Examine 3 motivational theories in depth, as you write a 4–5 page speech demonstrating to an audience of I-O psychologists how to evaluate an employee's current workplace scenario. Suggest techniques to motivate the employee based on his or her individual characteristics. Instructions: imagine you are a motivational speaker scheduled to give a keynote speech at an industry conference of I-O psychologists. Your plan is to discuss current motivational theories for the workplace, evaluate one of those theories, and apply it to an audience member who has volunteered to come up on stage. Your goal is to demonstrate to the audience how to evaluate an employee's current workplace scenario and suggest techniques that might be used to motivate the employee based upon his or her individual characteristics. Preparation Choose 3 of the following motivational theories to research for this assessment: Goal-setting theory. Control theory. Action theory (Rubicon theory). Self-regulation. Maslow's need theory. Reinforcement theory. Vroom's VIE theory. Equity theory. Instructions Write a 4–5 page speech that addresses the following: Introduce yourself and the topic you are to address. Briefly explain at the 3 motivational theories you researched for this assessment. Simulate a short question-and-answer interview with a hypothetical audience member who raises his or her hand in response to your query, "Who in the audience feels unmotivated in their current job?" Construct the information you need to make a proper decision on what motivational theory to apply to the particular situation. Include the audience member's job title, work responsibilities, attitude toward management and coworkers, stressors, and professional goals. Analyze the relevant attitudes and motivations of the hypothetical employee based on the information you collected above. Apply two motivational techniques from the literature (for example, contingent rewards, job enrichment, or feedback) in the context of the characteristics of the situation. Suggest an action plan to be considered by both the employer and employee to increase motivation. Be sure to apply research findings to support your discussion. Discuss why these motivational techniques are appropriate choices and what the desired outcomes might be. A minimum of 4 scholarly resources. See Assessment page for further instructions and Scoring guideline

OverviewAccording to a report by the AAC&U, the list of desired skills offered by employers includes critical thinking, ethical judgement and integrity, intercultural skills, and the capacity for continued/new learning. One of the most effective ways to achieve these skills is to cultivate habits of reading widely and regularly, and then thinking critically about what you read. These reading habits should include keeping up with important current events and problems. In fact, one of the traits found in common in a study of successful people was "a passion and dedication for reading (Links to an external site.)" (Wu). Warren Buffet, for example, once suggested reading 500 pages a day in order to continue to grow and succeed! For the assignment you are working on now, you are researching multiple sources in order to cultivate rhetorical reading/thinking, as well as composition skills for engaging the writing of others. In order to develop your skills in intercultural communication, diversity, ethical judgement, and integrity, you must read outside of your own narrow political, social, religious, and/or cultural position. In fact, you should seek out as many different perspectives as possible, keeping an open mind, weighing and evaluating evidence using critical thinking. Though this assignment focuses specifically on reading, exposure to new ideas and seeking out new knowledge in the 21st century is, like composition, often multimodal. Podcasts, Youtube channels, and web resources provide a wide variety of material and perspectives you can use to expand your worldview and build knowledge. Cultivating habits of reading, fostering knowledge and expanding the mind will help ensure you have the desirable skills that employers want from college graduates. Process and InstructionsFor this assignment, you will reflect upon how you can cultivate habits of reading and the mind that will help you to hone your skills in critical thinking, ethical judgement and integrity, intercultural communication, diversity, and a continued desire to learn new things. You will reflect upon what you have read in the most recent past, how it has helped you to learn and develop the skills discussed here, and if/how you can improve your habits of reading and the mind in the future. Steps for completing this assignment:Review the key findings of the survey "It Takes More Than a Major (Links to an external site.)" by the AACU (Links to an external site.). (Accessible Version)Reflect upon your habits of regular reading. Think about where you get information, how you get information, the social, political, and/or cultural context in which you seek out information, and how much time you spend reading outside of school/work on a weekly basis. Think about what you are gaining or losing due to your reading habits. Compose a discussion post of 200 words in which you describe your reading habits, as well as mention specific things that you have read in the last week. In your post, you should also discuss how your reading habits are or are not helping you attain the general skills desired by employers, as well as how you can continue to hone these skills or change your habits in order to gain them. List a few specific things you can do to ensure that you cultivate a habit of reading widely in order to foster critical thinking, intercultural communication, ethical judgement, integrity, and a continued desire to learn. You may also consider multimodal sources of knowledge-gathering and truth-seeking, such as podcasts or blogs/vlogs, that you seek out (or will in the future) in order to continue learning and expanding your mind outside of school or work.Once you have posted your discussion, you will see those of your peers. You will then leave a comment on one of your peers' discussion posts. You must compose your own post in writing, but you may leave audio or video comments for your peer. Remember that your response to a classmate should be meaningful--you should ask a question, follow up on an idea, contribute a new idea or way of thinking, explore a new perspective, connect to your classmate's idea, answer a question, and so on.

The answers to the following questions can be used as a basis for parts of your Project submission. Keep these questions in mind as you continue to learn about the artifact of human creative expression that you chose to analyze. After thinking about the two to three artifacts you were interested in at the end of learning block, choose one artifact that you will plan to study further during this course and use as the focus for your two projects. Compile your responses in a Word document, being sure to answer each of the five questions below, before submitting your work. Identify your chosen artifact.  Describe the artifact in detail using any applicable senses mentioned in the overview. What are the elements of the artifact that you believe are most important to how you experience it? Does the choice of medium impact your experience? State your opinion on what you believe is the purpose of this artifact and the success of the creator in achieving the purpose. Discuss how the artifact reflects the culture (or context) in which it exists. Be sure to address what aspects of culture have relevance for this artifact: politics, history, religion, social perceptions, technology, media, education, and so on. In other words, how do the artifact and its culture interrelate Rubric Attached