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PSY655
Week 1 Assignment Latest 2017 December

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In 500-750 words, do the following:

1. Briefly
outline the evolution of theories on leadership.

2. Describe
how one theory led to the next.

3. Explain
how the practical application of leadership styles have changed because of this
evolution.

4. Identify
current issues in applying leadership theory.

Include two scholarly sources; your textbook
can be used as one of the sources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style
Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the
directions in the Student Success Center.

PSY655
Week 2 Assignment Latest 2017 December

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You are a leadership consultant, and have been
hired by an organization to help increase trust in the workplace. In order to
do this you need to coach the leadership on how to illicit trust from their
followers. In 500-750 words, address the following question:

1. The
antecedents of trust (ability, benevolence, and integrity) proposed in the
assigned article, “An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust: Past,
Present, and Future,” are defined rather simply. Using additional research
on trust and leader behavior, identify how you could coach a person to engage
in behaviors that might elicit higher levels of those antecedents in followers.
Make sure to include what needs to be coached and how you would go about it, as
the focal point of this section.

2. Describe
how the strategies might change depending on what setting the leader might be
in (business, industrial, nonprofit, etc.). Reminder this is about the leader
and how you, as the consultant, would coach a leader differently in a different
setting.

Use two to three scholarly resources for
evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style
Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

PSY655
Week 3 Benchmark Assignment Latest 2017 December

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Design a presentation the format of the presentation is your
choice, focusing on working class women and corporate women in film/television,
the public sphere, and/or popular culture. Explore gender and culture—the
intersection of race and class and the impact on women’s leadership style and/
or ability.
To complete this assignment, consider the following examples:

1. Corporate/Professional
   Women (film/ popular culture)
2. Corporate
   Women (CEOs): Mary Barra, Indra Nooyi, Ginni Romelty, Marillyn Hewson,
   Susan Wojcicki, etc.
3. Professional
   Women: Elizabeth Warren, Helen Gurly Brown, Gloria Steinem, Oprah Winfrey,
   Katie Couric, Barbara Walters, Connie Chung, Maria Shriver, Sonia
   Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, etc.
4. Professional
   Women (television characters/actresses): Kerry Washington (Scandal),
   Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife),
   Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy), and Tina Fey (30 Rock), etc.
5. Corporate/Professional
   Women in film: Erin Brokovich, Devil Wears Prada, Joy, The Proposal, etc.
6. Working
   Class Women (film/popular culture) Bread and Roses, Country, Norma Rae,
   Silkwood, Steel Magnolias, Working Girl, North Country, Salt of the Earth,
   Fast Food Women, My American Girls, Her Own Words
7. Women
   in Nontraditional Jobs: Roseanne, etc.
8. Female
   Politicos/Public Office: Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi,
   Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, Mary L. Landrieu, Margaret Thatcher, Mary
   Robinson, Indira Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Mier.

To frame the assignment context, consider a fundamental tenet of
Women’s Studies and the Women’s Movement: the “personal is the political,”
whereby the intersection of public issues (public sphere) and personal problems
(private sphere) yields political action or movement. Address the following:

1. Depict
   how women in film/television, the public sphere, and/or popular culture
   portray leadership and or management skills.
2. Describe
   the characteristics, behaviors, and/or traits women exhibit that
   demonstrate their leadership or management skills.
3. Explain
   if there is “politics to language” with respect to communication and
   leadership style/ability.
4. Examine
   if there a (dis)connect with respect to age and leadership style/ability.
   If so, provide examples.
5. Discuss
   the effect “labeling” has on leadership and women’s ascension (or lack
   thereof) to power.

Use three to five scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style
Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

PSY655
Week 4 Workplace Stress Assignment Latest 2017 December

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Seek out at least three individuals within your sphere of
influence and ask the following:

1. What
   does workplace stress feel like to you?
2. What
   activities or actions do you or your organization initiate to reduce
   workplace stress?
3. What
   are some of the more common individual actions recommended to reduce
   workplace stress?

In 1,000-1,250 words, based on your interview responses, analyze
the following:

1. Describe
   some measured and unmeasured costs of workplace stress.
2. Discuss
   more common individual actions recommended to reduce workplace stress.

Use three to five scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style
Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

PSY655 Week 5 Benchmark – Assignment
Latest 2017 December

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In 500-750 words, do the
following:

1.
Describe a business
scenario in which collaboration would influence a decision-making process (You
can use a real-world experience of your own as inspiration or you can use a
real-world business scenario that you have found in the news as your
inspiration).

2.
Provide specific
details, from the scenario, as to whether collaboration is merited in the
decision-making process.

3.
Discuss if collaboration
is the best way to achieve a positive outcome in the scenario. Include why or
why not.

4.
Based on the scenario,
describe the strategic approach as well as the communication techniques a team
leader would use to ensure a quality decision is made.

Use two to three
scholarly resources for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style
Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

PSY655
Week 6 Unintended Consequences Assignment Latest 2017 December

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To frame the context for
this assignment, consider the following questions: Leadership is hard; why?
Perhaps the culprit is the tangential difference (disconnect?) between the
intellectual, emotional, and inspirational decision relative to the problem.
How do effective leaders reconcile the art and the science of decision making
with the possibility of unintended consequence?
Find a case study on a business, social, or psychological “problem”
in which a decision yielded an unintended consequence. In 1,250-1,500 words,
analyze the unintended consequence(s) of that decision. Describe the process of
decision making that was used in this instance and why that process led to the
decision that was made. Despite the unintended consequence(s), were the
decisions ethical at the time they were made?
Consider the following areas of concentration for effective decision making:

1.
Barriers.

2.
Cost of indecisiveness.

3.
Collaboration: strength
and/or weaknesses.

4.
Unintended consequence:
Inherited feature in the decision-making process.

5.
Recommendations or
reconciliations to avoid unintended consequences.

Example case studies
include, but are not limited to:
Unintended Consequence: Business

1.
Athlete-Agent

2.
Corporate Governance
Reform and CEO Compensation

3.
Invasion of Iraq

4.
The Affordable
Healthcare Act

Unintended Consequence:
Social

1.
Communism for
Neighborhood Relations

2.
Civil Rights Act of 1964

3.
Cuban Missile Crisis

4.
Employer Layoffs

5.
End-of-Life Care

6.
Health Care Reform

7.
Immigration Act of 1965

8.
Large-Scale Iron Ocean
Fertilization

9.
Rise of International
Criminal Law

10.
Transportation Security
(TSA) Administration Policies

11.
Youth Bike Helmet Laws

Unintended Consequence:
Psychological

1.
Gender Aspects of
Conflict Interventions (Bosnia, Somalia, etc.)

2.
Women in the Workforce

3.
The Workforce Investment
Act

Use three to five
scholarly references for evidentiary support.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style
Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

PSY655
Week 7 CIT Interview Techniques: Interviews Assignment Latest 2017 December

Details:

This CIT Interview
Techniques assignment includes two parts: a critical incident interview (due in
Topic 7), and a summary report (due in Topic 8). The first part are steps 1-3
in the CIT process, and the second part represents steps 4-5 in the CIT
process.To frame the context for this assignment, consider the following
statement as the basis of the project: “There is evidence that researchers
using CIT are now asking participants to reflect upon and write down the
meaning of critical incidents, not just discuss them in a research
interview” (From theCanadian Journal of Counseling by Butterfield, et al., 2005, p. 489).

Interview:

1.
Using methodology
described in the readings, prepare a list of open-ended questions regarding an
individual’s direct personal experience with leaders. A minimum of 15 questions
is required.

2.
Identify a subgroup of
people in your immediate circle of contact with whom you have the ability to
conduct a critical incident (CI) interview regarding their experience with
leaders in their own lives.

3.
Conduct a minimum of
three interviews.If you are unable to meet with your interviewee in person you may
choose to Skype, Google Hangout, or call your interviewee. However, you may not
just send them the questions and ask them to fill them out, as this takes you
out of the process and one of the points of this assignment is for you to gain
experience in talking with people, and learning how to interview people.

4.
As the interviewer, pose
the questions to the three respondent(s). Questions include but are not limited
to specific leadership moments, negative and/or positive experiences, leader
decisions and consequences, or any direction drawn from course readings to this
point.

5.
Submit a brief 150-250
word summary of your findings, including who you interviewed and why. Remember
you will give a more detailed, supported summary of your findings for the next
assignment. The submission should include the raw question and answer data in
the form of at least three appendices (one for each interview, and in question
and answer format), as one would provide in qualitative research.

*Note*-
Please remember interviewees should be reminded they have the right not to
answer questions; further, there is an element of confidentiality that should
be maintained. In your writing, you may want to ensure your interviewees you
will not identify them by name or place of business.

While APA format is not
required for the body of this assignment, along with solid academic writing.
Remember documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting
guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student
Success Center.

PSY655
week 8 CIT Interview Techniques: Summary Report Latest 2017 December

As the second part of
the CIT Interview Techniques assignment (steps 4-5 of the CIT process), write a
summary report (1,250-1,500 words) about the information gleaned from the
interview process in Topic 7 (steps 1-3 of the CIT process).

Interview Summary
Report:

1.
Write a summary report
(1,250-1,500 words) about the information gleaned from the interview process,
drawing connections and connecting to scholarly leadership research.

2.
Conclude the paper with
a discussion of the participants’ descriptions of the meaning of the incidents
described during the interview process.

3.
The Summary Report
should also include the raw data collected as in the original paper, in at
least three appendices, and in question and answer format.

Use three to five
scholarly resources for evidentiary support.

Prepare this assignment
according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the
Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a
rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to
submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the
Student Success Center.