Whatcom Student Scholarship

Items

• Organizational Conflict: Understanding Effective Approaches to Workplace Conflict Resolution

  Course final submission for Foundations of Managment. Includes literature review and independent survey for investigative research.
• Ethical Use of Consumer Health and Genetic Data

  This paper discusses the ethical issues around medical, genetic, and health data obtained through consumer products such as smart watches, cell phone apps, and consumer marketed genetic testing.
• Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Protection: Exploring the Boundaries of Law, Technology, and Ethics

  This is a paper on the ethics of copyright as it relates to generative AI. I attempt to reach a stance that serves as a compromise between the various stakeholders in this debate - copyright holders, users of AI, and AI developers.
• Ethical & Motivated Blindness

  An exploration of the precursors/organizational factors that lead to ethical or motivated blindness that includes a literature review, interviews, and an original survey designed to monitor an organization's ethical culture.
• Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education

  This paper was written about some ethical concerns regarding artificial intelligence in the K-12 education system. There are both pros and cons to AI in education, and this paper goes over some of those concerns/advantages.
• Ethics In AI Development and Use

  A research paper exploring the ethics surrounding AI development and use in the tech industry.
• The Journey to CPB Certification

  This is a summary of my experience preparing for the Certified Professional Biller Certification through the AAPC.
• Hiring Recent Graduates- An Objective Analysis

  This research paper outlines the pros and cons of hiring recently graduated students from a managerial perspective as well as discusses the ways in which students can prepare to enter the workforce successfully.
• Layoff Survivors: The Impact of Layoffs on Employee Motivation & Job Satisfaction

  This research paper discusses the results of a layoff survivor survey on the impact of layoffs on the remaining employees. Research shows that layoffs have a considerable organization impact on the remaining employees job satisfaction, stress levels at work, motivation, and organizational commitment.
• How Unethical Decision-Making Causes Stress in Workers (in Regard to Management and Employees)

  This final paper includes all of the findings of my research on how unethical decision making and behaviors affect employees and managers stress levels and ways to resolve it.
• CEO-to-Worker Compensation Inequality

  This paper is an exploration of the income inequalities of top paid CEOs to median pay employees and how corporate governance is failing in respect to these unethical practices.
• Overcoming Challenges Faced by Female Entrepreneurs

  The following research paper identifies challenges female entrepreneurs experience. It will give insight on what makes the loan process difficult for female entrepreneurs, the most productive ways to ask for loans, and where to find financial help. The paper will offer support and guidance to help entrepreneurs become successful.
• Creating a Positive Workplace

  Businesses that have a positive environment will not only boost the morale of their employees, but they will be able to run their businesses more cost-effectively. Creating a healthy workplace atmosphere starts from the top, it is up to management to find the happy medium with their employees to be able to lower turnover and help their employees feel respected and appreciated. A happy business is a productive and profitable business. Businesses where management allows unhealthy workplace culture to persist, inevitably suffer unnecessary economic hardships. When employees are subjected to the prolonged stress of an unhealthy workplace, they suffer lasting physical and emotional consequences. Informative research on statistics for unhealthy and healthy workplace environments is offered to be utilized for the purpose of educating and making recommendations for a future business owner. This research consists of the use of surveys and interviews, as well as primary research with secondary scholarly sources.
• Workplace Harassment: Women of Color

  Many of the research found today about workplace harassment fails to mention anything outside of sexual harassment. This research paper explains different types of workplace harassment, the consequences for individuals and businesses, traits of a harasser, interviews with real individuals who have experienced workplace harassment, a survey with 66 diverse women of all races, ages and industries to give their experiences with workplace harassment, and there is an interview with a family life therapist who has been interviewed. The paper includes primary and secondary research, and it also includes contacts for individuals who are experiencing workplace harassment to reach out to in Washington State. This information is extremely important to better understand how workplace harassment affects an individual.
• The Ethical Dilemma of Social Media
• A Collective Bargain: Labor, Management, and the New World Order

  The decline of organized labor in our neoliberal new world order, and the subsequent decline of the American middle class.