17 Apr Describe an incident from a past job where you would like to better understand how the organizational culture influenced employee behavior

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Q1

Describe an incident from a past job where you would like to better understand how the organizational culture influenced employee behavior.

· What was the situation, and what happened?

· If you had been the manager in that situation, what could you have done differently to change the situation?

· What would you do differently to prevent a  similar situations in the future?

Q2

Interest groups often influence the policy market. Select a health-related interest group (local, state, national or international), provide an overview of the beliefs and explain how they have influenced a recent health policy.

Q3

This week you will watch the movie: Batkid Begins, a true story about a little boy whose wish was granted to become Batman for a day in San Francisco (November 2013) You can rent the movie on Amazon.com for $2.99, You Tube or find it on any other platform where it may be available.  Once you have watched the movie, please respond to the following questions in your initial post.  Reflection/discussion on Batkid Begins:

· What was your favorite moment in the documentary Batkid Begins?    

· Describe at least three examples of play that you witnessed?  

· Do you consider the overall experiences portrayed in the documentary to be considered "therapeutic?" Why or why not?

· What was your overall reaction to watching the documentary? What lessons does it teach us?

Q4

These three short readings deal with the concept of beauty bias based on stereotypes and discrimination.  Please take a moment to read the brief articles.  Do you agree with the articles?  Please share your thoughts on each of the articles and the impact (or lack thereof) of beauty bias.

Q5

1. Research online for an authoritative (expert) resource that helps you to answer a very simple question: What are the basic differences between supply-driven and demand-driven forecasting.  Before posting, check any other student postings and try to not duplicate the resource they have used.     

2. Start your Discussion by inserting a hyperlink for your resource ( Note - To insert a hyperlink, type in a one or two word phrase that introduces the resource, highlight it, then click on the small Chain-link in the navigation panel above and insert a copy of the URL Address for the resource)

3. Next, directly under the hyperlink, author a paragraph discussing what you learned about the differences between supply- and demand-driven forecasting and any points that may have been either additive to or different from the lesson reading assignments. 

4. The final task for this discussion is to briefly summarize what you have learned that you wish to pass on to the rest of us in the course that identifies the primary difference between supply-driven and demand-driven forecasting.

Q6

Our text offers four basic supply chain risk management enablers – A supportive Organizational Design, Information Technology, Measurement systems and Talent Management. Describe two of these and offer real world examples of organizations which incorporate these enablers to better manage risk in their supply chains. Possible organizations to consider may be found at the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council, or Resilinc.

Q7

Growing up, in what ways (and by whom) were you encouraged to conform to a particular gender role? Did you ever feel limited by expectations other people had for you based on the way they perceived your sex or gender? What social, cultural and other outside influences contribute to the development of gender identity?

Q8

How does the development of self-awareness and self-esteem factor into the development of social problem solving skills? Based on what you've learned, does the media (social, video games, music, movies, etc.) help or hurt the development of social problem solving skills? Please give examples to support your claim.

I have a challenge for you. Can you find an example, online, of a child, (any stage of development), showing positive social problem solving skills and an example with poor or no social problem solving skills? Start your search locally. If you can't find anything, broaden your search to state and national news. If you still can't find anything you may use social media. Please post the results of your search. If you found something, post the link/s, a summary of what you found, and your thoughts about it. 

Q9

1. Is there a lack of diversity in members of the jury in criminal cases? Reflect on equity after reading the following article:

 Binnall, J. M. (2019). Jury diversity in the age of mass incarceration: An exploratory mock jury experiment examining felon-jurors' potential impacts on deliberations. Psychology, Crime & Law,  25(4), 345-363.

2. Provide details of common pretrial motions and their significance.

Q10

Describe and discuss an offender's sadistic characteristics associated with various criminal behaviors and criminal offender personalities. In addition, list and discuss the characteristics of an auto-erotic fatality versus a suicide and how an auto-erotic fatality may be mistakenly identified as a suicide.

Q11

If you were a supervisor in a large corporation and you have just selected eight of your employees to sit on a team to propose a new procedure for the production line, what steps would you, as team leader, take to help increase the team's effectiveness?

Q12

Choose at least two (2) different theoretical perspectives (Freud's theory, Lev Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory) that have been covered in this course and discuss how the cultural, societal, and historical contexts within which the theories are derived have influenced their major tenets and framework.

Q13

For this week’s forum, we are exploring websites that check information for bias, misinformation, and possible fake news misinformation. Go to the following websites and review the methodology they use to test information for accuracy.

· Our Process at FactCheck.org

· Methodology at Media Bias/Fact Check

· Transparency at Snopes.com

Part I: After you have looked over these websites and reviewed the methodology of each website, please answer the following:

· Which website do you find has the best way to review information for accuracy?

· Do any of these websites have any gaps in their methodology?

· Why is it important for everyone to be able to evaluate information?

Part II: Find an example of disinformation or misinformation, maybe one that you fell for, until you fact checked it and found that it was fake. Include the name of the "news" outlet that spread the disinformation along with either a weblink to the story, or a weblink to a source that disproves the story and sets the record straight. 

 

Q14

Describe the systems of slavery that has existed in  Africa since Ancient times and how is the slavery system used by Africans and Arabs different from  the New World slave systems developed under the Spanish, Dutch, French, and English ?

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