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PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 1 Assignment

Case Study

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
Chapter 1, 3, 15

Lesson

Minimum of
1 scholarly source in addition to your textbook

Instructions

Writing
Requirements (APA format)

Length:
1.5-2 pages (not including title page or references page)

1-inch
margins

Double
spaced

12-point
Times New Roman font

Title page

References
page (minimum of 1 scholarly source in addition to your textbook)

Complete
Exercise 15-3 in your textbook. Follow the instructions to obtain your Big Five
Personality scores. After you obtain your scores, use them to solve the
following workplace dilemma. Be sure to use the textbook and at least one
outside source to support your conclusions.

Case Study:
Your CEO is looking for someone to head up the Potato-Smashing department. This
person must be highly critical, and a bit pessimistic. They also need to be
dutiful and willing to follow instructions at all cost. High attention to
detail, and more focus on the tasks of potato smashing than the people doing
the smashing! Potato smashing is a big deal. In the city of Spud, mashed
potatoes make up 45% of the GDP; and Potatoes ‘R’ Us is a monopoly. The CEO
needs to see your Big Five Personality scores, and a brief explanation as to
why you are, or are not a good fit.

Based on
your Big Five Personality scores, and what you know from the readings, would
you make a good fit for the new Manager of Potato Smashing role? Be sure to do
the following:

Report how
you scored for each scale.

Explain how
you would interpret each score.

Provide an
overall conclusion of why you are or are not a good fit.

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 2 Assignment

Team
Meeting

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
2, 3, 15

Lesson:
Weeks 1, 2

Instructions

Work as a
team, beginning in Week 2 and compile all of the information included below in
your own Word document. After doing so, send your completed work to your team
leader so that they can upload one document that includes the work of all team
members.

Scenario:
Your Emergency Room Department has been short staffed for the last quarter.
Patient satisfaction scores are dropping at a drastic rate (from a 9 out of 10
to a 6 out of 10). Employee morale is also at an all-time low. The Human
Resources department has decided to form teams in the ER. However, there are a
lot of varying personalities and some people are worried that their leadership
style is not going to “mesh” well with others.

Your team
was assembled by the HR director, but the CEO is concerned about the
cohesiveness of the groups and is worried some of you may need to be
transferred to different departments. Since you all love working in the ER, you
need to convince the CEO that you can all work together as part of an effective
team. Each team member will need to provide the following information to the
team, and then all of this information will need to be compiled into one
presentation:

Name, phone
number, times available for phone calls, preferred email address.

How your
Big Five Personality characteristics make you an effective team member (refer
to text).

Describe
your leadership type and how you will use these strengths to collaborate with
the rest of your team.

Explain how
you will navigate personality and leadership style differences as a team.

Writing
Requirements (APA format)

MS Power
Point Format

Title
Slide: all members’ first and last name, team name

3 slides
per person (not including Title and Reference slide)

Reference
slide

Completed
Team Evaluation FormPreview the document

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 3 Assignment

Case Study

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
6, 7

Lesson

Instructions

Read the
following scenario and write a response considering the provided questions.

Scenario:
As leaders, there are times in our lives when we will be faced with very
difficult moral dilemmas. And even more, when we lead teams of people, we will
find ourselves helping them navigate their difficulties. So, here’s the
scenario.

The hospital’s
newest employee, Tom, a bright medical social worker has a full case load. Tom
has been on this job for 3 months, but is a seasoned professional in this
field.

However,
Tom’s past experience is from a small hospital with a caseload of 12 patients
per week. Here at Mercy Hospital, he has a caseload of 45 patients each week.
he is required to the do the following:

Lead a
Coping Skills group twice a day

Call and
schedule services for 9 patients per day

Meet with
4-7 patients per day

Close 20
cases per week

Tom is
feeling overwhelmed by the high volume. Each of his cases are protected by
strict HIPAA laws. But he doesn’t want
to appear incapable by his new boss. Tom takes 10 of his files to his home and
works on the patient information there. One day, while looking through the
files at home, he realized that 2 of the folders were missing. The folders
contain patients’ full names, diagnosis, home address, etc.

Truth is,
Tom only takes paper copies of his patient files with him to his home, so his
supervisor would never know that he had misplaced his patients’ personal and
medical information as he can still access the originals saved on his computer
at work. What is unsettling for him is that he can’t find the paper copies of 2
of his patients. Tom recently had about 20 people in his apartment for a
“Goodbye” party for his younger brother heading off to college, so
lots of unfamiliar people had access to the files that sat on his desk. Tom
alls you panicking because he can’t find the files. What should Tom do in this
situation?

Consider:

What is
Tom’s responsibility?

What are
the patient rights?

What is the
hospital protocol?

Would Tom
make a good leader?

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 4 Assignment

Team
Meeting

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
6, 7

Lesson

Instructions

Read the
following scenario and create a brochure addressing one of the presented
problems.

Scenario:
Leading a team of people who don’t know each other very well can be quite the
challenge. But being an effective leader means that you can lead individuals
and groups even when they aren’t performing at their best. Let’s pretend that
you, and your team are on the Talent Acquisition committee for your hospital,
and the CEO has asked for your team to conduct a training for the managers of
all nursing and respiratory care departments on Managing Your Team. In this
training, you need to present solutions to one of the following problems:

Poor team
performance

High
employee turnover

Resolving
conflict in teams

Be sure
that you cite your sources, and reference them appropriately. It is strongly
suggested that you use Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher so that you can
save this project in the format of a brochure.

Writing
Requirements (APA format)

Microsoft
Office Application

Brochure or
Handout to give to workshop attendees

All
members’ first and last name and the Team Name must be on the front of the
brochure/handout.

References
in the back of the document

Completed
Team Evaluation FormPreview the document

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 5 Assignment

What’s the
Plan?

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
9, 10

Lesson

Instructions

Consider
the following scenario: Jasmine is the Volunteer Coordinator for “Let’s
Rise Above.” It is a non-profit organization that provides simulation
experiences to inner city youth who want to go into the medical field after
they complete high-school. Jasmine is managing 5 volunteers, all who have been
teaching anatomy and physiology, phlebotomy techniques on fruit, and CPR
courses for at least 2 years. All of the volunteers love the organization, but
donations have decreased by 50% over the last fiscal year. Everyone is nervous
that they will lose the building and operating space to teach these classes and
stimulate interest in the medical field. Morale is low, along with supplies.
Volunteers have had to turn away students and hold fewer courses. What steps do
you believe that Jasmine should take to improve employee morale?

To complete
this assignment, please complete the following:

Propose a
clear plan for how Jasmine can increase morale.

Support
your plan with references to specific leadership literature, theory, and
techniques.

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 6 Assignment

Team
Meeting

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
5,14

Lesson

Minimum of
1 outside source (not including textbook)

Instructions

The
non-profit organization that you work for has received an urgent request to
send a team of nurses to Eritrea to provide aid to a village that is grieving a
serious earthquake. It is anticipated that your team will spend 2 months there.
The city of 1,700 residents that you are serving has suffered 300 casualties,
and still over 50 people are unaccounted for. For those found and negatively
affected, there are serious injuries that need to be treated. There are other
organizations already on location providing water, shelter and food. But the
medical teams that they have from other organizations are overwhelmed. Before
your team can mobilize, you must get organized and explain what each person
will be responsible for.

As a team,
you will need to write a report in Microsoft Word that addresses:

Who you
will delegate to complete the tasks listed below. Include first and last name
of the team member responsible.

Why they
were chosen to complete the task. List at least 3 points. For example

Jane has 3
years of experience managing her family budget

Jane has
exhibited strong attention to detail in our last team meeting

Jane is
good at finding deals

How they
will complete the task.

Include an
original team logo and an explanation of its significance

Write the
report in the style of a proposal to your organization’s board of advisors.

Here are the
tasks that must be delegated:

Transportation
to city and throughout the city

Plane, bus,
jeep, quads, etc.

Medical
supplies: gloves, sutures, gauze, iodine, etc.

Acquire via
donation, packaging, transport

Entry into
the country

Passports,
visa, etc.

Financial
management

Budget of
$35,000, bank account(s), debit cards

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 7 Assignment

Write-Ups

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
17, 18, 19

Lesson

Instructions

In the last
chapter of the text, the difficult discussion of taking corrective action with
employees whose performance is lacking is presented. For this assignment, write
a 1-paragraph scenario in which you identity problem behavior in one of your
direct reports. After you have written this scenario, follow the steps in the
textbook on taking corrective action. Be certain that you integrate evidence
from the text and outside sources to support your plan on action.

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 8 Assignment

Interview
and Reflection

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
16, 20

Lesson

Instructions

Within each
Week’s module, you have learned about many leadership concepts and the theory
that supports them. Now, in your final paper, it is time to learn from a leader
whom you admire. You will explore what makes them a good leader, how you can
incorporate the techniques that they use, and how making these changes will
make you a better leader. Here are the requirements for the assignment:

Include a
title page

Include a
separate page that provides the following information:

The
person’s first name.

How you
know him/her.

Their
current title in the leadership role.

How long
they have been in their current leadership role.

The theory
that supports their leadership style, type, and pattern.

On another
page, address the following points:

The
interviewee’s greatest challenge as a leader according to them.

The
interviewee’s greatest strength as a leader according to them.

The
interviewee’s greatest weakness as a leader according to them.

In your
conclusion, address the following:

What makes
your interviewee a good leader in your opinion?

How can you
incorporate the techniques that they use, so that you can become a better leader?

How can
these changes make you a better leader?

PSYC305 Motivation and Leadership

Week 8 Assignment

Briefing
Portfolio

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Your
Briefing Entries

Instructions

Now it is
time to submit the Briefing Portfolio you have been working on throughout the
course. Before uploading your document, take the time to read through your
entries once more and run a spelling/grammar check. While you want need a
reference page for this portfolio as it is more of an informal reflective
piece, you will need to reference content appropriately in your answers to the
questions (i.e. use in-text citations and page numbers).

Writing
Requirements (APA format)

Respond to
all questions on the template

Use in-text
citations where appropriate