Clear workplace communication is critical to accomplishing the tasks associated with your job. However, other aspects of communication that affect your work life may be unrelated to the task at hand. How you communicate with your colleagues, customers, and clients can affect whether conflicts arise between you. Your communication style can help you achieve leadership roles, or, on the negative side, prevent you from receiving raises or promotions.
Conduct research to find at least two articles related to improving workplace communication. Using the response format and criteria, construct three to five paragraphs (200-300 words) that includes:
Response Format
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I have this artical and I need someone help me with,
minimum 300 words, and the turnitin must be low.
(Abridged) Harnessing Innovation for Change (Khavul Bruton)
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 600–800 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas..
As the firm looks for ways to offset the domestic downturn in sales, Deborah, the CEO of your company, wants to determine if a global strategy is a good fit for the organization. She has designated you as the manager for this project. You will work with your team to develop a global marketing plan for your organization.
You begin your research in deciding if and what the global strategy should be. You get your team together and begin to discuss a plan on how you will research this possibility.
You start the meeting by saying “Let’s brainstorm and start to get a plan together for a possible globalization strategy. Tiffany, I’d like you work with me to begin researching possible locations.”
Tiffany says, “I think we need to research some locations, but I think there is more to it than that. There still needs to be a decision on the type of strategy or approach we are taking. Would we use a multidomestic approach, a global approach, or a transnational approach? I’m still not entirely convinced a global strategy is the answer.”
“Great point, Tiffany. It is obvious to me as well that we need to explore a strategy that will put us in a better position to handle the economic downturn. We have to provide the board with the facts. They seem to be leaning in the direction of a global strategy, but I’m not sure it’s the right move either. That’s why we need to do research.”
Domestic profit margins have dropped by 2% this quarter. You wonder how you and your team can help fix this. Is a global strategy the answer, or should the company continue to focus on the domestic market?
You call a team meeting to learn about the progress of their research.
Tiffany, one of your team members, begins the discussion. “I think we need to look at some of the internal factors,” she says. “We know what our capabilities are on the domestic front, but what about in the global market? We have a fairly strong market presence here in higher-end markets, but how does that translate globally?”
Discuss the following:
Question #1: As you learned in your readings for week three, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award provides a set of criteria for organizational quality assessment and improvement that has been used by thousands of business, healthcare and educational organizations for more than a decade. What do you see as the greatest strength and greatest weakness of the Malcolm Balldrige National Qualty Award for assisting healthcare organizations in improving their quality of care. Is the criteria for this award just as applicable to small organizations as it is to large organizations?
Question #2: The Baldrige Award is given to healthcare organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: (1) leadership, (2) strategic planning, (3) customer and market focus, (4) measurement, analysis and knowledge management, (5) human resource focus, (6) process management and (7) results. Which area do you believe would be the most challenging for the organization you work for, or if you don’t work in the healthcare field yet, which do you believe would be the most challenging. Please explain your answer.
Discussion Question #3: The reading by Agins et al, provides important considerations for defining high quality organizations. What do you believe are the two most important traits of a high performing healthcare organization and why?
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The Pros and Cons of Addiction
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, be sure to read the required articles for this week.
Addictions come in many forms and almost always involve a complex three-way interaction between the person, the object of the addiction (e.g., drugs, gambling, chocolate), and the societal context of the addiction. This complex interaction raises a controversial social question: Is addiction always a bad thing? Although there is often a significant amount of social stigma attached to addictions, and popular media often focuses on the treatment and prevention of addiction, there may also be associated positive qualities of addictive substances and behaviors.
For your initial post, the class will be split into two groups. Please see below for your assigned topic group.
Last name begins with:
A through L: Initial post will be written on a specific substance that has addictive potential (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, ibogaine, marijuana, ayahuasca, MDMA) of your choice.
please answer the following questions:
1. Describe a clinical experience that was troubling to you. Describe what bothered you about the experience and what could have you done differently utilizing critical thinking.
2. Describe how patients, families, individual clinicians, health care teams, and systems can contribute to promoting safety and reducing errors.
3. Describe factors that create a culture of safety.
Your answers should be at least 3 paragraphs for EACH question. Include more than one reference to justify your answers.
You are a healthcare administrator at a large metropolitan teaching hospital. Your hospital is in the middle of a crisis involving surgical residents. In recent years, the level of operating room deaths involving surgeries that your residents have been involved in has increased. As a result, the number of malpractice suits that have been leveled against your hospital has also increased. This is not only reducing the hospital’s revenue, but it is also damaging the reputation of the hospital. An internal investigation has shown that many of the surgical residents have been performing two to three surgeries back to back after working a 24-hour shift. Your human resources department had indicated that this could be a contributing factor in the number of operating room deaths.
Compose an essay in which you detail the following points regarding this crisis:
Your essay should consist of at least three pages, not including your title page or reference page. Please be sure that all sources, including your textbook, are cited and referenced properly using APA formatting. You must utilize at least two sources for your response.
Deliverable Length:
750 words, APA formatted (with minimum of 3 references)
Assignment Objectives:
Explain the concepts of forecasting, system design, capacity planning, quality management and control, supply chain management, inventory management and scheduling, and project management and how they each relate to form an integrated view of production and operations.
Assignment Details:
As the production manager, you need to minimize both ordering and inventory costs. You need to provide a recommendation of the optimal order quantity of raw materials to your plant manager. Your objective is to determine the economic order quantity (EOQ). If the annual demand for Ultamyacin at Smitheford is 400,000 units, then the annual carrying cost rate is 15% of the cost of the unit. The product costs $48/unit to purchase, and the product ordering cost is $28.00.
In your report, discuss information based on the following questions:
Show all your calculations.
Assignment Scenario Attached:
watch “ green Book” and write down one paragraph summery on the story line explaining each character and their roles.
https://itunes.apple.com/US/movie/id1441554470
Write down a page and a half (1.5 pages) explaining how the story relates to social psychology concepts in particular
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misattribution: Misattribution of arousal is a term in psychology which describes the process whereby people make a mistake in assuming what is causing them to feel aroused. For example, when actually experiencing physiological responses related to fear, people mislabel those responses as romantic arousal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattribution_of_ar…
Self-esteem: refers to an individual’s sense of his or her value or worth, or the extent to which a person values, approves of, appreciates, prizes, or likes him or herself (Blascovich & Tomaka, 1991).
https://macses.ucsf.edu/research/psychosocial/self…
possible selves: who we want to be and who we don’t want to be
https://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?t…
learned helplessness
https://www.britannica.com/science/learned-helples…
narcissism when a person’s confidence level moves into the realm of arrogance
locus of control when someone attributes an event as being something that is under their control or as being outside of their control
false uniqueness effect a person thinks they are overly special for being talented or performing a good deed, not realizing that they are relatively common and not so great.
Must relate back to the movie Events each character any act any decision-making thought process or impression
All the terms must be defined then you relate it to the story line make sure to cite cite to cite
Assignment:
Choose one of the following jazz artists/groups from the list below to research the way(s) in which race and/or diversity played a role in their interactions with American society in the earlier part of the 20th century (1900’s -1960’s.) This could include employment issues – performance opportunities, equal treatment, touring issues – hotels, travel options, etc.), criminal justice issues (cabaret cards, arrests, drug use-targeting of musicians and neighborhoods, etc.) and other societal issues of the day. Learn how they responded (or were forced to respond) to these issues and how they involved themselves in issues of civil rights and race and diversity discrimination. Discuss how they used their music or status in the entertainment industry to address these issues.
List of Jazz Artists/Groups who were affected by issues of Diversity and/or Race and some of the issues they dealt with. The list of issues are JUST suggestions of a place to start your research, you need find much more material on the artist you choose.
Louis Armstrong– early 20th century stardom for a Black musician
Fletcher Henderson – Black swing bands vs. White Swing Bands – opportunities, acceptance, Black composers/arrangers and White Swing Bands
Benny Goodman– segregation, Black and White musicians playing together
Billie Holiday – female jazz performer, “Strange Fruit”, cabaret card, drug issues
John Coltrane – “Alabama”, how he used his music to comment on Society
Cannonball and Nat Adderley Sextet –raised awareness through their music – “Work Song”, and other songs which were inspired by African American history and traditions. Active in Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s.
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