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As a health and human sciences professional, how in the future will you engage in leadership, management, and/or collaboration? Group and/or teamwork? How can you improve your skills in these areas? What impact will these skills have on you? Others in the workplace?

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Discussion post

1. As a health and human sciences professional, how in the future will you engage in leadership, management, and/or collaboration? Group and/or teamwork? How can you improve your skills in these areas? What impact will these skills have on you? Others in the workplace? Clients or patients under your care?

2. What is leadership? What are different perspectives of leadership? What perspectives would facilitate the work of health and human services organizations?
What is management? In what ways are management and leadership similar or different? What is collaboration? What factors facilitate collaboration? Prevent collaboration? Are teams and groups similar? Different? In what ways?

What behaviors by Alex are having the greatest impact on the 360° data? Which of these behaviors are positive and which are negative? What does the 360° data tell us about Alex’s likely career success? If you were Sam Glass, would you invest more time in helping Sander progress at Landon? All analyses should be in 12 pt. font, double-spaced, 1” margins

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A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products

For each case, you will submit your written response to the case questions. You may address more than one answer to one, may bleed into another. These analyses are graded as pass or fail, based on whether you provided some thoughtful commentary on the topic at hand, but not based on what you chose to express.

What behaviors by Alex are having the greatest impact on the 360° data? Which of these behaviors are positive and which are negative?

What does the 360° data tell us about Alex’s likely career success?

If you were Sam Glass, would you invest more time in helping Sander progress at Landon?

What idea do you have to improve something at your job, your organization, or in your community? Who would care about this idea? In other words, who should be your intended audience? Is it your boss? Your boss’s boss? A board? An elected official? What will you need to do in your final report to convince your audience that your idea or solution is worth implementing?

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Persuasive Communication

It is time to write another persuasive letter, but this time you will write to your instructor about the topic for your formal report. Although this letter may be crafted less formally in tone than the “bad news” letter, it is a persuasive communication. Therefore, you should study all the resources for this module carefully before you begin.

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is for you to continue to hone your writing skills, to persuade your instructor of the appropriateness of your topic for your final major project in this course, and to showcase your deliberative process as you illustrate the need for a solution to your selected “problem” or “opportunity.”

Task(s)

You need to begin preparing for subsequent activities related to the Final Recommendation Report due in Module 8. See the Final Recommendation Report Flow Chart.docx to get an idea of what is coming.

To begin that process and for this specific exercise, you need to identify a problem or concern in your workplace, a local organization, a government agency, on campus, or in your neighborhood. This problem or opportunity must be one for which you are qualified to seek a realistic solution and one that offers a real (and specific) audience to whom you can write your report.

In other words, you must consider the scope of your topic; you cannot attempt, for example, to solve the rising student debt crisis in the United States; nor can you attend to the refusal of some organizations to require (or not) face masks in their establishments during the pandemic.

Once you have decided upon a topic as the focus for your final report, you will then write a letter to your instructor identifying the problem or opportunity you wish to research and write about in that final report.

Consider the following as you complete this exercise:

1) What idea do you have to improve something at your job, your organization, or in your community?

  • Is it a new process or policy?
  • Is it a new position that should be created?
  • Is it a new program that could be created?

2) Who would care about this idea? In other words, who should be your intended audience?

  • Is it your boss? Your boss’s boss? A board? An elected official?
  • What will you need to do in your final report to convince your audience that your idea or solution is worth implementing?

Although the situation you are presenting in your letter is not a pleasant one, your letter should be professional in tone and appearance, demonstrate careful thought and intelligence, sound compelling and sensitive to the writing context, make use of careful word choice, grammar, and punctuation, and relay a complexity and sophistication in ideas and appeal.

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Bad News

It is time to write a persuasive formal letter delivering “bad news” to a recipient. Bear in mind that these are the toughest types of letters to write well, so study all the resources for this module carefully before you begin.

Purpose

You will formulate a letter that demonstrates your understanding of the importance of the right rhetorical stance, business-like tone, professionalism, and sensitivity toward your reader. Your letter will establish what you should do in a problematic business situation because you will encounter times in your career when you will need to present difficult news with clarity and persuasion.

Task(s)

Select your topic from the list below for your business letter and type it according to the protocols laid out in the readings and viewings for this week.

Although the situation you are presenting in your letter is not a pleasant one, your letter should be professional in tone and appearance, demonstrate careful thought and intelligence, sound compelling and sensitive to the writing context, make use of careful word choice, grammar, and punctuation, and relay a complexity and sophistication in ideas and appeal.

Further, your letter must be persuasive and substantive in content (that is, provide all the details your reader needs—even if you must fill in the gaps). A minimum of 350 words (apart from the heading, salutation, and closing) is required.

Option 1
1. A formal letter to your boss to let him or her know that you have handled a customer complaint issued against a colleague. This is a dicey situation because you must create the scenario and then decide upon a host of factors: is this a friend? A rival? Was the complaint true or accurate? Egregious? Is your company liable in this case?

Option 2
2. A formal letter to a group of colleagues to request a meeting to create a new policy in response to a recent and unpleasant occurrence. You will need to discuss the sensitive nature of the action and those involved, but you must remain professional and heed the warnings in the resources about litigious actions.

Option 3
3. A formal letter to a client to address his/her complaints against your company. Your client is being unrealistic and demanding exorbitant compensation, but your management team believes that the error was minor (fill in the gaps) and in no way requires major compensation. Here’s the problem: this client is one of your most loyal and most important as far as producing revenue for your company. Worse? This customer’s nephew works at your company and has access to all your correspondence.

Option 4
4. A formal letter to donors informing them that as the director of your university’s annual fund-raising campaign. You discovered that funds were misappropriated and that personal financial information was sold by a former employee to an outside source. You must now notify the donors of this breach, but there is the cause here for greater embarrassment for you: as the director, you previously contacted each of these donors and convinced them to contribute to the wonderful project (you may fill in the details here) underway. More bad news: the press has gotten wind of this breach and will soon publish a story in the local paper about it.

Option 5
5. You are Joan Rivers’ assistant at the Communications and Marketing Department at your university. You have just received 10,000 copies of a brochure that you created and wrote to advertise to the local community your university’s economic and social commitment (and contribution) to the region. Unfortunately, you discovered that two panels of the brochure are blank, and this is the second time your printer (Fastidious Printing Company) has made a major mistake with your projects. You and Joan are very angry, especially since the sales manager promised last time that this would not occur again. Write a formal letter to the sales manager to correct this problem. Oh, and the shipment invoice indicated an increased cost for which you were unaware.

Review the Rodney King Incident and think about how the violence perpetrated on King could have been predicted and perhaps prevented. Then suggest a set of workable alternatives to the use of deadly force that today’s police forces might effectively use in their confrontation with violent individuals.

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Assignment: Review the Rodney King Incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King) and think about how the violence perpetrated on King could have been predicted and perhaps prevented. Then suggest a set of workable alternatives to the use of deadly force that today’s police forces might effectively use in their confrontation with violent individuals. You may give some consideration to the findings of the Christopher Commission (http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/reports98/police/uspo73.htm), charged with examining the use of force on King. However, your task is to go further and develop a larger set of recommendations (the workable alternatives to the use of deadly force) that show innovation as well as imagination. Your submission must be at least two double-spaced pages using 12 point Times New Roman (or similar font).

What kind of solutions would you recommend for this serious matter? Should defined-benefit plans be replaced by defined-contribution plans, thereby avoiding the risk altogether?

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208 Defined Benefits Plan

• In recent years, many defined-benefit retirement funds have been unable to meet their obligations. These failures include both private companies and government funds (even the Ohio State Teachers Retirement fund has had to cut back on the benefits promised to teachers decades ago). There are many reasons, but often these failures are due to the same sort of issues that have caused Social Security to be in trouble (increasing lifespans, poor investment returns, and inadequate funding as future cash needs seem less urgent than current ones).

• What kind of solutions would you recommend for this serious matter?

• Should defined-benefit plans be replaced by defined-contribution plans, thereby avoiding the risk altogether?

Once I have developed a plan, how do I move into action? What kind of self-starter am I? How can I improve? What obstacles lie in my way? Which are critical? How can I manage these obstacles? How do I keep my efforts from flagging? What do I do when I feel like giving up?

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Activity Assignment: Journal/ Importance of Client Action

In Box 8.1, page 234, is a set of questions (see questions below) you can ask yourself about your own bias toward action. In 2-3 pages (double spaced) journal what you realized about yourself from answering the questions. Include how you might apply this self-knowledge in the future to improve yourself, and to help clients ask themselves these questions and answer how they might tackle any obstacles?

• Once I have developed a plan, how do I move into action?

• What kind of self-starter am I? How can I improve?

• What obstacles lie in my way? Which are critical?

• How can I manage these obstacles?

• How do I keep my efforts from flagging?

• What do I do when I feel like giving up?

• What kind of support will help me to keep going?

• What role does hope play in my search for a better life?

• What’s my track record with life-enhancing change?

What is the organisations current purpose and how will this shift? Why is this change happening and why would the audience benefit? What is the promise, the single minded proposition related to the project What channels, methods and resources must be orchestrated to communicate this change creatively? Why would the audience engage, take notice and care?

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Personal project challenge

Change is the only constant…

Take an existing organisation and write the brief that enables it to pivot.

In the commercial world being able to explain your thinking in simple communications is critical to growth, attraction of clients and survival in an ever changing business environment.

You are required to find an organisation, charity or business you connect with. One that means something to you.

This must be an existing entity but it can be an SME, growing enterprise or international corporation.

The challenge

You can choose to look at a brand led project, advertising campaign or website project offering services or digital interactions as a basis.

Your organisation or business has decided that a key pivot of focus must happen due to a change in audience, competition or business environment. You must write the brief that will be answered by creative agencies to solve this communications and organisational challenge.

In this task

This is an individual task that counts towards your final mark and is purposefully designed to help you use the theory we will cover in a practical, real world way.

Think about a organisational task that needs your attention, then produce a briefing document no longer than 5 pages that is clearly laid out and is well presented with diagrams and key points called out. (Creatives often have a short attention span!)

What is the organisations current purpose and how will this shift?

Why is this change happening and why would the audience benefit?

What is the promise, the single minded proposition related to the project

What channels, methods and resources must be orchestrated to communicate this change creatively?

Why would the audience engage, take notice and care?

Present this as an a4 document in Powerpoint or Word or as a canva presentation. This document should be 5 pages long (with additional references and notes as required) and will show thinking, development, background information and your proposed personal single minded proposition so you are ready to brief an agency or creative team.

Why is it worth doing? What is the importance of this issue, and how does it fit into the framework of psychology and the built environment? What approach will you take to address your topic? Here you will need to explain your strategy, which might be to examine a particular theory or body of research, to compare several theories, or to consider the relevance of a particular theory or body of research to everyday reality.

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Project 1: Research Paper

Learning Objectives
Should you choose to complete Project 1, you will achieve the following learning objectives.
1. Acquire knowledge about a specific topic or issue in environmental psychology that is of special interest to you.
2. Develop and use skills in literature review and in the comprehension, analysis, application, synthesis, and evaluation of scholarly research.
3. Develop skills in writing a scholarly psychology research paper.

Instructions
Project 1 is a research paper of at least 5000 to 6000 words (20 to 25 typed, double– spaced pages). This project enables you to study a particular area or topic from the
course in greater depth. Your paper must address the psychological ramifications of people’s interaction with some aspects of their physical environment. Topic: (Causes of homelessness and houselessness among the Indigenous peoples in Winnipeg and how these environmental issues can be resolved.) (include some psychological factors. Social, economic, cultural and other factors are obviously important as well).

Once you have identified your general area of interest, you might need to do further reading before deciding on the actual topic. As a general rule, survey texts (such as Gifford’s) do not provide sufficient detail to be acceptable sources for a research paper. They do provide good starting places, however. You will need to locate and use primary source materials and published, original studies for your research. If you cannot locate primary material, look for acceptable secondary sources—books or articles written by someone with appropriate academic credentials that criticize a piece of original research or compare several pieces of research on a single issue. You are expected to review and integrate the information presented in 10 or more primary research or review articles and discuss the limitations and strengths of the research.

Structure and Grading Criteria
A scholarly paper always comprises three major segments: the introduction, the body, and the conclusion. Begin your writing by making an outline, a sketch of the parts of
your paper. The outline demonstrates that your arguments are logical and that they lead from the introductory section, which defines the issue, to your conclusion. A good outline also indicates any future research needs or practical applications that you have identified.

Introduction
The introduction to your paper addresses the following questions in a scholarly manner:

• What do you intend to do? What issue (or issues) will you discuss, and from what point of view? Be specific, mentioning not only the theme of your paper, but also any unique aspects of that theme that you plan to address.

• Why is it worth doing? What is the importance of this issue, and how does it fit into the framework of psychology and the built environment?

• What approach will you take to address your topic? Here you will need to explain your strategy, which might be to examine a particular theory or body of research, to compare several theories, or to consider the relevance of a particular theory or body of research to everyday reality.

• This section should define what you will and will not cover. The length of your paper will most likely limit the extent of your work. Be sure to note any obvious relevant variables that you will have to omit.

Body
The body of your paper is where you do what you have told the reader you were setting out to do in the introduction. Pay attention to the clarity of interpretation and to the relevance of the theories, concepts, and research findings to psychology and the built environment. Any quoted material and any ideas attributable to someone else must be acknowledged with proper in–text citations and must be listed in correct reference format at the end of the paper in the APA format.

Conclusion
The conclusion reviews the relevance of the topic to psychology and the built environment. Your conclusion must summarize the argument you have developed and
should include suggestions for what should be done with your work or for further research that is needed.

Abstract
Include an abstract of 100–150 words at the beginning of your research paper. The abstract should be a concise summary of the key points covered in your paper.

Do you believe that Mr. Snowshoe being Aboriginal played a part in the way he was treated within the prison system? Or, do you think that mental health was a stronger determining factor in his treatment?

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Discussion Board

Question: Do you believe that Mr. Snowshoe being Aboriginal played a part in the way he was treated within the prison system? Or, do you think that mental health was a stronger determining factor in his treatment?

Explain your answer using 2 nursing ethical articles and an ethical theory to defend your answer.

Explain your ethical concerns and suggest ways to reduce the deaths of prisoners in solitary confinement. Your position needs to be supported by ethical reasoning and evidence-based practice. Read the story about Eddie Snowshoe published in the Globe and Mail. Here is the link: