Essays on Course Of Action

Introduction. 2

Strategic Plan3 Program Description.5 Leadership Challenges..6 Ethical Implications..7

Engaging communities and building constituencies.7

Budgeting, financing, and human resources.8 Performance management & Health Informatics..9

Appendix 1 SWOT Analysis10

Appendix 2 SMART Objectives..11 Appendix 3 Budget..13 References15 Introduction In the past decade, chronic lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart/cardiovascular disease and stroke have increased exponentially in the state of Minnesota. Sedentary lifestyle and poor diet has led to an increase in obesity which in turn has led to an increase in heart disease and stroke. Most adults in Minnesota have poor lifestyle which has increased their risk to heart disease and stroke. As per the Minnesota department of health, ...

End-of-life care refers to the provision of care to patients with incurable terminal illnesses and patients who are in a permanent vegetative state, and that type of care is one of the most commonly debated ethical issues in contemporary health care for two reasons. First, because of the development and advancement of medical techniques and technologies, physicians and nurses are now able to prolong the patients’ lives, but those interventions do not always improve the patients’ quality of life or maintain their human dignity (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). Second, the human population is aging, so the prevalence of terminal illnesses ...

The concept of "emotional intelligence" refers to the area of research, which answers the question: "What determines the success of human activity?" Emotional intelligence involves an opportunity to plunge into the emotions, to understand and feel it, and the need for rational analysis of emotions and decision-making process on the basis of this analysis. (Goleman, 2013) Emotions are a huge reservoir of information, using which a person can operate much more efficiently. Another crucial new element is that emotional intelligence allows to manage both - your and other people's emotions, resulting in greater efficiency and adaptability to communicate. People ...

When a video of SAE student chanting a racist fraternity song surfaced the internet, it was met by a different reaction from all the world (CNN). The unpopular video was put up on YouTube by an anonymous person whose motive was not known. Maybe it was for fun, or it was uploaded to make people aware that racism still exists and is here with us to stay. The student in the infamous video was thrown out of school in the middle of the night by an infuriated University of Oklahoma President David Boren. This course of action was also ...

The nursing practice constantly experiences challenges related to different aspects of care. Resolving these challenges effectively is determined by the leadership and the management in nursing. Nursing leadership and nursing management are terms that are persistently confused and interchanged, despite the different meanings of the terms. Understanding the meaning and contribution of leadership and management to nursing is critical in resolving common issues affecting the nursing profession. The purpose of this paper is to investigate a nursing issue and compare and contrast how nurse leaders and nurse managers would approach this problem. This exercise will facilitate identification of the ...

Business Plan to Pitch to Investors

Business plan to Pitch to Investors

Service station gloves are essential in ensuring that motorists are protected from the bacteria. Yeast, animal bacteria and vegetable bacteria, which are found on these gases pump handles. The introduction of clear gloves that are easily disposable and available in gas stations will make sure that customers are not harmed by bacteria as the gloves will be disposable. The external environment surrounding this business venture is both supportive and challenging. With increased sensitization of customers through advertisements, brochures, placards, and billboards placed near service stations, the customers will tend to gravitate towards adopting ...

In this ethical case study, I review the case of Miss S., an elderly patient recovering from severe physical injury and paralysis who advocates for physician-assisted suicide. In reviewing the case, the potential ethical issues and potential ways to address the issue at hand are provided, discussed through the lens of the ANA Code of Ethics. Assisted suicide is a complex issue, especially from a nursing perspective, and this case study provides one potential way to address it.

Facts

Miss S. is an elderly woman who has recently developed severe paralysis following a cervical spine stabilization surgery. Because of partial ...

Introduction

Law enforcement has turned out to be extremely challenging in the contemporary changing social and cultural climate. It has continued to experience a range of challenges that are generated by the existing environment. The law enforcement practices, as well as policies, have received a lot of public scrutiny. Terrorism, large-scale population movements, globalization, and entrenched social problems have made the enforcement of the law, especially by the police, more challenging. The contemporary policing is primarily marked by the uncertainty and broadening of crime deterrence problems. Among the law enforcement officers, the police have been scrutinized heavily by the public. ...

Corporate policies and Social Responsibilities

I. Our Values and Principles At TechFite, we take pride in our ability to achieve commercial success while at the same time treating our employees, partners, customers and the communities that we work in with honesty, integrity, transparency, and respect. We believe that we can ethically produce value for all stakeholders at home and abroad. To ensure that we are able to accomplish these goals, we have established the following core corporate polices. While we believe that these policies are sufficient to live up to our established corporate culture and environment, hat does not mean that they are unchangeable. ...

CHAPTER II

This chapter will seek to conduct an absolute inquiry into what makes up security interest laws in the United States. In order to lay the foundation for comparisons in subsequent chapters, the three main elements of the study of the Saudi system will be reviewed here in the context of U.S laws with an emphasis on California state law. The features of the California legal system will include the assessment of foreclosure rules and patterns in California. This will include a detailed fact-based evaluation of CCP580 (b), CCP580 (d) and CCP726 (a). The different components will enable the study ...

Summary of Unethical Behavior

Joe has exhibited unethical behavior by letting his personal opinions and feelings interfere with his work as a counselor to Jill. Accordingly, he used his religious background in judging Jill’s same-sex attraction. He also allowed his own untested opinion on the effectiveness and applicability of the European technique for erasing memories govern his judgment on whether it would be applicable for Jill or not. He also wanted to test the technique even if Jill did not give him her consent. Also, Joe is not sensitive to the cultural background of Jill during the counseling process. Moreover, he let ...

The purpose of this document is to develop the summary and coherent outline of the Motivation and Employee Involvement Strategy to be implemented in the organization. While the document will look at the full scope of the challenges, which have to be addressed, the detailed analysis and recommendations will be given for the critical topic of Joint Decision Making in Operations and Representative Participation. Companies apply a variety of programs and projects to address the challenges in this area. This strategic document will expand on the three recommendations, as central to addressing the three subtopics, work life balance, hirge ...

Transitioning from one career field to another can be a daunting task. Apparently, specific work place political issues should be understood to ensure that everything works out smoothly. In my situation, I was transitioning from the medical field to the corporate niche of business in the US. Clearly, the change involved in such a situation brought about some conflicts that strained the laid down power structures in my new place of work. In this paper, I will be analyzing the way the situation occurred, the political structures and frameworks that were overstretched during its occurrence and the strategies that ...

Executive summary

The main objective and purpose of this consultancy report were to evaluate and analyze the activities carried out in the Mike Davis business and family and come up with a well-defined management framework regarding planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Moreover, the report also helps the businesspersons to have skills that will enable them to integrate the four principles of management to improve the state of the business at large. The report as well has the mandate of solving the problems that the business is undergoing in both days to day activities as well as over a long term. The ...

Question 1

Management information system [MIS] is an integrated system that helps the management with relevant information to plan and make decisions in order to run the business more effectively and efficiently (Becerra-Fernandez and Leidner, 2014 p.42). The core aim is to make raw data into useful information that helps in managerial decision-making. That being said, the functions of MIS are data capturing, data storage, data processing, data and information distribution, prediction or forecasting, planning, and control (Leon, 2008 p.328). Data processing is the process of gathering data from various sources; this may include customer touchpoints like stores and e-commerce sites, ...

Purpose

The objective was to remove all doubts about the treatment of multiple sclerosis not being able to work for both men and women, whose domiciles are different. Comparisons for the treatment being given in two countries were to be made, with the aim of finding the similarities of drugs used, which work and which ones do not, as well as the differences between those regimens used. Through the differences, similarities, advantages and disadvantages uncovered from drugs obtained from two countries, the project sought to give male patients suffering from multiple sclerosis the ability to make sound and informed decisions ...

Introduction – Background to the case

Negotiations are always a critical aspect related to the operations and management of an organization which is essentially of a non-profit character. Being the Chairperson of the Board at Midwestern Contemporary Art (MCA) it is important to have a balanced approach to the resolution of a conflict with the MCA and Peter and Catherine Smith. While it is indeed out of character to coerce the Smiths into payment of the pledge especially after being able to meet them and understanding their present predicament, it is also crucial to ensure that the best interests of the MCA are upheld especially ...

Introduction

In the lion share of cases the life perception, its values and strategy are determined for individual in one’s parent’s families. Thus, it is critically important to maximize the probability for each particular child for living with one’s parents, and address the existing pitfalls of the institute of family with corresponding policies. This paper would be dedicated to representation of the core aspects of the family policy -as an intentional course of action for minimization of the need of engagement the child protective services into the process of assistance of the children, who fall into the ...

Facts surrounding the case. 3

Key issue. 4 Alternative courses of action. 5 Evaluation of the courses of action. 6 Talent management. 6 Branding. 7 Information technology. 7 The best course of action. 8

References. 10

Federated Co-operative Limited Change Management. Facts surrounding the case. Before 2010, Federated Co-Operatives Limited had several out of date features that influenced its operations by creating weaknesses. One such area was the organizational structure. The organizational structure of Federated Co-Operatives Limited had been hierarchical until the absorption of Scott Banda as the chief executive officer. Other areas of weakness presented in this organization included such processes as Information Technology (IT), ...

An Assignment Submitted by

BATNA and ZOPA are two different components of strategy of reaching an agreement in negotiations. BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) refers to an alternative course of action that one of the parties undertakes after the main course of action fails and the agreement cannot be reached as a result of it. BATNA must be based on an elaborate and considered option alternative to the main course of action that was primary in the negotiations. Typically, BATNA is the worst alternative method of resolving the conflicting interests of the two parties that may be accepted in the negotiations ...

Commercializing Biotechnology in Early-Stage Ventures: Discussions.

Discussion 1: What should you document and why? And why are signatures needed? In order for the company owner to protect himself and the company, he needs to have employees, potential employees, and consultants sign non-disclosure agreements. This helps prevent intellectual properties such as trade secrets, and unpatented ideas from being exposed, and also prevents future competition in case someone decides to steal ideas and flee. Employee agreements are another important documentation since they outline the required duties and responsibilities of the position as well as dispute resolution procedures. Employees also need to sign employment policy documents that outline ...

This discussion focuses on a difficult area of contract law: verbal contracts and agreements. Verbal contracts and agreements are notoriously difficult because they do not rely on anything written: they are entirely the product of spoken interactions, and thus, they are subject to the memory of the individual parties (Beale et al. 2010). In this hypothetical, Simon offers to pay each band member £250,000; ostensibly, this payment is not the issue that is contentious, as each band member did indeed receive this money after completing the concert. Although the case study is not clear, it seems that this ...

Utilitarianism and Taxes

Taxes are an important part of most modern societies. Nevertheless, as with almost anything, one has the option of actually going through with the action or not. Some might say that not paying taxes would be acceptable, as this implies taking personal property away from one person. Nevertheless, Utilitarianists would surely agree that one should pay one’s taxes, as it would ensure that everybody’s needs are covered. According to Utilitarianists, ethics is a way to maximize the greatest amount of good among the greatest number of people, minimizing the harmful effects. Typically, taxes are not high, so ...

According to Miller, Hess, and Orthmann (2013), a majority of community problems often affect a targeted population or geographical location. In this regard, this trend calls for the need to implement a similar problem-solving tactic, one that focuses primarily on the affected region or population. This concept is managed through application of the SARA Model, an acronym that stands for Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment. The application of this tactic assists in managing problems in a logical and sequential manner, hence increasing chances of success in solving the issue at hand. This paper will apply SARA as a problem-solving ...

Facts about the Case

The scenario involves sales personnel Jim Snelling who works at Spectro Electronics. He joined the company in 1992 working as a vice president for Global Strategy and Operations. Spectro Electronics is a supply chain manager and distributor of electronic components to the manufacturers. The company has an annual turnover of $6 billion and a projected turnover of $10 billion in the next three years. It has a global presence operating in more than 40 countries. The supply chain is organized into various regional operational hubs. The sales personnel source for bids from manufacturers and in turn source for suppliers ...

Abstract

Battles are either won or lost because of a commander’s decision. As a leader of his team, the commander is the central authority when it comes to the military decision making process. But underlying these decisions are his subordinates who are often tasked with making plans and course of actions. These courses of actions are often laid-out by subordinate officers, which make them highly influential in the outcome of a commander’s decision. Over the years, standard procedures have been developed and observed when making decisions in the military. Of particular interest is the seven decision-making steps outlined ...

Abstract

Going international has stood to be the primary means by which corporations have gained access to the global markets. Beyond their home markets, companies have been able to increase their sales and growth rate following the large customer base created and greater access to capital in existence in the larger market. The emerging markets such as China have been the primary focus for the companies seeking to globalize their operations. Companies have used different financial strategies, such as bonds and stocks that finance expansion and growth in the international markets. However, an ultimate understanding of the internationalization plays a ...

Throughout my life, I had been taught that I should not hit people. I think this is common sense, and my parents had taught me this since I was very little. Nevertheless, there was a moment in my childhood where I believe that the correct course of action was to actually hit somebody. As a child, I was playing at recess and one of the school bullies came up to me, and told me that if I did not hit my best friend, that he would beat of both up. I hit her because I did not want both ...

Problem Solving- Scenario One

Problem Solving- Choosing between completing college and taking up a job.

The problem present here is a choice between two options; college education or a job. The new job is out of state which in turn means that to take up the job. I would have to quit college. The job offers attractive benefits including car, housing, and relocation allowances besides an attractive remuneration. The current job does not offer college fees reimbursement but supports my present studies. I am nearing the completion of my studies and nearly taking my last exams, which would be cut short, should I ...

Abstract

Ethics is a loosely defined area that seeks to achieve the best solution for the benefit of greater society. Ethical decision-making is complex and challenging due to the fact that exact courses of action are often not defined or clear, given the various scenarios one might encounter. Public safety agency employees are not only likely to face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis, but be expected to uphold high ethical standards. The literature on ethical decision making training within public safety agencies stipulates certain guidelines. These guidelines include ensuring that employees are able to define what comprises an ethical ...

Introduction To Graduate Studies

Introduction To Graduate Studies

Part A

1a. Raj, R. (2009). A study in business ethics. Mumbai. Himalaya Publishing House. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com

1b. Relationship between ethics & corporate excellence

1c. Inspite of Indian having an ancient culture and philosophy about worklife, we in India have not yet managed to develop our own management styles in consonance with our own cultural ethos and have been systematically importing management systems and styles from foreign countries. Raj (2009) states: Inspite of Indian having an ancient culture and philosophy about worklife, we in India have not yet managed to develop our own management styles in consonance with our own cultural ethos and ...

Introduction

Control refers to the management function that entails the entirety of processes that effectively inform the manager of up-to-date events in main areas of operations in the organization, as well as facilitate needed changes to be carried out in the organization (Armesh, Salarzehi, & Kord 2010). Through the control process, projected results are achieved through accurate measurement and positive courses of action. Managers are an indispensable part of the control process in the organization; they check and assess the success of relations between stakeholders, such as employees and customers and organization resources and outcomes - inputs and outputs (Siska 2015). ...

Summary of the Case Study File

introduction Illness and diseases are part and parcel of humanity since time immemorial. In each age, there has always been a way of dealing with the most common disease at that particular time. Trial and error have been the most common methods that were used in the traditional ways. The results also formed the basis in which the doctors could concentrate their studies to come up with better drugs. The trend is not way different from the modern days. The changes are that there have come up sophisticated technologies that have facilitated research and the production of medicinal drugs ...

This is a case of a 60 year old elderly with complaints of persistent coughing for at least the past three months with pulmonary secretions. The patient’s name is A.D. (initials used for confidentiality purposes). She lives with her family and it was her daughter, D.F., who brought her to the hospital for medical consult. The doctors from the hospital conducted a comprehensive physical examination and found out what the main problems are; they also laid out an initial plan of action and the parties agreed with a course of action. I encountered numerous challenges when I got ...

Can we identify “care ethics” with feminist ethics? What aspect of traditional ethics does “care ethics” criticize? What is the basic proposal of the advocates of this theory for improving ethics in general? Care ethics dictate the application of moral theories bound by the context of the situation prevailing at that time. This was context entailed interdependencies between those who give care and those in need of care. It was formulated in the 80’s by feminist idealist: a psychologist and philosopher. Feminist ethical theories, unlike traditional ethical theories, stress the importance of relationships in the society as key ...

Organizational structure is the manner in which the tasks of the employees are divided, coordinated or grouped to ensure the smooth running and functionality of the institution by providing an environment that the members of staff feel comfortable to achieve the set goals and objectives. This is in relation to the vision and mission statement of the company or workplace. The organizational structures are either categorized into a traditional hierarchical organization or high execution organizations. Different institutions change their organizational structures for various reasons. The reasons vary from trying to keep up with the changing organizational changes, developing a ...

Policing Ethics

Over the last few years, ethics in policing has emerged as an important area with rising recorded cases that involve the police using excessive force. National Constitution and other relevant laws give police officers the legal framework from which they derive their powers in carrying out their duties. The original conception of the police force was that they would obtain the citizen’s goodwill while performing their policing duties. The understanding has changed since; police officers are now viewed as controllers of crime. However, the same law and constitution places limit for police officers on how far they go ...

One of the firms which have been recently involved in unethical business conduct is Wells Fargo and Company. Wells Fargo faced a civil lawsuit when it was found that it was engaging in unethical business practices. Wells Fargo was found to be mistreating its customers and employees unethically. Investigations by Mike Feuer, the city of Los Angeles attorney, found out that the current and the former employees were under tremendous pressure to increase their sales. In response to their employer’s pressure, employees resorted to unethical methods to increase sales. To meet their high sales targets, employees executed transactions ...

Present day education systems of the United States of America are subject to racially diversified college classrooms that are significantly different from the classes that existed by the second half of the twentieth century. The notable change is the outcome of “affirmative action” that became law under the Executive Order 11246 courtesy of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. As per the terms of the executive order, publicly funded companies could not discriminate based on any traits including skin color, gender, and religion. In the end, the action sought to serve two purposes: make efforts to allocate equal opportunity for ...

The ethical dilemma

At any point in the care process, especially in matters that involve severity of illnesses and end-of-life care, patients, families and nurses may find themselves at a point where they cannot agree on matters that relate to the ethics and morality of the processes and procedures to be accorded. In the contemporary healthcare settings, patients and families are entitled to culturally competent care which is characterized by the consideration of the beliefs, values, perceptions and faith (Gastmans, 2013). These are considered to influence the spirituality, healing and restoration which is a critical element of the holistic healing process that ...

The stand your ground law became a hotly debated topic due to the case that involved Trayvon Martin and revolved around the shooting down of an unarmed 17-year-old by a watchman. The shooting occurred in 2012 and since then there have been suggestions to make laws that protect citizens, this was amidst the hotly contested nationwide debate on gun control. The trial sparked the law, and the facts were crucial as Zimmerman claimed to act in his defense as Treyvon looked suspicious. This led to a series of protests and rallies in anger against the killings before his burial ( ...

REFLECTION PAPER

Reflection Paper Introduction I am a student of global financial management studies at the Regents Business School in London. I actually believe this school is the best choice for training and all other finance-related disciplines. My objective is to work in the financial markets after graduating from university. Some of the areas that I want to focus on include wealth management, private equity, private banking, and the hedge funds. In other words, I am focused on developing a career in the investment banking concentrating on the high net worth individuals across the world. To gain the core competencies required ...

Chinua Achebe manages, in a highly entertaining and educative way, to present the theme of collectivism in the Nigeria before the merciless yet highly effective occupation of the British in Nigeria. The Ibo society that forms the setting of the book is a microcosm of not just Nigeria but also the rest of the Eastern countries. Chinua Achebe tells the story of the people of Igbo land of Eastern Nigeria before and immediately after their contact with the Western culture. The story revolves around the life of Okwonkwo, a tragic hero, depicting his birth, how he rises from a ...

Problem definition

Jill is an employee and colleague that is well-liked, but her circumstances force her to be otherwise. Her increased levels of stress cause her to portray a poor image of her during the work hours to the extent that it affects both her professionalism and duty. Despite the fact that her colleagues understand her predicament at home, they feel that it is infringing on her duty stirring everyone up including the management. One of the actions that depict that she has been out of it lately is when she hurt the pastor’s wife. Jill’s increased misconduct at ...

Problems Facing the Firm

Quadriserv Firm aimed at creating a centralized marketplace where the investors could effectively lend as well as borrow securities. In other words, the goal of this company was to modernize the United States equity securities lending market. Nonetheless, the brokerage firms resisted Quadriserv Firm’s innovations. Quadriserv faced a dilemma in deciding whether to make the changes to its systems so as to preserve a number of advantages, which the brokerage firms had in the prevailing marketplace and facilitate their participation in the electronic marketplace, which it was creating or not (Cohen & Malloy, 2011). The changes to Quadriserv Firm’ ...

Decision-making is a cognitive process that aims at selecting a course of action that is best among several alternative possibilities. Every decision that is made ends up producing a final choice that may or may not prompt an action (Kohlen et al., 2015). The decision-making process should be logical if the best alternative option is to be arrived at. During the decision-making process, a nurse manager must weigh both the positive and negative alternatives associated with each available option before arriving at the best decision. Consequently, a nurse manager must also be in a position to forecast the outcome ...

The CEO of your health organization comes to your office and states that she is not happy with the efficiency of the new ambulatory care clinic; she does not believe that the new clinic is being effective.  Come up with three different measures for efficiency and three different measures of effectiveness that you feel are uniform and applicable to ambulatory care clinics.

Measures of Effectiveness

Mission According to the Rocket Model of team effectiveness, the first measure of effectiveness that can be a[applied within the context of the ambulatory clinics is an evaluation of the mission of the clinic`s team. ...

Introduction

Alternate Dispute Resolution is a method of settling disputes without the intervention of the civil courts. This application of the mediation process is especially successful in conflicts of family, minor injuries, home negligence issues and most other disputes in which the settlement is relatively fixed and lowers than a jury trial would assess. There are three basic types of Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR): arbitration, reconciliation and mediation . A mediator is a neutral third person who adjudicates the proceedings and is agreeable to both parties before entering into the negotiations. The parties have to additionally agree upon accepting the ...

As indicated by utilitarians, the correct thing to do is dependably to expand bliss. Libertarians imagine that the proper thing to do is regularly to give individuals a chance to do whatever they need. John Locke's hypothesis says that there are unalienable rights, stood to each individual by the "law of nature." The popular savant Immanuel Kant believed that each of these perspectives was mixed up. Against utilitarians, Kant holds that flexibility—and not satisfaction—is the objective of profound quality; against Libertarians, Kant denies that opportunity comprises in doing whatever you need; and against Locke, he holds that ...

The current debate on whether to adopt or reject a law that aims at legalizing physician-assisted death has been met both with positivity and negativity in equal measures. While it is important to respect the decisions of patients in palliative care units, nurses are under an obligation to making sure that the decisions they make concerning this grave matter are supposed to be in line with the reasoning perspective and following the set-out laws and regulations, rather than from emotive and polarized positions. There is the need to take into account different perspectives of the issue at hand with ...

The case scenario provided presents a situation that entails an ethical dilemma. In this case, the decision made by the physician is expected to obey the ethical principles (least harm, justice, respect for autonomy, and beneficence). In the scenario, the physician can take two possible courses of action. First, he can choose to treat the child since the child has been diagnosed with meningitis and failure to act might have serious ramifications on the child’s health. Indeed, such consequences might be life-threatening. Secondly, the physician may choose not to treat the child in accordance with the will of ...

Introduction

Transformative learning, unlike traditional learning, empowers students to re-define the meaning of their experiences. It sets aside meandering assumptions and voodoo rules to explore one's capabilities, new roles, and responsibilities. While critical self-reflection is the essence of transformational learning, rational discourse is the method that empowers the learner to go through the required transformation. This paper is an exercise to reflect on a personal learning experience through the lenses of various tenets, principles, and practices of transformative learning. While I narrate my experience in detail, viewing and reflecting it through the concepts of transformative theory strengthens my knowledge about ...