Your Professional Development Plan and Positive Social Change
In your Final Project, you will reflect on what you and your colleagues accomplished over this term and how it has prepared you for academic success and meeting the professional and academic goals you had in mind when you enrolled at Walden. As a member of the Walden community, you are motivated to effect positive […]
Understanding Academic Integrity and Plagiarism As A Psychology Professional
As you have progressed through this course, you have learned the importance of developing your scholarly voice, you have learned about critical thinking, you have practiced paraphrasing, and you are beginning to understand the importance of crediting the sources of ideas and of presenting the literature in your own words. You are still at the […]
Leadership and Employee Satisfaction
Leadership is an important topic in organizational psychology and one that you will revisit in Week 7 and throughout the rest of your program. As you may know from personal or professional experience, good leadership can inspire employees to work together to achieve organizational goals, while poor leadership can demotivate and demoralize employees, and derail […]
Motivational Theories and Models
Think for a moment of a recent example of when you were particularly motivated at work. What drove your motivation? Was it the possibility of a reward or recognition? Was it the satisfaction of completing a difficult task or the opportunity to learn something new? You can probably think of a handful of factors that […]
Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism
Read the four scenarios presented below and, for each situation, determine whether the student has plagiarized. 1. John has not had time to work on his online assignment on psychological theory. He found a website that has an article with the content he needs to complete his assignment. However, he has only 30 minutes before […]