Emotional Intelligence (EI) focuses on understanding the emotions and attitudes of others. To manage relationships effectively, we need to not only understand ourselves, but also increase what we know about others. EI emphasizes four key competencies for leadership success:

 

• Self-awareness–the ability to understand our own emotions and how they impact others
• Social awareness–the ability to understand the emotions of others
• Self-management–the ability to think before acting
• Relationship management–the ability to build rapport with others

 

Grasping the realities of organizational behavior begins with an understanding of personality and behavioral tendencies. Case Study 1 is designed to address issues pertaining to the emotions, attitudes, and job satisfaction of others. Read the “Trader Joe’s” case study on page W-99 in the back of your textbook to examine how emotions, attitudes, and job satisfaction influence decision-making.

 

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

 

1. Examine the approach Trader Joe’s uses to promote a positive work environment for its employees. Determine at least three (3) ways in which Trader Joe’s is able to increase job satisfaction and performance.
2. Determine how Trader Joe’s uses the management process (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) to develop its employees.
3. Suggest two (2) ways that leaders can effectively manage relationships in general by using the four (4) EI competencies.
4. Recommend at least three (3) leadership practices that Trader Joe’s could implement in order to increase the competitive edge of the organization. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Analyze the relationship between the basic organizational behavior models of individual, group, and organizational processes and the productivity of an organization.
• Explore how individual differences, personality traits, and perspectives impact the productivity of an organization.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational behavior.
• Write clearly and concisely about organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics.

Ancient World Renaissance Humanities class I need a 750 word minimun paper of:

 

Compare and Contraste / Similarities and differences of The Satires and Poems of Horace and those of Juvenal

Assignment 3: My Cohort Paper

The concept of a cohort or generation is central to understanding the life span perspective. People who are born during the same ten- to fifteen-year period share a historical context and are often categorized as similar along multiple dimensions. Understanding your own cohort, as well as other cohorts born during different periods, helps you understand how to most effectively provide human services to your population of interest.

Tasks:

Write a 2- to 3-page reflection paper and discuss the shared experiences of members of your cohort. Your paper should be based on your personal experiences as well as research on your generational cohort. Additionally, you may choose to include information and examples from other people who are members of your cohort (e.g., friends, roommates, and classmates). The goal is to present an accurate and well-rounded overview of your generational cohort. Some topics to consider in your paper are:

• Major historical events that shaped your development
• Attitudes toward diverse cultural groups
• Attitudes toward gender roles
• Ideas about music and artistic expression
• Attitudes toward military service
• Typical family constellation
• Attitudes toward education and work

How does your cohort’s worldview differ from the worldview of someone twenty years younger and twenty years older than you?

Submission Details:

• By Wednesday, June 24, 2015, prepare a 2- to 3-page reflection paper. Your response should rely upon at least two sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Save your paper in a Microsoft Word document with the name M1_A3_LastName_FirstInitial.doc, and upload it to the M1 Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Submitted a well-written document addressing all the assignment requirements and discussed and shared the experien

Assignment 1 – Digital animation

Due Date: 5pm, Thursday of Week 7. Worth 20%

 

This assignment will test your Flash-based digital animation skills and is worth 20% (Type A) of your overall course mark.

 

Objectives

This assessment task examines the following Learning Outcomes and Attributes:                                           

Knowledge:

K2. Relate multimedia design methodologies to the lifecycle of a multimedia project;

K4. Relate legal and ethical concerns to a multimedia project and associated wider society;

Skills:

S1. Reproduce a multimedia design from a set of specifications;

S2. Select and apply appropriate multimedia approaches to solve a real world design;

S3. Outline issues of ethical and legal natures which may impact a multimedia project;

S4. Select and appropriate multimedia tools to author a product.

Values:

A1. Select appropriate design principles to design multimedia products that align with client and project expectations;

A2. Operate appropriate software packages to build multimedia products that align with client and project expectations.

 

 

DIGITAL ANIMATION

This assignment requires you to develop a simple digital animation using Adobe Flash.

In the Assignment 1 section of Moodle there is a zip file named “digital_animation.zip” that is available to download – when unzipped this will produce the following files:

 

• Ten (10) images of digits (0.jpg to 9.jpg). These images will be used for your student number in the animation specified below.
• An Ass1_Sample.swf file showing a sort of animation. However, please note that you need to note that the animation in the sample file is based on a very different specification; so, you are required to follow the specification given below.

 

The animation must incorporate the following images:

·         An image of yourself – it can be whatever image you like (eg. You on holiday, at the beach, at university, etc), but must include yourself. This image will be used as a background image (in step a and b below).

·         An image ofyour home town. This image will be used as a background image too (in stepsb, c, d and e below).

·         The images of the digits provided to make up your student number (in step c below).

·         An image (different to that used for steps a & b) of yourself that you can select your head (from neck up) and cut it out to create a new image. Your image must be neatly cut out from its original photo.When you cut yourself out and save the image, the background should be fully transparent. You will have to save it in a correct file format for it to be successfully shown against the background in Flash.(in step f below).

 

Before you begin, keep these requirements in mind:

o    The animation must be 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels high, with a blue background (#0000FF) for the stage, and run at 15 frames per second.

o    Each layer in your Flash file should be named appropriately.

o    Each event must be displayed for a minimum of 2 seconds and a maximum of 3 seconds. For example, entering an animating image into the stage and leaving should take between 2 and 3 seconds.

o    Each event should overlap with the previous event (Except for the first step (step a) where your own image fills the screen). Starting at step b, as one image leaves the screen, the next image should be entering the screensimultaneously.

o    The animated sequences for this assignment must be tweened using the techniques shown in the lab classes (motion, shape and guide). Frame-by-frame animation will not be accepted.

o    All number images used throughout this whole animation must fill the screen exactly with no overlap and perfectly fit the 800px by 600px stage area. Feel free to stretch and skew images to fit.

o    Make sure that your text is using a font that is easily readable and if it overlaps the self-image picture make sure that it is highly distinguishable against the image.

 

 

 

 

 

Sequence of the Animation:

a.     The animation should start with the image of yourself (on-screen); it needs to be initiated from a locked width/height ratio (e.g. width of 50px) and scaling up to fill the entire window (800px by 600px) at the end of the first three seconds.

b.    The image of yourself needs to be fading out and be replaced by fading in image of your hometown. This image needs to be static as the background for the point ‘c’ below.

c.     According to the sequence of the digits in your student number, each image of the digits provided needs to enter the stage from a different corner or edge (i.e., top, bottom, left, right, top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right) while the other image leaves from another corner of edge (i.e., top, bottom, left, right, top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right). Make sure you use different variety of positions for entering and leaving the stage.

o    In these animations, you need to incorporate each of the following features at least once (each animation should only do one of these):

§  Fading in,

§  Fading out,

§  Performing a double clockwise rotation to roll on the screen,

§  Performing a triple anti-clockwise rotation to roll off the screen, and

§  Tween easing.

§  Tranformations (skewings, shrinkings, enlargements etc).

o    One of these above features must be incorporated for each digit. However, overall all of these features need to be demonstrated at least once in their animation.

d.    After animating the last digit of your student number, you need to use a text based representation (not images) of the digits in your student number in sequence ‘bounce’ across a path on the background image ofyour home town screen. You must use motion guides, and clever positioning so that the digits appear to ‘interact’ with the background image (e.g. bouncing off & around objects). Be as inventive as you wish here but make sure that your numbers clearly show out opposed to the background image. Your numbers must be 50pt in size and can be of any readable font style.

e.     Next, the image of your home town should shrink and change into a 5 sided pentagon shape before leaving the stage. This requirement of the assignment is worth 4 marks overall, so please spend some time on it. You must use a shape tween to achieve this effect. (hint: you can’t shape-tween a symbol!)

f.     The animation should end with a screen showing the static cut-out photographic image of yourself in an appropriate position – on the left or right. This image must have been cut out neatly from the original photograph and only show yourself. You will have to use some form of transparency and save it in a correct file format for it to successfully show against the coloured background in Flash. This image must not occupy more than half of the screen.

o    Finally, the roll of the credits! Have the following text entering  from an appropriate position (the opposite side to your photograph position) on the screen showing:

§  An acknowledgement of your lecturer & tutors.

§  Your student number;

§  Your name;

§  A motivational phrase (including an acknowledgement of the author).

o    Image and credits should remain stationary on the screen for last 5 seconds.

 

You need to provide a table specifying the layout of your design. The following table provides an example for the type of information that is required to be included:

 

Time	Animation
0-3 seconds	Animation starts with image of myself at a 50px width with aspect ratio locked. By three seconds it zooms in to fill the screen.
4-6 seconds	The image of myself fades out, as the image of my hometown fades in.
7-9 seconds	The hometown image remains on screen, as the image of my first digit in my student number “3” moves in from the top-right corner while performing a double clockwise rotation.
Etc…	Etc…

 

 

All students
Must submit both the saved .fla and published .swf files, as well as their table in a document specifying the timing layout. (ITECH5004’s document includes the above as well)

 

The sample solution illustrates an example of the animation based on different specifications. It is just to give you an idea of the Flash Animation. Please refer to your specific requirements.

 

 

 

Submission and marking process

 

Create a single zip file containing all of the files required for your submission (check requirements above). Submit this as a compiled zip file for Moodle submission.

 

Assignments will be marked on the basis of fulfilment of the requirements, and the quality of the collage & animation.

 

In addition to the marking criteria, marks may be deducted for failure to comply with the assignment requirements, including (but not limited to):

• incomplete documentation
• incomplete submissions (e.g. missing files)

 

Refer to the Course Description for details of the policy on marking of late assignments. Any applications for extensions or special consideration should be made as early as possible, and in all cases prior to the deadline for submission.

 

The marks distribution is explained on the next page.

Assignment 01 – Digital animation

 

Student name: Student ID   :

Requirement	Weight	Mark
Flash Animation
A table specifying the layout of the animations	4
Appropriate 2 starting images (yourself & hometown) Appropriate credits image (head cutout with transparency)	2 2
Correct animation properties	3
Appropriate use of angle/edges for enters/leaving the stage	4
Images entering and leaving the screen simultaneously Overall design& creativity	2 3
The completed image animation incorporates each of the following features at least once:
Initiating tweening from a locked width/height ratio (e.g. width of 50) and scaling up to fill the entire window,	2
Fading in,	1
Fading out,	1
Performing a single/double clockwise rotation to roll on the screen,	1
Performing a triple anti-clockwise rotation to roll off the screen,	1
Tween easing.	1
Transformations (shrinking, enlarging, skewing etc)	1
Shrinking and changing the background image into a 5 sided pentagon	4
Creative and appropriate use of text animation over background image (motion guide)	4
Credits – all requirements met	4
Total		/40
Penalties
Layers must be named appropriately or lose up to 4 marks	-4
.fla, .swf (at least .fla needs to be present for marking. -2 if not)	-2
Additional Requirements (ITECH5004 students only)
Advanced Flash techniques	10
Report on methods used to create animation	10	/20
Assignment mark total		/40(1004)       /60 (5004)
Contribution to unit mark (out of 20%)		%

 

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