Challenges to cross-cultural research are ample and significant. Pragmatic issues may preclude long term immersion in the culture due to financial issues or lack of sufficient time. Additionally, translation issues may make it difficult to achieve a one–to-one correspondence on questionnaire items used in multiple cultures and languages. Additionally, there are often delicate negotiations across gender, age, status, religious, and economic backgrounds that can involve power and privilege in ways that require careful and appropriate discussion to resolve ethically and to preserve the integrity of the research, researchers, and research participants. As you move forward in your future professional work, take the time to consider the challenges researchers face in light of growing need to further understand the diverse cultures in the world at large. You will find that this type of research will be critically important to further your professional growth and knowledge.

Post and explain three major challenges to conducting cross-cultural research. Then, suggest one way to solve one of the challenges.

In discussing domestic violence, it is important to note that most men in this country aren’t abusive. The question emerges, however, of the role that non-violent men have in preventing violence against women.

Rus Erin Funk, author of Stopping Rape: A Challenge for Men, writes “I want to see men come together to discuss these issues, and to plan how to dismantle this system of domination and control that keeps men in a position as victimizer or threat. That is our, men’s work…We have the ability to create a world where all women, children and men are safe from the threat of men’s violence.” (Funk, 1993, p. 129)

For the purposes of this discussion topic please complete the following:

1. Watch the video: Violence against Women: it’s a Men’s Issue:   http://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue
2. Click on this link to hear spoken word artist Dasan Ahanu read his poem Can I, which he wrote while conducting sexual-assault awareness and education training with men in Durham,N.C.:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6367602&sc=emaf
3. Locate a web site of your choice that provides information about men’s efforts to stop violence against women.
   1. Post the web site address or create a link so that others may access the information if they desire.
   2. Provide a brief summary of the information located at the site.
4. Respond to the following question:
   1. What role do non-violent men play in helping to prevent domestic violence? Please explain.
5. Use proper in-text citations and references

Reference: Funk, R.E. (1993). Stopping rape: A challenge for men. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers.

Consider an organization that you have some familiarity with. This may be an organization where you currently work. Or, it may be one where you have worked in the past. Use this week’s threaded discussion to evaluate the impact of emotional intelligence on organizational behavior and workplace effectiveness in your selected organization.

Here are a couple of questions to help get you started.

What is the impact of one’s emotional intelligence on how they make decisions in an organizational setting?  Why is this important to consider and discuss?

Based on your analysis of emotional intelligence, assess the likely outcomes of organizational behavior as compared to workplace effectiveness. Why are these two ideas important to consider and discuss?

HEALTH INTERVENTION PROJECT TERM PAPER

The assignment is to propose a health intervention project that addresses a key health need. This will be in the form of a written paper due at the end of the semester. You may wish to have your intervention fall within one the key leading health indicator areas specified by the US government, below. Other areas are OK as well

Length=no more than 8-10 pages total(around 2000-2500 words), double spaced, Times New Roman font. Please use ASA citation style at http://lib.trinity.edu/research/citing/ASA_Style_Citations_4.pdf or

http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf

Elements of the Project:

Title Page: title of paper, author’s name, course #, date of submission, and word count

Specific Aims: state the relevance of the research problem and need for intervention.

Significance and background: State the desired action and intervention target group or population(s) For example, decreasing cigarette smoking in teens; increasing immunization compliance for toddlers, healthy physical activity in seniors with diabetes, or other goal and population.  Provide background and prevalence data about the problem and the group, critically evaluate existing knowledge and studies about the group that identify the need for your intervention project.

Theoretical Perspective: Describe the perspective(s) that guide your project, define the key concepts, and explain how using more than one perspective can strengthen your project design.  For example, the health belief model can be applied to interventions aimed at decreasing smoking, or improving immunization compliance, or increasing activity in people with diabetes. Other perspectives can be used as well, depending on topic and populations.

Intervention Design and Methods: Describe the intervention design and the components of the intervention.  Your discussion of the intervention should address the following: describe intervention (for example, an education program on effects of cigarettes, a pediatrician comes to discuss childhood diseases to Head Start parents’ group, cooking class on making healthy foods), define the population, location of the study, number of groups, sample sizes, recruitment procedures (how will you get people involved?) human subjects protections.

Describe how you will know your interventions worked (Evaluation). Describe the key process or outcome measures and how they will be operationalized (i.e., what data will be collected, questions asked, etc.). For example will, you ask people what they thought about your program? Survey, interview, focus group? Will you give them a quiz to see if they learned the material? Or will you look at outcomes? (e.g., did they smoke, get vaccinated, lose weight, decrease blood sugar level?)

Time line

Estimated budget

References in ASA Style

Utilizing the textbook, government websites and outside scholarly sources, students will: examine a social welfare policy of their choice and provide a written analysis of the existing policy in the chosen areas. Students will conduct extensive research surrounding this problem, including material from the textbook, updated information from websites, sources provided in footnotes (from the text), media sources, political leaders’ writing, websites, and public statements. Must be written in apa format. (1800 words and reference pg)

1. Discuss the type of policy you have selected – Give the name of the policy and discuss what type of policy it is (i.e., residual, universal, cash benefit, means-tested etc.).
2. Discuss how the policy helps to reduce social, economic, or environmental injustice in the USA?
3. Discuss the history of the problem addressed by the policy

D. Discuss when and how the policy was developed (i.e., what existed before the policy and how and when the policy became what exists today by giving a timeline). E. According to research What is working with the policy and what is not working (discuss both the positive and negative outcomes of the policy)F.   In your opinion, what changes should be made to the policy to improve its effectiveness.