• Policy and Planning Constraints

  Locate an example of a policy or guideline from an external source to a healthcare organization. Explain how this policy or guidlines may be a constraint to a healthcare organization’s planning, or how it may shape the healthcare organization’s philosophy. For example, given that the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidelines on child vaccinations, these guidelines might impact the ability of the healthcare organization to deliver services to newborns and infants. Using a similar example, as well as the characteristics of effective plans as your framework, discuss how proper planning can help organizations in their future decision making.

  Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers.  In commenting on the policies that your classmates have presented, describe the relationship between the political environment and health care decision making.  Why are they so interconnected?

• The Control Process

  The control process involves three phases that are cyclic: establishing standards, measuring performance, and correcting deviations. Examine the manner in which health care leaders progress through each phase of the control process to manage organizations.  What is the management function of controlling as related to performance improvement?  What tools are used to measure and monitor performance?  Please describe at least two functions and two tools in your response.

 

 

Employee Selection and Training Paper

 

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you examine the role of industrial/organizational psychology in selecting and training employees. In your examination, address the following:

• Choose at least two real-world examples of how organizations have used industrial/organizational psychology to select and train employees.
• Discuss methods to measure the level of success of each training program.
• Discuss any legal and/or ethical concerns that may arise in the implementation of each training program.

Include at least three references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Create  a 7-12 slide power point presentation with speaker notes using the 5×5 format  answering the following questions:

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of easily obtainable information?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media?
• Create a 7-12 slide power point presentation with speaker notes using the 5×5 format answering the following questions:What are the advantages and disadvantages of easily obtainable information?
  What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media?

  Create  a 7-12 slide power point presentation with speaker notes using the 5×5 format  answering the following questions:

  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of easily obtainable information?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media?
  • How might knowing these advantages and disadvantages alter how a person might use social media?
  • What credibility issues can arise from information on the Internet?

  Have both a title page and a reference page using APA

  Format consistent with APA formatting guidelines.

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  Write a 350- to 700-word summary describing using three different social media platforms with the objective of networking within your career field (Health Information Technology). Use your current social media accounts, or create new ones. Incorporate research regarding how to present a professional profile on social media platforms and discuss your experience in the paper.

  Cite at least one resource.

  Format consistent with APA formatting guidelines.

  What credibility issues can arise from information on the Internet?

  Have both a title page and a reference page using APA

  Format consistent with APA formatting guidelines.

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  Write a 350- to 700-word summary describing using three different social media platforms with the objective of networking within your career field (Health Information Technology). Use your current social media accounts, or create new ones. Incorporate research regarding how to present a professional profile on social media platforms and discuss your experience in the paper.

  Cite at least one resource.

  Format consistent with APA formatting guidelines.

• What credibility issues can arise from information on the Internet?

Have both a title page and a reference page using APA

Format consistent with APA formatting guidelines.

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Write a 350- to 700-word summary describing using three different social media platforms with the objective of networking within your career field (Health Information Technology). Use your current social media accounts, or create new ones. Incorporate research regarding how to present a professional profile on social media platforms and discuss your experience in the paper.

Cite at least one resource.

Format consistent with APA formatting guidelines.

Human Resource: Employment Law and Labor Relation

No plagiarism, have to turn it in to TURNITIN program.

 

The second research paper for this class will focus on labor relations law, and you will have two options to choose from.  Despite the longevity of labor unions in the US, the existence and power of unions remain an issue in our society. Recent history reveals a decline in union membership and power after a peak in the 1960s and 70s. The past few years have seen passage in many states of so-called Right to Work laws which further erode the power of unions. And public employees have seen their wages and benefits under attack as school districts, cities and states scramble to balance budgets by cutting expenditures.

 

Option 1.

Despite the current conditions, unions have not given up and, in some instances, are trying new approaches or new locations to expand membership.   One such effort is the ongoing attempt by the United Auto Workers (UAW) to establish a foothold in auto factories in the South. An attempt was made at a VW plant in Tennessee early in 2014, and after a contentious and divisive campaign, the UAW lost a close election. However, the UAW apparently was not discouraged by this outcome and are at it again. In 2015 the UAW has continued an effort to organize a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, as well as the VW plant in Tennessee.

Search the web for all you can find both on the effort to unionize the VW plant in Tennessee and the Mercedes plant in Alabama.  The paper you will write will essentially have two sections, and should be appropriately separated. In section 1 you should analyze the approach/strategy utilized by the UAW in Tennessee, with the approach used in Alabama. What are the differences and similarities between the approaches? Are conditions in the two plants similar or different that would justify using either the same or a different approach? Why do you think they again focused on a plant making a German brand, what is the significance of doing so? Discuss these questions and whether you think the UAW will be any more successful this time around, in either Tennessee or Alabama.

In section 2 of the paper you will need to explore the social, political, and economic factors at play in the South. Why is an anti-union attitude apparently so prevalent in the South? Who does this opposition to unions benefit and why? Who does it harm and why? Would union-level wages and benefits provide an economic boost to many of the Southern states that have some of the lowest average incomes and highest levels of poverty in the nation? Why or why not? What do you believe are the reasons behind the oppositionto unions in the South? And why is the UAW determined to unionize plants there?

 

Option 2.

The paper you will write will have two sections, and should be appropriately separated.

The United Auto Workers Union (UAW) has been engaged in contract negotiations with the Big 3 Automakers in Detroit for many months. Starting with Fiat Chrysler earlier in the fall, then General Motors, and now with Ford, union leadership has had trouble gaining the requisite number of votes from the union membership in affected plants to approve the agreements, which were hammered out with the companies. And now, employees of the Kohler Company in Wisconsin, also represented by the UAW, went on strike the week of November 16.

In section 1 – research these separate but possibly related situations. Identify and discuss the issue(s) that are leading auto company workers to resist and possibly reject the agreements negotiated by their leadership, and the issue(s) that caused the Kohler workers to strike. Are the issues similar from situation to situation? Please explain why or why not? In your opinion, will resolution of these issues favorably for the workers help to strengthen the UAW in the long run or weaken it?  And lastly, are these situations caused by a failure of the union leadership, or by economic and/or societal and/or political factors beyond their control?  Fully discuss all these questions.

In section 2 of the paper you will need to look at potential efforts to organize workers in a broad spectrum of organizations/industries, including Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and Quicken Loans. Look into these or other situations you come across in your research. Who is behind the effort(s) – is it workers seeking higher wages and/or other benefits, or is there a union behind the efforts attempting to expand its membership? What is the general profile of the workers in these organizations/industries – younger or older, blue collar or white collar, low income or middle/high income? Can you draw any parallels with the workers in these organizations/industries and their issues & concerns, with the workers and their issues & concerns in the Big 3 auto companies and in Kohler? Finally , do you think these efforts indicate a renewed interest or faith in unions or will unions continue to decline in popularity and strength? Discuss fully.

 

For either Option – write a 6-8 page paper (exclusive of cover and reference pages). The paper must be word-processed, double-spaced with 1” margins, 12 point font, follow APA 6^th Edition format, and be free of spelling and grammatical errors. At a minimum, you should utilize, cite within the text of your paper, and reference at least three sources for each of the two sections. Please see the rubric in the Weekly Materials section to fully understand the expectations and grading scheme for this assignment.

 

 

When faced with a problem, what do you do to solve it? This assignment asks you to apply a six-step to problem solving process to a specific problem scenario. You will write a paper that presents a synthesis of your ideas about solving the problem using this systematic approach. As Voltaire said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

Choose one (1) of the problem scenarios as a topic choice for your paper (Note: Your professor must approve your topic choice before you begin work on the assignment.)

Scenario 1: You have worked at your company for eleven (11) years. You have returned to college to earn a Bachelor’s degree in order to increase your chances for a promotion. You are nearly finished with your degree, when a supervisor’s position in a competing company becomes available in another state. The start date is in two (2) weeks, during your final exam period for your courses. The position offers a $15,000 per year salary increase, a car allowance, and relocation expenses. Your former supervisor works for the company and is recommending you for the position based on your outstanding job performance; if you want the job, it’s yours. All of the other supervisors at this level in the company have Master’s degrees, so you know that you would be expected to earn your Bachelor’s degree and continue on to a Master’s degree. Your present company offers tuition reimbursement, but the new company does not.

Scenario 2: Your child comes home from school with an assignment sheet for a school project. He / she is very excited about the project and begins work immediately, doing research on the Internet and gathering materials. You read over the assignment sheet and notice that your child is not including all of the required items in the project, and you have some ideas for how to improve the quality of the presentation. You recently read an article in a parenting magazine about the importance of a child developing responsibility for his/ her own learning. You recall the many ways in which your parents took over your school projects. You, on the other hand, want to encourage your child’s confidence in his / her ability to complete a project independently. The next day, you are at the grocery store when you see a parent of a student in your child’s class. That parent has spent over $30 in supplies for the science project and is taking a day off of work to put the pieces of the project together.

Scenario 3: You have two jobs—one during the week from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and one on Saturday from 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm. You are taking two classes—one that meets from 6:00 to 10:00 pm, and one class online. You have two kids—one who plays soccer, and one who is in band. You have two elderly parents who no longer drive. You have two siblings—one who lives two (2) miles away, and one who lives in another state. You have two (2) papers due in your classes the same week that one (1) of your children has a soccer tournament, and the other child has a band concert. You are coaching the soccer team, and you are in charge of fundraising for the band. You have a goal to complete your degree in two (2) years. Your doctor tells you that your blood pressure, your cholesterol, and your weight are too high and recommends several medications that cost you nearly $200 per month after your insurance co-pay.

Scenario 4: You are a sales representative for a company that encourages staff to log time in the field and away from the office. You are expected to begin and end your day at the office. You notice that each day when you arrive and return another co-worker is already there, and you wonder whether this person spends most of his / her time at the office. At your weekly sales meeting, you are informed of your co-workers’ outstanding sales performance. You suspect that this co-worker is spending more time flattering the boss instead of working leads in the field, and as a result is getting the best client referrals. Your own sales numbers have steadily decreased since this other sales representative was hired.

Scenario 5: Professor’s Choice – problem scenario presented by your professor.

Scenario 6: Student’s Choice – Problem scenario presented by you.

Review the six-step problem solving process outlined in the webtext, based on the article “The Problem Solving Process” located at http://www.gdrc.org/decision/problem-solve.html:

• Step One: Define the problem
• Step Two: Analyze the problem
• Step Three: Generate options
• Step Four: Evaluate options
• Step Five: Make your decision
• Step Six: Implement and reflect

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Define the problem in the scenario that you have chosen.

2. Analyze the problem in the scenario.

3. Generate options for solving the problem in the scenario.

4. Evaluate the options for solving the problem.

5. Decide on the best option for solving the problem.

6. Explain how you will implement the decision made and reflect on whether this option was the most effective.

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

Competition in Health Care

One of the trends marking the continuing transformation of the U.S. health care industry is the dramatic increase in the pace of competition. The heightened competition is taking place among hospitals, health plans, physician groups, and drug companies, and between physicians and hospitals, and hospitals and health plans. Listen to the Looking Ahead: The Future of Health Care Policy podcast from National Public Radio (NPR). Then, prepare a three- to five-page paper in which you:

• Describe the different forms of competition that take place among various types of health care organizations.
• Evaluate the benefits and pitfalls of competition in health care and suggest alternatives if competition was not the primary driver of operations in the U.S. health care system.
• Explain the elements of successful competition and the use of competitive intelligence.
• Describe the influence competition has on the services offered by health care organizations and the choices patients have.

Your paper must be three to five double-spaced pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly sources that were published within the last five years. One source must be obtained from the Ashford University Library and focus on competition health care. All sources must be documented in APA style as outlined.

Describe a minimum of five challenges from the list below that are defining the future strategic direction of health care.

ENGLISH

D1)“Incorporating Graphics Into the Justification Report” Please respond to the following:

• This week, you are to add a graph to your Justification Report. Discuss how you’ll approach this part of your assignment, and state the main reasons why you feel that graphs are a necessary part of a formal report.
• From Part 1 of this discussion, determine the main benefits of using graphs in the report presentation. Next, explain the manner in which a creatively constructed graph might help you to better manage and present your data.

D2)Putting it all Together – Revising the Justification Report”  Please respond to the following:

• This week, you will utilize the techniques that you have studied in your readings to revise your Justification Report while adding the final parts. Based on your readings, state three (3) things that you will be looking for as you revise and proofread (e.g. organization, structure, grammar elements). Discuss the strategies that you will implement to ensure that your assignment is polished and in final draft format.

1. The Big Short by Michael Lewis.

Introduction:                   

In non-capitalist countries like Communist China (described in MacGregor’s The Party) there is one dominant way of getting rich. One must be a member of the ruling elite and use that membership to gain an unfair advantage in the marketplace. The unfair advantage can take many forms, exclusion of foreign competitors, e.g. keeping Google and Gmail out of the Chinese market, a monopoly on the ownership of a natural resource, destruction of competitors through bureaucratic action, preferential access to credit, or simply jailing competitors. In the few cases, where people in non-capitalist countries get rich without an unfair advantage, being a member of the ruling elite (or at least bribing one of them) is required to maintain and protect that wealth. Non-members have no chance of getting and staying wealthy.

In capitalist free market societies, ordinary people can get and stay rich on their own. One way is to invent a new product or a more efficient way of producing an existing one. An example of the latter, described in The Frackers, is technological innovations in oil production which lowered the cost of extracting oil in certain geologic rock formations. Once the technological innovation was discovered people used the free market to capture a portion of the innovation’s value making themselves rich. Drilling rights that were worth little without the new technology were bought and when the technologies benefits became widely known, the new owners profited greatly from producing oil cheaply using the new technology and from the capital appreciation of their drilling rights. Ordinary people with no political power or connections got rich.

A second way is by betting/investing on new products that will be highly demanded or a new technology that will lower the cost of producing existing products. Those who bought Microsoft stock or Google stock before they dominated the operating system and search engine markets profited greatly without actually inventing any new technology or creating a new product. Early investors got rich not by creating new products or discovering new technologies themselves, they got rich by anticipating which products and technologies would ultimately succeed and using financial markets to bet on them.

A related way of getting rich is described in The Big Short. The Big Short tells the story of how economically savvy investors predicted how demand for a good would change in the future and used financial markets to bet on their prediction.

A key feature of this story is how these investors used exotic financial instruments to create leverage, i.e. used exotic financial instruments so that for each $1 they bet they would win hundreds or thousands of dollars if they were proved correct.

The Big Short is the story of how a good understanding of economic theory was used by ordinary people to make themselves fabulously wealthy in a free market capitalist system.

Paper Assignment.

Part 1. Using the draw tools in Word, show what happened to the demand for housing by drawing the demand for housing in 2005, 2006, and 2009. Explain what caused demand to change over this period.

Part 2.  If one wanted to speculate in the sub-prime mortgage bond market, explain the difference between buying a sub-prime mortgage, buying a sub-prime mortgage bond, and buying a sub-prime credit default swap (CDS) and how these financial instruments can be used to bet for profit.

Part 3. Explain the concept of leverage and how it applies to credit default swaps.

Part 4. Consider the players described in The Big Short. These include the large Wall Street firms and insurance companies AIG, Deustche Bank, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Citibank, and Charlie Ledley of Cornwall Capital, Steve Eismann of FrontPoint Partners, Michael Burry, Greg Lippman, etc. Describe the nature of speculation in the sub-prime mortgage market and identify who was betting on what.

Part 5. In the end, U.S. taxpayers ended up paying almost a trillion dollars to bail out various Wall Street financial institutions. What role did government regulation of financial markets play in the events described in The Big Short.  Consider the Do Nothing Policy discussed in lecture and apply it to the events described in The Big Short.

Notes and Submission Instructions

The paper assignment asks you to answer very specific questions. It is not a book report or an opportunity to wax eloquent on a subject of your choosing. The assignment is to produce answers to specific questions. Your score will be determined by your answer to these questions and the integration of the examples into your argument.

The paper should be no less than 1500 words (~5pages). There is no maximum length.

please include introduction and conclusion

 

Do you believe the Canadian government should begin to provide more subsidies and grants to small-scale, local food producers, rather than continuing to follow the current model which sees large-scale, agribusiness (our largest farms) supported most strongly with tax-payer dollars?

Discuss the ramifications of both scenarios and suggest how you feel this issue influences food security for Canadians, as well as the implications for our environment and the Canadian economy.

Body need 1500 words

 

Please use APA style referencing throughout your paper.