Describe if the change is reactive or proactive.

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Organizational Change

Find a company that went through a big change within the last 12 months. The change may be a merger, buyout, downsizing, expansion, new marketing strategy, culture change within the company, change in CEO, or any other type of change. The company can be local or international.Three workers in modern office at desks working on computers.

Analyze the company and then in a PowerPoint® presentation, with voice-over, address the following:

  • Describe the company’s history and identify the change.
  • Select the type of change – adaptive, innovative – or radically innovative, and explain your rational for your selection.
  • Describe if the change is reactive or proactive.
    • Ex: Reactive type of change – BP’s reactive approach to the April 2010 explosion led to the loss of 11 lives and is the largest oil spill in US waters.
    • Ex: Proactive – Walt Disney investing $1 Billion in wearable technology – wristbands that interact with scanner throughout the them park, which it hopes will revolutionize the way visitors spend money at Walt Disney World.
  • Explain how the change has or will impact the company (positively, negatively, or both).
  • Conclusion – provide any recommendations or ideas that can help the company overcome the change.

Requirements

Your presentation should be approximately 5 slides. Have approximately 4–6 bullets per slide, and be sure to include a reference slide to show your research and at minimum you need to have two scholarly sources. Include graphics or animations to enhance your presentation.

For assistance in creating a PowerPoint® presentation with voice-over, review the information on the Video Presentation Guide.

Explain the concepts of risk management in the health care industry.

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Imagine you work as a risk management supervisor at a local health care facility. You have been asked by leadership to prepare a presentation for the stakeholders on the importance of risk management.

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (not counting the title or reference slides) with detailed speaker notes of at least 100 words per slide. Please be unique.

Include the following in your presentation:

  • Explain the concepts of risk management in the health care industry.
  • Explain factors that influence risk management in the health care industry.
  • Explain the relationship between risk management and quality management.
  • Analyze the information and information technology methods needed to make risk-management decisions in the health care industry.
  • Analyze key risk management tools in the health care industry.
  • Analyze challenges in making risk management decisions.

Cite at least 4 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.

Format your presentation according to APA guidelines.

Finally, what are two arguments against Theaetetus’s first definition?

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The first draft is a partial draft, just to get you to start writing.  It needs to be 3 pages long, double spaced.

The final draft should be at least 5 pages double spaced.  But it could be up to 8.  Just be sure that you answer the question in a way that a peer, who has not read these books or been part of our class, could understand.

Present one of the two alternative conceptions of the soul (presented by Cebes or Simmias) in the Phaedo, be sure to explain how it supports the claim that the soul is mortal, and then present the basic structure of Socrates’s response to it.  What is Thrasymachus’s view of justice?  And what is Glaucon’s reformulated defense of it?  Be sure to talk about how it builds the defense of Thrasymachus’s inversion of value on the point of common agreement between Thrasymachus and popular opinion.  How does Theaetetus’s first definition of knowledge get filled out by the addition of Protagoras’s mensura and Heraclitus’s doctrine of flux?  Be sure to speak about how they ensure the fact that knowledge is of what is and that knowledge in unerring.  Finally, what are two arguments against Theaetetus’s first definition?

Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.

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Imagine that you are the clinic manager of an urgent care center. Recently, your center has seen an increase in complaints regarding long wait times, inadequate or incomplete information from staff during visits, and the relatively small number of insurance types accepted at the facility.

Write a 2-3 page paper in which you:

  1. Examine at least three (3) examples of quality initiatives that could increase patient satisfaction and potentially reduce healthcare cost. Support your response with examples of the successful application your chosen quality initiatives.
  2. Defend your position on the decision to accept Medicare or Medicaid as potential pay sources for your urgent care center. Provide support with at least two (2) examples that illustrate your position.
  3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • 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:

  • Analyze the impact of healthcare financing and health insurance on healthcare access, quality, and cost.
  • Determine the factors that affect healthcare quality in healthcare organizations.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare policy, law, and ethics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about healthcare policy and law using proper writing mechanics.