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Discuss the following for this assignment:

• Describe why organizational development might be viewed as a micro-level intervention,while a large-scale transformation might be viewed as a macro-level  intervention.

Imagine that you have just been hired to lead a healthcare organization that employs individuals from several different cultures and nations. What steps would you take to ensure that each employee felt comfortable with you as their leader? How would you assure them that you will understand their need to feel as if their culture is understood and respected? 200-word minimum w/cited references.

Ledlow, G. R., & Stephens, J. H. (2018). Leadership for health professionals: Theory, skills, and applications (3rd ed.). 

Write a page answering the questions below:

Many of the authors highlighted in this course would argue that creativity and risk are important to creating effective innovations. How can organizations create a culture that supports creativity? From your experience or research provide an example of how this was done effectively. 

Does technology innovation always need to be based on a new type of software product? From your experience and research provide an example of an IT innovation that was based on an implementation of existing systems or through a combination of a number of platforms.

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

Compensation Strategies, Best Practices, and Challenges Presentation

For this assignment, assume you are a compensation analyst in a large financial services company. You have been in your role for almost a year. At your weekly one-on-one with your boss, she tells you that the human resources representatives at the company are fielding a number of questions from employees and applicants about compensation. The human resource representatives’ knowledge of compensation is not deep.

She asks that you prepare and deliver a 10- to 15-minute PowerPoint presentation (10–15 slides) at an upcoming departmental meeting that provides basic information about what is going on in the compensation field today. Specifically she wants you to address compensation strategies that companies employ, note three of their best compensation practices, and examine three compensation challenges today’s companies are facing.

Develop and deliver a 10–15 minute audio PowerPoint presentation (10 to 15 slides) in which you:

1. Analyze the compensation strategies companies use to attract and retain talent.
2. Determine three best compensation practices used by companies.
   • Be sure to provide your rationale for selecting these best practices as opposed to others.
3. Examine three compensation-related challenges companies face.
   • Be sure to provide your rationale for selecting these compensation challenges as opposed to others.
4. Explain what discretionary benefits are and how companies use them to benefit the company and its stakeholders.
5. Examine how laws, labor unions, and market factors impact companies’ compensation strategies and practices.
6. Deliver a succinct, engaging, and informative presentation on compensation strategies, best practices, and challenges.
   • Note: Be sure to include additional detail about what you will say as you deliver your presentation on the notes pages in PowerPoint.
   • Consult Use Kaltura [PDF] for help in recording your presentation and uploading it to the assignment area.
7. Integrate at least three quality resources using in-text citations and a reference page in your assignment.
   • Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
8. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
   • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.
   • Use a readable size font (24 pt or above) on your slides. For your slide notes, the preferred method is to use Times New Roman font (size 12).
   • Include a title slide containing the assignment title, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required number of slides.
   • Include a source list slide. Citations and references must follow SWS format. The source list slide is not included in the required number of slides.

Note: Last week’s assignment preparation activity provides resources on how to:

• Avoid plagiarism.
• Integrate resources into your presentation.
• Adhere to the Strayer Writing Standards.
• Develop and deliver a succinct, engaging, and informative presentation.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Research current compensation strategies, best compensation practices and compensation challenges facing companies

To be wrongfully  terminated is to be fired for an illegal reason, which may involve  violation of federal anti-discrimination laws or a contractual breach. The  legal standards governing termination differ substantially depending on  whether private-sector and nonunion employees or public-sector and  unionized employees are being considered. As the company HR leader, you  are accountable to the organization to ensure that all employee  terminations are initiated and completed while maintaining strict  adherence to current employment laws and EEOC guidelines.

You have broken the news of replacing a key member of your project team. As expected, the team is heartbroken, but your project sponsor is supportive of your move. Discuss what you will do to motivate your team. 

Compliance or Values

Question1 

Review chapter 7 of the text book discussing compliance versus values-based ethical cultures. First, describe the main differences of each type of ethical culture and then decide which type you would recommend to your organization and why.

Question2 

Mitigating Ethical Risk

Review Case 8 in the text book on delivering customer satisfaction at Zappos. While the case examines Zappos’ focus on stakeholder happiness and its contribution to success, the company is not without ethical challenges. Based on the case, how do you believe Zappos managed ethical risk? Are there any possible ethical risks in the future? Please explain.

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 4–6 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 would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.
• Specify four specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such a value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.
• Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find four recent (within the last five years) quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

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. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Learning Activity: Creating a Severance Package

Completing this activity will help you prepare for the upcoming assignment in Week 7. Think of it as practice for the assignment. As such, focus on content, not formatting. Your paper should be no more than 1 to 2 pages in length.

For this activity:

• Create a severance package for a separated employee in a fictitious company. 
  • At a minimum, include: 
    • Position differences.
    • Years of service.
    • Actual compensation amounts.
    • Any additional benefits that you want to add.
• Determine whether severance pay is taxable.
• Create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation. 
  • Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.

Use at least one quality academic resource in this activity. Consider beginning with your course textbook and quality sources that can be found in the Strayer Library.

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.