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Introduction A look at the current issues regarding health care delivery services in the United States shows the preference of different quality-related problems, which call for immediate interventions. Here, it is worth noting that many health care facilities have not failed to deliver quality services just because they lack funds, knowledge, goodwill or effort, but because these institutions encounter many shortcomings when organizing care services (Institute of Medicine, 2001, p. 3). As a result, studies note that the health care system in the U.S. is characterized by lack of favorable environments, adequate processes, and the capabilities, which should guide the process of delivering quality, equitable, safe, patient-centered, efficient, effective, and timely care services. Further, other studies show the existence of four major issues that underlie the current quality-related problems in care delivery. Here, lack of the willingness to explore different aspects of the IT revolution, the complex issues regarding science and technology, the increasing number of chronic complications, and the poor organization of care delivery systems form part of the factors that either indirectly or directly play a role in occasioning the quality problems in the health care sector (Institute of Medicine, 2001). To this end, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) suggests the restructuring of health care systems in line with ten major rules aimed at improving care services relative to patient needs. This essay assesses the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the services offered by Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center relative to the ten new IOM rules. Additionally, the paper identifies various gaps, which may need future improvement to attain the standards of the 21 st Century healthcare system in this VAMC. Finally, this paper will look at various ways in which the VAMC involves its stakeholders besides collaborating with other institutions to achieve various goals. Ralph H. Johnson VAMC and the 21 st Century Healthcare system The Ralph H. Johnson VAMC is ranked 7 th among the VA network medical facilities, and it serves over 40,000 veterans in about 15 counties across south Carolina and Georgia (Department of Veteran’s Affairs, 2011). The main medical facility is located in Charleston while four other community-based out-patient clinics help to supplement the medical services elsewhere. Accordingly, this medical facility strives to attain the requirements of the new IOM rules in different ways. For instance, in accordance with the first rule, which states that care should be provided through creating continuous healing relationships between clinicians and patients, the facility offers primary, specialty, and long-term care or social services to the veteran population through the Emergency Response and Information desk. And in order to customize care services relative to the client’s needs and values as provided by the second rule, the VAMC’s vision statement has it that the facility adheres to the provisions of continuous quality improvement aimed at meeting the
Children can be taken as the core value of any society as people do their best to create conditions beneficial for the next generation’s survival. Moreover, young individuals are associated with the future as their contribution to the development of society will help to alter it and achieve new goals. For this reason, it is not surprising that parents have multiple hopes and expectations associated with their children, their life, career, and future. They usually have some positive vision and try to provide young people with all they need to create the basis for future achievement. However, even in a contemporary society characterized by the evolution of tolerance and equality, families have different standards for their sons and daughters that are preconditioned by the power of some stereotypical representations about female and male roles in communities, and determinants of success. To support the given argument, it is vital to understand the way people form their vision and attitudes. Being social creatures, humans interact with other individuals and engage in collaboration with them. The terms of this interaction are established by society, its set of values that are dominant at the moment, existing archetypes, attitudes, and stereotypical ideas of how representatives of different ages, groups, and genders should act (Grinberg). A set of these factors impacts the mentalities of people, their life goals, relations with partners, plans for the future, and expectations from children. In such a way, the discussed aspect remains in direct correlation with the paradigm peculiar to a certain community at the moment, and the peculiarities of parents’ value system. Today, regardless of the fundamental processes that alter attitudes to some biased or stereotypical issues, there is still the dominance of some traditional distribution of roles between sons and daughters. Parents, as representatives of the previous generation, are less subjected to the impact of modern movements. That is why their expectations remain traditional and are formed under the influence of the previously dominating idea. For instance, speaking about sons, the majority of adults outline their hopes for boys’ successful careers, stable earning, development of professional skills, and fame (Grinberg). In such a way, parents associate sons with some professional areas and qualities that are stereotypically taken as masculine ones (Grinberg). They are also expected to leave homes early and live independently (Grinberg). At the same time, the standards used when raising boys are severer because of the character of hopes (Grinberg). Usually, they should show better results in such spheres as sports, education, and leadership to satisfy their parents and avoid punishment (Grinberg). Moreover, there is a representation that a man should be raised in severe conditions to become masculine enough to meet the demands of the community. All these factors impact parents’ hopes related to boys. The attitudes to da
Cubbin, C, LW Pickle and L Fingerhut. “Social context and geographic patterns of homicide among US black and white males.” American Journal of Public Health , 9(4) (2000): 579-587. The article reports the research conducted by the authors on the geographic pattern of homicide among black and white American males. The range of year thus understudy was from 1988 through 1992. The study aimed to evaluate the effect age, geographic location, socio-cultural character and urbanization has on homicidal incidence. According to the findings of the research, these factors have similar effect on black and white male, refuting the theory that homicidal incidence would be greater in socio-economically unfavorable conditions. The findings of the research suggest that homicidal rates have declined in the US, but it has gone down simultaneously in different urban areas. Eitle, David, Stewart J. D’Alessio and Lisa Stolzenberg. “Economic Segregation, Race, and Homicide.” Social Science Quarterly , 87(3) (2006): 638-657. Print. This article reports the research that aimed to test the inconsistent result found by prior research on the relation between structured inequality and homicide. The main focus of the paper is to establish a relation between financial disadvantage and homicidal rate among blacks. They use cross sectional data to find the outcome of the result. The result of the paper suggests that economic condition and deprivation are imminent reason for increased homicide rate among offenders from any race. However, following a different method, the paper found that poverty is not a conclusive predictor of homicide rate. Garfinkel, Harold. “Research note on inter- and intra- racial homicide.” Social Forces, 27(4) (1949): 369-381. Print. The paper presents the number of black and white offenders that are involved in inter and intra racial homicides. The article provides data from a period of 1930 through 1940. The data was collected from court records of the victims and the offenders. The article is important as it provides an essential connection between the race of the offender and the victim, and can therefore, help in drawing a profile of both. Gastil, Raymond D. “Homicide and a Regional Culture of Violence.” American Sociological Review, 36(3) (1971): 412-427. Print. The article presents an analysis of the regional and racial differences in the incidence of homicide in the US. The article also provides a supporting historical background for the greater incidence of homicide in the US and that in the Southern states. The article believes that the higher rate of homicide in the US is due to the tradition of violence that occurred in the country during the Civil War and then its subsequent continuation. The research makes use of both qualitative historical analyses and quantitative analysis shows that the presence of greater number of Southerners in the regional population increases the homicide rate. Harlan, Howard. “Five Hundred Homicides (1931-1951).” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 40(6) (1950): 736-752. Print. This is an important article reporting a research of five hundred homicide cases. The research a
Trends in Online Education Online education is defined as globalization of human ideas and acts through technology (Tompkins, 2011). It involves the use of personal computers and the internet to connect the world in matters of education. Distance learning is propagated through a wide range of technologies that aim at reaching out to many students at a distance. The main distinction of this type of learning from the traditional and normal class attendance by a student and a teacher is the separation in space between them. Neither of them is forced to travel to a fixed place for the purpose of learning. Advantages of Online and Distance Learning Both the learner and the teacher are spared from the cost of having to travel to a fixed place for educational interaction. This convenience affords participants in online education an opportunity to juggle education with other matters of life, both personal and professional. Armed with a computer and internet, one can take studies from any part of the world. This gives a student unlimited choice of courses from the various colleges offering online education. In the ordinary scenario, one could be forced to forego a dream career because a relevant course is not offered in the college of choice. Online education exposes one to the use of internet and computers and as a result leads to a gain in skills and knowledge in technology. The process also allows students to learn at their own pace depending on their learning ability. Disadvantages of Online Education There is an accompanying cost that a student bears in terms of technology gadgets required in online education (Tompkins, 2011). Technology gadgets such as computers, internet and live communication may not be always available or fully reliable when they are accessible. There is also lack of direct feedback as could be received in a traditional classroom setting where a teacher and a student interact face-to-face. Face-to-face interaction provides a teacher an opportunity of direct assessment through questioning and testing to gauge the level of understanding (Tompkins, 2011). As a personal take, online education is more convenient in terms of course choice, institution of study and time. It is more flexible and allows students to learn in accordance with their learning ability. Assessment Goals for sixth Grade Communication Arts Students These assessment goals target students in sixth grade; the first goal is to raise the score of proficiency in comprehension reading from 65% to 75% in the first five weeks of learning. This goal will be measured by a common decisive assessment comprising of a ten questio
Introduction Management is one of the important aspects of organisations. It embraces all the steps and procedures taken to “bring people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using the available resources efficiently and effectively” (Deshpande & Farley 2004, p.5). This goal is often achieved through management functions, which include organising, staffing, planning, direction, leading, and controlling of an organisation in the effort to realise the organisation’s aims and objectives. A manager is also involved in activities such as resourcing, which involves “the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial, technological, and natural resources” (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin & Cardy 2008, p.35) in an organisation. Several management scholars also contend that an organisation can be viewed as being comprised of systems. In this sense, the work of managers include facilitation of human actions such as design of systems that enable production process to run to yield useful outputs, which while sold bring value to organisations’ stakeholders. This argument implies that a manager has a central responsibility of enhancing empowerment of all the organisational stakeholders. For instance, without empowerment of employees, it is difficult to keep them motivated so that they can have greater outputs, which result to the creation of more value to other stakeholders of an organisation including the owners (shareholders). It is also important to maintain cohesiveness of all the employees for the realisation of optimal outputs. Hence, findings of the roles of managers in enhancing communication among employees of organisations are incredible. In this paper, research findings on the roles of management in communication in an organisation, the work of managers, and the role of management in the empowerment of the employees are the most important findings in the field of management. Role of management in communication within an organisation Communication is important in the effecting of management function of leading, planning, staffing, controlling, monitoring, and organising. Rashdidat et al. (2012) investigated how communication affected the performance of business organisations of by deploying “literature-based research instrument to measure the application of the investigated constructs” (p.16). Survey method was used to establish a sample of 100 large and small service and manufacturing organisations. Using percentages, statistics, and t-test analysis, the researchers found out, “effective business communication is emphasised to a reasonable extent in the surveyed companies” (Rashdidat et al. 2012, p.16). These results suggest that communication in an organisation is one of the facets that a manager deserves to pay imperative attention to in order to enhance achievement of the goals of an organisation. Indeed, whether in the manufacturing or in the service industry, the main goal of any organisation is to increase productivity and quality of its objects of trade in the effort to hike its profits. In this endeavour, collective effort
The current business environment necessitates leaders to prepare for themselves, their teams, and their organizations for a variety of challenges. Leaders of the future have to understand the demands and develop their teams and organizations accordingly. Assessment is considered to be an essential prerequisite for development, and thus leaders must engage in evaluations to gain insight into their own needs, as well as those of their workplaces and employees. On the whole, I would say that I am ready as a leader for the pitfalls and promises of the fourth industrial revolution. The course text enabled me to gain insight into the likely developments of the future, including technological, social, and economic. I believe that this knowledge will support me in leading my organization successfully. Additionally, I think that I have managed to develop the tools that are integral to the leadership of the future, including presence, agility, collaboration, development, and discernment. By applying these tools consistently in my work and in leadership practice, I will be able to work effectively in my position and lead my teams to success in the new business environment. Based on the test score of 107 out of 126, I believe that my team and my organization is ready for the future. Within the team, there is a strong network of interpersonal connections, supporting knowledge exchange and development. My team consists of diverse employees who are highly adaptable to change and can function effectively when given unfamiliar tasks or challenging assignments. I am grateful for the work that my team does, and I believe that applying the principles from the textbook would help me in leading them to new heights. My organization is also ready for the future because it is agile, flexible, and resourceful. There are excellent opportunities for future growth both in our current market and in other markets, so I believe that my organization is prepared for the fourth industrial revolution. Although my current level of preparedness is high, there are still areas for improvement, and addressing them would assist me in leading myself and my team through new challenges and opportunities. The main problem brought by the 4IR is the need to cope, collaborate with, and lead others through technological changes and the social and economic processes that ensue. Consequently, the first area of improvement is my knowledge of changes that are taking place in the contemporary world. Developing a deeper understanding of new technologies and their overreaching influences would help me to see opportunities or obstacles from afar and help my organization and team to navigate them successfully. To address this area for improvement, I will monitor news about science and technology each day to stay on track with current developments. The second area of improvement concerns my leadership style an
Introduction Charles Xavier in his role of a master in MV Xavier ; puts in place management structures that represent failure in proper co-ordination of duties. General management theories face total disregard in this crew; chaos, work inefficiency, and low staff morale are common. The general management theories are responsible for ensuring proper functions across all the members of staff taking care of their motivations, morale boosting activities, and methods of conflict resolution. Poor chains of command and co-ordinations form a basis for improper management. Staff motivation and encouragement remains vital to productivity. All the motivating factors are missing in the management structures of MV Xavier , thus causing inefficiency and low performance of the staff. Master Charles leads the crew with limited motivation; the communication channels remain poor and the conflict resolution methods are non-existent as well. The staffs feel oppressed and demoralized. This makes them form improper behavioral groups, which later leads to low productivity. General Management Theory As the overall head of MV Xavier , Charles Xavier plays the role of a supervisory executive manager o
Logistics This paper discusses how new technologies and new techniques are changing the fundamental ways in which warehousing is carried out. Increasing competition coupled with higher demands from the consumers for value addition drives the need to significantly cut costs and find new ways to add value all along the supply chain. The key is to cut costs by doing away with redundant activities, and focusing on making the organization leaner, so it can react faster to changes in the market. Efficient supply chain management has become critical in adding flexibility in the organization, so new systems are being developed to not only automate activities but efficiently coordinate and control them in such a way that maximum value is delivered to the end consumer. Modern Warehousing building Flexibility in Operations New technologies and modern software are reshaping the way warehousing take place. For example, Warehouse Management Software started to flourish in the 1980s, but now, by integrating with other modern software, it is building much more flexibility in the company’s operations. The Warehouse Management System gives more control to the supervisor by keeping a track of inventory and on the people dealing with the inventory. The software uses statistics and demand trends to forecast weekly activities and inventory requirements. It has helped to significantly cut down costs, reduce delivery time, and the number of workers required. With lower delivery time and lower costs, the end beneficiary is the consumer, who enjoys higher quality products at lower costs. This system, integrated with other software yields even more benefits for the company. WMS coupled with Warehouse Control System (WCS) enables the supervisor to see the status of the inventory in real-time, with updated information, enabling spontaneous, on-the-spot decision making (Cutler, 2009). Thus, the WMS keeps track of inventory and people, and WMC helps maintain control over operations by enabling the supervisor to access real-time updates. Si
Louis Althusser developed his notion regarding the concepts of ideology, state apparatuses and interpellation. Althusser comes with a unique approach to all these issues. This essay will summarise the notions advanced by Althusser in respect to the definitions given to the terms mentioned. In his definition of ideology, Althusser adopts two strategies. In the first place, he offers to define ideology as an imagined association of people to their real conditions. He provides examples of ideologies as political, ethical, legal, and political ideologies. On the other hand, he looks at ideology as consisting of material existence. In this respect, ideology can be described as representing imagined associations that individuals have in relation to their real existence. State apparatuses are defined as instruments used by the authorities. In this respect, Althusser categorises the state apparatuses into two: repressive state apparatuses and ideological state apparatuses (Althusser, 1994). The repressive state apparatuses are said to be those state apparatuses that use violence. They include the state’s uniformed forces, and they employ violence in their functioning. The ideological state apparatuses, on the other hand, refers to the special institutions found in the society such as the family, religious institutions, the legal structures, and trade unions, among others. Interpellation can be described as the manner in which ideology executes power. These aspects are all related in the sense that ideology is used to execute power by means of the state apparatuses (Althusser, 1994). Althusser developed his own way of looking at various aspects. Ideology is used to execute power in society. In this respect, the state apparatuses may execute power in society. The process through which the power is executed has been defined as interpellation by Althusser. Therefore, it can be argued that the three concepts advanced by Althusser are closely interrelated. Bibliography Althusser, L, 1994, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.