Day: July 19, 2019

Choose one (1) company that you believe would be an ideal company to work for based on working conditions, salary, opportunity for advancement and work involved. Use the Internet to research. 

 

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

 

1. Evaluate the fundamental driving forces that shape the organizational environment of the selected company. Be sure to address the following: competing in a global marketplace, workforce diversity, ethics and morality, and technological innovation.
2. Examine the selected company’s specific practices or policies. Speculate on the major influences that these practices or policies have on individual and organizational outcomes.
3. Determine which practices related to work attitudes in U.S. organizations are most strongly affected by diversity and suggest a strategy to address the effects.
4. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources. 

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Evaluate human behavior in organizations and the forces shaping the behavior.
• Analyze individual differences within organizations and their impact on organizational behavior.
• Use technology to research issues affecting organizational behavior in order to deliver assignments which are clear, concise and have proper writing mechanics.
• Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.

 

NOTE: Do not write on the following companies: Google, Verizon or Facebook. 

Tough Conversations

Imagine you are the HR manager at a company, and a female employee came to you upset because she felt a male coworker was creating a hostile work environment by repeatedly asking her out on dates even after she said “no”. What would you do?
Write a plan for how would you approach your conversation with each employee, including the most essential topics to cover. As you write your plan, think about what your goals are for this situation, and how each conversation will help you achieve those goals.

Write a five to seven (5-7) paragraph paper in which you:

 

• Write a plan for the conversation you would have with the employee, based on the concepts found in your textbook. What are the most important points you would need to cover in this conversation, and why?
• Write a plan for the conversation you would have with the employee’s male co-worker, based on the concepts found in your textbook. What are the most important points you would need to cover in this conversation, and why?
• Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
  • This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Include at least 1 reference to support your paper.
• The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Explain the human resource management process, its role in supporting the overall organizational strategies, and the various functions involved in human resource management.
• Explain the key provisions of major government legislation affecting human resource management, including equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, health and safety, and labor relations.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

Review the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health in Chapter 7 of your textbook. Then, write a research paper fulfilling the following requirements.

 

• Why is the definition of health important to health policy?
• Define the term “target population” as it relates to health policy.
• How do societal influences impact the identification and definition process of policy?
• Research a healthcare organization and highlight how their policies align or misalign with the WHO’s definition of health.

 

The paper

 

• Must be four to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least four scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

 

 

Defining Health

 

Table 7-1 presents the view of health and health care espoused in the constitution of the World Health Organization. Although the UnitedStates is a U.N. member state, one would be hard put to find consensus in the United States on a number of the points that it cites as basicprinciples.

 

Asking people in the United States if health is more than the absence of illness or infirmity could produce a host of different responses. Somerespondents might come down on the side of physical and mental well-being but have a problem with trying to address social well-beingunder the heading of health. Indeed, the fact that we have millions of uninsured and do not provide mental health care to a large proportion ofthe population would seem to indicate a lack of commitment to physical and mental well-being.

 

Those analyzing or deciding on a policy need to understand the differences in the operational definitions of health that are representedaround the table. In the best of all possible worlds, those seated at the table would agree on thatdefinition and move on, but sometimes theart of politics depends, in part, on knowing when to try to agree on principles, or on actions, or on both, and whether to use limited politicalcapital to try to bring them into alignment publicly.

 

Table 7-1 Excerpts from the Preamble of the Constitution of the World Health Organization

 

… the following principles are basic …

 

•  Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

 

•  The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction ofrace, religion, political belief, or economic or social condition.

 

•  The health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security and is dependent on the fullest cooperation of individualsand States.

 

•  The achievement of any state in the promotion and protection of health is of value to all.

 

•  Unequal development in different countries in the promotion of health and control of disease, especially communicable disease, is acommon danger.

 

•  Healthy development of the child is of basic importance, and the ability to live harmoniously in a changing total environment is essential tosuch development.

 

•  The extension to all peoples of the benefits of medical, psychological, and related knowledge is essential to the fullest attainment of health.

 

•  Informed opinion and active co-operation on the part of the public are of the utmost importance in the improvement of the health of thepeople.

 

•  Governments have a responsibility for the health of their peoples which can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and socialmeasures.

 

Source: Reproduced from: Constitution of the WHO, Basic Documents, 45th Ed. Supplied 2006, October at www.who.int/governance/eb/who_constitution_en.pdf

 

Defining the Target Population

 

Just what population are we talking about? The history of community mental health centers illustrates how difficult—and critical—it can beto answer this question. A system designed to help the developmentally disabled and severely and persistently mentally ill morphed into ageneral mental health treatment system in which many practitioners avoided the original target group and concentrated on the morerewarding (professionally and financially) cases (Torrey, 1997). As more and more states now focus more intently on the original targetpopulation, many of those previously served must rely more on private payment or insurance or go without.

 

An analyst in charge of developing a maternal health program policy who wanted to determine the health status of the target populationmight start by looking at the health of all females of childbearing age. But what constitutes childbearing age when 8-year-old girls and womenin their 50s can give birth? An analyst would have to put both an upper and a lower limit on the age range in order to get a count of the targetpopulation.

 

Identifying the Health Status of the Target Population

 

The next step after defining the target population is to assess its health status. Many data sources are available for this task, but sometimesthey do not match up exactly with the target population that has been identified. The CDC demonstrated the complex connection betweendefining the target population and assessing its health status using available data in 2000 when it reported on changes in serum foliate levelsin noninstitutionalized women ages 15–44 who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1991 to 1994and in 1999 (CDC, 2000). It did not conduct a special study of pregnant women or women of childbearing age, the recommended targetgroup. Instead, it segmented the data in the existing surveys and analyzed that. There certainly are women bearing children after age 44,before age 15, and in institutions; however, the age range covered most of the potential recipients, and the differences in outcomes were sogreat that the analysts did not feel the need for further refinements.

 

Looking at the health status of the target population in the aggregate can often obscure differences between subgroups. One frequently hearsabout the millions of people in the United States who lack health insurance. Does their health status suffer because they lack insurance?Sometimes and sometimes not. Historically, many of the uninsured have been young people who have made a calculated trade-off betweenthe cost of health insurance and the fact that they are young and healthy (a group sometimes referred to as “the young immortals”). Yes, theyare more likely to have severe auto accidents than an older population, but until one happens they are not part of the 20% of the populationthat accounts for 80% of health care costs. They are transferring the risk of low-probability events to the public at large because they wouldprobably receive care anyway. Others may want insurance and need it, but are simply unable to afford it. The point is that there is plenty ofroom to talk at each other rather than solve problems. One can talk about the issue by discussing the uninsured as a bloc or about the needsof specific segments. The important thing is that analysts define clearly whom they are talking about.

 

Identifying the Factors Determining the Health Status of Concern Within That Population

 

Causation is the bane of the policy world. Politicians and polemicists would have us think that the right policy is certainly this or definitelythat. If it were that simple, however, there would be little need for analysis. The conclusions of studies seeking causation are seldom as clearas obvious results of taking the handle off the local water pump and watching the cholera epidemic stop. Most policy problems support thecharacterization by the Danish mathematician and poet Piet Hein, who wrote, “Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.”Inference is one thing, and causation is another.

 

If we return to our historical population of uninsured individuals as a target (it will take years to understand the full impact of the ACA), wefind that they have poorer health than the average population, and data show that they are more likely to postpone care and not fill aprescription because of cost and have an avoidable hospitalization. One might counter that some lack coverage because they are in poorhealth and cannot find employment. Also, when one deals with a policy issue of uninsured populations, one probably needs to address issuesof the underinsured as well. Problems ofdefinition and causation are also thornier because so many studies and analyses rely on informationentered into the claims data bank, which does not include information on the underinsured because they do not generate claims.

 

Identifying Methods Realistically Available to Change Health Status

 

With all the alternative solutions being offered for health policy changes, the analyst needs to identify the few that are most realisticeconomically and politically. By politically realistic, we mean acceptable to those who are likely to fund and use the analysis and implement itsfindings. Many potential actors may express a preference for specific alternatives a priori. The analyst must respect these preferences and stillkeep the process simple enough that decision makers are not likely to ignore the work or be confused by it.

 

Defining the Methods Operationally and Optimally

 

In an industry with a recognized high degree of waste like health care, one has to add the step of defining the alternatives operationally byanswering the following questions:

 

1.  Has the alternative been in use?

 

a.  If so, determine how it could be improved prior to applying it in this context.

 

b.  If not, define it in more detail to establish operational feasibility.

 

2. For the more promising, feasible, and relevant alternatives, determine optimal methods and procedures for delivery.

 

3.  Use these optimal processes to determine costs and effectiveness where relevant.

• What are some key fixed and variable costs for this business? Remember, fixed costs do not change when output changes. That is,fixed costs remain even if the company is producing nothing. Variable costs increase as output increases.

Write a 3–5-page paper in which you do the following:

 

1. Create your revised Non-Alcoholic beverage (NAB) company name and explain the name’s significance to you. Describe a NAB that you would produce and sell.
2. Develop your revised company’s mission statement and provide a rationale for its components.
   • Hints: Use the Statement of Mission template on pages 72–73 of the course textbook, Successful Business Plan, to aid your development.
   • Extract appropriate information from the NAB Company Portfolio, where applicable. You should fill in other required items in the template using your personal preferences. 
3. Describe the trends in the non-alcoholic beverage industry, especially the specific type of beverage category you have chosen. 
   • Hints: Research and outline beverage industry trends. Consider the size and growth rate of the industry overall and the specific beverage type you have chosen. Use the worksheet in the course text (p. 88 | Past and Future Growth of Your Industry) to help you project the future growth rate. Consider the use of industry associations and search engines to find reliable and recent data.
4. Choose one strategic position from the course text (pp. 142–143) that you believe is the best strategic position for your company. Explain the approach you will use to implement this strategic position in order to distinguish your beverage from other non-alcoholic beverages.
5. Provide an overview of your company’s distribution channels. Explain the manner in which your product will reach end users. Provide a rationale for your chosen method.
   • Hints: For example, will you sell your beverage in grocery stores, restaurants, or sports venues? If so, describe the types of resellers and distributors who will sell to resellers and fulfill their orders. If you are attempting to sell directly to consumers, for example, online via a monthly subscription, how will you manage warehousing/fulfillment/shipping?
6. Outline at least three types of risks (including any regulatory risks) that your business faces. Describe your company’s plan to mitigate such risk.
   • Hints: You may refer to the types of risk listed in the course text (pp. 148–149) as well as any risks not listed in the text. Regulation weighs more heavily on beverage and food businesses than many other types of companies, so be certain to consider any regulatory risks your type of beverage faces. For example, what kind of regulation and/or risks are you likely to face if you make health claims about your beverage?
7. Develop a SWOT analysis for your NAB company using the SWOT matrix worksheet in the course text (p. 153 | SWOT: Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats). 
   • Hints: What are your company’s likely strengths? Have you chosen a beverage segment that is growing and lacks an entrenched competitor? Are you in a niche market that has great potential? What are the strengths that you and other team members bring to your company? Do you or other team members have previous experience in the food and beverage industry? 
   • Hints: What are your company’s likely weaknesses? Is the competition in your industry segment entrenched? Is your own management team inexperienced? Will it be challenging to actually produce your product and maintain quality? 
   • Hints: What are your company’s opportunities? Does your segment have more demand than supply? Have larger corporations stopped serving smaller or niche markets that you could enter? Is a new market emerging because of demographics, immigration, and changing tastes? 
   • Hints: What are your company’s threats? Is there a clear market leader that will be hard and expensive to displace? Are downward-pricing pressures in the segment making profit margins slim? Are there little or no barriers to entry for new competitors? if you have a novel idea that succeeds, can the competition easily enter your market? If you have a global aspect to your company, do factors such as currency fluctuations, political instability, offshoring, or outsourcing pose threats?
8. Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:
   1. Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise. 
   2. The paper must be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
   3. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length. 

 

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

 

• Develop a company overview and SWOT analysis that include trends, strategic positioning, distribution channels, and risks.

I will be posting 4 different assignments to write about. EACH!!! a minimum of 500 words!!! Each! I need to know where you get your answers CITED! 

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT 1

 

 

 

“You Decide: Voices of Texas: Immigration in Texas,” and write an essay that addresses the following questions:

 

• How is the population changing in Texas?
• What are some of the possible political implications of the changing population in Texas?
• After reading the “You Decide” passage, do you agree with Dan Patrick or Julian Castro? Should undocumented immigrants be given a pathway to citizenship or be sent back to their country of origin?
• What are the pros and cons of illegal immigration in regards to both the U.S. and Texas economies? Consider how illegal immigrants have positively or negatively affected the economy.
• Do you believe compromise is possible on immigration? Are the only two options deportations and amnesty? Is there a third option?
• What role should the state of Texas play in the immigration policy?

 

Assignment 2

 

 

 

“You Decide: Voices of Texas: Voter Identification Laws,” and write an essay answering the following questions:

 

• What are some of the historical and contemporary barriers to voting?
• What accounts for the low level of participation in Texas?
• What are the arguments for and against voter identification laws? Should a student ID be an acceptable form of identification for voting?
• What can be done to increase voter participation in the short term? In the long term?
• Do you think lawmakers and election officials in Texas are open to adopting methods to increase turnout? Why or why not?

 

Assignment 3

 

 

 

“You Decide: Voices of Texas: What to Do with a Budget Surplus” and write an essay answering the following questions:

 

• Do you think that sales and use taxes are a fair way for the state to generate revenue? Why or why not?
• How should policy makers deal with a projected budgetary surplus? Should taxes be cut or spending increased?
• In the case of a budget surplus, what arguments would you make to the legislature to increase spending? Where would you increase spending? Why?
• In the case of a budget deficit, what areas would you target for cuts? Why?
• Under what circumstances should the legislature tap into the Rainy Day Fund?
• Why did the Texas Legislature give up the ability to set tuition at state universities and how has this decision impacted you?

 

Assignment 4

 

“You Decide: Voices of Texas: Abortion Policy in Texas,” and write an essay answering the following questions:

 

• How does Texas compare to other states with regards to providing services for poor citizens?
• What is the age and race/ethnicity breakdown of the uninsured in Texas?
• What programs are used to provide coverage to the uninsured? How are those programs funded?
• What steps has Texas taken to influence abortion rates in the state?
• Does Texas’ sonogram law violate free speech for the physician?  For the patient?
• Should the state pass laws mandating what information physicians share with their patients?

Why do you think that some people have better memories than others?  Is this a result of intelligence, practice, genetics, a combination, or something else?  Please provide examples to support your answer. 

Resources

 

• Ch. 3 and Ch. 4 of Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues
• Law libraries and databases from the internet

 

Scenario

 

Solar Co. Inc., a solar panel manufacturing and installation company, has recently encountered a series of scandals and bad publicity relating to defective solar panels, poor workmanship, and employee allegations of harassment by executives within the company. One claim resulted in a two-year trial which Solar Co. lost; all other claims were settled out of court.

 

Solar Co. enters into a contract with XYZ Media to prepare a 6-month national advertising and public relations campaign to help restore its tarnished reputation at a cost of $600,000. XYZ Media launches the campaign, and it is successful for the first two months until XYZ’s computer servers are hacked and all client information is lost because XYZ failed to have adequate backup systems in place. In addition, social media account information and passwords were compromised, resulting in derogatory and inappropriate posts being made on all of XYZ’s social media accounts for several hours. Because XYZ was managing Solar Co.’s social media presence at the time, Solar Co.’s social media accounts were also taken over by the hackers for a brief time and filled with damaging posts.

 

XYZ issues a public apology; however, Solar Co. wishes to terminate the contract with XYZ and receive a refund of the $200,000 it paid for the first two months of the campaign due to the damages caused by the computer hack. XYZ refuses to cancel the contract or issue a refund, insisting that it can successfully continue the campaign and re-create all of the material that was lost. Solar Co. refuses to pay any further amounts due under the contract and has already begun seeking a new media relations firm to re-launch the campaign.

 

Part I

 

Write a 525- to 700-word recommendation to Solar Co.’s CEO advising whether Solar Co. should:

 

• file a lawsuit and proceed to trial
• try to reach a settlement with XYZ Media, or
• use a method of alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

 

Your analysis should specifically discuss each of the nine factors provided in the “Contemporary Environment Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Lawsuit” feature found in Ch. 4, “Judicial, Alternative, and E-Dispute Resolution.” Provide a clear explanation and reasoning for your recommendation based on the facts of the scenario.

 

Would your recommendation be different if you were advising XYZ Media’s CEO? If so, how?

 

Part II

 

Solar Co. intends to use arbitration agreements with all clients, subcontractors and employees in the future.

 

Write a 350- to 525-word memo to Solar Co.’s CEO explaining the arbitration procedure and the enforceability of arbitration provisions under the Federal Arbitration Act.

 

Include a recommendation as to whether arbitration agreements should be used in the future to reduce Solar Co.’s legal risk and why.

 

Submit your assignment.

1. Provide a transcript like summary of the YouTube video addressing how the video correlates with the following course competences:
   1. How natural systems of the human body function (C1.1),
   2. The impact of humans on the environment (C1.2),
   3. The impact of ethnicity and culture (C1.3),
   4. Correlating illness prevention, health promotion, health restoration, patient education and empowerment as it relates to alternative and complementary healthcare (C2.1).

 

 

 

This is the video link please watch before answering the questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEfs5TJZ6Nk

 

 

 

must be apa format

 

include cover and reference page

 

use 3 additional references and include doi in the reference page

 

paper must be at least 4 pages long

 

please include points about the video in the paper