Medicare And Medicaid

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Initial Post Guidelines

Assume you are the HR director for the organization described in this unit’s vignette.

  • Should you work with the analyst in the sales office to improve the sales compensation program or simply take all of the work under the HR office’s control to improve the program, and why?
  • Would you recommend consolidating all the compensation functions under one operational area of the organization? Why or why not?
  • What alternative approaches might you consider to address your organization’s sales force compensation challenge? 

Explain the segmentation strategy implemented by this organization.

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Research a local health care facility or organization that has chosen a niche market to target, and address the following: 

 

Introduce the organization, and identify the overall population it serves. 

Define a niche market and what makes it so. What is the niche market for this facility? 

Explain the segmentation strategy implemented by this organization. 

Explain how the organization adapts its marketing programs to address that target. 

Do you feel that this approach is or has been effective? What tools did you use to make that decision? 

What would you have done differently? 

NOTE: You need to support your work with at least 4 academic or professional peer-reviewed sources that were published within the past 5 years.

Describe one example each for effective problem-focused, emotion-focused, and biology-focused coping mechanisms and explain why each is effective.

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The Assignment (3–5 page APA-formatted essay)

  • Describe one example each for effective problem-focused, emotion-focused, and biology-focused coping mechanisms and explain why each is effective. 
  • Describe one example each for ineffective problem-focused, emotion-focused, and biology-focused coping mechanisms and explain why each is ineffective. 
  • Explain two approaches you might use to address the most common ineffective coping mechanisms for the population you selected in Week 3.

 

 

 

 

Readings

  • Course Text: Carver, C. S. (2011). Coping. In R. J. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.), The handbook of stress science: Biology, psychology, and health (pp. 221–229). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

    Now with an understanding of how individuals experience stress and learn to cope, and the influence of stress on the body in terms of stress-related and non-stress related disease, please review Chapter 17, “Coping” from the perspective of effective coping mechanisms to manage stress within specific populations.

  • Course Text: Rook, K. S., August, K. J., & Sorkin, D. H. (2011). Social network functions and health. In R. J. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.), The handbook of stress science: Biology, psychology, and health (pp. 123–136). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. 
  • Book Chapter: Chun, C.-A., Moos, R. H., & Cronkite, R. C. (2005). Culture: A fundamental context for the stress and coping paradigm. In Wong, P. T. P., & Wong, L. C. J. (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping (pp. 29–53). New York, NY: Springer.
    Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping, 1st Edition by Wong, P.; Wong, L. Copyright 2005 by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center.
  • Article: Bittner, J. G., IV, Khan, Z., Babu, M., & Hamed, O. (2011). Stress, burnout, and maladaptive coping: Strategies for surgeon well-being. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, 96(8), 17–22.
    Stress, burnout, and maladaptive coping: Strategies for surgeon well-being by Bittner, J.G., Khan, Z., Babu, M., & Hamed, O., in Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, Vol. 96/Issue 8. Copyright 2011 by The American College of Surgeons. Reprinted by permission of The American College of Surgeons via the Copyright Clearance Center.   
  • Handout: Laureate Education, Inc. (2012). Coping in a social context. Unpublished document.
  • Handout: Laureate Education, Inc. (2012). The focus of coping. Unpublished document.
  • Web Resource: Alzheimer’s Association. (2012). Coping. Retrieved from http://www.alz.org/care/alzheimers-dementia-support-help.asp
  • Web Resource: National Cancer Institute. (n.d.). Coping with cancer: Supportive and palliative care. Retrieved from http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping

Bargaining Strategy in Major League Baseball

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Bargaining Strategy in Major League Baseball

Review Case 4: Strategy in Major League Baseball from the textbook, Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases. After reading the case, address the following prompts:

  • Assess the issues of conflict between the players and management during the history of the sport.
  • Analyze mistakes made in negotiations and the effect of mistakes on the processes and outcomes of negotiations.
  • Evaluate the interests and goals of each of the parties.
  • Analyze the best solution and strategy for all parties involved, including each party’s best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA).

Submission Details:

  • Submit your answers in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.

Please use scholarly references

book references

 

Title: Negotiation

Author: Roy J. Lewicki; David M. Saunders; Bruce Barry

Edition:7 Copyright Date:2015-01-01 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education ISBN:9780078029448