1N - Part 1

In a functioning human eye, light enters the human eye through the lense and reaches the retina. What does the retina interpret or record the light as and what type of message does it convert it into?

1N - Part 2

In regard to the above, where does the retina send the message it converts light into to, and through which nerve does it send it?

1N - Part 3

If a person’s eye is damaged in a way that obstructs light from reaching the retina, what impact can this have on their sight?

1N - Part 4

Briefly explain how the sense of sight contributes to a person’s sense of equilibrium?

1N - Part 5

What are the hair-like structures in the nasal cavity that contribute to the human sense of smell called?

1N - Part 6

In regard to the above, explain what these hair-like structures do when they sense odour in order to allow humans to have a sense of smell?

1N - Part 7

What other sense does human’s sense of smell enhance?

1N - Part 8

Which part of the ear is made up of the pinna and the external auditory canal?

1N - Part 9

Briefly explain the role/function of the pinna and the external auditory canal play in the human sense of hearing?

Making Human Resource Decisions

Scenario:

You are the Director of Human Resources for your company. The CEO has just informed you that the financial state of the company is dire, and as a result, he is approaching the managers of each department and asking them to reduce personnel costs. The company makes its profits primarily on services such as business consulting, cloud-based storage for large companies, and other small miscellaneous business products. The industry has become highly competitive and sales are down. There is not enough revenue at this point to pay all of the salespeople.

You are charged with devising a plan to determine how personnel costs will be reduced. After much deliberation, you decide on three options. Because this is a management dilemma, none of these options are optimal. Further, cost/ benefit analysis has a role in the decision making process, but as you are dealing with people, this type of analysis is complicated and subjective.

Options:

  1.  Lay off employees and use them only as needed on a project or change employment structure (i.e. move some employees to independent contractors)

  2.  Reduce salaries across the board

  3.  Reduce hours and/or benefits for lower-level staff

Instructions:

Choose one of the above options and defend this decision. Use concepts from the chapter to defend your decision.

PART B: Major Roles: Roles are groups of functional activities performed together to serve some general HR purpose for the organization. Of the three (3) main roles that Human Resources may fulfill to help the organization succeed and prosper, briefly describe the following:

1. How does the Operational and Employee Advocate Role differ from the Strategic Role for Human Resources? How is their focus different?

2. Is the Administrative Role increasing or decreasing? Give one (1) reason why.

QUESTION 1 : Critical Changes that HR Departments Must Address and Manage

3.From these 2 sets of lists of challenges that HR Departments in health care services organization will have to face and effectively manage over the next 10-20 years, pick 2 challenges, and describe each very briefly.

4-Which 1 of the 2 challenges you have chosen do you think is the most important to face? Why? connected to 3 question

QUESTION 2: Defining, Measuring, and Monitoring Effective HR Performance in Health Care Service Organizations – Internal and External Monitoring and Evaluation.

5-What are Human Resources Metrics? Give 2 examples of HR Metrics.

6-What is the purpose of defining these Metrics, gathering the information supporting those Metrics, and monitoring and institution’s HR performance on the basis of those metrics.

7-What is the role of Benchmarking in establishing and monitoring HR Metrics/Measures of Performance? How does it shape, direct or support what Metrics are used, and how?

8-What is one of the four (4) main Joint Commission requirements for a high performing and successful HR Department in a health care services organization? Briefly describe 1.

9-Does the Joint Commission expect HR Departments to help improve institutional Quality of Care, for instance in reducing the incidence of Serious Adverse Events?

10-Give one (1) reason why the Joint Commission thinks HR has a significant role to play I this area of Quality – what human resource factors can affect the frequency of Serious Adverse Events

QUESTION 3: Strategic Human Resources Management.

11-When Human Resources is seen as a strategic activity, rather than focusing on administrative or operational/employee advocacy issues, what does that mean? In 2 sentences, what does the Strategic Management focus of Human Resources mean?

12-When someone says that Strategic Human Resources Management is a Core Competency for a health care organization what does that mean? In other words, what does that strategic activity by HR do for the organization as a whole?

QUESTION 4: Strategic Human Resources Management – Human Resources Planning.

13-When an HR Department is planning for the future Human Resources needs of an organization, it is involved in Environmental Scanning. What is the purpose of this activity – Describe briefly?

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Currently, there are chronic shortages of transplantable human organs. Waiting lists are long, and many of those waiting die before an organ becomes available.

1. Would it be more efficient than current arrangements if we were to allow an open market for buying and selling of human organs to develop? Be sure to consider

• how scarce human organs are currently rationed among people who want them
• the current arrangements for eliciting a supply of human organs and
• the economic definition of efficiency

2. Would a market for human organs increase social welfare or reduce it?   Explain, using the course concepts of producer and consumer surplus.

If there would be an open market for selling and buying of organs to develop then it will definitely be more efficient than the current situation we have where there aren’t nearly as many organs as needed available to patients. Because there is a limited number of organs, people do not get chance of buying it, they have to wait alot for the organ. Sometimes people are on a waiting list so long that by the time they are able to get an organ its too late and they have passed.

The scarce organs currently are being given to people on a first come first serve basis. They have to be on a waiting list. Depending on how far down the list the patient is they'll most times have to wait for the another donor to donate his organ. Human organs are scarce, and many are people are in dire need for it.

Currently, there are very few people who donate today. The current arrangement of getting an organ is to wait for the donor to give an organ and then get the transplant. Some are fortunate enough to have a family member donate if they are a match.

Efficiency is defined as a peak level of performance by a person that uses the least amount of inputs to achieve the highest amount of output. In terms of only economic efficiency, Yes, it would be more efficient to have an open market. An open and free market brings the outcome towards an efficient equilibrium, where both consumer and producer surplus are maximized, and there is no deadweight loss. However legalising open markets in human organs might come with the risk of the black market of human organs becoming more prevalent. Human trafficking is already such a huge issue and an open market might lead to it becoming even bigger. If and open market for human organs were to happen there would need to be heavy regulation.

The market for human organs will surely increase the social welfare as large number of organs will be available to the people who need it in emergency and they can buy it, otherwise the situation of waiting for the organ and eventually dying was very disappointing. This will improve the producer surplus as well because the seller will be able to sell the organ at a cost which is profitable to him and also consumer surplus will be there because the price of an organ in the market will be low as compared to the hospital where there are limited organs available and you have to pay for it.

You go on a long hike one day. Even though the temperature outside increases steadily throughout the day, your internal temperature stays relatively stable. When your body temperature begins to get too high, your brain detects the change and initiates heat losing actions, such as sweating.  What is the control center in this homeostatic mechanism?

Which of the following lists the levels of organization in order from smallest to largest?

Which of the following lists the structures in order from largest to smallest?

Osmosis can be defined as ______.

Diffusion ______.

You are at the beach on a hot summer day.  You have no more fresh water left so you begin to drink water from the ocean. Which of the following may occur?

A cell is losing water to its environment. The cell is in a(n) _________________ solution.

1. Which of the following can be found in the cell (plasma) membrane?  Select all that apply.

   		phospholipids
   		carbohydrates
   		transport proteins
   		nucleic acids When blood calcium levels fall too low, the body will stimulate cells called osteoclasts. These osteoclasts have a specialized plasma membrane with a ruffled border. This allows for efficient release of acids and enzymes to dissolve bone tissue, releasing calcium back into the blood. As a result, blood calcium level rises back to normal levels. This is an example of which of the following?

2. 		Positive feedback
   		Negative feedback
   		Corrective feedback
   		Quantitative feedback

1. When blood calcium levels fall too low, the body will stimulate cells called osteoclasts. These osteoclasts have a specialized plasma membrane with a ruffled border. This allows for efficient release of acids and enzymes to dissolve bone tissue, releasing calcium back into the blood. As a result, blood calcium level rises back to normal levels. The ruffled border of the osteoclast is an example of which of the following?

   		living things being organized
   		structure complementing function
   		homeostasis
   		biological feedback

1. Matching the terms associated with the stages of human development with their correct description(some answers may be used more than once).

   -       A.       B.       C.       D.    zygote       -       A.       B.       C.       D.    placenta       -       A.       B.       C.       D.    helps dispose of the embryo's waste       -       A.       B.       C.       D.    structure, which contains a single developing egg surrounded by cells that nourish it       -       A.       B.       C.       D.    a series of rapid divisions of the fertilized egg

   A. a single cell formed by the union of a sperm and egg B. provides nourishment and energy to the embryo C. follicle D. cleavage

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QUESTION 12

Hobbes introduces a rather bleak account of Human Nature and describes the “natural condition of mankind” in detail. Briefly introduce each followed by a discussion of how, according to Hobbes, the state of nature (or the “natural condition of mankind”) arises as a consequence of his account of human nature.

Search the web for ethical standards in the Human Services field, then find at least 5 Scriptures describing how we should treat others and care for them. Compare and contrast the Human Service ethics standards with biblical standards. How are they alike? How are they different?