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[Solved] Strategic Plan Provides Focus

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[Solved] Strategic Plan Provides Focus

 

Assignment Content

  1. Imagine the following: Now that you have completed your review of the Stevens District Hospital Strategic-Planning Scenario in previous weeks’ assignments, you have been asked to give a presentation to the hospital’s governing board. This board is comprised of the hospital’s president, 4 business leaders from the community, and 3 medical staff leaders.

    Assignment Preparation
    Use components from your previous weeks’ assignments for this assignment and update them with faculty feedback you received.

    Assignment Directions
    Create a 12- to 16-slide presentation, including detailed speaker notes, for the hospital’s governing board in which you summarize your analysis and goals created. In your presentation:

    • Provide an overview of the market.
    • State the mission statement and vision statement for Stevens District Hospital.
    • Provide the SWOT analysis.
    • Summarize the strategic goals created for Stevens District Hospital, including the rationale for the goals.
    • Describe itemized resources that may be needed.
    • Explain how the strategic plan provides focus and direction for Stevens District Hospital.
    • Cite references to support your presentation.

      Format your citations and references according to APA guidelines.

[Solved] Organization Whose Focus

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[Solved] Organization Whose Focus

 

As you finish this capstone in your degree program, think about where you want to be as a health care professional in 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years. Lifelong learning will be essential to your professional growth and meeting your career goals.

Research the professional organizations, certifications, and continuing education that you think will help you in your career path. Consider organizations outside the health care industry, too, if they match your career goals. For instance, if one of your career goals is becoming a project manager in a health care organization, an organization whose focus is project management is a good match for your professional interests. 

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

  • Which professional organizations, certifications, and continuing education do you think are a match for your career goals in health care?
  • What opportunities for continuing education and professional development did you find?
  • How does membership in the professional organizations you researched benefit your career path?

[Solved] Least Four Quality Academic

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[Solved] Least Four Quality Academic

 

Scenario

Assume for this assignment that you are being highly considered for a director-level HR management position for a best-in-class national retailer. You are in the final phase of the interview process and must respond to the interview panel regarding specific questions and scenarios that will help them determine if you are a good fit for the new role. The company’s culture is centered on the effective development of strategy, plans, and selection criteria aimed at building and sustaining a competitive and profitable organization. It will be extremely important that you respond with a strategic mindset in order to convince the organization you are able to help them ensure the execution of the business strategy.

Instructions

w r i t e 5 p a g e s   in which you do the following:

  • Analyze different types of strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, and focus or niche) and select which one you would deem more appropriate for an “efficiency-minded” retail organization and explain your rationale. How would the selected strategy ultimately affect how HR does its job?
  • Examine the four approaches to job design or redesign and provide an example (not a definition) of each. Then, make a case to the interviewing panel on the importance of effective job design applications in supporting the overall strategic goals of the organization.
  • Consider challenges and constraints associated with recruiting workers and identify and discuss at least two issues. What advice would you give to ease your selected issues? Be specific.
  • List and describe 2-3 candidate selection process ideas that might add value and overall effectiveness to the process.
  • Example: 5 Tips for Designing an Effective Employee Selection SystemLinks to an external site..
  • Also, what problems should HR and management teams avoid during the selection process?
  • Use at least four quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: You may only use the resources listed in the Course Guide and those that are specifically provided by the professor.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all supports. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

[Solved] Location Using Integrated Mapping

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[Solved] Location Using Integrated Mapping

apa format

1-2 paragraphs

references

 

Select the following case studies (located in your textbook):

  • Case 6-2 Not Getting Face Time at Facebook—And Getting the Last Laugh!

Then complete the following:

  • Add your opinion about the choices and decisions being made—if this was your company, would you make this choice?
  • What would you do differently?

Case 6-2 Not Getting Face Time at Facebook—and Getting the Last Laugh!

In August 2009, Facebook turned down job applicant Brian Acton, an experienced engineer who had previously worked at Yahoo and Apple. More than 4 years later, Facebook paid him $3 billion to acquire his 20% stake of WhatsApp, a start-up he had cofounded immediately after Facebook rejected his job application.(1) WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform, instant-messaging subscription service for smartphones and selected feature phones that use the Internet for communication. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other images, video, and audio media messages, as well as their location using integrated mapping features.(2) How could Facebook, a highly successful firm, have made such a drastic mistake?

Back in 2009, Brian Acton was a software engineer who was out of work for what seemed like a very long time. He believed he had what it took to make a difference in the industry, but his career did not work out as planned. Even though he spent years at Apple and Yahoo, he got rejected many times by Twitter and Facebook.(3) Acton described the details of the interview process that he failed to do well in as follows:

First of all, interviewing a person for a job that requires technical skills is difficult for both the interviewer and the interviewee. Facebook is a highly desirable firm to work for and requires the best skills and talents from all of their potential employees. It is therefore not surprising that the selection process rivals, if not tops, any company in the industry. The process starts with an email or a phone call from a recruiter in response to an online application or [to] a recommendation from a friend who may work for Facebook. Sometimes, in the initial chat online, timed software coding challenges are set to find the best performers. If this chat goes well, an applicant will go on to the next level—an initial in-person interview or phone screening.(4)

In this next hurdle, the applicant will have a 45-minute chat with a fellow engineer/potential coworker, [with] whom he or she shares the same area of expertise. They will tell you about their job and what their role is in Facebook; then they ask about the applicant’s résumé, motivation, and interests. Additionally, the applicant will be tested about his or her technical skills, coding exercises, and programming abilities.(5)

If successful, the applicant will be invited for back-to-back interviews. This part of the process is very grueling and stressful since all the interviews take place throughout a single day. The candidate will also be asked to manually write a program on a whiteboard to make sure that the applicant is knowledgeable about program writing. The goal in this final step is to see how one approaches a problem and comes up with a solution [that] is simple enough to solve in 10–30 minutes and can be easily explained.(6)

As a potential coworker, the applicant will be tested in terms of understanding and explaining complex ideas, with most tasks project related and constantly changing. This requires employees to possess a diversified set of skills. That is the reason why the applicant is not only tested in coding skills . . . but also to gauge enthusiasm and motivation. The applicant’s leadership and decision-making skills are also evaluated as the company seeks to find someone who can make a large impact on the industry and make quick decisions.(7)

After going through this arduous process, Brian Acton was one of the engineers who received an email that “regretted to inform” him that he didn’t get the position. Yet he stayed positive and took a different path, which led him to start his own company, WhatsApp. Teaming up with Yahoo alumni, he developed the most popular text-messaging application, and the company was sold to Facebook for a total of $19 billion in 2014.(8) This epic comeback proves how persistence and ambition play a huge role in job hunting; but it also proves how difficult it is to hire the right employee, even when that person has the best skill set.(9)

References

(1) The World’s Billionaires: #596 Brian Anton. (n.d.). Forbes. Retrieved July 17, 2014, from http://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-acton/

(2) WhatsApp. (2014). Wikipedia. Retrieved July 17, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp

(3) Anders, G. (2014, February 19). He wanted a job; Facebook said “no”—in a $3 billion mistake. Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/.georgeanders/2014/02/19/he-wanted-a-job-facebook-said-no-in-a-3-billion-mistake/

(4) Gordon, C. (2012, October 5). Getting a job at Facebook: Inside the “Meritocratic” hiring process. Retrieved from the AOL website: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/10/05/want-to-get-a-job-at-facebook-weve-demystified-the-hiring-proc/

(5) Bueno, C. (2012, July 20). Get that job at Facebook. Retrieved from the Facebook Engineering page: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/get-that-job-at-facebook/10150964382448920/

(6) Ibid.

(7) Ibid.

(8) The World’s Billionaires: #596 Brian Anton. (n.d.). Forbes. Retrieved July 17, 2014, from http://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-acton/

(9) WhatsApp. (2014). Wikipedia. Retrieved July 17, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp

Case created by Herbert Sherman and Theodore Vallas, Department of Management Sciences, Long Island University School of Business, Brooklyn Campus

 6-2 Not Getting Face Time at Facebook—And Getting the Last Laugh!

[Solved] Also Various International Perspectives

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[Solved] Also Various International Perspectives

Assess the purpose and function of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Explain why the United States has not joined the ICC.

Examine the pros and cons for the United States to be a member of the ICC.

Construct an argument proposing the United States should join or continue to not be a part of the ICC.

-Provide sound reasoning for your opinions.

-Examine not just the United States’ reasons for not joining the ICC, but also various international perspectives about the leading military power in the world’s decision not to join this criminal law court.

-Explain the ramifications of the opinion that you advance to the United States and the international community.

[Solved] Taking Property Via Eminent

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[Solved] Taking Property Via Eminent

First watch Little Pink House (2018) based on Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), at:

https://tubitv.com/movies/463611/little-pink-house

After you have watched the movie, review the case opinion for Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), linked below, and then answer the following questions in your discussion post:

  1. What happened in Kelo? Summarize the facts of the case and its outcome.
  2. What are your thoughts on the movie and the case? What do you think of the expansion of Eminent Domain in this manner?
  3. What property rights, if any, do you believe are violated?
  4. Can you think of a good balancing test for governments to use when taking property via eminent domain to ensure fairness?

Kelo v New London – 545_U.S._469,_125_S._Ct._2655,_162_L._Ed..PDF

[Solved] Designing Stage Also Includes

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[Solved] Designing Stage Also Includes

    

Week 3 Discussion – Planning the DBLC

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The  development of a database requires thorough methodology that ensures  quality within the solution. Imagine you have been contracted to develop  a finance database that will help an organization track monthly  expenditures by departments.

  • Discuss the various activities that you would have to achieve each phase, using the DBLC.
  • Assess possible challenges that may exist within each phase.
  • Suggest actions that one can perform in order to overcome these possible challenges.
  • Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.

reply to student below

  

Caitlyn Thompson         

 1:25pm Apr 23 at 1:25pm          

Hello, class!

The development of a database requires thorough methodology that  ensures quality within the solution. Using the DBLC, we can track the  organization’s monthly expenditures with a new finance database using  the following phases.

Planning:

This stage includes analyzing the current software and collecting  documentation of the business plans and goals for the new design. Create  a data model that shows the important data relationships and how the  data will be organized. Define the scope, budget, and timeline, and  create a database requirements document. This includes the description  of what data will be generated as well as how it will be generated,  along with any additional requirements. These requirements will be  gathered through interviews, surveys, and the current system analysis  (uCertify, 2).

            Some challenges to consider in the planning stage can  come from lacking documentation or requirements, which leads to  inadequate system design, resulting in rejection/underutilization of  system. To overcome this obstacle, it is imperative to take the  necessary time to ensure that all requirements are met and documented  before proceeding to the design stage.

            Designing:

            This stage involves creating the structured data design  to achieve the goals set in the planning stage. This can be done in  three stages – conceptual, logical, and physical design. The designing  stage also includes creating prototypes to test the design before  implementation. Testing with the prototype will locate and fix errors  using either white or black box texting methods, to ensure that the  design meets the necessary needs (2).

            A challenge in the design stage is, similarly to  planning, failing to meet the requirements. This can be especially  detrimental without the prototyping phase of the process. Prototyping  helps to identify issues and avoid having to redo as much, and refines  requirements for feasibility and usability.

                Implementing:

                During this phase the new design begins working. This  can be done with or without a prototype being done and includes  implementing security and converting any legacy databases. At this stage  the new design takes over and becomes a functional user interface (2).

                One challenge to consider in implementation is user  rejection; it’s important that the design has been thoroughly tested to  maintain security as well as integrity of the design to avoid the system  being rejected or unusable.

                Maintenance:

                Maintenance is the prolonged end stage that lasts  until re-design is necessary. This is when the system is routinely  tested and managed, and any necessary troubleshooting is completed.  While testing is completed throughout the process of the creating the  database, it is just as important to continue testing regularly to make  sure there are no unexpected issues (Abdullah, 1).

                A challenge of the maintenance stage to consider is  security; once the system is fully functional it is necessary to confirm  that there is no access to security breach by maintaining a strong  security system throughout the life of the database.

[Solved] “ Quality Considerations ”

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[Solved] “ Quality Considerations ”

 

ANNOTATION OF A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLE

Submit: Annotation of a Qualitative Research Article

This week, you will submit the annotation of a qualitative research article on a topic of your interest. Narrative, ethnographic, grounded theory, case study, and phenomenology are examples of types of research designs or approaches used in qualitative research.

An annotation consists of three separate paragraphs that cover three respective components: summary, analysis, and application. These three components convey the relevance and value of the source. As such, an annotation demonstrates your critical thinking about, and authority on, the source topic. This week’s annotation is a precursor to the annotated bibliography assignment due in Week 10.

An annotated bibliography is a document containing selected sources accompanied by a respective annotation of each source. In preparation for your own future research, an annotated bibliography provides a background for understanding a portion of the existing literature on a particular topic. It is also a useful first step in gathering sources in preparation for writing a subsequent literature review as part of a dissertation.

Please review the assignment instructions below and click on the underlined words for information about how to craft each component of an annotation.

Please use the document “Annotated Bibliography Template with Example” for additional guidance.

It is recommended that you use the grading rubric as a self-evaluation tool before submitting your assignment. 

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 

RESOURCES

 

Required Media

[Solved] Young Person Black

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[Solved] Young Person Black

 

Regarding the materials we read this week, I appreciate your feedback. “Humans have normalized the classifications we use to define ourselves,” captured my attention. The information I obtained indicates that thinking about other people in terms of their memberships in groups is a cognitive process known as social categorization, through which we instinctively classify people into social groups. Social categorization occurs when we label someone as male (against a woman), old (against a young person), Black (against White), and so on (Allport, 1954/1979). Similar to how we classify goods into different types, we categorize people based on their membership in specific social groupings. Then, rather of responding to those people as individuals, we begin to regard them more as fellow social group members. When seen in terms of the normal cognitive process, how does this apply in the present as opposed to the past?

Thank you

[Solved] Highly Competitive Workplace

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[Solved] Highly Competitive Workplace

  • What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of policies that encourage work-life balance? Is it realistic for a highly competitive workplace to uphold such policies? Why or why not?
  • What is the relationship between happiness and success? Is it counterintuitive to you? Explain your rationale.
  • How can the principles behind the science of happiness be leveraged to improve work performance?
  • How might an organization create an environment that is rich in optimism, social support, and the ability to see stress as a challenge instead of as a threat?