Explain the elements of the OSHA guidelines regarding workplace violence that can be adapted for use in construction companies. Choose a few of the elements and explain them in detail. Provide examples of using them at a construction worksite.
Topic is The “obesity epidemic” and “fat rights” movement in the United States
Discussion 1: Communication Challenges
Select either Option A or Option B and indicate in your post which option you have selected. Initial post must be 250-300 words.
Option A: Compared to a non-healthcare organization, a manager must have a special skill set for communicating with health professionals and non-professionals within a health care organization. What do you believe are those particular skill sets? What are the ethical, financial, and legal implications for communication within a health care organization? What are the some of the primary barriers to communication between a manager and his/her staff?
Option B: Case Study: Your Word Against His
Review the details of the case “Your Word Against His” in your course text. Describe in detail any options you could pursue to set the matter straight for all parties who received the wrong information, while incurring the minimum possible public disfavor by the vice president. In addition, describe what you think went wrong this in case. Where was the communication breakdown, and how could it have been avoided?
Write at least 5 full pages that analyze the internal and external environments for your organization. This paper must be in essay form. Make sure you use grammar and spell check.
INTERNAL ANALYSIS
Your internal analysis must include factors within your organization that might be considered a strength or weakness and could be leveraged to take advantage of opportunities or reduce threats.
Specifically, you must analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each of the functions found in your organization (i.e. Sales & Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Management (including HR), Research & Development, Production, and Information Systems (or whatever departments are found in your Internship company). You are to assess how well these functions are performing, providing an in-depth discussion and analysis of resource levels and capabilities (how well these functions are using the resources to achieve organizational objectives). Do not simply describe how your organizational units perform their work.
“Low-Quality and High-Quality After-Action Review”
Create a scenario or event in an organization (i.e., safety, training, or another issue) using a low-quality after-action review. Next, speculate on the major negative effects within the organization if the same scenario or event were to reoccur. Support your response with at least two (2) examples of the identified negative effects.
Watch the video titled “AAR (After Action Review) Definition & Explanation” (2 min 43 s), located in the online course shell. You may also view the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NI_P0JkC-8. Next, using the reoccurrence of the scenario or event from part one of the discussion, change the low-quality to a high-quality after-action review. Then, suggest the most important lessons-learned using the high-quality after-action review method as an adopted business practice.
“Work Innovation Network (WIN) and Productive Learning”
Examine the impact that the Work Innovation Network (WIN) has had on the Knowledge Management (KM) initiative at Hewlett-Packard (HP). Next, give your opinion on the influence of both initiatives on the evolution of organizational learning. Support your response with at least two (2) specific examples of the organizational learning at HP.
Outline a plan to teach employees the importance of incorporating productive learning as an improvement in their department, job, process, product, or service. Provide at least two (2) examples of productive learning in your plan.
Don’t just use my articles, find your own to help with this assignment, also whe you are doing your refernces under the reference include the original abstract from the article you are using (my professor wants it for whatever reason).
This will be a 6 page AMA / APA format paper, the 6 pages do not include the Abstract or the Reference page.
Topic: Pros and Cons of Different fractionation Schemes- Research all the various types and use the outline to complete the Research Paper.
Applying Learning Theory to Life
Preparation is key to any good research paper and presentation. Next week, you will be creating your Final Paper and Presentation. It is important to begin gathering your information and sources to fulfill this project successfully. For your Final Paper, you will be designing a training module proposal (not a full training module). The title of this training module is “The Importance of Understanding Your Learners’ Needs”. Essentially, you will be proposing the information you would include for assisting managers gain knowledge in how to meet the learning needs of their departmental employees.
In this week’s paper, you will be setting the stage to demonstrate your understanding of the psychology of learning and how it can be applied to a real-life scenario by creating a list of learning principles you may want to incorporate into your training module. The group you are hypothetically assigned to train has already been designed for you. See the “PSY331 Final Assessment Scenario”.
Although the Final Paper requires you to apply five principles to your training, that you feel will best meet your diverse learners’ needs, you will include a minimum of seven principles in this assignment that will provide you with options for your final design. The principles you choose may be from the following areas of learning psychology: behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, or humanism. Be sure to review the Final Paper instructions in Week Five for further guidance. You will also include five content areas that you would want to include in a training such as this.
Application: Medicare and a Never-Event Involving a Patient Transfer Case
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have identified pressure ulcers, or bedsores, as one of the hospital-acquired conditions, or “never events,” that they will not reimburse at the normal rate under Medicare. Pressure ulcers develop over time. One challenge facing health care administrators and providers is getting proper reimbursement for their services in cases of patient transfer if the patient’s conditions were acquired elsewhere.
For this Application you will analyze the legal, financial, and ethical considerations of a case involving patient transfer, based on the following scenario:
A Medicare patient is admitted from a skilled nursing facility for dehydration. There is a close clinical relationship between the facilities, with admissions and services at both facilities referred to each other. A day or two after admission, a pressure ulcer is assessed. There is concern at the hospital about whether they will be paid for this condition.
The hospital staff claims that the pressure sore was caused by the local skilled nursing facility. The skilled nursing facility did not document any skin issues prior to discharge and believes the hospital is blaming it for the hospital’s poor skin care.
As an administrator in this hospital, you would naturally want to get reimbursed for the care now required to treat this patient’s pressure ulcer, to prevent this kind of issue from happening in the future, and also to maintain good organizational ties with this skilled nursing facility.
To prepare for this Application Assignment, complete the following:
Review textbooks in previous courses, such as the excerpts listed in this week’s Optional Resources, or do online research to remind yourself of Medicare payment policies regarding “never events.” Reflect on the ethical implications of Medicare’s “never events” policy. What challenges would you expect to occur regarding who ends up paying for never-event conditions and the impact on quality of care?
Do online research to learn more about pressure ulcers. What causes them and what kind of care is required to treat them?
Review the consequences of false claims, as described in this week’s Learning Resources.
Think through various ways in which an administrator could institute policies to help prevent or mitigate situations such as the one described above.
Global Retailing and Advertising”
Compare and contrast the key differences between typical channel structures for consumer products and industrial products. Provide an example or scenario of the basic ways in which each channel structure is clearly used.
Debate it! “Standardized versus localized” applies to advertising. Support your rationale
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 8 in your text as well as the article by Allemand, Steiger, and Hill (2013), and view the The Big Personality Test video. In addition to the required resources, go to the Ashford University Library and research a minimum of one scholarly source on the trait model of personality and one scholarly resource on the big five theory of personality.
It is recommended that you go to the The Big Five Personality Test and complete the free, confidential personality test that is based on the big five theory. The results of this test may be used to aid in the completion of this assignment. Please note that you do not need to register or give any personal information to obtain your results from this website. After you have completed the assessment, click on the “No, just give me my results” link. This link will take you to a page that will tell you how you scored on each of the five traits in this theory.
In this assignment, you will provide an overview of the trait model of personality in which you identify at least one principal theorist associated with the model. Compare and contrast the basic assumptions of this model and the psychodynamic model of personality. Describe the difference between healthy and unhealthy personalities as they are explained in the two models. Use your researched as well as this week’s required resources to support your statements.