What are the major goals of scientific research?Why do I-O professionals use scientific research?What types of research methods do I-O professional use?What data collection methods do I-O professionals use?What additional factors must I-O professionals consider to ensure that their research is effective and ethical?
Television CharacterTelevision provides us with many interesting examples of interpersonal and neurotic behaviors. In this assignment, you will delve into the life and actions of some of your favorite television characters and analyze them using Horney’s coping strategies.Interestingly, Horney’s three coping strategies for one’s neurotic needs correlate very well with three of Adler’s different personality types:Horney’s moving-toward strategy—Adler’s getting or leaning typeHorney’s moving against—Adler’s ruling or dominant typeHorney’s moving away from—Adler’s avoiding typeUsing Horney’s theory of coping with neurotic needs with three different interpersonal orientations, select a TV program of your choice containing a character that Horney would identify as exhibiting neurotic behaviors. As you watch a full episode of this show, focus on this character and tally each instance of moving-toward, moving-against, and moving-away behavior.Research Horney’s theory using your textbook, the Internet, and the Argosy University online library resources. Based on your research, respond to the following:Discuss this character’s neurotic needs and trends.What do you think has happened in his/her life that has led to these behaviors?In addition to general life events, how has gender and culture influenced the character’s neurotic needs and behaviors?How do these interpersonal orientations impact the way this character interacts with others and develops relationships?Write your initial response in 4–5 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
Develop a comprehensive earned value analysis report.
This portfolio work project, an earned value management analysis, is based on your selected business or IT project. You may choose to base your assessment on the Revive LLC case study for the development of a new online employee orientation module, or you may continue to use a company of your choice. Both human resource (HR) and information technology (IT) employees, as well as contractors, will be utilized in this project.
Earned value management (EVM) is defined “as a methodology that combines scope, schedule and resource management to assess project performance and progress” (Project Management Institute, 2017, p. 705).
Project managers examine cost control, tools, and techniques that define the procedures by which the cost baseline may be changed. They engage in performance measurement to assess the magnitude of variations that occur during project execution. EVM is used to measure project performance by comparing certain predefined variables. Microsoft Project is a tool used to track planned cost versus actual cost, calculate the earned value, and forecast the effects of some cost changes.
Reference
Project Management Institute. Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) — Sixth Edition and Agile Practice Guide. Newtown Square. PA. 2017.
Scenario
For this assessment, choose either Option A or Option B. You do not need to do both. Both options will be graded using the same scoring guide.
Option A: Project Revive LLC is a consulting firm of highly charged and accomplished project managers whose main stream of revenue comes from managing the turnaround of failing projects. As a consultant with Project Revive LLC you will study, analyze, and manage a failed project from NearlyFree.com. NearlyFree.com is a fictitious company and the project documents for NearlyFree.com project scenario are linked below. The NearlyFree.com project was originally scoped to develop and deploy an automated web-based training system for new employees to reduce the workload and cut down personnel resources required to complete the new employee orientation (NEO) training.
As a veteran member of the Project Revive team, you already know the value of continually examining performance throughout a project to further define and update project data. Special attention to documenting and identifying problems is required in time to make appropriate adjustments. The earned value management (EVM) technique is often used in this type of analysis. Continue your analysis of the failed project by applying the EVM technique to examine performance based on what was accomplished.
Option A Resources:
NearlyFree.com Organizational Background and IT Governance [DOCX].
Project Charter [PDF].
Project Schedule [MPP].
Project Scope Statement [PDF].
Quality Statement [PDF].
Statement of Work Template [DOC].
Task Costs [XLS].
Work Breakdown Structure [DOC].
Work Breakdown Structure [VSD].
Option B: You may choose a business of your own. It must include (but is not limited to) the following criteria:
Clearly indicate the title of the project in every assessment.
You must have access to the following documentation:
Scope statement.
Final deliverable and product definition.
Project work-breakdown structure.
Project schedule.
Quality plan.
Project costs (estimates and actuals).
Your Role
For both Option A or B, you are the project manager.
Requirements
Microsoft Project is the recommended software tool for this course due to its wide industry acceptance and its use in many project management professional roles. To make this easier, you have the ability to download and install your own version of MS Project for use in this course. See the Software Preparation and Technology Access activity in Assessment 1 for more information.
Practice using MS Project in this course will prepare you for future professional PM roles and responsibilities; please use MS Project for those tasks supported by MS Project. If you have access to other tools such as MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, or other project management software that you believe may still meet the requirements of this course, please discuss your selected alternative with faculty.
Use the PMBOK® Guide as the model for developing the deliverables.
Earned Value Analysis
Deliverable: Develop an Earned Value Analysis report of the current failed project.
Complete the following:
Use Microsoft Project or different, faculty-approved software to show earned value in a list of tasks that measure the cost of the work performed up to a certain date (the current date) based on the Project Schedule [MPP].
Consider how you can apply this analysis of the failed project to a successful project turnaround.
Address the following topics. Where necessary, define assumptions you made.
Apply an earned value technique.
Explain the value of the information provided through the EVM technique.
Analyze project success based on earned value calculations.
Base project decisions on earned value calculations.
Explain how you will apply earned value calculations to a successful project turnaround.
Use the MS Project functionality (or another software program) to:
Display project summary information and report.
Create project reports.
Export project plan cost data into Excel.
Deliverable Format
References: There is no set number of references required for this assessment. Use scholarly or academic sources where applicable.
Format:
Use Microsoft Project to obtain project costs information.
Use your choice of MS Word, MS Visio, or MS PowerPoint to develop the comprehensive analyses.
These analyses are professional documents and should therefore follow the corresponding Academic and Professional Document Guidelines [PDF], including single-spaced paragraphs.
Use APA style and format for references and in-text citations.
Evaluation
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply project cost tools and techniques to ensure project success.
Apply an earned value technique.
Analyze project success based on earned value calculations.
Explain project decisions based on earned value calculations.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively in a professional manner consistent with the standards of project management.
Explain how earned value calculations apply to a successful project turnaround.
Faculty will use the scoring guide to review your deliverable as if they were your immediate supervisor. Review the scoring guide prior to developing and submitting your assessment.
ePortfolio
This portfolio work project demonstrates your competency in applying knowledge and skills required in the workplace. Include this in your personal ePortfolio.
Need an research paper on how we forget. Needs to be 5 pages. Please no plagiarism. As a starting point it seems relevant to mention that memory as a phenomenon could be divided into three main types – working, long-term and short-term memory (Wickelgren, 1972). The theory of cognitive psychology assumes that the process of forgetting is characterized by a decrease of the ability to remember things and reproduce the known information. in general, it could be described as the loss of access to the previously remembered data. Both of the chosen theories – the Trace Decay and the Interference ones – have their adherents and the issue of which theory describes the process of forgetting more relevant is still debatable.
The Interference theory
The adherents of this theory consider that the existing information in the human brain is superseded by the new one. The memory traces as they are called by the psychologists are mutually replaced on the basis of their similarity, this similarity may be phonetic semantic or visual (Wickelgren, 1972). According to the information given by the researcher Douglas Potts the interference could be divided into two types – proactive and retroactive interference. So according to this theory, there may be two ways of memorizing: original information is stronger and prevents memorizing the new one, and as a result, it is forgotten. and the opposite case when the “old” information is forgotten, being replaced (Potts, 1996 p.6). The origin of this theory belongs to psychologists Waugh and Norman (1965) and later this theory was supported by such psychology researches as Baddeley and Scott (1971).
The interference is considered to be the main reason for forgetting (Altman, Gray). As an example of this theory applied in practice, we can provide the information given in the research made by Ann Cybenko: for example, the person forgets hisher acquaintance’s name after meeting many people and their names interfered with the name of the first person (Cybenko, 2011 p.12). This experiment can be easily made within a small group of people and doesn’t need special equipment. The phenomenon of interference should not be confused with the positive transference when the previous information helps to memorize the new one. This phenomenon is observed, for example, when a driver starts to learn to drive a new car brand after changing his own car.
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