Author: chris

Organizational Design and Culture

Many companies find they are forced to remodel their traditional hierarchical structures, which were originally built around functional specialization and centralized authority, to compete in today’s marketplace. Companies often draw on the following five tools of organizational design to make their organizations leaner, flatter, and more responsive to change. The five tools are:

• Empower managers and workers
• Reengineer work processes
• Implementing self-directed work teams
• Rapid incorporation of Internet technology applications
• Networking with outsiders to improve existing capabilities and create new ones

In addition, there are many managerial tasks that shape corporate culture and the leadership skills needed to engage the full organization to produce great results. Examine the dynamics of the elements that must be brought together to create a corporate culture, such as core values and business principles, operating practices and behaviors, ethical standards and attitudes, and work climate and people management practices.

Considering the five tools of organizational design, managerial tasks and leadership skills, examine the practices followed by your selected organization and include the following in a 8–10 page APA formatted paper in MS Word:

Describe which of the five tools of organizational design your selected organization uses to maintain and improve productivity while achieving cost savings. Use detailed examples in your response.

Explain how work groups are utilized in your organization to accomplish the stated goals of the company.

Describe the motivational practices used by the organization to promote better strategy execution. Include some illustrative examples in your response.

Explain how, if at all, the reward system in the organization ties incentives directly to achieving higher productivity and performance targets.

Explain the evaluation and feedback process used in your company to assess employee performance.

Identify the elements in the organization that affect how cultural change is implemented.

Describe the ethical model being used by the company.

Present your overall opinion of the organization’s corporate strategy approach. Is the strategy execution effort delivering the expected results? Explain and illustrate your conclusions.

Describe what specific actions have been taken to delegate authority to middle and junior managers and to create a sense of empowerment among employees. Explain and illustrate your answers.

Many patient symptoms can be tied to multiple disorders, which may lead to misdiagnoses. For instance, consider two digestive disorders of the gastrointestinal tract—inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. These two disorders are commonly confused because they present similar symptoms. As an advanced practice nurse, you must know the differences to properly diagnose and treat the disorders. How does the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease compare to the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome? How do treatments for the two disorders compare?

 

To prepare:

 

• Review Chapter 34 in the Huether and McCance text and Chapter 13 in the McPhee and Hammer text.
• Identify the pathophysiological mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. Think about similarities and differences between the disorders.
• Consider common treatments for inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. Reflect on whether treatments for one disorder would work for the other disorder.
• Select one of the following patient factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior. Reflect on how the factor you selected might impact the pathophysiology of and treatments for each disorder.

  Post 1 PAGE DISCUSSION ON an explanation of the pathophysiological mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disorder and irritable bowel syndrome, including similarities and differences. Then describe common treatments, addressing whether treatments for one disorder would work for the other disorder. Finally, explain how the patient factor you selected might impact the pathophysiology of and treatments for each disorder.

   

The Distinction Between Leadership and Management

 

To prepare:

 

• Review the information in the Learning Resources.
• Conduct additional research on your own and select at least 3 or more  current, credible sources that contribute to your understanding of management and leadership.
• Reflect on how the roles of management and leadership differ in supporting the organization to set and achieve goals.
• Drawing upon specific examples from a current or previous practice setting, bring to mind someone who seemed to be a leader but not a manager and someone who seemed to be a manager but not a leader (generally speaking, or within a specific circumstance). Be prepared to support your assessment with specific behavioral descriptions found in the literature.

   Post 1 PAGE PAPER ON  an analysis of how management and leadership roles differ in terms of supporting an organization to set and achieve goals. In addition, post  descriptions of an individual who demonstrates leadership behaviors but not management behaviors and an individual who demonstrates management behaviors but not leadership behaviors. Provide your rationale, identifying specific characteristics of effective managers and leaders. (Note: Do not identify these individuals by name, position, or location.)

   

  References

   

 

• • Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2015). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
    • Review Chapters 2 and 3

       

Respond to the following:

• What are the key similarities and differences between a mini-computer and a microcomputer?

• What are the key elements of a simple microcomputer system?

Respond to the following:

• Differentiate between the real mode and the protected mode of the Intel 80286, 80386, 80486, and Pentium microprocessors operation.

• Explain why it is important for programmers to understand the details of the real mode and the protected mode of a microprocessor.

For this discussion, you will adopt the role of a school leader and create a digital presentation using the software of your choice (e.g., PowerPoint, Present.me, YouTube, Prezi, Jing, SlideRocket, or another program). Your audience for this presentation can be either a school board or a stakeholder directly in the school setting, such as teachers, other staff, or students. If you use software other than PowerPoint, submit notes for each slide as part of your post. If you use PowerPoint, be sure to include notes for each talking point on slides in the notes section for each slide. The presentation needs to be six to eight slides, excluding the title and references slides, and cite at least one scholarly source in addition to the required resources for this week.

Ensure that your presentation:

• Explains the purpose of CCSS.
• Explains how the CCSS are used within a school for teaching and learning.
• Justifies why creating report cards based on the CCSS is important in the school or district (depending on the role you chose to take as noted in the initial post directions above).
• Summarizes your understanding of how embedding evidence-based assessment in the curriculum can help guide teachers and learners in decision making.

In order to conduct data mining projects, a process is followed. These processes are based on best practices, data mining researchers, and practitioners to maximize the chances of success for data mining projects. Conduct some independent research on the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM). Using smart art, create a process map that defines the six steps of this process. Within the map, provide relevant examples for each step.

Answer the following four questions in paragraph form (a paragraph is usually five to six complete sentences; break long answers into smaller paragraphs). Cite any and all sources at the bottom of your assignment.

1) The term “lute” covers many different instruments from the age of antiquity, but they essentially referred to a plucked instrument containing a fingerboard. Using your provided materials and any other sources, describe two of these “lutes”. Give their names, where they were used, what they looked like, etc.

 

2) Seek out at least one video of a monochord demonstration. Describe what you see and hear. Provide links to the videos.

 

3) View one video demonstration (not provided in the D2L materials) of a musical work on the four-course and one video demonstration of a work on the five-course guitar. List the name of the work, composer, what year (if known) it was written, and if you notice any major differences in the styles. Provide the links to the videos.

 

4) Explain in your own words what ‘alfabeto’ was. Who were some of the most successful composers to publish in alfabeto?

Successful students design a compelling life plan, complete with motivating goals and dreams. Struggling students tend to invent their lives as they live them. Successful students commit to their goals and dreams, visualizing the successful creation of their ideal life. Struggling students wander aimlessly from one activity to another.

 

* Brainstorm a list of academic, professional, and personal goals you have this semester. (Remember, brainstorming is about quantity, not quality; there is no judgment in brainstorming.) Include this list in your journal entry.

 

Next, choose one or two of the goals from your brainstorm and answer the following questions.

 

– What are the action steps you will need to achieve success? (The more detail one has in their action plan, the more likely they are to be successful.)

 

– What are the qualities required to complete these action steps for your goal?

 

– As a student, what qualities do you possess that will help you reach each goal?

 

– What tendencies do you have that could interfere with reaching your goals. As a student, I sometimes (or often) tend to …

 

– Because you want to extinguish these negative tendencies, what can you plan to do or change?

 

I want it in 2 pages maximam (( the Brainstorm a list in the first page and the answers on the second page))

the answers must be in a paragraph style.

 

Be sure to include details and examples. 

With your approved pathologic condition, which is “Autism” you will research and discuss the following topics:

The etiology of pathologic condition

What specific cells, tissues and organs are affected and how they are by the pathologic condition

What organ systems functions that are affected and how by the pathologic condition

Your discussion must include the following requirements:

Must be two – three pages in length

Include a title page, reference page and in-text citations in APA formatting. A minimum of three credible references

 

Action

Points Possible

Required Content (3 topics and 2 pages) and credible references (3)

20

Proper APA formatting of cover page, in-text citations, and reference page.

5

Correct grammar, spelling, usage, and punctuation.

Health information systems can be divided into 4 categories: clinical information systems, management, strategic decision support, and e-health applications.

Instructions

Explain the following types of computerized information systems:

• Clinical
• Management
• Strategic decision support
• E-health applications

Within your analysis, order the systems from most important to least important within a health care organization. Be sure to discuss why you chose this order.