Essays on Incentive Program

HITECH legislation and its primary goals

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 forms part of a stimulus package that was approved as law in order to champion the use of EHR (electronic health records). Electronic health records possess the capacity to transform the health care sector from a largely paper based sector to reliance on clinical information and other sources of information in assisting the providers to deliver higher levels of quality care to patients (Beasley and Sinsky, 2014). At its core, HITECH has five primary objectives. First, HITECH seeks to augment quality, the safety, efficacy of health care ...

Human resources or as commonly referred to as employees are one of the important assets of any organization. They are a critical factor of production i.e. without them no production of goods or delivery of services will take place. Another factor that makes employees even more important is the fact that their output can be significantly improved. Capital resources such as machines and funds cannot be motivated to produce more but the same cannot be said for human resources. Human resources can be motivated to produce optimally (Armstrong, 2011). The most common motivators are monetary and non-monetary incentives. Sine ...

The issue of climate change is politically contentious. In the United States, political opinion is sharply divided between Democrats and Republicans. This sharp divide has implications for policy outcomes concerning climate change and the future of the earth. Despite political disagreements on the nature and causes of climate change, scientists do agree that human activities are contributing to the release or emission of greenhouse gases that potentially trap heat and affect the future of the earth. Some of the activities responsible for the warming of the planet are the fueling of economic growth with fossil fuels, heavy industrial and ...

Introduction

Management style is defined as the ways in which a firm manages the pertinent work activities, as well as, employees. An effective management style is one which enables a manager to manage employees and the working environment in the direction to achieve organizational goals (Robbins, 2005). Organizational successes and failures are utterly depended on applied management style. There are different types of management styles that lead businesses to either grow or fail. This study compares and contrasts the two business tycoons’ management styles, i.e., Google and Yahoo.

Compare and Contrast of Google & Yahoo Management Styles

Google was formed in 1998 by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin. Its ...

Conflicting Empirical Evidence and Potential Costs and Benefits in Recommendation Making

Education is one of the areas that have received attention from policymakers, practitioners, and government. The much attention that is put on the education sector is purely a connection between teaching quality and student achievement. Developing, maintaining and sustaining teacher effectiveness is always the role of the government, and this can be done in a several ways. The most popular policy that is taking center stage in the education sector is the provision of incentives for teachers with a view of increasing students’ performance in the learning centers (Behrstock-Sherratt, 2013). The incentives are majorly informed of finance as the ...

Electronic health records are a collection of information concerning patients that are organized and well stored electronically in digital formats. Patient’s information that can be found in the EHR includes diagnosis, treatment plans, radiology images, laboratory and test results, and allergies (EHR Incentive Programs, 2016). The use of this system in the healthcare sector has been a major improvement and, therefore, there is the need to undertake a research on the meaningful use of the Electronic Health Records (Wright et al., 2013). EHRs enable the sharing of information between healthcare providers and organizations. The enactment of the information ...

An electronic health record (EHR) refers to a digital version of patients’ medical records. They give real-time, records that are based on an individual patient, which are made availed securely and instantly to medical practitioners with authorization. It presents different tools that can be used by health care providers to make decisions about a patient’s health (Harvey, 2011). EHR has several advantages and disadvantages; the advantages include enhancing patient data security and privacy. It also provides up-to-date, accurate and meaningful information on a patient at the point of care. Lastly, it facilitates efficient and coordinated care. For example, patient’s ...

Employee reward and compensation program plays a crucial role in creating employee motivation and achieving their retention. This includes providing the employees with reasonable salaries and competitive rewards and recognition program that makes the employees feel to be part of the organization. The presented case scenario however, indicates a high level of employee dissatisfaction and also little motivation that has made the employees seek alternative employment opportunities where their needs are catered for. Reasons behind this issues could be that the current benefits and compensation program used in the organization does not motivate the employees either because it is lower compared ...

Employee Motivation in the Public Sector and the Case Study of Implementing Teacher Pay for Performance as means of motivation in NY Public Schools Employee Motivation in the Public Sector and the Case Study of Implementing Teacher Pay for Performance as means of motivation in NY Public Schools Motivation of the employees is an important aspect in the public sector. Motivation increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the employees in the public sector by enabling them to feel that there is an appreciation in their work ("Evaluating the Effectiveness of Teacher Pay-for-Performance | RAND," n.d.). As such, they ...

Company Background

A company involved in the distribution of Italian frozen foods had recently faced a number of issues. The company was founded in 1960 and inherited archaic practices of conducting a business. As a result, the company started to lose its competitive advantage in the contemporary market conditions. The current report addresses the issues that were raised in the company.

Problem Statement

Presently, the personnel of the company consist of 300 hourly workers and 10 supervisors. The rate of hourly turnover is high because the employees are unhappy to work for the company. One case of injury is recorded each month. The company does not ...

Management

Sources and Methods 6 Discussion of Findings 6 Causes 6 Impacts 9 Recommendations ..10 Conclusion 12 Letter Of Transmittal Dear Mr. John, Enclosed is the report you commissioned on 9 September, 2013 on the parking problems faced in the campus. The main findings of the report are - The high cost of parking is a burden to students who rely on their parents financially. - The parking spaces are inadequate forcing students to either park outside campus or fail to attend lectures. - The problem has escalated, and it ...

Introduction

A safety incentive program is defined by (Steenbergen and Gelder, 2013, p.1564), as a scheme set by an organization that rewards or recognizes the workers for their safe practice behavior or upon achieving safety performance milestones or goals. An organization usually rewards staffs who get involved in the identification of potential hazards, participate, and make suggestions towards the process of creating a constructive change in the company’s workplace safety principles. The promoters of Safety Incentive Programs have confidence that Safety Incentive Programs as a tool are an important and essential instrument for almost all business. Safety incentive tools are essential to ...

Writing bad-news messages

Dear Ms. Leketa Young, Introduction Our esteemed customer, I received your email. In the package, you are bringing to my attention the fact that the jacket you bought from my women’s clothing shop in California turned out to be defective since the panes have different coloring. You also requested for refund of the cost of the jacket and the shipping charges. Thank you for expressing your claims to me. Unfortunately, I’m sorry to inform you that it will not be possible to refund you for reasons that you will understand.

Reasons for refusal

- Leather jacket is defective ...

Introduction

Employee’s incentive programs are responsible for rewarding employees who have done an exceptional job through reaching the company’s goals, attaining milestones or for a job well done. These kinds of programs are meant to reward valued employees. The schemes have proven to be a success I increasing the motivation of employees the performance of a company in general.(Sparks, 231-245) An incentive program is awesome ways to illustrate to employees that you care for their input whiles simultaneously improve the potential of a business. The number of companies that include incentive programs in their system keep growing daily. This is ...

Abstract

Over the years, Americans rely on Medicare and Medicaid to take care of their health care necessities. However, despite of their commitment to ensure quality health care access, these two publicly funded health programs which were considered as national treasures proved to be poorly coordinated. Access to care and quality of service were the common issues these programs struggled with. Beneficiaries are facing problems such as discrimination and inefficient service from health providers. There were cases of Medicare’s improper payments to providers with incorrect claims. In addition, Medicaid’s program shares more than 20% of the state’s ...

1. Sodexo has several different divisions such as health care which has its own incentive program called Sodexo CARES. In a large company like this, having an incentive program that is tailored to the kinds of jobs and employees it has can make the incentive program work better for both employees and the firm. In one case, a group of dieticians received an award for their work on a online medication ordering system. Recognizing a group that works together motivates employees to work as a team. It fosters the idea that rewards and recognition come from people working with each other versus individuals only ...

1.0 Introduction Medicare fraud refers to obtaining money from the Medicare system under false pretense. Many Americans cannot afford to pay for health services. As a result, the Social Security Act in 1965 gave rise to Medicare in order to finance diverse forms of medical care for the vast number of Americans who cannot afford medical insurance. Different forms of Medicare fraud have evolved in the recent past but the bottom line for all of the forms is to illegitimately collect money from the Medicare system. Medicare fraud is just a fragment of the much bigger and intricate web of ...

Master of Business Administration

For decades, the encumbrance of evaluating the potential of organizational risks and exposures has been assumed insurance specialists both internal and external to the company. For instance, risk handling mechanisms particularly self-insurance and insurance have provided some degree of comfort to organizations that could be otherwise be incapable of withstanding financial impacts associated with disasters. Sadly, false confidence cases have led to multiple problems for small and big firms within the insurance industry. In order for companies to efficiently execute functions related to pre-incident risk assessment and find the at-need operational crisis directions, majority of firms have developed corporate ...