Assignment #2 Due Mid Week (By October 25th) Chapter 4 – Blog/Health and Safety Jobs After reading reviewing the various health and safety jobs online such as a Safety Engineer, Industrial Hygienist, Health Physicist, Occupational Physician, Occupational Health Nurse or Risk Manager; pick a job and search information on that particular job and post your findings in the blog. – *no more than 2 pages. You must have one website that you used, and post the URL of your findings. – Explain what the role would entail and why you would want to hold that position. This is based on your findings in the website you found and why you would want this position. This is an opinion response. You would select this position based on your findings, your beliefs, and desires for a profession. (this assumes that you are all going into the safety and health field)

Chapt 2

What major features of a business are important for understanding the role of information systems?

• Define a business and describe the major business functions.
• Define business processes and describe the role they play in organizations.
• Identify and describe the different levels in a business firm and their information needs.
• Explain why environments are important for understanding a business.

How do systems serve different management groups in a business?

• Define business intelligence systems.
• Describe the characteristics of transaction processing systems (TPS) and role they play in a business.
• Describe the characteristics of management information systems (MIS), decision support systems (DSS), and executive support systems (ESS) and explain how each type of system helps managers make decisions.

How do systems that link the enterprise improve organizational performance?

• Explain how enterprise applications improve organizational performance.
• Define enterprise systems, supply chain management systems, customer relationship management systems, and knowledge management systems and describe their business benefits.
• Explain how intranets and extranets help firms improve business performance.

Why are systems for collaboration and teamwork so important and what technologies do they use?

• Define collaboration and teamwork and explain why they have become so important in business today.
• List and describe the business benefits of collaboration.
• Describe a supportive organizational culture for collaboration.
• List and describe the various types of collaboration and communication systems.

What is the role of the information systems function in a business?

• Describe how the information systems function supports a business.
• Compare the roles played by programmers, systems analysts, information systems managers, the chief information officer (CIO), chief security officer (CSO), and chief knowledge officer (CKO).

Take the perspective of a CEO of a large group practice, which owns its own managed healthcare plan. Describe three major ways that you could improve the access, quality, and cost of containment of health care in your organization.