Monthly Archives: March 2023

Kant’s text and the textbook discuss two “formulations” or ways of expressing Kant’s Categorical Imperative, the “Formula of Universal Law” and the “Formula of Humanity.”  Choose one formula: Suicide, False Promises, Cultivating One’s Talents, and Beneficence. 

Assume you are the local emergency manager for your community. You have conducted a risk analysis and identified a hazard that presents an imminent threat to your community.

Draft a proposal of an emergency operations plan for your mayor or commissioners that covers preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery for the identified hazard. Your plan should include, at a minimum, the following information:

• an overview of the hazard and your analysis of the threat;
• the sequence of events, resources, and any participants that you and the planning committee would include in the emergency operations plan;
• how to share this plan with city/county officials, response organizations, and the public and if there be opportunity for feedback;
• the identification of specific roles in the plan; and
• whose buy-in and support you need to ensure the effectiveness of the plan and how you propose to secure it.

You should ensure your plan presents a clear argument based on your analysis of the situation. You should use a minimum of five sources of evidence to support your analysis and plan. These sources may include applicable federal, state, or local laws, as well as research or other sources relevant to your analysis and plan.

Your proposal should be a minimum of three pages, not including your title and reference pages. All sources used must be properly cited. Your proposal, including all references, should be formatted in APA style.

This week’s self-assessment, located in your course text (Chapter 4, p. 138), includes one brief individual leadership assessment entitled “Narcissism.” 

For this Personal Leadership Journal, complete the “Narcissism” assessment. As a scholar-practitioner of health care administration leadership, what might the assessment reveal about your perspective on the topic of Narcissism? Consider how Narcissism may impact your role in the field of health care administration. 

The Assignment (2–3 paragraphs):

• Explain new insights gained based on your results of the “Narcissism” assessment. 
• Explain how these new insights might impact your current or future role as a health care administration leader.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

Instructions

Congratulations! You successfully completed the job analysis and job description for the Customer Service Agent at MediaRite.com. Building off your assignment, you will first develop a wage structure for the Customer Service Agent position by pricing the job and completing the wage structure using a rate range approach.

The assignment consists of two parts: the Job pricing and rate ranges you selected.

• You will present your assignment as at PPT presentation. 
• Your presentations must include a minimum of 12 slides (not including the cover slide and reference slide).
• You must include a minimum of 5 academically sound resources.  
• Your slides should not be written like a research paper but instead, a training presentation, utilizing the slide notes feature to further detail the slide summary.

explain the concept of the Balanced Scorecard and briefly discuss how it is used in organizations and in HR 

Create section headings for the key HR metrics for each of the 3 categories: Routine HR Metrics, HR Strategy Metrics, and HR Organizational Oversight Metrics.

Explain the rational for including those metrics on the Balanced Scorecard

 For this milestone, you will complete a draft of the first two sections of your summative assessment. Read the transcripts provided for you for this case analysis. The transcripts can be found in the Final Project Case Study. 

Respond to classmates discussion post. 275 words, APA format with references

Discussion Forum 5 – Children and Working from Home

POST CONTRIBUTION 1:
Select a specific employer and discuss whether employees of the employer you selected should be allowed to supervisor children if working from home.  Select only employers that allow work from home, i.e. we all know that a trauma surgeon cannot work from home and supervise children 🙂  Try not to repeat an employer that has already been selected.  I would suggest that you include your own employer if working from home is an option.  The crux of this discussion is the rationale behind allowing employees working from home to supervise children or not.  What parameters, if any, should be put into place to deal with this situation?

POST CONTRIBUTION 2:

For employers, childcare for employees working from home is an issue.  Employers may not benefit from a situation where employees are forced to take PTO or leave without pay.  However, the decisions that are made now may impact long-term employee expectations.  Many employers are reaching for the most flexible options available with the hope that employees will return the flexibility and concern when the current employment situation finally improved.

For an illustration of the challenges of addressing work from home and childcare, look at Florida State University.  The institution sent a memo to employees in June stating that employees could not care for their children while working from home.  The backlash was significant and immediate.  Within a few days, the university changed the policy to allow employees to care for children while working from home.  

Employers are challenged by this situation.  The large number of closed late summer camps and online schools for Fall 2020 indicate that this issue will not be quickly resolved. 

Be creative.  (You do not have to address the needs of a specific employer as in Post 1.)  How can employers help to address the childcare questions for/with employees?  Essentially, how can employers creatively and proactively help address the childcare void?

Has to be in your own words. 

Can NOT be less than 500 words

NO PLAGIARISM !!!!!!!

can you please make sure everything in this is reflected correctly in the employee handbook revisions you’re working on? Thank you!

In last week’s Discussion, you proposed a project idea and explained why it might be attractive to funders. You also distinguished it from other projects that have tried to solve the same problem or meet the same need. As you have no doubt discovered, locating an RFP that aligns to your project idea is a big task. The search can be complex, requiring skilled use of key words, the capability to navigate different websites, and the ability to critically evaluate a funder’s mission and goals as well as its guidelines for funding. You also need to decide whether public or private funding is most desirable for you and consider why.

At this point in your review of the literature, it is a good idea to begin thinking about how you will support the need in your proposal. Proof of need might include numerical data/statistics (e.g., client-related, local, state, national). In other cases, surveys and/or focus groups might be required for collecting preliminary data that will support the need. As you look at evidence-based practices and/or what is currently being done to solve the problem or address the need, keep in mind that a funder will not fund an identical project, but if an applicant is proposing to build on what someone else has done, that might be acceptable.

With consideration to feedback received from your colleagues and to your continued review of the literature, in this Assignment you will finalize your project idea. In deciding upon a project, it is important to consider carefully the breadth of elements that will be addressed in the proposal. Although you will not have worked out all the issues yet, you should have confidence that you will be able to resolve them. From this project idea, you will continue through the steps of writing a grant proposal. Additionally, considering the feedback you received from your colleagues for the three RFPs you posted in last week’s discussion, and to the continued analysis of your search results for state, federal, and foundation grants, you will finalize your funder selection.

For this Assignment:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources.
• Review the Gitlin & Lyons textbook pp. 82–83 for information on Abstracts.
• Review a wide variety of grant RFPs. The funding agency grant can be either an active or a closed grant.
• While reviewing the RFPs, think of how you could use each grant in a project.
• When you find an RFP that matches your project idea, review the literature to determine if your project idea has been addressed in the way you are proposing. If it has, then move on until you have a novel project idea that can be funded by an RFP.

In a 3- to 5-page paper, address the following:

Part I:

• Provide the title or description of the grant for which you will apply. Add the most appropriate hyperlink (URL) for identifying the RFP.
• What makes you confident that this RFP is worth pursuing?
• How did you evaluate the RFPs?
• What type of search engine did you use?
• What are the selected funding agency’s goals and applicant eligibility?
• Finally, explain why you selected this RFP.

Part II:

• Locate the abstract section in the APA course paper template. In the abstract section of the template, write an abstract that does not go over one page and that includes the following:
  • Describe your project. What are you proposing to do?
  • Why is it significant and innovative?
  • Explain what led you to this project.
  • Describe the purpose of your project and why you believe it should be funded.
  • Explain how and why your project is a better solution than what is currently being done to solve the problem.