Day: August 30, 2019

 Organizational behavior is a field that draws heavily on the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics and political science. Using at least three specific scriptures to support your assertions, provide one or more unique perspectives that a biblical worldview would contribute to the field of organizational behavior and management. In other words, tell how a Christian or biblically-based worldview will cause one to think of management and OB differently from someone without these bases. 

250words

Locate Exercise 3.1 at the end of Chapter 3 in our text. Take the evaluation and summarize your results. After summarizing your results, discuss the following questions, taking care to utilize text concepts in your discussion.

• Were any of the results surprising to you?
• What are the implications of the results as you will be managing others, either now or in the future? How will these results influence how you may manage others?
• Were the results in areas of concern to you? How can you intentionally develop or improve the areas that may be of concern?
• How does this exercise influence your understanding of emotional intelligence? How may it help you become a better manager of yourself or others?
• 250words

writing 1

• Using Psalm 19:7-14, write a 500-word response on how the Bible guides us in the area of organizational behavior. Provide and explain relevant workplace examples. 

writing 2

• Review the text section regarding diversity and the video on diversity vs. differences.
• Regarding the organization with which you are familiar, describe any identifiable signs of diversity that you see, identifying multiple forms of diversity (if multiple forms exist).
• Describe efforts made by the organization to achieve diversity, and evaluate whether the organization is truly diverse or just has differences.
• Minimum of 500 words, 2 peer-reviewed or trade journal source in addition to your text. APA-compliant

Extra Credit: Essay

Description

In this assignment you will read the chapter “Intelligence as a Malleable Construct” from Handbook of Intelligence (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and write a 500+ word essay. This assignment will have 3 parts: summary, reflection, and recommendations.

Specifications

Summary

In the summary, make sure to include:

· What is a fixed mindset?

· What is a growth mindset?

· How can mindset affect achievement?

· How are different mindsets cultivated in students?

· How can the delivery of praise impact performance?

· Describe several studies that support the claims about the malleability of intelligence.

· Can mindset be changed? How?

Reflection

In this section, describe how the contents of this chapter relate to your participation in this class or other experiences you’ve encountered during your educational career (or life in general). Give specific examples.

Recommendations

Give specific examples about how educators at UC Santa Cruz can promote a growth mindset in their students.

Access

This chapter can be accessed from this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19-32usR_mpBDV2GJxP5muQSk48hH-eil/view?usp=sharing (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Note: you must be logged in to Google with your UCSC credentials to access.

Submission

Submit your assignment as a text entry on Canvas by the deadline.

You may write the essay in paragraph form, or you may answer each question separately.

Grading Rubric

1 pt What is a fixed mindset? What is a growth mindset?
 1 pt How can mindset affect achievement?
 1 pt How are different mindsets cultivated in students?
 1 pt How can the delivery of praise impact performance?
 2 pt Describe several studies supporting claims of the malleability of intelligence.
 1 pt Can mindset be changed? How?

2 pt reflection

1 pt recommendations

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation (Apple) .

Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to  determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the  long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a  good choice. Justify your opinion.

Analyze  the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to  determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to  the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to  be a good choice. Justify your opinion.

Analyze  the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most  significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and  evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the  long term. Justify your choice.

Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.

How has your healthcare experience and/or community service activities influenced your decision to become a Physician Assistant?

How has your approach to your academic coursework prepared you to be a successful PA student? 

Describe your greatest strength and your greatest weakness as it pertains to becoming a PA student and a graduate PA.

Describe your exposure to PAs in clinical practice. 

Why did you choose to apply to the RBHS – SHP PA Program? 

Select one of the following industries: banking, logistics, oil and gas, or manufacturing.

Using Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint®, or various digital timeline sites, such as ReadWriteThink, Timeline JS, timetoast, etc., create a timeline of low-end and high-end disruptive digital transformations over the past 20 years. The timeline should focus on at least 10 major transformations in your chosen industry and identify how the new direction provided competitive advantages for the companies that used these emerging technologies.

Pick a technologically deficient company within your chosen industry, and write a 1- to 2-page summary of what you would do to develop a digital transformation plan to help your chosen company become technologically up-to-date.

Format your summary according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment

Essay should be no longer than three single-spaced pages. There is one significant analysis in Tool #1 that must be covered in the essay. Each student must discuss how the “Cheese” book relates to his/her leadership skills at this time and how he/she might improve his/her leadership skills over time to become a better leader.

As the course begins, each student should read the “Cheese” book to start thinking about his/her leadership skills. Each student may also want to start thinking about his/her approach – working as an individual — to complete the Service-Learning Project at Animal Friends and the Leadership Tools Marathon.

Could your leadership approaches working with the people and the animals at Animal Friends be similar to the way the characters function in the book Who Moved My Cheese? Will you be like Sniff, Scurry, Hem and/or Haw? For some students, the notion and the possibility of volunteering at Animal Friends to complete the Service-Learning Project and the Leadership Tools Marathon may sound exciting and actually build individual enthusiasm for the project.

A template for this section includes six components for reflection and discussion within your response.

If you decide to work with Animal Friends, pull your thoughts together and write a short essay explaining why you would prefer to do this project. Include some of your past leadership experiences in completing large projects on your own at work, school, and/or home that relate specifically to this decision to do the project at Animal Friends, and the professional and/or personal improvements that you may need to make to become a better leader of people and/or animals down the road.

Some questions are provided to get your thinking started.

• What advantages and/or disadvantages do you see in doing this project?
• What skills and/or attributes give you the ability to do this undertaking on your own? Do you have these skills and/or attributes? Which ones? Describe at least three in top-down order.
• Choosing to do this project on your own is not an indicator that you do not have leadership skills. People can be individual leaders. So, do people currently think of you as “leadership material?” Why or why not?
• Have you had good work, school, and /or home experiences in the past as a team leader instead of working on a project individually? Please explain.
• In terms of change, which character in the book do you currently identify with and why?       Explain whether or not this character is a leader. If not, what is this character lacking? What are your leadership weaknesses? Please explain.
• Which character would you like to be in the future? List and describe three possible areas for improvement in your leadership ability/skills. In terms of your future as a leader, outline the steps that you will need to change today in order to become a leader of tomorrow.

SUMMARY ON HOW TO PROCEED:

Read Chapter One in the textbook. Your essay should include at least three reference sources from the first chapter in the textbook. (This is not a Self-Assessment Test Essay so the same reference requirements do not apply.) Read Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, MD in its entirety. Your essay should include at least three reference sources from Johnson’s book. Your essay must include thoughts and reflections on BOTH leadership and the “Cheese” book story and its characters.

It is not necessary to answer each question. However, it is important to weave your thoughts together in a cohesive essay — using no more than one short bulleted list of items. Your essay should include an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

Learning is about managing multiple inputs and relating to the information to one sentence – which is defined as the introductory topic sentence of your essay. Start this tool by stating your topic sentence. Make a bold statement. What is the point that you want to make about yourself in relation to the leadership topic of change?

What do you really want to say in the body of your essay? Use the “assert and defend” style to make your point(s). “Assert” or “Make” a statement. Provide proof to “defend” it. Do it again and again. (Like the Self-Assessment Test Essays, use the five-paragraph format – introduction, body with three examples, and conclusion.)

Finish your essay with a strong summarizing conclusion. 

Be sure to provide at least three references from Chapter 1 in the textbook AND three references from the Cheese book.

• Discuss the nature of some tough decisions you may have to face
• Is it possible to simply avoid making decisions?
• Why is the passive approach to decision-making to be avoided?
• How can you counter the non-decision approach?
• What are the three most critical errors you are likely to make in our decision-making?
• What causes individuals to become overconfident when making decisions?
• What can you do to reduce overconfidence?
• What can you do to avoid immediate gratitude bias?
• What is confirmation bias and what can we do to overcome it?
• How easy do you think it is to make good decisions? Do you usually make good decisions? Explain