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How does the title of a company’s ethics document affect your attitude about the content?

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DISCUSSION 1
Read Consider: What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code? in Chapter 9 (look below), then answer these following questions from the text:

  • How does the title of a company’s ethics document affect your attitude about the content? Is one title more attractive than another?
  • What is the overall message that the title of the code of conduct conveys? Does it reflect the purpose of the document to provide employee guidance on expected conduct?
  • Propose creative titles for ethics codes for a pharmaceutical company and a restaurant. (Gonzalez-Padron, 2015).
  • Look for two other company ethics documents and share the titles of their ethics documents (consider your own organization or one that you are familiar with for this question).

(Consider: What’s in a Name of an Ethics Professional?
A review of the ECOA member listing shows some of the titles that may be used for ethics professionals:

    • Chief compliance officer
    • Chief ethics and compliance officer
    • Chief ethics officer
    • Chief risk, compliance and ethics officer
    • Vice president, corporate responsibility
    • Vice president, global compliance and ethics
    • Director of business conduct
    • Director of integrity, security and compliance
    • Director, corporate compliance and ethics
    • Director, ethics and integrity programs
    • Director, ethics and regulatory compliance
    • Senior manager, ethics and non-financial corporate policies and procedures
    • Senior manager, global ethics and compliance
    • Senior vice president, global [corporate social responsibility] and risk management
    • Manager, business integrity and compliance
    • Manager, ethics and employee issues

Questions to Consider

    1. Why does the ethics function vary among organizations? What company factors would lead to the wording of the ethics function?
    1. Which titles reflect a focus on compliance only? Which titles reflect a focus on ethics?
  1. Does a title provide sufficient authority to oversee an organization’s ethics program? Does the title of the ethics professional indicate a level of autonomy in addressing ethical issues?

DISCUSSION 2
e of Conduct in Medical Tourism
Medical Tourism has become a growing industry, especially in developing countries. Research the topic of medical tourism and reflect on the ethics related to this industry.  Develop a code of conduct for medical tourism.

What are the limitations of Kotter’s model?

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complete 6 pages excluding title and reference pages (Medicaid)

Assignment must be handled perfectly 
it’s due in 8 hours 
any help would be highly appriciated
Assignment Overview
For this assignment, you will continue analyzing the Medicaid case study, this time from the perspectives of the change process and types of interventions that the City, in partnership with the consulting firm, used to transform the NYC offices, as well as the resistance to change and the leadership strategies required to overcome it.
Required Reading
Isett, K. R., Glied, S. A., Sparer, M. S., & Brown, L. D. (2013). When Change Becomes Transformation. Public Management Review, 15(1), 1-17. doi:10.1080/14719037.2012.686230
Note: You will need to do additional research on the Medicaid offices in NYC to be able to complete this assignment.
Case Assignment
Drawing on the material in the required and background reading, prepare a 6-7 page paper (not including cover and reference pages) in which you:
Analyze the Medicaid Case Study using Kotter’s model for change. Specifically, what did or didn’t the City, in partnership with the consulting firm, do that followed or went against the model.
What types of interventions were used to “induce” change
What types of resistance to change were present? What did or didn’t the City and/or the consulting firm do that enabled them to overcome any resistance to change. .
Define the leadership strategies present to lead the change and overcome resistance.
What limitations does Kotter’s model have, and how did they manifest in this particular situation? What should be done to ensure that when using it they do not impact your analysis / change project?
Keys to the Assignment
The key aspects of this assignment that should be covered in your paper include:
Apply the Kotter Model of Change to analyze the case study.
Thoroughly examine the eight key areas of the model.
Summarize and analyze the nature of the interventions used to transform the Medicaid offices. Which are techno-structural? Human processual? Multi-faceted? Large group?
Identify individual sources of resistance to change and their causes
Identify structural sources of resistance to change and their causes
Evaluate the City / consulting firm’s leadership and the impact it had on overcoming the individual and structural barriers to change at Medicaid.
What else would you recommend be done to help avoid and/or overcome resistance to change at the Medicaid offices going forward?
What are the limitations of Kotter’s model? How would you recommend it be changed?
Required Reading
Aguirre, D., and Alpern, M. (2014).  10 principles of leading change management.  Organizations and People, (75).  Retrieved from http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00255?gko=9d35
Anderson, C.S. & Zaballero, A.G. (2015) Organization development and change models. In Zaballero, A.G., Corn, C.M. Haynes, C. Rothwell, W.J. Anderson, C.S. & Park, C.H. (eds) Organization Development Fundamentals: Managing Strategic Change. Alexandria, VA: Association For Talent Development. Chapter 2: pp 13-42
Appelbaum, S. H., Habashy, S., Malo, J., & Shafiq, H. (2012). Back to the future: Revisiting Kotter’s 1996 change model. The Journal of Management Development, 31(8), 764-782. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02621711211253231
Appreciative inquiry commons (n.d.). Retrieved from http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu
Why Implementation matters. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/operations/Why_implementation_matters#

the difference between the organelles in a eukaryotic cell and the more simple structure of a prokaryotic cell as an analogy between the chief executive officer's (CEO's) corner office and a cubicle.

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Describe 1 or 2 factors that would need to be considered for chloroplasts to function in an animal or a human.

THIS IS A 2 PART ASSIGNMENT
PART 1
Deliverable Length: 5-6 paragraphs
When you look around at the world, you can see many examples that demonstrate how an object’s or a system’s structure relates to its function. The structure of a highway system, for example, can affect traffic flow. You can, no doubt, think of many other examples.
In this Discussion Board assignment, you will look at the structure of the most basic unit of life, the living cell. You will also investigate how the structures of cells are directly related to the functions that are important to life.
Part 1
Your text describes the difference between the organelles in a eukaryotic cell and the more simple structure of a prokaryotic cell as an analogy between the chief executive officer’s (CEO’s) corner office and a cubicle. Organelles are like appliances or pieces of furniture that perform specific functions. Choose 1 organelle, and use an analogy to explain its function. For example, explain how a chloroplast is like a solar panel, or how a mitochondrion is like a furnace. Try to think of original analogies for other organelles or cell structures such as golgi, lysosome, cell wall, cell membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, nucleus, and so on. Include how your analogy may be less than perfect. Compare your analogy with those of your classmates’.
Part 2
You will read that only plants, algae, and some bacteria are photosynthetic. There is an exception to this, though. One species of sea slug has found a way to steal chloroplasts, store them in cells lining its digestive tract, and live on the sugar that is produced (Milius, 2010). What benefit would there be for animal cells (including those of humans) to make their own food? Could cell, tissue, or genetic engineering allow humans to use chloroplasts this way? Describe 1 or 2 factors that would need to be considered for chloroplasts to function in an animal or a human.
Reference
Milius, S. (2010). Green sea slug is part animal, part plant. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/green-sea-slug/
Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used throughout the assignment.
External Web Links

  • Prokaryote Versus Eukaryote
  • Endosymbiont Theory

PART 2 OF THE ASSIGNMENT!!!
Deliverable Length: 2-3 pages
Scientific inquiry in biology starts by observing the living species around you. What separates science from the other methods of seeking truth is that it is testable (e.g., one can devise experiments to test the validity of an idea); it is falsifiable (e.g., an experiment can reveal if an idea is false); and it involves natural causality (e.g., the method involves and depends upon the natural laws of the universe which cause things to happen in a predictable and repeatable manner).
Observation: Scientific inquiry begins when something interesting gets your attention.
Question: Following an observation, a question arises in your mind. It may be something like “I wonder what?” or, “I wonder how? or, “I wonder why?”

Describe how the enzyme/protein is regulated, such as long-term, short-term regulation, cofactors

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry Term-Paper Requirement and Format
General Topics:
Choose an enzyme or protein to describe and discuss its biochemical and molecular properties, metabolic function, physiological roles, and potential applications in either (A) human/animal nutrition, health, or disease, or (B) plant production/agricultural applications, such as improvements of yield, resistance to drought or disease, human/animal nutrition, or industrial-use quality.
The Paper must include the following elements: 

  1. Show the complete DNA sequence of the gene that encodes the protein of your choice.  Include the database (i.e. website) from which you obtain the sequence and reference.  Use Genbank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources to search gene/protein sequence (e.g.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed).  Describe briefly, if applicable, the gene family, using in a specific organism as an example, such as how many such genes in mouse.
  2. Mark the translation start codon and stop codon of the gene; show the deduced amino acid sequence encoded by the gene; describe what is known about posttranslational and/or cotranslational modifications of the protein.  Cite the reference from which you get the information.
  3. Describe the enzymatic reaction and metabolic function of the protein.  Include the specific reaction catalyzed by the enzyme and the metabolic pathway/network that this enzyme is involved in.
  4. Describe how the enzyme/protein is regulated, such as long-term, short-term regulation, cofactors, etc.
  5. Describe what is known about the cellular and physiological processes that the protein/gene impacts and how it has the effect.  Cite the reference from which you get the information.
  6. Evaluate critically the gaps of the current knowledge about the regulation and function of the enzyme/protein; what more needs to be learned for a better understanding of the protein and its functions for potential applications.
  7. Discuss the potential implication and applications of the above information in/to human nutrition, health, or disease, or in plant growth/agricultural application, such as better yield, more resistance to drought or disease, better nutritional value, or better industrial-use quality.
  8. Propose at least one experiment/study that you may use to advance the understanding of the enzyme/protein or test the application of the knowledge for improvements as outlined in 7.

Paper format:
1. Length: The term paper should be approximately, but not exceed 10 (excluding references and large figures), double-spaced, typed pages, with the font size 12 and 1” margin at each side.
2. The format should include:
1)     Project summary (<1 page).  An abstract of what you’re going to write about.
2)     Introduction: (1 page or less).  Briefly describe the background and significance that lead to research about the enzyme/topics
3)     Main body of the text: describe various aspects (see above) of the enzyme/protein
4)     Approaches and methods (1-2 pages).  For #8, briefly outline experimental approaches/methods by which you would want to use for your proposed study (NOTE: not the approach about how you find information about writing the paper).
5)     References (1-2 pages).  Including author’s name, title, journal, vol. page number.  Use the format of Journal of Biological Chemistry but include article titles.
Ref examples:
REFERENCES
1.      Pappan, K., Zheng, L., Krishnamoorthi, R., and Wang, X. (2004)  Evidence for and characterization of Ca2+ binding to the catalytic region of Arabidopsis thaliana phospholipase Dβ.   J. Biol. Chem. 279, 47833–47839.
2.      Prins, T.W., Tudzynski, P., Von Tiedemann, A.V., Tudzynski, B., ten Have, A., Hansen, M.E., Tenberge, K., and van Kan, J.A.L. (2000)  Molecular interactions in fungal pathogenesis. In Fungal Pathology (Kronstad, J.W., eds) pp. 33-64, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Doedrecht, Netherlands
3.      protein sequence of xxxx http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=protein&val=15232671
Plagiarism Check and Report Submission: The College has no tolerance for overt acts that challenge the standards of academic integrity. A “zero” point will be given to the term paper if plagiarism is detected in the term paper. To assure academic honesty and avoid plagiarism, submit your term-paper text to “Turnitin”, which isavailable exclusively through the Online Writing Labmodule on their MyGateway. To do this, you click on the Online Writing Lab module on their MyGateway Home page and self-enroll. After that you will find instructions on how to use Turnitin and where to submit their papers. (If you have any questions or need assistance please contact your Faculty Resource Center, , 314-516-6704 or stop by 105 Express Scripts Hall).
Attach the check report summary at the end of with your term paper.