...Identify the formal and informal roles of the group. Why is it important to understand these roles in professional practice? As defined in the text the formal and informal roles are scapegoat, the quiet member, the defensive member and the monopolize. Out of all of all of these I think that the scapegoat is the hardest roles. Taking the blame for something can be very hard to do especially when you are in a group. I am more of a defensive member in a group setting. It is important to understand these roles in order to be able to understand a group and each individual person contribution to the group. What are the 5 major tasks of the group as defined in the text? According to the text the five major tasks are the relationship to the leader,...
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...ROLE ANALYSIS: SOME DEFINITIONS WHAT IS A ROLE? A Role is defined as the “position an individual occupies in a organization, and is identified by the functions and activities he/she performs, in response to the “expectations” of “significant members” in the organization and organizational requirements. WHO IS A ROLE OCCUPANT? The individual who occupies that role is called the Role Occupant. WHO ARE ROLE SET MEMBERS? “Significant members” are those members with whom the Role Occupant has a direct relationship with, which leads them to have certain expectations from the Role Occupant. These ‘significant members’ are called the Role Set members. HOW DOES ROLE ANALYSIS HELP? The process of analyzing the role is termed as a Role Analysis exercise. In a Role Analysis exercise, the role being analyzed is called the Focal Role. A Role Analysis exercise reduces role ambiguity, role conflicts, individual stress and general dissatisfaction from the Role Set members. WHAT ARE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES? KRs are broad group of activities that reflect the main contribution of the Role to the organization and its members. It is more developmental and value added in nature, and spans a long-term horizon. It is therefore defined by what the person can do, based on his/her own assessment as well as those of role set members, who feel the role occupant can perform, with support and training. WHAT ARE ROUTINE RESPONSIBILITIES? RRs are those activities, mainly of a maintenance type...
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...Graduate Studies Division Case #7 ROLE FUNCTIONS Statement of the Problem PCSO The lateral transfer of an employee from a Technical Department to one of clerical was a challenge. The job item is technical in nature but the assigned work was more of monitoring, consolidating and organizing of vital documents. Having been used to doing system procedures in the computer with paperless works for more than a decade was a complete turnaround when transferred to a new division, who caters to numerous papers for processing. The transfer was a result of organizational change, but there were no proper turnover of the assignment. Stacks of contracts were piling up, no proper data was given, no specific function and job responsibility, in totality everything is unclear. However, the main function is to organize and consolidate, match data with the branches’ data under Visayas, which is the role the management expected the employee to fulfill and perform. There is however a confusing part as to what and where to start. In addition, another workload was given by the Branch Head to generate technical reports needed by the Visayas branches and head office Manila, which is supposed to be the main corresponding function of the employee in relation to his position. But because of the abundant pending contracts to be processed with so little time to organize, a conflict of which should be prioritize is a problem. It is a choice between the job assignment assigned by the Office of...
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...Role schemas are defined as the norms and expected behaviours of a specific role in society. It also goes into say that the roles and expectations associated with these categories are often referred to as stereotypes. When Cady first comes to the high school she is met with The Plastics, Cady then goes on to say how she if from Africa. Karen who is referred to as the dumb blonde says “so, if you’re from Africa, why are you white?” In this clip, Cady’s background does not fit into Karen’s pre-existing schema of what African natives look like. Another example of role schemas is when Cady, Janice and Damian first meet and talk about where to sit in the cafeteria. Janis goes on to say, “Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because you got...
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...Running Head: GENDER ROLES 1 Gender Roles Cindy Rohwer SOC 312 Yelena Gidenko November 2, 2013 GENDER ROLES 2 Our children are the leaders of tomorrow. That is why it is imperative that they are raised with care and understanding. Most children today are raised by parents with certain social expectations of them depending on their gender. If they happen to be boys, they are expected to be outgoing, mischievous, and always in the mood to get dirty. Since this is the boys’ expectations, the girls are expected to be the total opposite. Girls are expected to be dainty, pretty and nice. If these standards could not be met, then the child would probably be reprimanded. It is my belief that parents and teachers should stop enforcing these gender roles on their children because gender roles do not let the children find out what they like or want to do. It limits the children’s creativity, and makes children feel like outcasts, when...
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...Gender Roles and Responsibilities Portrayed in the Media Ivy Tech Community College Ashley Stires Professor Jessen February 12, 2014 * Topic came from Chapter 15 on Media ethics in advertising and how businesses use advertising to attract certain groups of consumers. Thesis When you think of the picture perfect family, what comes to mind? Is it a mother and father where the father works and the wife stays home that the media portrays? Or is it the realistic family that either both parents work hard for an income or the mother is taking on more the aspects of being the provider and the father is the housewife. Even though times have changed and women are starting to be the bread winners and responsibilities for men and women are flip flopping. Then why does the media still portray this perfect housewife image that the mother stays home, cooks, cleans, and takes care of the kids. Or the father is works twenty-four seven and when he is not working he at the gym or doing “manly” things like working on a car and getting all dirty. The media is presenting an image of our lifestyles that each male and female are supposed to live up to throughout their daily lives. Not just appearance, it is everyday responsibilities that have been genderized, as to who is supposed to do the yard work, or cook, or even clean. Commercials and paper advertisements, especially cleaning and food advertisements, are using stereotypical images to portray specific gender roles and responsibilities...
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...XXXX Sociology 101 XXXXXX How I Handle Role Conflicts and Role Strains Life has never been easy since my family and I moved here from the Philippines. I practically left my very easy and comfortable life there. Before, I'm just a plain college student, asking my allowance from mom, dropped off to school by dad and my brother even helped me with my school works. But everything changed when we lived here. I need to stop schooling and to sustain our everyday living; all of us need to work. With that situation, I don’t get to see them a lot often because we don’t have the same days off. I’m always left alone at home when they’re at work and at the early age of 18, I’ve already learned to be independent. I’m a working student and the roles I portray are difficult. They may be stressful and have conflict sometimes but I’m making ways to make it all easy for me. I work at a Filipino fast food 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I need to wake up at 5:00AM just to be ready for work. It’s always busy at the store and it makes me very tired when I get off. But I still need to prepare for school. I need to do my home works for my two evening class. I really need to cope up with all of those school works because I don’t want to fail any of my classes. To tell you honestly, being a working student is such a strain for me and most of the people who are sharing the same situation as mine. Actually, before I entered school, I’ve already asked one of my coworkers to give me a tip on how to...
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...In today’s day and age, the fact that gender roles exist is undeniably true. Throughout history, women’s roles in society seem to be secondary to men. It is socially common to see a women’s job as completing household duties, in comparison to a male’s breadwinning role. Culture forms what some consider as masculine and feminine social norms of behavior, and differ in physical and emotional differences. Whether through family or the work place, females are more constricted by conventional gender roles. The existence of conventional gender roles between men and women, have changed over time, however, a level of social expectations to conform to the limitations of gender roles remain, which guide the idea of what some may believe to be a...
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...When attempting to explain the role of diversity in any subject there must be a realization that it most likely will not come down to one factor. There are many factors that involves the role of diversity such as race, gender, religion, culture and some many others. In America, diversity is rich and allows for many different points of views, creations, and interpretations. When discussing the arts in the 20th century, this remains to be true. So also, when discussing the role of women and their influence on the various arts. At the turn of the century things began to change for women. They gradually developed in to more active social roles such as education in the arts. Art schools began to accept more women thus opening the doors to more diversity in the art world. Now there would be a woman’s point of view in painting, photography, sculpting architecture and so on. One great example of an extremely successful woman of the arts is photographer Margaret Bourke-White. She was first woman to work for life magazine, the first photographer allowed to take pictures of the Soviet Industry, and the first woman to be permitted to photograph in combat zones. Ethnic minorities also played a big role in their influence of the arts. One such artist is painter Willem De Kooning. He was influential as an abstract expressionist painter. Born form the Netherlands he came to the U.S. in 1926. Critics would debate whether or not his painting in the 80’s were a bold new change in direction or...
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...Between men and women, there is a concept that exists called gender roles. Gender roles are the expectations given t each man and woman that outline how they should act. An example of this, to state clearer, is a man acting more assertive and a woman acting more nurturing. With these roles also comes something identified as gender stereotypes; Gender stereotypes are fixed ideas about what men and women do. For instance, saying that all men are the breadwinners and all women are housewives. Although these terms are seemingly quite similar, actually, they’re quite difference. Gender roles (although) they link with how men and women are supposed to act, they are respectful explanations describing men and women. They do not offend, unlike gender...
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...The TV show that I watched was an American sitcom called “The Bing Bang Theory”. The show is about five friends Raj, Sheldon, Lenard, Wallowitz, and Penny. In one of the episodes Sheldon sees women as slaves. Because we were created to help men, and also because women give birth. Sheldon made her assistant uncomfortable when he found out that his assistant was interested in his friend Lenard who happens to be dating Penny. In another episode, Sheldon thinks women play a small role in the entire world, when his girlfriend tried to answer a scientific question he has not been able to solve for days. Gender roles I would say are extremely stereotypical in this TV show. Sheldon who is a Scientist sees himself as the most intelligent person on earth because he was 11 years old when he was in college. When Sheldon made his assistant comfortable by the slave remarks, she reported him to the HR who was a woman and there Sheldon felt like the HR job wasn’t given to the right person. Seeing this is drew my attention on how women have been seen and treated since the beginning of time. In the other episode Sheldon was so upset when his girlfriend was able to solve a scientist question he has not been able to do for day. When she solved the question, he felt like women were taken over the science world and made the remarks that when she marries and gives birth her brain wouldn’t be able to function well. This also made me realized that, women are not seen as smart as men. After watching...
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...Denise Robinson Crystal B Manboard English 1301-069 28 January 2015 Misunderstood To be misunderstood is the most frustrating thing a human being can experience. When we speak we want people to interpret what we are saying correctly, not only that but we want to get our point across clearly. The talent of writing well helps us to do that, writing is a great form of expression. You will not only be getting your point across but you will also be showing the Audience who you are. One of enjoyable aspects of developing a paper is the audience. Who is going to be consuming this paper? Will it be your classmates, your professor, readers of a blog or all of the above? This is a grand opportunity to get out of your comfort zone and expand your vocabulary and speech. You wouldn’t talk to a professor in the same manner you would with a classmate. So it gives us a window of finding common ground. You have the chance to use this one paper to bring the mindsets of three different types of people and bring them to the same understanding. With that being said, not only will you want to think of the verbal communication of your audience but you will also want to keep their background in mind. Where are they from? What are their beliefs? Where do they stand on certain issues? This just goes hand and hand with understanding someone. You are given, or you have to figure out these context clues of a person so you can know what the best way to reach them is....
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...Six Common Roles in the Workplace By: Charqweshia Tucker Teamwork is becoming more common in the workplace, more and more companies are utilizing the concepts of teamwork or group dynamics. The two words are similar with different meanings, teamwork can be referred as "a group of people working together in a group" and group dynamics can be referred as "individual roles and interactions". There are more roles that are played in the workplace outside of a leadership role. The roles can be formal or informal and can be played by one or more members. During my research I found six common roles that are played in the workplace, which include: the agenda setter, the cheerleader, the critic, the gatekeeper, the joker and the leader. The Agenda Setter The Agenda Setter is "who regularly puts new ideas and issues on the table" (pg. 136). This role is important within a group because this role is responsible for providing an agenda and supporting materials ahead of time. By doing so it will help maximize the time that the group has to ensure that everything is covered in a timely manner. This role can be done by The Leader but it will make things run smoother if an Agenda Setter is assigned. According to the textbook, The Agenda Setter is very important and most meetings cannot survive without one (pg. 137). The Cheerleader The Cheerleader is "who encourages any sign of progress"(pg. 136). This role can be played by one or more people at a time. "An effective Cheerleader...
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...Throughout history, the role of Chinese women has changed dramatically. In ancient times women were mutilated with painful foot bindings and forced to marry men of their family’s choosing at very young ages. Today, Chinese women have received world-class educations alongside their male counterparts and command high power roles in business, politics, the sciences and other industries. Chinese men and woman now work side by side in most modern Chinese cities, however; this trend does not hold true for women living in rural Chinese villages. Gender roles in modern China have come leaps and bounds from where they were in ancient times, yet women in rural China still follow traditional guidelines. Women in China have worked hard over the past century to reach where they are today. The change in gender roles was sparked by China’s republic years. During this time, women in large cites were able to seek formal education and even travel to the west to receive it. Communism, although a questionable form of government, ended the distinction between men and women and finally allowed women to break out of their defined gender role. Women stepped up and took positions of political power and for the first time received influences from outside cultures. New laws have been enacted calling for equality in education, marriage, and rights, but a large group of women do not receive these benefits. Women in rural Chinese villages do not see the advances in gender roles that women in the city...
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...Gender Role Analysis The roles of gender in today’s society vary according to history, one’s personal biases, environment, and society’s input in education, government, and the workplace. History has shown that gender roles have made great strides of accomplishments in roles that were once very similar in each area of life; particularly the role of females in that they were considered to be the property of men and played the role of the helpmeet, which was a biblical term that was taken to what is considered extreme in today’s U.S. culture. Through various social movements throughout history gender roles have changed greatly. Those changes that were affected by such social movements caused great opportunities and advancement for women and minorities in education, government, and the workplace. Social Movements From the beginning of this nation women did not have the same rights as men and were considered to be more of a second class citizen. In the early years of this nation, women along with minorities were considered the property of men. Women were not permitted to be educated in most cases, did not count as a citizen, could not vote, could not own anything, could not enter into contracts, obtain credit, work without her father or husband’s permission and could not even receive a paycheck in her own name. Social movements have made great impacts on gender roles in society throughout history. From social movements in the beginning of this nations’ history such as...
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