Specify whether you would utilize the professional autonomy, social contract, or free market perspective as the paradigm to design the structure of your new center
As a chief operating officer of a hospital, you have been tasked with opening a new ambulatory care center in your city.
Write a 2-3 page paper in which you:
Specify whether you would utilize the professional autonomy, social contract, or free market perspective as the paradigm to design the structure of your new center. Debate at least two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of your chosen perspective. Provide at least two (2) examples of your perspective in action to support your response.
Analyze the key components of three (3) sources of law related to the effects that each source could potentially have on your healthcare organizations new initiative.
Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Identify the role projects play in meeting the goals of an organization.
Competency
Identify the role projects play in meeting the goals of an organization.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You have just been hired as a Project Manager for Kingston-Bryce Limited and have been assigned your first project. Kingston-Bryce Limited (KBL) is a custom furniture manufacturer that specializes in hand-crafted dining room tables. The Board of Directors has identified an opportunity to purchase a competitor that also specializes in custom furniture. The acquisition of the competitor will enable KBL to expand operations and triple their workforce and will take 18 months to complete. In order for this acquisition to be successful, you will need to use your project management skills to ensure success.
Instructions
Your first task is to create a project plan outline for the Board of Directors in Microsoft Word or Excel. You will need to create the timeline in Excel and copy that timeline into the Word Document. The project outline is essential for documenting all of the necessary tasks and milestones necessary to complete the project. The project is expected to take 18 months to complete, and the major milestones are broken up by quarters. You will need to be creative and develop the following items as if you were running the project.
What business-level strategy are you pursuing? Explain why.
Reflection #1
What business-level strategy are you pursuing? Explain why.
Provide at least three examples of how that strategy influenced decisions you made.
Reflection #2
Tell me about the most important thing that you spent money on in this round. Why is that investment so important? How do you expect it to pay off by Year 15 (three years from now)?
Did you have to give up spending on something else in order to accommodate this? If so, what? Are you concerned about the implications of that?
Final Presentation Instructions
Final Presentation: This assignment requires a minimum of 5 slides plus your script. Your presentation should be posted as a PPT or PDF. Your script should be separate either an MS Word or PDF file. You need to post both attachments at the same time using the same submission link.
All presentations must feature:
Identification and explanation of your strategy and if/how that strategy evolved throughout the simulation.
A visual depiction of results/progress over the course of the simulation. You select the metric. Explain the decisions that contributed to this result.
Description of one or more key decisions that did NOT work out for you.
Description of one or more key decisions that DID work out for you.
Ideas for remaining slide(s):
How did your treat your employees? Explain those decisions.
Describe your image ratings and the activities that contributed to those ratings.
Describe a key element of your marketing strategy this could include product (branded v. private label, number of models, enhanced features), price, distribution (wholesale, internet, private label) or promotion (celebrity endorsements, internet marketing) decisions.
Describe your approach to international markets. How important was this to your success?
Identify an special awards achieved during the simulation. Was this a strategic target? Which decisions contributed to those awards?
What would a divine command ethicist say is the moral thing to do here? Why would they say that?
Initial Post Instructions
St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God knows already what we will do. God can cause anything to occur. If we cause things to occur, that seems to be a limitation on the power of God and not make God all-powerful.
There are also religion traditions that say that we have no free will. There are some theologians in Islam who seem to suggest that is true. In order for this line of reasoning to hold true, one would need to believe free will is an illusion and that we have no control over how we live our lives, but rather that we are puppets moving and acting due to Gods will and the powers of destiny and fate. And if this then in the case, how can we possibly be responsible for our actions?
The considerations above show us to what degree our religious beliefs can shape us. For instance, someone who believes in free will may experience way more guilt than someone who believes we dont have free will and thus arent responsible for the choices (and consequences) of the actions we take.
Personal struggles with religion and ethics occur in many places, including in the healthcare arena. Consider the following: You are a nurse in a hospital. A 12 year-old was brought to the hospital by an ambulance. The parents have just arrived at the hospital. This 12 year-old has lost a large amount of blood and requires a transfusion. The parents happen to be members of a religion that believes that blood transfusions are immoral. They want to remove the child from the hospital and prevent the transfusion even if it means the death of the child. You have to decide whether or not you will participate in an action that violates the will of the parents and aid in providing blood for the child. If you choose to participate, and even if you are able to legally justify it, you have to think about the distress you are creating for the parents. If you refuse to aid here, you may be subject to retaliation from the hospital. What is the moral thing for the nurse to do here?
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, address the following questions:
What would a divine command ethicist say is the moral thing to do here? Why would they say that? Do you agree with the divine command ethics? Why or why not?
Evaluate what a natural law ethicist would say is right to do. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?
Given what you said are the right things to do, what would an emotivist say about your positions and judgments? What role does subjectivity play here in determining what is ethical?
When promoting and publicizing a sporting event, social media and the use of technology have become great tools for reaching an audience of consumers
When promoting and publicizing a sporting event, social media and the use of technology have become great tools for reaching an audience of consumers. Please do some research online, in the Sports Business Journal, or through other outlets to find an example of a sports organization that has made effective use of social media and technology in reaching spectators. Or, if you have experience in this area either personally or as a fan, you can share that experience. What did you like about their social media campaign and is there anything else that you would suggest to enhance their efforts?
How information is gathered for writing a statement of present levels of performance from both formal and informal assessments.
For your 20 hours of field experience in this course, you will spend time in a K-3 classroom where you can observe children with exceptionalities; interview the teacher; facilitate short, small group pre- and post-assessments; and, deliver a lesson. The classroom may be inclusive or a resource room. Directions for each field experience are provided across Topics 2, 3, 4 and 5.
For this topics field experience, you will observe the K-3 class you selected, noting students with exceptionalities and their behaviors and accommodations. Ask to review at least two IEPs and look at how the present levels of performance were reported. Observe the students with the IEPs and how they are doing on their goals. Please remember that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of student records.
In addition, interview your mentor teacher and discuss the following:
How information is gathered for writing a statement of present levels of performance from both formal and informal assessments.
How information is interpreted and combined from a variety of sources to inform what is included in a statement of present levels of performance.
How your mentor teacher uses the information in the present levels of performance to inform goals and instructional activities for students.
The process of identifying students for special education from a teachers perspective.
Legal responsibilities for referring, identifying, and enrolling special education students.
The importance of being committed to the ethical use of various assessments and assessment data to identify learner strengths and needs to promote learner growth.
Ask your mentor teacher for a copy of parents Procedural Safeguards as well as a blank copy of the Prior Written Notice document.
Allocate at least 5 hours in the field to support this assignment.
Write a 250-500 word reflection summarizing what you learned from your observations and interview, your conclusions from the experiences, and how you can apply what you learned toward your future practice as a teacher.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected
What is a marketing plan?
You will conduct Internet research on the topic of marketing plans for small businesses. Share these various websites found on these topics here the weekly discussion board area, and discuss the following:
What is a marketing plan? Why do companies prepare a marketing plan? Have you ever created or read about a marketing plan prior to this course?
What is your opinion of the authors suggestion to limit / downscale communications of people utilizing these platforms?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Discuss any point(s) that you found interesting or controversial.
What is your opinion of the authors suggestion to limit / downscale communications of people utilizing these platforms?
Have you ever been involved in a sexual harassment case or heard of anybody who was involved?
Discussion_Harassment in the Workplace
Watch the three (3) videos Harassment in the Workplace.
Harassment in the Workplace Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dvvzxJm8qA
Harassment in the Workplace Part 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rgAj1gDQIE
Harassment in the Workplace Part 3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqlJgTnSX0o
Then answer the following questions:
Have you ever been involved in a sexual harassment case or heard of anybody who was involved? Please, share this experience.
If you were Wendy (the sale assistant in the 1st video), what would you do differently? If you were the Branch Manager (the story teller), what would you do differently?
With reference to any of the scenarios presented in the three videos, how would you manage things differently?
What skills are involved in being a radio listener?
On Halloween eve in 1938, there was an adaptation of H.G. Wells 1898 novel War of the Worlds on the radio series Mercury Theatre of the Air. Orson Welles produced, hosted, and acted in this series, which adapted mystery, science fiction and other drama for radio. Welles aired the 1898 Martian invasion novel (War of the Worlds) in the style of a radio news program. For people who missed the opening disclaimer, the program sounded like a real news report!
The production was scripted in the form of fake news flashes that repeatedly interrupted musical recordings. The first news flash reported strange activity sighted on Mars. The next interruption was an urgent message saying a meteor had crashed near Grovers Mills, New Jersey. Then came a live report from the New Jersey site saying it wasnt a meteor at all but Martians with death-ray guns who had just killed one thousand people. Remember, all of this was scripted and it was an adaptation of an earlier novel. The Mercury Theatre of the Air regularly adapted novels to perform for this radio program.
Even though there had been a strong disclaimer at the beginning of the broadcast saying the story was only make-believe, there were some real consequences. The radio play was misinterpreted by some to be an actual news story. People crowded into churches, highways became jam-packed with cars, and many people put on gas masks. In one unlucky town in Washington State, an actual power failure magnified the frenzy and horror. Thousands of people, believing they were under attack by Martians, flooded newspaper offices and radio and police stations with calls, asking how to flee their city or how they should protect themselves from gas raids. Scores of adults reportedly required medical treatment for shock and hysteria. There were even reports of people committing suicide out of fear of the Martians invading New Jersey.
Instructions
After listening to a part of the broadcast (see below), answer the following questions in 4 5 pages double spaced.
Your written responses should be a minimum of 4 pages (if you include all the questions, please do not count this in the page count. If you use 1/4 of the page for your name and title, please do not include this in the page count). Please us 12 point font, 1 inch margins, double spaced.
You may want to read the following article for further information about the radio broadcast before answering the questions: National Geographic article: War of the Worlds: Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2005/06/war-of-the-worlds-behind-the-panic/
For this assignment, listen to about 15 minutes of the broadcast War of the Worlds. (Pay attention to the first 11 seconds, from the beginning to 0:11 when it is introduced as a show. Listeners who missed the introduction and disclaimer that this was a broadcast based on a novel were more likely to believe this was true.)
War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
Questions:
What skills are involved in being a radio listener? In other words, how is reading or interpreting the radio program different from reading a television program? Discuss the differences.
Comment on what elements would have been familiar to the listeners and what elements contributed to the panic.
Were these people media illiterate? Or did the Mercury Theatre broadcast play against peoples media literacy? (That is, you had to know something of the conventions to make it real.) (The National Geographic article discusses this a bit).
Was this (unintended?) duping of the American public by Welless Halloween broadcast something that could have happened only in the 1930s? Have Americans become more sophisticated in their consumption of media? Have you heard about misinformation that has been passed on via the Internet as if it were correct information?
Discuss any other comments or reactions to this radio broadcast, which is one of the most famous of all time
