Stakeholders are individuals or groups that have an active interest in an organization. Stakeholders and stakeholder groups typically include employees, vendors, communities, government agencies, customers, investors, and lenders. Different stakeholders have different interests, attitudes, and priorities. Effective communication ensures that they receive relevant information and develop a positive attitude to your organization in the scenario.
As the regional marketing director of a theme park, you are in the process of designing a phased marketing strategy for reopening all parks after a safety incident. You have already helped other marketing directors understand the importance of having a good marketing mix to inspire customer loyalty; now help them with a stakeholder communication plan. Develop a communication plan that will ensure stakeholders understand the steps the organization is taking to benefit them.
Three aspects to consider for effective stakeholder communication are the interest of stakeholders in the organization, the impact of the reopening decision on stakeholders, and the relevance of information going to stakeholders.
Prompt
Complete the communication plan for the stakeholders of the organization in the course scenario. Refer to the Exemplar Communication Grid for an example of how the template can be used.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Identify the three key stakeholders (a minimum of one internal and two external groups) in the reopening of the park and describe each stakeholder’s interest in the organization.
Internal Stakeholders
Employees
Departments
Management
External Stakeholders
Customers
Suppliers
Lenders
Communities
Use the Communication Grid Template to complete this step.
Identify and analyze the information about each stakeholder group and their need for communication. Use the Communication Grid Template to complete this step. Consider the following points:
Assessment of the impact on stakeholder (low, medium, or high) and explain why.
Information needs and communication methods of the stakeholder
Identify two crisis communication methods for communicating with stakeholders.
What forms of communication can be used to quickly communicate with internal stakeholder groups?
What forms of communication can be used to communicate with external stakeholder groups?
What to Submit
Submit a 1- to 2-page Word document, which includes your responses and the completed Communication Grid Template, using double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Your completed Communication Grid Template should be included within your paper, following the Introduction.
As a health care manager, advocating for change through policy analysis is essential to address systemic issues, improve patient care, and support sustainable health care practices. Here’s how you can approach this effectively:
Engage in Evidence-Based Research: Collect data and analyze the…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….As a health care manager, it is important to understand and explore methods to advocate for change within the industry through policy analysis. It is also important to be able to navigate the leadership structure of your organization, in order to understand how to structure a proposal for change and move it through the approval process.
Identify Key Issues and Objectives: Begin by identifying pressing issues within your organization or the wider health care system. Clearly define what you want to achieve—whether it’s improving access to care, reducing costs, enhancing quality, or addressing workforce shortages.
Understand Policy Frameworks: Familiarize yourself with local, state, and national health policies. Understanding these frameworks helps in aligning your objectives with existing policies or pinpointing gaps where new policies may be needed.
Select a health care organization with which you work or are familiar. “Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas”
Assume you are the director of operations for your selected health care organization.
Review your leadership structure and identify a process for which you can propose a policy change. Determine how that proposal would navigate through leadership to get approved.
Identify a policy in your organization that you think could be created or amended to improve organizational governance, operations, or compliance with federal or state regulations.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word executive summary that outlines your policy proposal ideas in which you do all the following:
Provide an analysis of how your policy change would improve the organization.
Evaluate what changes in the organization would need to be made to implement the policy change.
Explain how you would advocate for your policy change while using the approval processes in your organization.
Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
THIS ASSIGNMENT HAS 2 PARTS / PLEASE LABEL EACH PART SEPARATELY WITH REFERENCES WHEN COMPLETED******
PART 1- DISCUSSION Module 4 – (SHEILA)- Empowering Employees
Discuss the corporate culture of your organization (COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY). In your answer include how the company empowers its employees. (Remember empowerment incorporates a number of things).
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Your initial post should be at least 150 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
PART 2- ASSIGNMENT Module 4- (SHEILA)- Implementing New Strategies
Explain why implementing a new or different strategy calls for managers to identify the resource requirements of each new strategic initiative and then consider whether the current pattern of resources allocation and the budgets of the various subunits are suitable.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Assignment should be 3 pages, formatted and cited in current APA style, and incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
For this assignment, you will be taking on the role of marketing manager for the organization that you researched in Unit VI. Within that role, you will need to present the marketing plan that you completed in Unit VI to the marketing team. This will require no additional research, but you will be compiling your content into a PowerPoint presentation and subsequent video. The items below should be included in your presentation.
· Introduction: Include a brief introduction of the company.
· Competitive Analysis: Provide a comparison of the company against two or three competitors.
· Marketing Strategies: Include an examination of all four Ps (product, price, place, and promotion). This should include the product and service, pricing, distribution/place, and both traditional and digital marketing strategies.
· Competitive Advantage: Address whether the company holds a competitive advantage in each of the areas of the four Ps.
· Ethical Stance of Company: Present the company’s ethical stance, which can include topics such as how they have created an ethical culture, social responsibility or corporate social responsibility (CSR), or any other topics related to ethical behavior within the organization.
· Conclusion: Provide recommendations for this company with respect to future marketing strategies, remembering to include topics involving all four Ps.
The PowerPoint must meet the criteria below.
· Must be at least 12 slides in length (not counting the title slide).
· Include speaker notes in order to further explain the information on each slide.
· If outside sources are used, please follow APA Style when creating citations and references.
For this assignment, you will be taking a more thorough look into your leadership self-assessment results that you reflected on in Module One. This assignment will help in the creation of your personal development plan, which will be submitted in Module Six.
Scenario
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. The organization has been in business since 1999 and employs over 350 people in its Tampa, Florida, headquarters and three plant locations across the Southwest. While the business is currently based in the United States, the organization is exploring ways to move into Canadian markets within the next three years. This year’s employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices were rated lower, while some practices were rated higher. The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) met with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees that the company’s focus should be on both specific leadership development areas perceived as strengths and on those rated as areas for improvement, primarily regarding social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders.
To help this initiative, your manager, the vice president of leadership and learning, asked you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit that can be used throughout the organization. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment, and now you will be taking a closer look at these results to produce a self-assessment report. You plan on exploring how this self-assessment would make a beneficial contribution to a personal development plan and adaptive leadership toolkit, which will help to resolve the leadership challenges the organization is currently facing.
Prompt
For this assignment, refer to your results from your self-assessment and use the LPI Self Percentile Ranking to determine where each of your five leadership behaviors rank. Overview
For this assignment, you will be taking a more thorough look into your leadership self-assessment results that you reflected on in Module One. This assignment will help in the creation of your personal development plan, which will be submitted in Module Six.
Scenario
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. The organization has been in business since 1999 and employs over 350 people in its Tampa, Florida, headquarters and three plant locations across the Southwest. While the business is currently based in the United States, the organization is exploring ways to move into Canadian markets within the next three years. This year’s employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices were rated lower, while some practices were rated higher. The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) met with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees that the company’s focus should be on both specific leadership development areas perceived as strengths and on those rated as areas for improvement, primarily regarding social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders.
To help this initiative, your manager, the vice president of leadership and learning, asked you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit that can be used throughout the organization. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment, and now you will be taking a closer look at these results to produce a self-assessment report. You plan on exploring how this self-assessment would make a beneficial contribution to a personal development plan and adaptive leadership toolkit, which will help to resolve the leadership challenges the organization is currently facing.
Prompt
For this assignment, refer to your results from your self-assessment and use the LPI Self Percentile Ranking to determine where each of your five leadership behaviors rank.
Leadership Behaviors
Model the Way
Inspire a Shared Vision
Challenge the Process
Enable Others to Act
Encourage the Heart
For further information on each leadership behavior, please refer to The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership.
Self-assessment: In this part of your report, you will use the results from your self-assessment to identify leadership behaviors where you ranked highest and where you ranked lowest, and begin thinking about how this information impacts your ability to lead. This work will help to inform your personal development plan, which you will create in Module Six.
Identify the leadership behavior in which you ranked lowest and define what this behavior means to you.
For the leadership behavior in which you ranked lowest, describe the importance of developing this area to improve skills related to leading others.
Identify the leadership behavior in which you ranked highest and define what this behavior means to you.
For the leadership behavior in which you ranked highest, describe how this area helps support skills related to being an effective leader.
Adaptive leadership toolkit: In this part of your report, you will use your findings from the Employee Satisfaction Survey and the leadership behaviors you reviewed in the self-assessment to identify areas of leadership the organization should focus on developing. This work will help to inform the adaptive leadership toolkit that you will develop in Module Seven.
Based on your review of the Employee Satisfaction Survey, identify the leadership behaviors the organization’s leadership should focus on improving and explain how developing these areas will address the business problems the organization currently faces.
Based on your review of the Employee Satisfaction Survey, identify the leadership behaviors the organization’s leadership is currently successful in and explain how maintaining these areas can help in managing relationships between the leaders and their direct reports.
What to Submit
Submit your report as a 3- to 4-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. https://www.mediafire.com/file/9k1ujks1ape9pfo/Kouzes_Percentile_Ranking.pdf/file
Leadership Behaviors
Model the Way
Inspire a Shared Vision
Challenge the Process
Enable Others to Act
Encourage the Heart
For further information on each leadership behavior, please refer to The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership. https://www.mediafire.com/file/lq7gqmopocemmr0/Ten_Commitments_of_Exemplary_Leadership.docx/file
Self-assessment: In this part of your report, you will use the results from your self-assessment to identify leadership behaviors where you ranked highest and where you ranked lowest, and begin thinking about how this information impacts your ability to lead. This work will help to inform your personal development plan, which you will create in Module Six.
Identify the leadership behavior in which you ranked lowest and define what this behavior means to you.
For the leadership behavior in which you ranked lowest, describe the importance of developing this area to improve skills related to leading others.
Identify the leadership behavior in which you ranked highest and define what this behavior means to you.
For the leadership behavior in which you ranked highest, describe how this area helps support skills related to being an effective leader.
Adaptive leadership toolkit: In this part of your report, you will use your findings from the Employee Satisfaction Survey and the leadership behaviors you reviewed in the self-assessment to identify areas of leadership the organization should focus on developing. This work will help to inform the adaptive leadership toolkit that you will develop in Module Seven. https://www.mediafire.com/file/lpqt7gbb0sqmouw/Employee_Satisfaction_Survey_Results.xlsx/file
Based on your review of the Employee Satisfaction Survey, identify the leadership behaviors the organization’s leadership should focus on improving and explain how developing these areas will address the business problems the organization currently faces.
Based on your review of the Employee Satisfaction Survey, identify the leadership behaviors the organization’s leadership is currently successful in and explain how maintaining these areas can help in managing relationships between the leaders and their direct reports.
What to Submit
Submit your report as a 3- to 4-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: What are the variables that influence an employee’s decision to leave or stay at an organization (Hint: It’s not just money.) Please include sources/references to support your perspective.
Part 2
Assess your Leadership Skills Review the questions in Appendix 3: Glossary. (2007). Guide to Organisation Design, 302–315, page 5, under the heading ‘Gallup Q12’. Ask yourself these 12 questions to measure employment engagement and contemplate why these questions are practical. Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: Do you consider yourself an engaged employee? Did these questions make you think of anything that can be done at your organization to increase employee engagement and performance? Would you add any questions to the list? How can managers in the healthcare industry utilize these questions?
Part 3
Exam Content As a human resources manager in a healthcare organization, you will be asked to develop varying types of strategies and management techniques that improve the performance of your workforce. You need to know how to keep abreast of such strategies through research, as well as analyze how such strategies and techniques can be applied in your organization. In this assessment, you will apply these skills. Select a healthcare organization and specific division within it with which you work or are familiar. Assume you are the human resources director for your selected organization. In a recent meeting, executive management determined it would like to improve healthcare workforce performance levels within a specific division of your organization. Management has asked you to research and identify 3 diverse strategies that use innovative management techniques, operational practices, or technology that could be applied to improve workforce performance within the selected division at your healthcare organization. Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word summary of 3 diverse strategies to improve workforce performance that includes the following: Identification of 3 key strategies to improve workforce performance for your organization and division An analysis of how each strategy could be deployed within your division and organization to improve workforce performance A recommendation for the application of the best key strategy An analysis of how your recommended strategy affects workforce needs for service delivery for your organization SMART goal(s), objective(s), and tasks to implement your recommended strategy A description of how goal achievement will be measured Expenses for recommendation implementation Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality). Instructors Note: Please carefully read and closely follow the assignment instructions and the content of the grading rubric. It is strongly suggested that you use subheadings for each assignment component. This will ensure that you are addressing each section of the assignment.
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. This year’s employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices are rated lower, while some practices were rated higher. The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) met with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees that the company’s focus should be on both specific leadership development areas perceived as strengths and on those rated as areas for improvement, primarily regarding social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders.
To help this initiative, your manager, the vice president of leadership and learning, asked you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit that can be used throughout the organization. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment and turned this into a personal development plan. Then you shared this artifact with your manager. Your manager was impressed with the thoroughness of the personal development plan and saw value in incorporating it as an exemplar within the adaptive leadership toolkit for use by all people leaders in the organization. After receiving such positive feedback from your manager, you are now ready to move forward on developing the adaptive leadership toolkit that will be shared with your manager and chief human resources officer (CHRO) of the organization.
Prompt
Summarize the business problems the organization is currently facing and describe how the adaptive leadership toolkit will address these problems.
Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are current strengths exhibited by leadership and explain how these strengths are critical to the success of the organization.
Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are current areas of weakness for leadership and explain how these areas may be improved by applying the self-assessment you used to create your own personal development plan.
Describe the importance of including a personal development plan as an exemplar in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain how SMART goal setting can help to improve the areas of weakness for leaders within the organization.
Explain how the personal development plan and SMART goal setting could help develop the leadership styles of the leaders within the organization.
What to Submit
Submit a 3- to 4-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
Each paragraph should have at least 5 sentences and at least 2 different references. The case study paper must be 8–10-pages (not including Title Page, Abstract, or Reference page) and must include at least 5 scholarly resources in addition to the course textbooks and the Bible (New International Version or King James Version).
BMAL 570
Case Study Assignment
Overview
Case studies are an important part of most graduate programs as they reveal more readily the concept or theory discussed in a real-world context. Consider the chapters you have read from Hill text that present a case study of an organization. In each of these chapters, the way organizations incorporate various values (ex. love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.) is described in real-world scenarios. This helps us see how the value, reactions to the value, and outcomes from demonstrating the value might be displayed—and thus, presents a rich case for learning best practices and enables us to take God with us to work and everywhere. Case Studies are stories that develop a person, or a group of people, or a company over a specific time period (ex. day, week, month, year). A case study analyzes what occurred during this time period.
For your Case Study Paper, you have selected an organization (BOMBAS) and Biblical value (KINDNESS) that the organization has displayed (ALREADY SELECTED IN OUTLINE). Write a story and develop a person or a group of people at this company. Remember you have to write a story that shows the example of this company displaying this Biblical value. You won’t be writing just about the company. Write a case study where a person or group of people displayed a Biblical value. Tell the story. Back up the actions of the people or group in the company with scholarly references, the text, and with the Bible (this is the most important part). Discuss and expand on how this Biblical value connects to the organization and the story. The purpose of this is for you to be able to identify Biblical values in an organization. Remember, Biblical values can certainly be displayed in secular workplaces; after all, all truth is God’s truth!
Above is information about the case study. You have already completed the outline for this. If you want to make any changes to your outline, get this approved by your professor prior to submitting this case study. The outline and case study should all be on the same company. Use Below Outline and Organization:
Workplaces that are diverse and inclusive tend to be more successful than those that aren’t. However, not everyone sees it that way, and being diverse and inclusive in the workplace is often more challenging in practice than it is in theory.
You’ll need to work toward improving your own Emotional Intelligence (EQ), as well as focusing on document design and style for this assignment.
Scenario 1: Challenging Hiring Decision
You are on the hiring committee for a key role in your organization. After a thorough and lengthy process, the committee has narrowed the field to two final candidates: Candidate A and Candidate B. The interview process has concluded, and now it is time to make a decision. Will you hire Candidate A or Candidate B?
Both Candidate A and Candidate B meet all of the requirements for hiring in terms of education and experience. That said, Candidate A went to a more prestigious university than Candidate B, and Candidate A also has slightly more job experience than Candidate B. In the interview process, both candidates answered the questions very well, demonstrating high levels of knowledge. Candidate A was a bit smoother and more confident, but Candidate B occasionally hesitated before responding but also seemed more genuinely enthusiastic. Candidate A is a traditional applicant, and Candidate B is from a historically underrepresented minority.
Later today you will be meeting with the hiring committee to make the final decision. Your task is to write a short message to share with the rest of the hiring committee in which you recommend hiring either Candidate A or Candidate B. Be sure to explain which factors were most important to you and why.
Scenario 2: Evaluating Workplace Diversity
Because of your volunteer efforts in the local community, your supervisor has appointed you to lead DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) efforts at your medium-sized company. As you begin doing research on the diversity of the company’s workforce, it appears that the company’s employees are indeed diverse, having good representation from various races and ethnicities, genders, people of varying sexual orientation, religions, abilities, and ages. However, as you spend a bit more time researching diversity in employment practices, you learn that it is not enough to have a diverse workforce but also a diverse workforce at all levels of the organization. What you instead discover is that women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) employees are almost entirely employed at the lower levels of the organization, but management and corporate (C-Suite) levels are almost exclusively made up of white, male employees.
Your task is to write a short message to share with the executive team and board in which you recommend changes to the hiring and succession training processes so that the organization’s leadership better reflects the diversity of the workforce as a whole.
The channel that you use to communicate your message (email, memo, three- to four-slide PowerPoint presentation, etc.) is up to you. However, part of business communication is choosing your channel mindfully and then formatting your message appropriately. If you compose an email, it should have a To:, From:, Date:, Subject:, and correct spacing for an email. The same goes for other channels.
PLEASE KEEP THE BELOW IN MIND WHEN CREATING DOCUMENT
Content
The message demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of the issues raised by the chosen scenario. The message communicates that the recommendations clearly and includes sufficient reasoning for the recommendation.
Document Design
The message is formatted appropriately, based on the type of message written. The style of the message makes it clear and easy to read.
A lot of variables impact the organization and structure of healthcare systems.
Among the key influences are:
Government policies and regulations: Through policies and regulations, governments shape the organization and structure of healthcare systems. They establish rules, guidelines, and standards that control how healthcare is given, funded, and governed. Healthcare finance models, healthcare workforce laws, quality standards, and patient safety requirements are examples of government policies.
Economic considerations, such as a country's total wealth and economic stability, have an influence on the organization and structure of healthcare systems. Economic issues impact healthcare resource allocation, healthcare service availability, and the finance systems utilized to sustain the healthcare system.
Population demographics and health needs: A population's demographics and health requirements have a considerable effect on the organization and structure of healthcare systems. Population size, age distribution, chronic illness prevalence, and individual health requirements all determine the sorts of services and resources needed, as well as the focus put on preventive, primary care, or specialty treatment.
Technological advancements: Advances in medical technology and healthcare informatics have a significant influence on the organization and structure of the healthcare system. New technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way healthcare services are provided, improve patient outcomes, and increase efficiency. Implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and telemedicine technology, for example, has altered how healthcare is given and organized.
Socio-cultural factors: Societal and cultural norms, values, and beliefs impact the organization and structure of the healthcare system. Cultural influences may influence healthcare-seeking behavior, patient-provider interactions, and acceptability of certain medical procedures or therapies. The structure and objectives of healthcare systems are also influenced by societal views on health, wellbeing, and the role of healthcare in society.
Stakeholder interests and influence: Stakeholders with interests and influence in healthcare system organization and structure include healthcare providers, insurers, pharmaceutical corporations, patient advocacy organizations, and professional associations. Based on their interests and viewpoints, these stakeholders often shape policies, legislation, and resource allocation choices.
Global trends and experiences from other nations may also have an impact on the organization and structure of healthcare systems. International organizations, research results, and best practices from other nations may help to educate policy choices and inspire healthcare system improvements.
It is crucial to highlight that the impacts on healthcare system organization and structure differ by country and location, since each healthcare system is molded by its own environment, history, and social values.
