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Working With Employees: An I/O Commentary on
Real World Problems

This required
Portfolio assignment will give you experience observing and interacting with
people outside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you
with the opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate
learning in a real world setting. This assignment accomplishes that goal by
challenging you to:

· 
Conduct
a 30-minute, semi-structured interview with a manager

· 
Identify
common challenges and issues that arise in the workplace

· 
Evaluate
strategies for addressing these challenges

· 
Integrate
your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles,
textbook, and additional scholarly sources.

Objective: This assignment is designed to help you
identify common problems that managers face when dealing with employees, and
the solutions that managers use in an attempt to solve those problems. This
assignment will also give you an opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of the
solutions from a practical perspective and from the perspective of research in
Industrial/Organizational psychology.

Step 1: Identify someone in your community who is a
manager. This should be someone who is responsible for recruiting and/or
selecting employees, supervising employees, and evaluating employee
performance.

Step 2: Conduct a 30-minute interview with the manager. In your interview, be
sure to cover the following questions:

· 
What are some of the common problems that you
have experienced with employees? Be sure to steer the discussion toward
relevant topics such as recruitment, employee selection, employee motivation,
employee training, job attitudes, giving feedback, creating incentives,
managing conflict, and so forth.

· 
Identify two major problems that the manager
mentions and ask how he or she has responded to those problems. What solutions
has the manager tried? Have the solutions worked?

Step
3:
Using scholarly sources such as your textbook and professional journal articles
that you find in the University Library, research the two problems mentioned by
the manager. What does the field of I/O say about these types of problems or
issues? What recommendations might you make to the manager?

Document
your interview and your library research in a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper. Your
paper should consist of the following parts: 

· 
An
introduction, describing the individual that you interviewed and his/her
position

· 
A
summary of the interview focusing on the two major problems and attempted
solutions

· 
A
scholarly commentary with recommendations from the perspective of I/O
psychology

Be
sure to include at least five scholarly references in your paper. Provide a list
your specific interview questions as an Appendix. Format your paper according
to APA guidelines.

Assignment contains two parts. In the first part, type the answer that best completes the sentence or answers the question. In the second part, respond to each of the short answer questions in your own words

Section 1

1. _______ laws required married women to transfer their property to their husbands.

2. In the case of _______, the Supreme Court established the principle of judicial review, which meant that the Supreme Court had the authority to judge the constitutionality of congressional laws and executive actions.

3. As the most significant achievement in canal construction of the 1820s and 1830s, the 363-mile-long _______ linked New York City to the Old Northwest.

4. By 1840, the city of _______ had grown to become the third-largest industrial center in the United States, with a population of 40,382 and a variety of industries in a variety of stages of development.

5. What country was the world’s largest producer of cane sugar by 1840?

6. Nat Turner led the most famous slave revolt, which took place in 1831 in _______ County, Virginia.

7. As a leader in the Tennessee militia, Andrew Jackson gained the nickname “Old _______.”

8. Published by William Lloyd Garrison beginning on January 1, 1831, _______ became the leading antislavery journal in the United States.

Section 2

1. The course textbook refers to the early United States as “a nation of regions” (248) and notes four distinct geographical areas that constituted significant parts of the early republic. The textbook then goes on to discuss how early leaders sought to accomplish the task of “knitting the nation together” (271).  Describe each of the four distinct geographical areas from the early nation that the textbook emphasizes, indicating the major characteristics of each region.  Then, specifically describe how these regions differed.  Clearly and specifically distinguish what was occurring in each region from what was occurring in the other three regions.  Finally, indicate two particular paths for knitting these regions together that were expressed during the country’s early years.  For each path, be specific on what the path entailed and on how the path would account for the differences among the different regions.

2. The course textbook states that “during the years 1790-1830, the federal government established policies that would govern Indian-white relations through much of the nineteenth century.  Intended in part to promote the eventual assimilation of Native Americans into white society, they actually speeded the transfer of Indian land to white and helped set the stage for later, large-scale Indian removal” (254-255).  Discuss two distinct specific actions that the U.S. government took during this time period, explaining how each of these actions both promoted assimilation of Native Americans into white society and sped up the transfer of Native American land to white control.  Then, describe one instance from this time period in which Native Americans took an approach of accommodating white U.S. interests and one instance from this time period in which Native Americans took an approach of resistance to white U.S. interests.  Finally, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches.  Note one clear advantage and one clear disadvantage of an approach of accommodation and note one clear advantage and one clear disadvantage of an approach of resistance.

3. The period between 1790 and 1850 witnessed numerous and various efforts to reform U.S. society.  Identify four distinct reform movements that occurred in the United States during this time period and that have at least two similarities in their ideals and/or objectives.  Explain these two similarities and explain how each of the four movements demonstrates each of the similarities.  Then, for each of the movements, indicate one specific way in which that movement differs from the other three.

4. Chapter 9 of the course textbook discusses how the opening two decades of the 1800s witnessed an end to neo-colonialism on the part of the United States.  Chapter 12 of the course textbook then details a new style of politics that developed during the changing political culture of the 1820s and 1830s.  First, explain how U.S. foreign and domestic policy between 1800 and 1820 reflected a lessening of neo-colonial interests.  Be specific in pointing to actions that U.S. took or did not take that demonstrate this lessening of neo-colonial interests.  Then, describe the major characteristics of the new political culture of the 1820s and 1830s.  Clearly indicate three distinct particular characteristics of the new political culture of the 1820s and 1830s.  Finally, describe two distinct ways in which the lessening of neo-colonialism between 1800 and 1820 may have helped produce the new political culture of the 1820s and 1830s.  Be sure for each example to explain clearly how the lessening of neo-colonialism between 1800 and 1820 may have helped produce the new political culture of the 1820s and 1830s along the lines that you have indicated.

5. The course textbook notes that significant economic growth occurred in the United States between 1820 and 1860.  Describe three distinct aspects of U.S. society that reflected that growth.  Then, explain two distinct national or international developments from the time period that helped produce that growth.  Be clear in explaining how each of the developments helped to produce the United States’ economic growth.  Finally, indicate two distinct beneficial outcomes of that growth and two distinct troublesome outcomes of that growth.

6. Chapter 11 of the course textbook provides a detailed account of the interworking elements of the system of slavery within the Old South, including descriptions of kinds of lives lived by various groups who inhabited the region.  Describe the interrelationships among slaves, slave owners, and Southern whites who did not own slaves.  Compare and contrast the lives of each group with the lives of the other two.  Then, provide three distinct reasons that slave owners used to justify the slavery system.  Be sure to explain each reason clearly to distinguish it effectively from the other two.  Finally, indicate two distinct ways in which slaves resisted slavery within their everyday lives.

Instructions

Step 1. Select three 24-hour periods.

These are your own personal “Buy Nothing Days.” Experience these days without spending money on or for leisure. The idea is to experience life without consumption – a simpler life focusing on your self, friends, family, roommates, classmates, and even strangers.

Perhaps you’ll have to do more advance planning than usual. For example, maybe you’ll need to pack a lunch from home instead of eating in a restaurant; or walk, instead of taking the car to a social gathering; or hike in the woods instead of relying on commercial entertainment.

Step 2. Evaluate your “temptation to consume.”

For example, if you truly find yourself having difficulty not spending or shopping on this day, use this question checklist to evaluate the things you are thinking of buying and make note of this dilemma:

Do I need it? How many do I already have? How much will I use it? How long will it last (do I need to go today?)? Could I borrow it from a friend or family member?

Am I able and willing to clean, lubricate, and/or maintain it myself (in reference to something in need of replacement)? Will I be able to repair it myself?

How will I dispose of it when I’m done with it? Is it made of recycled materials, and will I recycle it? Is there anything that I already own that I could substitute for it?

Step 3. Keep a diary.

¡In which you write about your experiences, thoughts, and feelings frequently throughout each of your three days of not spending any money (on leisure experiences/activities).

Also, record your experience as it relates to leisure activities. Is your typical leisure consumption based on frequent purchasing or spending? Think of your eating out with friends, going to clubs/bars, movies and sporting events, and even trips.

Step 4. Consumptive Patterns of Behavior & Carbon Footprint.

Carbon Footprint is the total estimated Greenhouse Gas emissions from a population, event, or even a person. Greenhouse Gases are emitted from virtually all forms of human behavior (transport, food production, use of land, etc.). Use the following Carbon Footprint Calculator (Choose “For Me”):http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm (Links to an external site.)

Based on a classification of waste management options, the waste hierarchy of “reduce, reuse, recycle, and, re-think” provides us with ways to reconsider how you/we could travel less, think of waste as a source of energy, and devise better ways to dispose of waste.

Step 5. Make an Interpretation.

In a 500 word essay (MS Word Document, double-spaced, times new roman font, 12 point)explain

1) your understanding of how your Buy Nothing Days represent a snap-shot of your consumption and also highlight some of the energy expenditures associated with your level of activity.

¡Then, 2) discuss some ways that you could minimize or change your level of activity as it relates to consumption and energy use, especially for non-essentials such as leisure pursuits.

¡Lastly, 3) interpret what could be said of a campus or a city of individuals who had similar levels of activity. Use information that could be found from such leisure service agencies as the Indiana Memorial Union/Biddle Hotel (Links to an external site.), the Bloomington Department of Parks & Recreation  (Links to an external site.)or another hotel, restaurant, gym, or recreational facility in the IU or Bloomington community. Think about this in relationship to program considerations, rates of visitation, handling of waste (food, plastics, alcohol, etc.), and purchasing power of consumers.

¡Step 6. Submit

¡By Friday April 22 at 11:59pm. The MS Word Essay should be named:

¡[The first initial of First Name and Full Last Name] Project #4 Individual  – [Insert a Title related to your Consumption].docx