What are your goals for changing your critical thinking and reasoning skills as a result of what you learn in this course?

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Reflect back on your completion of the “Critical Thinking Quiz” activity at the beginning of the week. How did you feel about your knowledge of the topics that were covered in the quiz? Having taken the quiz and watched the videos, please explain what you think this course will be about. What are your goals for changing your critical thinking and reasoning skills as a result of what you learn in this course?Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your journal entries.

Late Policy: Written assignments (essays, journals, presentations) are due on the specified days in the course. Written assignments will be subject to a late penalty of up to 10% per day up to three days late. If written assignments are submitted after 72 hours past the due date, instructors can give a penalty up to and including a grade of 0 for the assignment.

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Description:

Total Possible Score: 2.00

Content

Total: 1.50

Distinguished – Responds with a thorough reflection that is related to all aspects of the journal prompt. Applies professional, personal, relevant prior knowledge, and/or other real-world experiences in a manner that is rich in thought and provides valuable insight into the topic. Analyzes preconceptions and biases by deconstructing elements of personal assumptions and synthesizes own awareness using new modes of thinking.

Proficient – Responds with a reflection that is related to almost all aspects of the journal prompt. Applies professional, personal, or other real-world experiences in a manner that provides valuable insight into the topic. Provides a limited analysis of preconceptions and biases and somewhat synthesizes own awareness using new modes of thinking.

Basic – Responds with a reflection that is related to most aspects of the journal prompt. Applies professional, personal, or other real-world experiences in a manner that provides limited insight into the topic but may not be wholly relevant to the journal prompt. Demonstrates self-reflection by identifying preconceptions or biases compared to new modes of thinking.

Below Expectations – Responds with a reflection that is related to some aspects of the journal prompt. Attempts to apply professional, personal, or other real-world experiences, but their relevance to the journal prompt is unclear. Self-reflection is vague and/or fails to relate to preconceptions or biases and new modes of thinking.

Non-Performance – The journal is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Coherence

Total: 0.30

Distinguished – Effectively communicates ideas or points in a logical and organized manner. Reflections are sophisticated and formulate wholly appropriate and pertinent connections between the journal topic and relevant prior knowledge.

Proficient – Communicates ideas or points in a manner that is mostly logical and organized. Reflections formulate appropriate connections between the journal topic and relevant prior knowledge.

Basic – Communicates ideas or points in a manner that demonstrates a limited understanding of content organization. Attempts to reflect upon journal topic, but the connections between the journal topic and prior knowledge are vague.

Below Expectations – Attempts to communicate ideas or points; however, the content organization is extremely limited. Fails to provide a reflection that connects the journal topic to prior knowledge.

Non-Performance – The journal is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

Mechanics

Total: 0.20

Distinguished – Journal contains no errors related to grammar, spelling, and sentence structure.

Proficient – Journal contains only a few minor errors related to grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, but they do not distract the reader from the content.

Basic – Journal contains a few errors related to grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, which slightly distract the reader from the content.

Below Expectations – Journal contains major errors related to grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, which distract the reader from the content.

Non-Performance – The journal is either nonexistent or lacks the components described in the assignment instructions.

What could be done to generate more knowledge and better learning in the organization?

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Overview Analysis 

For the first part of this week’s section of the course project, briefly review your chosen organization (Walmart). Presume that the reader does not know the identity of your organization or what you have evaluated thus far. What is the essential information the reader should know? This section of your paper should be a very brief summary of the key issues, likely no more one paragraph. Be sure to provide an appropriate APA introduction to your paper.

Organizational Recommendations 

Based upon your analysis so far in the course project, the second part of your paper should justify recommendations for enhancing your organization. Imagine yourself as a consultant who will lead an effort to make the organization more competitive in the market. What recommendations would you make in the following key areas?

  • Aligning leadership philosophy with organizational design and enabling more effective change leadership.
  • Enhancing the organization’s shared values and creating more inspiring vision statements and more effective mission statements.
  • Improving organizational structure and systems in a way that increases potential for innovation.
  • Ensuring beneficial work-life balance. 

Provide a rationale and research support for each of your recommendations.

Organizational Learning Assessment

The third part includes an assessment of the organizational learning within your organization.

  • How does learning occur (or not occur)?
  • How is learning captured?
  • How is learning transferred?
  • How are the processes of learning in the organization evaluated (i.e., learning about learning)?

Learning Organization Recommendations 

For the fourth part, justify specific recommendations for your organization so that they have a systemic process that effectively manages organizational learning and transforms the organization into a learning organization. Consider the following:

  • What could be done to generate more knowledge and better learning in the organization?
  • What could be done to inspire people to share their ideas and learning?
  • What could be done to capture ideas and learning so that it becomes organizational knowledge?
  • What could be done to make sure learning is ongoing? 

Submission Details:

  • Submit your answers in a 6- to 8-page Microsoft Word document. 

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment

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Report Issue

 

Learning and cognition is a broad discipline. For this Discipline-Based Literature Review, you will research at least two peer-reviewed articles published within the last ten years to support your analysis of each of the following topics:

  • Operant conditioning
  • Classical conditioning
  • Behaviorism
  • Social learning theory

When conducting your research, consider the issues that arise within these different disciplines. In your analysis of each topic, explain the theoretical perspectives and empirical research that are pertinent to the field of learning and cognition. Within this analysis, apply ethical principles to the evaluation of each theoretical approach and consider issues that arise in research related to that area. Support your statements with evidence from your selected articles.

The Discipline-Based Literature Review

  • Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length, not including the title or references pages, and formatted according to APA style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must begin with an introductory paragraph.
  • Must address the topic of the paper, including each construct, with critical thought.
  • Must end with a conclusion paragraph.
  • Must use at least eight scholarly sources (two per topic) in addition to the required resources.
    • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment

What are some common job titles and duties for the contemporary I/O professional associated with each area you researched?

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Spotlight on I/O Theory and Practice

Reflect on what you have learned over the course of the Master of Arts: Industrial Organizational Psychology (MAIO) program as it relates to the areas of industrial/organizational (I/O) emphasis listed here:

  • Recruitment
  • Organizational development (OD)
  • Leadership
  • Training
  • Change management

Can you discuss these topics in a meaningful way either in a casual conversation or in a more formal interview setting? In this assignment, you will work on at least two of these areas such that by the time you have completed this assignment, you should be able to discuss these topics in a significant manner.

Using the module’s readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet sources, research areas of I/O emphasis. Then, address the following:

  • Select any two of the following areas of I/O emphasis. Identify topics that are of particular interest to you. Conversely, you may want to select an area that you do not consider a personal strength to help round out your knowledge base.
    • Recruitment
    • OD
    • Leadership
    • Training
    • Change management
  • Provide a detailed description for each area. Your description should consider the following aspects within an organizational setting:
    • Historical development
    • Major research paradigms
    • Typical applications
  • Include a special mention of any classic studies, theories, or models associated with each of the selected areas.
  • What are some common job titles and duties for the contemporary I/O professional associated with each area you researched? Make sure to support your position with the peer-reviewed scholarly literature.

Write your initial response in at least 500 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.