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Evaluate how well the incentive plan supports a well-aligned compensation plan and how the plan aligns the employees’ efforts to the organization’s mission and objectives.

compensation and benefits

Assignment 2: Employee Incentives

For this assignment, you are to use the text, the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet to research the use of incentives in motivating employees.  Find an organization with a form of incentive you consider highly motivating.  Find an organization within your current industry or an industry where you would like to be employed in the future. Submit a report in which you describe, analyze and evaluate the incentive plan of your chosen company.  Include the following in your report:

  1. Description of company, industry and incentive plan.
  2. Distinguish why you think this particular plan is highly motivating and explain how it stimulates employee productivity.  Connect the plan to one or more models of motivation.
  3. Evaluate how well the incentive plan supports a well-aligned compensation plan and   how the plan aligns the employees’ efforts to the organization’s mission and objectives.
  4. Explain how this plan helps with the supervision, retention, and recruitment of employees.
  5. Determine which of the following you feel would be the most valid format for performance appraisal to use with this incentive plan—standard ranking, paired-comparison ranking, standard rating scales, behaviorally-anchored rating scales, Management by Objectives or essay.

Justify your responses with reasons and examples.  Cite scholarly sources.

To complete this assignment, submit a 3–5 page report in Word format.  Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

By Wednesday, February 3, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria 
Maximum Points
Description of company, industry and incentive plan is clear, accurate and concise.
15
Explained why the plan is motivating and how it stimulates employee productivity. Connected the plan to one or more models of motivation.
20
Evaluated how well the incentive plan supports a well-aligned compensation plan and how well the plan works for aligning the employees’ efforts to the organization’s mission and objectives.
20
Explained how this plan helps with supervision, retention, and recruitment of employees.
15
Determined which would be the most valid format for performance appraisal to use with this incentive plan.
15
Response demonstrates application of concepts, analysis of research information, justification of responses, critical thinking, Writing Craftsmanship, APA and Ethical Scholarship

What methods or techniques will you use to collect and preserve the evidence?

Criminalistics 2

A man called the police and said that a body had fallen out of the sky and landed on his family car, which was parked in the driveway of his home. Initial canvassing of the area failed to locate any witnesses. The man who called the police was home with his family. They did not see the incident but reported hearing a loud thud and glass breaking.

You are the crime scene investigator. When you arrive at the scene, you find what you thought was a bizarre call is in fact true. You see the mangled body of a Caucasian man and a partially deployed parachute streaming in the mild breeze. You also note that the deceased’s reserve chute has not opened. Closer examination of the scene reveals that the deceased is wearing a leg bag containing about 20 lbs. of cocaine and U.S. currency totaling $28,000.00.

The victim had in his possession 2 state ID cards, one from California: Andrew Jackson, DOB 01-05-60, 1419 Petulia Drive, Santa Cruz, CA. The second ID is from Texas: Paul Smith, DOB 05-01-61, 268 Ridge Boulevard, Crawford, TX.

Assignment Guidelines

  • Address the following in 4 pages and no more then 25% plaigiarism:
    • In detail, explain the steps that you will take and the techniques that you will use to process from arrival until the scene is relinquished.
      • Prepare a comprehensive list of how the scene should be documented.
        • Create and include a crime scene sketch. Use your own neighborhood to fabricate any necessary details.
          • You may then draw and scan the sketch or use any software application of your choice.
      • Prepare a comprehensive list of at least 25 questions that need to be answered about the scene and the body.
      • Prepare a list of evidence that will be collected from the scene and from the body.
        • What methods or techniques will you use to collect and preserve the evidence? Explain.
      • Conduct a background investigation to develop logical leads, which would include an AFIS inquiry, applicable forensics analysis, and any other leads you determine to be appropriate.
  • Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

How does the role of the researcher vary across each paradigm?

Forum Question: (You must read this week’s Chapter in order to respond to these questions efficiently) (Answer each bullet point): Identify a sociological topic of interest to you. Discuss how each of the six qualitative field research paradigms (disc

Forum Question: (You must read this week’s Chapter in order to respond to these questions efficiently)

(Answer each bullet point):

  • Identify a sociological topic of interest to you.
  • Discuss how each of the six qualitative field research paradigms (discussed in this week’s Lesson and covered more comprehensively in Babbie’s Chapter 10) could be used to study this topic you have chosen.
  • How does the role of the researcher vary across each paradigm?
  • Are some paradigms better suited for certain topics – provide an example?
  • Which paradigm(s) raise the biggest ethical concerns and why?

    300 words with 2 reference APA format

Explain why you chose this particular approach as the most useful. Why does it appeal to you?

LIT

In the Critical Literary Theories handout, four different kinds of critical approaches are presented. Consider which of the four theories you find most interesting as a means for understanding literature.

Write: Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. The minimum word count does not include references. Choose two of those critical approaches and address the points below.

  •      Describe each critical approach in detail.
  •     Compare and/or contrast the two critical approaches. How are they different and similar
  • Determine which critical approach you find most useful for examining the conflicts and meaning in literature
  • Explain why you chose this particular approach as the most useful. Why does it appeal to you?

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Examine the implications of ethical, legal, and regulatory policy issues on health care information systems.

healthcare

 

Case Study, Stage 2: Data Flow Among Health Care Systems

 

Before you begin this assignment, be sure you have read the “UMUC Family Clinic Case Study”, the course readings assigned to date, and feedback on your graded Stage 1 assignment.

 

Purpose of this Assignment

 

This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcomes to enable you to:

 

  • Analyze the flow of data and information among disparate health information systems to support internal and external business processes
  • Examine the implications of ethical, legal, and regulatory policy issues on health care information systems

 

UMUC Family Clinic Medical Practice

 

In your Stage 1 assignment, you created process models for the patient visit process in the UMUC Family Clinic. For the Stage 3 assignment, you will identify an Electronic Health Records System that will address the process problems at the Clinic. The EHR system you identify will initially be implemented at the UMUC Family Clinic, but will soon need to be able to connect and communicate with external systems. As part of analyzing the requirements for the new system, one step is to consider how that system will enable the UMUC Family Clinic to exchange electronic data with other health organizations – such as other providers, pharmacies, insurance companies, and even patients themselves. The case study mentions several of these. For this assignment you will select two types of external organizations and describe what kind of data would flow between the UMUC Family Clinic and those organizations and how that can be done effectively.

 

 

 

Assignment

 

 

 

  1. Review the UMUC Family Clinic Case Study and identify two types of external organizations (e.g., hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, laboratories, pharmacies, etc.) with which the UMUC Family Clinic needs to communicate and the purpose of the communication.
  2. Make a list of at least five data elements or items of information that would be shared with each external organization, and explain whether that information is going out from the UMUC Family Clinic or coming in from each of the two external organizations. Note: More than five data elements are required to earn full points.
  3. Conduct some external research and find at least one data interchange standard that would apply to the data that is exchanged with each organization. Provide a brief description of what the standard is, what it requires, and why it is important. (There are some specific data interchange standards that apply to health data exchange; if the same standard applies to the data exchange with both organizations, explain how it relates to each.)
  4. Research, list and discuss three legal, regulatory, or ethical considerations that would relate to this data exchange and explain what needs to be done to ensure compliance with each. You must include at least one legal/regulatory consideration and at least one ethical consideration.

 

Formatting

 

For academic writing, the writer is expected to write in the third person. In third person, the writer avoids the pronouns I, we, my, our, you and your. The third person is used to make the writing more objective by taking the individual, the “self,” out of the writing. This method is very helpful for academic writing, a form in which facts, not opinion, drive the tone of the text. Writing in the third person allows the writer to come across as unbiased and thus more informed.

 

 

 

    • Your paper should be about two pages, single spaced.
    • You should include at least one external source. These are sources other than those provided in the classroom. Sources should be scholarly or professional in nature, rather than random websites. NOTE: More than one external source is required to earn full points.
    • Add a title page, and a reference page.
    • Use APA formatted citations and references for all external sources used.

 

  • Compare your final work to the rubric to be sure you have met content and quality criteria.
  • Submit your paper via your Assignment folder as a Word document, or a document that can be read in Word.

 

 

Your paper will be evaluated on whether or not you correctly incorporated the course concepts from the textbook and readings, and have addressed all parts of the assignment, using the rubric below.

 

GRADING RUBRIC:

 

Criteria

  

90-100%

Far Above Standards

  

80-89%

Above Standards

  

70-79%

Meets Standards

  

60-69%

Below Standards

  

< 60%

Well Below Standards

  

Possible Points
 

 

Communication with External Organizations

 9-10 Points

The two external organizations identified and the explanation of the communication between them and the UMUC Family Clinic are clearly appropriate and explained in detail using course vocabulary; demonstrates understanding of course concepts, analysis, and/or critical thinking.

 8 Points

The two external organizations identified and the explanation of the communication between them and the UMUC Family Clinic are appropriate and well explained using course vocabulary; demonstrates understanding of course concepts and critical thinking.

 7 Points

Two external organizations are identified and an explanation of the communication between them and the UMUC Family Clinic is provided.

 

 6 Points

Two external organizations are not identified, or are incorrect; and/or explanation of the communication between them and the UMUC Family Clinic may lack demonstration of understanding of course concepts, analysis, and/or critical thinking.

 0-5 Points

Identification of external organizations and/or explanation of communication is incomplete or inadequate.

 15

 
 

 

 

 

Data and Data Flow

 27-30 Points

More than 5 data elements are correctly identified for each of the two external organizations; the direction of the data flow is appropriate to the case study; strongly demonstrates understanding of course concepts, analysis, and critical thinking.

 24-26 Points

At least 5 data elements are correctly identified for each of the two external organizations; the direction of the data flow is appropriate to the case study; demonstrates understanding of course concepts, analysis, and critical thinking.

 21-23 Points

At least 5 data elements are identified for each of the two external organizations; direction of the flow of data is appropriate to the case study.

 18-20 Points

Fewer than 5 data elements may be presented for each of the two external organizations; flow of data may be less than correct, or not appropriate to the case study.

 

 0-17 Points

Data elements and flows are not presented or are not appropriate to the case study, or are otherwise inadequate.

 30
 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Interchange Standards

18-20 Points

 

Two different data interchange standards are listed and explained, and are applicable to the case study,with complete explanations of the standards, what they require and why they are important.

 16-17 Points

At least one data interchange standard is explained, along with how it applies to the data interchange with both external organizations, is applicable to the case study, with a complete explanation of the standard, what it requires and why it is important.

 14-15 Points

At least one data interchange standard is explained, along with how it applies to the data interchange with both external organizations, is applicable to the case study, with an explanation of the standard, what it requires and why it is important.

 12-13 Points

At least one data interchange standard is explained, but how it applies to the data interchange with both external organizations or to the case study is incomplete; and/or explanation of the standard, what it requires and why it is important may be incomplete.

 0-11 Points

Data interchange standard is not identified, or explanation is severely lacking.

 20
Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Considerations 27-30 Points

Three legal, regulatory, or ethical considerations that would relate to the identified data exchanges are identified, with a convincing explanation of what needs to be done to ensure compliance with each; both legal/regulatory and ethical considerations are included; demonstrates understanding of course concepts, sophisticated analysis, and critical thinking.

 24-26 Points

Three legal, regulatory, or ethical considerations that would relate to the identified data exchanges are identified, with a good explanation of what needs to be done to ensure compliance with each; both legal/regulatory and ethical considerations are included; demonstrates understanding of course concepts, analysis, and critical thinking.

 21-23 Points

Three legal, regulatory, or ethical considerations that would relate to the identified data exchanges are identified, with an explanation of what needs to be done to ensure compliance with each is provided using course vocabulary and concepts; both legal/regulatory and ethical considerations are included.

 

 18-20 Points

Fewer than three legal, regulatory, or ethical considerations are listed; they may not relate to the identified data exchanges; explanations may be incomplete; and/or may not address both legal/regulatory and ethical considerations; may be lacking in demonstration of understanding of course concepts, analysis, and/or critical thinking.

 0-17 Points

List and explanation of legal, regulatory, or ethical considerations may be very incomplete or missing.

 

 30
External Research 9-10 Points

More than one source other than the course material is incorporated and used effectively. Sources used are relevant and timely. References are appropriately incorporated and cited using APA style.

 8 Points

At least one source other than the course material is incorporated and used effectively. Source(s) used are relevant and timely. References are appropriately incorporated and cited using APA style.

 7 Points

At least one source other than the course material is incorporated correctly. Reference is cited using APA style.

 6 Points

A source other than the course material may be used, but is not properly incorporated or used; and/or is not effective or appropriate; and/or is not relevant or timely; and/or does not follow APA style for references and citations.

 0-5 Points

No external research is incorporated or reference listed is not cited within text.

 10
Report Format 9-10 Points

Report is very well organized and is easy to read. Very few or no errors; demonstrates correct sentence structure, grammar, and spelling; written in third person and presented in a professional format.

 8 Points

Report reflects effective organization; may have a few errors in sentence structure, grammar, and spelling; written in third person and presented in a professional format.

 7 Points

Report is organized and may have some errors in sentence structure, grammar and spelling. Report is written in third person.

 6 Points

Report is not well organized, and/or contains several grammar and/or spelling errors; and/or report is not written in third person.

 0-5 Points

Report is extremely poorly written; and/or contains many grammar and/or spelling errors; and/or does not convey the information.

 10
     

What are some of the factors that are adversely impacting the healthcare delivery system in India?

Quality Health Outcomes, Utilization, and Disparity in the Indian Healthcare System

Reflect on quality health outcomes, utilization, and disparity in the Indian healthcare system. India’s healthcare infrastructure has not kept pace with the economic development.

In 2-3 pages address the following concerning the Indian healthcare system:

  • What are some of the factors that are adversely impacting the healthcare delivery system in India?
  • Population growth is one of the factors in this equation. Identify two other key factors and discuss them.

Explain your research plan, including the methods of researching and organizing research.

FOR Tom mutunga only!!!! (1)

Write a one to two (1-2) page research proposal in which you:

 

  1. Identify the topic you selected and explain two (2) reasons for using it.
  2. Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement in the first paragraph.
  3. Describe three (3) major characteristics of your audience (official position, decision-making power, current view on topic, other important characteristic).
  4. Describe the paper’s scope and outline the major sections.
  5. Identify and explain the questions to be answered.
  6. Explain your research plan, including the methods of researching and organizing research.
  7. Document at least three (3) primary sources and three (3) secondary sources. Use credible, academic sources available through Strayer University’s Resource Center. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

 

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; 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 page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
  • Write a research proposal that states the claim and scope of the research project.
  • Outline the main sections of the research project.
  • Devise an ordered research plan to obtain appropriate resources.
  • Write clearly and concisely about selected topics using proper writing mechanics.
  • Use technology and information resources to research selected issues for this course.

What are 2 actions that can be taken pertaining to the crowd of onlookers that might help you identify the offender(s)? Explain.

Arson Investigation

You are the supervisor for the Beatts City Arson Squad. It is 3:00 a.m., and the temperature is below freezing. Your unit is called to a suspicious fire scene. Your team consists of you and 3 others. Upon arrival, you discover that the fire is at the Novandon Discount Department Store. There are 6,000 of these stores in the United States, and they are very successful. This store is two stories high and has a customer elevator in the front of the store and a freight elevator in the rear.

The battalion fire chief reported to you that the crowd of onlookers braving the cold to watch the fire contains about 100 people. In addition, the battalion chief provides you with 3 plastic gas containers (3 gallons each), the type used for putting gas in lawn mowers. They all have residual amounts of what smells like gasoline in them. The spouts are attached, and the caps are off of all three cans. One of your investigators takes them as evidence.

The battalion chief related that the fire had 3 points of origin. One point of origin is upstairs in the rear warehouse section, one in the upstairs ladies’ clothing department, and one downstairs in the side entrance of the store where the outdoor and garden section is located. It is clearly an arson fire. The battalion chief tells you that the fire will be under control in about 45 minutes, and he will release the scene shortly after that. You are aware, from local media sources, that this chain of stores has had employee relationship problems—specifically with gender inequality—and recently laid off 18 women for complaining.

Prepare a report on the details of the Novandon Discount Department Store arson fire. You should include the processing of evidence provided in the scenario and the processing of evidence found at the points of origin of the fire. This includes how and why you recorded the artifacts and the scene. You should include safety equipment and precautions you took during processing.

Explain your probable cause for getting a warrant for the scene.

Assignment Guidelines

  • Address the following in 5 pages and no more then 25% plaigiarism:
    • What are 2 actions that can be taken pertaining to the crowd of onlookers that might help you identify the offender(s)? Explain.
    • What are 2 areas you would check to ensure the scene can be searched safely? Explain.
    • What personnel records and other business papers should you subpoena from the Novandon Discount Department Store? Explain why.
    • What are 3 artifacts of a fire that would indicate the heat of the fire and points of origin? Explain.
    • What are 2 elements of evidence you would expect to find in the scene? Explain.
      • How would you collect them for evidence? Explain in detail.
    • What is 1 method for search, other than visual, you would use to identify the presence of an accelerant? Explain the process.
    • What are 2 items of equipment that will be absolutely necessary to conduct the crime scene search? Explain.
    • Promulgate a theory, based on facts and not on emotions, on the circumstances surrounding this arson investigation. Be as creative as necessary, but support all statements accordingly.

Describe the population being researched in this study.

I have enclosed details for you in this assignment.

 Assignment 1

Sampling

Review the articles by Peltzer, Preez, Ramlagan, & Fomundam (2008) and Westrom, Maiers, Evans, & Bronfort (2010), and select one to use as the basis for your assignment.  In your paper:

  • Describe the population being researched in this study.
  • Summarize the methods used to identify the sample and recruit participants into the study.
  • Compare the study sample to the population. Evaluate whether or not the study sample accurately reflects the population.
  • Assess whether or not the study findings can be reliably generalized to the population based on the sampling methods.
  • Propose one additional strategy that could have been used in the study to sample the population effectively to ensure the study results are generalizable to the population.

The assignment must be four to five pages in length, excluding the title and reference pages, and formatted according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Use at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the workbook article, to support your discussion. The scholarly sources should be from a peer-reviewed journal.

The Sampling paper

  • Must be written in your words and may not include quotations. Papers including quotes will not be accepted. All content from outside sources must be paraphrased and cited appropriately.
  • Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined