The overall purpose of the Technical Presentation is to give each student an opportunity to thoroughly study, research, and present a concept, product or a service related to the course, with the overall objective of education for yourself and others in your class.   You should prepare a technical presentation using PowerPoint, Google Docs, Prezi […]

Distinguished v. Proficient Performance Requirements Quality academic work demands commitment and dedication to learning and excellence. It also requires students to go above and beyond the MINIMUM required elements of the course.   A PROFICIENT performance score reflects work that meets the minimum requirements as described in the course discussions or assignments. Meeting the minimum […]

Crisis Communication for Emergency Managers You will be required to complete and submit two open-book essay exams during the semester: a Midterm Essay Exam, and a Final Essay Exam. One week has been set aside at the mid-term point  during Week 6 to complete the Midterm Essay Exam, covering Weeks 1-5. Week 12 will serve […]

Prepare an article length research paper on a topic relating to crisis communications and emergency management. Your topic proposal is subject to instructor approval. The length for the body of the paper should be approximately 12-15 pages double-spaced (approximately 250-300 words per page, for a total of about 3,000-5,000 words), not including the Title Page […]

Crisis Communication for Emergency Managers   The overall purpose of the Technical Presentation is to give each student an opportunity to thoroughly study, research, and present a concept, product or a service related to the course, with the overall objective of education for yourself and others in your class.   You should prepare a technical […]

Crisis Communication for Emergency Managers Below you will find a list of ten samples of Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) that were published or updated in the past few years, along with the web links to access those plans. They reflect a variety of jurisdictions (i.e., state, county, municipal, tribal, federal district) or entities (e.g., state […]

An analyst at a local bank wonders if the age distribution of customers coming for service at his branch in town is the same as at a branch located near the mall.  He selects 100 transactions at random from each branch and researches the age information for the associated customer.  These are the data : […]

Correlation refers to: The causal relationship between two variables.   The linear relationship between two variables.   The proportion of variance that two variables share.   A statistical method that can only be used with a correlational research design.   Question 2 If two variables are highly correlated, what do you know?   That they […]

Rough Draft of the Organizational Change through Leadership Paper This week, the rough draft of the paper on organizational change through leadership is due. This paper is meant as a final demonstration and culmination of perspectives gained from this course and will assist you in the research of corporate issues and the methods used to […]

Discuss some of the alternatives and factors that Greg should consider when developing the expense allocation system. What are some of the costs and benefits of the alternatives?   2.            As shown in Table 1, Panel C, AXE Life is allocating all expenses of all departments to products. Are there […]