post #6 million dollar decision chapter 6

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On this episode of Survivor the members of both tribes have been merged together to create tribe Huyopa and the tribe’s dynamics have been changed yet again. With the tribes being merged together brought a lot of tension to the competitors because its a race to see who can get the most people to be in alliance with. After the group had a feast they had realized that someone had taken all of the trail mix which defiantly upset everyone in the tribe since they all shared their food with the reset of the tribe members. When they started to look through everyone’s bags they had discovered that Julie was the one who had taken the trail mix and when she had returned to the shelter the tribe was displaying nonverbal communication toward her because everyone was thinking how messed up it was to hide food from them but instead of confronting her they just made it really awkward for her. Also, I thought that Jon was using offensive language against Julie when he learned that it was her that took the trail mix.

To me it is funny to hear Keith talk because I can tell that he has a dialect in his voice. Sorry if that makes me seem like a horrible person to chuckle at  his voice but every time Keith talks he sounds like he is from the south. When It comes to creating alliances I noticed that personal distance becomes smaller and smaller for certain people. For example, when Jeremy was going around in the tribe trying to get people to side with him, he was hugging Missy trying to be “buddy buddy” with her. I personally think that he is just shady and I’m waiting for him to be voted out already. At the end of the episode I wasn’t to surprised to see Julie quite I saw it coming after the whole tribe had turned on her. I hope Jeremy is the next to be voted out.

To Survive or Naaaaah

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This last week we learned about nonverbal which essentially plays into our everyday lives so it was easy to relate this last episode of survivor to our chapter content.

In survivor, the merge takes place diminishing the two separate teams thus creating it one for all. Except for those who still have a loved one competing; they still have an advantage. Nonverbal cues are huge when studying each other to see who is really lying about the alliances. We see the remaining survivors portraying nonverbals in their physical appearance: body orientation, gestures, and body language. You can  also tell from their tones and volumes.

Julie is a prime example to use for this specific topic because she has conveyed major nonverbals since John, her boyfriend, has left. She becomes stand-offish and her body orientation and language definitely shows that she is ready to leave; that she can no longer handle survivor. It was really no surprise to me when she got voted off this last episode.

Blog Post 6 Chapter 6

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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

In episode 6 they start by going back to the Orange tribe to see how Dale is adjusting to his daughter just being voted off from episode 5. Dale understands that he will be the next vote if he doesn’t do something drastic. Dale takes out his fake idol and shows Jon. Instantly you can see that Jon’s facial expression is surprised. He knows that this “idol” can mess up any plan that they had to vote Dale off next. Although words were exchanged Jon displayed facial expression (nonverbal behavior) that clearly communicated to Dale, that he might be saved next tribal council.
The first challenge in this episode was for the award of a full on meal. It was a big deal because everyone on Survivor is starving, up to this point most people have only had a cup or two a rice a day. What set this challenge apart from most was that the tribes were not allowed to communicate with their tribe members who were playing in the game. The people playing the game were blind folded and had to put together a puzzle. The tribes not being able to use any type of communication effected them greatly. It all came down to the tribe member playing the game. The only type of communication that could be used was touch, a form of nonverbal communication.
At the end of the episode the Orange team ended up going to tribal council again. And Dale is voted off due to his lying about the idol and the strategy of Jon and Jaclyn.
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Survivor and CH 6

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The newest episode of Survivor kicks off with the news that the tribes will be merging. As soon as this news reaches the Hunahpu tribe Josh and Reed engage in team talk and demonstrate this in the team talk dimension of identification, planning that “we need to get Jeremy out.” When the two tribes are merged and reacquaint themselves with each other, Jeremy also begins to engage in team talk with as many allies as he can gather. Talking  with both Missy and John, Jeremy also demonstrates identification when he continually expresses “We got this.” When Josh and Reed discuss their fear of Jeremy’s plan and their need to gain numbers, Josh inherently uses conflict management stating, “I’m going to guilt trip Baylor.” Also when talking to Baylor, Josh expresses a sense of Interdependence when he tells Baylor “with you, we have the numbers.”

Conflicted about betraying Josh and allying with Jeremy’s alliance, Baylor seeks her mom’s advice to figure out what their best plan is. In this instance Baylor offers a perfect example of the relationship between language and gender. Her discussion with her mom portrays her tentative and apprehensive emotions and she asks her mom several questions to ensure that she is doing the right thing.

Josh is obviously getting very worried that the majority of the tribe is going to ally with Jeremy. He exhausts all the options and pleas he can, confronting John and Jaquelyn. However, in my opinion John and Jaquelyn’s facial expression tell their whole perspective. Neither John or Jaquelyn want to make eye contact with Josh and try to keep their focus away from Josh. John seems like he is trying to distract himslef from the conversation in attempt to stay very straight faced and avoid conveying a clear decision to side with either Josh or not. Josh’s face also doesn’t show much hope as he kind of puts on the “I gave it a try” face.

Survivor..The Merge…What a disappointment

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Well as the title states… during this episode, the long awaited merge of tribes happened.  With Jeremy being my favorite contestant on the show, Reid and Josh being mentally the strongest with their ability to solve puzzles easily and efficiently, and Julie being… well Julie… it was a Survivor episode that was full of disappointment for Jeremy fans.  With the next Chapter in our text being Problem Solving… Julie gives the class and the world a great look at what NOT to do.  First and foremost, did I say how utterly disappointed I am in such a despicable survivor performance?  Not only does she let herself down, she let’s her alliance down as well as her “AMAAAAZING” boyfriend John Rocker.  The real kicker is the fact that she let her alliance down.  Coming onto a show called Survivor… for the 27th season, and to quit because you just can’t handle it… excuse my bluntness.. but that is pathetic.  If she would have stayed and helped the people she swore allegiance to, Josh or Reid would have been going home, splitting up what is undoubtedly a power couple.  Instead, without telling anybody, Julie decides to solve her life or death problem of being singled out for hoarding the tribes trail mix, by removing herself from the game and the people whom were counting on her.  Way to go Julie!!! If you’re not brought back for Survivor, Reunion of the Worst Survivors in the History of Survivor… it’s probably because you are in jail for stealing trail mix.  On a lighter note, Drew’s brother (Jeremy calls him little Drew) also displays terrible group problem solving by antagonizing everyone in the tribe to be angry at Julie.  By repeatedly bringing up a negative issue, you are contributing to the problem, not helping it be solved.  Darren Pecora… Over and Out.

Ethics in Leadership

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  1. Post a link to a current event involving unethical or ethical leadership.
    1. What would take for more people to engage in the ethical actions presented?
    2. What actions are needed to change the unethical behavior into ethical behavior?

http://www.infoplease.com/news/2014/nfl.html

The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, has been accused of lying to the public about specifics of the Ray Rice situation in which he punched his wife in an elevator this past February. This has resulted in the questioning of his ethical and moral values as well as his position of commissioner of the NFL. He claims that the league had not seen the visual evidence within the elevator the night of the incident although there were reports claiming that the visual evidence was sent to the NFL. This also led to backlash from countless others demanding that Roger Goodell step down as commissioner. There are a few different courses of action that need to be taken in order to reverse the unethical behavior within the NFL. First, there should be more performance evaluations for the front office of the NFL to determine and make sure that they are doing their job diligently. And if not, then punishments should be handed down to the front office. This would basically serves to check their power. Another way is for people to voice their displeasure for the unethical behaviors of the NFL, which people have been doing. Through criticism, the front office may feel compelled to change their behaviors in order to save face. Lastly, the NFL can establish new policy procedures which would dictate their behaviors in order to be more ethical. However, because this commissioner has had a history of problems and also has little popularity amongst the players as well as fans, I think it would be better for him to step down in order to make way for a better commissioner.

 

Based on your responses to the Core Values Questionnaire, what are your core values?

  1. To what degree would you say that your actions align with your values?  How would you want to improve in this area?
  2. Do you think other people know your core values?
  3. Are you comfortable talking about your core values with others?
  4. In your planning for the future (e.g. next five years), how will your values influence what you do?

My core values are peace and happiness. I chose these two because they also incorporate some of the other values as well. For instance I believe peace is accompanied by justice and truth. And happiness for me incorporates friendship, love, family, joy, and wisdom. So all of my actions that I take are to fulfill these related values in order to achieve the primary values of peace and happiness. I think I can improve these areas by being more assertive and by voicing my opinion more. For instance, if I’m in a certain situation in which I am not happy, I may go along with it just so it can make someone else more comfortable instead of trying to please myself first. I think that others are aware of my values even though i’m not too vocal. A lot of my values are seen more through my actions than by what I say and I think people pick up on this.

I am comfortable talking about my values with other people because they are values that I believe are important and beneficial. For instance some of these values that I hold are being fair, kind, honest, just, and reliable. I try to direct all of my behavior and actions towards the common good so I have no problem communicating this with others.

Over the course of the next five years, I expect my values to play a big part of my future. If I do succeed in becoming a police officer than my job would be tied to these values. I would use my position to promote and express these qualities such as integrity, which is also one of the leadership traits mentioned earlier in the textbook. Leader with integrity are loyal, honest, dependable, and reliable. These are values that are necessary for any police officer to have. Beyond police work, these traits make for positive individuals within the community as well,  which I expect to be.

 

Survivor 6

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In this episode of Survivor, things start to spice up. The merge took place which basically means that the two teams have integrated and there is no longer such thing as Hunahpu and Coyopa; instead it’s hyopa. Every member is essentially for themselves although, if you have a loved one still remaining on the show,  you have the upper hand by default. In the midst of the merge, there was one character in particular that stood out in displaying some key elements of nonverbal behaviors.

The components of Nonverbal behavior are: personal appearance, facial expression and eye contact, vocal expression, and physical expression. Julie, who’s boyfriend John Rocker was voted out a while back, expressed all of the nonverbals’ listed above, only not in a positive way.  Julie seemed to be her own judge when it came to personal appearance because as she was quitting the show, she explained to Jeff that she had been judged most of her life because of her personal appearance. She is skinny with breast implants and sometimes conducted herself as diva. Her face expressions and eye contact were minimum. She had stopped smiling over the course of the show and on the last episode, her eyes were swollen with pockets of tears that she was doing her best to hold back. Her vocal expressions seemed to support her feelings as her voice often got shaky and she would speak in a low monotone pitch. Her physical expression was closed and unwelcoming as she sat by herself most of the episode and away from the other members. It was clear by Julie’s nonverbal behavior that she did not want to be on the show any longer and that being there was really taking a toll on her. Julie didn’t have to say much to Jeff when quitting the show, we could all tell by her body language that her run on Survivor was over.

Who Will Get The Votes?

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This episode started with something very unexpected: a merger! The two tribes would be merging into one. Many celebrated since they reconnected with their loved ones and all enjoyed a huge feast. Before the feast was over, battle plans were already being drawn. These opposing plans were put into place by Jeremy and Josh, both in fear they would be voted out at the next tribal meeting. They wanted each other gone, so they tried desperately to get other tribe members on their side and thus vote the opposing person off.

They used a number of verbal and non verbal behaviors to sway these tribe members and it was very interesting to watch their strategies. Considering the million dollar prize awaiting the winner, both Josh and Jeremy felt they had a lot at stake. I noticed both of them, in soliciting to the tribe members, use a few of the dimensions of team talk in order to identify with that person. In fact, almost all of the dimensions were used by one or the other. A good example of how these were used occurred when talking to their prospective alliances. Josh wanted to make clear to them that he wasn’t a threat to them and that they are on equal footing, yet highlighted how Jeremy is a strong competitor and how knocking him out of the competition right now could be a mutual benefit. Josh and Jeremy also used words like ‘us’ and ‘we’ in their conversations to identify with the tribe members.

I also noticed many of the defensive behaviors on display during this alliance building. Strategy was a major one. Jeremy and Josh were trying to get tribe members to vote a certain way and the true motivations for this action wasn’t to help that tribe member, but rather to protect themselves from elimination. This was a form of manipulation that they used. Also, control was a major defensive behavior that was used. Josh was trying to hold on to the position he and Reed held within their tribe before the merger. Josh and Reed saw Jeremy as a threat to the alliances they had with others and needed to impose their solution (getting rid of Jeremy) onto the other tribe members in order to maintain control. The episode was very interesting and the way Josh and Jeremy interacted with the other tribe members really helped me see a realistic application of the chapter content.

Behavior of the group

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So last week I talked about the roles that have developed as the days roll by. This week I want to discuss how nonverbal concepts can be just as important as those verbally said. Chapter six discusses challenges groups can run into, some of the non verbal environments and differences there seem to be among all types of groups.

This weeks episode was different than any Survivor that I’ve heard of; Julie just up an quit the whole thing. After she hid a bunch of trail mix in her purse and didn’t tell anyone, Julie wasn’t trusted by any of the other members. In past episodes, I don’t even think I saw Julie ever compete in any of the team challenges. Unfortunately, the first thing I wanted to talk about was language challenges between group members. Julie not telling anyone  she had trail mix was a mistake however I feel like it goes back to another issue I’ll discuss soon. But first a concept called bypassing which is a form of miscommunication that happens when someone misses what the other person was trying to convey. I feel like this occurred when Julie took the trail mix. She should have shared but she should have shared with her alliance members; However I don’t think that Julie was in a place to explain that she took the time to gather the food and save it to last over several days, this group has already seen problems with conservation. I could see why she wouldn’t want just a piece of a little handful. But as a result her teammates started to use offensive, excluding and discouraging types of language. They all completely disregarded the fact that Julie was within hearing distance and talked about her and put her down. It was unnecessary and unproductive.

The other thing  wanted to discuss was how there was more of a defensive environment in place on Survivor. Jeremy is making most of the decisions and if you go against the flow, AKA Josh, he wants you out. I feel that  a supportive environment would have allowed Julie to express her concerns without people just thinking like they did, that she was a selfish person etc. They attacked her personal character over trail mix, jesus eat a snickers!

Survivor Blog Post #6

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At the beginning of the sixth episode of survivor, the Hunahpuh tribe met with Jeff in order to receive a new bag of rice because they had run extremely short. However, in order for them to earn the rice, Jeff requires them to trade in their comfort items which would leave them vulnerable in rainy weather. In individual interviews, Jeremy expresses his frustration with the tribe’s decision to trade in the comfort items for food. Although Jeremy was one of the original Hunahpuh tribe members and was one of the reasons that the new tribe ran out of food, he fails to consider this when speaking in his interviews. In his discussion, he does not use plural and collective pronouns which is a key component of communication according to “team talk.” For example, explains that “the brainiacs gave the tarp away” and that “they are so dumb.” Jeremy not only places the blame on the rest of the team, but fails to acknowledge that he did not try to stop their actions in any way and therefore is equally responsible for the results of the trade.

In another situation, Julie uses verbal communication in order to express her feelings to the tribe. After the tribe has given up their comfort items, Julie complains throughout the rainy night claiming that she has reached her breaking point. She verbally expresses to the group her discomfort with the situation and her internal feelings of doubt and regret. That same night she explains, ” I don’t know if I can do this.” Through her verbal communication and obvious display of emotions, Julie sends a message to the rest of the group that she is beginning to question her place within the competition.

According to the text, men and women have distinct differences in their manner of communicating nonverbally. Within the Coyopa tribe, Missy and Baylor display nonverbal behavior very common for women as a gender. For example, they continually use expressive movements, displays of emotion, as well as facial expressions to communicate feelings with one another. They also tend to be very affectionate with one another and touch each other when in conversation. Men, on the other hand, tend to distance themselves more from one another, seem less emotionally involved, and touch each other less. However, in the Hunahpuh tribe Josh and Reed appear to the the exception to this rule. Throughout the competition they smile often, hug one another and other teammates, as well as clearly display their emotions. After winning the challenge for his tribe, Reed began to cry in front of everyone, communicating to his team that he is proud that he was able to contribute to the success of the tribe. The couple tend to also interact within intimate space with one another as well as the other tribe members when in conversation. Most men would not react to such an accomplishment in this manner, but would rather withdraw emotional connection from the situation and internalize their feelings. Josh and Reed’s unusual display of nonverbal communication may perhaps be helping them achieve the respect of the female participants and also be the reason they are doing so well in the competition.