... ❖ Brainstorm/diagram the relationships you see among your key course words, i.e., course focus (transformational leadership) and your three specific concepts chosen for this course. Clearly identify the interrelationships before you begin to write. ❖ Create an orderly sequence of your main ideas before you write. ❖ Suggestion: write an entire first draft as quickly as possible, then revise at least two times, followed by a final edit in which you “clean up” any grammatical or punctuation glitches. (Yes, this really works, moving past any anxiety about writing or the DCS. After all, a first rough draft doesn’t have to be good…it just has to be, so you can revise until it becomes good.) USING THE MSOL DCS FORMAT: ❖ Your paper subtitles will be: Statement of Case, (First Concept),** (Second Concept),** (Third Concept),** Action Plan, My Role as a Leader, and Bibliography. Use the sample DCS (uploaded) as a model. (Be consistent with your subtitles in capitalization, bold font, underlining and upper/lower case letters.) ❖ Make sure you incorporate at least one other outside organization that positively incorporates or demonstrates each of your three concepts. ❖ Develop each concept: define, describe, and apply. “Define” means use an expert, credible source (not Wikipedia or a dictionary). “Describe” answers the questions: What does this look like in action? How is this expressed in the world? “Apply” answers who or what is exemplifying/demonstrating...
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...Academy of Management Journal 2013, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1002–1023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.0960 POWER, MORAL CLARITY, AND PUNISHMENT IN THE WORKPLACE SCOTT S. WILTERMUTH University of Southern California FRANCIS J. FLYNN Stanford University We propose that power increases how severely people punish transgressors. Further, we argue that this greater severity stems from an increased sense of moral clarity instilled by the psychological experience of power. We investigate the linkages among power, moral clarity, and punishment across multiple studies. Individuals with an increased sense of power advocated more severe punishments for transgressors than did those with a diminished sense of power. Further, moral clarity mediated the link between power and severity of punishment. We discuss the implications of these findings for managers in organizations and researchers interested in punitive reactions to moral transgressions. Ethical standards of professional conduct often are implicit or tacitly held (Flynn & Wiltermuth, 2010; Haidt, 2001; Turiel, 2002), making it difficult for members of organizations to know which types of behavior are permissible and which are not (Treviño, 1986). Although many employees can and do seek guidance on moral matters from colleagues (Treviño, 1990), the advice they receive often varies according to whom they ask. Coworkers can send mixed signals about what constitutes morally appropriate behavior. Indeed, the viewpoints expressed by top...
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...the 21st century. This analysis suggests a scientific strategy for reducing such violence by constructing functionally equivalent and highly effective nonviolent collective alternatives. This general approach is the heart of most effective programs of behavior change, but has not yet been used to address terrorism and other forms of collective violence. The paper briefly traces the history of effective nonviolent action, including both strategies to confront and reduce oppression as well as strategies for defending persons, peoples, and social institutions against attack. It then turns to a examination of cultural practices on which successful nonviolent actions have relied, emphasizing a scientific analysis of the behavioral dynamics involved. Both practices directed toward opposition groups and practices that maintain the commitment and action of group members are investigated. The paper concludes with an outline of a program of research for taking these analyses to deeper and more comprehensive levels. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] |Full Text | | (7686 words) | Copyright Behaviorists for Social Responsibility Fall 2003 |[Headnote] | |ABSTRACT:...
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...is the first case in history of social and environmental concern for business .The idea of corporate social responsibility nowadays has started in 1929 by the Dean of Harvard Business School then , Wallace Donham . His exact words were that ”Business started long centuries before the dawn of history, but business as we now know it is new – new in its broadening scope, new in its social significance. Business has not learned how to handle these changes, nor does it recognise the magnitude of its responsibilities for the future of civilization,”. We can say that corporate social responsibility is the balance between economic sustainability and social responsibilities . John Rockefeller said : “"I was trained from the beginning to work and save. I have always regarded it as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could." . By definition, CSR refers to the "voluntary integration of corporate social and environmental concerns in their commercial operations and in their relations with the parties concerned,” according to The Green Book of the European Commission "Promoting a European framework for Corporate Social Responsibility" . With simple words CSR is whenever a businesses make contributions to the community , by which action showing that they are giving back to the people , which contributed for their flourishing . As a beginning let’s make something clear about the true meaning of CSR . It is not all about philanthropy or doing charity services...
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...social status in the course of his occupation. Deviance, in a sociological context, describes actions or behaviors that violate social norms, including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime), Conformity on the other hand, is an adherence to social norms. In a conflict perspective, all societies are marked by the conflict of social classes, sometime overt, sometimes hidden, due to unequal distribution of resources - Haves and Have-nots. Those who control the productive property of any society (land, factories, and equipment) use their economic power to dominate other spheres--culture, religion, education, politics, and certainly the criminal justice system. There may be laws that benefit everybody, but mostly the upper-class. From a conflict perspective, the criminal justice system perpetuates inequalities by defining deviant behavior in terms of any behavior that threatens the powerful. Laws in a capitalist system are created to protect the interests of the ruling class. Crimes of Rich and Poor are equal, but poor have greater "recognition". Raiman developed pyrrhic defeat theory arguing that those in power have designed the criminal justice system to fail in order to yield benefits for themselves. Michael Parenti’s You Tube video presents some unbelievable facts like, The department of justice found that 60% of the 500 largest US companies have been found guilty in one or more criminal actions like violation of work place safety, price fixing, illegal kickbacks, insider trading and...
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...Narrative research http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=cafb39b7-be23-4f8c-b773-2be0302b56e4%40sessionmgr104&vid=1&hid=117&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=tfh&AN=53475373 ANIME GOES MAINSTREAM. Princess Mononoke, Akira, and Cowboy Bebop may not be household names here. But in the world of anime, or Japanese animation, they're among the top 10 films ever made. You've seen it-colorful cartoon characters with big eyes, spiky hair, and small mouths. And you've probably heard about it-Hayao Miyazaki's latest film, Ponyo, was the ninth highest-grossing film in this country on its opening weekend last summer. With its complex plots and moral messages, anime is as intelligent as some of the best feature films. Take Grave of the Fireflies, written and directed by Isao Takahata. According to film critic Roger Ebert, it's one of the most powerful anti-war movies of all time. Or Paprika, directed by Satoshi Kon and animated by Madhouse Studios, a visual masterpiece where reality and dreams collide. From the epic fantasy Ninja Scroll and the cyberpunk Ghost in the Shell to the sci-fi romance The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, anime has something for everyone, whether it's romance, action, fantasy, adventure, or mystery. No wonder its gone mainstream, with thousands of young fans flocking to anime conventions across the country and teens from all socioeconomic and racial backgrounds trading cards, collecting art, and, of course, watching it on TV, DVDs, and the...
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...technological literacy, identifying proper technologies that work best for each assignment, and employ the proper knowledge of how the technologies are used for the assignments. Recognizing that these challenges must be met for proper support of the learner and their learning style and intelligences. Assignment Prompt One (Digital Whiteboard and PowerPoint) – INSTRUCTIONS: Reading the chapter on European Society in the Early Modern era, highlight and note the powerful movements that transformed European society during time. Referencing the highlights and notes, create a PowerPoint presentation (with slide notes) and briefly describe the origin of each, and how it affected society as a whole. Incorporate animations, and graphics with your presentation. You will present your PowerPoint presentation using the digital whiteboard to the class. Researching the use of PowerPoint in relation to teaching and learning I found the tool seems to be a popular choice for business, education, and training industry. It offers an excellent and powerful tool to facilitate and improve the delivery of lessons and other content to a large audience. As we have learned in this course, technology is not an end in and of itself, but technology is a means to an educational end. With PowerPoint, it is the same. The tool itself is not the magic bullet that makes students learn, but it is a tool that can be utilized to encourage learning and engage the learner. With any technological tool, there are benefits...
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...relationships between concepts as labeled links. Concepts and links in sequence form simple propositions through the words in the nodes and links. Concept maps can be used to represent the knowledge of an individual. Concept maps follow the idea of assimilation theory. Assimilation theory suggests a distinction between meaningful learning and rote learning. Rote learning is often emphasized in educational settings, and consists of simple memorization of information, without concern for relationships among concepts. In contrast, meaningful learning results from linking new information to relevant, preexisting concepts or propositions in the cognitive structure of an individual. Ausubel believes that the most important factor for learning is what the learners already know. Concept maps are designed to tap into a person’s cognitive structure, and to externalize concepts and propositions. What are Concepts? We can define the concepts in concept maps to be patterns of ‘regularities’ in events or objects. Events can be ‘happenings’, while objects can be abstract or real ‘things’ in our environment. Typically, names, symbols or signs of our language denote concepts. We use these concepts when we observe or interpret events and objects. Thus, concepts help us to describe and explain the way the world looks. When concepts are linked together with action words, they can form propositions that express the relationship between the concepts. By proposition, we mean a simple...
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...current social and economic inequalities, appealing to logos. While he builds his argument based on these substantial facts, the overall feeling of his language is that of compassion. This compassion seems to drive his purpose and thus emotionally connecting to his audience. Further, Obama appeals to ethos during his speech as he outlines how current market-caused inequalities are threatening everything that makes America great. Obama masterfully balances his passionate language with solid facts and straight-forward logic in this effectively persuasive speech. Before expanding upon the specifics of the rhetorical methods utilized by the president in this speech, I think it is important to highlight that the audience (CAP) is a public policy research and advocacy group that labels themselves as bold progressives who believe that “America should be a land of boundless opportunity, where people can climb the ladder of economic mobility,” as stated from their website (www.americanprogress.org). This is important to understand, as the issue of economic inequality is one that invokes great polarization and hostility...
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...Defining bullying: a new look at an old concept Bullying is an old concept, one that can be traced back to the sixteenth century, if not earlier. Shakespeare has a character, Pistol, hero-worshipping his king, Henry V, with the words, 'I love the lovely bully, I kiss his dirty shoe.' Admiration for the powerful and successful still exists (witness the popularity of the ass-kicking stars of World Wrestling Entertainment). But without doubt the word 'bully' has changed its meaning in more recent years, in response (I believe) to a growing intolerance towards those who continually abuse their power. The term is now being used in a quite different way. And more and more people are giving their attention to the problem of how bullying can be reduced in the community at large, and especially in schools where educating young people about how they should use and not abuse their power has become a matter of vital concern. I happen to think that much of our work in tackling bullying is hamstrung by arguments and disagreements about how we should define 'bullying.' I hope it may be useful to think about how people have sought to define the word. Appealing to the widespread, deeply-seated dislike of bullies, Tattum and Tattum (1992) proposed the following definition. "Bullying is the wilful, conscious desire to hurt another and put him/her under stress" Thus bullying was conceived as a desire (Rigby, 2012). Anybody who wants to hurt somebody - and knows it - is then, by definition...
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...* INTERVENTION STRATEGY * PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT * BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT * SERVICE APPLICATIONS BEHAVIORISTIC THEORIES The most traditional and researched theory of learning comes out of the behaviorist school of thought in psychology. Most of the principles of learning and organizationalReward Systems and the behavioral performance management approach discussed in this chapter are based on behavioristic theories, or behaviorism. The classical behaviorists, such as the Russian pioneer Ivan Pavlov and the American John B. Watson, attributed learning to the association or connection between stimulus and response (S-R). The operant behaviorists, in particular the well-known American psychologist B. F. Skinner, give more attention to the role that consequences play in learning, or the response-stimulus (R-S) connection. The emphasis on the connection (S-R or R-S) has led some to label these theconnectionist theories of learning. The S-R deals with classical, or respondent, conditioning, and the R-S deals with...
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...plummet over the past decades. However, global markets provide more potential for the competitive companies. In other words, the companies have to face more challenges. If they can’t win the game, they will vanish from the global market. It is not a game winning by the capital; it is a competition with wisdom, good customer service, and in-time decision and so on. If they can get some useful information, selecting them among a great deal of data, papers, reports or something else to help them make a right decision on one project, they will get benefits from it and win in the commercial battle. Do you think the accounting information is important for you to make the right decision? The accounting sources can show you a lot of valuable information which are the right things you are looking for. You can make use of these resources to make a suitable financial planning for the coming action of the company, analyze through the data to determine how much money you should spend in different units and how many products you need to sell to reach your target profits, and broaden your vision and your strategies into specific goals. Why does a company need accounting? In the intense competition between rival companies, a corporation needs to gain more market and increase more profits. How does it get it? Using accounting information to decide how to allocate its resources can give this corporation a chance to gain more profits over its competitors. Product Costing A company...
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...A message is considered an action, sound, or word that is interpreted by someone else. The message can be completely verbal, nonverbal, or a combination of both. As stated by Marshall Scott Poole, David Siebold, and Robert McPhee, “Group members’ communication influences both the content of a discussion and the relationships among members.“ All communication that takes place without words is referred to as nonverbal communication. The theory holds to the premise that many messages are sent and received without the usage of spoken words. Nonverbal communication theory states that verbal communication simply complements the nonverbal messages being sent. An example of a nonverbal communication would be a head nod. One of the other nonverbal behaviors that exists is body language, which can also be called paralanguage. This addresses areas of posture, bodily gestures and the tone of someone's voice. A person’s body language can communicate with much greater affect than the actual words that are spoken verbally. An example of this would be when juror #8 has a discussion with juror #7 about how long it should or should not take to come to an agreement. Juror #8 closes the conversation with a smirk on his face and states, “the ballgame does not start until 8.“ Juror #7 gets the point that he is trying to make and begins using eye contact and points at him multiple times. Body language can express itself in actual body movements, gestures or inactivity. On the original vote from the...
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...as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings. In the corporate environment, power is often expressed as upward or downward. With downward power, a company's superior influences subordinates. When a company exerts upward power, it is the subordinates who influence the decisions of the leader (Greiner & Schein, 1988). The use of power need not involve coercion (force or the threat of force). At one extreme, it more closely resembles what everyday English-speakers call influence, although some authors make a distinction between power and influence – the means by which power is used (Handy, C. 1993 Understanding Organisations). Much of the recent sociological debate on power revolves around the issue of the enabling nature of power. A comprehensive account of power can be found in Steven Lukes Power: A Radical View where he discusses the three dimensions of power. Thus, power can be seen as various forms of constraint on human action, but also as that which makes action possible, although in a limited scope. Much of this debate is related to the works of the French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–1984), who, following the Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), sees power as "a complex strategic situation in a given society social setting".[1] Being deeply structural, his concept involves both constraint and enablement. For a purely enabling (and voluntaristic) concept of power see the works of Anthony...
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...the survey process is to present your findings, which involves the creation of a research report. This report should include a background of why you conducted the survey, a breakdown of the results, and conclusions and recommendations supported by this material. This is one of the most important aspects of your survey research as it is the key in communicating your findings to those who can make decisions to take action on those results. eSurveysPro results can be displayed right from the software, or your data and graphics can easily be exported to a variety of applications like Excel, Word and PowerPoint. For a more powerful report, you should include descriptive text along with your charts, tables, and graphs to give added visual impact. Provide a background Before you start working on the details of your report, you need to explain the general background of your survey research. If you will be presenting the findings to your audience (the decision-makers), you will need to make the basis for your research clear, including what objectives were established, and the conclusions drawn from your findings. Introduction to the survey research List the factors that motivated you to conduct this research in the first place. By stating the reasons behind the research, your audience will have a better understanding of why the survey was conducted and the importance of the findings. Identify research objectives Itemize the goals and objectives you set out to achieve. Before you...
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