Module 01 Written Assignment – Attitudes and Organizational Behavior

Address the following questions in your assignment this week:

1. List some challenges and opportunities for Organizational Behavior.
2. What are the main components of attitudes?
3. How consistent are attitudes?
4. Define cognitive dissonance.

Your submitted assignment should be 2-3 pages. Be sure to use proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar and cite your sources per APA.

Please complete assignment and follow instructions CLOSELY

Strict deadline please!

NO COPIED CONTENT

ASSIGNMENT:

Since your graduation from AIU, you have been working as the victims’ assistant advocate for the office of the local county prosecutor. You have a great working relationship with the prosecutor, Mary, and the remainder of the office. Normally, when you speak, the staff and prosecutor know you are speaking from a knowledge base that you have gained from personal experience, research, and reading, so they know that your comments are facts. You like to use APA format to cite your sources, but this bulleted paper does not need to be in APA format.

You have decided to speak with the prosecutor, Mary, on behalf of Maureen, the college student who was a victim of date rape. You want to convince Mary to support a change in the prosecutor’s policy of not prosecuting date rape cases when drugs or alcohol are involved. Maureen has a strict policy: when someone wants to speak with her about changing an established policy, she wants the person to submit a paper of 3–5 pages containing topic bullets outlining his or her argument for the policy change prior to meeting her. She feels this way, she is not blind-sided, and she has an opportunity to research the topic prior to the meeting.

You follow her policy and write a paper using bullets only, hoping that you can persuade Mary and the chief prosecutor to change their policy or, at a minimum, meet with you for a discussion about changing the policy. Maureen knows other young women are being attacked and that very often, date rape drugs are being used.

Mary has agreed to review your policy change letter if you write it. You write the policy change paper in which where you have the following two goals:

• Educate Mary about date rape using statistics and information about date rape and date rape drugs to show her that Maureen is one of the types of victims who perpetrators take advantage of in these situations.
• Explain why not prosecuting the cases is the wrong public and social policy. Of course, you are also hopeful that the victim, Maureen, also receives help in her case.

To organize your efforts before your meeting, create a detailed outline in bullet form that contains information for the following 5 topics:

• List Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reported crime statistics relating to rape and the strengths and weaknesses of each type of reporting.
• Define the term date rape (or acquaintance rape—the terms are interchangeable) and how date rape (acquaintance rape) is distinguished from stranger rape, statutory rape, and spousal rape.
• List the types and uses of date rape drugs.
• Describe the victim–offender relationship, including the following:
  • How victims are viewed by perpetrators of date rape
  • The special problems of date rape prosecutions
  • How society and jurors may view date rape (blaming the victim based on the perceived precipitation, facilitation, or provocation of the victim)
• What is your position on this issue, and what action do you think would impact this social policy?

Use the library, Internet, and other resources available to you to conduct your research.

Locate Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.’s most current SEC Form 10-K Annual Filing in the Tootsie Roll Industries Annual Report. Focus on the income statement, which Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.’s titles Consolidated Statement of Earnings and Retained Earnings, and the notes following the financial statements.

Complete the required income statement items and address the questions located in the Course Project Workbook (attached).

In the References box, include an APA reference for all information retrieved, whether from the Tootsie Roll website itself, specific forms (i.e. 10k) from the Tootsie Roll website, or other outside sources

The Research Paper will consist of 16-20 double spaced pages (excluding title page and reference page). The research will address one of the following five topics:

1. Terrorism and Organized Crime: Similarities and Differences (Connected to Course Learning Objective #4, i.e., Report on how terrorism differs from organized crime).

2. History of Organized Crime in the U.S. (Connection to several Course Learning Objectives #2. Assess organized crime’s ability to continue flourishing through the application of sociological and criminological theory; #3 Interpret the historical and socio-political patterns of organized crime in the United States; #6 Compare the origins, characteristics, and national makeup of Asian Crime and Russian organized crime groups, #7. Separate traits and characteristics of the two main Italian Mafia groups, that is, the well-known Cosa Nostra and the newer Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta; and #8. Scrutinize major organized crime statutes, such as the Harrison Act, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and Prohibition).

3. Explaining Organized Crime Through the Lens of Rational Choice Theory, or
another sociological and or criminological criminal justice theory of your choice. (Connected to Course Learning Objective #2, i.e., Assess Transnational Organized Crime’s ability to continue flourishing through the application of criminological theory).

4. Which Poses the Biggest Threat to the U.S….Russian or Asian Organized Crime? (Connected to Course Learning Objective #6. Compare the origins, characteristics, and national makeup of Asian Crime and Russian organized crime groups)

5. A topic of interest to the student, which is fully related to this course, and approved in advance by the instructor. Note: Any proposed topic must be shown to directly connect to one of the course learning objectives identified in the syllabus

This paper must have at least 10 references from primary sources, for example, peer-reviewed journals, etc. Use of newspapers, news magazines, and similar periodicals must be kept to a minimum but a fine for background material.

Web sources should be evaluated based on the site sponsor, among other things, such as: How long has the site existed? Is there sufficient information to judge credentials, authenticity, credibility, and bias? Are facts supported by cited sources? Is the material published only on the web? Wikipedia is not an acceptable source.

Evaluation of the paper will be based upon the rubric below.

The research paper must be written using American Psychological Association (APA) style. In part this must include the following: (b) Times New Roman style, (c) 12-point font, (d) double-spaced, with (e) 1 inch page margins all around.

Note: All quotes must be encapsulated in quotation marks. Likewise, all papers must be 100% original work.