I have attached the instructions to complete the final assessment.

Please rewrite in your own words:

Confluence is a collaborative knowledge-management platform developed by Atlassian that enables organizations to create, organize, and share information within a centralized digital workspace. It is designed to support teamwork by providing a structured environment where employees can collaborate on documents, projects, and organizational knowledge in real time. By consolidating information that might otherwise be dispersed across emails, shared drives, or individual systems, Confluence enhances communication, transparency, and operational efficiency.

Confluence functions through the use of spaces and pages. Spaces are dedicated areas created for specific teams, departments, or projects, while pages serve as individual documents within those spaces. Users can collaboratively edit pages simultaneously, leave comments, tag colleagues, and track revisions through built-in version control. This structure allows organizations to maintain up-to-date documentation while preserving a history of changes for accountability and reference.

Businesses use Confluence in a variety of ways to support daily operations and strategic initiatives. Common applications include documenting standard operating procedures, maintaining policy manuals, managing project plans, recording meeting notes, and building internal knowledge bases. Confluence is particularly valuable for onboarding new employees, as it provides centralized access to institutional knowledge and organizational processes. Additionally, its integration with other business tools, such as Jira, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, enables seamless collaboration across platforms.

Key features of Confluence include real-time editing, version tracking, customizable templates, advanced search functionality, and access controls that ensure information security. Templates streamline content creation by providing standardized formats for common business needs, while search capabilities allow users to quickly locate relevant information. Together, these features make Confluence a powerful collaborative technology that supports knowledge sharing, improves organizational alignment, and enhances overall productivity.

Research and select a company or organization that has been in some type of current negotiations (e.g., union contracts, mergers, buy-outs, product disputes, patent infringement.). Then, summarize the company or organizations history and current negotiation status. Highlight some of the negotiator-cognition issues they may have encountered during negotiations. Discuss decision-analysis tools that are used in negotiations. Were any of these tools used by your company during negotiations? Next, explain what a BATNA is and how it is used during negotiations. Try to determine if one or both sides had a BATNA and, if so, summarize your understanding of it. Finally, provide recommendations for the company to use in future negotiations based on what you have learned in this unit. How could they use best practices in negotiations to improve future negotiations?

Your case study should be a minimum of two pages in length. You must use at least two academic sources, and any information from those sources should be cited and referenced in APA format.

Attached is a study guide to reference for some relevant information regarding the assignment.

After researching the benefits that volunteerism adds to an organization, you have realized that you need to begin researching the types of community service projects that might be a “good fit” for MoxieTogs.

Background and Overview

Read Chapter 5 in Writing that Works and review all of the Module 2 resources in preparation for completing this assignment in which you will use good design principles to revise an existing document. If design principles are new to you, you may find it helpful to complete the Module 2 Skill-Building Activity before beginning this assignment.

Estimated Time for Completion: 60 minutes

Target Course Objectives

• Utilize effective drafting, revising, and document design strategies to compose emails, letters, memos, reports, instructions, resumes, presentations, and proposals that meet standard English usage expectations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the context, audience, and purpose of the assigned writing task through the use of appropriate content, voice, and tone.
• Demonstrate time-management skills by submitting assignments by the specified due dates.

Instructions

1. Download and analyze the Source Document for Applying Design Principles attached below in Assignment Resources. The text was pulled from a blog post that did not employ any of the design principles you have been studying in Module 2.
2. Revise the document content by applying good design principles you have learned.
3. As you revise the document, imagine that you are re-creating the blogpost content as a PDF to be attached to an email you will send to the other members of your team–your direct reports on the organizational chart. Be careful to preserve the “live links” in the document so that recipients can access the information.
4. You can be conservative or creative; you just have to employ at least three recognizable design principles or practices.
5. Finally, at the end of your document, list at least three design principles or practices that you used intentionally in the design of your document.
6. Use the Save As function to save the file as a .pdf,and name your file Your Last Name_New Design.

Walk-In Closets

MEMORANDUM

To: Store Managers

From: Regional Manager

Date: 2/2/26

Subject: Dress Code Memo 1st Draft

Recent mystery shopper reports have highlighted a recurring issue across multiple locations: customers are having difficulty distinguishing between sales associates and shoppers while in our stores. This lack of clear staff identification negatively affects customer experience, relationship building, and overall brand perception. As a company that prioritizes customer engagement and service quality, it is important that we address this concern promptly and consistently.

To improve staff visibility and strengthen our brand image, Walk-In Closets will be implementing a standardized employee dress code across all locations. Beginning in Q3, all sales associates will be required to wear official Walk-In Closets branded shirts while on the sales floor. Employees will have the option of either short-sleeve or long-sleeve shirts to ensure comfort while maintaining a professional appearance. This standardized look will make staff members easily identifiable and reinforce consistency across all stores.

We understand that dress code changes can sometimes be met with resistance from employees. To help ease this transition, Walk-In Closets will provide each employee with a minimum of two branded shirts at no cost. This approach minimizes any financial burden on staff while promoting fairness and uniformity. Managers are encouraged to communicate the benefits of this change to their teams, emphasizing how clearer staff identification supports stronger customer relationships and improved store performance.

The dress code policy will be fully implemented by the start of Q3. Store managers should begin preparing their teams immediately by discussing expectations and addressing any questions or concerns. Additional details regarding shirt distribution and sizing will be provided in the coming weeks. If you have questions or foresee challenges during this transition, please reach out directly so we can work together to ensure a smooth rollout.

BUSN220 Week 3 / Assignment #2

Please select 2 terms from a Finance Instrument (e.g. a deed, Deed of Trust, mortgage, Note, etc.) used in the real estate finance industry.

List and define 2 terms or conditions from that instrument. Write 1 to 4 pages for each term explaining the meaning of the term, why the term is important, to whom the term is important (buyer, seller, real estate agent or lender) and list any important issues and concerns, or advantages and disadvantages.

Use your own words and analysis to describe the terms. Avoid merely copying the definitions.

Your work should be in proper APA format. Upon completion, upload your work to the Assignments area of the classroom.

Job Analysis Reflection

This assignment helps you meet CO 1-4 and MO 1 and 2. The first assignment for this course is a reflection on a Job Analysis. You will perform some Job Analysis steps and reflect on lessons learned to demonstrate the importance of conducting a thorough job analysis to accurately describe the most important criteria to be used when making employment decisions. Be sure to address the following module objectives in your discussion:

• Differentiate knowledge, skills, tasks, and outcomes, as critical elements of a valid job analysis.
• Analyze the value of job analyses to improve organizational hiring and performance assessment effectiveness and legal defensibility.

Instructions

To begin your assignment, select a specific job (not just an O*Net “type” of job) for your job analysis. I recommend selecting a job with which you are familiar, such as your own current or past job. You may also select a job of someone you know and interview that person about their job. The important thing is that you must analyze a specific job, not just a general job category. You will compare that specific job to a similar job and will reflect on similarities and differences.

Once you have selected your job, access . In the top right corner, type in the name of the job you have selected to analyze. O*NET refers to jobs as occupations.

Your search will produce a list of occupations. You may find that the occupation you searched for has a name other than the exact term for which you searched, but you should easily be able to figure out the occupation that matches your search term.

Your specific job might not exactly match any O*NET occupation, and that’s okay.

After youve located the occupation, complete and submit the Job Analysis Reflection following these guidelines:

• Create a cover page for your assignment with your name, the assignment name, and your specific job title.
• Include correct section headings for all three sections.
• Use the following outline to guide your analysis and replace the questions in each section with your answers to complete these Job Analysis elements. Be sure to write in complete sentences except where indicated.

1. Organization, Location, Occupational Code, and Job Title

Questions

• What is your specific Job title, organization, and location?
• What is a similar job on O*Net?
• What O*NET SOC (Occupational Code) and title best matches the specific job you are analyzing?
• How is your job different from the general job description provided in the O*NET Occupation Overview?

2. Job Overview

Questions

• Are the most important tasks and task activities for your specific job included in the O*Net list for a comparable job? If not, which ones are missing? Why might that be?
• Are there tasks and activities on the O*Net list that are NOT typically used in your selected job? You may just list them for this answer.
• Are the most important KSAs for your specific job included in the O*Net list for a comparable job? If not, which ones are missing? Why might that be?
• Are there KSAs on the O*Net list that are NOT typically used in your selected job? You may just list them for this answer.

3. Reflection and Analysis

Answer each of these questions in your own words. No quotes or paraphrases can be used but be sure to cite our text or other sources of information for example, about the importance of criteria and effective job analyses.

Questions

• What are criteria relevance, contamination, and deficiency, and why is each one important to consider when making employment hiring, selection, training, and performance appraisal decisions?
• How did your job analysis help you identify the most relevant for your selected job?
• Why would relying only on O*Net information to determine the most important knowledge, skills, abilities, and tasks and activities of the specific job you selected for this assignment result in criteria contamination and deficiency? In other words, what important elements of your selected job were missing from the O*Net information? What things were listed in O*Net information that are NOT important for your specific job?
• Describe two specific examples of employment decision errors (related to hiring, selection, training, or performance appraisal) that might be made if leaders in your specific job’s organization relied only on O*Net to determine what was most important.

In your submission, use at least 2 specific references to incorporate the assigned learning materials.

Submission and Grading Guidelines

• Include a cover page with your name, the assignment title (Job Analysis Reflection), and your specific job title.
• Include correct headings for all three numbered sections.
• Organization, Location, Occupational Code, and Job Title
• Job Overview
• Reflection and Analysis
• Use correct APA format for citations and references.

Prompt

First, reflect on your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) and how they help you accept or resist change. Then, perform a personal SWOT analysis and record the results in a Word document. Describe how you think this analysis impacts your change readiness skills to manage and lead the organizational change in the course scenario.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Strengths: Identify at least two strengths that support your readiness for change.

Explain how they support your readiness for change.

Weaknesses: Identify at least two weaknesses that might get in the way of change.

Explain how they can impact your response to change.

Opportunities: Identify at least two opportunities you can use to leverage your strengths.

Explain how you can use these opportunities to develop your skills.

Threats: Identify at least two threats that you would like to minimize.

Explain how you can minimize these threats and how this will help you develop your skills.

Change Readiness: Explain what your SWOT analysis reveals regarding your change readiness for the proposed acquisition of the organization in the course scenario.

Are you ready to accept organizational change that is likely to arise from the proposed acquisition?

Are you ready to initiate and lead the change efforts for the organization in the scenario? Why or why not?

Students will interview a leader from a Canadian organization to explore their approach to ethical leadership, decision-making, and balancing profitability with social responsibility. The interview should align with course themes such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethical dilemmas, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability.

Prior to the interview, students must research the organization, justify their choice of leader, and prepare 810 thoughtful questions that address these topics. Attach the questions as appendix to your paper. The appendix does not count in page number.