Lesson 5

Put together parts 2-9 of your final project and upload it under Lesson 5.

Upload updated Parts 2-9 of the Final Project below.

Problem Description

(~1-2 Pages)

2. Introduce the problem and setting, include:

• A description of the health problem;

• A description of the community affected;

• An overview of organizations currently solving like problems; and

• Discuss available options currently used in the community to solve the problem and why they are not successful.

3. Proposed Solution, including:

• Describe your proposed solution;
• Describe how your solution is unique;
• Describe what affect you foresee the solution having on the health problem and community involved; and
• Identify an organization you will work with to solve the problem.

4. Conclusion.

The Strategic Plan

How will you strategically plan to solve your problem (and get to the proposed solution)?

(~2-4 Pages)

5. Identify an Organization that can assist you in accomplishing your proposed solution. You will play the role of assisting this organization in designing, implementing, and monitoring the Strategic Plan. Describe the organization and why they are a good fit to solve the health problem in this particular community.

6. Complete a Situational Analysis, including:

• SWOT analysis and
• Root Cause Analysis;

7. Evaluate the organizations’ Mission, Vision, and Values

• State the current mission, vision, and values.
• Evaluate and redraft the mission, vision, and values to accomplish the strategic plan.

8. Outcomes & Objectives

a. Evaluate current Goals (Outcomes) the organization has and determine whether these need to be adjusted to meet the new strategic plan. Add additional goals.

i. Does the organization you have chosen to solve the problem currently have goals to accomplish this task?

ii. In order to solve the problem, do goals need to be added to the strategic plan? List or diagram these goals and give a brief explanation.

b. Evaluate current Objectives and determine whether these need to be adjusted to meet the new strategic plan.

• How will you know you are accomplishing the goals stated above?
• 2 objectives have proven to be essential to strategic planning in health-What motivates People and Creativity and Innovation in Health. What role do these two objectives currently have in the organization? How can your strategic plan incorporate more of these 2 objectives?

9. Develop Targets and Indicators.Then, put together what you have already done during previous weeks for my comments.

Critical Article Review

Students will write a 5-page critical article review using 3-5 additional sources that will be marked out of 30 points worth 25% of their final mark. Late papers will receive a deduction of 2% per day.

This assignment builds upon and uses the article(s) students identified from their annotated bibliography as the foundation for this assignment. Students will select one article from their bibliography and evaluate it on a number of suggested criteria identified below. After evaluating the selected article students will write their critical review and relate it to the topic of help. Students should have chosen a robust paper or study that has a thesis or hypothesis where the author presents findings or a perspective on a topic with a thoughtful discussion. Literature reviews and systematic analysis while generally helpful to understand a topic will not work well for this assignment.

A critical review moves beyond a summary of the article and requires a detailed look at the article and evaluate or question the authors arguments based on their methodology, materials referenced and discussion within their paper. As part of the assignment students will also seek perspectives from 3-5 related articles and/or course materials and use these to further aid in the critical review of their selected paper.

The critical review is your chance to show how you think about an author’s particular work and your opinions and thoughts on a particular topic. You do however need to make sure your critiques and opinions are supported where necessary and referenced using APA format. Opinions and critiques that are not well supported will not produce good results, and opinions that are used from other sources without proper citations will be considered plagiarism.

This assignment is to be worked on individually. Plagiarism of any kind which includes not properly citing an author’s work or submitting an assignment similar to the work of another student will result in a grade of 0. Turnitin.com may be used for this assignment.

Format

This paper will be written in essay format with 5 pages double spaced adhering to APA format with each student using the following section headings: Introduction, Summary, Analysis, and Conclusion. While the headings will be consistent, the student chooses what to write in each section. Below are suggestions to get started and should be regarded as an outline only:

Introduction: State your topic and why you chose it. Include a summary of the thesis from the article you will be reviewing as well as your own regarding the topic and how this article relates to it.

Summary: Provide a brief outline of the article including article type, perspective, methods, and summarize main findings and themes from the article.

Analysis: (Here is where you bring in outside sources): Critically review the argument put forward by the author. Indicate why you agree or disagree with the author. Discuss how this study or paper contributes to our understanding of the topic. Discuss what the author is missing and what perspectives you would use in addition to this article.

Conclusion: Discuss how this article can be applied to how we help people and why this type of work matters in terms of theory,policy, planning or practice. Include a personal reflection of the article and its contents with discussion of how may have challenged, changed, or increased your knowledge on this topic

Questions to consider when evaluating the article:

Structure and Logic – Does the author have a good thesis or hypothesis that indicates why they are writing the paper or doing the study? Do the sections fit well together and add to the argument? Is it original research? What immediately stands out to you as interesting or conflictual about the article? What assumptions is the author making? What perspective is the author using? What other perspectives are there? Is the article relevant based on the topic?

Methodology – What methodology was used (qualitative, quantitative) and were they referenced? Did the author provide rationale for their methods? Did the authors cite any issues with using their methods? Did the authors describe limitations to their methods?

Results/Discussion – What type of evidence is used? Are there any gaps? Does the data support the conclusions that the author(s) make? How does this compare to other articles, studies etc? What perspectives are left unconsidered in the discussion?

Conclusion – Do you agree with the conclusion? How does this contribute to future policy, planning, models of help? How does this change, challenge or contribute to the knowledge you had of the topic previously?

Hello Tutors,

I have attached the postings for discussions below. Feel free to answer the postings in your own words, and must be at least 200 words. Please make sure to post each response LA1

Please remember to cite references if used. Each post is based off the subject below:

Do the work and reflection needed to come up with a list of 10 to 12 top values. Prioritize them. When you’re done, post your list, together with a discussion (in essay form) of what was hardest/easiest for you in this exercise, anything that surprised you, and anything that you have reconsidered, or intend to reconsider.

(If for some reason you prefer to email me your list privately, you may do so. If you do email me your list, please still talk about the process of compiling/prioritizing the list and your discoveries along the way in the usual discussion forum.)

Looking at your prioritized values, can you determine the connection between those values and your usual ethical stance? This will require you to consider whether your ethical approach tends to be Utilitarian (consequentialist and teleological), Aristotelian (Virtue Ethics – a slightly different type of teleological approach), Kantian (Deontological – duty, based on the Categorical Imperative), or some other approach. What ethical approach do you tend to take, and how is that demonstrated (or is it demonstrated?) by your list of prioritized values?

Referring to your list of prioritized values, determine which values would be most likely to cause you to have an ethical difficulty in business. Focus on just one, and detail how that value could give rise (or perhaps already has given rise) to an ethical dilemma in your work. How would you resolve any conflict? As ever, tell me how and why.

Part 1.

Many companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your knowledge about the global economy, identify three brands you believe have the strongest likelihood of remaining a source of advantage in the 21st century and explain why. Explain the effects you believe the Internet’s capabilities will have on the brands you identified in the previous discussion and what the owner of the brand should do in light of them.

PART 2.

Analyze the internal environment of the company Nebraska Furniture Mart to determine that company’s strengths and weaknesses. Based on the strengths and weaknesses you discovered, determine what steps the company could take to positively impact the company’s competitiveness. Explain your rationale.

Consider the following scenario:

Within your organization, upper management has decided that your department must be downsized, and it is up to each manager to begin preparing his or her team for the changes. One of the changes to be addressed involves motivational techniques. As manager, you must research and understand various motivational methods to lead and implement change within your area.

Complete a 10-13 slide powerpoint presentation that discusses the motivational methods you would use when introducing such a significant change to your organization.

Include the following in your presentation:

• Describe which three motivational methods you would apply as a manager.
• Explain what theoretical concepts from your reading support the points you are making.

List major points in the slides. Include detailed explanations in the speaker notes section that correlate to each point.

Include videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate.

Cite a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar sources to support your position.

Format your presentation according to APA guidelines.

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