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watch and read the following material provided, in my university account

then….

select a provided ethical scenario or choose one from section IV of Thinking Critically.

Analyze your chosen scenario from a critical thinking perspective.

• What is the moral responsibility of all participants?
• What are the stakeholders’ moral failings?
• What ideals or obligations are in conflict?
• What is the best outcome, given the consequences?

Write a brief reflection of your analysis by describing the relationship between critical thinking and ethics.

Note. Remember that this should be based on critical thinking, not on your personal opinion.

Please note that the video “Blood Money” contains graphic content which might be disturbing to some viewers.

#2 paper-

Critical Thinking and Ethics

HOMEWORK 1 due 10/6 at 8pm

Reflect on the connection between reading and writing. What are some potential barriers to facilitating extended discussions of text meaning and interpretation?  How will you overcome them?

What is critical literacy? How is it important outside of the classroom?

HOMEWORK 2 10/7 at 9pm

Select a grade level and research critical literacy instructional strategies (looking at both reading and writing).  Chose a text from Appendix B of the Common Core standards.  From your selections and research, create a chart that includes 10 strategies that you can use to help your student construct meaning through critical literacy using the text to illustrate the strategy.

Describe an activity to be used with each strategy on your chart.

HA530-4: Research compensation and benefits options within the healthcare industry.

Instructions

For this Assignment you will need to conduct an interview with a compensation specialist in any health care setting. Give a brief description of the health care setting and the person you interviewed for this Assignment.  During the interview utilize at a minimum the questions below. Provide additional substantive information related to the topic. You will summarize your results in a written report. (3–5 pages in length not including the Cover Page and Bibliography, APA formatted, Cover Page, and Bibliography) and submit it through it through the course Dropbox.

Requirements

You may also interview managers that do not have a compensation specialist in their health care setting. Questions to include:

• How do you determine wages and salary levels for your employees?  • How do you ensure that the pay you offer is adequate to attract the types of employees you need?  • How do you ensure that pay is perceived as fair?  • Do job applicants or employees ever negotiate for pay?  • How do you handle the negotiation process?  • Do you ever pay hiring bonuses?  • Have you ever thought of changing pay systems? Why?  • Do you offer any incentives to your employees?  • What are they and how do they work?

Identify a position you would be interested within your career goal. Locate the salary information for this position and contrast it within a geographic location or within various healthcare settings. You may contract professional associations, check out websites, review employment ads, check out the University Career Center, or call compensation specialists at companies that hire health care staff.

Individual Portion: 3-4 pages

Select the long-term care facility of your choice from any currently operational U.S. long-term care facility, and research the strategic plan it has in place.

• Provide a brief overview of the composition of its strategic plan.
• In addition, pay particular attention to the mechanisms it has in place for evaluating and selecting strategic alternatives.
• If none are readily visible, analyze the strategies in an effort to make educated assumptions on what tools might have been used, or what you feel should have been used (i.e., needs assessments, demand analyses, etc.).
• Explain which strategies were/are used, and the reasons for the use of such tools.
• In addition, do not forget to use citations and references throughout your paper.

Group Portion: 5 slides with speaker notes

Once the individual group members have completed their individual portions, the group will meet to discuss their findings. The group will then meet to discuss what they learned about the mechanisms used for strategy formulation in their U.S. long-term care facilities.

• The group will then prepare a PowerPoint presentation that presents the group’s thoughts on the best ways to formulate and evaluate strategies.
• In your presentation, provide examples from your research on actual strategic plans from U.S. long-term care facilities and how the facilities formulated and evaluated strategies.
• Be sure to conclude your presentation with your group’s recommendations for what your long-term care facility should use to formulate and evaluate possible strategies.
• Be sure to include citations and references in your answer.
• ______________________________________________________________________________________

Discussion Board 3- 4 paragraphs

When formulating strategies, there are 5 categories of strategy formulation available to utilize: directional strategies, adaptive, market entry, competitive, and implementation strategies. To be effective, the strategies must be formulated in a specific order.

• Why is it so important to formulate strategies in this specific order?
• Provide an example of each category of strategy formulation for discussion.
• Do you feel that one type of strategy formulation is more effective than another for an acute care hospital? Why or why not?

Assignment Instructions

ABSOLUTELY NO PLAGIARISM!!! 

Follow the Rubric at the bottom!!! 

Essay topic: Reflecting on the concepts you have studied in the course, discuss the legal and ethical issues surrounding Solyndra, the California based solar panel manufacturer.  You will need to research the company through the American Military University library. Your essay should include the following:

Analyse the social construction of racial and ethnic identities in the South African case

Write a 2,500 word essay on the social construction and ethic identities found in South Africa.

literature review: How has forced affected nations in reaction to terrorist attacks?

I will provide the organization and material information after acceptance of handshake.

Access the information contained in your selected organization’s balance sheet and income statement to calculate the following:

• Liquidity ratios
  • Current ratio
  • Acid-test, or quick, ratio
  • Receivables turnover
  • Inventory turnover
• Profitability ratios
  • Asset turnover
  • Profit margin
  • Return on assets
  • Return on common stockholders’ equity
• Solvency ratios
  • Debt to total assets
  • Times interest earned

Show your calculations for each ratio.

Create a horizontal and vertical analysis for the balance sheet and the income statement.

Write a 350- to 700-word memo to the CEO of your selected organization in which you discuss your findings from your ratio calculations and your horizontal and vertical analysis. In your memo, address the following questions:

• What do the liquidity, profitability, and solvency ratios reveal about the financial position of the company?
• Which users may be interested in each type of ratio?
• What does the collected data reveal about the performance and position of the company?

Throughout this course, you will conduct a strategy audit for a selected company. Begin this assignment by selecting an organization for your course project activities.

In this module, you will assess the product portfolio of your selected business unit by analyzing the value proposition, market position, and competitive advantage of its products and services.

Part I: Interview

To gain an understanding of your selected business unit’s market position, value proposition, and competitive advantage, conduct at least one interview with a mid-level or senior manager.

Use the interview to solicit the manager’s perception of his or her business unit’s product portfolio. Be sure to discuss the points of analysis listed below in Part II of this assignment.

Part II: Analysis

Based on the information gathered from the interview, analyze the product portfolio of your selected business unit. In your analysis, identify the business unit of your company and the product(s) and service(s) on which you will focus.

Make sure to include the following points in your analysis:

• Describe the target customer for the product/service in terms of relevant characteristics that impact the marketing strategy, including location (how it should be reached) and buying habits.
• Identify each customer segment’s specific wants and needs. Explain why they buy your company’s product or service, or a competing product or service.
• Justify how well your product/service satisfies customer wants and needs. Identify any wants and needs that are not met by your product/service.
• Analyze the position of your product/service in relation to the competition. Identify the main competitors. Explain how your product differs in terms of features, function, quality, price, availability, brand image, and the like. Explain why this differentiation is important to your customers.
• Describe the source of competitive advantage for your product. Evaluate how sustainable is this source of advantage.
• Assess the long-term sustainability of the source of differentiation and competitive advantage.

Include appropriate information from the interview in support of your answer.

Part III: Matrix

In comparing your product/service to that of the competition, construct a simple matrix in the following way:

• List the key customer wants or needs on the left-hand vertical axis.
• List the competing products on the top horizontal axis, starting with your product/service on the left.
• For each customer want or need, indicate how well each competing product satisfies the need using a scale of 0–2.
  • 0 = need not met
  • 1 = need partially met
  • 2 = need fully met

This is a simple but effective visual mechanism for comparing the relative position of multiple offerings from competing sources.

Write a 3-page paper in Word format and attach the matrix as an appendix. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc. For example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M1_A3.doc.

Deliver your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria