What are the meeting requirements: venue, times, number of attendees, refreshments, other support requirement? List the requirements and expain why they are necessary. Explain the arrangement you would make, giving reasons for your actions.

Summative assessment 2
Project 1.
You must provide evidence that you have, in actual or simulated workplace, and on a least one occasion, made meeting arrangement, prepared and distrubuted docomentation for a meeting, recorded and despatched minutes from a meeting. Your assessor must ensure that you have acess to office equiment and resources.
Complete all the following activities:
1. Nominate a meeting topic and describe how the meeting will be held; venue, type of meeting, degree of formally etc
2. Explain the purpose of meeting , for example health and safety committee meetings to discuss an incident that has occurred, weekly management meetings to share information about the various departments in the organisation, strategic planning meetins etc.
3. Are there any legal or ethical issues that need to be considered? List them and explain why they are important.
4. What are the meeting requirements: venue, times, number of attendees, refreshments, other support requirement? List the requirements and expain why they are necessary. Explain the arrangement you would make, giving reasons for your actions.
5. What timing issues need to be considered?
6. Identify and list any special requirement that need to be accomodated.
7. Advise the participants of the meeting – you might use telephone, email, an electronic noticeboard etc. (submit a copy of the written notifications to your asessor)
8. Collect and collate acknowledgments. Submist copies with your portfolio for the assessor.
9. Prepare any documentation that is required for the meeting. This can include handouts, fact sheets, spreedsheets, agendas, etc. submit copies of all documentation plus the completed agendas to your assessors. Make sure the documentation is accurate.
10. Distribute documentation that must be read prior to the meetings to participants within designated timelies. Alternately, you might print and prepare the ducumentations for handling out at the meetings. Make sures you prepare spare sets of ducuments.
11. At the meeting:
n Provide minutes from the previous meeting (submit copies to your assessor)
n Take accurate notes and produce a set of meeting minutes that refelct a true and accurate account of the meeting (submit copies to your assessor)
12. check the minutes for accuracy, proofread them or have someone else proofread them.
13. submit them for approval by the nominated person, then despatch copies of minutes in a timely manner. Ensure that copies are sent to all of the relevant stakeholders
14. explain how you will ensure that documentation and consultation processes are culturally appropriate.
15.prepare and present an oral report with a number of defined sections, in order to provide information to someone who was unable to attend. Clarify the points made in the meetings.
You will need to provide documented evidence that you have donce these things. Be prepared to demonstrate your skills and answer a range of verbal questions put to you by your assessor. Your assessor will explain the minimum acceptable responses required.

Create two social work recommendations to address a current barrier and explain how the recommendation proposed addresses the findings.

Imagine that two focus groups have been conducted in an Asian American and immigrant community in a large urban city. The rationale of conducting the qualitative study was because it has been noted that many Asian Americans and immigrants are reluctant to seek mental health services. To further understand this issue, service providers including social workers, counselors, doctors, and nurses were recruited to discuss the barriers in implementing mental health services targeted to Asian Americans and immigrants. After the focus groups were transcribed, two research assistants were hired to conduct a content analysis of the transcripts. Refer to the Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups.
As the social worker, you have been asked to analyze the focus group data and are charged with working with an advisory board in the community to formulate social work practice recommendations using the ecological model.
To prepare for this Assignment, review Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups.
By Day 7
Submit a 3-4-page report of the following:
1. Discuss the themes found in the Week 5 Handout: Content Analysis of Focus Groups. Based on this data, what is your analysis of the current barriers to services?
2. Create two social work recommendations to address a current barrier and explain how the recommendation proposed addresses the findings.
3. Discuss how you would collaborate with the research stakeholders (e.g. service providers and community members) to ensure that the data are interpreted accurately and that the practice recommendations made will be culturally appropriate.
4. Critically reflect on your own culture and explain how your cultural values and beliefs may have influenced how you interpreted the focus group data. What specific cultural knowledge do you think you need to obtain to conduct culturally sensitive research with this group?

What are the major companies within the industry?

This is a five full page minimum research paper on your chosen industry – the group of companies that compete within the same set of product offerings – and company. You must include a minimum of 10 scholarly sources, use APA formatting, and write in third person.

Sample industry questions:
1. What are the major companies within the industry?

2. What are the industry trends?

3. How is the product or service manufactured?

4. Distribution….?

5. Trends…?

6. Outlook…?

Sample company questions:
The size of a company and the scope of its operations say a great deal about the company’s ambitions and opportunities for advancement. Try to answer the following questions:

Has the company expanded globally?

Is it expanding or downsizing?

What are its divisions and subsidiaries?

How many employees does it have?

How many clients does it serve?

How many locations does it have?

Direction and planning
Answers to questions about the company’s plans may be difficult to find outside of the company’s Web site, annual report, newspaper business pages, business magazines, or the industry’s trade publications. The following information is worth pursuing as it lets you know some of the hot issues to address or avoid:

What are the company’s current priorities?

What is its mission?

What long-term contracts has it established?

What are its prospects?

What are its problems?

Is it initiating any new products or projects?

Products or services
You shouldn’t go into a job interview without at least knowing what products or services are the bedrock of the company’s business. Find the answers to these questions:

What services or products does the company provide?

What are its areas of expertise?

How does it innovate in the industry — by maintaining cutting edge products, cutting costs, or what?

Competitive profile
How the company is positioned within its industry and how hard competitors are nipping at its heels are measures of the company’s long-term health and the relative stability of your prospective job there. Get to the bottom of these issues by asking:

Who are the company’s competitors?

What are the company’s current projects?

What setbacks has it experienced?

What are its greatest accomplishments?

Is the company in a growing industry?

Will technology dim its future?

Does it operate with updated technology?

Culture and reputation
The answers to these questions are likely to be subjective, but they say a great deal about how well you’ll be able to fit into the corporate culture:

Does the company run lean on staffing?

What’s the picture on mergers and acquisitions?

What is the company’s business philosophy?

What is its reputation?

What kind of management structure does it have?

What types of employees does it hire?

Is it family-friendly?

Is it woman-friendly?

What is the buzz on its managers?

How does it treat employees?

Has it pushed out older workers?

Company history
Assess how the company’s future may be influenced by its past. Was the company part of a hostile takeover? Has it been doing the same things the same way for years because its founder would have wanted it that way? Ask the following questions to find out:

When and where was it established?

Is it privately or publicly owned?

Is it a subsidiary or a division?

Has it changed much over time?

How quickly has it grown?

Company financials
Collecting current and accurate information about financials is a long chase, but it’s better to learn a company’s shaky financial picture before you’re hired than after you’re laid off. Dig for the following nuggets:

What are the company’s sales?

What are its earnings?

What are its assets?

How stable is its financial base?

Is its profit trend up or down?

How much of its earnings go to its employees?

How far in debt is the company?

How does it innovate in the industry — by maintaining cutting edge products, cutting costs, or what?

This is a five full page minimum research paper on your chosen industry – the group of companies that compete within the same set of product offerings – and company. You must include a minimum of 10 scholarly sources, use APA formatting, and write in third person.

Sample industry questions:
1. What are the major companies within the industry?

2. What are the industry trends?

3. How is the product or service manufactured?

4. Distribution….?

5. Trends…?

6. Outlook…?

Sample company questions:
The size of a company and the scope of its operations say a great deal about the company’s ambitions and opportunities for advancement. Try to answer the following questions:

Has the company expanded globally?

Is it expanding or downsizing?

What are its divisions and subsidiaries?

How many employees does it have?

How many clients does it serve?

How many locations does it have?

Direction and planning
Answers to questions about the company’s plans may be difficult to find outside of the company’s Web site, annual report, newspaper business pages, business magazines, or the industry’s trade publications. The following information is worth pursuing as it lets you know some of the hot issues to address or avoid:

What are the company’s current priorities?

What is its mission?

What long-term contracts has it established?

What are its prospects?

What are its problems?

Is it initiating any new products or projects?

Products or services
You shouldn’t go into a job interview without at least knowing what products or services are the bedrock of the company’s business. Find the answers to these questions:

What services or products does the company provide?

What are its areas of expertise?

How does it innovate in the industry — by maintaining cutting edge products, cutting costs, or what?

Competitive profile
How the company is positioned within its industry and how hard competitors are nipping at its heels are measures of the company’s long-term health and the relative stability of your prospective job there. Get to the bottom of these issues by asking:

Who are the company’s competitors?

What are the company’s current projects?

What setbacks has it experienced?

What are its greatest accomplishments?

Is the company in a growing industry?

Will technology dim its future?

Does it operate with updated technology?