...MBA UK Course Handbook the Strathclyde 2014/15 The Strathclyde MBA 1 The University of Strathclyde's mission dates from our founder, Professor John Anderson, leaving instructions in his will for 'a place of useful learning' to be established in the city. By this he meant an institution open to everyone, regardless of gender, status or income. “ The Place of Useful Learning John Anderson 1796 ” We continue to be committed to 'useful learning' through our provision of relevant, high quality, educational opportunities, the global application of our research and our focus on knowledge exchange, all of which aim to benefit the wider economy and society. Our commitment to 'useful learning' is about: • • Offering a wide range of education opportunities in a flexible, innovative learning environment. Developing students who have the aptitudes and capacities to make significant contributions to their communities after graduation as employees, employers and citizens. Connecting research through knowledge exchange to make an impact on modern society. • 2 Contents Welcome ................................................................................................................. 5 The University of Strathclyde .................................................................................. 6 Strathclyde Business School ................................................................................... 6 About the Handbook and MyPlace ........
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...Organizational Award Minerva Ndikum Medical Informatics 6208 DE PhD Philip Aspden This paper compares and contrasts eight different views of two winners of Davies enterprise award. The HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies award recognizes excellence in the implementation and use of health information technology, specifically electronic health records (EHRs), for healthcare organizations, private practices, public health systems, and community health organizations. The Award honors Dr. Nicholas E. Davies, an Atlanta-based practicing physician, president-elect of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Improving the Patient Record, who died in 1991 in a plane crash. This paper will compare and contrast the eight difference, the process by which each organization decided to implement an EHR, the goals of each implementation, the governance process for planning and implementation and how stakeholders were involved in each case, the functionality that was implemented in each case, including clinical decision support tools and data sharing with external organizations, how security and data integrity issues were addressed in each case, how user satisfaction with the implementation in each case was addressed and give the results, and how each implementation’s success in meeting the original goals of Sentara healthcare system who won the award in 2010 and Eastern Maine Medical Center won the award in 2008.Sentara Healthcare...
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...evolving technological advances, many of the legal and ethical issues that are challenging the delivery of health care and the health care profession are new. As we confront the legal, moral, and ethical aspects of health care, we are seldom faced with decisions that require or are resolved by simple right or wrong answers (Edge & Kreiger, 1998). In the Breadth component of KAM VI, I focus on several ethical theories and how those theories influence the way ethical issues and concerns are addressed and managed in the allocation and delivery of health care services. I critically assess and evaluate those theories, concepts, and derivative principles as they impact important decisions and the implications of those decisions within the context of social change and with special emphasis on health care management and policy. In addition, I discuss the key assumptions on which the selected theories are constructed, compare and contrast the writers’ interpretations across theories, and conclude by providing a critical commentary on the merits of the selected theories. Abstract Depth Component In the Depth Component of KAM VI, I review and critically analyze selected articles on contemporary concepts and methods in ethical decision-making relative to the delivery of health services. I also attempt to build on the theories, perspectives, and conclusions discussed in the Breadth Component, and compare and contrast the views...
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...Title: Riordan Manufacturing HR System Final Presentation Author: Neal Armstrong Course: BSA 375 Date: October 6th 2014 Instructor: William Glassen Introduction: Riordan Manufacturing’s current Information Technology Human Resource (HR) system is considered legacy and in need of replacement. The expected results are to define the business requirements for the development of an HR system to support the objective of a more sophisticated, state of the art, information systems technology. In this document, I will outline my plan for the new Information Technology system following in detail the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the project. Information Gathering: Information gathering occurs during the analysis phase of the SDLC and is the foundation of this project. In the analysis phase, the information gathered are used to create report definitions and layouts, screen definitions and layouts, data element definitions, and workflow diagrams. In order for it to be successful, it starts with a high-level meeting with the COO Hugh McCauley. In this meeting, I will ask Mr. McCauley to assign stakeholders and dedicate them to this information gathering process. The Ideal stakeholder would be a manager or supervisor from each area of the department who has everyday working knowledge of the current HR IT system and the IT technical staff whose job it is to ensure the new system will work under the current IT infrastructure. At the end of this meeting, I would...
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...whiteboard is filling with initiatives and ideas for these two to deal with. And with two facility management related college programs in the area (at Humber College and at Conestoga Collage) there are co-op students looking for jobs in the facility management field. If you want the contact information use the membership CD just sent to you and on the opening page are the hyperlinks for both of these institutions. This is the third year that IFMA Toronto has produced the membership CD rather than published a membership roster. There are, of course, issues with this year’s CD as there have been with every membership roster created in history I believe. Some of the problems are related to getting updated information about member. As an example when people renew their membership and if it is tardy the membership listing we acquire from Houston does not contain all of our known members. Other issues like which sponsors get listed on the CD are also rather contentious, but similarly to the membership list there needs to be a publishing date and time. On the positive side, this is the first year that the CD was mailed to all on the membership list rather than to have the CDs at every event for personal pick up. I would...
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...from higher management, subordinates and colleagues and uses it to modify their behaviour. Leadership manifests in projecting one’s expertise that gains the confidence and trust of others. Inspiring and motivating them to increase their level of commitment and aligning their vision for the betterment of an organization. Great leaders can emerge at any level of an organization in every field at any time as everyone has the ability to make a difference in the lives of people they serve and lead. Anyone can become a leader only if the desire and takes effort to do so. Dr. Paul Hersey, defines leadership as “working with and through others to achieve objectives.” Given this definition, anyone in a position whose achievement requires the support of others can...
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...computer systems used for managing five primary components: hardware, software, data (information for decision making), procedures (design, development and documentation), and people (individuals, groups, or organizations). Management information systems are distinct from other information systems, in that they are used to analyze and facilitate strategic and operational activities. (O’Brien, 1999) BRAC, an international development organization based in Bangladesh, is the largest non-governmental development organization in the world, measured by the number of employees and the number of people it has helped. Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 soon after the independence of Bangladesh, BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, SriLanka, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Haiti and The Philippines as of 2012. (BRAC,2013)BRAC has organized the isolated poor and learned to understand their needs by finding practical ways to increase their access to resources support their entrepreneurship and empower them to become agents of change. Women and girls have been the focus of BRAC‟s anti-poverty approach; BRAC recognizes both their vulnerabilities and thirst for change. (Wikipedia, 2013) It will be, therefore, appropriate to correlate theories management information system with BRAC to properly understand the practice in reality. 1.1 Origin of the Study This report titled Application of Management Information Systems...
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...sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav >> Version of Record - Oct 1, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from vis.sagepub.com by guest on October 31, 2013 MANAGEMENT CASE DISTRIBUTOR SALES FORCE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Jaydeep Mukherjee & Anirban Basu Nestle India had initiated an aggressive market growth strategy which was difficult to implement because of the increasing turnover ofthe distributors' salesmen. The challenge was likely to get aggravated in future because ofincreasing employment optionsfor the salesmen as well as increasing competition for retail shelf space. The salesmen were in the payrolls of the channel partners, and the diversity of the management practices of channel partners made...
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...Description 4 The Company Mission 4 The Organization – SEAD 4 The CEO – Jon Shreve 5 Leadership Practices 6 Relationship Between Leadership and Organizational Culture 7 SWOT Analysis 9 Organizational Strengths 9 Technical Skills 9 Strategic Thinking 10 Organizational Weaknesses 11 Under-developed Leadership 11 Failing to deliver quality results 11 Organizational Opportunities 12 Political Forces - Obamacare 12 Economic Forces - Cloud Computing 13 Organizational Threats 14 Leadership Evaluation 16 Leadership Strengths 17 Innovative Thinking 17 Future-Facing 17 Managing Relationships 18 Leadership Weaknesses 19 Lack of formal higher education in executive staff 19 Weakness of Human Skills 19 Lack of Systems Thinking 20 Recommendations for Leadership Development 21 Lead with Humility (Level 5 Leadership) 21 Engage in Interactive Leadership 22 Practice Authentic Leadership 22 References 23 Organization Overview The focus of this section is to provide a description of the Software Engineering and Development (SEAD) organization at MCG, the leadership practices of the company’s CEO, and the link between the CEO’s leadership practices and the SEAD organizational culture. This department and leader were chosen for two reasons. First, the SEAD organization underwent many changes over the past 3 years due primarily to the CEO’s leadership decisions, including a complete reorganization to align to Agile methodologies, and an acquisition to Hearst...
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...United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Reasoning skills success in 20 minutes a day.—2nd ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-493-0 1. Reasoning (Psychology) I. Title: Reasoning skills success in twenty minutes a day. II. Title. BF442.C48 2005 153.4'3—dc22 2005047185 Printed in the United States of America 987654321 Second Edition ISBN 1-57685-493-0 For information on LearningExpress, other LearningExpress products, or bulk sales, please write to us at: LearningExpress 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com Contents HOW TO USE THIS BOOK ix PRETEST 1 LESSON 1 Critical Thinking and Reasoning Skills The importance of critical thinking and reasoning skills, justifying your decisions, the difference between reason and emotion 15 LESSON 2 Problem-Solving Strategies Identifying the main issue of a problem and its parts, prioritizing issues 21 LESSON 3 Thinking vs. Knowing Distinguishing between fact and opinion, determining whether facts are true or tentative truths 27 LESSON 4 Who Makes the Claim? Evaluating credibility: recognizing bias, determining level of expertise; the special case of eyewitnesses 33 LESSON 5 Partial Claims and Half-Truths Recognizing incomplete claims, understanding the true value of studies and averages 41 v – CONTENTS – LESSON 6 What’s in a Word? Recognizing the art of subtle...
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...MGMT 591: LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR COURSE PROJECT J.P.MORGAN CASE STUDY (Source: Google Image) Name: Zaheed Diwan Address: 127 Allerton Drive, Schaumburg, Illinois, 60194. Phone: (310) 357 4218 Email: zzdiwan@hotmail.com Instructor: Mae Hicks Jones Outline: Section | Description | Title Page | Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Action – J.P.Morgan case study. | Introduction | An overview of the organization and my role in it. | Problem Statement | How is any problem identified & analyzed, and how effectively are decisions taken, necessary changes communicated & implemented, to avoid any repercussions? | Analysis | Detailed analysis of the problem statement. * Identification & Analysis of a problem * Effective Decision Making * Identifying and Implementing Changes * Communications | Solutions | Identification and critical evaluation of potential workable solutions to the problem. | Reflection | Statement about how this assignment influenced my personal, academic, and professional leadership and managerial development. | References & Literature Review. | Reference to Scholarly reviews during the analysis. | * Overview of the Organization: (Source: Google Images) The Organization that will be the topic of discussion for this project paper is J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. & Co. (India operations are under J.P. Morgan Services India Private ltd). J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is a leader in...
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...Department of Defense INSTRUCTION NUMBER 8500.01 March 14, 2014 DoD CIO SUBJECT: Cybersecurity References: See Enclosure 1 1. PURPOSE. This instruction: a. Reissues and renames DoD Directive (DoDD) 8500.01E (Reference (a)) as a DoD Instruction (DoDI) pursuant to the authority in DoDD 5144.02 (Reference (b)) to establish a DoD cybersecurity program to protect and defend DoD information and information technology (IT). b. Incorporates and cancels DoDI 8500.02 (Reference (c)), DoDD C-5200.19 (Reference (d)), DoDI 8552.01 (Reference (e)), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (ASD(NII))/DoD Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO) Memorandums (References (f) through (k)), and Directive-type Memorandum (DTM) 08-060 (Reference (l)). c. Establishes the positions of DoD principal authorizing official (PAO) (formerly known as principal accrediting authority) and the DoD Senior Information Security Officer (SISO) (formerly known as the Senior Information Assurance Officer) and continues the DoD Information Security Risk Management Committee (DoD ISRMC) (formerly known as the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN)/Global Information Grid (GIG) Flag Panel). d. Adopts the term “cybersecurity” as it is defined in National Security Presidential Directive-54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive-23 (Reference (m)) to be used throughout DoD instead of the term “information assurance (IA).” 2. APPLICABILITY a. This instruction applies to: (1) OSD, the...
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...LECTURE 1 Fundamental Concepts of Information Systems Learning Objectives Understand the concept of a system and how it relates to information systems Explain major components of an information system Present major types of information systems in the business world Explain how a firm can use IT to gain competitive advantages What is a system? A system Is a set of interrelated components With a clearly defined boundary Working together to achieve a common set of objectives By accepting inputs and producing outputs in a transformation process A computer, an organization Example: What is an Information System? An organized combination of… People Hardware and software Communication networks Data resources Policies and procedures Collects, processes, stores, and disseminates information in an organization This system… Information systems model Components of an IS People Resources End users: the people who use the IS or the information from the IS IS specialists: the people who develop and operate IS All physical devices used in information processing Machines, data media, peripherals All information processing instructions including programs and procedures System software, application software and procedures Hardware Resources Software Resources Components of an IS (cont.) Data Resources Facts about the business transactions...
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...need for the government to solve problems. Liberal. There is injustice still. But look at how much we've accomplished in the last 50 years. We just have to keep working at it. Both the liberal and the radical positions seek to make the infrastructure more effective in the equality of access to resources and rights. For Jeanne, the liberal sees many of the problems with the system and the injustice it produces. She wants to change the system to make it more just, more equal. She does not want to examine deeply those aspects of our culture that have not changed: such as "economic growth achieved by corporate politics." But she also fears that radical change brings chaos, and has a vested interest in the system that exists. Thus, she is less critical than a revolutionary, and more pleased with results that make the system just a little better. The liberal is more likely to see improvements in race, class, and gender issues, while still recognizing that much more needs to be done. Libertarianism view • Variation of conservatism that believes government should be small and should play only the most minimal possible role in social life • Oppose government programs for the redistribution of income and other types of intervention to correct the ills of society • Often have much in common with liberals, such as their stance on the drug war. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American...
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...it global? All these questions pump adrenaline to everyone who is concern about their health status. Health care organizations, specifically hospitals have significantly felt the impact of nursing shortage. Nurses are an integral part of any health care organization; and are known to the health care community as front line workers. The following outline is to discuss a health care situation such as nursing shortage in hospital settings. This outline is to provide a comprehensive overview by analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of procedures that are in place, and recommend improvement strategies based on economic theories and concepts that support best practices. Key Players Nursing shortage is a work in itself, there is no immediate solution to the problem; therefore, nurses as the key players must be involved in the decision making occurring at every health care organization. As nurses, the sole responsibility lies upon them to establish a safe working environment, ensuring patients and nurses’ right be upheld at all times, and nurses upholding the highest quality of care rendered to patients. Nurses must be intensely involved in committees to have a voice and in-puts and must be willing to effect change. Therefore, we must look at the accrediting body for nursing organizations, nurses who work in hospital setting, the health care providers who collaborate with nursing to assure...
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