Are your peers seeing their conflict situations clearly? How can you help with solutions for their future?

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Interpersonal communication situation

Part of your grade on this paper includes your helpful comments as you review the papers of two of your peers. Give suggestions not only on writing style, grammar, etc., but on their analysis. Are your peers seeing their conflict situations clearly? How can you help with solutions for their future?

You are required to use MLA format and must include at least two works on the Works Cited page. One of these works should be your class textbook. The other source should be a credible article from a scholarly journal. Please use the free databases provided at the Library home page through Rio Hondo College (Proquest, EBSCO, psychINDEX, etc.) Throughout the essay you should be referencing these works through direct quotations and cited paraphrases to help inform your theory analysis as well as solutions.

PURPOSE: Often we have an easier time understanding concepts when we are able to apply our “real life” experiences to the concepts we are trying to learn. In order to analyze interpersonal communication, then, it is practical to use our life experiences to better understand the concepts and theories that for the basis of our interpersonal communication and relationships. This paper requires that you observe a communication situation, analyze that situation, and then present that analysis in the form of an essay.

Provide a brief description and/or supporting information for each of your development considerations, recommendations, and application. Identify and explain how and why your recommended actions will benefit you and eventual employer.

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Deliberate Development Plan

For this assignment, you will complete a Deliberate Development Plan (DDP) for yourself.

At a minimum, your plan must address the following areas of development. Provide a brief description and/or supporting information for each of your development considerations, recommendations, and application. Then, identify and explain how and why your recommended actions will benefit you and eventual employer.

Format DDP as follows.

o PART I – Considerations:
-Current Training/Employment Status:
-Goals and Aspirations: (Short/Long Term)

 

o PART II – Recommendations: (What do you NEED to meet your goals)
-Training:
-Education:
-Opportunities: (Internships, etc.)

 

o PART III – Application: (What will you do with your new knowledge? WHAT IS YOUR PLAN?)
-3-5 Year Plan: Use SMART criteria (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely)

– Length: 2-3 Pages

– APA Format

What are your thoughts about celebrating failure? Would this be acceptable in your organization? The Jesuit value “Personalis” focuses on respecting each person as a child of God. What are the best strategies you and/or your organization have used to engage employees in the innovation and change management process to make them feel respected as part of the process?

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Week 7

Assignment:
Select one question from the readings to reflect on and one question from the video(s) to reflect on.

Video:

Video Question chosen:
Celebrating successes is important. What are your thoughts about celebrating failure? Would this be acceptable in your organization?

Readings:
Kotter: pages 105-168
Gill, R. (2002). Change management–or change leadership?. Journal of Change Management, 3(4), 307-318. (available in E-Reserves)

Readings Question chosen:
The Jesuit value “Personalis” focuses on respecting each person as a child of God. What are the best strategies you and/or your organization have used to engage employees in the innovation and change management process to make them feel respected as part of the process?

If you have observed dysfunctional communication that has negatively impacted the organization’s culture, explain why you think the dysfunctional communication has occurred and make recommendations about how it could be improved. If the communication is largely functional, explain why the communication seems to be effective and suggest how the organization can help ensure that the effective communication continues.

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Recognizing dysfunctional communications

The study by Parsons and Urbanski, examined a media company’s communication using two theoretical approaches: structuration theory (Giddens) and grounded theory (Strauss). The researchers used a survey, examined the use of communication technologies, and hosted a focus group. They sought to determine what strategies can be used to reduce dysfunctional communication and sustain a positive organizational culture. The researchers presented their findings and made recommendations about how the media company could improve its communication. At the end of the article, in the Appendices, the researchers shared the questions they asked employees in the survey.

A. Think about a past or present organization you are involved with. This organization could be a workplace or some other kind of organization. Drawing from the insights of the article, describe the communication patterns you have observed. Think about the downward, upward and horizontal communication in this organization. Review the appendices of the article to help you think about the communication that occurs in your organization.

B. If you have observed dysfunctional communication that has negatively impacted the organization’s culture, explain why you think the dysfunctional communication has occurred and make recommendations about how it could be improved. If the communication is largely functional, explain why the communication seems to be effective and suggest how the organization can help ensure that the effective communication continues.

Discuss the core concepts of health care interviewing and how health care interviewing strategies could be integrated into communication skills and practices in general.

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Health care interviewing strategies

Discuss the core concepts of health care interviewing and how health care interviewing strategies could be integrated into communication skills and practices in general.

Critically evaluate theories of reflective practic. Analyse principles of reflective practice. Evaluate methods used to reflect on professional practice. Critically evaluate the application of reflective practice methods on own professional practice.

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Reflective practice

1.1 Critically evaluate theories of reflective practice.

1.2 Analyse principles of reflective practice.

2.1. Evaluate methods used to reflect on professional practice.

2.2 – Critically evaluate the application of reflective practice methods on own professional practice.

Compare qualitative input data and quantitative analysis with the organization’s employee demographic data to determine the degree of the existing population that will be affected by the proposed changes. In other words, what is the overall impact of each proposed change?

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Prepare a draft of Parts A–D of your total rewards analysis

Begin by analyzing qualitative and quantitative data for the current system (as identified in the case study and the provided supplements) that will inform your future recommendations and revisions. Once your analysis has been completed, compare and contrast the provided quantitative data regarding the current benefits and compensation system with external benchmarking data from Medtronic, an organization within the same industry. Then draft Parts D–F of your analysis. Thoroughly cover each of the critical elements, and include your answers to the guiding questions. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Total Rewards Analysis: For this part of the assessment, you will analyze given aspects of a total rewards package from the provided case study.

A. You will analyze qualitative and quantitative data regarding the current system and determine gaps in that system that will inform your future recommendations and revisions.

B. Determine areas of misalignment, differences, and gaps present in the current benefits and compensation system, based on the external benchmarking data. What are the key areas of the current system that are misaligned with the competition?

C. Based on the strengths and weaknesses of each plan, determine Emerging Pharmaceuticals rewards components that should be increased, reduced, or stay the same, and provide your rationale.

D. Compare qualitative input data and quantitative analysis with the organization’s employee demographic data to determine the degree of the existing population that will be affected by the proposed changes. In other words, what is the overall impact of each proposed change?

Compare and contrast US and Dutch culture with your own on these dimensions in terms of how they influence communication. Analyze how characteristics of both cultures influence communication in the following settings and identify the issues and opportunities that exist.

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Compare Contrast Essay on Cultural communication differences between Dutch and American workers

Compare and contrast US and Dutch culture with your own on these dimensions in terms of how they influence communication:

  • Core values
  • Religious belief systems
  • Gender roles
  • Verbal and non-verbal communication
  • Communication context

Then, analyze how characteristics of both cultures influence communication in the following settings and identify the issues and opportunities that exist for each:

  • Education
  • Healthcare
  • Business settings

Finally, formulate strategies for improving intercultural communication in these settings including the development of cultural intelligence (CQ) use three sources, at least one from a scholarly publication.

Describe the conflict in detail. This might include the topic, the participants and their relationship, what the major concerns are, where the differences or conflict lies, what people have said and or done, and other details that you believe are important for the reader to know.

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DIFFICULT CONVERSATION ANALYSIS

ASSIGNMENT TWO
Stage 1
AFTER reading Difficult Conversations…

Identify a difficult conversation/conflict that you have recently experienced. If you are uncomfortable using your own experience you may choose a problematic conflict that someone you know has experienced, or use a TV show or movie.

If you choose the latter – you MUST run it by me – before you leave on break. This should be a conflict that you are familiar with and one that you understand and can write about in
great detail. The conflict you choose may be a group or a private dyadic type of conflict in a work, family, or friendship/intimate relationship context—the choice is yours.

Stage 2
Describe the conflict in detail. This might include the topic, the participants and their relationship, what the major concerns are, where the differences or conflict lies, what people have said and or done, and other details that you believe are important for the reader to know. Be as detailed and explicit as possible. Include actual dialogue (this might be spoken words, text message, email messages, etc). Specific context is HELPFUL. (see my notes on page two of this assignment sheet for further thoughts) My experience shows that this dialogue component is imperative for success – it can be included in the text of the analysis or as an addendum (Do NOT consider this dialogue in the overall length of the analysis).

Updated to reflect the reality of global data and internal data exchange via the World Wide Web.

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Updated to reflect the reality of global data and internal data exchange via the World Wide Web.

Summary of the main issue- the 1986 act needs to be updated to reflect the reality of global data and internal data exchange via the World Wide Web. Ethical Implication, Remedies and Solutions

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) 1986 deals with three main issues: (1) the protection of communications while in transfer from sender to receiver; (2) the protection of communications held in electronic storage; and (3) the prohibition of devices from recording dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information without a search warrant. The ECPA makes it a crime to intercept or obtain electronic communications unless otherwise provided for under law or an exception to ECPA.