1. Watch Pinchbeck’s 30 min intro to How Soon is Now? and read the Intro to the book itself. Are you excited to read this book? Why or why not?2. For this week’s discussion forum, one of your paragraphs should be on Part I of Daniel Pinchbeck’s book How Soon is Now?

3. Your reading response this week needs to be on the Northcott readings, but you can choose either “Losing and Finding Sacred Place”, or “Food Sovereignty from Joshua to La Via Campesina” to focus on (but not the Intro chapter). These chapters are dense and difficult, but also marvelous and illuminating. I would not worry about summarizing a whole chapter because that would be impossible. But try to focus on one major developed theme in either chapter, for example, Northcott’s reply to White’s criticism of Christianity in connection to the idea of sacred place, or his forging of a link between Ancient Hebrew agricultural values and practices and the contemporary La Via Campesina movement being two examples. As usual, when focusing in your RR feel free to do some additional research, or following-up on Northcott’s sources.

At the end of December 2015, Facebook had an average of 1.04 billion daily active users, 934 million mobile daily active users, more than 70 languages, 125 billion friend connections, and over 205 billion photos uploaded every day, including 30 billion pieces of content and 2.7 billion likes (Facebook, 2015). Over the years that has created new pathways for social and cultural dynamics across the globe. With managing so much data, personal data, comes significant responsibility. Responsibility you would think would not come unnoticed when managing a technology company with this volume of user data.

•       So, how did Facebook and specifically Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook’s founder and Chief Executive) get the data privacy issue wrong?

•       Could Mark have foreseen this type of issue from the onset in creating Facebook?

•       What approaches should Facebook take to correct the data management issue?

For Reference you can also use this article to gain additional perspective:

1. Watch Pinchbeck’s 30 min intro to How Soon is Now? and read the Intro to the book itself. Are you excited to read this book? Why or why not?2. For this week’s discussion forum, one of your paragraphs should be on Part I of Daniel Pinchbeck’s book How Soon is Now?

3. Your reading response this week needs to be on the Northcott readings, but you can choose either “Losing and Finding Sacred Place”, or “Food Sovereignty from Joshua to La Via Campesina” to focus on (but not the Intro chapter). These chapters are dense and difficult, but also marvelous and illuminating. I would not worry about summarizing a whole chapter because that would be impossible. But try to focus on one major developed theme in either chapter, for example, Northcott’s reply to White’s criticism of Christianity in connection to the idea of sacred place, or his forging of a link between Ancient Hebrew agricultural values and practices and the contemporary La Via Campesina movement being two examples. As usual, when focusing in your RR feel free to do some additional research, or following-up on Northcott’s sources.

EXAM 1

Please answer 2 of the following essay questions. The exam is open book/open notes. Your answers must reflect your own work and you may not discuss the exam or your answers with anyone else. You must integrate multiple aspects of the course in each answer and across all of your answers (readings, class discussions, etc.).

1. What does it mean for people to have individual differences and why is this important for your understanding of organizational behavior? Discuss some aspects of your personality and how it affects you at work and what you are doing about it. Are certain personality traits better or worse than others? Why/Why not?

• How and why do emotions and biases positively and negatively influenced behavior in the workplace? How have/will you incorporate crucial conversation principles to be more effective at work?

• Discuss one area of Emotional Intelligence where you are relatively strong and one where you are relatively weaker. Why is Emotional Intelligence important to your professional relationships and how are you incorporating this into your professional development?

• How and why is trust important in the workplace and what have/can you do to build trust? How trusting are you? Discuss a situation where you need to repair trust and your efforts/plan for doing so that illustrates effective methods to repair trust.

• Discuss several basic theories/principles of human motivation and how they relate to your experiences. What are some mistakes that you/others frequently make when attempting to motivate others and how have/will you avoid these?

• Discuss what it means for someone to be engaged with versus identify with their work/organization? Why should managers and organizations care and how can they use these concepts in mutually positive ways?

In your final workshop activity, you will add to your social action proposal. You will summarize what you have learned in this workshop about demographics, populations at risk, and diversity in your community or organization. Your Demographics and Impact section of the proposal should succinctly interpret the data that you have collected. It should also identify opportunities and barriers for engaging diverse communities in your change effort.

This activity is your opportunity to demonstrate that you have carefully considered the impact of power, diversity, and difference and that you have fully assessed structural and institutional support and barriers that might affect your efforts.

Instructions

1. Write a summary of community needs, demographics, and the impact of demographics on your social action project proposal. Cite relevant census data and other locally available data. Your summary should be in narrative form and address the following prompts:
   1. Describe the demographics of your community or organization, including specific demographic data impacting the social problem that you identified for your social action proposal. At a minimum, you should identify population size, major demographics data (gender, race, education, and income) in the community, and median age.
   2. Interpret the meaning of the demographic data. How does this relate to your project?
   3. Identify populations at risk that may be served by your social action project.