Please complete the following three “footprint” exercises and discuss the questions below. Wait. What?! What does this have to do with organizational behavior? Keep on reading! You’ll see that this exercise has a lot to do with people at work. After all, how are we going to change organizations to be more concerned about the environment if we can’t persuade employees to change their own personal behaviors?
These three calculators will help you evaluate the global implications of your lifestyle. You can click on the link or cut and paste.
Discussion Questions: What do the various calculators tell you about your lifestyle? Any surprises? How do you compare to an average American? How do you compare to individuals in other countries? Which of your behaviors have a high impact? How can they be modified to reduce your impact? Are there areas of your footprint that you have more or less personal control over?
Take Action: As a manager (or future manager), you will no doubt ask others to change their behavior in some way to meet organizational goals. It’s good to experience the “change process” yourself, if only to remind yourself how difficult it is to change an ingrained behavior. Choose a behavior of yours that might be considered unsustainable, or at least, unhealthy for people and the planet if you (and everyone else) were to continue this behavior. Describe the behavior you plan to change (e.g., reduce your use of plastic, cut out red meat, stop buying fast fashion), and tell us how you are going to make that change. Publicly committing to change is a way to reinforce the change, so please share with us the change you plan to make. You will want to set SMART goals to increase the likelihood that you will be successful. Figure out a way to track your behavior daily (e.g., spreadsheet or table).
Summary: Complete the exercises, comment on this DB, choose a behavior to change, and start tracking it. During the last week of the semester we will discuss the progress you made, or didn’t make. Good luck!
The assignment shall consist of between 1000-1100 words, including list of references, but not include the cover page. (title page, name of students and table of contents).
Use the rubrics as guidelines to answer this question.
Question
“I am going through a divorce and am represented by a lawyer who does not have an office. The lawyer usually meets me at court. After an initial hearing before a judge, my lawyer started asking me questions about the case outside the courtroom. I felt that I could not speak freely as my spouse was also standing outside the courtroom. What should I do to make sure this does not happen again?”
Step 2- Define racism & discrimination. These definitions should be paraphrased, not cut and pasted. These definitions should be from journal articles, the social work dictionary, or a social work/social justice website. In addition to your definitions, please list their APA citations in your assignment – example (Lukic, 2020). List their references in the References section at the end of your paper along with the reference from Step 3.
Step 3: Find an article for ONE of the following 2 topics (from either PsycINFO or Social Work Abstracts in the FIU Library): https://library.fiu.edu/az.php (Links to an external site.)) 1) Tuskegee Experiments 2)Henrietta Lacks. Include racism or discrimination as keywords in your search for each topic. List the APA references for your identified articles in your assignment.
Your search string may look like the following:
(Tuskegee Experiments) AND (racism OR discrimination)
(Henrietta Lacks) AND (racism or discrimination)
Step 4: After watching the 2 videos, determining the definitions of racism and discrimination, and conducting further research regarding the Tuskegee Experiments and Henrietta Lacks, please write an essay that addresses the following prompts. The essay should be about 2 pages long. It should not be longer than 3 full pages.
Why does this matter to social work research and practice?
This essay, and every essay moving forward, should be in APA format. It will be
written in one Word document. Each Step will have it’s own heading (ex. Step 1). As a best practice, your sources or Step 4 should be within the past 10-15 years (maximum). For Step 1 you can just provide a citation of the videos watched.
