Category: Public administration

This assignment is an HR memo that has to be based on a DEIJ-related workplace equity issue. The specific issue for this assignment is SEXUAL HARASSMENT. I’ve uploaded a sample for you to draw from. This memo will be graded based on the following components:

1. Draft the purpose and outline of your message (3.75 points). Memos from human resources can be informational, such as policy or procedural updates, or they can be written confirmation of employment actions, such as documentation for disciplinary review or termination. As you draft the outline, determine your reader’s position or title, background, and qualifications

2. Gather the data necessary to substantiate your topic (3.75 points). For example, if you’re writing about a policy change, get copies of current handbooks and standard operating procedures. Also, obtain revised policy statements that have been disseminated after your handbook was published. If the policies have to do with processes, such as technology, obtain step-by-step instructions for using the new technology.

3. Identify the employees you are targeting in this HR memo (3.75 points). List the department or the ranks/titles of these employees. Determine who your readers are and adjust the language accordingly. For example, if you’re writing to IT specialists about procedural matters, they will understand technology-speak. However, if you’re writing a memo about IT processes and your audience consists of more than IT staff, prepare it so it’s understandable for a broad audience.

4. Indicate whether HR memos are confidential (3.75 points). HR correspondence can contain sensitive information about wages and terms and conditions about employment matters, such as benefits, discipline, HR metrics, and HR strategic plans.

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Please review the attached portfolio instructions doc. Then review the portfolio paper doc to complete the reflective memo that summarizes what has been learned throughout the MPA program. Reflections should revolve around the assignments that you chose to include in your Portfolio ( see the portfolio paper for all assignments). It should summarize what you have accomplished in completing the MPA degree and should synthesize what you can therefore contribute to an organization. It should then address your ultimate career goals and the steps that you could be taken to achieve those goals. The memo is to be concise at 3-4 double spaced pages in length, and to employ appropriate grammar and APA citation style. Points will be deducted for grammar and citation errors.

Career goals should be written as if: My goal is to work as a strategic analyst and advisor in the public sector using data, systems thinking, and compliance knowledge to help leaders make informed, ethical decisions.

Do NOT complete the resume portion. Plagiarism results must be provided for pay. No AI usage or I will have to cancel the order.

The private sector is profit-driven and will take all necessary steps to ensure their money is not unnecessarily spent. A significant loss or mismanagement of money places private companies at risk of not paying their employees, poor standing in the stock market, or even bankruptcy and business closure. The public sector is not profit-driven, and there is little incentive to reduce project costs or manage projects within an established budget.

For example, in 2005, the US Air Force initiated a project named the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS). The ECSS was a system that would replace more than 200 legacy Air Force information systems. After spending over $1.03 billion to develop the system, the Air Force abandoned the project in 2017 after concluding it would cost an additional $1.1 billion to finish development. Further, the ECSS would not be available for use until after 2020. The project was complex and was to integrate systems that were not designed to communicate between platforms easily. It is evident that several failures occurred, preventing the ECSS from being fully developed and implemented to support the Air Force.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

1. Identify reasons why the US Air Force’s ECSS project failed.
2. Identify key steps the Air Force could have taken to manage the risk that the complexity of the project posed to the successful development of the ECSS.
3. If you were advising the Air Force on the project, would you have recommended the Air Force terminate the project before expending the initial $1.03 billion? Identify the specific reason or factors you would have used to support your recommendation.

Please respond in six to ten sentences. Use one policy issue for your entire response; you may draw from a DCo Forward 2029 focus area or another issue if you prefer.

1. In one sentence, define a policy actor (in policy formation terms) and name two distinct actor types relevant to your issue.
2. In one sentence, define power in the policy process and identify one concrete power resource or strategy (e.g., information, mobilization, access, funding, venue choice, narrative framing) that could matter for your issue.
3. Define an advocacy coalition and identify one plausible coalition for your issue. Further, list the mission, purpose, and vision that unite coalition members.
4. In one sentence, apply the ACF by stating one policy belief that likely anchors your coalition and one counter-belief held by an opposing coalition or key actor(s).
5. In one sentence, name one likely venue and level of government where coalition conflict would play out (e.g., federal/state/local; NC legislature, agency, court/board).
6. In one to two sentences, identify one administrative capacity or implementation constraint that could shape outcomes (e.g., staffing, expertise, authority, data, coordination, funding, legitimacy) and state one likely effect on policy performance.

Completion standard: responses must address all elements, stay within the sentence limit, and use terms in ways that are consistent with the assigned readings. – attached below

This is a draft towards my Doctorate Capstone and this is chapter 2. I have already done the Literature part which I have attached as Chapter 2 literature Draft.. Do not delete anything in the body of the paper, only add to it, same as the references, don’t delete, only add to the references. Please follow the instructions attached as well as the grading rubric.

Please have four sources besides the textbook. Please make sure they are scholarly sources.

Please read chapters 11 – 14 from Joseph S. Wholey, Harry P. Hatry, and Kathryn E. Newcomer, editors, Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation, Latest Edition as well as Module 4 lecture materials (and journal articles). Also, please watch the video in module 4…

At a minimum, this critique should address the following questions or issues. If, in your opinion, your

article does not address one or more of them, then you should say so and defend or justify why you believe

that to be the case. In all cases, defend or justify your answers with specific references to words, phrases,

or passages in the article and corresponding references to the assigned readings for the course. In other

words, while your critique should be written in your own words (third person only), you do need to make

references to specific words, phrases, and relevant passages in the text of your article, as well as

corresponding references to the assigned readings for the course. Each of the following items in BOLD

must be listed as a heading on your critique. Do not use bullet points. Discuss in your critique the

questions/issues under each bolded item. If a question/issue does not apply, please explain why.

Summary (1-2 pages)

o Summarize the contents of your article.

o Who wanted the policy or program evaluated? In other words, why did the

author(s) conduct the evaluation?

Evaluation Goal(s) (1 page)

o What were the goals or desired outcomes of the policy or program under

examination?

o How did the author(s) propose to evaluate the policy or program in terms of

its goals or outcomes?

Theoretical Perspective (2-3 paragraphs)

o What theory connects the policy or program to the goals or outcomes?

o What rival or plausible explanations or theories were ruled out?

o How did the theory guide the author(s) in their conduct of the evaluation?

Research Methods (2-3 paragraphs)

o What principal research method(s) did the author(s) use in the conduct of the

evaluation?

o Did any unintended or unanticipated consequences arise? If so, what were

they?

o How and why did they arise?

Conclusion (1 page)

o What did the author(s) conclude? On what basis?

o Did the policy or program achieve its intended goals or outcomes in whole,

in part, or not at all? If so, why or why not?

o To what uses were the results of the evaluation to be put?

o Based on the results of the evaluation, what principal recommendations did

the author(s) make?

Evaluation Concepts (1-2 pages)

o After you have written your summary, identify which of the following apply

to the article. Be sure to define the concept and explain how each of your

selections applies to your article.

Implementation evaluation

Process evaluation

Outcome evaluation

Goals or desired outcomes

Program theory

Quantitative methodology

Qualitative methodology

Dependent variable(s)

Independent variable(s)

Experimental design

Quasi-experimental design

Internal validity

External validity

Unit of analysis

Replication

Meta-analysis

Cost-benefit analysis

Cost-effectiveness analysis

No assignments will be accepted after the semester ends. Your submission will be evaluated and graded according to the guidelines.