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• 5 Annotated Bibliography on Gender Differences in Leadership

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  Week 5 – Assignment 1: Prepare an Annotated Bibliography on Gender Differences in Leadership

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  Spotlight on Skills: Information Literacy: Finding What You Need in the Library In this and other courses, you need to find information, usually scholarly articles from the library, to support your learning activity. View the Northcentral How to Search Like an Expert Tutorial, located under your weekly resources, to learn how to Search Like an Expert and find what you need efficiently in the vast holdings of the Northcentral Library. It’s well worth your time Spotlight on Skills: Building an Annotated Bibliography In this assignment, you will prepare an annotated bibliography of resources that you have gathered on various topics throughout the course. This week’s readings include research has found that in organizations today, women are underrepresented in leadership positions. In this assignment, you will explore research to better understand gender and leadership. For this task, you will do a search of the literature to find articles to explain both the similarities and differences in male and female leaders (e.g., leadership behaviors, styles, habits, characteristics, potential, effectiveness). What barriers do female employees face in gaining leadership roles?  In addition, explore research that could be used for training and self-development purposes to help female supervisors/managers become more effective leaders. You may wish to draw on this research for your Signature Assignment. Prepare an annotated bibliography of at least five research articles published in peer-reviewed journals in the past seven years. Carefully read the instructions on preparing an Annotated Bibliography in this week’s Skills Builder section. Length: Five annotations Your annotated bibliography should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

   

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• Examine Millennial Leadership

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  More and more organizations are investing in developing leaders with integrity, honesty, and a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong. Research shows that leaders who adopt authentic or servant-leadership styles of influence positively impact the profitability and long-term success of the organization. Today, almost 50% of the workforce is comprised of millennials, and so organizations must determine best practices to prepare this new generation of leaders. Assume that you are the academic features editor of an online business newsletter. Develop a Q&A article about millennial leadership based on your responses to the following questions: How are millennials changing the workforce? How are millennials influencing leadership today? Is a servant leadership approach appropriate for leadership development in millennials? If yes, why? If not, what other styles of leadership would be appropriate? How can organizations develop millennials into authentic leaders? What leadership skills do this generation seem to lack compared to other generations? What leadership skills does this generation have? How can organizations prepare millennials for leadership roles? What types of skills will a millennial leader value in the future workforce? You will need to summarize key ideas, express yourself clearly, and illustrate your points. Length: 5 to 7-page online article References: Support your statements with at least five references from research published in peer-reviewed journals in the past 5 years. Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

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• Complete the First Draft of the NIH-R36 Grant Application

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  Week 7 – Assignment: Complete the First Draft of the NIH-R36 Grant Application

  In order to complete this assignment, review the NIH General Instructions Application packet. It will guide you through the process of completing the R36 Grant Application Package and give you specific information on what to include in each section (e.g., project summary, biographical sketch, specific aims). In Week 5, you completed a foundation grant proposal; this week, you will write a draft of the research grant proposal using the same program, but with the added research component. Pay careful attention to the differences between the grant proposal you draft for this week; some parts will be the same, others must be modified or moved around, while others will be completely unique to the new proposal. As a reminder, in Week 3, you identified the specific aims and research objectives. In Week 4, you created a budget and wrote a statement of personal capacity (you can use this to inform your biosketch). You are now ready to flesh out your specific aims and research method section and complete the rest of the elements required for the R36 grant. Be sure to follow the directions in the NIH General Instructions Application packet precisely. Focus on the following: The abstract The project narrative Specific aims The research strategy The bio sketch The budget and justification **Note: NIH grants are written in single space, NOT double space! Complete the NIH R36 research grant application in a Word file. You must also include the following in a Word document along with the NIH R36 research grant application: Project summary/abstract (no more than 30 lines of text) Project narrative (2-3 sentences) Biographical sketch (5 pages max) Budget (3 pages) Budget justification (as long as needed) Specific aims (1-page max) Research strategy (6 pages max) In addition, meet with your professor for about 15 minutes to discuss any questions that come up regarding the specific details of your grant application requirements. Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included. Length: 10-20 pages, not including title and reference pages Your proposal should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic.

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• Analyze Foundation, Government, and Research Grants

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  For this week’s assignment, create a voice-over PowerPoint presentation that explains the following information for five to seven foundations grantors and five to seven government grantors. Assume you are presenting to key decision makers for a foundation, government, or research granting agency. Include the following in your presentation: Name each foundation, government, or research entity. Provide the mission statement of the foundation, government, or research entity. Examine the details of each entity (length of time in existence, the total amount of funds granted, and/or a total number of programs funded). If available, provide a list of programs funded by the foundation, government, or research entity over the last three years. Explain the process of application (e.g., letter of inquiry, full proposal, letter of interest, letter of intent to apply). Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide. Be sure to reference your selected foundations and government grantors. You may include other resources, but it is not required. Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide) Notes Length: 200-350 words for each slide Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate.

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• Complete a First Draft of the CHE Grant Proposal

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  Week 5 – Assignment: Complete a First Draft of the CHE Grant Proposal

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  Complete the CHE Stage II grant application and then submit the copy of the grant to your professor for review. When writing the grant, consider the questions you answered in your Week 4 assignment. Also, use the budget you created in Week 4 (do not follow the CHE guidelines for the budget). In addition, meet with your professor for about 15 minutes to discuss any questions that come up regarding the specific details of your grant application requirements. Length: Go by the character (not word) count listed on the CHE application guide. Your proposal should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate.

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• Week 4 – Assignment 2: Create a Statement of Organizational or Personal Capacity

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  Week 4 – Assignment 2: Create a Statement of Organizational or Personal Capacity

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  This week, write a brief statement of organizational or personal capacity. Your statement of capacity should correspond with the requirements identified in the CHE Application Information Guide Stage II (pp. 3-4). Please note the character limit for the Application’s Qualifications is up to 2,400 characters or 350 words. Provide a brief overview of your personal or the organization’s capacity to undertake the work. Explain what, if any, experience you and/or your organization have had concerning the type of work for which you seek support. Be sure to indicate who will be responsible for the work and what expertise they bring to the project. Then, reveal whether other organizations in your community, region, or nation are doing similar work and if they are, explain if you have sought information from them or will work with them in any way. Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included. Length: as required by the CHE guidelines Your assignment should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate.

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• Explain Your Goals, Objectives, and Specific Aims

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  Week 3 – Assignment 1: Explain Your Goals, Objectives, and Specific Aims

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  This assignment will become the basis for the assignments due in Weeks 5, 6, 7, and 8. After reviewing the suggested resources for this week, and based on the program and research ideas you shared in Week 3 with your professor, write a paper that addresses the following for each type of grant you are required to write: 1. Foundation Grant Describe the program goals and objectives. Identify whom the program will serve. Explain the program overview, including what will be done and how. Determine some of the barriers/challenges you anticipate Facing. Explain your hopes for the program outcomes. 2. Research Grant Describe the goal of your project. Defend data or advances you are bringing to the table. Explain your central hypothesis. Document your specific (goals) aims. Explain the ultimate result of your study. Identify what you will measure and explain how this will be accomplished. Interpret how your research project will advance the literature of your topic. Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included. Length: 4-6 pages, not including title and reference pages

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• Craft a Letter of Intent

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  For this week’s assignment, write an LOI for the CHE grant. The CHE application guide has specific guidelines for what they want you to include in the LOI. The CHE grant labels the LOI as “Stage 1.” Using the CHE Applicant Information Guide, write an LOI as outlined in the Targeted Application Stage I instructions. Pay attention to the limited number of characters (not words) you are allowed for each section. Learning to write clearly and succinctly is an important part of grant writing, and respecting the character, word, and page limits are imperative to grant writing success! You will not need to include a preliminary budget for this the assignment. Budgets will be covered in a future assignment. Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included. Length: 2-4 pages, not including title and reference pages   .

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• RNM1 TASK 1: MANAGING A PROJECT

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  RNM1 — RNM1 TASK 1: MANAGING A PROJECT

  BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS II: PROCESS, LOGISTICS, AND OPERATIONS — D079

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  TASK OVERVIEWSUBMISSIONSEVALUATION REPORT

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  3079.1.1 : Project Management

  The graduate explains how project management concepts can help an organization achieve its goals.

  INTRODUCTION

  Today’s business environment requires competency in project management. In this assessment, you will explain how project management concepts can help an organization achieve its goals. You will take on the role of a market owner who goes through all five phases of project management (i.e., initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure) to launch a new catering service. As you complete the assessment, think about past projects you have initiated, planned, executed, controlled, and closed. Your experience in planning past projects can help you recognize possible risks and functions that will need to be managed in this performance assessment.

  SCENARIO

  You are the owner of a local organic food market in an urban area at the crossroads of four farming communities that supply fresh, organic foods. As the owner of the market, you are interested in growing the business.

   

  Customers in the area have been asking local vendors for more organic and locally sourced fresh food options. You decide to create a catering service for clients within 25 miles of the market to celebrate the market’s 10-year anniversary. You plan to start this catering business in 30 days to address the increasing market need for organic, fresh catering. Catering orders will be prepared and packaged at the organic food market and then driven to the customer’s location. Lunch orders will be delivered within 60 minutes of receiving the order. Special event catering orders will require one week to fulfill the order. The catering company has one van that will be used exclusively for catering services.

   

  You have identified the following goals for this catering business:

   

  •  The catering business will need to be able to sell the same quality, organic foods that are sold in-store and supplied daily.
  •  The catering customers can be no farther than 25 miles from the store so that food can be delivered within an hour.
  •  The catering business should be profitable within one year.
  •  The cost of developing the catering business should not negatively impact the in-store retail operations budget, staffing, events, and farmer partnerships.

   

  You plan to launch the catering business by providing a free catered lunch to the first 10 businesses that subscribe to the weekly lunch catering services. The catered lunch for each business will be for up to 30 people and will be held at a local conference center ballroom at noon on a day of the customer’s choosing. The budget for this launch of 10 catered lunches is $7,000.

   

  Two weeks before the launch, you are working with catering staff to calculate the costs of the launch to date, review tasks that need to be completed, and assess the overall impact of catering on in-store retail operations. You learn that the costs associated with the launch of the free catered lunches have already exceeded $7,700. Additionally, a local farmer that provides the fresh lettuce for lunch salads notifies you that the lettuce will not be available in time for the catered lunch. No other local farmers have lettuce available for purchase, and the only option is to use nonorganic lettuce in order to keep the menu as communicated to the 10 businesses subscribing to the weekly lunch catering services.

   

  A financial company representative wants to inquire about possibly financing your company for this project. The representative sends a request for information to you as listed in the requirements for this task.

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  Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

   

  You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

   

  Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

   

  1. Discuss how you would plan the catered lunch project by completing eachof the following 5 distinct project management phases:
  2. Project initiation
  3. Describe the project and the need for the project. Include information from the provided scenario for support.
  4. Identify threerelevant stakeholders and discuss how the project impacts each stakeholder.
  5. Discuss whether the project is feasible by addressing eachof the three triple constraint components: scope, cost, and timeline.
  6. Project planning
  7. List threemilestones for the project plan and provide a timeline for each milestone.
  8. Write a SMART goal for the project.
  9. Identify twodifferent potential risks to this project’s success and describe how each risk could be managed.
  10. Project execution
  11. Discuss a way to address being over budget by 10 percent. Include information from the provided scenario for support.
  12. Discuss a way to address a scheduling conflict that could affect the timeline of the project. Include information from the provided scenario for support.
  13. Project monitoring and control
  14. Discuss how scheduling conflicts and budget constraints could affect the scope of the project. Include information from the provided scenario for support.
  15. Project closure
  16. Discuss twoways to change how the project was planned, considering the timeline and budget conflicts that were encountered.
  17. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
  18. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
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