Elaborate on the major reasons why, health care systems can be considered complex. Next, argue a case for double-loop against single-loop learning in organizational learning. Support your response with at least one (1) example of the advantages of double-loop learning.

 

 

Common industry knowledge dictates that in order to achieve desired outcomes in quality improvement in health care organizations, the leadership must consider multiple factors. Speculate on the main reasons why focusing on “people” processes is a highly regarded practice for improving the performance of health care organizations. Support your response with at least two (2) examples of increased value and / or performance in the researched hospital.

 

These are discussion questions just need a paragraph answer for each question and needs to be orginal with references.

I need a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you research AT&T and Sprint companies and do the following:

 

• Evaluate the internal and external environments of each company using an environmental scan.
• Analyze the competitive advantage of each company
• Evaluate the strategies each company uses to create value and gain competitive advantage.
• Examine the measurement guidelines each company uses to verify its strategic effectiveness.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the measurement guidelines that each company uses.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

You can use a calculator to do numerical calculations. No graphing calculator is allowed. Please DO NOT USE ANY COMPUTER SOFTWARE to solve the problems.

1. (a) What is an assignment problem? Briefly discuss the decision variables, the objective function and constraint requirements in an assignment problem. Give a real world example of the assignment problem.

(b) What is a diet problem? Briefly discuss the objective function and constraint requirements in a diet problem. Give a real world example of a diet problem.

(c) What are the differences between QM for Windows and Excel when solving a linear programming problem? Which one you like better? Why?

(d) What are the dual prices? In what range are they valid? Why are they useful in making recommendations to the decision maker? Give a real world example.

Answer Questions 2 and 3 based on the following LP problem.

Let    P1 = number of Product 1 to be produced

P2 = number of Product 2 to be produced

P3 = number of Product 3 to be produced

P4 = number of Product 4 to be produced

Maximize 80P1 + 100P2 + 120P3 + 70P4       Total profit

Subject to

10P1 + 12P2 + 10P3 + 8P4 ≤ 3200       Production budget constraint

4P1 + 3P2 + 2P3 + 3P4 ≤ 1000       Labor hours constraint

5P1 + 4P2 + 3P3 + 3P4 ≤ 1200       Material constraint

P1 > 100         Minimum quantity needed for Product 1 constraint

And P1, P2, P3, P4 ≥ 0             Non-negativity constraints

The QM for Windows output for this problem is given below.

Linear Programming Results:

Variable           Status   Value

P1        Basic    100

P2        NONBasic       0

P3        Basic    220

P4        NONBasic       0

slack 1NONBasic       0

slack 2Basic    160

slack 3Basic    40

surplus 4          NONBasic       0

Optimal Value (Z)        34400

Original problem w/answers:

P1        P2         P3         P4          RHS        Dual

Maximize              80       100       120      70

Constraint 1          10       12         10         8   <=    3200         12

Constraint 2           4         3          2          3   <=    1000          0

Constraint 3          5           4          3          3   <=    1200          0

Constraint 4        1            0          0          0   >=      100       -40

Solution->       100            0      220          0   Optimal Z->    34400

Ranging Results:

Variable           Value   Reduced Cost  Original Val     Lower Bound   Upper Bound

P1        100      0          80        -Infinity           120

P2        0          44        100      -Infinity           144

P3        220      0          120      87.5     Infinity

P4        0          26        70        -Infinity           96

Constraint        Dual Value      Slack/Surplus   Original Val     Lower Bound   Upper Bound

Constraint 1     12        0          3200    1000    3333.333

Constraint 2     0          160      1000    840      Infinity

Constraint 3     0          40        1200    1160    Infinity

Constraint 4     -40       0          100      0          120

2. (a) Determine the optimal solution and optimal value and interpret their meanings.

(b) Determine the slack (or surplus) value for each constraint and interpret its meaning.

3. (a) What are the ranges of optimality for the profit of Product 1, Product 2, Product 3, and Product 4?

(b) Find the dual prices of the four constraints and interpret their meanings. What are the ranges in which each of these dual prices is valid?

(c) If the profit contribution of Product 2 changes from $100 per unit to $130 per unit, what will be the optimal solution? What will be the new total profit? (Note: Answer this question by using the ranging results given above).

(d) Which resource should be obtained in larger quantity to increase the profit most? (Note: Answer this question using the ranging results given above.).

4. The Portfolio Manager of Charm City Pension Planners, Inc., has been asked to invest $1,000,000 of a large pension fund. The management of the company has identified five mutual funds as possible investment options. The details of these five mutual funds are given below:

                                                                  Mutual Fund

 

1           2           3           4             5

 

Annual return (in dollars)     12%     10%      8.5%       10%    11%

 

Risk amount (in dollars)     9.8%       8%     7.2%       7.1%     7.3%

To control the risk, the management of the company has specified that the total risk amount cannot exceed $200,000. In addition, the management wants to invest at least $150,000 in mutual fund 2 and at least $125,000 in mutual fund 3.

With these restrictions, how much money should the portfolio manager of the company invest in each mutual fund so as to maximize the total annual return?

a) Define the decision variables.

(b) Determine the objective function. What does it represent?

(c) Determine all the constraints. Briefly describe what each constraint represents.

Note: Do NOT solve the problem after formulating.

5. A charity wants to contact people to collect donations. A person can be contacted morning or evening, by phone, or door-to-door. The average donation resulting from each type of contact is given below:

Phone         Door-to-Door

 

____________________________________

Morning          $35                   $60

Evening            $40                   $70

The Charity has 150 volunteer hours in the morning and 120 volunteer hours in the evening. Each phone contact takes 6 minutes and each door-to-door contact takes 15 minutes to conduct. The Charity wants to have at least 550 phone and at least 400 door-to-door contacts.

Formulate a linear programming model that meets these restrictions and maximizes the total average donations by determining

(a) The decision variables.

(b) Determine the objective function. What does it represent?

(c) Determine all the constraints. Briefly describe what each constraint represents.

Note: Do NOT solve the problem after formulating

6. The Charm City Truck Rental Inc. has accumulated extra trucks at three of its truck leasing outlets, as shown in the following table:

Leasing Outlet            Extra Trucks

1. Atlanta 70

2. St. Louis 115

3. Greensboro    60

The firm also has three outlets with shortages of rental trucks, as follows:

Leasing Outlet            Truck Shortage

1. New Orleans         80

1. Cincinnati 50

1. Baltimore        45

The firm wants to transfer trucks from those outlets with extras to those with shortages at the minimum total cost. The following costs of transporting these trucks from city to city have been determined:

To (cost in dollars)         

From   A      B         C

1          75      80        45

2          115      50        55

3          100      60        40

 

For this transportation problem:

(a) Define the decision variables.

(b) Determine the objective function. What does it represent?

(c) Determine all the constraints. Briefly describe what each constraint represents.

Assignment 2: Analyzing with ANOVA

Submit your answers to the following questions using the ANOVA source table below. The table depicts a two-way ANOVA in which gender has two groups (male and female), marital status has three groups (married, single never married, divorced), and the means refer to happiness scores (n = 100):

1. What are the independent variables and their levels? What is the dependent variable?
2. State all null hypotheses associated with independent variables and their interaction? Also suggest alternate hypotheses?
3. What are the degrees of freedom for 1) gender, 2) marital status, 3) interaction between gender and marital status, and 4) error or within variance?
4. Calculate the mean square for 1) gender, 2) marital status, 3) interaction between gender and marital status, and 4) error or within variance.
5. Calculate the F ratio for 1) gender, 2) marital status, and 3) interaction between gender and marital status.
6. Identify the critical Fs at alpha = .05 for 1) gender, 2) marital status, and 3) interaction between gender and marital status.
7. If alpha is set at .05, what conclusions can you make?

Source	Sum of Squares	(degrees of freedom [df])	Mean Square	Fobt.	Fcrit.
Gender	68.15	?	?	?	?
Marital Status	127.37	?	?	?	?
Gender * Marital Status (A x B)	41.90	?	?	?	?
Error (Within)	864.82	?	?	NA	NA
Total	1102.24	99	NA	NA	NA

Please Note: The table that you see in the assignment has been slightly modified from the one presented in the module notes since it is beyond the scope of this unit to have students calculate p values. Instead you are asked to calculate the F value and compare it to the critical F value to determine whether the test is significant or not.

For this assignment, perform a complete head-to-toe assessment on one of your chosen participants. Your analysis should include the following:

• Topical headings to delineate systems.
• For any system for which you do not have equipment, explain how you would do the assessment.
• Detailed review of each system with normal and abnormal findings, along with normal laboratory findings for client age.
• An analysis of age-specific risk reduction, health screen, and immunizations.
• Your expectation of normal findings and what might indicate abnormal findings in your review of systems.
• The differential diagnosis (disease) associated with possible abnormal findings.
• A plan of care (including nursing diagnosis, interventions, evaluation).
• Client and age-appropriate evidenced based practice strategies for health promotion.
• Pharmacological treatments that can be used to address health issues for this client.

Provide your answers in a 6- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

In this assignment, you will explore the field of human services with emphasis on its history and the effects, both positive and negative, it has had on people. This assignment allows you to identify and follow the evolution of the influence of social policy, theory, and outcomes of practices on human services delivery. The activities in this assignment will introduce students to the types of activities that have influenced real-world administrative roles. At the end of the assignment, you will be able to conceptualize how the policy and practice issues influence the operation of human services agencies.

Tasks:

Select and research an issue in human services history that has impacted the delivery of services. In a 6- to 7-page report, complete the following:

• Describe the issue, its background, and the key people who were involved.
• Explain how the issue or these key people have changed or defined human services.
• Discuss the issue and the key people’s impact on theory, practices, and ethics, and how these issues have changed service delivery systems.
• Evaluate and discuss if the changes are still evident today or have become extinct.

Examples of issues may include, but are not limited to, the Civil Rights Movement, Family Medical Leave Act, GI Bill, work/life balance, and childhood vaccinations.

Submission Details:

Writing Assignments

This is upper division General Education course conforms to the GE Upper Division Writing Policy, which reads as follows:

 

“All upper-division required GE courses shall be designated writing-intensive.  In each such course, students will be required to complete writing assignments totaling a minimum of 2,500 words.”

 

Thus, the writing assignment is a critical part of the course.  The writing assignment is an analysis paper due on November 9^th.  In that paper, I want you to analyze your childhood in light of the motivation theories we’ve discussed throughout the quarter, from the biological motivations up through goal motivation, which will be the topic just before the paper is due.  How did your parents and others around you motivate you, and how did you motivate yourself?  How did those motivations change as you got older?  What motivated you to make both good and bad choices in your lives?  You should organize the paper both chronologically and by type of motivation. So you should start with very early childhood, from preschool through early school years, then move on to late childhood, then adolescence, and then adulthood.  In each of these time eras, you should discuss what role reflexes, drives and biological needs, reinforcements and punishments, observational learning, need for stimulation and arousal, personality, utility, and goals played in your motivation, and how those things changed from previous eras in your life.  This assignment should require about 10 double-spaced pages to complete, which is generally around 2700 words and thus meets the 2500 word requirement.

Assignment 1: Using Phenomenology

Using your identified phenomena from Module 1, create a qualitative research scenario using the phenomenology approach. Identify the following:

1. Research question
2. Sample
3. Data collection method (interview, survey, observation, etc.)

 

Assignment 2: Conducting an Interview

Choose a classmate or colleague to interview. Create 8-10 guiding questions, and try to elicit rich, relevant information based on the questions you created. Topics may include (but are not limited to) professional and collegial experiences, experiences with online courses, etc. In your paper, include all questions and answers. Also, include an introductory paragraph stating the topic of your interview and how you prepared. Include a closing paragraph including how you documented the data and your overall experience (positive and negative) with the interview process.

 

 

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

The final assignment for this course is an academic research article critique. The purpose of the critique is to ensure that you know how to read and critically assess research for use in your own research, to understand social problems in society, support decision making in public policy, or to influence one’s own individual research approaches. 

Focus of the Final Paper 

Reading and critically analyzing academic research reported in journal articles is an important part of learning and applying scholarly research for multiple applications within your discipline. Through the first four weeks of this course, you have become more familiar with the various components of research design. For this final assignment, read and critically review one of the journal articles provided in the list by discipline (below). You may choose from any of the lists, however you will probably find one from your own discipline to be of greater interest to you and more useful for future reference. 

Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Military Studies

Social and Criminal Justice

Social Science

Sociology

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

Four sections of Jesus, Entrepreneur, students will write a paper based on the questions in the four sections of the book.

Section1: The Launch: Heeding the Call to Spiritreneurship

Section 2: The Lurch: The Earyly Days and Your New Identity

Section 3: The Lesson: Learning Through the Wisdom and Mistakes of Others

Section 4: The Love: Living the Visionary Life of the Spiritreneur

 

Identify and reflect on the tools and skills necessary for entrepreneurial ventures from a Christian/biblical worldview. How might the things I am learning in this Entrepreneurship class be applied to other areas of my professional life? How might they be applied in my Christian worldview?Please cover section/subject in essay also.

Final paper in APA format, 8-10 pages. (measures outcome 5)