2 PARTS: PART 1 ESSAY, 3-4 PAGES, PART 2 POWER POINT 4-8 SLIDES

 

**MUST FOLLOW ISTRUCTIONS EXPLICITLY** ORIGINAL WORK ONLY!! REFERENCE MUST BE THE ONE LISTED IN THE ASSIGNMENT, INTEXT CITATION MUST BE APA FORMAT,

 

Research suggests a number of strategies to reduce intergroup conflict. To further explore these strategies, in addition to readings in your text, read the following article paying particular attention to pages 588 to 593. Hewstone, M., Rubin, M., & Willis, H. (2002). Intergroup bias. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 575-604.

 

You are a counselor in a detention center for delinquent adolescent boys. Your current project is to devise a way to reduce intergroup conflict that has been escalating between the boys at the center, many of whom were active in local gangs.

 

• Discuss in detail the concepts that lead to the intergroup conflict, such as stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. How have these attitudes and behaviors created and perpetuated the ongoing conflict?

 

 

 

• Discuss the different strategies to reduce intergroup conflict found in your text and the Hewstone article.

 

 

 

• Looking back at the course discuss 2 to 3 additional concepts that could be applied in helping a person overcome these negative attitudes and behaviors.

 

 

 

• Keeping these strategies and concepts in mind, what activities and/or programs can you create that will help these boys overcome this conflict and learn to work together, respect each other, and come to see each other’s differences as valuable. Briefly summarize each program/strategy in 2 to 3 sentences each in preparation for part 2 of this project.

 

Answer the above points in a 3- to 4-page paper. Your paper should be double-spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman font with normal one-inch margins, written in APA style, and free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract, and a reference page.

 

Part 2:

 

Create a 4- to 8-slide PowerPoint presentation (not including title and reference slides) to present to the board of directors for the detention center that will cover the following:

 

• A detailed outline of each of the 3 to 4 programs/strategies that you would like to put into place at the center.

 

 

 

• Discuss for each program/strategy why you believe it will be effective within the context of your detention center.

 

By Monday, April 6, 2015 deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

 

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Discusses the concepts that lead to the intergroup conflict and how behaviors created and perpetuated the ongoing conflict.	44
Discusses the different strategies to reduce intergroup conflict and cites relevant resources for the text and the Hewstone article.	44
Discusses 2 to 3 additional concepts that could be applied to overcoming the negative attitudes and behaviors.	44
Develops and summarizes 3 to 4 activities and/or programs that can be implemented.	36
Create a 4- to 8-slide PowerPoint presentation (not including title and reference slides) to present to the board of directors for the detention center that will cover the following: A detailed outline of each of the 3 to 4 programs/strategies that you would like to put into place at the center. (40 points) Discuss why you believe each program/strategy will be effective within the context of your detention center. (28 points)	68
Standard presentation components: Organization (16 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion. Style (8 points): Tone, audience, and word choice. Usage and Mechanics (16 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. APA Elements (24 points): In text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style.	64
Total:	300

 

 

Assignment 3: Person-Situation Interaction

There are six ways in which a person and the situation interact to shape a person’s goals, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

These are:

 

1. Different persons respond differently to the same situation.

2. Situations choose the person.

3. Persons choose the situation.

4. Different situations can prime different parts of the person.

5. Persons change the situation.

6. Situations change the person.

As part of your answer:

• Discuss what is meant by each of these dyads.
• Provide an example of how each one works.
• Assume you are a supervisor. How would you work within each of these situations with your employees to increase employee motivation? How would your decisions be affected by each person-situation dyad?
• Assume that you are an industrial/organizational consultant brought into the same office as asked to study these person-situation interactions in order to advise management how to best put them to use to increase employee motivation which research design would you use? Why is this design the best fit for this office situation?

Submit your response to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox by Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Your combined response should be at least two pages (500 words) long.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Explained each of the six person-situation dyads.	20
Gave an example of how each person-situation dyad works.	20
Described the decisional process that a supervisor would use with their employees within the context of each person-situation dyad.	30
Discussed which research design would be the best fit to study the person-situation interaction within an office environment and why it is the best fit.	10
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.	20
Total:	100