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One of the main purposes of this course is to allow students who are about to complete their programs of study at the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business to demonstrate their familiarity with the Baldrige Core Values that have been reinforced throughout the program.For this assignment you are required to write a reflective paper summarizing your experience of the BUS 411 course. You are expected to refer to the Baldrige Core Values in this reflective exercise and to discuss how those Core Values were exhibited in your work in this course and throughout your program of studies in the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business.Paper requirements: Your paper will be a minimum of 4 pages, APA format. That is, the BODY of your work will be 4 pages minimum. Title page, Abstract and reference pages do NOT count to this total. All papers will be submitted through SafeAssign to reduce the potential of plagiarism. Be sure to read the grading criteria (below) by which your paper will be evaluated before you write the paper and again after you write your paper. 

Refer to Case Study 10 and Exhibit 7.4 on page 210 of the textbook for this option. describes the company’s founding in the mid-1990s.  llow APA format. Use outside academic sources other than the textbook, course materials, or other information provided as part of the course materials. 

Now that you have given additional in-depth thought to your potential research topic and problem statement, and received feedback on your ideas, it is time to refine those ideas into a more formal document that communicates a general sense of the direction of your research. To complete this Assignment, carefully review once more the Dissertation Premise Guide found in the “Office of Student Research Administration: Ph.D. Dissertation Program” webpage in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus particularly on the Annotated Outline that defines the protocols for the four parts of the Premise: title, problem statement, approach for the study, and references, as well as the Sample Premise.

Google is famous for offering all of its engineers \”20%\” time; that is, each engineer can take 20%% of their working hours, equivalent to one day a week, to work on any project of their choice. This can involve fixing errors or bugs that they have independently noticed, developing new features for existing projects, or creating entirely new services. Google\’s engineers have initiated some of Google\’s most popular and innovative offerings during their \”20%\” time.Google\’s support for fostering a creative climate is extensive, to the point of allowing employees to self-determine a significant part of their workload. Have you ever worked at an organization that supported your creativity in unique and specific ways? In this week\’s Discussion, you will assess your organization\’s support for organizational creativity.For this week\’s Discussion, you will need to take the organizational-creativity assessment in this week\’s interactive media piece titled: Dimensions of a creative working climate. Use this creativity assessment to assess an organization for which you have worked or with which you are familiar. by  results from taking the organizational creativity assessment, including: a selection of your colleagues\’ postings. Make sure to find posts where the organization presented was different in size (large vs. small) or where your colleague assessed the organization from a different organizational level (e.g., top level vs. middle level management). Compare your colleagues\’ experiences and assessments with your own, giving careful thought to how these dimensions might have impacted the results.

Research a specific company of your choice and identify some of the managerial decisions that were made over time and in response to changes in its market or competitive environment. Use the Ashford University Library and web-based sources for your research. At least three external scholarly sources must be used in addition to the textbook. Address all of the following areas: The Final Paper:

 Due Week 10 and worth 200 points Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research one (1) concept in information systems that you have studied in this course. You may select a topic of your choice or you may use one (1) of the following:  Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:  Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:  The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: 

complete one of these scales on the website and then read one of the articles associated with the questionnaire

write a 500-word report on what you learned about yourself and the topic through the questionnaire and the article (be sure to include the name of the measure and the name of the article you read).

Analyze, compare and contrast the Poems: “My Papas Waltz” and “ Those Winter Sundays”With the theme of father son relationships. Analysis should focus on these three poetic elements:Setting, speaker, ImageryEssay should have a title relating to what is being talked about. Essay should include the following:Ibriefly introduce the 2 poems (title, date of publication ,author, etc.),identify the shared theme ,provide a brief preview of shared characteristics, conclude with a clear thesis statement. begin each body paragraph with a clear topic sentence that relates back to the thesis statement, each body paragraph should discuss a new poetic element, provide textual support (short quotes) and close-reading.wrap up your analysis, reassert your thesis, and explain how each of these poems provides a different perspective on the shared theme. Format:Double-spacedTimes new roman12pt font1 inch marginsMLA STYLE