For your Signature Assignment, you will engage in a role— one that will require you to integrate the topics from the course.
You have been brought in as a consultant to assess a team. You immediately notice that the team members refer to each other in a stereotypical manner. This workforce team consists of John, a 75-year-old Caucasian who describes himself as ‘hip, street, and tech savvy’; although the team sees him as
old and forgetful. Jill is a 22-year-old African American who describes herself as shy and feels she is too young to bring anything productive to the group; the team reports that s her youth implies that
she does not have the experience to do what the job requires. Joe, a 35-year-old immigrant with limited English language proficiency reports that he often feels misunderstood and teased because of his heavy accent; the team reports that it has great difficulty understanding him and sometimes teases
him, in a ‘good-natured’ manner, about his accent. Mary is a 30-year-old with an ADA accommodation due to childhood trauma (which her family denied ever happened); the team reports that she is often preoccupied. Ahsan is a 50-year-old woman who is strongly committed to her Indian culture; the team reports that it feels that she has not fully embraced the American culture.
As a consultant, the organization has asked you to assess the team, and then offer specific
suggestions and guidance to help this team to become more functional and productive.
As a consultant, you must assess the team on the following:
-Identify team members’ affective cognitive functioning in relation to their stereotypical thoughts and opinions.
-Determine how their affective functioning may affect their interaction with the entire team.
-Explain how their cognitive functioning may be influenced by their own, as well as others’ bias
regarding culture and age.
-Indicate how team members might perceive other team members.
-Share the creative ways in which you could offer suggestions and guidance that are ethical,
sensitive to each individual, and use language that will not offend anyone or make anyone defensive.
-Describe the ethical decisions you must make in your final recommendations to the organization.
Compose a final report that is 8-10 pages in length that addresses each
of the points above.
Support your findings with the five peer-reviewed articles found in Week 6 plus an additional five
peer-reviewed articles for a total of 10 articles.
5 peer-reviewed articles found in Week 6
1. The learning effects of computer simulations in science education
by: Nico Rutten a, Wouter R. van Joolingen b, Jan T. van der Veen
2. Inexpensive techniques to improve education: Applying cognitive psychology to enhance educational practice by: Henry L. Roediger III, Mary A.
3. Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.
by: Nisbett, Richard E.. U Michigan Inst for Social Research, Ctr for Group Dynamics
Wilson, Timothy D.
4. Distributed Cognition and Memory Research: History and Current Directions
by: Kourken Michaelian & John Sutton
5. A critique on neuroscientific methodologies in organizational behavior and management studies
by: Lindebaum, Dirk, Jordan, Peter J.
-plus an additional five peer-reviewed articles for a total of 10 articles. plus an additional five
Length: 8-10 pages
Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to the topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be careful to adhere to Northcentral’s Academic Integrity Policy.
