Thinking about the role you play in your company or organizations, discuss how your might or have used what you know from the ALD program to break down some of the silos that get created in organizations separating departments and often creating miscommunication and distrust.
Reflecting and commenting on this topic is a personal challenge for me. I am always concerned about those reading my comments and how what I express comes across. To be honest, I asked if bonus questions are viewed by classmates as well as Dr. Monaghan and Dr. Adkisson. My expressions are real and it is not my intention for anyone in the class to feel disconcerted by words.
Silos: Miscommunication and distrust.
Failure to communicate adequately
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department.
Scenario: One of the situations I have experienced in the past has been a stress trigger for me. One of the employees where I work struggles when it comes to writing. The person's coworkers were told my management to review and fix any and all content and grammatical errors before sending this person's report to the head of the department.
Knowing the character of those involved: There are two coworkers assigned to the task of fixing their coworker's grammatical and content writing issues. Two people are assigned just in case one person is absent at the time the report needs to be completed.
Avoid gossiping: The two people responsible for making the corrections have been negatively discussing the issue with other coworkers after being told to keep such information confidential. Unfortunately, I overheard three employees discuss the personal and confidential information regarding the person involved. (I immediately said: " Please don't do that. Either offer a solution to help or just be quiet!") The three employees had no idea that I was in close proximity and heard everything that was
Sam Dillion wrote “What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence” for an audience of college students, employees and corporate people. In his article, Sam points out that companies are spending a lot of money annually on remedial training. According to Sam, the writing problem appears in e-mails, reports and texts. He is informing his audience to brush up on writing skills before entering the corporate world, in order to avoid remedial training. Companies like to hire employees with excellent writing skills but many of employees and applicants fall short of that standard.
This approach, may have cleared the air quickly and kept the rest of the unit from being affected, but another useful approach may have been employed. The “constructive communication” worksheet would have been helpful if the initial conversation applying clarity, neutrality didn’t resolve all the issues. Allowing each member involved in the conflict to do perspective taking, share thoughts and feelings and come up with a solutions to resolve the conflict would have stopped the conflict from escalating to a formal complaint.
Pilkington, Andrew CDT I4 CO 16’ Assistance was given to me in fixing my grammatical errors. CDT Pilkington looked over my paper, fixing grammatical mistakes. When he was done, we discussed what was not clear and I fixed those errors within my paper. West Point, NY. 23 March. 2014.
The problem here is that there are vast amounts of important identifiable customer information such a social security numbers, copies of driver’s licenses, tax identification numbers, addresses and credit card information among other important documents that were on hand that needed proper handling and to be made sure this information was safe. This information needs to be imputed by employees and interns alike and knowing how to properly do that is important. When something wasn’t done right or put in the proper categories you would get yelled at but no one wanted to take the time to explain the way things were supposed to go. Managers and supervisors did not properly communicate with the employees or interns. How can department
...ts gave to me about my survey and I agree with them. The comments were very helpful because it showed me what the students found confusing and if I was to redo the survey, I would apply the comments and changes that the students made into my new survey so that other students do not get confused with the question.
Sociology is something I didn’t know about until I took this class. This class introduced sociology to me. I learned about how society basically made boys supposed to like blue and girls supposed to like pink. Sociology is “the systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior, from large-scale institutions and mass culture to small groups and individual interactions” (Ferris and stein 2014: p9). Sociology is not something you just learn when you are just born. You learn about sociology throughout your life. Sociology is displayed around things such as being around different environments, friends, and family. Education is a sociology idea that can examine a person’s class and schooling. The higher the education you have,
To overcome communication barriers by becoming culturally aware and sensitive of Hispanic clients by recognizing their differences.
Next, after trying to tell him how commas were supposed to function in a sentence, I asked him again if he felt that there were any places in his paragraph that seemed awkward and/or over "comma-ized.
There is one way she could have resolved the situation. The solution is simple; stop being immature and gossiping about others. I do not think there is anything wrong with communicating with your employees an...
At first I didn’t know what to really expect from taking an online sociology class for class. To be completely honest, I thought I would be reading a lot of boring articles and then writing about them. It turned out that I was wrong. I was able to see what sociology pertains to and how it relates to our lives. It’s funny to think that almost everything in your life is controlled by someone else. Your interests, hobbies, and even clothes aren’t really solely your decision. You may be thinking “no way I am being influenced and I make all of my decisions consciously” but in fact that is not the case.
This is a reflective writing essay, based on what I learned this semester in my sociology 1013.51 Introduction to Sociology. I am going to discuss a few of the concepts and lessons that I have learned in class and from my instructor.
In Sociology 421, the main topic is about punishment. We explored different ways around punishment in this class, for example gender, race, social class, mental health, gangs and family. We had two presentations, academic and creative presentations during this semester, which we could link and relate the topic together, and view it in a broader way. We can see all the topics are actually related, every topic could affect each other. We used these topics to see the changing of the nature of punishment overtime. In this class, we learned what are punishment and the reasons we punish, but why we punish always have little to do with actual forms of punishment. We also explored few major points such as deterrence and rehabilitation before and after
Sociologists analyze everything in society in their own unique way. Sociologists such as August Comte, Herbert Spencer, and Emile Durkheim look at social phenomena from many different perspectives and at different levels. However, they do all share the fact they all contributed something to sociology. August Comte is credited with coining the term sociology. Emile Durkheim had a lot to do with the term sociology, and he was a major part of structural functionalism. Also Herbert Spencer was one of the major figures in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. When talking about sociology, there is a micro level analysis of small social patterns and a macro level of analysis of large social patterns. There are three primary theoretical perspectives: the symbolic interactionist perspective, the functionalist perspective, and the conflict perspective. Symbolic interactionism is the use of symbols; face to face interactions and is a micro of level analysis. Functionalism and conflict theory are macro level of analysis. Functionalism is a relationship between the parts of society and how aspects of society are functional. Conflict theory is a competition for scarce resources; how the elite control the poor and weak.
...ap benefits for themselves and others. As described by Scarniti (2001, p.5) team work allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.
It is not everyday when you can say the majority of your college class is you talking and the teacher listening, this is seminar. Coming from a family where heated debates were present almost daily, I already know if I were passionate about a topic I would never pass up an opportunity to express my opinions. For me, seminar has allowed me to grow in this confidence of expressing my thoughts as well as learning from others opinions. Having come from a high school that stressed the importance of student participation, I was not surprised by the amount I would actually have to speak in this class, however I was surprised by the importance of disagreements and the proper way to analyze text through underlining, highlighting and questioning and how it could aid my overall understanding of a text. Being a psychology major and extremely interested in social justice issues, seminar also opened my eyes up to the interesting perspectives of the strength of human nature.