Due Thursday, 10/22/20 at noon, (12pm Dallas time) for the readings Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People and What it Means to Work Here.  Provide me with a brief synopsis of the articles and then address this issue: here are two more articles that really pair up well. Please tell me how “job sculpting” and leveraging our “signature experience” (when taken together) can help us attract and retain good employees.

• Length of each written assignment must be equivalent to three full & complete typed pages, double spaced and no cover sheet is needed.
• One inch margins all around and a #12 font, no cover sheet or folder.
• You don’t have to agree with everything/anything presented in the article.

Using the graphic ethnography “Gringo Love” write an essay (minimum of 1,500 words) using the following format.

1. Paragraph 1: Write an introductory paragraph clearly indicating any five (5) concepts (and their citation from the Guest text) from among the following (5 pts):  a.>>Imagined Community,   b.>>Hegemony,    c.>>Gender Construction,   d.>>structural inequality,   e.>>cultural power/cultural capital,    f.>>Mullings’ theory of intersectionality,     g.>>racialization,  h.   >>Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction,  i.  >>life chances
2. Paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6: Briefly describe a scene, event, or situation from the ethnography that is illustrative of each of the concepts you (25 pts).
3. Paragraphs 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11: Describe how each concept you chose relates to your personal situation or life experience (50 pts).
4. Paragraph 12: Conclude by stating what you believe is the most important point you have made. (10 pts.)

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To prepare organizational leaders to leverage concepts used in systems theories and strategy models 

 Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

 Continue developing your Organizational Change Action Plan. Based upon the course readings, supplementary materials, and your own literature search via the, discuss the following:

Systems thinking workshop principles:  

How does structure influence behavior?

How should policy resistance be dealt with?

How do small changes in thinking leverage results? 

Personal mastery workshop principles:  

How is shared vision created?

What is the difference between creative tension and emotional tension?

What is the role of the subconscious in creating shared vision? 

Mental model workshop principles:  

Describe and contrast espoused theory with theory-in-use.

Explain how the ladder of influence works.

How are inquiry and advocacy balanced? 

Building shared vision workshop principles:  

Describe what is meant by “shared vision as a hologram.

”Contrast commitment and compliance. 

Caucuses to develop new change initiative: Describe how to build engagement.

 Provide at least 2 scholarly resources to support your response. 

 

What Makes ____ the Best Place to Work and Why?

Choose one company (other than Google, Facebook, or Verizon) that you believe would be an ideal company to work for based on working conditions, salary, opportunity for advancement, and work involved. Use Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library for your research.

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate the fundamental driving forces that shape the organizational environment of the selected company. Be sure to address competing in a global marketplace, workforce diversity, ethics and morality, and technological innovation.
2. Examine the organization’s specific practices or policies and the influence of these practices on individual and organizational outcomes.
3. Determine which practices related to work attitudes in U.S. organizations are most strongly affected by diversity and how those effects could be addressed.
4. Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not quality as academic resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Evaluate the forces that shape the organizational environment of a given company.

See Attachment and instructions below,