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Policy and Program Development

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As an organizational leader, one of your primary roles is establishing programs and policies that ensure the organization operates under ethical considerations and legal mandates. This responsibility includes informing employees of the organization’s code of ethics, communicating the code of ethics, providing training, and ensuring that operational aspects are administered in a legal and ethical manner.

You will assume the role of a leader and decide what strategies you will use to develop a strong organizational ethical climate. In your position as a leader, you will need to identify primary and secondary stakeholders and satisfy their concerns, understand the organization’s ethical standing, and develop an ethics training program.

SCENARIOYou are a business manager of Paradigm Toys, a publicly held company that is a retailer and manufacturer of children’s toys. The board of directors has asked you to conduct an ethics audit of the company and report to the board if you find the need for ethics training.REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

Prepare a report (suggested length of 6–8 pages) for Paradigm Toys in which you do the following:

A. Discuss the purpose of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in an organization.

1. Identify one primary and one secondary stakeholder that influence Paradigm Toys.

2. Analyze how Paradigm Toys can meet their CSR for the primary and secondary stakeholders identified in part A1.

B. Reflect on the importance of ethical leadership by doing the following:

1. Explain why it is important for an organization to develop an ethical culture.

a. Discuss the role that Paradigm Toys’ leadership can play in fostering an ethical culture.

2. Explain the purpose of an ethics audit.

a. Discuss the value that an ethics audit could bring to Paradigm Toys.

C. Develop the ethical framework that you would use if you were faced with an ethical dilemma by doing the following:

1. Identify and analyze an ethical dilemma in a business setting. (An example of an ethical dilemma can be found in Task 1. The example in Task 1 cannot be submitted as the specific ethical dilemma response for this aspect.)

2. Evaluate two potential solutions to the ethical dilemma identified in part C1.

3. Explain which solution from part C2 you believe is the more ethical choice.

D. Create a proposal for implementing an ethics training program at Paradigm Toys by doing the following:

1. Identify three key topics that you would cover in your ethics training program.

a. Explain why you would include the three topics from part D1 in your training program.

2. Recommend a delivery method and justify why you believe it would be the most effective for the training program.

 

Organization development

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Explain what steps the organization should take by reviewing the standard action research and organizational development steps covered in the background materials. Try to assess which key step is missing in the scenario below.
Then write a 4- to 5-page paper using three scholarly sources from the required and optional readings list addressing the following for the scenario below:
The Perils of XYZ Widget Company
Sales have gone down at the XYZ Widget Company and nobody in the organization, including the CEO, seems to know why. They decide to hire you, an organizational development consultant, to do some action research. You and the CEO spend a lot of time discussing how to proceed and create a contract. The contract specifies that you will limit the scope to finding factors that led to the decrease in sales, come up with a plan of action within one month, and answer the following questions using the background data from the scenario below.
Scenario:
XYZ Widget Company has lost 20% of its market share over the past two years resulting in a sales loss of 1.5 million in 2017 and 2 million in 2018 for a total of $3.5 million. Each widget costs the consumer $29.99 to purchase, and the average customer will purchase three widgets annually. Each XYZ widget is produced for $8 dollars and is of higher quality than the competition.
One competitor (Jim’s Widgets) in the widget industry with a similar product has increased market share by 12% due to a lower production cost of $4 per unit and price to the consumer of $9.99.
The CEO of XYZ Widget Company is reluctant to lower prices and has had to eliminate commissions and bonuses of sales employees who exceed goals. In addition, seven of the 21-member sales team were laid off for non-performance of sales goals.
Develop an Action Research Strategy Plan covering the following Action Research Phases in a report to the CEO.
• Data gathering and Diagnosis
• Feedback
• Planning Change
• Intervention
• Evaluation
1. What are the reasons behind the decrease in sales?
2. What actions or strategy (data/sales/changes) should be taken to turn sales around and regain market share?
3. What strategy should be taken to increase employee morale?
4. How long should this strategy take to complete?
Assignment Expectations
• Answer the assignment questions directly.
• Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
• Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.

Finance questions

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1. Explain the reasons why the net present value criterion is the best way to evaluate proposed investments.

2. Discuss the relevant incremental cash flows for project evaluation.

3. Contrast the differences between a flexible short-term financing policy and a restrictive one. What are the pros and cons of each?

4. A company has sales of €46,200, costs of €23,100, depreciation expense of €2,200, and interest expense of €1,700. The tax rate is 22 percent. What is the operating cash flow (OCF)?

5. Two mutually exclusive projects have an initial cost of €47,500 each. Project A produces cash inflows of €25,300, €37,100, and €22,000 for Years 1 through 3, respectively. Project B produces cash inflows of €43,600, €19,800 and €10,400 for Years 1 through 3, respectively. The required rate of return is 14.7 percent for Project A and 14.9 percent for Project B. Which project(s) should be accepted and why?

6. A project has an initial cost of €7,900 and cash inflows of €2,100, €3,140, €3,800, and €4,500 a year over the next four years, respectively. What is the payback period?

7. A company has beginning inventory of €11,062, accounts payable of €8,010, and accounts receivable of €7,844. The end of year values are €11,362 for inventory, €7,898 for accounts payable, and €8,029 for accounts receivable. Net sales are €109,100 and costs of goods sold are €56,220. How many days are in the cash cycle?

8. As of the beginning of the quarter, a company had a cash balance of €710. During the quarter, the company collected €1,860 from customers and paid suppliers €1,520. The company also paid a loan payment of €320 and a tax payment of €510. What is company’s cash balance at the end of the quarter?

9. A company is considering a new three-year expansion project that requires an initial fixed asset investment of €2,320,000. The fixed asset will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its three-year tax life, after which time it will be worthless. The project is estimated to generate €1,735,000 in annual sales, with costs of €650,000. The tax rate is 21 percent and the required return on the project is 12 percent. What is the project’s NPV?

 

 

Healthcare Utilization and Finance

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The graduate analyzes financial implications related to healthcare delivery, reimbursement, access, and national initiatives.

INTRODUCTION
It is essential that nurses understand the issues related to healthcare financing, including local, state, and national healthcare policies and initiatives that affect healthcare delivery. As a patient advocate, the professional nurse is in a position to work with patients and families to access available resources to meet their healthcare needs.

REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

 

A. Compare the U.S. healthcare system with the healthcare system of England, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland, by doing the following:

1. Identify one country from the following list whose healthcare system you will compare to the U.S. healthcare system: England, Japan, Germany, or Switzerland.

2. Compare access between the two healthcare systems for children, people who are unemployed, and people who are retired.

a. Discuss coverage for medications in the two healthcare systems.

b. Determine the requirements to get a referral to see a specialist in the two healthcare systems.

c. Discuss coverage for preexisting conditions in the two healthcare systems.

3. Explain two financial implications for patients with regard to the healthcare delivery differences between the two countries (i.e.; how are the patients financially impacted).

 

B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

 

C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

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Amazon Pay by Palm

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Read Article: Police Used 911 Call Analysis to Arrest a Mother on Murder

Discussion Questions:

How does Amazon’s pay by palm work?
What are the privacy-related issues with storage of palm and other biometric data?
What are some potential risks with using Amazon’s Pay by palm innovation?
Which states have laws on the use of biometric data?
What are some ways to protect yourself from misuse of your biometric data?
Should US be allowed to collect biometric data as part of immigration procedures? Why?

 

Regardless of political affiliation

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Regardless of political affiliation, individuals often grow concerned when considering perceived competing interests of government and their impact on topics of interest to them. The realm of healthcare is no different. Some people feel that local, state, and federal policies and legislation can be either helped or hindered by interests other than the benefit to society.

Consider for example that the number one job of a legislator is to be reelected. Cost can be measured in votes as well as dollars. Thus, it is important to consider the legislator’s perspective on either promoting or not promoting a certain initiative in the political landscape.

 

Regardless of political affiliation

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Regardless of political affiliation, individuals often grow concerned when considering perceived competing interests of government and their impact on topics of interest to them. The realm of healthcare is no different. Some people feel that local, state, and federal policies and legislation can be either helped or hindered by interests other than the benefit to society.

Consider for example that the number one job of a legislator is to be reelected. Cost can be measured in votes as well as dollars. Thus, it is important to consider the legislator’s perspective on either promoting or not promoting a certain initiative in the political landscape.

 

Dezert Raven De Bara

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The above video illustrates several issues of listening. Please describe some of the problems above, and then describe at least two examples from your own life which show problems of listening. What better ways could have been used to improve the communication in these instances.