Submissions Should Be A Maximum Of 500 Words Or 125 Words Per Question/Prompt

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Tell us about yourself and your personal journey that has led you to University of the Cumberlands.

What are your research interests in the area of information technology? How did you become interested in this area of research?

What is your current job/career and how will this program impact your career growth? 

What unique qualities do you think you have that will help you in being successful in this program?

How can obtaining a doctorate impact your contribution to the practices of information technology? Where do you see yourself after obtaining a doctorate from UC?

Wk 2 – Audit Objectives And Techniques

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Assignment Content

  1.    Your Smallville client has asked you to gather details to meet IT audit requirements to determine whether IT services meet the organizations objectives. Prepare a report for your Smallville client on IT audit objectives, risk assessment, and what help you may need from them to complete this task. Write or present as if to the client.

    Review the .

    Write a 3- to 4-page report or create a 12- to 16-slide media-rich presentation with speaker notes in which you:

    • Describe the reasons it is important to conduct periodic reviews of information systems to determine whether they continue to meet the organizations objectives.
    • Discuss the importance of the organizations policies and practices as they relate to information systems and IT infrastructure.
    • Identify strategic and operational objectives for planning for the audit.
    • Evaluate different risk assessments techniques and monitoring tools to consider during an audit process.
    • Note: You are preparing for a systems audit, not a financial audit. Frame your analysis around the systems, not the accounting or finance aspects directly.

      Please note that all assignments are required to have a minimum of 3 references with in-text citations. If you are unsure of what is required, please ask well in advance. Use APA guidelines.

Ethical Decision Making In Organisations (1000 Words)

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Compare and contrast these readings (Gioia 1992; Jones & Ryan 1998; Monahan & Quinn 2006; Sonenshein 2007) and produce a 1000 word critical reflection on the four articles about what ethical decision making is, and the factors that influence ethical decision making in organisations.

 
 

In this critical reflection you should provide a reasoned explanation for choosing the perspective(s) that you believe best explain ethical decision making in organisations.

 
 

Jones, TM & Ryan, LV (1998) ”, Business Ethics Quarterly, 8 (3), 431-45. Gioia, D. A. (1992). ‘Journal of Business Ethics, 11(5-6), 379-389. Monahan, S. C., & Quinn, B. A. (2006) ”. Theoretical Criminology, 10(3), 361-385.

 
 

Sonenshein, S. (2007) ‘ Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1022-1040.

 
 

GUIDE:

1) Focus on the 4 articles provided. There is no need to include others – you can if you desperately want to but remember we really want you to compare and contrast these 4.

 
 

2) Read all the articles and summarize them attempting to overview and capture their major arguments – what do these authors propose? You cant fake having read the articles and this will take you some time. Every bit of reading you do here, will be of benefit to you in the first two assessment tasks, and may also be helpful in the exam. In other words, you will directly benefit from it. 

 
 

3) Summarizing articles enable you to compare and contrast them – you need to be able to overview whats written in them – the major arguments – so that you really understand the essence of them and enough of the detail. It will also help you build connections between these articles and other ideas/concepts/theories contained within the course.

 
 

4) Make sure you conclude by answering the question – which of the articles you believe best explains the decision making process and tell the reader why.

 
 

5) Structure – we do not want a contents page – its only 1000 words – make sure it has your name and student number within the document on the front page. I have suggested in the video below and in the lectures that you structure your assignment with A) a short Introduction b) 150-200 words max overviews of each article, c) some comparison and contrast about “what ethical decision making is, and the factors that influence ethical decision making in organisations”. d) You should then conclude by choosing the perspective (article) that best explains ethical decision making in organisations. 

 
 

6) Don’t be under any illusion – you need to read and cite all of the four articles provided – and this will take some time and requires you to get to work very soon if you havent already.

Methods Used In Cyber Warfare

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Here are some resources to assist you with writing the report.  The first URL has some good pointers on how to get started.   You should view this video; it will give you some very good advice on getting started with the assignment.

How to Write a Paper in a Weekend (By Prof. Pete Carr)

Key points:  written by a viewer of this video

1. don’t procrastinate; 

2. review the notes and renew the literature search;

3. determine who your audience is – most likely reviewers, so get their concerns firstly addressed; 

4. create the outline and get the big picture done, i.e., complete the first draft while resisting the temptation to correct and edit as you go; the logical sequence of data/tables/figures may be the outline; while writing the first draft, take notes indicating what references might be needed and would be about, but don’t stop to collect the references; 

5. begin with the easier part of the task – experimental section rather then the introduction; then follows the results and discussion section; 

6. then comes the really hard part – critical editing where you make sure that the English is coherent and the science is correct;

7. write the conclusion in a numbered format; 

8. then comes the abstract and the acknowledgements; 

9. now comes the introduction, the two most important things to address in which are the purpose and relevant background; 

10. then collect the references.

Power Point slides

An Example Template

Technical Report Requirements

You will use the format of the article from Week 1 as a guide for your paper.

Title at the top of the first page (no title page)

Use your name as the author followed by the University information.  Example on the next line

Name, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, A&M-Commerce

Headings in the paper include the following

Abstract bold font

Keywords bold font

Introduction bold font

Other major headings as needed bold font

Subheadings as needed NO bold font

Conclusions bold font

References bold font

Other requirements

Minimum of 10 pages single spaced not including tables or figures

Times New Roman – 12 point

Standard margins 1 inch top, bottom, left and right

In text citations and reference list at the end must be in APA format

Tables must be identified as a Table with a number and title (example – Table 1 List of Parts)

Figures must be identified as a Figure with a number and title

If you did not create the table or figure you must include an in text citation so the reader can identify the source of the figure or table.

References at end must be in alphabetic order see article from Week 1 for indentation format for the complete reference.

The URLs below contain information about citing references in the text of your document, in text citation, and creating the reference list at the end of the document.  Use APA format in the report.  This format was used in the article in Week 1.

Read the PDF document in the DocSharing module about plagiarism, how-not-to-plagiarize developed by the University of Toronto.