Module 4: Discussion Forum

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Compensation is a controversial workplace topic. Throughout the years, specifically the past decade, average employee wages have not greatly risen. However, managerial and executive pay has steadily increased.

Despite current economic stability and low unemployment rates, U.S. businesses are constrained from raising employee salary and benefits due to low-wage foreign competition.  This week’s readings showcase a case study on pay compression at Envelop City and on how McDonalds uses praise (intrinsic factor) and individual incentive pay (extrinsic factor) to ensure satisfied and happy employees.

Discuss how an organization can motivate its employees to maintain/increase their productivity and performance without significantly increasing employees’ compensation.  Additionally, as a compensation consultant, how would you develop market value for positions within your organization? Propose a compensation plan to ensure that rewards (i.e., wages, benefits, and other compensation) match job duties, tasks, and responsibilities.

Answer the above using the question and answer (Q&A) format. 300 words

Read the case study titled “Revitalizing a Brand”, located in the online course shell. Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research the branding and communication strategies of one (1) health services organization that is similar to the health services organizations mentioned in the case study.

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

1. Describe the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
2. Conduct a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) analysis associated with the current marketing communication, identity, and brand position of Plaza Home Health Services.
3. Assess the importance of benchmarking in Plaza Home Health Services’ development and implementation of an effective brand strategy (marketing communication, identity, and brand position).
4. Compare branding and communication strategies of a similar health services organization with that of Plaza Home Health Services. Determine whether or not Plaza Home Health Services should apply additional best practices into its current branding and communication strategies. Provide a rationale and support for your response.
5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the marketing research process and market segmentation strategies in the health care industry.
• Analyze business planning based on an analysis of domestic and global operating environments, market dynamics (supply and demand), commercialization, and product-market expansion.
• Explain how branding strategies apply to the health care market for existing and new products.
• Determine the marketing communications strategy used in health care services.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services strategic marketing.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.

• Health Care Finance Interview
  Identify a leader in a health care setting who is responsible for  fiscal planning and financial management. This person may be solely  responsible for financial management or have multiple duties and  responsibilities that include fiscal planning and financial management.  Request an interview with that person. You may conduct your interview in  person, via teleconference, or via videoconference. Use the interview  guide you created for last week’s assignment. Also, use Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library  and other sources to locate publicly available financial information  for this organization. Use it as context for your interview.
  The Interview Guide you created in Week 2 should include 10  questions. Seven questions are provided for you. You should develop  three additional questions. You should ask the following seven questions  in addition to the three questions that you developed:
   

1. Can you tell me about your role within your organization? What are  your duties and responsibilities? How long have you been in this role?
2. Can you share with me all of your duties and responsibilities that involve fiscal planning and financial management?
3. How does your organization approach strategic planning?
4. How do you approach operational budgeting? How does your organization approach capital budgeting?
5. What is the most expensive aspect of health care delivery?
6. How is health care finance related to the cost of care, quality,  value, waste, performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider  relationships, and insurance reimbursement?
7. What cost-containment measures has the organization used?
8. Write a 3–4 page paper in which you report your findings from your interview and research:
    
9. Indicate the name and title of the person you interviewed. Share  some background about their organization. List the responsibilities and  scope of their role, and how long they have been in the role.
10. Share the mission, vision, and strategic priorities of the organization.
11. Provide some organizational background (location, size, focus,  services provided, demographics of patients served, for- or nonprofit  status, et cetera).
12. Explain all of the financial-related tasks and responsibilities that your interviewee engages in.
13. From your interviewee’s perspective, explain how health care  finance is related to the cost of care, quality, value, waste,  performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider relationships,  and insurance reimbursement.
14. Comment on the organization’s strategic planning process and its  relationship to financial management. Is there appropriate alignment?  Support your perspective.
15. In a final paragraph, explain what you see as the most important aspect of financial management for health care administrators.
16. The specific learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
     

• Assess the relationships among health care costs, quality,  performance improvement, regulatory compliance, provider relationships,  and payors.
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 Write a 800-1000 word paper (body content length) based on researched artifacts from three companies in the same sector of private or non-profit industry (e.g., restaurants, services, products, hospitals, etc.) and their individual presentation of mission, vision, and values. After presenting each company’s brief history, mission, vision, and values, compare and contrast the various features and differences between the selected same-sector companies. Using relevant research via peer-reviewed journals and research conclude your paper with a scholarly assessment about the strengths and weaknesses of the mission, vision, and values of the companies researched. 

Outline the difference in responsibilities of a local union representative, a shop steward, and an international or national union representative. 

• How do their roles differ in the labor relations process? 
• This essay needs to be one page in length. 

Although Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual-orientation or gender-identity, a number of states have enacted laws that do prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual-orientation and/or gender-identity. 

• Discuss whether there is one or more state or local      laws in your state prohibiting employment discrimination based on      sexual-orientation or gender-identity.

As you reflect on this week’s lecture, describe the learning process in your organization. Does it take into account the varying generations? What does it do to capture learning and knowledge? What can your organization do to ensure future learning? Respond to two classmates’ posts.

  Analyze a workplace health and safety concern. 

1. Select a situation in an organization that may be considered a health and safety risk.
2. Outline ways to reduce or prevent that specific workplace health and safety concern.
3. Identify whether OSHA should intervene in the situation and how the organization can comply with OSHA standards.

Relate this post with healthcare when answering these questions!

Post must be 300 words. No Plagiarism!!! 

 Choose whether you believe a company should hire for diversity or hire the best qualified individual. Explain your rationale. Determine how your current (or future) place of work could benefit from a diverse workforce. 

 PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A BID FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH GRADUATE LEVEL WRITING TERMS AND CONCEPTS. ALL DIRECTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED AND NO PLAGIARISM. MY SCHOOL USES SOFTWARE TO DETECT COPIED MATERIAL. AND REFERENCE THE BOOK AND USE SCHORLARY SOURCES. 

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