Instructions

Topic: Resolving conflict and dealing with difficult people in the workplace

Research Project Instructions:

IMPORTANT!! Read all information provided in this section before beginning your final project. Your final project accounts for 25% of your grade. As such, this project is critical to your final grade!

Submit your work as an MS PowerPoint ATTACHMENT. No other file format can be accepted (i.e., no .pdf, read-only formats, etc.).

The final project requires you to develop a PowerPoint slide presentation for use as a training tool with line managers and supervisors on how to resolve conflict, as well as deal with difficult people, in the workplace. Many organizations hold such training programs at least annually with line management as a refresher in order to ensure that employee conflicts and aggressive behavior are dealt with expeditiously, assertively, Instructions: and proactively, in order to prevent such behavior from taking place at work. As such, your presentation should briefly outline (i.e., no more than 2-3 slides) the negative issues associated with allowing conflict in the workplace to go unchecked, and focus the majority of your presentation (i.e., 8-10 slides) on the positive measures, programs, and processes that organizations can/do adopt to mitigate conflict and negative employee behavior in the workplace.

Many organizations have extended conflict resolution programs beyond Human Resource Development (HRD) programs and processes by changing human resource management (HRM) policies and programs to meet the special needs of the new workforce. A growing number of organizations are holding managers formally accountable for resolving employee concerns and/or grievance internally, within their departments. For example, incorporating such goals and objectives into their performance evaluation process. As the HRD manager for your organization, what new training programs and processes would you propose to senior management to develop effective training and conflict resolutions methods that will ultimately lead to a climate in which all employees can thrive within the organization and contribute to its success?

Submission Instructions: Submit your work as an MS PowerPoint (.ppt) presentation. The body of your presentation should include at least 10-12 presentation slides, in addition to a title slide, introduction slide(s), and references at the end of your presentation for a total of no more than 15 slides. PowerPoint presentations longer than 15 slides will not be read after the 15th slide. As such, please ensure that all assignment questions are answered within the first 15 slides, as your grade will be based on the first 15 slides received.

Your grade will be based on your ability to follow assignment instructions, research conducted, the effectiveness of the training proposed, critical thinking and analysis, and APA format.

Please support your ideas, arguments, and opinions with independent research, include at least three (3) supporting references or sources (do NOT use encyclopedias, Wikipedia, unknown, undated, or anonymous sources, such as brief articles from websites), include a reference section (i.e., 1-2 slides), and cite all sources properly in the text of each slide, in accordance with the 6th edition of the APA manual, Chapters 6 & 7.

Helpful Tips:

Your grade will be based upon:

• research conducted
• effectiveness of the training presentation as a communication tool,
• critical thought and analysis, and
• APA format.

Students are encouraged to use the Notes section of the slides in formulating the presentation as a way to minimize lengthy narrative on the slides. This approach will allow the use of bullet points on the slides but demonstrate the depth and scope of the research conducted in the Notes section.
I encourage you to go online to Purdue OWL, or Excelsior OWL, which have writing labs for students. Look up PowerPoint presentations in APA format in the search box. These websites will have helpful tips on best practices.

References:

Excelsior OWL: http://owl.excelsior.edu/posts/view/277

Purdue OWL: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/17/

Reminder:
Please ensure that you review the grading rubric for this assignment carefully, to ensure that you receive the highest possible grade for your work!

Instructions

Hello Class!

Welcome to Week # 1. For this week’s assignment, Please see below:

Assignment Instructions:

Please select your Capstone Project Topic idea paper by submitting a topic based on previous research and coursework that you have completed in Cybersecurity or on a Cybersecurity topic that peaks your interest. Your topic needs to be closely related to at least one of the course objectives (listed below for your convenience). Your Capstone Project Topic paper will be analyzed to determine if it meets the criteria for a full Capstone project. If it does, you will be permitted to begin fleshing out your final Capstone Project that will be due in Week # 7. If your project topic requires further work or needs to be changed altogether, you will be notified as such.

REQUIREMENTS:

1. 2 – 3 Pages in length in APA format (not including a cover page and reference section)
2. Papers need to be double spaced and in 12 point times new roman font
3. Chosen Topic
4. Introduction on Relevancy
5. Your Research Questions (Resources below)
   1. https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/writing-resources/research-based-writing
   2. https://www.monash.edu/library/help/assignments-research/developing-research-questions
6. Review of Literature (just a small discussion of approximately 5 potential sources.
7. Reference Section (you will need at least 5 references – for the final Capstone Project Paper you will need 20-25)

MISCELLANEOUS:

1. Use current and real world data to make your points, not just the textbook.
2. Your references should not be more than 5 years old.
3. Your Capstone Project Topic assignment is due by Sunday not later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

 COURSE OBJECTIVES:

CO-1: Examine the various aspects of cybersecurity including the relationship between cyber defense, cyber operations, cyber exploitations, cyber intelligence, cybercrime, Cyberlaw within Federal and State Laws

CO-2: Deconstruct the processes and goals of cyber forensics investigations including the importance of search warrants and chain of custody in a forensic investigation of computer related crimes 

CO-3: Prepare a plan to manage functions that encompass overseeing a program or technical aspect of a security program at a high level ensuring currency with changing risk and threat environments.

CO-4: Prepare a plan to design functions that encompass scoping a program or developing procedures, processes, and architectures that guide work execution at the program and/or system level.

CO-5: Develop strategies and plans for security architecture consisting of tools, techniques, and technologies to detect and prevent network penetration, and to design effective cybersecurity countermeasures.

CO-6: Develop a policy to analyze network designs, topologies, architectures, protocols, communications, administration, operations, and resource management for wired, wireless, and satellite networks that affect the security of the cyberspace. 

CO-7: Develop a policy to implement functions that encompass putting programs, processes, or policies into action within an organization.

CO-8: Prepare a plan to evaluate functions that encompass assessing the effectiveness of a program, policy, process, or security service in achieving its objectives. 

Assignment Instructions:

You will be presenting a preliminary copy of the Opening Material, the content may change later in the course, but I am looking for a solid submission. In the Table of Contents, please make sure to breakdown each of the sections and their subsections.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4 – 6 Pages in length in APA format (not including a cover page and reference section)
• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Abstract
• Introduction (make sure you explain why your topic is relevant and what research question(s) you are trying to answer)
• Reference Section

NOTE: The sections at the end of the course will be:

• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Discussion
• Recommendations and Conclusions
• References

MISCELLANEOUS:

1. Use current and real world data to make your points, not just the textbook
2. Your references should not be more than 5 years old
3. Your assignment is due by Sunday not later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

 COURSE OBJECTIVES:

CO-1: Examine the various aspects of cybersecurity including the relationship between cyber defense, cyber operations, cyber exploitations, cyber intelligence, cybercrime, Cyberlaw within Federal and State Laws

CO-2: Deconstruct the processes and goals of cyber forensics investigations including the importance of search warrants and chain of custody in a forensic investigation of computer related crimes 

CO-3: Prepare a plan to manage functions that encompass overseeing a program or technical aspect of a security program at a high level ensuring currency with changing risk and threat environments.

CO-4: Prepare a plan to design functions that encompass scoping a program or developing procedures, processes, and architectures that guide work execution at the program and/or system level.

CO-5: Develop strategies and plans for security architecture consisting of tools, techniques, and technologies to detect and prevent network penetration, and to design effective cybersecurity countermeasures.

CO-6: Develop a policy to analyze network designs, topologies, architectures, protocols, communications, administration, operations, and resource management for wired, wireless, and satellite networks that affect the security of the cyberspace. 

CO-7: Develop a policy to implement functions that encompass putting programs, processes, or policies into action within an organization.

CO-8: Prepare a plan to evaluate functions that encompass assessing the effectiveness of a program, policy, process, or security service in achieving its objectives. 

Work on your project milestone 3 and report your evidence to support that the milestone was completed.

Submit a 2-page status report that includes recommendations for stakeholders pertaining to cybersecurity theories and frameworks for managing risks, threats, or vulnerabilities. Also, describe the tasks completed in this milestone in an updated work breakdown structure (WBS), in Excel, Word, or Project, showing the actual time it took to complete each task. Finally, describe lessons learned while implementing this milestone. In addition, demonstrate that the milestone is fully completed by showing sufficient evidence. Depending on the project, the evidence can take the form of research findings, diagrams, designs, screenshots, databases, queries, source code, configurations, videos, policies, etc. Your evidence should result in at least 5 pages. This is in addition to your 2-page status report. If your evidence is in the form of videos, the videos should be at least 8–10 minutes long. This is only for your evidence.

Milestone 3:

Milestone 3: Implementation and Testing

The third and final milestone is the implementation of Zero Trust as a security model and conducting tests to assess its efficiency. The steps will involve deploying and setting up some of the chosen tools and technology within existing systems. The system’s security will also be assessed using the process referred to as penetration testing. Furthermore, there will be a User Acceptance Testing to capture feedback and fix some problems with the product’s usability. This milestone emphasizes iterative testing and improvement that confirms that the deployed system is operational and technically functional.