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You have been asked to provide more data to support your strategic recommendations that the organization should consider pursuing to effectively compete in the health care marketplace.

Prepare a report of 5 pages and include at least 5 relevant peer-reviewed academic or professional references published within the past five years that includes the following information:

• Prioritize all of the strategic recommendations that you identified in the Unit 2 report in order of effectiveness, explaining their impact on the organization’s competitive position in the health care marketplace.
• Prepare an estimate of the resources (operational, human, and length of time) that are needed to implement each of these recommendations.
• Using at least 3 appropriate financial ratios (compound annual growth rate (CAGR), return on equity (ROE), return on investment (ROI), net present value (NPV), profitability index (PI), internal rate of return (IRR), etc.) from your research, demonstrate the financial validity of each of your recommendations.
• Rank your recommendations based on financial impact.

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Please submit your assignment.

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Learning Activity: Developing an Employee Training Session

Completing this activity will help you prepare for the upcoming assignment in Week 9. Think of it as practice for the assignment. As such, focus on content, not formatting. Your paper should be no more than 1 to 2 pages in length.

Imagine you are a new employee in a HR department. Your first task is to develop a stress management training session for the employees.

• What topics should be covered during training?
  • Justify your topic selections.
• Identify methods of tracking employee attendance and dealing with employees who do not attend or participate in mandatory training.
• Develop criteria to assist in selecting a vendor to use for the training.
• Which of the following training methods do you consider to be the most effective? Why?
  • Presentations.
  • Case studies.
  • Simulations.
  • Discussions.

Use at least one quality academic resource in this activity. Consider beginning with your course textbook and quality sources that can be found in the Strayer Library.

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Conduct a Needs Assessment for Selected Business/Organization

The Critical Thinking assignments in this course build upon each other to help you complete the final Portfolio Project, an instructional design blueprint for a business or organization. In this step, you will complete a needs assessment for the business or organization you have selected and profiled.

Your needs assessment must include data collection measures and outcomes for the following four stages:

• Stage 1: What are the business/organization needs?
  • Measure: (What measure is used?)
  • Outcome: (What is the forecasted ROI?)
• Stage 2: What are the performance needs?
  • Measure: (What measure is used?)
  • Outcome: (What are the knowledge and skills needed for success in the business/organization? To what degree are they currently being met?)
• Stage 3: What are the learning needs?
  • Measure: (What measure is used?)
  • Outcome: (What knowledge and skills need to be improved through instruction?)
• Stage 4: What are the learner needs?
  • Measure: (What measure is used?)
  • Outcome: (For example: Who are the learners? How many are there? Is the group multi-generational? What is the cultural make-up? Are they traditional or nontraditional learners?)

Continue using the template that you began in Module 2 to organize your findings. Your final product should be well written and conform with the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Use at least two to three sources to support your observations and analysis. The CSU Global Library is a great place to find these sources. Submit your completed template for grading.

Combine all the previous milestones into a cohesive final paper. Your final paper should include revisions based on the feedback you received from your instructor on each milestone.

For this milestone, you will complete a draft of the first two sections of your summative assessment. Read the transcripts provided for you for this case analysis. The transcripts can be found in the Final Project Case Study.

Based on the transcripts you read in Module Three and this module’s reading, analyze the heuristics of the transcripts and determine how they impacted the interactions in the workplace. Additionally, determine the influence of cultural differences on the conflict. The transcripts can be found in the.

Based on the case study transcripts provided, look for instances in which the characters employed communication to manage the situation, collect relevant information, and build common ground. Then, identify practices through which the team can rebuild trust. Finally, determine the best course of action for resolving the conflict and provide your recommendations for moving forward.

PART 1: Find a recent article or video describing the competition between two or more businesses. Post a link to the article or video in the discussion thread and answer the following questions:

1. What are the competing businesses and what products do they sell?
2. Which company do you believe is winning the competition? Why?

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references

link to video

The last element of the strategic plan consists of constructing the technicals. The technicals element includes items such as developing strategic goals, strategies, leading indicators of success, and performance targets. The technical elements represent the executable part of the strategic plan. As you begin to develop the technical elements, consider the goals related to internationalization and alliances.
To prepare:

• Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan –Part 2: The Technical Elements media in the Weekly Resources.
• Review the results of your environmental scan and consider strategic goals that your agency might implement.
• Think about how the organization might leverage globalization and alliances in its strategic goals.

By Day 7

The Assignment (2–3 pages):

Developing the technical elements for your Capstone Project will be a two-part Assignment. The first part will be completed and submitted in Week 7. The second part will be completed and submitted in Week 8.

For this Assignment in Week 7:

• Develop your strategic goals (at least three). The goals must address the following:
  • Address issues such as globalization and how those issues might impact the strategic goals of the agency, organization, or community.
  • Identify potential alliances.
    • Identify opportunities for alliances with other agencies or organizations.
    • State why the alliances are important.
• Develop strategies for implementing goals. You must identify at least two strategies for each identified goal.
• Address issues of accountability. You must establish how and who will monitor the execution of the strategic plan. Describe how you will address accountability for each of the following: 
  • Describe how your leadership will be held accountable for execution of the strategic plan.
  • Discuss the following aspects of accountability for employee:
    • Identify who will be responsible for executing specific aspects of the strategic plan.
    • Explain how employee accountability will be tracked.
  • Client and stakeholder accountability:
    • Describe the clients’/stakeholders’ roles in accountability.
    • Discuss actions that will be taken to continually and actively engage the clients/stakeholders in ensuring accountability related to executing the strategic plan.

Personal statement.  

Please attach a personal statement of 750 – 1000 words that is a reflection of your ability to approach graduate-level work successfully, using creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research. Your statement should address the following:

• What is your purpose in pursuing this degree/certificate?
• How have you prepared yourself for this field of study?
• Specifically, how will this degree/certificate assist you in advancing both your professional and personal goals?
• Describe your research and study interests and any other aspects of your background, skills, or qualifications that would aid the Admissions Committee in evaluating your motivation for graduate study.

1. To attract, motivate, and retain good workers, companies need to define what an employee wants from the employment relationship. One way to define employee needs is to consider “total rewards,” which are everything an employee perceives to be of value resulting from working for the company. Benefits are a core element of total rewards and the ever-growing package of offerings have evolved. You must now work with the company to define precisely where the various programs will be categorized. 

   Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you: 

   • Identify and discuss at least three (3) important factors that almost always should be considered by organizations prior to providing employee benefits programs. Be sure the response is specific and relevant.  
   • Compare and contrast income protection programs and pay for time not worked programs, both of which are usual elements of benefits programs. How are the programs similar? Are they mandatory? 
   • Research and discuss at least four to five (4-5) of what may be referred as “Other Benefits” that you could recommend to the management team as necessary elements for the benefits package. HINT: Flextime and product/service discounts are good examples. 
   • Develop an employee benefits package for any exempt or non-exempt position level of your choosing,making sure you support the selection of your program elements. NOTE:The preferred method for presenting your benefits package information is using a table or exhibit, but either approach is not mandatory. HINT:http://www.isacs.org/uploads/file/Monographs/Business%20Operations/Benefits%20Plan.pdf 
     http://www.usbankhr.com/hr/docs/benefits/benefits-at-a-glance-next.pdf
   • Use a minimum of 3 academic quality references at least 1 being the assigned course textbook (required).
   • Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements: 
     1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
     2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment (with running head), the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. 
     3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. Use the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to locate additional sources to support your work. 
   1. The specific course outcome associated with this assignment is:  
   • Establish the importance of compensation and benefits, and how they support business strategy. 
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Analyze article and speech note

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review this week’s readings and Weekly Lecture.

The job description plays an important role for job evaluations, performance reviews, and the success of the individual within the organization. All areas of the process rely on the proper analysis and construction of the job description. There are times that the job description and the job posting are one in the same. For this exploration, we are going to look at job description templates and job postings and determine the effectiveness of the design and the impact on intended outcomes. Be sure to do some research on the key differences between job description and job postings.

Discover:

Job Descriptions: Search online for a minimum of two different job descriptions from various sources. Save and attach descriptions to your initial post. (If there is no option to save, copy and paste the whole job description template into a Word document and attach.)

Job Postings: Search online for a minimum of two job ads or postings from various sources. Copy and paste each job ad and/or posting to a Word document, and attach it to your initial post.

Dissect:

Job Descriptions: Review each job description template, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each. Compare and contrast the templates, looking for good aspects and poor aspects of each. What is missing for a solid understanding of what the job requires?

Job Postings: Review each posting, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each posting. Compare and contrast the postings, and define the unimportant pieces of the ads and the information that is lacking for a solid understanding of the expectations. Will the job posting attract the appropriate candidate pool? Why or why not?

Diagnose:

After reviewing job description templates and job postings, discuss the various components of the job description template and a job posting. Is it appropriate to use one template for both tasks?

As a human resource manager, assess the importance of job description templates and job posts in human resource planning and how that planning fits within a larger corporate strategy. What design would you recommend when posting for a position?

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