What does a leader do when things do not go as planned? How can a leader help to restore or improve an organization’s operations when a situation stalls or interferes with its functions?

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Assignment: Leadership and Strategic Planning

In this assignment, you consider how leaders can engage in a strategic planning process with stakeholders to develop a plan to guide the organization’s evolution and development for the long-term. Since strategic planning should engage persons who will be affected by an organization’s decisions (e.g., staff, administration, board members, members of the community), it is important to include key stakeholders in the planning process so that it reflects their perspectives and interests.

For this Assignment, think about how you would begin the strategic planning process for a human services organization. Consider the human services organizations for which you have worked either in your fieldwork or as an employee. Based on what you know about a particular organization, what steps might you take to establish a plan for the organization’s long-term development?

Assignment (2–4 pages in APA format): Describe the first three steps you would take to begin the strategic planning process for a human services organization. Be sure to include the key stakeholders—who should be involved in each step and why they need to be included in the process. In addition, include steps you would take to establish stakeholder support and confidence.

Note: Although you will base your strategic plan on what you know about an actual organization, do not include any identifying information about the organization or its stakeholders.

(assignment 2 Discussion Address Change)

 

Discussion: Addressing Change

What does a leader do when things do not go as planned? How can a leader help to restore or improve an organization’s operations when a situation stalls or interferes with its functions? Although taking a proactive approach to planning is desired, change may occur suddenly and unexpectedly causing immediate consequences. A skilled leader must be able to assess a situation in order to prioritize the steps necessary to stabilize the organization. This process must focus on a short-term strategy to address immediate concerns and include strategic decisions that will affect the long-term sustainability of the organization.

For this Discussion, you address the Southeast Planning Group (SPG) case study in the Social Work Case Studies: Concentration Year text.

By Day 3

Post an analysis of the change that took place in the SPG. Furthermore, suggest one strategy that might improve the organizational climate and return the organization to optimal functioning. Provide support for your suggested strategy, explaining why it would be effective.

Support your post with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

Resolve the ethical dilemma and multicultural issues presented in the case study scenarios linked in Resources, and apply the material to this assignment.

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In this assignment, you will use professional guidelines and tools to devise a strategy to address an ethical dilemma and evaluate the usefulness of those guidelines and tools.

Instructions

  • Resolve the ethical dilemma and multicultural issues presented in the case study scenarios linked in Resources, and apply the material to this assignment.
    • To create an effective resolution, reflect on your responses to related discussion questions and review the recommendations made on your posts by peers.
  • Use the Ethics Case Study Template linked in Resources to build your PowerPoint presentation.
    • As in the previous assignment, you may enhance the design of the presentation to make it more effective.

Your PowerPoint should include the following:

  1. Title slide:
    • Enter a descriptive title of approximately 10–15 words that concisely communicates the heart of the case study. It should stir interest while maintaining professional decorum.
    • Enter your name, a job title, and an organization that would fit with your case study. These last two elements may be fictional.
  2. Case Study Overview slides: Provide the briefest possible narrative of the professional conflict in the case. Additional supporting details and references may be added in the notes section below the slide. The overview should include:
    • The professional setting of the case.
    • Short descriptions of the people involved and their roles.
    • A concise summation of the ethical dilemma.
  3. Ethical Concerns slides: Bullet three or more ethical concerns in the case and apply one or more ethical standards to each concern. Additional supporting details and references may be added in the notes section below the slide. Be sure to include links to pertinent elements of the code.
  4. Comparison of Ethical Theories slides: In the first row of the table provided, identify two ethical theories that you think would be the most appropriate for the situations in the case. In the following rows, compare relevant features of the two theories. In the notes section, evaluate which theory provides a more functional framework for your case and explain why.
    • Note that ethical theories and ethical decision-making models are two different things. Please make sure you are comparing, contrasting, and evaluating two ethical theories.
  5. Ethical Decision-Making Model slides:
    • Use Fisher’s ethical decision-making model and identify each step in the model.
    • Apply the model to your case and, under each step of the model, describe how that step would look if applied to the case.
    • Incorporate multicultural issues presented in the case study within the selected ethical decision-making model.
    • Copy this slide as needed and combine steps on the slides as necessary or appropriate. In the notes section, include supporting narrative details for your bullet points.
      • Please make sure you are applying steps of the ethical decision-making model to your case.
  6. Proposed Resolution slide: Use bullet points to summarize your proposed resolution to the ethical dilemmas in the case. In the notes section, add supporting narrative details for your bullet points.
  7. References slides: Use current APA style and formatting guidelines.

Requirements

  • Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Format: Use the Ethics Case Study Template linked in Resources. Use current APA style and formatting guidelines as applicable.
  • References: You must cite best practices from at least three scholarly research articles in this assignment. You may cite reputable sources from websites, books, textbooks, and assigned resources as well, but these will not count toward the three required scholarly research references.
  • Length of PowerPoint: A minimum of 15 slides

Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

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Warm-Up Activity 2.1: Review APA Code of Ethics

This week, review Standard 4: Privacy and Confidentiality of the APA Code of Ethics.

Spotlight on Skills: Developing a PowerPoint Presentation

For this assignment, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation. For help in using this tool, review the PowerPoint Tutorial located under your weekly resources.

Assignment

In all fields of psychology, recordkeeping requirements are guided by state and federal regulations, professional organizations and contractors. For this task, assume that you have been asked to develop a PowerPoint presentation supported lecture to students or colleagues, which highlights applicable record keeping requirements for your organization and for the state or country where your organization or agency resides. If you are not currently employed, you may select the record keeping requirements that would be applicable for a private or consulting practice.

For this assignment, you are required only to submit the accompanying power point and not the lecture. Your required speaker notes should include the full applicable ethics standards or requirements of your organization as well as the full code section of the applicable state or country regulations.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists.

Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

Length: 12-15 slides

Notes Length: 150-200 words for each slide

Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.

Identify each of the following as examples of nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio scales of measurement. (4 points each) A poll of registered voters in Florida asking which candidate they support

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Identify each of the following as examples of nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio scales of measurement. (4 points each)

  1. A poll of registered voters in Florida asking which candidate they support
  2. The length of time required for a wound to heal when using a new medicine
  3. The number of telephone calls arriving at a switchboard per five-minute period
  4. The distance first-year college football players can kick a ball
  5. Mental health diagnoses present in an elderly population
  6. The rankings of employees on their job performance

(Points : 24)

 

 

Question 2. 2.

Two hundred raffle tickets are sold. Your friend has five people in her family who each bought two raffle tickets. What is the probability that someone from her family will win the raffle?

(Points : 4)

 

 

Question 3. 3. Jolie has 45 minutes to do her statistics homework. If the mean is 38 minutes and the standard deviation is 3, calculate Jolie’s z score. Once calculated, interpret your findings in terms of Jolie’s performance.
(HINT: use the normal distribution and the probability that other students performed better or worse.) (Points : 8) 

 

Question 4. 4. A psychologist measures units of change for a memory test after students are given an opportunity to sleep only four hours. The following change units were obtained: 7, -12, 4, -7, 3, -10. Find the a) mean, b) median, c) mode, d) standard deviation, e) range, and f) variance. (Points : 24)

 

 

Question 5. 5. A student scored 81 on a chemistry test and 75 on a history test. For the chemistry test, the mean was 70 and the standard deviation was 20. For the history test, the mean was 65 and the standard deviation was 8. Did the student do better on the chemistry test or the history test? Explain your answer. (Points : 12)

 

 

Question 6. 6. Suppose you want to figure out what to do with your degree in psychology. You ask some fellow students from your psychology program who recently graduated to find out what they are doing with their degree and how much it pays. What type of sampling is this? What are the limitations of this sampling approach? (Points : 8)

 

 

Question 7. 7. Variables in which the values are categories are known as (Points : 4)

Interval variables
Nominal variables
Ordinal variables
Ratio variables

 

Question 8. 8. Before the researcher can conduct a statistical test, the research question must be translated into (Points : 4)

A testable hypothesis
Additional observations

Mathematical symbols

Numbers

 

Question 9. 9. The hypothesis stating that there are no differences, effects, or relationships is (Points : 4)

The alternative hypothesis

The baseline hypothesis

The null hypothesis

The reasonable hypothesis

 

Question 10. 10. A group of students made the following scores on a 10-item quiz in psychological statistics: {5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10} What is the mean score? (Points : 4)

6.6

7.2

7.8

8.7

 

Question 11. 11. A group of students made the following scores on a 10-item quiz in psychological statistics: {5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10} What is the median score? (Points : 4)

6
7
8
9

 

Question 12. 12. A group of students made the following scores on a 10-item quiz in psychological statistics: {5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10} What is the mode? (Points : 4)

5
7
8
9

 

Question 13. 13. A group of students made the following scores on a 10-item quiz in psychological statistics: {5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10} What is the range of scores? (Points : 4)

5
6
7
11

 

Question 14. 14. A group of students made the following scores on a 10-item quiz in psychological statistics: {5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10} What is the variance, treating these scores as a sample? (Points : 4)

1.53
1.60

2.33

2.56

 

Question 15. 15. The standard normal distribution has all the following properties EXCEPT: (Points : 4)

The mean, mode, and median are all equal

The total area under the curve equals 1

The curve is specified by two parameters, the mean and the standard deviation

The curve extends to + and – 3 standard deviations from the mean

 

Question 16. 16. According to the Empirical Rule, approximately _______% of the data in a normal distribution will fall within ±1 standard deviation of the mean. (Points : 4)

34
68

95

99.7

 

Question 17. 17. In statistical computations, the number of values that are free to vary is known as (Points : 4)

Degrees of freedom

Freedom factor

Variability index

Variation quotient

 

Question 18. 18. Which of the following reflects a Type I error? (Points : 4)

Rejecting the null hypothesis when in reality the null hypothesis is true

Rejecting the null hypothesis when in reality the null hypothesis is false

Accepting the null hypothesis when in reality the null hypothesis is true

Accepting the null hypothesis when in reality the null hypothesis is false

 

Question 19. 19. Which type of sampling is used when the experimenter asks 5 area doctors to refer pregnant women to his study and accepts all women who offer to be in his study? (Points : 4)

purposive sampling

convenience sampling

cluster sampling

stratified sampling

 

Question 20. 20. In our statistics equations, n refers to: (Points : 4)

mean

standard deviation

normal distribution

number of subjects

 

Question 21. 21. Which of the following is true regarding alpha? (Points : 4)

it is also known as the level of significance
value is set by the researcher

value is equal to the probability of a type I error

all of the above are true

 

Question 22. 22. Macy proposes that boys who play sports are viewed as more attractive than boys who do not play sports. What is her null hypothesis? (Points : 4)

Boys who play sports are not viewed as more attractive than boys who do not play sports

Playing sports will influence how attractively boys are viewed

Boys who play sports are more attractive than girls who play sports

There can be no null hypothesis

 

Question 23. 23. You calculate a t of 2.38 and note that the tabled value for .01 is 3.22 and for .05 is 2.19. You would conclude that the null hypothesis can be: (Points : 4)

Accepted at the .05 level

Rejected at the .01 level

Rejected at the .05 level

None of the above

 

Question 24. 24. A researcher is studying political conservatism among 11 engineering students and 11 humanities students. The number of degrees of freedom for a t test is: (Points : 4)

22

20

11

10

 

Question 25. 25. A t test for dependent groups should be used instead of a t test for independent samples: (Points : 4)

If each participant is measured twice
Whenever there are equal numbers of subjects in each group
Whenever there are only two groups
All of the above

 

Question 26. 26. In a normal distribution, what percent of the population falls within one and two standard deviations of the mean? (Points : 4)

34%
68%
95%
cannot tell from the information given

 

Question 27. 27. Which of the following is more affected by extreme scores? (Points : 4)

Mode

Mean

Median

None of the above are affected

 

Question 28. 28. On a histogram, what does the vertical (y) axis refer to? (Points : 4)

Individual scores

Frequencies

Means

Deviation scores

 

Question 29. 29. Which statistic refers to the average amount by which the scores in the sample deviate from the mean? (Points : 4)

Range
Standard deviation

Median

Mode

 

Question 30. 30. Assume a normal distribution for N = 300. How many cases would one expect to find between +1 and -1 standard deviations around the mean? (Points : 4)

102

285

150

204

 

Question 31. 31. A z score of zero tells us that the score is at the________of the distribution. (Points : 4)

Mean

Very top

Very bottom

None of the above since z cannot be zero

 

Question 32. 32. In a unit normal curve, what goes on the x axis? (Points : 4)

Frequencies

Observed scores

z scores

Area

 

Question 33. 33. Which of the following is a measure of variability? (Points : 4)

Mean

Range

Interval

All of the above

 

Question 34. 34. The only measure of central tendency that can be found for nominal data is the (Points : 4)

Mean

Median

Mode

Midrange

 

Question 35. 35. If the probability of event A is 0.45 and the probability of event B is 0.35 and the probability of A and B occurring together is 0.25, then the probability of A OR B is: (Points : 4)

0.8

1.8

0.1575

0.55

 

Question 36. 36. A researcher knows that the average distance commuting students live from campus was previously 8.2 miles. Because of the rising prices of gasoline, the research wants to test the claim that commuting students now live closer to campus. What is the correct alternative hypothesis? (Points : 4)

The new mean distance is 8.2 miles.
The new mean distance is less than or equal to 8.2 miles.
The new mean distance is less than 8.2 miles.
The new mean distance is greater than or equal to 8.2 miles.