Week 5 Group Discussion – Team 3

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Instructions
Your individual thread for Group Discussion Board Forums must be posted by 11:59 p.m. (PST) on Wednesday of the assigned module/week. Two reply posts discussing implementation strategies are due by Friday 11:59 p.m. (PST).

Your Group Summary for Group Discussion Board Forums must be posted by 11:59 p.m. (PST) on Saturday of the assigned modules/weeks.

                    See Online Discussion Forums section of Syllabus for complete instructions

Week 5 Group Discussion Board Topic: Discuss the 3 most important concepts you have learned from Integration of Organizational Behavior and Management textbook assigned reading, websites, and articles readings and exercises.

About the Johari Window
https://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/JohariWindow.htm (Links to an external site.)
Johari Window Test
http://kevan.org/johari (Links to an external site.)
The Johari Window is a communication model that is used to improve understanding between individuals. The word “Johari” is taken from the names of Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, who developed the model in 1955.

There are two key ideas behind the tool:

That you can build trust with others by disclosing information about yourself.
That, with the help of feedback from others, you can learn about yourself and come to terms with personal issues.
By explaining the idea of the Johari Window, you can help team members to understand the value of self-disclosure, and you can encourage them to give, and accept, constructive feedback.

Done sensitively, this can help people build better, more trusting relationships with one another, solve issues, and work more effectively as a team.

Week 5: Organization Diagnosis Applied Project, Part 1

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Instructions

Part I should include a description and background on the selected organization (industry, size, scope, etc.), why the company, division or department was selected (describe the crises, change processes, functions, culture), and a discussion of the results of the Organizational Diagnosis Questionnaire. Your submission should include the completed Organizational Diagnosis Questionnaire and sources. Estimated page count 4-5 pages single-spaced.

Organizational Diagnosis Applied Project

For this assignment, each student will identify an organization. Preferably this is an organization that the student has first hand experience working at and which is either undergoing a crisis (outlining a need for change) or pursuing an active change. 

Students will then complete the Organizational Diagnosis Questionnaire, gather information (via secondary means as well as interviews with 3-5 different employees), and choose some aspects of the organization to study based upon your initial findings. Throughout this diagnostic and data collection process you will apply appropriate theories and concepts you learned in class to the chosen organization.

There are three deliverables associated with this project. 

1)Organizational Diagnosis Applied Project, Part 1 (50 points)

Part I should include a description and background on the selected organization (industry, size, scope, etc.), why the company, division or department was selected (describe the crises, change processes, functions, culture), and a discussion of the results of the Organizational Diagnosis Questionnaire. Your submission should include the completed Organizational Diagnosis Questionnaire and sources. Estimated page count 4-5 pages single-spaced.

Humanities discousion 5

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Review the art, documents, and artifacts presented over the course of the semester so far (you can even peek ahead to Module 6 on Modernism if you want). Select one specific artifact that you believe would best represent the cultural complexity and reality of America 1900.

Your selections may include examples of visual art, literature, or other historical documents like letters – basically any cultural object that might be exhibited in a museum or library. Your selections should be specific, however. For example, “landscape paintings” is not a specific selection. Instead choose one specific painting that you want represented.

Explain your reasons for why this selection is a meaningful choice to represent the history and human experience of the United States circa 1900. How did you make your decision? Were you aware of certain criteria or cultural values that influenced your selections? Can we be honest with each other about what selecting that one artifact would leave out of the story of 1900?.

VOLCANOEs

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This review will be on a documentary video about volcanoes that you watch at home. I want your personal opinion of the video. Use the knowledge that you have gained from your studies about volcanoes to construct a reasonable critique (pro or con is fine) of the video. Any documentary is fine as long as it is compatible with the theme of volcanoes and is at least 30 minutes long. Reviews should consist of between 750 and 1000 words. You can watch documentaries on television, Netflix, YouTube, websites, or any other source that you can find. Feel free to be as creative as you like. Reviews will be submitted via the “Assignment” section (formally Dropbox) of BlazeVIEW. Read the movie review guidelines that are posted in the Class Documents section in the Content area in BlazeVIEW. Late reviews will be docked 10 points.

All movie reviews must include the following information at the top of the review:

1.  The name of documentary (first 6 reviews)
2.  Medium used to view film (History Channel, DVD rental, Netflix, YouTube)
3.  Approximate length of film
4.  Classmates who watched with you (this is absolutely OK, feel free to organize viewing parties)
5.  Your star ranking for the film (out of a total possible 5 stars)