As a manager, how would you balance a disabled employee’s needs for a work adjustment to your need to design jobs that meet organizational performance goals?

*Make these sentences more concise by eliminating redundancy and repitition.

a. Igor's fellow colleagues are ambitious.

b. We ask for everyone's mutual cooperation during this busy time.

c. This report is the most informative report on the project.

d. The consensus of opinion is that we agree with Tanisha's idea.

e. Sam agrees, Tanya agrees, and Soon-ye agrees too.

*Combine the following sentences three times, each time creating one fluent sentence that places emphasis in a different placel. For the first combination, emphasize the negative aspects on the job. For the second combination, emphasize the positive aspects. For the third combination, emphasize the salary.

The job offers an attractive salary. It demands long work hours. It can be stressful. Promotions are rapid.

*Add variety to the following string of similar sentences.

Because people are busy these days, television DVRs are unsurprisingly popular. Because you can record while you are at work, you don't have to worry about missing your favorite program. In addition, because you can record programs that show late at night, you don't have to stay up late to catch your favorite programs. Finally, in case you are on vacation, you can set the DVR to record your favorite shows automatically every week.

*Make these sentences clearer by eliminating faulty parallism.

a. The weather today is going to be cold, rainy, and without much sun.

b. My television picture is cloudy and I can see pixellation.

c. My car needs a tune-up, an oil change, and the tires should be replaced.

d. The new teacher is enthusiatic, skilled, and you can depend on her.

e. In his new job, Ramon felt lonely and without a friend.

*Adjust the tone of the following sentences to improve the connection between the writer and the reader.

a. The writer of this letter would like a refund.

b. The requested report will be sent next week.

c. Students at this college will find the faculty always willing to help.

d. No way am I going to approve this dog a a proposal.

e. Because of your divistion's lagging productivity, a management review may be needed.

List, explain, and provide examples of 5 common errors in human inquiry.

Using the concepts and techniques you have learned during this course include details and discussion as to frequency of occurrence, patterns of offending, patterns of victimization and enough supporting detail to inform a coordinated law enforcement response.

Choose one of the following artists from the 8th decade of the 20th century and explain their contribution to dance during that period of time! Also how did they influence future generations of dance in the 20th century? Also what previous artists from earlier in the century influenced them as well? John Travolta, Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Brenda Bufalino.

Theories (What is the main claim of each? Which is a sub-type of which? Which figures are associated with each?) Utilitarianism Consequentialism Deontology Kantian Ethics Virtue Ethics (Hursthouse) Hedonism Stoicism Ethics of Care Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

Discuss the criteria for nomothetic causality Discuss the obstacles in the search for nomothetic causality. Illustrate your answer with examples

On what grounds does the feminist ethic of care dirrentiate itself form other moral theories: How does it seek to answer these objections? What doe it propose as an alternative approach

Concepts (What does teach concept mean? Which theory makes use of it?) Formula of Universal Law (Kant) Formula of Humanity (Kant) Categorical & hypothetical imperatives (Kant) Moral relativism & moral nihilism Human Function (Aristotle) Doctrine of the Mean (Aristotle) Moral Worth (Kant) The Good Will (Kant) Eudaimonia (Aristotle / Stoicism)

You are the chief of police and received the news that you must cut 1,000,000 out of your 5,000,000 budget. Tell me how would you go about making the cut and which items would be on the chopping block and why?

DESCRIBE YOUR PREFERRED LEADERSHIP STYLE, IDENTIFYING HOW YOUR CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW MAY BE FOUND IN THE DESCRIPTION

Theories of psychology are, in many ways, a product of the context that they come from. We have discussed the role of culture, cohort, and environment in identifying factors that create differences in behavior and thought. A robust theory of psychology can address universal (culture free) and individual (culture specific) differences in explaining the HOW and WHY of behavior. For this assignment, you will be addressing the following cultural scenarios and will need to evaluate psychological theories from this new point of view:  

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Television images, movies and glamour magazines promote the elderly as role models. Your sense of self- esteem is tied to how “old” you are perceived as, with success in work and relationships based on age related criteria. Younger members of a group are marginalized and clear messages about the value of age are communicated with even very young members of society (children). There are industries in your society dedicated to helping provide society with valued markers of age (think hair dye and plastic surgery to age individuals). Imagine what your experiences would have been growing up and how your sense of identity would be like as a college student.

For this assignment, please reflect on what ways such a situation might affect their personal experiences. (What would be different, specifically?) Next, speculate how the theories in the field of psychology might be changed as a result. Describe this in terms of at least three approaches or theories in psychology (Freud, Piaget, Social Learning, Milgram, Zimbardo, etc.) You will need to discuss why these changes would impact their experiences and the world at large (ex., would Freud be more widely accepted without the changes in access to education for women in the 30s and 40s that gave women more status and would current theories of personality be different due to this change. Think about if these changes in the world would have altered the theories of psychology and what a specific alternate theory would look like.

Students will need to discuss this hypothetical change using the
WHAT, HOW, AND WHY
format.
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WHAT is different based on the change (in terms of your personal experiences and
culture).
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HOW is psychology different? (What in the research that we have discussed holds
true and what does not? Would we still find the same results? Would research or
theories look different? Would a different cultural norm produce a different
explanation of thought and behavior and what does that say about the role of culture
in how we explain behavior or thought?)

National Geographic did a short piece on lying where they reported on some recent research conducted by a Communication Studies professor on the reasons people lie. Below are six of those reasons. For each type of reason, assume that the person who has told the lies has told them all before.

For each kind of lie, identify if the telling of the lie (that's the operant) has been positively reinforced, negatively reinforced, positively punished or negatively punished. Explain why you chose the type of reinforcement or punishment that you did.

a. Lied to cover up a personal transgression, e.g. lied to keep an affair from becoming public

b. Lied to avoid someone, e.g., lied to get off the phone with someone you don’t want to talk to c. Lied for financial gain, e.g., lied on a tax return to get a bigger tax refund

d. Lied for non-monetary benefits, e.g., lied to get people to vote for you

e. Lied to make a good impression, e.g., lied on an online dating profile so more people will say yes when you ask to meet them

f. Lied to be polite, e.g., lied about liking someone’s shirt to avoid making the person feel bad

Question from Dancing with Skeletons:

Does the author suggest that difficult or tragic experiences can have any life-enhancing outcomes? If so, or if not, what is your belief on this subject? Can terrible hardships improve one’s understand of other parts of life?