Review the details of the case “Your Word Against His” in your course text. Describe in detail any options you could pursue to set the matter straight for all parties who received the wrong information, while incurring the minimum possible public disfavor by the vice president.

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Select either Option A or Option B and indicate in your post which option you have selected.

Option A: Compared to a non-healthcare organization, a manager must have a special skill set for communicating with health professionals and non professionals within a health care organization. What do you believe are those particular skill sets? What are the ethical, financial, and legal implications for communication within a health care organization? What are the some of the primary barriers to communication between a manager and his/her staff?

Option B: Case Study: Your Word Against His

Review the details of the case “Your Word Against His” in your course text. Describe in detail any options you could pursue to set the matter straight for all parties who received the wrong information, while incurring the minimum possible public disfavor by the vice president. In addition, describe what you think went wrong this in case. Where was the communication breakdown, and how could it have been avoided?

Describe the psychological effects of violence that the children from Nigeria might be experiencing? Be sure to consider issues such as gender and age.

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Commitment is an attitude that correlates strongly with job satisfaction. In addition, commitment, like satisfaction, relates to turnover and other employee outcomes. Because there are patterns of commitment, organizations can use these data to take steps to increase employee commitment, thereby increasing positive employee behaviors and decreasing negative employee behaviors.
For this Discussion, review this week’s media in the Learning Resources. Select two Walden Sports employees to use for this Discussion and consider how they differ in their commitment to the organization. Then consider positive and negative consequences of each employee’s organizational commitment.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post the names of the two Walden Sports employees you selected and explain how they differ in their commitment to the organization. In your analysis, explain how they differ or are similar on all three components of organizational commitment. Finally, explain one potential positive consequence and one potential negative consequence of each employee’s organizational commitment.
Cultural Considerations

As a mental health worker in a large city, you have been asked to work with refugee children who have been relocated from central Nigeria to live with foster families in your city. The children are between the ages of 9 and 13, boys and girls. They were rescued from a refugee camp in Nigeria where conditions were very poor. People were cramped and slept in rudimentary shelters. Food was scarce, and disease was rampant. Prior to arriving in the camp, the children were exposed to brutal violence. They saw their families murdered, houses burned, and witnessed or experienced sexual assault. Some were also injured in the attacks on their villages.

Utilize the Culturegrams database in the Argosy Online library, the Ethics and Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2010), and your readings to write a paper addressing the following:

• Describe the psychological effects of violence that the children from Nigeria might be experiencing? Be sure to consider issues such as gender and age.
• Design an intervention program to address the children’s exposure to violence. Remember to consider individual, family, and community needs.
• Describe the elements you would incorporate into a prevention program designed to foster resilience in the children from Nigeria, as well as break the cycle of violence that we learned can occur for children exposed to violence. You may research existing programs that utilize best practices as we have learned in this course, or design your own program.
• Reflect on the debate between “cultural universality” and “cultural specificity”. How would you reconcile this debate within the context of the ethics code for psychologists?
• Discuss why it is important to take into consideration cultural traditions when designing an intervention program. Describe at least two specific Nigerian cultural traditions and how you would use this knowledge in designing your intervention program.
• Briefly describe at least 2 ethical considerations that one would need to take into account when intervening with children as victims of violence in general, as well as pertaining to cultural issues specifically

What sort of things do we already know about the personalities of cybercriminals?

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Analyze key psychological and sociological issues related to hackers and the potential impact on individual organizations and society as a whole. Answer all 4 topic questions with the minimum to two sources and no more than two paragraphs.

The class discusses ethical and non ethical hacker personalities and motivations, and profiling tools used by law enforcement in combating cyber threats.

Topic 1: Hacker Motivation and Threat Mitigation

Explain what psychological factors can often motivate hackers (eg, addiction, crime, greed, status, etc….), and give examples where these motivations were a factor in a cyberattack.

What can organizations do to be more proactive in identifying and mitigating hacker threats?

Background:

1. Crime and Punishment: The Psychology of Hacking in the New Millennium [2003 – older but, I believe, still relevant and a solid short introduction]

2. Understanding a Hacker’s Mind: A Psychological Insight into the Hijacking of Identities [2004 – RSA. Also still useful]

3. The Risk Propensity and Rationality of Computer Hackers [2010 ]

Topic 2: Ethical and Nonethical Hackers

As the cybersecurity field expands, the larger community discourse leads to changes in terminology. While some of our course materials may differentiate between the terms “hackers” and “crackers” as threat actors, we will use the terms “ethical hackers” and “nonethical hackers” to make the same differentiation.

How do the profiles for ethical and nonethical hackers differ? Should these psychological attributes make a difference as to the amount of, or nature of the punishment meted out to those who are caught? Why or why not?

Describe how certain factors can also motivate ethical hackers, or those who defend against cyberattacks (sometimes called cyber warriors or cyber patriots)? (eg, revenge, patriotism, fear of government abuse, pride, respect for the law, ownership, anger, retaliation….)

Topic 3: Hacking as an “Addiction”

Some mental health and criminal justice professionals contend that hacking is an “addiction,” and causes obsessive, risk-taking behavior in a manner similar to illegal narcotics—hackers hack to “get high” from the thrill of breaking into a system and getting away with it.

Should policy makers look toward treatment, rather than incarceration, as to the disposition of hacker cases? Why or why not?

How do profiles of ethical and non-ethical hackers differ?
Topic 4 – Profiling of Cybercriminals

While psychological profiling of criminals is not a new field, should we attempt to profile cybercriminals?

What sort of things do we already know about the personalities of cybercriminals?

Do we have enough evidence to indicate there is a distinct psychological pattern that would help in the apprehension of cybercriminals?

Discuss the ethical concerns and considerations that were or were not included in these statements.

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Option 3: Mission/Vision/Value Statements

Find five hospital or health care organization’s mission, vision and value statements. Discuss the ethical concerns and considerations that were or were not included in these statements. Explain what elements should have been included or excluded. Use at least two scholarly sources to support your explanation. Your original post must be a minimum of 250 words.
Required Response to Option 3: Review the mission, vision and value statements of your classmate’s selected health care organization. Explain whether you agree or disagree with their assessment of the ethical concerns and considerations that were included and/or excluded from the statements. Rewrite one of these statements to better reflect ethical considerations. Your responses should be at least 100 words.