Prompt- DUE THURSDAY 1/14/21 - 1 pageEvery field of study begins with originators who establish concepts and theories to be tested, applied, and adapted according to the findings. For example, adult learning theories were developed over time as disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and philosophy. The theories are used to explore how and why adults learn. The field of strategic management is no different. This week's Discussion has two parts.Part IAs a class, collectively construct a historical timeline of the contemporary era of strategic management. Use the table below to find your assigned 10-year period. Identify and research a theorist or major contributor to strategic management or strategic planning in that period.In your post, include:The first initial and last name (e.g., K. Branson) of a strategic management theorist or major contributor for your designated decade. If someone else has identified the same name within or outside the same decade, that is just fine.A two-sentence synopsis of the major theory or approach that the person contributed to strategic management.At least two credible references citing the theorist's work.Post the results of your research in the appropriate thread within this forum by Thursday midnight, MT.Students' last names beginning with:1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s+A-D√E-H√I-M√N-R√S-V√W-Z√Part IIReview all student posts in the threads to gain a sense of the historical development within strategic management.Analyze and synthesize the collective timeline by posting your response to the Discussion thread answering:What decade was the most influential in developing the current approach to strategic management and how do you support that assertion?Title your post Part II and post your response by Sunday midnight MT.Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument and a minimum of four peer-reviewed articles/journals, citing any sources referenced.

You are a first-year Human Resource Specialist at "State of Estates" estate planning firm. The firm is devising a new employee handbook. You have been asked to create two sections:The Company Policy regarding Alcohol/Drug TestingThe Company Policy regarding Employer Monitoring of EmployeesFormulate these policies in a single document, reflecting an understanding of course materials and credible outside research. Include and cite applicable laws for each topic as the basis for the policy. You may use federal, state, or case law as the foundation for your work. Following is a list of topics you need to include in your policies:Pre-employment drug/alcohol testingRandom drug/alcohol testingProcedure for employees who disagree with results of drug/alcohol TestingDrug/alcohol procedure for contracted government employees who work in satellite officesDrug testing in states with legal marijuana useMonitoring of employee desktop computersMonitoring of employee personal social media useMonitoring of employee cell phone and company carNote: Do not cut and paste an existing policy. Create your own policy (less than 1000 words), using APA format for the cover page and references. Both policies should be included in a single document with subheadings to delineate "Alcohol/Drug Testing" and "Employee Monitoring." You are creating just two sections that will be included in a larger work. You do not need to nor should you waste words on introduction to the handbook, signature pages and other information that would be part of an employee handbook. The intent of the handbook is to place employees on notice of their rights and duties, not to provide a sleep aid. Information may be in short bullets rather than complete sentences. Your goal is to create a guide that is short and to the point enough that employees will be willing to read it.

Forensic psychology addresses scientific questions about criminal actions, where the understanding of the actions leads to inferences about offender characteristics. Canter (2000) introduced the radex of criminality, the combination of quantitative and qualitative aspects of a crime. In addition, these quantitative and qualitative characteristics are viewed through the prism of development and change over time. The radex can be applied to any criminal behavior.One of the most important investigative events of the last century was the creation of behavioral analysis units (BAUs) by the FBI. There are three BAUs. They are known not because of their ability to solve serial murders but because of their creation of a database, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), on which criminal justice professionals around the country and even the world have relied ever since.Offender character assessment is the derivation of inferences about a criminal from evidentiary and psychological aspects of the crimes he or she has committed. For this process to move beyond deduction based on personal opinion and supposition to an evidence-based science, a number of aspects of criminal activity need to be examined, analyzed, and categorized. The notion of a hierarchy of criminal differentiation is introduced to highlight the need to search for consistencies and variations at many levels of that hierarchy. However, current research indicates that the key distinctions are those that differentiate, within classes of crime, between offences and between offenders. This also leads to the hypothesis of a circular ordering of criminal actions, analogous to the color circle, a radex.The radex model, tested using multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) procedures, allows specific hypotheses to be developed about important constituents of criminal differentiation:Salience: MDS analyses reveal the importance of the frequency of criminal actions as the basis on which the significance of those actions can be established.Models of differentiation: The research reviewed mainly supports distinctions between criminals in terms of the forms of their transactions with their explicit or implicit victims.Consistency: Offenders have been shown to exhibit similar patterns of action on different occasions. The most reliable examples of this currently are in studies of the spatial behavior of criminals.Inference: Under limited conditions, it is possible to show associations between the characteristics of offenders and the thematic focus of their crimes.In general, these results provide support for models of thematic consistency that link the dominant themes in an offender's crimes to characteristic aspects of his or her lifestyle and offending history.We never analyze anything in isolation but compare new information to the existing knowledge about similar past and parallel events. Both psychological evaluations and crime investigations follow this pattern of determining what a criminal is and what a crime is. That is what the radex model addresses.InstructionsIn your main post:Analyze the different components of the radex model of criminal differentiation, looking at expressive and instrumental criminal conduct against person and property on a continuum of increasing seriousness.Include in your analysis a summary of the domains and a critique of how they can be or cannot be useful for forensic psychology and for criminal justice professionals. What are the limitations you see in relying on this approach?