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Importance of the Research Topic
Bernerth, J. B. (2020). Does the narcissist (and those around him/her) pay a price for being narcissistic? An empirical study of leaders’ narcissism and well-being. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-14.
The author discusses whether the narcissist undergoes a cost for being narcissistic by utilizing leaders’ narcissism. The author explores the existing relationship between leaders’ narcissism and subordinates’ and leaders’ well-being at the group and individual levels. The author finds the leaders’ narcissism as negatively concerning leader-member exchange, which relates to subordinates’ emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. The article also describes that leaders’ narcissism is negatively concerned with perceived self-worth, job satisfaction, and identification. The article is from a reliable source and is recent; this ensures its credibility for research information. I will use the article as part of the background of my literature review to show the importance of my research topic to scholars.
Brailovskaia, J., & Margraf, J. (2019). I present myself and have a lot of Facebook-friends–Am I a happy narcissist! Personality and Individual Differences, 148, 11-16.
The authors provide detailed information on being a happy narcissist through having many Facebook friends. They highlight that Facebook use has turned out to be a part of daily life. The article further explains that the high popularity of Facebook is by being associated with a specific personality and subjective well-being traits. Hence, the authors found an active Facebook use essential positive association with narcissism and subjective happiness. The article is recent and reliable; this ensures its credibility for research. I will use the article in the introduction of my research proposal to demonstrate the importance of the topic to the general public, especially to show why narcissistic people are intensive active Facebook users.
Rogoza, R. (2018). Narcissist unmasked. Looking for the narcissistic decision-making mechanism: a contribution from the Big Five. Social psychological bulletin, 13(2), 1-25.
The author describes narcissists to examine the mechanism of narcissistic-decision making. The author highlights that the rivalry concept and narcissistic admiration is a narcissism model that disentangles its dark and bright sides by developing rivalry and admiration strategies. The author further explains that even though it presents the narcissist functioning and is promising, there is limited information concerning the trigger mechanisms to give illustrations of how the rivalry and admiration strategy is chosen. The article is recent and from a reliable information source; hence it is a credible information source for my research. I will use the article to show the significance of my research topic to the general public and scholars in developing a narcissistic decision-making model.
Narcissism and Antisocial Behavior
Alexander, M. B., Gore, J., & Estep, C. (2021). How need for power explains why narcissists are antisocial. Psychological reports, 124(3), 1335-1352.
The authors describe the need for power as a possible mediating factor existing between antisocial behavior and narcissism. The authors carried out two research where; the first study involved undergraduate students as participants. The authors found that there was full mediation by the need for power in the interconnection between aggression and narcissism. Using adults in the second study, the authors found multiple narcissism forms positively related to criminal behavior. The article is from psychological reports, a reliable information source; this ensures its credibility. I will use the article to examine the theme of narcissism and antisocial behavior in my proposal’s literature review.
Jones, B. D., Woodman, T., Barlow, M., & Roberts, R. (2017). The darker side of personality: Narcissism predicts moral disengagement and antisocial behavior in sport. The Sport Psychologist, 31(2), 109-116.
The authors detail the personality’s darker side. They describe that narcissism predicts antisocial behavior and moral disengagement, especially in sports. The authors explain a lack of literature concerning the exploration of personality based on undesirable behaviors. They further explain that narcissism is negatively based on empathy and positively based on entitlement feelings; narcissists can behave antisocially and disengage morally. Hence, the authors detail that the indirect effect is essential in controlling sport type and motivational climate. The article’s recency and reliability make it credible for research. I will use the article to discuss narcissism and antisocial behavior in my proposal’s literature review.
March, E., Grieve, R., Wagstaff, D., & Slocum, A. (2020). Exploring anger as a moderator of narcissism and antisocial behaviour on Tinder. Personality and Individual Differences, 161, 109961.
The authors examine Tinder to investigate how anger moderates’ narcissism and antisocial behavior. Thus, due to a lack of literature concerning online antisocial behavior and narcissism, the authors applied the threatened egotism and aggression theory. They further discussed from the findings that anger was an essential moderator of every relationship between antisocial behavior and narcissism. Specifically, the article details that at high and average levels of anger, there existed considerable positive connections between narcissism and harassment, and aggression facets on Tinder. The article is recent and reliable; this makes it a credible information source. I will utilize the article to describe narcissism and antisocial behavior theme in my proposal’s literature review.
Narcissistic Traits
Nenadić, I., Lorenz, C., & Gaser, C. (2021). Narcissistic personality traits and prefrontal brain structure. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9.
The authors provide detailed information on narcissistic traits and the prefrontal brain structure. They highlight that narcissistic traits have been connected to functional and structural brain networks such as the insular cortex. The authors fail to observe any reliable links to specific facets of NPI (Narcissistic Personality Inventory) narcissism. In addition, the article provides new evidence concerning a relationship between narcissistic traits and variations in insular and prefrontal brain structure, overlapping past narcissism-related phenotypes, and functional studies such as social dominance. The article is recent and from a reliable source, thus credible as an information source for research. The article will be essential to me in discussing narcissistic traits in my research proposal’s literature review.
van Schie, C. C., Jarman, H. L., Huxley, E., & Grenyer, B. F. (2020). Narcissistic traits in young people: understanding the role of parenting and maltreatment. Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation, 7(1), 1-10.
The authors discuss narcissistic traits in young individuals. They highlight that heightened narcissism in young individuals typically contributes to mental health and interpersonal challenges strengthening the urge to understand its accompanying. The authors associated remembered overprotection from fathers and mothers with grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic traits. Hence, remembered childhood incidents of being overvalued and overprotected were related to higher pathological narcissism traits in young individuals. The authors further explain that these traits may emerge during treatment in the patient-therapist association. The article is from a reliable and current source, which ensures its credibility as an information source. I will use the article to demonstrate narcissistic traits in my research proposal.
van Schie, C. C., Jarman, H. L., Reis, S., & Grenyer, B. F. (2021). Narcissistic traits in young people and how experiencing shame relates to current attachment challenges. BMC psychiatry, 21(1), 1-10.
The authors describe how shame experience may contribute to grandiose and vulnerable pathological narcissism associated with positive and negative internalized models of others and self. They explain that young individuals having pathological narcissistic traits may contain many maladaptive strategies for relating with others and themselves. Also, the article discusses that young individuals having vulnerable narcissism traits struggle to become close to other people and show more shame. In addition, the authors detail higher grandiose narcissism traits as being associated with more self and other positive models. The article’s recency and reliability ensure its credibility. The article will be helpful to me in discussing narcissistic traits in my research proposal’s literature review.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Ronningstam, E. (2020). Internal processing in patients with pathological narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder: Implications for alliance building and therapeutic strategies. Journal of Personality Disorders.
The author describes the internal processing of various patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN). The author highlights that PN and NPD have fundamentally been recognized by noticeable external features like a condescending or critical attitude, attention seeking, and superiority. The author further explains that there has been the provision of valuable information by current research on neuropsychological that can provide therapeutic interventions for PN patients. Also, the author illustrates that internal processing in NPD or PN patients is mainly influenced by factors such as reflective ability and compromised emotion tolerance and processing. The article’s recency and reliability ensure its credibility as an information source. In my research proposal’s literature review, I will use the article to describe narcissistic personality disorders.
Weinberg, I., & Ronningstam, E. (2020). Dos and don’ts in treatments of patients with narcissistic personality disorder. Journal of personality disorders, 34(Supplement), 122-142.
The authors provide detailed information on what to be done and avoid during treatments for narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) patients. The authors identify various guiding principles in successful psychotherapies of NPD patients, such as anticipating challenges in maintaining and developing the treatment alliance and assisting patients in recognizing the direction and goals of their therapies. They also provide cautions against several typical pitfalls, such as directly challenging the patient’s grandiosity, overindulging the patient’s grandiosity, and being involved in a power tussle with the patient. The article is recent and from a reliable source, thus a credible information source. I will utilize the article to describe narcissistic personality disorder treatment guiding principles in my research proposal’s literature review.
Yakeley, J. (2018). Current understanding of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. BJPsych advances, 24(5), 305-315.
The author explores present narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and narcissism understand. The author reviews various historical contributions to the NPD and narcissism conceptualization, such as its development as a clinical diagnosis occurring within mental disorders’ DSM classification. The article also discusses the etiology and epidemiology of NPD. In addition, it presents difficulties in managing patients with notable narcissistic traits and summarizes the psychological therapies particularly developed for NPD patients’ treatment. The article is current and from a reliable source; this makes it a credible information source. The article will be helpful to me in describing narcissistic personality disorder in my research proposal’s literature review to offer a background to my research topic.
Possible Methodologies
Day, N. J., Townsend, M. L., & Grenyer, B. F. (2020). Living with pathological narcissism: a qualitative study. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 7(1), 1-14.
The authors conducted a qualitative study to describe the experiences of individuals with pathological narcissism. There were 2219 participants in the survey, where the researchers implemented a conservative data screening technique to ensure only appropriate participants for the research. The participants were required to fill in survey questions to provide information for the research. For instance, the authors questioned relatives of individuals with notable narcissistic traits to explain their relationships; former and current romantic partners. The article is current and reliable; this makes it a credible information source. The article will help me illustrate qualitative methodology in collecting and analyzing data in my research topic.
HAN, S. (2020). Theoretical Interdisciplinarity between Psychological Marketing Practice and Woman’s Narcissism in Distribution Channels. Journal of Distribution Science, 18(12), 101-109.
The author uses a qualitative methodology to describe how psychological marketing practices can marshal narcissism in women by portraying scarcity and urgency. Thus, the author conducts a content analysis by collecting data from different sources such as EBSCO, ProQuest, EBSCO/EBSCO, and ABI/INFORM. The article explains that the author utilized a qualitative analysis as it is more concise and versatile. In addition, the article investigated manifest and latent narcissism themes and psychological marketing concepts in order to find solutions to be used by leaders in initiating organizational changes. The author finds that narcissistic women fail to accept other individuals’ feelings. The article’s recency and reliability ensure its credibility. I will utilize the article to show qualitative methodology in collecting data for my research topic.
Jauk, E., Ulbrich, L., Jorschick, P., Höfler, M., Kaufman, S. B., & Kanske, P. (2022). The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta‐analysis. Journal of Personality, 90(5), 703-726.
The authors conduct an individual meta-analysis to describe the nonlinen relationship between vulnerable and grandiose narcissism. They extend and replicate the findings in an individual meta-analysis that is preregistered utilizing data from FFNI (Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory) and NPI (Narcissistic Personality Inventory) HSNS (Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale). The hypothesis present in the FFNI is found by the authors to have strong evidence, while weaker evidence is observed in the NPI/HSNS. The article is current and from a reliable source; this makes it a credible information source. I will utilize the article to demonstrate meta-analysis as a possible quantitative methodology for analyzing data in my research topic.
Identification of the main problem and sub problems you are facing stores
Identification of the main problem and sub problems you are facing stores
The main problem in the above situation with reference to the store is inadequate employee satisfaction. This main problem has been essential in the generation of numerous sub-problems affecting the stores towards realization of the goals and objectives. One of the major sub-problems within the store is the rapid decline in the sales of the branch store in comparison to other branches within the company. This results to minimal role of the employees as well as their contributions towards achievement of the goals and objectives during the fiscal year. In addition, growing absence rate among the employees of the store is an illustration of another sub-problem relating to inadequate employee satisfaction. This sub-problem mainly associates with the sick leave. Moreover, the employees’ morale seems to be low thus leading to the reduction in the sales volumes within the store. Employees are also complaining about the lack of training and development programs aiming to boost the role and capability of employees in addressing the targets of the store. It is also vital to note that the store has a formal appraisal process for all the staff. Despite the existence of this program, the previous management failed to utilize the appraisal process towards determining the performance of the store and the twenty employees.
What are the HR practices that are mostly related to the above scenario? (Discuss)
There are various human resource practices in relation to the above situation. One of the effective human practices in relation to the above situation is employees’ training and development. Human resources management focuses on training employees towards enhancing their contribution towards the achievement of the goals and objectives. In addition, it is vital to note that training improves the output of employees towards achieving competitive advantage in the market and industry of operation. In the context of this store, employees complain about lack of training and development programs. This limits their output and adaptation to the environment thus reduction in the volume of sales in comparison to other branch stores.
In addition, human resource management focuses on the execution of appraisal process or program as an effective practice towards identification of the progress and deficiency in relation to the role of employees. Appraisal is one of the most effective human resource practices related to the above situation. The store has a formal appraisal process or program that undergoes inadequate exploitation for the achievement of the goals and targets. Additionally, the store has an annual survey program focusing on collecting and evaluating the opinions of the employees during the fiscal year. This is one of the forms of informal appraisal program as human resource practice aiming to enhance the operations and output of the store (Gherman,, 2012).
Another critical human resource practice is employee job satisfaction. This focuses on enhances of the morale of the employees towards the achievement of satisfaction as well as reduction in the employees’ turnover rate. Some of the motivational practices by the human resource management include increase in the wages, promotion of hardworking employees, execution of collective working environment, and improvement of the working conditions and environment for the increase in the output of the employees (Savaneviciene, 2013). These activities promote participation of the employees towards the achievement of the targets and mission as well as vision of the organization. Human resource management as well as best practices should focus on the implementation of such practices in the form of job satisfaction, motivation of employees, and appraisal of employees within the store.
What are the possible solution(s) to the problem(s) identified in this scenario?
It is essential for the human resource management to focus on the adoption and implementation of vital solutions to the problems. As the new manager at the store, I would focus on the integration of critical solutions towards curbing the main problem as well as sub-problems with an objective of improving the output of the employees within the store. One of the most effective approaches is to redevelop working conditions aiming to motivate employees towards the achievement of the mission and vision of the employees. This is through introduction of overtime payments and increase in the salary or wages to the twenty employees within the store (Ramona & Anca, 2013). This will be vital in the reduction of the number of employees’ turnover.
In addition, I would also integrate training program and process for the improvement of the ability and capability of the employees within the store. This is because of the need to increase the output or the sales of the store in comparison to other branches. Training and development are some of the best human practices aiming to increase the output of employees. Training has been missing in the store in accordance with the annual survey in which the employees complained about lack of substantive mechanisms towards offering effective training and development to the employees (Shaw et al, 2013). Integration of training would be ideal towards the improvement of the expertise and skills of the employees with the aim of increasing the sales volume within the stores in comparison to other branches.
Another potential solution to the problem is utilization of the formal appraisal program or process. This is vital in understanding the development and progress of the employees within the store. Appraisal is one of the most effective human resource management practices with the ability to enhance the operations and contribution of employees (Angel, 2008). Utilization of this approach will provide an opportunity for the new management to identify strengths and weaknesses of the employees with reference to the mission and vision statement of the store.
What would be your recommendation to the top management in order to sort out store’s problem(s)?
I would integrate several recommendations to the top management with the aim of sorting out the problems affecting the store. One of the most effective recommendations towards eliminating such problems affecting the store is the adoption and implementation of training program and process. This will contribute towards enhancing the ability of the employees with reference to increase in the sales volume as well as quality in service delivery to the consumers. The approach will also contribute towards the achievement of competitive advantage in the branch store. The second recommendation that would be ideal for the elimination of the problems affecting the store would be the development of an extensive policy towards handling absenteeism among the employees within the store. The policies will guide the new management towards handling of cases of absenteeism as well as improvement of participation of the employees in addressing the mission and vision of the organization.
References
Gherman, R. R., Dincu, A., & Hurmuzache, T. (2012). Human Resources Management–Increase Factor For The Competition Between The Companies From The European Market. Agricultural Management / Lucrari Stiintifice Seria I, Management Agricol, 14(2), 581-588.
Angel del Brio, J., Junquera, B., & Ordiz, M. (2008). Human resources in advanced environmental approaches-a case analysis. International Journal Of Production Research, 46(21), 6029-6053.
Savaneviciene, A., & Stankeviciute, Z. (2013). Relabeling or New Approach: Theoretical Insights Regarding Personnel Management and Human Resource Management. Engineering Economics, 24(3), 234-243
Shaw, J. D., Park, T., & Kim, E. (2013). A resource-based perspective on human capital losses, HRM investments, and organizational performance. Strategic Management Journal, 34(5), 572-589.
Ramona, T., & Anca, Ş. (2013). Human Resource Management – From Function To Strategic Partner. Annals Of The University Of Oradea, Economic Science Series, 22(1), 1682-1689.
Final Paper
Lauren Weston
Professor Spicer
COMM101
April 22, 2020
Final Paper
A problem we have in communication today is with the news media showcasing numerous negative stories. Many of these stories are often gruesome videos of people that should not be televised. Children are often around to see these inappropriate news releases because of the time the news is aired. Journalist’s greed for having the highest rating is detrimental to society. They think that having violent, ill-fated stories are better for the news stations ratings than having a more compelling positive story.
For instance, the Covid-19 pandemic is a perfect example. When we first heard about Covid-19, we didn’t expect it to be what it is now. I remember when I first heard about it, I didn’t think anything of it. I didn’t think it was that serious and no one else that I knew thought it would be either. As the days went by, I started seeing videos of people falling and dying in the middle of the streets in Asia. Seeing those events take place caused me to panic. I began to feel sick to my stomach. Certain things like this shouldn’t be shown to the public or shouldn’t be shown too often without some type of warning. I think that displaying images such as those creates a panic that sets in with the public. Everyone will start to freak out. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen talks about how she tracked the media coverage from January to February of this year in relations to the coronavirus. She said that they say, “killer virus” in about 50 articles and uses “fear-inducing language” (Wahl-Jorgensen, 2020).
Another thing they should consider before showing these images to the public is the constant updates of deaths instead of recoveries. This puts people into a shock and think that things are worse than what it is. The media doesn’t like to show people the positive things that are going on with the pandemic, but will only show deaths and how many people are affected. Meanwhile more than “300,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus” (Fink, 2020) and not a lot of people are shedding light to that except for Newsweek. Constant negative media makes people not want to watch the news at all and that leads to not being informed about what is going on in the world today and that is a problem.
It’s great to have information on what’s going on in today’s world, but we don’t have to be bombarded with negativity every time we turn on the TV. The news outlets have been showing frightening videos of the public since World War II. Showing men fighting for our country, to Hitler’s speeches, to people dying in front of the entire world during combat. Even in today’s society, they are showing outrageous images and video that they shouldn’t broadcast on tv or social media. For example, when people weren’t taking the coronavirus seriously, the media began showing videos of people passing out in the streets. I’ve seen multiple videos of people passing out from the corona virus on social media, but this particular one shows that a man in China was dead on the street (Wion, 2020). It’s nice that they covered his face but it’s still disrespectful to videotape a dead body without showing respect to the family.
Not only does it make the news seem like such a “negative Nancy” but according to Austin Perlmutter from Psychology Today, it “distorts our thinking” (Perlmutter, 2019). Being exposed to negative news all the time makes us only focus on the negatives which is something called the Negativity bias. According to Perlmutter, he says being exposed to the negative news, it “keeps us in a state of negativity” (Perlmetter, 2019). He also says how if we keep listening to negative news channels if they’re making us upset, we should definitely turn it off. If I listen to the news all day on my days off, I find myself a little depressed for a few days. During this quarantine, it is a good time to educate yourself on what’s going on in the world, but listening to negative situations all day isn’t a good thing to do.
Also, people having too much positivity could be detrimental to society. Being in “la la land” thinking everything is good in the world isn’t good for anyone either. The people in North Korea are being shielded from anything other than news related to North Korea. They are forbidden from watching anything that isn’t North Korea. When they watch anything that deals with North Korea it has to always be something good. Nothing about their country is bad and their media is filtered.
Ideally, in a perfect world we would have a balance of the good news with some bad news. We don’t want everything to be always good, but we also don’t want everything to be completely bad like it is now. If we want anything with the communication in media to improve, there needs to be a balance of good news and bad news. We want to have our journalists to be objective instead of using language to invoke fear into the public when they share bad stories.
Realistically, we won’t see a balance between good and bad news. We want to be able to have the balance, but journalists are more concerned with their ratings. Journalists will still broadcast things that will invoke fear into society. Every news channel wants the best ratings and want to be the first to give out information.
References
Fink, J. (2020, April 7). Over 300,000 people have recovered from coronavirus around the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-recoveries-surpass-300000-worldwide-covid-19-1496578Perlmutter, A. (2019, September 19). How negative news distorts our thinking. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-brain/201909/how-negative-news-distorts-our-thinkingWahl-Jorgensen, K., 2020. Coronavirus: How Media Coverage Of Epidemics Often Stokes Fear And Panic. [online] The Conversation. Available at: <https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-how-media-coverage-of-epidemics-often-stokes-fear-and-panic-131844> [Accessed 27 April 2020].
Wion. (2020, January 31). Coronavirus Outbreak: Man lies dead on a street in China. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKeefzKGOI