Week 4 Discussion

 

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lectures:

Discussion Questions

Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link “Doing Discussion Questions Right” and any specific instructions for this topic.

Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your classmates’ responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses in the Discussion Area.

Introduction:

By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub-questions of each bullet point. The sub-questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your peers have already posted so that we can engage in several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to reuse the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

Tasks:

Question 1:

Evaluate an article from the South University Online Library or Harvard Business Review that discusses female expatriates.

Question 2:

Analyze the effectiveness of the predeparture training for an expatriate.

Submission Details:

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite all sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 500–1,000 words as noted in the attached PDF.

write a essay in 2 hours

  Looking back at this subject’s aims to take a sociological view of HRM, organisations and society, reflect on the ways in which you (1) see the general in the particular and (2) see the strange in the familiar (min. 300 words).  

Health Care Managaement paper

 This assignment is a mini research paper on levels of care. You will describe the various types of care (primary, secondary, tertiary), and provide an example for each. You must use at least three scholarly resources. Think about access to each level of care and explain how patients enter each.

Make sure your paper is no less than THREE pages in length,double-spaced, font 12, Times New Roman. Follow APA guidelines for in text citations and references.

write a essay

 

The aim of this task is to analyse a contemporary industrial relations issue using relevant theory.
Students will select a recent Australian case with implications for employment relations. Examples are:

  •  Australian Cricketers – ACA (2017)
  • Chemist Warehouse – NUW (2019)
  • DP World – MUA (ongoing)
  • Port Kembla Coal – CFMEU (2016-2019)
  • Alcoa – AWU (2017-2019)

Your Task

  1. Provide a brief history and context of the case. You should outline the nature of the issues, show the significance of the case, and the outcome of the bargaining or predictions of possible outcomes.
  2. Examine the views and positions of the different parties or actors in the case and how these relate to each other.
  3. Outline any relevant legal, political, social, economic or technological aspects to the issue and how these factors shape the issues.
  4. If you were a neutral consultant on the case, what solutions or policy recommendations would you put forward in order to safeguard both economic productivity and workers’ voice and welfare?
  5. Utilise relevant theory and literature to explain the underlying causes of the issues and possible solutions.

Length – 1500 words (excluding the reference list) (+/- 10%)

signature course project

 

By the end of the week, submit your completed Negotiation Analysis Paper. Please refer to the Signature Course Project Overview page in Introduction & Resources for paper expectations, assignments, and point breakdowns.

Remember to submit your assignment for grading when finished.

hi230 Quality Assurance and Statisticin health

 

Six Sigma
Your Reading defines Six Sigma as “using statistics for measuring variation in a process with the intent of producing error free results.” Is this possible in health care? What is your personal and professional opinion on this? Explain your response.

Shaw and Carter, Quality and Performance Improvement in Health Care, 7th edition, AHIMA 2020, page 32.

Management Challenges

 What do you think future challenges will be for managers in the U.S. as well as globally considering the current economic environment as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic? How do you think these challenges differ from those experienced pre-COVID-19? 

 

Top 10 Challenges Managers Face in 2015: http://online.ben.edu/programs/mba/resources/challenges-managers-face-in-2015 (Links to an external site.) 

The new challenges businesses may face in a world changed by COVID-19: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-new-challenges-businesses-may-face-in-a-world-changed-by-covid-19

Find a relevant source discussing this topic and share your thoughts when you submit your post.

Remember:

  1. Include a link to the article/video used as a source 
  2. Write a brief synopsis of your article or video.
  3. Answer the questions(s)/prompt(s) above and share your thoughts.

“Role and Functions of HR”

 

Role and Functions of HR

Overview

As part of an orientation program for new managers, HR has developed a section of the orientation designed to help new managers learn more about HR’s functions and role in helping them become more effective in handling their HR responsibilities.

Using the course readings and articles, address the role of human resource management. Support your analysis with a minimum of three credible sources of research. (Keep in mind this document is meant for an orientation. The new managers may or may not have a strong understanding of the role of HR in health care.)

Instructions

Write an informational, 2 pages handout that addresses the following:

  1. Determine the key roles that human resource management plays in today’s health care organizations.
  2. Evaluate three to five core functions of human resource management in terms of their level of support to a health care organization.
  3. Justify which HR function you believe is the most important in helping a health care organization achieve its strategy.
  4. Analyze the role of human resource management in an organization’s strategic plan.
  5.  Locate at least three quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

” Legislative Act”

 

  • Predict the next legislative act that you believe will have the greatest impact on HR, managers, and employees.
  • Justify your answer accordingly.

Organizational Change Case Study Submit Assignment

Directions

Consider this case study of Fremont, California featured in your textbook and answer the following questions:

When Jan Perkins became city manager of Fremont, California, in 1992, Fremont like many other California cities, was suffering from both economic difficulties and the state’s efforts to pull back the property tax as a source of local government revenue. Yet while city employees were being laid off and services were being reduced, citizen demand for quality public services remained high. More important in Perkins’ mind was the fact that citizens had lost confidence in their government. For both of these reasons, Perkins and other city officials in Fremont recognized that something dramatically different had to be done.

The change process started early in Perkins’ tenure, as one of her council members proposed bringing in an outside consultant (at a cost of $500,000) to diagnose what might be done. Especially because a neighboring city had just done the same thing and failed to adopt a single recommendation, Perkins believed that greater benefits could be obtained by working with those within the city to figure out how the quality and productivity of the city might be improved. A facilitated workshop session involving top elected and appointed officials was devoted to understanding “what we do, how we do it, and why we do it.” From there, the question became, “How can we do it better and how can we become fast and flexible, customer oriented, focused on results, and engaged in important partnerships internally and externally?”

During the 5 years following the workshop, Perkins led a dramatic change in Fremont’s city government – a change built around delivering high-quality services to citizens, creating an internal culture built around continuous and employee-driven improvement, using a highly collaborative approach to decision-making and problem-solving, and building partnerships within the city and with surrounding communities.

The city’s interest in customer service was given initial priority as complaints regarding service quality were heard loud and clear. Perkins and her senior staff began to concentrate on developing a serious philosophical and practical commitment to service quality. The message to employees was that if they saw a way in which the citizens of Fremont could be better served by city government, then they should take action. In addition, the city’s capacity to innovate was aided by a much more collaborative approach to decision-making and problem-solving which cut across traditional organizational boundaries. Whatever their positions, employees were encouraged to think of themselves as representatives of the city and to do what was necessary to provide citizens with the answers they need. This attitude was also supported by a strong emphasis on partnerships and collaborations at many different levels in the organization. Early in the process of labor negotiation, Perkins created joint labor-management committees to consider “quality of work life” issues through a structured problem-solving process known as interest-based bargaining. This collaborative process encourages participants to identify their basic interests (before jumping to solutions) and then to engage in collaborative problem-solving to find a way of accommodating the varied interests represented. Interest-based bargaining was so highly successful in labor-management relations that the same approach has been encouraged throughout city government. Training in the process has been offered to all employees of the city, and interest-based bargaining has become a standard way of doing business in Fremont.

The same approach to building partnerships through collaborative efforts is used as the city relates to citizens and to other nearby governmental entities. City employees do not just inform citizens about what is going to be done to them. They also go out and ask citizens what they want and then balance those interests with those of the city. Beyond that, city employees and citizens engage in interest-based problem-solving even around issues of how to design a process to involve the public. The city engineer commented, “We do more than tell them what we are going to do. We go out now and involve them in the design of the process itself. The process is laid out by the people involved.”

  1. What apprehensions or resistance to change do you find present in this case example? Provide specific examples from the textbook and case study.
  2. Of the approaches to bringing about change discussed in our assigned textbook reading, analyze the leadership strategies and techniques that Perkins employed in bringing about successful organizational change. Provide specific examples from the textbook and case study.
  3. Reflecting on the differences between not for profit and for profit organizations, do you think that Perkins would have been as successful in creating a highly collaborative, employee-driven change if the organization was a private, for profit entity? Why or why not?
  4. Complete the attached self-quiz for your own records and reflection, Orientation Toward Change Self-QuizPreview the document. What did you discover about your own orientation to change? How will you use what you have learned about yourself to effectively lead others toward change?

Format

Students should use the following format for their written assignment.

  • Your paper must include three to four pages of written content.
  • Use APA format and cite sources, as necessary.
  • In addition to the 2 to 3 pages of written content, please include:
    1. Title Page
    2. Appropriate Headings and Sub-Headings
    3. Reference Page (minimum of 2 scholarly references)
  • Use a minimum of 2 scholarly references—scholarly references can include peer-reviewed articles, textbook, journals, and included supplemental resources.