EDUCATION

Performance Management

        Performance management is a process that consolidates goal setting, performance appraisal, and development into a single, common system. It is useful in human resource management. What is the goal of performance appraisal in higher education? Why should performance be appraised? What are the benefits and challenges of performance appraisal? How can …

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Types of Waste

  Review the “Types of Waste” chart in the Module 7 presentations. (attached) Using the categories on the “Types of Waste” chart as a model (in Part 2: Value Stream Mapping and Forms of Waste), create a chart in which you identify and rank-order based on impact the different kinds of waste in your organization …

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Understanding Value

  In higher education, “value” should be understood from the student perspective. What is value for an institution of higher learning? Why should higher education base value on the student perspective? How might institutions of higher learning use value stream mapping to determine current state, future state, and the next future state as they relate …

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Building Competencies

    Anthony Rucci, former CEO of Sears, said, “Unless you have a trained, literate, motivated work force and give them decision-making authority, you don’t get satisfied customers.” In higher education, who are the “customers”? How does the statement relate to the building of competencies? How can higher education prepare “a trained, literate, motivated work …

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Doctoral journey

By starting your doctoral program at Walden, you are joining a group of career professionals in pursuit of the Walden University mission to “transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can effect positive social change.” This is a pursuit that comes with joys, challenges, and rewards. While many begin a doctoral program, not all successfully …

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Three dimensions of human sexuality

Human sexuality involves the interrelationship of a person’s biological, psychological, and sociocultural characteristics (e.g. the three dimensions of human sexuality). Evaluate each of the dimensions according to their significance in your life. Based on the experiences you noted in your Autobiography Matrix, what was the course of most of your information about sexuality as you …

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Relative advantage of using the innovation

Select a technological innovation in which you have an interest. From an adoption perspective, assess the innovation using the five key determinants listed below in the adoption of disruptive innovation as described by The Diffusion of Innovations, (Rogers, E. 1983).

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