Essay on organizational change

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Unit VIII Article Critique

The Brisson-Banks (2010) article in the required reading for this unit compares the five different change management models presented in this unit. It also describes various situational variables that could influence the effectiveness of each model. Utilizing all of the knowledge accumulated through this unit and the previous units, write a critique of the article below:

Brisson-Banks, C. (2010). Managing change and transitions: A comparison of different models and their commonalities. Library Management, 31(4), 241-252. Retrieved from https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login? url=https://search-proquest-com.libraryresources.colum…

In your article critique, be sure to include the following elements:

Evaluate different aspects of organizational change.

Discuss the role that leader vision plays in a change management strategy. Discuss how effective change initiatives can influence organizational performance. Compare leadership styles to the models of change.

Utilize the CSU Online Library to locate two sources to use as references (in addition to using the Brisson-Banks article) that support your article critique. Your article critique should be two to three pages in length.

Be sure to include the rubric elements from the guidelines below:

accurate identification of the premise and supporting points from the article;

insightful and thorough analysis of information from the article, including using evidence and reasonable and compelling interpretations;

critical thinking clearly stating your informed and substantiated opinion, thorough evaluation of article’s premise, and supporting points;

organization resulting in clarity and logically arranged points to support the proposed solution;

academically credible sources meeting the assignment requirements and reference entries following APA format; and clear and concise writing with proper sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation, and free from spelling errors.

Sensorimotor, the pre operational stage, the concrete-operational , presentation help

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  • Sensorimotor, which is from birth to two years, is the first stage of cognitive development. This is characterized by the child learning to coordinate their senses with their motor activities.  They grab for objects, manipulate them with their hands and then experience them with their senses.  Do you understand why everything ends up in their mouth? At around 9 months the child develops object permanence. Object permanence is the ability to understand that objects exist even when they cannot be seen.  Piaget thought that this happens because the child is able to form a schema of the objects and this is symbolic thought.
     Prior to that, if a child is playing with a toy and you take it away
    and hide it, the child thinks that it does not exist anymore.  Can you guess why children love to play peek-a-boo and can play it for hours?


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  • The second stage is the preoperational stage.  It extends from ages two to six.  There is a greater acceleration of language and schema formation than in any other stage.  The child is also egocentric, which means that they can only see the world from their perspective.  They know who “grandma” is but don’t know who their mother’s mother is.  Grandma is grandma and not someone’s mom. They can only see grandma as grandma since it is their perspective.  They also display animism which is thinking that inanimate objects are alive and conscious. They believe that they can talk to and be talked to by their stuffed animals.
  • The third stage is the concrete-operational stage.  It begins around age six and extends to about eleven years old. The child is developing adult like thinking but only with concrete objects.  They are still incapable of abstract thought.
     They also can understand the Laws of Conservation which means that
    they can understand that you can change the shape of matter and not the
    amount.



Figure 1  Figure 2  

Consider the two figures above.
Each cylinder in Figure 1 holds the same amount of liquid, while each
group of marbles in Figure 2 contains an equal number of marbles.
A child who has not mastered the Laws of Conservation will think that
the tall cylinder in Figure 1 holds more liquid than the shorter
cylinder. That same child will also believe
that the quantity of marbles on the right in Figure 2 is greater than
the quantity of marbles that are on the left. Once children grasp the Laws of Conservation, they finally understand that the quantities are equal, regardless of their shape.

  • The fourth and final stage is the formal-operational stage.  People in this stage can think abstractly.  They can truly understand the meaning of the terms “justice, democracy and love”.
    Ask a child in the pre-operational stage or concrete operational stage
    what love is and they will respond with concrete objects. They would tell you that they love their parents, their teddy bears and chocolate chip cookies. Children in this stage also begin to understand logic as in :

    If A is greater than B and B is greater than C then……….

Piaget has been criticized in that he may have
underestimated the abilities of children and that they may accomplish
some of the tasks earlier.  Also many of the abilities may develop more continuously than in separate distinct stages.  This is the continuity vs. discontinuity debate that was brought up before.

THE TASK HERE:

Create a power-point for each of Erickson’s stages
and give the good points of the stage, the bad points of the stage and
interesting things about the stage.  For the ones you have been through reflect on your own development or ask parents and siblings about your experience.
For the ones that you have not been through yet, find someone in that
stage and ask them what is good, bad and interesting about being where
they are in development.  Use pictures and illustrations.

Rubric for Assignment 4-2

Correct explanation of each stage with good, bad and interesting points of the stage 8 points (2 pts for each stage)
Overall effort 4 points

what is the report of Encounters with Archdruid by John McPhee book?

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Outdoor Recreation: Book Report Option

Read the book Encounters with Archdruid by John McPhee. The book is available in

libraries and at any major book store. Write a 7 page paper on the following subject:

Use the words and ideas of the book’s four main characters (Brower, Park, Fraser and

Dominy) to construct your own natural resource conservation/preservation philosophy.

The characters words and ideas must be used to support your philosophy or to

demonstrate viewpoints which contrast with your philosophy.

To do this, first introduce the book and describe the circumstances under which the four

main characters meet. In other words, provide some context for the debates the main

characters have. Then, join the debate yourself by illustrating their main ideas with

colorful, meaningful quotes from the book and reacting to them with your own ideas.

When quoting or paraphrasing ideas from the book, be sure to provide the page numbers

in parentheses at the end of the sentence from where the idea or quote came. Use short

quotes of 40 words or less. Finally, this paper, like all papers, should have an interesting

conclusion which brings neat closure to the paper.

Papers must be double spaced in 12 pt. Times New Roman font and free of all spelling

and grammatical errors. Do not skip a space between paragraphs.

Write a paper on How is a literary theme represented in a short story?

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Topic :https://americanliterature.com/author/james-joyce/…

Include a Reflection on your Writing Process: Following the Work Cited list of the paper, provide two or three paragraphs explaining what you are learning about the writing process. Also note two features that you would like feedback on, such as the thesis statement and topic sentences.

include complete alphanumeric outline

  • 500-750 words for the paper (two to three pages, double-spaced)
  • Analyze literature for a purpose
  • Distinguish digital or print materials through annotation to demonstrate reading and summary skills
  • Identify a theme in a short story
  • Identify one to three examples in the story that support the theme
  • Write a thesis statement that clearly identifies the title of a story, its author, the theme, and what the paper will discuss about the story and the theme
  • Write clear topic sentences for paragraphs that let the reader know what each paragraph of the body of the paper will discuss
  • Write paragraphs that explain how the examples from the story support the theme
  • Arrange a paper by presenting paragraphs in a logical and interesting fashion
  • Write sentences in standard American English that clearly express ideas
  • Demonstrate the MLA style of formatting in the layout of a paper
  • Demonstrate the MLA style of formatting by documenting material from the story within the paper and on a Works Cited page
  • Explain in a clear and logical fashion what you have learned about your writing

pop culture and the arts, art & design homework help

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Shifting Views of America Assignment Options

    • Due Dec 05, 11:59 PM
    • Not Submitted
    • POINTS 15
  • Paper

Objectives:

Resources: Review your Week 1 readings and videos.

For your Week 1 Assignment, choose one of the options listed below. Label your choice. Use correct images for credit. ( Three images) 🙁 Use images. citations for information and a reference page.) Do not use Wikipedia.org for information citations or as a resource. However, only use Wikipedia.org for images. )

Option A

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper on how art reflects the society in which it was made that responds to the following:

  • What image of America was communicated by the innovations and buildings presented at the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair? How was this image communicated?
  • How and why was the art produced by the Ashcan School different from that of the Gilded Age? To what changes in social history were artists reacting?
  • How is art a reflection of society? Explain with at least two examples to illustrate the relationship between art and society. These two examples may be from the text or of your own selection. Discuss the subject or theme of your selected works.

Format your paper according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.

clarification on my concept map, assignment help

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This is my 2dn time submitting my concept map and here is my teachers response:

Here’s my thoughts………

1. cultural beliefs #2 ‘boys will be boys’ This is what sociologists like to call “gender norms”. Some societal ideas about gender can promote bullying because…………..you fill in the rest. 🙂

2. social inequality: income inequality is a type of stratification, so that’s redundant. Concept clearly understood by your example!

3. Mental health –not a social condition, it’s a medical condition. Medical care access is a social condition. A social condition is something that exists in the structure or fabric of society which supports unequal distribution of power and resources.

4. substance abuse–this is on the right track. How does substance abuse affect bullying? It can be seen from various angles, economic, social class, gender, race, etc.

I have attached the map and the assighment guidelines.

new_map.docx

soc112_milestone_two_guidelines_and_rubric.pdf

Here is my map with my references

new_map.docx

Competitive Product Selection & Strategy Formulation, accounting homework help

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Competitive Product Selection & Strategy Formulation

Porter’s work focuses on competitive strategic positioning, which refers to selecting a strategy to utilize in a directional manner. The strategy developed excludes other strategies and is selected to develop a competitive edge. Porter writes about selecting a distinctive and important stance or position based on activities that are complex and hard to duplicate. The uniqueness and precision of the focus of the strategy is what gives the competitive advantage.

With this in mind and after conducting further research:

  1. Select a different product or service from last week
  2. Conduct a competitive strategy analysis on the product or service selected using Porter’s Generic Competitive Strategies (Cost Leadership Strategy, Differentiation, and Focus). 
  3. Select one of Porter’s Generic Competitive Strategies to develop a competitive edge for your product or service selected, and describe and explain the implementation of that strategy for the product or service selected. 

Should be a 1-2 page paper.

Criminal law

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Brad, a hard-working legal assistant, is tired of catering to the demands of all of the pompous attorneys for whom he works. While driving his car out of the parking garage last week after a long and frustrating day, he was driving too fast and unintentionally cut off another car that was leaving the lot at the same time. In so doing, he caused the car behind him to collide into the car he cut off. The drivers of both cars were seriously injured. The drivers of each car happen to be the most demanding of the attorneys Brad worked for and the two he despised the most. He had often considered ways to “get even” against these two and discussed his hatred for them among his fellow workers. After the collision, Brad saw the drivers of both cards and was well aware of who was driving the two cars involved in the collision he caused, and drove his unharmed car away from the scene with a huge smile on his face. Assume you are the county prosecutor who was handed this case.

1. Based upon the information you have read in this scenario (do not read into the scenario!), could you criminally prosecute Brad for his involvement in this incident? Why or why not?
2. Would you prosecute Brad for involvement in this incident? Why or why not?

Minorities in Society, law homework

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The Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted that a defendant is not entitled to a jury composed in whole or in part of persons of his own race. Although these rulings establish that states are not obligated to use racially mixed juries, they do not prohibit states from doing so. In fact, a number of policymakers and legal scholars have proposed reforms that use racial criteria to promote racial diversity on American juries. Some have suggested that the names of majority race jurors be removed from the jury list (thus ensuring a larger proportion of racial minorities); others have suggested that a certain number of seats on each jury be set aside for racial minorities.

  • How would you justify these reforms to a state legislature?
  • How would an opponent of these reforms respond?
  • Overall, are these good ideas or bad ideas?

3-4 pages in length

3-4 refernces should be ok for this. 

Early Methods Section, assignment help

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In your final paper for this course, you will need to write a Methods section that is about 4 pages long where you will assess and evaluate the methods of research.  

In preparation for this particular section, answer the following questions thoroughly and provide justification/support. The more complete and detailed your answers for these questions, the better prepared you are to successfully write your final paper.

Please submit your answers as a single 4- to 6-page document as a numbered list; this will ensure you do not inadvertently miss a question.

Additionally, please submit a title page and a reference page in proper APA format.

  1. What is your research question?

  2. What is your hypothesis or hypotheses? What is the null hypothesis?

  3. How many participants would you like to use and why? What are the inclusion characteristics, i.e., what must they have in order to be included in your study (for example, gender, diagnosis, age, personality traits, etc.)? Are there any exclusion characteristics, i.e. are there certain characteristics that would exclude them from being in your study? Does the sample need to be diverse? Why or why not?

  4. What sampling technique will be used to collect your sample? What population does your sample generalize to?

  5. What are the variables in your study? HINT: Refer back to your hypothesis or hypotheses.

  6. Provide operational definitions for each variable.

  7. How will you measure each variable? Discuss the reliability and validity of these measures in general terms.

  8. What technique will be used for data collection (e.g., observation, survey, interview, archival, etc.)?

  9. What type of research design is being used?

  10. Briefly discuss the procedure that would be followed when conducting the research.

  11. What are some POTENTIAL ethical issues? How might they be addressed?

My research topic is:  Driving safety and types of distractions.