Foundational Philosophies of Management

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Identify a foundational management philosopher based on the articles you used for your Journal Article Analysis to guide you through this assignment.

Locate at least one document, article, or work from the foundational philosopher.

Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word essay detailing the differences you perceive between the management philosophy espoused by the foundational philosopher, and the version of the philosophy described by at least two authors from your articles.

Include a table or a graphical flowchart and a 350-word narrative of the research trail or path that led you to the foundational management philosopher, including the following:

Provide a list of the references you followed to get to the philosopher.
Identify the author, source, and year of publication for each item.
Explain how you identified and selected the articles in the Journal Article Analysis assignment.
Recount how these led you to your philosopher.
Make note of other sources that you discovered in the process of finding your philosopher.
Describe how the articles you found are useful to you.
Explain how you assessed each article’s credibility, reliability, and validity.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Week 6 Discussion 1

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In Chapter 12 of the primary text, Siegel (2015) defines white collar crime and describes the profile of the typical white collar offender. In your initial response to this weeks discussion, define white collar crime and economic crime in your own words, and describe the typical white collar crime offender. In addition, also define what is enterprise crime in your own words. Discuss the aforementioned using terms associated with the study of crime and criminology. In addition, also discuss the challenges addressing white collar crime.

Your initial post should be at least 300 words in length. Support your contentions with citations from the text and/or other scholarly sources. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.

Guided Response: Review your colleagues posts, and substantively respond in a meaningful way to at least two of your peers. Support your arguments with examples from the required material(s) and/or scholarly sources. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Day 7, and respond with robust dialogue to anyone who replies to your initial post.

Religious Study Essay

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Read: world wester traditions on Jewish tradition edited by Willard G. Oxtoby

Christianity and Law: an introduction edited by John Witte, JR. Chapter ONE

Jewish Marriage: Nature, Covenant, and Contract by David Novak

Maimonides on Sex and Marriage by Michael S. Berger

Writing an Analytical Paper for the Articles

 1) In the Introduction, state a position/thesis. In the rest of the essay, argue for it. 

2) In the Introduction, give a sense of how you will argue for your position, and give a sense of the organization of the essay. 

3) Do not state a fact or give a quotation without making clear how it supports your point. 

4) Do not state a fact or give a quotation without framing it. Framing means writing something before and after the quotation or fact that (1) makes the transition to the quotation natural by creating anticipation;(2) clarifies how the fact or quotation fits into your argument; (3) creates a smooth transition to what comes next. 

5) Ensure the transitions between sentences in a paragraph are smooth. 

6) A paragraph usually has a topic sentence near the beginning that signals the focus of the paragraph, anticipating what is to come. One often goes back to the main point in the last sentence of the paragraph by way of recapitulation. 

7) Make the transitions between paragraphs smooth. 

8) Critical Acumen. Write the paper on the theory that shows the most promise for illuminating your problem of interest. Provide supporting evidence, but also cover the potential shortcomings of the theory and possible objections to your thesis. If you can think of several possible objections, choose the most severe one. If you cant think of a good rebuttal to an objection, admit it frankly. 

9) Minimize redundancy. Assume the reader has read the text youre writing on. Avoid long summaries. Say only things about the text that are directly relevant to your argument. 

10) Preferably, the conclusion doesnt simply repeat what came before, but synthesizes or recapitulates the ideas in a fresh way or from a different angle.

Week 6 Final Paper

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Criminological Research Paper

Offenders commit crimes for different reasons. Criminological theories attempt to explain why crimes occur. For the Final Paper, you will evaluate the theoretical study of crime and crime causation by examining the crime of an offender and applying a criminological theory discussing why the offense occurred.

You must discuss both the offender and the crime in detail. Additionally, you must research the criminological theory to be used; discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory, the year it was created, the premise of the theory, and how it is applicable.

Below is a list of offenders that were reported in the media as a result of the heinous nature of their offense. Select one of the offenders, and research their crime. You may only use scholarly sources when citing in your paper. Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.

First, select an offender from the list of offenders.
Offenders

  • Alex and Derek King (12 and 13 when they killed their father)
  • Andrew Luster (Cosmetic fortune heir who was convicted of drugging, raping, and videotaping assault of young women)
  • Bernard Madoff (perpetrated worlds largest Ponzi scheme, bilking investors of billions of dollars)
  • Charles Cullen (Most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history, killed patients with drugs from the hospital)
  • Cheng Chui Ping (Smuggled thousands of Chinese immigrants to the United States)
  • Eric Rudolph (Serial bomber responsible for several anti-abortion and anti-gay bombings, killing two and injuring 111)
  • Jesse Timmendequas (Raped and murdered a seven-year-old girl)
  • Joel Steinberg (lawyer who beat six-year-old daughter to death)
  • John B. Taylor (former Wendys manager who robbed and shot seven employees)
  • Kathy Boudin (radical involved in robbery that led to the death of two police officers and a security guard)
  • Ken Lay (Enron accounting fraud, wiped out employee-stockholders pensions)
  • Michael Devlin (kidnapped and sexually abused two boys while living openly as their father)
  • Robert Chambers (nicknamed the Preppie Murderer, killed 18-year-old woman in Central Park)
  • Sante Kimes (grifter who, with son, murdered elderly socialite to get townhouse)
  • Seung-Hui Cho (South Korean student who killed 32 people and wounded 17 others at Virginia Tech)
  • Susan Smith (falsely claimed carjacking to cover drowning of her children)
  • Zacarias Moussaoui (would-be 9/11 hijacker now serving life sentence in federal prison)

Then, select one theory from the list.
Theories

  • Age-Graded Theory
  • Anomie Theory
  • Arousal Theory
  • Behavioral Theory
  • Biochemical Theory
  • Cognitive Theory
  • Control Balance Theory
  • Critical Criminology
  • Critical Feminist Criminology
  • Cultural Deviance Theory
  • Deviance Place Theory
  • Differential Association Theory
  • Differential Coercion Theory
  • Evolution Theory
  • General Strain Theory
  • Instrumental Theory
  • Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory
  • Interactional Theory
  • Left Realism Theory
  • Lifestyle Theory
  • Rational Choice Theory
  • Theory of Crime and Genetic Theory

After you research the criminological theory and the case, your paper must

  • Explain the theory in detail.
  • Discuss the theorist responsible for coining the theory including the year the theory was created.
  • Describe the premise of the theory.
  • Explain how it is applicable.
  • Discuss both the offender and the crime in detail.
  • Discuss how the theory explains the actions of the criminal selected from the list above.

The Final Paper

  • Must be 12 to 15 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the .
  • Must include a separate title page with the following: 
    • Title of paper
    • Students name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructors name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least five scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.