hford 6: – Week 5 – Final Paper

Final Paper

Action Research Project [CLOs: 1,2,3,4,5,6]

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You have been hired as a consultant (to your current organization, previous organization, or a fictional organization). Describe and analyze a human resource/organizational problem(s) and recommend an organizational development strategy (ies). Provide a rationale as to why you think this approach will help. This will require a practitioner analysis of the organizational problem of interest and an academic literature review of similar organizational problems and organizational development strategy (ies) that you believe will be most beneficial in solving the problem. Also, provide an evaluation plan for the proposed intervention(s). 

The plan should have the following headings:

1. Problem Identification
   • Description of the organization
   • Context of the problem:
     • How do you know it’s a problem?
     • Specifically what is the problem (select from list below)?
       • Turnover
       • Job Satisfaction
       • Diversity
       • Performance Appraisals
       • Downsizing
       • Training & Development
2. Needs Assessment and Diagnosis 
   • Data collection
   • Data analysis
3. Proposed Organization Development Interventions/Strategy(ies) 
   • Required resources
   • Timeline
   • Anticipated resistance
   • Potential benefit(s), i.e. cost savings
   • Suggested Evaluation Approach
   • Summary/Conclusions

This final assignment should be 8 to 10 pages in length (not including the title and reference pages). You must use at least five scholarly sources and format your paper according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

For this project milestone, you will create an informational brochure identifying the international geographical location your travelers will visit, identify at least three goals for the members of the traveling team, and define at least five attitudes and behaviors critical to fulfilling the goals of the trip.

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·         Select a famous (or infamous) individual from the 20th or 21st centuries (not a direct family member, or acquaintance).  Conduct research concerning the background of your selected individual to determine what forces have impacted his or her life from the viewpoint of Developmental Psychology.   Try to select on the basis of meaningful contributions, or impact on society, not their celebrity, or popularity.

·         Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following items:

o    Distinguish between the influences of heredity and environment on the person’s psychological development. Be sure to specify which area of psychological development: moral, emotional, or other.

o    What family issues or social support systems may have influenced the person’s developmental growth and adjustment?

o    Select two different theories of personality and apply them to your selected figure, and answer the following question: How does each theory differ in terms of how it explains the individual’s unique patterns or traits?

o    Explain which theoretical approach you believe best explains the individual’s behaviors and achievements. Make sure to explain why you made this choice.

                ·Resources:  At least three credible references, minimum.

                 The textbook may be used as a reference, but it will not

                 count as one of the three required resources.

Format your paper according to APA standards

Assignment 2: Cost of Debt and Equity

The manager of Sensible Essentials conducted an excellent seminar explaining debt and equity financing and how firms should analyze their cost of capital. Nevertheless, the guidelines failed to fully demonstrate the essence of the cost of debt and equity, which is the required rate of return expected by suppliers of funds.

You are the Genesis accountant and have taken a class recently in financing. You agree to prepare a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 6–8 minutes using the examples and information below:

1. Debt: Jones Industries borrows $600,000 for 10 years with an annual payment of $100,000. What is the expected interest rate (cost of debt)? 
2. Internal common stock: Jones Industries has a beta of 1.39. The risk-free rate as measured by the rate on short-term US Treasury bill is 3 percent, and the expected return on the overall market is 12 percent. Determine the expected rate of return on Jones’s stock (cost of equity). Here are the details:

Develop a 10–12-slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Perform your calculations in an Excel spreadsheet. Cut and paste the calculation into your presentation. Include speaker’s notes to explain each point in detail. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.ppt.