Intro to Public Administration Kim Woods 1

  Effective management is crucial for any leader/manager.  Identify the leadership factors most important to group morale and discuss the links between morale and performance. How might this affect political appointees who may not know the organizational processes and/or culture of their agency? Include at least one source which can be your textbook. In your … Read more

Intro to Public Administration Kim Woods

  This week we reviewed chief executives and the challenges of administrative leadership. Find a contemporary news story about a prominent public official who faced leadership challenges and was ousted from office. Suggested sites on which to find credible news include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, or NPR, just to name … Read more

N3

This is the week to learn as much as possible about the key theories in international relations, why they are important, and how if at all they are related to policymaking. Among the three most important for us this week are realism, liberalism, and constructivism, though you may discover many other important theories like dependency … Read more

T2

Overview You will craft an individual essay in response to the provided prompt. You must use current APA style with default margins and 12-pt Times New Roman font. The essay must include a title page and a reference page, also in current APA format. You must include citations to a sufficient number of appropriate scholarly … Read more

discussion

Students will take part in 4 Discussions in which you will conduct a case study of an observed study in a public administration context.  The analysis will be based upon the concepts you learned and discussed in the previous modules essay assignment, writing 450-500 words in the initial thread.  For the case study, students are … Read more

Module 5 Essay

Checklist before writing an argumentative essay for the class: Is your response primarily based upon the material provided for the class? Always read your course material to develop your answer and cite all work that is not your original idea. Do you have a proper thesis statement outlining your main argument in the first paragraph? … Read more

Midterm Questions

 Instructions This assignment consists of two questions to test knowledge and assimilation of the course objectives.   1. One of the most significant and common threats is the insider threat. What actions do you think is appropriate for security an organization regarding the insider threat? 2. Imagine you are the new CEO of a toy Research & Design … Read more

Business Espionage

Evaluate and analyze a case of business espionage. Explain the Modus Operandi of espionage and describe what creates a successful espionage effort.  The post needs to be at least 400 words in APA format. Please use the link below for resources/sources and refer to Week 4. https://myclassroom.apus.edu/d2l/le/enhancedSequenceViewer/33136?url=https%3A%2F%2Ff54cbe36-23a9-4505-85fe-e251f80ec34d.sequences.api.brightspace.com%2F33136%2Factivity%2F3361933%3FfilterOnDatesAndDepth%3D1

Washingtons farrewel & presidency

After reading George Washington’s Farewell Address (find on Internet/Google), provide a brief bullet point memo outlining recommendations based off what Washington shared regarding the CURRENT state of our nation.  There should be at least two major points you convey. This could be foreign and/or domestic/economic policy, debt, political culture, political parties, morality, or anything else … Read more

Information-Related Capabilities

Instructions: Analyze 2 of the 14 information-related capabilities you read about in the J503 Fires and Information Operations and explain how the joint force can use these capabilities to affect the three dimensions of the information environment (JP3-13). JP 3-13, Information Operations, 20 November 2014, (Change 1), (Read EXSUM pages 1-13) Scan pages 13-47, (13 … Read more