Case study two John Buckingham, the new guy on the job.

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The dressing concept in the community is based on their cowboy lifestyle despite their formal location or the informal places. The dressing design is based on the dressing of the people in the community and their cultural values on dressing; for instance, the dressing of cowboy style is used to identify themselves as heroic (Noulty, 2020). John dressing identifies him as an outsider as the people in thru community dress differently, thus causing john to be excommunicated outside and later accepted as one of them after dressing accordingly like the people in the community.[

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 John’s coworkers develop affinity biases towards him as they don’t share the same dressing with the people from the community; this is based on his different dressing from the others. The community people are using the objective schema to understand his character where they use his way of dressing as the divining feature of the self, thus forming a metal structure where they characterize him as an outcast (Szwedek, 2017). They use the halo effect by creating an impression on his dressing, thus defining his character as indifferent.

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John changed the dressing code from the suits to the dressing in the cowboy style to enhance the interaction with the people in the community and workplace. The change in dressing as the stat of communication has, they treated him as an outsider earlier. In decision-making, he uses the evaluation process to evaluate the dressing code in relation to the people and alternative present but choose the change to fit in the community and workplace.

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The dressing difference created the feeling of an outsider in the community as they considered him different from them. The feeling is eliminated by changing the dressing bringing about the affinity biasness in terms of their dressing as a community.

 

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The company is supposed to have the new employees be informed of the people’s culture and believe in their dressing code to avoid the biasness expressed to john. The company should, in this case, provide the new employees with the rubrics on the dressing code, basing it on the community needs to avoid discrimination among the new employees. The dressing code should also be incorporated in the workplace as the official attire as the community people will not relate with people in different attires.

Case study 1, the woman who dreams of stress.

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I would explain the case on coincidence dreams where on dreams when the minds are conscious, thus dreaming of the experiences that one is having at the time. The dream is based on the difficulty that she is facing in the program development, thus viewing the task with difficulty thus unable to work even in her dreams. Lang, 2020). The problems in our subconscious minds are presented in our dreams as the things that are disturbing our mind's thoughts, thus making us preoccupied with them.

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Continual-activation theory explains a scenario where dreaming, in this case, is a result of the brain's memory activation and synthesis of the thought. The brain in the night undergoes consolidation, where it involves the process where sleep is the process where encoding and the transfer of data from the short memory other long memory happen (Guo, & Chen, 2017). This happens that the dreams she’s having are due to the interaction of the short memory and long memory causing the dreams. The theory assumes that the brain's unconscious part is usually busy processing the procedural memory during sleep.

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Meditation will help Arlene in that it will help her relax the mind to bring about a new perspective of the stressful situation. In this case, she will develop a new skill to help her manage her stress of the program development, giving her a chance to rest without thinking of the project. The meditation will help her reduce the negative emotions associated with her feeling of failure, enabling her to work with a positive mind.

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 I would advise her to stick to the same sleeping schedule to have her body get used to sleeping and waking up at a specific time. She should relieve the work sores through mediation to allow her brain to rest, thus reducing fatigue's sleeplessness. The reduction in caffeine consumption will help reduce the brain's activeness, thus allowing her to rest as the caffeine is a stimulus that activates the brain to think.

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The high caffeine consumption for Arlene has come to a case where it cannot be stopped at once as she will experience headaches due to the lack of the stimulus. The process of stopping caffeine consumption is done gradually by reducing the amount one consumes per day to an extent they no longer take the caffeine. The high consumption of caffeine was associated with insomnia as caffeine helps people to stay awake

 

References

Guo, F., & Chen, Z. (2017). The bizarreness and reality of dreams. Chinese Science Bulletin, 63(1), 22-31.

Lang, A. (2020). Dreams and Ghosts. Courier Dover Publications.

Noulty, J. (2020). Dress up for big boys: Cowboy culture of the urban rodeo (Doctoral dissertation, Arts & Social Sciences: Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies).

Szwedek, A. (2017). The OBJECT image schema.