...Course Project) IF You Want To Purchase A+ Work then Click The Link Below For Instant Down Load http://www.hwspeed.com/Devry-ENGL-216-Complete-Lourse-Latest-2015-December-111325874.htm?categoryId=-1 IF You Face Any Problem Then E Mail Us At JOHNMATE1122@GMAIL.COM Question week 1 Technical Communication at Work (graded) As you read Chapter 1, you will learn that communication skills are critical in the workplace and that technical writing is used in virtually every work environment. For this discussion, locate a technical document from your workplace or from home or the Internet, preferably one that might be found in your career field. Note that Figure 1-1 (page 4) provides a list of technical communication examples. Using the five goals and features of technical communication listed in the textbook (page 4), describe how the document addresses these characteristics. Then, discuss whether or not you feel the document is successful in its overall goal. Provide examples from the document to illustrate. If possible, share the document by posting a link or a PDF of the sample used. Audience Culture and Analysis (graded) As our text states, “one cardinal rule governs all on-the-job writing: Write for your reader, not for yourself” (page 41). This requires a solid audience analysis. As part of this analysis, you must also consider the audience's cultural background, particularly in light of today's global society. For this discussion 1. discuss some...
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...The Susan Smith case caught national attention in the twentieth century as the entire nation followed a desperate mother’s loss for her abducted sons, to the unexpected reveal of the same mother as a merciless woman who drowned her own children. Years have past since the incident, and Smith remained incarcerated and in mourning for her irreversible actions and the forever loss of two innocent lives. In an attempt to understand Susan Smith’s abnormal dependence on other individuals and her deviant behaviour of murdering her children, Sampson and Laub’s Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control offers an explanation to the collapse of Smith’s social capital as the causation of the terrible crime. Offender’s Background Susan Vaughan Smith...
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...Best Practices in Team Interactions Kevin L. Brown Teams in health care take many forms. For example, there are disaster response teams; teams that perform emergency operations, hospital teams caring for acutely ill patients, office-based care teams, and teams that care for homebound patients to name a few, Teamwork is an essential component of any successful organization. In today’s healthcare environment, it is important that managers implement a system that is conducive to producing effective teamwork. When employees understand the value of working together and the benefits that it brings to the company, they are more likely to embrace group efforts and collaborative approaches to problem solving. This paper will examine the best practices and behaviors that support effective team interactions. Health care leaders are tasked with gathering and uniting individuals into a cohesive, high functioning unit able to solve complex problems. Great teams do not happen by chance, they are developed through training and time invested. However, each team is unique, and vary in size, scope and objectives. Regardless of their specific tasks, or settings, effective teams are guided by basic principles that can be not only measured, but also analyzed, learned and replicated. In 1965, Bruce Tuckman introduced Tuckman’s model for group process. This model outlines the six steps necessary for developing an effective team. The steps that comprise this model are informing...
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...http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/Faculty_Yee_Wai_Hang.aspx Class Hours: Office Hours: Monday 14:00 – 17:00; Thursday 14:00 – 17:00 By appointment Course Description Public managers need to master the skills of not only managing organizations but also managing projects, programs, and particularly larger-scale policy reforms. Good understanding of the political economy embedded in policy and administrative reforms are thus essential. This course examines the political-economic dynamics embedded in the reform process from an institutional perspective. It is a master–level course designed for practitioners in the field of public administration and public policy. It discusses strategies for achieving and enhancing reform outcomes. Theories and practices proposed by academics and practitioners will be drawn on as learning resources for the class. Class Format To achieve a high level of synergy and make the most out of our classroom meetings, I expect students to learn from both the instructor and one another in the class. Each of our class will be divided into 2 parts. In the first part, I will begin by giving a general introduction of the assigned readings. Then, a number of students, appointed in advance, will deliver a brief presentation on the assigned readings of the week. Each student will be responsible for presenting one piece of readings. Then, the class will be divided (sometimes randomly) into groups to discuss and share their views and reflections...
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...| A fit between Organizational dynamics and employee attitude | An Indian IT industry Perspective | | | | | | | Contents | Page No. | Introduction | 2 | Organizational design and change in employee outlooks | 3 | Motivation Impact | 5 | Reward system as a driver | 7 | Diversity of Groups & teams | 9 | Stress | 12 | Bibliography | 15 | Introduction Organisational design is the alignment of structure, process, rewards, metrics and talent with the strategy of the business. Companies must assess the competencies needed and the established collaborative structures linking the organization together, and must devise a system for stimulating the demand for solutions, with informed expectations. Organizational dynamics refers to the interaction of different factors that define the organization and how it reacts to changes at a broad level . Employee attitude is dependent on the changes that keep taking place in an organization. The perception of the employees about an organization is ever changing and thus an amiable atmosphere needs to be created for people to work and contribute in the best possible way . This study is focussed on the impact of organizational behaviour in context of the Indian IT industry. We as a group have chosen this topic because all of us have prior work experience in the IT sector and we could easily relate it to the concepts that we studied. Organisational Design and change in employee attitude Organisational...
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...Out of the massive contributions made to developmental psychology, no psychologist had made a more significant contribution than Erik Erikson. As a young man, Erikson was highly influenced by the Freud family and their school of thought. However, Erikson disagreed with the Freudian concept of psychosexual stages, the idea that humans undergo stages of development and resolve basic conflicts by physical and pleasurable gratification (Santrock, 22). “According to Freud, the primary motivation for human behavior is sexual in nature according to Erikson, it is social and reflects a desire to affiliate with other people,” (Santrock, 23). Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory is a well rounded view of life- span development, it incorporates important conflicts during each stage of development that most people can relate to and apply to their own development. Erikson’s theory has eight stages of development and a corresponding age range for each stage. The first stage is known as trust versus mistrust, which occurs from birth to a child’s first year, during this stage the infant learns that he or she is able to either trust the caregiver or develop a distrust of their caregiver. The second stage is known as autonomy versus shame and doubt, during this stage the child, usually 1 to 3 years of age, learns to either develop their own autonomy and independence or if reprimanded too severely they will develop shame when exerting independence. The third stage is known as initiative versus...
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...Unit 13 Managing Human Resources in Health and Social Care 1.1 Explain the factors to be considered when considering the recruitment of individuals to work in health and social care The first factor to be considered when planning employment is the overall aim of the recruitment with a particular focus on what the organization wants to achieve. For example, whilst some recruitment may be to replace an existing worker due to retirement or career advancement, other recruitment may be due to the creation of a new job role. In the latter case, the organization needs to have a clear understanding of the skill set, competence, education and experience levels of the individual they want to recruit. From this, the organization then needs to consider the availability of workers, that fulfill the job requirements, that either already work for the organization or who reside within the area. If such workers are not available, the organization must then consider the financial implications associated with either training individuals to the required levels or offering remuneration and relocation incentives to encourage skilled workers in from other areas. Once these decisions have been made, the organization then needs to consider how to attract the right candidates for the available roles. Advertisement of jobs in areas where there are adequate skilled workers in the local area is commonly carried out in local newspapers and in the local Job Centre, however, where this local skilled...
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...Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.......................................................................................... 1 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 1 2. BUREAUCRACY AND RATIONAL-LEGAL AUTHORITY......................... 2 3. CORNERSTONES OF BUREAUCRACY ......................................................... 4 4. DYSFUNCTIONS OF BUREAUCRACY ........................................................... 5 5. RELEVANCE FOR COTEMPORARY ORGANISATIONS .......................... 6 6. CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................... 7 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 9 Executive Summary The label “Bureaucracy” today is not quite what any organization wants to have written on their flags. Everyone has their own experiences and feelings associated with this term and in most cases it has a negative connotation. A quick view through current media will confirm this. However bureaucracy, as conceived by Max Weber originally, was regarded as progress and something that can improve efficiency and stability within an organization. Organizations can draw upon the pioneering work of Max Weber even today. While displaying certain dysfunctions that are directly linked to strict bureaucracies...
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...Maslow’s theory of motivation with Skinner’s reinforcement theory in view of critique of each theory with special reference to the South African workplace. 3. A critical evaluation of the similarities and differences between reinforcement and the expectancy theories of motivation. Motivating a choice as to which one has the mist relevance to explaining the work motivation of employees in South Africa. 4. How managers can encourage effective performance by managing the reward process in their organisations. Applying two motivational theories to effect performance. 5. References 2 Executive Summary: Other than being familiarised with different theories and that all are motivation related; the three assignments led to discoveries that: 1. One theory can be embedded in another when the purpose for a theory is changed, i.e. from a need to a behaviour. 2. By comparing theories, content (need) theories focus on the need as a motivator per se, whereas process/cognitive theories focus on how we are motivated. They differ a lot and similarities are rather superficial. The third assignment revealed that by focusing on a feature like performance one could discover specific motivational theories suited to it and how other can be instrumental to its goal. It is my opinion that companies will really benefit from considering making use of the expectancy model. It is an individual directed approach to further effective performance. They will have to apply the equity theory to make...
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...HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER PROGRAM SUBJECT OUTLINE SUBJECT TITLE: Community studies – families in change Professor: Linda Sciberas linda.sciberas@senecacollege.ca SUBJECT CODE: SWL 227 SEMESTER: Winter 2015 ____________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT DESCRIPTION This course will examine the multiple variations in the structure of families as well as the changing role of the family in today's society. Students will learn about healthy and less healthy characteristics of family functioning. Various styles and problems of modern family living are explored. In addition, gender,ethnicity, culture and the family will be studied. The implications of all the aforementioned factors for both service delivery and social policy and planning will be considered. LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to: 1. Trace the evolution of the family over the last century 2. Identify the different family structures operating in Canadian society today 3. Consider his/her own life experience in the context of patterns and trends in their family over at least two generations 4. Identify the role of culture in family structure and functioning 5. Identify the stages of the family life cycle 6. Identify the theoretical frameworks used to understand and assess family functioning 7. Apply theories of family functioning to family situations...
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... 1. What is Organisation and Organisational Behaviour? Organisation is a cooperative interaction dynamic in social system with the purpose of satisfying individual needs (Barnard, 1938). This is not a sole definition about organisation, there are many other terms about organisation such as, Mintzberg (1983) Organisation is "Every organized human activity -- from the making of pots to the placing of a man on the moon -- gives rise to two fundamental and opposing requirements: The division of labor into various tasks to be performed, and the coordination of these tasks to accomplish the activity". Organisational behaviour focuses on the study of the people behaviour within the organisation (Luthans, 1995). The Organisational Behaviour commonly known as the study and understanding of individual and group behaviour, and the path of structure towards improvement of organizational performance and effectiveness (Robbins, 1998). Another term of Organisational behaviour is a major discipline towards description, understanding, and prediction of human behaviour within formal organisation. Organisational behaviour as discipline is the clear recognition that organisations make internal settings that influence the behaviour of people within it and to some point the internal condition of an organisation is influenced by the large components such as economic, politic, social, and technology which support the organisation (Owen, 1987). Based on these definitions we can see that organisation...
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...Task 1.1 Draw on the content from module 1 and 2 to conduct a critical analysis of the two job related attitudes: job satisfaction and organisational commitment as they manifest in this case. Work related attitudes are thought of as an important measure of tendencies that an employee may have towards: another person, event, product or process (Marr 2002). The most commonly analysed attitudes at work are: Job satisfaction and organisational commitment. Job satisfaction being the degree to which individuals feel positively or negatively about their work (Wood et al 2013) and can be thought of as an emotional state resulting from a self evaluation of job experiences (Locke 1976) Organisational commitment is the sharing of beliefs and values of an organisation (Meyer & Allen 1991). Hulin (1991) noted considerable overlap between the two attitudes: job satisfaction and organisational commitment, the only difference being their targets, the target of job satisfaction being the satisfaction of one position and the target of organisation commitment being the organisations success (Hulin 1991) In the “Geeks of Chic’ case study there are many work attitudes displayed which indicate different levels of job satisfaction and organisational commitment. Organisational change through the amalgamation, downsizing, remuneration, promotion and hiring processes has been the contributing factor to the varying attitudes and commitment. The local government team is made of 6 people the leader:...
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...comparison for examination of relative strengths and weaknesses of the program. For 21st century school reformists seeking alternative methods of education or an individualized, child-centered curriculum, Montessori presents itself as an adaptive, hands-on, future-friendly option for the democratic community as it evolves toward offering a full preschool to secondary public program. Keywords: Montessori, constructivism, independence, Dewey, progressive, alternative education Montessori: Evolving Toward a Public Secondary School in the 21st Century Since the time of early philosophers such as Socrates, Aristotle and Plato, to whom we can trace the traditional subjects of the common core curriculum, there have been heated political and social debates surrounding the field of education. Rather than being discouraged by their recurrent nature, academic planners and developers must examine these questions anew to refresh our views and test our assumptions about the necessary directions of education in current society. One of the most basic questions at the heart of this discussion is, what are the aims or purposes of education? In order to create an effective program of education, we must work backwards from these desired goals to develop appropriate strategies for achievement, examining the implications and...
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...570 Academy of Management Journal September THE RELATION OF GROUP PERFORMANCE TO THE AGE OF MEMBERS IN HOMOGENEOUS GROUPS ROSS A. WEBBER University of Pennsylvania Comparison of individual and group problem solving has a long history. From early works (24, 29) to later reviews (4, 20), group performance is seen to possess certain advantages over individual performance. Many researchers have explored the conditions (1, 7), tasks (5, 6), and group composition (11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 22, 23, 26) affecting these advantages. Others have pointed out the disadvantages and dangers (2, 9, 10, 20, 25, 27). Focus of This Research This project was designed to examine an unexplored aspect of group performance: the effect of the age of members of homogeneous groups. Origins of this study lie in two popular observations on current young people: First, they are less competitive and more cooperative than earlier generations ( 3 ) ; second, business students particularly are group oriented— perhaps too much so to suit some employers (14). Several studies and reports (8, 15) suggest that cooperative behavior in groups is associated with more effective performance. Homogeneous groups composed of persons of different ages, however, may exhibit different performance. Four hundred individuals and 80 five-person groups completed two 25item vocabulary synonym exercises. The individuals were drawn frofn management development programs and university classes and were balanced as follows: 1. 2. 3....
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...UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN Bachelor of Science (Singapore) MANAGING CHANGE (BMGT2001S) STUDY GUIDE BSc43 PT / Singapore Copyright August 2013 1 Author: Dr. Brona Russell (2013) This manual was prepared for University College Dublin as a comprehensive support for students completing the above mentioned Degree programme. © This publication may not be reproduced, in whole or in part without permission in from University College Dublin. Module Co-ordinators: Dr. Brona Russell Contact details Email: Brona.russell@ucd.ie 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Welcome message 1. INTRODUCTION a. Background details b. Module aims 2. MODULE OUTLINE a. Module learning outcomes b. Themes and topics c. Learning supports 3. MODULE DELIVERY SCHEDULE a. Session arrangements b. Student engagement c. Office hours arrangements 4. ASSESSMENT DETAILS a. Assignments b. Module assessment components i. Assignment 1 ii. Assignment 2 Group project iii. Examination 5. GRADING a. University grading policy b. Grade descriptors for assessment components 6. CONCLUDING COMMENTS APPENDICES 4 5 6 8 11 15 21 22 3 Welcome message As the lecturer for the Managing Change module, I wish to welcome you to the module. Studying change management is important because factors such as the availability of credit, technological advances, increasing competitive pressures, changes in the boundaries of organizations, the development...
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