INSTRUCTIONS: 

That needs to be written the same way. “We as Japanese learned that our tactics of negotiatiing with the Americans could have been better. We realize that in our video call there were moments that we didn’t portray Japanese hospitality.”  This should be written from a students point of view who has just participated in this faux negotiation with the US as a Japanese representative. I hope that makes sense. 

BASED ON THE FEEDBACK BELOW AND THE ATTACHED VIDEO CONFERENCE  YOU WILL BE WRITING YOUR “FEEDBACK THOUGHTS” ON THE FOLLOWING: 

TOPIC 1:  Japan Negotiation Performance (3 PARAGRAPHS and SOME BULLET POINTS)

• Strengths (~1.5 min):
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• Weaknesses (1.5 min):
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TOPIC 2: Japan lessons learned 

(3 PARAGRAPHS)

VIDEO CONFERENCE LINK:  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0GU_3fMW0ovT3lHNHZjOGNhR1E/view?usp=sharing

FEEDBACK

First of all, good job overall. The negotiation outcome is much more favorable to the US team, but still within an acceptable range for Japan. So the main goal was achieved.

I will summarize the positives and negatives of your performance below.

Positives:

-Your team was able to complete the task successfully, despite working on a shorter deadline, due to the reschedule. This is a challenge that I will take into account when grading, to your credit;

-Your team and the other team were able to put together a protocol and script that carried us through;

-All team members were able to deliver solid statements backed up with relevant data;

-You agreed to extremely favorable terms for the USA, but the devil is in the details: you did not commit to any timeline, only a deadline. So the Japanese government could now do nothing for 8 years, and as long as they increase their import quota to 22% one hour before the 8 years are up, technically they fulfilled their commitment. Whereas what the USA Team really wanted is a gradual opening of the market every year leading up to the deadline. But they overlooked this critical part of the deal. Of course, there was no reason for you to bring it up and force yourselves to commit to a timeline. It was their loss, and your gain. Honestly, I have no way of tellingwhether you were conscious of this “gift” when the deal was made, but the fact remains that no timeline in the present deal is much better for Japan than having a timeline.

Negatives:

-Your team did not follow through with the commitment stated in the negotiation protocol to provide an initial offer (“First Offer will be available for viewing/amending via Google Doc, provided prior to negotiation”, in the Protocol document). So there is a penalty for not fulfilling this commitment to the other team;

-Your team was not prepared enough. This led to two big problems. The first problem was when Team USA “showed their cards” too much with the initial offer they shared with you. They placed themselves in a position that your team should have taken advantage of by offering them the least favorable terms they listed. E.g. why would you be willing to accept their initial offer of 15% over 5 years (or even 15% over 8 years after some back and forth), if they state in the same document that they would be willing to accept 15% over 10 years? And yet, you agreed to 22% over 8 years. It is not logical to offer better terms than what you know for a fact the other side would be willing to accept as their least favorable terms. It would be like a car salesman offering to sell a car for 20K and you reply back “no, I will pay 22K”. Huh?

-Due to lack of preparation, the second problem is that you were only able to bring up the % of import quota and the timeline as the only parameters of the negotiation package. Actually, there were other aspects to take into account (as pointed out in the required readings), such as whether the imported rice would be for human consumption or not. And also whether the imports within the quota would remain duty free. When Team USA raised the question of whether the rice import quotas would be for human consumption or animal feed, your team had no idea what to respond, so you did not really know what you were saying yes to. This point was actually the most controversial part of the deal. Right now less than 10% of foreign rice imports go to human consumption in Japan. Almost all imports end up either as animal feed or as humanitarian donations from the Japanese government to developing countries facing famine. So accepting to go from less than 10% to 94% is a stunningly high number that is really not going to happen for decades in actuality. You should never have accepted this number. The other parameter you never brought up was whether rice imports within the quota would remain duty free, or whether a duty tax would be levied. This would have been a way to finance subsidies to the Japanese farmers: they would have faced more foreign competition (at a higher price point due to the duty), but the government could have supported them financially with the extra tax revenues.

-Negotiation style: Having researched the Japanese negotiation style and their business etiquette, you knew that you should avoid confrontation and public shaming. You should have been very polite throughout discussions, even when disagreeing. So Sean’s statement “in the past, you have offended us” was much too blunt. No Japanese delegation would have ever done that.

Overall, your performance was acceptable, but would have benefited from more preparation. 

At this point, per the syllabus, 

Write a 1,050-word report using your company or one
with which you are familiar (if you prefer, your facilitator can assign
one to you). Answer the following questions for your chosen
organization.

Explain what differentiation strategy your company should undertake

to encourage their target market to choose them over other competitors

Must be on a HR topic,( just pick any topic and I will send my teacher if he approve so we can stat on it. Listed below is the requirements of this paper).

Must be 10 full pages of writing (10-point deduction per pages missing). Reference page, title page, graphs or charts to not count toward the ten pages. Never use the word I in formal writing.Must have a title page, Introduction body with subheading, and a conclusion section. Must have at least 5 references (no blogs, all article must exceed 5 pages). All references must be cited within your paper. You may use citation style of your choice but be consistent. Must have a chart or graph depicting a major point. Your textbook does not count toward references.Must be double spaced and two-inch margins. Use Times Roman. And default pica in Word.

Project: Promoting Health Care Quality

With the recognition of the bidirectional link between quality and finance in a healthcare organization, it follows that any changes to one can have an echo in the other. To determine the net result of a change in overall performance status of the organization, one must determine the point where the results of echoes will reach equilibrium.
—Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, & Shabot, 2013

This week you have been examining evaluation tools and how they can be used as part of a plan to promote quality and safety. As you develop an evaluation plan for your Course Project, consider the insights you have gained through your analysis of your selected organization, as well as the highly regulated and competitive health care environment.

To prepare:

• Review the information on evaluation, including data representation and quality monitoring, presented in the Learning Resources.
• Review your work on the Course Project thus far, particularly Sections 3 and 4.
• Think about how your quality improvement initiative could be evaluated. Consider the following:
  • Which stakeholders need information related to this initiative? What do they need this information for?
  • How would you assess the outcomes in the short-term and long-term?
  • How would you analyze related processes, including but not limited to the one you redesigned in Section 4?
  • How should an analysis of organizational structures be integrated into your evaluation?
  • How would you identify and evaluate any unintended consequences that may arise?
  • What metrics should the organization use to gauge progress and the effectiveness of the quality improvement initiative? How would these metrics incorporate the measures and indicators that you identified in Section 3? Are there additional measures and indicators that you now think should be included?
  • How should the organization track and display data for an interdisciplinary audience? How could the use of a dashboard or balanced scorecard be of value?
  • How could the organization create an integrated view of performance that links finance and quality?

To complete:

Develop a 2- to 3-page evaluation plan that includes the following:

• An outline of the methods that you would propose for evaluating the quality improvement initiative and the financial implications
• A description of specific metrics that integrate your previously identified measures and indicators and any others that you have deemed important
• A recommendation of how the organization could represent data related to this quality improvement issue for ongoing monitoring and to determine the value or success of the initiative
• An explanation of how the organization could create an integrated view of performance that links finance and quality

This Assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 10.

An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage.
—Jack Welch as quoted by Kerrigan

Think back to when you first identified the quality improvement issue for your Course Project. What insights related to quality measurement, improvement strategies, and evaluation have you gained since then? How have these insights informed your view of the issue and shaped your understanding of how to promote positive outcomes for your selected organization? How would you suggest the organization proceed based on the outcomes of your investigation?

In this section of the Course Project, you synthesize your analysis and recommendations into an action plan for implementing the quality improvement initiative.

To prepare:

• Begin to develop a plan for implementing your quality improvement initiative, including the redesigned process that you identified in Section 3. Consider the following:
  • How would you undertake the process of determining a timeline for planning, implementing, and evaluating this quality improvement plan?
  • What are some reasonable milestones for this initiative? What are the daily, weekly, monthly steps/goals?

To complete:

• Write a 2- to 3-page summary of your quality improvement action plan.

This Assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 10.

Apa Format

Citing two peer reviewed medical research articles, journals dated 2014-2019

4-5 sentences to answer each question

1. As a nurse do you think that genetic diagnostic tools will be a standard scope of practice for nurses in the acute and critical care areas especially with relation to cardiac patients?

2. In the future do you think that a nurse gathering a family history will have to obtain a family pedigree with genetic information or in your opinion is this already being done?

3. If you could purchase a commercial genome wide scan that was inexpensive and accurate would you personally use one and would you also use it on all your family members?

As genomic health care becomes commonplace, nurses will be asked to provide genomic care in all health care settings including acute care and critical care. This information will help critical care nursing leaders become familiar with genetics related to common cardiac conditions and prepare acute care and critical care nurses for a new phase in patient diagnostics, with greater emphasis on early diagnosis and recognition of conditions before sudden cardiac death. Genomics, the study of genes and their functions, is becoming increasingly routine in all clinical settings. Knowledge about genomics and diagnostic tools has great promise in individualizing diagnosis and treatment for conditions that are seen in intensive care units (ICUs).To meet the new challenges of genomic health care, the Consensus Panel on Genetic/Genomic Nursing Competencies recommends including genetics/genomics in undergraduate nursing courses to ensure that registered nurses have the required knowledge and skills in all patient care settings. These competencies have been endorsed by 47 nursing organizations, including the Council of Cardiovascular Nursing of the American Heart Association. Family health history and genetic tests are the two most important tools that nurses use in genomic health care to assess genetic risk. Familiarity with genomic vocabulary, research, and testing options is essential for acute care and critical care nurses to understand new information about diseases and treatments, to process patient and family requests for information, and to be sensitive and responsive to genetic conditions.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common cause of sudden death in individuals younger than 35 years. It is characterized by a variety of disorders, including enlarged sarcomeres and left ventricular hypertrophy, malpositioned mitral valve papillary muscles that contribute to mitral regurgitation, pulmonary congestion, cardiac dysrhythmias (atrial fibrillation/flutter and ventricular tachycardia), left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, and, ultimately, diastolic heart failure.