...PNR400 Role Development for the Practical Nurse Leadership Reflective Essay Assignment Grade: 10% of final grade Length: 4 pages maximum, Due Date: October 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm (see below) * 12 font, New Times Roman, double spaced, excluding reference list and title page. * Hard copy and electronic copy due at beginning of class as assigned by professor * Include a copy of the rubric with the hardcopy of your essay * Submit an electronic copy to Safe Assign on your assigned due date. Topic: Reflections: Leadership Development as you transition from learner to practitioner This essay is a critical analysis of your personal journey reflecting on your leadership skills development as you transition from being a student to a practice RPN. It may be helpful to focus on one significant experience and/or challenge: Examine how it made you feel made and how you have grown and developed leadership skills as a result. The primary focus is on your development of leadership skills as you transition from learner to practitioner. It should be honest and include examples, details, and relevant literature to support your opinions and thoughts. A good reflective essay should help you to understand yourself better. It must be written in the first person. Though this is a reflective paper, you need to clearly support your thoughts and ideas with references from the literature. Theoretical references may come from the literature related to leadership theory...
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...Identify the inclusion and exclusion sample criteria study In the study of Sleep Quality and Risk for Sleep Apnea in Incarcerated Women, the inclusion criteria for the study were volunteered English speaking incarcerated women in the general population section of the prison. (Harner & Budescu, 2014) The exclusion criteria for the study excluded non English speaking inmates, inmates not housed in the general population, and those who did not wish to participate in the study. Indicate the method used to obtain the sample. The study sample was obtained by using a cross sectional design via a questionnaire completion from the volunteered inmates .(Harner & Budescu, 2014) The sample method utilized is the convenience sampling , which is a study of the inmates who are women and incarcerated. These two criteria were the main focus of the study and the reason why the convenience sampling method was used. According to (Grove et al., 2013) Convenience sampling is used when the subjects are in the right place at the right time. The study did not appear to be costly and the inmates were not compensated for their time. Grove further states that convenience sampling is not expensive and does not acquire a lot of time as other sample methods. (Grove et al., 2013) State the sample size. Was power analysis done to determine sample size? If not specified, how is a power analysis done? Power analysis was not completed to determine the sample size of 439 and it was not...
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...Case Study 1. Write a jQuery script to design 8x8 matrix format with color black and white. It should seem like Chess Board. Need a button with a label Reverse. All div color should be changed from black to white and white to black. 2. Write a jQuery script to design 2 div element in the page. Show big text in those div's and you will get scroll bar. If I move right side scroll bar then left side div scroll bar need to move along with the rite. As well vice verse. 3. Write a jQuery script(toggle) to design menu as below mentioned a) Fruits Banana Mango Jackfruit b) Vegetables Brinjal Bumpkin Snake Guard c) Oil Gingelly Sun Flower Groundnut Initially, all menu should be non-expand mode except Title menu. If I am click Fruits Title, should expand the menus are avail under it. Rest of all non-expand. 4. Write a jQuery script to search a text in the paragraph. Provide a text field and search button below to the paragraph. Highlight all the words in yellow colors once found when search button clicked. 5. Write a jQuery script to design 8x8 matrix format with color black and white. It should seem like Chess Board. Provide buttons like first, last, Odd and Even. When you click first button, first div should be changed highlighted with color yellow and border should be in red color. Like wise, do the same for last, odd and even button clicked. 6. Write a jQuery script to design an UI form for retailing customer and it should contain...
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...Diversity: Scorecard Why Board Diversity Equals Success Alicia Yi Managing Director, Strategic Client Services Korn/Ferry International Women vs. Men’s Tertiary Education * The score above show the proportion of women to every 100 men. ** Source: MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women’s Advancement Asia’s Growth Model is Shifting… MARKET SHIFT ASIA 1.0 (1985 – 2005) THE IMPETUS FOR CHANGE — Reduced Western Consumer Spending — Emerging Consumerism in Asia — Shifting R&D investments — Asia’s drive to innovate — Asia’s need to move up the value chain — Unemployment in the west — Western companies Asianizing — Asian companies globalizing ASIA 2.0 (2006 – 2020) CONSUMER SHIFT MADE IN ASIA MADE FOR ASIA INNOVATION SHIFT THE WORLD’S FACTORY and BACK OFFICE THE WORLD’S LABORATORY and KNOWLEDGE OFFICE JOBS SHIFT CHEAP and PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE CREATIVE and INNOVATIVE TALENT Asia Advancing - Innovation Tata Nano : the $3,000 car was conceived and developed in India LG LX9500 : the world’s first 3D LED TV Mac 400 : a hand-held cardiogram ($800) developed by GE in India Kaohsiung Stadium : World’s first solar powered stadium – in Taiwan The USB Credit Card : developed by Shinhan Card in Korea Eko Hybrid: World’s first hybrid 2-wheeler ($500) – in Bangalore F1 Night Race : World’s first night race in Singapore Harmony Express: World’s fastest train (394 kmph) in China Four Leadership Styles Leaders most likely...
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...The Official Othello Game Rules 1. Othello Game Board and Discs Othello is a strategy board game played between two players. It is played using a square 8 ¥ 8 board and 64 discs. The discs are coloured black on one side and white on the opposite side. Each player shall be assigned to play a colour. 2. Object of the Game The Object of the game is to have the majority of colour discs on the board at the end of the game. 3. Game Set-up The game will be set-up with 2 black discs and 2 white discs at the centre of the board. They are arranged with black forming a North-East to South-West direction and white forming a NorthWest to South-East direction. This is illustrated in Figure 1 on the right. Figure 1. 4. Making Moves A move is made by placing a disc of the player’s colour on the board in a position that “out-flanks” one or more of the opponent’s discs. The opponent’s disc(s), which is/are outflanked in that move, will then be flipped over to the player’s colour. A disc or row of discs is outflanked when it is surrounded at the ends by discs of the opposite colour. An illustration of the term “out-flanking”: In Figure 2 below, disc A is white, discs B, C, and D are black, white to move. A B C D Figure 2. White can out-flank discs B, C and D by placing disc E on the board as shown in Figure 3 below. A B C D E Figure 3. After white had placed disc E, discs B, C, and D are flipped over to make them white. A single move...
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...government also have do many things to attracted the youth to joining this game. For an example, there are tournament of Haji Dam among all school around Malaysia. It is a really joyful game. This will be played by 2 people. It is played on a board of 144 square, with 30 pieces on a side. It’s mean that 30 black seeds and 30 white seeds or sometimes in certain places they will be used black seeds and red seeds. Actually , it is not so important about the colour because when the old men played this game at the food stalls, they will just use a bottle’s cap as the seeds. If in chess game play, someone who on the white side will started the game but in haji Dam it is totally different. Who will move first, will be decided by the agreement from the both sides of players. After the first player move his pieces, the second player will start move his pieces also and it will continuously until the end of the game. In Haji Dam there are two levels of seed that is an unpromoted seed and a promoted seed. An unpromoted seed can only move and capture forward diagonally, but a promoted seed move likes a chess bishop, and can capture opponent piece anywhere along its line of movement. A seed can only be promoted when it reach the opponent side of board and it will be stake with another pieces. This promoted seed will be called as Haji. A turn must capture the maximum possible number of pieces. Failing to do so, results in forfeiture of that piece. If there is a choice between...
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...[pic][pic] Corporate Governance and Performance An Exploration of the Connection in a Public Sector Context By Meredith Edwards & Robyn Clough Issues Series Paper No. 1 January 2005 Preface This paper is part of a major project - Corporate Governance in the Public Sector: An evaluation of its Tensions, Gaps and Potential. The project will provide the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical work on corporate governance in the Commonwealth public sector. It has been designed to enhance communication and participation in governance across government, industry, and the community by improving corporate governance literacy and making information publicly available. The project is a collaborative venture between three University of Canberra research centres and key governmental and industry partners including the Australian National Audit Office, the Australian Government Department of Finance and Administration, Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu, CPA Australia and MinterEllison Lawyers. This paper is the first in a series that will be produced by researchers and industry partners involved in the project. The aim of the series is to identify and explore key emerging public sector governance issues and encourage wider discussion and activity. The series has been designed for public sector practitioners and corporate governance ‘enthusiasts’ across the public and private sectors. All papers will be broadly distributed and will be available online - www...
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...INTRODUCTION This paper discusses the HealthSouth Case including the activities and subsequent prosecution of its CEO, Richard Scrushy. “During the trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, federal prosecutors argued that Scrushy must have known something was amiss with HealthSouth’s financial statements since there was a discrepancy between the company’s financial and nonfinancial performance.” Over a ten-year period from 1987 to 1997, HealthSouth enjoyed above–average growth at a rate of 31 percent per year. (Jennings, 2012, 2009, p. 183) This phenomenal growth was due, in part, to a series of mergers and acquisitions let by the efforts of the company’s CEO, Richard Scrushy who ran the company with an iron fist and has at least one recorded conversation directing a CFO to fix the numbers over time. The fraud lasted for seven years and totaled approximately $2.7 billion. Mr. Scrushy denied knowing anything about the fraud, claimed it was all done by the people around him and was ultimately found not guilty of the fraud at HealthSouth but was convicted on bribery and corruption charges. Mr. Scrushy was ordered to pay $2.9 billion in restitution in a civil suit. “From at least 1996 until 2002, HealthSouth senior management perpetrated a financial statement fraud primarily through the use of nonstandard journal entries.” (Carmichael, 2010, p. 64) “Scrushy, once a high school dropout, worked as a gas station attendant and a bricklayer before retuning (sic)...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Financial Economics 73 (2004) 497–524 Who is in whose pocket? Director compensation, board independence, and barriers to effective monitoring$ Harley E. Ryan Jr.a,*, Roy A. Wiggins IIIb a Department of Finance, E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA b Department of Finance, Bentley College, Waltham, MA 02452, USA Received 8 October 2003; accepted 18 November 2003 Available online 9 June 2004 Abstract We use a bargaining framework to examine empirically the relations between director compensation and board-of-director independence. Our evidence suggests that independent directors have a bargaining advantage over the CEO that results in compensation more closely aligned with shareholders’ objectives. Firms with more outsiders on their boards award directors more equity-based compensation. When the CEO’s power over the board increases, compensation provides weaker incentives to monitor. Firms with more inside directors and with entrenched CEOs use less equity-based pay. Furthermore, firms with entrenched CEOs and CEOs who also chair the board are less likely to replace cash pay with equity. r 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G30; G34; G38 Keywords: Board of Directors; Compensation; Bargaining power; Agency theory; Regulation $ We thank Tom Arnold, George Baker, Lucian Bebchuk, Alex Butler, Sudip Datta, Mai IskandarDatta, Melissa Frye, Stuart Gillan...
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...ASSIGNMENT - 2 LETTER & ANALYSIS TANAY RUSHEEL P 1501111 LETTER Doris Gormley, OSF Director, Corporate Social Responsibility The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Our Lady of Angels Convent – Glen Riddle Aston, PA 19014 Dear Sister Gormley, With respect to the letter concerning the consideration of women and minorities to be included in the Board of directors and pointing out the lack of racial and gender inclusion in the Board of director’s at Cypress, let me inform you that we at Cypress do not consider selection on the basis of genders, races or ethnic groups, but on merit and the qualifications they possess. The management and the board of directors is a critical part of our company and the required essentials for board membership are as follows: * Experience as a CEO of an important technology company. * Direct expertise in the semiconductor business based on education and management experience. * Direct experience in the management of a company that buys from the semiconductor industry. Selecting or electing the board of directors is a crucial aspect of our business as it involves a lot of important decisions to be taken off guard and we cannot put the company at stake involving people without the necessary skills to do so. Finally, I appreciate your views and the time you have taken out to convey the same, if we do come across any women who match the required criteria mentioned above, we will be more than happy to invite her to...
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...Oakmont Country Club 1 Thomas W. Gilligan University of Southern California I t is the summer of 1996 and management must decide whether or not to alter the process used to trade the club’s 450 memberships. The current fixed price system, in which management sets the transfer fee for club memberships, offers some degree of financial certainty for existing and prospective members as well as for the club’s financial planners. However, the fixed price system promotes chronic imbalances between the number of members wishing to leave the club and the number of eligible candidates wanting to enter the club. These imbalances create frustrations for eligible candidates, hardships for long-time club members, difficulties in developing suitable new members and problems for club planners. Management is considering several alternatives. THE CLUB Oakmont Country Club is a private golf and social club located along the Arroyo Verdugo in northern Glendale, California. Established in 1922, Oakmont has long provided the kind of relaxed social life prized by many Southern California families. Oakmont’s mission statement reveals the club’s goals and orientation. . . . to provide its members with a premium golf and country club experience that includes a well maintained, highly respected and competitive golf course; an attractively designed and efficiently operated clubhouse that meets the membership’s requirements for excellent service, top-quality food and beverages and ample meeting...
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...Board of Directors Analysis Assignment: 1. Select a startup that you deem to be innovative 2. Identify the board of directors 3. Analyze the board of directors Response: For this week’s assignment I am going to examine the Board of Director’s at a startup company called Curbside. By their own definition, Curbside is an app that allows you to find and buy products available at nearby retail stores. When your order is ready to pick up, we notify you. Drive to the store, park at our kiosk outside the retailer and we will load your purchases into your car. We turn any retail store into an efficient shopping experience. The current Board of Directors for Curbside is: * Jaron Waldman – Founder and CEO of Curbside. Jaron is a two-time entrepreneur with his first startup, Placebase, acquired by Apple in 2009. Jaron has experience leads enterprise level engineering and software development teams. * Jerry Yang – Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Jerry is famously known for founding Yahoo with David Filo. Jerry has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and it widely regarded as a brilliant technologist. * Mike Volpi – Partner at Index Ventures. Prior to venture capital, Mike was a senior executive with Cisco where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development and alliances. Mike also holds an MBA from Stanford. * James Walker – Founder and CEO of Inadco, a mobile ad tech startup based in Palo Also...
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...Oakmont Country Club 1 Thomas W. Gilligan University of Southern California I t is the summer of 1996 and management must decide whether or not to alter the process used to trade the club’s 450 memberships. The current fixed price system, in which management sets the transfer fee for club memberships, offers some degree of financial certainty for existing and prospective members as well as for the club’s financial planners. However, the fixed price system promotes chronic imbalances between the number of members wishing to leave the club and the number of eligible candidates wanting to enter the club. These imbalances create frustrations for eligible candidates, hardships for long-time club members, difficulties in developing suitable new members and problems for club planners. Management is considering several alternatives. THE CLUB Oakmont Country Club is a private golf and social club located along the Arroyo Verdugo in northern Glendale, California. Established in 1922, Oakmont has long provided the kind of relaxed social life prized by many Southern California families. Oakmont’s mission statement reveals the club’s goals and orientation. . . . to provide its members with a premium golf and country club experience that includes a well maintained, highly respected and competitive golf course; an attractively designed and efficiently operated clubhouse that meets the membership’s requirements for excellent service, top-quality food and beverages and ample meeting...
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...“Deconstructing Independent Directors”(*) María Gutiérrez Maribel Sáez Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and ECGI Universidad Autónoma de Madrid January 2012 Abstract In this paper we argue that boards of directors lack the mandate, the incentives and the ability to control insiders, especially in jurisdictions where the main agency problem arises between controlling and minority shareholders. We analyze the problems that render independents an inefficient monitoring device for companies with concentrated ownership structures and conclude that the current focus of the regulators and codes of best practice on empowering independents is ineffective and companies would be better off choosing their board members at liberty. Nevertheless, we also present two different proposals for reform: independents as gatekeepers for the regulator and independents as surrogates of the minority. Both proposals are based on the idea that if independent directors are expected to monitor controlling shareholders their most important characteristic should be accountability rather than mere independence. JEL Classifications: G32; G34; K22 Keywords: Independent directors, Board of directors, Concentrated ownership, Monitoring, Corporate Law (*)The authors wish to thank, Jesus Alfaro, Magda Bianco, Fernando Gómez Pomar and Assaf Hamdani and seminar audiences at AEDE 2010 and SIDE 2011 for many useful comments. The contents of this paper are the sole responsibility of...
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...16.1 percent of board seats in Fortune 500 companies in the United States (Soares, 2011). This large gender disparity is hurting our boards immensely, as it is not showing enough of a large percentage of the population. In other countries the inclusion of other races and genders has been documented to show that it can help a company immensely in regards to profitability. In this report, we are going to talk about gender disparity, what it is, how it affects our Boards, what is being done, and ultimately what we can do even more to help bridge the gap in our gender disparity. We will also discuss the pros and cons of gender quotas when it comes to firms and women and also what is being done outside the United States to combat gender disparity internationally, either voluntarily or through law. Gender disparity, simply put, is inequality. In regards to this report we focus on the disparity of power when it comes to serving on Boards of Directors. According to Rachel Soares, who graphical depicts her information, shows that about 83% of all boards are composed of men overwhelmingly. (2011) That means women only make up about 17% of the member of a Board of Directors, and we consider that a problem. In figure 1 below, we show the disparity of women who hold positions on boards. (Soares, 2011) As you can see more than a tenth of our companies fail to even have a woman on their Board of Directors. And of those few percentages of women who are a part of the Board of Directors, a large...
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