Discussion Points:  ●    Explain how UX designers add value to a business. ●

 
Discussion Points: 
●    Explain how UX designers add value to a business.
●    Discuss why UX designers have to be fully aware of organization business goals.
●    What business/ professional skill do UX designers need to be able to create an added value to the organization?
●    Post a summary of your paper completed in Week 7 under this thread. 
● Discuss your next APUS Course enrolment.
● What do you recommend for students enrolling in this course?

  Instructions Topic: Resolving conflict and dealing with difficult people in t

 
Instructions
Topic: Resolving conflict and dealing with difficult people in the workplace
Research Project Instructions:
IMPORTANT!! Read all information provided in this section before beginning your final project. Your final project accounts for 25% of your grade. As such, this project is critical to your final grade!
Submit your work as an MS PowerPoint ATTACHMENT. No other file format can be accepted (i.e., no .pdf, read-only formats, etc.).
The final project requires you to develop a PowerPoint slide presentation for use as a training tool with line managers and supervisors on how to resolve conflict, as well as deal with difficult people, in the workplace. Many organizations hold such training programs at least annually with line management as a refresher in order to ensure that employee conflicts and aggressive behavior are dealt with expeditiously, assertively, Instructions: and proactively, in order to prevent such behavior from taking place at work. As such, your presentation should briefly outline (i.e., no more than 2-3 slides) the negative issues associated with allowing conflict in the workplace to go unchecked, and focus the majority of your presentation (i.e., 8-10 slides) on the positive measures, programs, and processes that organizations can/do adopt to mitigate conflict and negative employee behavior in the workplace.
Many organizations have extended conflict resolution programs beyond Human Resource Development (HRD) programs and processes by changing human resource management (HRM) policies and programs to meet the special needs of the new workforce. A growing number of organizations are holding managers formally accountable for resolving employee concerns and/or grievance internally, within their departments. For example, incorporating such goals and objectives into their performance evaluation process. As the HRD manager for your organization, what new training programs and processes would you propose to senior management to develop effective training and conflict resolutions methods that will ultimately lead to a climate in which all employees can thrive within the organization and contribute to its success?
Submission Instructions: Submit your work as an MS PowerPoint (.ppt) presentation. The body of your presentation should include at least 10-12 presentation slides, in addition to a title slide, introduction slide(s), and references at the end of your presentation for a total of no more than 15 slides. PowerPoint presentations longer than 15 slides will not be read after the 15th slide. As such, please ensure that all assignment questions are answered within the first 15 slides, as your grade will be based on the first 15 slides received.
Your grade will be based on your ability to follow assignment instructions, research conducted, the effectiveness of the training proposed, critical thinking and analysis, and APA format.
Please support your ideas, arguments, and opinions with independent research, include at least three (3) supporting references or sources (do NOT use encyclopedias, Wikipedia, unknown, undated, or anonymous sources, such as brief articles from websites), include a reference section (i.e., 1-2 slides), and cite all sources properly in the text of each slide, in accordance with the 6th edition of the APA manual, Chapters 6 & 7.
Helpful Tips:
Your grade will be based upon:
research conducted
effectiveness of the training presentation as a communication tool,
critical thought and analysis, and
APA format.
Students are encouraged to use the Notes section of the slides in formulating the presentation as a way to minimize lengthy narrative on the slides. This approach will allow the use of bullet points on the slides but demonstrate the depth and scope of the research conducted in the Notes section.
I encourage you to go online to Purdue OWL, or Excelsior OWL, which have writing labs for students. Look up PowerPoint presentations in APA format in the search box. These websites will have helpful tips on best practices.
References:
Excelsior OWL: http://owl.excelsior.edu/posts/view/277
Purdue OWL: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/17/
Reminder:
Please ensure that you review the grading rubric for this assignment carefully, to ensure that you receive the highest possible grade for your work!

  ince the 1960’s we have seen a steady stream of more women entering the workp

 
ince the 1960’s we have seen a steady stream of more women entering the workplace. The 2000’s brought more women to senior leadership positions. This shift in the workforce has created challenges and opportunities for all. Increased sexual harassment cases, balancing life and family, and equal wages and job opportunities are just a few of the challenges. Organizations, and federal and state governments, are finding ways to address these issues.
Based on your readings this week (see Content – Week 8 – Reading and Resources), what should organizations do to ensure that the disparity between compensation and job opportunities among men and women in the workplace is mitigated and ultimately eliminated? Be creative in your answer!

  Discussion Points:  ●    Explain how UX designers add value to a business. ●

 
Discussion Points: 
●    Explain how UX designers add value to a business.
●    Discuss why UX designers have to be fully aware of organization business goals.
●    What business/ professional skill do UX designers need to be able to create an added value to the organization?
●    Post a summary of your paper completed in Week 7 under this thread. 
● Discuss your next APUS Course enrolment.
● What do you recommend for students enrolling in this course?

  Instructions Topic: Resolving conflict and dealing with difficult people in t

 
Instructions
Topic: Resolving conflict and dealing with difficult people in the workplace
Research Project Instructions:
IMPORTANT!! Read all information provided in this section before beginning your final project. Your final project accounts for 25% of your grade. As such, this project is critical to your final grade!
Submit your work as an MS PowerPoint ATTACHMENT. No other file format can be accepted (i.e., no .pdf, read-only formats, etc.).
The final project requires you to develop a PowerPoint slide presentation for use as a training tool with line managers and supervisors on how to resolve conflict, as well as deal with difficult people, in the workplace. Many organizations hold such training programs at least annually with line management as a refresher in order to ensure that employee conflicts and aggressive behavior are dealt with expeditiously, assertively, Instructions: and proactively, in order to prevent such behavior from taking place at work. As such, your presentation should briefly outline (i.e., no more than 2-3 slides) the negative issues associated with allowing conflict in the workplace to go unchecked, and focus the majority of your presentation (i.e., 8-10 slides) on the positive measures, programs, and processes that organizations can/do adopt to mitigate conflict and negative employee behavior in the workplace.
Many organizations have extended conflict resolution programs beyond Human Resource Development (HRD) programs and processes by changing human resource management (HRM) policies and programs to meet the special needs of the new workforce. A growing number of organizations are holding managers formally accountable for resolving employee concerns and/or grievance internally, within their departments. For example, incorporating such goals and objectives into their performance evaluation process. As the HRD manager for your organization, what new training programs and processes would you propose to senior management to develop effective training and conflict resolutions methods that will ultimately lead to a climate in which all employees can thrive within the organization and contribute to its success?
Submission Instructions: Submit your work as an MS PowerPoint (.ppt) presentation. The body of your presentation should include at least 10-12 presentation slides, in addition to a title slide, introduction slide(s), and references at the end of your presentation for a total of no more than 15 slides. PowerPoint presentations longer than 15 slides will not be read after the 15th slide. As such, please ensure that all assignment questions are answered within the first 15 slides, as your grade will be based on the first 15 slides received.
Your grade will be based on your ability to follow assignment instructions, research conducted, the effectiveness of the training proposed, critical thinking and analysis, and APA format.
Please support your ideas, arguments, and opinions with independent research, include at least three (3) supporting references or sources (do NOT use encyclopedias, Wikipedia, unknown, undated, or anonymous sources, such as brief articles from websites), include a reference section (i.e., 1-2 slides), and cite all sources properly in the text of each slide, in accordance with the 6th edition of the APA manual, Chapters 6 & 7.
Helpful Tips:
Your grade will be based upon:
research conducted
effectiveness of the training presentation as a communication tool,
critical thought and analysis, and
APA format.
Students are encouraged to use the Notes section of the slides in formulating the presentation as a way to minimize lengthy narrative on the slides. This approach will allow the use of bullet points on the slides but demonstrate the depth and scope of the research conducted in the Notes section.
I encourage you to go online to Purdue OWL, or Excelsior OWL, which have writing labs for students. Look up PowerPoint presentations in APA format in the search box. These websites will have helpful tips on best practices.
References:
Excelsior OWL: http://owl.excelsior.edu/posts/view/277
Purdue OWL: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/17/
Reminder:
Please ensure that you review the grading rubric for this assignment carefully, to ensure that you receive the highest possible grade for your work!

  ince the 1960’s we have seen a steady stream of more women entering the workp

 
ince the 1960’s we have seen a steady stream of more women entering the workplace. The 2000’s brought more women to senior leadership positions. This shift in the workforce has created challenges and opportunities for all. Increased sexual harassment cases, balancing life and family, and equal wages and job opportunities are just a few of the challenges. Organizations, and federal and state governments, are finding ways to address these issues.
Based on your readings this week (see Content – Week 8 – Reading and Resources), what should organizations do to ensure that the disparity between compensation and job opportunities among men and women in the workplace is mitigated and ultimately eliminated? Be creative in your answer!

  Work on your project milestone 1 and report your evidence to support that the

 
Work on your project milestone 1 and report your evidence to support that the milestone was completed.
Submit a 2-page status report that includes your evaluation of theories, principles, and best practices surrounding cybersecurity and your project.
This should include recent strategies for cybersecurity defenses. Also, describe the tasks completed in this milestone in an updated work breakdown structure (WBS), in Excel®, Word, or Project®, showing the actual time it took to complete each task. Finally, describe lessons learned while implementing this milestone. In addition, demonstrate that the milestone is fully completed by showing sufficient evidence. Depending on the project, the evidence can take the form of research findings, diagrams, designs, screenshots, databases, queries, source code, configurations, videos, policies, etc. Your evidence should result in at least 5 pages. This is in addition to your 2-page status report. If your evidence is in the form of videos, the videos should be at least 8–10 minutes long. This is only for your evidence.
Please see milestone below:
  
Milestone 1: Project Launch
The first phase focuses on the project’s initiation phase through planning and consulting with the stakeholders involved. This phase will initiate meetings to assess and describe the security vulnerabilities in the currently deployed endpoint architecture (Chandel et al., 2019). Each project shall have a clear charter, including the specific deliverables, goals, and expected results. The planning phase will also involve the development of a work schedule and responsibilities, as well as measures of checking the accomplishments made during its execution. This way, all the key stakeholders are on the same page regarding implementing the envisaged project, creating a platform for effective and efficient implementation.

In previous modules, you studied different types of cyberattacks and the concep

In previous modules, you studied different types of cyberattacks and the concepts and practices of threat modeling. Tools like the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain can help extend threat modeling into incident handling. Discuss using tools like the Cyber Kill Chain to handle incident response for emerging technologies.
In response to your peers, discuss the possible gaps left by using a tool like the one described in their initial posts.
To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.
RESPONSE ONE
Hello all,
Regarding all of the research experienced, the fourteen (14) page paper discussing the Kill Chain Defense Process from Lockheed Martin has inciteful information.  Intelligence driven defense is the most effective form of protection for the network.  Noting that every threat actor creates their own unique profile and personal attack signature to recognize helps an analyst narrow down the list of suspects for an attack.  The attacks are further defined as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT).  As each attack is attempted, every nuance is recorded and archived to anticipate future attacks.
From reading the paper, it notes that there is another way to recognizing the threat actor:
Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, and Assess.
The same way the military plans for an assault, this method is helpful to create an effective strategy to retaliate against a known threat.  The paper also notes a case study that examines an email that proves and documents attack attempts by outside threats, or indicators. It shows how innocent messages can have elaborate code that gets embedded and can infiltrate the system undetected would like to see more examples of the case study in the future as there are threats that will be different from the last. 
RESPONSE TWO
Good evening,
One tool that i found that is similar to the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain is the MITRE ATT&CK frame work. Both of these tools illustrate the phases of a cyber attack that include reconnaissance, weaponization and deliver, exploitation, installation, command and control, and finally actions. All of these tools do a great job in starting the process of incident response, and each have their advantages and disadvantages. Where they both succeed is that they are to identify how cyber attacks occur and the process in which they are trying to attack. These tools can help us during incident response as we are able to see the attacks and respond accordingly within procedures. 

  1.   This Final Project P must be a technical paper on UX topics that have be

 
1.   This Final Project P must be a technical paper on UX topics that have been pre-approved in earlier weeks by your instructor, using knowledge gained in the course. 
2.    The P Topic must be the one approved earlier.
3.    It must follow the P Outline submitted earlier.
4. The p must:
●    Use formatted references according to APA guidelines.
●    Use 5 or more sources with annotated bibliography sources.
●   NOT use Wikipedia or Webopedia as a reference–these sources have credibility issues.
●    Be written in 5-7 pages – with full APA formatting. 
●    Follow a conventional report format (introduction, abstract (optional), body, conclusion, and references).
●   Use images, models or diagrams to reinforce certain aspects of the pap.
●    Limit Turnitin percent to 15% or less percent.
●    Use provided rubric. 
SOURCES TO CONSIDER:
●    What is Plagiarism: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/avoiding_plagiarism/plagiarism_faq.html
●    What is Plagiarism and How to Avoid It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iw8J4Bwygs
●    Writing@APUS: https://www.apus.edu/apus-library/resources-services/Writing/writing-center.html
●    Purdue Online Writing Lab: https://owl.purdue.edu/writinglab/students/navigating_WL.html
●    APA General Format: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html
● Grammarly for Reviewing Papers and Writing:https://www.grammarly.com/
Instructions for properly completing the assignment:
1.    Download the attached template called “ENTD120_Assignment7_Final_Project_Pap_LastNameFirst.doc”.
2.    Change the file name by applying your Last Name and First Name in place of the LastNameFirst.
3.    Then upload to Assignment #7 area of the Assignments.
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Attachments
ENTD120_Assignment7_Final_Project_Pap_LastNameFirst.docx(14.98 KB) Student Pap Setup Guide, APA Style 7th Edition.pdf(2.76 MB) WRITING AND APA Checklist 7th Edition.pdf(1.18 MB)