Option #1: Employee Performance Needs

A critical aspect of a performance management system is to create an organization in which employees can maximize their potential. Often maximizing employee potential requires negotiating requirements and performance standards, outcomes, and measures for employees. This week, we focus on identifying employee performance issues or skills and competency gaps and how we can address employee performance needs, while making an impact on the organization’s strategy.

For this assignment:

Identify how to determine individual performance management needs.  When responding to this question, consider the role of performance reviews in identifying performance strengths, weaknesses, and areas for opportunities. Think about how performance reviews impact/influence performance management.

Often during an individual performance needs assessment, we identify performance issues, skills, or/and competencies that are not being met. Describe how organizations can improve knowledge, skills, and abilities through implementing training and development programs.

Identify how organizations can determine the benefits and drawbacks of implemented programs and policies to improve performance. Explain the role of metrics in assessing program quality.

Finally, explain the relationship between employee performance and organizational strategy.

Requirements:

For this assignment, refer to the area of the Writing Center entitled Writing an Effective Essay. You may also want to view the sample paper entitled APA Sample Paper.

You can download and save the APA Template Paper from this page as your own paper and replace the placeholders with your own information. This template is already formatted in APA style according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA. Do not change the formatting of this template.

Write a 5-7 page paper, or about 2300 words, not including the title and reference pages, which are required.

Your paper must be properly cited and formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.

Include a formal references page. This is an individual paper; however, you should reflect on our discussion forums and incorporate ideas from there, as appropriate.

You must support your analysis with at least three scholarly references, and can include resources from this course.

The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources. You cannot use Wikipedia or any CSU-Global assignment. For this assignment, a credible source is defined as:

A scholarly or peer-reviewed journal article.

A government-based website or publication.

A trade or industry journal article, publication, or website, including those from trade organizations such as SHRM.org and TD.org.

As well as I need a plagiarism report attached

Assignment 3: Dismissal MeetingDue Week 6 and worth 150 pointsImagine that you are an office manager and you have been tasked with the job of coordinating and heading the dismissal meeting for an employee layoff.  Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
2. Describe a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
3. Determine the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
4. Using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice, create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation.
5. Predict three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Formulate HRM strategies and policies to recruit, select, place, and retain the most efficient and effective workforce.
• Develop effective talent management strategies to recruit and select employees.
• Design processes to manage employee performance, retention, and separation.
• Analyze laws governing employment and how organizations can ensure ethical practices.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic human resource development.
• Write clearly and concisely about strategic human resource development using proper writing mechanics.

Assessment Details:

Word count / Time provided: 2000 words and PP presentation Slides

No PLAGARISM

This assessment requires students to investigate, analysis and report on a business decision scenario. The investigation will consider designing and testing the decision model with suitable data for the business scenario. Students also require presenting their models in class during separate presentation session. In this task, students are required to provide a summary of the literature review findings in a review format. As a guide, students should research academic journals, books or conference proceedings through ProQuest or Google Scholar. Normal referencing is expected in the review and the arguments must be supported with evidence from the literature. Therefore, to achieve a satisfactory result, students need to demonstrate strong commitment and diligence with this task. Applied project includes two main components:

1.Decision Model Proposal

Investigation of two separate models that apply to a given industry or a simulation that can be modelled to a given industry: sport, medicine, manufacturing, airlines, scheduling, etc.

2. Decision Model application

Students need to design and test their simulation model with suitable data for the business scenario. The model should be validated for its reliability. Data for simulation of LP, Regression, Decision Tree, Network distribution, Forecasting, etc., application from a business scenario, will be required for the walkthrough. The final submission should clearly explain the scenario in non-technical terms and provide suitable conclusions or insights about what students have learned from this analysis. The paper submitted must not be more than 2500-3000 words in length. Students also require to present (power-point) their models in class during separate presentation session. Harvard format referencing must be used.

Instructions

Developing employees through the implementation of training and development opportunities is a primary function of human resource management (HRM). Performance measurement and appraisals are one way to determine what type of additional training is needed to ensure employee success.

Imagine that you have been hired as the human resource manager at an organization where you have previously worked or are currently working. Your first task is to assess areas for improving training and development and the performance appraisal system within the organization. Write an essay on your analysis of these two areas. Address the questions below in your assignment. Use headers to organize your paper and show what you are covering in your assignment.

Training and Development Analysis

• What are the steps of the new hire training process? Are there any steps missing that you would add?
• As the human resource manager, how would you evaluate the training needs of your staff?
• How can you ensure that the training you would provide is effective? What data might be used to make your conclusion?
• What considerations would you make for employee learning styles?
• How would future training and development be impacted through human resource planning?
• Do you have a plan to shape employee behavior within your organization? Why, or why not?

Performance Appraisal Analysis

• As the human resource manager, what are two best practices you would follow when planning for employee performance appraisals?
• What performance methods would you choose over other methods?
• What are two of the common problems with appraisals? How would you avoid them in your organization?
• What components do you think are required for effective human resource planning?

Be sure to include an introduction. Support your essay with a minimum of two references. Your essay must be at least two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

HSA 312 – 01:    MANAGED HEALTH CARE

·       PAYING PROVIDERS.

·       UTILIZATION MANAGEMENT

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QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED ARE IN GREEN.

·       QUESTIONS HAVE MULTIPLE PARTS – BRIEFLY ANSWER EACH PART.

·       ANSWERS SHOULD BE SHORT – 3-4 SENTENCES PER QUESTION.

·       SINGLE SPACED.

·       12 POINT TYPE.

·       DOWNLOAD THE QUESTIONS FOR THE FINAL, WRITE ANSWERS UNDER THE QUESTIONS, AND SUBMIT THE FINAL DOCUMENT VIA THE ASSIGNMENTS PROCESS.

QUESTION 1: TWO KEY APPROACHES TO PAYING PROVIDERS.

USING ATTACHED READING 1 (SLIDES 5-6, 13 – 15)), AND READING 2., ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:

PART A:    What is the basic difference between Fee-For-Service Payments and Bundled Payments as the two (2) main approaches to paying providers for Personal Health Care Services?     (HINT: How do those terms relate (respectively) to the restaurant terms A La Carte and Prix Fixe?)

PART B: Give ONE (1) example of a Fee-For-Service Payment, and ONE (1) example of a Bundled Payment, for specific types of clinical providers (Doctor, hospital, Skilled Nursing Facility).

PART C: Give ONE (1) positive effect of Fee-For-Service Payment on the behavior of a clinical provider, and ONE (1) positive effect of a Bundled Payment on the behavior of one or more clinical providers.

QUESTION 2: PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: THE CONCEPT/ RELATIONSHIP TO PERFORMANCE MEASURES

USING READING 1 (USE SLIDES 11-12), READING 3, READING 3.A., READING 4., READING 4.A., AND READING 4.B. ATTACHED, ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:

PART A:    What is the basic premise of Pay-for-Performance (P4P) – In other words, how is this form of payment expected to positively impact on the behavior of clinical providers? (Doctors and hospitals, for instance.)

PART B: What is a Quality Measure or Performance Measure/Indicator – how are such Measures related to the concept and practice of Pay-for-Performance?

NOTE: JUST USE READINGS 4., 4.A., AND 4.B. TO GET A GENERAL SENSE OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES, WHAT THEY ARE, AND WHAT THEY DO. DO NOT GET INTO THIS IN TOO MUCH DETAIL – LOOK AT 4.B. TO LEARN WHAT HEDIS IS, AND TO GET A COUPLE OF EXAMPES.

QUESTION 3: BUNDLED PAYMENTS: PRINCIPLES/EXAMPLES/MEDICARE/MS-DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS

USING ATTACHED READING 1(SLIDES 6, 13-15), READING 5.A., AND READING 5.B.

PART A:    USING DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS (DRGs) AS AN EXAMPLE:  Briefly describe the basic concepts behind Bundled Payments – include ONE (1) expected Positive outcome of this kind of payment.

PART B: What types of clinical groups (patients with specific diagnoses, patients receiving certain surgical or medical procedures) are the best candidates for creating Bundled Payments? Why are they the best candidates?

QUESTION 4: DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND POPULATION HEALTH

USING READING 7, READING 6.A, READING. 6.B., AND READING 6.C. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:

PART A: Disease Management is based on a Population Health approach to looking at clinical data. BRIEFLY: What is a Population Health approach?

PART B: Briefly indicate TWO (2) ways in which Disease Management and Case Management are different Utilization Management approaches.

PART C: Briefly discuss how Disease Management emphasizes Coordination of Care for identified populations of potential high utilizers of Personal Health Care Services, including individuals with multiple chronic conditions. (HINT: Think about Collaborative Practice Models, and Routine Reporting between Providers and Health Plans.)

QUESTION 5: IDENTIFYING AREAS ON WHICH TO FOCUS UTILIZATION MANAGEMENT

USING READING 8 (SLIDES 5 – 10). ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:

PART A:  Briefly describe Hospital Acquired Complications and Conditions: What are they? Give ONE (1) example.

PART B:  Why do you think that computer analysis of the incidence of these kinds of events (for instance, at a hospital) can help to focus efficient and effective Utilization Management activities? (HINT: Do clinical providers and administrators in hospitals have control over the occurrence of these events?)

QUESTION 6: CURRENT TRENDS IN UTILIZATION MANAGEMENT: COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF LARGE DATA SETS/IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH UTILIZERS/ADDRESSING BOTH CLINICAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS OF PATIENTS.

USING READING 7 AND READING 10.B., ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:

PART A: What kinds of data did the Hot spotting Model used in Camden New Jersey use to identify the highest utilizers of Personal Health Care Services?

PART B: Using this Reading, and the example of an individual clinical intervention in the Reading, describe ONE (1) way in which this Utilization Management approach focused on Social aspects of the patient’s life in order to improve their health status.