Communications in organisations: PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR AND AGAINST THE NOTION THAT SOCIAL POWER IS EXPRESSED THROUGH DISCOURSE
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[order_calculator]Complete the two critiques using the appropriate templates. (WILL UPLOAD THESE TEMPLATES)
(WILL UPLOAD TWO ARTICLES- A QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ARTICLE)
•Write a 3 page paper that addresses the following:
◦Contrast the types of information that you gained from examining the two different research approaches in the articles that you selected.
◦Describe the general advantages and disadvantages of the two research approaches featured in the articles. Use examples from the articles for support.
◦Formulate a response to the claim that qualitative research is not real science. Highlight the general insights that both quantitative and qualitative studies can provide to researchers. Support your response with references OF credible sources.
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[order_calculator]1. Choose a context or genre that interests you (FAMILY/INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS) and carry out a literature review. Please make sure that you consult recent research articles and monographs. Write a critical review discussing the key issues of language and intercultural communication specific to the chosen context or genre. You may structure your essay any way you think appropriate. As a suggestion only, you may like to structure your critical review in the following way:
o Introduction: (outlining the rationale of your choice of context and an overview of the key issues or arguments);
o The main body: consisting of 2 or 3 sections, each of which focuses on one issue; It would be useful to use examples or empirical evidence either from your own personal experience or literature to back up your arguments.
o Conclusion: a summary of your discussion bringing together the key arguments.
o Please make sure that you give a title and put page numbers. You do not need to give an abstract.
2. Select a theoretical concept within the field of intercultural communication or the broad field of communication, e.g. accommodation theory, interculturality, intercultural communicative competence, identity, cultural assimilation, cultural shock. Carry out a literature review. Please make sure that you consult the recent research articles and research monographs. Write a critical review discussing a) the origins and the key arguments of the concept concerned, e.g., who proposed the concept and in what context? Are there any other researchers whose names worth mentioning? What are the key questions and assumptions? What is the main disciplinary background? b) debates or controversies related to the concept, c) use one or two empirical studies in the literature to demonstrate how the concept can be applied to practice and discuss the (in)validity of the concept.
You can structure your critical review following the above topics or any way you see fit. Please make sure that you give a title and put page numbers. You do not need to give an abstract.
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[order_calculator]Section A: a case study about the topic (2600 words, +/‐ 10%)
Section B: a reflection on what was done well in the group and what has been learned for future group
members (400 words, +/‐ 10%).
Section A (20 marks):
a. Form a group of 3 students that you will work with for this assessment.
b. This task requires you to do your research on the country assigned to you. You have to know
the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the country. You have to know
the challenges that you can face and ways to manage these challenges.
c. This is the scenario:
1. Your group is working in a sportgoods chain company known as YellowTails. The top
management team decided to expand the business in a new territory/country and your
group has been given the task to do the work and explore potentials and challenges in
this new territory/country.
2. Using the global mindset framework, how will you set‐up YellowTails sportsgoods chain
in this new territory/country?
‐ Global Mindset definition: ‘An individual’s stock of knowledge, cognitive, and
psychological attributes that enable him/her to influence individuals, groups, and
organizations from diverse sociocultural systems’ (Beechler & Javidan 2007)
‐ Use the components of your global mindset, namely: intellectual capital,
psychological capital and social capital.
c. Your report must have 3 main parts:
An Introduction. In this part, you are to briefly discuss the profile of the country
assigned to you in terms of economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions.
Integration and synthesis. In this part, you are to put together the research that you
collected and answer the following questions:
How will your group venture into this new country? What will help or hinder your
entry?
What are the challenges that your group will encounter in this new territory? Be
specific.
Conclusion. In this part, you are to give suggestions and recommendations on what you
need to do to manage the challenges and ensure that the business is established and
operates smoothly.
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[order_calculator]Proposal
Our MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology students for Research Methods I module have been asked to complete an assignment which is i. to write a grant proposal based on their proposed dissertation work, and ii. provide two peer reviews of grant proposals provided to student .
As an MSc student’s supervisor we require you to mark the student’s grant proposal. You are allowed to give feedback on one draft of the grant proposal. (I will mark the peer reviews.)
• Pages 2-3 of this document provides you with details of the assignment.
• Detailed guidance for markers is given on pages 4-6 of this document.
• Please use the marking sheets on page 7 of this document.
All the best,
Trish Gooding (Module Leader).
The MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology, Conducting Applied Research: Assessments
1. A grant proposal (70% of your total mark)
Write a grant proposal. It is advised that your grant proposal is based on your proposed dissertation project. The research work described should last for a period of 12 months. You may discuss your proposal with your supervisor. The following sections must be included:
1. An abstract understandable by academics with expertise in the project area described (maximum word limit = 200 words).
2. An abstract understandable by lay people (maximum word limit = 200 words).
3. The grant proposal (maximum word limit = 2,350 words) comprising the following sub-sections:
a. Back-ground to the project
b. Overall aims or research questions
c. Method
i. A power analysis is advised if the work is quantitative
d. Analysis / Assessment of the data
e. Ethical considerations
f. Feasibility
g. Potential contribution to the research area
4. Dissemination strategy (250 words)
a. Include a dissemination strategy which is i. academically orientated (e.g., conference presentations, journal article submissions), ii clinical and health professional orientated (e.g., talks at workshops, seminars which are focused on training such professionals), and iii service-user orientated (e.g., talks, newsletters, discussion forums to those using clinical and health psychology services either via the NHS/voluntary organisations/charities).
The total word limit, including all of the above sections, is 3,000. Please do not exceed any of the word or space limits. Put the word count by each of the four sub-sections.
5. Reference section (no word limit)
a. This must be in APA format. Use of EndNote is advised.
6. Where applicable, on one side of A4 paper, please indicate any costs incurred by the project. Costs should not exceed £10,000. Costs should be justified. Employment of research staff is not acceptable. Please include any of the following examples:
a. Equipment or hardware (e.g. computers to run experiments, video cameras).
b. Software (e.g. Eprime to run experiments, NVivo to analyse qualitative data).
i. Microsoft Office and SPSS (including AMOS) are site licensed.
c. Participant payments.
d. Purchasing questionnaires.
e. Other costs (e.g. travel to participants).
Appendices are not acceptable.
Feedback from supervisors:
Feedback is acceptable on one draft only of the grant proposal.
2. Peer review of two grant proposals (30% of your total mark, each 15%)
You are required to write a review of two grant proposals (excluding abstracts) which will be provided for you. Costing have not been provided, so you do not need to comment on “value for money”. References have also not been provided. Each review should be no more than 500 words.
Your review should be constructive and include the following issues:
• Overview or summary of the grant proposal
o What are the over-arching objectives of the proposal and upon what foundation are these objectives based?
• Clarity of the research question.
o Is the research question stated?
o Is the research question specific?
• Theoretical appropriateness and novelty of the proposal
o Is the proposal grounded in psychological theory?
o Is the proposal advancing psychological theory?
• Applied appropriateness and novelty of the proposal
o Will the proposal advance the testing and implementation of psychological procedures/therapies/interventions?
• Is the research proposal well thought out methodologically?
o Is the participant choice justified?
o Are sampling procedures realistic and appropriate?
Particular attention should be given to participant sampling procedures in qualitative studies.
o Are recruitment rates detailed?
o Are attrition rates accounted for?
o Is there a power analysis?
o Is the design of the study (studies) clear?
Does the design answer the research question?
Where appropriate, are between and within subject factors described and accurate?
Where appropriate, are predictor and outcome variables described and accurate?
Are the DVs clear?
• Are primary outcome variables distinct?
Have appropriate psychometrics been provided
o Is the procedure detailed?
If appropriate, have topic guides for interviews/focus groups been given?
o Is the procedure clear?
o Have reliability and validity issues been considered?
o Are the analyses appropriate?
o Have the ethical implications been stated?
• Is the proposal feasible in the time frame of 12 months?
• Has a good dissemination strategy been provided?
Feedback from supervisors:
Feedback should not be given by supervisors.
Please give the word counts for each of the two reviews
Marking criteria
The grant proposal will be marked by your dissertation supervisor. Documentation given to staff and the marking criteria are given below.
Your two peer reviews will be marked by me (Trish Gooding).
Briefing notes for markers: the grant proposal
(Please note that students have access to all information given to markers.)
Back-ground to assignment:
This assignment includes i. a grant proposal (70% of total mark), ii. a peer review of two grant proposals provided to students, (30% of total mark, 15% each). The assignment has been designed to cover a range of skills which should be transferrable, for example, writing a lay abstract, preparing and justifying a budget, and developing a dissemination strategy. It includes a number of sub-sections which have been supported by specific lecture sessions. Topics covered in lectures were:
• Reviewing the literature
• Critical thinking and appraisal of research
• The peer review process
• Designing a programme of research
• Writing research proposals and grants
• Ethics
• Dissemination
What students have been asked to do:
Students have been asked to undertake two tasks:
1. Write a grant proposal – total word count 3000 words; 70% of mark
a. Dissertation supervisors will comment on ONE draft of the entire proposal
2. Peer review two grant proposals provided to them – 500 word limit for each review; 30% of mark
a. Dissertation supervisors provide NO feedback
What staff are asked to do:
1. Discuss the grant proposal with students during dissertation supervision meetings.
2. Give detailed and constructive comments on a draft grant proposal of their dissertation student(s).
3. Mark the grant proposal of their dissertation student(s).
The following gives staff detailed guidance on the grant proposal.
The grant proposal
Students have been advised that the most efficient strategy for them is to write a grant proposal based in their proposed dissertation work. However, this is not mandatory and the topic of their proposal is their choice. Clearly, if they choose not to write the grant proposal on their dissertation work, then this will limit the contribution of supervisors during dissertation supervision meetings.
Students have been asked to include specific sections in their grant proposal which are as follows:
1. An academic abstract (200 words)
a. This should be of the kind of academic standard seen in high quality journals (e.g., the Journal of Abnormal Psychology).
2. A lay abstract (200 words)
a. It is important that sentences in the academic abstract are not just paraphrased in the lay abstract. For example, “A ruminative response style has been found to be a mediator of depressed mood in both cross-sectional and prospectively designed studies……” should not be written something like “A ruminative response style amplifies depressed moods both in studies which sample peoples feelings at one time point and also in studies which aim to predict negative mood states.”
3. The proposal (2,350 words)
a. The back-ground should:
i. Give the context and scope of the proposal.
ii. Clearly lead into the aims.
iii. Be written in a concise style with pertinent points only covered, i.e. it shouldn’t be overly inclusive.
iv. Be properly and appropriately referenced.
b. The research aims/research questions should be clear, specific and precise.
i. There should not be too many aims (three always seems about right).
c. The method section should be detailed – students have been warned not to devote too much space to the back-ground at the expense of the method section. Students have been advised that their studies should map onto their research questions. The following should have been considered:
i. The design of the study/studies:
1. The design of the studies should match the research questions/goals (e.g., “Study 1. The goal of the first study was to determine whether resilience measured at time 1 inversely predicts suicidal ideation at time 2.” The first research question/aim should be something like “The first aim was to determine the extent to which high resilience predicts low levels of suicidal ideation.”).
2. The design should be detailed (e.g., Experimental/quasi-experimental; Cross-sectional/longitudinal; BS and WS factors (levels), DVs; predictors, outcome variables).
ii. Sampling and recruitment (a power analysis would be a bonus if the study is quantitative).
1. Type of sampling should be identified (e.g., purposive; stratified, opportunistic).
2. Inclusion and exclusion criteria should be given as appropriate.
iii. Attrition rates, where appropriate.
iv. Procedural details.
1. Topic guides should be given for interviews and focus groups
d. Analysis
i. The analysis should be appropriate for the research questions and the design of the study/studies.
ii. Where appropriate, techniques for dealing with missing data should be considered.
e. Ethical considerations
i. The correct level of ethical approval required should be stated (e.g., NHS, School, University Senate).
ii. Confidentiality, anonymity, and data storage issues should be considered where appropriate.
1. Qualitative studies should specifically state, for e.g., procedures for taking consent for audio-taping; treatment / storage of audiotapes; maintaining anonymity when transcribing dialogues etc.
f. Feasibility
i. Proposed studies should be feasible in the 12 month time span.
1. Studies recruiting from vulnerable groups should be realistic.
a. Recruitment rates should be realistic
2. Use of specialist techniques or specialist procedures, should be realistic.
g. Potential contribution to the research area
i. The theoretical/methodological and professional impact of the proposed work should be explicit and realistic in the context of the proposal.
4. Dissemination strategy (250 words)
a. This should go beyond publishing academic papers and attending academic conferences.
b. Dissemination to specific service-users groups should be identified where appropriate.
c. Dissemination to professionals should be specified.
d. Dissemination methods should be detailed, e.g., web information, newsletters.
5. Costings (1 sheet of A4 – no word count)
a. Costings are limited to £10K and will not cover RA or other contracted staff employment.
b. The employment of casual labour paid on an hourly basis may be appropriate (e.g., to transcribe tapes)
c. Costs should be realistic. The following examples have been given to students:
i. Equipment or hardware (e.g. computers to run experiments, video cameras)
ii. Software (e.g. Eprime to run experiments)
iii. Participant payments
iv. Purchasing questionnaires
v. Other costs (e.g. travel to participants)
The word count must be placed by each section and sub-section and must not be exceeded.
Appendices are not acceptable.
Marking:
Please give comments on the components of the assignments. Students find it helpful if comments are not hand written.
The comments given should be specific enough and comprehensive enough to help the student understand how to improve their weaknesses and also how to optimise their strengths.
It is very important that the final agreed marks accurately reflect the feedback given. So, positive and negative feedback given should make sense to the student (e.g., 52% for comments stating that the work is ‘well-structured, to the point, and well-thought out’ will not make sense, nor will 80% for primarily negative feedback).
Please mark all section of the assignment out of 100% using the standard marking schemes (42%, 45%, 48%, 52%, 55%, 58%, 62%, 65%, 68%, 74%, 80%, 90%).
Please don’t over-mark. Marks of 74% and above indicate that the work is of a publishable/very high academic standard.
Marking sheets:
1. A grant proposal (70% of total mark) Student ID: ¬_______________________________
Formative feedback:
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[order_calculator]PWB Fabrication Process (2012, September 23), Fabrication Process, Retrieved from https://eislab.gatech.edu/projects/proam/resources/pwb-fab-process/
Kuraray (2012, September 23), Manufacturing Process Flow, Retrieved from https://www.kuraray.co.jp/en/ir/analysis/flow.html
Shmula (2012, September 23), Warehouse Management Processes, Retrieved from https://www.shmula.com/warehouse-management-processes/7300/
Describe the steps in the production process. What are the possible variations to this process?
ou may like to approach the question by discussing 1) what the steps are, 2) various functional areas involved and 3) what the triggers are for the start of the procurement or fulfillment process (not both). It is highly encouraged to produce diagram for all the steps and details.
The example for the process flow is available at this link.
It may be helpful to augment the above with a description of an a production or IWM process you are familiar with from your current job, past job, or from personal experience
In this case assignment, we will focus on building and assessing your Critical Thinking skills, a key aspect for many Information Management careers. Please review link below to know more about Critical Thinking rubric and use it for developing your paper.
Critical Thinking Rubric and Readings
Assignment Expectations
Your paper should be between three and five pages. Take a definite stand on the issues, and develop your supporting argument carefully. Using material from the background information and any other sources you can find to support specific points in your argument is highly recommended; try to avoid making assertions for which you can find no support other than your own opinion.
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[order_calculator]This SLP focuses on Enterprise Systems that support a Production or IWM Departments in an organization. Most organizations have Production and IWM departments. If you are in the military or other Government agency, your organization may be service oriented i.e. they produce a service. Most likely they have some type of IWM department. Before reading about Production or inventory and warehouse management (IWM) Enterprise Systems, go to each of these websites and look at the responsibilities (i.e. the business processes) of a Production Department or IWM Department
Shmula (2012, September 23), Warehouse Management Processes, Retrieved from https://www.shmula.com/warehouse-management-processes/7300/
After you have picked either warehouse management or manufacturing to write about, select one of the Enterprise Software applications below.
Read: “Manufacturing (production)” at SAP ERP website https://www.sap.com/lines-of-business/manufacturing/index.epx along with the video, customer stories and white papers.
You may go straight the Manufacturing Software Section and look at a number of applications
https://www54.sap.com/lob/manufacturing/software/overview/highlights.html
OR Warehouse Management Software at SAP
https://www54.sap.com/lob/scm/software/overview/highlights.html
In this SLP paper, Please review and discuss production or Warehouse process software details with the following questions specifically:
What are the potential benefits of one or more of the solutions identified by SAP? Specifically identify which solution or solutions you selected.
Do you agree with them? Discuss and analyze. Explain why you agree or disagree. Try and explain the benefit that the SAP solutions you selected bring to an organization.
Using the knowledge you gained on production or warehouse departments and Enterprise Systems that support them, discuss how this enterprise module might be useful to your organization? In discussing this state whether your organization has or does not have, one or more Enterprise Systems for production or procurement and whether the people that run them could use the tools you identified.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Your paper should be two to three pages in length, and reflect your personal experiences with this issue. The important part of all these project assignments is to carefully assess your own experiences with the topic, and then reflect critically on what you might have learned about yourself and about situations through this assessment process.
The more that you can use the exercise to develop personal implications for your growth as a potential business person as well as a knowledge user, the more value you’ll get out of the exercise.
If there are reasons why the entire exercise is impractical for you to undertake at all, please explain them to your instructor as early in the Module as possible, so that an alternative assignment can be arranged.
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[order_calculator]The task Guidelines
Capacity Model
Always save your work each time with a new version number in case you make an error
Always back it up
Use the blank ‘Units for Packing’ worksheet in the ‘Forecast Sales by Product’
workbook to do all your calculations:
1. Calculate the forecast number of units per product for each week using the data from the Sales Units tab in the ‘Forecast Sales by Product’ workbook – don’t forget that this can be done quite easily using cell referencing and formulae and by dragging formulae down columns and across rows.
2. Add all the Units together for each week and this will give you your total forecast demand for each week
You now have the demand – we now need to look at capacity side Using the ‘Packing Productivity’ data in the NI Labour Data workbook:
Calculate the average units packed per minute per person
Convert this average to the number of units packed per week per person – to do
this you will have to make some assumptions about the number of hours worked in a week.
3. Going back to your ‘Units for Packing’ worksheet you can now calculate the number of packers required each week using the total forecast demand for each week and the av. weekly units packed per person per week
4. Can you display your findings graphically? (have a look at the graphs we produced for the call centre)
What are the implications of your findings?
Can you produce some costings for your capacity plan?
What assumptions have you made?
Write these up in the excel workbook , use a new tab to create new worksheet.
Help :
Here is a video explaining the process. ( Capacity )
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NGh1pgCJ8 )
Capacity issue :-
The sachet products are semi -packed automatically and hence will distort the demand figures.
Ignore those products, a quick way to do this is to first calculate unit demand, then filter by demand anything with a unit demand greater than 2000 units per week, and then delete those. This will leave a sensible demand for normal packing capacity.
They are packed but it’s simpler and justifiable to focus on the normal sauces.
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[order_calculator]With reference to the assessment case identified by the tutor, or the student’s own organization (agreed with the tutor) answer both Questions
1. Research appropriate methodologies and concepts for a critical review of the organisation of the Project case study and also the utility of these concepts (50%)
Feedback report on National IT Programme in the NHS (descriptive)
Scope of national IT programme for the NHS
2. Construct a Project plan dossier for the project showing how it should have been delivered more successfully (50%).
This should include of the following elements;
a. A scope statement
b. Project Plan in some Form
c. Risk Management Plan
d. Organisational Structure
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[order_calculator]The questionnaires i am using for the nurses are the OMS-HC, by Kassam, papish, modgill & patten 2012; for the mental health patients i am using the SSMIS-SF, by Corrigan, Michaels, Vega, Gause, Watson & Rusch 2012; and for the students i am using sections 1 and 2 of the SSMIS-SF and the SSOSH by Vogel, Wade & Haake 2006. i would like quite a bit about these papers as they are what I’m basing my dissertation on… i want to see if theres a link between what stigma the patients feel and what they think the public think… and what the public actually think. I’m also adding the nurses questionnaires as they will be completed anonymously so I’m hoping to find what they think. Can you add some other relevant literature then please. if it could relate to the above papers that would be great.
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