PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROPOSAL

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ASSIGNMENT 2

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROPOSAL

Due Week 6: 240 points

As you continue your consulting role, the next task is to deliver a professional development program to the CEO of your chosen organization.

It is important that your program’s proposal be based on your research of emotional intelligence (EI) and specifically detail how a new incentive program, based on an EI management approach, will:

▪ fosterteamwork,

▪ strengtheninterpersonalrelationships,

▪ enhancecommunication,

▪ increase overall performance,and

▪ benefitnotonlymanagersbutthebottom-line.

INSTRUCTIONS

Create a double-spaced 5 to 7 page proposal that includes the following components:

1) EI and Motivation

• Which of the EI building blocks would impact management’s ability to

enhance employee performance and job satisfaction?

• Based on your research on motivational theory, describe how you would utilize positive or negative reinforcement to influence the members of the organization and resolve the issue. Provide examples to support yoursolution.

2) EI and Social Skills and Decision Making

• Explain how the core concepts of emotional intelligence would

enhance the social skills and the decision-making efficacy of the management team.

3) Effective Teams

• Describe the core attributes of an effective team and the strategies

you would implement to develop team dynamics that will benefit the organization.

4) Reward Systems

• Create an effective reward system for this organization. Determine

the strategies you would incorporate to motivate employees and influence behavior.

5) References and Citations

• Provide at least 2 quality resources.

• In-text citations are required when paraphrasing or quoting another source.

6) Formatting and Writing Standards

• Formatting and writing standards are part of your grade. Align your

formatting to the Strayer Writing Standards.

 

*Grading for this assignment will be based on the following criteria and evaluation standards:

POINTS: 240

ASSIGNMENT 2: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROPOSAL

Criteria

Exemplary 100% – A

Proficient 85% – B

Fair 75% – C

Unacceptable 0% – F

1. EI and Motivation

Weight: 20%

Fully describes how motivation and reinforcement would be used to influence members of the organization to resolve the issue. Draws compelling, logical connections between theory and solution. Examples are strong and support solution.

Satisfactorily describes how motivation and reinforcement would be used to influence members of the organization to resolve the issue. Makes logical connections between theory and solution. Examples support solution.

Partially describes how motivation and reinforcement would be used to influence members of the organization to resolve the issue. Makes loose connections between theory and solution. Examples do not fully support solution.

The description does not address how motivation and reinforcement would be used to influence members of the organization to resolve the issue. Examples are not provided.

2. EI and Social Skills and Decision Making

Weight: 20%

Fully describes how motivation and reinforcement would be used to influence members of the organization to resolve the issue. Draws compelling, logical connections between theory and solution. Examples are strong and support solution.

Satisfactorily describes how motivation and reinforcement would be used to influence members of the organization to resolve the issue. Makes logical connections between theory and solution. Examples support solution.

Partially explains how core concepts of emotional intelligence would enhance the social skills and the decision-making efficacy of the management team. Loose connections are made to support the relationship between EI and management’s skills. Application of research is minimal.

The description does not explain how the core concepts of emotional intelligence would enhance the social skills and the decision-making efficacy of the management team.

3. Effective Teams

Weight 25%

Completely describes the core attributes of an effective team. Strategies to develop team dynamics are strongly articulated and detailed. Benefits to the organization are logical and well supported.

Satisfactorily describes the core attributes of an effective team. Strategies to develop team dynamics are articulated. Benefits to the organization are stated. Additional details and source support would improve the description.

Partially describes the core attributes of an effective team. Strategies to develop team dynamics lack details and source support or are not fully articulated. Benefits to the organization are unclear.

Does not describe the core attributes of an effective team or strategies to develop team dynamics. Benefits to organization are not presented.

4. Reward Systems

Weight 20%

Creates an effective reward system and articulates well- thoughtout strategies to motivate employees to influence behavior. The connection between strategy and influence is strong and supported by source material.

Creates an effective reward system and provides motivational strategies. Details and source material support how behavior would be influenced.

Partially creates an effective reward system and articulates some motivational strategies. Supporting details are given but could be expanded to describe how behavior would be influenced. Application of research is minimal.

Did not create an effective reward system or determine strategies to motivate employees to influence behavior.

5. Reference minimums; Reference quality

Weight 5%

Meets or exceeds numberof required references; all references high quality choices.

Meets number of required references; some references maybe poor qualitychoices.

Does not meet the required number of references; some references may be poor quality choices.

No references provided or all references poor quality choices.

6. Follows writing standards; Meetspage minimums

Weight 10%

Followed all writing standards.

Met page minimums.

Followed most writing standards.

Met page minimums.

Followed few writing standards.

May not have met page minimums.

Followed few to no writing standards.

Did not meet page minimums.

Explain how you would disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for why you selected this dissemination strategy.

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The dissemination of EBP results serves multiple important roles. Sharing results makes the case for your decisions. It also adds to the body of knowledge, which creates opportunities for future practitioners. By presenting results, you also become an advocate for EBP, creating a culture within your organization or beyond that informs, educates, and promotes the effective use of EBP.

To Prepare:

  • Review the final PowerPoint presentation you submitted in Module 5, and make any necessary changes based on the feedback you have received and on lessons you have learned throughout the course.
  • Consider the best method of disseminating the results of your presentation to an audience.

To Complete:

Create a 5-minute, 5- to 6-slide narrated PowerPoint presentation of your Evidence-Based Project.

  • Be sure to incorporate any feedback or changes from your presentation submission in Module 5.
  • Explain how you would disseminate the results of your project to an audience. Provide a rationale for why you selected this dissemination strategy.

Write a three page, double-spaced paper with Microsoft Word (700-900 words) on your experience in the United States (and/or other Western countries) and compare and contrast this experience with the culture (e.g., the laws, customs, holidays, etc.) from your native country.

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Write a three page, double-spaced paper with Microsoft Word (700-900 words) on your experience in the United States (and/or other Western countries) and compare and contrast this experience with the culture (e.g., the laws, customs, holidays, etc.) from your native country. Feel free to use the first person (i.e., “I think that…” or “I feel that…”). Use personal experiences and examples, and be sure to tie it into the history of the world (especially the history of the United States and the Middle East). This is due on Thursday, August 8, by the beginning of class at 1:00 pm. Late assignments will be docked 10% per day as outlined in the syllabus. Assignments that are short of the above word count will be docked as well. Turn the assignment in on Moodle as a Word document by dragging the file into the assignment slot.

Challenges facing the Baltimore area

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Assignment Overview
There are many challenges facing the Baltimore area and not necessarily a lot of easy solutions. One of the strengths of the sociological perspective is that it can provide a new or “fresh” perspective on a problem. For this assignment, you will choose a social problem that affects the Baltimore area and will explain how a sociological perspective could be used to think about the problem in a new way.
Please note that you are not expected to provide a solution to the problem. The goal is to explain how a sociologist would develop a research project in order to further study the issue. For instance, if your chosen social problem was jaywalking (people crossing the street illegally), you would write about how sociological concepts such as deviance, or theories such as strain theory or structural disorganization, could be applied by a sociologist in a research project.

Instructions for the Research Proposal
Write a 3-4 page (single spaced length) proposal for a sociological research project focused on the topic you have selected. Your paper should contain all of the information described below. The bibliography is included in the required length. You may format your paper as one continuous essay, or you can divide the paper into the sections listed below.
1. Description of the Topic
In the first part of your paper, describe the topic you have selected and explain why the issue is important for society.  Use information from at least 2 of the research resources in your annotated bibliography in this section of the paper.
1. gun-violence in Baltimore city
2. drug addiction
3. crime rates being too high
4. Children with no real mentors
Use in-text citations in your paper in places where you have used information from your research resources. An in-text citation identifies the sources of the information you are using inside parentheses in the paper. For instance, “According to Dr. Brown, sociology is the most popular class at CCBC (Brown).” There is a help file posted with this assignment with more information about formatting in-text citations.
2. Apply Three Sociological Concepts to the Issue (most important section for your grade)
Choose 3 of the sociological concepts or theories you have learned about this semester and describe how those 3 concepts can be used to better understand the issue you have selected. We covered several sociological concepts and/or theories each week in the class and you can choose any of them. This a very important section of your paper so be sure you have explained in detail, using quotations or specific references from the textbook or assigned videos, how each sociological concept could be used by a sociologist to understand the problem. Do not use a sociological concept that has not appeared in the textbook or other assigned course materials.
3. Conclusion
Write a conclusion that summarizes your own opinion about why a sociologist in particular (as opposed to some other kind of researcher) could make an important contribution to understanding the problem. Think about the unique sociological perspective (the sociological imagination) in writing this portion of the paper. How could sociology give us a fresh perspective on the problem that we might not have considered before?
4. Include a Bibliography in MLA Format
Submit a shorter version of your bibliography that includes only the research materials you used in writing your paper. Remove all the annotations (summaries) so that only the bibliographic information is left. Your bibliography should have a minimum of 2 items listed (because a minimum of 2 research sources are required in the first section of your paper). However, if you use more research sources in your paper, you should include them in the bibliography.