Was there something that prompted your thinking, created questions, or connected to knowledge or experience you have?
Reflection – Community Corrections
Reflections are to be based on the topic we are covering for the week. A reflection consists of your response to information we are reading. Was there something that prompted your thinking, created questions, or connected to knowledge or experience you have?
Your reflection must include information from the text but can also include information from the TED talk or assigned videos. You can also include any outside research sources. Reflection posts are to be a minimum of THREE fully developed paragraphs must include references.
Discuss the influence of the selected social cohesion dimension on the average life expectancy for the selected country’s population.
1 page, APA format, in-text citation, references include ( minimum of 2)
– Topic: You have been assigned as a global health consultant to discuss the SDOH, social cohesion component, as it is applied to one low/middle-income country.
1. Select one low/middle-income country. Provide a basic profile with information relevant to the discussion topic.
2. Select one of the dimensions of social cohesion, including 1) belonging vs. isolation, 2) inclusion vs. exclusion, 3) participation vs. non-involvement, 4) recognition vs. rejection, and 5) legitimacy vs. illegitimacy. (McCracken, 1998)
3 Discuss the influence of the selected social cohesion dimension on the average life expectancy for the selected country’s population.
Describe the best manager you ever had and how he or she communicated with you.
1)Describe the best manager you ever had and how he or she communicated with you. 1.5 page
2) need short respond on this discussion by another member
By XXX- The best manager I have ever had was when I was working in the contact center at a large insurance company. A lot of leaders say they have an “open door policy” but you often feel like you can’t be completely honest, she on the other hand, knew how to execute it. She was empathic while also holding her team accountable. She helped build trust with her and with each other. A lot of her team referred to her as the “team mom” but that did not mean she was a pushover. She always advocated for her team during annual reviews and communicated with us clearly and often. If someone was not pulling their weight, it was never a surprise to them if they received a bad mark. She looked for opportunities that would help us build skills to transfer to other roles in the company and celebrated our successes. She is one of the only leaders that I still keep in contact with to share personal and professional news.
Describe the educational principles derived from Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories.
Describe the educational principles derived from Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories. In your opinion, which is more applicable in an educational setting? Justify your answer.
List several examples of fixed costs for an airline that cannot be avoided because of COVID?
Read the article Below and answer the following questions: 3-4 paragraphs only, no cover page needed.
- Describe in some level of detail how the operating cost structures of any of the major airlines are impacted by COVID on their businesses? Specifically address course variable and fixed costs of an airline.
- As you remember from Module 3, fixed costs are exactly that for the airlines-fixed and unavoidable. List several examples of fixed costs for an airline that cannot be avoided because of COVID?
- Can you think of any examples of what type of business strategies an airline can employ to try to cover, at least in the meantime, some of these fixed costs until their businesses fully recover? Again, be specific and creative, please, in your initial response to this question.
3-4 paragraphs only
The lesson is clear: No matter the obstacles, there will always be people (and cargo) who will fly.
Airlines have added a number of very long international flights to schedules in December, a sign of resilience and necessity in air travel. Some of the new flights are a result of increased holiday travel and cargo demand in key cities. Many will have small passenger loads — 30 or 40 people on a wide-body jet. But with the right cargo load, that’s enough to at least break even on many trips, airlines say.
That also could mean nine, 12, even 18 hours in an enclosed space in the middle of the pandemic, a choice many would-be fliers have avoided. Robust ventilation and air filtration in cabins does reduce, but not eliminate, viral transmission risk. Even with the risks, quarantines and restrictions, the increased flying just shows that there will always be people who need to go.
“Air service is critical. People want to travel — even with a 14-day quarantine, even with all the testing — and these vital travel lanes are key to having those connections,” says Patrick Quayle, vice president of international network and alliances at United.
The number of scheduled passenger flights at least 3,400 miles long — New York-London is 3,451 miles — jumped 23% to 32,317 world-wide in December compared with November, according to Cirium, an aviation data company. December schedules still had 70% fewer flights than December 2019, but the number of flights scheduled was three times as many as the May low for long-haul international trips.
Many countries limit entry to citizens, legal residents or people who get special permission from government agencies. Many require a 14-day quarantine or a negative Covid-19 test. It’s best to check the requirements at the website of the U.S. Embassy of a particular country, or at the U.S. State Department’s travel information page.
Airlines say international passengers typically boil down to dual citizens and legal residents, government officials, health-care officials and family members flying to see dying relatives or attend weddings or other gatherings. The global diaspora of workers has created more demand for air travel even in the pandemic.
“There are still millions of people who have not been able to reunite with their friends and families,” says Mark Drusch, senior vice president of revenue management at Qatar Airways.
Qatar has been somewhat opportunistic during the pandemic, maintaining flights to 30 destinations and actually adding several new cities, including San Francisco. On Tuesday, Qatar announced it will start flying from Doha to Seattle in March — the airline’s 11th U.S. city.
Australia has some of the strictest requirements for travel. It requires 14-day quarantines in a government-designated facility, and inbound flights have restrictions on passenger load based on availability of quarantine beds.
Qantas, Australia’s flag carrier, suspended all international flights except to New Zealand because of government restrictions. But United kept going with a daily trip between San Francisco and Sydney. It has been the only airline that never stopped flying between the Americas and Australia.
Mr. Quayle says each United flight is limited to about 35 to 40 passengers, based on available government quarantine capacity. The airline is flying to Australia with a 250-seat Boeing 787. Cargo helps cover a lot of the cost of operating the trip, and with that, those few passengers are enough to make the trip worthwhile.
United added Los Angeles-Sydney flights to its schedule this fall. So did American and Delta.
Singapore Airlines, which has been flying to San Francisco and Los Angeles despite restrictions on who can enter Singapore, restarted the longest flight in the world in November — a nonstop between Singapore and New York.
There are also an average of 26 flights a day in each direction between the U.S. and London.
British Airways is flying to 12 U.S. cities, down from 22 in December 2019 but still considerable given the pandemic. And Virgin Atlantic is flying more than half its normal December schedule to the U.S., reaching Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
Lufthansa, which flies to 11 U.S. cities, half of what it used to serve, says it evaluates flights each month and drops any that won’t be profitable based on expected cargo and passenger revenue. It helps that fuel prices are low.
The airline is using smaller planes for formerly busy routes, switching a jumbo with 509 seats for a plane with 279 seats, for example, and sometimes flying only two or three days a week instead of daily, says Larry Ryan, Lufthansa’s senior director of sales in the U.S. He says the reduced number of seats each week more closely matches demand.
“It’s very much hit and miss,” he says.
Many passengers are flying to family in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, he says.
“Presently Africa is playing a tremendous role in Lufthansa’s long-haul revenue overall, which it never would have played in the past,” Mr. Ryan says.
Nigeria closed its borders for a long period, then opened up to a few flights a week beginning the first week of December. That sparked a rush of corporate passengers, as well as Nigerians living in the U.S., Mr. Ryan says.
United is flying to Frankfurt from six U.S. hubs — the same number as last year — and Mr. Quayle says 70% of passengers are connecting from there. Before the pandemic, travelers could fly nonstop to many more cities in Europe and beyond. Now, to get to Rome or Prague on United, they must connect in Frankfurt to Lufthansa.
Airline executives expect a drop in long international flights in January — some of this surge is based on December holiday traffic. But some expansion will continue next year, too.
Analyze stakeholders, regulatory implications, and potential support that could impact the implementation of an intervention plan.
Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations
Analyze stakeholders, regulatory implications, and potential support that could impact the implementation of an intervention plan.
Who are the relevant stakeholders?
· How will the needs of relevant stakeholders impact the implementation of your intervention plan?
What are the relevant health care regulations?
· How will health care regulations impact the implementation of your intervention plan?
What other support considerations are relevant to implementing your intervention plan?
· How will these additional considerations impact the implementation of your intervention plan?
Propose existing or new policy considerations that would support the implementation of an intervention plan.
What are the existing policy considerations that would support the implementation of your intervention plan?
· How will the existing policy positively impact your implementation efforts?
What are one or more new policy considerations that could support the implementation of your intervention plan?
· How would the new policy considerations positively impact your implementation efforts?
Part 4: Timeline
Propose a timeline to implement an intervention plan with reference to specific factors that influence the timing of implementation.
What is the time frame for implementing your intervention?
· Is this time frame realistic?
· What are the specific factors that will impact the timing of implementation?
· To what degree will these factors impact the timeline?
Propose appropriate delivery methods to implement an intervention which will improve the quality of the project.
Delivery and Technology
Propose appropriate delivery methods to implement an intervention which will improve the quality of the project.
What delivery methods are appropriate for implementing your intervention plan?
· Why are the proposed methods appropriate for implementing your intervention plan?
· How will the proposed methods improve the quality of your project?
Evaluate the current and emerging technological options related to the proposed delivery methods.
What are the current technological options that are relevant to support and improve your proposed delivery methods?
· How will these current technological options help make your delivery methods more effective?
· Which of the current relevant technological options will likely have the largest positive impact?
What are the emerging technological options that are relevant to support and improve your proposed delivery methods?
· How might these emerging technological options help make your delivery methods more effective?
· Which of the emerging relevant technological options could have the largest positive impact?
How will these strategies help to ensure interprofessional collaboration?
Implementation Plan Design
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Implementation Plan Design assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a pre-writing exercise, an outlining tool, or as a final check to ensure that you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment.
Part 1: Management and Leadership
Propose strategies for leading, managing, and implementing professional nursing practices to ensure interprofessional collaboration during the implementation of an intervention plan.
What leadership strategies are most relevant to successfully implementing your intervention plans?
· How will these strategies help to ensure interprofessional collaboration?
What management strategies are most relevant to successfully implementing your intervention plan?
· How will these strategies help to ensure interprofessional collaboration?
What professional nursing practices are most relevant to successfully implementing your intervention plan?
· How will these practices help to ensure interprofessional collaboration?
Analyze the implications of change associated with proposed strategies for improving the quality and experience of care while controlling costs.
How will your proposed leadership strategies change the care setting in which your intervention plan will be implemented?
· How will these changes impact the quality of care?
· How will these changes impact the experience of care?
· How will these changes help to control the costs of care?
How will your proposed management strategies change the care setting in which your intervention plan will be implemented?
· How will these changes impact the quality of care?
· How will these changes impact the experience of care?
· How will these changes help to control the costs of care?
How will your proposed professional nursing practices change the care setting in which your intervention plan will be implemented?
· How will these changes impact the quality of care?
· How will these changes impact the experience of care?
· How will these changes help to control the costs of care?
How could you ensure sufficient discussion of contentious issues in a work group?
For this Case Study, you will review the case below on conflict and negotiation and answer the questions that follow.
Case Study:
While much of this chapter has discussed methods for achieving harmonious relationships and getting out of conflicts, it’s also important to remember there are situations in which too little conflict can be a problem. As we noted, in creative problem-solving teams, some level of task conflict early in the process of formulating a solution can be an important stimulus to innovation.
However, the conditions must be right for productive conflict. In particular, individuals must feel psychologically safe in bringing up issues for discussion. If people fear that what they say is going to be held against them, they may be reluctant to speak up or rock the boat. Experts suggest that effective conflicts have three key characteristics: they should (1) speak to what is possible, (2) be compelling, and (3) involve uncertainty.
So how should a manager “pick a fight?” First, ensure that the stakes are sufficient to actually warrant a disruption. Second, focus on the future, and on how to resolve the conflict rather than on whom to blame. Third, tie the conflict to fundamental values. Rather than concentrating on winning or losing, encourage both parties to see how successfully exploring and resolving the conflict will lead to optimal outcomes for all. If managed successfully, some degree of open disagreement can be an important way for companies to manage simmering and potentially destructive conflicts.
Do these principles work in real organizations? The answer is yes. Dropping its old ways of handling scheduling and logistics created a great deal of conflict at Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, but applying these principles to managing the conflict helped the railroad adopt a more sophisticated system and recover its competitive position in the transportation industry. Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell Soup, increased functional conflicts in his organization by emphasizing a higher purpose to the organization’s efforts rather than focusing on whose side was winning a conflict. Thus, a dysfunctional conflict environment changed dramatically and the organization was able to move from one of the world’s worst-performing food companies to one that was recognized as a top performer by both the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and Fortune 500 data on employee morale.
- How could you ensure sufficient discussion of contentious issues in a work group? How can managers bring unspoken conflicts into the open without making them worse?
- How can negotiators utilize conflict management strategies to their advantage so that differences in interests lead not to dysfunctional conflicts but rather to positive integrative solutions?
- Can you think of situations in your own life in which silence has worsened a conflict between parties? What might have been done differently to ensure that open communication facilitated collaboration instead?
It is not sufficient to state your opinions alone; you must be able to backup your responses by applying concepts from the text with the case data that supports your findings. Expected response length is 3 sentences per question. Please restate the question you are answering in your case study.
Through writing this case study you will be required to demonstrate a knowledge of how to integrate OB concepts with the case data, how to conduct research, and how to properly cite sources using APA formatting guidelines. You will be responsible for using a minimum of 2 scholarly/peer reviewed sources. Textbooks are not considered a scholarly/peer reviewed source; however, they may still be included as a supplemental
What role does equity play in this case?
For this week Case Study, you will review the following case study. Upon thorough review of the case study, you will answer the questions at the end of the case study.
Scientific Turmoil
Susan is the director of scientific computing at a large utility company. The people she supervises are all college graduated with backgrounds in science, engineering, or math. These people do systems work and computer programming that is more problem-oriented than other programmers in the company and the people in Joan’s department are quite close-knit
Susan hired Mike into the group from the Engineering Department. Mike, who had worked for the company for seven years, learned the programming easily and was doing quite well. One year later Thomas was hired into the group by Joan. Thomas and Mike both assimilated into the group quickly.
About a month later, Joan’s problems began. Information was quite freely shared by members of the group, especially job-related information such as salary. When Mike learned that Thomas was making more money than he was, he was quite upset. Thomas was doing the same kind of work with less experience at his new job. He also had had less total working time with the computer only four years.
When Mike voiced his concern to his boss, he was told that the company had specific guidelines for raises and wide salary ranges for each job level. Thomas was just on the high side of his old job’s salary range and received a hefty raise when he was promoted to this new job. Mike was not pleased with the setup because he had received a raise just before Thomas came and knew that it would be a year before he would get another one. In Mike’s mind, he was now qualified, more experienced, had better knowledge of the company, and if nothing else, more seniority than Thomas. Mike’s attitude and discontent was apparent in his work, and although Susan could not really prove it, Mike caused serious delays in projects. Also, new errors seemed to be cropping up in the computer programs that came out of Joan’s section.
Case Study Questions
1. What role does equity play in this case?
2. Should companies demand that individuals not reveal their salaries? Why or why not?
3. Comment on the salary system and weakness you see in it.
4. If you were the director, how would you handle Mike?
It is not sufficient to state your opinions alone; you must back up your responses by applying human resource management concepts from the text with the case data that supports your findings. By writing your responses to the case study, you will be required to demonstrate how to integrate human resource management concepts with the case data, conduct research using the GMC Library, and properly cite sources using APA Style. You will be responsible for using a minimum of 2 scholarly/peer-reviewed sources. Textbooks are not considered scholarly/peer-reviewed sources; however, they may still be included as a supplemental reference.
The case study should have an APA title page and an APA reference page. The APA title page and APA reference page DO NOT count towards the minimum page requirement! Your body of work needs to be a minimum of 1 complete page in length. Note that an APA abstract page is NOT required!
