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Select a real or hypothetical health care organization, and address the following:

• Identify the market sector your organization falls into (mass market or niche services). How does the population health approach to health care rather than the curative approach affect service delivery and management in your organization? 
• Assess common health care leadership issues (e.g., organizational climate, teamwork, coaching, and so on) and their impact on stakeholders. 
• Discuss the ethical and legal issues that may be found in the health care organization of your choice. 
• Provide at least 3 suggestions to minimize negative outcomes and maximize the positive outcomes of leadership intervention in areas such as staffing, financing, competition, regulations, and public image.
  5-7 pages and 

Question:- 1

  Utilizing Chapter 13, discuss the areas of employee safety that are most important to you. Do you feel the organization has the same concerns as you? Why? 

Imp points:-

1. prepare a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 20 slides not including the cover slide and the reference slide. Every slide needs to include 100 words in the Notes section. 

2.  You must use at least one reference, in addition to your book. You need to use in-text citations. Your in-text citation and your reference (on your reference slide) must be in APA format.  

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Question:2

Prepare a 6 page PowerPoint Presentation on your assigned topic. Prepare a synopsis, telling me the significance of your topic, the ethical dilemma presented, and the different positions (minimum of 2).

Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction

Building trust is one of the most important aspects of leadership. As a leader, you will need to have an executable plan to develop trust. As you continue on your leadership path, the plan will become more ingrained and even take some adjustment, but you must begin somewhere.

Tasks

Read the following article:

• Reagan, B. (2004). How to score high on the trust equation. National Underwriter/P&C, 108(19), 10–11.

Using this article as a foundation, develop a plan on how you will develop trust within your staff.

Be sure to include specific examples of the activities and rationale behind your plan. For example:

• Communication (how you will communicate)
• Modeling (what types of activities will you use to model)
• Commitment (how your staff will know that you are committed)
• Accountability (what the accountability measures are and who or what will hold you accountable)

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.

Discussion 10

CLASSMATE 1

Why is strategic planning and goal setting critical to an organization?

Change can be challenging within organizations. It is vital for leaders and organizations to have a plan developed in the event that challenges arise. It is not wise for leaders and organizations to wait until the challenge arises before knowing what to do. However, it will be beneficial for leaders and organizations to plan ahead.

Strategic planning can provide organizations with a set of concepts, procedures, and tools that are developed to assist in accomplishing the identified tasks (Bryson, 2004, 2010). Strategic planning is essential to organizations, as disclosed above. Strategic planning can be an essential factor that contributes to leaders remembering the mission, vision, objectives, and goals of the organization. The needs of an organization may change. As the need changes, leaders want to ensure that they are in a position to adhere to the needs. Manning (2020) identified three fundamental stages of strategic planning. The stages are establishing strategic direction, enhancing management and organizational capacities, and inspiring long-term change in the organization’s performance. The first stage consists of reevaluating the mission and purpose, assessing, and prioritizing the issues at hand, and developing strategies that will be beneficial to the organization in the future (Manning, 2020). The second stage entails organizations having a stronger foundation and improvements within the organization. The last stage involves the effective functioning of the organization shifting. The shift within the organization will be beneficial as it will produce great results. With strategic planning being the foundation of an organization, I believe it is also critical to develop goals.

As with strategic planning, goal setting is quite imperative. Having an established goal and identified objectives to achieve are essential. Goals are the driving force of a strategic plan. I like to envision a strategic plan as the vehicle and a goal as the driver. You can have a vehicle, however, if there is no driver, then the vehicle will not move. Meaning without the goal, it is hard to push forth the strategic plan.  Both, the strategic plan, and goal is essential factors that are critical to the success of an organization. Without those factors, it can be hard to navigate the organization in a pivotal direction.

Bryson, J. 2004. Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide for

Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 

Bryson, J. 2010. “The Future of Public and Nonprofit Strategic Planning in the United 

States.” Public Administration Review 70 (S1): S255–67, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02285.x.

Manning, S. R. (2020). Strategic Planning in Emergency Management: Evaluating the Impacts

on Local Program Quality. Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency 

Management, 17(3), 1–37. https://doi-org.ezproxylocal.library.nova.edu/10.1515/jhsem-

2019-0051

CLASSMATE 2

Discussion 10

Topic: Why are strategic planning and goal setting critical to an organization?

Strategic planning and goal setting are critical to organizations as it demonstrates what employees should focus on and it assists leaders in prioritizing tasks. Richardson (2014) reported that, “an organization that is growing and hopes to sustain that growth needs a set of strategies to guide its program development, build a solid financial foundation, and prepare for challenges that lie ahead”. More specifically, an organization must have strategies formulated to assist in determining productive future, within the organization. “Strategy may be thought of as a pattern of purposes, policies, programs, projects, actions, decisions, or resource allocations that defines what an organization (or other entity) is, what it does, and why it does it” (Bryson, 2011). The development and implementation of a strategy can further assist the organization in carrying out their mission and vision. “Strategies should be formulated that can be adopted in politically acceptable, technically and administratively workable, results-oriented, and legally, ethically and morally defensible form” (Bryson, 2011). An effective formulated strategy can aid companies in dealing with the many issues that arise, within the organization. 

In regards to an organization developing and supporting the sustainability of their strategic plan, Richardson (2014) states “to ensure that your plan is and remains ever present in the minds of your staff, volunteers, and other stakeholders, your governing committee (or its equivalent) should be tasked with monitoring progress toward the goals and objectives laid out in the plan”. The author also mentioned that the setting of directions and the act of monitoring those directions are the responsibility of the board. “Instead, the board as a whole should review the plan at regular intervals and, if necessary, suggest adjustments to keep the organization on track” (Richardson, 2014). Things are always changing within an organization Therefore, it is vital for the company to re-evaluate their business strategies to see if the current plan is working and/or needs modifications. “Strategies may need to be maintained, superseded by other strategies, or terminated for one reason or another” (Bryson & Alston, 2011). This review is significant in that it assists the organization in utilizing current strategies and lessons learned to continue building organizational success.

Bryson, J.M. (2011). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations: A guide to strengthening and sustaining organizational achievement. (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Richardson, C. (2014). Strategic planning: five steps to a more secure future. Retrieved from philanthropynewsdigest.org/columns/the-sustainable-nonprofit/strategic-planning-five-steps-to-a-more-secure-future

• From your discussion preparation work, select one type of employee benefit and report about how this specific benefit category is represented within the employment categories. For instance, you may choose retirement benefits and note the various industries which might be more inclined to provide that type of benefit.
• Debate how much inequity exists among the categories and justify your response with a specific example.

  PLEASE READ THE ASSIGNMENT CAREFULLY!

350-500 WORDS

There have been effective female corporate leaders like Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman, Phebe Novakovic, Ursula Burns, Indra Nooyi, and Ellen Kullman. However, women currently hold 4.6% of chief executive officer (CEO) positions; 16.9% of board seats; and 14.6% of executive positions (Catalyst, 2014). Discuss the following:

• Do you   think there is a glass ceiling for women leaders? How would you explain the gender gap for women? Justify and support your answer with data and scholarly references. 
• Identify a well-known past or present woman (someone your classmates could find historical information about) that you would consider a great leader. 
  • Identify 5 qualities that make her a great leader. Are those qualities unique to her being a female? 
  • Review some decisions made by her and discuss whether you think those decisions would have been the same if a male was in that role. 
• When you review the profiles of female world leaders like former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, Gro Marlem Brundtland of Norway; and President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, do you see differences in external perceptions, pressures, and reactions because they are female leaders? If yes, how do  you account for these differences? If no, what evidence do you have that they are treated the same as male leaders? 

Please support your responses with appropriate data and research. 

Reference: Catalyst. (2014, March 3). U.S. women in business pyramid. Retrieved from http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/us-women-business-0

HA3010 – Introduction to US Healthcare Delivery

Discussion 07: Long-term Care

       Long-term care (LTC) is defined as “care extended over a period of time.”  Choose either an institutional or community LTC and answer the following:

.Explain what type of patient would be the primary client.

.What services are provided at a LTC?

.Name at least two services.

.Why would they stay at this facility?

.Explain how caregivers help patients be as independent as possible.

.Explain your answer with an example.

 Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Youranswers should be highly organized, logical, and focused. Your answers should be highly organized, logical, and focused. 

Universal Ethnic Identity Scale

In this discussion, you will begin to assess your ethnic identity:

• Identify a brief quote (1–3 sentences) from the introduction of the Development of the Universal Ethnic Identity Scale (UEIS) article that resonated with you or was a curiosity for you.
• Discuss your reaction to the quote.
• Review and respond to the 18 survey questions found on page 244 of the article. Use the Likert Scale: 1 (strongly agree); 2 (somewhat agree); 3 (neutral); 4 (somewhat disagree); or 5 (strongly disagree) to record your responses.
• Summarize and describe your ethnic identity measure based on this scale.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the posts of at least two learners. Compare and contrast responses to the chosen quote. Compare and contrast description of learner’s ethnic identity measure with your own.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

• Discuss the process of assessing one’s ethnic identity.

Resources

• Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.
• The Development of the Universal Ethnic Identity Scale (UEIS) for Use in an Australian Context.

Now that you have evaluated the marketing environment and established some marketing goals for MM, it is time to get started with the new product plan. The first step is to research the mobile phone market. Without knowing who is buying phones in certain market segments, Michelle won’t know how to market MM’s new product. She needs your help to determine who the market is for the new product.

Michelle knows that MM needs to determine who the target customer is for the new product. She knows that marketing research needs to be done as part of this market segmentation and product development processes, but she is not well-acquainted with some of the details that are involved in the processes. She has stopped by your office to ask some questions.

“Thanks for canceling your other meeting this afternoon,” she says.“No problem,” you say. “I rescheduled my meeting with multimedia; it actually works out better for them, too.”
“I’ve heard about quantitative and qualitative research, but I’m not sure I really understand the difference between the two,” she begins. “I’m sure there are advantages and disadvantages to each of them, but without knowing, I’m not sure which type of research we need to conduct. What do you think?”
Before you can respond, Michelle’s cell phone vibrates.
“Excuse me, I have to take this,” she says.
Michelle takes her call and then stands up.
“Well, I’m sorry to do this, but I have an emergency that I have to deal with right now,” she says. “Would you do me a favor? Send me a memo that explains the two types of research and include brief explanations about the advantages and disadvantages of each as related to how they could be used by MM. I’d like to be able to speak intelligibly to this at the next board meeting.”
“Sure,” you respond, thinking that this will make for a pretty lengthy e-mail. “I’ll also include how each method can help us define our target market. Will that help?”
“Yes, great idea,” she replies.
“Ok! I’ll get that to you by close of business tomorrow,” you say.

400 WORDS 2 REFERENCES