To learn more about your peers, what two quantitative questions and two qualitative questions would you put on a survey and which measurement scale(s) would you use? What might you be able to infer about the data you would collect?

http://www.mymarketresearchmethods.com/types-of-data-nominal-ordinal-interval-ratio/

Resources:

• Communication Research Methods Activity. Attached at bottom but not completed
• Communication & Ethics sections of your textbook attached at bottom
• Information and Communication Technologies from the World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/ict/overview#1

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper on special issues in communication.

Discuss the following in your paper as they relate to communication:

• Diversity
• Ethics
• Technology

Include how these issues relate to each other. For instance: how do gender differences affect communication? How does technology affect communication between different cultures? Does diversity affect ethical decisions? How does technology affect ethical decision making?

Identify the research approach typically used for each issue by filling out the University of Phoenix Material: Communication Research Methods Matrix.

Cite at least three references from University Library.

Format your assignment according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

Prepare a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation on special issues in communication to complement the paper.

Include a summary of the matrix in your presentation.

• For Local Campus students, these are oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft^®PowerPoint^® presentations.
• For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®presentations with notes.

Submit your paper, presentation, and matrix to the Assignment Files tab.

In this assignment, you get the chance to create your dream job and to build its compensation plan and appraisal performance.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Create a job description and specifications for your dream job.
2. Design a compensation and benefits package related to your dream job.
3. Rationalize your compensation and benefits package. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the compensation and benefits package.
4. Imagine this is the only position of its kind in the organization. From this perspective, design a performance appraisal program to assess your job performance.
5. Rationalize your performance appraisal program. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the performance appraisal program.
6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
7. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
   3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Discuss job analysis, job descriptions, and specifications.
• Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of employee compensation programs.
• Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

(A person really does not need to be interviewed)

Choose a manager to interview with whom you are familiar—ideally, someone whom you admire and aspire to emulate. Ask her or him for some time—perhaps you can sit down for coffee—during which you can describe your course learning objectives and discuss what you have so far taken away from the class (in brief) Ask the manager what insights she or he has to offer to you at this point in your career.

The goal of the interview is to gain insight into what makes a good manager from the perspective of someone in a management position. Some topics to touch on in the interview could include the following:

• How did your interviewee come to be a manager (i.e., what career path she or he followed)?
• Has your interviewee found that professional certifications, volunteering, and continued education are important factors to career development?
• What has surprised your interviewee most about what it means to be an effective leader (as opposed to the popular view of what a successful leader is and/or does)?
• What roles are played by managerial goals, objectives, decision-making, and communication on the job?
• How does the interviewee handle change management at his/her organization and what specific challenges has she or he encountered?
• What advice does your interviewee offer to someone in your position and with your short- and long-term goals?

At the close of the interview, be sure to thank your interviewee for her or his time and assistance!

Note: Any documentation resulting from personal interviews by CSU-Global students are for the sole purposes of fulfilling a course assignment and will not be used as part of a larger study, published, or distributed outside of the course environment.

Research and Reflection Paper

In the next phase, ruminate on what you learned in your interview—especially anything that helped you to gain a deeper insight into the topics you studied in the course—and write a research and reflection paper in which you draw upon learning shared with your instructor and colleagues, your individual learning, and knowledge you have gained from the interview to demonstrate a more in-depth understanding of the foundational principles of management. In your paper, go beyond recitation of memorized facts or regurgitation of information; strive to synthesize the most important topics of management (i.e., leadership, personality, motivation, decision-making, communication, and the importance of good management to yourself and to society) into a hybrid research and reflection paper.

Your paper should integrate responses to each of the following questions in a well-organized and coherent paper:

• What leadership precepts did your interviewee impart to you (or what can you glean on the topic as a result of your interview), and how do those dovetail with one or more of the modern theories of leadership?
• How do the personalities of workers, colleagues, managers, and subordinates impact your performance in, and experience of, the workplace? How do they interact with one or more leadership models to create the most effective work environment?
• In light of your interview, the leadership model(s) you’ve discussed, and your own personality, what one or two tenets of motivation theory have you taken away from the course?
• How do your understandings of motivation theories impact your conceptions of the best practices when it comes to making decisions and communicating at work?
• Based on your interview and on learning from this course, what does it take to be an effective employee, a successful manager, and an exemplary citizen of society?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• 8-10 pages in length in addition to the title page and reference page
• Formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
• Cite at least three scholarly sources, at least one of which is not provided in, or linked from, the course, to support your assertions and strengthen your arguments. The CSU-Global Library is a great place to find these sources!