...Running Head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL 1 Research Proposal: Examining the Effects of Acculturative Stress in Immigrants Christine Kreutzer University of Central Florida Running Head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL 2 Research Proposal: Examining the Effects of Acculturative Stress in Immigrants Objective: This study proposes to examine if acculturative stress experienced by German and Japanese immigrants in the United States results in any long term effects, specifically in terms of mental illness. Stressors associated with immigration have been found to be harmful, and is especially important to examine because of ever rising rates of immigration in the United States. This proposed study will attempt to show any possible long term effects in terms of mental illness. Literature Review: Acculturation is the process by which a member belonging to one culture must adopt the behavior and beliefs of another cultural group. This process is typically experienced by minority immigrants that have to adapt to a dominant culture. This is known as acculturative stress. Acculturative stress occurs in somatic (or biological), psychological, and social forms (Lecture, 2011). Arbona, Olvera, Rodriguez, Hagan, Linares, and Wiesner (2010) looked at the acculturative stress experienced by documented and undocumented...
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...Stress Management Technique Proposal As the company initiates a wellness program to assist its employees in maintaining their health and wellness, I am submitting a proposal for a stress management technique that will be beneficial to all employees taking advantage of this health benefit package. With the demands of balancing work and home life, stress is often a hindrance that gets in the way of employees being efficient and productive. By providing the opportunity to our employees to learn and practice stress management techniques, we are allowing for a healthier and happier work environment. One of the main struggles that I have witnessed among my peers is the lack of time management skills. I propose that our company implements a time-management class for each employee to provide them with strategies and resources that will contribute to their ability to better manage the balance of work and home. Alexander Hafner (PhD) did a study on time management training at work and the employees perceived control of time. The study presented the theory that employers that engage their employees in time management training, will see an increased result in performance of their employees. “As time pressures, interruptions, faster changes at work and increasing job demands are being described as major problems for many employees” (Hafner & Stock, 2010), the study shows that time management training can contribute to increased time control, the health and well-being of the...
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...Stress Effects and Management Proposal Debra Barnett University of Phoenix Paradigms of Health SCI/100 Heather Mayer, MPH, CHES September 16, 2013 Stress Effects and Management Proposal My company will be initiating an employee wellness program. I am submitting a proposal for a stress management program that can be implemented at the workplace with no costs for the employee. The technique I would like incorporated in the wellness program is Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR). Stress—physical, mental and emotional wear and tear—is emerging as a leading health risk of the 21st century and as a serious hazard in the workplace. Disabling stress has doubled over the past six years in the United States, with 1 million people absent from work every day due to stress-related problems. Companies annually spend an average of $7,500 per employee due to stress, and 75 percent to 80 percent of workplace accidents are stress-related ("Managing Employee Stress," 2002, para. 1-2). PMR is cost effective. It can be performed by employees with no cost to the organization, time wise or financially. This technique does not require special equipment, and can be performed using a chair or the floor. PMR can be achieved during the workday during a scheduled break or lunch period. It does not require employees to travel from the work site. Our office has several conference rooms and training areas that are comfortable and free of distractions that will facilitate the focus and concentration...
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...An Analytical Study of Executive Stress Management in Selected Industries Of Thane District. RESEARCH PROPASAL Submitted to BHARATI VIDYAPEETH’S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT ,PUNE. For the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Under the Department of Human Resource Management IMED, PUNE. By Mrs. Saili Satyendra Narvekar Under the guidance of Dr.Anjali Kalse Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute Of Management Studies and Reasearch, CBD- Belapure, Navi Mumbai August 2014 Research Proposal for Ph.D.degree at Bharati Vidyapeeth ,Pune Title of the Research proposal | An Analytical study of Executive stress Management in selected Industries of Thane District. | Name of Candidate | Mrs. Saili Satyendra Narvekar. | Educational Qualification of Candidate | M.COM(PUNE UNIVERSITY) | Name and Designation of Research Supervisor | Dr. Anjali Kalse , Professor | Place of Research Work | Institute of Management &Entrepreneurship Development,Pune. | Date of Submission of Proposal | | Signature of Candidate | | Signature of the Research Supervisor | | Research proposal S.No. | Content | Page No. | 1. | Introduction | | 2. | Rationale | | 3. | Significance | | 4. | Literature Review | | 5. | Objectives | | 6. | Research Hypothesis | | 7. | Conceptual Framework | | 8. | Operational Definition | | 9. | Research...
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...Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Writing a grant proposal requires practice and procedure. Many grant request are denied the first time they are submitted. Luckily, there are steps that one can follow to make the process a little bit easier and with practice and revision; a quality grant proposal will be the result. In order to get started with writing a grant proposal, an agency must have all its information and research organized. Then an agency needs to be found that has funding and is looking to support a program like the one the grant proposal is for. For this paper, I will use the scenario three, PEACE Domestic Violence Agency (PEACE) to summarize a grant proposal’s writing steps, outline the process, and create a needs and problem statement. The first part of the grant proposal PEACE needs to develop is the table of contents, which will also be one of the last parts to finish. It is a guide to what is in the proposal and where to find it. It is one of the first things to be developed because it serves as a checklist during the writing process and is one of the last to be finished because the pages where each section can be found will not be known until the proposal is mostly finished. The next part is specific aims. This section can be referred to as or includes as subsections the needs and problem statement, the background and significance, or the literature review. In this section, it is important for PEACE to express that they know what they are doing and why...
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...Student Observation of Occupational Stress in teachers of Central Mindanao University Laboratory High School A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty of the P.E Department School of the Central Mindanao University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the P.E 75 Research in Physical Education By: Bustos, Fairy Vie M. Encarnacion, Jay I. Estopil, Jhon Roy A. Tanque, Ailyn July 31, 2013 INTRODUCTION Stress is the abnormal reaction that the organism displays against treating environmental elements. Stress, which is a general term used for pressure that people are exposed to in life and may be defined as the individual harmony effort that the person displays against a stimulant which has excessive psychological and physical pressure on the person. When a person feels insufficient in dealing with demands and challenges faced in life, she/he experiences stress. Being harmed by this situation or taking advantage it mainly depends on the person because stress may either be a factor threatening the organism physically or psychologically or a power which gives energy in dealing with life. Sources of stress may be classified as individual, organizational and outside of organization or it is possible to divide them into two groups as individual and organizational components. Organizational stress, which is also called professional stress, is the interaction between working conditions and the working person in environments in which the work demand exceeds...
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...Research Studies–Proposal Requests Risk Management Section Research Topics BACKGROUND and PURPOSE The Joint CAS/CIA/SOA Risk Management Section Research Team was formed in 2005 to pursue research of interest to risk management professionals. Since its founding, the team has initiated and completed several research projects that have helped to propel Risk Management knowledge forward and set the framework for future efforts. In keeping with its desire to add to the risk management body of knowledge, the team is interested this year in receiving proposals for research on a number of specific topics. The specific topics are enumerated in the Research Objective section of this document with the intention to formally initiate projects on 3–4 of the topics this year. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE To advance knowledge in risk management, the Joint CAS/CIA/SOA Risk Management Team would like to receive proposals related to the following topics. The description of each of the topics has deliberately been written to be brief and open-ended in order to give potential proposers sufficient latitude in the development of the proposal: 1. An analysis and/or proposals of methodologies that can be used for validating models and providing effective model risk management. Considerations in addition to model validation may include sound development, implementation, and appropriate use, governance, and control mechanisms, board and senior management oversight, policies, and an appropriate incentive...
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...Occupational Stress and How to Deal with It Heather L. DuSoleil English 333 December 12, 2012 Executive Summary Occupational Stress is a substantial problem to workers and employees all over the world. Occupational stress is considered an “epidemic” and it is costing employers over $200 billion dollars a year. With that being said, there is a lot that bosses and managers should be educating not only themselves about, but also their employees about. This proposal is to give people the tools that they need to help them solve the problem of occupational stress. Keywords: Stress, Occupational Stress, Epidemic, Tips, Acute Distress, Acute Episodic Distress, Chronic Distress, Eustress, and Distress. Statement of Need Teaching employees how to deal with occupational stress will help reduce costs to employers, reduce work accidents, and make employees and workplaces a lot healthier and safer. When people are not stressed their environment is a much less hostile place. That makes customers more at ease and co-workers get along much better. Employers spend more than $200 billion dollars a year on absenteeism, accidents, sickness, and burnt out employees. That number can be greatly reduced by making sure that employees have many ways of dispelling occupational stress both at work and in their personal lives. By implementing a plan to reduce occupational stress and the effects it has on employees the business world will...
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...Project proposal 1. Title of the Proposed project Study the corelates of study habits among teen agers and development of intervention program and its improvement. 2. Back ground of the study Academic qualification, normally is the initial introduction of any person. Academic process starts from 1st year of school and is further shaped during all the years of school/college education. Academic qualification is achieved by learning and education. Process of formal learning takes place throughout life as a child in school and later as an adult in graduation/post-graduation. As most of the processes have parameters which govern performance of the process, learning process have parameters which are laid in early school years. Academic performance depends on study habits formed in early age. The relationship between study habit and students’ academic performance has for long received attention from scholars and educational agencies. Nuthane & Yenage (2009) have examined the causes of poor academic performance among university undergraduates. One of these factors identified was study habits. Early schooling years are normally spent at home with family. Family members are directly or indirectly influencing children in the early age for all sorts of habits including study habits. Like all other habits, once formed, habits are difficult to change. Family atmosphere is the initial setup through which child...
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...The Effect of Stress on Emotional, Behavioral and Academic Adaptation in Relation to Newly Immigrated Students in South Africa Author: 55128920 The Course Leader: HMPYC80 Department of Psychology University of South Africa 2014-05-28 Dear Sir/Madam RE: The Effect of Stress on Emotional, Behavioral and Academic Adaptation in Relation to Newly Immigrated Students in South Africa I am currently associated with Unisa where I am carrying out my honours in Psychology. The field of interest is of emotional, behavioural and academic adaptation of immigrants in Universities here in South Africa as I have personally experienced some of the struggles of adapting to a new country. My reason for contacting you is to request that my research proposal be submitted for peer assessment as the proposed assignment is essential for my course in research methodology. Through the peer assessment I am hoping to gain a constructive opinion of my research topic and my capability to construct a research proposal for a scientific study. I hope to hear from you soon. Yours sincerely Sean Groenewald 44 Claasen Street Johannesburg The Effect of Stress on Emotional, Behavioral and Academic Adaptation in Relation to Newly Immigrated Students in South Africa The proposed study aims to measure stress related to the emotional, behavioral and academic adaptation of immigrant students who have recently moved to South Africa. After having lived in Belgium for four years and having...
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...------------------------------------------------- College of Arts & Sciences ------------------------------------------------- University of Phoenix Augusta Campus Syllabus Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Although I will not make any changes in the learning objectives of the course, there will be modification of the weekly assignments that vary from the published UOP curriculum. This means that my assignments will differ from those in the course curriculum module that you downloaded. PLEASE NOTE: WHATEVER IS IN MY SYLLABUS ALWAYS TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER WHAT IS SPELLED OUT IN THE COURSE MODULE/SYLLABUS (ie weekly assignments, dates, activities). GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION Course Number: SCI/100 Course Title: Paradigms of Health Group Number: AGUC0909A Course Start Date: 09/20/2010 Course End Date: 10/18/2010 REQUIRED READING: Students are required to read all materials available at the Course Materials site for this course on http://ecampus.phoenix.edu. Facilitator Information Facilitator's Name: Barbara Welcher Home Telephone Number: (706) 733-5457 Preferred Address (OLS): welb359@email.phoenix.edu Insel, P. M., & Roth, W. T. (2008). Core concepts in health (10th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. All electronic materials are available on your student Web site. ------------------------------------------------- General Course Description This...
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...Consideration for Ethics and Diversity Proposal There are some ethical and diversity considerations which have emerged in the Human Resource Department (HRM). These are important for the strategic HRM planning process and should be addressed effectively, efficiently and in a timely manner. These considerations have been researched and thoroughly analyzed and are essential to the continued growth of the company. Specific recommendations have been included to handle the considerations. Ethical Consideration Currently faculty in the Practical Nursing Department input their time in an excel spreadsheet and submit to the coordinator of the department. It has come to the attention of human resource department that there have been discrepancies in the reported time, actual instruct time and instruct time scheduled. These inconsistencies in time reporting could be mistakes on the part of the actual faculty members, or oversights in the time sheet approval process by the department coordinator. This issue is considered an ethical issue because it can hinder the company’s financial growth by affecting the budget. The proposal for this ethical consideration is that we integrate a computerized time keeping system. The computerized time keeping system will correlate with the actual time the faculty member is scheduled to instruct with the exception of fifteen minutes before and after. Any overtime should be pre-approved or approved...
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...Basel I DEFINITION OF 'BASEL I' A set of international banking regulations put forth by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision, which set out the minimum capital requirements of financial institutions with the goal of minimizing credit risk. Banks that operate internationally are required to maintain a minimum amount (8%) of capital based on a percent of risk-weighted assets. Basel II is the second of the Basel Accords, (now extended and partially superseded[clarification needed] by Basel III), which are recommendations on banking laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. BREAKING DOWN 'Basel I' The first accord was the Basel I. It was issued in 1988 and focused mainly on credit risk by creating a bank asset classification system. This classification system grouped a bank's assets into five risk categories: 0% - cash, central bank and government debt and any OECD government debt 0%, 10%, 20% or 50% - public sector debt 20% - development bank debt, OECD bank debt, OECD securities firm debt, non-OECD bank debt (under one year maturity) and non-OECD public sector debt, cash in collection 50% - residential mortgages 100% - private sector debt, non-OECD bank debt (maturity over a year), real estate, plant and equipment, capital instruments issued at other banks The bank must maintain capital (Tier 1 and Tier 2) equal to at least 8% of its risk-weighted assets. For example, if a bank has risk-weighted assets of $100 million, it is required to maintain...
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...Proposal Background information: B.L Frederickson (2000) first theorised a strategy for stress management, stating that “people might improve their psychological well-being… [through] cultivating experiences of positive emotions at opportune moments to cope with negative emotion”. This was developed by Folkman (1997) and W. Knight (2001), similarly claiming that the experience of positive stimuli may help to reduce chronic stress. However, Knight and Schriffin and Nelson (2008) both proposed that in the presence of positive stimuli, heart rates lower while happiness levels rise, resulting in overall decreased stress levels. Subsequently, this investigation intends to explore the effect of positive stimuli upon happiness and stress levels within participants, measured through the Oxford Happiness Index. Aim: To investigate the relationship between heart rate and happiness levels, measured through the Oxford Happiness Index scores. Research Design: Experimental Method of Data Collection: Subjective quantitative (OHI) and objective quantitative (HR). IV: Physical arousal and psychological state before and after exposure to stimuli. DV: OHI scores and heart rate. Hypothesis: As heart rate decreases, the OHI will increase after exposure to stimuli. Data analysis: Measures of the OHI were taken through pre and post exposures to the calming stimuli to establish a base-line of measurement. The mean, median and standard deviations of the data were recorded, tabulated...
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