GEN 499 Ashford University Globalization and Its Ethical Implications

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Week 2 – Discussion Forum 1

6 6 unread replies. 6 6 replies.

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Globalization and Its Ethical Implications [WLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5]
Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the following Week 1 and Week 2 required resources that focus on globalization, ethics, and moral reasoning. This will assist you in examining your own development of ethical and moral responsibilities as they relate to your Final Paper and its topic.
Read these articles from Week 1:

Read these articles from Week 2:
Reflect: The change of our world from a local economy to a national economy to a global, international economy means that increasingly diverse populations will have to work together to achieve common goals. However, as the economy becomes increasingly global, local economies and people may suffer economic disadvantage or may find themselves marginalized from the rest of the world. Globalization creates ethical dilemmas for which we will need to find solutions.
Write: For this discussion, address the following prompts:

  • Explain the implications of globalization.
  • Identify at least two ethical issues that go along with the global societal topic you have chosen for your final essay.
  • Explain how globalization contributes to or affects these ethical dilemmas.
  • Propose solutions to these ethical dilemmas that are feasible financially, socially, and culturally.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference entries of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations (see In-Text Citation Helper (Links to an external site.)) and references (see Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.)).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. In each response, provide comments on your classmate’s topic idea and ask a question that prompts your classmate to think more critically about how to explore the research topic in more detail. Each participation post should be a minimum of 75 words.
 
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About knowledge management major. School Harvard University

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Assignment questions:
Choose ONE of the following three questions:

  • The contemporary interest in Knowledge Management as part of the Knowledge Society is sometimes seen to originate back to Daniel Bell’s (1973) model of Post Industrial Society (Fig 1.1 Hislop, D. et al, Fourth Edition, p4).In the light of the technological revolution since Bell’s book,and the impactthat this revolution has had upon society, organisations and individuals, how far,if at all, would you want to modify or confirm Bell’s characterization of Post Industrial Society and why?

 

  • What is meant by Objectivist and Practice Based perspectives onknowledge? They are often discussed without any reference to the idea of ‘Truth’ as a universal measure of reality. Why might the idea of truth be both problematic and yet essential in both understanding and managing knowledge bythe individual in society and within the organisation in its environment?

 
 

  • Make a case for and against the idea that knowledge processes behind innovation led strategies occur without reference to power, politics and conflict.

 
Brief
You may use either a report or an essay style format. It is important that you define all key terms in your assignment both technical and philosophical. You should use one or more relevant examples grounded in contemporary global issues (e.g. Privacy, Information Control Technology, Corporate Governance, The Labour Market, Poverty, Climate Change, Population Growth, Pollution, Habitat Depletion, Emergent Technologies etc.) that impact on Knowledge Management, Innovation, Organisation, Society and the Individual in a context that is relevant to your choice of question.
Advice and Guidance：

  • Whatever your choice of question, be sure to provide examples drawn from organisations with which you have some familiarity and /or interest. In addition, whatever your choice of question consider possible issues arising from the role of ICT in supporting Knowledge Management.
  • The selection of examples and illustrations used in your assignment may be drawn from any organisational context, for example, Joint Stock Companies, Co-operatives, Government Departments, Non-Governmental Organisations (such as The Red Cross, The Red Crescent, and Greenpeace), Trade Associations, Professional Associations, and Trades Unions etc.
  • Be careful not to spend too much of your assignment simply describing either your selected organisation or the examples, or your selected frameworks, models, or concepts. Be sure to analyse critically the various perspectives that arise in your chosen question. For example conflict (disscensus) : Unitary (consensus) and Pluralism ( recognition that conflicting interests can still contain mutual needs facilitating a mutually acceptable compromise settled through negotiation.

 
How to reference your assignments sources
You must use the University model of referencing based on the Harvard system. It is most important that your references to sources cover all items in your list of references. The citations in the text are included in the word count.Your list of references do not count to the total number of words.
 
Do not use Appendices.
 
Total Word limit3000 +/- 10%
 
Getting started
We expect you to engage with a range of literatures in your essay / report. We have provided you with the following list to select from and get you started. This is by no means an exhaustive list of resources and those looking to achieve high grades should include literature and resources beyond those listed. These literatures are designed to stimulate your thinking and give you an overview of the breadth of the debate with which youare engaging.
 
 
 
 
Key Readings
Alvesson, M., & Kärreman, D. (2001). Odd couple: Making sense of the curious concept of knowledge management. Journal of Management Studies, 38(7), 995-1018
Alvesson, M. (2007) Unravelling HRM: identity, ceremony and control in a management consulting firm. Organization Science, 18(4), 711-723.
Bell, Daniel. (1974) The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. Harper Colophon Books, New York.
Bengt‐Åke Lundvall (2007) National Innovation Systems—Analytical Concept and Development Tool Published online: 05 Feb, pages 95-119 https://doi.org/10.1080/13662710601130863
Burrell, G., & Morgan, G. (1979). Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis: Elements of the sociology of corporate life. England: Ashgate publishing Limited, cph 1-2-3
Conway, S and Steward, F (2009) Managing and Shaping Innovation, OUP, Oxford.
Dahlander, L, and D M Gann. 2010. “How Open Is Innovation?” Research Policy 39 (6). Elsevier: 699 – 709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.013.
Davis, P, Natale, S. M., Libertella, A.F. (2017) The Role of Truth in Moral Reasoning, in International Journal of Decision Ethics, Vol. X, Spring 2017,pp139 -156
Driver, M., 2002, The learning organization: Foucauldian gloom or Utopian sunshine? Human Relations, 55(1), pp. 33-53
Gourlay, S. (2006). Conceptualizing knowledge creation: A critique of nonaka’s theory*. Journal of Management Studies, 43(7), 1415-1436
Hassard, J., & Kelemen, M. (2002). Production and consumption in organizational knowledge: The case of the paradigms debate’. Organization, 9(2), 331-355
Hislop, D. (2018). Knowledge Management in Organizations: A Critical Introduction (fourth edition). Oxford University Press. Donald Hislop (2003) The Complex Relations Between Communities of Practice and the Implementation of Technological Innovations, International Journal of Innovation Management Vol. 07, No. 02, pp. 163-188 https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919603000775
Jashapara, A. (2007). Moving beyond tacit and explicit distinctions: A realist theory of organizational knowledge. Journal of Information Science, 33(6), 752-766
Mazzucato, M. (2013) The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public v Private Sector Myths, Anthem Press, London
Spender, J-C. and Kessler, E.M. (1995) Managing the uncertainties of innovation: extending Thompson (1967). Human Relations, 48(1), 35-56.
Srivastava, A., Bartol, K. and Locke, E. (2006) Empowering leadership in management teams: effects on knowledge sharing, efficacy and performance. Academy of Management Journal, 49(6), 1239-1251.
Quinn, M. & Courtney, R. (2014) The Public Sector as an Entrepreneur. In Liddle, J. (2016) Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research Vol 6, Emerald, London

 
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Effects Military Life Has on Children Discussion

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Contrast the difficulties faced by military children compared to their civilian counterparts, making sure to focus on the effects military life has on the children, both negative and positive (Pages 92–101). Book: Hall, L.K., (2016) Counseling Military Families: What Mental Health Professionals Need To Know (2nd ed) New York: Routledge
Assignments should be 2-3 pages in length, utilize Times new Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced text. They should be formatted using APA style, cite borrowed material correctly, and include a reference page. The author/textbook should be cited at least three times per written page as follows the proper APA citation for Hall is (Hall, 2016, pp. ##). Other citations are encouraged, but do not count toward the three-author citation requirement. A title and abstract pages are not required, but a reference page is required. Each Homework Assignment is worth 25 points and be to the respective Dropbox folder by Saturday at 11:59 pm CT of the assigned week.
 
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Domestic Violence Effects on Women Infographic Paper

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Instead of a full-length final research paper (for which the standard is usually 10 or more APA references and pages of text), you will do a combination infographic and mini-paper. This is designed to be easier for you and to develop a mix of communication skills, rather than just focus on academic writing. My intent is to make this final project easier and more interesting for you, but it is a new idea I am trying out, so if you have difficulty understanding the expectations, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will do my best to listen and assist.
Basically, you will need to turn in a 4-page research paper and corresponding infographic. Part I of this assignment will get you started on this.
I will provide a rubric and separate instructions for Part II shortly. However, here are the basic rules, so you can start planning for it now:

  1. Final paper specifications:
    1. Must be at least 4-pages long in its body (i.e., excluding cover page, references, and visuals), with double-spacing and 1” margins.
    2. It must include APA format in-text citations and references.
  • All factual information in it must be paraphrased. It cannot use any direct quotes.
  1. All information in it must come from scholarly sources. Do not reference popular media sources. See course definitions for what constitutes a scholarly source. If you learned something cool from a popular media source, go find it from a scholarly source and cite that instead.
  2. You must use at least 3 different scholarly sources in your final paper.
  3. All the sources used to make your infographic must also be cited in your final paper.
  • Absolutely no bulleted lists! A 4-page paper is very basic for this course level, so do not try to extend your paper with lists or similar gimmicks.
  • Your final paper must be spell-checked and grammar checked.
  3. Final infographic specifications:
    1. Your infographic should have a single general topic, e.g. a disease, the benefits of a particular activity, preventing something, responding to something, the consequences of something, etc. The options are really broad; I just don’t want you to mix and match very specific things, or your infographic will not flow or be cohesive.
    2. You will need to include at least 5 separate facts (pieces of information) in your final infographic. However, you may include more if you want and/or need to in order for your infographic to look nice. If you have questions about how I will count separate facts, ask me ahead of time.
    3. These pieces of data must come from scholarly sources, but they do not need to be primary data and can be reproduced from statistics or information posted by the CDC, American Heart Association, National Eating Disorders Association, Department of Public Health, etc. You can also get more than one piece of information for your infographic from the same source.
    4. Because you will turn in a separate paper with citations and references that include those used for the facts in your infographic, you do not need to cite anything within your infographic.
    5. You may only use up to one chart/graph (pie, line, or bar) in your infographic. For other elements, you need to be more creative than that, so while you can use PowerPoint, there are easier, free options that are infographic-specific software. I describe some below.
    6. Your final infographic should use text only minimally. Your paper can go into more detail. One point of this assignment is to have you practice in different formats, so please don’t turn in an infographic that is 90% text and 10% images.
    7. You may not use someone else’s visual representation of the data. In other words, you may not combine parts of pre-existing infographics or take charts and diagrams from research papers and put them together. To do so for this assignment will constitute plagiarism/cheating, even if you cite/reference these elements. In other words, you must make your own charts, graphs, or representations using images, clipart, etc. But, while your facts must come from scholarly sources and be referenced in APA, you do not need to cite the sources of any images you use to create your infographic. Each visual configuration must be your own, even if you got components of it from someone else. If you have questions about this aspect of the assignment, please talk contact me right away for clarification.
    8. You must turn in your final infographic as a static image or video file I can view. Remember that I cannot open Mac files. So, besides that, you can use whatever software you want as long as I can open the file and it looks good. You will be allowed to submit your paper separately if need be due to file size.

    Infographic Assignment Part II RubricYou will need to turn in two parts. You can turn them in together or as two attachments. If you have any problems uploading more than one attachment, just email me the second part right away (via Canvas). If you are using video software for your infographic, include the link where I can view it in an attachment. Please do not paste it into the comments box for the assignment; I do not get notified about comments and so it looks like you have turned nothing in.

    Criteria Max Points Points Earned
    Infographic (image or video)
    Contains at least 5 separate facts, and has been spellchecked. 15
    Each fact is matched with a simple, related image 10
    Infographic focuses on a single, relevant topic 5
    Mini-Paper
    Paper does not contain direct quotes or bulleted lists If you use these, the parts where you do will be discounted from assessment of other criteria below. In other words, I will count your paper length, sources used, APA formatting, etc. after all the lists and direct quotes are deleted. Just paraphrase, please.
    When double-spaced, with 1” margins, in standard size 11 or 12 pt font, & excluding quotes and bulleted lists, paper is at least 3 pages of text, with a separate page for references (for a total of at least 4 pages). 10
    Paper describes, in different words than the infographic, each fact contained in the infographic.(In other words, don’t just paste the same text into the paper.) 10
    Paper attributes the facts in the infographic (via citations/references) to at least 3 different sources. 3
    All sources cited/referenced for the facts in the infographic are scholarly. 5
    In-text citation and reference list are in APA format, and are an exact match (everything cited in-text is included in the reference list, and every reference is cited in-text). 5
    Paper has been spellchecked in English. 2
    Total 65
 
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