Research each question below and explain in detail with examples and experiences: 

1. Explain how supervisors can involve employees when developing objectives and managing organizational performance? What are at least three benefitsof involving employees in the process of developing objectives? What experience do you have with developing objectives?
2. Discuss the challenges for a supervisor of organizing a work structure and choosing the appropriate type of authority to be successful in the workplace today and in the future. 

3. If failure to meet a performance standard indicates some type of underlying problem, how might the supervisor attempt to solve the problem? Explain in detail

Deliverables:

Prepare a narrated PowerPoint presentation or PowerPoint with VoiceThread along with the team’s supporting calculations in Excel to address the following:

• Discuss what product your company will manufacture. Explain why you selected this product.
• Determine the selling price for your product and estimate your sales in units for 3 years.
• List at least 8 costs that your company will incur. You must include multiple variable costs, fixed costs, and mixed costs. Please explain why you classified each cost in the manner that you did.
• For each of the costs that you listed above, please estimate the cost. Please keep in mind that variable costs are incurred per unit and fixed costs in total. Mixed costs have a variable and fixed cost component.
• Calculate how many units of your product you will have to sell to break-even for the next 3 years.
• Calculate the margin of safety in units for each of the 3 years based on your projections above.
• In year 1, you are happy to break-even but as a group discuss what target profit you would like to make for Year 2 and 3? Based on your target profit, calculate how many units you would need to sell.
• Realistically, do you feel manufacturing this product makes sense or is it too risky? You must justify your decision.

Maladaptive responses to disorders are compensatory mechanisms that ultimately have adverse health effects for patients. For instance, a patient’s allergic reaction to peanuts might lead to anaphylactic shock, or a patient struggling with depression might develop a substance abuse problem. To properly diagnose and treat patients, advanced practice nurses must understand both the pathophysiology of disorders and potential maladaptive responses that some disorders cause.

Consider immune disorders such as HIV, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, and systemic lupus E. What are resulting maladaptive responses for patients with these disorders?

Employees represented by a union are paid approximately 40% more (in terms of pay and benefit costs) compared to employees not represented by a union. From the organization’s point of view, unionization and higher labor costs may lead to lower investment in research and development or higher prices of products and services. Research compensation for unionized and non-unionized employees and write a 4–6 page paper in the format described below.

In your paper, address the following:

• Describe the role of benefits in employee compensation, along with a general review of the typical components of an employee benefit package.
• Analyze and explain how an organization whose employees are represented by a union can remain competitive against an organization whose employees are not represented by a union.

SLPO 5: Apply principles of leadership to advocate for the unique role of the nursing profession within the healthcare system.

In your Journal summarize personal and professional achievements and accomplishments that you have completed throughout the baccalaureate nursing program at EC that refer to SLPO 5: Apply principles of leadership to advocate for the unique role of the nursing profession within the healthcare system.

Attach a minimum of at least two examples of your work that supports SLPO 5 noted above. Save your Journal entry as your Self-Appraisal for each module in your word document. The professor will request that you submit your journal entries for informal feedback at the end of each module. A Title page of this assignment with a summary of accomplishments (no more than 2 pages in length) is required with attached files as supportive evidence for each SLPO. A minimum of one or two examples is required to support each SLPO.

You may choose to compare two stories, authors, characters, etc. For example, you may want to compare the role of religion, regional influences, or gender roles in the works of two different authors, or examine differences or similarities in the language, theme, plot, etc.
Paragraph 1 should include a brief biography of both authors and a 1-2 line synopsis of both subjects. Next, you should establish common ground between your two subjects (ex: Faulkner and Welty are both southern gothic writers, etc) This paragraph should end with a thesis statement that points out at least three similiarities or differences in the two works.

Paragraphs 2-4 should be a detailed discussion of the similarities or differences and include textual evidence (with page numbers) of your assertions whenever possible. For example, if you are examining the differences in how Faulkner and O’Connor deal with race or religion in their work you should quote from passages in the text that illustrate these differences.

The concluding paragraph should include a summary of the major ideas presented in the body of the paper and it should revisit the thesis statement.

Agency Analysis-Counseling and Recovery Services

1. Agency Overview/ Historical origins of the agency: What is the name of the agency; what is the history of the agency? How many years has it been in existence? What services does the agency provide? Number of employees; Annual budget, number of years in existence.
2. Agency mission, vision and goals: Identify the key elements in your organization’s mission statement, vision and goals; Is the mission statement clear, compelling, inspirational, and concise; In what ways does the organization communicate the mission to its various stakeholders?
3. Agency service provision: (pb a) What services does the agency provide? How does the agency advocate for clients to have access to the services provided? What is the potential for other services that the agency might provide in the future? What steps will need to be taken in order for the agency to provide these new services that you have identified? This section should also include a literature review and the student should utilize a minimum of 6 professional journal articles as sources that are focused on the placement agency’s services.
4. Staffing & human resources: (pb b) Leadership; What is the leadership of the agency? Discuss the organization culture and how change occurs; What is the quality of working life (e.g. employee relationships and functioning); Describe ways in which workplace problems are addressed (e.g. discrimination, bullying & harassment); etc. How do agency staff/professionals practice personal reflection and self-correction to assure continual professional development?
5. Roles in the agency: (pb c) What titles or professional roles are identified in the agency? How are interns to identify themselves to clients in the agency? How specifically do social workers in the agency attend to professional roles and boundaries?
6. Professionalism: (pb d) How do the agency staff/professionals demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and communication? Provide some specific examples.
7. Lifelong Learning/Continuing Education: (pb e) How does the agency staff/professionals address continuing education or lifelong learning? Does the agency provide any training for agency personnel? Is social work licensure required? If so what levels of licensure are required or what levels of licensure are found in the agency and what roles are they associated with?
8. Supervision/Consultation: (pb f) How do the agency staff/professionals utilize supervision and consultation when needed? Are there designated supervisors who oversee certain units or departments within the agency? How are ethical dilemmas resolved?
9. Stakeholder expectations: What is the status of client relations; Describe the program design and service delivery.
10. Policy: Discuss local, state, or federal policy that impacts the agency; discuss policies that are relevant in relating to the functioning of the agency. How is policy created for the agency? How are policies amended in the agency?
11. Environment: Assess the environment, including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; social, political, economic, and technological trends;
12. Diversity: How does diversity fit in the agency environment and plan? How is
cultural competency addressed?
13. Funding of the Agency: Assess the financial resources and funding opportunities. What are the areas for growth or expansion for the agency?
14. Strengths and Weaknesses: Comment on key strengths and weaknesses of the agency. Note any prior or current efforts to address any of them. Use examples to illustrate particularly strong or weak areas. Identify critical issues facing the organization such as: What area needs attention and/or development? Why does this area need attention and/or development?

Elementary and secondary schools around the country are beginning to actively address the problem of bullies. In your opinion, is bullying an issue that should be addressed by schools or left to parents? Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

Compose an essay 800-1000 words in length. Your job is to convince me of your position and perhaps even sway me over to your way of thinking. In an effort to persuade, you should provide support from books, magazines, the internet, etc. that will strengthen your view.

Your essay must include at least 3 reasons to support your view. Additionally, you must provide outside sources (at least 3 no more than 6) to support your ideas. You should provide a Works Cited list of your resources at the end of your essay. Works Cited refers to any outside research you incorporate into your essay.

Keep this in mind…if you use an outside source in the essay, you must include it on the works cited page; however, DO NOT list a source on the works cited page and then not use it in the essay.

When you use a source (quoted or paraphrased), you should simple place the author’s last name or if there is no author use the first two or three words of the article title inside parentheses to indicate that you are using a source.

Consider the following setting: the availability of a critical computer system is monitored by two independent mechanisms. One is sending ping packets over the network and raises an alarm if there is no return packet within a second. The second measures the temperature of the computer system and if it is below
a threshold it will raise an alarm (as the system is then probably not running).

The computer system itself is certified by the manufacturer to be up and running 99.9% of the time. The ping mechanism can be faulty as well, the likelihood for this is 1%. If the ping mechanism works correctly, it is reliable in showing uptime: if the critical computer system is up and the ping mechanism is not faulty, then in
9999 out of 10000 cases the ping mechanism will report the computer system to be up. It is less precise when the computer system is down, in that case even if the ping mechanism is not faulty, the ping mechanism will report the computer system to be down only in 700 out of 1000 cases. If the ping mechanism is faulty and the computer system is up, then the ping mechanism will report the system to be up only in 1 out of 10000 cases. If the ping mechanism is faulty and the computer system is down, then the ping mechanism will however report the computer system to be unavailable in 800 out of 1000 cases. The reliability of the thermometer (the second mechanism) is influenced by the computer system, as it tends to be more faulty with high temperature (so when the system is available). In particular, when the temperature is above the threshold, the thermometer is faulty in 30% of all cases, while it is faulty only in 3% of the cases when the temperature is below the threshold. When the thermometer works correctly, it will identify high temperature correctly in 95 out of 100 cases, and it will identify low temperature correctly in 999 out of 1000 cases. If the thermometer is faulty, it will still identify high temperature correctly in 93% of all cases, but low temperature will be misidentified in 98% of all cases.
Create a Bayesian network that models this situation.

Answer the following questions:
_ How likely is it that the ping mechanism raises an alarm when the system
is available?
_ Both mechanisms signal unavailability of the computer system. How likely
is it that the computer system is really unavailable?
_ How likely is it that computer system unavailability goes undetected (i.e.
neither the ping mechanism nor the thermometer indicate unavailability
when the system is actually unavailable)?
_ The computer system is unavailable, but neither the ping mechanism nor
the thermometer indicate unavailability. How likely is it that the ping
mechanism is faulty? How likely is it that the thermometer is faulty?

Read the articles on Computer Assisted Coding (CAC).

Step 2

Write a summary of the article and answer the following questions:

How will the HIM profession and professional be effected by CAC?

In order to implement a computer assisted coding program, what does a HIM director need to consider and how does he/she present the information to the hospital administration?

How will computer assisted coding effect the coders and productivity?

What are some of the challenges with implementing a computer assisted coding program?
Be sure to provide citations and a reference list for any sources used in the format requested by your instructor.