Write clearly and concisely about developing a learning organization using proper writing mechanic.

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Suppose that your organization, or an organization with which  you are familiar, is dealing with a major issue in transitioning  individual learning (e.g., sharing knowledge, training programs, working  as a team, experiences, procedures, processes, etc.) into  organizational learning. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has asked  you, as the Vice President of Human Resources, to assist with the issue  and to help the organization transition its culture to this new way of  learning. Before you provide any recommendations to address the issue,  you must first research the root of the problem and the resistance to  this transition.

Note: You may create and / or  make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this  assignment. In your original work, you may use aspects of existing  processes from either your current or a former place of employment.  However, you must remove any and all identifying information that would  enable someone to discern the organization[s] that you have used.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

  1. Assess the organization’s culture as it relates to shared knowledge,  then specify the significant issue(s) that you discovered with the  culture. Determine the disconnect you observed between the culture and  organizational learning using three (3) of the five (5) mystifications.  Support your response with at least one (1) example of each selected  mystification within the organization.
  2. Give your opinion on the current Organizational Learning  Mechanism(s) (OLMs) that hinder organizational learning. Support your  response with one (1) example of a training or learning initiative  (e.g., sharing knowledge, training programs, working as a team,  experiences, procedures, processes, etc.) and the outcome when it was  applied to the organization.
  3. Determine which one (1) of the following OLMs is suitable for  replacing the identified OLM(s) that hinder organizational learning as a  corrective action to facilitate the transition from individual to  organizational learning: Off-line/Internal, On-line/Internal,  Off-line/External or On-line/External. Justify your selection.
  4. Evaluate the norms of the organization’s learning culture to  determine the source(s) that currently prevent productive learning by  applying two (2) of the following norms: inquiry, issue orientation,  transparency, integrity or accountability. Provide at least one (1)  example of each of the selected norms’ manifestation within the  organization in your evaluation.
  5. Use at least five (5) quality academic references in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required  assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Examine the processes of how organizations learn and organizational barriers that impact the process.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in developing a learning organization.
  • Write clearly and concisely about developing a learning organization using proper writing mechanic.

    Identify the argument or purpose of the paper. What does the write hope to accomplish? Does the writer articulate the topic matter well and concisely? 

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Instructions: Read the questions first. Then look at the attachments because the questions are based on the attached reading.

For #2 click at the link at the end of the questions.

You don’t need to put the citations; One paragraphs for each questions will be good.

Number 3 might be a little be longer than the other questions ( 2 paragraphed)

1.     How does Hershey, in her article “From Poster Child to protester,” define ‘pity’? (How May quote her.)

file:///Users/macbookair/Downloads/number%201%20From_Poster_Child_to_Protester_Independent_Living_Institute.htm

2.     Having viewed the CNN 2017 Hero of the Year Video. Do you think that Amy Wright, who has done a great deed in employing people with physical and intellectual disabilities at her coffee shop, should be named hero of the year? How does the standing ovation in the video compare with the standing ovation of the nondisabled actors playing disabled actors in Code of the Freaks? While there is no perfect answer, I am looking for ways in which you think a disabled person might view this scenario.

– https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/17/world/amy-wright-2017-cnn-hero-of-the-year/index.html

3.     You were asked to read one of the Disability Myth paper examples on canvas. State which essay you read, and then briefly describe the strengths and the weakness of that essay using the questions below:

a.     Identify the argument or purpose of the paper. What does the write hope to accomplish? Does the writer articulate the topic matter well and concisely?

b.     Does the thesis and evolving thesis answer the writer’s “so-what” question? If so, how?

c.     What catches your eyes about the writer’s work?

d.     Do you have suggestions for ways in which the writer could =have strengthened his or her paper?

e.     What ideas do you think you might want to incorporate from the writer’s work into your own disability Myth paper?

f.      From one to five (five being the highest), what number would you give the essay?

4.     Rebecca Sanchez argues that framing disclosure as a singular communicative exchange (pretty much like what we have seen with the CNN video) reinforces preconceptions about disability as static, scary or sad. She contends that if we portray or frame disability in ways that nondisabled people can relate to, we might be able to “move away from the emphasis on a singular idea of disability towards an articulation of more flexible ways of doing disability in public space “(211). She names three ways we can make disability feel more relatable and more accepting to the public, without making the disability disclosure for the disabled person a painful one. PICK ONE of the three examples and discuss it.

What cultural challenges do you foresee in the use of performance management systems and subsequent communication with employees?

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Assignment 1: Discussion—Employee Evaluations

Since you will evaluate your employees in about three months, you have some time to plan and strategize. As a preliminary step to making a recommendation to human resources regarding your plans for the upcoming evaluations, discuss your goals for employee performance appraisals. Compare at least two existing approaches to employee evaluations, including actual appraisal systems, and make a recommendation based on scholarly references. Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research employee evaluations and performance management systems.

Then, respond to the following:

  • How does the organization address cultural differences? Alternatively, how would you recommend these approaches be modified?
  • What cultural challenges do you foresee in the use of performance management systems and subsequent communication with employees?
  • Make a recommendation regarding which performance management system would be most appropriate in the context of organizational needs.

By Saturday, July 29, 2017, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Monday, July 31, 2017, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation Do the following when responding to your peers:

  • Read your peers’ answers.
  • Provide substantive comments by
    • contributing new, relevant information from course readings, Web sites, or other sources;
    • building on the remarks or questions of others; or
    • sharing practical examples of key concepts from your professional or personal experiences
  • Respond to feedback on your posting and provide feedback to other students on their ideas.
  • Make sure your writing
    • is clear, concise, and organized;
    • demonstrates ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and
    • displays accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Grading Criteria

Which paragraph or paragraphs mark the transition from literary examples and introduction to the attempts by scientists to understand stress and misdirected aggression?  How does Barash signal this transition? 

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AP English Language and Composition                                                      mcrawford

12 sets of questions to accompany “Targets of Aggression” by David Barash

(from the 5 Oct. 2007 issue)

With what literary examples does Barash open his essay?  How does he make use of these examples?

Which paragraph or paragraphs mark the transition from literary examples and introduction to the attempts by scientists to understand stress and misdirected aggression?  How does Barash signal this transition?

Explain what has come of the experiments with rats.  Are the conclusions drawn reasonable?

Why, at the close of the information about the experiments with the rats, does the writer put the words “good” and “natural” in quotes?

After brief mention of the town of Banja Luka in Bosnia as an example, Barash asks us to consider another more recent example.  Explain.  Why does he see this as misdirected aggression?

After the above example, he returns to the research of physiologists.  What does he explain?

What is a scapegoat?  What does the price of cotton example reveal?

Reconsider justice?  Explain.

“Modern science may even owe its existence to scapegoating”?  Explain.

What “difficult questions” arise from what Barash brings together in this article?

Why do you think he closes with a review of some religious ideas?  Why the quote by Chesterton?  What does it mean?  What does it do for the essay?

What does he seem to be holding onto in the final sentence?  What does he mean by “bio-logic?”  What does this conclusion have to do with the concerns of question #4 above?