Assignment #1Primary Task Response:
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.
Review this video, and provide it as a reference with a corresponding citation meeting APA standards.
This discussion addresses power and influence in organizations. Potentially, the most common aspect of understanding power and influence can be found in the video above. In addition, when they want to make an impression, most people will think about what they want to say. However, in this video, which addresses power and influence, Stanford Professor Deborah Gruenfeld indicates that body language accounts for the majority of the language of power.
Watch the video titled Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t, which discusses the rules of behavior in the corporate world, focusing on developing political skills that will lead to personal and organizational success.
Given Pfeffer’s focus on how to develop skills and to learn from all kinds of people, as well the perspective of power and influence from General Bernard and Professor Gruenfeld, focus your discussion on the following:
What rule of behavior stood out to you as being the most useful in your current or desired future position, and what power tactics (see Chapter 13 of your textbook) is best suited for your current or desired position? Why?
How might you begin to implement Pfeffer’s concepts of what holds people back in achieving power or upward mobility toward increasing their personal or professional power potential and achieving future upward mobility in the near future?
How do you relate to what Banks and Gruenfeld say about power and influence?
What is the source of your own power and influence, and how do you apply them?Assignment #2
Primary Task Response: 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.Mixed-Method DesignsReview the following mixed-methods designs:
Convergent
Explanatory
Exploratory
Focus your discussion on the following:
Select 1 of the three designs above for your own dissertation idea.
Provide a rationale for your choice of the specific mixed-methods design.
Explain the specific purpose for each of the qualitative and quantitative components.
