Essays on Timeliness

Healthcare can best be defined as the maintaining as well as the improving of one’s health through various aspects such as treatment, vaccination and so on. The deliverance of health care is mostly done by professionals of health in all fields. The access to health care services has been observed to vary across various countries, regions, ethnicities, social groups in society as well as individuals (Healthy People 2011). However, the main factors influencing access to health services have been reported to be the social as well as economic conditions of a particular place. The access to quality healthcare ...

Communication

A $20million book deal, speaking deals with Ari Emmanuel and a half billion dollar library - what Obama can look forward to in his retirement- By Hannah Parry (Daily Mail Online). This is an article that speaks about the President Obama’s retirement plans. Following the election of President Elect Donald Trump as the 45th US president in 2016, the time come for the outgoing President Barrack Obama to vacate the White and he will do so on Friday, January, 20, 2017 as the writer puts it in the article. The writer has employed various elements of the 5W’ ...

The security breach in question involved Anthem Inc., one of the biggest insurance providers in the US; the company and third-party security experts estimated that nearly 80 million individual records containing names, medical IDs, addresses, social security numbers and other personal data have been compromised by the attack. Investigators came to the conclusion that the attacking party was able to access the records by sending out phishing emails to Anthem employees; some also linked Chinese government to the attack but this assumption was either dismissed as impossible to verify, or relevant information have not yet been released to the ...

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Berg, B. L., & Lune, H. (2013). Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences: Pearson New International Edition (8 ed.). New Yolk: Pearson Education Limited.

Journals

Ettredge, M., Huang, Y., & Zhang, W. (2012). Earnings restatements and differential timeliness of accounting conservatism. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 53(1), 489-502. The paper extensively tackles the issue of firms overstating earnings. The paper is targeted to individuals with extensively background in accounting. Additionally, the authors are qualified to deliver on the paper. It reinforces the research question. The study suggests a captured variation in conservatism. The findings depicts that an increase ...

Introduction

This project is an article review project that covers important elements and aspects of the chapter “Building Customer Satisfaction, Value, and Retention”. This is a chapter in the section “Understanding Marketing Management” in the authoritative book Kotler on Marketing. The focus of this research will be on customer satisfaction, customer value and customer retention in the context of marketing management. This project will include the review of four scholarly journals and articles on marketing and an application of its key concepts to the chapter. Thus, for each article, there will be a 500-600 word critique of the article and ...

Capstone Project of a Community Surveillance System in Kentucky: Evaluation of the Community Surveillance System and the HealthSIS system (Emergint technology Inc.) used in the Northern Kentucky Health Department and St. Elizabeth Hospital

Abstract . 4

Surveillance Systems Overview 5 Disease Surveillance: Responsibilities and Procedures . 6 Project Goals .. 8 Emergint, Inc. (HealthSIS) .. 9 Monthly Log .. 11 Emergent: Health Department and St. Elizabeth Interface .. 12

Performance Issues at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital 13

Questions Regarding Performance Issues at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital . 14

Performance Issues at the Kentucky Department of Health 15

Possible Solutions for Performance Issues .. 16

Using DCTS Computer Software 18

Conclusion and Recommendations .. 19

Works Cited 21

Appendix A .. 22 Abstract The surveillance systems for hospitals are crucial ...

Performance management is the process that makes an organization incorporates its employees in almost all activities of the company so that the enterprise can achieve efficiency. The key part in performance management is the employee involvement in decision-making. The activities that are involved in this process include planning where the human resource department sets the work schedule to be followed and the expected results if the work is done on their planned schedule. Continuous monitoring of the employee performance under regular schedules is imperative as Armstrong and Taylor (2014) assert. The other activity involved is that of capacity development ...

Consumer prices are changing over time due to the various factors. In order to compare the economic performance on the different levels it is necessary to establish the specific index pointing out the overall tendency of the changes. The Consumer Price Index is commonly used all over the world. That is why it is important to analyze the main principles of its application and identify this term in details. The ways of calculation of this index are slightly different in different countries. Therefore we shall thoroughly discuss the means of the comparison applied by national economies of different origin. ...

Introduction

LensCrafters is an international optical company with about 860 special service shops with production firms in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company creates and delivers eyeglasses within one hour, using readily available resources in their store. LensCrafters are focused on creating customers consistently throughout by offering exceptional customer service, growing the employees and leaders, making the best quality eyeglasses within an hour and delivering value to its customers, in an attempt to achieve its mission. This essay is structured in seven parts. The first part is an introduction of LenCrafters and the essay structure; part two ...

Introduction

Performance management is an important aspect of organizational function. It encompasses all the activities that concern the adherence to corporate goals. Performance management is an integral step towards the achievement of company objectives through sustainability (Roos, 1997, p.416). This is done in ways that promote organizational efficiency and consistency. Performance management can be streamlined to concern particular organizational units. Concerning this, it may regard to the activities of an organization’s departments or its employees. Through the creation of performance management strategies. Performance management has been cited in the field of corporate strategy (Youndt, 1996, p.840). Organizations use this ...

I.0 Introduction The Farm Bank, just like any other organization must enhance its capabilities to be able to cope with the growing demands of the banking institution. While the top management came up with the right decision in adopting a new Management Information System (MIS), our analysis revealed that the managers should have made the decision after taking every aspect related to the new MIS (Ahmed and Omotunde, 2012) This is especially so in the banking industry where there are complex processes involved in the collection, analysis, summarization and presentation of valuable information that are needed for decision making. ...

- Healthcare Data Quality

Data quality has become a center of focus for any organization when setting up data warehouses, putting more emphasis on the customer relationship management. This is true for healthcare organizations where cost pressures and the grave of improving patient care force efforts to incorporate and clean organizational data. This is due to the fact that data is a focal point to efficient healthcare and to financial existence. Data concerning the accuracy of diagnoses, the effectiveness of the treatments and the practices of healthcare providers is vital for any healthcare organization that works extra hard to excel ...

Abstract

Large multinational corporations in the contemporary business environment have a strong focus on leadership as the external environment places pressure on sustainability of their business models, based solely on the downstream advantages. With the growing complexity of the business, HRM became a paramount strategic element of the organizations, where leadership development and retention build on the core of business competitiveness. Many companies in the modern environment recognize the role of human capital in building productive and efficient internal environment and creating rare and inimitable assets. At the same time, there are numerous barriers that can be seen in the contemporary ...

Question 1

Explain the factors used to determine employee production standards. Why are realistic performance standards essential for employee motivation, morale, and productivity?

Employees’ productivity can be determined by a thorough analysis of their punctuality and timeliness in carrying out any tasks assigned to them. Timeliness is shows the ability of the employee to work effectively with set deadlines. Punctuality in arriving at work, delivering on duties and giving response to senior management can help measure the production standards of an employee. The management should also use the accuracy of the employee in delivering goods and services. Some employees are fast in ...

Introduction

According to Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin (2010), “what have changed in business in recent decades is the amazing proliferation of product choices in just about every category” (2). Authors exemplified this statement by referring to the choice of providers in the U.S. healthcare industry. If earlier, nothing but services by your doctor, your hospital, Medicare and Blue Cross was on offer, modern healthcare industry us characterized by a strong rivalry of multiple providers. So, under the circumstances of modern highly competitive market, companies need to offer products and services that have the potential to stand out the competition.

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Abstract

Negative Word-of-mouth (NWOM) communication, often used as term to denote the negative feedback given by consumers on public online platforms, has emerged to be an important area of study. However, an important dimension of NWOM has so far been ignored in academic literature – the experiences and attitudes of customer service executives towards online consumer complaints. In studying these attitudes and emotions, the current study uses Davidow’s six dimensions of managing and handling complaints by organizations as a theoretical justification. More than half of the six dimensions involve communication between employees and customers. Hence, the employee attitudes and the impact ...

Accounting

Accounting Description: There are risks of unauthorized access to either physical inventory sites or the online inventory system. Specifically, for on-site inventory access, only authorized employees can enter the warehouse with their access cards. For online inventory access, only and employees can login and special passwords should be required. The level of confirmation required should vary according to the importance of the inventory data. This will help different people access different inventory data instead of giving everybody access to data inventory. Test Procedures: First, the auditors can ask for a list of the employees who has the access ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

Requirements for the Masters in Public Policy and Administration Degree The thesis of is approved by __________________________________

Chairperson

ABSTRACT California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

Introduction

This case deals with the situation of the change management and adaptation in the international organization, International Trading Limited, (ITL) that operates on two continents with complex managerial structure. The organization is facing a number of challenges in implementation of the new purchasing system. While the system is ready for launch and it was communicated to the employees, there is significant delay in this project due to structural and cultural issues. This analysis is based on the following observations: - Management is working in silo thinking and there is no buy-in from the management in regards to the system. ...

Summary

In the United States, employment relationships are presumed to be at will. This is a representation of the most global countries that do not allow employment to be at will. Most nations in the globe permit employers to send away employees only for cause. Some of the reasons outlined for the retention at-will include respect for contract freedom, employer awe, as well as the belief that both employers and employees errand an at-will employment relationship over job security. At-will means that an employer can terminate employees any time for any reason, except an illegal one, or for no basis ...

Introduction

Communication is an important aspect of socialization, business organizations, teams and even marketing or communicating to the public. Communication is an important part of creating relationships and networks. Communication in teams in an organization helps in the process of effective instructions as well as strategy formation (Pearce, 2009). Communication plays an extremely important role in almost every field and so it is important that there be effective usage of accuracy and power to control in case of communication as this can help in ensuring effective communication (de Valenzuela, 1992). In present times of globalization mass communication is crucial and ...

1. Global Accounting Standards Global Accounting Standards (GAS) is the set of standards stating how certain transactions and other business related events should be shown in a financial statement (Greuning and Koen 2). It also involves world’s largest economies and how they can use accounting standards to close the gap between themselves and other nations. The purpose of a financial stataement is to provide information about the financial situation, changes in financial situation, and the performance of business entity in a transparent and accountable way (Greuning and Koen 2). This involves assessing the balance sheet, cash flow statement, and the ...

Best Buy Co., Inc. Best Buy Co., Inc.

Best Buy Co., Inc. is performing fairly well in terms of critical success factors. The factors of consideration in this case are cost and efficiency, timelines, quality, and innovation. Ideally, for electronic markets, these factors are mandatory and missing them could be fatal. Best Buy sufficiently shows evidence of success in this front. For instance, through its online system, the company meets the ever growing requirement of timeliness. Customers all over the globe easily access their products and make their orders online. This element enables timeliness in that clients do ...

The strategies used to evaluate healthcare issues, health information systems inclusive are all evaluated to gauge whether they support the six common goals of healthcare; safety, patient-centeredness, efficiency, timeliness, equitability and effectiveness (Littlejohns, Wyatt & Garvican, 2003). Strategies to evaluate health information systems differs slightly because they focus more on ensuring timeliness in delivery of services while they focus less on safety and diversity matters, multicultural healthcare among others healthcare issues. When designing an Information System Evaluation Tool, it is important to consider the privacy of patient information, the security of the information gathered, its accuracy, capacity of the ...

1.0 Background Information on SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerged febrile lower respiratory viral disease that has been described in Asia, Europe, North America and recently Middle East. The disease was first reported in Asia, specifically in Guangdong Province of Southern China, in late 2002. It then spread to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, Taiwan, Thailand, Canada, the U.K, U.S and Slovenia at an unprecedented rate, so that in a period of weeks it had spread to 37 countries and was thus a pandemic of global concern in 2003. SARS is reported to be the first global ...

Introduction

Executive Summary Southwest Airlines is an airline company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company has been in operation since 1971. It is the leading local airline in the US. Analysed as per the porter’s five forces model, Southwest Airlines has a good chance of weathering competition from market entrants due to its unique approach to business as Simple, Fun and Profitable. The general external environment presents increased population and therefore higher market, better and supportive technologies, non-bureaucratic political and legal environment among other aspects advantageous to the growth of the company. The main weaknesses for the company are ...

Introduction

For the purpose of analyzing the governance structure of a business in New Zealand, Mighty River Power has been chosen. Mighty River Power is a New-Zealand headquartered electricity generation company, which was formed in the year 1999 after splitting from the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand. On May 2013, the firm was partially privatized by the government, with the government retaining 51.78% stake and the remaining 48.22% of the stake held by private investors. They generate electricity in a number of ways; which also includes hydroelectric power and geothermal plants located in various parts of the country. They are a major source of ...

Introduction

The news is one form of entertainment that people cannot live without. People may want an easy read type of news or hardcore, hard-hitting news that tackle subjects such as politics, economics, terrorism, and world news, among others. But what is "news" per se? News is about events, occurrences, people, and places. It is anything that happens everywhere, although not all news finds its way to television, radio, print, or any other media. It does not matter whatever medium is used to deliver news as long as it is objectively presented, current, controversial, informational, timely, and has direct impact ...

Communication in the Planning Process

If the movement towards Consumer-Driven Health Care continues to advance, health care organizations will definitely want to improve the way its business operations. The organizations will seek more effective ways of communicating to the market. Effective communication through modern technology with clients ensures timely and effective delivery or services (Weaver & Weston, 2007). Moreover, it ensures that health care organizations are able to respond to upcoming challenges from a business and medical perspective of a diverse population. Effective communication also means that consumers are given easy access to health care information in cost treatment and quality and are therefore empowered to make ...

Production planning and quality management is one of the key indicators of any company’s productivity. This is especially the case for multinational companies that conduct business in diverse and highly competitive business environment. In such a scenario, an optimized production process is one of the key factors that give the company competitive advantage and profitability. Some of the key factors of production include quality, productivity, efficiency, cost of production labour characteristics and cycle time to mention but a few. In this case analysis the chip manufacturer can only optimize its production process and eliminate the inefficiencies by focussing on the ...

Organizational communication concept and skills

Communication is the process of informing, giving direction, regulating, and persuading the recipient of the message to act in a certain way. Organizational communication as a field of communication is concerned with the analysis of the role of communication in an organizational context (Marques, 2010). The importance of effective communication in any organization cannot be overemphasized. Communication connects all the all parts of an organization into a functional unit. Ineffective communication creates confusion, brings conflict and disorganization. This paper limits itself to the discussion of efficient organization communication being a direct result of using the correct method and concepts of communication.

Communication is ...

Outline

This paper gives a brief overview of five concepts of organizational communication that are crucial for successful communication in any organization. The ultimate objective of communication within an organization is to achieve the goals of that particular organization. Communication is therefore a foundation in which organizations can base their performance on.

The first essential concept of organization communication is active listening. This rests upon the management and leadership to engage every employee’s opinions in decision making. Active listening is a concept that can increase group dynamics, customer satisfaction, and effective decision making. The concept helps increase customer satisfaction through improved operation ...

Abstract

The Data Quality Management Model (DQMM) is a model created to manage the quality of data (Wang, 2001). It is comprised of four tools, namely: application, collection, warehousing, and analysis. Application refers to the purpose for the data gathering. Collection refers to the accumulation of data elements (Wang, 2001). On the other hand, warehousing refers to the systems and processes applied to store data and journals, whereas analysis deals with translation of data into information (Wang, 2001). To test the various aspects of data quality, the four testing tools must be used. The DQMM deals with aspects of data quality ...

Part II

Executive summary Ready Rural Company is a large company specializing in steel products in Canada. It has a large number of employees and a strong capital base. The company also has a large number of ICT staff based on various branches across the country. However, the company is lacking in adequate ICT policies that can help the organization realize most of its goals. Therefore the management have recommended for a strategic analysis on the company’s ICT policies and the actions that need to be taken in order to ensure that the company remain at top of the industry. According to the research conducted, ...

A. Review the existing DSS from Daily Grind, and provide a brief report (2 to 4 pages) to Michael and Mary assessing its strengths and weaknesses as a DSS for their new franchise business. Identify any additional problems or changes you could see to improve the DSS (worth 20% of the total mark for this assessment).

Introduction (Point of Reference)

I evaluated the importance DSS for the Daily Grind response. I performed an analysis of the existing decision support systems that could be used for business forecasting responses. Most evaluations and review of the DSS are critically deficient. This procedure will undertake to evaluate ...