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Conduct a technology analysis of your fictitious organization.

1. What kinds of good or services does your organization produce? Are input, conversion, or output activities the source of greatest uncertainty for your organization?
2. What role does technology in the form of knowledge play in the production of the organization’s goods or services?
3. What role does materials technology play in the production of the organization’s goods and services?
4. What is the organizations level of technical complexity? Does the organization use a small-batch, mass production, or continuous-process technology?
5. Use the concepts of task variability and task analyzability to describe the complexity of your organization’s activities. Which of the four types of technology identified by Perrow does your organization use?
6. What forms of task interdependence between people and between departments characterize your organization’s work process? Which of the three types of technology identified by Thompson does your organization use?
7. The analysis you have done so far might lead you to expect your company to operate with a particular kind of structure. What kind? To what extent does your organization’s structure seem to fit with the characteristics of the organization’s technology? For example, is the structure organic or mechanistic?
8. Do you think your organization is operating its technology effectively? Do you see any ways in which it could improve its technical efficiency, innovativeness, or ability to respond to

Imagine that you have completed the same project discussed in Assignment 4. You exceeded the project budget, but you were able to complete the project within 15% of its scheduled completion date. Now, the management has requested a project review of your project.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze the closeout process for your project. Next, determine the main challenges that you would encounter during the project closeout process, and provide your strategy to address the challenges in question.
2. Select one (1) tool, other than MS Project, that you could use in order to manage project costs and scheduling. Next, speculate on the overall different project management strategy that you would apply based on the tool that you have selected. Provide a rationale to support your response.
3. Analyze whether or not continuous process improvements would have helped the delivery of your project. Provide a rationale to support your response.
4. Speculate on whether or not using risk management techniques would have affected the delivery of your project. Provide at least two (2) examples of using risk management techniques that would have helped the delivery of your project to support your response.
5. 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 or school-specific format. 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.

Read and critique the following health needs assessment that has been performed for your community;

http://www.proindependence.org/documents/obesity_health_crisis_in_orange_county.pdf

Write a three to four page essay and include appropriate supporting citations and references in APA format.

Within the essay, address the following points:

• Identify the community being assessed.

• Identify the agency that took the lead role in performing the assessment (i.e. was it a hospital, health department, insurer, etc.) and discuss their interest or stake in the community. Also describe the any partners identified within the assessment as stakeholders or members of coalition (advisory committee).

• Describe the process or model used to conduct the assessment. If the model is not specified, use your knowledge of models of needs assessments to make a determination. Support your conclusion.

• Describe the main conclusions and/or health priorities identified by the assessment.

• Briefly address the extent to which the needs assessment reflects the nine-step World Health Organization (WHO) framework presented in the text.

• Conclude part one of the assignment by critiquing the assessment and its conclusion. Use data to support your critique.

CJHS311 Phase 4 DB

Based on the treatment modalities that you have learned in this class along with your basic knowledge of treatment modalities for alcohol and substance abuse, do the following:

• Identify and discuss 2 treatment modalities for Mr. Potts that you believe would be appropriate and useful for his recovery.
• State why you believe the 2 treatment modalities that you have chosen would be effective for Mr. Potts.
• You must use the facts from the scenario to support your position.

You will select a company from this list, and you will analyze the company’s financial performance, highlighting accounting principles and methods learned in this course. This project requires you to present, review, and analyze the organization’s published annual reports and related footnotes for the last 2 years. Specifically, your paper will cover the following:

• Discuss methods used to account for assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity, and explain how the company’s inventory valuation method affects reported results.
• Explain the company’s approach to internal controls, and assess its compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Prepare and interpret the results of horizontal and vertical analyses of the financial statements.
• Prepare and interpret the results of at least 5 ratios, 1 from each of the following categories:
  • Profit Ratios
  • Debt Ratios
  • Efficiency Ratios
  • Equity Ratios
  • Liquidity Ratios
• Assess the company’s overall financial performance and the integrity of its internal controls.
• Discuss how various stakeholders—internal and external—use information contained in the financial statements for decision making.

Include the last 2 years of published financial statements as Appendices to your report. Do not include the entire Annual Reports.

Present your findings as a Word document of 5–6 pages formatted in APA style.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters.
• Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and it must be double-spaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5–6 pages. In-text academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference page: References that align with your in-text academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper- and lower-case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated in-text citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-text citation.
• Appendices: Include the last 2 years of the company’s published financial statements.

This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here.

Reference

Fortune. (2014). Fortune 500 2014. Retrieved from http://fortune.com/fortune500/

LIST CAN BE FOUND ON THIS WEBSITE SAME AS ABOVE.

19. Define Ricardian Equivalence.  Explain the mechanism and policy significance behind Ricardian equivalence.   Give two reasons that in a more elaborate model, Ricardian equivalence might fail to hold.  What is the policy significance behind that result?  How does the distinction between permanent income and temporary income shocks also affect policies aimed simulating consumption?

Assignment 2: Budget Planning and Control

Due Week 10 and worth 160 points

Use the Internet and / or Strayer databases to research budget planning and control. Imagine that the company that you currently work for, have previously worked for, or would like to work for in the future has tasked you with preparing a budget plan.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the company that you currently work for, have previously worked for, or would like to work for in the future. Determine at least two (2) compelling reasons that this company should prepare and manage a budget. Predict the two (2) most likely positive and negative financial outcomes for this company if it properly or improperly performs effective budgeting.
2. Outline a high-level budget plan for the company Propose two  ways  that the company should use to manage its budget over time in preparation for the fact that budgets are ever changing. Justify your response.
3. Imagine that the company is facing a financial challenge that is causing the actual amounts of money that it spends to become significantly off target from its budgeted amounts. Prepare an action plan to resolve the budget misalignment. Use at least    two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. 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; references must follow APA or school-specific format. 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 page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate management control systems and examine their relationship with accounting and planning, including feedback and non-financial performance measurements.
• Evaluate decision making tools for capital investments, budgeting, and budgeting controls.
• Analyze financial accounting tools and techniques that convert financial accounting data into information for decision making.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial accounting for managers.
• Write clearly and concisely about financial accounting using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills

Assignment 5: Creating Your Dream Job (Hair Salon/ Shoe boutique)

In this assignment, you get the chance to create your dream job and to build its compensation plan and appraisal performance.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Create a job description and specifications for your dream job.
2. Design a compensation and benefits package related to your dream job.
3. Rationalize your compensation and benefits package. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the compensation and benefits package.
4. Imagine this is the only position of its kind in the organization. From this perspective, design a performance appraisal program to assess your job performance.
5. Rationalize your performance appraisal program. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the performance appraisal program.
6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
7. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
   2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
   3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Discuss job analysis, job descriptions, and specifications.
• Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of employee compensation programs.
• Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

This assignment must be done on Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg West Virginia.

Make revisions to the Week 4 assignment based on your instructor’s and peers’ feedback. The assignment from Week 4 is listed below:

Deliverable Length- SWOT analysis and 3–4 paragraphs on the Joint Commission (Part I)

Part I

Review The Joint Commission standards for the type of health care organization that you chose in Week 1 and that you have used throughout this course.

Identify at least two sections of the standards (e.g., environment of care, leadership).

Describe how these sections are implemented in your selected health care facility.

Make recommendations for improvement.

Part II

An integral part of the strategic planning process is to gather information. One method of doing this is by conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. Now that you have reviewed your chosen standards, you will examine the impact of both internal and external forces on your chosen facility.

Conduct a SWOT analysis for your chosen facility that examines the forces that may affect the facility.

• Be sure to pay particular attention to the issues of financing, productivity, and marketing, as well as others you feel have the potential to impact the facility.

Present your SWOT analysis using a standard SWOT analysis matrix.

• Below your SWOT analysis, identify and discuss at least one issue from each section of your SWOT analysis in further detail in an effort to analyze why you feel the chosen issue may have the greatest impact on the facility.
• When discussing your weakness and threats, be sure to include:

1–2 goals that should be created to improve in these areas

A brief description (1–2 paragraphs) of a plan of action to improve in these area that includes how you will accomplish the goals that you set in the first bullet point. In an action plan, there is usually