Lawsuit Recommendation

Write a 750-1,000 word paper in which you explore the options for defending a lawsuit in court, going to arbitration, going to mediation, or structuring a settlement.

Scenario: A neurosurgeon is claiming injury and damages from a for-profit hospital that notified him that it had denied his hospital admitting privileges. The physician claims the hospital used its peer-review process as a veil to deny access to the hospital and his subsequent ability to perform surgeries. Shortly after, the neurosurgeon began performing surgeries at an academic medical center where he was also named as Chair of Neurosurgery. The for-profit denies any misuse of its peer-review process and bases its decision on the multiple claims brought by other physicians and patients that the neurosurgeon was over treating patients in order to make more money for himself.

The options for resolving this issue include defending the suit in court, going to arbitration, going to mediation, or structuring a settlement.

  1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each resolution?
  2. When addressing the hospital board of directors, what option would you recommend? Why is your recommendation the best option?

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Introduction To Operations Management

 

Chapter 6 Assignment

Complete questions 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on pages 227 and 228. Operations and Supply Chain Management for the 21st Century

ch 6: independent demand inventory

1. The current order quantity for Paul’s Pasta Pin-wheels is 200 boxes. The order cost is $4 per or-der, the holding cost is $0.40 per box per year, and the annual demand is 500 boxes per year.a. Calculate the annual holding cost plus the annual ordering cost to get the total annual cost when using an order quantity of 200 boxes.b. Calculate the EOQ and the total annual cost for this order quantity.

p.227 3. Hottenstein, Giffith, and Hult, attorneys at law, do a great deal of printing. The firm uses a single type of printer with annual demand for print cartridges of 480 per year. The order cost is $15 per order, and the carrying cost is 20 percent per cartridge per year of the purchase cost of $35 per cartridge. a. How many print cartridges should the firm order at one time?b. What is the time between orders?

p.228 4. Burgerama requires all employees who handle food to wear latex gloves for sanitary reasons. The annual demand for gloves is 250 boxes of 200 per year. The order cost is $11 per order, and the car-rying cost is 25 percent per box per year of the purchase cost of $20 per box. a. How many boxes of gloves should Burgerama order at one time?b. What is the time between orders?c. What would be the change in annual cost if Burgerama had storage space for only 15 boxes per order and thus was forced to use an order quantity of 15?

p.228 5. Office Express sells office suppliers to businesses on a membership basis—i.e., walk-in customers without a membership are not allowed. The com-pany delivers supplies directly to the purchaser as long as a minimum purchase of $100 is made. In order to encourage bulk orders, Office Express offers the following discount schedule on pur-chase quantities of boxes of paper. Larry’s Lumber has annual demand of 5,000 boxes of paper, a setup cost of $10 per order, and a holding cost of 22 percent of the purchase price. Calculate the optimal order quantity. 1–100 boxes $5 per box 100–249 boxes $4.75 per box 250–499 boxes $4.50 per box 500 or more boxes $4.25 per box

p.228 6. A watch repair shop buys batteries for a variety of products. The most frequent battery purchase is for a Y300, with demand of 3,000 per year. The order cost is $15 per order, and the holding cost is $0.50 per battery. Given the following price schedule, calculate the optimal order quantity. Number of Batteries Price 1–250 $6.00 250–499 $5.50 500–999 $5.00 1,000 or more $4.75

Confronting Sin during Counseling Session

McMinn discussed guidelines when confronting sin during a counseling experience, and the lectures reviewed some factors as well. Why can a sensitive Christian counselor not just automatically and quickly confront obvious sin in the life of the counselee? Of the cautions mentioned by the class sources, which ones do you think counselors most often overlook? Why? Now, consider the following case. What forms of confrontation do you think would work best in this scenario? Why did you answer as you did? 300 words and insert biblical content and 3 sources. You can use one of the below sources as well. Entwistle, D. N. (2010). Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity (2nd ed.). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. ISBN 9781556359446. McMinn, M. R. (2011). Psychology, theology, and spirituality in Christian counseling (Rev. ed.). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House. ISBN: 9780842352529

Case Study: Jean (pseudonym) was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She reported having very little memory of her childhood. Her mother was severely depressed and, on several occasions throughout Jane’s early childhood, the mother spent several months at a time hospitalized for her depression. When her mother returned home, she would at times “lose control” and start beating on the children. Jean’s father left her mother when Jean was only three years old. Jean was eventually removed from the home and placed in foster care. She moved around from one foster care parent to another, and finally came to live with a pastor and his wife who raised her in a warm, loving family. Unfortunately, Jane started “looking for love in all the wrong places.” Jane became promiscuous and eventually got pregnant. This was a great disappointment to the pastor and his wife. Jane had been attending church regularly before the pregnancy and had made a profession of faith in Christ. She felt extremely guilty about the pregnancy. The pastor’s wife told Jean that she was extremely disappointed with her and that she was embarrassed to have her in her home. Not long thereafter, Jean secretly got an abortion. She then ran away with a young man to a hippie commune in California (during the late 60s). Jean is now 55 years old and has been in and out of counseling her entire life. Recently, she was referred for therapy following an attempted suicide. How would you decide when to confront this woman’s sin in counseling? What form or forms of confrontation should be used.

discuss the applicability to mobile and ubiquitous systems of techniques

McMinn discussed guidelines when confronting sin during a counseling experience, and the lectures reviewed some factors as well. Why can a sensitive Christian counselor not just automatically and quickly confront obvious sin in the life of the counselee? Of the cautions mentioned by the class sources, which ones do you think counselors most often overlook? Why? Now, consider the following case. What forms of confrontation do you think would work best in this scenario? Why did you answer as you did? 300 words and insert biblical content and 3 sources. You can use one of the below sources as well. Entwistle, D. N. (2010). Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity (2nd ed.). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. ISBN 9781556359446. McMinn, M. R. (2011). Psychology, theology, and spirituality in Christian counseling (Rev. ed.). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House. ISBN: 9780842352529

Case Study: Jean (pseudonym) was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She reported having very little memory of her childhood. Her mother was severely depressed and, on several occasions throughout Jane’s early childhood, the mother spent several months at a time hospitalized for her depression. When her mother returned home, she would at times “lose control” and start beating on the children. Jean’s father left her mother when Jean was only three years old. Jean was eventually removed from the home and placed in foster care. She moved around from one foster care parent to another, and finally came to live with a pastor and his wife who raised her in a warm, loving family. Unfortunately, Jane started “looking for love in all the wrong places.” Jane became promiscuous and eventually got pregnant. This was a great disappointment to the pastor and his wife. Jane had been attending church regularly before the pregnancy and had made a profession of faith in Christ. She felt extremely guilty about the pregnancy. The pastor’s wife told Jean that she was extremely disappointed with her and that she was embarrassed to have her in her home. Not long thereafter, Jean secretly got an abortion. She then ran away with a young man to a hippie commune in California (during the late 60s). Jean is now 55 years old and has been in and out of counseling her entire life. Recently, she was referred for therapy following an attempted suicide. How would you decide when to confront this woman’s sin in counseling? What form or forms of confrontation should be used.

Effectively demonstrating mastery of written communication with a targeted audience.

This week, you will work on the JetBlue case within your text.

  • Integrating concepts and theories from the text, analyze the company’s general and industry environment, internal resources and intellectual assets. Specifically, what are key forces in the general and industry environments that affect JetBlue’s choice of strategy? What internal resources and assets does JetBlue have that may give it a competitive advantage?
  • Integrating concepts and theories form the text, analyze the company’s business-level and corporate-level strategies. Consider what are the components of JetBlue’s competitive advantage and whether JetBlue’s competitive advantage is sustainable.
  • Conduct financial analysis and develop implications on a firm’s strategy. Specifically, 1) What trends do you see in the expenses of JetBlue, and how does this cost impact JetBlue’s pretax income, 2) During the years 2012 through 2016, one year stands out as particularly successful for JetBlue. Identify the year and describe the factors that played the largest role in making it an exceptional year for the company, and 3) What major year-to-year changes do you see in JetBlue’s financial statement (Exhibit 4)? Given what you know about JetBlue from the case, how would you explain these changes?
  • Develop recommendations(s) for a 3-5 year strategy. Provide an overview of the timetable and required resources.
  • Construct a document in APA 6th edition format effectively demonstrating mastery of written communication with a targeted audience. Your analysis should be based solely on the information in the case. Other than the text, external sources should not be included. Your paper should be between 10-15 pages in length.

Other than the text, external sources should not be included. Your paper should be between 10-15 pages in length.

Assessment Of Key Industry Changes

It is essential to understand the development of one’s own industry in context of the factors that drove change in the past. These may also be some of the same factors that will continue to drive change in the future.

Based on the business plan you created in MBA 560: Marketing and Strategy, describe the impact of those factors of change identified in your discussion posting this week. Identify key obstacles/opportunities that necessitated the changes and the nature of changes made in the related industry. The assessment should include a section on both the enabling factors and the inhibiting factors that drove the change. The force field analysis technique can be used to help illustrate this concept [The captioned version of the video located in this document may be accessed in the following link: MBA-690 Force Field Analysis (CC)]. . The related article and video in the module resources can help you with this concept.  You must use the worksheet to complete the assignment

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_06.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTYilMBm-_c

A New Tool for Strategic Planning

You will need to complete scenes 1-10 in FLIGBY, if you have not already done so, craft an ERRC grid for yourself based on your reading in Blue Ocean Strategy, Chapter 2. Take into consideration your personal and professional life. Have at least two goals in each of the four quadrants. Focus on the most important two (out of 8) goals that you inserted into the grid.

Using the Goal Setting Plan template, create between two and five objectives for each of the two most important goals. Once the objectives are determined, fill in the resource, measurement, and targets for each objective. Include that template to your paper, and also write about your findings and how you will accomplish them—with particular focus on the ones that present challenges.

Read the following articles found in the FLIGBY Library that will be used in Discussions and/or Assignments:

  • FLIGBY Library – How to Lead a Good Business
  • FLIGBY Library – How to Start Working Creatively
  • FLIGBY Library – Assessment and Performance
  • FLIGBY Library – Flow at Work 1
  • FLIGBY Library – Vision and Mission

Read the following articles found in the University Library that will be used in Discussions and/or Assignments:

  • Nickols, F., and Ledgerwood, R. (2006). The Goals Grid: A New Tool for Strategic Planning. Consulting to Management. 17(1), 36-38.
  • W. Chan, K. (2005) Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. HBS.
    • Chapter 2 regarding the Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, and Creating (ERRC) tool

Here is the grading rubric.

Directions for Submitting your Assignment

Grading Rubric Unit 3 Assignment

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page1image3236643296 ERRC Grid – 8 goals (2 per quadrant. May use the ERRC grid you created in Unit 2 if you have it). Choose most important 2 (out of 8) goals.

Create goal setting for the two most important goals identified (see Nikols and Ledgerwood article) and discuss the grid findings in the verbiage of your paper.

Which areas will present the most challenge for you? How will you overcome those challenges?

Writing Style: Appearance, Spelling, Grammar, and Organization

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Discuss Effective control systems

 

Part 1: Multiple Choice Questions (50 Credits)

1.        A restaurant manager notes that actual labor costs exceed the expected labor costs for the volume of business during the week. The manager calls a management meeting to discuss the situation and, if necessary, take corrective action to prevent excessive labor costs for upcoming weeks. Which of the following management functions best describes the kind of work that the management team will be performing?

a.        planning

b.        staffing

c.     controlling

d.        organizing

2.        Effective control systems can help food and beverage managers:

a.     identify mistakes and plan tactics to correct them.

b.        create a mission statement.

c.        identify new menu items to offer.

d.        define strategic objectives.

3.        Which of the following statements about the role of standards in the control process is TRUE?

a.        Industry averages are the best source of information for establishing standards.

b.        Financial standards should always be set on the basis of past financial statements.

c.    Standards can be established for revenue goals and sales targets as well as for employee attendance and safety records.

d.        Standards are effective only if they state an expected level of performance for individual employees.

4.        Robert, the newly hired manager at the independently owned Seasons Restaurant, has discovered that calculations of actual food costs include the cost of providing employee meals. However, employee meals are not included as costs in establishing the restaurant’s standard food costs. Which of the following principles of developing an effective control process has been violated?

a.        Information about actual operating results must be simple and easy to collect.

b. Actual information must be collected in a manner consistent with the procedures and formats used to establish performance standards.

c.        Checks on the controls should be part of the control system itself.

d.        Actual information generated for control purposes should be compatible with the formats used in accounting systems.

5.        A shopper service is a(n):

a.        service offered by many businesses to assist guests who are unable to visit the operation in person.

b.        Internet-based buying service that offers managers greater control of the purchasing and receiving function.

c.        system of supply in which vendors automatically resupply the restaurant on a schedule

determined by the food and beverage manager.

d.  control tactic that involves observing and reporting the actual operations of a business.

6.        The cost effectiveness of a control system is measured by:

a.    comparing the cost of implementing the control system with the cost reductions achieved by using the system.

b.        evaluating how well the control system helps identify what corrective action is necessary to bring actual operating results closer to established standards of performance.

c.        assessing the timeliness by which control information is made available to managers.

d.        determining if the control system gives priority to factors that are most relevant to attaining the operation’s goals.

7.        Service has been slow at the Season’s Restaurant. The manager has traced the problem to the flow of products from the storeroom to production areas. Which of the following control points is likely to be the focus of corrective action?

a.        preparing

b.        serving

c.         issuing

d.        storing

e.         purchasing

8.        A formula for producing a food and beverage item is called a(n):

a.        product specification.

b.        portion control percentage.

c.         algorithm.

d.        standard recipe.

9.        Which of the following control tools links a restaurant’s suppliers and receiving staff, ensuring that the proper quality of products is available for food production and service?

a.        yield percentage worksheets

b.        standard purchase specifications

c.         standard recipes

d.        standard portion size specifications

10.    If the original yield for a standard recipe is 25 portions and the desired yield is 125 portions, what is the adjustment factor?

a.         5.2

b.        5.0

c.         2.5

d.        1.2

Discuss on Truth And Morality

Psalm 19:1-2 states, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech and night to night reveals knowledge” (ESV). As one may learn something about Vincent van Gogh by looking at his Starry Nightpainting, is it possible to look at the beauty of our natural world and learn something about God (commonly called general revelation)? Is this sufficient knowledge about God? Explain why or why not. (300-500 words)

At his trial before Pilate, Jesus answered him saying, “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world – to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice” (John 18:37 ESV). How would you answer Pilate’s next question, “What is truth?” In your response, address your position on absolute and relative truth referencing Chapter 7 in the textbook or the lecture. (300-500 words)

Psalm 19:1-2 states, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech and night to night reveals knowledge” (ESV). As one may learn something about Vincent van Gogh by looking at his Starry Nightpainting, is it possible to look at the beauty of our natural world and learn something about God (commonly called general revelation)? Is this sufficient knowledge about God? Explain why or why not. (300-500 words)

At his trial before Pilate, Jesus answered him saying, “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world – to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice” (John 18:37 ESV). How would you answer Pilate’s next question, “What is truth?” In your response, address your position on absolute and relative truth referencing Chapter 7 in the textbook or the lecture. (300-500 words)

How have advances in information technology changed the way organizations are structured and designed today?

  1. How have advances in information technology changed the way organizations are structured and designed today?
  2. Examine your own work life: consider the jobs you have held and organizations with which you have been associated.  Based on your experiences, what type of organizational structure appears to suit you best?  Why?  Relate your own attitudes, behaviors, and values to the organizational structures described in this chapter.
  3. As technology advances further in the years to come, how do you think the nature of leadership in work organizations is likely to change organizations’ culture?
  4. How have advances in information technology changed the way organizations are structured and designed today?
  5. Examine your own work life: consider the jobs you have held and organizations with which you have been associated.  Based on your experiences, what type of organizational structure appears to suit you best?  Why?  Relate your own attitudes, behaviors, and values to the organizational structures described in this chapter.
  6. As technology advances further in the years to come, how do you think the nature of leadership in work organizations is likely to change organizations’ culture?