Required Reading

Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (2016). Understanding human behavior and the social environment (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

• Chapter 11, “Psychological Aspects of Young and Middle Adulthood” (pp. 499-548)

Social scientists who study human behavior have developed theories that attempt to explain what drives an individual’s choices as well as what environmental factors influence individual human behavior and how they influence it. One theory on human behavior you may be aware of is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow (as cited in Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2016, p. 505-507) stated that individuals first strive to fulfill their basic physical needs. Then, the individuals, as long as they are successful at each stage, continue through a hierarchy of needs, obtaining each until they reach the self-actualization stage of self-fulfillment. For this week’s assignment, you focus on another theory of human behavior—Glasser’s choice theory.

To prepare for this Assignment, consider what you learned about choice theory in this week’s resources as well as what you learned about the person and environment as it relates to young and middle adulthood.

Submit a 3 to 4-page paper that answers the following questions:

• How does choice theory explain the human behavior of individuals in the young and middle adulthood phases of the life span?
• How might you, as a social worker, incorporate components of the choice theory into your work with individuals in the young and middle adulthood phase of the life span?
• Do the human needs that Glasser identifies in his choice theory reflect the experience of individuals across cultures? Why or why not?

Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to use the required reading in your paper and provide full APA citations for your references.

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From the beginning of this course, you’ve learned how an integrative bargaining approach to a negotiation is preferable when the parties want to preserve a relationship. In our project scenario, Michelle wants to continue working at the call center, and more importantly wants to maintain the good working relationship that she has cultivated with her boss, Nikki. Neither party wants the schedule dispute to derail that relationship. Nikki knows that Michelle has started bad mouthing her to the other employees because she thinks that Nikki’s approach to scheduling people based on seniority was a lazy rather than fair. Michelle’s emotions were running high when she did this, but unfortunately the remarks started to damage Nikki’s reputation as being a good supervisor. As a result, the relationship between the supervisor and employee is now strained.

For this final part of the project you will address the following questions in your paper:

1. Analyze and discuss the critical role of reputation, trust, and fairness as it pertains to this situation.
2. After meeting and discussing the issue, the two women were able to work out a schedule for Michelle that would solve her daycare issues and would be fair to the other employees. Now that the issue has been resolved, based on your readings, synthesize a plan for how the two women can work towards rebuilding their relationship.

In your paper, follow standard mechanics in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

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