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Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following questions:

• Why should health care managers know about specific recruitment strategies? Explain.
• What strategies do you believe would be most effective? Why? 

Self-leadership is foundational in regard to performance management systems and therefore training and development need to be effective prior to implementation.

Explain the pros and cons of your own experience (formal or informal training) with regard to self-leadership development.

Employment  Rights: Who has Them and Who Enforces Them”.  Evaluate the intended  effectiveness of The Americans with Disabilities Act and The  Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Determine how these laws affect human  resource (HR) management. Speculate what the impact of the Act will be  in 20 years. 

The most effective impact of investment in health care will come from effective management and policy. From this position, discuss the following:

• Discuss the evolution of the U.S. health care system and how both the development of policy and the management requirements have been influenced by traditions and values. 
• Discuss the influence of the changing needs of the labor force due to increased technology, the aging of America, and various economic factors (including aging workforce, cost of turnover, cost of education and training, and so forth) with a focus on health care administration. 
• Discuss the 3 approaches to management and policy (systems, critical, and public interest) as they relate to the management perspective in health care.
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 ASSIGNMENT :  20% turn it in threshold

To fully complete this case assignment, please read and analyze the assigned case. Be sure to speak in OB language throughout to reflect your knowledge of the terminology and concepts covered this week. Your response must be numbered as outlined below, and provide the following:

1. Situation

2. Problem

3. Question

4. Solution

5. Recommendation

6. Prediction 

CASE

The Velma Company designs and manufactures high-tech communications equipment. The firm is a world-class supplier, and its three largest customers are Fortune 50 firms. Velma also has major clients in China and the European Union. Over the last five years the company’s sales have tripled, and the biggest challenge it faces is hiring and retaining state-of-the-art people. In particular, there are two groups that are critical to the company’s success. One is the design people who are responsible for developing new products that are more efficient and price competitive than those currently on the market. The other is the manufacturing people who build the equipment.

In an effort to attract and keep outstanding design people, Velma has a very attractive benefit package. All of their health insurance premiums and medical expenses are covered (no copay or deductibles). The company contributes 10 percent of their annual income toward a retirement program, and these funds are vested within 24 months. So a new design person who is earning $75,000 annually will have $7,500 put into a retirement fund by the company, and the individual can make additional personal contributions. Each year all designers are given 100 shares of stock (the current sales price is $22) and an option to buy another 100 shares (the current stock price is $25 and this option is good for 10 years or as long as the person works for the firm, whichever comes first).

The manufacturing people are on a pay-for performance plan. Each individual is paid $7 for each unit he or she produces, and the average worker can turn out three units an hour. There is weekend work for anyone who wants it, but the rate per unit does not change. Each year, the company gives manufacturing workers 50 shares of stock with an option to buy 25 more shares. The company also gives all of the manufacturing people free health insurance and covers all medical expenses. 

Another benefit is that everyone in the company is eligible for five personal days a year, and the company will pay for any unused days. Velma also has a large day care facility that is free for all employees, and there is a state-of-the-art wellness center located on the premises.

Last year the company’s turnover was 9 percent, and the firm would like to reduce it by 50 percent this year. One proposed strategy is to strengthen the benefits package even more and make it so attractive that no one will want to, or could afford to, leave. Some top managers privately are concerned that the firm is already doing way too much for these employees and are troubled by the fact that exit interviews with designers who left in the last year indicated that many of them were unaware of the benefits they were receiving. For example, most of the designers who have gone elsewhere reported that they were attracted to the stock offered them, yet they did not exercise the options to buy additional shares of Velma stock because they were not sure what the financial benefits were to them. The manufacturing people who left reported that $7 per unit was acceptable, although a higher rate would have resulted in their remaining with the firm. The manufacturing people also liked the stock that the company gave them, but were somewhat confused about the options they held.

Both groups—designers and manufacturing personnel—seemed pleased with the contribution that the company made to their retirement program, but most of them did not put any additional personal contributions into their retirement fund. When asked why, the majority of them were unaware that this could be done on a before-tax basis, thus temporarily shielding the contributions from taxes and making it easier to build a nest egg for the future. Finally, all of those who left said that they liked the child care benefit, although most of them did not have young children so they did not use it, and they thought the wellness center was also a good idea but they were so busy working that they admitted to never using the facilities.

HA3120D – Essentials of Managed Care SU20 B – Section D01

Discussion 03.1: Utilization Review and Access

As utilization review techniques are implemented by MCOs, how has this had an impact on patients being able to access the care they need?  What are the positives and negatives of limiting access to some providers?  What are the potential financial implications to both the patient and the provider for choosing to comply or not to comply with these requirements?

Please cite references in your post which should be 150-200 words.

Before you begin your Assignment, watch a brief video introduction.

Instructions: Write a short (500 words or fewer) memo to the board of trustees that describes why you believe the organization should triple its investment in training and development this year.

Requirements: 

• Memo describes how the healthcare organization can use training and development to improve employee performance.
• Memo outlines the basic elements of training needs assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation for the organization.
• Memo provides fact based information by utilizing the textbook and a minimum of two outside sources to support the information presented in your memo.

Course Outcome addressed in this Assignment:

Welcome to the Module 4 SL. For this module take a look at the logistics structure of your organization; then in a 3- to 4-page paper answer the following questions:

How can the logistics processes be improved in your organization? What, if anything, have you learned in this course that might help that improvement effort?

SLP Assignment Expectations

Research the organization with information you can find on the internet or other resources you find on your own. The paper should be 3–4 pages in length and have a cover sheet and a reference page. Clarity of presentation is important, as well as your ability to apply the topics to the logistics area of your selected firm. Use at least 3 different sources of information and annotate your sources of information appropriately on your references page and within the text as necessary. You will be assessed on how well you demonstrate your knowledge of the topic as it applies to your selected firm. Submit your assignment for grading by the end of this module.

please! please! read the question and please search based on the USA school based health care.

Your school district is interested in opening up a school based health center, but the superintendent needs more data to help sell the idea to the school board. Using a search engine on the internet (ie. Google, Foxfire, Bing), enter “school-based health centers”. Recommend 5 websites to the superintendent that would be useful. For each website, include a paragraph summary of how it is different from other sites.

• In the course reading this week there was a focus on ‘noise’ preventing effective communication.  Explain the different types of noise introduced and provide workplace scenarios describing situation where the noise could exist.
• Explain why change is hard for your employees.
• Describe how a Change Agent can help an organization navigate through difficulties.