Describe how these strengths are expressed in your daily life. Are there any you do not exercise regularly?

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Using your results, write a 350- to 700-word paper covering the following points:

  • What were your five highest strengths?
  • Describe how these strengths are expressed in your daily life. Are there any you do not exercise regularly?
  • If your highest strengths are not used regularly in your work or school life, discuss changes you could make to remedy this.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

What behaviors and skills are necessary to successfully work as a practitioner for change in organizations? What attitudes toward client work help a consulting professional become successful, and what attributes, or personal qualities, are essential for this kind of work? To be a consulting professional, you must possess certain competencies, including knowledge, behaviors, and skills beyond technical ability. To be successful, you must also be rigorous in your ability to analyze the nuances of ethical situations and to apply the foundations of consultation psychology and higher order thinking to assess and diagnose problematic situations.

To prepare:

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider competencies and ethical issues faced by organizational change practitioners.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 an explanation of four critical competencies needed by an organizational change practitioner. Provide a rationale to support your explanation. Then, explain one ethical issue that an organizational change practitioner might face.

Finally, explain the personal competencies you, as an organizational change practitioner, might need to apply effective interventions for the ethical issue that you identified.

Provide a brief conclusion that summarizes the ideas presented in your integrative theory of personality. This section will not feature a heading and it will be approximately two to four paragraphs.

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This assignment calls for you to employ what Gordon Allport (1968) called systematic eclecticism. Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the section entitled “Convergence of Theories: Eclecticism, Integration, and Unification” in Chapter 1 of your text.
In this paper, you will complete the assignment which you began in week three and create your own theory of personality development by synthesizing the concepts and constructs of all the theories that seem most accurate and appropriate to you and by using those concepts to reflect on your own personality and development.

Research a minimum of eight scholarly sources related to these concepts in the Ashford University Library to support your statements in the paper. Popular websites and your textbook may augment, but they will not count toward, the minimum number of sources needed for the paper.  The following content and headings must be included in your paper.

Please visit the Ashford Writing Center for guidance on how to format headings in APA Style. Also, please take note of the suggestions provided for the length for each section in the instructions below.

Instructions:
Provide a general introduction to the topic of theories of personality. Explain what you plan to cover and describe the direction your paper will take. This section will not feature a heading, and it will be approximately two to three paragraphs.

Major Concepts
In this section, you will present the seven specific concepts identified from the seven models you think best apply to the study of personality in distinct subheadings.  For each concept, identify the major personality model from which the concept was taken as well as the theorist associated with that model.  This completed section will be approximately four to five pages.

Excluded Concepts 
In this section, present the concepts you have chosen to exclude in your theory of personality development.  Reflect on the basic assumptions that define personality and identify three specific excluded concepts from any of the theories studied in the course.  For each of the excluded concepts, provide a rationale explaining the various aspects of the concept that make it unsuitable for your use.  This section will be approximately one to two pages.

The Differences between Healthy and Unhealthy Personalities
Describe the basic differences between healthy and unhealthy personality, based on the concepts that you have chosen to include and exclude from your theory.  This completed section will be approximately one page.

The Roles of Heredity, the Environment, and Epigenetics
Provide your analysis of the roles heredity, the environment, and epigenetics play in the development of personality. Discuss how heredity and the environment might affect personality disorders. This completed section will be approximately one page.

Assessment and Measurement of the Theory
Reflect on the major concepts you have selected for inclusion and provide a brief description about how those concepts are measured and/or assessed. Review the assessment sections of each chapter and discuss those measures you think are most applicable and effective.  This completed section will be approximately one page.

Self-Reflection 
In this section of the paper, review the self-reflection you wrote in Week One of this class and describe how and in what ways your views have or have not changed. Analyze your Week One self-assessment using the concepts that you have included in your integrative theory and describe how your theory explains your personality. This section will be approximately one page.

Provide a brief conclusion that summarizes the ideas presented in your integrative theory of personality. This section will not feature a heading and it will be approximately two to four paragraphs.

Allport, G. W. (1968). The person in psychology: Selected essays. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

The Integrative Personality Theory paper:

  • Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title page and references page) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least eight scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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Assignment 1: PERSEREC Study Analysis

Defense Personnel and Security Research Center (PERSEREC) was established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness of the DoD personnel security system. PERSEREC is a component of the Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA) under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness). It employs researchers to conduct applied research to improve the DoD Personnel Security Program. One of those research programs maintains a database on espionage. Familiarizing yourself with this organization is essential in understanding how espionage is studied in the U.S.

Review the following article:

  • Herbig, K. L. (2008). Changes in espionage by Americans: 1947–2007
    (Technical Report No. 08-05). Monterey, CA: US Department of
    Defense, Defense Personnel Security Research Center. Retrieved
    from http://www.dhra.mil/perserec/reports/tr08-05.pdf

Tasks:

In a minimum of 300 words, respond to the following:

  • Examine the information in the PERSEREC study and review the executive summary of the report in detail.
  • Explain why, you believe, the shifts in data from 1990 have now occurred. In other words, what is going on globally, psychologically, or culturally to explain these data shifts? Use examples of data shifts from the study.

Your responses should include at least two scholarly resources from the professional literature. The literature may include the Argosy University online library resources; relevant textbooks; peer-reviewed journal articles; and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov).

Submission Details:

  • By Saturday, July 26, 2014, post your responses to this Discussion Area.
  • Through Wednesday, July 30, 2014, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. While responding, identify the similarities and differences between what you have constructed and what your classmates have.

Presents the grading criteria and rubric for this assignment.

Share and discuss this process with your classmates in the forum. You can also try to help other students in coming up with new alternatives for their decisions, especially if you can think of win-win alternatives. For that too, use the methods described in the book and Keeney’s article.

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After doing the activities below, please write at least one original post and two replies to other students in the discussion forum (for a total of 3 contributions, each worth up to 4 points).
It is up to you to which topic you cover in which posts, as long as it becomes clear from your overall contribution to the forum that you did all the exercises and tasks described below, and that you’re reading your classmate’s contributions.

1. Identifying Alternatives

Stimulus variation:

Employ different stimulus variation techniques as described in the book and in Keeney’s article that may help you identify new alternatives, beyond the ones you have already considered for your decision.
Please take your time to complete at least three different stimulus variation techniques before you engage in the discussion forum.

Force-fit:

Consider some of the craziest alternatives you identified. Try to force them to fit your values. See if this process leads you to identify an alternative that may not be so crazy after all.
I’m aware that for some of your decisions, trying to come up with additional alternatives may seem impossible or artificial. Just bear with us though and do it anyway. At the very least it will be a good creativity exercise, but I trust that for most of you it will be helpful, and for some it may lead to win-win alternatives and make a really big difference. And don’t be afraid to explore “crazy” alternatives! You may be surprised at what you come up with when you let yourself be creative. I have had students who actually ended up pursuing an alternative to their decision that at first seemed crazy, and as they explored it more, found out it was not so crazy after all. It’s really fun when that happens!

In the end, you want to have at least three different alternatives for your decision that you will keep working with.

Share and discuss this process with your classmates in the forum. You can also try to help other students in coming up with new alternatives for their decisions, especially if you can think of win-win alternatives. For that too, use the methods described in the book and Keeney’s article.

Whether you apply the technique to your own or another student’s decision, please make clear to us in your posts that you actually applied and understood the different techniques.

2. Determine your final sets of values and alternatives.

This is a preparation for the decision tables (worksheet next week) and your chance to get some feedback from your classmates about whether your final sets of alternatives and values are ready for that next step.
What are the alternatives you want to keep working with, and what are your values? Apart from the reading (revisit the values chapter!), here is an additional resource. These checklists will help you determine if you have well-structured sets of values and alternatives. Go through both checklists and revise your sets as needed.
In the discussion forum, share your final set of alternatives and values, or share parts of the process of revising, or ask questions, or give feedback to other students.