Value Proposition in Patient Care
Paradise Hospital, Inc., is a for-profit hospital. As the facility's new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in current-day America.
Note: You may create or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a 46 page paper in which you:
Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.
Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital's service value. Recommend the key methods that you wo
Your manager believes in learning from other companies' success stories as well as stories of failure. In particular, she likes to apply various management theories when possible, rather than starting from the beginning every time a decision has to be made. She asks you to write a memo to her addressing the following:
From any recent or current event in the news, discuss and explain the use of these two specific theories that the firms you researched believed in
In the human resource area, moving toward an employee empowerment culture
In the marketing area, the theory of penetration pricing
For each of these two, explain the following:
The issue being addressed that gave rise to employing these theories
How the theory being followed leads to specific actions on the part of the company
Results achieved
If you had been the senior manager in these situations, at those companies, how might you have addressed the
Due Week 3 and worth 200 points
A new position has been approved for creation; this position will be eligible for full benefits and may even need to be sent to foreign countries.
You have been given the opportunity to create a detailed job description for your job, a former job, or a job you would like to move into.
Based on what you know about a job analysis, employment laws, and safe working environments, include the following categories:
- Job overview
- Responsibilities and duties
- Qualifications
- Explain how you determined the duties and qualifications for the job and which laws were considered when creating the job description.
This assignment should be 2-3 pages and accurately reflect an actual job description in the workplace today.
NOTE: This assignment will be used as a basis for the remaining assignments in the cou
PART 1: Find a recent article or video describing a new product in development. Post a link to the article or video in the discussion thread and describe the following:
- What need is the new product trying to fill? Do you think it will meet that need?
- What type of innovation does the new product represent?
- What kind of process do you think will be used to make the product? Would it be possible to produce a lot of the product in a short amount of time?
discussion 1
Some structures and conditions that can facilitate creativity and innovation are having a dynamic and nimble execution strategy and quickly ehanc[ing] new unique capabilities in individuals, team [and] business units (Desai, 2013, p. 40). Meaning that an organization and those within it need to be adaptable and willing to change with the consumer climate, ideally ahead of its competitors. This could mean changing its business practices, formulas, and being constantly open to feedback and critiques. This push can enhance creativity and innovation because constantly looking for improvements or reinventing something that already seemed ideal, calls for people to think outside the box and to question their work and ask what can be done to be better. To add, people feel most creative and innovative when given freer reign on their tasks. This is because many professionals become dissatisfied and even disillusioned when narrowly structured tasks
Complete the following:
- Evaluate different approaches to ethical decision making.
- Analyze the approach you feel works best in resolving ethical dilemmas.
- Identify an ethical issue. You may use the same issue you used in the first assessment.
- Once you have chosen the ethical approach you feel is best, apply it to your identified issue.
- Assess the resolution that your ethical decision making approach suggests for this issue. How valid is the resolution that is suggested by the approach?
Questions to consider
To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.
- What criteria are important to you when determining the level of an organization's ethical performance? Why are these important criteria? Consider both corporate and personal values as
Assume for this assignment that you are being highly considered for a director-level HR management position for a best-in-class national retailer. You are in the final phase of the interview process and must respond to the interview panel regarding specific questions and scenarios that will help them determine if you are a good fit for the new role. The companys culture is centered on the effective development of strategy, plans, and selection criteria aimed at building and sustaining a competitive and profitable organization. It will be extremely important that you respond with a strategic mindset in order to convince the organization you are able to help them ensure the execution of the business strategy.
Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you:
- Analyze different types of strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, and focus/niche) and select which one you would deem more appropriate for an efficiency-minded retail o
This assignment has 4 parts.
- Review the Terminal Course Objectives, accessed by clicking on the Course Information tab at the top of your screen, scrolling down to the Course Objectives and then selecting View class objectives. How will accomplishing these objectives support your success in management? What risks or challenges might a manager encounter if they have not mastered these objectives? Explain.
- What is the importance of current data in a SWOT analysis?
- How do you identify the SWOT factors in a fictitious firm?
- Which SWOT Factors must be specific to the firm and which can be Generic? Why?
Organizations typically offer many different types of learning activities designed to appeal to the wide variety of employees who may have a preferred style of learning. Reflecting on your experience with an organization in which you have worked, describe how you were trained to perform the function you perform currently or in a previous role. Indicate what you believe to be effective training strategies and those that did not help you learn your role well. Make suggestions about how improvements could be added to future training for employees in the same situation.
Write a 23-page paper in which you do the following:
- Describe a training event in which you were a participant.
- Point out the less effective parts of the training.
- Describe the effective parts of the training.
- Identify at least one different activity you would have included in the training event and how it would improve the effectiveness of the event.
Your firm will expand internationally this year and will include in its management team those from the cultures and regions into which it expands. You must prepare the management team to adapt and change the American management training to fit those of other cultures. Put together a slide presentation for the management team, explaining the impact that local cultures of attendees (Chinese and Argentinean culture) will have on their acceptance and adaptation of the managerial training concepts. Include in your presentation areas such as autocratic versus participatory style of leadership, delegation, acceptance gained as the leader, motivation of employees, employee rewards, and role of the leader.
Remember that a slide presentation must include the presenters name on the first slide, and the reference section on the last slide. The slide must include a few bullet points, and the notes detail each point mentioned in the slide. In text referencing should be in the notes.
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