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WEEK 9 DISCUSSION QUESTION 1
Please respond to the following: “Marketing Strategy and Planning Tools”
Determine whether or not health care marketers need to recognize the value results from implementing marketing best practices across the multiple, varying activities that health care organizations carry out. Provide one (1) example of such recognition of value to support your rationale.
Evaluate the value of Michael Porter’s Value Chain as a marketing strategy and planning instrument for engendering an understanding of value-producing activities within health care organizations. Provide at least two (2) specific examples of the Michael Porter’s Value Chain Model that apply within a health care organization with which you are familiar.

WEEK 9 DISCUSSION QUESTION 2
Please respond to the following: “Generic Strategies and Balanced scored Card”
Determine whether or not you believe the process of formulating strategy in the health care industry is complex. Justify your response with at least one (1) example of a situation or scenario that supports your position.
Assess the degree of guidance provided by Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard as a management tool for guiding health care marketers in performing strategic management duties and responsibilities. Provide at least two (2) specific examples of the Balanced Scorecard Model that apply within a health care organization with which you are familiar

Assignment Sheet: Analysis Research Report
Your Analysis Research Paper must include the following:
Title page with graphic
Table of Contents
Introduction- provide an overview of your topic including any relevant definitions and background information. You must cite any source material even in this section. You also need a clear thesis sentence in this section. You will also need to tell your audience what sections are included in this report.
Research Plan- This is where you tell your audience where you found your source material.
Results of Study- This is where you present all of your research with appropriate citations. You should also use subsections here to clearly show changes in main points. For example, if your topic is the rise in Oxycontin abuse, your first section could be Why Oxycontin is Addictive, and your second section could be Statistics of Abuse. You may have several subsections depending on your topic. Do not include any of your ideas in this section. Your discussion of your research should be reserved for the next section of your paper. Every assertion in this section must be researched based followed by citations. You must include subheaders and you must organize your points and research accordingly.
Discussion of Results- This is where you discuss your research. What does it mean? What do you think of it? Why is it important?
Recommendations- This is where you look to the future. What should be done in regards to your topic and your research?
Points to Consider:
Third person point of view. Do not use the first person “I” or the second person “you” in academic writing.
A focused topic and clear audience. Write on one of the topics listed in Learning Module #9 to the audience listed with the topic.
Appropriate research. You will need at least 5 sources with 2 coming from our library’s databases. These sources must relate to and explain your topic clearly. Be very careful that you evaluate your sources carefully, especially the website sources. Do not use Wikipedia as a source.
Appropriate citations and a Works Cited page. You must make sure that EACH PIECE of research, whether quoted or summarized, is correctly cited. Please see the appendix in our text starting on page A-35 or Purdue University’s Online Writer’s lab for examples.

Required Length. This paper must be at least 1200-1500 words in length.
Is the use of text messaging and social networking sites affecting social skills in teens?
Audience: Parents of high school students

Choose only 1 of the cases listed below and explain how the physical evidence recovered from the crime scene was tested and analyzed to solve the crime.

Case Study 1

A man and his wife were on vacation in Paris. On the way back to the hotel, they were approached by two men with weapons who demanded their jewelry. A physical interaction occurred in which the robbers violently wrestled the man to the ground and removed his watch and rings while his wife tried to run away. The man and his wife were shot and killed. The bodies of the two victims were pulled into an alley. Multiple scratches were on the body of the male victim, and blood was also found on the female victim because the robbers tore the necklace, rings, and earrings off that she was wearing. The two men committing the crime both had previous records for assault and robbery. How were the men convicted of the crime?

Case Study 2

• Address the following in 4–5 pages :
  • What exactly is DNA profiling? Explain in detail.
    • How it is used to solve crimes? Explain in detail.
  • Regarding your selected case study:
    • What physical evidence would be retrieved from the crime scene?
      • Identify each item of physical evidence, and fully justify your decision to collect it as evidence.
    • What type(s) of DNA tests are required to investigate the crime you have chosen? Explain in detail, and fully support your argument.
      • What is the testing process for the technique(s) used to test each piece of evidence? Be specific, and explain in detail.
  • After analyzing the evidence, explain how the evidence exo

Performance Management Systems

How does the global nature of business affect performance management systems?
Consider both the technical and social aspects of different cultures in your response.

150 words essay
Case Application

“Growing Pains at Modern Office Supply” (pages 236-237 in the text).

After reading the case annotated above, answer the following questions as noted on page 237 of the text:

What is missing in the performance management process and what ways would improve the performance management process help improve discipline and morale at Modern Office Supply?
How can ineffective performance management programs leave employers vulnerable for claims of discrimination?
How does the form used for hourly employees contribute to errors and distortion in the appraisal process? How would you revise the form or reduce them? Explain other steps that need to be taken to further reduce distortions in the process?
What type of form would you recommend that would be more effective for the hourly employees? Construct an appropriate form for the delivery driver position
How can the appraisal process for the manager be improved?

There are no “right” or “wrong” answers, only well-substantiated opinions based on critical analysis.
The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.

Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
Include cover page and reference page.

At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.

Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

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Use the image in the attached to help with solving these questions.

The title is :  Employee Benefits and Services

1.     What types of benefits do you plan to voluntarily provide for your employee?  Why – what is the pay-off to the organization?  (3 pts)

2.     Is there a job related service that you believe is a good investment for you to provide to your employees?  Why?  (3 pts)

3.     Take a position – you have either chosen to provide a flexible benefits program OR you have chosen not to…and justify this.  Explain the business case for your decision.  (4 pts)

1 journal article must be used.

the book :Third canadian edition for human resource management by steen, noe hollenbeck, gerhart and write.

everything must be referenced.

CLASS: QUEER AND SEXUALITY

Compare and contrast….

-two ideas, concepts, definitions, or calls to action

-using at least 4 readings

-supporting your own normative claim: what should be done!

In 8 pages of double-spaced text, using a standard, 12-pt font

(Calibri, Cambria, Times New Roman), and 1-inch margins.

Follow MLA Guidelines for general formatting, and for your Works Cited

page (not included in overall page count).

Course text: The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

LIST OF READINDS:

1.Gayle S. Rubin: Thinking Sex

2. Eve K. Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet

3. Judith Butler: Sex in Public

4.Sex, Power, and the Politics of Identity: Interview with Michel Foucault, 1982

5. Adrienne Rich: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

6. Elizabeth Wilson:

Hypothalamic Preference: LeVay’s Study of Sexual Orientation

7. Joan W. Scott: The Evidence Of Experience

8. Leslie Feinberg: Lavender and Red

9. Leslie Feinburg: Stone Butch blues

10. Rosemary Hennessey: The Material of Sex

11. Sara Ahmed’s:  “Queer Feelings,”

NOTE:  Compare and contrast ant two ideas or two concepts or two

definitions or two calls to action is an 8-page paper (double spaced,

Times New Roman, Font 12 and 1-inch margins) . use at least four

Case Study 3: Missed Opportunities
Due Week 9 and worth 200 points

Read the case study titled “Missed Opportunities”, located in the online course shell.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
Examine the pros and cons from the perspective of Crestview Hospital of the placement of its new billboard directly adjacent to Briarwood Medical Center. Interpret the reaction of customers and other community stakeholders to the billboard postings.
Use competitive marketing entry strategies to suggest the action that Briarwood Hospital should undertake to counter the messages in the new Crestview Hospital Billboard postings.
Recommend the marketing communication strategy or strategies that both Crestview and Briarwood Hospitals should employ. Justify why the Governing Board of both hospitals should take a proactive role in promoting and implementing effective marketing strategies.
Assess the value of the various marketing research tool(s) that Briarwood and Crestview hospital could use to promote effective marketing communication strategies. Justify your response.
Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Evaluate marketing research tools involved in the marketing process.
Formulate competitive market entry strategies based on analysis of global markets that comply to initiatives in the health care industry.
Determine the marketing communications strategy used in health care services.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services strategic marketing.
Write clearly and concisely about health services strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.