Assignment 2: (RA): Ethical Dilemma In Child Placement Scenario

The responsibilities of human services workers extend beyond providing direct care to clients to solve interpersonal problems, improve their access to basic needs, and offer support during difficult times in their lives. Human services workers also have to consider the ethical, legal, and moral implications of their decisions in their everyday work.

In this assignment, you will read a scenario to analyze the ethical theories, identify legal and ethical options and issues, and recommend a proper course of action.

Scenario:

You are employed at a human services agency where a part of your duties includes finding temporary placement for three clients (children aged 5–12) over the holidays. You were unable to find placement for one of the children, a victim of sexual abuse. The options available to you are to either leave the child at the agency or take him home with you.

Tasks:

Analyze the scenario above and in a 5- to 6-page report, identify the legal and ethical ramifications of your options, recommending a course of action. Make sure to complete the following:

· Examine the current legal and regulatory requirements that are present in this situation.

· Evaluate the legal, professional, and personal risks associated with both options.

· Explain the ethical implications of both options.

· Identify and justify a specific course of action. Make sure to support your decision with references to specific ethical theories and frameworks.

1. Explain how strategic plan criteria are utilized and weighted in the capital budgeting process, thereby facilitating capital decision making.

2. Explain the need for and the process for flexible budgeting in healthcare organizations today.

3. Discuss the ways in which a physician office practice can optimize its financial condition and benefit its hospital partner.

4. Healthcare administrators need a solid understanding of physicians and their medical staff activities. Explain the typical categories of medical staff in a community hospital setting.

Compare and contrast the four paradigms of organization theory.

What do you see as the main points of differentiation between them?

Consider which phenomena each paradigm tends to make most visible and which phenomena each paradigm tends to overlook.

2. Which of these paradigms are most compatible with each other? Which are most contradictory? Why?

3. Which of the paradigms reflects most closely your experiences in organizations?

4. Are there any combinations among two or more of these paradigms that you find particularly compelling as a way to understand organizations?

2. What are the key differences between the bureaucratic and relational organizational forms?

4. What is the natural systems model of organizational relations?

5. What are the strengths of the bureaucratic organizational form? What are its

weaknesses?

3. What is reciprocal interrelating? What is relational coordination?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of coordinating work through reciprocal relationships?

5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of coordinating work through bureaucracy?

A) Outline (diagram) and explain the Stress Response process linking stressors to health.

1. Diagram the model linking social relationships and health.

2. How are social ties related to the common cold?

B) Discuss three insights from application of the network approach to understanding social support/relationships and health.

C) Define and compare the four prototypes of social networks. Contrast core,extended, and peripheral networks.

D) What are core discussion networks? How did the size and composition of American’s core networks change between 1985 and 2004? What changes were found in network density and range? What demographic variations in networks were significant? What were the explanations for these changes? Do you think this change was real – why or why not?

E) What do Small, et al (2015) suggest about the stability of the core network? Describe their four hypotheses? Which of these were supported by their findings? Do you agree with their conclusions – why or why not?

F) In the social networks and health review (2008), what are the major findings of investigations assessing supradyadic effects? Discuss the authors’ two main policy implications.

G) In the 2015 review of sociocentric network studies in low- and middle-income countries, what are the main findings for the effects of network composition, centrality, and structure? What are the authors’ three main assertions about the benefits of using network data?

H) Outline Song’s (2010) conceptual model linking social capital to psychological distress. How do the results support this theory of social capital as network resources?

Question for discussion: why keep wasting all this time and money?

Every year the States of Virginia and North Carolina spend millions of dollars trucking sand to the shoreline to replenish the beaches.  Yet, every year — and especially when a strong storm or hurricane impacts the same shoreline, the sand is quickly washed away.

Question for discussion: why keep wasting all this time and money? Let the ocean impact the shoreline as it will and save the money!  Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

In your discussion, make sure you express how waves act in regards to the shoreline.

Strategic Management Assignment 3

Which of the 5 generic competitive strategies best characterizes your company’s strategic approach to competing successfully? Looking at your company, answer the questions posed in the Exercise for Simulation participants on p. 177. 

EXERCISE FOR SIMULATION PARTICIPANTS 

Has your company relied more on offensive or defensive strategies to achieve your rank in the industry? What options for being a first mover does your company have? Do any of these first-mover options hold competitive advantage potential?

Does your company have the option to merge with or acquire other companies? If so, which rival companies would you like to acquire or merge with?

Is your company vertically integrated? Explain.

Is your company able to engage in outsourcing? If so, what do you see as the pros and cons of outsourcing? Are strategic alliances involved? Explain.

Case Study: Rationing Available Capital 

For this assignment, imagine that you are now the Chief Operating Officer of a large hospital in Riyadh. As part of your duties, you are to approve and allocate the necessary funds for the upcoming year’s major capital expenditures. There are two major requests and unfortunately, the hospital simply cannot afford both. The first request comes from facilities management. They have submitted the proposals and costing information for a major five-story parking structure. Complaints about limited parking arise from staff and patients on a daily basis. You ponder the hospital’s desire to increase services and realize that this is certainly worth considering. However, on an equal level of need, the medical department has submitted a request for an upgraded and expanded operating room including the addition of robotic surgical assisting devices (DaVinci).

In this proposal to the Board of Directors, analyze the steps you would use in determining which one will be funded this year and which one will be funded next year. Will you use surveys, if so will they be available to the public, employees only, or both? Will you favor the parking facility as it will generate income or will you favor the increase of technology as it lends itself well to marketing? Who will you bring into the decision-making process? As you endeavor in this assignment, the thought process is more critical than choice as there is no right or wrong answer.

Your proposal should include the following components:

A one-page discussion identifying the process of capital investment decision making, using citation and supporting reference articles.

A two-page proposal including steps in determining the funding:

Assessment (survey, target audience, etc.).

Compare and contrast both options.

Final proposed decision with supporting spreadsheet.

Your paper should meet the following structural requirements:

Three pages (not including title or reference page).

Excel spreadsheet which supports your position.

Formatted according to APA 

Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. 

Take a position on the issues you identified based on observations you have made from your research.  In other words, specify whether the issue is favorable or unfavorable for the company.  After you have taken a position on each of the three issues and supported each of them with three talking points, conclude your paper with an opinion paragraph as to whether you would or would not invest in this company and explain why in that paragraph.

Your opinions must refer to or be related to the items noted in the previous two sections.

You must take a position on the three issues you identified in section 2 and identify the position as favorable or unfavorable toward the company.

You must support you position in a separate paragraph for each of the 3 issues.

You must provide 3 talking points to support your position on favorability (favorable or unfavorable).

In your conclusion state whether you would or would not invest in this company and why.

This section must be at least 2 pages in length.

Company 1: Eastman Chemical

Company 2:Johnson and Johnson

Disaster, Crisis, And Trauma

10- to 12-page paper (not including references, title page, or abstract) should be double-spaced with proper APA formatting. Your paper must include:

A minimum of 10 references (in addition to any course readings that you may wish to reference);

A description of the type of disaster, crisis, or trauma you selected;

An explanation of the crisis intervention approach you would use to respond to the disaster, crisis, or trauma;

An analysis of ethical, legal, and multicultural considerations related to the disaster, crisis, or trauma;

An assessment of the potential impact of the disaster, crisis, or trauma including the following areas:s

Teed Off Over the Aquifer

Research the Edwards aquifer using the resources listed above, the internet, and other resources.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that analyzes the sustainable development and land use strategies and practices used to protect the aquifer. The paper must answer the following questions:

What sustainable planning strategies have been implemented to protect the aquifer?

What conflicts of interest exist regarding the use of the groundwater in the Edwards aquifer? Cite at least two specific examples.

How does the protection of soil relate to the protection of the aquifer? Cite at least one specific example.

How does the disposal of solid waste and wastewater effect water quality in the Edwards aquifer? Are current disposal systems adequate?

If you could suggest a change to the policies or systems currently in place, what would you recommend?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Assignment 2: (RA): Ethical Dilemma In Child Placement Scenario

The responsibilities of human services workers extend beyond providing direct care to clients to solve interpersonal problems, improve their access to basic needs, and offer support during difficult times in their lives. Human services workers also have to consider the ethical, legal, and moral implications of their decisions in their everyday work.

In this assignment, you will read a scenario to analyze the ethical theories, identify legal and ethical options and issues, and recommend a proper course of action.

Scenario:

You are employed at a human services agency where a part of your duties includes finding temporary placement for three clients (children aged 5–12) over the holidays. You were unable to find placement for one of the children, a victim of sexual abuse. The options available to you are to either leave the child at the agency or take him home with you.

Tasks:

Analyze the scenario above and in a 5- to 6-page report, identify the legal and ethical ramifications of your options, recommending a course of action. Make sure to complete the following:

· Examine the current legal and regulatory requirements that are present in this situation.

· Evaluate the legal, professional, and personal risks associated with both options.

· Explain the ethical implications of both options.

· Identify and justify a specific course of action. Make sure to support your decision with references to specific ethical theories and frameworks.