Author: chris

Think about what you have read and seen in the news on globalization. Consider the fact that the clothing we wear, the cars that we drive, the cell phones we use to communicate and the computers we use to work, are each likely to have been manufactured in whole or in part in different parts of the world. While there are still companies and firms that maintain local and national borders, it is almost unheard of in the 21st century that an industry does not maintain an international strategic position.

 

From an executive’s position, identify and explain at least three challenges and opportunities that might face an international executive over the next five years. Provide possible solutions of how the executive might address these issues in order for their firm to maintain a competitive advantage.

 

Prepare a 4-6 page paper that describes the impact of globalization on U.S. businesses. In your analysis, please include information about the impact of at least four economic drivers that might impact globalization.

 

Find an example of a merger that has been in the news within the past 6 months. What is the economic justification for the merger? Are there any antitrust concerns with the merger? Is there a role for government in regulating this merger?

 

Write a 1,200 word paper in which you examine visual information processing. Address the following in your paper:

• Describe visual information processing.
• Explain two conditions that impair visual information processing.
• Discuss current trends in the research of visual information processing and how they advance understanding of visual information processing.

Include at least two scholarly articles.

 

It is important to understand that human services are broad in spectrum and consist of many types of service delivery, including mental health, child welfare, medical care, public assistance, and corrections. In addition, human services organizations have varying organizational structures. There are different types of funding sources, legislation, and standards that influence how an agency will function to serve the clients in its community. For example, some agencies receive public funding to operate and must follow standards set down by those funding sources when providing services and running the agency. On the other hand, there are facilities that receive their revenues primarily from private funding, commercial insurance, or self-payment from clients and may not have to follow the same guidelines to operate the agency.

In this assignment, you will explore different types of human services organizations and select two types of organizations (for example, health, mental health, child welfare, or education) to draw comparisons between them. You will examine how the related funding sources, legislation, and standards interact with one another to influence service delivery.

Tasks:

Using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, complete the following:

• In a 3- to 4-page report, address the following:
  • The history and scope of services of the selected human services organizations
  • The administrative operations of each agency
  • The legislation that has influenced the services and type of agencies selected
  • The major differences between the agency models of service delivery, organizational structure, funding sources, and how they evaluate their effectiveness (for example, outcome measures)
• Identify two provisional factors (for example, performance outcome measures) that have direct implications on direct service.
  • Discuss their effects, positive or negative, on the agency as well as the service provider.
  • Provide your opinion on the costs and benefits of regulated operational standards on the effectiveness of services.

Serving Mentally Ill Prison Populations

 Find at least two research articles that evaluate the success of mental health service programs for mentally ill populations in prisons. This assignment is a research paper. In paragraph form, please provide a thorough and integrated response to all questions that follow:

• What are the services provided by mental health courts?
• How do these services benefit the prisoners? How do these compare to the services already available through the existing criminal justice system?
• Do the research findings support the establishment of more mental health service programs to imprisoned mentally ill populations? What can be done to improve these services further?

Submit your analysis in Word format. The body of your paper (not including the title page or references page) should be at least 3-4 page. Format your paper according to current standards of APA style and include an APA-style title page, a running head, and a references page. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Managed care is a complex system involved in the financing and delivery of health care.  The main goals of this system are to control access, quality, and cost of health care.  MCOs have complex relationships or contracts with buyers (employers or individuals), providers (health care facilities and physicians), and consumers (patients).  to this end, there is a need for complex management structures to organize and oversee these relationships.

 

There are six different medical management committees typically formed within an MCO.  Some serve operational purposes while others serve to meet regulatory and quality standard functions.  Refer to the readings of this week and answer the following questions:

• Researcsh a Managed Care Organization [MCO] (e.g. Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Humana, etc.) online.  Discuss the similarities and differences between six medical management committees of an MCO.
• Analyze the main role of each committee on the basis of your research.
• Explain out of the six committiees, which committee do you feel is the least important.  State your resoning using specific examples from your research.
• In addition, how is the information you found online similar and/or different from what is described in your readings?

After answering the above questions, read the following information:

 

The development of MCOs has been influenced by the type of market they serve.  For example, BCBS companies moved from primarily a service plan provider to a multiproduct line that includes HMO, PPO, and consumer choice plans.  In addition, various types of managed care organizations have emerged due to forces imposed by the state and the federal governments, such as the HMO Act of 1973.  Answer the following questions keeping in mind the above information:

• Examine how public policy has impacted the growth of managed care.
• Evaluate the impact of one federal and one state-level policy.
• Compare and contrast the ways the policy caused the managed care market to grow or retract

Managed care is a complex system involved in the financing and delivery of health care.  The main goals of this system are to control access, quality, and cost of health care.  MCOs have complex relationships or contracts with buyers (employers or individuals), providers (health care facilities and physicians), and consumers (patients).  to this end, there is a need for complex management structures to organize and oversee these relationships.

 

There are six different medical management committees typically formed within an MCO.  Some serve operational purposes while others serve to meet regulatory and quality standard functions.  Refer to the readings of this week and answer the following questions:

• Researcsh a Managed Care Organization [MCO] (e.g. Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Humana, etc.) online.  Discuss the similarities and differences between six medical management committees of an MCO.
• Analyze the main role of each committee on the basis of your research.
• Explain out of the six committiees, which committee do you feel is the least important.  State your resoning using specific examples from your research.
• In addition, how is the information you found online similar and/or different from what is described in your readings?

After answering the above questions, read the following information:

 

The development of MCOs has been influenced by the type of market they serve.  For example, BCBS companies moved from primarily a service plan provider to a multiproduct line that includes HMO, PPO, and consumer choice plans.  In addition, various types of managed care organizations have emerged due to forces imposed by the state and the federal governments, such as the HMO Act of 1973.  Answer the following questions keeping in mind the above information:

• Examine how public policy has impacted the growth of managed care.
• Evaluate the impact of one federal and one state-level policy.
• Compare and contrast the ways the policy caused the managed care market to grow or retract.

Health Insurance began in the early part of the twentieth century as a means to protect an organization’s assets, either its financial assets or its manpower.  Since the early days, health insurance evolved into a system of managed care in order to control issues such as overutilization, skyrocketing costs, limited restrictions, and low quality care.

 

Search for articles on health insurance and managed care.  based on your research, summarize your findings and answer the following questions:

• Examine the main events in the history of health insurance from the mid-twentieth century to the present.  Explain how these events led up to the evolution of managed care organizations.
• Evaluate the purpose of health care insurance in the early days.
• Evaluate the evolution of health insurance and managed care.  What is the relationsip between the two and how has manged care risen to prominence in today’s health care market?
• Explain how the perspective of health insurance has or hasn’t changed in today’s managed care environment.
• Analyze the public policy and market forces leading to the growth of managed care.
• Analyze the current trends in managed care and its future in the context of health care reforms.

Based on your understanding, create a 4 to 5 page Microsoft word document that included the answers to the above questions.

 

Support your responses with examples.

“Memories are not always reliable.” This is truly a statement that has many deeper implications than one might often realize. Just ask anyone who has served time for a crime that he/she did not commit. In fact, due to recent advancements within this area, it has been discovered that eyewitness accounts of certain crimes cannot always be trusted.

How often do you think eyewitness testimonies are inaccurately recalled?

Should more weight be placed upon physical evidence than testimonies which are shared in open court?

Is it possible to truly repay someone who has been falsely convicted of a crime due to memory error?

APA format about 150 words

Discuss two arguments as to why we need a global and holistic perspective in order to understand better our relationship to our environment.