It says to identify a critical problematic in your field and then propose an innovation in scholarship, research, analysis, policies, or practices.

If the theory is from the same discipline, an example the professor gave was if your field was dance, that a specific problem is getting people to actually attend dance performances. Comparing and taking theory from broadway and community theatre etc where they are getting people to fill the seats and how those methods or practices can we applied to dance performances.

The professor also said that if you were a business major that you could do a business proposal: section 1 being market research, section 2 being a case study from a different field, and section 4 being what you would do to hit the ground running.

He said some incredible essays were using feminist theory with an economic issue, and non-linear mathematics with cultural phenomena.

I am a MUSIC INDUSTRY major which definitely encompasses a lot. The professor said though the narrower the better. I am a singer and songwriter and something being talked about is how the music modernization act was just passed but that it took way too long for that to happen and that theres barely anything even in it (but I don’t know if theres anything there or which other discipline this could be connected to etc). You definitely don’t need to use that idea. I am also applying to law school so maybe something with music law? Policy changes in music? Not sure what the connection is though. I just want to make sure that it’s a very original idea and not boring or already done or cliche.

Please make sure to hit the 4 parts of the assignment (in depth explanation in the attached assignment):
-Focused overview
-Theoretical framework
-Critical intervention
-Proposal for future work

The essay is basically using another field to help find something different/solve a problem in your field (music industry).

Type of Assessment       : Essay Report

Format                                 : 12-point Times New Roman

World Length                     : Minimum 1500 word

 

Description Objectives:

• Understand the cause of errors
• Understand the root cause process
• Apply investigative techniques
• Apply data techniques to identify commonalities in aggregate root cause analysis
• Explain prevention and recovery
• Understand when systems should be modified or corrected
• Review the statistical concepts underlying statistical process control
• Recognize the difference between natural and special cause variation
• Understand how performance targets are established

 

Assessment Text Tasks:

 

• Explain the insight that the Heinrich triangle provides into the relationship between injury and unsafe practices.
• Explain the differences among skill-, rule-, and knowledge-based errors.
• Explain the difference between active and latent error. Give example of active and latent error from your workplace if possible
• What is the difference between single-event and multiple-event RCA? Which skills are needed to successfully conduct each?
• Create a Why-Why diagram analyzing why patients fall (or why they contract postoperative infections, pressure ulcers, or another issue of your choice)
• Why do systems often fail to produce desired results?
• What is the difference between continuous and discrete data?
• Explain the difference between natural and special cause variation. How special-cause variation looks like on a control chart?
• Describe how an organization can establish performance targets.
• Describe the six-step SPC process.
• Why can attempts to “perfect” system performance lead to less predictable results?

Our lives are made of experiences, big and small, that shape us into who we are. Autobiographical writing shares such experiences in hopes of making meaning of them and conveying their significance to others. To be effective, autobiographical writing should describe an experience vividly and help readers understand why it was meaningful or how it affected you.

For this assignment, you will write about an experience that shaped or affected your life in some way. Consider your readers as you choose your subject: it should be something that you are comfortable sharing with others, as well as something that will engage readers and encourage them to reflect on their own lives and experiences.

The finished essay should:
✓ Present your experience vividly using narration and description—to build suspense, engage readers, and help them imagine what the experience was like for you
✓ Convey the autobiographical significance of the experience, articulating its impact on you, using carefully chosen words and details
✓ Maintain its focus on you, even if your subject is a person—show how that person affected your life (refer to the essay about Rick)
✓ Avoid relying on clichés when explaining the significance of your experience
✓ Include a thesis statement in the introduction or conclusion that conveys the significance of the experience

General structure:
▪ Introduction: capture your readers’ attention; introduce the subject or begin narrating the experience; state your thesis (*unless it will be stated in the conclusion)
▪ Body paragraphs: these paragraphs should develop the subject by presenting details that make the narrative dramatic, using vivid descriptions, and conveying the autobiographical significance of your subject
▪ Conclusion: wrap things up; reflect on the significance of your subject; state your thesis (*if it is not already stated in the introduction)

PART 1.

Many companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your knowledge about the global economy, identify three brands you believe have the strongest likelihood of remaining a source of advantage in the 21st century and explain why. Explain the effects you believe the Internet’s capabilities will have on the brands you identified in the previous discussion and what the owner of the brand should do in light of them.

PART 2.

From the e-Activity (PRACTICE), analyze the internal environment of the company you researched to determine that company’s strengths and weaknesses. Based on the strengths and weaknesses you discovered, determine what steps the company could take to positively impact the company’s competitiveness. Explain your rationale.

The format of the critical book review should include the following components:
1. Brief Introduction: Briefly introduce the author(s) of the book and give his/her qualifications
for writing a book of this nature. What qualifies the author to write a book of this sort?
2. Brief Summary: In addition, the reviewer should provide a summary of the content of the book. Do not simply give an outline, however. Rather, digest the content and tell as briefly as
possible what the book is saying. Work for a holistic understanding, but be careful to portray the
main themes and developments. This should be no longer than half the total evaluation and
preferably somewhat less.
3. Analysis: The analysis should be the heart of the critical book review. The reviewer takes
apart the book, weights it and measures it. The reviewer determines whether or not the author
achieved the goal of the book. Did the book arrive where it intended?
4. Conclusion: In a fairly lengthy paragraph, the reviewer should summarize the judgments
about the book. In other words, the reviewer should coalesce the judgments and state the case
either for or against the book.

Your final assignment is what has become known as a reflective paper. If you go back a unit or two, you’ll be reminded that the Baldrige Process uses self-assessment as a primary tool for gaining insight into not only what you (or your organization) have done but what you’re doing and how will you change and improve. It’s a powerful tool and is the basis for many quality initiatives today, including those used by our business school accrediting body, the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) and our university’s regional accrediting authority, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC.)

Therefore in lieu of an exam or test you’re being asked to compose a reflective paper. In this exercise, you should cover the requirements in a thoughtful, measured way.Think about what you have learned or maybe about what you wished you had learned but didn’t. This is to be the work of a developing scholar and practitioner of quality systems and approaches to thinking about academics, business, organization, self, etc. It’s a serious work of self-assessment in the Baldrige tradition.

TIPS and SUGGESTIONS:

**Consider writing about ANY of the topics we covered this term- aim for 1-2 full content pages and support your ideas and work with in-text citations.

Suggested sections for your paper: (1-2 full pages of content)

(1) Introduction

(2) Review of the Baldrige Principles (contrast with other quality systems if you like

(3) Overview of Organizational issues (look back to our discussions/readings)

(4) Review of personal and organizational learning (look back to the discussions/readings).

(5)- Summary of areas of your greatest (or least if necessary) development or understanding

(6) Conclusion

Here is a brief review of the topics covered this term:

Unit 1: Introduction and History

Why this course?
Malcolm Baldrige
Deming, Juran, Ishikawa & friends
Alphabet soup; SQC/SPC/TQM/ Six Sigma
Unit 2: Core principles

Visionary leadership
Customer-centered excellence
Organizational and personal learning
Valuing workforce members and partners
Agility
Focus on the future
Managing for innovation
Management by fact
Societal responsibility
Focus on results and creating value
Systems perspective
Unit 3: Leadership & Strategic Planning

Leadership basics
Strategic Thinking
Unit 4: Customer Focus

Stakeholders vs. Stockholders
Who is the Customer? Basic Stakeholder Analysis
Internal and External Customers
Unit 5: Measurement & Analysis

What do we measure?
Why do we measure?
What do we do with the measurements?
Unit 6: Workforce Focus

Learning organizations
Organizational and personal learning
Valuing workforce members and partners
Unit 7: Operations Focus

Management by fact
Societal responsibility
Focus on results and creating value
Systems perspective
Operations Focus discussion
Unit 8: Results & Wrap-up

Applying the learning
Closing the loop

Major Essay 2: Narration

Requirements

• 3 to 4 pages
• MLA Format
• Participation in Workshop
• Clear and Logical Writing

 

What is a Narrative Essay?

A narrative essay tells a meaningful and moving story to make a point. A narrative essay assignment asks writers to write about an important event or time period in their life. The goal is to narrate this event or situation in a way that the reader can fully experience and understand.

 

 

Assignment

Write an essay in which you relate an important change in your life. This may be a change in residence, such as immigrating to the United States or moving from one city to another; in a relationship (such as marriage or divorce); in employment; in physical appearance; in health; or in membership in a group (either joining or leaving).

 

Develop each part of the story fully:

1. Explain the circumstances that led to the change.
2. Tell about how you felt during the change.
3. Analyze what that change has meant in your life.

 

 

Tips for making a narrative essay more effective:

 

• You will probably need to write several drafts to ensure that each part is detailed enough and complete so that the whole essay interests the reader.

 

• Your introduction and conclusion should help the reader understand the meaning of the experience.

 

• Show, don’t tell: Avoid simply telling readers what something looks like–tell readers how it tastes, smells, sounds, or feels!

 

• Use strong verbs to describe vividly the setting, characters, and the plot of your story.

 

 

 

Tips and Further Information

 

• If you get stuck, review the class lectures on the Blackboard in the Lectures file of the Course Materials.

 

• Also, read the sample student’s essay, “A Weighty Experience,” on pages 82 to 84 in your textbook, Steps for Writers.

 

• Writing a quality essay is no overnight matter; be prepared to spend an extensive amount of time in the writing process.

 

 

• The SCAA welcomes all writers in all stages of the writing process. Plan a visit.

 

 

Format requirements

Only essays following these formatting requirements will be accepted:

 

• typed; double-spaced
• 12-point, standard-type font (e.g., Times New Roman)
• all four margins set at 1”
• MLA formatting
• header with last name and page number on all pages
• single-sided printing (for final drafts)
• 3-4 complete pages

 

write a paper describing the benefits of setting up a pricing structure which includes price discrimination.

Read chapter 12, 13, and 14 in Managing Economics.

select one product line and write a paper that describes the benefits and costs of setting up a pricing structure which includes price discrimination. In your explanation, show how this structure will maximize the overall profitability of the overall product line. Provide a detailed explanation for your evaluation that demonstrates clear, insightful critical thinking. Your paper should be 5 to 6 pages in length, include five academic sources that are properly cited, and is due by the end of the workshop. Be sure to follow all APA standards and to use correct spelling and grammar.

Topic:Address the Importance of Physical Assessment

• Apply evidence-based practice research findings in
the management of health issue.
• Discuss how age, gender, and culture affect health
assessment and physical examination outcomes and
techniques.
• Identify alternative methods, interview techniques,
and tools used to assess clients based on age (i.e.
assessing skin turgor in the elderly), culture/ethnicity
(i.e. dehydration in dark skinned client), and gender
(i.e. Pap smear).
•4-page with peer reviewed research, APA formatted
paper (with at least 5 references (within 5 years) one
of which must be from the course textbook:
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT, SEVENTH EDITION ISBN: 978-1-4557-2810-7

For each section, be sure to note how the theories are similar or different. In other words, try to explain what is unique about each by comparing them to each other.o What is each theory attempting to explain (i.e. what is the explanandum)? What is the major causal mechanism of each theory (the explanans)? Who are the major “players” in their causal story? (e.g. government policies, layers of the world-system, multinational firms, individuals with different ability levels) Give a short example of how the causal mechanism of the theory works to produce the outcome it is trying to explain (e.g. “In the causal story used by modernization theories, country A would develop because it did X, Y, and Z.”) What level(s) of causation does each theory use? How can you tell?o Give at least one logical criticism of each theory. In other words, what is something that the logic of the theory itself seems to ignore or misunderstand? Give at least one empirical criticism of each theory. In other words, are there specific pieces of evidence that contradict the theory? Is one of the theories a stronger explanation for why development occurred (and didn’t occur)? Why or why not?