ECO508 ECOManagerial Economics

ECO508 ECOManagerial Economics

Assignment: Summary Statement Blog Post
Your experiences define you. They shape you who you are, how you perceive the world, and how you interact with others. They are so influential that even the briefest of experiences can have lasting impacts on your character, self-esteem, and professional aspirations.

As you come to the conclusion of this course, think back to the ways you have engaged with colleagues, the media, and the literature. Which experiences might have contributed most to your development as a problem solver? Which might be most memorable as you continue through your coursework and plan your professional development, and why?

For your final blog post, you reflect on your experiences in this course.

To prepare for this blog post:

Reflect on your work and experience in this course by considering the following questions. Which material, stories, and/or research-proven concepts:

Did you connect with most?
Did you find to be the most surprising?
Might you hope to further investigate?
Might directly relate to your future aspirations?
Might motivate you most in your field of interest?
Write a 1- to 2-paragraph summary of your overall experience in this course. Include a description of the course material that you most enjoyed and explain why. Then, explain what insights might be most influential in your future approaches to problem solving.

By Day 5
Post this reflection/summary to your blog.

By Day 7
Read your colleagues’ blogs and consider what resonates with you. Contribute to at least one colleague’s blog.

Submission and Grading Information
Grading Criteria

Final Project: Addressing Social Change
Throughout this course, you have explored and applied various tools and skill sets for problem solving. In this final week, you will apply them to a social issue. For your Week 2 Application Assignment, you identified and addressed a social change issue or a social problem from your major or field of interest. You have also submitted several Final Project Milestone Assignments related to this project.

In preparation for the completion of this Final Project, review the chapter, “Million-Dollar Murray: Why Problems Like Homelessness May be Easier to Solve Than Manage,” in Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw.In this chapter, Gladwell addresses the problem of homelessness.

By Day 7
Submit a 5- to 6-page paper on the social change issue or a social problem you selected. Explain how you would begin solving this problem by utilizing the problem-solving skills you have developed in this course.

Be sure to complete the following in your paper:

Formulate a problem statement.
Analyze perspectives of the problem by identifying two to three stakeholders or interested parties to this problem/issue; explain how their perspectives may be similar to or different from your own and any implications their perspectives may have on the problem-solving process.
Create a hypothesis that might contribute to the solution of the social problem how the social problem might be solved.
Identify two different approaches to this problem.
Identify quantitative data you might collect and interpret to help with your problem-solving process.
Identify qualitative data you have collected related to this problem. Explain one meaning making strategy for this data—that is, a way to relate the data to the problem you have identified.
Identify quantitative data you have collected related to this problem. Explain one meaning making strategy for this data—that is, a way to relate the data to the problem you have identified.
Identify two or three additional problems that impact the problem on which you are focusing, and the implications these additional problems may have on the problem-solving process.
Consider how you might apply a group [or multiple-group] approach to solving the problem, and the implications for doing so.
Create a visual tool that supports the problem solving process.
Explain how you would evaluate your hypothesis. In other words, explain how you will know if your hypothesis had led you to the “more favorable circumstance.”
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Project for review and grading, do the following:

Please save your Project using the naming convention “WK6Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 6 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Project.
Click the Week 6 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK6Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.