Background Information As a parent or the mother of a 12 year old son, write an essay on parenting in the amount of 1800 words. This must include the following 6 subtopics. Each subtopic must have a minimum 300 words. This must be in first person language with no references. (Background information is attached). Subtopic 1: discuss the development of parenting skills Subtopic 2: discuss parental values and attitudes that accompany stages in the development of the child Subtopic 3: analyze methods of effective guidance Subtopic 4: discuss the role of discipline; compare and contrast discipline with punishment Subtopic 5: discuss constructive and destructive elements in parenting styles; identify at least three categories of parenting styles; include an overview of the parenting behaviors associated with each style and the results obtained from each Subtopic 6: discuss the challenges to responsible and effective parenting presented by contemporary society Each subtopic must include all four areas below (note the description below): 1.  Description of Concrete Experience Description: Concrete experience represents your personal participation with the people, places, activities, and events of an experience.  You should describe your involvement relative to the experience, demonstrating the opportunity for learning. 2. Reflections Description: Reflections represent your thinking and processing relative to the experience.  You should demonstrate your learning by describing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes developed through the reflective process. 3. Generalizations/Principles/Theories Description: Generalizations, principles, and theories are constructs that organize and guide academic learning.  A typical college course is built around several such generalizations, principles, and/or theories.  In this stage, you identify and describe the generalizations, principles, and/or theories to demonstrate your learning outcomes.  These learning outcomes result from analyzing and reflecting on your experience.  The generalizations, principles, and/or theories should be comparable to those addressed in typical college courses and should match the course description selected. 4. Testing and Application Description: Testing and/or application represent situations in which the new learning can be used.  You should describe how you did, or could in the future, test and/or apply what you learned.

There are many components to nonprofit organizational management within the context of human resources, supervision, and professional development of staff. Chapter 9 of your text, Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leadership, briefly discusses some of these areas. For this Assignment, you will create an annotated bibliography to discuss the tenets of organizational management or one of the functions of a human service administrator in relation to human resources, supervision, and staff development covered in Chapter 9 of your text.Directions: Develop an annotated bibliography based on one of the following areas of organizational nonprofit management of your choice: Interviewing, hiring, recruitment, and termination policies Employee motivators Employment laws (you can review literature covering more than one of the subtopics under employee laws) Civil rights Discrimination (pregnancy, perceived disability, race/ethnicity, language, beliefs, preferences, orientation, gender) Equal wages Training and development Performance management Supervision Diversity in the workplace as a tenet to organizational leadership Along with your topic of choice, other suggested keywords are nonprofit management, human service leadership, organizational management, organizational leadership, nonprofit human resources, and principles of nonprofit organizational leadership.Suggested databases that can be accessed through the Library are: Books 24x7 Business Source Complete eBook Academic Collection from EBSCO eBook Collection from EBSCO Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) An annotated bibliography presents a comprehensive, yet focused, selection of scholarly sources on a specific topic. The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to identify resources for and to develop a deeper understanding of the tenets of organizational management, supervision, and the professional development of staff. Annotations inform the reader of the material and information provided along with the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Your Assignment will be 3–4 pages in length and will include a 1-paragraph introductory synopsis along with a list of the research resources you used to serve as the preface to the annotated bibliography. Your annotated bibliography will include a list of citations to books, articles, and documents (the bibliography). Each citation will be followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph (the annotation), which provides a review of the literature on a particular subject. An annotated bibliography is not the same thing as a bibliography or an abstract. An annotation is descriptive and critical whereas as abstract does not include a critical evaluation of the writing or study.Your annotated bibliography will consist of six references from at least four peer-reviewed journal articles, one credible website, and Chapter 9 of your text, Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders.Your references will be in alphabetical order with each entry properly APA formatted and each annotation about 1 paragraph (4–10 sentences) in length. The Assignment should be 3–5 pages in length.In this annotation, you will briefly describe the resource. If available, you could provide a descriptive annotation that evaluates the success or reliability of the book. You might also compare or contrast the source with another source on the topic. Determine if the author has a bias or makes assumptions. List any biases. You could describe the author's conclusion and whether or not there are significant attachments or appendices such as charts, maps, bibliographies, photographs, documents, tests or questionnaires. You could also explain how this work is useful. You could also compare or contrast this work with another (or others) cited. Is the work, its data, or its view out-of-date, yet a valid historical reference? Describe your reaction to the item. Use technical writing format: not "I" or "my." You will need four more entries after this one.

Choose two companies - one you consider to be ethical and one you believe to be unethical. Refer to the included resources to create a short white paper to analyze the topic of ethics. (NOTE - if you're unfamiliar with the format of a white paper - Google "white paper" for sites) Intro - Define ethics. Body - Answer the following for each company: Does this company have a published code of ethics? Does it offer evidence of social responsibility? Does it practice sustainability? Conclusion - Why do you consider this to be an ethical company or not? Provide specific references to support your position. Consider the following questions in your conclusion. In what ways does a company’s ethics (good or bad) influence your buying decisions? Did your research for the assignment change your views on that company? What companies in your industry have a high level of corporate ethics? Do corporate ethics differ in a global environment?