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1. Discuss why companies go international, giving specific reactive and proactive reasons.
2. Explain and give examples of the impact of the Internet on small businesses.
3. Define and explain the process of environmental assessment, particularly the discussing the external and internal assessment
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Considering the information presented in the links provided this week, reply to each of the following questions.
Describe a scenario in which accurate costing techniques, Lean principles, Six Sigma controls, and project management concepts can help improve efficiency, throughput, and value in healthcare. How did the historical evolution of healthcare in the United States contribute to the way care is being delivered? Did this process lead to overutilization? Did it address needs in ways that were appropriate for a particular time period?
Are the quality and outcomes of US healthcare acceptable for the amount of resources used?
Discuss the role that hospitals and physicians played in the development of healthcare in the United States. Does this historical evolution provide opportunities or challenges in the transition toward a value orientation in healthcare? How might the historical forces be adapted to suit the needs of the times?
Discuss the roles that Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance play in delivering healthcare in the United States. How can the drive toward value-based healthcare make these financing forces evolve?
Describe a scenario in which accurate costing techniques, Lean principles, Six Sigma controls, and project management concepts can help improve efficiency, throughput, and value in healthcare. How did the historical evolution of healthcare in the United States contribute to the way care is being delivered? Did this process lead to overutilization? Did it address needs in ways that were appropriate for a particular time period?
Are the quality and outcomes of US healthcare acceptable for the amount of resources used?
Discuss the role that hospitals and physicians played in the development of healthcare in the United States. Does this historical evolution provide opportunities or challenges in the transition toward a value orientation in healthcare? How might the historical forces be adapted to suit the needs of the times?
Discuss the roles that Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance play in delivering healthcare in the United States. How can the drive toward value-based healthcare make these financing forces evolve?
Answer any two essay questions;
1. How can we induce people to look after their health?
2. How do societies create effective and resilient institutions, such as governments?
3. How can humanity increase its collective wisdom?
4. How do we reduce the ‘skill gap’ between black and white people in America?
5. How can we aggregate information possessed by individuals to make the best decisions?
Answer any two essay questions;
1. How can we induce people to look after their health?
2. How do societies create effective and resilient institutions, such as governments?
3. How can humanity increase its collective wisdom?
4. How do we reduce the ‘skill gap’ between black and white people in America?
5. How can we aggregate information possessed by individuals to make the best decisions?
With your major background, choose a real company, imagine that you are the manager of the department, you face a challenge or problem to solve:
1) State the management problem;
2) Propose the research problem;
3) Research design (including discussion of inductive research or deductive research; data collection techniques used; sample size, non-probability or probability sample, if non-probability, what type of non-probability sample will be used; dependent variable and independent variable, are the variable dichotomous, discrete or continuous?)
4) What ethical issues need be stated in your research?
1. What are some of the salient characteristics defining culture in your organization or group? Provide at least one example.
2. Organizations are impacted by societal changes. As a leader, what organizational changes would you consider essential due to ongoing challenges emerging from current societal circumstances such as those of a post-pandemic society?
Position: Retail Store Manager
Textbook: Hickman, G.R. (Ed.). (2016). Leading organizations: Perspectives for a new era. (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
1. List two personal values of individual team members that contribute to a high-performing team. List two team behaviors that can enhance these personal values.
2. List three reasons why understanding stakeholders is important to successful project management.
3. What is the difference between an internal and external stakeholder?
Your company has just hired your foreign friend to work in a middle-management position. As a new manager, she is interested in coaching her staff through their careers. Since you have lived in the United States for many years, your friend believes that you understand job coaching for a traditional American company. She wants to work with you and has many questions—some of which concern the manner in which cultural nuances related to religious customs, verbal and nonverbal communication, and so on may affect leadership roles
Recommend whether your friend should assume the role of a job coach as soon as she begins her new position or wait until she has been a part of the company for a certain amount of time. Provide a rationale for your response.
Determine two conflicts that could possibly arise as a result of asking people to work on days of religious significance. Propose concrete solutions for these two possible conflicts.
Determine whether cultural factors could restrain the foreign manager from expressing his or her ideas readily. Provide a rationale for your response.
Determine two actions that you can take in order to prepare yourself and your friend to become multicultural leaders. Provide two examples to support your response.
Predict two major conflicts that may arise out of nonverbal communication misunderstandings (for example, words misinterpreted, hand gestures, looks, shoulder shrugs, names of objects). Suggest two actions that your friend could take in order to defuse these types of misunderstandings and thus make the workplace more harmonious. Justify your response.