Author: chris

Before completing this discussion, review Chapter 5 of your text as well as the Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage Revisited video. You may also want to review the following recommended resources: “Piaget’s Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology,” “On Major Developments in Preschoolers’ Imagination,” “Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896-1934),” and “Jean Piaget (1896-1980)” articles, After examining the research in human development, choose and complete one of the following options:

Option A: Piaget’s theory on cognitive development has contributed a unique perspective to our understanding of how children think, reason, and solve problems. Examine and identify the main tenets of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development (i.e., schema, assimilation, and accommodation) describing them in your own words.

Examine the cognitive factors Piaget presents in relation to human development. Briefly identify and describe his stages of cognitive development by illustrating the cognitive tasks that infants, children, or young adults are capable (or not capable) of performing.

Alternatively, instead of describing the stages, you may create a chart in which the abilities that define cognitive development in Piaget’s theory are plotted against the age at which they are acquired. Identify at least one aspect of Piaget’s theory that has been criticized and mention the evidence upon which this criticism is based.

ASSIGNMENT 1

Leadership has been described from various perspectives and defined by different concepts.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BELOW THOROUGHLY

1. Present a personal definition of leadership and explain why your definition is appropriate and relevant to the practice of leadership today.

2. Provide an example of a current leader who embodies this definition. Explain how this individual is a relevant example of your personal definition of leadership.

Globalization

Directions:

Think about what you have read and seen in the news on globalization. Consider the fact that the clothing we wear, the cars that we drive, the cell phones we use to communicate and the computers we use to work, are each likely to have been manufactured in whole or in part in different parts of the world. While there are still companies and firms that maintain local and national borders, it is almost unheard of in the 21st century that an industry does not maintain an international strategic position.

From an executive’s position, identify and explain at least three challenges and opportunities that might face an international executive over the next five years. Provide possible solutions of how the executive might address these issues in order for their firm to maintain a competitive advantage.

Prepare a 4-6 page paper that describes the impact of globalization on U.S. businesses. In your analysis, please include information about the impact of at least four economic drivers that might impact globalization.

Assignment Instructions

 

Instructions:

 

Based on the information that you have learned thus far in this course, please provide the following:

 

1. Give a detailed account of a time you learned from experience (related to employment) and how that wise choice positively impacted you. Considering what you have learned from this course, would you have made different decisions with the knowledge that you now have?

 

2. Tell me, in general, do you learn better from your successes or failures and why? What is it about your personality that helps you learn from the aspect you chose in the aforementioned question?

 

Part I: Create a job questionnaire (1-2 pages)

You may refer to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook for job description information that can help you form your questions.
The questionnaire should be directed to the employee (e.g., What do you…).
At a minimum, your questionnaire should elicit information about the following:
Duties performed
Special qualifications
Equipment used
Working conditions
Interaction with others
Supervisory responsibilities
Decision-making responsibilities

Part 2: Performance Expectations List (1 page)

Use the Internet to research performance measures for the position of a payroll clerk. (You may want to refer back to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook).
Create a list of at least 8 performance measures for this position.

Part 3: Equal Employment Opportunity (1 page)

Discuss 2 or 3 strategies you will use during the recruitment process for the payroll clerk position that help ensure compliance with equal employment opportunity guidelines.

Conduct outside research of the topics of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and leading.

There are five essential principles of management. These include planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and leading. For this assignment you will conduct outside research of the topics of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and leading.

You have been asked to give a presentation to a group of new managers in a health care setting. This presentation must cover each of the five principles discussed above. For each principle you will need to provide a real world example in which you or another leader has successfully performed the function and the impact that function had. You need to demonstrate in your presentation the value each principle has in the real word.

Requirements:

· Your presentation should be in Microsoft PowerPoint

· Be 10–12 slides in length (not including the cover slide or reference slide)

· Include comprehensive speaker’s notes

· Include appropriate graphics, images, and slide transitions

ORG-2 Discussion two ( With two response.)

1. Discuss the biggest lesson you learned in terms a business’s environment from the Malcolm Gladwell video. (Choice, Happiness, Spaghetti.)

2. Watch the following You Tube videos on the ideas of Gert Hofstede and Chinese culture. Give examples of how Hofstede’s dimensions can cause problems if ignored by a manager expanding operations overseas.

· How do the US and China compare on these dimensions?

· What should you do if he/she finds the cultural traditions of another country morally offensive?

3. Consider the concept of diversity. Give examples of how you have seen diversity in terms of age, ethnicity, gender, nationality or religion help problem solving and how you have seen diversity cause conflicts

organized crime

Identify an organized criminal enterprise. Research the organization’s activities for the last 10-20 years and identify common “legitimate” businesses they engage in or are associated with. Explain the “benefit” type relationship that exists between the organization and the local business community Explain the extent of the relationship, how each party benefits, the common activities/industries involved, and any successful efforts by law enforcement to detect or intercede.

Focus of the Final Paper

This paper will be an application of the leadership practice concepts learned throughout your degree program to a real-world situation. In a 7 page paper, discuss one significant organizational challenge, within your organization or an organization you have researched. How did the leadership of the organization address the challenge? Could it have been done more effectively? How would you recommend future leaders strategically plan to avoid encountering a similar challenge within their own organizations? Provide suggestions for overcoming the challenge based on your own research and concepts presented in your degree program and grounded in leadership theory. Some challenges to consider would be (but are not limited to): an ethical challenge, a challenge occurring because of changes in the economy, a globalization challenge, or a challenge of organizational culture. Please request instructor approval of the challenge you would like to use as your focus before beginning your paper.

The Final Paper should, at minimum, include:

1. A description of the organization and its primary stakeholders. Include the vision and mission statement if they are available to the public, and the code of ethics if the company has one (if it is long, an excerpt or description is an acceptable alternative).

2. A detailed analysis of one challenge facing the leadership of the organization.

3. A strategy for overcoming the challenge based on outside research, the textbook, and concepts discussed during your degree studies.

Cialdini ponders why “a request stated in a certain way will be rejected, but a request that asks for a favor in a slightly different fashion will be successful” (p. ix). What do we learn from his writing on Reciprocity, Commitment & Consistency and Social Proof on how requests can be stated in ways that make them most effective?