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PSY655 Week 1 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
In the assigned article, “From Trait to
Transformation: The Evolution of Leadership Theories,” Hesburgh is cited
as having stated that “wherever it [leadership] exists, morale flourishes,
people pull together toward common goals, spirits soar, order is maintained,
not as an end in itself, but as a means to move forward together.” Choose
one aspect of this statement and discuss in detail how it may or not be true.
Be certain to provide at least one scholarly reference to support your
position.
dq 2
Discuss why researchers have had such a
difficult time connecting leadership characteristics and behaviors to leader
effectiveness and success?
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PSY655 Week 2 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
Discuss how the definition of trust from page
712 of the assigned article, “An Integrative Model of Organizational
Trust,” relates to a leader’s role in the lives of followers?
dq 2
Why do coworkers place more trust in coworkers
trusted by leaders? How is this important to our understanding of workplace
behavior and leadership?
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PSY655 Week 3 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
Discuss what can be drawn from the suggested
findings of Brain and Lewis in the assigned article, “Exploring Leadership
Preferences in Multicultural Workgroups: An Australian Case Study,” regarding
the impact of education levels on leadership preferences in settings outside
Australia?
dq 2
How might the findings in the assigned
article, “Gender and Leadership Style: A Meta-Analysis,” influence the way you
would coach a group of developing male and female leaders?
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PSY655 Week 4 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
Choose one definition of workplace stress and
discuss it in relation to one of your own workplace experiences. How does the
definition you chose fit within the framework of the example you describe?
dq 2
Consider the two paradigms (individual and
organizational) with respect to managing workplace stress. Find and discuss at
least one “research-based” article supporting either the individual
or the organizational workplace stress management approach.
GC
PSY655 Week 5 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
Considering the Workplace Stress assignment
from Module 4, how might work-related stress contribute to the discussion of
red flags in the assigned article, “Why Good Leaders Make Bad
Decisions”?
dq 2
What are some potential issues of
self-interest that might distort decision making?
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PSY655 Week 6 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
A solid definition of the Law of Unintended
Consequences is provided on page 54 of the assigned article, “The
Unintended Consequences of the Application of Technology in Teaching and
Learning Environments,” which includes work from Portes (2000). Draw a
comparison between Portes notion of the importance of careful and sustained
analysis of the social context and the red flags of poor decisions.
dq 2
Consider the bicycle helmet example of
Blanchflower in the assigned article, “The Law of Unintended Consequences.”
Clearly more detailed research would be required to support his notion, but he
poses an interesting way of considering unintended consequences. Consult your
own experiences and those in your immediate circle of influence to generate one
potential example of unintended consequences.
GC
PSY655 Week 7 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
There are five identified steps to the CIT
method as mentioned in the “Using the Critical Incident Technique in
Counselling Psychology Research” article. Clearly all five are important.
Please choose the one you believe to be most critical. Describe it and then
discuss why you believe it is the most critical step.
dq 2
Choose one of the evolutions of CIT and
discuss how it may have made the application of CIT to specific leadership
consultations more useful.
GC
PSY655 Week 8 Discussion 1 Latest 2016 November
dq 1
Post your experiences regarding the CIT
Interview Techniques: Summary Report.
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PSY655 Week 1 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
In a 500-750-word essay, 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. Include two scholarly sources; your
textbook can be used as one of the sources.
While APA format is not required for the body
of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations
and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which
can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
GC
PSY655 Week 2 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
Write a 1,000-1,250-word essay addressing the
following question:
1. The antecedents of trust (ability,
benevolence, and integrity) proposed in the assigned article, “An
Integrative Model of Organizational Trust,” 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.
2. Describe how the strategies might change
depending on what setting the leader might be in. (Business, industrial, etc.)
Use the GCU eLibrary databases, and assigned
readings; include a minimum of 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 grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
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PSY655 Week 3 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
Design a PowerPoint 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): Lynn Elsenhans,
Carol Meyrowitz, Andrea Jung, Ellen Hullman, Ilene Gordon, Patrica Woertz,
Carly Fiorina, 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): Jennifer Fischer (The
Office), Glenn Close (Damages), Kyra
Sedgwick (The Closer),
Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy), and
Tina Fey (30 Rock), etc.
5. Corporate/Professional Women in film: The Stepford Wives, The Devil Wears Prada, Mildred
Pierce, Working Girl, Nine to Five,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. What characteristics, behaviors, and/or
traits do the characters exhibit that demonstrate their leadership or
management skills?
3. Is there a “politics to language” with
respect to communication and leadership style/ability?
4. Is there a (dis)connect with respect to age
and leadership style/ability? If so, provide examples.
5. What effect does “labeling” have on
leadership and women’s ascension (or lack thereof) to power?
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a
minimum of three outside references or other resources for evidentiary support.
While APA style format is not required for the
body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations
and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which
can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
GC
PSY655 Week 4 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
Write a 1,000-1,250-word essay analyzing the
following:
1. What are some of the measured and
unmeasured costs of workplace stress?
2. What are some of the more common individual
actions recommended to reduce workplace stress?
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. Identify any activities or actions employed
to reduce workplace stress.
3. What are some of the more common individual
actions recommended to reduce workplace stress?
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. Identify any activities or actions.
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a
minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
GC
PSY655 Week 5 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
Create a scenario (1,250–1,500 words) that
requires and results in a quality decision. Consider the following:
1. Provide specific details as to whether
collaboration is merited.
2. Is collaboration the best way to achieve a
positive outcome? Why/Why not?
3. What strategic approach would you take to
ensure a quality decision is made?
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a
minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
GC
PSY655 Week 6 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
Write an essay (1,250 – 1,500 words) analyzing
the unintended consequence(s) of a decision.
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?
Select a case study on a business, social, or
psychological “problem” in which a decision yielded an unintended
consequence. Describe the process of decision making that was used in this
instance and why that process led to the decision that was 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 topics include, but not limited to:
Unintended Consequence: Business
1. Athlete-Agent
2. HMO
Cost Containment
3. Financial
Crisis
4. Bailout
of Financial Auto Industry
5. Corporate
Governance Reform and CEO Compensation
6. Economic
Restructuring in Iraq
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 the GCU eLibrary databases; include a
minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
GC
PSY655 Week 7 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
This CIT Interview Techniques assignment
includes two parts: a critical incident interview (due in Module 7), and a
summary report (due in Module 8).
To frame the context for this assignment,
consider the following statement as the basis of the project: “There is
evidence that researchers using the 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 the Canadian
Journal of Counselling, by Butterfield et al., 2005, p. 489).
Interview Preliminaries:
1. Using methodology described in the
readings, prepare a list of questions regarding an individual’s direct personal
experience with leaders. A minimum of 15 questions is required.
2. As the interviewer, pose the questions to
the 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.
3. Identify a subgroup of people in your
immediate circle of contact with whom you have the ability to conduct a
critical incident technique (CIT) interview regarding their experience with
leaders in their own lives.
4. Conduct a minimum of three interviews.
Prepare this assignment as a Word document
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 grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
GC
PSY655 Week 8 Assignment Latest 2016 November
Details:
As the second part of the CIT Interview
Techniques assignment, write a summary report (1,250-1,500 words) about the
information gleaned from the interview process in Module 7.
Interview Preliminaries Redux:
1. Select two to three people to whom you will
administer the interview developed in Module 7.
2. Administer interview questions to chosen
participants for final formal interview purposes.
3. Revise your original questions. Administer
the additional final set of questions regarding why the selected incidents
might be important (i.e., have the participants identify the meaning of the
incidents discussed during the interview process).
4. Provide follow-up questions as necessary
along with subsequent responses.
Interview Summary Report
1. Write a summary report (1,250-1,500 words)
about the information gleaned from the interview process.
2. Conclude paper with a discussion of the
participants’ descriptions of the meaning of the incidents described during the
interview process.
Use the GCU eLibrary databases; include a
minimum of three outside references or other 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 grading rubric.
Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore,
students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful
completion of the assignment.
