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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments.

 

Choose your favorite company, and then review a press release made by that company (usually located on the company’s Web site). Include the link to the company’s press release within your primary post so that your fellow classmates can review it.

After reviewing the press release, discuss the following information:

 

• Who do you think is the intended audience of the press release?  Do you think the company effectively communicated to its audience base? Why or why not?
• What do you think is the main message that the company is trying to communicate?  Do you feel the company communicated that message effectively?  Why or why not? 
• What is one of the strengths of this press release?

 

Microtheme: Posing a Problematic Question

Your assignment is to pose a problematic question about the picture and explore possible answers to this question. To get full credit for this assignment, you must do the following:

• Pose a problematic question about the picture. Relate the question to details in the picture.
• Explore several possible answers to your question. To do this, choose details from the picture that support a possible answer.
• Explain why your possible answer is not satisfactory.
• Choose another detail that supports another possible answer or develops the previous answer further.
• Explain why this new answer or development is still not satisfactory.
• Continue this process until you reach the word count limit of 200 words. Write an ending statement to complete the exercise.

Write this assignment in paragraph form. Be sure to do the following:

• Start a new paragraph with each new speculation.
• Use transitions (however, therefore, but, and, also, on the other hand) to show the relationships between the ideas you are presenting.

Peer Feedback on Research-Based Paper Outline

Prepare and post a draft outline for your Research-Based Paper in this discussion for peer feedback. Include an introduction in paragraph form and:

• Identify, examine, and discuss two diseases prevalent in specific ethnic or racial groups.
• Identify disparities and causes within different cultures.
• Examine major ethnic groups’ values, beliefs, and behaviors as they relate to health care.

Post your draft outline by mid-week, preferably Wednesday, so that you have time to incorporate changes from feedback into your final research-based assignment, which is due in Unit 3.

Response Guidelines

Read outlines posted by your peers and respond to two. Provide insightful, helpf

How Health Care Buyers Make Choices”  Please respond to the following:

• Recall a situation in which you sought health care of some type (not including care for an injury or illness). Determine if your situation followed the five steps of the buying decision model and what role marketing may have played in your seeking care. Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Analyze the stages of the organizational buying process and determine which stage would be impacted the most by effective marketing. Explain your rationale.

Strategy and Market Planning”  Please respond to the following:

• Analyze the steps involved in building a strategic plan for a health care organization and determine which step is the most difficult to get execute correctly. Explain your rationale.
• Analyze the SWOT and FIVE Factors Analyses and determine which would be more valuable from a marketing perspective. Provide specific examples of how you could use the re

everal attitudes can be displayed in the workplace depending on conditions, management style, personal issues, and values. There are seven steps for changing attitudes in the workplace.  Read the following scenario:

You are a new manager in the department (either major or desired management position). You discover that the majority of staff members have a negative attitude, they gossip, and have low morale. Many bring their home issues and problems to work.

You may also research on the topics related to attitudes and perception and write your response. Your response should be of at least three pages.

Based on the above scenario and your research, answer the following questions in a Microsoft Word document:

• Explain each of the seven steps, including the substeps, with detailed, specific examples on how you will effectively change negative attitudes in your department.
• What will you do specifically to turn your department around to a well-functioning team with positive attitudes?

Please, Zero Plagiarism, Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format. 3 pages not including title page and reference page

Drawing from your own experience, select a process (a set of specified steps to accomplish a task) used at your place of work or in your interaction with a health care organization that you would like to see improved.  Explain why you picked that process.  Explain how you would go about improving it.  Who should be involved with you?  What are some of the questions you should ask about the current process?  How will you know if the process was actually improved?

 

First, we need to be sure you can identify a process; many students have difficulty with that, so refer to your textbook and other readings.  I am also interested in the method to be used to improve the process, not a solution.  (For example, I am not looking for something like:  “The clinic where I work is new and has few patients so far. We should use social media to advertise more.”  The discussion here is about identifying a process and how the clinic would go about deciding how to improve that process, who should be involved, what should be considered, and what steps should be taken.)  You should employ the techniques discussed in class or those that you find in your research.  Keep in mind that outside resources strengthen your responses.

 

Remember, members of Group B should create a posting in response to the questions above by midnight Thursday. These postings need to thoroughly respond to the questions.  Then members of Groups A, C and D will respond to at least two students’ postings with comments, questions and further discussion.  (Remember “more than 2” substantive postings are required for an “A.”)  If questions are posed, they should be responded to by the original poster.  Let’s have a great discussion and some interesting examples to take a look at for improving processes!

 

Your first assignment, Stage 1, requires you to analyze a process and suggest ways it can be impr

this is question one

 

Consider this assignment and post your opinion on ONE of the following questions:

• It is common practice for organizations to maintain a special room to install and store network equipment. Is this practice necessary? What are the benefits, if any?
• Electronic lock systems can be used to secure access to data centers. Some systems are built with logging; others are not. Do you think that logs are an important part of accessing such systems?

 

 

this is question two

Complete the main portion of this assignment as outlined below. When applicable, adhere to APA formatting and reference guidelines.

In 150–200 words, complete the following:

• Describe physical security and logical security. Provide an example of each.
• State why you think each security approach is crucial to maintaining the integrity of a network environment.
• Discuss a scenario in which you would leverage physical security as a form of protection.
• Discuss a scenario in which you would leverage logical security as a form of protection.

How Health Care Buyers Make Choices”  Please respond to the following:

• Recall a situation in which you sought health care of some type (not including care for an injury or illness). Determine if your situation followed the five steps of the buying decision model and what role marketing may have played in your seeking care. Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Analyze the stages of the organizational buying process and determine which stage would be impacted the most by effective marketing. Explain your rationale.

Due Week 3 and worth 100 points

Choose one (1) company that you believe would be an ideal company to work for based on working conditions, salary, opportunity for advancement and work involved. Use the Internet to research.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate the fundamental driving forces that shape the organizational environment of the selected company. Be sure to address the following: competing in a global marketplace, workforce diversity, ethics and morality, and technological innovation.
2. Examine the selected company’s specific practices or policies. Speculate on the major influences that these practices or policies have on individual and organizational outcomes.
3. Determine which practices related to work attitudes in U.S. organizations are most strongly affected by diversity and suggest a strategy to address the effects.
4. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate human behavior in organizations and the forces shaping the behavior.
• Analyze individual differences within organizations and their impact on organizational behavior.
• Use technology to research issues affecting organizational behavior in order to deliver assignments which are clear, concise and have proper writing mechanics.
• Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.