Professor instructions and requirements:
NO PLAGIRISM!
Discussion post 1 Business Commmunication 150 words.
Please complete the following exercise, in which you are asked to write a reply email.
Use clear paragraphs and bullet-points to make your email easily understood.
Discussion post 2 Essentials of Managment 150 words
Week 1 Discussion Question 1
Should Management be viewed as a Science?
Management Theory has evolved quickly over the past 100 years. A basic question that is still asked…is management a science. Below are links to two articles, one from 1978, forty years ago, and another from 2017. After forty years, the question remains.
After reading the articles, you may wish to do some research of your own. Reflect on the question. What has changed in the last forty years, and is the question still valid? Make sure you support your statements.
Discussion post 3 Essentials of Managment 150 words
Week 1 Discussion Question 2
Managers versus Leaders: The Arts and Sciences have been part of Academia from its inception. Management is a fairly new phenomenon. It started at the beginning of the 20th century when the Industrial Age created the formation of large complex organizations. Leadership, however, has been around for thousands of years. We see that one of the functions of management is leading. It would appear that management and leadership are somehow connected, yet different.
What is the relationship between the two? Are all managers leaders? Are all leaders managers?
Below are links to two articles and two videos discussing different views on the topic. Read and view the links and reflect on managers versus leaders. You may wish to do some research of your own. Are managers and leaders different, and if so, why? Make sure you support your statements.
Watch youtube video below. The two artcile will be in the browse section below.
Discussion post 4 Health Policy & Politics 150 words
In Box 1-1 in Chapter 1 of our e-text, we find conceptual frameworks for studying health policy and law. The third framework addresses perspectives of key stakeholders. During the recent Presidential and Congressional elections and after the inauguration, we have seen ever more sharply divided stakeholders.
Please pick one stakeholder from Box 1-1, Framework 3 and discuss the possible impact of recent proposed changes to provision of health care (proposed repeal/revision of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) upon one of the stakeholders on the list.
Please provide citation in APA format for your sources of information. Those sources could be our e-text, recent news or journal articles or articles from the World Wide Web. Please do NOT use Wikipedia under ANY circumstance.
Watch Youtube clip below:
Discussion post 5 Health service finance 150 words:
Chapters 1 and 2 provide some introductory concepts about the importance of health care finance. As you know, health care organizations can be classified into ONE of three categories:
proprietary (profit oriented; pays taxes)
voluntary (non-profit; do not pay taxes)
government owned
Identify one health care organization from your town or state that falls into EACH of these three categories. Be sure to (1) Name the organization, (2) Determine the organization’s category, and (3) Explain how you determined or where you found this information. Just to clarify…Your post should include the names of three organizations — one from each of the three categories.
CAUTION: Do not use http://www.hospitalinspections.org/Links to an external site. as your information source. It is outdated!
If you use a data source other than a primary data source, it’s important to confirm your findings with the organization’s website.
