This week is an introduction to keeping a professional journal. Starting in Week 3 make sure you have at least one (1) entry in your professional journal each week using the templates provided, in this course, as a guide. Students are to make at least one (1) entry in their professional journal each week. The entries will be reported in CLA1 due in Week 6 (a link to a template can be found in the resources section of this syllabus).

• In your discussion post:
  • Read the articles on journaling and review the template provided.
  • Identify what approach, to journaling, in the articles you found useful and why.
  • Post to the discussion forum that you have reviewed the journaling materials and what you learned, based on the articles.
  • Journal writing tips are provided in the Internship Course Resources under Supplementary Material in this GAP course. Here is also a web article with templates to review as well: .
  • You may also post if you have experience journaling, your thoughts about journaling, and further questions you may have about journaling.

Topic:

What is the significance of the DBA program of study, and how will it add value to your professional career?

Note: Your answer should be a minimum of 2-3 pages in total. APA format, and no plagiarism or AI content is allowed.

Note:

• Content should be clear, concise, and understandable in APA format
• No plagiarism or AI content is allowed.
• Check for any grammatical errors and sentence structure.

BUS 210 Module Two Assignment Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

Using management skills and practices that suit your team and its objectives can help to ensure the teams efficiency and productivity. Analyze the scenario provided to determine how management skills and practices can help support the team.

Scenario

Imagine that you are an organizational consultant for the SNHU Pet Supply Company. The director of retail operations has asked you to evaluate why there has been a drop in the team’s productivity. You are to make recommendations for their improvement. Further conversations with the team members and managers reveal a conflict in the way productivity and efficiency are being measured and handled.

The team members say that their managers micromanage them. Each week, the managers send out a task list for the team and expect them to fill out detailed timesheets every day to cross-reference the task list. Any deviations from the list must be explained in a separate email. Moreover, some team members feel their skill sets are not being used correctly and that they would be better suited to do tasks that are not being assigned to them. This process has led to some resentment within the team and high levels of stress to meet the managers demands.

The managers maintain that they have just been following the process set out in the company for years. The many unresolved issues are taking a toll on the teams productivity and efficiency, which then feeds back into the conflict, creating a vicious circle.

Directions

Write a brief report to the director of retail operations that explains the management skills and practices you feel will improve team productivity and efficiency. Use the module reading to support your recommendations.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Overview: Provide a brief overview of the problem you have been asked to resolve, making sure to note specific areas of conflict between management approaches and employee feedback based on the provided scenario.
2. Management Approaches: Describe the general functions of management as well as the purpose and benefits of using established management skills and practices, making sure to use course resources to support your explanation.
3. Recommendations: Recommend a new management approach, consisting of a blend of management skills and practices, that you believe will help improve the teams productivity and efficiency. Explain why you believe these approaches will be effective, making sure to use course resources to support your recommendations.

What to Submit

Your submission should be a 1 page Microsoft Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

I am seeking support from a tutor with experience in CIPD Level 5 assignments, specifically Unit 5CO01 Organisational Performance and Culture in Practice.

The work must be completed strictly in line with the official CIPD assessment brief and fully applied to the Calmere House case study under Chaffinch Group ownership .

Assessment Requirements:

• Total word count: ~4,550 words (10%)
• Covers 12 questions / 12 ACs (single task)
• Written in UK English
• Harvard referencing (in-text + reference list)
• Minimum 15 credible and recent references (CIPD + academic sources), preferably within the last 5 years.
• Clear structure using AC headings (Q1Q12)

Critical Expectations (VERY IMPORTANT):

• Answers must be:
  • Fully applied to the case study (not generic)
  • Analytical (not descriptive)
  • Based on relevant theories and models
• Each AC must include:
  • Strong application to Calmere House
  • Clear evaluation / analysis depending on the command word
• The work must meet High Pass criteria, including:
  • Depth of knowledge
  • Strong examples
  • Excellent structure and clarity

Key Brief Requirements:

• All answers must directly relate to the case study
• Avoid unnecessary theory description focus on application
• Approx. 350400 words per AC
• Clear link between question analysis case study conclusion

Important Note:

This is not my first CIPD assignment I expect:

• Accuracy from the beginning
• No over-wording
• No generic answers
• Strong alignment with the brief and grading criteria

Term Paper: Do BOTH Parts: Part One and Part Two (but submit both in one document — one upload, one submission):

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Part One: Essay Assignment: Imaginary Future Impacts of Life Choices, Laws, and Government Actions

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You can use an AI tool (chatbot) to help you think up and detail some, or all, of these items in Part One. Just follow the steps below, one at a time, and put down your answers as numbered items, in that order. I recommend you save a copy as you go, and go over it one final time before submitting. For a REALLY outstanding-quality paper, I usually give a few papers some extra points.

IMPORTANT: I will be grading hard, looking for your own active engagement, editing, and voice: not just a paste of AI stuff. That usually means going back over the AI output, and reworking it. AI-related writing I dont like, and will cut points for, sounds flat, smooth, generic, impersonal, and lacking distinctive imagination and distinctively human presence in the writing. I was very pleased with the distinctive voices in the earlier writing assignments, done by most of you!

Free AI tools are listed below.

Suggested Free AI Tools:

Google Gemini (Free):

ChatGPT (Free/GPT-3.5):

Microsoft Copilot (Free):

Text only: do not include any images, sounds or videos.

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Each item in Part 1 of your term paper should be labeled 1-1 to 1-7, matching each of these 7 items:

1-1. Create an imaginary person who is about your age. This person should not be you, a friend, or any real person. Do this to protect personal privacy (to not disclose your actual personal details to a chatbot). Write an imaginary first name for this person, and a 3-year range of age. (Example: Sarah, age 22-25.)

1-2. 3 life roles. Give this imaginary person three (3) future life roles. One role must be professional (a job or career, as in, working in a certain industry or business). The other two roles must be personal (like ‘parent,’ ‘homeowner,’ or ‘partner in a marriage’). You will include these and build from them for your remaining items:

1-3. NAME 3 GOVERNMENT POLICIES. Identify government policies affecting each of the life roles: identify three (3) current or likely future government policies (federal or state) that could affect your person’s decisions in those roles. These are laws or policies that, if they happen as expected, may make it more, or less, challenging or costly to seek and have these roles.
One law or government policy must relate to business or work. (For example, the US federal budget passed in 2025, and President Trump’s 2025 executive orders, have cut funding for certain government jobs and programs, affecting particular types of employment and government-linked businesses, while preserving high military funding, and tax cuts. Your job is to find what the specifics are, affecting your person’s possible choices.)
Others of these 3 government/law items can relate to the roles in terms of business or personal choices such as seeking student loan or other government assistance.
(“Policies” are big, overall government projects or plans, that in turn, are usually further expressed and carried out in laws. For example, the government may have a policy to support a certain field of business or technology, by tax laws or direct financial support, or a policy to increase child care assistance, or veterans’ benefits. More points are awarded for identifying current or expected government policies clearly.
1-4. NAME 3 ACTUAL LAWS. For each policy you identified, name and summarize at least one actual law that carries out, or is intended in the future to carry out, that policy, by its correct official name. For each law you identify, give a short summary of what it does, overall. Be sure to tell the AI to only use real, not made-up, law names and descriptions. More items you can think of, and develop clearly, get more points!

1-5. SCENARIOS (QUICK STORIES). Tell me 3 scenarios (stories) of how each of these roles and choices could be affected, and made easier or more difficult, by these policies and laws. Write a scenario, an imagined story, for each of the three laws/government policies. The scenario must show how the law or policy may affect your person’s ability to achieve or practice their roles, and the person’s decisions to seek these, or to seek alternate roles, or to adjust the person’s plans. A scenario could, for example, include choices of what life and business priorities the person decides to accomplish first, second and third, what to emphasize in the person’s future education, or what region of the country to live in, based on businesses, laws, or politics that are strong in that region.

1-6. Identify all AI use. Document all AI use inside your essay: For every AI use, list the site name, and summarize the prompts you used, and the output you got, from each. You can do this by labeling each part above, with this info.

1-7. NOW, tell DIFFERENT possible futures. Now find different ways it could play out. The real-life future involves guesses, even for an AI! So ask the AI for alternatives: for each of your three scenarios, use a new prompt to ask the AI to suggest a different, alternative scenario for how the government, law or business trends could change or turn out different, affecting your person, and your person’s choices. Include this second AI output in your essay.

Grading: Points will be given for how imaginative and detailed you make the person’s roles and scenarios, and how clearly you identify laws and government policies that relate to this.

Format: I am very open on the format you use, as long as you include the items listed above.
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Part Two:
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Part 2: make up a quick little story (one or more sentences long) for each part of this California law:

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For each item below, write a statement (like a little story, which can be just one sentence long, or a few sentences) of an imaginary business (not a real business) doing each thing described. (Just so you know: these things are illegal to do.) Note: this is a real law. But here, I put it in a different order from the actual law, and from earlier semester assignments, so copying older papers from earlier semesters will not work. Make each one separate; number each one, in order, matching the numbers below:

Example: sample answer (do not use this example as your answer): for the first item below:
Part 2 – (1)[Falsely stating] geographic origin [of] goods or services.

[Sample/Example answer:] Part 2 – (1) Joes Wine Shop sells wine that Joe falsely claims is made in France, but in fact, it was made in Joes house in El Cajon from grapes grown in his back yard.
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These are each from a California law: California Civil Code section 1770, “Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices”:
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The following unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts [by a seller] intended to result in sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful [in California]:

[Tell a story of an imaginary business doing each of these things:]

Part 2 – (1)[Falsely stating] geographic origin [of] goods or services.

Part 2 – (2) Representing [claiming, stating, communicating] that goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, or grade, or that goods are of a particular … model, if they are of another.

Part 2 – (3) [Falsely stating] the source [such as, the brand or maker] … of goods or services.

Part 2 – (4) Representing that a part, replacement, or repair service is needed when it is not.

Part 2 – (5) Representing that goods are original or new if they have deteriorated unreasonably or are used.

Part 2 – (6) Inserting an unconscionable provision in the contract. [That word is explained in our contracts notes and videos, or can be looked up in a legal dictionary online.]

Part 2 – (7) [A fake sale:] Advertising goods or services with intent not to supply reasonably expectable demand, unless the advertisement discloses a limitation of quantity.

Part 2 – (8) Disparaging [defaming: making a false statement, as fact, that harms reputation, to a third person such as a customer, about the] goods, services, or business of [another business or business person] by false [statement]of fact. [Example: lying to wreck a businesss good name with a desired customer.]

Part 2 – (9) [Making a false statement of] certification [this business supposedly has, from a government agency or other organization].

Part 2 – (10) [Falsely stating] that goods or services have … characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, or quantities they do not have.

End.

Choose a start-up of your choice and prepare a Business Plan for the start-up. The business plan should focus on crucial issues such as opportunity analysis, customer problems and solutions, ownership plan, marketing plan, competitive plan, operational plan, human resource plan, risk and solution, financial plan, growth and expansion Plan

Choose a start-up of your choice and prepare a Business Plan for the start-up. The business plan should focus on crucial issues such as opportunity analysis, customer problems and solutions, ownership plan, marketing plan, competitive plan, operational plan, human resource plan, risk and solution, financial plan, growth and expansion Plan

Report Structure
Your report should have:
1. An introduction (100 words)
2. Response to task 1 (400 words)
3. Response to task 2 (400 words)
4. Response to task 3 (400 words)
5. Conclusion and recommendations (200 words
6. At least six references in Harvard or another recognised academic format.

Formative 1:

Healthcare reform in a continuous journey within the United States. Challenges and opportunities are plentiful, with a move toward a value based, population driven system. Consider the strategies that the United States is taking over the next 5 years, with consideration to the global health world, a value based system and the Triple Aim.

• Outline steps that the United States should consider when reforming healthcare over the next 5 years.
  • The outline should include a 5 year plan on US Health Reform.
  • List potential implementation strategies using what the country has already started with in the global world.
  • List potential implementation strategies using what the country has already started with value based care.
  • List potential implementation strategies using what the country has already started with reaching Triple Aim initiatives.

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Document Type/Template:

• Word Document

Formative 2:

Select a healthcare issue and provide a visual of the patients journey through the health continuum.

Submit a 3-4 page paper (excluding Cover and Reference pages) of a patients journey through the health continuum.

• Create a visual of a patients journey through the health continuum.
• Discuss challenges and opportunities a patient experiences from access to health services.
• Discuss challenges and opportunities a patient experiences from medical records being stored on the cloud.
• Discuss challenges and opportunities a patient experiences from rising healthcare costs

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Document Type/Template:

• Word Document
  • 3-4 Pages (excluding cover and references)

  Summative: An essay on how United States Health reform can help the patient experienceSubmit a 5-7 page paper (excluding Cover and Reference pages) on how United States Health reform can help the patient experience that includes:

  • how the United States Health Reform issue of access can improve the patient experience.
  • how the United States Health Reform issue of EHRs can improve the patient experience.
  • how the United States Health Reform issue of costs can improve the patient experience.
  • how The Triple Aim can improve the patient experience.
  • how value-based care can improve the patient experience.

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  Document Type/Template:

  • Word Document
    • 5-7 page paper (excluding Cover and Reference pages)

  Final Assessment: Assessment of national policy and/or reimbursement initiative Develop a communication plan as though you are a Healthcare Leader communicating an organizations strategic direction based on recent national policy and/or reimbursement initiatives aimed at improving patient access to care, high quality and low cost to patients. Students decide which policy or reimbursement structure to communicate across continuum. Submit a 10-12 page paper (excluding Cover & Reference pages), including at least 5 current peer-reviewed sources.

  • Pick a Policy
    • Determine which national policy and/or reimbursement structure you would like to communicate.
    • Pick a policy that connects to current challenges within healthcare around access, cost, and quality affecting the patient.
    • Provide reasons you picked this policy to implement within your organization.
    • The reasoning should include connection to patient access, cost, and quality.
    • Use the provided to conduct an assessment of your policy brainstorming potential strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
  • Strategic Plan
    • Determine a strategic planning document outlining steps toward building a strategy.
    • Include technology’s role in ensuring high patient access, quality, and cost.
    • Document the step-by-step strategy based on the policy chosen in the Policy chosen under “Pick a Policy”.
    • Use the to brainstorm about how to implement this strategy.
  • Communication Plan
    • Should include why this policy or reimbursement structure is important to the organization.
    • Should include a bigger connection to the global and national health crisis.
    • Connect communication to the interconnectedness of a patient, their provider, and third-party payers
    • Communicate technologys role in ensuring high patient access, quality, and cost.
    • Communication should include adult organizational learning concepts.

  Resources:

  • Adult organizational learning components page 114- 120.

  Document Type/Template:

  • Word Document
    • 10-12 Pages (excluding cover and references)
  • 5 Academic Sources

do the minor revision in my work and ensure you read the instructions.