Health and administrative information

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Overview: You have been hired by the board of directors of a rural hospital in the hope that you can convince the staff to upgrade to an overarching electronic HIS (health information system). Background: Aspen Meadows Hospital was founded in the late 1800s to support a growing coal mining industry. Eventually, the town (Small Town, […]

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MT302 Unit 5 Assignment

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Being able to understand the different types of motivational theories helps leaders to build stronger organizations. It is important to focus on employees’ motivation to provide a supportive workplace that helps propel employees towards achievement of organizational goals.

The following Course Outcomes are assessed in this assignment:

MT302-3: Analyze theories of motivation to improve employee performance.

GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English.

GEL-6.02: Incorporate outside research into an original work appropriately.

You read about motivation and were provided an opportunity to practice with motivation concepts. Now you will apply motivation concepts to a work situation. Read the fictional scenario and then address the checklist items provided below in an expository essay

Scenario (fictional):

The Timber Building Company modifies and builds portable offices and homes based on customized plans. The company has been in business 35 years and has prided itself on providing a very competitive salary and great benefits as well as retaining most of their original employees. While they originally began the company doing creative designs and one-of-a-kind housing and office buildings, much of the routine work in the factory is now done robotically. They still need a supervisor and technicians to keep the operations running, as well as the construction crew who actually deliver and construct the products on site. Although the designs might be modified slightly now, they are already in the company computer and ready to produce with some small modifications when needed. There are two main engineers, one who predominantly works on high-end mansions, and the other who predominantly works on corporate office projects from Timber’s main offices.

The CEO and president (the husband and wife team who are the founders), are the ones who meet with prospective corporate clients and negotiate the prices and building parameters. While the company used to construct low-income housing as well, the clients are now almost exclusively wealthy private clients or corporate titans. The CEO and the company president are beginning to think about retirement. They want to keep the company running, but they cannot understand why the two engineers seem unmotivated when they are receiving such competitive salaries and great benefits with 3 weeks’ vacation a year. In addition, the production line has had more problems of late, and the supervisor seems to be coming in late several times a week, as have the technicians. They are worried about the future of the company they built.

Checklist: Minimum Submission Requirements

Using critical thinking and analysis:

  • Summarize the problems at the company that are possibly affecting employee motivation and performance.
  • Analyze motivation theories as provided in your text and learning activities (providing proper attribution) to explain the engineers’ lack of motivation.
    • Name the theory or theories.
    • Define the theory or theories.
    • Explain how the theory or theories apply/applies to the scenario.
  • Analyze motivation theories as provided in your text and learning activities (providing proper attribution) to explain the supervisor’s, technicians’, and construction crew’s lack of motivation.
    • Name the theory or theories.
    • Define the theory or theories.
    • Explain how the theory or theories apply/applies to the scenario.
  • Explain how the CEO and president might better motivate employees to improve performance.
  • Do some research in the Purdue Global Library and provide a short quote with the appropriate citations from each of at least two scholarly* articles that integrate research into your analysis to provide support for your claims. These citations should have accompanying references on the separate reference page following current APA format and style. (Access current APA formatting and citation resources in the Unit 1 Reading area. For additional writing resources, see the Academic Success Center resources in the Academic Tools area of the course.)
  • Your essay should demonstrate a clear and sustained point of view.
  • Submit your 2- to 3-page expository essay with additional title and reference pages using APA formatting and citation style to the Dropbox

MT445 Unit 5 Assignment

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MT445 Unit 4 Assignment

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Before answering the following questions, review the Checklist. Then, in a separate Word document, compose a 1–2-page paper consisting of a 450-500-word expository research essay answering the following questions, including computations, based on the rule for minimizing costs of production in regard to a small business plan to minimize costs in order to increase productivity and maximize profits.

  1. Pat’s Pizza Restaurant owner incurs various economic costs of production. Explain whether each of the following is an explicit cost or an implicit cost. Which of the two costs should Pat minimize to maximize his account profit?
    1.  
      1. Payments for rented manufacturing equipment.
      2. A firm’s use of a warehouse that it owns and could rent to another firm.
      3. Wages paid to the firm’s workers.
      4. The wages the firm’s owner could earn if he/she worked for another company.
  2. Consider the following information in the table for Pat’s Pizza Restaurant and answer the questions below by using the cost minimization rule that takes into account the marginal product per dollar of inputs of production.

Item

Cost

Marginal Product of Capital

4,000

Marginal Product of Labor

100

Wage Rate

$10

Rental Price of Pizza Ovens

$500

 

  1.  
    1. Is the owner of Pat’s Pizza Restaurant minimizing costs? Explain by computing marginal productivity per dollar using the data in the table.
    2. Should he rent more ovens and hire fewer workers or rent fewer ovens and hire more workers to increase productivity and lower costs of production? Explain.
  2. Your answer must consist of a 450–500-word expository research essay.

Consider Pat’s Pizza Restaurant’s production decision in both the short-run and long-run. Pat wants to improve the productivity of the firm in the long-run. Explain the types of input costs that might be fixed in the short-run and types of costs that may be variable in the long-run. Provide examples for fixed inputs and variable inputs, as well as fixed costs and variable costs for the restaurant in the short-run. What long-run economic decisions should Pat make to increase productivity, minimize costs, and maximize profit?

Checklist:

  • This assignment should be a separate Word document, and a 1–2-page paper consisting of a 450-500-word expository research essay, in addition to the title and reference pages.
  • It must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
  • Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples where asked.
  • Your paper should provide a highly developed viewpoint and purpose.
  • Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
  • A separate page at the end of your research paper should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
  • Be sure to cite were appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA format. Review the APA formats found in the Writing Resources accessed through the Academic Success Center within the Academic Tools area of the course.
  • Review the grading rubric to ensure all points have been captured in the paper.