Imagine you are the healthcare manager in a typical healthcare facility, like hospital. Identify factors that would influence your decision making. Describe three such situations you might have or may come across and the factors that were or would be influential in your decision making.

Healthcare Decision Making

Imagine you are the healthcare manager in a typical healthcare facility, like hospital. Identify factors that would influence your decision making. Describe three such situations you might have or may come across and the factors that were or would be influential in your decision making.Your APA formatted assignment comprising 2-4 double-spaced pages, typed in 12 points Times New Roman citing 2-3 credible sources excluding the Cover and Reference pages

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How has Novartis tried to develop their employees so that they can contribute better to global business? How successful have these approaches for global growth and employee development been?

Assessment Report on a Global Company

Read the case(Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise) and write a detailed assessment report on “Novartis” becoming global company. How has Novartis tried to become a global company?

How has Novartis tried to develop their employees so that they can contribute better to global business? How successful have these approaches for global growth and employee development been?

Also use some extra material from Chapter 6 textbook readichong to write the paper.

 

Define new public management as an approach to performance management. Define new public service as an approach to performance management.

Test your Knowledge (Question):

Watch the video at the following link

Define new public management as an approach to performance management.

Define new public service as an approach to performance management.

 

How does Gerber exhibit the fundamental principles of total quality – customer and stakeholder focus, participation and teamwork, and a process focus and continuous improvement?

Quality in Practice: Building Trust Through Quality at Gerber

The Gerber baby picture — which accompanies everything from strained carrots and banana cookies to teething rings and diapers — has developed into one of the most recognizable brand images in the world. According to Gerber, the company received the highest customer loyalty rating out of 3,500 U.S. corporate and product brands, topping companies such as Nike and Coca-Cola. To parents around the world, the Gerber baby means quality, and the Gerber company has long been a leader in using quality tools to uphold its reputation. While Gerber’s quality programs have gone through various stages over the years, their goal has remained the same: to make sure consumers continue to see the Gerber baby, which has gone through periodic updating of its own, as an emblem of excellence.

Gerber is the leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of foods and products for children from birth through age 3. The company dominates the U.S. retail baby food market with a 70% share against competitors Heinz and Beechnut, and rings up about $1 billion in annual sales. Gerber employs 6,200 people altogether at its headquarters and main processing plant in Fremont, MI, and its plants in Fort Smith, AR;

Costa Rica; Mexico; Venezuela; and Poland. Together these facilities produce 190 food products — which are labeled in 16 languages and distributed to more then 80 countries.

Gerber’s Baby Care product line (featuring items such as rattles, bottles and eating utensils) was launched in 1960 and currently features some 300 products. This line is largely manufactured in Reedsburg, WI, and China. In 1994, Sandoz Ltd., a pharmaceutical manufacturer, purchased Gerber. The 1996 merger of Sandoz and Ciba Geigy, also known for producing pharmaceuticals, established the Novartis company.

Located in Basle, Switzerland, Novartis positions Gerber as a primary member of its consumer health division.

The company began in the Gerber family kitchen in 1927. After watching her husband’s messy attempt at straining peas for their daughter, Dorothy Gerber suggested that the task would be better accomplished at the family-owned canning plant. Daniel Gerber agreed and was so taken by the idea that within a year he had manufactured enough of five baby food flavors to begin national distribution. Understanding the concern parents have for what their babies consume, Gerber paid close attention to what went into the food and the processes involved in manufacturing it. This was one of the company’s first steps toward committing to quality.

While Gerber’s quality systems have undergone several improvements over the years, teamwork was “one of the biggest things to hit quality at Gerber,” says George Sheffier, a retired, 35-year Gerber veteran. He believes that fostering a team atmosphere taught Gerber how to help employees adjust to change, gave the company ‘a head start on the diversity issues of the ’90s and was critical when Gerber began spreading quality techniques throughout its plants.

Gerber experimented with teams in the ’70s but by the end of the decade felt the company still lacked the benefits a solid team atmosphere provided. An attempt to implement the concept to a more intense degree in 1983 was met by employee skepticism. Realizing that management and supervisors were themselves having a difficult time adjusting to the team methodology, Gerber hired consultants to teach facilitation skills. Soon supervisors were holding meetings not only to familiarize workers with the team concept but to discuss change — how employees felt about it and what the company could do to help make it easier. As employees began feeling more comfortable working in teams, they voiced concerns about trouble spots in systems and processes. Gerber also learned that the team atmosphere was a necessity in linking quality to every process in the company.

Once employees recognized the value of teamwork, the company began taking quality functions out of the quality department and spreading them throughout the plant.

The goal of integrating quality into manufacturing was to build quality into the product on a more consistent basis. By expanding quality responsibilities to frontline operations, Gerber hoped to increase process control and reduce line inspections. To accomplish this purpose, Gerber teamed QA staff with front-line operators in 1988 to establish procedures for each process. While hesitant at first, front-line employees liked the fact that they were involved in the process from the start and were able to determine their own auditing criteria. Within 18 months, Gerber was able to cut its number of line inspectors and increase its quality auditing functions.

As quality became more widespread through the organization, Gerber needed to teach basic quality tools to its front-fine operators. As with the team concept, however, employees accepted the new responsibilities once they realized the values of the tools.

Employees came to prefer the use of these techniques, which enabled them to became more directly involved with the quality of the final product. The company also established management incentives for integrating quality into its manufacturing process.

Many senior managers, for example, began to be compensated for maintaining a high level of consumer trust through the quality of the final product. Today, the company continues to improve the quality techniques it applies to each part of the manufacturing process. Its most recent project has been to install new software from SAS Institute Inc.

The software gives employees instant access to data regarding the impact on the final product of each station in each process.

Although Gerber has always tried to create systems that meet the expectations of parents, the company didn’t always utilize feedback from its customers. It wasn’t until the company faced its largest crisis to date that Gerber realized the need to link the customer’s voice with the quality system. This period, in the 1980s, was a defining point for Gerber, according to Gerber senior QA manager, Jim Fisher. The company lost some trust in the eye of the consumer, stemming from an instance of consumer tampering that brought Gerber unwanted national attention. Before the company had the opportunity to prove itself, the case snowballed into a media frenzy, leaving consumers questioning

Gerber’s quality. Gerber’s history of continuous improvement and its well documented manufacturing processes paid off, however. The investigation put the company under a microscope, with Fisher flying across the country to inspect bottles of food and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spending three weeks reviewing Gerber’s systems and records. In the end, the FDA gave the company a clean bill of health, and any claims against Gerber dissipated once the FDRs report became avail able to the public.

What Gerber found was that it needed a system allowing consumers to contact it directly with suggestions, complaints and questions pertaining to Gerber products or infant care in general. Gerber’s consumer relations department, established and operated by Dorothy Gerber in 1938, continued to receive a steady flow of letters, but the system wasn’t timely and the feedback wasn’t closely tied to either the quality or the safety department. Consequently, Gerber opened its telephone information service (800-4-GERBER) in 1986. The system provided a notable change for the company’s quality discipline as it allowed telephone operators to log customer information into a database. In turn, trend analysis could be conducted and consumer demands could be integrated into the product development process. Because parents are up with their infants throughout the night, the company extended the department’s operating hours in 1991, capturing information 24 hours a day. Gerber takes a daily average of 2,400 calls, accommodating all languages, and employs a team of letter correspondents to answer the 45,000 letters it receives yearly.

The company has often demonstrated innovative and creative thinking, notably in its plan to eliminate pesticides from its foods. By thinking outside the box, Gerber was able to outshine its competition, exceed customer expectations and prepare itself for future government requirements. In 1996, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reconsidered the methods traditionally used to ensure food safety — spot checks of manufacturing conditions and random sampling of final products — and released its Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) program. The program enforces principles such as analyzing all potential hazards associated with foods, identifying critical control points where hazards can be eliminated, and establishing procedures to monitor control points and verify properly working systems. The FDA and the USDA believed such guidelines would be proactive in stopping contaminated products from getting into the market.

Gerber came to the same conclusion–49 years earlier. In 1947 Gerber management came to believe that the best way to ensure the safety of its product was to control as much of the food-making process as possible. At that time the company began forming alliances with its growers, giving Gerber better control of produce cultivation and allowing it to keep track of the pesticides growers used. By the 1950s, Gerber had implemented a HACCP-like approach to its manufacturing process identifying critical control points and thus making its processes preventive rather than reactive. The Gerber product analysis laboratories were formed in 1963 to provide data on the composition of ingredients, monitor the quality of internal and external water sources and provide the analytical information needed to establish food formulations. The company also created procedures to monitor potential hazards and ensured correctly functioning processes by employing a thermal processing staff. The staff was to determine the amount of time a product needs to be cooked to become commercially sterile, conduct audits of production facilities to ensure that processing equipment was operating correctly, and review and improve thermal processing systems. The thermal processing staff grew so large that it became its own department in 1994, and it continues to work closely with Gerber’s quality and safety departments today.

Gerber’s dedication to performance excellence continues to serve the company well. Thinking beyond quality trends in pesticide control continues to put the company ahead of others as Gerber investigates what it calls environmental quality — examining environmental factors not traditionally considered, such as pollutants carried into the plant by a supplier. This enabled Gerber to introduce sugar less and starch free formulations less than a year after a 1995 report criticized the baby food industry for its

use of fillers. By linking quality practices throughout its processes and making statistical information available to all employees, Gerber continues to enhance its quality.

5.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  1. How do the various definitions of quality discussed in Chapter 1 relate to the quality practices at Gerber?
  1. How does Gerber exhibit the fundamental principles of total quality – customer and stakeholder focus, participation and teamwork, and a process focus and continuous improvement?
  1. How did quality help Gerber overcome the crisis it faced in the consumer-tampering situation? What lessons does this have for other companies?

 

Define different perspectives and concepts of problem solving in diverse contexts and business situations. Explain and apply critical thinking and cognitive psychology as it pertains to analyze and synthesize information for problem solving and decision making.

Assignment 1

Decision Making and Problem Solving (MGT 312)

Due Date:  08/10/2022 @ 23:59

 

Course Name: Decision Making and Problem Solving    Student’s Name:

Course Code: MGT312    Student’s ID Number:

Semester: Second     CRN:

Academic Year:2022-23; FIRST SEMESTER

 

For Instructor’s Use only

Instructor’s Name:

Students’ Grade:    XX / 15    Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low

 

General Instructions – READ THEM CAREFULLY

⦁    The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.

⦁    Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.

⦁    Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.

⦁    Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.

⦁    Late submission will NOT be accepted.

⦁    Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.

⦁    All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).

⦁    Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

 

Learning Outcomes:

⦁    Describe decision making process for complex issues pertaining to business environment both internally and externally (C.L.O :1.1)

⦁    Define different perspectives and concepts of problem solving in diverse contexts and business situations. (C.L.O :1.2)

⦁    Explain and apply critical thinking and cognitive psychology as it pertains to analyze and synthesize information for problem solving and decision making. (C.L.O :2.1)

 

Should I sell my products or service in my selected country? Why? Which market/area should I enter first? Why? (Cities, rural, suburb, whole country, etc.) Should I do an initial foreign market analysis? Why?

Globalization & Assessing Global Markets

Purpose

This activity will help you to apply relevant economic theories (Course Objective # 2); this also aligns with Course Objective # 3 as you consider political, economic, technological, and sociological environments.
Directions

GLOBAL SITUATION: “Should I sell my products in foreign markets? Which markets should I enter?” These are fundamental questions virtually every business owner and manager, regardless of company size, will ask at some time in their career. Often, firms will enter foreign markets without doing initial analysis. This video outlines the analysis firms should use to evaluate different countries to assess their potential and the associated risks. The video at the link below explains how to do:

Economic Analysis;
Sociocultural Analysis;
Infrastructure Analysis;
Political Risk Assessment.

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Globalization & Assessing Global Markets For Potential Entry

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Globalization & Assessing Global Markets For Potential Entry
Select from any of the following countries for this discussion:

Brazil
Germany
Nigeria
China
India

Answer the following questions in your initial post:

Should I sell my products or service in my selected country? Why?
Which market/area should I enter first? Why? (Cities, rural, suburb, whole country, etc.)
Should I do an initial foreign market analysis? Why?
Answer each of these questions by using at least two outside sources, (note your sources):
Your Economic Analysis?
Your Sociocultural Analysis?
Your Infrastructure Analysis?
Your Political Risk Assessment?

Compare the asset/liability management needs of pension funds, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, and banks.

Q.1.   Formulate the steps of the portfolio management process and explain the components of those steps in detail.

Q.2. Compare the asset/liability management needs of pension funds, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, and banks.

Q.3.  Louise and Christopher Maclin live in London, United Kingdom, and currently rent an apartment in the metropolitan area. Christopher Maclin, aged 40, is a supervisor at Barnett Co. and earns an annual salary of £80,000 before taxes. Louise Maclin, aged 38, stays home to care for their newborn twins. She recently inherited £900,000 (after wealth transfer taxes) in cash from her father’s estate. In addition, the Maclins have accumulated the following assets (current market value):

  • £5,000 in cash
  • 160,000 in stocks and bonds
  • £220,000 in Barnett common stock

The value of their holdings in Barnett stock has appreciated substantially as a result of the company’s growth in sales and profits during the past ten years. Christopher Maclin is confident that the company and its stock will continue to perform well.

The Maclins need £30,000 for a down payment on the purchase of a house and plan to make a £20,000 non-tax deductible donation to a local charity in memory of Louise Maclin’s father. The Maclins’ annual living expenses are £74,000. After-tax salary increases will offset any future increases in their living expenses.

During discussions with their financial advisor, Grant Webb, the Maclins express concern about achieving their educational goals for their children and their own retirement goals. The Maclins tell Webb:

  • They want to have sufficient funds to retire in 18 years when their children begin their four years of university education.
  • They have been unhappy with the portfolio volatility they have experienced in recent years. They state that they do not want to experience a loss in portfolio value greater than 12 percent in any one year.
  • They do not want to invest in alcohol and tobacco stocks.
  • They will not have any additional children.

After their discussions, Webb calculates that in 18 years the Maclins will need £2 million to meet their educational and retirement goals. Webb suggests that their portfolio be structured to limit shortfall risk (defined as expected total return minus two standard deviations) to no lower than a negative 12 percent return in any one year. Maclin’s salary and all capital gains and investment income are taxed at 40 percent and no tax-sheltering strategies are available. Webb’s next step is to formulate an investment policy statement for the Maclins.

  1. Formulate the risk objective of an investment policy statement for the Maclins.
  2. Formulate the return objective of an investment policy statement for the Maclins. Calculate the pre-tax rate of return that is required to achieve this objective. Show your calculations.
  3. Formulate the constraints portion of an investment policy statement for the Maclins, addressing each of the following:
  4. Time horizon
  5. Liquidity requirements
  6. Tax concerns
  7. Unique circumstances

Note: Your response to Part B should not address legal and regulatory factors.

Answer:

 

 

In your own words, describe the function of the division you have selected and why have you applied to Bank of America? How do you think you will utilize your academic skills and experience to add value to the division you are applying to.

Bank of American Questions and Answers: 2 questions at the bottom with word limits

Answer the questions below:

In your own words, describe the function of the division you have selected and why have you applied to Bank of America? (200 word limit).

How do you think you will utilize your academic skills and experience to add value to the division you are applying to (150 word limit).

 

What will Training and Development look like in the future? Research this topic and discuss at least 2 of your ideas. Make sure that your ideas are different than those of your peers.

Training and Development

What will Training & Development look like in the future?

Research this topic and discuss at least 2 of your ideas. Make sure that your ideas are different than those of your peers. (You will lose points if your ideas are the same as ones already posted.) Use/cite at least 2 outside sources in your discussion of this topic. Include key concepts from your sources in your discussion. Make sure you cite your sources completely at the close of your post.

 

review the criteria for evaluating a business problem statement located on page 13 of the DBA Prospectus Guide, as well as Section 1.3 in the Doctoral Study Rubric and Research Handbook, provided in this week’s Required Readings. Consider how the choice of quantitative or qualitative research methodology does or does not impact specific evaluation criteria.

Peer Critique of Revised Problem Statements

For this Discussion, you and your colleagues will conduct peer reviews of your respective Problem Statements.

To prepare for this Discussion, review the criteria for evaluating a business problem statement located on page 13 of the DBA Prospectus Guide, as well as Section 1.3 in the Doctoral Study Rubric and Research Handbook, provided in this week’s Required Readings.

Consider how the choice of quantitative or qualitative research methodology does or does not impact specific evaluation criteria.

Post a draft of your revised Problem Statement. Your draft should include the following:

  • One quantitative Problem Statement, based on the draft Problem Statement you submitted in Week 8 of DDBA 8161
  • One qualitative Problem Statement, based on the draft Problem Statement you submitted in Week 8 of DDBA 8161