Examine the mission, vision, and values statements of your place of employment or one with which you are familiar.

Create a 1,400-word evaluation of the company’s values and goals. Include the following:

• Compare the organization’s mission, vision, and values against the criteria for robust statements.
• Identify the organization’s core competencies.
• Examine the organization’s core competencies based on established definitions. Include a rationale for the selection of these core competencies.
• Determine the organization’s strategic goals.
• Discuss whether the organization’s current behavior and business goals are aligned to its mission, vision, values, and core competencies.
• Determine if the organization lives up to its own mission, vision, and values.
• Justify your determination.

Format the assignment consist with APA guidelines. Plagiarized or late work will not receive payment.

Understanding Experiments in Cognition

It is reasonable to admit that in four weeks you have been exposed to a great deal of information about the human mind! This assignment will give you the opportunity to examine how the knowledge that you have acquired during the past weeks may tie together. You will explore a phenomenon which interests you, highlight the methodologies used to study it, uncover the results obtained, and assess the validity of the knowledge acquired. These activities will to make you aware of the intrinsic relationship between knowledge of specific mental and behavioral phenomena, as well as the limitations of the techniques used to study them.  Knowledge in cognitive psychology, is largely gathered by means of experiments. Thus, it is important that you become intimately familiar with this data-gathering method.  The goal of the assignment is to ensure that you have a good understanding of specific cognitive psychological phenomena as well as experiments that are often used to investigate such phenomena.  Abide by the instructions listed below:

• Watch the video, Experimental Research Methods in Psychology, on the experimental method:
• Go to the Ashford University Library or Google Scholar and select one peer-reviewed article on a topic of interest among those discussed in our class.  If you prefer, you may select an article from this list.
• Describe the main research questions that the study attempts to answer, state the main hypothesis (prediction) made by the researchers, and identify the key variables.  Keep in mind that a description of the main question of the study entails an explanation of the importance of the question (i.e., illustrates the gap in the existing literature).
• Describe the critical characteristics of both the participants and the procedure(s) used.
• Summarize the main findings.  How do these findings answer the question that the researchers formulated in the introductory section of the article?
• Explain the extent to which the findings answer the research question.  Do the findings support their research question (or prediction)?
• Illustrate the weaknesses and strengths of the selected study.  For instance, ask yourself  questions such as: Is the technique used to understand the selected phenomenon able to gather adequate information about it? How does this technique compare to other techniques used in cognitive psychology? Do the findings of the selected study generalize to individuals who may be different from those who participated (young versus older adults)? Please note that research articles often contain more than one study. Thus, in this assignment, you are given the opportunity to describe each experiment separately or focus on what you believe to be the most significant experiment.

Guidelines for the AssignmentThis assignment must:

• Start with a title page and end with a reference page.
• The title page must contain the following items (title of paper, student’s name, course name and number, instructor’s name, and due date). 
• Be at least five double-spaced pages in length (without counting the title page and the reference page). 
• Begin with an introduction to the selected topic in which you define the research question and all concepts that will be discussed in the paper. For instance, let’s assume you select the article by Strayer and Johnston ‘Driven to Distraction: Dual-Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone’ as the topic of your paper.  Then your task is to state the question the researchers want to answer and define the terms attention, divided attention and distraction.
• Briefly summarize the content of the selected article according to the guidelines described above. 
• Conclude your paper by expressing your thoughts about the strengths and weaknesses of the available evidence.  If possible, suggest the course that future research should take if the answer to the selected question is less than conclusive.

The reference section will be the final page of the paper.  In this section, you will cite the article you have chosen to discuss in the paper and any other source you have used. Be sure to follow APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

The goal of this discussion forum is to understand mental imagery and its utility. Watch the videos, Tom Wujec: 3 Ways the Brain Creates Meaning and Neil Burgess: How Your Brain Tells You Where You Are and select one of the following questions:

• Are mental images of events and objects in people’s world the same in content as events and objects they have actually experienced with their senses?
• Are mental images and real experiences processed by the same or different brain structures?
• Is the ability for people to create images in their minds useful?
• How do cognitive psychologists study mental imagery since mental images are sensory impressions that exist solely in the human mind/brain? If you select this question, use the textbook or go to the CogLab to experience one of the procedures/tasks that scientists have used to investigate the phenomenon of mental imagery. Then, select one of the following experiments:
  • Mental Rotation (i.e., how we manipulate objects in our mind to envision a change in perspective before we actually make it)
  • Link Word (i.e., how mental imagery can be used to learn new words).

Each experiment illustrates a procedure/task that is used by scientists to understand mental imagery and its use.  Read the section of the textbook devoted to the selected experiment. Then, consider what participants’ performance on the corresponding task tells you about the nature of mental images, how people use them, and their usefulness. Irrespective of the question you select to answer, be sure to support your answer with evidence from at least one peer reviewed research article.  Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.

Guided Response: Use a minimum of one scholarly source found at the Ashford Library or Google Scholar to critically examine the evidence that you have uncovered. Offer a substantial response to at least two other posts written by members of the class.  You may respond to (a) a post that discusses a different question from the one that you have selected, (b) a post that discusses the same question, and (c) an inquiry from your instructor.  Keep in mind that both peers and instructor are members of the class.  In your answers, discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the content of each post. Be sure that you cite scientific evidence to support your views. Be sure to follow APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  A minimum of 200 words should be used for each response to other posts. Be certain to continue monitoring the discussion board until 5 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Day 7 of the week.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your discussion.

AIM(S)

The aim of this module is for candidates, through group consensus, to achieve a conceptual and comprehensive understanding through the critical analysis required to contextualise strategy road maps using core contemporary methodologies to make relevant proposals for business progression.

INDICATIVE CONTENT

• Contemporary Evidence underpinning Strategy Road Map Methodologies
• Strategy, Strategy Determination and Strategy Clarification
• Strategy Road Map Methodologies

— Organisational Strategic DNA

— Value Creation Achieved Through Strategic Effect Relationships

— Strategy Road Map Conceptual Design

— Strategy Maps, Structures, Processes, Metric Logic for Measuring Performance

— Strategic Thrust and Strategy Cascadence

— Balanced Score Card as A Cohesive Tool

— Achievement Targets

• Mobilising the Strategy Map for Implementation
• Group-based Critique & Synthesis to Achieve Strategy Map Design in An Organisational Context

PART 1 THE COMPANY REPORT (2800 words)

THIS PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT IS A MANAGEMENT REPORT FOR THE BOARD OF YOUR CLIENT ORGANISATION.

– Adopt the role of a Strategy Consultant for a selected organisation.

– You are required to lead a new strategic initiative to propose and implement organisational change through the adoption of an established Strategy Map Methodology designed to inject value creation opportunities for your client and their key stakeholder groups.

Your brief is to:

1. Complete a critically evaluated situational analysis for the selected organisation to thereby establish a comprehensive understanding of current performance, productivity and competitive position against their strategic ambitions for shareholder value gains.

2. Propose a future business solution through the intervention of Balanced Score Card and Strategy Map Methodologies to achieve incremental value addition. Assess the impact upon current business practices as well as the organisational learning challenges to be addressed.

3. Against the enduring value propositions for your client’s business to adopt Strategy Map Methodologies, using your own judgement, review the wider implications if the client organisation does not accept your proposals.

Consider to these points:

• Clear Introduction to the Organisational Context
• Report Structure and Flow
• Industry / Company Research Applied
• Situational Analysis and Evaluation in Content

• The Need for Change
• Direct Application of Explicit Frameworks for Value, Strategy and Leadership
• Explicit Value Propositions for Change
• Concise Action Plans Proposed
• Clarity of Judgement
• How the Change will be lead
• Stated Outcomes / Benefits for New Organisation
• Report Style
• Appendices:

Technical
Data Analysis
Situational to Company / Industry

PART 2 EVIDENCE REVIEW (1900 words)

THIS PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN THE FORM OF A LITERATURE REVIEW WITH POTENTIAL DBA RESEARCH INDICATIONS.

1. Prepare a critique of selected literature related to the domain of Strategy Maps and the Balanced Score Card, then support your perspectives with other contemporary evidence deemed relevant to achieve meaningful managerial insights and conclusions.

2. Outline potential DBA research perspectives which could be adopted to explore client business transformation for future sustainability.

Consider to these points:

1- Academic Research Evidence related to explicit frameworks for Value, Strategy & Leadership

2- Direct ‘in text’ citation

3- Quality of Critique

4- New Insights Gained

5- Formation of Judgements

6- Logical Conclusions

7- Emergent Themes for Potential DBA Research

8- Appendices:

Quality of Bibliography

Quality of In Text References

*THIS PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN THE FORM OF A LITERATURE REVIEW.

PART 3 REFLECTION FOR EMPLOYABILITY ENHANCEMENT (1000 words)

Complete your individual learning log of employability skills readiness, through self-reflection on current practice, to:

1. Realise the critical thinking and core capabilities needed to achieve this consultancy task for the client organisation.

2. Evaluate your current knowledge, skills and competencies to then assess your ability for completing this consultancy assignment.

3. Review the related leadership skills required for future personal development and career accession.

*THIS LEARNING LOG IS A ROLLING RECORD MAINTAINED THROUGHOUT THE DBA MODULES AND WILL BE SUMMARIESED AT THE END OF PART 1 OF THE DBA.

Consider to these points:

1- Ability to form Judgements

2- Mindset Change

3- Personal Skillsets Assessment for Leadership, Value Creation and Strategy Implementation

4- Self-Critique of Competencies

5- Challenges Experienced

6- Overcoming Difficulties

7- New Knowledge Acquired

8- Theory Modification to suit Organisational Environment

9- Emergent Conclusions for Employability Skills

10- The Personal Development Agenda

*** Words count = 5700 words

*** In-Text Citations and References using Harvard style.

*** An attachments has been uploaded for more Clarifications.

What is it about psychodynamic theory that interests you the most? What are the tenets of this approach that you think are useful and valid? Alternatively, what are the challenges and criticisms of psychodynamic theory? It is very important that psychologists critically evaluate and examine all theoretical approaches, including those that are considered foundations of the profession, and particularly those theoretical approaches that are considered “emerging.”

In this Discussion, you analyze the foundations of psychodynamic theory and therapy by providing a reflective evaluation of the effectiveness of the approach. You also consider the challenges of conducting empirical research to support and/or negate the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy interventions.

To prepare for this Discussion:• If necessary, review the basic tenets of psychodynamic theory. Discuss a brief evaluation of psychodynamic theory and therapy. Your evaluation should include: the aspects of psychodynamic theory that are appealing to you and why, how well this approach fits with your emerging/developing theoretical orientation, the effectiveness of psychodynamic interventions, and the challenges or criticisms you have with this approach.

Any psychodynamic theory and therapy is fine to discuss