The purpose of this assignment is to practice how to deliver negative news by refusing a request for a donation from an organization. One of the churches in your community requests that you help to sponsor its next back-to-school program. Your company is unable to sponsor the event due to prior commitment to other charitable organizations.
Write a letter to the leader of the church explaining why your company cannot donate to the back-to-school program.
Your refusal letter must include the following: Buffer, Explanation, Negative news, and Redirect.
What makes your leadership style unique? Share 3-4 qualities, skills, or abilities that provide some context about your leadership style. Do not just state these, explain and dive into why or how these are unique.
Part 2:
Furthermore, answer 2-5 of these questions in-depth:
Throughout the reflection, consider your background, identity, experiences, and values, and how they impact your definition of leadership (from the first reflection) and your leadership style.
*Note: use paragraphs when answering the 2 sections and indent, and ensure to meet the word count of 350+ words.
Locate a sociological theory (it does not have to be one of the theories listed previously). Explain that theory with its relation to juvenile delinquency.
Please note that sociological theories relate to society and external influences over a juvenile, not psychological influences (which relate to internalization within a person) or biological influences (which concern physical problems).
Once you decide on a theory, write a 800-1000 word essay addressing the following:
Describe how it relates to juveniles by explaining what the theory believes causes the juvenile problems.
Your essay should follow APA format. The first part should define the sociological theory. The second part should provide details about addressing the problem. Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has introduced multiple proposals intended to reform the criminal justice system in LA. For your final project, you will summarize and evaluate the evidence on the impact of ONE of the 11 Special Directives listed on the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office lice of Polices. All are linked here: (you can copy paste them on google to view)
Each student should select one of these directives to evaluate, in a double spaced, 12 point times new roman, 7 page term paper. All external sources should be cited using APA format. Your evaluation should address the following three issues:
What is the problem that the directive is trying to solve? Clearly explain how the directive alters the incentives facing potential criminals, defendants facing adjudication, defense attorneys, district attorneys or judges relative to the status quo – note that not all groups might be affected by all directives.
Is there any empirical evidence on the likely impact of the suggested reform? What sources of data might be used to evaluate the extent to which the directive improves social welfare?
Do any of the theoretical concepts covered in class, or examples from US of World history offer any lessons for how this directive might impact the crime rate, incarceration rate, and racial disparities in who interacts with the criminal justice system?
please respond to the following discussion post as a peer making a comment. There are various tools that a healthcare organization can use to increase their logistic efficiency like root cause analysis, six Sigma, lean management, and managing your key performance indicators. RCA is a strategic problem-solving technique that allows you to examine a problem and implement a process to solve that problem to keep it from reoccurring again. This tool can improve patient safety and improve the quality of care, leading to better logistical efficiency. Six Sigma is a strategy hospital management uses to analyze a specific process and analyze the data from your performance tools to implement better outcomes. Six Sigma processes can help reduce waste, improve profits and gains, employee morale, and quality of products and services. (Al-Qatawneh et al., 2019). Lean management tools help an organization create maximum value by reducing waste. This method can change an organization’s way of thinking and value and ultimately changes the behavior and culture over time. (Lawal et al., 2014). Finally, keep and monitor your key performance indicators to be managed and put different processes in place to improve these indicators like inpatient engagement scores, utilization rates, readmission rates, and overall improve the quality of care given at your organization.
Measuring the capacity or throughput of various resources like x-ray equipment and exam rooms can give the organization the value of volumes that can equal the revenue brought in per day. An organization can get an overall view of the average revenue volume that each room or x-ray equipment they can produce per year. By looking at the capacity of a machine and ER volumes, you can also regulate your staff’s productivity per day, which could control staffing costs. Healthcare performance measurements allow leaders to reduce costs and improve the quality and efficiency of care that they deliver. In addition, capacity utilization helps the administration make well-educated decisions on their facility’s capital budget and staffing matrix. Knowing the value of volumes put out by a piece of imaging equipment can give the administration the knowledge to see the return on the investment that they are getting. For example, having low capacity utilization levels can indicate that resources may be over or under-allocated. The resource can be supply cost and staffing. Having an overall view of the capacity utilization for your industry can help leaders make better-educated decisions regarding ordering and long-term utilization strategies.
References:
Al-Qatawneh, L., Abdallah, A. A. A., & Zalloum, S. S. Z. (2019). Six Sigma Application in Healthcare Logistics: A Framework and A Case Study. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2019, 9691568. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9691568
Hughes, R. G. (2008). Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. In R. G. Hughes (Ed.), Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2682/
Lawal, A. K., Rotter, T., Kinsman, L., Sari, N., Harrison, L., Jeffery, C., Kutz, M., Khan, M. F., & Flynn, R. (2014). Lean management in health care: Definition, concepts, methodology, and effects reported (systematic review protocol). Systematic Reviews, 3, 103. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-103
