leadership and management development | Business & Finance homework help

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 Assessment Brief – Newcastle Business School Module Code: LD9737/HR9737 Module Title: Leadership and Management Distributed on: Week 1 Submission Time and Date: TBC Word Limit: 3500 words (+/- 10%) Weighting This assessment accounts for 100% of the total mark for this module Submission of Assessment Assessments must be submitted electronically via Turnitin by the given deadline. You will find a Turnitin link on the module’s eLP site under ‘Assessment and Submission’. It is your responsibility to ensure that your assignment arrives before the submission deadline stated above. See the University policy on late submission of work (the relevant extract is set out below). General Information Further information about general assessment criteria, ARNA regulations, referencing and plagiarism can be found on the e-Learning Portal (Blackboard) site for the module. Students are advised to read and follow this information. Module Learning Outcomes (MLOs) 1. Demonstrate the ability to work in culturally diverse groups and teams and make appropriate and personal contributions to team effectiveness 2. Have critically evaluated personal strengths and weaknesses and have demonstrated the ability to engage in reflective self-development 3. Have critically reviewed the development of inter-personal and intra-personal skills in relation to what employers seek in postgraduate students Instructions on Assessment The module will be assessed by one summative assessment of 3500 words which comprises the following three components: Part A – academic essay (1500 words) 40% of overall mark Using a range of relevant literature (both academic and professional sources), you are required to identify and critically evaluate contemporary issues and challenges facing your target profession/industry/sector. You must:  Provide a clear introduction to your target profession/industry/sector (e.g., a graduate development scheme, self-employment, working for your family’s business, a promotion with your current employer, etc). You should highlight if this will be in the UK, your home country or elsewhere.  Provide an overview of the context and key characteristics of your target profession/industry/sector (e.g. labour market characteristics, opportunities for graduates, professional bodies). Page 1 of 6 Assessment Brief – Newcastle Business School  Identify key challenges and issues relating to your chosen profession/industry/sector. This may include professional body viewpoints, recent organisation case studies and published academic studies. You may also include a combination of challenges and issues facing the wider profession/industry/sector as well as those facing postgraduates.  You are not required to identify a specific number of issues and challenges, these will differ depending on the profession/industry/sector in question. We are looking for evidence of critical evaluation of these issues and challenges, supported with credible academic and professional sources.  Provide a succinct conclusion, indicating the impact of these challenges and difficulties for your target profession/industry/sector moving forward. Part B – reflective essay (1500 words) 40% of overall mark Drawing on the results of the toolkits you have completed throughout this module, along with other appropriate evidence, you are required to conduct a self-analysis identifying your strengths and weaknesses across a range of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills relevant to your target profession/industry/sector. You must:  Using the template provided – please download this from the Assessment Folder on the BB site – provide a summary of your strengths and weaknesses supported with evidence from the toolkits and other psychometric test results/other diagnostics provided to you, or that you have identified from previous work or assessment centre experience, or researched online.  Critically evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and reflect on any patterns of behaviour you have identified. Referring back to your Section A, consider the implications of your skills, attributes and patterns of behaviour in relation to your target profession/industry/sector and the challenges they face. How ‘ready’ are you to enter into the career of your choice? Part C – Areas for Development (500 words) 10% of overall mark Based on your self-analysis in Section B identify three areas for development and outline briefly the specific steps that you will take to address these. Presentation: 10% of overall mark You must present all component parts in one document. You must use the template provided on the Blackboard site to set out your strengths and weaknesses in Part B. You must present your work to the academic standard commensurate with Level 7 and that you use APA referencing throughout. Academic Misconduct The Assessment Regulations for Taught Awards (ARTA) contain the Regulations and procedures applying to cheating, plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. The full policy is available at: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/central/ar/qualitysupport/asspolicies/ You are reminded that plagiarism, collusion and other forms of academic misconduct as referred to in the Academic Misconduct procedure of the assessment regulations are taken very seriously by Page 2 of 6 Assessment Brief – Newcastle Business School Newcastle Business School. Assignments in which evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct is found may receive a mark of zero. Mapping to Programme Goals and Objectives: At the end of your programme of study you will have achieved the following goals: Goal 1: To develop the skills necessary for employment and career progression Goal 2: Be culturally and ethically aware Goal 3: Have developed leadership and management capability Goal 4: Have developed and applied knowledge of international business and management theory Goal 5: Have developed a range of research skills and project capabilities All of the learning that takes place within modules is designed to enable you to achieve the above goals and your assessment tasks are mapped directly to these goals. In this module you will be assessed on objectives relating to Goal 1 : 1.1 Demonstrate awareness of your personal strengths and weaknesses and the ability to engage in continuing self-development 1.2 Critically review and develop your inter-personal and intra-personal skills Page 3 of 6 Assessment Brief – Newcastle Business School Criteria Scales 0-39% Standard Not Met 1 40-49% Standard Not Met 2 50-59% Meets Standard 1 60-69% Meets Standard 2 70-79% Exceeds Standard 1 80-89% Exceeds Standard 2 90-100% Exceeds Standard 3 Part A (40%) Critical evaluation of target industry/profession & challenges faced  Completely Insufficient: Essay not submitted OR work giving evidence of serious academic misconduct (subject to regulations in ARNA Appendix 1) OR work showing no evidence of the knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to level 7. [0-15] Evidence of knowledge and understanding of issues and challenges facing target profession/industry/ sector is insufficient. Very limited evidence of research (e.g., you provide few references). Target profession/industry/ sector is unclear. Large sections are irrelevant to the essay topic. Essay structure requires significant improvement. [16-19] Adequate evidence of knowledge and understanding of issues and challenges facing target profession/industry/ sector. An introduction and conclusion are provided, and relevant challenges and issues have been identified. However, large sections of your essay are descriptive, and additional supporting sources are required in parts. [20-23] Good evidence of knowledge and understanding of issues and challenges facing target profession/industry/ sector. You have provided a good overview of your target profession/industry/ sector and references are used to good effect for identification of relevant challenges and issues. Some indication of future implications of these challenges and issues for the industry/sector [24-27] Very good evidence of knowledge and understanding of issues and challenges facing target profession/industry/ sector. Identification of challenges and issues is supported with relevant academic and professional sources, and there is a very good attempt to critically evaluate this literature. [28-31] Excellent evidence of knowledge and understanding of issues and challenges facing target profession/industry/ sector. Several relevant challenges and issues have been identified, and relevant future implications for target profession/industry/ sector are offered. Critical appreciation of academic and professional sources is excellent. [32-35] Outstanding evidence of knowledge and understanding of issues and challenges facing target profession/industry/ sector. A wide range of sources have been utilised critically and creatively to identify a range of relevant challenges and issues. Conclusion highlights several future implications of these challenges and issues for profession/ sector/industry. An exemplary piece of academic work providing in-depth discussion and understanding. [36-40] Part B (40%) Completely Reflective Adequate reflective Good reflective Very good Excellent reflective Outstanding Page 4 of 6 Assessment Brief – Newcastle Business School Goal 1 Objective 2 Critically review and develop your inter-personal and intra-personal skills (in relation to what employers seek in postgraduate students) Insufficient: Reflective statement not submitted OR work giving evidence of serious academic misconduct (subject to regulations in ARNA Appendix 1) OR work showing no evidence of the knowledge, understanding and skills appropriate to level 7. statement is insufficient. It is lacking in detail on patterns of behaviour and/or the implications of your self-analysis with regard to your career of choice and the challenges and issues discussed in essay. Large parts of reflective statement are unclear/irrelevant statement, demonstrating adequate discussion of patterns of behaviour and/or the implications of your self-analysis with regard to their career of choice. However some parts tend to be descriptive rather than reflective with insufficient linkage between the selfanalysis and the challenges and issues identified in Part A. As a result implications for you and your career in this industry/sector could be stronger statement. There is a good attempt to discuss patterns of behaviour and/or the implications of your self-analysis with regard to career choice. There is good evidence of reflection on all these elements. Overall, you have demonstrated a good understanding of the extent of your career readiness for your choice of industry/sector etc reflective statement. You have demonstrated a very good understanding of the implications of your patterns of behaviour and selfanalysis with regard to your career of choice and the challenges and issues discussed in the essay. There is little description but very good use of evidence and understanding of key issues. statement. You have demonstrated an excellent understanding of how your patterns of behaviour and identified strengths and weaknesses will have implications for you in terms of your career of choice and the challenges and issues you have discussed in the essay. This is incisive discussion with excellent use of evidence and indepth understanding of key issues. reflective statement. You have demonstrated an outstanding and in-depth understanding of how your patterns of behaviour and the results of your self-analysis have implications for you in terms of your career of choice and the challenges and issues you have discussed in the essay. This discussion demonstrates outstanding levels of critical evaluation and use of evidence to demonstrate understanding of the key issues. Page 5 of 6 Assessment Brief – Newcastle Business School Part C (10%) Goal 1 Objective 1 Demonstrate awareness of their personal strengths and weaknesses and the ability to engage in continuing selfdevelopment Completely insufficient awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses demonstrated by inappropriate areas for development identified. [0-3] Insufficient awareness of strengths and weaknesses demonstrated by inconsistent areas for development identified [4] Identification of appropriate strengths and weaknesses which lead to an adequate discussion on relevant areas for development [5] Good awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses which lead to detailed areas for personal development.  [6] A very good awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses demonstrated by very strong and appropriate areas identified for personal development  [7] Excellent awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses from which evidence-based areas for personal development are identified. [8] Outstanding awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses demonstrated by detailed and evidence based areas identified for personal development. [9-10] Professional presentation (10%) Presentation and formatting throughout are completely insufficient Numerous spelling and grammatical errors Failure to cite references correctly in the main text. No reference list [0-3] Presentation and formatting throughout are insufficiently professional Many spelling and grammatical errors Referencing throughout and in the reference list is insufficiently correct. [4] Presentation and formatting are adequate Few spelling and grammatical errors Most references are presented appropriately in the main text List of references is accurate [5]  Good presentation throughout Spelling and grammar of a good standard Very good referencing throughout the main text Accurate list of references [6] Very good presentation throughout Spelling and grammar of a high standard Very good referencing throughout the assignment [7] Excellent professional presentation throughout. Excellent spelling and grammar. APA referencing used throughout the main text and list of references [8] An outstandingly crafted piece of work which is professionally presented throughout. APA referencing used throughout the main text and for the list of references [9-10] Overall Mark [0-39] [40-49] [50-59] [60-69] [70-79] [80-89] [90-100] Page 6 of 6 

Fallacious Reasoning

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A friend has linked you to the following story on Facebook. The friend is convinced that the story is accurate and would like your opinion on it.

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Read through the linked story and determine:

Why the article is fallacious.
Provide clear evidence why the article is fallacious.
Use APA style for the abstract and include a properly-formatted reference for the article. Grammar and punctuation count.

Week 8 discussion: pew typology quiz

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Week 8 Discussion: PEW Typology Quiz

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Initial Post Instructions
You have already taken the quiz as part of the lesson this week; now, tell the class about your results and what they mean. What is your ideological placement? Then, analyze why you believe the results or do not believe the results. Do these results reflect your voting record? Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings from the book, and at least one outside scholarly source

The case of will smithers: to exhume or not exhume

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The Case of Will Smithers: To Exhume or not Exhume, that is the Question
A surprising amount of information can be gleaned about an individual just from one’s tissues. In this case, you have been assigned to shadow histopathologist Dr. Jonas Riehm as he attempts to identify the cause of death of 42-year-old Will Smithers. Mr. Smithers’s body was discovered sitting in his car near an alley several miles from his home. There was no obvious cause of death, necessitating an autopsy to determine if the death was from natural causes or foul play. However, due to a clerical error, the decedent’s body was released and interred before a proper autopsy could be performed, and an official cause of death was not established.
Fortunately, several tissue samples were taken before the interment and remain available for examination. Mr. Smithers’s family does not wish to have his body exhumed, so local law enforcement professionals have asked Dr. Riehm to examine the tissue samples in the hopes of determining his cause of death and whether or not an exhumation is needed. The following sections have been taken from the official report that Dr. Riehm sent to the local coroner’s office. You are to report to Dr. Riehm’s office with your anatomy and physiology textbook. He expects students to answer questions related to the work that he does in his histopathology laboratory.
Dr. Riehm enjoys teaching, and has a collection of microscope slides that he uses to introduce students to the fascinating universe of histology. He starts with the following definition: histology is the study of the normal structure of tissues. Although Dr. Riehm is an expert in the study of the diseases and abnormalities of tissues, histopathology, he is a firm believer that you must be able to recognize normal tissue before you can understand diseased tissue. He has set up four microscope stations for students to get familiar with how the microscopes function and to view slides of normal tissues.

Each station has a microscope with a slide of one of the four primary tissue types. (a) Define tissue and organ, and then describe how each fits into the levels of body organization. (b) Describe what you would expect to observe on the epithelial tissue slide. What are the general functions of this tissue? (c) Describe what you would expect to see on the connective tissue slide. What are the general functions of this tissue? (d) Describe what you would expect to see on the muscle tissue slide. What are the general functions of this tissue? (e) Describe what you would expect to observe on the nervous tissue slide. What are the general functions of this tissue?

Satisfied that you are properly introduced to the concepts of normal tissue, Dr. Riehm begins to fill you in on the details of Mr. Smithers’s case, whose tissue samples have coincidentally arrived just in time for your shadowing visit. The first set of slides included an epithelium sample taken from Mr. Smithers’s forehead. The slide was taken from some oddly colored patches of skin that revealed some abnormal cells, specifically, squamous cell carcinoma. These cancerous cells were in the early stages of the disease and had not spread, or metastasized, to cause disease in other tissues. Dr. Riehm documented that while there was pathology noted in the epithelial slides provided, the squamous cell carcinoma, this was not the cause of Mr. Smithers’s death. Dr. Riehm continued to ask questions about epithelial tissues.

Dr. Riehm has asked you to look at the epithelial tissue slide from the skin of Mr. Smithers’s forehead, and describe how the normal epithelium appeared. (a) Describe the difference between simple and stratified epithelium. Which type would you expect to see in Mr. Smithers’s tissue slide? (b) What are the different shapes that epithelial cells can assume in different epithelial tissues? Which cell shape would you expect to see in Mr. Smithers’s tissue slide; what type of specific epithelium is found in the skin? How would you describe the other two cell shapes? (c) Define what the basement membrane is and discuss the functions of its two components. (d)Which cellular junctions would you expect to find holding these cells to one another? (e) Describe where the apical, basal, and lateral surfaces of an epithelial cell are located.

Dr. Riehm began to review the next set of tissue samples, which included slides prepared from liver tissue and blood smears. He began with the slides taken from the liver and documented the following: the microscopic evaluation of the liver tissue is abnormal. Large deposits of adipose tissue can be seen interspersed throughout the normal structure of the liver tissue that is suggestive of hepatic lipidosis, or fatty liver. The most likely cause of hepatic lipidosis is excessive alcohol consumption, but this would need to be corroborated by further investigation outside the scope of this inquiry. For the record, he documented his findings of hepatic lipidosis. He then explained to you that these findings only indicate that the patient had tissue evidence of an unhealthy behavior, likely alcoholism, which could be a contributing factor in his cause of death but unlikely the cause itself. His family and friends would need to fill in the details about Mr. Smithers’s personal life. This wasn’t enough individually to warrant an exhumation of the body, nor was it enough to establish the cause of death as liver failure. He explained that this is a common histological finding in several long-standing illnesses, but in particular hepatitis, obstructive jaundice, and acute and chronic alcoholism with liver disease. This was still not enough to establish a cause of death but it was more information that would support an exhumation order by the state authorities. A review of Mr. Smithers’s medical history or a report from his personal physician would be helpful in determining the relevance of this finding.
Dr. Riehm moved on to Mr. Smithers’s peripheral blood smear slides. The erythrocytes appeared abnormally large, which provided more evidence that Mr. Smithers had done some significant damage to his body and tissues with alcohol consumption. Dr. Riehm documented his findings from the blood smear as abnormal, having found these large round erythrocytes called macrocytes. This condition called megaloblastic anemia leads to fewer normal cells, which limits the amount of oxygen and metabolic waste products that can be transported. This is a common finding in the peripheral blood smears of alcoholic patients with anemia. Many people suffering from alcohol dependence also have nutritional deficiencies, including poor intake of vitamin B12 and folate, both of which are critical for the normal development of erythrocytes in the bone marrow.
Dr. Riehm asked you to quickly finish your work on the connective tissue slides and take a look at the new set of cardiac muscle samples. Has he finally found something that could have caused Mr. Smithers’s death?
Dr. Riehm has been keeping you busy cataloging the slides that he has finished with while he prepares to review the slides of Mr. Smithers’s cardiac muscle tissue. Dr. Riehm described regions of necrosis, or dead tissue, as he explains, where cardiac muscle cells have died after being separated from the blood supply. This finding indicated that Mr. Smithers had a myocardial infarction or heart attack. Before you are able to even speculate “Was this the cause of Mr. Smithers’s death,” Dr. Riehm poses this question—are heart attacks always fatal, or in other words, can we determine from this slide that this event preceded and therefore caused Mr. Smithers’s death? People survive heart attacks, don’t they? Dr. Riehm would need to look at the slides more closely later in the day before he completed this portion of his report. He was not ready to sign off on myocardial infarction as the cause of death just yet.
Dr. Riehm reviewed the remaining slides in the set. He selected a blood vessel slide and discovered hypertrophy, or an enlargement of the smooth muscle, and damage to the endothelium lining the vessel walls. Both were signs of vascular disease, as was the finding of atherosclerosis, or plaque, which had probably clogged Mr. Smithers’s arteries and veins. All of these were pathological findings that supported a diagnosis of vascular disease. Vascular disease increases the likelihood of myocardial infarction. Mix the cardiovascular findings with fatty liver disease, anemia, and enough alcohol, and that could explain this man’s death. But it would still be speculation. All of these certainly could lead to a myocardial infarction, no doubt. There was evidence that a cardiac event had happened at some point in Mr. Smithers’s life. Like his fatty liver, these findings indicated that Mr. Smithers was unhealthy.
A review of Mr. Smithers’s medical history or a report from his personal physician would be helpful in determining the relevance of these finding. A pathologist would probably need to see the actual heart itself to make a cause of death by myocardial infarction determination. Dr. Riehm reminded you to get those slides filed away so we could move on to the last set of samples from Mr. Smithers’s brain tissue.

Dr. Riehm suggested that you make flashcards of the following information: (a) briefly describe the structural characteristics and functions of skeletal muscle; (b) briefly describe the structural characteristics and functions of cardiac muscle; (c) briefly describe the structural characteristics and functions of smooth muscle; and (d) discuss the similarities and differences between the three different muscle tissue types.

Finally, being thorough, Dr. Riehm wanted to review his assessment of the cardiac tissue slides. Finding evidence of fibrous tissue interspersed among cardiac muscle cells indicated that the heart had tried to heal itself. Mr. Smithers would have had to have been alive long enough for scar tissue to form in his heart. The evidence from the cardiac tissue was consistent with an old myocardial infarction that Mr. Smithers survived. There was no evidence in the tissue samples to suggest that he had had an acute myocardial infarction. Dr. Riehm could only document what he observed in a small amount of cardiac tissue. Mr. Smithers could have had an acute and fatal myocardial infarction in a region of the heart from which no tissue samples were collected. For what he observed from the available tissue slide, however, a cardiac event as the cause of his death was unlikely. His report would undoubtedly leave more unanswered questions about the cause of Mr. Smithers’s death. A full gross examination of Mr. Smithers’s heart would be needed, which would obviously require that his body be exhumed.

Dr. Riehm has found evidence of fibrosis in the cardiac muscle tissue slides, scattered throughout the dead cardiac muscle cells. This suggested that Mr. Smithers had survived that particular cardiac event. Which of the following statements is true with regard to how cardiac muscle tissue is repaired?

Cardiac muscle cells are only capable of regeneration if the degree of damage is minimal. Extensive damage results in healing by fibrosis.
Cardiac muscle cells are incapable of tissue regeneration because they are no longer capable of dividing by mitosis. Damaged cardiac tissue is replaced with scar tissue.
Cardiac muscle cells differentiate into fibroblasts and regenerate functional cardiac tissue through the process of fibrosis.
Fibroblasts secrete cardiac tissue ECM and once surrounded differentiate into mature cardiac muscle cells. This leads to regeneration of fully functional cardiac tissue.

WRAPPING UP THE CASE
Based on his findings, Dr. Riehm is fairly confident that the cause of Mr. Smithers’s death could not be determined based on an examination of tissue slides alone. Given the liver and vascular disease, he certainly wasn’t healthy, and a heart attack is a common outcome associated with both conditions. However, one question remains unanswered: the damage to the brain. This could have been the result of an accident or deliberate blunt force trauma. Mr. Smithers’s body would need a full autopsy to answer these questions. Tissue slides could provide details not seen with the naked eye but a close look at the body is required—this could be a criminal case. Mr. Smithers’s remains would need to help answer these questions. Due to the unknown cause of head trauma, Dr. Riehm recommends that Mr. Smithers’s body be exhumed so that it can be examined more closely. The details of the pathology will be available in the continuation of Mr. Smithers’s case (see Chapter 12).
Assignment Expectations
Length: 750 – 1250 words
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA style. These do not count towards the minimal word amount for this assignment. Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion paragraph for the assignment.
References: Use the appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. Include at least three (3) scholarly sources to support your claims.