1. Describe different forms of verbal and nonverbal communication impacted by cultures.
2. Identify at least three problems associated with cross-cultural communication and
3. List three ways in which an organization can train people to effectively communicate cross-culturally.
4. Provide at-least 1 reference from Textbook (International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior, 5th edition) and at-least 1 outside source.
The focus of this assignment is to gain a better understanding of the variety of factors that impact how healthcare in the US is financed and what role research plays in policy decision making. Further, you will learn about who your representative are, which will be useful in future assignments.
Discussion Board Items—Refer to Discussion Board Guidelines and Grading Rubric as you complete these items.
1.What forces have had an effect on increasing health cost over the past 30 years?
2.How is research used to produce effective public health care policies in order to spend public resources wisely? Give one example.
3.Identify your legislators for the state and national level. include the name of your state, district numbers for both your state level representatives and senators, as well as those on the national level. To respond to this item, you will have two US senators, one US Congressman, one state senator and one state representative. (I live in Dayton, Ohio)
4.What contexts inform crafting/developing/creating policy?
5.Why should legislators use research evidence in public policy making?
6.Why are effective programs not always implemented?
Becker, S., Dunn, L., & Gamble, M. (2014, August 1). 10 key policy issues facing healthcare. Becker ‘s Hospital Review. Retrieved from http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/10-key-policy-issues-facing-healthcare.html
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation website with information concerning health care cost. Health Costs. (2018). Retrieved from http://kff.org/health-costs/
View the slideshow: Kamal, R. & Cox, C. (2017, December 20). How has US spending on healthcare changed over time? Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker. Retrieved from https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spending-healthcare-changed-time/?_sft_category=spending
Kamal, R. & Cox, C. (2016, February 9). How US health spending compares to other countries and social determinants. Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker. Retrieved from https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/a-comparison-of-social-determinants-in-the-u-s-and-comparable-countries/?_sf_s=health+spending+compared+to+other+countries#item-start
Kamal, R., Claxton, G, Cox, C. & Sroczynski, N. (2016, August 18). How health spending varies by demographics in the US. Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker. Retrieved from https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/how-health-spending-patterns-vary-by-demographics-in-the-u-s/?_sf_s=health+spending+by+demographic
slide 1
Should be about domestic and international issues in relation to Malaysia.
What domestic and international issues are driving Malaysia’s claims for the Spratly islands, what is Malaysias reasoning for its claims in the south china sea.
Slide 2
it to be about tensions in the region in relation to Malaysia. Like what were some of the significant tensions that Malaysia was involved in in the disputes of the Spratly islands and why is Malaysia in the right.
would like one explanatory paragraph that explains or reports the slides. a summary of the slides in a paragraph or two if that’s possible. on a separate page,
1. Using the chart how would you describe your understanding of the war. Why we got in and why we lost?
2. What new perspective does your article argue on these questions? How does the author change our understanding of the Vietnam War? (You don’t need to discuss every point. Pick out some that are interesting to you.
SECTION A
QUESTION ONE
Discuss how developments in technology and social media have impacted on the way companies and organisations market their products and services in the last ten or fifteen years.
SECTION B (
QUESTION TWO
With the help of clear examples, discuss how globalisation as a phenomenon has impacted on a country or region of your choice. In your discussion remember to put forward both positive and negative effects of the phenomena.
QUESTION THREE
Festivals the world over, most often leave in their trail a great deal of negative impact on the environment including waste, use of energy, pollution of water bodies and carbon footprint from audience travel.
Explain how all these effects could be minimised through changes in behaviour, government policies and regulations local or international.
Each question 1000 words
one state or national problem
For this Discussion, consider one state or national problem/challenging factor you might encounter when working with the Latino/a American population, and one you may encounter when working with Arab/Muslim American populations.
You may select a problem/challenging factor that impacts both groups.
Consider challenges with immigration, discrimination, poverty and lack of resources, language barriers, and acculturative stresses.
Respond to the following:
Identify the state or national problem/challenging factor you have selected for each group. If choosing a state challenge, include the state you have selected.
Discuss how the problem/challenging factor impacts the cross-cultural group.
Why is addressing this problem/challenging factor important in the cross-cultural work you will do with this population?
Select two of the following cultural values: family, religion, acculturation, gender expectations, roles, or education.
Explain the implications of addressing these cultural values in your cross-cultural work with clients from either a Latino/a or an Arab/Muslim population.
This is meant for a tiny discussion post so the prompt only really needs to be a paragraph.
Ensure the questions to the prompt are answered. attaching the two articles that are referenced. Again, doesn’t need to be overly detailed
Prompt:
Choose any technology that you interact with on a regular basis and discuss how it contains elements of interpretative flexibility (defined in the Pinch and Bijker reading from Thursday wk1, as well as in the Kline and Pinch reading from Tuesday wk2).
Describe the different relevant social groups that use that technology, and how each of their perceptions of that technology differ (or where they are the same).
For the choosing of any technology i suggest maybe a cell phone?
Use the attached text at the sources/references
Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2019). A first look at communication theory (10th ed.).
Griffin, E. (1987). Making friends and making them count.
For each of the situations below, think of a relational context and provide an example of each. You can use a real life situation/experience or one from a movie. (e.g. Erin Brockavich could be considered a cognitively simplistic person, and this was reflected in her primary goals method of communicating with others. As she became more cognitively complex, her communication patterns changed to more “person” centered, which helped make her more successful in her career and relations with others.)
-A cognitively simple person
-A cognitively complex person
-A message using Primary goals expression.
-A message using Procedural Records method
-A message using Person Centered Design Logic
-What are the benefits of being a Sophisticated Speaker? Explain.
**Your analysis should be one paragraph in length for each situation presented in addition to one paragraph addressing the final question.
Use the attached text as two of the six sources/references. Then use a minimum of four additional scholarly sources to support your answers.
Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2019). A first look at communication theory (10th ed.)
Griffin, E. (1987). Making friends and making them count.
Taking all of the theories and ideas that have been learned in this course, answer the following question: “What makes an effective interpersonal relationship?”
In your paper you must include at least five (5) communication theories (Griffin, Ledbetter, & Sparks, 2019 **attached) covered in this course, at least three (3) communication axioms or ideas from (Griffin 1987 **attached), and examples from your own life or experiences as support for your answer to this question.
The purpose of this paper is to explain why you feel these make an effective interpersonal relationship rather than another rehash or definition of these theories.
Following are theories you may wish to include:
-Symbolic Interactionism (Mead): (symbols, meaning, language, thought, looking glass self, concept of self via the “I” and “Me”)
-Expectancy Violations Theory (Burgoon): (expectancy, violation valence, communicator reward valence, interaction position, reciprocity)
-Constructivism (Delia): (message production, primary goals plan, procedural record plan, person-centered messages, sophisticated speakers)
-Social Penetration Theory (Altman & Taylor): (onion-wedge model, self-disclosure, intimate, peripheral, penetration, depenetration, trust, risk)
-Uncertainty Reduction Theory (Berger): (anticipation of future interactions, incentive value, deviance, Axioms of uncertainty reduction, passive strategy, active strategy, interactive strategy, anxiety/uncertainty management, intercultural encounter, strangers, mindfulness)
-Relational Dialectics (Baxter & Montgomery): (connectedness, separateness, certainty, uncertainty, openness, closedness, inclusion, seclusion, conventional, uniqueness, revelation, concealment, denial, disorientation, spiraling alterations, segmentation, balance, integration, recalibration, reaffirmation)
-Interactional View (Watzlawick): (roles, rules, reframing, family systems)
-Social Judgment Theory (Sherif): (attitude of acceptance, rejection and noncommitment, ego-involvement, attitude change.)
-Narrative Paradigm (Fisher): (rational world paradigm, narrative rationality, coherence, fidelity)
-Face-Negotiation Theory (Ting-Toomey): (face restoration, face giving, collectivism, individualism, avoiding, obliging, compromising, dominating, integrating, conflict management styles, knowledge, mindfulness, interaction)
This assignment requires you to prepare an Individual Report based on the group project work and
the Project Plan developed.
Your report should evaluate your project and review the way through which you managed it. You
need to reflect upon your presentation, evaluate your project outcome, your performance as
managing team and the decisions you took throughout your journey as well as your own individual
performance.
Effectively, you need to critically evaluate your project plan and the effectiveness of
the methodologies and processes you followed for managing the various aspects of your project.
For instance, consider how effective your risk management process throughout the project was
and to which extent RM was done according to standards of best practices.
Your analysis of your management practice against theory and best practices should enable you to
identify gaps and potential venues for improvement. This should lead to recommendations for
improving project management and ensuring success in future projects. You could also think of key
lessons that you, as an individual, are taking from the experience you had.
