Management

Part I  Evaluate the history of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and then how it has transformed cryptography with the advancement of triple DES.  Part II (75% of grade) – Milestone 1 In this milestone writing assignment, you will evaluate the history of cryptography from its origins.  Analyze how cryptography was used and describe how it grew within history.  The writing assignment requires a minimum of two written pages to evaluate the history.  You must use a minimum of three scholarly articles to complete the assignment.  The assignment must be properly APA formatted with a separate title and reference page.

Assignment (helpful prompts are in section III below). This assignment is worth 50 points. It is okay if some items overlap more than one section. 1. Conduct a SWOT analysis, mentioning 4 of each: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (10 points). 2. Discuss a Porter’s five industry forces analysis of Kroger. Based on this analysis, how attractive is this business? (15 points). 3. Complete an analysis of the general environment for Kroger using PESTEL analysis [Political, Economic, Sociocultural, Technological, Environmental, and Legal Environments] (15 points). 4. Examine your findings and draw some conclusions (10 points). • What is changing the most in Kroger’s environment? • What should Kroger do to remain competitive? Have to have 4 references cited

You recently accepted a management position for a home health agency. You directly manage three team leads (Registered Nurses with management experience), each with eight Certified Nursing Aides (CNAs) under them. A total of 27 employees. Your first week on the job, you realized there were significant issues with how each team functioned. All three team leads complain about how “the system” is structured, and you’ve heard rumor that several of the CNAs are unhappy with how they are managed. For this assignment: You plan to conduct interviews with both the team leads, and CNAs. Create an outline with a list of questions for the team leads, and separate questions for the CNAs. A minimum of five questions for each group (10 questions total, minimum). Please use numbered lists for these questions. As you researched your predecessor’s files, you noticed no performance reviews were conducted for any employees. Briefly summarize how you will change this moving forward. Include the structure and frequency of performance reviews, and why they are relevant to employee development. In approximately one paragraph, explain what steps you will take to develop, motivate, and support this team. Be mindful of solutions that require budgetary support…remember, you’re new on the job, don’t spend the budget all in one place! Focus on solutions that involve tried and true HR practices. Include a minimum of two references on a separate page.

Consider a supply chain for an organization you are familiar with. 1. How could the organization create more value for its stakeholders? 2. Which of the four future freight flows should it prepare itself for? 3. What should the organization do to prepare for the future flow(s)?

This week, one of the assigned readings is an article by Pedro Serrador on Stakeholder Management. This article highlighted the importance of stakeholder management for project success. As a matter of fact, in the latest edition of the PMBOK® Guide, stakeholder management has been added as an entirely new knowledge area. Please answer the following questions related to stakeholder management: Who would you define as a project stakeholder? Possibly list some categories of stakeholders List 3 to 5 reasons why stakeholder management is important to project success What are some possible consequences of stakeholder mismanagement Provide at least one professional example of a situation where effective stakeholder management either significantly benefited a project or where ineffective stakeholder management harmed a project. If you do not have a personal example from a professional setting, research a project online and provide the information requested. How can these insights be integrated into your capstone Stakeholder Register?

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. As the lead of the EHR implementation team for your assigned departments, your first task is to identify the appropriate people who should be involved in the implementation process and submit this information to the executive team. For this assignment, you will do the following: Identify the appropriate department heads that you would select to be a part of the EHR implementation team, and explain what you expect these individuals to do related to the implementation process

Page 245-246 read the article (Probability and Impact) and answer the questions.

Some points shouldn’t be covered because I’m only covering the years 1914 and 1919, so I still haven’t reached most of the important dates. Each journal should be around 300 words.

Primary Task Response:  Be substantive and clear and use examples to reinforce your ideas. Focus on the following questions: • Describe the differences in the content and structure of a qualitative literature review as compared to a quantitative literature review. (Remember that the literature review is the second chapter of a dissertation.  Limit your response to differences in the literature review only, and not the entire paper.)

Assessing Yourself and Your Environment One common focus of coaching in organizational settings is to work with an employee to construct a personal development plan. In this SLP, you will be developing your own Leadership Growth Plan (LGP).  The purpose is to have you learn the steps to developing such a plan so you can help others you are coaching to do the same, but also to come out of the class with a personal plan for your own development as a leader. Why create a Leadership Growth Plan? It is one thing to want to be a good leader.  It is another thing to achieve it.  Research shows that people who have a vision for where they want to go and then write it down and develop a plan to achieve it, are more successful than people who do not.  An LGP is designed to help you assess your current skills and capacities as a leader, set goals, and make a plan for enhancing your effectiveness by acquiring new skills. For an example of what a personal leadership growth plan might look like, see the following: Create a Personal Leadership Growth Plan (n.d.) Retrieved from Guide to the Completion of a Personal Development Plan. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.collegiovolta.org/images/example_pdp_2016.pdf Assignment Instructions In this module, we will begin with the first phase of creating your plan.  You will engage in some assessment and reflection addressed toward giving you a picture of “Who am I”? Then you will write up what you have learned about yourself in a two- to three-page paper. The paper should be an integrated essay assessing your current attributes and capabilities as a leader.  Do not just line up the four topics below and report on them as in a short-answer test.  Use them to “tell the story” of who you are. Keys to the Assignment To assess yourself as a leader, consider the following and incorporate your answers into your paper. What are your values? Make a list of everything that is important to you in life.  Do not censor or edit anything, just get it all on paper. You may find that you think of things you would not have expected. Read through the list several times, choose the five most important values, and list them in order of importance. Define each value in terms of why it is important to you. What is your leadership style? You have undoubtedly assessed your leadership style in one or more classes or at work.  If you can recall your dominant style, name and describe it. The most common styles are authoritarian, consulting, participative, and delegating, but there are others. Using the authoritative style, you tend to make all important decisions, including how jobs are performed. Using the consulting style, you ask for employee input, but then make the decision yourself. Using the participative style, you involve employees as partners in the decision. Using the delegating style, you empower employees to make the decisions on their own as appropriate. If you want to take a new assessment questionnaire, there are many on the Internet.  Just cite the instrument you are using. What motivates you? Not everyone is motivated by the same things.  What does it for you?  Compensation, titles, perks, social status, money, helping others, doing a good job, winning? Repeat the process you used in assessing your values. How are your skills in the following competencies? Developing subordinates:  fostering employee engagement and commitment to the job and the organization, developing job-related skills and abilities, building decision-making capabilities, encouraging personal accountability for job responsibilities. Modeling desirable behaviors:  As a leader you are the “voice” of the organization.  You exemplify its ethics, values, and expectations of employees.  You do not ask people to do things you would not do yourself. Challenging the status quo:  Are you willing to try something different, think outside the box, take risks?  Leaders do not simply accept things the way they have always been, but ask, “How can we do it better?” Accountability:  Leaders take responsibility for getting the job done.  Leaders try new ideas, create action plans, and evaluate results. SLP Assignment Expectations Include a cover page and reference page in addition to the 2-3 pages of analysis described above. Your paper should include introduction and conclusion paragraphs. Use headings to indicate major sections of the report. Cite and reference any outside sources. Use APA formatting. Proofread and edit your papers carefully. The expectation is zero errors.