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Assignment 8

Overview

As we learned this week, the strategic management process has five steps: 1) Establish the mission and the vision; 2) Assess the current reality; 3) Formulate the grand strategy; 4) Implement the strategy; and 5) Maintain strategic control.

Below is a 6-minute video where Professor Donald Sull discusses recommendations for translating strategy into results.

Harvard Business Review video Why So Few Managers Understand Their Company’s Strategy. (Links to an external site.) (06:15)

Link= https://hbr.org/video/4013635003001/why-so-few-managers-understand-their-companys-strategy

Discuss

After watching the video, choose one of the questions below to answer:

1. Describe how you, or someone you know, used some of the recommendations in the video to implement either new ideas or strategies at work. What are the lessons learned?
2. Identify a current or previous supervisor, or someone you know, that used any of the recommendations in the video and discuss how effective the recommendations were. What are the lessons learned?

Option #1: Future of the Workplace

As we have learned, the nature of the workplace is changing rapidly. The rise in the use of robots and artificial intelligence has decimated the employment prospects for many employees in many industries. It has also changed the nature of the role of human resource professionals. With that as a background, compose a paper that addresses the following:

• Provide a general overview on the rise in the use of robots and artificial intelligence in the workplace. Present evidence that the use of robots and artificial intelligence is increasingly taking the employment opportunities to which humans have traditionally performed, including the level and scope of this trend.
• Assess how this trend has affected the promise and security of continued employment for some/many in the United States economy, including an assessment on how the nature and type of employment is changing for the typical US worker (e.g., more part-time employment or static wages).
• Present the criteria a human resource professional should review before determining whether a position should be filled by a robot or through artificial intelligence.
• Discuss how these trends will affect the role of human resources, including the typical human resource functions such as recruitment, compensation, labor relations, risk and liability management, and organizational effectiveness.
• Finally, discuss the role and duty a human resource professional has to ensure full employment for employees and, most importantly, the responsibility human resources should assume for those workers displaced by a world where robots and artificial intelligence are increasingly performing.

Your paper should be:

• 12-15 pages APA format

Health Communication

Jean is a health care administrator for a hospital that serves an urban population. Jean is promoting a recent initiative to install a free clinic to provide minor urgent care. Before the hospital can begin allocating resources to install the free clinic, the hospital directors are asking that Jean establish a community meeting to allow community members to provide feedback on what type of medical services the free clinic should provide. Jean would like to announce the community meeting to generate interest.

What considerations should Jean keep in mind when announcing the community meetings? How might Jean integrate the feedback from community members to ensure that the free clinic’s health care services marketing campaign effectively communicates the types of services offered by the free clinic?

For this Discussion, review the resources for this week and reflect on elements of health communication essentials for the role of a health care administrator. Then, consider how trends in health communication might impact your role as a health care administrator and reflect on how health communication influences future health care services marketing campaigns.

By Day 3

Post by a brief explanation of two key elements of health communication that are most essential for a health care administrator and why. Then, explain how one key trend in health communication may affect your role as a health care administrator. Finally, describe one way you might use health communication in a future health care services marketing campaign and explain why.

 Overview: It is important for you as a healthcare provider to advocate for populations through policy. Assessing the needs of a vulnerable population and identifying the policies affecting them to ensure positive outcomes is part of the advocacy process. Understanding U.S. health policy is a crucial component of developing a global perspective. A global perspective also requires considering the Millennium Development Goals in relation to U.S. policy; this allows advocates and decision makers to clarify the direction necessary to ensure health globally. Prompt: After reviewing the Final Project Two Guidelines and Rubric document, develop a paper summarizing the policy approved for your project, and analyze the effectiveness of the policy. In addition to your research, incorporate the information gathered during your interview to provide additional support for your policy assessment. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Introduction A. Summarize the policy that is the focus of your evaluation. Include in your summary the purpose of the policy, its scope and main points, its stakeholders and constituents, and its relation to other policies (if applicable). B. Explain the development of the policy, considering policymakers and their political standing, timelines, and budget restrictions. C. Explain your rationale for choosing the policy, using your research as support for your choice. II. Evaluation A. Determine the policy’s strengths and weaknesses in its ability to provide positive and/or negative change for its target population. Support your response with examples. B. Assess the extent to which the policy meets the needs of its target population, using data to support your claims. C. Explain any unintended impacts as a result of the policy. Consider populations, economics, and social or cultural factors in your response.  

Please answer all questions and follow directions. Please make sure that I am able to read and comprehend the assignment, in other words make it make sense. Points will be deducted if directions are not followed. 

Part 1: Research

Conduct  some independent research. Using Rasmussen and other resources, locate  articles, journals, blogs, and websites that identify communication strategies  to build and maintain professional boundaries within a helping relationship.

Part 2: Reflect

For this assignment,  you will create a PowerPoint presentation that focuses on communication  strategies and professional boundaries.

In a minimum of 7-slides (not counting the title slide and  reference slide) address the following:

• Identify at least  four (4) specific communication strategies to be used within a helping  relationship.
• Explain at least four  (4) ways professional boundaries should be set and maintained with clients. 
• Include examples that  consider the client’s diversity, needs, cognitive abilities, and reality when  detailing communication strategies for professional boundaries. 
• Incorporate two (2) credible resources to support your  communication strategies. Cite source used. 

Additional requirements:

• Use bullet  points or phrases to capture the audience’s attention.
• Explain slide  information in the Notes section of the PowerPoint slides.

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

• Possibility Approach

Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link “Doing Discussion Questions Right” and any specific instructions for this topic.

Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your classmates’ responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses in the Discussion Area.

Introduction

The possibility approach to consulting is a future-oriented, forward-looking approach to solving problems. It relies upon relationships and trust. A consultant’s goal is to change the employees’ fixation on problems and wanting answers to a discovery approach. The discovery approach focuses on what is working well in a workplace and creates a story or vision for the future. The discovery approach, therefore, looks to what is possible, which means the consultant must be a little more patient and relaxed when dealing with resistance.

Tasks

Question 1:

As an HR consultant, how will you use the possibility approach when working with difficult people and situations?

Question 2:

As an HR consultant, make a distinction between the stated (presenting) problem and the underlying (drivers) problem.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 500–1000 words as noted in the attached PDF.

Instructions:

In paragraphs, write a page and discuss one of the more famous corporate scandals of your choice. You may locate these scandals by performing an Internet search.

• What were the criminal charges?
• Who was accused of the crime(s)?
• What were the prosecution outcomes?
• What is your opinion regarding the criminal case?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

DQ 1

• Discuss the purpose of compensation and benefits from the organization’s viewpoint.
• Provide examples of strategic and tactical recommendations that an HR specialist might make to senior leaders with regard to direct and indirect compensation.

DQ 2

• Discuss how the process moves from job analysis, to developing the job description, and finally to setting compensation for the work.
• Who is involved and responsible for each step in the process?

DQ 3

Explain the difference between regular pay (for normal work hours and duties) and other forms of direct compensation, such as bonuses.

• How would you recommend that an organization blend the types of pay to maximize employee motivation?

label paragraphs with question number

Training is often looked upon as a short-term investment form many organizations or human resource teams.  The trend for training has been changing from a short-term focus to include a long-term emphasis.

Using Welder Library E-Resources of Google Scholar find a peer-reviewed article within the last 10 years on the topic of organizational and/or employee training  regarding the positive or negative effects on organizations and/or employees.

Assignment:

• Write and post a brief summary (2 paragraphs) of the peer-reviewed article. (5 points)
• Include the article as an attachment. (2 points)
• Reply to a minimum of two classmates. (3 points)

The “like” feature will be enabled. You are encouraged to “like” the articles you find interesting.