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Paying Attention Pays off for Andra Rush

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Suppose a coworker just brought you a union leaflet urging employees to sign an authorization card. What questions would you ask of the union supporter? What may happen from this point on? in 600 words

 Write a vignette of when ‘diversity’ was brought up in a situation at work or beyond and analyse the effects (min. 200 words). For example, a colleague or yourself raised the issue of sexism at a department meeting and it was enthusiastically embraced or coldly rejected. Do you lean into or avoid discussions of diversity at work? Why? 

reply to the students’ response and not the question  in 150 words minimum and provide 1 reference. Respond to the students response as though you are talking to them, use name 

question-

 Discuss the adverse impact of stereotyping in the workplace. Give detailed examples of various HR functions where stereotyping may occur. Examine the consequences of stereotyping as they relate to an employer’s exposure to liability. 

students response

Stereotyping is often a gateway to harassment and discrimination, but even if it does not progress to those extents, it is a danger to the functionality of any workplace. It creates tensions and barrier between employees and management and limits the potential of an organization’s employees.

Stereotyping can occur in virtually any HR function. It can happen in recruiting by choosing which collage fair to attend based on diversity demographics. It can happen in workplace safety by designing trainings for younger audiences, assuming they are more careless or less knowledgeable. Likewise, stereotyping can happen in other training and development by targeting specific groups of people while leaving others out because of a stereotype that a particular group has less knowledge, talent, or skill. Stereotyping can present itself while resolving workplace conflicts or even designing benefit packages by relying on generalizations of people instead of getting to the root of the problem or finding out what is most important to individual employees.

The bottom line is that stereotyping is a slippery slope that increases an employer’s liability. The more instances of stereotyping, the harder it becomes to prove that the employer is acting without bias or discrimination.

You have been in your role as Human Resources Manager of Acme Manufacturing for 6 months now. The employee hostilities that existed when you started your job have been resolved. Training was provided to all employees about expected behaviors and disciplinary actions, and the organization is now well-aware of requirements. The shift workers have received disciplinary action resulting in a written warning and now understand the importance of appropriate behavior in the workplace. The shift workers are now back at their jobs and are happy to be there!

There has been little communication regarding how the company is doing since your arrival as the Human Resource Manager of Acme Manufacturing. Leadership of the company has noticed this as well, and the CEO has called you to her office for a meeting.

The CEO explains that the company does not have a compensation structure for the nonrepresented management employees. She explains that there is a need for an overall job analysis process and that this work must be completed and approved by the board during its meeting in 2 months. She hands you a report from an external consultant to the board’s Compensation Committee outlining the elements needed, as follows:

• Develop and explain the different requirements that could be used in the recruitment and selection process for managerial positions in the corporation. This should include a discussion about what may be unique about managerial requirements as compared to other roles.
• Explain the important steps of job analysis, job design, job description, and job specification as they relate to this project. Ensure that you provide substantial detail in your response.
• How would you evaluate the relative worth of these management jobs in the company using the job evaluation process? Where would these managerial roles fall within the company’s compensation structure? Ensure that you explain how you made this decision.

Prepare a 5–7-page report for the CEO that responds to the 3 requirements listed above. The report will be given to the Board of Directors, so it must be formatted professionally, and you should cite any references used in proper APA format.

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The purpose of this assignment is for you to:

• Develop and write a case study based on one of four mental health disorders
• Complete a Mental Status Exam (MSE)/Mental Status Checklist (textbook version of MSE)
• Complete a narrative summation of the Mental Status Checklist
• Locate various samples of the MSE by completing an internet search
• Review/complete Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
• Discuss the importance of assessments in diagnosis and treatment planning
• Discuss the MSE
• Discuss the BDI and BAI
• Discuss the value of using assessments to assist in the evaluation of mental health clients and the many reasons that assessments do not provide enough information to determine the necessary plan of action to assist mental health clients

Part A: Case Study, Mental Status Checklist, Narrative, Sample of MSE, BDI, BAI

Directions:

1. Case Study (Minimum: 150 words): Develop a 150-word case study and describe–in detail–a client who presents to an agency with one of the following mental health issues. Choose one:
    
   • Panic Disorder
   • Schizophrenia
   • Bi-polar Disorder
   • Dual Diagnosis: Major Depression with Alcohol Abuse

Use the definitions/descriptions of the disorders and case study examples found throughout the textbook to assist you in developing/creating your case study. Be sure to give your client an age, name, etc. You must create your own case study. Record word count at the bottom of the case study. (You will attach your case study following the reference page of your paper.)

1. Mental Status Checklist: After writing the case study, “conduct” an initial assessment of the case study client by completing the Mental Status Checklist (one version of a Mental Status Exam (MSE) is in your textbook on page 83).
    
2. Narrative (Minimum 200-250 words): Next, using the narrative example in Sands and Gellis (p 81-82) as a guide, write a narrative of the client’s Mental Status Checklist results. Your narrative must follow the example on pps. 81-82, and must be based on the information you recorded on the Mental Status Checklist. The combination of these two components becomes your initial clinical assessment. Based on the disorder used in your case study, your mental status checklist results, and the narrative write up of your mental status checklist, use information provided in the textbook to suggest a plan of action to assist your case study client. Provide in-text citations for the material used from the text.(You will attach the narrative following the reference page of your paper.)
    
3. Sample MSE: The next component of this assignment is to search the internet for various examples of a Mental Status Exam (MSE). Choose an example that you can support with evidence provides valuable information that assists HUS professionals complete an MSE. You will be discussing your example in the paper component of the assignment.
    
   • Note: you will find a significant number of MSE examples on the internet. It is suggested that you compare three different examples to make your choice
      
4. BDI and BAI: Next, review the Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Scale. Print out a copy of each. The links are found in Module 5. Make sure you include website/link information to indicate where you located the assessments. The web link information may be hand written at the bottom of your BDI and BAI copies.
    
   • As you review each self-administered inventory, consider how the textbook readings and your research has informed you about the use of self assessments in diagnosis and treatment planning. Using your references for support, provide two or three specific reasons why self assessments are beneficial and then discuss two or three limitations of self assessment tools.
      
     • As noted, in Sands & Gellis Chapter 4, there is an example narrative MSE (pps. 81-82) and a Mental Status Checklist (p. 83). As a reminder, print a copy of the Mental Status Checklist and complete it using your case study.
        
5. Prepare these documents for submission
    
   • the completed Mental Status Checklist
      
   • the sample MSE
      
   • the BDI and BAI
      
   1. All documents must be submitted as pdf files, separate from your paper. You may choose to create one pdf file in which the documents are ordered as listed.
       
   2. After your reference page in your paper that is described below, include your case study and the narrative MSE
       
   3. All assignments are submitted to TURNITIN to check for plagiarism.
       

Part B: Paper

Directions

(Minimum 750 words, 3 scholarly references, one must be the textbook)

• Begin with an introduction to the assignment and then proceed with an in-depth, detailed discussion of the importance of using assessments in diagnosis and treatment planning for mental health clients in HUS professional settings.
   
  • Remember, you are using neutral, impersonal language here. You are not using the pronoun “I” in this component, ie, you are not indicating why you think assessments are important. You are explaining the reasons that assessments are important tools for HUS professionals and using evidence from your references to support the reasons.
     
• Next, explain the merits, in particular, of conducting a MSE. Include the value of completing a narrative MSE.
   
• Next, provide three reasons you chose the particular MSE you located on the internet. Support your choice with scholarly evidence that your example provides significant and useful information HUS professionals need to gather and understand to appropriately assess the client’s mental status.
   
• In this component of the paper you are allowed to use the pronoun “I” to explain your choice. However, this is the only component of the paper where using a personal pronoun is allowed.
   
• Next, discuss the reasons that HUS professionals need to comprehensively assess clients in order to properly assist them and may use a variety of assessments in this process. (Please note: You are not allowed to use material from Aaron Beck website to support your information. You must use a scholarly reference(s).)
   
• In the final component of the paper, provide a detailed explanation of the reasons the MSE/Mental Status Checklist and other assessments are valuable tools but only provide some of the important components of a comprehensive assessment.
   
• Include a detailed discussion of additional important and necessary information that needs to be collected in order to complete a comprehensive assessment of a client so that a reasoned and supported plan of action can be determined. Specifically discuss the diagnosis used in your case study and elaborate on other information that is needed to properly assess a client with this disorder.
   

The paper must be formatted using APA 6th ed. guidelines, including title page, running head, abstract, introduction, in-text citations, scholarly references, etc.

Under NO circumstances can websites, blogs, Wikipedia, dictionaries, .edu, or .org sites, etc. be used as references in the paper. You must use the course textbook and other scholarly published books; or scholarly, peer-reviewed articles.

Be fully advised: Students who use websites, blogs, Wikipedia, dictionaries or any other non-scholarly references in the paper component of this assignment will earn a ZERO on this assignment.

 Write an autoethnographic vignette reflecting on when you have encountered an ‘ethical dilemma’ (Linehan and O’Brien, 2017) at work or elsewhere if you do not have work experience (min. 300 words). What were the challenges you faced, if any, in pursuing ethical means? 

• Share an example of the best experience that you have had with a human resource manager who you observed, or with whom you have worked. Is there a specific encounter you had, which shows their effectiveness?

• Share an example of the worst experience that you had with a human resource manager who you observed, or with whom you have worked. Is there a specific encounter you had, which shows their ineffectiveness?

As pressures and demands for more standardized business structures fluctuate in society, health care administration leaders may experience challenges in developing consistent methods for solving health care administration problems. Though consistency may be necessary for enacting change, within many areas and localities, consistency may not be an option. As a result, a leader must be able to use a systems thinking approach to evaluate the best method for leadership contingent upon the circumstance.

For this Discussion, select a current event related to health care administration and leadership not previously discussed in earlier weeks. With the event you selected, reflect on how you might apply Fiedler’s Contingency Model. Consider the actions and interactions between leaders and subordinates with the application of this model.

By Day 3

Post a brief description of the event you selected. Then, explain whether the leader’s interaction with his or her subordinates was task-motivated or relationship-motivated. Justify your answer based on Fiedler’s Contingency Model.