Article Analysis

Please select a peer-reviewed article from the GU library on the topics for the current week. Analyze the article and correlate to your personal ethics assessment results. You are encouraged to share some specific examples of your assessment results to support your opinion. However, if you would like to keep your results private, you can speak to your results in general terms. 

Write a 2 page summary on your analysis of the article to your assessment results and how you believe this content has increased your ethical self-awareness. Please include alternatives, analysis, application, and action.

The assignment should be submitted as a Word document and APA format is required. The title page and reference page are not counted in the 3 page requirement. 

Post a Response

 

Decision making is the process of identifying and choosing  alternative courses of action. While we want to make rational decisions,  sometimes we don’t . . . sometimes we make non-rational decisions.

There are four steps in rational decision-making:

  1. Recognize and define the problem or opportunity-In business the  problem can come in the form of customer complaints, supplier  breakdowns, staff turnover, sales decline, etc. Organizations  proactively seek opportunities to exceed goals, surpass the industry  expectations and to expand and grow the business. 
  2. Identify and analyze alternative courses of action-Leaders  should seek input from multiple sources to interpret and analyze the  problem/opportunity to come up with as many options as possible to solve  the issue. 
  3. Choose a preferred course of action-The group want to answer the  following: (1) Is the action ethical?; (2) Is it feasible? (costs,  technology availability; (3) Is it effective? If your answer to this  question is the resolution is “good enough” you want to rethink this  solution it will cause more harm than good. 
  4. Implement the preferred course of action-You need to the participation from all teams to successfully implement the action. 

On the other hand, non-rational decisions are generally the result of either Satisficing (going with the first available option without much research) or Intuition (using your “gut” or just your own feelings to make decisions).

For this week’s discussion, think about a time when you made a non-rational decision on the job or in your personal life.

  • Was it the result of satisficing or intuition? 
  • How would your decision have been different using the four steps for rational decision-making? 
  • How would the steps have helped you to make a better, or more sound, decision? 

HSA1

According to Chapter 1 in the textbook, a comparison of several countries with different levels of income shows that quality of health care and life expectancy among these nations are similar. However, the cost of care in the U.S. is the highest among the nations in the comparison. Analyze the main specific factors that affect the cost of health care services in the U.S. and recommend one way that physician practices can help reduce the overall cost of health care services in the U.S. Provide a rationale for your response.

Section 1 Practice Operations and Functions [PDF]          .

PAD 540 Week 6

 

  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of regional human rights approaches? Do you think regional approaches ultimately help or hinder human rights enforcement?

W5D1

Using the information presented in Practical Project Risk Management Figure 6-3, “Common Influences on Risk Perception,” determine the conscious factors, subconscious factors, and affective factors for this project. Examine how awareness of such factors influences the decision to hire outside vendors. In addition, analyze how the stated factors help improve the overall facilitation and effectiveness of the risk management.

Diverse Cultures in the Workplace

Imagine that you have just been hired to lead a healthcare organization that employs individuals from several different cultures and nations. What steps would you take to ensure that each employee felt comfortable with you as their leader? How would you assure them that you will understand their need to feel as if their culture is understood and respected? 200-word minimum w/cited references.

Ledlow, G. R., & Stephens, J. H. (2018). Leadership for health professionals: Theory, skills, and applications (3rd ed.). 

ip1

  

Write a paper of 5–7 pages that describes the strategies that can facilitate a successful organizational transformation. Your description should be based on real life successes and documented research. Describe the change strategies as follows:

  • Strategic: Driven by  environmental factors such as competition, technology, regulatory, and so forth 
  • Incremental: Affecting portions of the organization to improve efficiency or effectiveness within  the strategic framework of the organization 
  • Reactive: Changes made in response to a specific event or events 

Anticipatory: Changes made ahead of future events