Day: January 13, 2021

Scenario

Scenario :
You are in charge of a medium-sized hospital. At 2:00 this morning, an 8.2 earthquake struck the city in which your hospital is located.

Throughout the day the hospital experienced a number of successive structural failures that have led to fires, exposed electrical wiring, and other imminent dangers. After several hours of trying to do the best you can for your patients in the deteriorating conditions, it is clear that you will soon need to evacuate. While prioritizing the transfer of patients to other less affected health facilities, you are informed that the roads leading to the hospital have been severely damaged, making it very difficult for ambulances to reach you.

Many of the patients can move under their own power, but quite a few of them cannot be moved in conventional vehicles and must be transported by ambulance. You must decide how much longer you will wait and continue to put yourself and the other doctors and nurses at risk before you get yourselves to safety. Leaving before the ambulances arrive will likely remove any chance of survival for your immobilized patients.

As you realize this, a maintenance worker runs up and informs you that the structural damage is worsening. Although your staff are extremely conscientious about their responsibility, you believe that they would be divided on the decision of leaving or staying.

1. Complete this Endangered Hospital Decision Problem assignment:
    a. Review the Decision Making Scenario.
   
    b. Determine which level of involvement your subordinates should have in making this decision:
              1. No involvement: You make the decision alone without any participation from subordinates.
              2. Low involvement: You ask one or more subordinates for information related to the problem, but you dont ask for their recommnedations and might not mention the problem to them.
                3. Medium involvement: You describe the problem to one or more subordinates (alone or in a meeting) and ask for any relevant information as well as their recommendations on the issue. However, you make the final decision, which might or might not reflect their advice.
                4. High involvement: You describe the problem to subordinates. They discuss the matter, identify a solution without your invovlement (unless they invite your ideas), and implement that solution. You have agreed to support the decision they make.

    c. Answer the following questions:

              1. What factors let you to choose this level of employee involvement, rather than one of the other levels?
                2. What problems might occur if a lesser or greater amount of employee involvement than you chose occurred in this case?

2. Complete this Video Reflection and Reaction assignment:
            a. Review the two videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI&feature=emb_title

The other one is attached

            b. Apply the premise of either one of the videos to a decision you have made.
            c. Explain how your decision was impacted by the variables identified in either video.

Compose a document which includes your responses to each of the assignment parts above.

Two Examples

    Project Portfolio Management (PPM): In this project scenario, you are to implement this software tool in your organization. This tool is a software tool that helps senior leaders in the organization maximize the business value through the selection, optimization, and oversight of project investments. PPM is the centralized management of the processes, methods, and technologies used by project managers, program managers, and the project management office (PMO) to analyze and manage projects. PPM helps the organization better plan resource capacity. At the project and program level, it helps project and program managers manage time, resources, skills, and budgets and related risks and issues.

    Strategic Planning Software: Just like the PPM project, this project is to implement a tool that helps senior leaders with Strategic Planning. The tool helps leaders bring strategy to life, from formulation to execution, across the organization. It covers a wide range of strategic topics, methodologies, reporting, and other capabilities.

In the meeting this week, the Project Management Office (PMO) Director asked if it makes sense to manage all software-related projects, such as the PPM and Strategic Planning software projects, in one program. Prepare a write-up for the PMO Director that defines and describes program management, the benefits of program management, and the risks, issues, and challenges associated with program management.

The report will be in Word and formatted using APA style. The report should contain the following:
    APA-formatted title page with the topic title, your name, the course, and the date
    Introduction with the purpose of the report
    Define program management in relation to project management, and then outline and describe its benefits. Use the 2 projects (the PPM and the Strategic Planning software above) as an example.
    Describe the risks, issues, and challenges associated with program management.
    Reference list with sources in APA format
Basic APA formatting includes 1-inch margins, double-spacing throughout the paper, page numbers in the upper right-hand corner, paragraphs indented 57 spaces, and first-level headings centered and in bold font.

The Management Live 3.1 feature in Baldwin et al. (2013) mentions a meta-analysis that was conducted to examine the veracity of the advice of sticking with ones first instinct. A meta-analysis is a study that statistically combines a number of other studies that have been conducted. Because so many studies have been combined, we can arguably be more confident in the robustness of the findings. In other words, it isnt the case that just one study has shown the first instinct advice to be a fallacy. Moreover, the differences shown in the graph are fairly dramatic. When student responses were changed on an exam, 51% of them were changed from wrong to right while only 25% were changed from right to wrong, and another 24% were changed from wrong to wrong. Thinking about this another way, changing an answer is much more likely to help you than to hurt you! For every four times an answer is changed, only one of those results in a lower score (because 51% of changes were to the correct answer, and 24% of changes were wrong in the first place and wrong after the change).

This Management Live feature shows the necessity for scientifically studying phenomena; even when we think an answer is obvious, sometimes the data go against conventional wisdom. Moreover, the Management Live shows the importance of being willing to change your answer on an exam. This may be useful to know as a student, but think about how it may also apply in your workplace. Physicians routinely rely on research data and evidence in making decisions. What about your management abilities? Unfortunately, because we all think we are good at reading people and judging social situations, managers are far more likely to rely on gut instinct in making managerial decisions than on research evidence.

Questions to respond:
a. In what areas are you likely to use your best guess or instinct instead of looking to the literature and research to inform your decisions?
b. What can you do to become more aware of your own limitations in decision making?
c. How can you improve?

Personal Info: I’m a medicine student.