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Change is everywhere, yet very few people seem to embrace the concept. We are, for the most part, creatures of habit and follow daily routines. When change occurs, our activities and thought patterns are disrupted. Write a four- to five-page APA formatted paper (excluding the title and reference pages), using a minimum of three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook, analyzing the internal and external factors contributing to an individual’s resistance to change. Describe a situation where you or someone you know was resistant to change as identified in one of following areas:Explain whether the resistance to change was caused by an internal or external factor. Using Kotter’s theory for change, provide a plan for overcoming that resistance. What will be done and how will you know that the plan has worked?

 a 4- to 8-page single-spaced memo that provides detailed instructions for how your job should be performed during your pre-planned three-month absence from the job. the five guidelines for instruction writing described in Ch. 10 of the text. that your document includes the following: your memo as discussed in class with appropriate header.  Ensure body copy is consistent with APA guidelines for headings and subheadings and punctuation.  Pages should be numbered. the Job Instructions file in the LMS. I previously established.This assignment will be graded according to the Job Instructions Rubric attached here 

The abuse of both alcohol and drugs has increased to a dangerous level at the healthcare facility where you work as an HR manager. You decide to develop a policy for your institution to minimize alcohol and drug abuse by your staff (including clinical e.g. physicians, nurses and nonclinical personnel).Create a substance abuse policy applicable to all personnel at your healthcare facility. The policy should include the goals, objectives, and purpose of the policy, expectations of clinical and nonclinical personnel, the testing procedure, disciplinary action and consequences. Submit the policy which should be no more than three pages in a Word document to the by . Make sure to cite any outside resources you use in preparing your policy. 

Assignment 3: The Wild Frontier, Part 3No plagirism pls. must be original work. Assignment 3: The Wild Frontier, Part 3Due Week 8 and worth 80 pointsThanks to the great IT support the IT team provided, Wild Frontier is expanding even more. Each of the original four (4) satellite offices have doubled in size and four (4) more offices are being opened. The current licensing seats have managed to cover all of the existing personnel, without full utilization but the new demand will overtax them. The owner, Sam Yosemite, gets all fired up if he can’t allocate costs fairly according to use. You also need to make the existing printers cover the additional personnel use without buying new printers, even though the managers have to print off long documents several times each week to provide shooting targets for Sam.Also, some users have been accessing applications and media services they do not need and the IT team needs to curtail this. The budget given for the increased staff is not sufficient for new desktops for each user. Additional storage needs have been identified in the original four (4) satellite offices, as well as some slowdowns in performance. These need to be addressed along with the consideration of Terminal Services Licensing.

This week\’s writing assignment asks you to \”think like a social scientist\” in the Hoover and Donovan sense. One thing social scientists try to do is explain differences. We focus on questions like \”why are some countries rich and others poor\” or \”why are democratic revolutions stable and successful while others collapse and reverse themselves?\” This week, I\’d like to think about one of these puzzles:Identify two possible answers to this question. For each of your two answers, a) write a paragraph explaining why it might be plausible, in your view, and b) write a paragraph outlining how one might \”test\” this theory–where we should look for evidence to see it it\’s accurate or not, if we were researchers trying to do answer this question. Don\’t worry if that data-gathering process is well beyond your capabilities–I\’m not asking you to do it, just think about how it could be done. *at least in reducing the sources of ozone depletion–due to the timeline of their effects, positive change is only now starting to occur.  

 Read the scenario regarding John Smith\’s Business profile.  (see attachment for scenario)Develop and provide some solutions for Smith’s organization of how he can improve service­related issues as experienced by his customers. Be sure to include in your answer the following issues:- Response times- Service quality- Costs- Communications750 – 1000 words. Essay, 3-5 References.On an individual basis, formulate your thoughts and ideas for resolution of Smith’s service­level issues. Develop some notes, and submit them to the group to facilitate the discussion and resolution of the issues. Be sure to address Lean Principles and association to the 7 forms of waste.  Develop value streams for current business processes to help identify waste. (This can be in MS Visio, Word, PowerPoint or hand drawn and scanned / uploaded but this needs to be a visual representation of the business process) Identify the impact on the organization for each of the solutions you recommended if Smith chooses not to implement the recommendations.    

 Professional Learning Team charters, norms, and so on  how professional Learning Teams work with curricular requirements and advocate for academic freedom. your findings and cite best practices and suggestions for improvement. Specifically address academic freedom and curricular standards in your work.  a reaction to the documents used to support professional Learning Teams in a school setting. Define the best practices and needs of the professional Learning Team.  using visual aids or graphic organizer to support your work and ideas.  your presentation consistent with APA guidelines and  in this presentation.

  Select TWO of the following four questions.  Each response should be Once again, please type your responses in 12 pt Times New Roman font with one inch margins.  No plagairism, Check for correct grammer and punctuationQuestion 1 Many experts on correctional treatment contend that correctional treatment programs should be grounded in psychological theory.   Explain why having an underlying theory for correctional interventions is important.Briefly describe the psychology of criminal conduct as a general framework, and provide a brief description of behavioral, cognitive and social learning theories in particular.Explain how correctional programs should operationalize these theories in correctional interventions specifically. Question 2 The year is 2018, and you are an expert and consultant on correctional effectiveness.  The new Director of Programs for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections calls you to say that he would like you to speak at an upcoming conference on the importance of treatment interventions for sex offenders. In your response, please address:How have behavioral interventions been applied to the treatment of sex offenders?  Are these programs effective?  What are some of the ethical considerations and/or other challenges associated with the approaches?How have cognitive and social learning interventions been applied to the treatment of sex offenders?  Why is it important for these approaches to be integrated into treatment programs for sex offenders?Is cognitive-behavioral treatment for sex offenders effective in reducing recidivism? What are the implications for correctional policy? Question 3 Risk assessment is considered to be the cornerstone of effective correctional interventions. The results should be used to guide decision-making in the criminal justice system. How have risk/need assessments for offender populations evolved over the years?  What did the earliest risk assessment models (i.e., first, second and third generation risk assessments) look like and what purpose did these models serve?  What do the more recent models look like?  What are risk/need assessments intended to do?  How do we know when a risk assessment is working?Describe the issues that should be considered in selecting a risk/need assessment protocol for a specialized population like sex offenders. What additional factors should be assessed and how should this information be integrated with the results of more “traditional” criminogenic needs? Note: Your answer should discuss Bonta’s generations of risk assessment.  It should also sort risk assessment options according to the correctional purposes served by each type of risk assessment. Question 4 Describe three specific ways in which correctional treatments should be adjusted for substance abusers in the correctional system.  Define what is meant by harm reduction approaches.  What are pros and cons of this approach to substance abuse treatment?  Are these treatments effective?  Why do you think that these models are less popular in the United States?  Do you think that they feasible in your own jurisdiction?  Why or why not?