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Assignment: The Price of Doing Good: Consequences of Ethical Decision Making Consider the following two scenarios: Scenario 1 James works in the accounting department of a large firm.While going over the books for the past several months, James notices that someone has altered the figures to increase earnings by several thousands of dollars. He suspects that the errors, which are in the companys favor, are too consistent to have been honest mistakes. He knows that he should report his findings through the companys ethics hotline. However, he worries that doing so will jeopardize his job security and reputation with the company. Scenario 2 Mary owns a small toy manufacturing company. One of her employees has noticed that one of the pieces on the most popular toy the company manufactures can detach from the toy. This detachment could pose a potential choking hazard to young children who play with the toy. No customers have yet reported problems with the toy. Mary wonders if she should report the potential hazard before anyone gets hurt. However, the recall would cost her company money and result in loss of sales during the busy Christmas season. As the scenarios illustrate, making ethical decisions often requires a trade-off for an organization or individual. After a scandal results from ethical wrongdoing, the proper course of action seems clear. Even so, employees and organizational leaders continue to struggle with making ethical decisions on a day-to-day basis as they weigh the cost of making such decisions. To prepare for this Assignment, think of a situation where a leadership team encountered a situation where things did not go well and they were faced with an ethical dilemma. Analyze what could have happened had they applied the appropriate decisions. Offer your solutions using an ethical framework. By Day 7 Submit a 4-page analysis (excluding cover page and References section) of the ethical situation. Your analysis must include the following: A brief (1 paragraph) explanation of the ethical dilemma An explanation of the ethical framework that, if applied by the organization to make its decision, would have resolved the ethical dilemma, including support for your analysis from scholarly research An examination of both the positive and negative consequences of the decision, including the trade-offs that the leadership of the organization made in making their decision Reading: Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and practice (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Chapter 13, Leadership Ethics (pp. 329362) Albert, L., Reynolds, S., & Turan, B. (2015). Turning inward or focusing out? Navigating theories of interpersonal and ethical cognitions to understand ethical decision-making. Journal of Business Ethics, 130(2), 467484. doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2236-2 Gustafson, A. (2013). In defense of a utilitarian business ethic. Business & Society Review (00453609), 118(3), 325360. doi:10.1111/basr.12013 Thiel, C., Bagdasarov, Z., Harkrider, L., Johnson, J., & Mumford, M. (2012). Leader ethical decision-making in organizations: Strategies for sensemaking. Journal of Business Ethics, 107(1), 4964. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1299-1 Lawton, A., & Pez, I. (2015). Developing a framework for ethical leadership. Journal of Business Ethics, 130(3), 639649. doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2244-2 Prentice, R. (2014). Teaching behavioral ethics. Journal of Legal Studies Education, 31(2), 325365. doi:10.1111/jlse.12018
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JOB REDESIGN Assignment In the background materials you had a chance to view some videos and read about the traditional top down approach of job redesign as well as the newer bottom up approach of job crafting. Before starting on this assignment, make sure you have thoroughly reviewed the videos and readings and understand the key job redesign and job crafting strategies. Once you have finished reviewing the background materials, apply what youve learned to the specific scenarios and questions below. Make sure to cite at least one of the required readings for each answer, and try to cite at least four of the readings or videos in your answer. Your paper should be 4pages in length: 1. Relax Lines, Inc. is a luxury cruise line that has hired you as a job crafting consultant for two groups of their employees. The first group is the ship crew. The crew have responsibility for safety, navigation, and maintenance of the ship. The second group is the hospitality staff. The hospitality staff is tasked with making sure the passengers are enjoying themselves and are properly entertained with various events that this staff plans and prepares. Before arriving at the cruise line to do interviews and make recommendations, you first need to do some reading on what general approach you will use. As a first step, review Dik and Duffy (2012), where they discuss task crafting, relational crafting, and cognitive crafting. Which of these three types of job crafting do you think would be most appropriate for the ship crew, and which one do you think would be most appropriate for the hospitality staff? Also, read up on job-crafting swap meets in Wrzesniewski (2014). Any other strategy from Wrzesniewski (2014) that you think would be useful for either pilots or online marketers? 2. The ABC Corporation has a team of telemarketers. The job description for the telemarketers is pretty basic: They call up potential customers who have visited his companys web page and requested information about the product. Telemarketers performance evaluations depend mostly on their monthly sales as well as customer satisfaction surveys, and they receive monthly feedback reports. Their supervisor gives them some initial training, but these telemarketers have a lot of freedom to choose how and when to call customers. For example, they are free to customize their own sales pitch as long as they dont mislead potential customers. Also, they are not required to fill out a time card or work at the office (they can work from home, if they want). As long as they are making enough monthly sales they are free to set their own schedules. While the telemarketing team is performing well, the company is concerned about high turnover among telemarketers and wants to do some job enrichment. Which of the five core job dimensions discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or page 9 of Griffin (2007) do you think should be revised the most during a job redesign intervention? Which ones do you think do not need to be revised? Explain your reasoning and cite some of the required readings in your answer. 3. Suppose a sports injury clinic has three main practitioners. First, there is a general practitioner doctor who does the basic diagnosis of the injury and works with the patient to come up with an overall treatment program. This doctor also prescribes medicine as needed. Then there is a surgeon who specializes in sports injuries. This doctor only does surgery. Finally, there is a physical therapist who helps patients with exercise programs to help them recover. The owner of the clinic though becomes worried that these three practitioners are becoming bored and dissatisfied with their jobs and there is concern they might all leave unless their jobs change. However, given the high degree of training required for each of their specializations management is not sure how to go about making their jobs less monotonous and more rewarding. In general, would you recommend management undergoes a traditional job redesign approach or a job crafting approach? Which specific job redesign strategy or job crafting strategy would you recommend? For example, if you choose job redesign discuss whether you would recommend job rotation, enlargement, enrichment, etc. If you choose job crafting, refer to one of the specific strategies or interventions discussed in Wrzesniewski (2014) or Dik and Duffy (2012). 4. Create a table with the definitions of the three main types of job redesign (job enlargement, job rotation, job enrichment) and the three main types of job crafting (task crafting, relational crafting, and cognitive crafting). Then write two paragraphs explaining which of the three types of job crafting are most similar to any of the three types of job redesign, and on what you think are the key differences between job crafting and job redesign based on the definitions in your table. Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly in 4 to 5 written pages. Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; dont go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials. Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources. Background Background JOB REDESIGN Required Reading Start out this module by viewing this two videos that will give you an overview of both traditional job redesign techniques as well as the newer concept of job crafting: Hartzell, S. (2015). Types of job redesign: Job enrichment, enlargement & rotation. Intro to Business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8X0HCGKaLA Wrzesniewski, A. (2015). Job crafting – Amy Wrzesniewski on creating meaning in your own work. Re:Work with Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_igfnctYjA Now for a more in-depth view of job design dig into the following two readings. Pay special attention to the concepts of job rotation, job enrichment, and job enlargement. Also, pay attention to the core job characteristics such as task variety, autonomy, etc. discussed in both readings: Bauer, T., & Erdogan, B. (2012) Chapter 6.1: Motivating employees through job design. Introduction to Organizational Behavior. Flatworld Knowledge. https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/an-introduction-to-organizational-behavior-v1.0/s10-01-motivating-employees-through-j.html Griffin, R. (2007). Chapter 6: Organization structure and design. Principles of Management. Houghton Mifflin, New York. https://college.cengage.com/business/griffin/sas_principles/1e/assets/students/know_bank/griffin_sas_KB_6.1.pdf Now that you have read up on traditional approaches to job design, read up on job crafting. This reading is by Amy Wrzesniewski, who you saw in one of the videos above: Wrzesniewski, A. (2014). Chapter 6: Engage in job crafting. In Dutton, J. E., & Spreitzer, G. M. (eds). How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact. San Francisco, CA, USA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. [EBSCO eBook Collection] Finally, this chapter provides a solid overview of job crafting including some relational, cognitive, and task crafting: Dik, B. J., & Duffy, R. D. (2012). Chapter 7: Job crafting. Make Your Job a Calling: How the Psychology of Vocation Can Change Your Life at Work. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press. [EBSCO eBook Collection]
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Assignment APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY Assignment For this assignment, first carefully review the required background materials. Make sure you remember the standard organizational development approaches covered in Module 1. Then make sure you understand the main principles of Appreciative Inquiry and how they compare to traditional organizational development approaches (action research, problem solving). It is also important to understand what is involved in each of the 4 Ds Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. When you are finished reviewing the background materials, go through each of the scenarios below and apply what youve read to these scenarios. For each scenario, cite at least one of the required readings to support your answer. You should cite at least three of the four required readings in your paper. Your paper should be 3 pages in length: 1. A corporation notices that suddenly turnover in the human resource department has been extremely high. This corporations prides itself on having a dedicated and committed workforce, so this high turnover in one department is highly troubling for this company. Normally the human resource department investigates when there is a high turnover rate in a department. But since the human resource department is now the department with the high turnover rate, the CEO decides that an outside consultant should be hired to investigate the high turnover rate and propose solutions. Should this team use an Appreciative Inquiry consultant, or hire a more traditional Organizational Development consultant? Explain your reasoning with references to the required readings. 2. An organization hires an Appreciative Inquiry consultant to help the company get back on track and improve the performance of its product design team. The consultant starts by asking members of the team how they would like the team to perform and what their ideal vision of the team would be. The consultant collects all of this input and designs a detailed plan regarding how to achieve this ideal future that the team dreams about. However, once this detailed plan is presented to the team they are all shocked that the consultant came up with such an unrealistic plan. Team members say that the expenses involved in this plan are far beyond their budget, and they would also need to hire many new team members in order to achieve this plan in a realistic time frame. They all agree it would be great if they had the time and money to implement this plan, but they also are in consensus that this plan presented by the consultant is highly unrealistic. 3. A group of ten friends decide to start a new social networking company and put their savings together to start this new business. The company grows rapidly for the first five years and morale is very high in the company during this time. Everyone gets along very well and they work together cooperatively in order to continuously improve the company and its services. However, after five years the company stops growing and seems to reach a plateau. Morale seems to drop and there is now noticeable tension between employees including the top leadership team. They are not sure what to do revive the company, so they decide to hire a consultant. Should this team use an Appreciative Inquiry approach or a more traditional organizational development approach? Explain your reasoning with references to the required readings. 4. A large supermarket chain decides they would like to expand to have an online division where consumers can order online and have their groceries delivered directly to their homes. The supermarket decides to create a special taskforce to come up with a detailed plan on how they should develop and manage the new online division. This taskforce includes a diverse variety of employees including those from the marketing department, accounting department, inventory department, and most of the main departments. These employees do not have much experience working with each other since they are from different departments. After meeting regularly for a few months, the taskforce makes almost no progress and are constantly bickering. Management is concerned that the online division will never get off the ground. To get back on track and find a way to function more smoothly, should this taskforce use an Appreciative Inquiry approach or a more traditional organizational development approach? Explain your reasoning with references to the required readings. Assignment Expectations Answer the assignment questions directly. Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; dont go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials. Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources Background APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY Required Reading To start off, take a look at this very short introduction to the basic concept of Appreciative Inquiry: Hayes, J. (2009). Appreciative inquiry. Aarhus School of Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqHeujLHPkw Now take a look at this slightly more detailed video. Pay close attention to the discussion of the 4D Model towards the end of the video: Kelm, J. (2011). What is Appreciative Inquiry? Appreciative Engagement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGNZ63hj5k Now take a close look at these two short but important articles which provide direct comparisons between Appreciative Inquiry and traditional Organizational Development techniques as well as some of the main advantages and disadvantages of Appreciative Inquiry: Venter, J. (2010). Appreciative inquiry. Accountancy SA, , 42-44. Zemke, R. (1999). Don’t fix that company! Training, 36(6), 26-33. Finally, read up in more detail with these more comprehensive chapters on Appreciative Inquiry. For the first of these readings, pay special attention to Table 1 and the comparison between Appreciative Inquiry and traditional Action Research (Deficit-Based) problem solving methods. For the second reading, pay special attention to the discussion of what is involved in each of the 4 D steps: Whitney, D. K., & Trosten-Bloom, A. (2010). Chapter 1: What is Appreciative Inquiry? The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Lewis, S., Passmore, J., & Cantore, S. (2016). Chapter 4: Appreciative inquiry: How do you do it? In Appreciative inquiry for change management: Using AI to facilitate organizational development. London: Kogan Page.
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The Relationship of Learning Theory to Instructional Design Case Assignment Think about the instructional design models that we have studied thus far in this course (i.e., ADDIE, Dick and Carey, ELM, ARCS, or Gerlach and Ely). Write a 3- to 5-page paper that applies the concepts of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism to one or more of these ID models. Note: First, remember that behaviorism concentrates on the study of overt behaviors that can be observed and measured. As part of your discussion, give an example of how behaviorism may be used with one of the ID models above to strengthen a learning activity. Second, cognitivism concentrates on the thought process behind the behavior. Changes in behavior are observed, and used as indicators as to what is happening inside the learner’s mind. Use Blooms taxonomy with one of the ID models above to illustrate how higher-order thinking may be facilitated during a learning activity. Third, constructivism concentrates on the premise that we all construct our own perspective of the world, through individual experiences. Constructivism focuses on preparing the learner to problem solve in ambiguous situations. Discuss how one of the ID models above may be used to facilitate learners arriving at their own conclusions following a learning activity. Assignment Expectations To receive maximum credit, you must demonstrate understanding of context and purpose of the assignment by bringing all required elements (described above) to the discussion, and meeting additional expectations (described below). Cite a minimum of three sources and incorporate them into your paper. It is expected that you analyze and synthesize, not merely summarize, sources. The reference page and overall paper must be formatted properly in APA format and style. MAED Case Grading Rubric Assignment-Driven Criteria (23 points): Demonstrates mastery covering all key elements of the assignment in a substantive way. Critical Thinking (9 points): Demonstrates mastery conceptualizing the problem. Viewpoints and assumptions of experts are analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated. Conclusions are logically presented with appropriate rationale. Scholarly Writing (4 points): Demonstrates mastery and proficiency in scholarly written communication to an appropriately specialized audience. Quality of References and Assignment Organization (6 points): Demonstrates mastery using relevant and quality sources and uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to support ideas, convey understanding of the topic and shape the whole work. Citing Sources (3 points): Demonstrates mastery using in-text citations of sources and properly format full source information in the reference list (bibliography). Timeliness (5 points): Assignment submi
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This assignment requires you to demonstrate many of the skills you have learned throughout the course of this module such as how to select and justify a suitable research approach (including outlining an appropriate research methodology, supported by relevant philosophical underpinning), developing a research plan and demonstrating an ethical mindfulness when approaching academic research. You are required to produce a fully referenced academic proposal in response to the case study outlined below. Please note: You are not required to undertake the project work, merely submit a proposal of your intended research approach. This will take the form of a 3,000 word research project proposal in response to a given case study as below Case study: Traditionally, an undergraduate and postgraduate degree uses a dissertation for a final piece of assessment. This is because the process of producing this type of assessment enables you to independently: – Identify your own area of interest. – Explore an area in depth. – Define your own question. – Experience the process of producing knowledge. – Manage a project from beginning to end. – Consolidate your communication, information-seeking and intellectual skills. The purpose of a dissertation is to primarily demonstrate your academic ability, but also to collect, manipulate and interrogate information, and express this as part of a formal written report. These are also useful skills in employment. Whilst a dissertation is not a formal end assessment for your current programme of study, these skills are still valuable to develop and therefore this assignment provides you an opportunity to do so. The starting point of any dissertation is always the formation of a feasible and fitting research proposal and this is what is required of you in this assignment. Prior to forming a proposal, you will need to consider an appropriate research topic, within a field which presents an interesting and contemporary aspect of international business, use the topic of (Two sided markets or sharing economy) to help you with the research as in the following: With growth in services such as Uber, eBay etc., the study of two-sided markets is increasingly becoming popular. A two-sided market is a platform that provides users on both sides benefits by interacting through the platform Once you have selected your chosen field and topic, you will be required to produce a research proposal for submission via the tasks in the assignment remit. Task Ensure the Research Proposal addresses each of the following FIVE (5) elements. Please note: approximate word count allocations are included in tasks as a guide only. 1. Select an appropriate research question and research objectives for the proposal, within your selected topic area. 2. Explain how you propose to identify appropriate sources to provide a theoretical and literary framework for the research (include explanation of how appropriate theory and suitable academic models may be identified). Include an explanation and justification of where you will locate credible academic and empirical sources, indicating any inclusion / exclusion criteria which may be applied to this selection. Finally outline an approach of how you will critically evaluate sources of information and models, to ensure the academic integrity of the project. (700 Words) 3. Outline a clear, feasible and justified methodology for the project, including the following: a. Provide a brief outline of the type of philosophical perspective for the research b. Discuss, with justification, whether you think that a qualitative, quantitative or mixed method would be most suited to the proposed research project. c. Propose a primary or secondary research design. d. Highlight the specific methods of data collection appropriate to the proposed design, including sampling. e. Identify the intended models of data analysis. (1500 Words) 4. Produce a Gantt chart to provide an appropriate order for carrying out the research tasks. Assume a 6 month project lifespan. Briefly discuss this chart, explaining key milestones, anticipating any potential challenges that may arise and a strategy for overcoming them. (450 Words) 5. Consult with your tutor if you are uncertain about any aspect of the assignment. Submission requirements A single word-processed document containing all material pertaining to all tasks. The word count is 3000 words, not including the appendices. The document should be properly structured as an essay with a bibliography (online and literature sources) and appendices (where necessary). Refer to the Assignment. Produce clear and specific reasoning to justify answers. Use standard Arial font size 11. Use 1.5 line spacing. Have a 2.5 centimetre margin on the left hand side of the page and a 2 centimetre margin on the right-hand side Include page numbers Headings: use 16 point Arial Bold for first level headings, and 14 point Arial Bold for second level headings. If a third level heading is required, use 12 point Arial Bold Start each task on a new page and include the question at the top of the page Ensure any diagrams, screen shots, PowerPoint slides, etc fit correctly on the page and are referenced, for example, Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Check spelling, grammar and punctuation You should also ensure that you proof read your document, because the above checks do not always pick up every mistake Include the total word count at the end of the assignment Use accurate Harvard referencing Electronic documents must be readable by Microsoft Word 2003, and the document File Check attached files to help you with the assignment.
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Critically discuss the quality and outcomes from studies exploring oral nutrition supplements (ONS) in the elderly.

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Explain why the film is a political film, providing evidence and illustrations, and argue for why the film is important to our understanding and thoughts about history and politics. The goal is to write a critique of the film, not write a review of the film. Critiques do not summarize the films; they interrogate them to get their meaning and value in relation to the module s topics. Reference to at least one of the formal dimensions of a film presented by L. Giannetti and discussed in class is essential. Reference to other primary sources (i.e. films) or secondary sources (background and readings suggested on the syllabus) is desirable. (2500 words)