300 words

1. What were the findings of the Acquired Needs Assessment?

2. Why whether or not you are surprised by the findings of the assessment you just took.

3. What, if any, valuable things did you learn from it and how can that be useful to you moving forward as you manage your career?

300 words

https://www.usip.org/public-education/students/conflict-styles-assessment

1. What were the findings of the Confict Styles Assessment?

2. Why whether or not you are surprised by the findings of the assessment you just took.

3. What, if any, valuable things did you learn from it and how can that be useful to you moving forward as you manage your career?

Lindell Manufacturing embarked on an ambitious quality program that is centered on continual improvement. This improvement is operationalized by declining quality costs from year to year. Lindell rewards plant managers, production supervisors, and workers with bonuses ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 if their factory meets its annual quality cost goals.

Len Smith, manager of Lindell’s Boise plant, felt obligated to do everything he could to provide this increase to his employees. Accordingly, he has decided to take the following actions during the last quarter of the year to meet the plant’s budgeted quality cost targets:

1. Decrease inspections of the process and final product by 50% and transfer inspectors temporarily to quality training programs. Len believes this move will increase the inspectors’ awareness of the importance of quality; also, decreasing inspection will produce significantly less downtime and less rework. By increasing the output and decreasing the costs of internal failure, the plant can meet the budgeted reductions for internal failure costs. Also, by showing an increase in the costs of quality training, the budgeted level for prevention costs can be met.
2. Delay replacing and repairing defective products until the beginning of the following year. While this may increase customer dissatisfaction somewhat, Len believes that most customers expect some inconvenience. Besides, the policy of promptly dealing with customers who are dissatisfied could be reinstated in 3 months. In the meantime, the action would significantly reduce the costs of external failure, allowing the plant to meet its budgeted target.
3. Cancel scheduled worker visits to customers’ plants. This program, which has been very well received by customers, enables Lindell workers to see just how the machinery they make is used by the customer and also gives them first-hand information on any remaining problems with the machinery. Workers who went on previous customer site visits came back enthusiastic and committed to Lindell’s quality program. Lindell’s quality program staff believes that these visits will reduce defects during the following year.

In this discussion:

1. Evaluate Len’s ethical behavior. In this evaluation, consider his concern for his employees. Was he justified in taking the actions described? If not, what should he have done?
2. Assume that the company views Len’s behavior as undesirable. What can the company do to discourage it?
3. Assume that Len is a CMA and a member of the IMA. Refer to the ethical code for management accountants in Chapter 1. Were any of these ethical standards violated?

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What is “k-means clustering,” and how might it help healthcare administration leaders in their health services organization?

One of the more common methods of clustering is the use of k-means, where “k” is the number of clusters that are meant to describe the population of interest. For example, what if you were interested in segmenting patients based on satisfaction levels? K-means clustering could be used in the same way to help describe this given population.

This technique might assist leaders in determining what characteristics need to be considered in order to study crime and unemployment. In striving to address the problem, k-means clustering is an effective tool for leadership to consider.

For this Assignment, review the resources for this week, and examine the k-means clustering approach. Reflect on how you might apply this approach to an issue or challenge in a health services organization. Then, complete the problems for the Assignment.

The Assignment: (3–5 pages)

• Complete Problem 21 on page 938 of your course text.

Note: You will need to complete a logistic regression, as well as a k-means cluster analysis, using SPSS.

By Day 7

Submit your answers and embedded analysis as a Microsoft Word management report.

The students will utilize the readings for their assigned week to prepare a 10-15 min presentation that offers a critical perspective on the topic and reading. Students should prepare two critical questions for the class to facilitate class engagement and discussion. Along with the discussion of the reading(s) student’s may also draw upon relevant examples and anecdotes from Television shows, YouTube video, Twitter, Instagram, news articles, literature, philosophy, historical examples, etc., to illustrate and contextualize their perspective.

Because the presentations are meant to expand the range of topics in television and citizenship to accommodate student interests, this presentation should not simply summarize the reading(s). Instead, students should identify the main thesis of the article, the critical/theoretical perspective of the author(s) and key terminology and examples. The presenters should offer a media example(s) to illustrate their points. At the conclusion of the presentation, presenters should pose two questions to stimulate class discussions. Questions like “How many of you use your phone to watch TV?” are interesting questions but not analytical. Presenters should utilize slide presentations with limited text on each slide. If presenting as a group, each group member should participate equally in the preparation and presentation of the material.

1. Read Gender in the Prozac Nation.pdf and Watch https://www.retroreport.org/playlist/how-history-shapes-our-attitudes-towards-mental-health/id=video%2Frevolution-in-a-capsule or “How Prozac Turned Depression Medication into a Cultural Phenomenon”.

After reading and watching them, make a draw that illustrates your thoughts, emotions, or opinions about anything of what you have found in these materials. You also need to write an explanation of your illustration (between one page and a half and two pages)

For illustrates the thoughts, you can google a revelent image on google and gives to me. Thanks