Identify the type of organizational structure that NoJax is currently using. Provide an opinion about whether it has a positive or negative influence on NoJax’s organizational behavior. Be sure to support and explain your opinion with observations from the background document.

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In your continued role as the organizational behavior consultant for NoJax Inc., you have now been tasked with analyzing the current structure of the business and how it’s impacting employee behaviors.

Use the NoJax Company Background document as a reference, and pay special attention to the policy and structure sections of the document. Write a report for senior management that provides observations on the overall structure of the business and the implications it may have on organizational behavior. Be sure your report addresses the following:

  • Choose a minimum of three of the six organizational behavior structure characteristics (span of control, chain of command, etc.). Describe each in terms of how they’re used within NoJax’s structure, and provide an opinion about whether it has a positive or negative influence on NoJax’s organizational behavior. Be sure to support and explain your opinion with observations from the background document.
  • Identify the type of organizational structure that NoJax is currently using. Provide an opinion about whether it has a positive or negative influence on NoJax’s organizational behavior. Be sure to support and explain your opinion with observations from the background document.
  • Rank decision-making power, creativity, and ease of communication from most important to least important for NoJax’s success. Explain if you think NoJax’s current structure is effectively cultivating the characteristic you have ranked as most important. Be sure to support and explain your opinion with observations from the background document.

Explain the two issues you chose in more depth. For each of these issues explain the meaning of the terms, the impact on the study of psychology each has. Include examples of individuals, concepts, or ideas, to enhance your presentation.

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For this task, imagine that you have been asked to give a guest lecture to first year undergraduate students on the topic of the historical study of psychology. Draw on what Simonton (2002) referred to as issues that plagued the understanding of history. As you recall from the assigned article, he identified these critical issues as; genius versus zeitgeist as casual agents, internal versus external influences, persistent versus historicist narratives, idiographic versus nomothetic interpretations, quality versus quantity in phenomena, and deterministic versus stochastic descriptions.

For your lecture, explain your understanding of the historical study of science, and of psychology in general. Be sure to address the following points:

• Why study the history of psychology at all?

• Name the six issues identified by Simonton that are important to the understanding of history. Explain each one clearly and succinctly, using one sentence, or even a few words that make these concepts understandable

• Choose two of these three issues: genius versus zeitgeist as causal agents, quality versus quantity in phenomena, and idiographic versus nomothetic interpretations, Explain the two issues you chose in more depth. For each of these issues explain the meaning of the terms, the impact on the study of psychology each has. Include examples of individuals, concepts, or ideas, to enhance your presentation.

Length: 3-5 pages

Your lecture should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

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Discuss the biological, social, and emotional issues that can impact family homeostasis in both a positive and negative manner.

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Family Resilience to Promote Positive Childhood

For  the purposes of this week’s Assignment, please apply the concepts  learned in assessing the biological, social, and emotional principles  that affect families over their lifetime. In addition, please consider  the roles that biological, social, and emotional factors play in the  development of family resilience.

For this Assignment, please respond to the following:

  • Discuss the biological, social, and emotional issues that can impact family homeostasis in both a positive and negative manner.
  • Select  one issue from above that impacts family homeostasis in a negative  manner and identify or develop two interventions that could be used to  assist the family in this area.
    • Discuss briefly how you would evaluate the effectiveness of each intervention.
  • Provide  a brief (one-paragraph) summary of the Applied Biosocial Contextual  Development Model (ABCD). Then analyze how this model can be used to  assist the human services professional in targeting areas for service  delivery or intervention.

Assignment Guidelines

Your  Assignment should be a 3- to 4-page expository essay (not including the  title and reference pages) and should include the following elements:

  • Title page: Provide your name, title of Assignment, course and section number, and date.
  • Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs.
    • Your  responses should reflect professional writing standards using proper  tone and language. The writing and writing style should be correct,  accurate, and reflect knowledge of developing and delivering family  services.
  • Reference page: Sources in APA format
    • Include a minimum of two scholarly or academic sources in addition to your text to support your responses and conclusions.
    • Make sure that all sources listed on the reference page correspond to in-text citations in the body of your paper.
  • Use Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced and left aligned.
  • Use standard 1″ margins on all sides.
  • Use APA formatting and citation style.
    • If you need assistance with APA style, please visit the Academic Success Center.

How does this movie make you think differently about how you can impact physical/mental/emotional abuse, mental health, addiction problems, etc.?

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Essay should answer these question.

1) What do our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors contribute or take away from ourselves and others?

2)How does this movie make you think differently about how you can impact physical/mental/emotional abuse, mental health, addiction problems, etc.?

3) Name at least three issues you noticed in the movie that contributed to the continued abusive situation. How should these situations have been handled? Please be specific in your answer citing the outcomes.

4) What have you learned about yourself from this movie? How does it make you a better person?

5) Locate two sources from the online databases about helping behaviors and how they can lead to significant improvements within society regarding abusive relationships, mental health issues, addiction problems, etc. Include at least one quote from each source in your paper. Be sure to include a Works Cited page in your paper. (works cited page does not count as 3 page essay. Its your 4th page

For this week’s Forum discussion, watch the video Merchants of Cool athttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/

If you cannot view this video, read Article #9 Attribution vs Persuasion as a Means for Modifying Behavior in Reading About The Social Animal textbook.

After watching the video or reading the article, respond the following questions in your initial post on the Week 2 Forum:
How, and to what extent, does the mass media influence the public’s attitudes and behaviors? Do television shows and newscasts, for example, simply reflect what is happening in the world or do they carry the potential to actually cause real-life events? Apart from advertising, do you believe the members of the media engage in deliberate attempts to persuade people to adopt certain opinions and attitudes? 400 word minimum words. Must list references.