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PART II: READING COMPREHENSION

Step 1: Read “It’s Class, Stupid!” by Richard Rodriguez on page 518 in your textbook. Be sure you continue to use APA formatting to cite your sources even in your short responses.

Step 2: Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

1. What does the word constitute in paragraph 7 mean?

2. According to the author, what prevents many poor people from attending college? Give at least three reasons.

3. According to Rodriquez, who benefits the most from affirmative action?

Step 3: In a well-structured paragraph that is five to eight sentences in length, please respond to the following:

Has your economic, cultural, background ever been the source of a positive experience in the Army? How did the reading affect your thoughts about social inequality?

Note: You may submit the paragraph in the same file, but please use a separate page and ensure that you use APA format. Be sure that you have a Reference section that includes the textbook and specifically reference the reading by Richard Rodriguez.

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Assignment 2: LASA: Comparison and Contrast of Research Designs

Description of LASA:

Choose an industrial/organizational (I/O) topic of interest. A nonexhaustive list of research topic suggestions includes leadership, job satisfaction, organizational culture, measuring performance, work–life balance, compensation, selection, recruitment, retention, employee engagement, training, and emotional intelligence.

Once you have selected your topic, you will conduct a literature review on that topic. Locate three scholarly peer-reviewed articles (published within the last five to seven years) that have investigated your research topic:

One of the articles needs to have employed an experimental research design.
One of the articles needs to have employed a quasi-experimental research design.
One of the articles needs to have employed a mixed-methods research design.

Tasks:

Read, summarize, analyze, and critique each of the articles. For each article, your analysis should:

Summarize the results of the study.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the research.
Discuss the appropriateness of the research design for the study, the reliability, the validity, sampling methods, and any potential bias.
Identify any ethical or diversity issues.

Having reviewed the same topic from a variety of research design approaches, reflect on what you have learned about the specific industrial/organizational (I/O) topic itself, as well as the impact that the research method employed had on the knowledge gained from the study. Be sure to include these reflections in the conclusion of your paper.

Write a 7- to 9-page paper based on your literature review, utilizing the three scholarly sources you review. Make sure you employ proper grammar and spelling and apply current APA standards for writing style to your work.

Use the following headings to organize your paper:

Research design methods defined:
Experimental
Strengths and limitations
Quasi-experimental
Strengths and limitations
Mixed methods
Strengths and limitations
Industrial/organizational (I/O) topic area of interest
Experimental design study summary:
Results
Experimental design study analysis and critique
Strengths and weaknesses of the study
Ethical, legal, and/or diversity considerations
Quasi-experimental design study summary
Results
Quasi-experimental design study analysis and critique
Strengths and weaknesses of the study
Ethical, legal, and/or diversity considerations
Mixed-methods research design study summary:
Results
Mixed-methods research design study analysis and critique
Strengths and weaknesses of the study
Ethical, legal, and/or diversity considerations
Conclusion
References

Submission Details:

By Wednesday, February 10, 2016, save your paper into a Microsoft Word document as M5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc and submit it to the M5 Assignment 2 LASA Dropbox.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Discuss cybersecurity strategies and the various frameworks.
Discuss the threats of modern technology in the workplace.
Discuss how policies play an important role in techniques adopted for cybersecurity.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in information assurance.
Write clearly and concisely about information assurance topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Discuss cybersecurity strategies and the various frameworks.
Discuss the threats of modern technology in the workplace.
Discuss how policies play an important role in techniques adopted for cybersecurity.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in information assurance.
Write clearly and concisely about information assurance topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Discuss cybersecurity strategies and the various frameworks.
Discuss the threats of modern technology in the workplace.
Discuss how policies play an important role in techniques adopted for cybersecurity.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in information assurance.
Write clearly and concisely about information assurance topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Section 1

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Analyze the strategy used to protect the large organization you researched from hackers, fraud, and theft.
Describe how your researched large organization uses “policy as a project” in its program.
Analyze the general consequences of not having a policy for cybersecurity. Justify your thoughts with real-world examples.
Cover the basic needs should there be a lack of cybersecurity policy in an organization. Decide what can be done to provide a base for security needs.

Section 2

Using Microsoft Project, or an open source alternative such as OpenProj, to:

5. Record all tasks, subtasks, resources, and time related to the security cycle.

6. Outline the organization’s business, the systems, mission, and / or risk management phases in your design.

7. Your milestones should show how you are reducing cybersecurity risk rather than compliance and best practices.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Discuss cybersecurity strategies and the various frameworks.
Discuss the threats of modern technology in the workplace.
Discuss how policies play an important role in techniques adopted for cybersecurity.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in information assurance.
Write clearly and concisely about information assurance topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Examine the challenges of computer security, including different threats and types of attacks
Describe computational security and symmetric encryption techniques and adoption to modern organizations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in Cryptography.
Write clearly and concisely about Cryptography using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Explain how value chain analysis can be used to make a firm more competitive.

Identify core competencies, resources, and capabilities found in your Strategic Audit firm. Explain how they make your Strategic Audit firm more competitive.

Discuss in detail how the VRIO Framework can be used to evaluate a business’ competencies. Explain which of the VRIO factors would allow a firm to achieve a sustainable advantage over its competitors, and why?

Explain how value chain analysis can be used to make a firm more competitive.

Identify core competencies, resources, and capabilities found in your Strategic Audit firm. Explain how they make your Strategic Audit firm more competitive.

Discuss in detail how the VRIO Framework can be used to evaluate a business’ competencies. Explain which of the VRIO factors would allow a firm to achieve a sustainable advantage over its competitors, and why?

APA 6th Edition, reference and 100% original

Identify core competencies, resources, and capabilities found in your Strategic Audit firm. Explain how they make your Strategic Audit firm more competitive.

Discuss in detail how the VRIO Framework can be used to evaluate a business’ competencies. Explain which of the VRIO factors would allow a firm to achieve a sustainable advantage over its competitors, and why?

APA 6th Edition, reference and 100% original