The Individual Success Plan (ISP) assignment requires your collaboration with the course faculty early on to establish a plan for successful completion of mutually identified and agreed upon specific deliverables for your programmatic requirements. Programmatic requirements are: (1) completion of required practice immersion hours, (2) completion of work associated with program competencies, (3) work associated toward completion of your Direct Practice Improvement Project.General Requirements:Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment as it pertains to deliverables due in this course:Locate and download the Individual Success Plan (ISP) document in the DNP Program Documents folder in the DNP Program Materials section of the DC Network.Review the DNP Program Milestones document in the DC Network and identify which milestones apply to this course. Note: Not all courses have milestones.Determine what practice experiences you plan to seek in order to address each competency. Include how many hours you plan to set aside to meet your goals. Learners will apply concepts from each of their core courses to reflect upon, critically examine, and improve current practice. Learners are required to integrate scholarly readings to develop case reports that demonstrate increasingly complex and proficient practice.Use the ISP to develop a personal plan for completing your practice hours and for how competencies will be met. Show all of the major milestones and deliverables.Within the ISP, ensure you identify specific deliverables which can include the following: Individualized DNP practice immersion contracts; comprehensive clinical log of hours applied to doctoral level learning outcomes; learner evaluations; mentor evaluations; current and updated CV; scholarly activities; GCU DNP competency self-assessment; reflective journal; course goals and plan for how competencies and practice immersion hours will be met; faculty and mentor approvals of course goals and documented practice immersion hours; and DPI project milestones.Identify the specific deliverables you will complete throughout this course from those defined above or others negotiated with your faculty. You must turn in a new ISP in each course.Identify the remaining deliverables you will complete in the upcoming courses.List the challenges you expect to encounter as you continue the practice hour and competency requirements throughout this course? How might you overcome these challenges?You can renegotiate these deliverables with your faculty throughout this course and update your ISP accordingly.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.

InstructionsAfter a lengthy hiring process, you have been hired as a consultant for NoJax Inc. NoJax is an upstart sports apparel company that has been growing quickly. Their senior management team needs an outside, objective eye to analyze the organizational behavior of the business. Start by viewing the NoJax Company Background document and then write a report to ownership that provides an initial analysis of the business and completes the requirements below.Your report should accomplish the following:After viewing the employee profiles section, explain a minimum of two observations that you’ve made (positive or negative) on the microlevel and their potential impact on the organizational behavior of the company. Pay particular attention to surface level diversity instead of the personality scores.After viewing the employee profiles section, explain a minimum of two observations that you’ve made (positive or negative) on the mesolevel and their potential impact on the organizational behavior of the company. Think about possible groups that may work together and consider potential behaviors.After viewing the company policy section, explain a minimum of two observations that you've made (positive or negative) on the macrolevel and their potential impact on the organizational behavior of the company.Provide an opinion on the level of dissimilarity (high, medium, or low) that you see within NoJax's surface level diversity. Explain if you believe the current level has a positive or negative impact on organizational behavior and detail how you came to that conclusion.

The text describes a bottom-up and top-down approach to managing labor costs. For this assignment, complete the following:Describe the components of both approaches and decide which would be most important to use in either your current work environment or one with which you are familiar, and explain your reasoning.Also include a discussion about the approach you did not select, and describe a scenario in which this approach would be most effective. For example, if you choose the top-down approach to describe your workplace, or a workplace with which you are familiar, then in the second part of the assignment you will discuss the bottom-up approach and describe a scenario in which this would be an effective way to manage labor costs.In both parts of your response, imagine that managers will be part of the budgeting process and will amend, revise, or adopt new approaches to compensating, rewarding, and incentivizing the workforce. In your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this type of management involvement?Your assignment will need to be 2–3 pages in length, and please be sure to cite all information obtained from outside resources.Milkovich, G. T., Newman, J. M., & Gerhart, B. (2013). Compensation (11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.Chapter 18- Management:Making It Work