explore how globalization of businesses has given rise to several new challenges that leaders must address when doing business in the global arena.

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Course Project: Part I

This course has major project assignments due in Week 3 and Week 5.  It will take more than a week’s effort to adequately complete them.  Plan time to start the research and work on those assignments earlier than the weeks in which they are due.

For the final project of this course, you will select any one of the following companies and analyze how leaders of your chosen company handled various international issues and challenges.

  • Walmart

Week

Course Project Tasks

1

You will explore globalization and its strategic implications for your chosen company.  You will also determine how leaders of your chosen company respond to globalization.

Week 1: Globalization and International Leadership

In this assignment, you will explore how globalization of businesses has given rise to several new challenges that leaders must address when doing business in the global arena.

An organizational leader’s goal should be to achieve well beyond what was expected on the basis of the other organizational inputs available.  This rule applies to leaders in domestic companies as well as multinational companies (MNCs).  There are many advantages of international operations.  Perhaps the greatest advantage is that firms can gain new customers for their products and services, which increases revenues.  Other advantages are that costs and risks can be spread over a wide number of markets—diversification helps to reduce risks.  While larger markets offer the advantage of economies of scale, MNCs can also establish low-cost production facilities near raw materials or cheap labor.

Considering this basic understanding of the strategic initiatives available to international leaders, address the following:

  • Research the company selected and provide a brief overview of the company.  Include major countries where the company does business and primary products or services.
  • Using research, analyze why globalization of industries is common today.  Discuss why some industries are more “global” than others and provide information about the level of globalization for the company you selected.
  • Evaluate how consumption patterns are becoming similar worldwide.  What are the strategic implications of this trend for your chosen company?  What do the leaders of the company do to formulate and implement a response to the trend?
  • Assess the issues that international leaders of your chosen company must address when doing business abroad (e.g., advantages and disadvantages).

Submission Details:

  • Submit your paper as a 4- page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.

 Write  (3 page)  reflection papers addressing this fil that depicts dissociative identity disorder (DID).  

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Based on this movie,

Write  (3 page)  reflection papers addressing this fil that depicts dissociative identity disorder (DID).  You can discuss the utility or limitations surrounding the diagnosis and your reflection about the what the film is saying about psychiatric diagnoses.

Eyewitness identification becomes less accurate when the witness is of a different race or ethnicity than the suspect

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Perception Research

Eyewitness identification becomes less accurate when the witness is of a different race or ethnicity than the suspect. Create an annotated bibliography regarding research on this topic. You should locate ten (10) articles and complete 150-word descriptions that include the following: (a) author’s credentials; (b) intended audience of the article; and (c) reasons why the article is relevant/helpful.

Define coercive treatment in your own words.

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Coercive Treatment Essay  

In 500-750 words, do the following:

1. Define coercive treatment in your own words.

2. Analyze whether coercive treatment in a correctional setting as an effective means of altering criminal behavior.

3. Assess other options to alter criminal behavior in the correctional community setting.

Provide three to five peer reviewed resources to support your explanations.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

“Psychology of Words: Projective Tests of Words and Language,” found in the Learning Resources for this week and complete the exercise.

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Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resources on your own before you bid. Main references come from Neukrug, E. S., & Fawcett, R. C. (2015) and/or Encyclopedia of Counseling (2017). Assignments should adhere to graduate-level writing and be free from writing errors. APA format also requires headings. Use the prompt each week to guide your heading titles and organize the content of your initial post under the appropriate headings. Remember to use scholarly research from peer-reviewed articles that are current. I have attached my assessment score, so you can see how to make full points. Please follow the instructions to get full credit for the assignment. I need this completed by 12/08/19 at 5pm. I feel the test was very interesting and I was surprised of the need for power score.

Assignment – Week 2

Thematic Apperception Test

This exercise will provide you with an abbreviated experience of how an apperception test works. You will be assessed on one item and the system will automatically evaluate your responses and return results immediately. As you complete this exercise, consider how this experience of evaluation feels to you, and consider how this could feel for clients.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Thematic      Apperception Test example, “Psychology of Words: Projective Tests of Words and Language,” found in the Learning Resources for this week and complete the exercise.
  • Submit your response. The web site will score your response automatically.
  • Review your individual results and reflect on how accurate they may be and how they may influence your counselor identity.
  • Once you complete the test, copy and paste your results into a Word document to save your results for further review.

Assignment:

Write a 2-to-3 page paper where you:

  1. Summarize your results
  2. Reflect on how accurate your individual results were, or were not, for you
  3. Discuss how your results influence your counselor identity (e.g., what are my strengths as a counselor; where I might be challenged; do I have biases and triggers?).

Required Resources

Kenny, M. C., & Winick, C. B. (2000). An integrative approach to play therapy with an autistic girl. International Journal of Play Therapy, 9(1), 11–33. doi:10.1037/h0089438

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases

For this task, you will calculate the mean, median, and mode for a fictitious data set.

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Instructions

This assignment has two parts, which will be submitted in one document.

For this task, you will calculate the mean, median, and mode for a fictitious data set. These data represent the results of a fictitious study, which investigates whether a new drug (Drug A) is more effective than a placebo (i.e., an inactive substance) in the treatment of depression. The researcher is also interested in whether the effects of the drug varies by age so participants between the ages of 18-39 years were recruited (the younger adult group), and participants between the ages of 60-80 years were recruited (the older adult group). Participants were randomly assigned to either the placebo group or to the drug group (Drug A). All participants were first screened to ensure they met the criteria for depression. After 2 months of taking either the placebo or Drug A, participants returned to the lab and completed a measure of depressive symptomology called the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II).

Part 1:

For the first part of this assignment, create a table showing the mean, median, and mode for each participant group and each drug condition on the score for the BDI-II. The data for each participant are contained in the “Participant Data” worksheet in the Data1 File. You may use Excel or you can calculate these values by hand. Your table should look like the following:

Younger Adults
PlaceboYounger Adults
Drug AOlder Adults
PlaceboOlder Adults
Drug AMean    Median    Mode

You must have the “Data Analysis” add-in installed. Directions for this installation are provided in the “Data Analysis in Excel 2016” file located under your weekly resources. These instructions will also work for Excel 2010. This document also describes how to calculate basic descriptive statistics using Excel.

Part 2:

For this part of the assignment, create a bar chart in Excel. You will need the “Summary Data for Graph” worksheet from the Data 1 file. Remember, the bar chart shows the means for each condition rather than individual participant data, and the data in this worksheet have been organized accordingly.

For the steps regarding how to create the bar graph, review the steps in “Creating a Bar Graph in Excel 2016” or “Creating a Bar Graph in Excel 2010,” located under your weekly resources. These instructions should also work with other versions of Excel.

You should copy and paste the graph you create into a Word document, along with your table showing the mean, median, and mode.

Length:1-2 pages

Your graph and table should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

Do not merely summarize or quote the article. Be sure to select an  article with some depth and substance so that you have enough material  to evaluate. 

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For this assignment, you will present a draft of your signature  assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to gather feedback so that  you can make improvements for your final submission, which is due in  Week 8. You are expected to present a complete paper that meets all of  the original assignment criteria.

For this assignment, choose a news story from the APA at http://www.apa.org/news/psycport/,  or search the Internet to select a credible news article that reports  on a specific topic or issue from the field of psychology. The article  must have been published in the past year.

In your critique explain the conclusions, implications and/or  consequences of the information presented in the article. Speculate on  the effect this information could have on real-world situations such as  health care, political movements, economics, lifestyle, moral attitudes,  and social belief systems, and support these assertions with specific  evidence and detail from the article and what you learned in class.

Do not:

  • Do not merely summarize or quote the article. Be sure to select an  article with some depth and substance so that you have enough material  to evaluate.

Do:

  • Read, analyze, and synthesize with objectivity and focus.
  • Write a critical consideration of the current information  available about the subject matter presented in the article. Briefly and  purposefully, summarize and analyze the article to create a unique and  valuable piece of writing that evaluates current theories or work in the  field of psychology.
  • Review the literature with a focus on the hypothesis or main idea,  address any scientific research mentioned, and analyze the results or  premises presented.

Include the following in your critique:

  • Identify and articulate the key issue(s) in the article in a brief and pointed summary.
  • Identify information/evidence in the article that supports the  point of view and conclusions presented in the article. Quote and  paraphrase with internal APA citations.
  • Identify background information relevant to the point of view and  conclusions presented in the article. Use prior knowledge and you may  use your course materials.
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses of the findings and conclusions presented.
  • Explore and evaluate the issue(s) relevance to real-world problems and solutions.
  • Clarify your own position, perspective, or hypothesis on the ideas presented in the article.
  • Explain the conclusions, implications, and consequences of the  article as it pertains to the field of psychology or the subject being  addressed.

Your critique should be between 5-7 pages long, in addition to a title page and reference page.

Additional sources are not required, but you may choose to include them. You may reference your text.

Use APA Style to format your paper and to cite your sources. Your  source(s) should be integrated into the paragraphs. Use internal  citations pointing to evidence in the literature and supporting your  ideas. You will need to include a reference page listing those sources.

In this Assignment, analyze how distinct cultures can contribute to the larger military culture.

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As you explore the various cultures within the military, you may wonder how some of the differences affect the overall culture of the military. How do these differences influence the identity, roles, stressors, and needs of military personnel? The military has evolved over many years to include a rich ethnically and culturally diverse population. This diversity has led the military to break down stereotypes and create a new “norm” for working as a team despite individual differences.

In this Assignment, analyze how distinct cultures can contribute to the larger military culture.

Required Reading

ubin, A., Weiss, E. L., & Coll, J. E. (Eds.). (2013). Handbook of military social work. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

· Chapter 2, “Military Culture and Diversity” (pp. 21–36)

Peer Review Article 

Ledesma, R. (2006). Entrance and exit from the military: reflections from American Indian and Alaska Native veterans. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 15(1/2), 27–53. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=swh&AN=57498&site=eds-live&scope=site

The Assignment:

Read the peer-reviewed research that helps to identify two distinct populations within military culture

Distinct populations Chosen:

1. American Indian

2. Alaska Native

In a 3 to 4-page paper:

· Describe some characteristics of the population.

· Describe how you would approach those cultures as a military social worker.

· Identify strengths and challenges associated with this culture within the military.

· Describe specific social work skills you would need to help clients within these populations.

· Explain the importance of knowing how this population fits within the military culture.

Use APA Format and In Text Citations and References

Then, instead of gathering data on your own test, you are provided with a set of test data to analyze.

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Constructing a useful psychological test is a meticulous process. First, you must to formulate a clear, empirically-based definition of what is to be measured and carefully consider the items and response formats that would best measure this construct. The test items are created based on a theory or by sampling a domain of knowledge. Subject-matter experts are often called upon to generate and evaluate the initial test items. The test is then given to a large sample of people and, after careful analysis, the statistical properties of each item are scrutinized and decisions are made about item retention, elimination, and revision.

As part of this class, you complete many of the steps necessary to construct a test. Test construction can be broken into two main phases. In phase one, you create test items. In phase two, you gather and analyze data from those items in order to choose the best items (i.e., those that best measure the construct you have identified and defined). Ideally, your assignment would be to create items, gather data, and then analyze the data that you gathered. Unfortunately, test construction generally requires data from hundreds of participants, which is impractical to do over the course of one quarter. Therefore, your assignment will be broken down into two parts:

  1. First, you design a test. You decide on a construct, write your test specifications, create test items, and have your classmates review your items.
  2. Then, instead of gathering data on your own test, you are provided with a set of test data to analyze.

This week, consider what you would like your proposed test to measure. You should select a construct that is applicable to organizations (e.g., intelligence, personality, integrity). You describe this construct and submit it to your Instructor for approval this week.

The Assignment (1 paragraph)

By Day 7 of this week, submit a brief description of the construct of interest for your Final Project to your Instructor for approval, including cited evidence from the empirical literature that helped you create an operational definition of this construct.

discuss the specific tactic that was used, the target behavior, and the unwanted behavior change. How could you have planned for this differently?

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Provide an example of two different behavior change strategies (e.g., – response cost, positive reinforcement, non-contingent reinforcement, negative punishment, etc.) where an unwanted behavior change might occur as a result of your treatment intervention. Using behavior analytic terms, discuss the specific tactic that was used, the target behavior, and the unwanted behavior change. How could you have planned for this differently? Are there any ethical, legal, practical, individual and/or social validity considerations to go along with each method of change which you described?

 

Cooper, J.O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2007). Applied behavior analysis (2nd Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education Inc.