Alcohol Abuse in the Marine Corps
Problem Solving Paper
Topic: Alcohol Abuse in the Marine Corps
This paper should be 1000 words in length (all inclusive).
Your paper can focus on either a current or past employer of yours, or some other company with which you have significant familiarity. What’s needed is some knowledge of the inner workings of the company–its struggles, its strengths, its climate, and so forth.
The paper should include the following four sections:
1. Organization – Provide just enough details on the company for me to be able to understand the problem that will be described. Resist the urge to provide irrelevant details and feel free to omit or disguise any details that might be sensitive in nature.
2. Problem – Describe, specifically, one problem that the company is struggling with that will serve as the focus of the paper. Resist the urge to discuss multiple problems--focus on one specific issue with which the organization is struggling. Be sure to focus on a problem that can be impacted by the relevant topics.
3. Topic – Choose at least two topics from the list below and apply those topics to the problem. Describe very specifically how the concepts, principles, and findings represented in the topic matter to the problem, and how they can be leveraged to articulate a solution.
- Value-precept theory
- Job characteristics theory
- Challenge-hindrance stressors
- Expectancy theory
- Goal setting theory
- Equity theory
- Psychological empowerment
- Cognition-based trust
- Justice
- Ethical decision making
- Cognitive ability
- Emotional intelligence
- Team processes
- Types of power
- Transformational leadership
4. Recommendations – Provide a list of very specific recommendations/action steps that flow out of the discussion of the topics and that can help solve the problem. In thinking about how to craft the topics into those recommendations, strike a balance between being practical and being bold. Every organization has key constraints that need to be taken into account when designing interventions. Although those should be considered, resist the urge to “play it safe”, as that tendency often leads to modest interventions that are ultimately ineffective.
Beyond the parameters above, please bring your own self-expression, initiative, and creativity to the content and style of the paper. 80% of the paper grade will revolve around content issues, with 20% revolving around writing style issues–please see rubric for additional details.
Criteria
APA format, cover page, references, introductory paragraph & length
Distinguishes a primary source from a secondary source
Identified organization and/or industry
Framed the problem(s)
Discussed the topic(s) thoroughly
Provided plausible solutions as part the recommendation
Organization, logic, & integration of primary and secondary sources
Provides historical context of primary source
Grammar and Writing clarity
Answer preview
The Marine Corps is a U.S. institution and organization established in 1775 as the nation’s fighting force. The Marine Corps is well-known as the U.S.’s best fighting force due to its military and warfare excellence. The Marine Corps organization consists of about 186,000 actively serving marines and more than 40,000 marines who serve as reservist marine corps. The Marine Corps is well-trained and equipped to respond to various threats from different parts of the world because the interests…
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