Answer the following questions in an essay format: 1) How does leadership behavior contribute to leadership effectiveness and the success of an organization? 2) Compare and contrast Strategic leadership and implicit leadership theory. 3) What are the pros and cons of implicit leadership theory? 4) What role do cultural elements play in the application of Leadership Congruency Hypothesis?
In order to make decisions about the value of any research study for practice, it is important to understand the general processes involved in analyzing research data. By now, you have examined enough research studies to be aware that there are some common ways that data are reported and summarized in research studies. For example, the sample is often described by numbers of participants and by certain characteristics of those participants that help us determine how representative the sample is of a population. The information about the sample is commonly reported in tables and graphs, making use of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, and dispersion. Information about the variables (or concepts) of interest when quantified are also reported in similar manner. Although the actual data analysis takes place after data have been collected, from the initial planning of a research study, the researcher needs to have an awareness of the types of questions that can be answered by particular data analysis techniques. For this Discussion, review the case study entitled “Social Work Research: Measuring Group Success.” Consider the data analysis described in that case. Recall the information presented in the earlier chapters of your text about formulating research questions to inform a hypotheses or open-ended exploration of an issue. By Day 3 Post an explanation of the types of descriptive and/or inferential statistics you might use to analyze the data gathered in the case study. Also explain how the statistics you identify can guide you in evaluating the applicability of the study’s findings for your own practice as a social worker. Please use the resources to support your answer. part 2 Discussion 2: Statistical Significance and Variables Research studies often compare variables, conditions, times, and/or groups of participants to evaluate relationships between variables or differences between groups or times. For example, if researchers are interested in knowing whether an intervention produces change in the desired direction, they will want to know whether the change is due to chance (statistical significance) or possibly due to the intervention. In this case, researchers could use a pre and post measurement of the same participants on the condition being treated, or they could compare a group of individuals who receive the intervention to a group that does not receive the intervention. Researchers could also compare two groups of individuals who receive different interventions. The rigor of the research design helps control for other factors that might account for the changes (e.g., time, conditions, group differences in other factors, etc.). To prepare for this Discussion, consider the concept of statistical significance. By Day 5 Post your explanation of how the difference between statistical significance and the true importance (clinical significance) of the relationship between variables or the degree of difference between groups affect your practice decision making. Be sure to include an explanation of what statistical significance means. Include an example from a quantitative study that found statistically significant differences. Discuss whether the results of the study would—or should—influence your practice as a social worker. Please use the resources to support your answer. Yegidis, B. L., Weinbach, R. W., & Myers, L. L. (2018). Research methods for social workers (8th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Chapter 13, “Analyzing Data” (pp. 295–297, “The Data in Perspective”) Gibson, F. H. (2003). Indigent client perceptions of barriers to marriage and family therapy (Dissertation, University of Louisiana at Monroe).
Your final paper will be an analysis of an existing, prior negotiation. The negotiation you choose should have been dealt with in some public manner (so you can locate documents, information, and research on it, without needing IRB clearance). The negotiation may be local, such as the ESTEM-UALR co-campus settlement, or negotiations after the mass UAMS position and budget cuts. Or it may have been dealt with on a national or international level, such as Trumps USMexico tariffs or any international trade deals, the Illinois Operating Budget Negotiation of 2016, company mergers (like AT&T-Warner or Fox-Disney), teacher/union-school board/state strikes, Apple/US Publishers Lawsuit of 2012, Chen Guangcheng negotiation talks, BREXIT, Iran Prisoner Swap of 2014, 2016 Oregon Protests, Writers Guild Strike of 2008, USA-NATO negotiation of 2018, etc. It is imperative that you research your topic prior to starting your paper to ensure you can locate enough information on how the negotiation was handled. You may even informally conduct your own research prior to writing your paper, such as talking with a parent you know of a current ESTEM student. If you are unsure if a topic will work for this assignment, please email at least a full week prior to the due date to seek approval. This should be an 8- 10 page paper that analyses how the negotiation played out, and what mistakes, challenges, or strategies were important to the negotiation outcome(s). You will be required to apply theories and practices discussed in our course to your analysis, as well as providing recommendations for how these parties could have been more civil and constructive in their negotiation tactics
Answer these questions after reading “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Anne Fadiman. In your paper, please number your answers!!! Imagine that you were Lia’s parents during their numerous visits to the Emergency Department. What types of barriers did the family face when trying to have their daughter treated? What barriers and challenges did the medical teams face? According to Lia’s parents what caused Lia’s illness? What are the treatments for Lia’s illness in Hmong culture? According to Lia’s doctors in Merced, what are the causes of Lia’s illness? What are the treatments for Lia’s illness in Western “biomedical” culture? What would you have done if you were in the shoes of Lia’s health care providers (especially Neil Ernst’s)? Would you have placed Lia in foster care? Why or why not? While there is no correct answer here, to receive full points please be sure that your answer demonstrates your cultural competency and your ability to engage is cultural relativism. Please carefully weigh and discuss the pros and cons of each option. How did the Hmong become refugees? What was their role in the Vietnam War? Other than dealing with the healthcare system, what other difficulties did the Hmong face in the U.S.? Please refer specifically to Ch. 14 “The Melting Pot” in answering this question. Does Horace Miner’s piece on “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” give us any insights into this? Fadiman reports that the Hmong are sometimes referred to as “the least successful refugees” (p. 199). Keeping in mind your answer to question #5, please discuss some of the reasons why the Hmong have such high unemployment and poverty rates? Do they do better when other indicators are taken into consideration (crime rates, child abuse etc.)? Please apply the concepts of “culture shock,” “ethnocentrism,” and “cultural relativism” to the events in the book. Discuss one example for each concept from the book. Medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman is quoted by Fadiman as saying: “… the culture of biomedicine is equally powerful. If you can’t see that your own culture has its own set of interests, emotions, and biases, how can you expect to deal successfully with someone else’s culture” (p. 261). Based on the book and what you have learned in this class, please assess this statement. What are the lessons learned from Lia’s case? Referring to the 8 questions on pp. 260-261, please discuss three things you would do differently if you were one of Lia’s health care or social service providers. Each question is worth 10 points. Spelling, grammar, and citations are also worth 10 points.
How does the idea of intersectionality relate to the study of race, racism, and popular culture? With reference to material provided, discuss race and class intersections. How does the idea of “race” get shaped by class intersecting social positions? What kinds of expressions, either representational (i.e., popular cultural images) or structural (i.e., social and political realities), do these intersections take on? Class = prison population and ‘criminals’ vs. kingpins and white collar crime. This module gets into the question of “intersections”. This refers to a particular approach taken on by many scholars in studying race and racism both in its historical and contemporary expressions. The idea is that a significant part of the impact and legacy of the idea of race, and indeed of racism, is in how race comes to intersect with a range of other subject positions. The intersections between race and socio-economic class have become of particular significance for scholars studying race and racism both in the present and historically. Thinking about race-class intersections essentially means thinking about how racialized groups become locked into certain class positions in society. People become “classed” in society at the same time as they are “raced”. For one thing, we might think about this in terms of the kinds of stereotyped symbolic connections between race and class that exist out there in the public imaginary (i.e., whiteness associated with suburban middle or upper-middle class lifestyles, and so). But the point of significance for many scholars in thinking about how race and class intersect goes well just symbolic or ideological intersections – race and class intersect in fundamentally structural ways. The cases examined in this module will show some of the ways in which racialized groups become structured into a certain class arrangement, and moreover, how that class arrangement comes about precisely through race & racism. As you will see in the readings and media segments for this module, one of the significant ways that this happens is through the history of racial redlining (see the segment from Race: The House We Live In). This refers to the history of how the American real estate market across the 20th century was systematically structured to deny mortgages (and thus property ownership opportunities) to Black people. The other case to think about is the rise, and force, of the Prison Industrial Complex in North America society. This refers to the commercial profit-seeking dimension of the institution of the prison. The development of the Prison Industrial Complex has significant ties to race-class intersections given (a) the obviously disproportionate representation of racialized people in the North American prison population, (b) the clear down-classing effect that prison sentences cause, and then (c) the amount of wealth generated by/for private prison corporations in recent decades that benefit financially from booming prison populations. These dynamics of the Prison Industrial Complex at the same also ties very significantly into contemporary popular culture, as the institution of the “prison” has come to occupy a very particular place in popular consciousness. Popular culture has become filled with stories set in prison, about prisons, and prisoners, especially with the rise of popular prison-based dramas like Oz, Prison Break, and of course, Orange is the New Black.
Option #1: Does Technology Promote Loneliness? Develop a thesis statement built upon whether or not technology promotes loneliness. You should focus on either one form of hardware or one type of software. For example, you could target cell phones or laptops. If you want to look more into software, you could narrow your discussions to one type of social media or one gaming app. These are just a handful of a vast array of options you could choose. Develop at least three strong arguments in addition to a counterargument and refutation (this resource can assist you in developing the counterargument and refutation). This organization should yield four body paragraphs. Using argumentative topic sentences that include your opinion for each section can help ensure the majority of your essay is argumentative. The beginning of a sample topic sentence might be, “First, Facebook does not promote loneliness because….” Then, be sure to support that claim with a point or two of researched data, followed by mostly original material that helps to explain how your research supports your claims as well as provides new insights and perspectives. Conclude each paragraph with a sentence that synthesizes the paragraph’s main ideas. Sample Thesis Statement: Social media, particularly Facebook, does not promote loneliness because (add argument 1), (add argument 2), and (add argument 3), even though (add counterargument focus). *Note that a thorough thesis statement will include the counterargument in addition to your own arguments, but be sure to frame your counterargument as the opposition’s opinion so that readers do not think that you are changing your stance. See The Top Ten Tips for College-Level Writing (Presentation) for more thesis statement assistance. Use at least three credible sources (the author should be considered an expert on the topic in which he or she writes; try Google Scholar to search), such as books, articles, and websites, to support your thesis. Include a mix of cited paraphrases, summaries, and quotes in your argumentative research paper. Use MLA format (Tip: You will find useful MLA resources within the course topics, particularly in Topic 9) to create proper parenthetical citations as well as a Works Cited page at the end of your essay. For additional Works Cited assistance visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ and use the left navigation menu to locate the type of reference you need. Option #2: Is Citizen Privacy or National Security More Important? Develop a thesis statement focused on determining if citizen privacy or national security is more important. You can choose any country or region. Your chosen topic needs to be specific and might address a question like the ones you see in these examples: Should officials make citizens’ privacy more of a priority than national security? Why or why not? Is national security likely to pose a risk for citizen privacy? Why or why not? You may choose another topic regarding the relationship between citizen privacy and national security as well; just be sure that your main thesis addresses the association between these two ideas. Develop at least three strong arguments in addition to a counterargument and refutation (this resource can assist you in developing the counterargument and refutation). This organization should yield four body paragraphs. Using argumentative topic sentences that include your opinion for each section can help ensure the majority of your essay is argumentative. The beginning of a sample topic sentence might be, “Primarily, exceptional national security is likely to reduce citizen privacy because….” Then, be sure to support that claim with a point or two of researched data, followed by mostly original material that helps to explain how your research supports your claims as well as provides new insights and perspectives. Conclude each paragraph with a sentence that synthesizes the paragraph’s main ideas. Sample Thesis Statement: Ideally, a thesis would include the major assignment objectives for the essay, which in this case would be your claim/opinion, reasons why you have that opinion, and the counterargument: Implementing national security measures could lead to citizen privacy dilemmas because (add argument 1), (add argument 2), and (add argument 3), even though (add counterargument focus). *Note that a thorough thesis statement will include the counterargument in addition to your own arguments, but be sure to frame your counterargument as the opposition’s opinion so that readers do not think that you are changing your stance. Use at least three credible sources (the author should be considered an expert on the topic in which he or she writes), such as books, articles, and websites, to support your claims. Include a mix of cited paraphrases, summaries, and quotes in your argumentative research paper. Use MLA format (Tip: You will find useful MLA resources within the course topics, particularly in Topic 9) to create proper parenthetical citations as well as a Works Cited page at the end of your essay. For additional Works Cited assistance visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ and use the left navigation menu to locate the type of reference you need. More Tips Visit https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/establishing_arguments/index.html for more argumentative thesis statement assistance and to learn if your thesis is both arguable and narrowed. A counter-argument section for this paper should explain what the opposition believes, and it is the opposite of the opinion you are arguing in your paper. For example, if you are arguing that anti-plagiarism software should not be used in college classes, then the counterargument would be that anti-plagiarism software should be used. Then in your refutation, try to prove the counterargument false, insignificant, or unimportant with researched information that is new to the essay (avoid recycling facts from a previous argument in the essay). This resource will help you craft your counter argument and refutation. The guidelines and requirements for this assignment are as follows: Format Requirements: Header: Include a header in the upper left-hand corner of your writing assignment with the following information: Your first and last name Course Title (Composition I) Assignment name (Comparison and Contrast) Current Date Page Layout: MLA style documentation (please see the tutorial in the course topic) Last name and page number in the upper-right corner of each page Double-spacing throughout Title, centered after heading Standard font (Times New Roman or Calibri) 1″ margins on all sides Save the file as .docx or .doc format Length: This assignment should be at least 750 words.
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following questions in whatever way is most beneficial to you. Think of this as part guided reading and part study guide. Your answers can be in either paragraph/short answer format, or bullet points if that is more useful to you. Please make sure you are answering these questions from reading the course textbook. Simply Googling the questions and copying/pasting from Wikipedia will result in a zero. All of these questions can be answered in the textbook. Make sure you submit your work in the designated TurnItIn box by the above due date and time. Ch. 8 – Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-182
1. How did Hamilton attempt to address the financial problems of the country?
2. How did Hamilton hope to use a national bank to help develop credit? Who was his main opponent on this issue?
3. How did the 1790 Naturalization Act define citizenship?
4. What is the XYZ Affair and how did it cause problems in Adams’ presidency? 5. What did the court case of Marbury v. Madison establish in terms of judicial powers 6. What was the most significant impact of the War of 1812?
Describe what you feel are the most important factors that contribute to an individual’s identity.You must include at least one of the two readings for today, Myriam Marquez’s “Why and When We Speak Spanish in Public” and Sonia Sotomayor’s “My Beloved World,” though incorporating both excerpts will yield you a stronger paper( In other word, I encourage you to use both). Limit yourself to a very small amount of personal examples and reasons(If any at all), Maintaining a more professional voice from a general perspective on all humans. For the “So what?,” consider how one’s identity can affect the rest of one’s life, including his/her career, influence on others and effect on the larger wold
How did the Catholic Church’s role in Europe change from the 9th through the 17th centuries? Consider its impact on political and social developments, the creation of new religious orders, internal and external divisions, and its response to these challenges. Guidelines: The essay should meet the following formatting guidelines: Times New Roman, 12 point font Double Spaced 1” margins The essay should be at least a standard 5 paragraph essay of 400-600. Citations You must use the assigned readings (textbook and primary sources) to support your argument. Failure to use both sets of sources will be severely penalized. Use in-text parenthetical citations for your sources, just like the discussion posts: i.e. (Spielvogel, 87) or (Edict of Milan). The following book is what needs to be used; Western Civilization: Volume I: To 1715 10th Edition Jackson J. Spielvogel
Description Assignment: Please watch the 53-minute video,
The Merchants of Cool, located here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/ (Links to an external site.) Even though the video was produced more than a decade ago, it remains very much relevant today. In fact, you may want to watch it more than once before answering the following questions: Is the “mook” (the stereotypically crude, adolescent male) real, or just a media construction? How about the “midriff” (the girl as sex symbol)?
Do you know any “mooks” or “midriffs”? How do the “mook” and “midriff” stereotypes relate to the corporate interests of the media outlets that perpetuate them (in other words, why these particular stereotypes and not some other stereotype)? Many media observers have claimed that programs like Beverly Hills 90210 or Dawson’s Creek were popular because they were reflective of teen life. In what ways are shows like 90210 and Dawson’s Creek reflective of how teenagers really live and in what ways are they distortions?
Do these shows mirror the way you live? Because they do so much research, media makers think they know a lot about you. Do you agree or disagree with the following assertions from “The Merchants of Cool”: “Sex is a part of teens lives, so it better be in their media, too.” and “No teenager is going to be satisfied with a PG-13 rated horror film. They want to see blood and guts. That’s what they want to do.” What are the implications of cool hunting for the development of new ideas, new music, new art forms, etc.?
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