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In the assigned article, “From Trait to Transformation: The Evolution of Leadership Theories,” Hesburgh is cited as having stated that “wherever it [leadership] exists, morale flourishes, people pull together toward common goals, spirits soar, order is maintained, not as an end in itself, but as a means to move forward together.” Choose one aspect of this statement and discuss in detail how it may or not be true. Be certain to provide at least one scholarly reference to support your position.
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Discuss why researchers have had such a difficult time connecting leadership characteristics and behaviors to leader effectiveness and success?
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Discuss how the definition of trust from page 712 of the assigned article, “An Integrative Model of Organizational 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?
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Discuss what can be drawn from the suggested findings of Brain and Lewis in the assigned article, “Exploring Leadership Preferences in Multicultural Workgroups: An Australian Case Study,” regarding the impact of education levels on leadership preferences in settings outside Australia?
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How might the findings in the assigned article, “Gender and Leadership Style: A Meta-Analysis,” influence the way you would coach a group of developing male and female leaders?
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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.
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Considering the Workplace Stress assignment from Module 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?
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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 Blanch flower 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.
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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.
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Post your experiences regarding the CIT Interview Techniques: Summary Report.
PSY 655 Grand Canyon Week 1 Assignment Latest
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In a 500-750-word essay, do the following:
Briefly outline the evolution of theories on leadership.
Describe how one theory led to the next.
Explain how the practical application of leadership styles have changed because of this evolution.
Include two scholarly sources; your textbook can be used as one of the sources.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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Write a 1,000-1,250-word essay addressing the following question:
The antecedents of trust (ability, benevolence, and integrity) proposed in the assigned article, “An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust,” 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.
Describe how the strategies might change depending on what setting the leader might be in. (Business, industrial, etc.)
Use the GCU eLibrary databases, and assigned readings; include a minimum of 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 grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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Design a PowerPoint 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): Lynn Elsenhans, Carol Meyrowitz, Andrea Jung, Ellen Hullman, Ilene Gordon, Patrica Woertz, Carly Fiorina, 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): Jennifer Fischer (The Office), Glenn Close (Damages), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy), and Tina Fey (30 Rock), etc.
Corporate/Professional Women in film: The Stepford Wives, The Devil Wears Prada, Mildred Pierce, Working Girl, Nine to Five,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.
What characteristics, behaviors, and/or traits do the characters exhibit that demonstrate their leadership or management skills?
Is there a “politics to language” with respect to communication and leadership style/ability?
Is there a (dis)connect with respect to age and leadership style/ability? If so, provide examples.
What effect does “labeling” have on leadership and women’s ascension (or lack thereof) to power?
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a minimum of three outside references or other resources for evidentiary support.
While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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Write a 1,000-1,250-word essay analyzing the following:
What are some of the measured and unmeasured costs of workplace stress?
What are some of the more common individual actions recommended to reduce workplace stress?
Seek out at least three individuals within your sphere of influence and ask the following:
What does workplace stress feel like to you?
Identify any activities or actions employed to reduce workplace stress.
What are some of the more common individual actions recommended to reduce workplace stress?
Seek out at least three individuals within your sphere of influence and ask the following:
What does workplace stress feel like to you?
Identify any activities or actions.
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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Create a scenario (1,250–1,500 words) that requires and results in a quality decision. Consider the following:
Provide specific details as to whether collaboration is merited.
Is collaboration the best way to achieve a positive outcome? Why/Why not?
What strategic approach would you take to ensure a quality decision is made?
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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Write an essay (1,250 – 1,500 words) analyzing the unintended consequence(s) of a decision.
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?
Select a case study on a business, social, or psychological “problem” in which a decision yielded an unintended consequence. Describe the process of decision making that was used in this instance and why that process led to the decision that was made.
Consider the following areas of concentration for effective decision making:
Barriers.
Cost of indecisiveness.
Collaboration: strength and or weaknesses.
Unintended consequence: Inherited feature in the decision-making process?
Recommendations or reconciliations to avoid unintended consequences.
Example topics include, but not limited to:
Unintended Consequence: Business
Athlete-Agent
HMO Cost Containment
Financial Crisis
Bailout of Financial Auto Industry
Corporate Governance Reform and CEO Compensation
Economic Restructuring in Iraq
Unintended Consequence: Social
Communism for Neighborhood Relations
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cuban Missile Crisis
Employer Layoffs
End-of-Life Care
Health Care Reform
Immigration Act of 1965
Large-Scale Iron Ocean Fertilization
Rise of International Criminal Law
Transportation Security (TSA) Administration Policies
Youth Bike Helmet Laws
Unintended Consequence: Psychological
Gender Aspects of Conflict Interventions (Bosnia, Somalia, etc.)
Women in the Workforce
The Workforce Investment Act
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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This CIT Interview Techniques assignment includes two parts: a critical incident interview (due in Module 7), and a summary report (due in Module 8).
To frame the context for this assignment, consider the following statement as the basis of the project: “There is evidence that researchers using the 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 the Canadian Journal of Counselling, by Butterfield et al., 2005, p. 489).
Interview Preliminaries:
Using methodology described in the readings, prepare a list of questions regarding an individual’s direct personal experience with leaders. A minimum of 15 questions is required.
As the interviewer, pose the questions to the 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.
Identify a subgroup of people in your immediate circle of contact with whom you have the ability to conduct a critical incident technique (CIT) interview regarding their experience with leaders in their own lives.
Conduct a minimum of three interviews.
Prepare this assignment as a Word document 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 grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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As the second part of the CIT Interview Techniques assignment, write a summary report (1,250-1,500 words) about the information gleaned from the interview process in Module 7.
Interview Preliminaries Redux:
Select two to three people to whom you will administer the interview developed in Module 7.
Administer interview questions to chosen participants for final formal interview purposes.
Revise your original questions. Administer the additional final set of questions regarding why the selected incidents might be important (i.e., have the participants identify the meaning of the incidents discussed during the interview process).
Provide follow-up questions as necessary along with subsequent responses.
Interview Summary Report
Write a summary report (1,250-1,500 words) about the information gleaned from the interview process.
Conclude paper with a discussion of the participants’ descriptions of the meaning of the incidents described during the interview process.
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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Week 1 Discussion 1 of PSY 655 Grand Canyon
In the assigned article, “From Trait to Transformation: The Evolution of Leadership Theories,” Hesburgh is cited as having stated that “wherever it [leadership] exists, morale flourishes, people pull together toward common goals, spirits soar, order is maintained, not as an end in itself, but as a means to move forward together.” Choose one aspect of this statement and discuss in detail how it may or not be true. Be certain to provide at least one scholarly reference to support your position.
PSY 655 Grand Canyon Week 1 Discussion 2 Latest
Discuss why researchers have had such a difficult time connecting leadership characteristics and behaviors to leader effectiveness and success?
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