Option #1: Case Study Analysis: New Kind of Structure

Read and respond to a case study to demonstrate your understanding of, and ability to apply, the concepts of organizational design and culture.

review a case study of Pfizer in the 9th edition of the course textbook.

Write an integrated essay that addresses the following items:

1. Describe and evaluate how Pfizer is allowing employees to be more productive with its PfizerWorks.
2. Analyze an organization for which you work, or are familiar with, by considering the structural implications—good and bad—that the PfizerWorks approach would have in the specifics of productivity. (Think in terms of the six organizational design elements.)
3. Compare this arrangement with other types of organizations (including nonprofit, volunteer, etc.) and whether this structure would work.
4. Discuss the global aspect of adapting a structure similar to Pfizer and how the culture of the organization may, or may not, be impacted.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• 3-4 pages in length
• Formatted according to APA Requirements
• Contain a minimum of two scholarly sources.

Assignment 2: Bioterrorism 

Due Week 6 and worth 300 points

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (2002), the nation’s capacity to respond to bioterrorism depends largely on the ability of clinicians and public health officials to detect, manage, and effectively communicate in advance of and during a bioterrorism event.

Prepare a narrated presentation, using PowerPoint or other similar software, detailing a bioterrorism-related issue, analyzing the threat(s) that the bioterrorism-related issue poses.

In preparation for your presentation, research and review at least one (1) healthcare facility’s preparedness plan. Note: A video to help students record narration for the PowerPoint presentation is available in the course shell.

Prepare a twenty (20) slide presentation in which you:

1. Specify the key steps that healthcare managers should follow in preparing their organizations for a potential bioterrorism attack.
2. Outline at least two (2) possible early detection and surveillance strategies, and investigate the main ways those strategies may prompt timely interventions to effectively treat and diminish the impact of a bioterrorism threat.
3. Evaluate the specific preparation steps in the preparedness plan of a healthcare facility of your choosing.
4. Suggest at least one (1) possible improvement to promote early detection and enhanced surveillance.
5. Use at least four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years), quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Apply decision making models to address difficult management situations.
• Develop policies that ensure compliance of healthcare delivery systems with current legislation.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in Health Care Operations Management.

For this assignment, you will be building on the problem definition developed inModule 4 and develop a policy proposal for advocacy and adoption.

Tasks:

Create a 10- to 12-page policy proposal, utilizing a minimum of five scholarly sources in your research. Address the following in your proposal:

• State the social problem you wish to solve.
• Analyze the policy development cycle and the influence of stakeholders throughout the process.
• Discuss how the policy development cycle and the influence of stakeholders will be used to effect social change for your identified problem.
• As a human services professional, examine your role in policy advocacy and coalition building for improving human services.
• Describe all of the resources available to support your policy and how you would organize them.
• Identify the steps you will take, including the use of social media, to build a coalition around the policy, highlighting your role in the process.
• Determine a list of the different constituents you would engage to advance your policy goal.
• Define the specific policy action to be pursued.
• Develop the criteria for measuring the effectiveness of the policy for society if adopted.

Submission Details:

• Save your paper in a Microsoft Word document named M5_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and by Monday, February 22, 2016, upload it to the M5 Assignment 2 RA 2 Dropbox.

50 questuions 90min ONLINE NEED ASAP

Absolute and Comparative Advantage

Definitions of Economics, Scarcity, efficiency

Production possibilities frontier

Factors that affect shifts in demand and supply

characteristics of perfect competition and monopoly

financial markets (bonds, etc…will discuss in detail this week)

elasticity of demand, elasticity of income

federal reserve bank

monetary system

unemployment

macroeconomic equation Y=C+I +G+NX

Select a Fortune Top 50 Company, then select a firm within that company.

• Discuss which of Porter’s Business Strategies this firm follows to stay competitive.
• Explain why you think it is the best business strategy to take, or should the Company change to another business strategy.

Please provid

Identify a Propitious Niche that a specific firm has in business today. Name the firm and its product or service that is the Propitious Niche. Explain why that Propitious Niche exists. Discuss if this Propitious Niche is being challenged by other competitors.

 

250 words, APA 6th edition, reference, 100% original work

 

• 6.8.1 Network Protocols
• 6.8.2 Protocol Facts
• Once complete, answer the following questions:
  • What is meant by a protocol?
  • List and describe the most common protocol suites.
  • List and describe the co

 

NEED IT TONIGHT

 

 

Think of something about yourself you’ve been wanting to change. What is it? Has a fixed mindset prevented you from doing this? Think about it from a growth mindset and explain how you would make this change.

 

 

 

Think of a time you faced an important opportunity or challenge with a fixed mindset. What were your thoughts and worries about

“Information Systems in a Long-Term Care Facility”  Please respond to the following:

 

• Imagine that you are the administrator of a midsize long-term care facility with an outdated information system. You are tasked with planning and managing the integration of a new database into the existing system.
• Suggest two (2) potential problems that could occur with the integration. Recommend one (1) measure that you as the administrator could take in order to make sure that the integration does not compromise your facility’s current information system.
• Assess the main possible Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations that your facility risks by having a third party monitor the integrated database, and recommend at least one (1) method of preventing or addressing each identified violation. Provide a rationale for your response.

***Directions***

It is important to cite your resources concisely and precisely, read your chapters and try to answer these questions correctly, it is mandatory to use at least two resources in your text and in reference page, follow APA style format and create your own ideas.

Topics: FAIL-SAFE programming, Classes, One dimensional arrays, methods, sorting, searching, loops and selection

 

 

 

In this assignment you will implement a shopping list class that allows a person to create and manipulate a shopping list. At any given time the list may be partially filled, and your program must keep track of how many values are ACTUALLY in the shopping list, versus the size of your array that holds the list.

 

 

 

For this assignment you will create 2files.

 

 

 

1. Class ShoppingList that implements the list, the UML diagram for the class is on the next page.
2. Class ShoppingListException, and exception class that extends one of the builtin Runtime Exception classes to trigger exceptions for your ShoppingList class.
3. You will complete a main program (tester) that creates a shopping list and interacts with the user to add items to the list, delete items, sort and print the list. Your main program must display a menu to the user, allow the user to input their choice of operation, read in the choice, evaluate the option selected, and call the appropriate methods from class ShoppingList. This menu should be in a loop that allows the user to make multiple selections. NOTE: your main method should practice FAIL SAFE PROGRAMMING. This means that your application should protect the user from inappropriately using the ShoppingLIst class. Your main program should not allow the ShoppingList class to throw an exception that would terminate the program.

 

Each item in the menu should correspond to a method in class ShoppingList. The menu options should be:

 

 

 

 

 

1) Create a Shopping List: This option prompts the user for the maximum number of items on the list and then calls the constructor for ShoppingList, creating a new shopping list (potentially overwriting an old list). NOTE the maximum give must be >0;

 

2) Add at End: This option prompts the user for the item to be added and then calls the correct method from ShoppingList. NOTE: an item cannot be added if the list is full

 

3) Add at Position: This option prompts the user for an item name and the position in the list where they want to add the item. The position should be between 1 and the current size of the list plus one. It will then call the correct method from ShoppingList.

 

4) Delete at End: This option deletes the last item in the list by calling the correct method from ShoppingList. Note it the list is empty this option should print an error.

 

5) Delete at position: This option deletes the item at a specific location in the list. This option must prompt the user for the position to delete which must be between 1 and the current size of the list. It will then call the correct method from ShoppingList.

 

6) Display At: This option prompts the user for a position and then displays the item in the list at that position. It should print an error if an invalid position is given, or if the list is empty. It will call the correct method from ShoppingList.

 

7) Display List: calls the correct method from ShoppingList to print the entire contents of the list, a message should be printed if the list is empty.

 

8) Sort List: calls the correct method from ShoppingList to sort the contents of the list.

 

9) Find Item: This option prompts the user for the name of an item and then calls the correct method from ShoppingList to determine if the item is on the list.

 

10) Quit: This method exits the command loop allowing the application to exit.

 

 

 

Class ShoppingList

 

On the following page is the UML specification for the ShoppingList class.

 

 

 

1. ShoppingList( int maxSize): This constructor creates an empty list of the specified maximum size. An exception should be thrown if the maximum size given is <= 0. The current size of the list should be set to zero.

 

1. getCurrentSize(): This method returns the number of items currently in the list.
2. getMaxSize(): this method returns the maximum number of items the list can hold.
3. insertAtEnd( String newItem): This method will add an item to the end of an existing list. This method will increment the number of items in the list. If the list is full, the method should throw an exception.
4. insertAtPosition( String newItem, int position) This method will add a new value to an existing list at a specified position. The position given must be between 1 and the current size of the list+1. If an invalid position is given or the list is full and exception should be thrown. If the item can be added, the current size of the list must be incremented. Note: When adding items into the middle of an existing list other items must be shifted over.
5. deleteAtEnd() This method removes the item at the end of the list, by setting the list element to null, and then decrementing the current size. Before removing the item, this method should display the item to the user and ask if they really want to delete the item, if the user inputs yes the item should be deleted, if they enter no the deletion should be cancelled.
6. deleteAtPosition( int position) This method removes and item at a specified position. The position given must be between 1 and the current size of the list. If the list is empty or an invalid position is given an exception should be thrown. Before removing the item, this method should display the item to the user and ask if they really want to delete the item, if the user inputs yes the item should be deleted, if they enter no the deletion should be cancelled.
7. displayItemAt( int position) This method will print the item at a specified position. The position given should be between 1 and the currentSize. If an invalid position is given an exception should be thrown.
8. displayList(): This method prints all items on the list. REMEMBER there may be fewer items in the list than elements in the array.
9. sortList: This method sorts the contents of the array in ascending order, you may implement any sorting algorithm you learned in CS110 . YOU MAY NOT USE THE SORT METHOD FROM CLASS ARRAYS TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION.
10. findItem( String itemName): This method will search the list for the item. IF a match is found this method prints that the item is in the list and prints the position of the item within the list. If it is not found an appropriate message should be displayed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error Handling

 

 

 

Your program should perform all reasonable error checking. Your main program should NOT allow your Shopping list class to be used incorrectly. That means the main program should validate all numeric values that the user inputs for correctness. You must validate maximum sizes, and positions. Also you should provide an error handling routine to validate that the user correctly inputs integers when prompted.