(a) Assignment One Specification: Interview with a Manager (Individual)
You are required to undertake a pre-assignment for this course that will help you connect the theories and research you will cover in this module with actual work-place experiences. This pre-assignment requires students to interview a person who has been working in a managerial or supervisory role in any type of organisation, summarise the interview and then comment on it based on your understanding and the readings you did from the textbook.
Instructions:
1. To prepare for your assignment, read chapters 1 (Introduction to OrganisationalBehaviour) 5, 6 (Motivation: Basic and Applied perspectives) and 7 (Decision Making) in your text-book (McShane&VonGlinow). These chapters will give you the background necessary to conduct the interview and to discuss it.
2. Identify a person in your network who has recent managerial or supervisory role; that is, the person should have some sort of authority over at least one other person (preferably more) as part of their job in an organisation. The person should have worked at that organisation for at least one full year. You may choose any type of organisation (profit/non-profit; private/public are all acceptable) for that person and the person may be in any profession as long as his or her role involves supervising other members.
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3. The person may work in any country and you may conduct the interview in any language and then translate to English as needed. My strong preference is that you conduct the interview face to face. However, if this is not possible, you can conduct the interview via phone Skype or any other internet medium that allows you to talk to the person.
4. A reasonable length for an interview would be between half an hour to an hour long; you may go longer if they have the time.
5. The interview should be around the themes of motivation and decision-making. You will ask the interviewee to share with you their experiences regarding these two topics as they experienced them during their work. I want you to ask the interviewee to share at least one specific example of dealing an issue of motivation and at least one specific example of dealing with decision-making issue. I suggest that you don’t write on more than four such incidents altogether in order to maintain focus in your essay. I especially advise you to ask the interviewee to share instances where s/he encountered difficulty with motivation someone or with making a decision. Before you finish the interview, make sure you understand what the interviewee has experienced and what took place in the incidents s/he described.
6. At the interview, you may ask your interviewee’s permission to be recorded—that will help you being more relaxed and natural during the conversation and will make it easier to write up the interview later on.
7. In your report, start by specifying how (face to face; phone etc), when and where the interview took place. Then, briefly introduce the interviewee: their gender, age, educational and professional background and the role they have in the organisation their supervisory experience comes from. If the issue of confidentiality comes up, you can tell the interviewee that only your two lecturers will have access to the interviews. If you feel that anonymity is required, you can use the first name and first initial of the interviewee in your written report. However, if your lecturers choose, they may request to verify the identity of the interviewee to comply with principles of academic integrity and quality control.
8. Then, summarise the incidents that the interviewee shared with you. You can use your own language but it is good to include brief quotes from the interviewee to illustrate some points, as needed (make sure to use quotation marks such “Xx” in to indicate direct quotes).
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9. Next, I want you to discuss what you think about the interview and to link it to the reading material you covered from the textbook. Specifically, try to link what took place in the incidents you heard to specific parts of motivation and decision making as covered in your text.
10. Optional: If you feel that it is important to include a table, a photo or some graphic representation in your report but it does not fit within the text itself, you may attach them in an appendix of up to two pages long. Nothing essential should be in this appendix, only supplementary material.
11. Enjoy!
Assignment length: 900 – 1,100 words (excluding title page and appendix).

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Reflection Paper 2: How Catholics Study the Bible

Prompt:
Recently, my Catholic cousin (mid-30s, college educated) emailed me to ask for my help. She told me that she had never really read or studied the Bible but was interested in doing so. She knew I studied this sort of stuff and so wanted my advice: She knows that some Christians take the Bible very literally; is this what Catholics do? Is there a Catholic way to study the Bible? What should she keep in mind as she reads it? It’s an old book, so how could it possibly be relevant to her life?

How would you respond to my cousin in light of what you have learned in Module 2? Use the readings from this Module to help develop your response to her. I suggest using Dei Verbum and Schneiders to develop the bulk of your response (think main ideas, or scaffolding), and then using Boadt and Ehrman for supporting examples.

Your response may take the form of a formal paper, or that of a letter. We will be using the same rubric as was used on the previous reflection paper. See the prompt (below) for the first reflection paper for all other formatting guidelines.

Style Guidelines:

Respond to the question and defend your answer in 2 pages (no more than 3 pages!)
The paper must be typed in 12pt Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with one inch margins.
Name, date, and course should go on the top left of the first page (single spacing here is ok).
Page numbers should go on the bottom right of each page (ask if you aren’t sure how to do this!).
When you refer to an idea from an author we have read, or quote them directly, you must cite them parenthetically at the end of the sentence before the final punctuation mark, e.g. (Author, page number).