Marjorie Benton

Employee motivation

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Identify a company that struggles with employee motivation. Make your choice based on evidence from resources you find.

To be effective, a company must learn to motivate its employees to efficiently and effectively meet the goals of the organization. Prior to starting this case study, read Chapter 6 in your text, the article Person-organization Fit, Family Supportive Organization Perceptions, and Self-efficacy Affect Work-life Balance (Links to an external site.), watch the required videos, The puzzle of motivation (Links to an external site.)and What makes us feel good about our work? (Links to an external site.), review the Writing a Case Study Analysis (Links to an external site.) resource from the Writing Center, and review the weekly Instructor Guidance and any supporting information in the announcements.The Motivation Case Study:

  • Identify a company that struggles with employee motivation. Make your choice based on evidence from resources you find. Be sure to document these resources so you can include as citations and references in your paper. The company may be currently active or no longer operating.
    • Not sure how to start? Try googling “Worst companies to work for” or “companies with poor motivation.” Numerous sites list companies that are struggling in differing areas. Once you identify the company you want to research, google news articles or other sites that include information about the company and the situations affecting motivation/challenges.
  • Research the company and the associated motivational challenges.
  • Identify three to five motivational challenges within the company that you discovered through your research. Support this information with citations for the sources that provided you the information about the organization.
  • Discuss potential rationales for why the company is experiencing these issues. Support your assertions with credible sources.
  • Identify at least three content theories and/or process theories of motivation, discussed in this week’s text chapters that could be applicable to determining strategies/solutions. (You are to identify the theories that you think could be applied to improve the organization’s situation.) Consider using headings in your paper to organize this information.
    • Note that extrinsic and intrinsic motivation are types of motivation and should not be presented as theories, but as variables within a theory.
  • Discuss Possible Solutions/Changes Needed
    • Identify at least two strategies that could be applied to improve motivation, based on your reading and research.

The Motivation Case Study paper

Requirements: 4 to 5 pages

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The concept is based on the belief that our actions result from a conscious choice among several viable options. Individuals will always choose the behavior that maximizes their enjoyment while reducing their discomfort, according to Expectancy Theory (Kenny, 2019). As a result, the theory seeks to explain why people behave the way they do. The expectation theory is a motivation concept based on the idea that an employee’s motivation is determined by how much they want something. Every action made by an employee is likely to result in various results, some of which are desired and others that are not. Employees that work hard and perform long shifts with overtime hours, for example, have a good possibility of earning a wage raise or even a promotion. The same could harm their social lives because they would have less time to spend with family and friends.

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Information and musical terminology

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Concert review

You will watch a performance (live, video, or virtual) of any genre (please pick Beyonce, Kanye west, or Jay Z) and write a short review paper. While writing your review paper be sure to incorporate relevant information and musical terminology from class lectures, readings, etc. The papers may be written in either first or third person and should be in the style of a concert review that you would typically read in a newspaper or internet blog. I will provide an example of a review for you along with the assignment description on Blackboard. The papers should be approximately 2 pages, double-spaced, and 11- or 12-point font. . All papers are to be written in your own words with no cutting and pasting from internet sources or the textbook.

This link provides an example of what a review should look like

Jazz Concert Review: Vocalist Kurt Elling — Going Through the World with Curiosity – The Arts Fuse

Requirements: 2 pages

This is to be written in your own words no internet source or textbooks

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The songs also entailed rhythmic speech. In between the version and there was high usage of street vernacular. Kanye West has always worked extra hard to connect with his audience, inform, entertain, and relate to his audience and fans. In his song All of the Lights, he articulated speech. Kanye’s show extends beyond the stage and into his personal life, with every quirk of his outsized personality mirrored back to us via his performance in the song Runaways which is considered a tribute to Kim Kardashian Kanye West Archives and Media, 2021. Beyond pastiche, Kanye music performance throughout is a unique work with its sound and vibe.
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The chi-square test of independence

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Psychology Question

chi-square-tests-and-examples

 

The purpose of this discussion is to allow you to consider how nonparametric tests are used and how two types of chi-square tests compare. To do this, you will need to explain statistical concepts and assess assumptions, limitations, and implications associated with statistical tests.

For your initial post,

Requirements: 500 words

Please make a referece to this chapter

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The chi-square test of independence is used to determine the relationship between two variables. Therefore, it is used when we have an idea that the two variables are not connected. The test helps us decide whether our assumptions are plausible (Nominal Data and the Chi-Square Tests. P, 11). For example, when one wants to determine the relationship between education level and marital status within a particular ethnic group. We will collect data based on divorcee and their levels of education, while on the other hand, we will have the number of married couples and their education level. Based on our data, we will check how many divorced people have a degree and how many married couples have a degree. Based on the results, it is possible to determine whether the level of education is related to marital status.

On the contrary, the chi-square goodness-of-fit test determines whether the expected results are similar to the outcomes. Therefore, it is used to determine if the results are identical or not (Nominal Data and the Chi-Square Tests. P, 3).

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School counselor and developmental psychology

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You will write an APA-style review paper dedicated to the area of specialization in psychology that is most relevant to the occupation you would like to eventually enter (e.g., industrial/organizational psychology if you want to become a human resources director, counseling if you wish to become a school counselor, and developmental psychology if you would like to own and operate a daycare center). The body of this paper—not including the title page and reference section—will be at least 10 pages long, and will be organized into the following sections:

1. Title Page. A title page that includes the title of your paper, your name, and your institutional affiliation (5 points).

2. Discussion: A discussion of the following:

    • The history of this area of specialization, including its relationship to other areas of psychology and/or other academic disciplines (10 points)
    • Two of this area’s psychological theories that are relevant to the work (5 points)
    • Two of the research methods that researchers in this area of specialization commonly use to gather data and test hypotheses (5 points)
    • A description of two empirical studies from the professional literature of this area and an explanation how the results of each study can, or have been, used to promote human welfare. The studies must come from a peer-reviewed journal. (10 points)
    • A specific occupation in this area of specialization that you plan to eventually enter. Include an accurate description of this occupation, the tasks a person in this occupation is required to perform; and a list of the specific types of knowledge, skills, and characteristics (i.e., work styles) a person needs in order to be successful in this occupation. The information for this section must be gathered from O*NET (http://online.onetcenter.org/) or a similarly credible source that has been approved by the instructor. (5 points)
    • An explanation of how you have used specific curricular (e.g., classes) and extracurricular (e.g., internships) opportunities during your undergraduate education to accomplish the knowledge, skills, and characteristics you identified in the previous section. Understanding this discussion addresses your personal experiences, it is appropriate to use first person (I, my, me). (10 points)

3. References: A reference section containing at least five scholarly references. (Do not use generic dictionaries/encyclopedias. Use only websites ending in .edu, .org, or .gov.) Textbooks should not be used as part of the required sources. (5 points)

Formatting: Structure your paper utilizing APA style (7th Edition); this includes title page, headings, in-text citations, reference page, and general paper format (1-inch margins, double-spaced, appropriately sized sans serif or serif fonts – e.g., 12 Times Roman). An abstract is not required.

Requirements: 10 pages

My paper should be on industrial/organizational psychology as I want to enter the field of HR.

This paper is for my capstone class

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Incidents critical in developing I/O psychology include the work war I, Great Depression, and World war II. Particularly the involvement of the United States in WWI fueled the need for efforts to screen and selectmen involved in the army (Conte, & Landy, 2018). Particularly Robert Yerkes, the president of the American Psychological Association, developed intelligence tests for Army recruits. Today personality testing in the workplace is an essential practice in employee selection (Hough & Oswald, 2008). In the 1920s, industrial psychology began to take hold, and Walter Dill Scott established a personnel consulting firm. The great depression in the 1930s slowed opportunities for psychologists to work with businesses (Riggio, 2017). Hence research continued to progress but at a slower pace. Elton Mayo studied how the physical environment influenced employee productivity. This included elements such as the effect of lighting on worker productivity that gave rise to the development of the Hawthorne effect. Before the eve of world war II, universities in the United States integrated the discipline of psychology

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Cultural competence

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Create a proposal for your principal regarding the role your school plays in recognizing, celebrating, and incorporating culture into the learning environment.

Create 4-6 sentences in each area below of your “pitch” to the principal. You are welcome to search the internet, but your proposal must include the following six areas that are also presented in the Colorin Colorado article:

  1. Discovering Information about Community and Student Cultures
  2. Connecting with ELL Families
  3. Communicating Important Information
  4. Increasing Parent Participation
  5. Encouraging Parents as Leaders
  6. Forming Community Partnerships Colorin Colorado article: Engaging ELL Families: Tips for School Leaders (colorincolorado.org)

Requirements: 4-6 sentences per each area.

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Communicating important information and reducing the power differential between teachers and learners helps create a nurturing environment. In a more diversified classroom, the teacher should act as a facilitator and not an instructor. Allowing students to share their reading materials enables them to interact and share their culture by sharing their thoughts and ideas that are important to their cultural and social perspectives. Increasing parent participation can make a big difference in all members involved. That will help families feel like they are members of the school and know that the school is a big part of the community. That is more important for immigrant families who may feel excluded due to the English language needed to participate in the school environment. According to Breiseth, Robertson, & LaFond (2011), encouraging parents as leaders through participating in different activities such as speaking at a school board meeting will likely offer successful solutions to problems that the school community was unaware of. That is because parents know their children best.

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Treatments and interventions

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Read the following case study and present your analysis of the study using this weeks references. Please make sure your initial post is at least 450 words in length not including learning references. Please use two learning resources from this weeks reading.

Study – tells the story of Wendell Johnson, or more specifically, Mary Tudor’s study of children in an orphanage in Iowa. It’s called the Monster Study for a reason as you will see.

Associated Press. (2003, August 6). ‘Monster Study’ still stings. CBS. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monster-study-still-stings/

Main post: After reading the the case study, analyze according to the questions below.

a. Relying on the week’s learning resources, develop an analysis to present as your main post to this discussion form.

b. Give background information and explain which of the General Principles and/or which of the Ethical Standards was violated in the study. Explain how you came to this conclusion, sharing why you believe it was violated.

c. Do you think that the study you chose would be approved by an IRB today? Why do you think the study was allowed, or tolerated, at the time?

d. Post your analysis to the class. Include relevant in-text citation and references when used.

Requirements: 450 words

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IRB today would not approve the research as it goes against human rights and the well-being of the participants. It is also unethical and does not meet the standards of IRB. Using participants without their consent and minors for research and experiments is unethical and goes against the well-being of the individuals ( Morrow and Alderson, 2020). The research was tolerated during that time as individuals from marginalized groups were considered less than other people in society. In addition, there were no ethical values, standards, and regulations during this period that regulated what was wrong and what was right.

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Cross-cultural diversity

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  1. You are the first chief diversity officer at a Fortune 100 company. To help employees understand cross-cultural diversity and the value of diversity in the workplace, you are assigned to create a presentation on the cultural influences in your life. Include pictures to show how social practice and the culture you grew up in helped shape you.
  2. Think about the person you are now. Think of all the cultural influences that may have impinged on you. Some examples include your parents, your parental milieu, your ethnic group, your religion, the areas or countries you lived in, your gender, the schools you went to, the schools’ ideology, and your peers and their backgrounds.
  3. Create a 12- to 19-slide PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker notes that includes or does the following:

    Cite at least 3 academic or scholarly sources to support your assignment.

  4. Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
  5. Submit your assignment.
  6. Resources

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    –Culture has an impact cultural influence on people and their way of being

    –The culture has influenced individualistic perspectives

    –Individualism focuses on individual rights and independence

    –The culture has influenced my perspective on my rights as well as those of other people

    –It influences people to focus more on themselves

    –It influences my interaction with other people

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Biological and environmental factors

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After studying Module 1: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss the following:

  1. Describe how genes interact with environmental factors to affect behavior.
  2. What major neurotransmitters are associated with mood? How are they involved in abnormal behavior?
  3. What role do emotions play in psychopathology?

Submission Instructions:

  • Your initial post shou

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Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter in the brain, and the spinal cord constricts blood vessels and helps maintain blood pressure during stressful moments. They are believed to increase alertness, arousal, and attention. Such neurotransmitters affect one’s sleep cycle, wake, moods, and memory (Berry, 2019). However, they can be sensitive to environmental challenges and regulate behavior accordingly. On the contrary, serotine neurotransmitter helps regulate mood, behavior, sleep-wake-cycle, and memory. When serotonin is at normal levels, one feels more focused, emotionally stable, happier, and calmer. On the contrary, when it is at a low level, one can experience symptoms of depression.

  1. What role do emotions play in psychopathology?

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Developmental psychologists

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Use resources from Weeks 1 – 3 for this assignment. From the list below, answer the following questions in your PowerPoint presentation. This presentation should be no less than ten – twelve slides, not including title and Reference slide. Your presentation should include graphics, as well as utilizing the Note portion of the PowerPoint template. There are several YouTube tutorials available to help guide you through this presentation, e.g. PowerPoint 2016 Tutorial – A Complete Tutorial on Using PowerPoint

Your presentation should include the following subsets of psychology: Developmental, Personality, Learning/Memory and Psychopathology, BioPsychology and Perception Psychology.

The following questions should be substantively addressed and answered.

  • What is your current interest in each of the above subfields of psychology covered thus far?
  • How can one utilize a degree in each of these fields of psychology?
  • What should your undergraduate degree plan be for the field that interests you the most?
  • Will you need to go to Graduate School to pursue these careers?
  • What surprised you the most about each of these fields?
  • Thinking about the career field that interests you the most, what do you believe you will have to improve upon to meet or exceed expectations?
  • The last two – four slides of your presentation should substantively summarize what you found most interesting while completing this assignment and at least one element you learned during this assignment of which you can benefit in knowing more.

Your presentation should include:

  1. Title Slide
  2. Body of slides, with Note Portions (8-10 slides)
  3. Conclusion/Summary, with Note Portions (2-4 slides)
  4. Reference Slide (at least three APA academic references)

IMPORTANT: You MUST utilize the Note portion of the PowerPoint. Each slide should have at least one substantive paragraph, e.g. five- seven sentences regarding what you have highlighted on the slides. The Note portion is worth a significant amount of points for this assignment.

Professional careers and education in psychology (PSYC102)

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vThe third subset focuses on learning/memory and psychopathology.

vLearning and memory play a pivotal role in different forms of psychopathy.

vThe fourth subset is biopsychology.

vThis area focuses on analyzing how the brain, neurotransmitters, and other aspects of a person’s biology influences their feelings, conduct, and thought patterns.

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Globalized business environment

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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

As a new member of the global work team, establishing team communication guidelines is a must. You decide that this is a good time to discuss the team’s charter with your colleagues. Discuss the following questions with your team:

  • What are the specific considerations of working on a multicultural team? Identify at least 2.
  • How should the team address the differences between in-person and virtual communication vehicles?
  • What issues could arise in relation to cultural differences in time, personal space, and cultural symbolism?
  • How will the team resolve any individual or group conflicts?

The materials found in the MUSE may help you with this assignment such as the article Teamwork Communication Strategies.

Requirements: 400-600 words

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As intimated in prior parts of the paper, employees in today’s working environment work with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds. Generally, culture denotes an integrated system of values, behaviors, beliefs, and communication patterns shared by members of a particular social group (Jain & Pareek, 2019). Such a phenomenon means that team members will have different communication styles and decision-making approaches. The underlying cultural differences in a global team can adversely affect communication between team members. For instance, different team members will have varying perceptions of time management, personal space, and symbols depending on their culture. Poor comprehension of different cultures, particularly how they influence team members’ conduct, and decision-making, will make it challenging for them to work together and complete a project (Jain & Pareek, 2019). Besides this, the underlying cultural differences and the communication challenges they bring about often lead to conflicts (Jain & Pareek, 2019).

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