...The principles of modern management theories that can be applied in a healthcare setting would be contingency and resource dependency theories. According to Weill and Olson (1989), An Assessment of the Contingency Theory of Management Information System in contingency theory, is a class of behavioral theory that claims that there is no best way to organize a corporation, to lead a company, or to make decisions. The health care industry is constantly shifting, meaning fluctuations in medical procedures and the environment of the workplace. According Weill and Olson (1989), the theory stated that management should stay flexible and remain capable of reorganizing structurally and procedurally as needed to keep up with demands and requirements. Moreover, the theory clearly applies to the hospital setting as the administration should be willing to adjust to issues that fit the demands of the workplace. This will aid in reducing the stress within the work environment. According to Davis and Cobb (2009), Resource Dependence Theory: Past and Future, mentioned that the resource dependence theory organizational accomplishment happens when a business capitalize on its power and influences in gaining the resources necessary for the businesses’ existence. Most businesses that are deficient in resources will seek to become partners of other organizations who have more resources. The dependence connection means that organizations become dependent on each other’s ability to have access...
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...Counselors Responsibility and Ethics Paper By Jennifer Ewings Willis PCN 505 Professional Ethics in Counseling Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships In the Counseling field, Counselors will encounter many instances of boundary issues. These types issues will occur when practitioners establish more than one relationship with clients. These relationships can be come professional, personal and work related. In our field of work, boundary issues will occur when mental health professionals encounter a potential or actual conflict in the professional, personal an or business relationship. A prime example of this boundary crossing/dual relationship is when a client is also a business associate, close friend, or family member of the therapist. In this situation, It would become difficult when conflicts arise for the therapist to look at things in an objective fashion. The therapist must attempt to evaluate the conflicts using the Ethical Decision Making Model. In the Ethical Decision making model, Zur, O (2011), the therapist must evaluate the situation by giving clear and accurate facts, and gather information and questions about boundary and dual relations. The therapist must determine how the relationship will affect him/her...
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...Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex Adaptive Systems Lindsey Webster MHA601: Principles of Health Care Administration Tricia Devin Monday, December 2, 2013 Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex Adaptive Systems Complex adaptive systems (CASs) are omnipresent. “Examples of complex adaptive systems include the electric power grid, telecommunications networks, the Internet, biological systems, ecological systems, social groups, and even human society itself” (Decision and Information Sciences Division, N/D). “Complex” implies diversity – a wide variety of elements. “Adaptive” suggests the capacity to alter or change – the ability to learn from experience. A “system” is a set of connected or interdependent things. In a CAS, the “things” are independent agents. An agent may be a person, a molecule, a species or an organization, among many others. These agents act based on local or surrounding knowledge and conditions. A central body, master neuron, or CEO does not control the agent’s individual moves. A CAS has a densely connected web of interacting agents, each operating from its own schema or local knowledge. This paper discusses Complex Adaptive Systems in a holistic context. It aims to analyze the occurrence of errors and how these errors can be avoided by successful error avoidance in post modem or complex adaptive systems. Why do errors happen? The common initial reaction is to find and blame an error on someone. However, even apparently...
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...Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex 1 Post Modern Magalene Johnson MHA601 Instructor Nicole Hatcher June 29, 2013 Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex 2 In this new emerging world that we live in today managing healthcare organizationshave been force to develop new ways to manage Healthcare organization from these change of healthcare organizations the postmodern complex adaptive system has evolved. Before the development of this theory healthcare organizations have been unable to manage healthcare in an efficient and productive manner. First managerial error according to Johnson (2010) “failing to account for employees’ ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with ways to speed up production and thereby reduce the effect they are required to use. “(page 80). With this management expects the employees’ to follow step by step procedures to perform his job. The problem is that it puts limit on how the employee can to perform his job. It takes the view that management knows the most efficient way to perform the job. The solution this problem is allowing employees the freedom to develop new and more efficient ways to perform their jobs. The postmodern/Complex Adaptive System has the same mindset in that managers must develop strategies for taking advantage of this ongoing learning. Another way for employees to provide an efficient and ongoing learning process is by joining a communities of practices is as stated...
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...Dente MHA 601: PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex Adaptive Systems Professor: Tricia Devin December 10, 2012 Post-modernist/complex adaptive systems are modern theories of management that deal with relationships within the organization and how the organization is structured. As in all positions of leadership, managers in these organizations have to possess tools necessary to keep their part of the organization running smoothly. Many of these managers employ the postmodernist complex adaptive systems theory because it allows for less rigid boundaries during the planning and implementation process as well as constantly reminding the manager that the staff is a critical component to the organization as well. Being in a position of leadership means that it is up to that person to handle any problems that may arise during the lifetime of the organization. This paper focuses on ten possible errors that can be found in health care organizations. For each of these errors, I will discuss what makes it an error and what way the error can be avoided. The first error that will be discussed is “failing to account for employees' ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with ways to speed up production and thereby reduce the effort they are required to use.” The first criterion that proves this to be an error is that the failure to account for an employee's ability...
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...This pack of HRM 300 Entire Course Latest Version A+ Study Guide includes: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management Business - General Business Applied Modern Management Theory . Which principles of modern management theory can be applied in a healthcare/related setting? Which do you see in your own work environment? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Complexity Science and Postmodernism in the Healthcare Arena . As CEO of Ashford Medical Center, the Board has authorized you to work with the Medical Director, the Chief of Staff, and Medical Staff in the development of an exciting new program to attempt to meet the medical, health, and nutritional needs of the community for the next ten years. What conflicts might you anticipate as you attempt to adapt a post-modernist/complexity science strategy? Justify your response. Respond to at least two of your classmates' postings. Error Avoidance in Post Modern/Complex Adaptive Systems . Review Exercise 2 on page 80. Each bullet presents a possible health care management error which may have a significantly negative effect on the organization. From your readings this week, describe why each of these may be considered errors. Finally, how might the ideas presented in your reading help you avoid each of these errors? Your assignment must be two- to three pages (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Utilize a minimum...
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...Error Avoidance in Post Modern and Complex Adaptive Systems paper Published by admin on June 2, 2013 | Leave a response Review Exercise and note how might the ideas presented in the reading help you avoid each of these errors? One advantage of the joint postmodern/complexity lens is that managers might avoid some errors that would otherwise be pitfalls. Some of these are identified in the following list. From the perspectives outlined in this chapter, why are these errors? ∙ Failing to account for employees’ ability to learn safe machine operation methods by experimenting on their own with ways to speed up production and thereby reduce the effort they are required to use. ∙ Putting all employees through the same orientation program regardless of differences in cultural interpretations of organizational hierarchies and thereby missing the potential for conflict among employees and between employees and management caused by different expectations of roles. ∙ Disciplining one employee, expecting a modest change in that employee’s behavior but getting a massive union response. ∙ Changing a work process without considering the role of communities of practice on work performance. ∙ Assuming that employees will not reallocate work assignments based on their perception of the best arrangement even after receiving work allocation assignments from management. ∙ Ignoring the speed with which the informal organization can transmit messages and, therefore, failing...
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...Specifically, the espoused values were generic and terminal in nature and unrelated to the tasks and goals at hand. To avoid the confusion in the minds of practitioners, and as reflected in the literature itself, a Strategy Quadrant (content), consisting of Stand, Standing, Shared values and Steps is proposed. The process of developing the 4Ss of strategy is delineated in terms of Mintzberg's "think/see/do first" processes (Strategy Triangle). The context ofcontext of strategy is defined in terms of stability and complexity (Strategy Duality). It is argued that, in complex and unstable contexts, the traditional mode of "think-first" deliberate strategies which set "thinking" apart from "doing" is becoming increasingly ineffective. The unpredictability of complex contexts, in which we operate, leave us with no choice but to be markedly adaptive rather than attempt to be overly prepared. Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) are the order of the day, and the organization's Standing (desired future state) and Steps have to emerge in action, rather than be pre-determined, in the development of strategy. However, this emergence of strategy, ought to be predicated on a Stand (strategic perspective or position), and a set of Shared values, without which emergent strategies may well lead to chaos. The principal role of the leader in a CAS is not to increasingly...
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...Chapter 1: The business systems of Asia Variety in the regional and general features Civilizational traditions • Confucianism • Taoism • Buddhism • Islam • Catholicism Historical external influences • Colonies • India establishing trading connections, mostly in South East Asia • Chinese who left China and settled as business people in the countries around the rim of the South China sea Periods: 1. 1945-1975 After the retreat of colonial powers, countries needed to reestablish their identity and political structures → hostility + Maoist experiments in China 2. 1975-1997 Relative calm period, stable growth, export to foreign countries, rise in FDI a. Mao’s death: collapse of communism → socialist market economy b. Japanese miracle c. Impressive growth of the South-Korean economy 3. Ersatz capitalism → Asian crisis in 1997: inefficient use of capital was covered up by the availability of easy money from governments, optimistic foreign investors lured by the emerging markets. The system could not keep up the pretence as it became sensitive to a downturn in the economic cycle which hit the region in 1997. → End of easy money and beginnings of reforms. 4. After 1997, reforms: • Improvements to accountability and disclosure in the financing of industry • Reduction of favoritism and corruption during control of licenses and capital • Opening of markets to foreign competition • Adoption of international standards in accounting, trading, IPR • General rise...
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...Cover Design: Yvo Riezebos (technical drawing by K. Passino) Text Design: Peter Vacek Design Macro Writer: William Erik Baxter Copyeditor: Brian Jones Proofreader: Holly McLean-Aldis Copyright c 1998 Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in a database or retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. Printed simultaneously in Canada. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and AddisonWesley was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or in all caps. MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Passino, Kevin M. Fuzzy control / Kevin M. Passino and Stephen Yurkovich. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-201-18074-X 1. Automatic control. 2. Control theory. 3. Fuzzy systems. I. Yurkovich, Stephen. II. Title. TJ213.P317 1997 629.8’9--DC21 97-14003 CIP Instructional Material Disclaimer: The...
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...completeness, nor correctness of the presented topic. Please let me know in case of errors or missing information: contact.benjaminsommer.com [SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LECTURE NOTES] October 21, 2011 OVERVIEW SOFTWARE PROCESSES SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELS PROCESS ACTIVITIES COPING WITH CHANGE THE RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AGILE METHODS PLAN-DRIVEN AND AGILE DEVELOPMENT EXTREME PROGRAMMING AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SCALING AGILE METHODS REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING FUNCTIONAL AND NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS THE SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING PROCESSES REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION AND ANALYSIS REQUIREMENTS VALIDATION REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MODELING CONTEXT MODELS INTERACTION MODELS STRUCTURAL MODELS BEHAVIORAL MODELS MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DECISIONS ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS ARCHITECTURAL PATTERNS APPLICATION ARCHITECTURES DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN USING THE UML DESIGN PATTERNS IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE TESTING DEVELOPMENT TESTING TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT RELEASE TESTING download.benjaminsommer.com | 1 3 5 5 7 10 13 16 16 17 17 19 20 21 21 23 24 25 26 29 30 31 32 32 33 34 35 37 38 39 39 42 44 45 47 48 50 51 52 56 57 October 21, 2011 USER TESTING SOFTWARE EVOLUTION EVOLUTION PROCESSES PROGRAM EVOLUTION DYNAMICS SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE LEGACY SYSTEM MANAGEMENT DEPENDABILITY AND SECURITY [SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LECTURE NOTES] ...
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...Operational Level Paper E1 ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS (REVISION SUMMARIES) Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Topic Organisations Corporate Responsibility and Ethics The International Economy Information Systems Managing Information Systems Operations Management Quality Management Marketing Buyer Behaviour Human Resource Management Management Theory and Motivation The Legal Environment Page Number 3 13 17 27 35 45 55 61 73 79 93 101 E1 revision summaries 1 E1 revision summaries 2 Chapter 1 Organisations E1 revision summaries 3 Key summary of chapter Private sector organisations Sub-sectors of the economy not directly controlled by the government or state private business and households. Examples • • • • Private businesses e.g. self employed sole traders or partnerships. Companies (corporations) e.g. separate legal identity with limited liability for shareholders (owners). Private banks and building societies. Non-governmental organisations e.g. trade unions, charities, clubs etc. e.g. Public organisations Sub-sectors of an economy, or organisations, owned and directly controlled by the state or government. Examples • • • Local authorities. State owned industries e.g. the UK post office. Public corporations e.g. the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). Characteristics of public organisations • • • • Ultimately accountable to government. Goals and guidelines determined by government. Not-for-profit motive (NPO). Funded by the general public...
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...CHANGE MANAGEMENT (MGMT625) Table of Contents Lecture # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. Topic Page # Course Orientation ................................................................................................. 1 Benefits and Significance of Change Management ............................................... 5 Kurt Lewin Model: Assumptions and Implications ............................................... 8 Implications af Kurt Lewin Model....................................................................... 12 Some Basic Concepts and Definitions ................................................................. 15 Transactional Vs. Transformational Leadership .................................................. 18 Theories of Change in Organisations................................................................... 21 Life Cycle Theory ................................................................................................ 22 Teleological Theories of Change ......................................................................... 25 Dialectical Theories of Change............................................................................ 27 A Dialectical Approach to Organisational Strategy and Planning ....................... 29 Limitation of Dialectics; DA and DI............................................................
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...4. To communicate with the Internet using a dial-up modem, a user’s computer must connect to another computer that is already communicating with the Internet. ANS: T PTS: 1 5. It is not possible to connect two local area networks so that they can share peripherals as well as software. ANS: F PTS: 1 6. Metropolitan area networks can transfer data at fast, LAN speeds but over smaller geographic regions than typically associated with a local area network. ANS: F 7. ANS: T 8. networks. ANS: T 9. ANS: F PTS: 1 The Internet is not a single network but a collection of thousands of networks. PTS: 1 One of the most explosive areas of growth in recent years has been cellular phone PTS: 1 By the 1970s, telephone systems carried more computer data than voice. PTS: 1 10. Network architectures are cohesive layers of protocols defining a set of communication services. ANS: T PTS: 1 11. The OSI model tells us what kind of wire or what kind of connector to use to connect the pieces of a network. ANS: F 12. ANS: F points. 13. ANS: T 14. ANS: F 15. software. ANS: T 16. ANS: T 17. ANS: T 18. ANS: F 19. ANS: T PTS: 1 The application layer of the OSI model is responsible for token management. PTS: 1 The session layer of the OSI model is responsible for establishing synchronization PTS: 1 The network layer of the OSI model is an end-to-end layer. PTS: 1 The...
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...AIAA-2005-0001 The Impact of Information Technologies on Air Transportation R. John Hansman* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA The Air Transportation System and several key subsystems including the Aircraft, Airline, and Air Traffic Management are modeled as interacting control loops. The impact of Information Technologies on each of these subsystems is evaluated through the performance of these control loops. Information technologies are seen to have a significant impact on the safety, efficiency, capability, capacity, environmental impact and financial performance of the Air Transportation System and its components. T Introduction he US and International Air Transportation Systems have demonstrated remarkable growth and increased performance over the past few decades. Fig.1 demonstrates the growth in passenger and cargo traffic in international regions since 1972. Strong growth can be seen in North America and Europe which continue to dominate the passenger traffic. In addition, extraordinary growth can be seen in Asia/Pacific which has dominated the cargo traffic since the early 1990’s. Scheduled Revenue Passenger-Kilometers by Region 1400 1200 1000 RPK (billion) North America Europe Freight Tonne-Kilometers by Region 45 40 35 North America 30 FTK (billion) Europe Asia and Pacific Latin America & Caribbean Middle East Africa 800 600 400 200 0 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Asia and Pacific Latin America...
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