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Facing Overhead Agencies Discussions

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Discussion 1: External Groups: Working with Legislatures, Overhead Agencies, and Special Interest Groups

Legislatures, overhead agencies, and special interest groups have a tremendous amount of influence over public and nonprofit organizations. Therefore, it is particularly important that public and nonprofit managers learn how to work effectively with external groups while maintaining the integrity of their organizations.

In this Discussion, you explore challenges related to working with legislatures, overhead agencies, and interest groups, and consider ways to overcome these challenges.

For this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources. Think about how legislatures, overhead agencies, and interest groups influence the operations of public and nonprofit agencies. Then, think about strategies you might use to address challenges related to working with your chosen external group.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a description of at least two challenges related to working with external groups such as legislatures, overhead agencies, or special interest groups; explain why they are challenges. Then, explain how you might address these challenges as a public or nonprofit manager. Be specific.

Note: Indicate in the first line of your post whether you chose to discuss challenges related to working with legislatures, overhead agencies, or special interest groups. You will be asked to respond to the posting of a colleague who discussed an external group that you did not.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources .

Discussion 2: Cultural Competence in Public Administration

Working with external groups is often a central responsibility of managers and leaders in public and nonprofit organizations. This responsibility takes diplomacy, relationship management skills, and cultural competency to be able to communicate effectively with diverse groups that exist within networked governance structures.

The changing demographics globally, nationally, and regionally, will require public sector and nonprofit organizations to develop more culturally competent managers and leaders. Cultural competency reflects certain cultures, communication, and policies within an organization that enables it to more effectively serve its diverse populations.

For this Discussion, think about how you would communicate with external groups as a leader or manager and how you would demonstrate cultural competence in your communication with external groups.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 two examples of how communicating with external groups is essential to working within a networked structure. Provide an example of how you would demonstrate cultural competence with external groups in order to develop strong collaborative governance structures.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources and other current literature

READINGS

  • Cohen, S., Eimicke, W., & Heikkila, T. (2013). The effective public manager: Achieving success in government organizations (5th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
    • Chapter 11, “Communicating with the Media, Stakeholders, and the Public” (pp. 233–260)
  • Northouse, P. G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publications.
    • Chapter 15, “Gender and Leadership” (pp. 403-429)
    • Chapter 16, “Culture and Leadership” (pp. 433-471)
  • Beckwith, S. L. (2006). Publicity for nonprofits generating media exposure that leads to awareness, growth, and contributions [electronic resource]: Chicago, IL: Kaplan.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

    • Chapter 1, “What Do You Want to Accomplish?”
    • Chapter 2, “What’s Your News?”
    • Chapter 3, “What Do You Want to Say?”
    • Chapter 4, “To Whom Will You Say It?”
  • Haque, S., & Pathrannarakul, P. (2013). E-Government towards good governance: A global appraisal. Journal of E-Governance, 36(1), 25–34.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
  • Johnson III., P., & Bonnego, E. (2009). Public administration and the increased need for cultural competencies in the twenty-first century. Adminstrative Theory and Praxis, (M. E. Sharpe), 31(2), 206–221.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
  • Klijn, E., & Koppenjan, J. (2012). Governance network theory: past, present and future. Policy & Politics, 40(4), 587–606.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
  • Rice, M. F. (2008). A primer for developing a public agency service ethos of cultural competency in public services programming and public services delivery. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 14(1), 21–38.
    Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
  • National Center for Cultural Competence (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2014, from http://nccc.georgetown.edu/index.html

 

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week. Facing Overhead Agencies Discussions

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score. Facing Overhead Agencies Discussions

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

Facing Overhead Agencies Discussions