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Health care administration leaders face many challenges when executing decision making for day-to-day operations in their organizations. For example, consider how organization-wide initiatives, such as promoting patient and employee safety, represent overarching guidelines that a health care administration leader must ensure are thoroughly enforced. 

How might health care administration leaders determine what is best for their organization? What types of considerations might health care administrators take into account when enforcing organizational guidelines and practices?

For this Assignment, review the resources for this week and the “Case Study Assignment” document. Reflect on the issues presented in the Case Study assigned and consider how you might approach the case as a health care administration leader.

Individual Case Study Analysis (1–2 pages):

• Create an individual Case Study Analysis that includes: 
  • A summary of the facts associated with the case, including the primary leaders
  • A description of skills and traits of the primary leaders in this case

Traditional and Automated Warehouses

Let’s look at an analysis from 2009 which studied automated vs. manual warehouses: a different way of thinking about ROI to gain perspective. While many things have changed, the financial aspect of the discussion is still pertinent today. Some operations experts highlight advancements in warehouses which include: size and layout, urban locations, technology, and eco-friendly attributes.

Module 1: Week 1 Discussion Background Readings

Improving Your Manufacturing Operations Using Warehouse Automation (2019)

Robotics in the Warehouse: Changing the Fulfillment Paradigm (2019)

The Next Wave of Warehouse Automation (2019)

Study: Challenges Ahead for Warehouse Automation Market (2019)

The Takeoff Challenge: Manual vs. Automated Picking (2019) (Video 1:31)

Automation in Logistics: Big Opportunity, Bigger Uncertainty (2019)

Calculating the ROI of Warehouse Automation (2019)

2020: The Year of Supply Chain Labor (2020)

WEEK 1 DISCUSSION POST

Use this week’s background readings to understand how warehouses/distribution centers are evolving, and then find at least one other recent resource. For your post:

• Provide guidance regarding the short- and long-term financial impact of warehouse automation.
• Based on research, determine which warehouse/distribution center changes are most crucial.
• Using the resource beyond this week’s readings, provide a real-world example of a company employing warehouse/distribution center advancements and how the changes worked out for them. (The article should be less than two years old.)

This post should be 2 paragraphs in length (at least 100 words). Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite in the body of the post and add a reference list in APA format. NOTE: Failure to use research with accompanying citations to support content will result in reduced scoring “Level 2-Developing” for Assignment-Driven Criteria, Critical Thinking, Writing Mechanics, and Referencing on the grading rubric.

1. Now that you have decided specifically what you are going to study and identified what you need to know, you need to decide how you are going to answer those questions. What are you going to measure? Here, you identify the variables that will be used to measure the problem and what each of those variables means. How are you going to measure those variables? What are the advantages or disadvantages of one measurement versus another?
   Part 1: Select a research design. In chapter 5 of your textbook, you are presented with basic information about several types of research design. What type are you going to use? Why? Describe how you are going to use this design to answer your research questions.
   Part 2: Design and include a simple survey as one of your data collection types and include both open-ended and closed response questions.
   Part 3: Once you have identified your research design, you will begin to build a codebook in which you specify your variables. You will need to identify your Independent Variable and Dependent Variables. In the codebook, you will identify each variable, define what possible measurement outcomes mean for that variable, and identify the variable as continuous, nominal, ordinal/ratio or scale.
   Part 4: Include your answers to the IRB Application questions A-G. 
   1. Provide a brief summary of the proposed research (hypothesis and research design).
   2. Describe the source(s) of subjects and the selection criteria. Specifically, how did you obtain the potential subjects and how will you contact them?
   3. Informed Consent: Describe the consent process and attach all consent documents (for our purposes you will simply be describing the consent process).
   4. Procedures: Provide a step-by-step description of each procedure, including frequency, duration, and location of each procedure.
   5. How will confidentiality of the data be maintained?
   6. Describe all known anticipated risks to the subject including side effects, risk of placebo, risks of normal treatment delay.
   7. Describe the anticipated benefits to subjects, and the importance of the knowledge that may reasonably be expected to result.

For this Discussion, you will evaluate the use of literature and problem statements in assigned journal articles in your discipline to understand what it means for a research study to be justified, grounded, and original. You will use the Use of Literature Checklist, the Problem Statement Checklist, and the Litmus Test as guides for your post.

With these thoughts in mind, refer to the Journal Articles document for your assigned articles for this Discussion.

By Day 4

Post a critique of the research study in which you:

• Evaluate the authors’ use of literature.
• Evaluate the research problem.
• Explain what it means for a research study to be justified and grounded in the literature; then, explain what it means for a problem to be original.

The Use of Literature Checklist and Problem Statement Checklist serve as guides for your evaluations. Please do not respond to the checklists in a Yes/No format in writing your Discussion post.

APA

References

Greenhalgh, T., Clinch, M., Afsar, N., Choudhury, Y., Sudra, R., Campbell-Richards, D., . . . & Finer, S. (2015). Socio-cultural influences on the behaviour of South Asian women with diabetes in pregnancy: Qualitative study using a multi-level theoretical approach. BMC Medicine, 13, 120. doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0360-1

 Assignment Content

1. You’ve been told that the HR Director is pleased with the work you’ve completed for the organization and would like to take your contribution to the next level. She’d like you to review several strategic reports on the organization and provide feedback on how you think Southwest HR should move forward.

   Review the recommended sources in addition to your own research.

   Compile a strategy recommendation to the HR Director to be used for company-wide decisions. Include the following information in your report:

   • An executive summary of the HR strategy project (An executive summary is a brief version of the entire report, designed for busy executives to read if they don’t have time to read the full report. The first page of this sample executive summary explains what is required. For the purposes of this assignment, the executive summary will likely be around half of a page. My recommendation is to write the executive summary last.)
   • An analysis of current strategies and issues
   • Identify the type of strategy Southwest Airlines is following.
   • Identify 3 HRM implications for Southwest Airlines.
   • Develop and justify business strategies for each of the 3 HRM implications.
   • Determine an HR strategy.
   • Use at least 2 sources other than those provided. Review the following sources to assist with your recommendation:
   • Southwest Airlines case study on pages 101-102 of the text.
   • SWOT report in detail on Business Source Complete.
   • Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

• Choose two (2) factors from those discussed in the textbook that  may cause a possible breach of an implied contract. Suggest two (2)  strategies that an employer may use to avoid these possible breaches  from occurring. Justify your response.
• Select two (2) of the following acts: National Labor Relations  Act (NLRA), Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act,  Reduction in Force (Age), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)  and Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA). Determine two (2)  major challenges that each of the selected acts may cause within an  organization, and then outline a plan to prevent the challenges from  adversely affecting the organization or employees. Justify your  response.

The Role of Crisis-Responding Organizations

Understanding crisis response requires knowledge of the “working parts,” or organizations that respond to crises or disasters. Learning about international, national, and regional organizations in your area and the role each organization plays in disaster response is paramount to creating a crisis plan. A working knowledge of responding organizations is an essential element in leading other professionals and/or organizations in crisis response.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the Course Introduction area in the navigation bar on the left. Keep this overview in mind as you work through each week of the course.
• Review Chapter 17 in your course text, Crisis Intervention Strategies, and focus on the different organizations and groups that respond to disasters and their roles in responding to them.
• Review the websites for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), American Red Cross, International Relief & Development, Salvation Army, and Mennonite Disaster Service to determine the role each organization plays in a crisis, the types of professionals that respond to crises, how responders are selected, and how each organization is funded for crisis response.
• Review the media in this week’s Learning Resources, paying close attention to types of crises and who responds to them.
• Explore organizations in your state or region that respond to disasters and examine their roles and the interactions of those roles with international and national organizations.
• Review additional websites to develop an understanding of the growing field of crisis response.
• Select three national and/or international organizations and think about the crisis-responding roles of each.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 a brief description of each of the national and/or international organizations you selected. Then analyze the crisis-responding roles of each of the organizations you selected. Be specific and provide examples.

Note: Put the names of the organizations you selected in the first line of your post. You will be asked to respond to a colleague who chose at least one different organization than you did.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Requirements: APA 7th format, 6 and a half pages include abstract page and reference page, the references have to be scholarly journals and articles, at least 10 references.

Use Table 9-3 in Chapter 9, which has comparisons of some commonly used external assessment methods and decide which assessment methods make the most sense to use when hiring an Human Resource Business partner

In this Reflective Discussion, please reflect on everything you have learned, by addressing the following:

Paragraphs 1-3:

Given the readings and assignments in the course, identify and discuss three important concepts applicable to your work experience, profession, and/or career plans for the future. Describe how each applies.

Concepts include: Happiness in the work place, paid time off, employee compensation and benefits.

Future profession is Human resource management

Paragraph 4:

Which part(s) of the course (background materials, assignments, and so forth) helped to shape or reshape your perceptions of the role of HRM in the private sector? You can use or pick these parts: Attract and retain employees, training and development of employees, Develop teams and promote teamwork.

Note: No outside research or citations are needed in your Reflective Discussion.

Thank you for your Help!