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Discussion 1

Change Readiness

Take the Change Readiness Assessment. Provide a summary of your results and a brief discussion stating if you agree with them, or not. Respond to two classmates’ posts.

David Green

That was an interesting profile, I was a little surprised at some of my scores but for the most part I agree with how they shook out.  I received the following:

Resourcefulness – 25

Optimism – 18

Adventurousness – 15

Passion/Drive – 22

Adaptability – 15

Confidence – 25

Tolerance for Ambiguity – 13

The scores I have for Adventurousness and Tolerance for Ambiguity were a bit lower than I thought they would be especially the latter given where I’ve worked over the years.  Overall I thought the assessment was pretty spot on

Takeiwa Jones

I was not surprised with the outcome of my scores being that i am a positive person that love to so myself and others prosper. I am never the type to leave things undone but, ill admit i will work on two or more things at the same time. I am really a nervous person. I never rest i am always on the go. On my off days everything is already planned out. i never just have a sit and take a deep breathe. But, i seen in this assessment scoring to high mean i am lacking in something or reckless. In my case i do not believe those statements or true. And i also only chose 1 or 6, because either it not like me or exactly like me.

Confidence- 20

Adventurousness- 15

Tolerance for Ambiguity- 20

Resourcefulness- 30

Adaptability- 30

Optimism- 30

Passion/Drive- 30

Discussion 2

Organizational Change

Select two change models in Chapter Two. Compare and contrast the models and, referencing this week’s lecture, discuss resistance, or how change could be embraced. Respond to two classmates’ posts

William McCalmant

I chose Bridges’s Transitions Model and Appreciative Inquiry. Bridges Transitions model focus on after change. The text says ““It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions. . . . Change is situational. . . . Transition, on the other hand, is psychological.”(Bierema, 2014) This Model helps on to focus on how we can make the change a better experience. The change is happening, how can we as a company make it a good thing? In the text it talks about the Rollerblade company and how the culture was completely different and so the employees chose to go back to their old city. The company offered raises and promotions but the employees didn’t end up staying. I like this model because it places the idea that change isn’t the hard part. Appreciative Inquiry is great for the optimist. Why focus on the problems? Let’s focus on the positives and how we can make everything a positive. AI is based on 5 principles:

“•The constructionist principle assumes that self-knowledge and the world are formed through our interactions with each other.

• Simultaneity is the assumption that inquiry and change are intricately linked and occur instantaneously.

• The poetic principle posits that organization life comes alive through storytelling.

• The anticipatory principle features the role of vision in propelling the organization toward a desired future.

• The positive principle is AI’s focus on the positive as an alternative to traditional problem-solving paradigms for promoting change.” (Bierema, 2014) This model helps to bring the focus of change into a positive light.

The main problem with change is the new idea. It takes a lot for a company to figure out what they need to do in order to fix a problem or just to make things better. I worked for a company and there was about 75% of the employees just showed up to get a check. The basically did the bear minimum and complained the entire day. This was the norm for so many years how do you convince someone to work harder if the people next to them don’t? It is an up-hill battle.

Bierema, L. (2014). (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. An introduction to organizational development. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. •This text is a Constellation™ coursedigital materials (CDM) title

Michele Fanning

Select two change models in Chapter Two. Compare and contrast the models and, referencing this week’s lecture, discuss resistance, or how change could be embraced.

I chose to compare Lewin’s 3 step model for change and Lippitt, Watson and Westley’s model for change. Lewin’s model is broken down into three steps for changes an organization can go through when implementing change. According to Bierema (2014), “Lewin’s (1947) 3-step model of system change depicts change as an ongoing, fluid process of unfreezing, moving, and refreezing (sect 2.4). Lippitt, Watson and Westley’s model are very similar to Lewin but instead of 3 changes they use 5 phases a company will endure when putting a change into action. Lippitt, Watson, and Westley (1958) expanded Lewin’s 3 steps to 5 steps and shifted the terminology from step to phases. The phases are:

1. Developing a need for change (Lewin’s unfreezing)

2. Establishing a change relationship

3. Working toward change (moving)

4. Generalizing and stabilizing change (refreezing)

5. Achieving a terminal relationship

Both of these models are prime examples of what my employer has the company going through for the past year because we have been building a new office and will we be moving next Friday. Developing a need for change (unfreezing) was establish due to needing more space for different departments and needing to change quality control under OSHA for our dispensing center when mixing chemotherapy. This came from recognizing the need and putting the construction into place. Hiring of a builder, designer and consulting group that would aid in the formation of a well-developed office with flow that starts once a patient enters the office, laboratory, seeing the physician and receiving their chemotherapy. Once the move takes place and opening day comes, the termination will start to take place with different contractors that put the office together and made sure all departments were up to code. Our IT contractors will be on site to make help get everyone up and running while staying around for maintenance should problems arise.

Bierema, L. (2014). An introduction to organizational development. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

Complete the following CJi Interactive activities: 

https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/UC/CJ/index.html

•  Ch. 8: Learning Modules
  • The Trial Judge
  • The Grand Jury
  • The Prosecution and Defense
  • Types of Witnesses
•  Ch. 8: Myths & Issues Videos
  • Myth v. Reality: The Courtroom is a Level Playing Field
  • Issue 1: Assembly Line Justice: The Effect of the Backlog of Cases on the Courts
• Ch. 1: Simulation
  • The Criminal Justice Funnel 

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing and evaluating the roles of the courtroom work group. Answer the following questions in your paper: 

• What is a courtroom work group? How does this courtroom work group interact on a daily basis? What changes to the courtroom work group would you recommend?
• What is the role of the prosecutor? How does a prosecutor determine which cases to pursue? What would happen if the criteria for taking a case were more or less stringent?
• How is sentencing determined? What are the different forms of punishments?
• What are the effects of the criminal justice funnel and the backlog of cases on the court system and the courtroom work group? What are some solutions to help eliminate the funnel and reduce the backlog of cases? Provide examples. 

Include information learned from the CJi Interactive activities in your paper.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

No Formatting required, answer 3 questions.

QUESTION 1

1. Several national labor policies were created with the establishment of unions. Discuss the impact of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, The Wagner Act, Executive Order 10988, Women’s Trade Union League, and Fair Labor Standards Act. What circumstances prompted Congress to pass these acts along with the Taft-Hartley Amendments and the Landrum-Griffin Act? What are the key provisions of these acts?
 

Your response should be at least 400 words in length

QUESTION 2

1. According to the reading in this unit, there have been some noted differences among private sector and public sector labor relations. Discuss in detail how public employees’ rights generally differ from those of private sector employees. Discuss right to strike and its impact on private and public employees. Identify and explain some of the challenges of public sector collective bargaining.
Your response should be at least 400 words in length.

QUESTION 3

1. 

  Describe the onset of the American labor movement, and explain how it relates  to the growth of national unions.
 

Your response should be at least 200 words.

You are about to create an application to manage your CDs / DVDs collections at home/work. The application to keep track of the inventory (in/out), who borrowed what and when it is due back (no money transactions please), the system should be able to produce at least 3 reports such as inventory list, items due, most active user and most borrowed item. 

What are the steps you are going to take to complete the development process. 

You should include a detail requirements (5 pages max), suggested design and ER diagram (you can use MS Word for the diagram) 

Notes from instructor:

This weeks assignment has you developing two items that are very important in the process of Software Development. The first item is the Systems Development Document. The idea behind this document is to be able to define before you start, exactly what you are going do. This is talked about but rarely done. When done, the success rate of the project goes up dramatically.

The first step to completing this important document is to ask in your world if there is a template for this activity already in use. In many cases, you will find a template that has already been created. If not, fear not as you will not have to create one. The reason that you will not need to create one is due because there are many free templates online that are already designed and all you have to do is fill in the blanks. What if you do not know what to fill in the blanks??? In most cases, the “ blanks”  will have directions for each section as to what the contents should be.

How do you find these templates??? Use Google and use the following search pattern, “ Systems Development Template” . I just did and this time, I came up with 35,400,000 results! Think you can use at least one of these? In many cases, local, city, state, and federal agencies will have their forms available online for their projects but these are great templates to get ideas for you and this assignment.

When I did the above search, one link came back that looked promising! The link took me to a site “ Hud.gov”  specifically in the “ System Development Methodology Templates and Checklists” and in that list was a template titled, “ Data Requirements Document”  which had both a template and a checklist. When I pressed on the checklist link, a seven page document opened up with tables to fill in. Now, you will not fill in all the information, you pick and choose exactly what you need.

When I pressed on the template link, an 18 page document opened up that lists all kinds of requirements for any Systems Development project. Again, pick and choose what you need for the assignment due this week. For some of you who may have never done this type of document, this will give you ideas on what goes into a requirements document for a database project.

To find resources on how to draw an ERD diagram, use this search term in Google, “ How to draw an ERD and tutorial”  and you will come up with over “ 3,380,000”  hits. Usually the first four or five hits will be the best ones.  Most ERD diagrams will use Visio or a drawing tool similar to Visio and will have tutorials on how to draw the ERD.

Why do you need to have an ERD? Good question! An ERD will help you to figure out what goes where and how to connect the information later on when forms, reports, and queries need to be written and you need to figure out where you get the information.

In closing, there are many sources such as just described that will give you ideas needed to finish the assignment.