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Assignment 2: Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism
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.
Prepare a twenty (20) slide presentation in which you:
- Specify the key steps that healthcare managers should follow in preparing their organizations for a potential bioterrorism attack.
- 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.
- Evaluate the specific preparation steps in the preparedness plan of a healthcare facility of your choosing.
- Suggest at least one (1) possible improvement to promote early detection and enhanced surveillance.
- Use at least five (5) 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.
Fin 550 week 4 assignment Assignment 1: Portfolio Management
Assignment 1: Portfolio Management
Due Week 4 and worth 200 points
Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you:
- Analyze the relationship between risk and rate of return, and suggest how you would formulate a portfolio that will minimize risk and maximize rate of return.
- Formulate an argument for investment diversification in an investor portfolio.
- Address how stocks, bonds, real estate, metals, and global funds may be used in a diversified portfolio. Provide evidence in support of your argument.
- Evaluate the concept of the efficient frontier and how you will use it to determine an asset portfolio for a specified investor.
- Consider the economic outlook for the next year in order to recommend the ideal portfolio to maximize the rate of return for the short term and long term. Explain the key differences between the short and long term.
- Use four (4) external resources to support your work. 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:
- Evaluate portfolio performance and develop recommendations to improve a firm’s investment performance.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in corporate investment analysis.
- Write clearly and concisely about corporate investment analysis using proper writing mechanics
LASA 2 Assignment—Workforce 2020 Executive Report
Both leadership and organizational strategy in the next decade will see major trends affecting the way organizations conduct business. These include the deployment of more technology to extend reach and access, increased globalization, increased diversity, more focus on extended supply chains, and a more nomadic workforce. In this assignment, you will consider these trends and analyze how they may impact your selected organization and what actions are necessary to get ready to address these trends.
You have been appointed by your organization (either a hypothetical one or one you are familiar with) to prepare its Workforce 2020 executive report.
The report should be as detailed as possible for the CEO of your organization. That means it should include the key points of your research, analysis, and findings. The report should also contain examples of specific application to your company in a clear, concise, and informative document.
In Module 4, you began your research on Workforce 2020. In this module, you will expand on the work you did in Module 4. Take Module 4’s paper, and incorporate the items below into your work. Be sure to use the module readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, including federal guidelines. Select at least 3–4 scholarly resources for use in this assignment.
Complete the following:
- Analyze your organization in its present form. Explain your organization’s structure, workforce diversity, market/customer diversity, and communications technology.
- Forecast future trends. Identify the economic, social, demographic, and workforce parameters that are expected to be in the U.S. in the year 2020. Explain how those trends will or will not be reflected in your organization. Consider addressing the following:
- What are the general workforce trends?
- How will these trends impact your industry?
- What are the general trends in leadership/management that are impacting your organization?
- Synthesize data and recommend changes needed for the future. Identify and recommend leader, organizational, and workforce trends that must be considered for change in the larger macro environment (for example, advances in technology or globalization) in your organization. Identify related outcomes for each specific topic: Consider addressing the following:
- What leadership actions should the organization take?
- What competencies will be needed?
- What does the organization need to do to be prepared?
To conduct a holistic assessment of your selected organization and the challenges and opportunities it faces in addressing the noted trends, consider some of the concepts listed below as you develop your recommendations for the organization. It is not necessary to include all the concepts, but you should include 2–3 of them to do a thorough analysis. For example, leadership models and diversity management are likely to be pivotal areas for the organization. You could talk about the environment trends that were noted in the beginning of this assignment and then discuss how leadership practices and approaches in your selected organization may have to change to meet or address those trends.
- Analyze how the following concepts apply to your organization:
- Diversity management
- Leadership models
- Ethics
- Decision-making models
- Problem solving
- Conflict management processes
Ensure that your paper includes the following:
- An integrated report with an introduction and summary
- A set of recommendations that will enable the organization to meet the expected challenges of 2020
- Trends in your own organization
- 3–4 credible, cited sources supporting your projections
Support your assertions using the selected scholarly resources.
Your final product will be in a Word document and be approximately 12–15 pages in length and utilize 5–7 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
By Wednesday, June 29, 2016, deliver your assignment.
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Content Knowledge: Understanding Communicates understanding of the organizations structure. |
Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic. Response reflects understanding of the nature of the specific topic within the discipline and its applications in contemporary times. Response provides necessary details and specific examples. |
/100 pts. |
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Content Knowledge: Application Component 1 Communicates the ability to explain how economic, social, demographic, and workforce trends will be reflected in an organization. |
Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge. Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples. Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real world contexts. Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature . |
/40 pts. |
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Content Knowledge: Application Component 2 Communicates the ability to recommend leader, organizational, and workforce trends to be considered in the larger macro environment, and Identify related outcomes for each specific topic. |
Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge . Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples. Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real world contexts. Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature. |
/100 pts. |
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Written Communication/Personal Effectiveness Conveys through written word understanding and application of the essential assignment components. |
Writing is concise and clear in content, language use, grammar, organization, and sentence structure. Writing is free of major grammatical and usage errors. |
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Assignment 2: The Application Paper
Assignment 2: The Application Paper
By Wednesday, December 23, 2015, using the textbook and Argosy Online Library, write a 750-word paper using APA standards that includes discussion of the following:
- Describe an example of a television program that you believe clearly displays social deviance, and explain why you specifically selected it.
- In this television program, how are people “labeled” as socially deviating from the expected social norms, and who does this labeling?
- Analyze the deviance, using terms such as primary deviance, secondary deviance, retrospective labeling, and stigma.
- Apply Durkheim’s four functions of deviance to the deviant actions in the television program. What purpose(s) does the deviance play?
Please post your completed paper to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
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| Described a television show that displays social deviance. |
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| Identified the people labeled as socially deviant and who labeled them as such. |
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| Analyzed the deviance using the appropriate terminology. Applied Durkheim’s four functions of deviance. |
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| Related essay writings to the concepts and theories discussed in the textbook and outside resources. |
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| Used correct spelling and grammar and appropriate APA format. |
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Modern Book Distribution
1. Modern Book Distribution, Inc. Case Study Evaluation (20 points). Richard Guy, CEO of Modern Book Distribution, Inc. (MBD) scanned the “Executive Summary” of the consulting report he had just received. Guy saw the report was filled with the latest buzzwords and hot concepts: Establish cross docking facilities for high-volume deliveries to large customers…centralize storage operations to decrease safety stock levels…leverage point-of-sale data to move toward a pull distribution strategy…Guy was familiar with all of these phases and concepts at a superficial level, of course – anybody who occasionally picked up The Wall Street Journal or Business Week would be. He was less sure, however, if the consultants were trying to dazzle him with fads or if the kind of radical operating changes that were being proposed in the report would help to position MBD for the future.
Founded 80 years ago, MBD had been for many years one of the largest book distributors in the country. From its seven regional warehouses, MBD services major bookstore chains and smaller independent booksellers throughout the country. The company had continuously strived to improve its service levels and operating efficiency, and it was considered the most efficient book distributor in the industry. Using advanced forecasting techniques to control inventory levels and technologically advanced warehouses to control operating expenses. MBD shipped virtually all of the orders it received within two days from its stock of nearly 500,000 books, the largest in the industry.
The bookselling industry, however, had been changing dramatically, and Guy realized that MBD would have to make changes to remain a book distribution powerhouse. In particular, two relatively new types of retailers were becoming more and more dominant in the industry: large superstores and online booksellers. Both of these categories of retailers presented new and unique challenges to their distributors.
In the past MBD had interacted primarily with the superstores through large regional distribution centers (DCs) that the superstores maintained. In general MBD had shipped to the DCs consolidated orders of many different titles bound ultimately for many different stores. As these superstores learned from the experiences of large retailers in other industries, they started to demand new kinds of services from their distributors. For example, some retailers had started to strongly encourage MBD to ship directly to stores, bypassing the DCs. In addition, as the industry consolidated, these huge superstores were developing more leverage with their distributors. They used this leverage to force the distributors to accept lower and lower margins.
On-line booksellers presented an entirely different set of challenges to Guy and the managers at MBD. Initially, these retailers kept no inventory at hand. Instead, they took orders and relayed them to distributors like MBD, who delivered the books to the retailers for repacking and shipment. Recently, the large on-line retailers had started moving toward a new business model: they established their own distribution centers where they kept inventory and handled packaging and shipment of books directly to the end customers.
Guy realized that these industry changes could provide opportunities and challenges for his company. In particular, the new business model developed by some of the on-line retailers, in which they established their own warehouses, may cut MBD’s profit margins. Clearly, if MBD was to maintain its reputation as one of the nation’s leading book distributors, it would have to start doing things differently.
Furthermore, he had the consultant’s report, filled with recommendations and designs for new distribution systems. Guy knew that he and his management team would have to develop an understanding of these issues in order to properly assess the consultant’s suggestions. Based on the case, answer the following questions:
a. Should MBD implement a push strategy? A pull strategy? A push-pull strategy? What would it require to implement the strategy? What is the impact?
b. What distribution strategies are appropriate for MBD’s businesses? What questions should MBD management ask when assessing these strategies?
c. How can MBD benefit from changes in the book distribution strategy?
d. What are the advantages to MBD in having fewer warehouses and a more centralized operation? More warehouses and a more decentralized operation?
2. Consider a manager developing a logistics strategy. Discuss specific situations for which the best approach would be to: (20 points)
a. Employ internal logistics expertise.
b. Acquire a company with this expertise.
c. Develop a strategy, and then employ the specific suppliers to carry out well-defined portions of the strategy.
d. Develop the strategy with a third-party logistics provider.
3. According to Bill Paulk, IBM’s vice president of e-marketplaces, “IBM has saved about $1.7 billion since 1993 by being able to divulge sensitive price and inventory information over a private exchange built for 25,000 suppliers and customers.” As the host of the exchange, the company helped defray the cost of connecting suppliers. The payoff: On-time delivery to customers soared from about 50 percent to close to 90 percent, “which helped justify the cost,” Paulk says. In 1999, IBM invested in E2open, a consortia-based e-marketplace for the electronics industry. Why do you think IBM needs both a private exchange and a consortia based e-marketplace? (20 points)
4. You are the CEO of a small electronics manufacturing firm that is about to develop a global strategy. (20 points)
a. Would you prefer a speculative strategy, a hedge strategy, or a flexible strategy?
b. Why would you prefer the strategy that you selected?
c. Would your answer change if you were the CEO of a large electronics firm?
d. Why would your answer change or not change if you were the CEO of a large electronics firm?
5. Discuss how supply chain management decisions impact the ability to excel in certain dimensions. Specifically consider: (20 points)
a. Conformance to requirements
b. Product selection
c. Price and brand
d. Value-added services
e. Relationships and experiences