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  • Importance of collaboration with other agencies in disaster response

    $7.50

    When disasters strike that are so large that many jurisdictions are involved (cities, states, provinces, etc), the health sector needs to coordinate the health care organizations, personnel and physical assets (hospitals, labs, ambulances, etc) in such a manner that the most good is done with the available resources. This is a huge task.

    Is this something that the health sector can do on its own, or does it need to collaborate with other kinds of agencies and services? If so, with whom, and how?  And, given that the health sector is almost never the lead agency in the IMS, how can the health sector coordinate without being the overall leader?

    1 Page

    APA – 3 References

  • Advantages and disadvantages of inflation accounting

    $5.00

    During the past 50 years, accounting standards have encouraged companies to supplement historical cost-based financial statements with price-level (inflation)  adjusted statements, but few companies have done so. In your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages of inflation accounting? Would you recommend using price-level adjusted statements? Why or why not?

    1 page

    Study Tips 101: Make sure that you understand the material well, don’t just read through the material and try to memorize everything.

  • Is the balance sheet or statement of cash flows more important

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    Balance sheet vs. statement of cash flows

    Is the balance sheet or statement of cash flows more important? What about the income statement? If you had to consider only one financial statement, which would it be?

  • Impact of Employee Communication and Perceived External Prestige on Organizational Identification

    $17.50

    Article review: The Impact of Employee Communication and Perceived External Prestige on Organizational Identification

    Each student will critique the research design and the methods of one empirical study. For this assignment, each Summary & Critique needs to be a minimum of 3 pages. Please follow the guideline below (http://www.uis.edu/ctl/wp-content/uploads/sites/76/2013/03/Howtocritiqueajournalarticle.pdf). I have provided the guideline as PDF document.

    Additional Files:

    THE-IMPACT-OF-EMPLOYEE-COMMUNICATION-AND-PERCEIVED.pdf

    4.5 pages

    APA – 1 References

  • Market structure and power

    $5.00

    Module 11: Market structure and power

    This chapter discusses market structure and power. Do some research on two different organizations that have similar services, such as pulmonary, cardiac, oncology, etc, that are in Central Florida and describe their differences. Why would you choose one over the other? Who has more market power in the area? Please make sure to properly cite your references throughout the discussion and at the end.

    1 page

    3 References

  • Twin Falls Community Hospital Capital Investment Analysis

    $20.00

    Twin Falls Community Hospital
    (Capital Investment Analysis) – Answers

    Questions

    1. Complete Table 1 by adding the cash flows for years four and five.
    2. What is the project’s payback and net present value (NPV)?  Interpret each of these measures.
    3. Suppose that the project would be allocated $10,000 of existing overhead costs. Should these costs be included in the cash flow analysis? Explain.
    4. Conduct a scenario analysis. What is its expected NPV? What is the worst- and best-case NPVs? How does the worst-case value help in assessing the hospital’s ability to bear the risk of this investment?
    5. Now assume that the project is judged to have high risk. Furthermore, the hospital’s standard procedure is to use a three percentage point risk adjustment. What is the project’s NPV after adjusting for the assessment of high risk?
    6. What is your final recommendation regarding the proposed outpatient surgery center?

    Additional Materials:

    twin_falls_community_hospital_case.pdf

  • Managing change at Cox’s Container Company Case Study

    $30.00

    Read the case study ‘Managing change at Cox’s Container Company’. The case or a link to the case can be found on Blackboard and the full reference for this case study is:
    Corbett, J. M. (1994) Critical cases in organisational behaviour (Palgrave/Macmillan), pp. 154-155 (Case 33).
    Answer the following question:

    • Outline and analyse the problems confronting CCC in the short and long term and offer recommendations for their resolution.

    Further guidance:
    Please note that you should draw upon material from any or all sections of the OB unit as appropriate. This is a case that says a lot about organizational structures and cultures and processes of managing change (as well as motivations and power) and which also invites you to examine these issues in some depth (although choices about how much breadth and depth to go into will inevitably have to be made due to the word limit).
    For further detailed guidance, please make sure you read very carefully the attached Guide to Analyzing OB Case Studies, which sets out at the end how the case study will be marked. Your answer should use the case study format outlined in that guide and should be 2,000 words in length (inclusive of references, etc).

    A GUIDE TO ANALYSING OB CASE STUDIES
    Using Case Studies
    Cases are intended to provide vicarious experience based on real situations, allowing you to ‘observe’ the internal affairs of organisations and to develop a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Whether based on real organisations or more simulated, they require the application of relevant theoretical concepts and models to the analysis of organisational and management problems. Often, they require you to explore a range of issues in a holistic way, drawing upon more than one aspect of the course (e.g. motivation, structure, culture, change management). Whatever the subject area(s), if you expect to find the ‘correct’ answer to a case study problem you are likely to get disillusioned and frustrated! There is usually no one best solution but, rather, a number of different paths, which may lead to a similar outcome. The task is to identify a path that is likely to solve the immediate and long-term problems in the case without causing unintended negative outcomes.
    Analysing Cases
    The standards expected in analysing OB cases are that:
    An answer should demonstrate your ability to analyse the facts presented in the case. It should highlight your understanding of relevant theories, concepts and research findings and your ability to relate these, in a well-reasoned discussion, to the facts given. It should demonstrate emphasis on the most important issues and explain the assumptions, conclusions and recommendations you make. An answer that is merely a statement of your conclusions will receive very little credit.
    Although different cases may require slightly different approaches, a standard format with which to approach a case analysis is suggested below. This should help you to structure your case analysis and, even if this precise format is not required to answer the case study questions, it provides you with an outline of the essential steps needed in preparing your case study report.
    Step 1. First reading
    Read the cased study as you would a short story, trying to understand the general points that are being realised and the characters involved.
    Step 2. Second Reading and Summarising
    It is at this stage that you will want to proceed more systematically. Make a summary of the contents of the case study. The following questions should help you do this:

    • What is the case study about?
    • What are the main issues highlighted?

    Note: This summary does not need to appear in your assignment. The starting point for the actual writing of your case study assignment is Step 3 below).
    Step 3. Problem Identification
    By this point, you should be ready to start writing your case study. First, try to define what the critical problem is in the case study. This may or may not be particularly easy. In addition, sub-problems may be present which may also influence the situation. You do not need to analyse the problems at this stage, but you should prioritise them. The following questions should help you:

    • What seems to be causing the ‘problems’ in the case?
    • What further information might be needed to help you understand the causes of the problems?

    Step 4. Analysis
    This is the most important part of the case study (see ‘balance of marks’ below). Analyse the situation that has led to the problem(s) you have identified. At this stage, you will need to relate the theoretical material covered in lectures, textbooks and journals to the issues and problems you have identified. You might need to cover one, some or several topic areas covered in the course. Remember too that the theories and concepts you apply to the case will inevitably be partial and incomplete – dealing with some, but not all, aspects of the problem. They may even be controversial or contested, in which case you might need to work at demonstrating their relevance and usefulness. Consequently, you should use the theories and concepts collectively as a ‘toolbox’ for analysing the case, probably using more than one theory or model (and possibly several) to analyse each issue. You might use the following types of questions to help you:

    • Is this an issue or problem that is concerned with one or several aspects of the subject area?
    • Which theories and concepts you have covered might help you to explain what is going on?
    • How do these theories and concepts explain what is going on?
    • Are other concepts and theories needed to analyse other aspects of the problem?
    • Are they needed to provide ‘triangulation’ to bolster certain parts of your analysis?

    Step 5. Alternatives
    Based on your identification of the problem(s) and through your analysis, it should now be possible to highlight a variety of alternative course of action that can be taken. It is useful to identify a number of general alternatives (say 3 or 4) that address all parts of the problem(s) you have identified. (An obvious starting point here is to consider ‘do nothing’ as the default option!) As in any real situation, no alternative is likely to be ideal, so each should be evaluated in terms of its pros and cons (in dealing with all aspects of the problem), as well as the risks involved in implementation of any change required.
    Step 6. Recommendation
    After outlining all the alternatives available, you must now make a clear recommendation regarding which of the alternatives you prefer. Again, the following questions will be helpful:

    • What needs to be done to resolve the case study problem?
    • In what ways do these resolutions relate to the theoretical analysis of the case?

    Step 7. Plan of Action
    The final stage of case analysis is the most practically focused and involves outlining the procedure by which you would implement your recommendation. The following questions might help you:

    • Which people might be involved?
    • How long would the process take?
    • What parts of the organisation might be affected?
    • What sorts of side effects might be expected?

    General Comments
    Avoid excessive problem identification. It is too easy to fall into the trap of spending too much time identifying or listing problems (including superficial aspects such as conflict or poor communications) without spending enough time and not enough time analysing and understanding them. Think about it – a doctor treats a cough and chest pains as symptoms, but only a deeper diagnosis will get to the underlying medical problem or problems. It’s the same with case analysis.
    Analysis is not just conjecture. A vital feature of good case study reports is that they tend to be analytical, rather than subjective and judgmental. They tend to expose how and why various conditions link together (i.e. expose inter-relationships) and how they produce particular outcomes. They rely on theories and research findings to understand and evaluate the case problems and to support suggestions about how those problems could be tackled.
    In contrast, poor case study reports rely on personal judgements, conjecture and prejudice, rather than on analysis. In poor case study reports, the author takes side with little or no evaluation and expresses subjective likes and dislikes. Advice on what should have been done is given, without first focusing on how the main problems can be understood and tackled. Statements like ‘all the problems would be solved if the process was re-engineered’ are given without support or consideration of their consequences. Obviously, this is an extreme example, but it is surprisingly easy to slip into conjecture, rather than analysis. To avoid conjecture, you might want to ask yourself a series of ‘why’ questions, such as:

    • Why have I made this statement?
    • Why have I come to this conclusion?
    • Why are there these problems?

    Analysis is not just description. Avoid the trap of simply re-describing the original case study in your report in your own words. Your tutor knows what the case study said, so get straight on to problem identification and, most importantly, your analysis. You should certainly use examples from the case to illustrate theoretical concepts and your main argument, so do not go to the other extreme and present a lengthy review of the literature without ever mentioning the case! Use theories to inform your understanding of the particular problems you have identified in the case, but let the problems identified in the case drive your arguments and use of theories (rather than letting the history of the subject area do that!). Remember that a case study represents an integration of theory and practice.
    Be selective. You can’t hope to cover every possible theoretical angle or research finding that may apply to the case, so there is a need to be selective. The word limit will force you to make choices in the range of material you include to enable you to develop a good depth of analysis in the areas you explore. A good case study will therefore achieve a nice balance between breadth of coverage and depth of analysis – not trying to cover everything too superficially; but not narrowing the subject area too tightly and going into too much depth in any one area.
    Integration. Take a look at your case study report as a whole to check that your arguments are logical and that the inter-relationships between different points are clear. Finally, make sure that your arguments are clear to the reader and that you have reached a conclusion that captures the most significant aspects of your analysis.
    Use a proper referencing style. The ‘Harvard system’ of referencing is the simplest and preferred system of referring to book and articles in the text, so please use this. For example: Smith (2012) or (Smith, 2012), depending on context. If you do use direct quotes, make sure this is clear and that page numbers are also indicated (e.g. Smith, 2012, p. 75). Make sure too that you give full details of sources used and referred to in the text in an alphabetical list of ‘References’ or ‘Bibliography’ at the end. Further information on proper referencing should be available from your course handbooks.

  • Organization’s Internal Communication in China

    $32.50

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    Qualitative Research

    As part of your research project, you will conduct 1 focus groups or 5 in-depth interviews. You are going to provide the complete questioning route, full description of your research participants, the recruiting strategies, and the abridged transcript of the interviews along with your analysis result. You will follow the steps and turn in a report.

    The paper is part of a qualitative research that focuses on one-to-one interview aimed at exploring internal communication in China.

    Paper Contents:

    • Introduction
    • Data Collection
    • Participants Selection
    • Ethical Consideration
    • Questions
    • Abridged Transcript
    • Data Analysis

    Link to Report 4: Report 4: Survey Exercise Assignment

    10 Pages

    APA – 4 References

  • Research Proposal Report 1-2 – Organization’s Internal Communication in China (Studies in Journalism and Communication Research Methods)

    $50.00

    The research proposal explicates how communication in organizations has influenced the level of industrial operations in China.

    The main purpose of the ‘Intro’ is to give a description of the problem that will be addressed. In this section the researcher might discuss the nature of the research, the purpose of the research, the significance of the research problem, and the research question(s) to be addressed. Three essential parts of a good introduction are: Rationale, Purpose, Research Questions.

    Literature Review is a survey of important articles, books and other sources pertaining to your research topic. Now, for the second main section of your research report you need to write a summary of the main studies and research related to your topic. In a review of the literature, you do not merely summarize the research findings that others have reported. You must also evaluate and comment on each study’s worth and validity. If it also runs counter to your hypothesis, you may want to critique it in your review. Don’t just ignore it. Tell how your research will be better/overcome the flaws. Doing this can strengthen the rationale for conducting your research.

    The research proposal explicates how communication in organizations has influenced the level of industrial operations in China.

    Paper contents:

    Introduction

    Rationale for the Research

    Purpose of the Study

    Literature review

    Research Question and Hypotheses

    Link to Report 3: Report 3: Organization’s Internal Communication in China – Qualitative Research

    14 Pages

    APA – 20 References