contains two assignments
Discussion Questions (3 pages for 3 questions below)
1. Request for 3 pages for 3 discussion question
2.Make sure TWO additional reference ADDITIONAL Textbooks below.
3.Separate the reference list for EACH question.
4. Use APA format
5. Use references listed below
6. Please use attached files for references.
Question 1:
Discuss a few effective strategies you would implore when providing advising to a student who has a “helicopter parent” ( or dive bomber) hovering over your every word. This is a common issue seen when discussing how to effectively meet the needs of today’s students.
Question 2:
Read the case study regarding conflict in our chapter readings this week. There are numerous facets to it that could make a student affairs practitioner apply theory to practice. What are 2 major conflict dynamics in this situation? Is the situation positive or negative conflict? Lastly, who are the people with the most to gain or lose if this situation is not resolved effectively?
Question 3:
We see issues with today’s students being under-prepared, more liberal attitude, single parent households, abuse, etc. We need to educate ourselves on how to best prepare to help them. List any examples you have had that you found success in helping a student.
Textbooks:
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological
Association (6thed.). Washington, DC: Author. ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5
Schuh, J., Jones, S., & Torres, S. (2016). Student services: A handbook for the profession (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 9781119049593
Wells, J. B. (2015). CAS professional standards for higher education (9thed.). Washington, DC: Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education. ISBN: 9780985881924
2:Internal Consultant
Question 1. Read the following Scenario and identify alternatives for the biased language: Your first job after graduating is an internal consultant with a small local company. On our first day of work, the vice president who hired you asked you to come to a meeting where he will introduce you to the head of every department in the company. As you stand up in front of the conference room, the voce president says, “I’d like to introduce the ______ who has been hired to help us”. Imagine the blank was filled in with each of the following terms:
Young lady/Young man
Woman/Man
Gal/Guy
Expert
Consultant
Genius
College Girl/ College Boy
Which term(s) would you prefer the vice president use to introduce you? What are the problems with each of the remaining terms? What kind of bias, if any, do they represent.
Question 2. Select an appropriate management technique.
You and your teammate are working on a presentation that will be given at a budget meeting on Monday. On Thursday night, you think the project is far from complete. You’d like the presentation to be as polished as possible, so you suggest to your teammate that you do get together over the weekend to finish it. he says that he wants to finish the presentation by Friday because he wants to relax over the weekend. You begin to argue. You Know you won’t be able to complete the presentation in one day. What is the cause of this conflict and how would you respond?
In a memo to your instructor, explain how you could use each of the following conflict management techniques:
Avoid: How could you avoid dealing with the conflict?
Accommodate: What would you do to accommodate your teammate?
Compete: What would a competitive approach look like?
Compromise: What would a compromise look like?
Collaborate: what would you do to try to collaborate?
Then identify the approach you would recommend and explain your selection.
Question 3. Analyzing team effectiveness.
Select a recent team experience in which you participated, whether for a sport, organization, or class project. In a few paragraphs describe the team and identify the goal of the activity. Then outline the pros and cons of the experience. was the team successful? Which benefits of effective team work did your group experience? Did conflict occur? What changes may have improved the team’s effectiveness?
