please use the simple language write the essay, here is the request

Learning objectives:

1. Conducting research on situated practices of work

2. Connecting situated practices to interfaces, algorithms, and social forces

3. Communicating about science and technology

In Part I, we’ll be working to understand what it is like to work through, on, and for internet platforms. Why work? Play is important but people often have to work to survive, so it is an important place to begin our analysis of the social impacts of the internet industries.

Fieldwork Research

Choose one of two methods: participant-observation or informational interviews. Our goal is to understand how platforms affect work and livelihoods.

Platforms affect a wide range of people, including:

• People who work through a platform, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, Lyft, Uber, Postmates
• People whose work heavily depends on a platform, for example, artists on Twitter, headhunters on LinkedIn, social media marketers on Facebook, fashion bloggers on Instagram, resellers on eBay or Craigslist
• People whose work has been radically changed because of the competition or transformation introduced by a platform, such as taxi drivers, delivery drivers, transcriptionists, pet sitters and walkers.

PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION EARNING CHALLENGE

Are you already one of the kinds of people whose work is affected by platforms? (See bulleted list above.) Or do you want to experience it first hand, like journalist Taylor Soper? Sign up for a platform of your choice. (Warning: It can take several days for platforms to approve you as a worker so start early.)

The living wage for a single adult in San Diego County is $15.01 (source: MIT)

The minimum wage in City of San Diego is $11.50 (source: sandiego.gov)

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to earn $15.01 an hour for 6 hours of work, after you subtract any expenses — that’s $90.06 net earnings.

As you go, take notes on your experience. You can take selfie videos as an easy way of logging your thoughts, reactions, feelings, frustrations, and insights as you go along.

INTERVIEWS ABOUT SITUATED PRACTICES

Identify someone whose work has been affected by platforms (see the bulleted list above).

To get a deep perspective, find someone who has been doing the work for at least six months. The person can be paid or partially unpaid, but they should spend enough time doing the work in question that they can offer you deep insights into the process and the experience.

Before the interview, locate at least three informed sources on this form of work (e.g. long-form journalism, scholarly articles, firsthand accounts). You should spend at least an hour interviewing the person. Record the interview and transcribe the most interesting parts. Include a photo of your interviewee and their workspace, if they give you permission.

Sample interview questions you can draw from | Thomas Conner’s Amazing Interview How-To

Analysis + Deliverables

• Write a 1000 word reflection on your learnings:
  • Explain the most interesting or surprising aspects of the work
  • Explain any pleasures and frustrations of the job
  • Reflect on how laws, competition by other workers, company policies, and tech or interface design affect the work
  • Put your observations in conversation with at least two readings from the course
  • Woodcock and Waters is one good model of how to reflect and write on work

Case study

Reread the Management Focus on “China and Its Guanxi”, available in your e-book (page no.110) and answer the follow questions:

Assignment Question(s):

• Why do you think it is so important to cultivate guanxi and guanxiwang in China?
• What does the experience of DMG tell us about the way things work in China? What would likely happen to a business that obeyed all the rules and regulations, rather than trying to find a way around them as Dan Mintz does?
• What ethical issues might arise when drawing on guanxiwang to get things done in China? What does this suggest about the limits of using guanxiwang for a Western business committed to high ethical standards?

Instructions

• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
• The answer to every question must not be less than 130 words
• Case study attached

Cognitive Development

Choose one of the following articles:

• Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development
• Don’t! The Secret of Self-Control

Provide an in-depth analysis of the selected article and respond to the following:

• Write a summary.
• Describe the main points of the article and how it relates to the week’s course and text readings.
• Evaluate the article on the basis of your own thoughts and perspectives on the topic covered.

Submission Details:

• Support your responses with examples.
• Cite any sources in APA format.

READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY:

Review the chapter on sexuality in Gary Okihiro’s Common Ground and select 4 distinct sentences from different places in the chapter that you think speak to or encapsulate compelling parts of his argument. Use each of these sentences as a section heading in a 4-page essay (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12pt font, with page numbers). For each of the sections, use the corresponding section heading as a starting point for navigating the identity/identities of a different character in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition. Use multiple, specific examples and, when relevant, brief quotes from the text. (Every quote you include should be followed by an in-depth analysis of that quote.) Don’t forget to address the ways that other attributes of each character–for example, race, gender, geography, class, lineage, language—complicate the ways that sexuality is figured in the book.Remember to include a title, and to cite every single primary and secondary source in a separate “Works Cited” section.

BOOK SOURCES: For Gary okihiro’s common ground book i am going to upload pictures of the chapter in the book so you can pick 4 distinct sentences and use each sentence as a section heading and write 1 page for each heading

Suggestions: For the Charles chestnutt”s the marrow of tradition book i would say use spark notes to find good quotes that the assignment is asking for.

“NO PLAGIARISM!”

The company I am doing is Charles Schwab

Step 1: Organize Your Work

First, review the following resources:

• description of the final deliverable
• instructions on how to create a narrated PowerPoint presentation
• remaining steps to completion for this project

After you have a good idea of the scope of work for this project, consider how you will approach an analysis of your own organization:

• First, review these brief guidelines about conducting research on your organization.
• Discuss with your instructor any limiting factors you may encounter as you write this report. After you’ve discussed these issues with your instructor, if you believe it’s best for you to research an organization other than your own, please read the guidelines about using an outside organization.

As you plan to complete this project, consider the following aspects of the work:

• the information you need
• how to get that information
• allocating appropriate time to each step
• other project management factors that may seem relevant

Step 2: Collect and Analyze Resources

Before beginning your research in business and management journals, there are some preliminary readings you should complete to help you develop a broad understanding of the key theories, concepts, and ideas that are relevant for this project:

• organizational culture
• organizational climate
• business ethics

As you read about each of the key concepts for this project—organizational culture, organizational climate, and organizational ethics—think about the implications for industries and organizations like yours and for their leaders. Jot down ideas and questions you will need to research further to develop the expertise required to successfully complete this project. As previously suggested readings on ethics have highlighted, ethics includes many human resource focus areas: discrimination, hiring, promoting, diversity, and enforcement of a variety of federal statutes.

When researching for your presentation, recall what you learned about good graduate-level research practices in PRO 600 and prior coursework. Be sure to consult with your professor if you have questions about the strategy and process you plan on using to find good resources for this project.

Once you have completed your reading and library research for this project, apply what you have learned to your organization, looking for these useful resources:

• any publicly available policies and procedures that provide helpful insights into how ethical conduct and desired organizational behaviors are managed
• any nonconfidential sources where your CEO or other leaders may have written or spoken about these topics

Step 3: Conduct Independent Research

As you did for the situation audit, adopt the perspective of an outside consultant when working on this report. This will increase your objectivity as you examine your own company. The COO, Kate Lindsay, needs absolute objectivity with this subject. Complete the following tasks:

• Independently research (as a consultant would) the concepts of organizational culture, climate, and ethics.
• Determine the consequences of organizational culture, climate, and ethics to your organization’s operations. Would legal measures (employment laws) need to be used to reshape the culture, climate, or ethics of the organization? If so, what impact would that have on the workforce?

Step 4: Create an Annotated Resource List

Next, create an annotated resource list of four key articles or sources dealing with culture, climate, and ethics that will be used in your memo and presentation. Consult creating an annotated bibliography for help. One of the four annotated resources can deal with the impact of employment laws on organizational culture, climate, and ethics.

Keep in mind that the quality of the resources matters in determining the quality of the memo and the quality of the presentation. A well-researched study or article by an acknowledged authority published in a peer-reviewed academic journal is considered primary research. The use of primary research is preferred over using an interpretation of the same academic content that is published in a newspaper column or summarized in a magazine, trade journal, or internet source—even where such secondary sources contain quotes from the original author’s work or attribute their interpretation to that material.

So even though organizational culture, climate, and ethics may seem like soft issues, I expect strong critical thinking and an evidence-based report. I don’t just want opinions. It might help to imagine yourself as an independent consultant we are counting on for both expertise and objectivity.”