Author: chris

 

Week 1

 

1a.From the e-Activity, evaluate at least two companies’ financial statements that have received a negative rating from one of the financial rating agencies. Determine which financial ratios most likely impacted the rating decision. Compare and contrast at least two financial ratios that support the rating agency’s claims. Speculate on how the ratios are likely to change considering the economic environment in which it operates. Support your position.

 

 

 

1b.Imagine that you are a chief financial officer with $150,000 of idle cash that you must invest to increase earnings for your company. Select at least two companies and the ratios you would use to determine your investment strategy. Based on the companies you choose, speculate on how the ratios are likely to change over the next five years.

 

 

 

Week 2

 

1a.Compare and contrast compensation plans, such as restricted stock and stock appreciation rights, indicating the key differences with the accounting treatment. Determine the option that would have the least impact on a company’s earnings. Recommend the choice that is the most advantageous to an employee. Support your position with examples.

 

 

1b.Given the current regulatory environment for financial institutions, analyzing financial statement information is an important process and at the same time, the massive amount of information that creditors have to sort through can become unwieldy. Review the financial ratios in the text, and choose three or four that creditors would mostly likely use to make their lending decisions. Indicate a rationale for choosing each ratio. Discuss at least three ways that management might manipulate the financial data to guarantee that the lending decision will be made in its favor. Provide

Reflect on the start of your capstone project. When conducting a market analysis, analysts say that the market you need to look at is your potential market, not the actual market served. Why is this important? How can health leaders utilize the findings from a SWOT analysis to carve a sustainable niche in the healthcare market?

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Franklin hears about people being discriminated against at the workplace and in society but rarely experiences it first hand. Cortez, on the other hand, speaks English poorly and is often subject to derogatory comments from peers and coworkers.

Reflect on your experience with racial discrimination.

Identify examples of racial discrimination and provide examples you have personally witnessed or heard about firsthand from the following three realms:

• family
• work place
• community

Write a brief summary that includes the following:

• Describe a racial incident pertaining to each realm in detail. Explain why you believe this is racial discrimination.
• Explain how this situation could have been handled to avoid discrimination against those belonging to another race.

Select an organization with which you are familiar.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explain how internal and external factors affect the four functions of management.

Explain how the following internal and external factors affect the four functions of management. Include specific examples for each of the following:

• Globalization
• Technology
• Innovation
• Diversity
• Ethics

Answer the following questions. Identify each questions by chapter and number and write your responses after each.

 

What is meant by the idea that race, class, and gender are interactive systems rather than individual variables? Think about your own family of orientation, and take one particular aspect of your family life as an example. Discuss briefly how race, class, and gender act simultaneously to shape that aspect of your family life.

 

Most people agree that marriages and families underwent major changes during the last half of the twentieth century; however, few people link these changes to larger societal changes that have taken place. Identify some of the major changes that have taken place during the past 50 years (for example, in transportation, technology, and social welfare policies), and discuss their impact on contemporary marriages and families. Reflect on your own family and consider how one such change has affected your family and/or families like yours.

 

Why do sociologists need different theoretical perspectives to explain marriage and family behavior? Why isn’t one perspective sufficient?

 

Identify a family from a culture other than the United States. Interview family members in terms of a range of issues, including family values, norms, customs, and rituals relative to marriage, childbearing, and childrearing. Compare your findings to families born and raised in the United States. How does your research help you to understand these sociological concepts, and what does it tell us about the diversity of marriages and families?

 

As discussed in this chapter, marriages and families today are faced with a myriad of challenges such as home foreclosures, unemployment, violence, poverty, and racism. If you were a member of a team charged with developing social policy pertaining to American families, what aspect of family life would you focus on, how might you research the topic, and what kind of policy(ies) might you suggest to policy makers?

 

Write a 350- to 700-word summary of what you have learned about Organizational Behavior from your current readings. Include the following in your summary:

 

• Explain the connection between organizational behavior and your selected job skills from the matrix.
• Discuss how these job skills can lead to improved job performance.
• Explain how Organizational Behavior can aid you in decision-making and problem-solving.
• Predict the consequences of unethical behavior in the workplace.

In your textbook, you learned about several commonly used mixed method designs. Identify two different types of studies where a mixed methods approach would be the most advantageous to the success of a study. Which of the common mixed method do you most identify, and which one would you be less likely to implement? Explain your reasoning for both.

Please answer the following questions:

 

1. Do the annual variations in Earth-Sun distance adequately account for seasonal temperature changes?  Explain.

 

2. Describe how latent heat is transferred from the Earth’s surface (land-ocean) to the atmosphere?

 

3. Explain why the atmosphere is heated chiefly by radiation from the Earth’s surface rather than by direct solar radiation.

 

We face challenging barriers to effective communication in the healthcare field. As our world becomes smaller, we are in constant contact with patients, colleagues, or consumers from culturally diverse backgrounds and we need to develop our skills to improve effective communication.

Using the South University Online Library, search the following articles:

• The Role of Nursing in Bridging the Gap between Managers and Physicians in Hospitals
• Improving Communication in the Health Care Setting

Based on your research, answer the questions below writing at least five sentences per question in a Microsoft Word document. You need to think of a communication with a healthcare professional colleague to answer the following questions:

• What barriers to effective communication could occur with a health care professional colleague who is culturally diverse? How can these barriers affect patient outcome when effective communication is essential?
• What assumptions can you make about a healthcare professional colleague you do not know well? How can these assumptions impact your communication if your customs are different from your healthcare professional colleague’s customs and you do not understand their customs completely?
• How can you overcome language barriers or make assumptions not based on facts to increase team unity and motivation? How important is it for you to take responsibility and improve your cultural competence?

Now you need to think of a communication with a patient or a consumer and answer the following questions:

• What specific language barriers can result when you communicate with a patient or a consumer who speaks limited English? How can you gather information or educate when language barriers are present?
• How do you adjust to conflicting values or traditions from patients in a specific religion or culture? For example, patients who are Jehovah’s Witness religion may refuse blood products or other religions may not eat pork. How do you adjust dietary restrictions communicating in a collaborative manner with the dietary department?
• What are the benefits of a healthcare organization to provide cultural awareness and training for each employee to better understand and accept others? Does your current or past organization provide cultural awareness training? If not, what will be your recommendation to your management team?
• Select one culture other than your own and describe how this culture may deal with death and mourning.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

References:

Kaissi, A. (2008). The role of nursing in bridging the gap between managers and

physicians in hospitals. The Health Care Manager, 27(2), 113–117.

Ponte, C. D. (2011). Improving communication in the health care setting. American

Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 68(8), 666–667.