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M7D1: Communication Skills Image of colleagues discussing and working together on a project There are a number of reasons why communication falters in organizations. The communication channels may be inadequate, the individuals communicating the message may not be properly trained, or there may be language barriers that cannot be overcome, such as speaking different languages or not understanding the local culture. In such circumstances, strong and flexible communication skills become an integral component of a leader’s skillset. The following discussion activity will elaborate and reinforce the need for managers to develop a specific set of skills to be utilized in the change process. Respond to the following: • Briefly describe the four skills involved in engaging others in the change process. • Examine how these skills affect the delivery and impact of a leader’s message during the change process. Post your primary response. Read any postings already provided by your instructor or fellow students. Remember to read the feedback to your own major postings and reply to it throughout the module. Each post should be 250-300 words and written in your own words. All quoted text must be cited using APA format (6th edition). See the Course Calendar for due dates for posts and responses. Compose your work using a word processor and save it, as a Plain Text or an .rtf, to your computer. When you’re ready to make your initial posting, please click on the “Create Thread” button and copy/paste the text from your document into the message field. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it. Evaluation Criteria Review the SBT Discussion Rubric located in the “Start Here” section of the course for more information on grading criteria. Together, all discussions comprise 20% of the total course grade

M7D1: Communication Skills

Briefly, describe the four skills involved in engaging others in the change process.

Examine how these skills affect the delivery and impact of a leader’s message during the change process.

Communication Skills

In an organization’s change process, involving others is critical to the success of the process. This culminates into assuring other employees of the value and importance to the organization. In turn, it eases the process by creating acceptance of the change process.

Firstly, the essential skills employed in the change process entails making the employees understand why change is necessary (Gilley, et al., 2009). The leadershi

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250 – 300 words. at least 2 references Required: Author: Manning, G. & Curtis, K. Title: The Art of Leadership Copyright Year: 2014 Edition: 5th Publisher: McGraw-Hill ISBN#: 978-0077862459 Instructions When preparing for your discussion post on this case, it is recommended that you read through it several times. Read through it the first time to familiarize yourself with the case. On the second reading, consider your assigned role in the situation, and let that guide your perspective. Look deeper at the details: facts, problems, organizational goals, objectives, policies, strategies. Next, consider the concepts, theories, tools and research you need to use to address the issues presented. Then, complete any research, analysis, calculations, or graphing to support your decisions and make recommendations. Background Information A rumor is a piece of information gathered informally that is used to interpret an ambiguous situation (Schaefer, 2004). It is an unsubstantiated ‘news’ about a subject that is spread informally by people. Like gossip, a rumor is also an unverified piece of information or story. But unlike gossips, rumors are more focused on social issues or matters that affect a group or community. Thus, if the release of some information for the employees on a specified date is delayed without prior notice from the company, rumors are expected to circulate to explain why this incident occurred. Rumors fly when employees are worried or a change is underway. Rumors often exaggerate the problem and spread misinformation. Rumors are bad for morale and often lead to lower productivity and loss of good employees. If you are a leader, you will have to deal with rumors that twist or falsify benign information. Rumors impact performance. Reference Schaefer, R. (2004). Sociology: A Brief Introduction. 6th ed. Princeton, N.J. Discussion Prompt Assume you are the President of a health care agency that is about to be sold to a competitor. What do you say to your employees? Draft a memo to your employees explaining the decision that was made. This memo should address issues that you think will concern employees the most. On an additional page, justify the decisions made in the memo, and outline your plan to motivate employees to improve performance as the agency is sold. Tasks Create a memo to employees explaining a decision to sell the organization to a competitor. Address issues of concern to employees within the memo. Justify the decisions made in the memo. Outline a plan that will motivate employees to improve performance as the agency is sold. Consult the Discussion Posting Guide for information about writing your discussion posts. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it. When you are ready to post, click on the “Create Thread” button for a new thread or “Reply” to respond to a previous post. Then, copy/paste the text from your document into the message field, and click “Submit.”

M8D1: Rumors and Performance

Create a memo to employees explaining a decision to sell the organization to a competitor.

Address issues of concern to employees within the memo.

Justify the decisions made in the memo.

Outline a plan that will motivate employees to improve performance as the agency is sold.

Memo

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Subject: Selling the Company.

In this memo, the management wishes to put a notice of the proceeding of the company and the direction expected to take shape after the selling of the organization to our competitor. The decision has been informed by the need to improve on service delivery and quality of healthcare to the society. In the drafting of the terms of selling and purchase of

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250 – 300 words at least two refrencfes Required: Author: Manning, G. & Curtis, K. Title: The Art of Leadership Copyright Year: 2014 Edition: 5th Publisher: McGraw-Hill ISBN#: 978-0077862459 Instructions When preparing for your discussion post on this case, it is recommended that you read through it several times. Read through it the first time to familiarize yourself with the case. On the second reading, consider your assigned role in the situation, and let that guide your perspective. Look deeper at the details: facts, problems, organizational goals, objectives, policies, strategies. Next, consider the concepts, theories, tools and research you need to use to address the issues presented. Then, complete any research, analysis, calculations, or graphing to support your decisions and make recommendations. Background Information There is no shortage of difficult dilemmas facing organizations today. These dilemmas may relate to issues such as environmental concerns, government regulations, diversity in the workplace, employee safety, and labor practices. At any given moment, a leader may be confronted with a multitude of dilemmas. When a person faces a dilemma they process the facts through a set of beliefs. Their decisions are based on their beliefs. Here is an example: Some people are terrified of snakes. Those who fear snakes immediately want to take action when they see one – kill it or run away. In reality, most snakes are more afraid of you than you them. There are far more non-venomous snakes than venomous. But often when we see a snake, our belief is that snakes are bad, and our action is to run or fight. Leaders face those same kinds of issue. Leaders are experience. They have formed opinions or beliefs about their past experiences. Their actions reflect the beliefs formed by what they have experienced. Discussion Prompt In this scenario, you are the manager of a laboratory in a small town. The decision to close this laboratory has been made, but not communicated to anyone, and the lab is going to relocate to the corporate office several states away. The employees will be laid off. The company is waiting to see the latest financial results before making an announcement to the employees or the public. One night you are bowling with some of your employees. One of them tells you that he is going to buy a house that he and his wife have seen. With the overtime that he has been earning they can afford to make the purchase. You are relatively certain that his job will be eliminated in the next six to eight weeks. Do you tell him about the laboratory’s relocation that night, or do you keep silent due to your obligation as a manager of the company? Justify your decision in a fully-developed explanation that relates to ethics. Tasks Describe a decision about divulging confidential information about a company’s future. Justify the decision to divulge, or not divulge, confidential information about a company’s future. Relate the justification to ethics. Consult the Discussion Posting Guide for information about writing your discussion posts. Be sure to check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors before you post it. When you are ready to post, click on the “Create Thread” button for a new thread or “Reply” to respond to a previous post. Then, copy/paste the text from your document into the message field, and click “Submit.”

M7D1: Dealing with Dilemmas

Describe a decision about divulging confidential information about a company’s future.

Justify the decision to divulge, or not divulge, confidential information about a company’s future. Relate the justification to ethics.

Dealing with Dilemmas

As a manager, one has the responsibility to safeguard and protect confidential information by all means from public knowledge. This is to maintain the continuation of the company’s strategic plans successfully without any short-changing due to divulging information to other personnel. As the manager, I would restrain from disclosing the company’s confidential info

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Transportation Habits of the Workforce

TO: Ms. Suarez, CEO

FROM: Ariana Font

DATE: April 9, 2017

SUBJECT: Transportation Habits of the Workforce

Here is the report you asked for on March 15th about ABC Company’s employee transportation habits.

There has been a lot of congestion on roads, air pollution, late works arrival by employees, and weak company sales and productivity. The cause of this problem is due to so many personal vehicles on roads as employees drive to work.

Figure 1: Employee Carpool Habits

From the above figure, more than fifty percent of the workforce does not use carpooling at all.

Only 2% of the workfo

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing an informal learning experience you have had. You may describe, for example, how you became afraid of heights, why a particular food or smell moves you emotionally, or why you dislike elevators. The experience must be concrete and can be singular or an experience that occurred over a longer period. Describe the experience by applying learning theories from this week’s readings to the steps involved. Include the following: Identify what you learned from the experience. Describe how your learning could have occurred through classical conditioning. Identify the unconditioned stimulus, the unconditioned response, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response. Explain how your learning could have occurred through operant conditioning. Describe the behavior, consequence, and reinforcement. Indicate the schedule of reinforcement, if applicable. Address how your learning could have occurred through cognitive-social learning. Conclude by comparing classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive-social learning. Include at least 2 “academically acceptable” (see Instructor Polices todetermine what is academically acceptable) references (1 can be from your reading) from the University Library. Format your paper in accordance with APA guidelines.

Informal learning experience: fear of darkness

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Introduction

Informal learning can be described as the process of gaining knowledge which is brought about by activities as well as the interest of people. (Newman & Newman, 2009). There are different forms of informal learning experiences that people experience throughout their lives. One can experience informal learning through independently or through interaction with other people(Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012). Personally, I have experienced informal learning in my life, and these have affected my life in certain ways. The following discussion presents the form of informal learning that I have undergone, how these learning could have occurred through classical conditioning, how these learning could have occurred through operational conditioning as well as how it could have occurred through cognitive, social learning.

Fear of darkness

Fear of darkness is a common experience which has affected my life. People are affected by darkness in different ways. In t

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Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center. Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. Assignment 4: Persuasive Paper Part 2: Solution and Advantages Due Week 7 and worth 200 points (1). Using feedback from your professor and classmates, revise Part 1 and develop the solution and identify the advantages of the solution. Note: The disadvantages or challenges with your answers will be in Part 3. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: Provide Part I: Revision of A Problem Exists (3-4 pages) 1. Revise, using feedback from the professor and classmates, your Persuasive Paper Part I: A Problem Exists. Develop Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages for 6-8 pages total) 2. Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement clearly in the first paragraph. (The thesis statement may need to be modified to reflect added information and purpose of this part.) 3. Explain a detailed, viable solution that supports your thesis. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs. 4. State, explain, and support the first advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs. 5. State, explain, and support the second advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs. 6. State, explain, and support the third (and fourth if desired) advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs. 7. Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences. 8. Provide a concluding paragraph / transitional paragraph that summarizes the proposed solution and its advantages. 9. Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion. 10. Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategies (ethos, logos, pathos) to explain advantages. 11. Support advantage claims with at least three (3) additional quality relevant references. Use at least six (6) total for Parts 1 and 2. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Solution to Problem and Advantages

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Introduction

It is evidence that international trade and investment has both positive and negative impacts to participating nations. To human rights to be specific trade and investment have resulted to sustainable, inclusive and sustainable development outcome something that is worth cherishing. However the establishment of human rights have for a long time overlapped the roles in trade possibly because of how the policies and regulations which affects the capacity of trade to fulfil the requirements of human rights. With the increasing trend in globalization trade and investment agreement have been modified with more provisions that are aimed at improving the protections provided to the human rights and in return improve the labour standards. While a significant trade and investments recommends that individual country-state are responsible for both local and foreign trade players within their geographical borders, private players have endured significant blame and thus have had a direct responsibility towards any activity that tends to undermine human right requirements (Petersmann, 2000).

Thesis Statement

It has been the traditional norm of international trade treaties to limit the concerns only to the issues related to forced labour or slavery as a

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing an informal learning experience you have had. You may describe, for example, how you became afraid of heights, why a particular food or smell moves you emotionally, or why you dislike elevators. The experience must be concrete and can be singular or an experience that occurred over a longer period. Describe the experience by applying learning theories from this week’s readings to the steps involved. Include the following: Identify what you learned from the experience. Describe how your learning could have occurred through classical conditioning. Identify the unconditioned stimulus, the unconditioned response, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response. Explain how your learning could have occurred through operant conditioning. Describe the behavior, consequence, and reinforcement. Indicate the schedule of reinforcement, if applicable. Address how your learning could have occurred through cognitive-social learning. Conclude by comparing classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive-social learning. Include at least 2 “academically acceptable” (see Instructor Polices todetermine what is academically acceptable) references (1 can be from your reading) from the University Library. Format your paper in accordance with APA guidelines.

Informal learning experience: fear of darkness

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Introduction

Informal learning can be described as the process of gaining knowledge which is brought about by activities as well as the interest of people. (Newman & Newman, 2009). There are different forms of informal learning experiences that people experience throughout their lives. One can experience informal learning through independently or through interaction with other people(Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012). Personally, I have experienced informal learning in my life, and these have affected my life in certain ways. The following discussion presents the form of informal learning that I have undergone, how these learning could have occurred through classical conditioning, how these lear

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Assignment 2: Problem Solving Due Week 9 and worth 150 points When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it? This assignment asks you to apply a six-step to problem solving process to a specific problem scenario. You will write a paper that presents a synthesis of your ideas about solving the problem using this systematic approach. As Voltaire said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” Choose one (1) of the problem scenarios as a topic choice for your paper (Note: Your professor must approve your topic choice before you begin work on the assignment.) Scenario 1: You have worked at your company for eleven (11) years. You have returned to college to earn a Bachelor’s degree in order to increase your chances for a promotion. You are nearly finished with your degree, when a supervisor’s position in a competing company becomes available in another state. The start date is in two (2) weeks, during your final exam period for your courses. The position offers a $15,000 per year salary increase, a car allowance, and relocation expenses. Your former supervisor works for the company and is recommending you for the position based on your outstanding job performance; if you want the job, it’s yours. All of the other supervisors at this level in the company have Master’s degrees, so you know that you would be expected to earn your Bachelor’s degree and continue on to a Master’s degree. Your present company offers tuition reimbursement, but the new company does not. Scenario 2: Your child comes home from school with an assignment sheet for a school project. He / she is very excited about the project and begins work immediately, doing research on the Internet and gathering materials. You read over the assignment sheet and notice that your child is not including all of the required items in the project, and you have some ideas for how to improve the quality of the presentation. You recently read an article in a parenting magazine about the importance of a child developing responsibility for his/ her own learning. You recall the many ways in which your parents took over your school projects. You, on the other hand, want to encourage your child’s confidence in his / her ability to complete a project independently. The next day, you are at the grocery store when you see a parent of a student in your child’s class. That parent has spent over $30 in supplies for the science project and is taking a day off of work to put the pieces of the project together. Scenario 3: You have two jobs—one during the week from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and one on Saturday from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm. You are taking two classes—one that meets from 6:00 to 10:00 pm, and one class online. You have two kids—one who plays soccer, and one who is in band. You have two elderly parents who no longer drive. You have two siblings—one who lives two (2) miles away, and one who lives in another state. You have two (2) papers due in your classes the same week that one (1) of your children has a soccer tournament, and the other child has a band concert. You are coaching the soccer team, and you are in charge of fundraising for the band. You have a goal to complete your degree in two (2) years. Your doctor tells you that your blood pressure, your cholesterol, and your weight are too high and recommends several medications that cost you nearly $200 per month after your insurance co-pay. Scenario 4: You are a sales representative for a company that encourages staff to log time in the field and away from the office. You are expected to begin and end your day at the office. You notice that each day when you arrive and return another co-worker is already there, and you wonder whether this person spends most of his / her time at the office. At your weekly sales meeting, you are informed of your co-workers’ outstanding sales performance. You suspect that this co-worker is spending more time flattering the boss instead of working leads in the field, and as a result is getting the best client referrals. Your own sales numbers have steadily decreased since this other sales representative was hired. Scenario 5: Professor’s Choice – problem scenario presented by your professor. Scenario 6: Student’s Choice – Problem scenario presented by you. Review the six-step problem solving process outlined in the webtext, based on the article “The Problem Solving Process” located at http://www.gdrc.org/decision/problem-solve.html: Step One: Define the problem Step Two: Analyze the problem Step Three: Generate options Step Four: Evaluate options Step Five: Make your decision Step Six: Implement and reflect Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you: 1. Define the problem in the scenario that you have chosen. 2. Analyze the problem in the scenario. 3. Generate options for solving the problem in the scenario. 4. Evaluate the options for solving the problem. 5. Decide on the best option for solving the problem. 6. Explain how you will implement the decision made and reflect on whether this option was the most effective. The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing: Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph. Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences. Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Problem Solving Scenario #4

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Introduction

In the contemporary world of business, organizations are commonly faced with the challenge of handling difficult employees. It is a common phenomenon for personnel in an organization to struggle for favoritism and competition. It is the responsibility of management to create a work environment that fosters equality to all to ensure that motivation is optimal and that productivity of business is maintained both in the short-run and in the long-run (Ford, & Richardson, 2013).

Step one: problem definition

For the purpose of this assignment, the problem selected presented in the form of a scenario is scenario four. The problem entails who to identify solutions to co-workers that works in a competitive environment that is ever changing.

Step two: Problem Analysis

The breakdown of the problem involves one of my co-workers who is termed to be spending a significant amount of time at the workstation. From the weekly meeting held recently in sales, I learned about the co-worker exceptional performance from the sales figure he recorded which ended up generating outstanding growth for our organization. My conscious con

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Equality Rights Amendment (ERA). Part B

Equality Rights Amendment (ERA). Part B

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Equality Rights Amendment(ERA): Part B

The amending of the constitution regarding the equality of rights is crucial. As citizens of US, we are entitled to fairness, justice, and equality. In this particular context, I will focus on the importance of amending this Constitution, why people shy away from the amendment and significance of changing it.

The bill will ensure peace and harmony the nation. The recent problems on racism between the police force and the citizens are a result of the inequality of rights; this is why the amendment is necessary. Also, it allows development because of freed

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Equality Rights Amendment (ERA): Part A

Equality Rights Amendment (ERA): Part A

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Equality Rights Amendment (ERA): Part A

The equality rights amendment should be made in the constitution to allow peace and harmony in the country. We have been facing a constant problem

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