Your research proposal is only 1800-2000 words in length but you should not assume that means you can do all of the work for it in a few days. What is my research question?Why is this question worth answering? Why is it an important question?Why is my question politically significant? Who should care about the answer to my research question? Why should they care?How is my question located in the existing academic literature on my topic? How does my question relate to the positions of the key protagonists in academic debates about my topic? (You should be able to locate your research in relation to debates about theory and methods as well as evidence/interpretation of evidence.)How will I conduct my research to answer my research question? What approach and/or research methods will I use? What theoretical or analytical frameworks or perspectives will I use? (You should be able to explain why you have chosen your approach/methods/theories.)(If you are using a case study/case studies …) Why have I chosen this case study/these case studies? Does my choice of case study make sense given my theoretical or analytical framework?If you can provide good answers to these questions, you will know what question you are going to answer, why it is worth trying to answer it, and how you are going to answer it. StructureExplanation of your research question. What are you researching? Why is it worth researching it? This section should provide a brief explanation of the principal research question that you will address. It should indicate the context of your question and explain why your research question is significant both in substantive terms and in relation to existing academic research. You might also indicate, if appropriate, the sub-questions that follow from your principal question. (Approximate word length: 500)Review of the relevant academic literature. Who has already conducted research relevant to your topic? What are the main areas of agreement/disagreement among them? This section should briefly identify the literature that is relevant to your research proposal and indicates how it relates to your research topic. You should not simply give a list of books or articles. Instead, you should show that you know the key protagonists relevant to your area of study, and where they stand in relation to one another. You should be able to identify the major positions in the literature and the main debates that are relevant to your research question. (Approximate word length: 1100)Explanation of approach and/or research method. How are you going to answer your research question? This section should briefly explain the approach and/or research method that you will be using to investigate your research question. This may be a well-recognized theoretical approach or research method; e.g. quantitative methods, comparative approach, case study. Or it may be something less grandiose: simply an account of what you will do to investigate your particular research question. If you are unsure about the sort of information this section requires, you should seek guidance from the module leader. (Approximate word length: 400)

Scenario
Chaparral Regional Hospital is a small, urban hospital of approximately 60 beds, and offers the following:

Emergency room services
Intensive care
Surgical care
Obstetrics
Diagnostic services
Some rehabilitation therapies
Inpatient pharmacy services
Geriatric services
Consumer physician referral services

Recently, the CEO has been hearing complaints from both patients and staff, varying from long wait times to rude physicians. You have been hired to design and implement a Quality Improvement Plan to help uncover quality problems and to satisfactorily resolve them.
Instructions
The CEO has received some resistance from the Board on undertaking a QI program. She has asked you to develop a set of talking points on the pros and cons of common measurement techniques used in healthcare that she can use the next time she runs into a Board member.
Talking points are used to quickly explain something by condensing it into a compelling, but easily digestible, list. If the goal is to increase support for a QI program, the talking points must provide the ideas she needs to convey in order to achieve the goal.
Your talking points should be submitted in a Word document. Your talking points should include the pros and cons of implementing a QI program.
Upon completion of your talking points, please prepare a PowerPoint presentation (or other shareable Webware/software you prefer) with narration where you will explain each talking point to the CEO so they clearly understand and can answer questions from the Board.
APA formatting for the talking points, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form are required.

Length of PowerPoint is secondary to the quality of the presentation as a whole.
Highlight specific pros and cons of QI programs.
Use the Notes area on each slide as needed to expand on the key points.
You may use a free screen capture site such as Screencast-O-Matic to record a video of your presentation. Screencast-O-Matic is a site and program that can perform screen desk and audio capture up to 15 minutes for free, and can be utilized on a Windows or Mac computer. (Note: You can use a similar program if you prefer. Screencast-O-Matic is just one suggestion). Make sure that both your voice and the PowerPoint slides are captured on the video.

Your audio presentation should include an introduction, a concise discussion of each slide, and a conclusion. Make sure to use audience-specific language and tone in your PowerPoint. Remember, you would be presenting this to the CEO of your facility. The presentation will be assessed on your overall knowledge of the content, clarity of your voice, pronunciation of words, organization of your presentation, proper recording of your presentation, overall aesthetics and professionalism, and general clarity of your presentation.
Your presentation should be 10 minutes or less. Make sure to address the following:

Include a link to the location of your live video on the last slide of your PowerPoint presentation.
Make sure to use audience specific language and tone in your PowerPoint. Remember, you would be presenting this to the management team at your location.

The goal of this assignment is to examine your own health habits and apply strategies to lead to behavior change.Your first task is to identify a specific behavior you wish to change. This could involve eliminating a behavior that troubles you (e.g., drinking too much soda) or adding a behavior to enrich your health (e.g., exercising three times per week; stretching; developing a yoga practice). It is generally best to focus on changing only one behavior, as opposed to a set of different behaviors. Your behavior change can be anything as long as it is safe, achievable, and something that research suggests is likely to improve health (physical and/or mental health!).Once you have decided on a behavior, create a formal proposal. The proposal should clearly state:The specific behavior you want to change.Context & Potential Challenges. In your proposal, devote a paragraph or two to the context of the behavior you wish to change. In what environment does the behavior occur? Under what conditions are you most likely to engage in the behavior? What situational, social, or emotional factors tend to increase the behavior? (You may wish to monitor yourself for a week or two to be able to sufficiently answer these questions and to have a baseline for comparison.) What will likely get in the way of changing the behavior? If you have tried to change this behavior before, what got in the way then? Goals. The goal of the behavior change for the long-term (i.e., next year or two or ten) and short-term (i.e., this semester). It is often best to have a more modest goal for the short-term (e.g., limit soda to one per day) and a more ambitious goal to work toward over time (e.g., eliminating soda completely from daily diet). Next, break down the short-term goal into small steps you hope to accomplish during the semester. For example, during your first week of behavior change, you may opt to limit yourself to three sodas per day. In the next week(s), you may limit yourself to two sodas per day, striving to drink just one soda per day as the semester draws to a close.Strategies. Devote another paragraph to the strategies you think you will employ to aid your behavior change. What techniques will you use to increase your success? For example, what will you opt to drink instead of soda? Will you ask your roommate to encourage you or perhaps join you in your behavior change? Will you consciously resist purchasing two-liters of soda and instead buy a set number of cans each week? You may continue to add new strategies as you learn about them. Reading various resources can be helpful for selecting effective strategies.Sources. Locate and cite at least one peer-reviewed source that demonstrates that your behavior change is beneficial to your health. Application of Franciscan values (Links to an external site.). , we must be intentional about the applicability of the Franciscan values. Therefore, consider how the values may apply to your project. Devote a paragraph to listing the Franciscan values and then select at least one and explain how it may apply to your project. (You might need to get creative–that’s encouraged!)

I’m working on a business question and need an explanation to help me learn.

At the conclusion of unit 1, you will submit a short close-reading essay that offers an original syntactical analysis of a passage from Northanger Abbey. You should choose a passage, about a page in length, that we haven’t covered as a class. I encourage you to annotate it for syntactical elements before you start writing your essay. You do not need to attach your passage to the essay. If you properly cite your quotations in your analysis, it should be extremely clear what part of the book you’re writing about.
Do not include an introduction or conclusion paragraph: the focus here is your analysis and the argument you draw from it. The essay should have the following components:
•An original title (not “Unit Essay” or the name of the text you’re analyzing) that reflects the focus of your paper;
•A thesis statement (simply stating it as “Thesis: [thesis here]” at the start of the paper is fine) about your passage that is specific, arguable, narrow in scope, and addresses the stakes of your argument;
â—¦It is okay to just write “Thesis: [your thesis statement here]” at the start of the paper!
â—¦You are not expected to have finished reading the book by this point. We’ll be finishing it during unit 2. Your thesis should therefore be focused on the passage you have selected and should make a connection between the syntactical elements of that passage and your interpretation of it.
•Multiple body paragraphs that each include:
â—¦A clear topic sentence about the text that is a claim, connects back to the thesis, and reflects the main point of the paragraph;
â—¦Multiple quotations and pieces of textual evidence that support the claim that you make in your topic sentence and that are integrated into your own sentences;
â—¦Multiple sentences that explain specifically what these pieces of evidence mean and that link them back to your topic sentence;
â—¦A final sentence that serves as a transition statement to your next argumentative point in your next paragraph (which should be clearly indicated in the next paragraph’s topic sentence).
â—¦Use as many paragraphs as you need to prove your point. Each paragraph should have its own clear main idea, and each paragraph should only have one main idea in it. Don’t restrict yourself to the five-paragraph-essay formula that you may have learned in high school!
â—¦Your paragraphs should address at least two syntactical elements that are at play in the passage you’ve selected. (More is fine, but make sure you fully develop each analysis.)
Your audience for this paper is someone who has read Northanger Abbey and knows it fairly well. Limit your plot-related commentary to cases where such information is absolutely necessary for clarity. Your tone should be formal (no contractions, swearing, or colloquialisms) and should be objective and argumentative; avoid reader-response style language. If you have questions about this distinction, ask! 1st sources:
Northanger Abbey – Second Edition
https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=S_AMwQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Throughout the course, strategies, techniques, and philosophies have been presented to make managers and supervisors more effective in performing their responsibilities in directing personnel.
Complete the Effective Practices for Managers and Supervisors worksheet. (Attached)
Use any of the textbook readings from Weeks 1-5. At least three examples should be from the Wk 5 chapters. ( The next links are the reading from every week). 
Week 1: Values

Huberts, L., Kaptein, M., & Lasthuizen, K. (2007). A study of the impact of three leadership styles on integrity violations committed by police officers. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 30(4), 587-607.
Johnson, R. (2009). Are managers leaders or are leaders managers? Supply House Times, 52(4), 66-67.
Lawler III, E. E. (2007). Creating a virtuous spiral organization. Global Business & Organizational Excellence, 26(2), 47-52.
Radman, D., A.P.R. (2007). Nature or nurture: What makes a great agency leader? Public Relations Tactics, 14(8), 12.
Schafer, J. A. (2010). Effective leaders and leadership in policing: Traits, assessment, development, and expansion. Policing, 33(4), 644-663.

Week 2: Motivation and Empowerment

Johnson, R. (2011). Officer      attitudes and management influences on police work productivity. American      Journal of Criminal Justice, 36(4),      293-306.
Shukla, N. K. (2012). How      motivation factor affect the organizational effectiveness. International      Journal of Management Research and Reviews, 2(3), 430-435.
Udechukwu, I. I. (2009,      Summer). Correctional officer turnover: Of Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy and      Herzberg’s Motivation Theory. Public Personnel Management, 38(2),      69-82.

Week 3: Organizational Effectiveness

Furst, S. A., & Cable, D.      M. (2008). Employee resistance to organizational change: Managerial      influence tactics and leader-member exchange. Journal of      Applied Psychology, 93(2), 453-462.
Taylor, C.M., Cornelius,C.J.,      & Colvin, K. (2014). Visionary leadership and its relationship to      organizational effectiveness. Leadership & Organization      Development Journal, 35(6), 566-583.
Fuimano, J. (2013). Becoming      an Outstanding Leader and Manager (01:02:28) [Video file], Proquest.

Week 5: Personnel Supervision and Evaluation

McDermott, S. R. (2010).      Effective supervision in a progressive department. Corrections      Today, 72(3), 16.
Schafer, J. A. (2009).      Developing effective leadership in policing: Perils, pitfalls, and paths      forward. Policing, 32(2),      238-260.
Willis, D. (2011). Principles      of effective law enforcement leadership. FBI Law      Enforcement Bulletin, 80(3), 16-18.
Gove, T. G. (2005). Praise and      recognition. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 74(10), 14-19.
Lilley, D., & Hinduja, S.      (2006). Organizational values and police officer evaluation: A content      comparison between traditional and community policing agencies. Police      Quarterly, 9(4), 486–513.