Discuss the role that leadership and employees play in creating, maintaining, and changing culture through communication behaviors.

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  1. Understand the importance of organizational culture in the workplace.
  2. Discuss the role that leadership and employees play in creating, maintaining, and changing culture through communication behaviors.
  3. Exhibit the information literacy and research skills necessary to formulate organizational culture research questions leading to a small-scale literature review.
  4. Analyze, evaluate, and apply communication and culture theories, models, practices, and structures to various organizational culture contexts.
  5. Collaborate with peers to research and present on an organizational culture topic.
  6. Produce and present a cultural assessment of an organization.

What role do you find yourself performing most often in a group? Why do you perform this role so often?

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What role do you find yourself performing most often in a group? Why do you perform this role so often? What do you offer your group when you perform this role? What does performing this role keep you from being able to do in a group of which you are a member?

The assignment will be graded on the following:

Respond appropriately to all of the question(s).
Provide enough information and detail to support and explain your experiences, thoughts, and/or ideas.
Write in complete sentences using correct grammar and proper punctuation.
Do not use text message acronyms.
Make sure that your purpose/thesis is evident.
Your paragraphs should clearly support the purpose/thesis.
Sentences within a paragraph should clearly support the topic of that paragraph.
Be sure that the content within the assignment is placed in a logical order.
Your transitions between ideas should illustrate the relationship between ideas and allow the reader to pass from one idea to the next without confusion.
Your conclusion/conclusions shoufktld be apparent and clearly defined.

Should you use the median or mean to describe a data set if the data are not skewed? Are the standard deviation or the interquartile range factors?

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You will find Video 2: When Should You Use the Mean and When Should You Use the Median by navigating to the MSL Tool for Success link under Course Home.

This video focuses more on when to use a mean and when to use a median. House prices are used to demonstrate that when data are non-symmetric – especially when there are extreme outliers – the median gives a better description of a typical value than the mean. Specifically, the prices of properties on two blocks are compared: in one, all houses are similar and there isn’t much difference between the median and mean; in the other, there is a big expensive block of apartments, so that the mean is nearly twice the median, and far from the cost of any individual property.

But we want to get away from the idea that the data, and only the data, drives the choice of descriptive statistic. The example is given that, if you wanted to buy all the houses in Brooklyn, if you took the median, and multiplied by the number of houses, you wouldn’t have enough cash. So the median is a useful descriptive statistic, but the mean is essential for planning and making decisions.

Respond to one of the following questions in your initial post:

Should you use the median or mean to describe a data set if the data are not skewed? Are the standard deviation or the interquartile range factors?
You may read in the newspaper that a study of a new drug for cancer “increased survival by an average of eight weeks.” It turns out that this is a median, and it is used for complicated statistical reasons. But in a perfect world, would you prefer to know the increase in mean or median survival?
If the median house price is $1.9m, does that necessarily mean that half of the houses on the block are worth less than $1.9m and half worth more? How do ties figure in?

Discuss strategies to tackle the resistance to change you might experience.

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what are the implications for the future with which business should be concerned today? What are your ideas for overcoming these future issues? Discuss strategies to tackle the resistance to change you might experience.

Please use this as one of your sources:
Jones, G. R. (2013). Organizational theory, design, and change: Texts and cases (7th Ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
Chapter 3: Organizing in a Changing Global Environment
Chapter 8: Organizational Design and Strategy in a Changing Global Environment

Demonstrate mastery of extemporaneous speaking skills in all aspects of delivery.

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Persuasive Action Presentation (5-6 minutes): Students prepare a 5-6 minute persuasive presentation in a problem-solution format, employing all the steps of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action. Students will persuade their audience to take action on a need relevant to the role belief systems play in U.S. life (DBRA 100.3) while exploring a concept of religion, philosophy, ethics, and/or epistemology (SLO DBRA 100.4). This presentation will draw attention to, describe the need for, discuss how the need can be satisfied, describe the future if no action is taken, and ask the student audience to take action regarding the role belief systems play in U.S. life (DBRA 100.3).
The presentation must include a properly formatted and grammatically correct persuasive action formal outlinePreview the document, including a minimum of 5 academic sources (APA format in writing and verbally) to support the main ideas. The outline includes all five elements of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence with appropriate evidence for each element. In addition, the student should demonstrate mastery of extemporaneous speaking skills in all aspects of delivery.

This presentation requires the student to implement presentation software as a visual aid (5-6 content slides and reference list slide). Slides for this presentation should be developed as assertion-evidence based design. Images must be high-quality, font, and color palate are clean, readable, and professional.
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Criteria:
1. The formal outline is in the proper format and grammatically correct, including accurate in-text APA citations and APA reference list. SLO WC 100.2
DBRA 100 Persuasive Action Presentation
2. Introduction. Attention getter as first statement (precedes name, if name is required). Thesis includes a clear persuasive purpose. Discussion of topic’s importance and relevance. Preview of main points. SLO OC 100.1
DBRA 100 Persuasive Action Presentation
3. The speech is organized according to Monroe’s Motivated Sequence (attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action). SLO CT 100.1; SLO OC 100.1
4. The speech includes accurately cited supportive material for each controversial argument in each section, including at least one DBRA 100 iBook reading and additional required sources. SLO CT 100.2, SLO IL 100.4
DBRA 100 Persuasive Action Presentation
5. The role belief systems play in U.S. life is accurately explored. SLO DBR 100.3
DBRA 100 Persuasive Action Presentation
6. Demonstrate comprehension of the philosophical or religious framework addressed.
DBRA 100 Persuasive Action Presentation
7. Conclusion . Is the Action step of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. Reviews all arguments. Provides definitive, memorable final statement (does not say “these are my references”). SLO OC 100.1

Compare normal physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development with abnormal development throughout the lifespan.

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You are being tasked with writing 2 sample exam questions for each of the 5 Course Outcomes for this class, and to briefly explain how/why you think the question you constructed aligns with the objective. Your questions must address a topic covered in the chapter readings or lessons up-to-date. To receive full credit, your multiple-choice question must meet the following criteria:

Your question must be written clearly. And it must specifically state what you want in an answer.
Questions must be accompanied by an explanation of how/why you think the question you constructed measures the objective.
Answer options must be mutually exclusive. This means that you can’t have any questions that have more than one best (or true) answer.
Questions must be no more than 2 complete sentences.
Each question requires an option of A, B, C and D. This means that someone answering your questions must be able to choose from 4 options.

Below you will find the Course Outcomes for the class.

Apply principles of developmental theories to explain physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development throughout the lifespan.
Compare normal physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development with abnormal development throughout the lifespan.
Explain the progression of development across the human lifespan and assess options to improve the quality of life throughout the lifespan.
Identify and analyze factors influencing human development.
Evaluate research in lifespan development and link evaluation to personal research and clinical practice.

Discuss the importance of social skills training and explain the ways in which it can implemented in a professional context.

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Discuss the importance of social skills training and explain the ways in which it can implemented in a professional context. ( e.g early years, secondary education).

Describe both verbal and nonverbal communication and how each can be used most effectively.

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Describe both verbal and nonverbal communication and how each can be used most effectively.

Examine how nonverbal behaviors affect interviewer ratings of candidates.

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.Responses typed, using a standard font, 12-point type size, double-spaced, with overall neatness and readability.
.Restatement of the question and question number (exactly as stated in the Study Guide).
.Student used standard essay format: Introduction/Body/Conclusion.

How did the pace, rhythm, and scope of Starbucks’ internationalization in the coffee industry affect its performance?

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Read the attached case “Resuming Internationalization at Starbucks” and answer the following questions based on the lecture notes and the case.

1) How did the pace, rhythm, and scope of Starbucks’ internationalization in the coffee industry affect its performance?
2) Was Starbucks too aggressive in its internationalization?