For this Performance Task Assessment, you will write a letter to a state or national legislator, proposing a healthcare policy that addresses a health issue currently impacting your state.
Advocating for Healthcare Policy
You are a health program director for your state health department. In your work, you have become aware of the many areas where reform is still needed in order to fulfill the healthcare goals of the future. In order to better serve your community, you have decided to write a letter to a legislator to propose a healthcare policy that will address one of the pressing health issues facing your state. Your letter will be a persuasive, fact-based call to action that will encourage positive social change.
Click each of the items below to complete this assessment.
Instructions
Choose a health issue that is currently impacting your state and that you link to what you predict to be future trends in healthcare. Research the breadth and depth of the health issue and, then, compose your letter according to the following guidelines: Address your letter to a legislator at the state or national level, depending upon the state-wide or national relevance of the health issue.
Note: If your health issue is a national-level concern, you may choose a member of the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate from any state who would be likely to support your policy. If your health issue is a state-level concern, you should choose a member of your state’s House of Representatives or Senate.
The following website can help you find the appropriate legislator:
USA.gov. (2019). How to contact your elected officials. Retrieved from https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
This sample letter can be used as a guide:
North Los Angeles Country Regional Center. (n.d.). Sample letter that you can use to write to your legislator. Retrieved July 30, 2019, from https://www.nlacrc.org/home/showdocument?id=272
Paragraph 1:
Introduce yourself and describe your experience and knowledge of the health issue.
Introduce your purpose for writing by briefly stating the health issue.
Identify the effect of the health issues on your state.
Advocate for the policy proposed to solve the health issue.
Paragraph 2:
Describe the health issue and its impact on your state population using quantitative and/or qualitative data to support your claims, where possible.
Paragraph 3:
Elaborate on the policy that you would propose.
Include the actionable steps that it would take to resolve the health issue.
Propose a method for implementing the policy.
Project the possible effects of the policy (e.g., lower incidence of disease, higher life expectancy for a population, etc.), estimating realistic quantitative or qualitative impacts, where possible.
Paragraph 4:
Identify stakeholders from your state—such as insurance companies, medical professional associations, etc.—that would potentially support the policy and describe what kind of assistance they might provide.
Paragraph 5:
Describe to the legislator the advantages and/or disadvantages if he or she chooses to support the policy, indicating how constituents might respond.
Restate the impact that this policy will have on the future of healthcare.
Thank the legislator for his or her time and consideration of your issue and conclude your letter.
Use at least three credible sources and cite them using APA format.
As you continue to learn about psychopharmacology, you will find that medications used to treat mental health conditions are agonists across the spectrum. It will be important for you to recognize some of those medications and how they act on a variety of neurochemicals in different ways to treat the symptoms.
In this Assignment, you will “scavenger” the literature as you research the agonist spectrum and key neurotransmitters and pathways targeted in psychopharmacology. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge as you create a Concept Map exploring each of the agonist spectrum listed below. Support your answers with evidence-based, peer-reviewed scholarly literature. APA style format title page, citations, and references will apply.
Note: You will not set up your Assignment as a paragraph-formatted paper but, instead, as a creative, visually appealing Concept Map.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the Learning Resources assigned this week.
Review the Concept Map resources.
Explore the listed agonist spectrum and consider the action and receptor of each:
Agonist
Partial agonist
Antagonist
Inverse agonist
The Assignment
You will submit a concept map exploring the four agonists on the agonist spectrum (agonist, partial agonist, antagonist, and inverse agonist) in which you:
Describe the different characteristics of the four agonists and how each mediates distinct biological activities. Include proposed mechanisms and the receptor it is targeting.
Identify how the P450 enzyme system plays a role in the body’s absorption, distribution, and clearance of medication.
Scavenge the literature after describing each agonist on the spectrum for research that is based on the medications in the table below.
Apply the medications to the appropriate agonist on the agonist spectrum in your Concept Map.
Medications
Oxycodone
Brexpiprazole
Haloperidol
Naloxone
Aripiprazole
Amphetamine
Risperidone
Pimavanserin
Simple Nursing Team. (2022, May 2). How to create a basic nursing concept mapLinks to an external site.. https://simplenursing.com/how-to-create-nursing-concept-map/
Drugs.com Links to an external site.. (2023). https://www.drugs.com/ Note: Please use the following resource to check the most up-to-date box warnings, FDA approvals and indications, recommendations for follow-up evaluations. changes, etc.
For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your state nurse association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on her role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in her workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization. • Review the focus of the new nurse informaticist position you will propose by examining the Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF]resource. (Attached) You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who asks you to prepare a 5-7-page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting. This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position. One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a healthcare organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justifies means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization. Proposal Format The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the headings below in your proposal and to be sure to address the bullets following each heading. Remember that you will emphasize the focus of the new nurse informaticist position as described in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF]resource. (Attached) Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist • What is nursing informatics? • What is the role of the nurse informaticist? Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations • What is the experience of other healthcare organizations with nurse informaticists? • How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team? Impact of Full Nurse Engagement in Health Care Technology • How do fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact: o Patient care? o Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)? In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources. o Workflow? o Costs and return on investment? Opportunities and Challenges • What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role? o How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology? Summary of Recommendations • What are 3–4 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember? o This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation. Additional Requirements • Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. • Submission length: 4–5 double-spaced pages, in addition to title and references pages. • Font: Times New Roman, 12 points. • Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old. • APA formatting: Be sure to follow APA formatting and style guidelines for citations and references. For an APA refresher, consult the Evidence and APA page on Campus. Competencies Measured By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: • Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making. o Define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist. o Explain how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care. o Justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization. • Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information. o Explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients protected health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality). • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies. o Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references. o Create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
You made it! You are now the expert in your consultant’s speech. All of the hard parts of the final project are done, now you just have to put them together.
Goal
● Clearly explain the similarities and differences between your consultant’s speech and the way their language is described in your main reference source.
● Use the IPA to communicate your findings to other linguists/phoneticians,
● Use your knowledge of acoustic phonetics to support your claims with evidence from spectrograms and/or waveforms.
To do:
❏ Finalize consonant and vowel charts
❏ Describe the language’s sound system based on your main source[1]
❏ Compare/contrast what your speaker did with your source’s description
❏ Identify area(s) where acoustic images can help support your description(s) and create image(s) in Praat
Checklist before submitting:
❏ Read your paper to yourself out loud to catch spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
❏ Consider exchanging papers with a classmate for help with proofreading & clarity
❏ Make sure you have adequately cited your source material. If you include any quotes, they must be cited in the text of the paper. Avoid accidental plagiarism by paraphrasing information from your sources in your own words.
❏ Make sure the filenames of your recording and TextGrid match (except for the file extension)
To submit:
The final project will be submitted on BruinLearn. You will turn in:
❏ Final paper (.pdf file) – aim for 8-10 pages (tables, images, wordlist, and references not included)
❏ Your edited recording (.wav file)
❏ A TextGrid containing item numbers and glosses (.TextGrid file)
The paper
The first three paragraphs of the paper will basically be the same as your first preliminary report, updated with information about how you got the words for your wordlist and any new relevant information about your speaker’s background.
Then the paper should describe what the source(s) you consulted said about the phonemes and allophones of the language. Either interspersed in the same section or in a following section, you will discuss how your speaker actually produced the sounds, and how that compared with the expectations you had based on your sources.
Your paper will include at least one spectrogram and/or waveform as evidence to support your claim about some aspect of the language. This could be to demonstrate the difference between tones, a vowel length contrast, allophonic variation in voice-onset time, or anything else you can think of. Any acoustic images you include should be clearly labeled to show the reader what portion of the sound you are discussing. See below for instructions on how to get good images from Praat.
Suggested paper organization
As long as you include the bolded parts listed above, you are free to not follow these organization suggestions exactly.
Background (language and speaker, based on preliminary report)
Consonants
● Consonant chart (including only the rows/columns relevant for the language)
● Descriptions of consonants based on reference source, split into subsections by manner of articulation (follow the rows of the IPA chart).
● Use recorded items and/or minimal pairs to illustrate contrasts
○ If your speaker pronounced something differently than your source, discuss it here. Why do you think this pronunciation is different from your source’s prediction (briefly)?
Vowels
● Vowel chart
● Descriptions of vowels based on reference source
● Use recorded items and/or minimal pairs to illustrate what you are describing
○ For example, “Klingon has two front vowels /ɪ/ and /e/, as the minimal pair in #16 and #17 illustrate.”
Allophones (could be its own section, or could be included inside the consonant and vowel sections)
● Description of allophones according to reference sources
○ Did your speaker produce them as expected (if not, explain)
● Any allophones you discovered and where they occurred
Suprasegmentals (tone, stress, etc.)
● Description of suprasegmentals according to reference sources
○ Did your speaker produce them as expected (if not, explain)
● Use recorded items and/or minimal pairs to illustrate what you are describing Bibliography/References/Works Cited
● I don’t care what type of citation formatting you use, but it must be consistent throughout the paper
● Use parenthetical citations when citing information from a source the first time, but don’t keep citing the same major source for every fact (we know where your facts came from)
● Alphabetize your sources in the bibliography/reference list/works cited page
General suggestions
Throughout the paper, you will refer to items on your wordlist that provide examples of the sounds you are describing. You must at least provide the number of the item, and you can also give the transcription, orthography and gloss if necessary (this will take up more space, though, so just use the number if you’re concerned about the page limit).
When referencing an item in the text, you will usually need to include additional information to help us know what item you are referring to. The only mandatory piece of information in the item number, but you may also include transcription and/or orthography. If you do, you must also include the English gloss.
item number:
#47
MANDATORY
transcription:
/xwex/ (and/or phonetic [χwex])
OPTIONAL
orthography
chwech
OPTIONAL
gloss
‘six’
MANDATORY IF TRANSCRIPTION
OR ORTHOGRAPHY IS INCLUDED
Example phrasing (references to items are shown in bold – you should not use bold in your paper):
“Jones (1921) described the Welsh dorsal fricative as uvular /χ/, but my consultant consistently produced it as the velar fricative /x/ (#31). Llinell only produced the uvular fricative in one
token, #47, as an allophone of /x/ before the labiovelar approximant.”
OR
“Jones (1921) described the Welsh dorsal fricative as uvular /χ/, but my consultant consistently produced it as the velar fricative /x/ (#31 /xi/ [xi] chi ‘you’). Llinell only produced the uvular fricative in one token, #47 /xwex/ [χwex] chwech ‘six’, as an allophone of /x/ before the labiovelar approximant.”
Example acoustic image (how to get a good image):
“My consultant was consistent in producing short vowels (#52) with shorter duration than long vowels (#53), as shown in Figure 1.”
Important tips/reminders for 103 term papers:
The goal of the paper
Your paper is (part of) an answer to the question “What makes this language sound the way it does?”, addressed to an IPA-educated and interested reader. This answer has two parts: the basic sounds and suprasegmentals of the language (phonemes), and how they are pronounced in their allowed combinations (allophones). The paper will focus more on the first part, but must also give something substantial about the second.
Only phonetics
Reference sources often have piles of interesting material on dialects, historical change, spelling, permitted syllable structures, and morphology. A little of this stuff is fine if you can relate it to the phonetic properties of your speaker, but remember that your goal is to write a phonetic description, under a rather tight length limit (if you go over say, 12 pages double spaced, we may not finish reading).
Only use IPA
Reference sources often use non-IPA symbols and terms. Don’t copy them: translate their symbols into IPA (use the Pullum & Ladusaw book on reserve at the library, or come see us for help with this if you like). Similarly, use only IPA terms, unless there is no obvious IPA equivalent.
HOWEVER, if we have discussed you using a system that is simpler to type (Pinyin tone marks, for example), you may use them as long as you provide the IPA equivalent symbols early on in your paper.
Proper citation
● Avoid inadvertent plagiarism by checking that every time you used information from a reference source, you credited the source, and either paraphrased the information, or put it in quote marks. It is not enough to assume that we will know you meant to credit the source.
● All the prose in your paper must either be written by you, or appear as direct quotes in quote marks. It is not appropriate to include long sections of a source verbatim, even if cited. In particular, you must not copy and paste paragraphs from the web.
● It is not appropriate for this paper to rely on any text generated from a tool like ChatGPT (or similar). Not only does relying on these tools prevent you from demonstrating what you have learned, it is also quite likely that the ‘information’ provided will be inaccurate. ‘AI’ tools are not intelligent, but you are, and so are your instructors.
● If all your information comes from a single source, it is sufficient to say so at the beginning of the paper, but then you must paraphrase in your own words. Do not cite the source for each word in your wordlist individually, but do make the sources of the words clear (maybe in a footnote or in the text).
● It is not enough to cite a source at the end of the paper; you must also indicate where you used that source in the text of the paper itself. See these links for understanding appropriate and inappropriate use of source material, including what counts as a proper paraphrase:
○ Whatisplagiarism(PurdueOWL)
○ Avoidingplagiarism(UCLAlibrary)
○ Paraphrasing(UCLALibrary)
Post-write-up checking
● Read the paper over to yourself OUT LOUD, using your judgment to detect stylistic problems to fix.
● Pretend you haven’t read the paper before, and watch out for things that will seem contradictory or confusing to the reader.
The complete project
The complete term project consists of: the paper (including the wordlist), the audio recording, and a corresponding TextGrid. The recording must be a .wav file. You must submit the paper and supplementary files to the assignment on BruinLearn.
How term projects are graded
1. The phonetic transcriptions are examined before reading the paper: do they reasonably represent what’s in the recording?
2. The paper is checked for including appropriate IPA phoneme charts.
3. The phonemic transcriptions are checked for using only the phonemes in the charts.
4. The wordlist is examined for clearly illustrating all the phonemes given in the charts, for providing a sampling of allophones of those phonemes, and for including at least one sentence.
5. The paper: does it clearly present what the source(s) said about the language? Does it explicitly and clearly relate the speaker’s pronunciations to the source material? Does the paper as a
whole give a good overall picture of how this speaker/this language sounds?
The term paper assignment includes a rubric showing the exact breakdown of points for the entire project.
How to capture an image from Praat
The simplest way to capture an image from Praat is to take a screenshot of the window, including the frequency and time axes. You may choose to include or exclude the waveform or spectrogram depending on what you want the viewer to focus on. Including a TextGrid in your screenshot can be useful, but you can also annotate your image in other ways (see below for suggestions).
Example image (bare minimum):
Figure 1: The spectrogram shows my consultant’s example sentence “SENTENCE” /sentence/ [sentence]. Observe the change in F1 and F2 of the diphthong shown in the middle of the image.
Example image (better than bare minimum):
Figure 1: The spectrogram shows my consultant’s example sentence “SENTENCE” /sentence/ [sentence]. The highlighted portion shows the change in F2 over the course of the diphthong [au].
Example image (better):
Figure 1: The spectrogram shows item #52 [ɡɹaund] ‘forest’. Formant tracking across the diphthong shows the convergence of F1 and F2 over time.
Example image (even better, because it includes target information in the TextGrid):
Figure 1: Vowel duration differences between lax and tense high front vowels were minor, indicating that length is not a major factor for my consultant in distinguishing these vowels.
Example image (not good):
No context, no axes, no indication of what I’m looking at, no transcription, no figure caption.
If it’s relevant for the point you’re trying to make, you may want to have Praat show format tracks (Formants > Show formants…) or pitch tracks (Pitch > Show pitch) or intensity (Intensity > Show intensity). Or, you can mark relevant characteristics of the spectrogram(s) yourself, annotating the images using an outside editing program. You could add arrows, highlight relevant portions of the sound, show where the boundaries between different sounds are, etc.
The most important things to remember are:
● your reader (me) should be able to understand what you want the image to show from looking at the image and caption alone
● keep image resolution reasonably high – if it’s too blurry or pixelated to read, I can’t grade your image
● images don’t count against your page limit, so feel free to make them large and easy to see
[1] Remember, if you had to bring in extra sources to fill in gaps, that’s okay, but only use them to fill in those gaps. Don’t waste time comparing everything that two different sources say, that is not the point of this project!
The purpose of this assignment is for students to assess the impact of the course on stress management in their lives and plan for the use of stress management techniques after the course conclusion. Course Survey). ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING IN A DOUBLE SPACED PAPER FORMAT: o Discuss the CURRENT use of stress management techniques in your life. Include the types of stress management you use and their effectiveness or lack of effectiveness (e.g., what techniques, if any, are used, how long have you been using them, are there any you have tried and did not like) o Discuss your OVERALL effectiveness of dealing with stress in your life o Discuss your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to dealing with stress in your life o React to the score on your Post-Course Survey. Does this score adequately assess your stress level? (See Post-Course Survey below in Word and PDF format) Must use results provided o Compare and Contrast your Pre-Course Survey & Post-Course Survey scores as well as any relevant responses from the Pre-Course Stress Assessment Must use results provided o Choose ONE MUSIC THERAPY: o After reading your chosen chapter above: MUSIC THERAPY o Define the technique (& support with reference – o Discuss potential mental, emotional, spiritual and/or physical benefits of the technique (& support with reference) o Discuss the topic’s or technique’s relationship to stress management (& support with reference) o Remember to support with references using APA format o What are your goals for stress management as this class comes to an end? o Create a plan for managing your stress for the next MONTH o Create a daily /weekly calendar and map out time for your stress management activity each day; be sure to create monitoring forms that are easy to use and include tracking your pre- & post-stress scores each day. o Use a variety of stress management techniques 2-3 and please include the new technique MUSIC and MASSAGE THERAPY
This course is interdisciplinary, it is designed to help students unfold and develop their personal attributes required to become a successful entrepreneur through case studies, and creative problem solving. Students will identify, discuss and grow an idea about a business they might start.
Course Objectives
1.Familiarize students with the basics of entrepreneurship, innovation and make them appreciate its importance and impact on the economy. 2.Development of skills /attributes that enable the realization of opportunity and a successful startup.
Course Learning Outcomes
CLO1:Present own unique aptitude for entrepreneurship. CLO2:Analyze the business environment to identify business opportunities CLO3:Infer business ideas to plan a venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem of Oman CLO4:Construct a formal business plan. CLO5:Appraise own business plan considering legal and financial conditions for starting a business venture; performance indicators of entrepreneurial activity; effectiveness of different entrepreneurial/ business strategies.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
1.Express knowledge of conventional business functions including management information systems, accounting & finance, economics, marketing, human resources, operations, and strategy. 2.Exhibit effective communication skills in a diverse business environment and social settings. 3.Appraise contemporary theories and the best management practices in organizations. 4.Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills that address management issues of organizations. 5.Apply research skills to develop competency in the research process with ethical considerations. 6.Assess the environment economically through the interpretation of economic data analysis as it is an important variable for organization planning.
College Graduate Attributes
1) Competent in their field of endeavor a) Acquire essential disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge b) Adept at applying the attained competencies and knowledge at workplace
2) Culturally and inter-culturally effective communicators a)Develop effective skills in communicating with others in English b)Build pragmatic knowledge of interacting with others in culturally diverse environments
3) Critical thinkers and problem solvers a)Capable of exercising critical thinking techniques to solve problems in varied situations b)Aware of local problems and capable of conducting relevant and quality research projects
4) Socially responsible a)Develop personal integrity and professional ethics b)Engage in contributing to the welfare of community and nation
5) Economically aware a)Mindful of fundamental and contemporary economic issues b)Aware of labor market requirements at local, regional, and international levels
Introduction Your knowledge and understanding of the material covered in this core unit will be assessed by the submission of an assignment. For your assignment, you will be required to answer four of the questions listed below. Your assessor will let you know which questions you are to answer. You are expected to complete all the learning for the unit, irrespective of which questions you are asked to answer.
The four questions will be drawn from different learning outcomes, featuring one assessment criterion in each learning outcome. These questions encompass a wide range of generalist HR, OD & L&D subject areas. You will write four answers of approximately 1000 words to the questions posed and submit them together in a single document. This constitutes your assignment for this unit. The total word count for the assignment will therefore be 4000 words, plus or minus 10%. The bibliography or list of references is not included in the total word count.
The six main criteria that CIPD requires centres to use when marking the assignments are outlined below, but it maybe that not all these criteria are present in every question. (1) focus (2) depth and breadth of understanding (3) strategic application and professional advice (4) research and wider reading (5) persuasiveness and originality (6) presentation and language
Assessment questions
Question 1 (AC1.1) ‘Fostering employee wellbeing is good for people and the organisation’. CIPD (2022) Drawing upon published research, produce a business case that explains how promoting wellbeing strategies can benefit all stakeholders within an organisation.
Question 2 (AC1.2) To what extent do you agree with the view that it is the responsibility of the Head of the People Function to ensure that employment policies and practices always support the achievement of an organisation`s current strategic objectives? Explain how this is achieved in your organisation, or one that is familiar to you. Justify your answer.
Question 3 (AC1.3) Why is it challenging to bring about significant, long-term improvements in an organisation`s culture? Illustrating your answer with examples, evaluate what role the HR/HRD function can play in helping to meet these challenges.
Question 4 (AC1.4) You are asked to make a 30 minute presentation at a local CIPD branch meeting. The subject is `a critical evaluation of systemic thinking and how it can help solve people management problems`. What THREE key points you would make in your talk and why?
Question 5 (AC2.1) Examine the merits of `high road` and `low road` approaches to the management of performance and productivity in employing organisations. How far do you agree with the view that `high road` approaches are always preferable both for employees and employers? Justify your answer with reference to examples from your reading.
Question 6 (AC2.2) There has been extensive research evidence that links people management practices with improved business performance. Selecting one piece of research, critically evaluate its main findings and identify three factors that need to be in place to create an environment that will maximise the effectiveness and impact of people management within organisations. Fully justify these with reference to your wider reading.
Question 7 (AC2.3) Discuss the ‘resource-based approach’ to developing people strategies within organisations, critically evaluating its suitability/or not for developing these strategies within your own organisation, or one that is familiar to you. Fully justify your conclusions.
Question 8 (AC2.4) Explain the view that high performance work practices benefit both employers and employees when they are introduced or enhanced. Illustrate your answer with examples.
Question 9 (AC3.1) People Management (21 April 2023 ) reported that “Almost half of HR professionals claim they are dealing with more employee relations issues than before Covid”. Discuss how people professionals can adopt an effective approach to managing employee relations issues. Justify your answer by drawing upon academic theory and research evidence.
Question 10 (AC3.2) The CIPD (2022) described the ‘Great Resignation’ as a pandemic-induced re-evaluation of what people “want from work with a suggestion that people will no longer put up with bad work”. i) Draw upon your wider reading to evaluate the evidence for the ‘Great Resignation’ and ii) Identify TWO specific actions organisations can take in order to combat any trends towards a great resignation
Question 11 (AC3.3) Evaluate the increased appetite amongst employees for more learning and development opportunities at work and evaluate how organisations can respond to the this. Illustrate your answer with example
Question 12 (AC3.4) Employment relations within the UK are turbulent with high levels of disputes and strike action. Evaluate the opportunities for and barriers to HR sustaining effective employment relationships during these turbulent times.
Question 13 (AC4.1) Examine the ways in which the impact of people practices can be evaluated within your organisation, or one that is familiar to you. What are the main barriers to evaluation? Illustrate your answer with examples.
Question 14 (AC4.2) The CIPD’s purpose is to champion better work and working lives. Critically assess how the CIPD’s purpose can be implemented in your organisation, or one that is familiar to you. Justify your answer.
Question 15 (AC4.3) Analyse the opportunities for drawing upon insights from customers and stakeholders in order to inform people practices within your organisation, or one that is familiar to you. Illustrate your answer with examples.
Question 16 (AC4.4) Drawing upon your wider reading, assess the business case for creating a coaching culture within your own organisation, or one that is familiar to you.
Question 17 (AC4.5) “The challenge facing the profession is best characterised by the common expression, ‘I’m a people person, not a numbers person’, which exists in pockets throughout the profession”. Critically evaluate how you can address this challenge within your organisation, or one that is familiar to you, in order to use insights from people data to inform business decisions.
Marking Grid Learners will receive a Pass, Merit, Distinction or Refer/Fail result at unit level.
Assessors must provide a mark from 1 to 4 for each Learning Outcome in the unit. Assessors should use the generic grade descriptor grid as guidance so they can provide comprehensive feedback that is developmental for learners. Please be aware that not all of the generic grade descriptors will be present in every learning outcome for all the assignments, so assessors must use their discretion in making grading decisions.
To pass the unit assessment learners must achieve a 2 (Pass) or above for each of the learning outcomes. The overall mark achieved will dictate the Grade the learner receives for the Unit, provided NONE of the learning outcomes have been failed or referred. A detailed marking grid will be released once the 4 questions are published.
Learning outcomes: 1. Critically assess and awareness of how a physical/ digital product or service is developed to meet customer needs. 2. Gain an awareness of external factors that impacts on product (physical/ digital or services) decisions. 3. Multi-component analysis of business cases, process maps and business issues to gain deeper insights. 4. Ability to prepare a business case for physical/ digital products or services. 5. Critical awareness of the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in managing physical/ digital products or services.
Assessment details: Individual written report, 100% (2,500 words)
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS Write a report which evaluates a genuine physical/digital product or service within your chosen industry/sector, and offers recommendation for the continuous improvement of this product in line with the current industry trends; and/or for the characteristics of a prototype if the chosen product is coming at the end of its life cycle.
As part of this report, you should consider the following areas:
Provide an insight of the context within which this chosen product was developed to fulfil the strategic objective(s) of a specific company. You need to clearly explain who has overall responsibility for designing, developing and improving (the ownership) the selected product/service;
Critically appraise the key attributes of the chosen product and its main competitors in the current market;
Critically analyse the current issues in managing this chosen product within existing macro and micro environments, as well as associated risks;
Critically evaluate its current position within its product life cycle and its market;
Conclude and recommend key features and processes that this product could continuously improve to be in line with the constantly changing requirements, and/or the characteristics of a prototype if the chosen product is coming at the end of its life cycle.
You are expected to use the concepts and frameworks discussed in the module in preparation of this report. Report length: 2,500 words. Please note that you can deviate +/- 10% from the word limit stated for this assignment.
Learning outcomes: 1. Critically assess and awareness of how a physical/ digital product or service is developed to meet customer needs. 2. Gain an awareness of external factors that impacts on product (physical/ digital or services) decisions. 3. Multi-component analysis of business cases, process maps and business issues to gain deeper insights. 4. Ability to prepare a business case for physical/ digital products or services. 5. Critical awareness of the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in managing physical/ digital products or services.
Assessment details: Individual written report, 100% (2,500 words)
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS Write a report which evaluates a genuine physical/digital product or service within your chosen industry/sector, and offers recommendation for the continuous improvement of this product in line with the current industry trends; and/or for the characteristics of a prototype if the chosen product is coming at the end of its life cycle.
As part of this report, you should consider the following areas:
Provide an insight of the context within which this chosen product was developed to fulfil the strategic objective(s) of a specific company. You need to clearly explain who has overall responsibility for designing, developing and improving (the ownership) the selected product/service;
Critically appraise the key attributes of the chosen product and its main competitors in the current market;
Critically analyse the current issues in managing this chosen product within existing macro and micro environments, as well as associated risks;
Critically evaluate its current position within its product life cycle and its market;
Conclude and recommend key features and processes that this product could continuously improve to be in line with the constantly changing requirements, and/or the characteristics of a prototype if the chosen product is coming at the end of its life cycle.
You are expected to use the concepts and frameworks discussed in the module in preparation of this report. Report length: 2,500 words. Please note that you can deviate +/- 10% from the word limit stated for this assignment.
Learning outcomes: 1. Critically assess and awareness of how a physical/ digital product or service is developed to meet customer needs. 2. Gain an awareness of external factors that impacts on product (physical/ digital or services) decisions. 3. Multi-component analysis of business cases, process maps and business issues to gain deeper insights. 4. Ability to prepare a business case for physical/ digital products or services. 5. Critical awareness of the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in managing physical/ digital products or services.
Assessment details: Individual written report, 100% (2,500 words)
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS Write a report which evaluates a genuine physical/digital product or service within your chosen industry/sector, and offers recommendation for the continuous improvement of this product in line with the current industry trends; and/or for the characteristics of a prototype if the chosen product is coming at the end of its life cycle.
As part of this report, you should consider the following areas:
Provide an insight of the context within which this chosen product was developed to fulfil the strategic objective(s) of a specific company. You need to clearly explain who has overall responsibility for designing, developing and improving (the ownership) the selected product/service;
Critically appraise the key attributes of the chosen product and its main competitors in the current market;
Critically analyse the current issues in managing this chosen product within existing macro and micro environments, as well as associated risks;
Critically evaluate its current position within its product life cycle and its market;
Conclude and recommend key features and processes that this product could continuously improve to be in line with the constantly changing requirements, and/or the characteristics of a prototype if the chosen product is coming at the end of its life cycle.
You are expected to use the concepts and frameworks discussed in the module in preparation of this report. Report length: 2,500 words. Please note that you can deviate +/- 10% from the word limit stated for this assignment.
