MGMT 8035 – Complexity & Applied System Thinking

Final Project Component: Section 5—Networks Due 9 April 2016

The Assignment: WEEK 6

This week, you will continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization (ABC Company [Ford Motor Company]). Review the Final Project Template for week 6 component.  Input directly into the template highlighted in RED only

In 2–3 pages:

NETWORKS: Identify and explain three different networks found in your selected organization.
Explain how each of the three networks might inform decision making in leadership and management.
i.e [Identify and describe three different networks found in your organization. Recall that a network is a set of nodes and links where nodes may be people, computers, documents, databases, and such, while links are relationships, for example, reports to, collaborates with, manages, leads, and so on. Information, materials, and energy flow across networks. Explain how each of these three networks might inform decision making in leadership. Examples of network typologies include: tree, ring, line, bus, mesh, fully connected, or star. Networks of people may be formal (well defines roles and functions), informal (few set roles and functions), or family.]

RECOMMENDATIONS: Recommend how the leadership may use knowledge of the networks or network structures to improve the organization.
SUPPORTING RESEARCH: Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership.

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Describe some of the considerations in creating an effective supply chain for a Middle Eastern company. What challenges might the company face in terms of complexity? Be sure that you use outside sources other than just the text. Submit your final paper to the Assignment Dropbox.

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MGMT 8025 – Perspectives on Organization & Implication for Leaders

Discussion: Organizational Culture (2-3 pages) Due 13th April 2016

Within an organization, there can be many different cultures (e.g., values, beliefs) within departments, divisions, branches, and work units. These differences might be a result of leadership style. For example, the more control the leader has over the work unit, the more his or her style will impact the culture within the unit. For this Discussion, review Chapter 13 of your course text, Culture in Action. The chapter provides various short scenarios and examples of management style and culture. Examine two different scenarios from the chapter. From the scenarios selected, consider how the leader’s management styles impact the organizational culture.

The Discussion:

Introduction
Provide a description of how each of the two management styles selected distinctively create organizational cultures.
Next, describe the strengths and weaknesses of the two styles.
Then, explain how these differences could align or be dissonant with the organization’s culture and the advantages or disadvantages of that dynamic.
Finally, explain the type of organizational culture you think would be the best for the business used in the case study. Provide a rationale for your choice.
Conclusion
 

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MGMT-8035 – Complexity & Applied System Thinking

Final Project Component: Section 6—Adding Complexity

The Assignment: 3 – 4 pages Due 22th April 2016

This week, you continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for proper APA formatting and details for this week’s component.

In 3–4 pages, complete the following:

Using your original PowerPoint model, expand your model of the organization to include the following (this model will be inserted as a figure into your Final Project Template):
Detectors
Effectors
Networks
Expand your description of the organization by:
Describing three or four agents (including detectors and effectors).
Explaining the relationships among three or four agents.
Explaining the flow of information, material, or energy across networks.
Explaining how two or three agents may be aggregated.
Explaining two or three nonlinear (positive or negative) feedback loops.
Explaining three or four key organizational processes.
Explain how this new model might help leaders better understand the organization.
Explain how this new model might help leaders improve their decision-making skills.
Recommend how the organization might improve with a better understanding of the various structures and processes in the organization.
Include at least two citations / references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership

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Case Study:
Mr. North has been admitted to your ward with a rapidly deteriorating cardiac condition – due to a comorbid respiratory condition there are no readily available treatment options. He is expected to pass away within days and is refusing any further treatment. He has made specific instructions to the staff that his wife is not to be told the truth of his condition as she has a history of anxiety and he believes she ‘could never cope’.
The patient has now deteriorated to the point where he has lost consciousness. His wife has arrived on the ward to find him unconscious and is demanding to be told the truth of his condition.
What do you believe is the ethical course of action and why?
Ethical Decision Making Exercise
The purpose of this assessment is for you to demonstrate your understanding and application of ethical decision making. You are required to make use of the supplied ethical decision making model (see below) and apply it to the case scenario above.
In your essay, show the ethical issues that are relevant, the stages (or steps) of your decision making model, and the decision that you reach about what you feel to be the thing to do.
Remember that the focus of Assessment 1 is ethical and not legal issues. Thus, for example, even though there may be legal issues within this scenario, limit your discussion to ethical issues.
Suggested approach
• Make use of the blank assignment template with the attached marking rubric provided on the LMS site.
• Ensure that the title page is correctly filled out with your student ID details.
• Apply the provided model to the case scenario information.
• Under the headings provide the case and theoretical information relevant to the
stage/step of the model.
• Ensure your discussion of relevant ethical principles (or theory) is always applied to the
case of this particular patient.
• Consider the rights of all parties involved.
• For the final stage of your decision making model put forward what you believe would
be ethical and why.
• If there is an evaluation step in your chosen decision making model, it is suggested that
you discuss how you would evaluate the decision/s you have made.

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SUBDOMAIN 304.2 – OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SKILLS   Competency 304.2.1: Graphical Charts – The graduate understands the types and uses of graphical charts in operations management.   Objective 304.2.1-10: Create an affinity diagram.

Given:

A shoe manufacturing company is having a problem with returns and customer complaints in their boot division. Top executives are meeting to figure out what these problems in the boot division are costing the company.

Task:

Create an affinity diagram with at least 6 types of cost centers to show where the boot division is costing the company money. Your diagram should include: A. The problem statement.   B. At least 6 types of cost centers that are being affected by the boot division. Note: When using sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project, the submission MUST include APA formatted in-text citations with a corresponding reference list for any direct quotes or paraphrasing. It is not necessary to list sources that were consulted if they have not been quoted or paraphrased in the text of the paper or project.   Note: No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. For tips on using APA style, please refer to the APA Handout web link included in the General Instructions section.

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NR-512 NURSING INFORMATICS

Readings are as follows:

Readings are as follows:

McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Chapter 7: Informatics Roles and the Knowledge Work of Nursing
References

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (n.d.). Crosswalk of the master’s essentials with the baccalaureate and DNP essentials. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/faculty/faculty-tool-kits/masters-essentials/Crosswalk-of-Masters.pdf

American Association of Colleges of Nursing QSEN Consortium. (2012). Graduate-level QSEN competencies: Knowledge, skills and attitudes. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/faculty/qsen/competencies.pdf

Institute of Medicine (IOM). (2011). The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2015). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Reay, T., Goodrick, E., Casebeer, A., & Hinings, C. R. (2013). Legitimizing new practices in primary health care. Health Care Management Review, 38(1), 9–19. doi: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e31824501b6

Scott, E. S. & Miles, J. (2013). Advancing leadership capacity in nursing. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 37(1), 77–82. doi:10.1097/NAQ.0b013e3182751998

The TIGER Initiative. (2013). About TIGER: TIGER Vision Statement. Retrieved from http://www.thetigerinitiative.org/about.aspx

The TIGER Initiative. (n.d.). Revolutionary leadership driving healthcare innovation: The TIGER leadership development collaborative report. Retrieved from http://www.thetigerinitiative.org/docs/TigerReport_RevolutionaryLeadership.pdf

The TIGER Initiative. (n.d.). Transforming education for an informatics agenda: TIGER education and faculty development collaborative. Retrieved from http://www.thetigerinitiative.org/docs/TigerReport_EducationFacultyDevelopment_000.pdf

Page or paragraph numbers must be included with quotes per APA. See APA re how to format references and in-text citations i.e. capitalization issues and use of the ampersand versus the word (“and”). 

Including at least one in-text citation and matching reference.

Check for grammar and spellings

Discussion: Transitioning From a Task Focus to Knowledge Work (graded)

Class, do you think that it is knowledge-oriented? Can a new grad have that skill-set from perhaps a previous non-nursing career that can then be transferred into their nursing career? 

COURSE 5: 
Explore various nurse roles, competencies, and skills in informatics. (POs 2, 11)
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Consider the fact that nurses are knowledge workers; how does nursing move from a task-completion focus to an outcomes-achievement focus?

Things to consider as you write your response …. Have there been a time when you were strictly task-oriented? Is being mainly task-oriented to the condition of the practice of nursing as a whole? How can we transition to more integrated knowledge, outcomes-achievement focused practice? How is Nursing Informatics related to / utilized for this movement toward outcomes-achievement focused practice? 

How do you get involved in your organization now and / or how can you get involved to help this transition? Who are the key stakeholders you need to get in from? There are always politics involved in figuring out who the key decision makers are within any facility.

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Perspectives on Organizations and Their Implications for Leaders (MGMT 8025M)

Discussion Week 4: The Human Resource Frame—Its Fundamental Premise and Assumptions (2-3 pages) Due15hrs.

Discussion proper: The Relationship between Organizations and Employees

Every company has its own perspective on the relationship between it and its employees. The perspectives vary based on core assumptions. Chapter 6, in your text, compares two organizations, Apple and Nucor. Apple focuses more on seeing employees “as tools” to accomplish goals for the organization while Nucor is a company that believes its employees have individual needs that can be aligned with the company’s profits and goals.

Review this week’s resources and study the readings on Apple and Nucor.

Prepare your discussion in the following:

1.      An explanation of which organization’s (Apple or Nucor) perspective you think is more effective. Justify your position. Be sure to include the motivation theories that are relevant as well as Morgan’s psychic prison metaphor in your explanation.

2.      Provide two more other alternative suggestions that organizations can see their employees for greater productivity and performance – Support your suggestions with recent academic journals in each case.

Note: In addition to the resources provided this week, also provide two more recent academic resources within 5 years (2012-2016) in APA style and citation format to support your topic.

Resources:

1.      Morgan, G. (2006). Images of organization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

◦Chapter 7, “Exploring Plato’s Cave: Organizations as Psychic Prisons” (pp. 207–240).

2.      Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2013). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership (5th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

 ◦Chapter 6, “People and Organizations” (pp. 115–135)

 ◦Chapter 7, “Improving Human Resource Management” (pp. 137–160)

 ◦Chapter 7 :“Exhibit 7.1: Basic Human Resources Strategies” (p. 140)

 ◦Chapter 8, “Interpersonal and Group Dynamics” (pp. 161–182)

3.      Walden University Online Writing Center. (2013). APA style. Retrieved from http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/APA.htm

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Competency 304.6.3: Working with Individuals & Groups – The graduate is knowledgeable about strategies for working with individuals and groups in an organization.

Objective 304.6.3-07: Apply guidelines, tools, practices, and procedures to produce effective communication and positive interactions among members of the organization.

 Given:

There are four key barriers to communication: process barriers, personal barriers, physical barriers, and semantic barriers.

Task:

Write an essay describing how you, as a manager, would overcome each of these four barriers.

Describe the guidelines, tools, practices, or procedures that you would use to overcome each type of communication barrier (i.e., process, personal, physical, and semantic).

Note: When using sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project, the submission MUST include APA formatted in-text citations with a corresponding reference list for any direct quotes or paraphrasing. It is not necessary to list sources that were consulted if they have not been quoted or paraphrased in the text of the paper or project. 

Note: No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. For tips on using APA style, please refer to the APA Handout web link included in the General Instructions section.
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Project Management Organizational Framework – MGT646 – Module 4 Project Organizational Structures

1)What power can the project manager exert as interpersonal influences? How effective are these powers and what are their limitations?

2)Describe the behavioral differences between functional and project managers.

3)You are at the end of the seventh month of your project and everything is proceeding as planned. Motivation appears high. Decide which of the following you should do and provide an explanation your response:

Leave well enough alone.
Look for better ways to improve the functioning of the team. Talk to them and make them feel important.
Call a team meeting and review the remaining schedules for the project. Prepare contingency plans.
Make sure the team is still focusing on the goals and objectives of the project.
4)What is meant by polarization of communications? What are the most common causes? What can you do to resolve this situation?

5)When is the best time to capture lessons learned and best practices? Why?

References

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