In a total of 250-500 words, respond to the 5 questions about the scenario.

Scenario

The long-term care center has 225 beds and provides the highest level of patient care, according to ongoing Department of Health Services annual surveys. The Director of the long-term center has the overall responsibility of ensuring the continuing high level of quality outcomes while also concurrently keeping the facility as risk free as practical. You and the Director have just returned from an annual Long-Term Care Association symposium where you were both introduced to some new groundbreaking initiatives regarding the differences between risk management and quality improvement.

Earlier in the week, the Director called for a meeting of the center’s department managers, including the Quality Assurance Nurse and the Manager of Risk Management. After briefing them on the symposium talking points, your Director asks you to come up with a working plan and strategy for how the facility will use both of the concepts you have introduced to arrive at a more centralized and standardized approach. Overall, the desired outcomes focus on adopting a new approach to higher quality with fewer risk factors for the organization.

Later that week, the Manager of Risk Management, the Manager of Nursing Quality Assurance, and a representative from Human Resources met to formulate a new plan to reduce the litigation exposure while concurrently increasing the quality of patient outcomes. They set about the complex set of tasks with the expectation that you, as the Director’s designated facilitator, will be closely reviewing their final recommendations.

Questions:

1.What is the necessary background information needed to complete your executive summary?Who are the stakeholders?

2. How do the facility’s current Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) outcomes correspond with the current litigation prevention systems?

3.What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining higher quality outcomes?

4.What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining lower litigation adverse actions and operational impact?

5.What future steps must be taken to accomplish this directive?

assignment

With her decision to expand Salty Pawz, Wanda needs a workforce. However, she has never interviewed or hired anyone in her life. While putting labels on bags of dog treats one afternoon, you ask Wanda how she intends to recruit and select her workforce. She smiles and says, “Well for once, I have a plan!” You can’t wait to hear her plan and feel like maybe after all this time she is getting the hang of running Salty Pawz like a business should be run.

Wanda’s plan is to place an ad in a local newspaper and have people who are interested in learning more stop by the local coffee shop to speak with her. She thinks that filling out application forms at this point is premature, so she will have them leave their name and phone number in her planner for now. Wanda doesn’t have any particular questions in mind to ask the applicants. Instead, she thinks it is more natural to just let the conversations evolve, so she can figure out who she “clicks with.” She doesn’t want them to feel like they are being interrogated! However, she is particularly interested in hiring mothers with younger school age children who can start work after they drop their kids at school. She also is going to keep her eyes open for at least one young man because sacks of flour are heavy. The only thing she is certain about is asking each person for his or her salary requirements, so she can set her pay schedule and budget accordingly.

Your Task

• Explain to Wanda why virtually everything in this hiring plan is a bad idea based on the key role that Human Resource Management plays in the success of her business.
• Be sure to inform Wanda about the laws that govern the employer-employee relationship and what could happen if she became the subject of an employee lawsuit. (For reference, Wanda’s business is located in the state of North Carolina.)

Psychology of Personality and Freud Theory

Part 1: Engage in a discussion of the following.   Please be thorough and generous with your thoughts.

To understand the Freudian/Psychodynamic notion of ‘defensiveness’, you have to understand the nature of anxiety as seen from this perspective. So, according to the psychodynamic view, where does anxiety come from? What are the three sources, or types, of anxiety?

When anxiety is present, what is the basic idea regarding “ego-defense”? What does the ego do to defend from these threats?

Are these conscious processes? Please discuss – if so, why? If not, why not?

What basic characteristics do all defense mechanisms share?

Would the ability to distort reality (to fool yourself) be a generally adaptive or maladaptive human attribute (or both). Do the benefits outweigh the costs? Justify your answer.

Part 2: Discuss the following specific defense mechanisms. For each, give a basic definition (in your own words). Then, provide a plausible real-life example of each and reflect on what you find interesting or provocative.

Repression

Regression

Denial

Projection

Displacement

Reaction Formation

Sublimation

Part 3: Freud (and others) suggest that defense mechanisms differ with respect to “maturity”. That is, some defense mechanisms are more characteristic of healthy ego-function than others. Research also finds evidence that children are more likely to engage ‘less mature’ defense mechanisms than adults typically do. Please discuss the ‘maturity’ issue. Specifically, what makes one defense mechanism more “mature” than another (or more ‘primitive’)? How does the notion of ‘maturity’ relate to issues of the overall adjustment/adaptiveness of personality function?

Part 4: Now that you are more familiar with Freud’s views on self-deception, what do some contemporary psychologist think about this idea? Well, I have included some discussion of more contemporary/modern views of ‘defense mechanisms’ and self-deception. For the final point of discussion in this assignment, please describe the basic propositions advanced by these more modern approaches (by Baumeister and Trivers). How do they compare to the classic psychodynamic (Freudian) view?

Southcott co is a firm of financial consultants which offers short revision courses on taxation and auditing for professional examinations. The firm has budgeted annual overheads totaling $152,625. Until recently the firm has applied overheads on a volume basis, based on the number of course days offered. The firm has no variable costs and the only direct costs are the consultants' own time which they divide equally between their two courses. The following information relates to the past year and is expected to remain the same for the coming year. Course No. of courses sold Duration of course No. of enquiries No. of brochures Auditing 50 2 days 175 300 Taxation 30 3 days 70 200 All courses run with a maximum number of students (30), as it is deemed that beyond this number the learning experience is severely diminished, and the same center is hired for all courses at a standard daily rate. The firm has the human resources to run only one course at any one time. Required 1. Calculate the overhead cost per course for auditing using traditional volume based absorption costing to the nearest dollar. 2. The firm is considering the possibility of adopting an activity-based costing (ABC) system and has identified the overhead costs as shown below. Details of overheads $ Center hire 62,500 Enquiries administration 27,125 Brochures 63,000 Total 152,625 Calculate the overhead cost of center hire which would be allocated to an auditing course under activity based costing to the nearest dollar. 3. Calculate the overhead cost of brochure printing which would be allocated to a taxation course under activity based costing to the nearest dollar. 4. Calculate the overhead cost of enquiries administration which would be allocated to a taxation course under activity based costing. 5. A member of Southcott Co.’s finance team has said that activity based costing (ABC) provides more accurate product costs than a traditional absorption costing system. He gave a number of statements supporting this claim. Which of the following statements does not support his claim?

Please read the Management in Action case “Norwegian Air Shuttle Aspires to Become the Cheapest Global Airline” at the end of Chapter 4 “Global Management” available in your textbook Management: A Practical Approach 7^th edition by Kinicki, A., & Williams, B., and answer the following questions:

Assignment Question(s):

1. What are the biggest challenges Norwegian experienced in trying to expand its airline across the globe?
2. To what extent did you observe examples of ethnocentric, polycentric, or geocentric attitudes in this case? Provide examples to support your conclusions.

3. Use Table 4.4 (Given below) to identify cultural differences that are likely to arise between Norwegian employees working in Denmark and Sweden and Thailand. How might these differences affect interpersonal interactions, and what can the company do to reduce any unintended conflict from these differences?

4. What are the most important lessons to be learned about global management from this case? Discuss

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Write a “bad news” memo to a group of employees in response to this scenario: You are the Human Resources Director at Natural Beauty Cosmetics, a manufacturer of multiple cosmetics lines sold across the globe. Your headquarters and manufacturing plant are in Syracuse, New York, and all told, the company employs 250 people. Many of your employees have degrees in chemistry and other product development fields. Over the past five years, your sales have declined by 6%, as your market has become more dominated by more inexpensive products from overseas. At best, your company projects sales to be flat over the next few years. Additionally, your company’s payments to provide health care for your employees have gone up by 18% since 2013. Until now, Natural Beauty Cosmetics has covered the entire cost of health care, but now your company has been forced to ask employees to pay 25% of their premiums. To explain these changes, your Assistant Director of HR, Marylou Masters will hold a meeting with affected employees at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4 in Room 223 to discuss the new plan, answer any questions, and explain in detail which cost-cutting options, such as choosing a less expensive plan with higher deductibles, will be available. Asking employees to pay for their health care will have a number of benefits. It will help the company remain viable for the foreseeable future, and it will allow the company to keep everyone employed at the Syracuse headquarters. Everyone will still be able to keep his or her current level of medical coverage, and co-pays for any treatment will stay the same. Because this is a difficult decision, and you know that your most-talented employees may be tempted to look for work elsewhere, you are convinced that a face-to-face meeting will ensure that your employees choose the best option for themselves and their families. To make sure that everyone is aware of the meeting, your company will send this memo internally to all of the employees, informing them of the increase in premium payments as well as the meeting.

• Below is a list of topics for you to select from for your Management project:

• Organizations as Open Systems
• Measuring Job Satisfaction
• Techniques for Changing Employee Attitudes
• The Role of Non-work Activities in Work Behavior
• Implications of Selective Perception for the Communication Model
• Pay Secrecy and Employee Motivation
• Choosing Between Individual and Group Decision Making: A Manager's Guide
• Defense Mechanisms and Employee Behavior
• The Contribution of the Hawthorne Studies to the Study of Management
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Committee Decision Making
• Methods for Overcoming resistance to Change
• the Impact of Automation and Repetitive Tasks on Workers
• Defining and Understanding Conflict, Cooperation, and Competition
• Differences Between Male and Female Leadership Styles
• "Discipline": A Dirty Word in the 2000s?
• Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Organizations
• Managing Interdepartmental Conflicts
• Is There a Decline in the Motivation to Manage?
• The Changing Work Force: Implications for Management
• Employee Assistance Programs
• The Changing Work Force: Impact on Human resource Management
• The Application of Quantitative Management Theories
• The Role of Labor Unions in the 2000s
• Business Ethics: "Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them do Unto You" verses "Do it Before Someone Else Does"
• Organizational Behavior Modification
• Designing Effective Work Teams
• Managing Resistance to Organizational Change
• Ethical and Legal Obligations of Members of Boards of Directors
• Ways of Determining Effective Spans of Control
• Total Quality Management: Is it working?
• A Study of Employee Relations in a U.S. Based Japanese-Owned Factory
• A Review of the Japanese Concept of Lifetime Employment and the Employment of Women in Japanese Organizations

• Management Project: Students will submit a written analysis of a selected topic. The paper will be typed, double spaced and the content of the paper will be between 3 - 5 pages in length. The title page, abstract and work cited pages do not contribute to the length. The paper must be submitted in MLA or APA format . The paper should be grammatically correct and free from typographical and spelling errors. There will be at a minimum of three (3) different references, (wikipedia and is not an acceptable reference).Footnotes and bibliography, where required must be presented in acceptable format.

You are an investor who is looking for a place to invest your money. Previous investments have led you to feel that you are only interested in public, unregulated companies. You must choose a company that has not been used in previous course work, where you will now invest your money. Based on publicly available information you are to do a complete strategic analysis of the company.

Tips: Clothing companies do not make good choices because their reporting dates do not match standard reporting of economic data.

The result of your research will be your opinion, backed by your analysis, and use of evidence (use 6^th edition APA) and reasons why you would personally invest in this company as well as why people wish to be employed at this company. What makes it attractive to employees?

You may think of this as an evaluation of the firm for investment purposes. Ensure that you select a company that has data available for conducting the needed analyses.  Do due diligence right at the beginning of the course, so you do not run into issues right before the assignment is due.

You should, at a minimum, prepare: (1) a financial analysis comparing the firm to comparable peer firms; (2) a revenues forecast for the company using statistical and economic tools; (3) an industry analysis; (4) an evaluation of the company’s financial status and prospects; (5) a competitive analysis in which the company operates, and (3) leadership analysis (confidence in leadership). Make sure you identify, describe, and evaluate the overall strategy of the company and important to your assessment of the firm’s prospects, the functional strategies, i.e. marketing, technology, financial, human resources, manufacturing, etc. being employed.

You may choose to utilize these analyses and others as relevant in a traditional: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) format, or choose another option.

Choose a company that has been publicly traded long enough (6 years) so that you have the quarterly data you need for the project analyses.
I chose HP company please provide me more informations and provided references.

• Assume you have $1 million now, and you have just retired from your job. This would be your initial wealth, W₀.
• You expect to live for 20 years, and you want to have the same level of consumption for each of the 20 years, after adjusting for inflation. That is, you want to keep the same purchasing power of consumption for all 20 years. In the equation, this means that C_t will be constant in real dollars over the rest of your lifetime.
• You also wish to leave the purchasing power equivalent of $100,000 today to your kids at the end of the 20 years as a bequest (or to pay them to take care of you). In real dollars, of course, since there is no inflation in real dollars, you will need to have $100,000 to give them at the end of the 20 years.
• You expect real interest rates to stay at 5% per year. So, your savings account will earn 5% in real dollars over the next 20 years.
• The Omar example in the textbook shows Omar’s human capital through labour earnings, but our assignment problem does not have any labour earnings. You have already earned your retirement savings of $1 million.
• The assignment problems will ask you to apply the formula to calculate the level of consumption that fits the intertemporal budget constraint, given assumptions about initial wealth and a planned bequest.

5.1     

a.   Calculate the present value of your bequest of $100,000 in real dollars.          (1 mark)

b.   Determine the constant value of consumption that equates the value of your initial wealth on the right side of the equation with the total of consumption and your bequest.      

Hint: To do this, you need to recognize that the equation contains an annuity for future consumption. The bequest is a single lump sum value, and the initial wealth is already stated at present value. The present value of labour income is zero.

Use this information to determine

i.    the present value of consumption for all 20 years.

ii.   use that value to determine the annual consumption for each of the 20 years. This part is very similar to the last question on Assignment 1.

QUESTION 40

1. Movement of molecules across plasma membranes like the exchange of oxygen from blood will most likely use a method of transport called (hint: no energy required)

   	A.	active transport
   	B.	sodium-potassium pumps
   	C.	diffusion
   	D.	ATP-transport mechanism
   	E.	endocytosis

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QUESTION 41

1. Muscle cells require more energy than most other cells in order to function. Therefore, muscle cells would be expected to have more ________ than most other cells. (Think: which organelle is responsible for energy production!!)

   	A.	ribosomes
   	B.	nuclei
   	C.	mitochondria
   	D.	peroxisomes
   	E.	triglycerides

QUESTION 53

1. The end result of Complement Proteins is (what happens to the bacteria)

   	A.	to phagocytize the cell
   	B.	make the foreign cell stronger
   	C.	lysis of the foreign cell
   	D.	antibodies mark the cell

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QUESTION 54

1. The following are the steps to antibody mediated immune response in B-cells. Which answer shows the correct order of steps?
   
   D) Mature, uncommitted B cell binds antigen by specific receptor
   
   C) B cell is activated and creates clones of cells
   
   B) Memory cells store information for future exposure to same antigen
   
   A) produces Plasma cells for production of antibody

   		B,C,A,D
   		D,C,B,A
   		A,B,C,D
   		C,B,D,A

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QUESTION 55

1. The kidneys function to maintain homeostasis in all of the following ways EXCEPT which one?

   	A.	controlling salt balance in body fluids
   	B.	exchanging blood gases like O2 & CO2
   	C.	regulating vitamin D
   	D.	regulating blood volume
   	E.	regulating blood pressure

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QUESTION 56

1. The motor division of the peripheral nervous system sends information to all of the following  EXCEPT which one? (think of the direction of the impulses (ie: to the brain, away from the brain?)

   	A.	somatic division
   	B.	sensory division
   	C.	sympathetic division
   	D.	autonomic division
   	E.	parasympathetic division

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QUESTION 57

1. The offspring resulting from a cross between a creme colored horse (PP) and a chestnut-colored horse (CC) is of an intermediate color (PC, Palomino, between white and chestnut) in other words when a third phenotype is possible (a true blended trait). Which one of the following patterns of inheritance best explains this?

   	A.	codominance
   	B.	complete dominance
   	C.	sex-linked
   	D.	polygenic inheritance
   	E.	incomplete dominance

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QUESTION 58

1. The primary structure of proteins involves

   	A.	the amino acid sequence
   	B.	alpha helices & beta pleated sheets
   	C.	larger scale twists & turns of a polypeptide chain
   	D.	2 or more polypeptide chains bonded together

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QUESTION 59

1. The process by which the DNA code is converted from a single gene into a strand of mRNA is called (THINK: DNA to RNA to Protein

   	A.	reproduction
   	B.	replication
   	C.	transcription
   	D.	translation
   	E.	metabolism

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QUESTION 60

1. The process by which undigested or waste material is removed from the gastrointestinal tract is

   	A.	elimination
   	B.	secretion
   	C.	urination
   	D.	mechanical processing
   	E.	absorption

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QUESTION 61

1. The products (a whole bunch at once) of the endoplasmic reticulum are transported to the Golgi apparatus by an organelle called: (it's not the same question that you may have seen previously)

   	A.	free-floating ribosomes
   	B.	cilia
   	C.	gated channels
   	D.	endocytosis
   	E.	vesicles