What personal characteristics or competencies do you think the individual members of the team should possess? How do these characteristics or competencies contribute to the team’s success?

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Organizational Behaviour: Motivation and Group Dynamics

Purpose
This assignment will allow you to apply concepts of organizational behavior, specific to motivation theories and group dynamics.
Using your experiences and knowledge of a workplace or organization where you have worked, volunteered or are quite familiar, read through and answer the following scenarios and questions.

There are two parts to this assignment. Carefully read the instructions below

Part 1
Overview:
Motivation describes the energizing forces influencing an effort’s direction, intensity, and persistence. It is a complex interaction between the individual and the environment. Daniel H. Pink states in his 2009 TedTalk “The Puzzle of Motivation” that the incentives we believe work the best, extrinsic rewards like bonuses or other financial rewards may not motivate employees to think creatively or perform at their best. In fact, he suggests that this extrinsic approach may do more harm than good! Instead, he indicates that employers should consider a new approach, encouraging intrinsic motivation. Daniel Pink (2009) described intrinsic motivation as “… the desire to do things because they matter because we like it, they’re interesting, or part of something important.”

He proposes the three elements of intrinsic motivation in the workplace are:
• Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives
• Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters
• Purpose: to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves

Answer the following:
Your manager has asked you to design a motivational strategy your organization could use to motivate you. There are no restrictions on what kind of a strategy you may use (theory, model, hybrid of different types); however, financial rewards are limited. Consider the following questions when designing your strategy.
• What do you value? What matters to you?
• What resources will you need?
• What barriers might you encounter?
• Will you incorporate all or some of Pink’s three elements? How?

Part 2
Nelson (2019) defines a team as a type of group that:
• is composed of people with complementary skills;
• exists to accomplish a goal;
• includes members who work interdependently,;
• holds each other mutually accountable for their performance.

Answer the following:
Think about a successful team of which you have been a member. What made this team successful? Then, think about an unsuccessful team of which you have been a member.
What made this team unsuccessful? Now, iimagine you were put in charge of developing a self-managed workplace team that would be working on a year-long project. First, briefly define the project (be concise and clear). Then, answer the questions below.
• What personal characteristics or competencies do you think the individual members of the team should possess? How do these characteristics or competencies contribute to the team’s success?
• What are the most important norms of behaviour you would want to develop? How do these norms of behaviour contribute to the team’s success?
• How would you establish these norms?
• How would you avoid some of the common team-related issues like loafing, groupthink, and group polarization?

Step to Complete:
1. Review the information above.
2. Answer the questions corresponding to the parts as described above, using an organization you worked/volunteered at, or know very well as the setting.
3. Submission should be 2-4 pages, APA formatted, not including cover page, reference page or appendix and provide a Reference Page.

Based on the resources you reviewed, describe two racial or ethnic group health disparities. Explain how social determinants of health can lead to these disparities. What are long-term consequences of these disparities?

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Soc 123 Responses

Based on the resources you reviewed, describe two racial or ethnic group health disparities. Explain how social determinants of health can lead to these disparities. What are long-term consequences of these disparities?

Based on the resources you reviewed, describe two racial or ethnic group educational inequalities. What factors contribute to these inequalities? What are long-term consequences of these inequalities for racial groups?

Explain how racial and ethnic inequalities in health and education are examples of institutionalized (or structural) inequalities.

What is the “model minority” image and standard that many Asian Americans are held to in American society? Based on the resources you reviewed, explain why this image is a myth and a stereotype (be sure to address the methodological issues highlighted in the articles). How does this stereotype harm Asian American students?

Draw the flow diagrams for for loop and while loop, separately. What does a jump statement do to an iteration statement? What is the difference between a break statement and a continue statement?

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Matlab codes quick questions

Read each question carefully. Questions 1–3 are 10 points each. Question 4 is 20 points. Total 50 points.
For Questions 1–2, submit your answers in a single MS Word or PDF file. For Question 3–4, submit the two written script files along with the MS Word or PDF file. Three files should be submitted.
Do NOT submit screenshots.

1. Draw the flow diagrams for for loop and while loop, separately. (10 points)

2. What does a jump statement do to an iteration statement? What is the difference between a break statement and a continue statement? (10 points)

3. The Taylor series for the exponential function ex is given below. Write a script file using the proper iteration statement to read in a number x and calculate its exponential using Taylor series for the first 10 terms. (10 points)

1 + ∑ (𝑥^𝑛
𝑛! )
∞
𝑛=1

4. Write a script program using a proper loop statement to perform the following tasks: (20 points)
(1) Per–determine a random integer (rand_int) between [0–9] by the program (hint: use randi() ).
(2) Let the user guess a number (number) entered from the keyboard to be compared with the random integer (rand_int).
(3) If the value of number matches the value of rand_int, the program should display a message ‘Bingo! The guessing is stopped by the program.’ and terminate.
(4) If the two values of number and rand_int are not matched, the program should ask whether the user wants to keep guessing by displaying ‘Wrong guessing… try again?’.
(5) To continue guessing, a character ‘Y’ or ‘y’ should be entered from the keyboard; to stop guessing, a character ‘N’ or ‘n’ should be entered, and display ‘The guessing is stopped by the user.’.

(Carefully examine through our in–class examples and exercises. Understand which loop should be used, which condition should be used for logical evaluation, and what the order of different commands should be within the loop. When you see specific keywords, e.g. keep, stop, terminate, continue, etc., know what iteration statement with jump statements should be used. Try making modifications to in–class demos to construct the program.)

Explain in your own words what each key element in the digital helix means. There are 7 elements in total. You must write 50-100 words per each element to receive maximum points. Give examples of brands that are doing well in that category to enhance your answers.

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The 7 Elements Of The Digital Helix

1) Read Part 3 of The Digital Helix.

2) Explain in your own words what each key element in the digital helix means. There are 7 elements in total. You must write 50-100 words per each element to receive maximum points. Give examples of brands that are doing well in that category to enhance your answers.

Provide some specific examples of how the religious landscape of the United States has been changing in recent years.

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Diverse Learning

Provide some specific examples of how the religious landscape of the United States has been changing in recent years.

Support your response with evidence from the text.

Select and describe two specific MIS tools found in your research and address how their use could potentially and positively impact business processes or systems to improve effectiveness or efficiency, or both.

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Is it effective or efficient?

Review the case at the end of Baltzan (2022) Chapter 4, Is it effective or efficient? Use paragraphs to address the topics. Do not use a question and answer format. Remember this is a paper of 600 to 900-words in length that complies with the APA writing style guidelines..

Research how MIS tools can help businesses operate more effectively and more efficiently.

Select and describe two specific MIS tools found in your research and address how their use could potentially and positively impact business processes or systems to improve effectiveness or efficiency, or both.

For example, you may use the How Management Information Systems can help Businesses to Grow (Techfunnel, 2021).

Research should include at least 2 sources suitable for academic research and the Baltzan (2022) textbook. Be sure to include:

Baltzan, P. (2022). Business Driven Technology, 9th Ed. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, US.

Techfunnel. (2021, May 31). How Management Information Systems Can Help Businesses to Grow. https://www.techfunnel.com/information-technology/…

Describe the reasons for choosing a career in medicine with an emphasis in family practice with the intent of serving a local town or neighborhood as a physician and as an engaged member of the community.

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Reasons for choosing a careen in medicine

Describe the reasons for choosing a career in medicine with an emphasis in family practice with the intent of serving a local town or neighborhood as a physician and as an engaged member of the community.

Write an essay in which you examine some of the representatives of established order in the selected reading. Discuss what attitudes they possess and how they effectively function as spokespeople for law and order. Evaluate the kinds of order that each represents.

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Writing Question

Choose ONE topic to discuss:

• Some of the characters from the readings in this unit have withdrawn from life. Write an essay in which you examine the reasons for their withdrawal, the ways in which they withdraw, and the consequences of their withdrawal. Are these characters be praised or condemned for their withdrawal from humanity?

• Some of the readings in this unit include a character who refuses to conform to societal expectations or who rebels against society. Write an essay in which you explore whether the reading suggests that these characters are simply objects of scorn or whether they deserve sympathy and perhaps even respect. Explain how the attitudes and actions of these characters constitute an attack on the status quo. What is being protested? How is the protest being transmitted to the rest of the world? Why is it important? Is this protest contagious?

• Some of the readings in this unit deal with characters who have abdicated responsibility. Write an essay in which you explore the causes and effects of their irresponsibility. Can the reading be construed as a call to social irresponsibility? How so?

• Some of the characters in this unit perceive themselves or are perceived by others as invisible. How are these characters invisible? How do they know that they are invisible to others? What are the effects of this invisibility?

• Some of the readings in this unit contain judgmental narrators. Examine the extent to which the author seems to share or oppose these judgments? Discuss the distance between what the narrators say and what you think the stories themselves say.

• Some of the characters from the readings in this unit conform to societal you characterize the range of these conformities? What do you think are the reasons for this conformity?

• Some of the characters from the readings are alienated by those around them or are perceived as “others.” How does the alienation of the characters contribute to the theme? Does the reading make a powerful and effective case on behalf of the oppressed, or does it support this ostracization? What does the reading say about “difference”?

• Some of the readings address the themes of conformity and rebellion as they relate to work, examining what we do to support ourselves economically. How does the reading make economics a central concern? Can you read the economics behind a reading that implies the issue of work without foregrounding it? How do the characters in the reading feeling about work? How to the readings characterize the role of work in our lives? How do the readings portray the limitations or privileges of social class? Why do the characters in these readings conform to and/or rebel against economic pressures?

• Some of the characters in the readings from this unit are viewed by society as mentally ill or insane. How might it be argued that these characters exhibit the “divinest sense”? Consider both the actions taken by and against the characters and also the behaviors and attitudes of “the people” generally.

• Write an essay in which you examine some of the representatives of established order in the selected reading. Discuss what attitudes they possess and how they effectively function as spokespeople for law and order. Evaluate the kinds of order that each represents.

Create an ad for a laundry detergent or scented candle that is decidedly masculine.

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Creating an Ad

Create an ad for a laundry detergent or scented candle that is decidedly masculine.

Briefly reiterate for your readers the Research Problem or problems you are investigating and the Methods you used to investigate them, then move quickly to describe the major Results of the study. Write a direct, declarative, and succinct proclamation of the study results.

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Writing Question

Based on the information collected in this study, formulate the Discussion section of your selected topic. Do not forget that your Discussion section should:

a. Reiterate the Research Problem/State the Major Findings

Briefly reiterate for your readers the Research Problem or problems you are investigating and the Methods you used to investigate them, then move quickly to describe the major Results of the study. You should write a direct, declarative, and succinct proclamation of the study results.

b. Explain the Meaning of the Results and Why They are Important

No one has thought as long and hard about your study as you have. Systematically, explain the meaning of the Results and why you believe they are important. After reading the Discussion section, you want the reader to think about the Results [“why hadn’t I thought of that?”]. You do not want to force the reader to go through the paper multiple times to figure out what it all means. Begin this part of the section by repeating what you consider to be your most important finding first.

c. Relate the Findings to Similar Studies

No study is so novel or possesses such a restricted focus that it has absolutely no relation to other previously published research. The Discussion section should relate your study findings to those of other studies, particularly if questions raised by previous studies served as the motivation for your study, the findings of other studies support your findings [which strengthens the importance of your study results], and/or they point out how your study differs from other similar studies.

d. Consider Alternative Explanations of the Findings

It is important to remember that the purpose of research is to discover and not to prove. When writing the Discussion section, you should carefully consider all possible explanations for the study Results, rather than just those that fit your prior assumptions or biases.

Provide the complete References list of the sources used in writing the Discussion. Use APA style (7th Ed.) to enter the references.