Directions: In a 3-page, double-spaced reflection paper, think about your own bias(es), and address the following:  It is important that you meet the minimum page length requirement and that your work is double-spaced throughout. All facts should be cited with a parenthetical in-text citation throughout your work, in addition to, the inclusion of a Reference Page at the end of your work.

• Why is it important to understand our personal bias(es), to include unconscious bias(es), so that we effectively work with diverse clients within any Human Services agency?
• Thinking of yourself as a professional, explain how the following areas assist you towards proactively addressing your identified bias(es) so that they do not translate into your practice as a Human Services Professional:
  • education
  • continuous training/professional development,
  • self-reflection
  • supervision

Write a 5–6 page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate two key changes in the selected company’s management style from the company’s inception to today. Indicate whether you believe the company is properly managed and provide support for your position.
2. Explain senior management’s role in preparing the organization for its most recent change. Provide evidence of whether the transition was seamless or problematic from a management perspective. Provide support for your rationale.
3. Evaluate management’s decision on its use of vendors and spokespersons. Indicate the organizational impact of these decisions.
4. As a manager within the selected company, suggest one innovative idea that could have a positive effect on both employees and customers. Indicate the approach you will take in implementing the new idea. Provide support for your suggestion.
5. Predict the selected company’s ability to adapt to the changing needs of customers and the market environment. Indicate how open communication channels are critical for successfully implementing change in the organization. Provide support for your prediction.
6. Use Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to locate at least three quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Two companies to choose from:

• Jack Welch and the General Electric Management System
• Organizational Restructuring within the Royal Dutch Shell Group

Week 4 Discussion 1

What examples of orientation have you had as a new hire that have been particularly effective or ineffective? Explain.

Week 4 Discussion 2

Discuss the steps an employer should take to develop and implement its policy regarding employment-at-will?

Week 4 Discussion 3

For the three primary causes of voluntary turnover (desirability of leaving, ease of leaving, alternatives), might their relative importance depend on the type of employee or type of job? Explain.

Quandaries in Health Care

Declining Trust in the Health Care System (The Trust Crisis)

Health reform is mired in the morass of multitier payment systems and multiple modes of access, limited by the ability to seek and to pay. Increasingly, patients are interacting with multiple entities within the system, causing more and more confusion on the part of the patient. According to recent research, patients’ trust in the system, providers, and insurers continues to decline. This may result in a decline in individual health and an increase in costs for health care.

Investigate the declining trust in the health care system from an ethical and moral position. You may use the four principles plus attention to scope model of Beauchamp and Childress or any other ethical model that you choose to address this.

Complete the following:

• State what model you will use to investigate this issue.
• Identify 2 or more legal issues contributing to this problem.
• Identify 2 or more economic and financial issues contributing to this problem.
• Analyze the impact of various issues that are contributing to this problem, and rank them in order from greatest to least impact.
• Propose at least 1 modification that would increase trust in the health care system with rationale.

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

• Proactive Behavior, Employee Well-Being, and Organizational Climate

Discussion Questions

Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link “Doing Discussion Questions Right” and any specific instructions for this topic.

Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your classmates’ responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses in the Discussion Area.

Introduction:

By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub-questions of each bullet point. The sub-questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your peers have already posted so that we can engage in several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to reuse the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

Tasks:

Question 1:

Analyze and provide a synopsis of the Chernobyl disaster that occurred in 1986.

Question 2:

Evaluate the purpose of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.