State of Texas bond

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Suppose a State of Texas bond will pay $2,000 ten years from now. If the going interest rate on these 10-year bonds is 0.5%, how much is the bond worth today?

 

 

 

1. Suppose you have $1,000 and plan to purchase a 10-year certificate of deposit (CD) that pays 1.0% annual interest, compounded annually . How much will you have when the CD matures?

 

 

 

1. Suppose you have $1,000 and plan to purchase a 10-year certificate of deposit (CD) that pays 1.0% annual interest, compounded quarterly . How much will you have when the CD matures?

(Hint: To incorporate the compounding effect, you need to convert the annual interest rate into the quarterly interest rate, and convert years into quarters to get correct answer).

 

 

 

1. Suppose you have $1,000 and plan to purchase a 10-year certificate of deposit (CD) that pays 1.0% annual interest, compounded monthly . How much will you have when the CD matures?

(Hint: To incorporate the compounding effect, you need to convert the annual interest rate into the monthly interest rate, and convert years into months to get correct answer).

 

 

 

1. Suppose you have $1,000 and plan to purchase a 10-year certificate of deposit (CD) that pays 1.0% annual interest, compounded daily . How much will you have when the CD matures?

(Hint: To incorporate the compounding effect, you need to convert the annual interest rate into the daily interest rate, and convert years into days to get correct answer).

 

 

 

1. Suppose the U.S. Treasury offers to sell you a bond for $900.00. No payments will be made until the bond matures 10 years from now, at which time it will be redeemed for $1,000. What interest rate would you earn if you bought this bond at the offer price?

 

 

Section 2: TVM applications

 

1. Assume the couple John and Helen want to fund a college education for their son, William, age 2. William will attend college starting at age of 18. He needs $90,000 available at age 18 for his college expense. The couple feels they can make 6% after-tax return annually in a 529 education fund. How much do they need to deposit today to meet their goal?

 

 

2. Assume the couple John and Helen want to fund a college education for their son, William, age 2. William will attend 4 years of college starting at age of 18. He needs $60,000 available at age 18 for his college expense. Starting from now, the couple plans to invest $3000 to the 529 education fund at the end of each year. What rate of annual return do they need to achieve?

 

 

 

3. Construct an amortization schedule for a 15-year, $300,000 loan with a 4.2% interest rate compounded monthly. The loan will be paid back in 15 years making monthly payments. You need to calculate the principal payment and interest payment, respectively, of each month. Hint: Please refer to the excel file of “Loan Amortization “posted in Unit 4 “Lecture”. Specifically, you need to update the model from “yearly” payment to “monthly” mortgage payment. 15 years *12 = 180 months. Therefore, you should demonstrate 180 principal payments and interest payments for each month.

 

4. Construct an amortization schedule for a 30-year, $300,000 loan with a 6.7% interest rate compounded monthly. The loan will be paid back in 30 years making monthly payments. You need to calculate the principal payment and interest payment, respectively, of each month. Hint: Please refer to the excel file of “Loan Amortization “posted in Unit 4 “Lecture”. Specifically, you need to update the model from “yearly” payment to “monthly” mortgage payment. 30 years *12 = 360 payments. Therefore, you should demonstrate 360 principal payments and interest payments for each month.

 

Section 3: Bond Valuation

 

1. The Morrissey Company’s bonds mature in 7 years, have a par value of $1,000, and make an annual coupon payment of $70. The market interest rate for the bonds is 8.5%. What is the bond’s price?

 

 

 

 

2. Masson Inc. recently issued noncallable bonds that mature in 10 years. They have a par value of $1,000 and an annual coupon of 5.5%. If the current market interest rate is 7.0%, at what price should the bonds sell?

 

 

 

3. Ezzell Enterprises’ noncallable bonds currently sell for $1,165. They have a 15-year maturity, an annual coupon of $95, and a par value of $1,000. What is their yield to maturity?

 

 

 

4. Quigley Inc.’s bonds currently sell for $1,080 and have a par value of $1,000. They pay a $100 annual coupon and have a 15-year maturity, but they can be called in 5 years at $1,125. What is their yield to maturity (YTM)?

 

 

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The Continued emerging and current threats

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The reading had a lot of captivating hypotheses and information regarding the continued emerging and current threats. All had significant points and posed several threats. Online banking, loss of data, and economic threats tend to exploit the company’s sites, and the services are quite severe and may cause a ton of harm.

However, I think various insurance companies and the government would likely pick up a tab and shut things before they even reach catastrophic levels. I would therefore go with physical threats to individuals, i.e., anything closely connected to the internet that causes bodily harm or even severe injuries.

For instance, the hacking systems would quickly shut down the engine of an aircraft, thus leading it to crash. Notably, the more devices connect to the internet, the worse it is likely to get. One of the Project 2020 stories talked about a citizen ‘Kinuko’s grandfather (ICSPA). If the sensors monitoring the body were connected to the internet, they could be easily hacked and shut down (Trend Micro, 2013). What about if everyone should be shut down using a pacemaker? Or even remotely hack a hospital and tamper with the life support machines? Murder, therefore, is a common serious offense that can be committed against humanity. The more we connect our bodies or systems to the net, these systems may lead to causing death, thus implicating so many risks (Trend Micro, 2013).

To combat the above ethical dilemma, it sets a society that does not allow these heinous acts to go far. Unfortunately, society requires us to go down this road regarding convenience and advancement. Companies must maintain the highest levels of advanced security and therefore must employ the brightest minds to protect these areas.

For instance, vehicles have been overlooked and left quite vulnerable. In one of the stories, ‘How hackable is your car? ‘Consult this chart’ the author indicates that the hackers of the likes of Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller assessed what they referred to as cars (Trend Micro, 2013). Various cyber-physical features, including automated parking, braking, and lane assist, would significantly assist in transforming a few spoofed digital commands into the actual out-of-control vehicle. In conclusion, these loopholes must be clearly reconsidered before a severe accident occurs and brings an entire population to attention later.

I think the question of who protects (and recovers) the losses, both in financial and data recovery, is crucial to moving forward. Many organizations are starting to consider protecting themselves with cybersecurity insurance.

Cybersecurity insurance or cyber liability insurance is a type of insurance that protects against losses caused by cyberattacks. Cyber insurers provide multiple types of coverage, including first-party, third-party, and cyber extortion (Abdullahi, 2022). During the recovery phase after a data breach, cybersecurity insurance assists in the financial recovery of data loss or costs associated with service interruption (Campbell, 2021).

In addition, some cyber insurance companies offer supplemental add-ons such as crime policies, which cover insider threats and workplace theft, and device covers to protect mobile electronic devices. Specific cyber liability protections include third-party indemnification, Data breach notification and containment, defense costs, network security audit coverage, and Remediation assistance.

Third-party indemnification is when a hacker steals network data or infects the organization’s network with malware. Implementing a consistent network security audit helps address software vulnerabilities that can be proactively patched with updates found during the audits to avoid hacker exploitation.

Data recovery in the event of data loss or corrupted files must be proactively prepared. The CISO and CIO should have a robust backup plan and possibly a secure cloud solution to ensure a recovery point and time are in place. Knowing what software and operating system need to be restored is critical and should be known by the key stakeholders reestablishing the system.

Also, having a backup plan that is not connected to the web is just as important. When using a standalone computing device, local backup conducted periodically will protect organizations from ransomware attacks that target systems and a company’s cloud storage (Insurance, 2018).

POST2: DH

1) The narrative that I feel is closest to what has begun to develop and poses the most significant threat is Citizen Kinuko. Of course, not all key features have surfaced yet. However, augmented reality with personalized content is growing in popularity. Technologically assisted living has already been implemented and used with pacemakers, defibrillators, and insulin pumps connected wirelessly and remotely, in which those using such devices are physically vulnerable to attacks.

Virtual property markets are already being utilized by marketing and property businesses (International, 2020). In addition, groups of individuals have begun to get personalized wireless implants; the transition has already started. As these areas advance and begin being globally utilized, personal data and content are always subject to vulnerabilities due to remote and wireless sensors. This is especially concerning for medical augmented assisted devices, as any disruption in function could mean life or death and unrestricted access to sensitive personal information. As with all technological devices, combating threats begins with strong security features embedded in devices during manufacturing (Hickman, 2019).

Next, I would audit the connected devices to human identity features and address weak credentials and establish plans that address identity management.

Alternately, augmented reality (AR) is a special technology that overlays computer-generated images (Gupta, 2017). Citizens are not the only ones utilizing this feature, as it has been used in the medical field to assist in procedures and surgeries.

Since AR channels can be hacked via AR servers with malicious content that alter imaging recognition, I would combat threats by using accurate filters for image recognition and limiting channel registration to decrease the number of attackers who can monitor the interactions between AR and its servers or browsers, and attempt to implement direct browser to server communication (Gupta, 2017). As AR technologies are improved and used more often, I suspect better security features will become available.

2) One of the most important questions that need answering is if we want global or local governance and security solutions. Based on our recent readings, global solutions seem to be forefront.

As it is, detecting, tracking, and prosecuting cybercrime is challenging due to remote access and transnational cyber threats. Some international cyber laws and treaties are in place, but they are subject to local state laws and sovereignty (Sandage et al., 2013).

This makes some investigations impossible. Therefore, security solutions should be focused on international cooperation and unification. Otherwise, we will end up with countries that are full of cyber criminals hiding behind their safe harbor.

A Change readiness report

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In Milestone One, as an HR consultant, you submitted a change readiness report. While you were performing your change readiness assessment, five employees from the U.S. call center quit as a group, along with the well-liked team lead.

Top management is very concerned about this sudden incident. The VP has asked for your help in identifying a permanent solution to the issue of attrition at the U.S. branch of the Singaporean software solutions provider.

You understand that attrition is primarily the result of low employee engagement. You are also aware that different employees may be engaged in diverse ways. You decide to make a presentation to explain the significance of employee engagement to the company leadership. You plan to also include the critical factors that influence employee engagement.

Prompt

Create a PowerPoint presentation with narration to help the business leaders in the course scenario understand how and why their employees are disengaged. Create speaker notes if necessary, for each slide. Specifically, you need to address the following criteria:

Note: Remember to use both on-screen text and narration or speaker notes in your PowerPoint slides to convey your information effectively. If, due to technical challenges, narration is not possible, precise and extensive speaker notes should be used, while addressing all the rubric elements in the presentation. For example, you can use brief bulleted lists on the slide and include detailed explanations in your narration or speaker notes.

  1. Determine the impact of employee disengagement on attrition and productivity. (2 slides)
    • Which conditions adversely influence employee engagement?
    • How does employee disengagement impact attrition?
    • How does employee disengagement influence productivity?
  2. Describe two critical factors that influence employee engagement. (2 slides)
    • How can an organization positively influence workforce engagement levels?
  3. Identify and describe strategies (at least one) that can be used for improving employee engagement at the U.S. branch. (2–3 slides)
  4. Use the Employee Engagement Surveys and Leaders’ Self-Evaluations to assess the engagement levels of the employees at the U.S. branch. (2 slides)
    • Which conditions that adversely influence employee engagement are evident from the employee engagement surveys?
    • Are there any data points that indicate employees are disengaged?
      • Consider emphasizing these data points visually.

Guidelines for Submission

Submit a PowerPoint presentation with 8–9 slides. If references are included, they should be cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

LEADERS SELF EVALUATIONS

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MBA 687 LEADERS SELF EVALUATIONS. Note: Individuals rate their skill levels on the following scale: Not Skilled | Minimally Skilled | Somewhat Skilled | Skilled | Very Skilled Title: Vice President Job Summary Leads departments and operations for an entire organization and creates its overall vision, mission, values, beliefs, and strategic goals.

Directs and evaluates other executive leaders’ work and the success of the organization. Maintains awareness of external and internal competitive landscapes, opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, and new industry developments and standards. Manages the strategic plan that guides the direction of a team’s business and collaboratively works with the executive management team to identify, prioritize, and act upon company needs, focusing on integration strategies to ensure optimal efficiency.

This position requires competencies such as analytic and strategic thought, vision, orientation to detail, customer focus, talent management, resource management, and leadership skills. Vice President Self-Assessment: As I reflect on this past year, I have driven business expansion from startup and evaluated the organization’s success. This past year, we identified ways to increase revenue and decrease costs by 10%. I analyzed financial reports with the accounting manager, prepared new operating budgets, and greenlit pilot projects using AI and chatbots to compete in an increasingly digital economy.

My understanding of the external factors affecting the organization will help us think ahead and be ready for changes in the market. My most tremendous success was bridging the gap between the company’s day-to-day running and the board of directors’ sweeping visions. Since taking on the new role, I realize my leadership skills come from years of experience and knowledge throughout life. This wisdom has impacted my judgments, decisions, and actions. I have learned to focus on a clear purpose and mission.

I have consistently shown commitment and motivation since joining the company, and I want us to succeed. I am a leader who focuses on meeting set deadlines and objectives on time. I realize that I can be too controlling in a project, and I don’t give other team members enough room to contribute or develop their ideas. I must learn to give others more space and let them take the initiative, too. Maybe I should try harder to promote the company’s culture and values within my team. While I regularly hold meetings with this in mind, I should focus on boosting team spirit and collaboration.

I am often frustrated, and I find it hard to communicate when faced with other leaders’ behaviors. Despite the challenges we faced this past year, I am incredibly proud of what my team and I have accomplished during the past year.

 

 

Skill Level: Not Skilled:

Minimally Skilled:

Somewhat Skilled:

Skilled: Very Skilled:

Your level of experience demonstrating each competency

I have not learned this skill

I have little experience demonstrating this competency and need substantial direction to perform it effectively

I have some experience demonstrating this competency but still need guidance

I have a good amount of experience demonstrating this competency independently

I always demonstrate this competency and could provide guidance/ training to others

Leadership Skills ✔ Strategic Thinking Skills

✔ People Management Skills

✔ Change Management Skills

✔ Communication Skills

✔

Ethical Practice ✔ Tech Savvy /Computer Skills

✔ Fostering Teamwork

✔

Visioning ✔ Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

✔

Cross-Cultural Awareness

✔

Learning Agility ✔

 

 

 

Title: Sales Manager Job Summary Leads the sales and marketing functions, including strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and maintaining scalable processes that differentiate and highlight the value proposition from concept to execution for all business areas. Drives profitable revenue and market share growth through domestic and international marketing programs to email, print/digital, CMS, and social media platforms. This person is highly collaborative and works cross-functionally to devise campaigns that engage, inform, and motivate to raise brand awareness.

Manages and coaches inside sales and outside sales teams. Sales Manager Self-Assessment: After taking the time to evaluate my performance, I would like to highlight a few of my best achievements from the past year.

At the beginning of the period, I spearheaded the launch of our organization’s first sales industry research report. My promotional efforts helped secure a speaking engagement at two national sales conferences, which will help the company meet its annual objective of increasing industry exposure and promoting our customer value proposition. Additionally, I assisted in overhauling our website content with IT and helped procure a new data partner. As a result, our paid search efforts’ ROI has increased by 120% year over year and influenced $6 million in our latest service line sales.

Because of this year’s marketing strategy’s ambitious nature, there were times when I pushed my team hard to perform at their best, put in extra hours, and deliver on highly demanding projects. While I would never compromise on my drive for results, I must take the time to give more thoughtful and considerate feedback to members of my team. This quarter, I noticed that I could have delegated and communicated strategic goals to our team better.

Passing more projects to the outside sales team will help me become more efficient while also providing them more opportunities for skill-building and career development. Additionally, I believe meeting with the VP, call center, and sales team bi- weekly instead of monthly will help improve cross-department communication and ensure marketing campaigns are better aligned with overall company goals. By the end of next quarter, my goal is to improve my cross-cultural practices by taking an online training session. I’ve been working more closely with the call center team in the past few months and want to collaborate more effectively to understand and achieve our team goals.

 

 

Skill Level: Not Skilled:

Minimally Skilled:

Somewhat Skilled:

Skilled: Very Skilled:

Your level of experience demonstrating each competency

I have not learned this skill

I have little experience demonstrating this competency and need substantial direction to perform it effectively

I have some experience demonstrating this competency but still need guidance

I have a good amount of experience demonstrating this competency independently

I always demonstrate this competency and could provide guidance/ training to others

Leadership Skills ✔ Strategic Thinking Skills

✔ People Management Skills

✔ Change Management Skills

✔ Communication Skills

✔

Ethical Practice ✔ Tech Savvy /Computer Skills

✔ Fostering Teamwork

✔

Visioning ✔ Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

✔

Cross-Cultural Awareness

✔

Learning Agility ✔

 

 

 

Title: Accounting Manager Job Summary Manages accounting functions, including analyzing various accounting functions (A/R, A/P, cost, and accounting) to understand what makes clients profitable, ensures accurate transaction records, evaluates financial processing, and controls transaction processes. Manages sub-ledger agreements (inventory, AR, sales, COGS) to the general ledger and investigates and corrects any variances. This person sets the example of integrity, ensuring monies and assets are protected against unauthorized use or removal and loss due to a criminal act or breach of trust. Works cross-functionally, multitasks, problem solves, thinks of the big picture, and focuses on process improvements to improve efficiency and follow generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Coaches accounting associates and works with operating managers to ascertain their need for accounting data. Accounting Manager Self-Assessment: After taking the time to evaluate my performance, I would like to highlight a few of my best achievements from the past year. At the beginning of the period, I Initiated corrective actions for maintaining accounting records, improving record accuracy by 75%. The accounting team implemented an accounting records maintenance system, replacing the old, inefficient one. I spearheaded our organization’s new digital timekeeping system, replacing the outdated process and eliminating “paper” timekeeping. We continuously met audit standards this year, and this is for two years in a row, owing to exceptional account management skills. This quarter, I noticed that I have not been delegating enough work to other team members and have challenges communicating strategic goals to our team. Passing more projects to the accounting team will help me become more efficient while also providing them more opportunities for skill building and career development. By the end of next quarter, my goal is to streamline the accounting systems by implementing standard operating procedures for each subsystem. It is important not to build silos and understand the big picture and our team goals. I am working on transactional accounting improvement, but I also think a strategic approach is necessary. I have worked closely with the customer success coordinator/team leader, but I would like to address with top leadership the communication breakdown, the top-down approach, and ways to collaborate more frequently. I can offer my professional opinion on where best to align finance and accounting programs to the strategic plan and on building action plans to support overall business success.

 

 

Skill Level: Not Skilled:

Minimally Skilled:

Somewhat Skilled:

Skilled: Very Skilled:

Your level of experience demonstrating each competency

I have not learned this skill

I have little experience demonstrating this competency and need substantial direction to perform it effectively

I have some experience demonstrating this competency but still need guidance

I have a good amount of experience demonstrating this competency independently

I always demonstrate this competency and could provide guidance/ training to others

Leadership Skills ✔ Strategic Thinking Skills

✔ People Management Skills

✔ Change Management Skills

✔ Communication Skills

✔

Ethical Practice ✔ Tech Savvy /Computer Skills

✔ Fostering Teamwork

✔

Visioning ✔ Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

✔

Cross-Cultural Awareness

✔

Learning Agility ✔

 

 

 

Title: Customer Success Manager Job Summary Manages the customer success function and provides input on strategic customer plans to help identify areas where the company can improve overall service delivery, quality, and excellence. Develops customer relationships that promote retention and loyalty. Creates department policies and procedures that optimize the customer experience. This person has the highest accountability level for call center supervision and performs basic human resource tasks such as hiring and training staff. Coaches the customer success coordinator/team leader in improving service efforts, scoring performance, and developing support strategies based on customer feedback. Customer Success Manager Self-Assessment: In the past year as a call center manager for the company, I’ve increased the customer satisfaction rate by 37% through overseeing day-to-day contact center operations and business planning, employee development, operational efficiency, and service excellence. I worked with the customer success coordinator to revise the existing cold call script and added a stronger value proposition, resulting in an increased call time average. We started interfacing closely with the sales department to ensure alignment and spent a great deal of time “QC-ing” or monitoring queues and tracking inbound call performance. I coached our customer success coordinator on performance metrics, including inbound calls, call waiting, and abandonment rates. We started working on creating a new customer service training manual and quality assurance form. I empowered the customer success coordinator to work with the accounting team on the new timekeeping implementation. After reflecting on my performance, I noticed that while my ability to build rapport with employees and customers helps me as a manager, I will need to delegate more to the customer success coordinator as the business grows. I began serving as the backup trainer and assisted in onboarding nine new representatives, all of whom finished their first quarter meeting performance standards. Given this experience and my commitment to continued growth, I think there is room for improvement. I want to shift the call center culture to a more employee-centric workplace where our employees are happy, comfortable, and valued. I am aware of the possibility that the various technological advancements in AI voice processing, customer analysis, and chatbots may improve customer satisfaction; however, it could also make some employees redundant. I am unsure if our employees see leadership as approachable and observant or sensitive to what the agent is trying to tell us, even indirectly. If we can fix this, we can improve business performance and reduce turnover.

 

 

Skill Level: Not Skilled:

Minimally Skilled:

Somewhat Skilled:

Skilled: Very Skilled:

Your level of experience demonstrating each competency

I have not learned this skill

I have little experience demonstrating this competency and need substantial direction to perform it effectively

I have some experience demonstrating this competency but still need guidance

I have a good amount of experience demonstrating this competency independently

I always demonstrate this competency and could provide guidance/ training to others

Leadership Skills ✔ Strategic Thinking Skills

✔ People Management Skills

✔ Change Management Skills

✔ Communication Skills

✔

Ethical Practice ✔ Tech Savvy /Computer Skills

✔ Fostering Teamwork

✔

Visioning ✔ Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

✔

Cross-Cultural Awareness

✔

Learning Agility ✔

 

 

 

Title: Customer Success Coordinator/Team Leader Job Summary Provides industry-leading customer care, order assistance, technical customer service, and customer success team leadership while engaging in real-time troubleshooting of inbound Tier II and Tier III customer requests by email and telephone. Coaches employees in all customer service and contract sales facets, manages the customer care escalation chain, and works with the customer success manager to improve overall service delivery improvement, quality, and excellence. This person has a high level of accountability for call monitoring to improve service efforts and scoring performance and develops support strategies based on customer feedback. Works with a knowledge-sharing mindset, works with a sense of urgency, works cross-functionally, is a problem solver, and thinks outside the box while troubleshooting the root cause of all customer success center problems to identify the action(s) required to resolve the customer’s issue immediately. Serves as customer success trainer. Customer Success Coordinator/Team Leader Commentary: In the past year as lead agent in the call center for the company, I’ve worked with my manager to increase customer satisfaction rate by 37% through revising the existing cold call script, adding stronger value propositions, and focusing on quality control QC-ing and agent dashboards. I spent time with agents, communicating performance expectations on inbound calls, call waiting, and abandonment rates. I monitored calls using our new quality assurance form. I handled 15–20 customer requests to speak with a supervisor per day and positively resolved the issues. I assisted my manager in 36 employee evaluations, detailing observations of positive performance, opportunities for improvement, and specific details of supervisor calls taken for the week. I demonstrated the ability to handle 50 or more calls a day as the lead customer success agent, too. By decreasing my talk time by 15 seconds per call, I believe I can increase my call-per-hour rate by at least 10% next quarter without negatively impacting customer satisfaction. I also worked with the accounting manager and her team to implement the new digital timekeeping system and train all agents. After reflecting on my performance, I noticed that while my ability to work with employees at all company levels is one of my best skills, I understand our customers. I am ready to take on more HR-related responsibilities. I began serving as the lead customer success trainer and helped my manager onboard nine new representatives. I would like to understand the call center’s company goals and work with my manager to shift the call center culture to a more employee-centric workplace. Many call center workers have been here less than two years (27.5 %), and most call centers run an average 30–45% turnover. Let’s focus on retention. I believe that additional sales training and education about our products would help me increase my up-selling performance in line with company expectations. I want to discuss a potential promotion to assistant customer success manager.

 

 

Skill Level: Not Skilled:

Minimally Skilled:

Somewhat Skilled:

Skilled: Very Skilled:

Your level of experience demonstrating each competency

I have not learned this skill

I have little experience demonstrating this competency and need substantial direction to perform it effectively

I have some experience demonstrating this competency but still need guidance

I have a good amount of experience demonstrating this competency independently

I always demonstrate this competency and could provide guidance/ training to others

Leadership Skills ✔ Strategic Thinking Skills

✔ People Management Skills

✔ Change Management Skills

✔ Communication Skills

✔

Ethical Practice ✔ Tech Savvy /Computer Skills

✔ Fostering Teamwork

✔

Visioning ✔ Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

✔

Cross-Cultural Awareness

✔

Learning Agility ✔

Family Prevention Interventions and Theory

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Family Prevention Interventions and Theory. Identify a family you know well. Do not provide the name of the family or any other identifiers regarding your relationship. Discuss interventions for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention that are appropriate for the family identified.

Then choose an appropriate theory discussed this week that would be most effective for a family nurse to integrate into meeting the health care needs of that family and explain.

Your post will be checked in Turnitin for plagiarism. Responses should be a minimum of 350 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 3 references are required (other than your text).

Identifying the family: [for example, it can be a Hispanic- American family from my community in the developmental stage VI (a family launching young adults). Or any other family.]

  • Present developmental stage of the family.
  • The degree to which a family is meeting the appropriate developmental task
  • The family history, problems
  • The family origins of both parents
  • Discuss interventions for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention that are appropriate for the family identified. Then choose an appropriate theory discussed this week that would be most effective for a family nurse to integrate into meeting the health care needs of that family and explain.

See attached lecture for better understanding.

The Employee engagement survey

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: Change Readiness or Needs Assessment Audit. The data extracted from the employee engagement survey shows the need for change in specific areas. The illustration above highlights the areas that are performing less than the expected levels. The highest performance is in teamwork, and the rest of the areas perform at lower than expected rates to achieve expected goals.

The point to ponder is that most employees are unaware of the company’s mission, vision and direction. Lack of this information affects their contribution to change and productivity at work.

Data points I have selected from the employee engagement survey are listed on the right of the illustration, showing that the improvement in these areas will improve the overall performance of the US branch. For example, senior leadership lacks effectiveness in its roles. Senior leaders at the US branch fail to empower and encourage employees to take the initiative.

Senior leaders do not play the required role in maintaining a positive work environment that affects employees’ productivity and efficiency to achieve organizational values and expected goals. Similarly, ineffective training hinders the professional development opportunities of employees. Managers do not take notice of employee performance and do not suggest to them improvement that affects professional development at the workplace, leaving gaps in employee performance. Change management is needed in all these areas to improve performance at the US branch.

Employee Confidence in Change Management

After analyzing leaders’ self-evaluations, it is concluded that employees have a medium degree of confidence in organizational leadership. Each employee’s skill level and answers show no one is an expert in leading organizational leadership. Leaders are crucial in keeping employees motivated and productive at the workplace.

Still, through the analysis of employee engagement surveys and self-evaluations, it is evident that leaders at the US branch of the company lack competencies to manage organizational operations.

For example, upon asking about cross-cultural awareness, leaders respond ‘somewhat skilled,’ which shows their confusion about their skills. Leaders do not dominate in all areas, and the majority of leaders’ responses show ‘somewhat’ skill in change management.

Change at the leadership and management level is crucial to creating an empowered and productive workplace environment. Middle managers or leaders are crucial in empowering and encouraging employees to work for the organization and in professional development. Lack of basic leadership skills impacts the leader’s role in creating opportunities for professional development that affects the adaptation mindset of employees.

Leadership styles play a crucial role in change management. Thus it is important to spend time and effort on leadership styles and skills. Managers can bridge between leadership and staff members by empowering employees and helping them understand organizational values.

A middle manager should be open, transparent and honest to improve change readiness among employees. Middle managers and leaders play different roles; thus, managing individual roles to keep employees working and motivated is crucial to achieving expected change.

When leaders and managers carry out their responsibilities, employees work productively and achieve expected goals. For example, a transformative leadership style and transparent management could encourage change at a larger level (Abbasi, 2017).

Opportunities to Increase Change Readiness

Some employees accept change because they are open to experiencing new things and developing advanced skills. At the same time, some employees are reluctant to change because they are not ready for it or do not feel any support from the organization.

Employees become reluctant to change because they don’t see what is in it for them. Most neglected employees and face a higher work burden show resistance to change because they perceive it hard for them (Smith, 2018).

The forms of resistance grid show us reasons for resistance to change. For example, ambivalence is a type of resistance in which the reason could be positive or negative feelings about change.

Positive feelings motivate people to vocalize for change and vice versa. Similarly, peer-focused resistance is when people do not resist formally but use indirect sources to create trouble for a change. The grid highlights how and on what basis employees resist change.

Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Model

Hofstede’s cultural dimensions model helps to understand differences in cross-cultures using different dimensions. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions model includes power distance, individualism-collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity-femininity and short-long term orientation (Nickerson & Mcleod, 2022).

The company’s operations in the US branch also pose cultural issues for the employees. Cultural differences affect employee engagement and productivity at work. Dimensions of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions model help to understand cultural differences in concepts of power distance, individualism, collectivism and masculinity. Understanding these cultural dimensions will help the company arrange leadership and management statuses accordingly to eliminate conflict.

Individualism

The concept of individualism emphasizes the importance of individual rights, needs, and expectations. Individualism impacts cross-cultural communication because the company is not focusing on individual rights, needs and expectations at the US branch, affecting their performance. This attitude needs to be changed immediately.

Power-Distance

The power distance is an index that describes how and on what basis power is distributed among individuals. The US branch should maintain power distance based on hierarchy structure that will not affect individual interests and avoid misunderstanding in a cross-cultural setting (Nickerson & Mcleod, 2022).

 

 

 

 

References

Abbasi, B. (2017). “Transformational leadership and change readiness and a moderating role of perceived bureaucratic structure: an empirical investigation”. “Problems and Perspectives in Management”, 1-11.

Nickerson, C., & Mcleod, S. (2022, May 4). Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory. Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/hofstedes-cultural-dimensions-theory.html#:~:text=Hofstede’s%20Cultural%20Dimensions%20Theory%2C%20developed,long%2Dterm%20orientation.

Smith, C. (2018, May 30). Why Is Organizational Change So Difficult for Employees to Accept? Retrieved from https://change.walkme.com/why-is-organizational-change-so-difficult-for-employees-to-accept/

 

 

 

 

The Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner

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Why is important for the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner to understand the Stages of Health/Illness and family interaction? Why is crucial for a good psychiatric diagnosis and treatment to perform a Complete comprehensive family assessment.

–Identify and put some examples of family issues requiring primary, prevention intervention.

* (As PMHNP we can work with our community preventing behaviors that affect our families like Smoking, and drug abuse [or other problems] that negatively impacts the health of the family members.)

Your post will be checked in Turnitin for plagiarism. Responses should be a minimum of 250 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 3 references are required (other than your text).

Employee Engagement Surveys

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MBA 687: Employee Engagement Surveys. Response Rate The survey response rate is the first indication of the level of employee engagement in any organization. Of the 140 employees invited to take the survey, 40 responded, which is a response rate of 28.5%.

As a rule, rates higher than 50% are best, while rates lower than 40% may indicate trust problems within the organization, lack of faith in leadership, and employees’ reluctance to engage in improvement efforts until leadership demonstrates a clear commitment to change. Company Data 1. Years of service with this organization

Less than 1: 52.5% of respondents 1–2: 27.5% of respondents 3–5: 15% of respondents 6–10: 2.5% of respondents 11–15: 0 16+: 0 Prefer not to answer: 2.5% of respondents

2. My race/ethnic identification

African American or Black: 60% of respondents Hispanic or Latino/a/x: 12.5% of respondents Anglo American or White: 12.5% of respondents Asian: 5% of respondents American Indian or Pacific Islander: 0 Multiracial or Other: 7.5% of respondents Prefer not to answer: 2.5% of respondents

3. I am currently in a supervisory role

Yes: 7.5% of respondents No: 90% of respondents Prefer not to answer: 2.5% of respondents

4. I received a merit increase during the past two years

Yes: 7.5% of respondents No: 90% of respondents Prefer not to answer: 5% of respondents

 

 

 

5. I received a promotion during the past two years

Yes: 7.5% of respondents No: 90% of respondents Prefer not to answer: 2.5% of respondents

6. I plan to be working for this organization in one year

Yes: 60% of respondents No: 12.5% of respondents Prefer not to answer: 27.5% of respondents

Employee Engagement Questions Professional Development:

• In the last six months, my manager has talked to me about my progress, and we developed goals to help me grow.

o 36% agreement • I am satisfied with the on-the-job training I have received.

o 27% agreement • There is adequate cross-training in my department.

o 36% agreement

Company Vision, Values, and Mission: • I am familiar with the company’s vision and values.

o 26% agreement • I have a clear understanding of the organization’s direction.

o 36% agreement • The organization is changing for the better.

o 26% agreement Teamwork or Workgroup:

• I receive the support I need from employees in my workgroup to do my job effectively.

o 89% agreement • My coworkers make me feel that I am part of the team.

o 78% agreement • I trust my coworkers.

o 83% agreement • My workgroup cooperates to get the job done.

o 73% agreement

 

 

Senior Leader/Middle Manager: • Senior leaders focus on creating a positive team atmosphere.

o 36% agreement • Senior leaders are open, honest, and transparent.

o 36% agreement • Senior leaders encourage and empower me to take initiative and suggest

improvements. o 26% agreement

• My middle manager is open, honest, and transparent. o 70% agreement

Culture:

• This company is a team-oriented organization. o 36% agreement

• This company challenges the status quo and seeks continuous improvement. o 18% agreement

• Employees have a strong sense of personal responsibility for the performance of their department and the performance of the company.

o 80% agreement • Overall, people care about my well-being at work.

o 34% agreement Work Environment:

• I see the connection between the work I do and the benefits received by customers.

o 65% agreement • I have enough authority to make the decisions I need to make.

o 36% agreement Communications:

• I usually hear about important changes through management communication rather than rumors.

o 36% agreement • In my workgroup or team, my opinions count.

o 72% agreement

 

 

Diversity:

• The company tries to promote a work environment free from discrimination and harassment.

o 41% agreement • The environment at the company is supportive of the expression of different

opinions, styles, and perceptions. o 18% agreement

• I am satisfied with the company’s efforts to support and encourage differences.

o 34% agreement Productivity:

• The technology, tools, and resources I have access to allow me to be as productive as possible.

o 83% agreement • Staffing levels have kept up with the increasing customer base, workload, and

infrastructure. o 26% agreement

• Deadlines set by senior management are realistic. o 18% agreement

• I am given the opportunity to do my best work. o 26% agreement

Performance Management:

• I have a clear understanding of work expectations. o 60% agreement

• My performance has a significant and direct impact on my pay. o 26% agreement

The American Cancer Society

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The American Cancer Society offers great resources to families about chemotherapy and radiation treatment options https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/treatment-types/chemotherapy.html

Another website known as Cancer.net https://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/how-cancer-treated/chemotherapy/side-effects-chemotherapy .

Research both websites and discuss information that you learned from the websites.

A Team Contract

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A Team Contract [charter] indicating what it is your Team and Team Members need to do to achieve becoming both a HPVASMWT, and High-Performing Value-Added Team Members. These need to include what you and your group agree to regarding: – how you will act, adjust and accommodate to diverse types of people, behaviours, and situations – make conscious and deliberate choices [know why, when, what, and how] – EXPLICIT BEHAVIOURAL EXPECTATIONS. —– These need to enable and ensure individual and team accountability and responsibility —– Once you have agreed and signed this document YOU ARE BOUND BY IT for the rest of the term.