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organizational development (OD)

An organizational development (OD) practitioner needs to determine methods for gathering information about the organization’s current state, particularly its goals and the issues it is facing. The process of understanding a system’s current function is called diagnosis.
Diagnosis is a collaborative process involving the consultant, the managers, and possibly other stakeholders. Diagnosis may be used for problem solving, situational analysis, discovery for future enhancements, etc. The goal of diagnosis and assessment is to provide an intervention strategy and a plan that will enhance the organization and assist it in reaching its stated goals.
For this assignment, select an organization.
Respond to the following:

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Apply APA standards to cite sources.

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Feedback analysis

Feedback can take many forms. It can be directed from individual to individual or flow among individuals and groups. It can be formal or informal, mutual or one-way, written or verbal, personal or impersonal, requested or unsolicited, or embraced or unwelcome.
Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research the concept of feedback.
On the basis of your research, respond to the following:

Support your discussion points with scholarly examples from research from the Argosy University online library resources.
Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

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Discursive Approach to Leadership

A system is the sum of component parts. Each part may affect the way the other parts work. Traditionally, businesses have managed the separate parts of their systems by departmentalizing. These departments may achieve their goals, but they may also become a detriment to the organization.
Review the articles listed in this module’s required readings.
Required readings:

  • A Discursive Approach to Leadership: Doing Assessments and Managing Organizational Meanings
  • The Collaborative Organization: How to Make Employee Networks Really Work
  • Business Processes in Organizational Diagnosis
  • Six Sigma as a Business Process Management Method in Services: Analysis of the Key Application Problems

On the basis of your analysis of these articles, respond to the following:

Write your initial response in approximately 400 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

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report proposals in nursing

As a consultant, you need to put together a concrete proposal of work that addresses the client’s needs. Organizational psychology is highly theoretical in its approach, and it is important to keep that in perspective when putting together a proposal. The proposals need to be action oriented and should directly address the needs of the client.
Assume that a client has asked you to prepare a brief outline elaborating on the activities you plan to conduct. The client has asked you to translate the language of organizational psychology for a general audience comprised of various stakeholders of the organization. Write an analysis covering the following aspects:

 

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Montessori versus Publis schools

 
Final Research Paper Proposal
 
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
 

  1. Problem Statement: Describe the general topic you will address and its importance and relevance to real-world issues.
  2. Literature Review: In this section, you will use existing research on your subject and draw conclusions for informing your research proposal.
  3. a) Summarize existing, applicable research in the field around your topic, utilizing peer-reviewed sources.
  4. b) Identify the different research designs that have been used to generate knowledge on this topic, and describe how they differ.
  5. c) Differentiate between the research designs for their advantages and disadvantages in addressing the research questions, providing specific examples from the research.
  6. d) Evaluate the appropriateness of the research designs to the research questions, providing justification for your assertions. Which design seems most appropriate in addressing the question and why?
  7. e) Summarize what is unknown or uncertain about your topic, synthesizing the applicable existing research on the topic.
  8. f) Discuss the appropriateness of the data analysis procedures used in the literature as they relate to the American Psychological Association’s principles and standards. Consider the assumptions made and presentation of data.

III. Research Question and Hypothesis

  1. a) Based on your research about the topic, create a testable research question.
  2. b) Create a testable hypothesis based on your research question and research about the topic, explaining the extent to which the research supports your hypothesis.
  3. c) Describe the variables that will be measured and/or manipulated in your study, and explain the selection of variables. Specifically, what independent and dependent variables will be used to test your hypothesis?
  4. Proposed Methodology
  5. a) Outline who you plan to use as participants and how many participants you will need, providing justification.
  6. b) Describe the materials (surveys, etc.) that will be used in your study and why these materials are most appropriate for your proposal, justifying claims with resources.
  7. c) Describe the procedures you will use to collect your data and how these will appropriately address your research question.
  8. d) Discuss the ethical concerns involved in your study and the steps you will take to remedy them. Consider who will be studied, what risks they will be exposed to, and what steps will be taken to maintain the confidentiality of their responses and to obtain informed consent.
  9. Data Analysis Plan
  10. a) Explain what procedures you will use to prepare your raw data for analysis. If you have open-ended questions, how will they be coded? If you collected responses to multiple survey questions, how will the data be aggregated for analysis?
  11. b) Propose general analytical procedures that you will use to analyze your data, and explain how these procedures will help obtain valid and reliable research results.
  12. c) Describe which descriptive statistics that could be obtained from your data would be most informative in answering your research question and why.
  13. d) Discuss how your proposed data analysis methods are ethical and aligned to the American Psychological Association’s principles and standards.
  14. Anticipated Results: What do you expect the results of your study to be, and how do your expected results complement or contradict the results in previous literature?

 
 

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Counseling

Review an experience you have had with a consultant, internal or external, in your workplace. If you have not had any direct experience with a consultant, base your responses either on your readings or on your research of a company you admire. Imagine how you would consult with them on a specific topic of interest to you. Support your responses using scholarly resources.
Keeping the consultant’s role in mind, answer the following questions:

Write a 150- to 300-word response to each question.

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Reportr: Diagnosing Organizational Systems

An organizational assessment is the process evaluation of the various areas within the organization in terms of what is working well and what could be changed. An organizational assessment determines how organizational factors in the internal environment affect the competitive situation. It is a full system view of where the organization stands in order to maximize the organization’s efficiency and effectiveness in achieving its mission. When viewed as an open system, an organization can be diagnosed at three levels: the organizational level, the group level, and the individual level.
For this assignment, you will complete an activity designed to simulate the process of evaluating an organization and selecting or designing and conducting an organizational assessment.
Directions:
For this activity, identify an organization to diagnose. It is best to select an organization where you are currently or were previously employed. Think of this organization as a system. Include the following in 4–5 pages:

  1. Identify and document all of the following at the organizational level: (1–2 pages)
    • The organization’s mission/purpose
    • All inputs from the system
    • All outputs from the system
    • All processes your organization performs to transform inputs to outputs
    • Organizational environments
    • Organizational alignment
    • Feedback mechanisms to determine correctness or performance measures
  2. Develop an organizational assessment tool (ten questions) at the individual level. This can be a format of your choosing, such as a written questionnaire or a SurveyMonkey form. (1–2 pages)
    1. Identify a situation in your organization to be assessed. It should consider funding streams, workflow processes, organizational structure, outcome measurement, client satisfaction, employee turnover, the capacity for change, etc. Develop questions you believe will assess the situation effectively. Again, write ten questions in total for your tool.
    2. Explain your rationale for your approach in developing the questions.
      (1 paragraph)
    3. Explain how you would administer the tool to the employees in your chosen organization. For example, is this a one-time event, an annual survey, or an as-needed assessment? Note: You do not have to administer the tool; just develop a plan for administering it.
      (1 paragraph)
    4. Assess and explain your organization’s capacity to change and achieve greater effectiveness including financial performance, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement.
      (1–2 paragraphs)
    5. Select an appropriate communication and feedback method for how you would want to present the assessment and intervention results to your identified organization.
      (1–2 paragraphs)
    6. Turn in a copy of the tool you created along with your paper.

Your final product will be a Microsoft Word document approximately 10–12 pages in length. Utilize four to five scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Reflection Paper

Description

I need to write two reflections on parts 1 and 2 below. The total length of my journal assignment must be a minimum of three pages in length, with each journal entry being at least one page. (For example, this means that you could have one reflection be on one page and the other be two pages, each could be one and a half pages, or some other means by which each is at least one page in length and your total overall pages total three). The reflection will need to reflect your understanding of the time period and need to avoid being anachronistic. To accomplish this, you will need to write both reflections as if you were a first generation immigrant (in the first person). Your first reflection entry needs to be from the viewpoint of an immigrant from Europe (e g., Ireland, Italy, germany, England, or France). Your second reflection entry needs to come from the standpoint of an immigrant from Asia (e g., China or Japan). Part 1. Are you treated as an equal by earlier generations residing here? a. What are others attitudes toward you? b. Why do you think they act this way? c. Would you feel pressured to pledge your loyalty to a political machine? d. Would you agree to engage in a strike?. e. Talk about some leisure opportunities and how they are divided by race or class or are for everyone? 2. a. What is the “American dream? b. How did the growth of big businesses impact the American dream?. c. Explain which leisure opportunities could be part of the American dream? d. What part did the anti-immigration sentiment play in the American Dream? As this is a point of view essay, a Modern perspective will not accurately address What the question is asking for. It is strongly suggested that you use at least one selection from the America: history and life with full text database. All sources used including textbooks, must be referenced;paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations.

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types of financing

PART 1
Find an article or video offering advice on choosing the best financing option for a business. Post a link to the article or video to the discussion thread and answer the following questions:
1. Which types of financing did they discuss?
2. What advice did they offer?
3. What information or data did the article suggest a business owner use to help decide on the best financing decisions?

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Employee Satisfaction and Sick Days Taken: Pearson Correlation Report

Assignment 2: RA 2: Employee Satisfaction and Sick Days Taken: Pearson Correlation Report

For this assignment, you will read a brief scenario, analyze two data sets, and conduct a Pearson correlation in Microsoft Excel. You will justify the results in a 10- to 12-page report following the directions below.
Background Scenario:
Company ABC has hired you to conduct an employee satisfaction survey. You have conducted the survey and received the satisfaction scores of twenty participants. Company ABC is asking that you work with human resources (HR) by obtaining a report on the number of sick days for the twenty employees who completed your employee satisfaction survey. You are to take both sets of data and conduct a Pearson correlation to determine whether there is a relationship between employee satisfaction and the number of sick days taken. Assume the survey and the sick days are being measured over a one-year time frame.
Click here to view the data.
Directions:
Using the data sets provided, conduct a Pearson correlation (in Microsoft Excel). In a 10- to 12-page report to company ABC, which includes the Microsoft Excel data results sheet, address the following:

  • Include an executive summary explaining your findings.
  • Summarize for the client what a Pearson correlation is and why it was chosen for this analysis. Discuss the validity and reliability of a Pearson correlation.
  • Explain the type of correlation you discovered, if any. State the specific correlation coefficient and be specific as to whether it was positive or negative. Also, indicate whether the results were significantly positive or negative.
  • Describe the results from your statistical analysis, indicating the relationship between employee satisfaction and sick days taken in a year.
  • Determine what other variables may have impacted this relationship and the scores of the employee satisfaction survey.
  • Justify what research, if any, supports your findings on satisfaction and sick days.
  • Include a copy of your Pearson correlation computations in Microsoft Excel.

Your final product will be in a Microsoft Word document of approximately 10 to 12 pages. Utilize four to five scholarly sources in your research. Your document should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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