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Explain feature of any democratic legislative system.

Another reason for Congress’s lack of popularity is partisanship, which has always been a defining feature of any democratic legislative system. Disregarding your own party bent (if you have one), do you think that partisanship has been good or bad feature of Congress. A strong case can be made both ways. Use examples to back up your argument, and make a clear, coherent, and intelligent case

 

 

THREE short papers of 4-6 pages in length are required. Of the following five options, you only need to do THREE of them. Here is a list of criteria

Describe how you might improve the jobs of your employees in order to improve motivation, performance, and job satisfaction.

You are the only supervisor of a large customer service telemarketing unit consisting of 50 customer service representatives. Your reps primarily perform repetitive tasks such as taking calls, researching information, and answering customer inquiries. You are the sole supervisor of this large group.

 

Using the job characteristics model (JCM), describe how you might improve the jobs of your employees in order to improve motivation, performance, and job satisfaction.

Your submitted assignment should be 1-2 pages. Be sure to use proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar and cite your sources per APA.

http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781323106778

This assignment has a maximum value of 5 points. Discuss

Complete the personality test available at http://www.psych.uncc.edu/pagoolka/typea-b-intro.html. Compose a two-page summary discussing your results and the concept of Type A and B personalities.

Submission Instructions:

  • Save your document on your computer or memory device as a .doc/.docx (Microsoft Word) or .rtf (rich text format) document.
  • When you are ready to submit it, select the Messages link in the course menu to the left.
  • Scroll down to the Attachment and select the Browse button to navigate to the document.
  • Locate and select your document.
  • Select Submit.

Note: This assignment has a maximum value of 5 points. These points will be added to your final course grade to determine your overall course average.

Discuss all arguments must be supported by textbook, research or experience based examples.

The week 2 assignment will be based on content taken from the text book. These may be questions or a topic taken from this weeks reading.   All arguments must be supported by textbook, research or experience based examples.

INSTRUCTIONS:   All responses must be prepared in Microsoft Word format and uploaded to the appropriate online assignment.  Please include your name, course number, week number and assignment name at the top of your submissions (for example MargaretFoltz-ISSC490-Week2 Assignment).

DIRECTIONS:  Read chapters 4, 5 & 6.   The week 2 individual assignment focuses on writing the plan.  Using the week 1 assignment as a base document and the ‘I still don’t know what to write’ outline on pages 108 & 109 in your text as a guide – outline (using specific information – not general information) what your departmental plan may look like.  In general, an outline will be approximately 3 pages in length.

Discuss what areas of government involvement in the payer, provider, and regulatory areas do these terms align with: “CMS,” “Medicare,” “FDA”

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

Using this week’s chapters in the textbook and online resources and search engines (search engine 1, search engine 2, search engine 3), report back on the various roles that involve the government in health care. The best approach is to take some notes where government is mentioned when you review the chapters.

Please note, key online search terms are in ” ” (quotation marks).

Begin with a blank template for Unit 1 Individual Project, and answer the following by completing the various bullet points:

  • Point 1: What areas of government involvement in the payer, provider, and regulatory areas do these terms align with: “CMS,” “Medicare,” “FDA”?
  • Point 2: How does the government become involved as “government as a payer,” “government as a health care provider,” and “government as a health care regulator”?
  • Point 3: What are the names of some “government hospitals”? Research here.
  • Point 4: How does the government become involved as a “health care regulator”?
  • Point 5: How is “Obamacare” or the “Affordable Care Act” involved in health care?

Once you have collected 5 bullet points on government, add the 5 refined bullet points from your Discusssion Board post. You have now developed 10 points, or the content for the first part of your final presentation. The assignment should be 10 bullet points within the Individual Project template. Always avoid coversational language.

Please submit your assignment.

Please refer to the Learning Materials for a Multimedia User Experience to assist in your learning outcomes.

Employment Opportunities for Health Care Management

You might be wondering what types of jobs you can find in the field of health care management. The following are given to you as a resource and guide:

General Job Search Web Site

Industry-Specific Job Search Web Sites

U.S. Hospital Lists

Company Web Sites

Additional Resources

References

American Hosptial Association. (2015). Fast facts on US hospitals. Retrieved from http://www.aha.org/research/rc/stat-studies/fast-facts.shtml

Bing. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.bing.com/

Blue Cross Blue Shield. (2015). Careers. Retrieved from http://www.bcbs.com/careers/

ChamberofCommerce.com. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.chamberofcommerce.com/

Google. (2015). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/

Health Jobs Nationwide. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.healthjobsusa.com/

HIMSS JobMine. (2015). Featured healthcare IT jobs. Retrieved from http://jobmine.himss.org/home/

Hospital Jobs Online. (2015). Top healthcare jobs. Retrieved from http://www.hospitaljobsonline.com/

Indeed. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.indeed.com/

KForce. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.kforce.com/

SoftScript. (2009). Careers at SoftScript. Retrieved from http://www.softscript.com/careers.html

The Agape Center. (2013, January 16). Hospitals in the United States. Retrieved from http://www.theagapecenter.com/Hospitals/index.htm

UnitedHealth Group. (2015). Job search. Retrieved from http://careers.unitedhealthgroup.com/

USHospital.info. (n.d.). United States hospitals & medical centers. Retrieved from http://www.ushospital.info/

 

Explain why you feel this is or is not an example of stealing from the organization.

Assignment 2: Ethics and Integrity at Work

There are a host of situations in the workplace that can be obvious breeches of ethics and integrity.

Suppose an employee constantly uses his or her work computer (and work time) to surf the Internet. Explain why you feel this is or is not an example of stealing from the organization. Give some other “nontraditional” examples of stealing from an organization. Explain why you believe the actions to be stealing.

Read this article and think about your opinion. Then consider other possible situations that may present a dilemma of ethics and integrity.

By Sunday, October 18, 2015, post your initial response of at least 150 words to the Discussion

Discuss a company’s proposed research and development methods.

This assignment needs to be APA style, original, In text citation, do not apply unless you can deliver.

Select one of the two following articles that discuss a company’s proposed research and development methods.

Write a 2 page paper noting what types of research you would use for a business project to be successful. What outcomes do you expect with using these types of business research?

Craumer, M., Kelley, T., Pejovich, P., Duncan, L., & Kao, J. (2002). The Sputtering R&D Machine. Harvard Business Review, 80(8), 25-36. Link to article.

Nohria, N. (2005). Feed R&D–or Farm It Out? Harvard Business Review, 83(7/8), 17-28. Link to article.

 

Please allow me to know if you are able to open the link to the articles, info must come from the articles.

Explain what is the value of the data gathered by Walmart on Black Friday,

There is a great deal of data available to the corporate world. Data generated by their own transactions as well as external data. What dilemmas do companies face relative to managing mass amounts of data? How do they manage it? Discuss some examples of how companies are managing large amounts of data, where the data is coming from and what are some of the issues/dilemmas. Conduct Research about Big Data.
1. What have you found as the description of Big Data?
2. What are the primary issues?
3. What is the value of the data gathered by Walmart on Black Friday?
4. What will they do with it?
5. How will a functional area (your major) use big data?
6. How can the department or company make sense of all that data?
7. Conduct some research and compare BI and a database . Briefly describe how they are similar, the same, different, and how they relate to big data
Remember to cite your sources! This should be limited to two pages if possible.

Chapter Six – Enhancing Business Intelligence Using Information Systems

Business Intellegence (BI) is a group of software programs and technologies used for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data. It is allows the organization identify and analyze their own business data such as sales revenue by categories such as products, income, production costs etc… BI helps the company/organization/enterprise employees make better business decisions. The more informed they are the better decisions they make for the growth and sustainability of the organization.
BI applications include the activities of decision support, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. With the gathering of data from the organization database an employee can see historical, current and predictive views of business operations allowing them to make valuable strategic decisions. BI systems are also called decision support systems or competitive intelligence for they support the decision making process.

Business Intellegence (BI) is a group of software programs and technologies used for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data. It is allows the organization identify and analyze their own business data such as sales revenue by categories such as products, income, production costs etc… BI helps the company/organization/enterprise employees make better business decisions. The more informed they are the better decisions they make for the growth and sustainability of the organization.
BI applications include the activities of decision support, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. With the gathering of data from the organization database an employee can see historical, current and predictive views of business operations allowing them to make valuable strategic decisions. BI systems are also called decision support systems or competitive intelligence for they support the decision making process.
BIG DATA
Big Data is a term to represent the massive groups of data that organizations have gathered over the years from transactions, customer interaction as well as other means. Companies can gather patterns and trends from these large data sets. When you think about the customer business intelligence a company can develop from massive sets of data, they can get to know more about you and your buying patterns than you would think. Data is gathered from every transaction you make. When you use your credit or debit card, when you view websites or search Google there is data being gathered and analyzed about you. It is what they call a form of customer DNA.
There is a great deal of research that shows the need for understanding and using this “BIG” data is immense when it comes to companies being able to look at what the world is saying about their product, or what their competitors are doing, or who is searching for words that may be used in describing their product. Big Data includes data from many different sources such as Tweets, Google searches, Facebook posts, Pinterest pins, credit card use, online purchases, Amazon or Ebay searches, etc. All the actions taken on these various online sources are considered data and are stored somewhere. Therefore, organizations must consider that there is:

• an increase in the amount data generated ie..social media

• a need for organizations to drill into massive amounts of data

• a lack of resources to address analytical initiatives
By 2016, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to supporting data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States. In addition, every big data-related role in the U.S. will create employment for three people outside of IT, so over the next four years a total of 6 million jobs in the U.S. will be generated by the information economy. ( Gartner et al., 2012)
Big Data consists of :
• Volume – so much data from so many different sources. In the past, excessive data volume created a storage issue. But that is not the case any longer because storage is much cheaper now. However, other issues emerge, including how to determine relevance of all the data and how to create value from data that is relevant.

• Variety -so many different formats like a tweet vs. a facebook post or a credit card purchase vs. a product search. Even non numerical data needs to be analyzed!

• Velocity – data is being produced so fast these days it creates challenges for organizations on how quickly they need to react to this data and use it strategically.

Not only will there be jobs in IT, there will be jobs in all functional areas for those who know how to analyze data gathered from many sources like “the cloud”. Having this knowledge will give you a competitive advantage.

Explain the theory of inclusion provides a broader perspective of diversity.

Companies that intentionally hire a diverse workforce have human resources processes in place to manage diversity. However, companies that slowly become diverse without a strategic plan may find more discrimination between managers and subordinates and between employees.

In this assignment, you will create a report on the impact of diversity and discrimination regulations on strategic organizational diversity.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research companies that are known for their ethical business practices. Based on your research, complete the following:

  • Select three publicly traded companies from this list.
  • Gather information about the companies’ HR practices related to diversity, discrimination, and people with disabilities.

Then, address the following questions for each company:

  • Does the organization have a diversity initiative/statement or policy? If so, do the business practices align with policy? Provide examples from your research.
  • Do the organization’s hiring practices exemplify inclusiveness?
    • If yes, please provide examples.
    • If the organization’s code of ethics does not specify the practice of inclusion, assess whether it is appropriate for the organization’s culture and business strategy. Justify your answers by using professional and peer-reviewed literature to identify specific elements that support your position.
  • Based on your analysis of this information, make recommendations that can be implemented to ensure ethical conduct with employees. The recommendations must address the following concerns:
    • What are some weaknesses of strategic organizational diversity and how can organizations improve them? What factors should be considered?
    • The theory of inclusion provides a broader perspective of diversity. As the workforce continues to exemplify a broader base of minority groups, the dominant population begins to lessen and questions emerge. Based on the idea of inclusion, do white men fit into a diversity requirement? Provide a robust discussion with proper literature support and relevant industry examples in your response.

Write a 6–8-page, double-spaced paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.