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View this Ethical Dilemma to learn more about Bill and Joe’s relationship. 

Joe has scheduled a meeting with his management team for next week to talk about the Peninsula Hotel chain contract. He hopes that he will be able to work with them to draft a contract favorable to Peninsula that will ensure its renewal for another year. He is reasonably sure that the contract renewal will ensure his continued success and employment with UWEAR. Bill invites Joe and his family to join them on his yacht for the weekend.

Joe is relieved to get the invitation from Bill because their relationship has been strained lately due to the contract negotiations.

Joe must decide how he will answer Bill’s invitation to join him and his family on their yacht.

Using ethical principles that you have learned thus far to justify your answers, please respond to the following questions in a paper of 500–700 words:  

  • What are some reasons why Joe should turn down the invitation?
  • What are some reasons why Joe could accept the invitation?
  • Does Joe’s relationship with Bill meet the definition of a conflict of interest?

500 words 2 References

Assessment

Of the roles listed on pages 117–118 in the textbook, which role or roles do you typically assume in groups, teams, and meetings? Identify two tasks and two social roles you usually do not assume. Why do you not assume these roles? Be sure to cite your definitions of your tasks and roles using at least your textbook as a source. 

Your response must be at least 400 words in length.

Develop an agenda for an upcoming meeting. Develop a meeting goal or goals, and identify the sequence of agenda items. After you have written your agenda, write a brief explanation of why you structured your agenda as you did. 

Your response must be at least 400 words in length.

Attend a public meeting, such as your local school board, city council, or campus council, or reflect upon a meeting you have attended in the past. Using the principles and skills discussed in this chapter, evaluate the meeting using the five principles of leadership. Were group members self-aware and aware of comments and actions of others? How effectively did group members use verbal messages to make their points and organize their ideas? Did nonverbal messages provide supportive and positive reinforcement of others’ comments? How effectively did group members listen and respond to messages? What evidence did you find that group members appropriately adapted their message to others during the course of their conversations? 

Your response must be at least 400 words in length.

Discussion 5

Discussion Forum 5 – Children and Working from Home

POST CONTRIBUTION 1:
Select a specific employer and discuss whether employees of the employer you selected should be allowed to supervisor children if working from home.  Select only employers that allow work from home, i.e. we all know that a trauma surgeon cannot work from home and supervise children 🙂  Try not to repeat an employer that has already been selected.  I would suggest that you include your own employer if working from home is an option.  The crux of this discussion is the rationale behind allowing employees working from home to supervise children or not.  What parameters, if any, should be put into place to deal with this situation?

POST CONTRIBUTION 2:

For employers, childcare for employees working from home is an issue.  Employers may not benefit from a situation where employees are forced to take PTO or leave without pay.  However, the decisions that are made now may impact long-term employee expectations.  Many employers are reaching for the most flexible options available with the hope that employees will return the flexibility and concern when the current employment situation finally improved.

 

For an illustration of the challenges of addressing work from home and childcare, look at Florida State University.  The institution sent a memo to employees in June stating that employees could not care for their children while working from home.  The backlash was significant and immediate.  Within a few days, the university changed the policy to allow employees to care for children while working from home.  

Employers are challenged by this situation.  The large number of closed late summer camps and online schools for Fall 2020 indicate that this issue will not be quickly resolved. 

Be creative.  (You do not have to address the needs of a specific employer as in Post 1.)  How can employers help to address the childcare questions for/with employees?  Essentially, how can employers creatively and proactively help address the childcare void?

Has to be in your own words. 

Can NOT be less than 500 words

NO PLAGIARISM !!!!!!!

Discussion 5A

 

Chicago City Hall is conducting a hearing for citizens’ responses to the Consent Decree. Identify your role as a citizen (mother, student, community leader, business person, etc.). Write a statement for the hearing giving a suggestion for improvements, additions or edits for the Consent Decree, including a rationale for these suggestions.

In at least one of your replies, take on the persona of a public administrator. Offer a response to a classmates’ statement explaining why their idea is or is not plausible. Make sure your rationale is clear and appropriate.

System 2

You have been invited to do a presentation to the laboratory department regarding Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance and electronic health records. Discuss the salient points of your presentation and why you feel it is important to include this information in your presentation.

Include the following information:

  • Define protected health information and when it can be disclosed. 
  • Differentiate between the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule as they apply to actual use in the laboratory. 
  • Differentiate between identifiable and unidentified information and their uses.
    4-5 pages 

Criminal justice

Will the internet and other devices increase in the future by putting the “secrecy” of the jury deliberation under threat?

Outsourcing and Logistics

 

Based on the attached and assigned reading material from this week, in a 3-5 page paper, explain why (or why not) a company would decide to outsource logistical activity out to a 3rd party?  What are the benefits from outsourcing?  What are the risks?  Who will gain from outsourcing?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

  • Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
  • Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
  • Include cover page and reference page.
  • At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
  • No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
  • Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
  • Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

Discussion

Answer with 2-3 paragraphs in length to the discussion. 

Savannah Gaulin

The COVID-19 pandemic has been and continues to be a health issue in the workplace. In a survey conducted on CFO’s workplaces responses to COVID-19, results showed that 76% plan to change workplace safety measures and requirements (wearing masks, offering testing to workers), 65% plan to reconfigure work sites to promote physical distancing, 52% plan to change shifts or alternate crews to reduce exposure, 49% plan to make remote work a permanent option for roles that allow it, 48% plan to accelerate automation and new ways of working, 23% plan to reduce real estate footprint (partial opening of offices, retail locations), 23% plan to evaluate new tools to support workforce location tracking and contact tracing, 8% plan to offer target benefits for on-site workers in affected areas (childcare, private transportation), and 6% plan to provide hazard pay for on-site workers in affected areas (”Workplace Response”, 2020). I believe that many organizations are realizing that processes are going to be different now and for a while as most organizations are initiating new policies and procedures for their employees to ensure safety for everyone. These organizations that are implementing new policies and procedures, including wearing masks, taking temperature of employees or customers, and reducing capacity to ensure social distancing, must now take these things into consideration while running that business.

Many people are afraid to go back to work after working remote for several months. People are scared that they are going to get sick from being around a lot of people in an enclosed building. Many organizations that are requiring their employees to return to work are requiring masks, frequently sanitizing the buildings, and taking temperatures at the door. While many people are worried about returning to work, many businesses are stressing frequent handwashing and the use of PPE as well as encouraging their employees to stay home if they are feeling under the weather (Turpin, 2020).

Disaster planning is an important part to every business or organization. As some companies are discovering due to COVID-19, a strong crisis management plan is important to their organization (Shilling, 2020). Many small businesses couldn’t make it through a few months of being closed due to the pandemic because they did not have a financial plan in place. Even the United States was clearly not prepared for a pandemic as the country began to run out of PPE shortly after the pandemic hit, encouraging healthcare workers to use garbage bags as gowns and bandanas for masks. It is important that organizations continually assess the needs of their businesses and plan appropriately for any sort of disaster that could occur. It is important that staff and employees are trained and aware of these plans so that they can be implemented quickly and effectively. Lastly, it is important that businesses assess the needs of their employees during times of crisis including salary, benefits, etc. With all things considered, there is a lot for businesses to prepare for something that may never happen, but if it does and they are not prepared, it could cost them everything.

References:

Shilling, R. (2020). Crisis preparedness when disaster strikes: strengthen your crisis management planning to adjust as the pandemic wears on and brace for any emergency that might come one day–from tornadoes to explosions. Food Engineering92(5), 48–53. 

Survey Gauges CFO’s Workplace Response to COVID-19. (2020). Professional Safety65(6), 14. 

Turpin, J. (2020). Refrigeration Contractors Expect COVID-19 to Change Business Norms: Safety and sanitation are now primary concerns, and more employees expected to work from home. Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, 270(6), 25–26. 

Brandon Anders

The COVID pandemic has upended many hospitals, including their policies involving PPE use and infection prevention. Because this virus is so unknown, the amount of PPE used has been astronomical, enough to put the hospitals in shortage. Donations of handmade, cloth masks were beneficial, but organizations needed more help to meet the growing demand. An organization in Spain, called Acciona, helped 3-D print 200 masks per day to provide to hospitals to help battle COVID (Clift & Court, 2020). This company not only helped hospitals with PPE, but went further to help the hospital staff with lodging and providing the cleaning service necessary to stay in sanitary, safe conditions. The article also mentioned a different company, Siemens Healthineers, who met the COVID virus head on. Early in the response to the pandemic, testing was extremely limited. This organization pledged to start mass producing 50 million COVID tests starting in June 2020 to be utilized in health campuses throughout the United States (Clift & Court, 2020).

Workplace security is something that is expected when going to work. Employees have the right to feel safe at work. Being a nurse, workplace violence can, and frequently does, occur while on the clock. According to Valentine et al. (2020), physical assault, threat, harassment, intimidation, and bullying are all forms of workplace violence. Taking care of sick patients is tiring work, and when patients aren’t their normal self, sometimes they act out in violence. An article found by Sarkis (2000), lists examples employers are taking to combat workplace violence. These include: conducting a risk assessment, increasing security, providing training for employers and employees, and identifying methods for dealing with troubled employees. The organization I work at does have the nurses doing a violence risk assessment once per shift, and has protocols in place for patients deemed a high risk for violence.

Disaster planning is an important part of an organization because disasters not only affect the organization and the community, but also the employees. Disaster planning includes organizational assessment, human impact planning, and disaster training (Valentine et al., 2020). Organizational assessment includes assessing how a disaster will affect the organization and needs many members of the interprofessional team. Human impact planning plans for the impact a disaster will have on the people of an organization. This is important because an organization, especially a medical facility, needs to continue to function if there are power outages or some other type of disaster. Disaster training is just that – training for a disaster. This is important to an organization because trained team members are what make disaster planning successful (Valentine et al., 2020). The organization I work for has a disaster team in place, with written policies and procedures to follow in case of a disaster, natural or manmade.

Clift, K., & Court, A. (2020). How are companies responding to the coronavirus crisis? World Economic Forum.https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/how-are-companies-responding-to-the-coronavirus-crisis-d15bed6137/ (Links to an external site.)

Sarkis, K. (2000). Employers take steps to combat workplace violence. Occupational Hazards. https://web-b-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.umary.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=e440e60f-a575-4569-be93-233fe8230468%40pdc-v-sessmgr06&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=2801704&db=buhLinks to an external site.

Valentine, S. R., Meglich, P. A., Mathis, R. L., & Jackson, J. H. (2020). Human resource management (16th ed.). Cengage Learning