Discussion 1: 

• Watch the video titled “Scripps,” located in Week 5 of your Blackboard course. From the video, isolate one (1) of the many aspects of the Scripps recruitment and interview process that could be most attributable to Scripps’ ample supply of registered nurses when there is a nursing shortage across the country. State how you could apply this aspect at your current (or former) place of work.

 

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Assignment 1: Social Performance of Organizations

Due Week 4 and worth 290 points

According to the textbook, the current world economy is increasingly becoming integrated and interdependent; as a result, the relationship between business and society is becoming more complex. Use the Internet to research one (1) of the following organizations:

·         Facebook (FB)

·         Wal-Mart (WMT)

·         British Petroleum (BP)

·         Disney (DIS)

Write a four (4) to six (6) page paper in which you:

1.     Specify the nature, structure, types of products or service of your chosen organization, and two (2) key factors in the organization’s external environment that can affect its success. Provide explanation to support the rationale.  

2.     Examine three (3) salient stakeholders of the chosen organization based on their key roles and relationships with the company.

3.     Suggest four (4) ways in which the primary stakeholders can influence the organization’s financial performance. Provide support for the response.

4.     Specify one (1) controversial corporate social responsibility concern associated with your selected organization. 

5.     Use at least four (4) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

·         Using MS Word, be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

·         Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

·         Upload your work through GRAMMARLY, make any necessary revisions before submitting your final paper.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

·         Analyze the relationship between business and society, and the ways in which they are part of an interactive system.

·         Recommend ways stakeholders can influence the destiny of both business and society.

·         Analyze the various primary and secondary stakeholder groups, their roles, and relationships.

·         Analyze the multiple environments of an organization.

·         Compare and contrast the concepts of corporate social responsibility, citizenship, and global citizenship.

·         Analyze ways ethical challenges affect the multiple functions of business.

·         Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.

·         Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics.

 

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Assignment Description

For this project, you are tasked with developing a change management plan that will be designed to improve quality in an acute care hospital in your community. This hospital has a poor Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and ORYX quality metrics, and low patient satisfaction. Further, government regulations and Joint Commission accreditation standards are not being met. Financial ruin seems imminent. Your plan will be 5-7 pages, excluding cover page, abstract page, and reference page. When constructing your plan, conduct research using peer-reviewed sources to determine the following:

• Identify goals and objectives that are expected to be met.
• Provide an overview of HEDIS and ORYX measures, and describe the importance of those measures to the hospital and how the hospital can improve metrics in both measures.
• Discuss the role that patient satisfaction plays in reimbursement and how you propose to improve patient satisfaction in the hospital.
• Determine communication approaches for change management among clinicians and nonclinicians throughout the organization.
• Identify and explain the quality improvement and evaluation method(s) that will be utilized to determine the progress of the change management plan.
• Use the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services module to develop a quality improvement plan as a guide for your assignment.

Note: Use APA style to cite at least 8 scholarly sources from the last 5 years.

 

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Honeywell and the Great Recession (A) & (B)

Case questions include:

1.  Skim the background section on Honeywell’s history and the turnaround led by Dave cote from 2002-2008 (pp.1-8). What do you think went wrong with the way the management team handled the 2001 recession? How was Cote able to achieve Honeywell’s turnaround? What was at stake for Honeywell during the Great Recession? What do you think Cote was most concerned could go wrong?

2.  What are the responsibilities of Dave Cote and Honeywell to investors and employees during the recession?

3.  Which should Honeywell use – layoffs or furloughs – if it needs to make employee reductions as part of its recession response? Please refer to the two notes for background on layoffs and furloughs to help you formulate your response. Be specific: how would you implement the policy you recommend?

4.  Which, if any, of the additional employee hiring, compensation and benefit adjustments should Honeywell NOT make to reduce workforce-related costs? Why those and not the others?

5.  If you were the CEO of Honeywell, would you accept a bonus for 2009? Why or why not?

Prepare an 8-10 page response to these questions.  Cite source material utilized; a minimum of 5 sources (including the case and textbook) should be utilized in your response.

Toyota Australia in Peril

Case questions include:

1.  What factors are affecting the profitability of Toyota Australia? Which side of the market are they related to? Which of these factors can the company control to improve profitability? What strategies would you suggest to improve profitability?

2.  What is the market structure face by Toyota Australia? What challenges does this market structure pose for the company?

3.  Is Toyota Australia operating at the optimal scale of operation? Should Toyota expand or contract its scale of operation? What are the associated implications? Support your answer with a diagrammatic presentation.

4.  What is the minimum efficient scale of operation for car manufacturers globally? Depict it diagrammatically. What are the implications of a minimum efficient scale of operations for the automotive market structure and for Toyota?

5.  What should Toyota do? Should it wait for demand and cost conditions to improve, or should it exit the market?

Prepare an 8-10 page response to these questions.  Cite source material utilized; a minimum of 5 sources (including the case and textbook) should be utilized in your response.

Chemical Plant Site Selection

Case questions include:

1.  Who are the key stakeholders in the site selection? What are their objectives?

2.  What is Allied’s objective in conducting the community meetings?

3.  As David Stevens, what is your primary objective? How should he incorporate the different stakeholder perspectives in Allied’s site selection decision?

Prepare an 8-10 page response to these questions.  Cite source material utilized; a minimum of 5 sources (including the case and textbook) should be utilized in your response.

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This is a writing assignment that covers the assigned materials (readings, videos, lectures, etc.) for Module 5. Download the Skill Builder #4 assignment template (the link is found below), then write your answers directly into that template (it is a WORD file). Write a minimum of 200 words for each question. Save your changes, then rename the WORD document file as follows: LASTNAME_SB4.docx (your last name followed by an underscore, then the SB1 indication). Then upload the completed assignment to Moodle. This is a TURNITIN assignment on Moodle, which means that when you submit it, you will be submitting it to TURNITIN, and thus receive an originality report indicating possible plagiarism or cheating (there have been problems in the past with students copying the work from past students, or copying from materials previously posted on the internet). You may keep uploading versions of your assignment until you are satisfied with your TURNITIN Originality Report. Remember, you may only obtain a TURNITIN Originality Report once every 24 hours; so allow yourself plenty of time to resubmit if necessary.

For Skill Builder assignments, focus on thoughts and reasoning rather than spelling and grammar. You will NOT be penalized for incorrect spelling or improper grammar or sentence structure. This is a Socratic exercise – an opportunity for you to think and express your thoughts. This assignment is a reflection of the degree to which you are engaged in the course material, and how well you learned the topics assigned this week. The emphasis of this assignment is synthesis – the connecting of dots – where you tie together in a meaningful way (1) the assigned readings and videos, (2) current business and world events, and (3) your previous knowledge and experience. There is no correct or incorrect answer, but rather YOUR answer, based on YOUR thoughts and understanding of the material/concepts. Please avoid trying to answer what others would say, or copy what someone else has thought or written. There are three fundamental mistakes students often make on these assignments: (1) simply rambling unsupported opinions or simply listing the topics assigned this week, (2) failing to apply one’s personal perspective (i.e. writing as if it were a research paper, with no personal perspective applied), and (3) failing to incorporate all the assigned materials for the week (which demonstrates that the student decided to skip some of the readings and other assigned materials). 

Question #1: Try to answer this question before you dive deeply into the assigned materials this week (but if not, no worries). Define creativity in your own words. What is creativity? How does it work? Are some people more creative than others, and if so, why? Can creativity be taught? How does creativity impact a person’s career?

Question #2: This week I threw a lot of material at you. I wish I had an entire semester to spend with you learning and discussing nothing but creativity, but we only have one week. What I need you to do in this question is to synthesize pretty much everything you learned this week about creativity. Connect lots of dots into something meaningful. Apply YOUR definition of creativity to business, and more importantly, to entrepreneurship (specifically to new venture creation and new venture management?

Question #3: Go to the Stanford Design School web page “Future of Stuff Challenge” (FSC) and review the process. Describe how this approach (developed entirely independently of Dr. Meeks’ experience, research, and formal education) is related to what we are covering in this course. Do you agree or disagree with the FSC approach (or any part of it); why or why not. How might you apply this FSC approach? I really want to know what you think about FSC – please share. Here is the link to the “Future of Stuff Challenge”: http://futureofstuffchallenge.org/page/getstarted.php

Question #4: Stanford’s Design School is believed by most to be the cutting edge in creativity. Take 20 minutes and review their website (link listed on Moodle under “Assigned Readings” this week). Try to absorb and understand their approach to creativity. Now write a summary of the Stanford Design School approach on creativity. Do you like or dislike it? Do you agree with their thinking? How might you apply this mindset in your current workplace, or to a new venture you are thinking of starting?

Question #5: After reviewing Stanford’s “Bootcamp Bootleg” (the PDF available on the Stanford site, or downloadable on Moodle – listed under “Assigned Readings”). Write a VERY SHORT summary of the Bootcamp Bootleg, then critique it. Do you like or dislike it? Do you agree with their thinking? How might you apply this tool in your current workplace, or to a new venture you are thinking of starting?

Question #6: Explain how you can apply the concepts studied this week (creativity) to your current job AND to your career.

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