Race and ethnicity

The election of the first Black president in 2008 and the first Black and South Asian vice president in 2020 may have appeared to some that the United States was a nation beyond race. But these events sit alongside many others that paint an entirely different picture: the killings of unarmed Black men; waves of hate crimes against the Asian-American, Arab-American, and Sikh-American communities; continued maltreatment of Indigenous peoples; and poor health outcomes for people of color.

As a social worker, it is important for you to stay abreast of current events to understand how they may impact the clients, families, and communities with whom you work. You must also consider how you interact with the world on subjects related to race and ethnicity. How do these circumstances shape you and your anti-racist practice?

For this Discussion, you select and analyze a current event connected to race and ethnicity and how you might support the affected population in your practice.

To Prepare

• Identify a current issue or event (within the past year) that speaks to race and ethnicity. It could be local to your community, or it could be national.
• Consider how you would provide culturally competent social work practice to the affected population.

Post a description of a current issue or event that speaks to race and ethnicity.

Then explain the following:

• How the event connects to race or ethnicity, and to your current understanding of power, privilege, and oppression
• How you, as a social worker, would approach the population affected. How would you provide culturally competent practice?
• How your approach aligns with and illuminates your personal statement on anti-racist social work practice

Ethical Misconduct

Define ethical research. Give one example of ethical misconduct, give examples of why you think this. Provide one example of an unethical research study and state why it is unethical.

Note

• One and half page
• two to three references

Networking

1. Why have advertising networks become controversial? What, if anything, can be done to overcome any resistance to this technique?
2. List and describe some Web site design features that impact online purchasing.
3. What are some of the difficulties in providing services in an online environment? What factors differentiate the services sector from the retail sector, for example?
4. Briefly outline the types of information an organization would gather before writing the organizations information security policy document.
5. Briefly describe the most important functions to look for in project management software and why they are important.

Conflict Mediation

Suppose that you are the HR manager for a company. The judge in a current law suit by a former employee has ordered mandatory pre-suit mediation. Your boss is unfamiliar with mediation and she asks you to advise her as to several issues regarding the upcoming mediation. Draft a memo thoroughly discussing, at minimum, the following questions:

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of mediation? Is it likely to be successful? Is it likely to make the parties more or less hostile toward one another? How do the costs in terms of time and money compare with litigation?
2. If your boss has no interest in mediation, does she really have to be there? Can she send her attorney instead? If so, are there any conflicts of interest with respect to attorney advocate representation of which she should be aware?
3. Must the company actually participate in the mediation? Can your boss (or her attorney) just sit there and refuse to speak?
4. If your boss (or her attorney) does decide to engage in dialogue during the mediation, what are the risks concerning information that might be disclosed? If the mediation fails, can the former employee use such information at trial?

Although this assignment is completed in Week 3, students should refer to information in Lessons 3, 4, and 7 for relevant information.

Submission Instructions:

This assignment should at a minimum contain 1,000 words of content (there are four parts, so this is ~250 words each). Word count does not include headings, cover pages, references, or question text (if you choose to include it in your paper); I am looking for 1,000 words of substance. Your paper should be in APA format including a properly formatted cover page (abstracts are optional) and a reference page with at least three (3) NEW references (“new” here means references that you have not already used in previous assignments in this course). Providing additional references to your assignments demonstrates your desire to conduct additional research on the topic area, and can improve your research skills.

With all assignments, include properly formatted in-text citations within the body of your work for each of your listed references so the reader can ascertain your original thoughts or ideas as well as the portion of your work that is credited to credible sources. It is very important to identify work from other sources to ensure that proper credit is provided to researchers in the field. This assignment uses Turn It In for originality verification.

NOTE

Submit the weekly written assignment as an MS Word attachment (.doc or .docx format).  DO NOT include discussion board answers with your formally written assignment submission.

An execution plan

Respond to the following

Discuss the components of an execution plan. How do these components relate to the Project Management Plan?

Note

US Resources

minimum of 175 words

The Managerial Process Sixth Edition\ – Erik W. LarsonOregon State UniversityClifford F. GrayOregon State University – ISBN 978-0-07-809659-4MHID 0-07-809659-6