How food choices can impact both the environment and the economy
How food choices can impact both the environment and the economy. Learn more about the variety of ways in which food can be acquired.
Discuss the impacts our food purchases may have on the environment and economy.
Discuss two advantages to purchasing food items that are locally sourced versus those shipped from other areas of the country and from around the world.
Discuss two disadvantages to purchasing food items that are locally sourced versus those shipped from other areas of the country and from around the world.
Theoretical Framework to Support Evidence-based Practice: PowerPoint Presentation
In Week 7, students will create a PowerPoint slide show with notes pages to evaluate the use of a theory for an EBP issue or concern.
In Week 8, students will create a recording of the presentation for the Peer Discussion thread.
Criteria for Content
Review literature regarding issues or concerns within your selected nurse practitioner specialty.
Select a theory or theoretical model which is relevant to your nurse practitioner specialty and would offer a meaningful context for evidence-based practice surrounding the issue or concern which you identified.
In a PowerPoint Presentation, address the following.
Introduction to the presentation
Identify and describe a theory or theoretical model, and explain its relevance to your nurse practitioner specialty.
Describe an issue or concern that is related to your nurse practitioner specialty, and explain its impact on health care outcomes
Explain how the theory or theoretical model can be used as a framework to guide evidence-based practice to address the issue or concern, and discuss the unique insight or perspective offered through the application of this theory or theoretical model.
Conclusion to the presentation
References
Submission Requirements
Application: Use Microsoft PowerPoint to create the presentation. Submit as a .ppt or .pptx file.
Length: The PowerPoint presentation must be 6-8 total slides (excluding title and reference slides).
Speaker notes should be used and include in-text citations when applicable. Use the Notes Page view feature in PowerPoint to include speaker notes in the file.
A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature sources must be used.
Submission: Submit your PowerPoint file to the Week 7 Dropbox.
You are working for a multinational company Apple. Apple is looking for new investment locations.
You were assigned a task to evaluate the possibility of investment to Russia in 2021. You are required to write a report in which you need to:
Evaluate whether the Russia’s IDP stage fits the Apple investment needs (see the Russia IDP graph below).
Investigate whether the investment to Russia is associated with any potential risks and opportunities for Apple in the light of COVID-19 19 uncertainty.
You may focus on the following areas: hiring and retaining people, production and logistics, R&D together with digital data movement and protection.
Provide recommendation whether to invest or not, providing also a justification for this recommendation.
Calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) for each project
a) State the NPV decision rule
b) Based on the NPV decision rule, select the projects that should be financed with the £1,320,000 budget
c) Calculate the overall NPV for the selected projects in part b)
(Total: 25 marks)
2) Calculate the Profitability Index (PI) for each project
a) Use the calculation in part 2) to rank the projects from the most preferred to the least preferred
b) Explain the PI decision rule
c) Based on the PI decision rule select which of the projects should be financed with the £1,320,000 budget
d) Calculate the overall NPV for the selected projects in part c)
(Total: 25 marks)
3) Calculate the Internal rate of return of (i) Project 1, which has an initial cost of £800,000 and an annual cash inflow of £117,200 for 20 years; and (ii) Project 2, which has an initial cost of £200,000 and an annual cash inflow of £48,000 for 8 years. All the cashflows are in annuity.
Given that AZAR plc. operates a 14% minimum required rate of return policy, based on your IRR analysis, advice on which of the projects should be accepted or rejected.
(Total: 25 marks)
4) Comment on the importance of investment appraisal and explain the advantages and disadvantages for each of the following investment appraisal techniques
I. Net Present Value
II. Internal rate of return
III. Profitability index
IV. Modified internal rate of return
4-3 Executive Summary: Working With Tableau—Analyze Data
Descriptive statistics describes a data set. It is used to summarize and organize the data into something more manageable, actionable, and ready for presentation.
It can also help organize data and present a business problem in an understandable manner. You can use descriptive statistics to understand and analyze the data for your organization.
The employees in your company report struggling with burnout (being overworked).
You have been asked to analyze the situation and recommend solutions to reduce employee burnout.
You have access to an employee survey with employee responses related to the situation.
This week you will analyze the employee survey data and create bar graphs to represent the data visually.
Based on your analysis, you will then create an executive summary targeted to a non-technical audience unfamiliar with statistics.
See the document Module Four Survey Response Key for the responses that were available on the survey.
Prompt
Part 1: Burnout Analysis: Bar Graphs
To complete this assignment, you will use Tableau software that is located within the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Follow the directions in the User Manual: Working With Tableau document to import these employee survey responses into Tableau and conduct a burnout analysis.
Use Tableau to create bar graphs that will answer the following questions. Take screenshots of your bar graphs to include in your executive summary document.
Which gender is experiencing the burnout level “Pretty wiped out almost every day” most?
Which male age group is experiencing the stress level, “A little stress that would be expected with the ups and downs of life” at home the most?
Which leadership level strongly agrees with the fact that they love what they do?
Which gender with a tenure of 5+ years had the lowest number of responses for the burnout level feel great! Energy to spare!”?
Part 2: Executive Summary
Create an Executive Summary of your results addressing the following criteria:
Purpose and respondents: Explain the purpose of the executive summary and briefly describe the survey respondents.
Results: Summarize your bar graph analyses and answer the questions they represent.
Add corresponding bar graphs to relevant sections of the summary to illustrate your analyses.
Recommendations: Based on your analysis, recommend two areas the company can focus on to reduce employee burnout.
Guidelines for Submission
To complete this assignment, you must submit the following:
Executive Summary: Submit a 2- to 3-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Include the screenshots of the graphs you generated in Tableau.
Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Book for class
Use the book as a reference and a module link if necessary
Name of class
SNHU MBA 540 Organizational Strategy in a Global Environment
Drawing upon the terms, concepts, theories and themes from this course, provide a critical analysis of the following article:
Although you are free to take any approach to your examination, remember that your critical essay must:
make connections between the article and the terms, theories, and material presented in the course;
provide an interrogation of the article that makes connections with themes, terms, and material identified/examined throughout this course; and,
develop supporting arguments based on course material.
As part of your examination, you MIGHT want to consider structuring your critical analysis around the following questions:
· How does this article relate to the material examined in KIN 105?
· How does colonialism inform this contemporary lived reality? Identify specific colonial forces/events that contribute to this issue.
· Does the article attempt to explore the historical roots of this lived reality? If not, why might this historical context be missing? What impact, if any, does this absence have upon the presentation of this issue?
· How are Indigenous peoples portrayed in the article? What is the significance of these representations?
· Whose voices are represented in this article? And, how do these perspectives shape understanding of this lived reality?
· Does the article reinforce specific mythologies and/or stereotypes? If so, what is the significance of these narratives?
· Is this contemporary condition/conflict presented as an “Indigenous issue” or, rather, as an issue that affects all citizens of the nation-state, specifically those of the dominant culture?
What is the implication of this particular approach and perspective? And, what is the benefit—and who benefits—from portraying the issue as “Indigenous”? What does this suggest about reconciliation?
· Does the article address decolonization and reconciliation?
How effective has the UK Government’s Prevent strategy been in countering ‘radicalisation’? Which alternative strategies might be adopted in Britain?
In specific terms, the question is asking you about the UK Prevent strategy and how effective it has been in preventing radicalisation, the process through which individuals are said to be encouraged toward violent extremism.
You will need to spend some time discussing when and why Prevent was introduced and what its objectives are.
You will certainly need to address the problems and issues that have arisen out of Prevent and also give voice to the opinions of individuals and groups that support it.
As always, the weight of the evidence presented by the two ‘sides’ is key.In responding to this question, you will be engaging in contemporary debates about the process of ‘radicalisation’.
In so doing, there are a variety of sources open to you: State policies to counter radicalisation, academic studies on radicalisation, the testimonies of those that have been ‘radicalised’, the views of security experts, government and wider political reports on radicalisation and the reports provided by Human Rights groups and NGOs, e.g. Quilliam, CAGE, Human Rights Watch, Liberty, Prevent Watch. It is important to test the credibility of these sources and subject them to scrutiny.
You also need to have some certainty about your own position on radicalisation. Is it a readily identifiable process? If so, why? If not, why not?
When did the discourse of radicalisation first emerge and why? You may well want to refer to specific examples and cases.
Lots of possibilities here – including 7/7, London Bridge and/or Manchester Arena attacks. What would say is don’t be too scattergun on the ‘cases’.
It is far better to allude to two or three cases and do so in detail than it is to pepper your answer with too many examples and illustrations that are superficial and not well worked through.
When thinking about alternative strategies, you may have your own suggestions, but do read around the literature on this. Look at approaches to counter-radicalisation adopted in other countries in Europe and beyond.
You should also (re)engage with the Thought Piece for week 6, where it is argued that bolstering existing health, welfare and support services and advancing human rights would be a preferable alternative.
Imagine you have just been appointed as the emergency manager (EM) for the state, county, or city (your community) in which you live.
Building upon the analysis you did for the discussion this week, write a paper regarding the initial actions you would take as the new EM.
In your paper,
Describe the history of emergencies and disasters in your community.
Analyze the response to those historical emergencies and disasters in your community.
Determine what types and severity of disasters are likely to occur in your community.
Determine your community’s vulnerability to an attack.
Evaluate the level of planning that has taken place in your community.
Determine the agencies in your community that will be required to respond.
Determine what kind of training for disaster response has taken place.
The You are the Emergency Manager paper
Must be a minimum of three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
