PSY655 Week 1 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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The article “Lessons from Leadership Theory and the Contemporary Challenge of Leaders” mentions three pillars of ethical leadership: character, duty, and the greatest good. Describe why ethical leadership theory is important and how it could apply to two other types of leadership theory of your choice.
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Discuss why researchers have had such a difficult time connecting leadership characteristics and behaviors to leader effectiveness and success?
PSY655 Week 2 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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After reading, "An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust: Past, Present, and Future," discuss how the definition of trust relates to a leader’s role in the lives of followers?
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Why do coworkers place more trust in coworkers trusted by leaders? How is this important to our understanding of workplace behavior and leadership?
PSY655 Week 3 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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Discuss in what ways gender stereotypes in leadership may have changed over time and also how they have not. What is the influence of culture in these changes? Please provide evidence to support your points.
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In the article “Beyond Gender: Changing the Leadership Conversation” the author discusses the effectiveness vs. likability problem. Is there reason to believe this problem can be overcome by leaders? If so, how?
PSY655 Week 4 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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Choose one definition of workplace stress and discuss it in relation to one of your own workplace experiences. How does the definition you chose fit within the framework of the example you describe.
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Consider the two paradigms (individual and organizational) with respect to managing workplace stress. Find and discuss at least one "research-based" article supporting either the individual or the organizational workplace stress management approach.
PSY655 Week 5 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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Considering the Workplace Stress assignment from Topic 4, how might work-related stress contribute to the discussion of red flags in the assigned article, "Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions"?
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What are some potential issues of self-interest that might distort decision making? Considering the information in the article “Culture and Decision Making: Investigating Cultural Variations in the East Asian and North American Online Decision-Making Processes,” what kind of influence might culture have on self-interest in decision making?
PSY655 Week 6 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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A solid definition of the Law of Unintended Consequences is provided on page 54 of the assigned article, "The Unintended Consequences of the Application of Technology in Teaching and Learning Environments," which includes work from Portes (2000). Draw a comparison between Portes notion of the importance of careful and sustained analysis of the social context and the red flags of poor decisions.
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Consider the bicycle helmet example of Blanchflower in the assigned article, "The Law of Unintended Consequences." Clearly more detailed research would be required to support his notion, but he poses an interesting way of considering unintended consequences. Consult your own experiences and those in your immediate circle of influence to generate one potential example of unintended consequences.
PSY655 Week 7 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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There are five identified steps to the CIT method as mentioned in the "Using the Critical Incident Technique in Counselling Psychology Research" article.
Clearly all five are important. Please choose the one you believe to be most critical. Describe it and then discuss why you believe it is the most critical step.
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Choose one of the evolutions of CIT and discuss how it may have made the application of CIT to specific leadership consultations more useful.
PSY655 Week 8 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 December
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What are some of the challenges that an interviewer faces when conducting a CIT interview? How might these challenges be overcome?
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Describe your experiences regarding the CIT Interview Techniques: Summary Report. What were two or three takeaways for you?
PSY655 Week 1 Assignment Latest 2017 December
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In 500-750 words, do the following:
1. Briefly outline the evolution of theories on leadership.
2. Describe how one theory led to the next.
3. Explain how the practical application of leadership styles have changed because of this evolution.
4. Identify current issues in applying leadership theory.
Include two scholarly sources; your textbook can be used as one of the sources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
PSY655 Week 2 Assignment Latest 2017 December
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You are a leadership consultant, and have been hired by an organization to help increase trust in the workplace. In order to do this you need to coach the leadership on how to illicit trust from their followers. In 500-750 words, address the following question:
1. The antecedents of trust (ability, benevolence, and integrity) proposed in the assigned article, "An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust: Past, Present, and Future," are defined rather simply. Using additional research on trust and leader behavior, identify how you could coach a person to engage in behaviors that might elicit higher levels of those antecedents in followers. Make sure to include what needs to be coached and how you would go about it, as the focal point of this section.
2. Describe how the strategies might change depending on what setting the leader might be in (business, industrial, nonprofit, etc.). Reminder this is about the leader and how you, as the consultant, would coach a leader differently in a different setting.
Use two to three scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
PSY655 Week 3 Benchmark Assignment Latest 2017 December
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Design a presentation the format of the presentation is your choice, focusing on working class women and corporate women in film/television, the public sphere, and/or popular culture. Explore gender and culture—the intersection of race and class and the impact on women’s leadership style and/ or ability.
To complete this assignment, consider the following examples:
- Corporate/Professional Women (film/ popular culture)
- Corporate Women (CEOs): Mary Barra, Indra Nooyi, Ginni Romelty, Marillyn Hewson, Susan Wojcicki, etc.
- Professional Women: Elizabeth Warren, Helen Gurly Brown, Gloria Steinem, Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Barbara Walters, Connie Chung, Maria Shriver, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, etc.
- Professional Women (television characters/actresses): Kerry Washington (Scandal), Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife), Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy), and Tina Fey (30 Rock), etc.
- Corporate/Professional Women in film: Erin Brokovich, Devil Wears Prada, Joy, The Proposal, etc.
- Working Class Women (film/popular culture) Bread and Roses, Country, Norma Rae, Silkwood, Steel Magnolias, Working Girl, North Country, Salt of the Earth, Fast Food Women, My American Girls, Her Own Words
- Women in Nontraditional Jobs: Roseanne, etc.
- Female Politicos/Public Office: Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Mary L. Landrieu, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Robinson, Indira Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Mier.
To frame the assignment context, consider a fundamental tenet of Women’s Studies and the Women’s Movement: the “personal is the political,” whereby the intersection of public issues (public sphere) and personal problems (private sphere) yields political action or movement. Address the following:
- Depict how women in film/television, the public sphere, and/or popular culture portray leadership and or management skills.
- Describe the characteristics, behaviors, and/or traits women exhibit that demonstrate their leadership or management skills.
- Explain if there is “politics to language” with respect to communication and leadership style/ability.
- Examine if there a (dis)connect with respect to age and leadership style/ability. If so, provide examples.
- Discuss the effect “labeling” has on leadership and women’s ascension (or lack thereof) to power.
Use three to five scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
PSY655 Week 4 Workplace Stress Assignment Latest 2017 December
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Seek out at least three individuals within your sphere of influence and ask the following:
- What does workplace stress feel like to you?
- What activities or actions do you or your organization initiate to reduce workplace stress?
- What are some of the more common individual actions recommended to reduce workplace stress?
In 1,000-1,250 words, based on your interview responses, analyze the following:
- Describe some measured and unmeasured costs of workplace stress.
- Discuss more common individual actions recommended to reduce workplace stress.
Use three to five scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
PSY655 Week 5 Benchmark - Assignment Latest 2017 December
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In 500-750 words, do the following:
1. Describe a business scenario in which collaboration would influence a decision-making process (You can use a real-world experience of your own as inspiration or you can use a real-world business scenario that you have found in the news as your inspiration).
2. Provide specific details, from the scenario, as to whether collaboration is merited in the decision-making process.
3. Discuss if collaboration is the best way to achieve a positive outcome in the scenario. Include why or why not.
4. Based on the scenario, describe the strategic approach as well as the communication techniques a team leader would use to ensure a quality decision is made.
Use two to three scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
PSY655 Week 6 Unintended Consequences Assignment Latest 2017 December
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To frame the context for this assignment, consider the following questions: Leadership is hard; why? Perhaps the culprit is the tangential difference (disconnect?) between the intellectual, emotional, and inspirational decision relative to the problem. How do effective leaders reconcile the art and the science of decision making with the possibility of unintended consequence?
Find a case study on a business, social, or psychological "problem" in which a decision yielded an unintended consequence. In 1,250-1,500 words, analyze the unintended consequence(s) of that decision. Describe the process of decision making that was used in this instance and why that process led to the decision that was made. Despite the unintended consequence(s), were the decisions ethical at the time they were made?
Consider the following areas of concentration for effective decision making:
1. Barriers.
2. Cost of indecisiveness.
3. Collaboration: strength and/or weaknesses.
4. Unintended consequence: Inherited feature in the decision-making process.
5. Recommendations or reconciliations to avoid unintended consequences.
Example case studies include, but are not limited to:
Unintended Consequence: Business
1. Athlete-Agent
2. Corporate Governance Reform and CEO Compensation
3. Invasion of Iraq
4. The Affordable Healthcare Act
Unintended Consequence: Social
1. Communism for Neighborhood Relations
2. Civil Rights Act of 1964
3. Cuban Missile Crisis
4. Employer Layoffs
5. End-of-Life Care
6. Health Care Reform
7. Immigration Act of 1965
8. Large-Scale Iron Ocean Fertilization
9. Rise of International Criminal Law
10. Transportation Security (TSA) Administration Policies
11. Youth Bike Helmet Laws
Unintended Consequence: Psychological
1. Gender Aspects of Conflict Interventions (Bosnia, Somalia, etc.)
2. Women in the Workforce
3. The Workforce Investment Act
Use three to five scholarly references for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
PSY655 Week 7 CIT Interview Techniques: Interviews Assignment Latest 2017 December
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This CIT Interview Techniques assignment includes two parts: a critical incident interview (due in Topic 7), and a summary report (due in Topic 8). The first part are steps 1-3 in the CIT process, and the second part represents steps 4-5 in the CIT process.To frame the context for this assignment, consider the following statement as the basis of the project: "There is evidence that researchers using CIT are now asking participants to reflect upon and write down the meaning of critical incidents, not just discuss them in a research interview" (From theCanadian Journal of Counseling by Butterfield, et al., 2005, p. 489).
Interview:
1. Using methodology described in the readings, prepare a list of open-ended questions regarding an individual's direct personal experience with leaders. A minimum of 15 questions is required.
2. Identify a subgroup of people in your immediate circle of contact with whom you have the ability to conduct a critical incident (CI) interview regarding their experience with leaders in their own lives.
3. Conduct a minimum of three interviews.If you are unable to meet with your interviewee in person you may choose to Skype, Google Hangout, or call your interviewee. However, you may not just send them the questions and ask them to fill them out, as this takes you out of the process and one of the points of this assignment is for you to gain experience in talking with people, and learning how to interview people.
4. As the interviewer, pose the questions to the three respondent(s). Questions include but are not limited to specific leadership moments, negative and/or positive experiences, leader decisions and consequences, or any direction drawn from course readings to this point.
5. Submit a brief 150-250 word summary of your findings, including who you interviewed and why. Remember you will give a more detailed, supported summary of your findings for the next assignment. The submission should include the raw question and answer data in the form of at least three appendices (one for each interview, and in question and answer format), as one would provide in qualitative research.
*Note*- Please remember interviewees should be reminded they have the right not to answer questions; further, there is an element of confidentiality that should be maintained. In your writing, you may want to ensure your interviewees you will not identify them by name or place of business.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, along with solid academic writing. Remember documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
PSY655 week 8 CIT Interview Techniques: Summary Report Latest 2017 December
As the second part of the CIT Interview Techniques assignment (steps 4-5 of the CIT process), write a summary report (1,250-1,500 words) about the information gleaned from the interview process in Topic 7 (steps 1-3 of the CIT process).
Interview Summary Report:
1. Write a summary report (1,250-1,500 words) about the information gleaned from the interview process, drawing connections and connecting to scholarly leadership research.
2. Conclude the paper with a discussion of the participants' descriptions of the meaning of the incidents described during the interview process.
3. The Summary Report should also include the raw data collected as in the original paper, in at least three appendices, and in question and answer format.
Use three to five scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
