Often organizations are faced with the necessity of changing the direction or focus of their organization – due to competition, due to new technology, due to environmental issues, regulations, etc. In these situations, uncomfortable changes are sometimes required.

a) Would younger or older employees be more likely to embrace change?

b) Would successful or less successful organizations be more likely to embrace change?

c) One element in reinforcing change within an organization is to replace people and hire outsiders. Even if done with a great deal of care and understanding, this can often come across as a somewhat cruel undertaking. Why is it necessary?

You have recently been hired to lead a team comprised of relatively long term, experienced employees. Their performance has been generally satisfactory; however, changes are coming and it will be your job to affect this change. As the “new sheriff” in town, what sources of power and influence are available to you? Which do you feel would be most successful and why? What are the potential consequences of your using the types of power and influence you identified? How do you think you would best be able to resolve any conflicts within the team?

Explore Kubler-Ross Stages of loss and grief (chapter 17) and relate them to your personal experience regarding the changes you’ve experienced regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Have you gone through any of the grief stages?

What kinds of behavior did you demonstrate?

Please share your experience including feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in addition to naming which stage in Kubler-Ross theory best fits with each experience.

Also please reference how anticipatory grief has factored in your thoughts and behaviors.

Bok Corp.'s ROE last year was only 5%, but its management has developed a new operating plan that calls for a debt-to-capital ratio of 40%, which will result in annual interest charges of $561,000. The firm has no plans to use preferred stock and total assets equal total invested capital. Management projects an EBIT of $1,258,000 on sales of $17,000,000, and it expects to have a total assets turnover ratio of 2.1. Under these conditions, the tax rate will be 35%. If the changes are made, what will be the company’s return on equity?

Oxygenation, Perfusion, fluid and electrolytes are concepts reflect normal physiological mechanism occurring inside the human body which may be affected by the pathological conditions and at the same time can lead to new pathological one.

Fluid and electrolytes concept and apply it on heart failure disease showing the following:

1. Introduction about the selected concept(s)
2. Brief introduction about heart failure
3. Focus on the physiological changes on the selected concept(s) associated with heart failure in relation to:

1. Clinical S & S
2. Diagnostic measures
3. Management (medical, surgical & nursing management).

Forming an Accountable Care Organization in a hospital setting

What is an ACO and its reimbursement?

Should a hospital system convert to an ACO? Why or why not?

Would the hospital and all Medicare patients will be best served through forming its own ACO or partnering with the insurance company in their ACO?

Any benefits from becoming an ACO?

Are there problems or challenges in becoming an ACO for stakeholders? How about for the hospital's relationship with other insurers/payers?

What changes or innovations to expect to see in the way health care is delivered in a community as a result of the new financial incentives?

1. Compare the details of the passwd and shadow files under /etc/

–Who is the owner and group for each of the files?

–What permissions are assigned for these files?

–Are the permissions consistent with the results of activity you did before.

–Discuss the permissions in light of principle of least privilege.

2. Check the details of the log directory under /var/

–Who is the owner and group of the directory?

–What permissions are assigned for this directory?

–Discuss the permissions in light of principle of least privilege.

3. What happens to a file when the primary group of its user owner changes?

USE LINUX to answer

Imagine you are responsible for the performance improvement of an old computer system. Your boss told you that since a large budget for the new fiscal year has been approved and covers expenses with hardware upgrade you can just create a cluster computer with a large number of parallel processing units managed by some cluster operating system line MS-Windows Server 2019. You will not be able to make any changes to the software. Please, provide your recommendations for your boss regarding performance improvement by increasing parallel processing.

The bursting of the housing bubble in 2007 and 2008 caused many personal and corporate bankruptcies. Many individuals lost their homes, and many banks went bankrupt. The tax payers spent around $1 trillion dollar bailing out many banks. Many things have been blamed for the housing bubble – fear and greed, corruption in the banking sector, too little regulation, too much regulation, and the Federal Reserve printing too much money. What caused the housing bubble and what changes to US laws or banking structure could prevent future problems?

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**Please don't copy and paste use your own word

Q1:What are the roles of a project sponsor and the approval committee during the different SDLC phases?

Part 2:

Assume the following scenario:

A small company needs to develop an information system for the Finance and Accounting Department. As an analyst which process model would you prefer and why?

Part 3:There are three techniques which help users discover their needs for the new system, list and compare these techniques in terms of impactful changes. Also, explain BPR.