Assignment:

1. Watch the short 3-minute video Jar of Life. (Links to an external site.)
   1. After watching the Jar of Life video, write down three of the “golf balls” in your life. In other words, what are the three most important things in your life? Identifying the important things in your life, will help you to prioritize how to make decisions on how you spend your time.
2. Watch the short 5-minute video Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix (Links to an external site.).
   1. After watching the Time-Management Matrix video, you will notice that all of our actions fall into one of the four quadrants. Write a list of 15 or more specific actions you have taken in the past two days. Be specific. It could be watching TV, writing an essay for your English class, going to dinner with friends, taking care of an elderly parent or young child, or posting on social media apps, getting ready for the day etc., Be sure to include a variety of actions.
   2. Write down the four quadrants as you saw in the video, then take your list of 15+ actions from step 2A and write them down in the appropriate quadrant on your chart.
      • Quadrant 1 Important, Urgent
      • Quadrant 2 Important, Not Urgent
      • Quadrant 3 Not Important, Urgent
      • Quadrant 4 Not Important, Not Urgent
3. After watching both videos, write a paragraph about your thoughts and feelings. Use this as an opportunity to learn more about yourself. Remember that your response is confidential so only I (Professor) will be reading your answers. Feel free to engage in deep self-reflection. Be sure to address the following in your paragraph:
   1. Write about one thing you have learned from the Jar of Life video, and be sure to discuss how you will apply it to your life moving forward.
   2. Write about one thing you have learned from the Time Management Matrix video, and be sure to discuss how you will apply it to your life moving forward.
   3. Looking back to activity 2A, in which quadrant do you spend the most time?
   4. What different choices, if any, do you intend to make about how you use time?

Read the short essay Family Feud from the book Boxed In by Mark Crispin Miller and respond to the prompt below.

PROMPT: We are all accustomed to watching game shows and not reflecting on what they might say about the world we inhabit. Consider Miller’s description of the game, the participants, and the host. Provide a brief characterization of what he believes the game reveals about Americans and their worldview. Make sure that you provide evidence for your characterization by identifying the source of your characterization from the article. Remember that you are characterizing his view, not your own.[1]

Taking into consideration the Lippmann reading and class presentations, what does Miller believe are the pictures inside the heads of the players and what is the nature of the pseudo-environment (i.e, the crafted world interposed between us and the natural world, which the players, representative of Americans more generally, inhabit)?

This exercise requires doing something that Lippmann correctly regards as difficult, namely, seeing past the daily world we occupy, since it seems so natural that there is nothing to question:

“In all we must note particularly one common factor. It is the insertion between man and the environment of a pseudo-environment. To that pseudo-environment his behavior is a response. But because it is behavior, the consequences, if they are acts, operate not in the pseudo-environment where the behavior is stimulated, but in the real environment where the action eventuates. (Lippmann 1922:10).

In sum, what does Miller believe are the “pictures in our head” and how does the game he describes give us insight into the world and the minds that the pictures reflect? In other words, what can we tell about the worlds and goals the contestants occupy and, by extension, what might that tell us about ourselves?

To have fun (and possibly be shocked by your beliefs), please visit Project Implicit at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ (Links to an external site.). This is a site that you can explore on your own. It will give you a every good sense of the nature and pervasiveness of stereotyping. Visiting the website will enhance your understanding of what we’ve discussed this week, but you do not have to write anything about experience.

For this assignment you will update your Behavioral Competency & Plan from Module 1.  Copy and paste your original plan in the first four columns. Then complete the “Update” column. 

Use this link to complete your Behavioral Competency & Plan Update Download Behavioral Competency & Plan UpdateAssignment.

Rubric

Behavioral Competency & Plan Update

Behavioral Competency & Plan Update

CriteriaRatingsPts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeProvide update on progress of “Plan for Improvement”

50 pts

Full Marks

0 pts

No Marks

50 pts

Total Points: 50PURPOSE

Assess progress on plan for improvement.

DIRECTIONS

Provide update on “Plan for Improvement” using template provided. 

Submit to assigned Canvas area.

  

For this assignment copy and paste your original plan in the first four columns.Then complete the “Update” column.  See example below

PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT 

EXAMPLE ONLY

  

Core   Competency Domain AND Behavior Needing Improvement

Why

When

How

Update

 

Patient-Centered   Care: Allows patient   to be the source of control

I practice from the assumption that I as the nurse know   what is best for the patient. I also assume that if I give up control, the   patient will take advantage. I realize these are not valid assumptions as   expanded knowledge and reflection this semester has allowed me to understand…

I   will begin working on this way of thinking and change my behaviors to reflect   the behavioral competency with this core competency domain immediately. I   will start by allowing my patients to decide when…

Critical   self-reflection

Seeking   evidence to inform practice

Over   the past 3 months I have consciously included this behavior into my nursing   care. I use critical reflection after patient situations to ensure I am   demonstrating the behavior in my practice.

 

EBP:

Applies evidence-based   knowledge in clinical practice

I have a gap in knowledge, abilities and attitude related   to applying EBP knowledge in my clinical practice. I also am not proficient   in using the steps to EBP. I am aware that my facility uses guidelines,   protocols and bundles but I do not understand the process for integrating   into practice. 

Upon   obtaining further knowledge and EBP abilities

Successful   completion of the EBP course in the EARN program

CE   related to EBP

Dialogue   with colleagues who have this proficiency

Practice

Submit this template with your self-assessment. 

  

Core Competency Domain AND   Behavior Needing Improvement

• Why

When

How

Update

CASE: SCIENTIFIC TURMOIL

PART ONE

Joan is the director of scientific computing at a large utility company. The people she supervises are all college graduated with backgrounds in science, engineering, or math. These people do systems work and computer programming that is more problem-oriented than other programmers in the company and the people in Joan’s department are quite close knit

Joan hired Fred into the group from the Engineering Department. Fred, who had worked for the company for seven years, learned the programming easily and was doing quite well. One year later Bob was hired into the group by Joan. Bob and Fred both assimilated into the group quickly.

About a month later, Joan’s problems began. Information was quite freely shared by members of the group, especially job-related information such as salary. When Fred learned that Bob was making more money than he was, he was quite upset. Bob was doing the same kind of work with less experience at his new job. He also had had less total working time with the computer only four years.

When Fred voiced his concern to his boss, he was told that the company had specific guidelines for raises and wide salary ranges for each job level. Bob was just on the high sides of his old job’s salary range and received a hefty raise when he was promoted to this new job. Fred was not pleased with the setup because he had received a raise just before Bob came and knew that it would be a year before he would get another one. In Fred’s mind, he was now qualified, more experienced, had better knowledge of the company, and if nothing else, more seniority than Bob. Fred’s attitude and discontent was apparent in his work, and although Joan could not really prove it, Fred caused serious delays in projects. Also, new errors seemed to be cropping up in the computer programs that came out of Joan’s section.

1) Give five factors that may contribute to the difference in pay between Fred and Bob.

PART TWO

1) Identify and explain two employer rights/responsibilities and three employee right

Part 1

Styles of Leadership

You were recently hired to manage a team at a manufacturing company located in the U.S.A. The team is made up of four individuals who are from the “baby boomer” generation, and one individual, Trevor, who is from the “millennial” generation. Trevor says that the main problem with this organization is that the organization is not run like it is in the 21st century. He says the policies are outdated and the previous manager was always asking him questions such as:

• “What do you mean you don’t want to input data from the office and you want more flexibility, such as more time working from home?”
• “You think you are ready to lead a team?”
• “Where’s your tie?

Trevor has been performing at an average level but says he could take his performance up a level if leadership was more responsive to his suggestions. Another team member expressed concerns about Trevor, saying that he always wants special treatment. You want to start off in a strong way with Trevor and the whole team.

• What are two leadership styles you might try in working with Trevor, and what might be the strengths and limits of each leadership style?
• How important is it to adapt one’s style when leading?

Cite at least two primary sources from psychological research journal articles or other scholarly resources to explore this topic of discussion. Use the textbook only for context, or as a jumping-off point.

Part 2

Leadership Within a Cultural Context

Identify a leadership situation in which there was a lack of diversity awareness or cross-cultural competence. Discuss the following:

• What behaviors were evident?
• Were any of the GLOBE study cultural dimensions involved? If so, which ones? (For example, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, collectivism, gender egalitarianism, future orientation, humane orientation, and so on.)
• Which of the suggestions provided in course readings or in your research this week might be useful in considering ways to enhance the leader’s capacity to work within the cultural context of the situation you identified?

Cite at least two primary sources from psychological research journal articles or other scholarly resources to explore this topic of discussion. Use the textbook only for context, or a jumping-off point.