and keeping the district, parents, students, teachers, and the media in mind, address the follow  ing: 7 5 0 – 1 0 0 0

Management and Operational Systems

• Ident ify the main decisions that must be made.
• Ident ify additional information needed to inform your decision.

Human, Fiscal, and Technological Resources

• Organize staff to ensure the safety of students and consistency of response.
• Ident ify additional resources needed to ensure safety of students and staff.

Safety and Welfare of Students and Staff

• Ident ify legal rulings regarding the safety and welfare of students and staff to consider in making a decision.
• Identi fy district policy regarding the safety and welfare of students and staff that might affect a decision.

Collaboration with Faculty and Community

• Identi fy possible stakeholders involved in the decision-making and/or affected by the recommended solution.

Solution and Rationale

• Ex plain your solutions for addressing the situation.
• List action steps you would take to implement the solutions, including a timeline for implementing them.
• Provide a rationale for your proposed solutions. Explain how the solution protects the welfare and safety of students and staff, complies with laws, rights, and policies, and involves appropriate stakeholders.

 2-3 ref

1. The advantages to human servcies being available online are that it makes it more accessible to those who may not have time to spend all day waiting at a social service office for assistance. It also helps because some of them offer pre-screening and allow you to see if you qualify for the service in a short time frame once again circumventing the long waits in person or on the phone associated with social service departments. Disadvantages are that most things online are done without assistance from someone who knows what they’re doing so if you’re confused you will have to either email and wait up to 72 hours for a response or call and wait for hours on hold for help. There’s also only so much that can get done and most social services require a human to look over what you have filled out online and make a decision so it hasn’t cut the wait out of the process overall.  

2. Technology has made it easier for people to access information, knowledge and resources that they need. It has also made it easier for people to share their ideas with others, which helps us all learn from one another and as a society. BUT. Technology can have a downside, particularly when it removes jobs, reduces local responsibility, ignores local relationships and produces worse outcomes. How many jobs do you think we have created over the past 10 years that have been switched to technology thus human workers?

3. I feel like there are more advantages than disadvantages to technology in human service delivery. One of the advantages is during covid, if a loved one was ill or in the hospital, in a nursing home, etc. their family members still had a way to contact them and see them. Video chats, text messages, phone calls. There’s also Life360 which is an app that you can keep track of family through and make sure they are okay at all times. One disadvantage though, is that with technology, comes hackers. Your personal information can be hacked and spread publicly if you aren’t super careful. Thankfully, most technology and applications make that super hard to do. 

  

Strategic Staffing at Atlas Corporation

1. How would you explain the alignment of Atlas’ business, human resource, and staffing strategies?
2. When considering the components of strategic staffing, what is Atlas doing well with regard to staffing strategically? What could they do better?
3. What would you suggest Atlas do to further enhance the alignment between its staffing function and its need to promote from within?
4. Is there a benefit for Atlas to have an internal or external staffing focus in order to gain/maintain a competitive advantage? Why, or why not?

Your team has been humming along for a little over a week now. The conflicts that appeared last week seem to have subsided. However, your supervisor has just informed you that the deadline for completing your team’s goal has been moved up by two weeks. You now have less time to complete the same amount of work. Your supervisor has asked for a short summary on your plan for achieving the goal within your shortened timelineWrite a 350- to 525-word summary on how you will manage the team’s resources in the face of these new timelines. Answer the following questions in your summary:

• How many people are on your team? What are their roles? What are their skill sets? How can these be rearranged to meet the new requirements?
• Are there enough human resources to complete the project two weeks earlier? If not, how can you increase the team’s capacity?
• Are there aspects of the project that can be condensed or skipped? What are the implications of skipping or condensing tasks?
• Are there costs to be considered with these changes?
• How can you leverage what you’ve learned about solving problems in teams to meet the new project requirements?
• How do you intend to communicate the new requirements to the team in order to gain their buy-in?

In you response address at least the following:

Which aspects of your classmate’s analysis of diffusion of innovation concepts (applied to school mitigation) do you agree with and where do you diverge in your thinking about the strategy? This should be at least one idea you add to their response or a different point of view in 2-3 sentences. Your response should be substantive in that it directly addresses the content of your classmates’ response.

Respond to this post;

1. After reviewing the five main mitigation strategies proposed to reduce the spread of COVID, I believe that staying up to date on vaccinations, will be more difficult to implement. The easiest implementation strategy would be staying home when sick. I argue that implementing up to date vaccination would prove to be more difficult due to various system norms influenced by opinion leadership. The COVID vaccine in the United States has been politicized and has contributed to hesitancy and mistrust among the American public. The vaccine, despite its recent equitable accessibility, is not sought out by everyone and is optional for underage students. The decision to take the vaccine is surround by the permission of parents who are influenced by leaders of their communities (in a formal and informal position). The conformity to the norms of their unique communities will dictate the willingness to stay up to date or even acquire COVID vaccination Moreover, staying home when sick is more likely to be perceived with having greater advantage, making it less difficult to implement. This strategy is encouraged by promoting the well-being of others, by stopping the spread, but it also comes with applicable laws that provide non-punitive and supportive paid sick leaves. The adoption rate for this strategy would be more likely due to characteristics like, avoiding language that penalizes or stigmatizes staying home when sick, this reassures employees and families. 

2.  To promote the scaling of COVID mitigation strategies, I recommend scaling the variety of impact. By focusing the efforts on community health and scaling out, the variety of these strategies will offer different ways of impact. The community is able to make decisions about which prevention strategies are more suited for their needs, because there are multiple options available. Communities will thrive with the diversification and promotion of equitable strategies

3. Something new that I learn is how interchangeably technology and innovations can be applied in this context. Both words are depicted as synonyms in the book (Diffusion of Innovations) and I will have to get used to the idea of their equal potential impact. I appreciate, however, that in the context of both words there is uncertainty in the mind of potential adopters. Innovation, personally has an approach that encapsulates a human aspect and has considerations like social impact. On the other hand, when I picture technological innovations I automatically picture its consequences.