...accommodative and defensive strategies. In the end, the results suggests that different responses are seen as more or less sympathetic by members of the same public. This is because the results are dependent on the perceived status of the organization-public relationship. 2. RQ #1: How does the use of accommodative or defensive crisis response strategies by organizations affect key publics’ assessments of compassionate crisis communication? Hypothesis #1: Participants with a positive relationship history with an organization will view accommodative strategies as being more compassionate than those participants with a negative relationship history with an organization (Caldiero 14). Hypothesis #2: Participants with either negative or positive relationship histories with an organization will view defensive strategies as lacking compassion (Caldiero 14). Hypothesis #1 is a one-tailed hypothesis. This is because it is a declarative statement that does predict the direction of the fact that participants with a positive relationship background with an organization will be more compassionate than others that are not. “Compassion occurs through three sub-processes; noticing pain, experiencing a reaction to the pain, and acting in response to the pain”...
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...resulting from the policy. Although the policy has prevented over population, it has caused a significant amount of controversy within and outside of China. Citizens living in rural areas and minorities living in China are not subject to the law. Although the rule is still being used today, it has been associated with many negative effects in society. Although these issues occur, it has been reported that 76% of the Chinese population support the policy. In 2008 it was stated by China’s National Population and Family Planning Commissions that the policy will remain in place for at least another decade, but under the new government, there is a possibility that the policy will be more relaxed in upcoming years. This relaxation may results in the government allowing couples to have a second child. The one-child policy has significantly reshaped China’s population and has resulted in many positive effects. Family’s that obey the policy are able to obtain “One-Child Glory Certificates” which entitles them to an annual bonus on their salary up until the child is fourteen years old. Therefore, families who stick to the policy end up receiving large bonuses throughout their kid’s childhood. Another positive effect of the policy is the population management. The less people, the easier it is to control a nation and there is less harm to the environment. There are also several negative...
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...Galvez 1 Brian Galvez Professor Khan Sociology 15 The Shawshank Redemption An important theme in Frank Darabont’s film The Shawshank Redemption is hope. The film demonstrates that hope is a good thing and shows the consequences in having and lacking hope. It is important that Darabont’s film showed the theme of hope as it us also important in our lives today because having or lacking in hope affects people personally, nationally and worldwide. In our everyday lives we are presented with cases of people having hope through our own or someone we knows personal experiences and on the news. In most cases, hope is portrayed in a positive light as it helps people get through tough situations. The film makes its viewers think about how having or lacking hope can effect out lives in reality and makes them conclude that having hope is a good and important thing. In The Shawshank Redemption demonstrates how hope is an important thing to have. We are introduced to Andy du Frense, Red Redding and their fellow prison inmates. Throughout the film Andy has a peaceful and positive disposition and this is because he has hope. Whilst having a conversation with Red, Andy talks about his dreams of what he is going to do with his life when he gets out of prison. Red responds negatively, claiming that “hope can drive a man insane”. Andy replies saying “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing and no good thing ever Galvez 2 dies”. This demonstrates that Andy has hope. A consequence of Andy’s...
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...Health Promotion Deanna Caswell Family Centered Health Promotion March 3rd, 2013 Health Promotion Health promotion has a variety of definitions. One being as simple as, a science and art that assists people to change lifestyle toward a state of optimal health (O’Donnell, 1997), to more complex as a process of advocating health to increase the chance that personal, private , and public support of positive health practices will become a societal norm” (Kreuter & Devore, 1980, p. 26). Despite the variances in definition health promotion is geared towards persuading public the benefits of a living a lifestyle free of negative health behaviors. The purpose of health promotion in nursing practice is to switch gears from protection of certain diseases to focus on improving the general health of the people they serve. Health promotion has changed the roles and responsibilities of nurses. Increasing demands are placed on nurses as healthcare has shifted from an acute, hospital-based care to preventive, community-based care. The home is now the primary place healthcare takes place. Reimbursement for hospital care is less resulting in shorter stays. Nurses must take on additional roles and play a bigger part of disease prevention and health promotion. A greater emphasis is being placed on nurses being more independent in their practice. Nurses are expected to be increasingly accountable morally and legally for their behavior. Nursing has evolved into many roles as advocates...
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...Adult adoptees that were born after 1940 usually just assume that all adoptions are closed records. Prior to 1940, most adoptions were open records for adult adoptees seeking their birth parents. Before 1940, adoption was very informal for children. When the Orphan Train was in effect, 150,000 abused and orphaned children were put on a train and sent to farming families in the east coast. This train took place from 1854 to 1929 and continued to send these abandoned children off to work. Around 1850, the first American state laws about adoption were being formed and were all gradually becoming closed. When 1960 came around, 28 of the 48 states at the time had made all adoptions closed unless taken to court. However, in 1990 three states had made adoption records available to get ahold of on demand. In...
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...homosexuals are interested in adopting some of the thousands of children stuck in foster care. Not only are they looking to adopt these children, but they’re also looking to adopt the neediest of them. It has been proven that 60% of gay and lesbian couples adopt across races, taking a large amount of minorities out of the system. Another 25% of them also tended to adopt children with special needs, and those who were in the less popular age range of 3 years old and above. David Brodzinsky, a research director at Urban Institute and co-editor of “Adoption By Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension of Family Diversity” said “When you think about the 114,000 children who are freed for adoption who continue to live in foster care and who are not being readily adopted, the goal is to increase the pool of available, interested, and well-trained individuals to parent these...
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...Transcript of Positive and negative images of the public services Positive and negative images of the public services FONTS Brutality Corruption Racism Racism has long been a charge leveled at the Public services by the media, for example the Brixton riots in the 80's, stopping and searching black youths in the 1990's or the lack of recruitment of ethnic minority officers. How ever it took the murder of Stephen Lawrence to put the subject on the political and media agenda. Brutality The media shows incidents of the Public services portraying them as if they are using excessive force. Sometimes their claims are unfunded and damage the public perception of the Police. Image of the Public services The public services are portrayed in a variety of different ways by the media. The coverage can be both real, such as Police interceptors or through fictional programs such as Casualty or The Bill. ( And we all know Bradshaw loves The Bill :) A UK study shows that The Sun newspaper dedicates around 30 per cent to crime news. This highlights the time and energy spent on the portrayal of the Public services. Blind obedience The media sometimes choose to portray the public services as lacking discipline and judgement if they blindly obedient when following orders. Blind obedience An example of this was the Hillsborough disaster when West Midlands Police ran their own inquiry into the handling of the disaster by South Yorkshire Police, who orchestrated a cover-up, falsified...
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...he is missing; so, he can handle his financial burdens and continue operating his businesses’ while confronting his conflicts and past relationships. 2. George’s definitely had some technical skills; he had specialized competencies such as owing a couple of businesses’ such as a movie theater, drive in theater, restaurant and sold real estate. George had the capability to invest in several fast food restaurants, retirement home and rental properties. George was lacking human skills he couldn’t not confront many people in his businesses' or give them direction on how to run the business. In one of his restaurants George was worried about being forced to buy out Jeff an employee if George himself did not address the operating problems at that restaurant. Also, the Vaughan’s, the Ministry of Health and the bank expressed doubt about George being able to run the nursing home successfully- this showed that he was not trustworthy and his decisions were questioned. Another big skill George was lacking was Conceptual skills! The reason why I...
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...University of Phoenix Material Development Matrix Part I – Developmental Stages For each developmental domain, physical, cognitive, and social, identify two major changes or challenges associated with the following stages: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. |Stage of |Physical Development |Cognitive Development |Social Development | |Development | | | | |Childhood |Initial development of basic standards |Remembering what has been learned. |Interaction with others by asking | | |like, motor functions, quick thinking |Thinking skills increase within |questions, observing, and imitating | | |and expanding communication (Or |reasonable timeframe. |activities of others. | | |language) skills. |Family values are introduced and the |Aware of others, whether strangers or | | |Body changes in rapid growth spurts. |concept of “good and bad” begins to |family, nice or mean. | | |Realization and avoidance of physical |take shape. | | | |pain. | | ...
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...external scores? Item discrimination alludes to the capacity of an item to distinguish among students on an intellectual foundation of how well they are accustomed to the substance being tested (Anastasi, & Urbina, 1997). Previously, calculations were manually employed to compare item responses to total test scores using high and low scoring groups of students. Computer computation yields more robust assessment of the discrimination power of items because they take into consideration all students responses rather than just high and low scoring groups. Similarly, it is relevant for buildup instructors' skills in test development, and distinguishing explicit regions of course content, which need exceptional explicitness. Item discrimination shows the degree to which favorable outcome on a material is identical to success on the entire test since all materials in a test are meant to stand shoulder to shoulder to produce an overall test score. Any material lacking positive qualities or zero discrimination weakens the test. Positive item discrimination is usually prolific, unless it is so high that the material simply duplicates the information produced by other materials on the test (Lord, 1952). Item discrimination indicators must at all times be explained in the surrounding text of the type of test being examined methodically in order to be valid. To achieve this, the articles to be examined must be valid criteria of instructional intentions. The items must be diagnostic that is...
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...The ability for social capital to be harnessed for both positive and negative purposes is especially apparent in the discussion of the “urban crisis.” The issue was brought to the forefront during the 1950s and 1960s during a period when black families began moving into historically white neighborhoods. Homeowners’ associations, community groups, and other neighborhood-based organizations, which seem to be benign groups promoting positive social capital, are criticized by some scholars such as Thomas Sugrue as insidious organizations designed to impose racial order. He argues that racism and aggression, using the negative social capital of white homeowners’ organizations, is the cause of the urban crisis because it forced black homeowners...
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...…………………………………………………………………………………..16 Perception……………………………………………………………...………………..17 Team Performance……………………………………………………………………..18 As Regional Director for Happy Face Frozen Foods (HFFF), I hold a great responsibility to meet sales projection levels at each of my sales districts. Hitting goal is not just a numbers game- it’s a task of managing people within the culture of the organization. My ultimate goal for District IV and district manager Tony’s performance deficiency is to diagnosis issues and problem areas. Multiple management/leadership models and concepts are needed in order to shift this district to become profitable and successful. PERFORMANCE MODEL Skills, Abilities, Traits Tony appears to have a lack of effort, despite being young, aggressive, talkative, appears to be intelligent, and was a top sales representative. I questioned his work ethic capabilities, but the Myer Briggs Type Indicator says we are polar personality opposites as he is an ISTJ and I am an ENFP. In general, his type explains why his apparent lack of effort is actually his “introverted” and “sensing” personality; Tony self-reflects, works alone, thinks before acting, keeps energy inside, is hard to read, and verbalizes well though out ideas, concern for present and practical matters, likes things to be precise and clear, and wants step-by-step approaches. I had promoted him despite of his tendencies towards coercion and party reputation, which seemed to be a lack of cooperation skills and...
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...wether or not the behaviour is desirable. Deviation from ideal metal health focuses on what is mormal as opposed to what is abnormal by deciding what abnormality is, anything that doesn't satisfy this criteria of 'normal' must be therefore be abnormality. Jahoda (1958) spoke about 'normality'. As being a positive state of mental heaath. According to Jahoda, several conditions in order to satisfy what she called optimal living. The conditioms for optimal living are as follows; a positive view of self ( meaning the person must have a feeling of self- worth and a reasonable extent of self esteem) , autonomy ( the person must show a level of independence), actualisation ( the person must become the best they can), accurate view of reality, environmental adaptability and finally resistance to stress. There are a few limitations of this approach to defining abnormality. First, self actualisation is theoretically ideal concept that very few people are actually able to achieve. In order to self actualise a person must reach the peak of their abilities, ambitions and desires in life, but the majority of people comfortably settle for a situation somewhat below self actualisation. Second, being resistant to stress and not suffering from it's consequences is an ideal state of memtal health, however stress can be actually be benificial in some circumstances. Many athletes, actors, public speakers etc. actually perform better under a degree of stress. Lastly, self actualisation is particularly...
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...Learning Styles Inventory MGMT/591 May 5, 2016 Professor Matasha Murrell-Jones Cover Page 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Personal Thinking Styles 3-4 Dominant Personal Thinking Styles 4-6 Auxiliary Personal Thinking Styles 6-8 Impact on Management Style 8 Planning 8-9 Organizing 9 Leading 9-10 Controlling 10 Genesis of Personal Style 10-11 Conclusion and Reflection 11-12 References 13 Life Styles Inventory Every individual thinks and behaves in different manners. The use of Life Styles Inventory helps to identify the elemental factors which impact the individual’s thinking patterns and behaviors. An individual’s personal life styles greatly contributes to the role one fulfills in the workplace; from how an individual is able to communicate with fellow employees and upper management to their ability to manage situations and positions of authority. The different categories include constructive styles, passive/defensive styles, and aggressive/defensive styles; each of these categories are then broken down into subcategories which describe in further detail the main categories. These subcategories include “humanistic-encouraging, affiliative, approval, conventional, dependent, avoidance, oppositional, power, competitive, perfectionistic,...
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...Being Green: A Life of Opportunity When I hear the iconic Kermit the Frog’s statement about the hardships of being green, I assume that being such an unordinary color could be seen as a difficult lifestyle because of the perpetual contrast the color places between the frog and the rest of society. Nobody else within society seems to be green, and the world must judge Kermit because he is out of the ordinary. However, in his song “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” Kermit is actually lamenting about how this life is difficult because he is in fact ordinary, blending in with the greenness of the natural landscape around him. Unlike Kermit, however, I believe that both the contrast of Kermit with modern society and the comparison of the frog with nature...
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