As a consumer of information, do you generally look for objectivity in news reporting or do you also want opinions? Why?

During the past election, did you follow a political story or candidate on the Internet? Did you follow similar stories on candidates through television or in your local paper? What were are differences between Internet reporting and television and newspaper reporting? From your observations, what do you think are the general effects of the Internet on politics?

200 words 

As an HR Manager, part of your job is to analyze the staffing levels within the organization. You have to hire to fill one position within the organization. You can choose the organizational position you currently work or a future position. For this assignment, create a new position and write a description of the needs it fills in the organization, the job description, and the compensation and benefits package. Write a 5–7 paragraph paper in which you: Explain three or four job components in the job description and specifications for the job. Explain what will be included in the compensation and benefits package related to the job. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements: This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Include at least one reference to support your paper.

400 word response in total

Discussion: Quality of Life: Perspectives

The word city conjures up many images, drawn from personal experience and perhaps influenced by characterizations in film, literature, or other cultural expressions. Your expectation for how life should be lived may also come from multiple perspectives. Do citizens refer to a nostalgic past? Were things really better in the past? Is the economy attracting new residents? How is the city adjusting to the influx? In this Discussion, you define quality of life in a city through a particular perspective.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Read “The Secrets of the World’s Happiest Cities” and “Cities: Places Sacred, Safe, and Busy,” located in this week’s Resources area.
• View the media in this week’s Resources area, Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Urban Studies.

By Day 3

Post a 250-word response that explains the best perspective through which to define quality of life in a city. Choose from the following perspectives:

• Commerce
• Public Health
• Culture/Religion
• History

In your post, be sure to:

• Use the place you live to provide real-life examples of how quality of life can be measured.
• Refer to one specific example from your course reading.

Note: Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week’s Learning Resources or something you have read, heard, seen, or experienced.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

By Day 5

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ postings that contain a perspective other than yours.

• Explain how your colleagues’ perspectives can either:
  • Align with or compliment your perspective, or
  • Contrast with or be in opposition to your perspective.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned, and/or any insights you have gained, as a result of the comments your colleagues made.

Diversity Training

Instructions:

While many may frame discrimination in the workplace as being solely a legal issue, most in HR also recognize that discrimination decreases the overall productivity and effectiveness of not only an individual worker but the organization as a whole. HR departments work to eliminate discrimination when it becomes apparent. Unfortunately, there is not a set group of steps or procedures that can address all situations.

• Considering this please address the following prompts in your one-page discussion.
  • Think back to an instance of discrimination that you may be familiar with, or create a discrimination scenario based on your reading. What are the specific steps you would take as an HR manager to prevent discrimination from occurring in your present or in a previous employer?

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

• Health Care Finance Interview
  Identify a leader in a health care setting who is responsible for  fiscal planning and financial management. This person may be solely  responsible for financial management or have multiple duties and  responsibilities that include fiscal planning and financial management.  Request an interview with that person. You may conduct your interview in  person, via teleconference, or via videoconference. Use the interview  guide you created for last week’s assignment. Also, use Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library  and other sources to locate publicly available financial information  for this organization. Use it as context for your interview.
  The Interview Guide you created in Week 2 should include 10  questions. Seven questions are provided for you. You should develop  three additional questions. You should ask the following seven questions  in addition to the three questions that you developed:
   

1. Can you tell me about your role within your organization? What are  your duties and responsibilities? How long have you been in this role?
2. Can you share with me all of your duties and responsibilities that involve fiscal planning and financial management?
3. How does your organization approach strategic planning?
4. How do you approach operational budgeting? How does your organization approach capital budgeting?
5. What is the most expensive aspect of health care delivery?
6. How is health care finance related to the cost of care, quality,  value, waste, performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider  relationships, and insurance reimbursement?
7. What cost-containment measures has the organization used?
8. Write a 3–4 page paper in which you report your findings from your interview and research:
    
9. Indicate the name and title of the person you interviewed. Share  some background about their organization. List the responsibilities and  scope of their role, and how long they have been in the role.
10. Share the mission, vision, and strategic priorities of the organization.
11. Provide some organizational background (location, size, focus,  services provided, demographics of patients served, for- or nonprofit  status, et cetera).
12. Explain all of the financial-related tasks and responsibilities that your interviewee engages in.
13. From your interviewee’s perspective, explain how health care  finance is related to the cost of care, quality, value, waste,  performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider relationships,  and insurance reimbursement.
14. Comment on the organization’s strategic planning process and its  relationship to financial management. Is there appropriate alignment?  Support your perspective.
15. In a final paragraph, explain what you see as the most important aspect of financial management for health care administrators.
16. The specific learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
     

• Assess the relationships among health care costs, quality,  performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider relationships,  and payors.
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Week One Discussion Questions: Strategic Role of Human Resources (Oct 21 – 27, 2020)

Available until Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:59 PM EDT Must post first.Subscribe

Instructions:

After reading the assigned material for the week, post your original response to the questions by 11:59 PM EST Saturday and your responses to your colleagues by 11:59 PM EST Tuesday.  You want to include a minimum of 2 references from the classroom for each question/response. In addition, make at least two value added responses to your classmates. 

Discussion One:  Describe, in your own words (but using the course material provided):

a) What internal and external factors have influenced the Human Resource Management function over the past ten years toward serving in the role of a strategic partner or leader in the organization?  Discuss some positive and negative contextual influences that will continue to impact the HR function from today forward.

b) Explain what it means to be an effective HR strategic business partner. Why is it important for HR to be involved in all aspects of the strategic planning process? Discuss one example of a human resource management strategy that supports an organizational strategy.

c) What factors could be holding HR professionals back from serving in the strategic HR role? Share some ideas or strategies for enabling HR to be more successful toward working in a strategic capacity.

Be sure to provide the references for the sources of the information you used to inform your comments including the material provided in the classroom.

Discussion Two:  Application: After reading the case study about the organization HSS in the module included in this course for this week, do the following:

Write a memo to the CEO of HSS in which you justify HR’s role in drafting a strategic plan. The report should be written using language the CEO will understand and can relate. The document should be complete enough to convince the CEO of the importance of the HR function being part of the strategic plan at HSS.

It is important for you to locate and include academic sources (at least two) that support the content in the memo. You must show the reader that what you assert is accepted practice at other companies or organizations. You may use a word document if you like or provide your proposal in the content of your response window.

Please follow the directions of the assignment, and only write what is relevant to the project. Also, please make sure your writing makes sense, it was hard to follow some of the student’s assignment. I will deduct points.

For this assignment you want to  reread the client case study presented on the Course  Project Introduction page located in Module  01. (A sample of the how to create a case note, about the Norris Family, and the treatment plan has been included, please be free to edit if needed.)

This week for your course project,  you will submit case notes from at least three “appointments” with  Denise Norris. Since this is a  hypothetical case study, you may take the liberty of creating the details of  these appointments. Refer back to the needs assessment you completed in  your intake and the treatment plan/goals you created. The case notes should be  aligned with the content of those sections and be a minimum of one page per  appointment. 

Click here to review the Creating Case Notes in Human Services  PowerPoint that will provide a guide to the purpose and details of case notes. 

As you are formulating your case  notes, consider asking yourself the following questions as a way to plan:

• What details would need to be discussed at the first follow-up appointment after completing the intake? What areas were agreed  upon with Denise Norris in terms of each child as well as herself?
• The second and future appointments should logically follow-up on what was discussed at the previous one. What has been completed and what still needs attention? Are there any new issues or complications that might influence progress?
• As the appointments continue, the professional will build a helping relationship with Denise Norris that should be objectively documented in the case notes. 
• Each appointment should include recommendations for future progress and planned meeting times.

Remember the content of the case notes and direction of Denise Norris’s  case management is up to you and can be fabricated as you see fit. Keep in mind  the logical progression of the client and the reality of the needs being  addressed.

Please note that Human Services  organizations typically have their own forms related to how case notes should  be organized. For the purpose of this project, the format is not as significant  as the information contained in the case notes. 

 Answering Behavioral Questions

There are many different types of job interviews. Interviews can vary by style, types of questions, and other factors. Many interviewers use behavioral interview questions to evaluate how you might contribute to the company’s culture as well as its success.

Instructions:

Choose one of the following behavioral interview questions and respond to it as you would during an interview:

1. Tell me about a time when you had to work with others. What was the situation and how did you respond?
2. Describe a time when you had to deal with others? Describe the scenario and how you handled the situation.
3. Tell me about a time when you made a mistake. What was the situation and how did you respond?

In your response, include the following:

• A detailed description of your response to the question asked in your selected situation/scenario.
• A comprehensive list of the approaches you have or would use to respond to the questions asked in your situation/scenario.

In addition, describe the “selling points” you are trying to make in your response to the chosen question.

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

There are many stakeholders involved in health care policy issues, and they represent a wide variety of interests and perspectives. The health care industry employs many people. Though all stakeholders may share the goal of optimum individual and societal health and well-being, it is important to note that stakeholders’ financial interests may influence decision making.

For this Discussion, review this week’s resources. Consider the impact of health care policy’s evolution on Medicaid and Medicare programs. Then, think about a specific Medicaid policy in your state that should be amended, and reflect on how you would amend it and why. Finally, research the stakeholders involved in Medicaid and Medicare health care policy in your state and consider the role of these stakeholders in policy development for this issue.

Post an explanation of how the evolution of health care policy has influenced programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. Then, describe a specific Medicaid policy in your state that should be amended, and explain how you would amend it and why. Finally, describe the stakeholders involved in the Medicaid and Medicare health care policy in your state, and explain the role of these stakeholders in policy development for this issue.

Support your post with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.