3-4 page essay

Assignment 1

Write a 3-page minimum response to the following question. Remember that cover sheets, reiterating the assignment, and reference pages do not count. APA style is required and you should have a minimum of 3 references. 

This week, we will look at leadership and management. 

What is organizational culture? 

What are artifacts and how might they play a role in organizational change? 

What is a “S.M.A.R.T” objective?

Give an example that lays out how the objective meets each of the “S.M.A.R.T” requirements?

Assignment 2

Write a 3-page minimum response to the following question. Remember that cover sheets, reiterating the assignment, and reference pages do not count. APA style is required and you should have a minimum of 3 references. 

How can managers distinguish a motivational problem from other factors that affect an individual's performance?   

What role can managers and clinical leaders play to improve staff morale and motivation?

Assignment 3

Write a 3-page minimum response to the following question. Remember that cover sheets, reiterating the assignment, and reference pages do not count. APA style is required and you should have a minimum of 3 references. 

Describe Aristotle’s model of communication. 

How did recent communication theorists build on Aristotle’s model? 

What are the five barriers to communication, and how do you remove them? 

Briefly discuss the correlation between leaders, stakeholder groups, and organizational politics?

Assignment 4

Write a 3-page minimum response to the following question. Remember that cover sheets, reiterating the assignment, and reference pages do not count. APA style is required and you should have a minimum of 3 references.  How can managers best use the principles of effective negotiation and conflict management to resolve power struggles within health care settings, and what types of power struggles in health care settings do you believe are most amenable to using negotiation and conflict management techniques?   What are specific ways to limit the potential for power abuse in health care organizations? What specific human resource strategies and transparency mechanisms could be created within hospitals or physician practices, for example, that would help prevent any stakeholder, particularly the top leaders of an organization, from pursuing self-interested goals in suspect ways?

Assignment 5

Write a 3-page minimum response to the following question. Remember that cover sheets, reiterating the assignment, and reference pages do not count. APA style is required and you should have a minimum of 3 references. 

Take the perspective of the CEO of a large healthcare system that owns its own managed care health plan. Describe three major ways that you could improve the quality of healthcare in your organization. Critique your solutions regarding the extent to which your solution may cause other problems to surface [what kind?], and the extent to which you as the CEO should have the responsibility and power to implement these changes.

Assignment 6

Write a 3-page minimum response to the following question. Remember that cover sheets, reiterating the assignment, and reference pages do not count. APA style is required and you should have a minimum of 3 references.

This week, we are looking at strategic alliances. 

Under what circumstances would you agree with someone who said that alliances are very risky?

Which alliance motivations do you think are the most compatible with each other?   

What do you consider to be the likely stages of strategic alliance development?

Does every alliance have to go through each stage?

Assignment 7

Instructions

Week 8- Final Project--write a 15-page minimum in response to the following:

What explains the directionality of flows in health care? Patients, health workers, managerial practices?  

What are the five segments of patients who are willing to travel across borders to obtain health care?

Are there other patient segments beside these five? 

Why is there growing rivalry for inbound international patients?

Under what conditions should a hospital invest in plant and equipment to attract international patients? 

What explains the global price differential among hospitals?

Why would countries like the U.S. have 10x the charges for procedures like hip replacements?