager for Consolidated Products for 10 years,and he was well liked by the employees.They were grateful for the fitness center he built for employees, and they enjoyed the social activities sponsored by the plant several times a year, including company picnics and holiday parties. He knew most of the workers by name, and he spent part of each day walk- ing around the plant to visit with them and ask about their families or hobbies. Ben believed that it was important to treat employees properly so they would have a sense of loyalty to the company. He tried to avoid any layoffs when production demand was slack,figuring that the company could not afford to lose skilled workers that are so difficult to replace.The workers knew that if they had a special problem, Ben would try to help them. For example, when someone was injured but wanted to continue working, Ben found another job in the plant that the person could do despite having a disability. Ben believed that if you treat people right, they will do a good job for you without close supervision or prodding. Ben applied the same principle to his supervisors, and he mostly left them alone to run their departments as they saw fit. He did not set objectives and standards for the plant, and he never asked the supervisors to develop plans for improving productivity and product quality.• high-high leader • initiating structure • Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) • monitoring• Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) • participative leadership • peer leadership • planning• recognizing • relations-oriented behavior • supportive leadership • task-oriented behavior Under Ben, the plant had the lowest turnover among the company’s five plants, but the second worst record for costs and production levels. When the company was acquired by another firm, Ben was asked to take early retirement, and Phil Jones was brought in to replace him. Phil had a growing reputation as a manager who could get things done,and he quickly began making changes. Costs were cut by trimming a number of activities such as the fitness center at the plant, company picnics and parties, and the human relations training programs for supervisors. Phil believed that training supervisors to be supportive was a waste of time. His motto was: “If employees don’t want to do the work,get rid of them and find somebody else who does.” Supervisors were instructed to establish high performance standards for their departments and insist that people achieve them.A computer monitoring system was introduced so that the output of each worker could be checked closely against the standards. Phil told his supervisors to give any worker who had substandard performance one .

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Read the Case Study Below. Answer the questions. Paper must be a page and a half Interactive Session: Organizations The Battle Over Net Neutrality What kind of Internet user are you? Do you primarily use the Net to do a little e-mail and online banking? Or are you online all day, watching YouTube videos, downloading music files, or playing online games? Do you use your iPhone to stream TV shows and movies on a regular basis? If you’re a power Internet or smartphone user, you are consuming a great deal of bandwidth. Could hundreds of millions of people like you start to slow the Internet down? Video streaming on Netflix accounts for 32 percent of all bandwidth use in the United States, and Google’s YouTube for 19 percent of Web traffic at peak hours. If user demand overwhelms network capacity, the Internet might not come to a screeching halt, but users could face sluggish download speeds and video transmission. Heavy use of iPhones in urban areas such as New York and San Francisco has already degraded service on the AT&T wireless network. AT&T reported that 3 percent of its subscriber base accounted for 40 percent of its data traffic. Internet service providers (ISPs) assert that network congestion is a serious problem and that expanding their networks would require passing on burdensome costs to consumers. These companies believe differential pricing methods, which include data caps and metered use—charging based on the amount of bandwidth consumed—are the fairest way to finance necessary investments in their network infrastructures. But metering Internet use is not widely accepted, because of an ongoing debate about net neutrality. Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers must allow customers equal access to content and applications, regardless of the source or nature of the content. Presently, the Internet is neutral: all Internet traffic is treated equally on a first-come, first-served basis by Internet backbone owners. However, this arrangement prevents telecommunications and cable companies from charging differentiated prices based on the amount of bandwidth consumed by the content being delivered over the Internet. The strange alliance of net neutrality advocates includes MoveOn.org; the Christian Coalition; the American Library Association; data-intensive Web businesses such as Netflix, Amazon, and Google; major consumer groups; and a host of bloggers and small businesses. Net neutrality advocates argue that differentiated pricing would impose heavy costs on heavy bandwidth users such as YouTube, Skype, and other innovative services, preventing high-bandwidth startup companies from gaining traction. Net neutrality supporters also argue that without net neutrality, ISPs that are also cable companies, such as Comcast, might block online streaming video from Netflix or Hulu in order to force customers to use the cable company’s on-demand movie rental services. Network owners believe regulation to enforce net neutralit.

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Read the case study below and answer the following questions in a 3-4 page paper in APA format (not including the cover page and reference page). Note that you must conduct research and your paper must have 3 scholarly references. This means that you must locate peer-reviewed articles. Be sure to support your opinion with evidence using the chapter concepts: 1. Do you think a new approach to leadership is necessary in the new South Korea? Or should Koreans stick to their traditional approach that brought them to where they are? Note that Lee Kun-Hee of Samsung (see above) resigned as CEO in 2008 after a massive slush fund scandal at Samsung. He returned in 2010 from disgrace to again lead the firm and is still leading it at the time of writing this publication. And he’s clear about the issue: “We’re in a crisis now. No one knows what will become of Samsung. Most of our products will be obsolete in ten years. We must begin anew.” Way back in 1992, Mr. Lee used the same rhetoric as a harbinger of his traditional style (“Samsung is a second class company … employees should change everything but their wife and children”). Samsung has taken sides on this issue, with a clear preference for the traditional leader-emanating style. What’s your view? 2. Not all Korean firms have kept a traditional leadership approach. Others are starting to use non-traditional approaches as noted above. What sorts of things are SKT and LG doing and what are the results there? 3. What specific things could these firms import from other countries to unfreeze this purported stodgy, hierarchal, family-style leadership? 4. Importing a different style is far from a panacea. As discussed in this chapter, a different style can be prone to problems when applied poorly across culture. What are some of these problems that could be anticipated if a more Western style is used? And, if we take the statements of KT above at face value, what could they and others do to overcome the resistance to new, non-traditional leader styles should they choose to use these? Old Habits Die Hard: Can South Korean Companies Loosen Up Their Leadership? Many Western companies want leaders who encourage ideas, innovation, and speedy decision making. But leadership in Asia conjures up words like order, paternalism, and formality. That certainly describes the leadership approach in many large Korean companies over the past 50 years. Over this half century of great economic success, the power to make key decisions was concentrated at the top of rigidly bureaucratic corporate structures. And these structures were themselves tied to larger interrelated and co-owned conglomerates—the Korean chaebol system. These massive industrial groups are often run by rich, inscrutable families who live much like royalty in South Korea. For example, the Lee family is the head of Samsung Electronics—a group whose products account for nearly 20% of the country’s gross domestic product. Other major company groups i.

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Read the Campaign and Election Security Policy: Overview and Recent Developments for Congress report. Use the stakeholder analysis tool to identify key stakeholders. You can edit the document to add or delete rows. The major objective of this assignment is the identification of stakeholders. You should conduct reasonable background research to identify interests, positions and resources, but you are not expected to have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of these items, yet. To help in this you may choose to focus on a specific policy issue listed in Table 4 in the reading. .

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Read the below scenario. Uncle Bob is a resident of California. You and Uncle Bob went on vacation to Miami together. Uncle Bob was speeding while on vacation the police pulled him over. After some conversation with the police officer, Uncle Bob was handcuffed and arrested. Bob has never been out of the state until now. He has no prior crimes in Florida or any state other than California. Miami Police Department knows his name, birth date, height, and weight. They also know the dates of his offenses, trial, and punishment. Why was Uncle Bob handcuffed and arrested? How did the Florida police officer know of his offenses in that happened in California? Write a 700–1,050 word essay discussing how data is assessed and shared between local and federal governments and applying this to the provided scenario. Consider how the data was available to the Miami Police Department. Analyze the information available to the Miami Police Department and the flow of information from California to Florida. Explain at least four ways that this information is shared between local and/or federal agencies. Summarize the results of your evaluation of what crimes Uncle Bob could be charged with and the ability of the police agency in Florida to obtain this information. Your viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained. You essay should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful. The assignment should follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling). The paper should be a continuous piece of writing that allows for your sustained viewpoint with logical order and organization. For example, three separate paragraphs answering the questions on different topics does not allow for this type of sustained development. Two resources are required (course material is allowed). .

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Read "The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research,” “The Nuremberg Code 70 Years Later,” and “WMA Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects,” all located in the Study Materials. Create a 10–15 digital slide presentation that could be shared with other health care professionals. The presentation should address the significance of human dignity, autonomy, patient advocacy, professional responsibility, and informed consent, and address the following: Describe the concepts of human dignity, autonomy, patient advocacy, professional responsibility, and informed consent. Discuss the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki and summarize the events that led up to the development of ethical guidelines for conducting human clinical trials, including Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Describe three examples of ways "The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research" works to protect special populations (e.g., minors, prisoners, persons with mental illness). Explain the importance of preserving the integrity and human dignity in the care of all patients. Discuss ethical and professional standards as they relate to legal, regulatory, and accreditation compliance within one’s scope of practice. Explain the rights of the individual while practicing ethical behavior and moral decision-making when resolving ethical dilemmas. Title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes. .

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Read the background of work redesign below done by the internal consulting team. As external consultants, you want to tell them what they did well and what concerns you have about their process and recommended actions. Include the following information: Create one list to specify the analysis and work redesign strategies used. Create a second list identifying the factors for change that were successfully addressed. Create a third list identifying any factors that deserve more attention. For at least one of these factors, identify how you might have used a different change management practice to handle it. Remember that no matter how many individual items are raised, feedback should be focused on the top 2 or 3 actions to change. Pay particular attention to issues related to handling resistance because they pertain to creating conditions for effective change. What they did well could be a longer list and does not need to be limited. Background Background: International Accounting The situation: Back office operations supporting the global operations were all in HQ in the United States. While some countries had financial staff, the majority of business financial services were supplied from this HQ group. Problems: Processing expense and budgetary costs for this unit were skyrocketing (over 20% a year). The operation is very people intensive and is seen as highly inefficient (by management, the workers in the unit are frustrated too, and the “internal customers” are clearly not satisfied with the quality and timeliness of the work). One measure of the problem is that the regions and local countries vociferously complained about the charge backs from the unit. Better services could be gotten locally, for less cost. Internal interviews and a questionnaire uncovered backlogs in work, especially in answering customer inquiries. Audits showed proof problems, and records did not match. There was high turnover and poor training of newer staff. Errors were increasing, and adding a quality and compliance staff did not seem to help at all. Actions: When the problem was first raised, the internal OD team conducted a series of interviews with management and customers. They suggested that the employees take a survey to assess motivation and identify problems from their view. The survey used was a Job Diagnostic, derived from the work of Hackman and Oldham on job enrichment. It measured the five classic elements: task significance, variety, and identity (along with autonomy and feedback). The survey was mailed to the employees' homes so they would not feel threatened, but no announcements at work were made. The return rate was so poor, several meetings were held (by management without a consultant) to explain why they were sent and what they were hoping to do. Given all the problems and concerns raised at these meetings, the internal consulting team was asked to hold team building sessions. They did, and the same issues were raised—everything seemed to be .

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Read the attached research paper and answer the following questions. 1. What are some of the conditions that had to be maintained for the growth of ex utero embryos. 2. What day were these embryos grown to (mice are on embryonic day 20 (E20)), were they normal to this point / how many development marks were analyzed to determine this? 3. What is a factor that would have to be overcome to continue ex utero development? 4. Summarize what the authors are showing in Figure 4 of the paper. 5. The last sentence of the article notes that this work sets the stage for expanding ex utero embryo research to different mammalian species and from stem cell aggregated synthetic embryos. Should we study human embryos with this technique if they can be developed in culture from stem cells. Why or why not? .

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