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history and Systems of psychology

write a 2/3 page paper ,Refer to Dr. Eric Landrum’s video on Functionalism found on YouTube.

To structure your reactions for chapters 6,7,8, you may consider the following questions: Also, for those of you who haven’t already, remember to submit your topics for the in-class presentations.

1. In what ways did Darwin’s data and ideas alter the subject matter and methods of psychology?

2. How did Galton study the association of ideas? How did he test for intelligence?

3. What did Spencer mean by his concept of Social Darwinism?

4. Why was James considered to be the most important American Psychologist? What was his attitude towards laboratory work?

5. How were mental tests used in the United States to support the notion of racial differences in intelligence and the alleged inferiority of immigrants?

HRM 530 Strategic Human Resource Management

CASE 1.2 Real-World Case Rolls Royce’s ERP Implementation

CASE 1.2 Real-World Case

Rolls Royce’s ERP Implementation
Source: Based on Greg Sumner, Case Study Report, U Mass Lowell, 2006.
Rolls Royce (RR) is a global company with several divisions in more than 14 countries. Itoperates in four global markets: civil aerospace, defense aerospace, marine, and energy.9 In 1996, Rolls Royce outsourced 90 percent of its IT functions to a contractor called Electronic Data Services (EDS), which meant that EDS was responsible for overseeing the existing IT structure as well as providing adequate IT solutions for the future prosperity of the company.10 RR used more than 1,500 legacy (mainframe) systems that were inaccurate, expensive to operate, and difficult to maintain.

9 Rolls-Royce Web site. www.rolls-royce.com/index_flash.jsp (accessed October 2010).
10 Kelly, L. (December 2003). Outsourcing Case Study: Rolls-Royce. Computing.
A need for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system was noted during the late 1990s at RR to handle the volume of data being produced and processed from the new acquisitions and overall growth experienced by the company. In 2001, RR decided that SAP/R3, an ERP platform consisting of 12 functional modules, would be implemented at its aerospace division. There were multitudes of challenges that RR had to overcome in order for a successful implementation to occur.

To conquer the challenges presented, RR had to have an excellent IT team in place with a viable implementation strategy. The ERP project consisted of a management team of specialists from EDS who in turn hired SAP consultants to provide specialized technical help with the implementation. Within the project team there were subject matter experts (SMEs) and staff that had vital knowledge of cross-functional business relationships and experience of the old legacy systems. In conjunction with this team there were operational business units (OBUs), each with its own ERP change management team, which was responsible for implementing working changes and training.11 The ERP team at RR could be classified into three categories: cultural, business, and technical.

11 Yusuf, Y., Gunasekaran, A., and. Abthorpe, M. S. (February 13, 2004). Enterprise in Formation Systems Project Implementation: A Case Study of ERP. International Journal of Production Economics, 87.
The cultural team’s challenge was to overcome the problems that stemmed from whether or not SAP (1) would be accepted by users throughout the company and (2) would provide similar functionality as the prior legacy systems. The cultural team decided to illustrate the benefits to the company as a whole in order to quell concerns. They did so by training individuals throughout RR. Specialist users were trained, and they, in turn, trained expert users. Along with meetings and presentations, they allowed users fully to understand and utilize functionality.

The business team had to overcome the problems that stemmed from the fact that SAP required a rigid business process structure that necessitated a vanilla implementation. This meant that working practices at RR would have to change in order to meet the functional demands of SAP. The business team used process mappings of current procedures and remapped them to show how they would have to be changed organizationally in order to meet the demands of SAP. Overall, expensive modifications to the SAP software were avoided.

The technical team had to overcome problems mainly to avoid the possibility of inaccurate data. Their main challenge was cleaning data during the migration. Mr. Uwe Koch, the technical lead at RR, says: “We didn’t achieve all our targets and still haven’t finished cleaning the data. We are in a stabilization period. Making enough people available for these tasks has been difficult.”12 Data had to be screened and stored while avoiding duplication—a major concern for RR. RR built interfaces with the old legacy systems for some special circumstances, so some legacy systems weren’t taken offline immediately. Interfacing required that data be retrieved from the prior legacy systems, which of course meant that it had to be accurate after being run into SAP. This was so because the reports generated from SAP had to be precise. This was accomplished by validating the data before putting it into the SAP data warehouse. The system required multiple weekly “runs” via a UNIX server, which bridged the data from the legacy systems.

12 Adshead, A. (May 13, 2003). Cheaper Field Staff Tracking Services. Computer Weekly.
The system rollout was another technical challenge. The ERP was designed in three phases, of which the third stage was actually the “implementation.” The implementation was done in two waves. The first wave was focused around the replacement of the legacy systems. The second wave was done in order to implement such leftover elements as logistics and human resources that were not converted until wave one was completely successful.

The implementation team at RR, including EDS personnel and SAP consultants, identified problems that would be pertinent to the implementation of SAP as the ERP for the company before they could develop into issues that would impede and possibly cause the implementation to fail. Hence, a sound implementation strategy made the endeavor possible. This case is surely proof positive that having a solid and knowledgeable ERP implementation team that can anticipate problems during an implementation, while putting forth a solid strategy, is the key to success. RR continues to look into the future to adopt new technologies, methodologies, and processes to take them to the next level.

Case Questions

What do you think of RR’s ERP implementation project? Did they select the right implementation strategy?
Discuss the critical success factors of RR’s implementation strategy and the role of SMEs in the project.
What advice can you give to RR’s technical team on their approach of migrating legacy system with the SAP software?

artificial photosynthesis

Biology is an interdisciplinary science – it connects to many other topics and subjects. It is also conducted in a societal context – there is an important relationship between biology and society. The objective of this project is for you to explore those aspects of biology. For this project, you will be making a connection between a topic we learned about in class and another discipline or aspect of society. You may work on your own or in a small group (up to 3 people – check with me if you want to have 4). You will be presenting your project at the end of the class. This project will be graded on several areas:

• Summary of the biology: you need to accurately and completely summarize the biology behind your project, at least to the level of detail that we went into in class. If this requires an additional paper or powerpoint that you also turn in to get to this level of detail, you are responsible for that as well.
• Connection: you will need to explicitly describe how your project illustrates the connection between biology and another discipline or society. This means you must actually talk about the connection between your subjects.
• Reference: you will need to identify a credible reference that can be used as a background source for your project. This source can be used as background for the biology or for the other discipline (for example, if you are writing an elementary school lesson plan, you could reference a resource on writing a good lesson plan). You may use information from the class and from the textbook, but you must find an additional reference.
• Professional final product that will be turned in
• Presentation

Some examples of potential Connections Projects are given below:

• • Biology and the arts:
    • sculpt a model (of a cell, of an enzyme)
    • do an interpretive dance of an enzyme reaction
    • write and perform a song or a poem

• act out a biological process
• make a “college level” cell cake (this is harder than you think)

• • Biology and math:
    • present the difference in size between a virus and a human cell
    • research the kinetics (rate) of an enzyme reaction
  • Biology and language arts:
    • write a research paper on artificial photosynthesis
  • Biology and sports:
    • design and carry out an experiment that has something to do with sports (remember the jumping experiment? Like that, only more interesting)
    • Research the link between cellular respiration and athletic activity
  • Biology and children:

• Write a children’s book describing parts of the cell
• Write a lesson plan teaching an aspect of biology to elementary school kids

• Biology and health:
  • Describe how your diabetes causes a defect in homeostasis
  • Explain what part of the cell malfunctions in Tay Sachs disease and how this leads to disease symptoms

Connections Project Grading Rubric – 55 points total

Vaccine safety

Some of the major objectives of this course are for you to be able to:

1. Select, evaluate, and utilize discipline-specific information and literature to research a biological topic.
2. Use evidence to develop informed opinions on contemporary biological issues while considering cultural and ethical implications.
3. Communicate information using appropriate biological terminology in written and oral formats.

In order for you to demonstrate that you are able to do this, you will be researching a current issue in biotechnology and presenting your findings to the class.

Week 8 – Choose a Project Topic

5 points

Choose your project topic. No more than four students can research each issue. I have posted some possible project topics in the Biotechnology Project forum. You can find topics by looking in your textbook or googling “biotechnology issue”. To reserve your topic of interest, comment on the topic that you are interested in. Topics will be considered “claimed” if this is done correctly. If you do NOT claim a topic, you have not reserved it! I would strongly recommend that you reserve your topic before you start researching it. Anyone other than the first four people who do projects on a given topic will lose 10% of the points for their assignment. You are more than welcome to choose your own project topic! If you decide to choose your own topic, start a new thread with the topic as a subject.

Lesson 9 Assignment – Identify and evaluate sources

20 points

Identify at least FOUR credible sources that you will use to research your topic. These do not have to be peer-reviewed scientific publications or identified using a school database. They just need to be credible sources. For each source:

1. 1 point: Cite the source in CSE format.
2. 2 points: Evaluate the credibility of that source (do not use the source if it does not score at least 6!). You should discuss each of the five aspects of credibility that we have used before in class. You can paste in the table we have used, or you can discuss them in sentences.
3. 2 points: Summarize the information presented in the source. You can use bullet points, but do not copy and paste!

Type your answers into a word document. When you are finished, save this file as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf with your first initial and last name at the beginning of the file name. For example, I would submit a file named lbarteelesson9assignment using the link in BlackBoard.

Lesson 10 Assignment – Biotechnology Project

70 points

By the end of this week, your final project is due. Your issue can be presented in whatever format you think would be most appropriate:

1. A research paper (no minimum length requirement)
2. A powerpoint
3. A video
4. A brochure
5. Etc…

You must submit your final project to me for grading using the assignment submission link. You must also post your final project to the project presentation forum. Your project should address all the points in the rubric at the end of this document.

Discuss one personal strength and one weakness you have regarding professional presentations.

Please keep the discussions around the topic of : The problem falls in the hospitalize post-surgical adult orthopedic patient 

                                    The intervention Is “Purposeful hourly rounding

                                     Hourly Rounding Compared to nursing task rounding

                                     Expected outcome decrease falls while improving patient quality of care  

Discussion #1  week 9

Discuss one personal strength and one weakness you have regarding professional presentations. Name one method for improvement for each of these, and discuss why it is important for you to work on these skills if you want to present your findings in a more formal setting.

Discussion #2  week 9

Sustaining change can be difficult, as there are many variables that can affect implementation. One critical component of EBP is to ensure that practice change is part of an organization’s culture so it will continue to impact outcomes over time. Name two potential barriers that may prevent your EBP change proposal from continuing to obtain the same desired results 6 months to a year from now, and your strategies for overcoming these barriers.

Response to Daily Nebraska Editorial and Rebuttal Letter

Write a response to the two documents, focusing on at least three aspects of the response letter that make it an effective answer to the editorial; what does the letter show about what makes an effective rebuttal?

international tax

1. Prepare a 1 page single spaced case brief of the P&G case using the IRAC method (Will attach the case)
2. Prepare a 3 page single spaced summary of the following international tax issue that has received news coverage in the last 3 years. Please cite your sources: How has Apple structured its offshore Irish corporation to avoid billions of dollars in U.S. taxation or to have the sub’s income be classified as Subpart F income?

DARE

Write a 2 page paper.  Address the following in your paper:

• Should the DARE Program be discontinued? Why or why not?
• Are there any other unintended consequences of the DARE Program that should be considered when the program is assessed? If so, what are they and why are they important to consider?

Include a title page and 3-5 references.  Only one reference can be from the internet (not Wikipedia).  The other references must be from the Grantham University online Library. Please adhere to the American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition, 2nd printing when writing and submitting papers.

Explain which of the fear-reduction strategies do you believe is most effective?

Write a 2 page paper.  Address the following in your paper:

• Explain which of the fear-reduction strategies do you believe is most effective?
• Discuss why would a police department want to reduce fear of crime rather than crime itself?

Include a title page and 3-5 references.  Only one reference can be from the internet (not Wikipedia).  The other references must be from the Grantham University online Library. Please adhere to the American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition, 2nd printing when writing and submitting papers.