Imagine you are e-mailing with a new employee in your organization, when he questions the difference between management and leadership.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word e-mail to your co-worker that explains the difference between management and leadership. Use examples from your organization.
Format your HCS 514 WEEK 1 E-mail to Co-worker assignment according to APA guidelines.
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HCS 514 WEEK 2 Case Study: Paid to Make Decisions?
Read the “Case Study: Paid to Make Decisions?” at the end of Ch. 4 of Management Principles for Health Professionals (6th ed.).
Discuss with your team the management style portrayed in the case study.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the questions that follow the case study. Include a short discussion about the opinions of the team on the situation presented. How would you and your team members respond if found in this environment?
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
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HCS 514 WEEK 2 Organization and Management Analysis
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word analysis of organization and management in which you address the following:
- Describe various organizational theories.
- Compare management theories and styles.
- Explain which organizational theory you think most closely resembles your organization.
- Explain which management theories and styles most closely resemble management in your organization.
- Explain what could be changed to make the organization better.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
Cite: 4 peer reviewed sources from the Univeristy of Phoenix library.
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HCS 514 WEEK 3 Making a Decision
Develop a plan for making a decision and create a visual aid for your plan in 1,000 to 1,250 words.
Choose an issue that your organization is facing for which a decision must be made.
Use your plan, along with decision-making tools and techniques, to create a proposed decision for your organization. Explain how you came to your decision.
- If you work in a health care organization, include possible effects of your decision if implemented.
If you do not work in a health care organization, include additional factors you would need to consider when making a decision in a health care organization and why those would need to be considered.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
Cite four peer reviewed references from the University of Phoenix Library.
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HCS 514 WEEK 3 Case Application
Read the Case Application 1 and 2 presented at the end of Ch. 8 of Management (11th ed.).
Discuss with your team each of the Case Applications and choose one to use for this assignment.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the questions that follow the case study. Include a short discussion about the opinions of the team about the situation presented. How would you and your team members respond if found in this situation? How do you think this situation would affect a health care organization?
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HCS 514 WEEK 4 Case: The Managerial “Hot Seat”
Read the Case “The Managerial ‘Hot Seat’” located at the end of Ch. 13 of Management Principles for Health Professionals (6th ed.).
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the questions in the section titled “Instructions.”
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HCS 514 WEEK 4 Merger Memo
Imagine you are middle managers working for a health care organization that has recently merged with a competitor. Both organizations previously viewed the other as the enemy with different standards than their own. You have been asked by leadership to write a memo to your teams regarding the merger and the overall effect on the organization.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word memo that includes the following:
- The impact of organizational culture on products or services
- How organizational behavior affects quality, competition, and human relations
- How job design, work processes, and performance expectations affect organizational outcomes
Address what you, as managers, will do to ensure that everyone merges and works together as productively and contently as possible.
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HCS 514 WEEK 5 Training Materials
As a middle manager of a health care organization, leadership has asked you to create training materials for your employees.
Create training materials that include the following in 700 to 1,050 words:
- Strategies for effective communication
- Include tips for communicating with co-workers and customers or patients.
- Include conflict resolution tips.
- Ethical and legal concerns for a health care organization
Design your materials to be understandable, informative, and visually appealing for your employees.
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HCS 514 WEEK 6 Literature Review
Complete a literature review using the objectives in Week Six.
Search the Internet for three peer-reviewed articles pertaining to an objective covered in Week Six.
Consider the following search suggestions:
- Changes in the health care industry affect an organization.
- Internal factors affect change in health care organizations.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the following:
- Describe the change discussed in the article.
- Identify the effect it had on the organization.
- Describe any effect the change may have caused on the community or other organizations.
- Identify the internal and external factors that had an effect on the change in the organization.
- Describe how the organization overcame the challenges of change.
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HCS 514 WEEK 5 Case Application
Read the Case Application 1 and 2 presented at the end of Ch. 16 of Management (11th ed.).
Discuss with your team each of the Case Applications and choose one to use for this assignment.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that answers the questions that follow the case application. Include a short discussion about the opinions of the team on the practices of the two businesses. How would you and your team members respond if you worked in this type of environment? Would either of the practices work in health care organizations? Explain.
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