...Ethics in Group Counseling vs. Individual Therapy: Who’s up for Group? Annette Taft HSCO December 6, 2015 Abstract This research paper will explore the professional code of ethics that a counselor should designate to the group or individual in order to conduct an affective session. Ethics are specific guidelines that help a professional operate with educational, cultural and scientific value applied to a particular setting. In this paper will also explore the ethical issues that can influence group therapy, individual counseling, and the reasons why one setting may be beneficial then the other. Key words: Ethics, Professional, In this busy robust world counseling has become the norm. People have become to use counseling as a way of settling disputes, talking out their own issues, or just support for a friend. Nevertheless, it transitions into the lives of society today, helping people to live functioning lives in this topsy-turvy world. Making a decision of whether to choose group counseling or individual therapy has become often a hard decision. Group counseling and individual counseling are both functional ways of therapy although the ethical practices may be different. This research paper will explore the professional code of ethics that a counselor should designate to the group or individual in order to conduct an affective session. Ethics are specific guidelines that help a professional operate with educational, cultural and scientific value applied to a...
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...Dell SWOT Analysis Dell, which is named after its founder, Michael Dell, is a privately owned, multi-national computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas. They develop, sell, repair and support computers and related products and services. Dell is the third largest PC manufacturer in the world and controls an 11.6% share of the global PC market (Jones 2013). Strengths 1. Brand name. Dell has a very strong brand reputation for quality products. Its brand is valued at $7.5 billion (2013). 2. Product customization. Dell allows its customers to customize their products. Such services adds great value to the customers and provides dell with a competitive advantage. 3. Environmental record. Dell is engaged in many green initiatives and has won awards for being an eco-friendly business. Dell committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its global activities by 40% by 2015, with 2008 fiscal year as the baseline year. It is listed in Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics that scores leading electronics manufacturers according to their policies on sustainability, climate and energy and how green their products are. 4. Acquisitions. In the last 2 years, Dell has acquired 6 different companies which brought patents, increased capabilities, new skills and assets to the company. 5. Direct selling business model. Dell doesn’t sell its products through external retailers but instead sells directly to consumers through their website. This enables them to sell their...
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...Paper # 3 Groups When considering how to handle topics or problems, it is important to understand that there are different ways of reaching the end result and both must be evaluated equally. What are the benefits and shortfalls of working on it alone versus working on the situation with a group? After asking this question, it is important to take into consideration the time restrictions, the difficulty of the problem or issue, as well as the impacts of the result. Groups have both potential limitations as well as strengths. Objectives can vary drastically and those you are in a group with can quickly impact the group as a whole. To look at the potential limitations of a group, "there are two significant disadvantages of group discussions and it includes the time it takes for the group process as well as the potential of conformity pressures to interfere with high quality decision making." Operating in a solo manner can allow for thinking through ideas efficiently, where with a group each person is allowed to speak and others to respond. (page 235 Comm. 203 Wood) When you understand that each individual with get the opportunity to voice their thoughts, it is important to remember that some group members may have more to say than another individual. This may show that some group members are suppressing their thoughts or that the stronger opinions, may encourage conformity. This certainly would not be beneficial to the group and would not fall into the category of strength...
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...The Group and Organizational Dynamics class helps a person step back and look at themselves and others. It allows a person to look at different task functions, group versus individual decision-making, motivational patterns and conflict. It helps a person step back and observe the content of certain situations and then attempt to see how the process of the content unfolds. When working with a group, a person is going to have to deal with conflict and how to use task functions to process that conflict within that group. As a leader or individual, you will have to insert different aspects of motivation to lead and maintain a group. This reflects what type of a leader that individual wants to be or how that individual can adapt to the group. This includes adapting to new additions within the class and understanding our own personal work dynamics. Group vs. Individual Decision Making When trying to get a task completed there are positive and negatives when deciding to do a task as a group or as an individual. In a group, there is more than one person that works together to complete a task. A group will have different opinions and personalities that will form different decisions to complete the task. There are benefits to working as a group because everyone in the group and not just one individual makes the final decisions. A group must have a leader. If there is not a leader, there is no clear direction and the task will take longer to complete. As an individual, the individual...
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...MARKETING FOR MANAGERS (MKTG5009) TRIMESTER 3 2015 Individual buying behaviour vs Group buying behaviour ASSIGNMENT 1 ROBIN KARUMBA STUDENT ID: 18331141 WORD COUNT: 1450 EXCLUDING REFERENCE Introduction The consumer buying behaviour varies from one customer to another. (Graves 2013) states that it is difficult understanding human emotions effect on the buying decision process yet because we humans have very similar neural wiring we tend to make similar mistakes what he calls ‘mind gap’. This is what leads us to walk out of a shop believing we bought what we wanted. This study will attempt to understand behavioural difference between individuals and group consumers based on influence from various environmental factors. This raises the need for consumer behaviour analysis using a nominated product buying decision process. In this research I’ll use my past experience in the purchase of a laptop for university purpose and a large quantity of laptops for an organisation I worked for. This document this will be categorised into individual and Organisation buying decision process The Individual Analysis * Understanding the customer: influences Personal and Social To get an accurate individual analysis, it is important to understand the consumer demographics and background that influences the decision process. The Organisation * Understanding the customer: influences Buy class and product type The organisation is a multinational food and beverage industry...
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...Us vs Them: The Obstruction Of Community In many history classrooms at schools there are posters hanging up of kids glaring at each other and on one side it says Us and on the other it says them. Teachers correlated key events in history to show the devastation a mentality of “Us vs Them” would bring. The most common “Us vs Them” situation that teachers would bring up is The Natsis vs The Jews, Hitler divided the people of Germany apart making the Jews seem as threat of the other side. This was the beginning of school teachings that taught kids that the division between two groups is problematic. After just like the famous Maya Angelou once said, we are all more alike than we are unalike. Teachers would ramble on correlating historical conflicts...
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...Length: Learning outcomes: 9 am 18 November. 2012 30% of final mark Individual write-up and video with a group component via Moodle forum. 1 minute video (avi or mp4 format) (no video = no marks) 800 (+-10%) words report (not including bibliography or Moodle forum) Not respecting the word count will result in a reduction of 5 percent of the total value of this assessment. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Task: Dr. Fons Trompenaars has developed a model that describes countries from a cultural perspective using 7 dimensions. Advertising agencies use these dimensions to understand their target audience better and tailor their advertisements based on these dimensions. Advertising agencies from abroad do not always understand the culture of this region. You, as an advertising consultant, have been asked by your manager to analyse the Gulf Arab audience using some of the dimensions of this model and develop a 1 min video to sell a product or service of your choice to the Gulf Arab audience based on its cultural make up. You need to write a report that justifies the communication you have used to sell the product or service to the Gulf Arab audience based on your research on the cultural make up of the Gulf Arab audience on the dimensions: Universalism vs. Particularism, Neutral vs. Affective, Achievement vs. Ascription and Individualism vs. Collectivism. Your company has asked you to set up a virtual discussion group as a resource for this project to familiarise yourself with Trompenaars’ Model...
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... 9 am 12 May, 2013 30% of final mark Individual write-up, video and a group component via Moodle forum. 1 minute video (mp4 format) (no video = no marks) 800 (+-10%) words report (not including bibliography or Moodle forum) Not respecting the word count will result in a reduction of 5 percent of the total value of this assessment. Not respecting the video file format will result in a zero grade for this assessment. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Task: Dr. Fons Trompenaars has developed a model that describes countries from a cultural perspective using 7 dimensions. Advertising agencies use these dimensions to understand their target audience better and tailor their advertisements based on these dimensions. Advertising agencies from abroad do not always understand the culture of this region. You, as an advertising consultant, have been asked by your manager to analyse the Gulf Arab audience using some of the dimensions of this model and develop a 1 min video to sell a product or service of your choice to the Gulf Arab audience based on its cultural make up. You need to write a report that justifies the communication you have used to sell the product or service to the Gulf Arab audience based on your research on the cultural make up of the Gulf Arab audience on the dimensions: Universalism vs. Particularism, Neutral vs. Affective, Achievement vs. Ascription and Individualism vs. Collectivism. Your company has asked you to set up a virtual discussion group as a resource for this project to familiarise...
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... 9 am 12 May, 2013 30% of final mark Individual write-up, video and a group component via Moodle forum. 1 minute video (mp4 format) (no video = no marks) 800 (+-10%) words report (not including bibliography or Moodle forum) Not respecting the word count will result in a reduction of 5 percent of the total value of this assessment. Not respecting the video file format will result in a zero grade for this assessment. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Task: Dr. Fons Trompenaars has developed a model that describes countries from a cultural perspective using 7 dimensions. Advertising agencies use these dimensions to understand their target audience better and tailor their advertisements based on these dimensions. Advertising agencies from abroad do not always understand the culture of this region. You, as an advertising consultant, have been asked by your manager to analyse the Gulf Arab audience using some of the dimensions of this model and develop a 1 min video to sell a product or service of your choice to the Gulf Arab audience based on its cultural make up. You need to write a report that justifies the communication you have used to sell the product or service to the Gulf Arab audience based on your research on the cultural make up of the Gulf Arab audience on the dimensions: Universalism vs. Particularism, Neutral vs. Affective, Achievement vs. Ascription and Individualism vs. Collectivism. Your company has asked you to set up a virtual discussion group as a resource for this project to familiarise...
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...Hofstede's framework was originally comprised of four dimensions. The first dimension - individualism/collectivism - is widely acknowledged as a defining element of culture. In individualistic societies people are expected to look out after themselves, whereas in collectivist societies there is a greater emphasis on group welfare and loyalty. Individualists value independence and self-expression, and tend to believe that personal goals and interests are more important than group interests. In contrast, collectivists tend to view themselves as members of an extended family or organization, place group interests ahead of individual needs, and value reciprocation of favors and respect for tradition. The second dimension - uncertainty avoidance - represents the extent to which people feel uncomfortable or threatened by ambiguous and uncertain situations, and thus create belief systems and institutions in order to promote conformity. Societies with higher levels of uncertainty avoidance place greater value on security (e.g., financial, social), feel a greater need for consensus and written rules, and are intolerant of deviations from the norm. In contrast, individuals with low uncertainty avoidance rely less on written rules and are more risk tolerant. A third dimension - masculinity/femininity - refers to the extent to which a society embraces predominately male or female values. A masculine society places greater value on success, money, and personal accomplishments, whereas a feminine...
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...the human growth associated with each life cycle group. There are eight age groups while each has its own stage of development and related tasks. The first age group is infants and the related stage of development is trusts vs. mistrust. This development task is related with a given age group to provide attachment and bonding. The rest age group is of early childhood and the stage of development includes Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt. This development task, for this group is to have potty training and self-maintenance. Subsequently, the next age group of schooling includes initiative vs. guilty and the related development tasks are academic success, making friends, social competency and friendship....
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...Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole.[1][2] For many the term usually refers to Christians and churches belonging to the Roman Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See.[3] For others it refers to the churches of the first millennium, including, besides the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East.[4][5] And for others again it refers to "adhering to the catholic faith as it has been inherited from the earliest Christians ... seeking to restore the faith and order of the primitive church",[6] as claimed by the Anglican Communion, various Lutheran churches,[6][7][8] and other Reformation and post-Reformation churches.[9][10] The Catholic claim of continuity is based on, among other factors, Apostolic succession, especially in conjunction with adherence to the Nicene Creed.[11] In the sense of indicating historical continuity of faith and practice, the term "catholicism" is at times employed to mark a contrast to Protestantism, which tends to look solely to the Bible as interpreted on the principles of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation as its ultimate standard.[12] It was thus used by the Oxford Movement.[13] This contrast, however, is not so clearcut for Anglican theologians such as Alister McGrath: "Anglicanism is not...
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...shared equally. Some Asian countries are large power distance and western countries are small power distance. Uncertainty Avoidance: When a society has threat from ambiguous and uncertain situations, they try to through providing a safe job, setting up more formal rules and beveling experts’ assessment to avoid uncertain situations. Using weak or strong to describe uncertainty avoidance. Strong uncertainty avoidance is characterized by intolerance for behaviours and ideas that deviate from the norm. Collectivism vs Individualism: The extent to which people define themselves as autonomous individuals or members of groups. An individualist society is a loose organization of social structure. People just care about themselves and their immediate families. Collectivism societies are characterized by a strict social structure. People have their own group and want to get help from group, at same time members put emphasis on groups and be loyal to group. Femininity vs Masculinity: The distribution of emotional roles between the genders. A masculine society has social values such as competitiveness, assertiveness, self-confident materialism, ambition and power. A feminine society has different social values such as nurturing sympathy for the disadvantages, quality of life, friendship and harmonious environment. Time orientation: First called “Confucian dynamism”, it describes societies’ time horizon. Long term oriented societies attach more importance to the future. They foster...
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...Culture 1. Introduction to Culture 2. How culture affects managerial approaches 3. Trompenaar’s Cultural Dimensions 4. Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions 5. Cultural challenges when entering a new market 6. Pros and Cons of entering a new market with an adapted/standardized product 7. Characteristics of culture 8. Conclusion 9. Values in Culture 10. Value Similarities and Differences across cultures Introduction to Culture There is no doubt that the international marketing process do face a large set of variables as it take place over different countries and it does act in different environments. One of the most determinant environments to the success of the international marketing process is Culture, which hold the reason for many human acts and behavior. Reaching to that point international marketer should study deeply culture treaties of a country the company is planning to act in. so that special amendments in the organization overall plans and actions is made to act in accordance with the new market variables The role of culture in international business and marketing Culture is a distinctive element of international marketing. While factors besides culture are present, culture could be a key determinant of most overseas relationships. Researchers agree that exchange processes within business networks can only be understood by conducting studies in different countries and cultures. For example, studies...
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...Trompenaars & Hampden-‐Turner – Cultural Dimensions Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-‐Turner have developed a model of culture with seven dimensions. There are five orientations covering the ways in which human beings deal with each other.: 1. Universalism vs. particularism (What is more important, rules or relationships?) Universalism vs. particularism describes how people judge other people’s behavior. The Universalist attaches great importance to the observance of rules. The behavior tends to be abstract. In universalism, rule-‐based, societies there are certain absolutes that apply across the board. They apply regardless of circumstances or particular situations. What is right is always right in every situation and for everybody. A Universalist tries to apply the same rules in all situations. To remain fair a universalist will not make differences between people from the narrow environment, such as family, friends...
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