Assignment 3 (20 points) This is similar to Assignment 2. However, instead of a case you will select an OD topic for your presentation. Topics can be: Managing Change, Transformational Change, Appreciative Inquiry, Talent Management, Consulting as a Management Practice, Workforce Diversity and Wellness, Team Building, Story Telling, Motivation, etc.
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TEXT CRITIQUE Purpose: To analyse one of these well-known articles and identify its major attributes 1. Robert Kagan, 'Power and Weakness,' Policy Review, 13/2, June/July 2002 2. Charlmes Krauthamer, ‘The Unipolar Moment’, Foreign Affairs 70,1 (‘America and the World’ 1990/91) 3. David Dunn “Isolationism Revisited: Seven Myths in US Foreign Policy”, Review of International Studies, Volume 31, pp. 237-261, April 2005. Task: Read one of the above articles and provide a brief analysis of it (maximum 400 words) to the e-tivity 3 Forum. An article analysis is an opportunity for concise and critical reflection on the detractions, merits, and implications of your chosen article. This analysis should reflect on how other authors have thought about this topic, you should reflect on your weekly reading posts to aid you in this task. Then proceed to the respond section Respond: In the e-tivity 3 Forum please post comments on the analyses provided by other students by way of illustrating there are multiple approaches to understanding the same text. Consider such issues as whether you agree with the analysis provided by others, or whether other students have focussed on different aspects, or drawn different conclusions. Comment constructively in no more than 400 words on how comparing these interpretations have helped improved your own understanding and your own original view of the article.
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OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION Orographic or relief rainfall is caused when masses of air pushed by wind are forced up the side of elevated land formations, such as large mountains. The lift of the air up the side of the mountain results in adiabatic cooling, at an adiabatic lapse rate of 3.5°F for every 1,000 feet of ascend and ultimately condensation and precipitation. In mountainous parts of the world subjected to relatively consistent winds (for example, the trade winds), a more moist climate usually prevails on the windward side of a mountain than on the leeward (downwind) side. Moisture is removed by orographic lift, leaving drier air (see Foehn) on the descending (generally warming), leeward side where a rain shadow is observed where temperatures warm up at the same rate of 3.5°F for every 1,000 feet of descend. With that in mind, what would the temperatures be at the following parts of the mountain both on the windward and leeward sides of the mountain? ELEVATION TEMPERATURES °F 0 FEET
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