RESPOND TO 2 OF YOUR CLASSMATES’ DISCUSSION AND
EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE (YOURS RESPOND MUST BE 200
WORDS)

DISCUSSION 1 (Earnesto)

I define organizational Culture as the norm’s values, expectations, and understanding that govern
the behavior of those in an organization. Culture defines employee behavior and attitude at the
workplace and thus determines how employees undertake their work, how they relate with their
colleagues, and how they handle both the strengths and the weaknesses in the organization.

Organizational Culture, on the other hand, is made up of a firm’s values, vision, communication,
and working trust, as well as organizational inclusion. It is also essential to have an ongoing and
stable leadership practice, commitment to ethical behavior, and timely rewards for the employees
to encourage good behavior (Paais & Pattiruhu, 2020). A significant concern that organizations face
when sustaining a positive culture is the integration of multi-teams into the general company
values, particularly in growing or working environments. Switching an existing culture is even more
difficult due to the need to rely on eliminating wrong practices and dealing with skepticism of the
change.

Leaders are central to creating change by modeling flexibility and setting out innovation,
communication, and direction. They should demonstrate new behavior, employ new techniques in
change, and appreciate flexible personnel. Current-day knowledge workplaces and tech-centric
companies like Google and Netflix endorse cultures of change (Paais & Pattiruhu, 2020). Google
focuses on incubation of innovation, and innovation encourages its workers to take some time to
work on innovation projects; Netflix focuses on the freedom accompanied by responsibility, in
which freedom empowers workers to act responsibly and be flexible.

Conclusively, everyone in the company plays a role in maintaining change by introducing different
viewpoints and suggestions that can be critical to evaluating the change. Self-directed change
training encourages top-down and bottom-up organizational development because employees
apply change management strategies.

Reference

Paais, M., & Pattiruhu, J. R. (2020). Effect of motivation, leadership, and organizational Culture on
satisfaction and employee performance. The journal of Asian finance, economics, and
business, 7(8), 577-588.

RESPOND TO 2 OF YOUR CLASSMATES’ DISCUSSION AND
EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE (YOURS RESPOND MUST BE 200
WORDS)

DISCUSSION 2 (Loretta)

Organizational culture is the values, beliefs, and structure of an organization that had rules and
regulations in which every member abides. Some of the key values of an organization culture are
everyone working towards a common goal in the organization, there is freedom to innovate among
employees without fear if things do not go well, everyone is held accountable for their actions, there
is clear communication in all areas of the organization, all employees have integrity, there is
diversity in the organization, and everyone has respect for others and that working together is the
key to organizational success. When it comes to change in an organization, there can be a great
deal of resistance, this can even occur with leadership, but people have to learn to adapt. It should
be something that is built within the organization’s culture so that when change comes, people will
expect it, learn the new structure and make it part of the everyday structure of the organization.
Those who resist change risk failure.

I think that in one organization was the one in which I worked when everyone had to go through
cultural and sensitivity training. Where I worked, there were many patients of a certain race but the
ones providing care were of another race. There seemed to be a lot of bigotry, cruel words, and
discrimination. The training helps people to learn sensitivity and how to handle discrimination and
cruelty from patients without getting upset. Most of the patients grew up and lived in a different
time and in old age, memory can be a tricky thing, and we may think that we are back in our heyday
while others have moved forward to modern times. Things did get better for quite some time, but I
think that it was just too much for some of the employees and they eventually left the organization.
There are some things that even time cannot change.

When it comes to employees, they all must learn to adapt to the culture of an organization. Our own
feelings, biases, or misgivings are to be left at the door. Some will resist the culture of an
organization and turn it into something that they deem closer to standard, but times have changed,
and we have to learn to cater to a more diverse market and customer base and this also means that
the organization is becoming more diverse to meet customer needs. Some are stuck in the old
ways, and these are employees that find themselves in trouble often and eventually find
themselves on the outside looking in because they have been terminated.

For this assignment, you will develop a section of your guidebook that includes a plan for a Family Night. This plan will allow you to share with your families examples of your curriculum, examples of instruction, your learning environment, and diversity considerations that you foster in your classroom. An example of this section and requirements can be found in the Instructor Guidance.

Guidebook Setup: This week, you will continue to develop your existing work by adding a new section titled, “Communicating, Engaging, and Encouraging Family Partnerships.” You will continue to build your Guidebook, using your chosen format from last week (Newsletter).

Guidebook: Communicating, Engaging and Encouraging Family Partnerships Section. For this section, you are going develop a plan for a Family Night in your classroom. You will create several communication examples to share with families during this night. They will include:

1) An invitation that encourages them to come to this event. Try to get them excited about it and explain the importance of their attendance.

2) A written transcript for an introductory welcome speech for the event

3) A plan for children and families to explore the curriculum centers or activities in your learning environment. For this plan, explain four specific activities that families and children could do together during this event. For example, you might plan for children to read a short book with their families in the library area of your classroom and then draw their favorite character on a classroom bulletin board.

4) A description or visual layout of how the learning environment will be set up for this event. Be sure to specifically describe how the learning environment will incorporate your teaching philosophy and cultural competence.

5) A transcript for a closing speech that explains the importance of maintaining a close partnership throughout the year.

Content Expectations:

I. Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook: Communicating, Engaging, and Encouraging Family Partnerships Introduction: Set up your Children, Families, and Communities Guidebook with a section titled, “Communicating, Engaging, and Encouraging Family Partnerships.” For this section, include an introduction that explains what is included and why close partnerships are important for families.

II. Developing a plan for a Family Night: Develop a plan for a Family Night, where families come into your learning environment. Include the following:

A. Invitation: Create an invitation for families to attend this event. Be sure it looks professional, while also getting families excited about it and explaining the importance of their presence at this event. Script for Welcoming Families: Develop a written transcript for an introductory welcome speech for this event. Be sure to explain the purpose of Family Night and discuss why family partnerships are important.

B. Family Participation Activities: Develop a plan for children and families to explore the curriculum centers or activities in your learning environment. For this plan, explain four specific activities that families and children could do together in your learning environment.

C. Learning Environment Description/Visual: Create a description or visual layout of how the learning environment will be set up for this event. Be sure to specifically describe how the learning environment will incorporate your teaching philosophy and cultural competence.

D. Transcript for Closing: Develop a written transcript for a closing speech, thanking families for coming to this event and reviewing the importance of maintaining these partnerships throughout the year.

Writing and Formatting Expectations:

a) Resource Support: Writing is substantiated by at least three supporting resources.

b) Organization: Demonstrates logical progression of ideas within the writing.

c) Syntax and Mechanics: Writing displays meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

d) APA Formatting: Writing includes citations and references in APA format.

e) Suggested Assignment Length:
In general, your assignment should be approximately four pages in length.

Prepare an issue analysis of an incident that occurred in a health care organization and create a leadership action plan that will help to address the specific incident but will also help to drive safety and quality improvements throughout the organization. The issue analysis and action plan together should be 8-10 pages.

In this assignment, you are to provide a detailed analysis of the following article:

Using A Taped Intervention To Improve Kindergarten Students’ Number Identification 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3405940/

by Katherine R Krohn, Christopher H. Skinner, Emily J. Fuller, and Corrine Greear

The analysis should be a minimum of 3 pages in length, presented in APA formatting, and contain the following information: 

1.       The rationale for the study.

2.       A brief description of the method and results.

3.       An evaluation of whether the study was consistent with the goals of behavior analysis as a science (why or why not).

4.       Discuss how the study addressed the dimensions of ABA.

5.       A summary of the lessons learned from the study and if there is an application to future practice or research.

Please note: Your assignment should be submitted in a Word Document format using Times New Roman 12. The assignment must use APA format (See link to APA publication style in the course site resources.)  Please include an appropriate heading on your paper and references to support methods or procedures used.