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Explain the concept of organizational effectiveness

Explain the concept of organizational effectiveness

Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.

Complete the following for your Key Assignment draft:

• In preparation for your Key Assignment, you have discussed corrective action, resolved a management problem with employees showing resistance to change, and developed an organizational chart. Prepare a summary of these tasks.

• Research and develop a mission and values statement for a facility.

• Describe what types of health care this facility will provide.

• Summarize their purpose and services provided, such as the type of health care, number of staff, type of staff, size, departments, and so forth.

Revisit your Key Assignment draft, which should include the following:

• In preparation for your Key Assignment, you have discussed corrective action, resolved a management problem with employees showing resistance to change, and developed an organizational chart. Prepare a summary of these tasks.

• Research and develop a mission and values statement for a facility.

• Describe what types of health care this facility will provide.

• Summarize their purpose and services provided, such as the type of health care, number of staff, type of staff, size, departments, and so forth.

Working with organizations to improve the interactions of members and increase productivity through collaborative behavior is an essential role of the organization development human resources specialist. You will need to pick an organization to use for this project. The organization you choose may be your current employer, or alternatively, an organization in which you volunteer or one about which you can easily find information through the school library, the Internet, or other sources.

Research and address the elements of organizational effectiveness that will improve interactions in a presentation for senior leaders:

• Explain the concept of organizational effectiveness, as it relates to the interactions of members.

• Describe methods used to assess the behaviors and attitudes of organizational members, and apply 1 model in an analysis of your organization.

• Analyze methods used to improve the behavior and attitudes of organizational members.

• Propose processes to build teams and manage their different stages of development.

• Evaluate methods of managing conflict and change within the organization.

Analyze three current advancements in technology

Analyze three current advancements in technology

Resources: Chapters 1, 6, and 21 from your textbook, Foster, Lieutenant Raymond E. (2013). Police Technology, 1st Edition and outside resources.

The Chief of police has asked you to create a PowerPoint presentation based on the research findings. Your presentation consists of the current and future criminal justice technology, examples and the benefits to your department.

Create a 7 slide PowerPoint Presentation incorporating speaker notes that you and your team would present to the Mayor’s Committee for approval to purchase future technology for your Department. Convince the Mayor that he should approve the funds for your precinct to purchase new equipment by analyzing the future of information technology in the criminal justice system.

Be sure to address the following:

Explain the impact of information technology on the criminal justice system. You may choose police, courts or corrections. (What are the future trends and/or types of technology?)

Choose three or more examples of how information technology in criminal justice will help the city in the future. (This could be police, courts or corrections in the field a look towards the future.)

Describe how information technology can impact policing in the future. (What are some examples of the impact?)

Analyze three current advancements in technology that the criminal justice system has implemented and how this technology has aided the criminal justice system in either solving crime or related to police, courts or corrections.

Discuss the sequencing and prioritization that you used in deciding which of the various technologies you choose to collect and analyze the data that you would collect. (i.e., Crime mapping/GIS and RMS.)

Include a title slide and reference slide.

Use bullets for your main points.

Use speaker notes to fully explain what is being discussed in the bullet points as though you are presenting to an audience.

Format your work consistent with APA guidelines. Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. (month/day/year). Title of Book, Edition. [E-Reader version].

Identify and discuss six values about life

Identify and discuss six values about life

Assignment

Part 1

Identify and discuss six values about life and success that you vividly recall learning from your family. For each, explain how the particular value is supported by or at odds with your current community setting; community setting may mean current family framework, school, job, peer group, etc. You will want to refer back to Lesson 1 and 2.

Part 2

To practice lesson planning, create an age appropriate activity for the early childhood aged student. Then, create a section of your lesson plan that describes three strategies that can be implemented to modify/adapt this lesson to meet the needs of dual language learners. Your lesson plan should include a learning objective (what the students will be able to do), materials, a step-by-step guide on how to complete the activity, and a description of the modifications/adaptations.

Purpose and value of a performance appraisal system

Purpose and value of a performance appraisal system

Senior leadership at Matrix are requesting an executive summary from human resources that will help them understand the need for a new performance appraisal system and the details associated with developing this process. This must be written in a manner that does not initially overwhelm the senior leaders at Matrix. You must gain their “buy in” to the need for developing a new performance appraisal system and demonstrate the value that will be gained for the organization.

As the leader of this project for human resources, you will be required to prepare the executive summary that will include the following information:

The purpose and value of a performance appraisal system
The components associated with the development of this system as well the criticality of job analyses and accurate job descriptions.
The accountabilities associated with a performance appraisal system
The advantages and disadvantages of performance appraisal systems
The primary advantages of a new performance appraisal system to Matrix

Must be orignal, 700 words, requires 4 scholarly references

Analyze current policy challenges in emergency management

Analyze current policy challenges in emergency management

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that includes the following:

• Evaluate communication and collaboration between agencies during all phases of emergency management for your Emergency Operations Plan.

• Summarize resources available to effectively evaluate the Emergency Operations Plan.

• Based on your EOP, analyze current policy challenges and opportunities in emergency management.

• Critique how a historical analysis of disasters within a community may influence an emergency preparedness plan.

Based on the weaknesses identified during your evaluation, create a revised portion of the Emergency Operations Plan that incorporates the recommendations that will improve the Emergency Operations Plan for your city. Explain trends to keep the Emergency Operations Plan current.

Format your paper, which includes your portion of the revised EOP, according to APA guidelines.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper

Describe how RDA, AI, and UL influence health

Describe how RDA, AI, and UL influence health

Complete the Interactive DRI on yourself. Go to http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/fnic/interactiveDRI/Complete the Interactive DRI on yourself. Go to http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/fnic/interactiveDRI/
Be prepared to answer the following questions:
What are the three components of the DRI?
Describe how RDA, AI, and UL influence health?
After reviewing your results on the Interactive DRI, how well are you meeting the RDAs suggested?
What two changes can you make to improve?
You Entered:Female Age:
25 yrs Height:
5 ft. 2 in. Weight:
135 lbs.Active Not Pregnant or LactatingResults:Body Mass Index (BMI) is 24.9 Estimated Daily Caloric Needs: 2358 kcal/dayEach reference value refers to average daily nutrient intake; day-to-day nutrient intakes may vary.
Macronutrient Recommended Intake per dayCarbohydrate 265 – 383 grams 1  Total Fiber 25 gramsProtein 49 gramsFat 52 – 92 grams 2   Saturated fatty acids As low as possible while consuming a nutritionally adequate diet.   Trans fatty acids As low as possible while consuming a nutritionally adequate diet.   α-Linolenic Acid 1.1 grams 3   Linoleic Acid 12 grams 3   Dietary Cholesterol As low as possible while consuming a nutritionally adequate diet.Total Water* 2.7 Liters (about 11 cups)*Total water includes all water contained in food, beverages, and drinking water.

Click on numbered footnote for more information.
Each reference value refers to average daily nutrient intake; day-to-day nutrient intakes may vary.
Vitamin Recommended Intake per day Tolerable UL Intake per dayVitamin A 700 mcg 3,000 mcg4Vitamin C 75 mg 2,000 mgVitamin D 15 mcg 100 mcgVitamin B6 1 mg 100 mgVitamin E 15 mg 1,000 mg5Vitamin K 90 mcg NDThiamin 1 mg NDVitamin B12 2 mcg NDRiboflavin 1 mg NDFolate 400 mcg 1,000 mcg6Niacin 14 mg 35 mg7Choline 425 mg 3,500 mgPantothenic Acid 5 mg NDBiotin 30 mcg NDCarotenoids NA ND8Click individual vitamin for fact sheet.
Click on numbered footnote for more information.
Each reference value refers to average daily nutrient intake; day-to-day nutrient intakes may vary.
Mineral Recommended Intake per day Tolerable UL Intake per dayEssential
Calcium 1,000 mg 2,500 mgChloride 2.3 g 3.6 gChromium 25 mcg NDCopper 900 mcg 10,000 mcgFluoride 3 mg 10 mgIodine 150 mcg 1,100 mcgIron 18 mg 45 mgMagnesium 310 mg 350 mg 9Manganese 1.8 mg 11 mgMolybdenum 45 mcg 2,000 mcgPhosphorus 700 mg 4,000 mgPotassium 4.7 g NDSelenium 55 mcg 400 mcgSodium 1.5 g 2.3 gZinc 8 mg 40 mgNon-Essential
Arsenic NA ND 10Boron NA 20 mgNickel NA 1 mgSilicon NA ND 11Sulfate NA NDVanadium NA 1.8 mg 12Click individual mineral for fact sheet.
Click on numbered footnote for more information.

Explain the difference between cash-accrual financial system

Explain the difference between cash-accrual financial system

Operating Budget Worksheet

Consider the following scenario:

Imagine you are a manager of a small health care facility and in charge of developing a projected annual operating budget.

Your budgetary figures are as follows:

For fiscal year 2015 and 2016 your clinic received $3 million from the government as fee-for-services reimbursements, as well as $1.1 million from private payers. The clinic has an annual fund-raiser that historically brings in $180,000 and a grants department that brings in $1.2 million annually.

Your chief financial officer has provided you with the following annual expenses:

ABC Health Care Annual Expenses

ABC Health Care Annual Expenses
Annual salaries

$1.5 million
Annual benefits

$240,000
Annual rent

$960,000
Annual insurance

$45,000
Annual utilities

$780,000
Annual overhead

$180,000
Annual supplies

$60,000

Using the ABC Health Care Operating Budget template, complete a 12-month operating budget in which you include the net profit (loss).

Write a 350- to 700-word executive summary that explains to the board of directors how you developed the budget and its importance.

Include the following in your summary:

• Explain the process for creating an operating budget and its importance.

• Explain how revenues and expenses are grouped for planning and control in the financial statements.

• Explain the differences between cash and accrual financial systems.

Cite at least 2 sources, including your textbook.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Discuss three aspects of us history

Discuss three aspects of us history

Assignment: Policemen of the World Final Paper

You have already developed a thesis statement and developed an outline in which you explored two (2) real-life international incidents from the past five (5) years involving the United States as they received an elevated status as a world power. Now you will develop the final paper in which you explore your main points in detail.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1. Introduce your paper with your previously crafted thesis statement.

2. Discuss two (2) international events involving the US military from the past five (5) years that can be traced back to a foreign policy created after the Civil War.

3. Discuss three (3) aspects of US history since 1865 that has led to the US’s rise as a world super power policeman.

4. Identify three to five (3-5) international incidents since World War II where America has taken on a policing role.

5. Determine three to five (3-5) driving forces that fueled international policy decisions involving the international incidents you outlined previously. (Consider treaties, exit strategies, elections, wars, etc.)

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the rise of the United States to a world “superpower” and how that status has shaped its internal developments in recent decades.
  • Recognize the major turning points in American history since the Civil War.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in contemporary U.S. history.
  • Write clearly and concisely about contemporary U.S. history using proper writing mechanics.