...Introduction Policies are set of guidelines or principles to guide in decision making towards achieve a rational outcome. Policy making is a process of making crucial organization decisions. Policies can assist in subjective and objective decision making. They are several steps in implementation and carrying out of a policy. These steps include agenda setting, Policy decisions or no-decision, implementation of a new program or change in an old public program and criticism from citizens and formal program evaluations As a public administrator who is responsible with the implementation of government policies, I would first identify the pressing problem that requires legislations. Then take a comprehensive study of the cause of the problem in details. I will also get to know the awareness of the public on the issue, so that I can be able to decide on who will participate in fixing it. I will then consider the available means to solve the problem. After considering all this I will be able to gauge on the policy change, if there is need of any. After identifying the problem and studying it in into details, then I will formulate a new policy. However I have to involve different interested and affected parties. Since this stage involves discussion to identify potential challenges and alternative solution. To set clear objectives and steps needed to solve the issue. I will then put the new policy that has been agreed upon in to effect. To make this step a success, I need to ensure...
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...achieve and establishing the next steps necessary to reach the intended goals. These goals or factors can range from: finances, public relations, policy development, personnel recruitment or overall strategic planning in light of student performance. This strategic plan will focus on the financial aspects of an organizations plan. Establishing and implementing effective financial policies are fundamental in an educational organizations success. One essential component of a strategic plan is the establishment of financial policies and procedures. Financial policies are the rules that govern the financial decisions making process of an organization. Educational organizations adopt these policies and follow them to guide them when making financial decisions. Upon adoption of the organizations financial policies, the organizations financial decisions making process is simplified, because the institutions governing body has already developed the financial policies needed to make important decisions. Many times financial policies result from "past experiences." These experiences can range from the financial climate change within the organization to financial change within the state. Also factors such as funding from federal, state, local, and private parties can drastically impact the establishment of financial policy for organization. Educational organizations should adopt financial policies for a number of reasons. Why adopt financial policies? Adopting...
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...stages involved when policies are introduced into the health care system. Policies are at a constant pace of being reviewed to better the health care system, with each one having an effect on the changes in health care. Since each stage takes special consideration before policies are proposed and accepted, in this paper we will talk about two, the Legislative and Implementation stages. Legislative The Legislative phase is similar to the steps of passing a bill; with the exception that it is only for the health care aspect. It all begins with an idea in which evolves into something more, where steps are to be taken in order to get the policy into action. Congress is involved in this phase to help legislative officers in making executive decisions by offering guidance on actions. The Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis (OLPA) “helps by providing information and advice on Congressional actions that affect those involved” (Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis (ofm)-Other Related Resources”,). The functions that are involved to help support during the process is: • “To serve as the principle legislative with the congress, and other Federal agencies • Prepare if there is need to testify • Analyzes pending legislation • Monitor and keep those involved informed • Brief members of Congress and staff; and • Coordinates visits by members of Congress and their staff” (Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis (ofm)-Other...
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...IDEA : 1 Ethical DecisionMaking Framework Guide & Worksheets 1 The IDEA: Ethical Decision-Making Framework builds upon the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre Community Ethics Toolkit (2008), which was based on the work of Jonsen, Seigler, & Winslade (2002); the work of the Core Curriculum Working Group at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics; and incorporates aspects of the accountability for reasonableness framework developed by Daniels and Sabin (2002) and adapted by Gibson, Martin, & Singer (2005). Introduction Ethics is about making “right” or “good” choices and the reasons that we give for our choices and actions. Ethics promotes reflective practice in the delivery of health care. Ethics addresses the question “What should we do and why?” Another way to describe ethics is as follows. It is about: • Deciding what we should do – what decisions are morally right or acceptable; • Explaining why we should do it – justifying our decision using language of values and principles; and • Describing how we should do it – outlining an appropriate process for enacting the decision. 2 Ethical issues arise every day in health care (See Appendix A). Everyone has a role to play in ensuring the ethical delivery of care, from bedside to boardroom. Trillium Health Centre is committed to providing quality compassionate care to the community it serves. Ethical principles and values are incorporated into the way that decisions are made and care is delivered...
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...PAD 500 WEEK 3 DQ CUSTOM ORDER To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/pad-500-week-3-dq-custom-order/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM PAD 500 WEEK 3 DQ CUSTOM ORDER Evaluate the importance of each major steps in policy analysis as it relates to political choice. Next, debate if one would conside any of these steps more important than another. Procvide a rationale to support your answer. There are five steps that most Policy Analysts attempt to follow and these are: • Definition of the problem • Setting objectives and criteria • Developing alternatives • Analyzing various policies • Ranking and choosing Under the Definition of Problem Policy analysts need to decide which of the problems facilng public organisations are most pressing. There are several questions that need answers, the analyst must seek a clear statement of the problem, information of the nature and range of solutions. These questions include but not limited to: who is affected? Why has the problem surfaced? How does this problem relate to similar problems? E.g. building homes for the disabled: The analyst should be informed about the time or money and the limitations. He/she can talk to those who did similar jobs. Setting Objective and Criteria In setting the objective and criteria, the analyst should be able to say what the project is worth for the agency to achieve result A instead of B, e.g. routing a highway, the factors...
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...The Policy Process Part 1 The Policy Process Part I Tobacco use and the effects of second hand smoke have been an ongoing issue for many years. Looking at the attitude of the 1950’s and 1960’s when smoking was thought of as cool, suave, mature, etc., there has been a major turnaround in the way society looks at the use of tobacco. Now the issue is not just smoking and the damage to health that it causes, but now there is the additional awareness of what second hand smoke can do to individuals. It used to be commonplace to smoke in a hospital room and now due to the changes in the laws, smoking is not even allowed on the campus of a hospital. Many if not all large buildings including government buildings ban smoking in and around the buildings. This paper will present information on the first part of the policy process that includes the formulation stage, legislative stage, and the implementation stage. The goal is to provide enough information on these stages so that the reader will be better informed in the process of policy making. Identify the Problem As with anything a problem must first be identified. In this case the problem that is to be discussed is second hand smoke and its effects on the public. In recent years the effects of second hand smoke have started to be brought into the public eye. What is second hand smoke? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.) second hand smoke is a combination of smoke from two sources, the smoke...
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...HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Answer CASE STUDY : 1 A policy is a plan of action. It is a statement of intention committing the management to a general course of action. When the management drafts a policy statement to cover some features of its personnel programmes, the statement may often contain an expression of philosophy and principle as well. Although it is perfectly legitimate for an organization to include its philosophy, principles and policy in one policy expression. Q1) Why organizations adopt personnel policies explain the benefits? Recruitment and Selection • Policies pertaining to the recruitment and selection process are the foundation of building any workforce. You must have a plan for creating applications, how to prequalify applicants, how applicants move up to become a candidate and other employment procedures. This set of policies also benefits current employees who refer applicants to your business. Training and Professional Development • Provisions for employee training and development are included in human resource policy documents because it informs employees of the kind of professional development available to them. In addition, policies related to training and development assistance in the formulation of employee development plans or performance improvement plans. Training and development policies serve as an outline of educational benefits available to current employees. Handling Employee Concerns • Many companies have written procedures...
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...set of policies personal and professional. The issues in the ethical game simulation are complex yet simple enough to follow the required steps to come to a decision that works for all parties involved. The issue whether the information obtained by Jamal Moore is used to discipline Aaron Webb for violating the NDA or discipline him for the manner in which the information was obtained (Ethics game worksheet, 2013). What were the ethical issues presented in the simulation game Ethical dilemmas can be used to address organizational issues through awareness, training, and support of management and shareholders. Even though this issue has become more of a legal issue, management cannot minimize the incident to avoid legal situations. They need help from all shareholders and upper-level management. Computer security is the issue and the new system that was just implemented has been compromised by an employee. People are less likely to break the law or a legal code if they are aware they are breaking rules. Two employees have violated company policy one for posting sensitive company data and the other for hacking a computer to obtain incriminating information. Moreover, as the manager of safety and efficiency it is my responsibility to recommend disciplinary procedure against these employees (Ethics game worksheet, 2013). * What decision-making steps taken to ethically address these issues * Five decision making steps...
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...ELEMENTS AND MODELS OF A DECISION-MAKING PROCESS Four processes of decision-making Whether small or large, short- or long-term, studied or impulsive, decision-making involves four major elements: problem definition, information search, choice, and evaluation. They are not sequential, they occur simultaneously. And it is often difficult to identify when a decision process begins and ends as most important choices are ongoing. Problem definition The first step in defining a problem is recognizing that it exists. Then, problems are plentiful; attention is scare. Selecting a problem for attention and placing it on the policy agenda is the most important element in policy making. When a problem is given attention, it gains focus and takes shape. How a problem is defined affects how it is addressed. The problem of the homeless is a good example. The people without home have always been with us. Most often they have been seen as people who because of their own weaknesses could not find work and afford homes. They were dismissed as drunks and drifters. So defined, the homeless remained a problem in the background – a problem for the Salvation Army, not the government. But as their number grew, we began to take a closer look. We saw individuals discharged from mental institutions, the unemployed whose benefits had expired, and families unable to afford decent home. And we started seeing “the homeless” as people in desperate situations. This change in our perception...
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...there are things everyone can do to help. There needs to be major changes implemented in terms of dealing with the climate change. We need a proactive leader to get the public educated on climate change, we need adaptive and preventative measures set up for climate change, all major parties in our government to work together to come to a conclusion on climate change policies, and we need to reform the United Nations to help the world deal with the climate change. The first step in dealing with the climate change is having a proactive leader who will use strategic leadership skills to enlist change among the nation, and the world. We need a person who can help encourage the people to change. Mike Zajko states in the article, The Shifting Politics of Climate Science, “the public stands to benefit from a more accurate understanding of science as both a process and body of knowledge.” People need help in terms of opening their minds to other ideas, and they need help making changes to their lives. If we have a proactive leader in office, he/she can press the government to build checks and balances into climate policy. A strategic leader can also voice their opinion to the people about...
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...Applying Ethical Frameworks In Practice Ellen Kincaid Grand Canyon University NRS-437V-0504 September 5, 2015 Applying Ethical Frameworks In Practice When it comes to ethical dilemmas we can all feel challenged with complex decisions that are difficult to make. Ethical dilemmas refer to problems that arise which usually involve more than one moral correct mode of actions involving the individual responsible and the individual correcting the situation. The individual resolving the situation is often challenged by the fact that in either option he takes, he or she may be right about taking one option but wrong about leaving the other. Ethical dilemmas test our ability to use our morals and values as well as ethical principals that we have learned through out life, and put them into actions by weighing these beliefs and being able to determine the difference between right and wrong. For that reason is imperative that nursing professionals are well aware of their own beliefs, moral and values, so they can make correct ethical decisions especially when it comes to health care delivery. Ethical Dilemma I this case we have a 6 y/o child, which gets very sick while at school. The child presents with elevated temperature, vomiting and convulsing. The child is immediately taken to the closest hospital and is quickly diagnosed with meningitis. The attending physician is now requesting authorization to treat the child from the parents. The child’s parents are divorced and now...
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...Introduction At the Tysons Corner division office of Allied Software Corporation, which is a developing software company, Dave is one of four program managers who works under the supervision of Alex, the general manager of the company division office. On his team, Dave has fifteen members, nine of whom have been in the company for more than two years. In order to meet a Monday deadline, Dave’s team takes the computers from the finance department over to their department on the weekend, and fails to return them before the finance department realizes the computers were missing. On Monday, when Alex was notified and had investigated what had happened to the computers, he called Dave into his office. When Dave explained to Alex what the motives for his team’s actions were, Alex understood, yet was concerned of the team’s behavior. Therefore, he decided to have a meeting with Dave regarding the events. While in the meeting, Alex confirmed that Dave’s team was having some internal issues that were affecting their performance. Consequently, Alex has to make a decision on how this issues could be solved. Framing the Decision Statement Alex makes use of his critical thinking skills for analyzing Dave and his team’s behavior with the purpose of finding the root cause of the issues they are facing. Seeking more information about how Dave and his team function, Alex takes Dave to dinner where he was able to analyze Dave’s behavior and gather more information about his...
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...Complaints about GDA: Sohota Raising concerns and making a complaint about Ofsted |Abuse: I was wearing my hoody and she pulled me by it and I nearly chocked I was gasping for breath and then she bent me over her desk | |and tactically inserted her penis inside me. Then every time I walk around the school she always notices me and says “ you liked it | |didn’t you whore”. I felt so isolated but im not scared anymore. | Published: April 2013 Reference no: 130128 Contents Introduction 4 Principles 5 Step 1 – Resolving concerns quickly 5 Step 2 – Making a formal complaint 6 Step 3 – Requesting an internal review 9 Independent and external review of Ofsted’s complaint handling 9 Complaints feedback 10 Introduction We aim to carry out our work to high standards and expect that all our inspections will be of consistently high quality and proceed smoothly and without incident. We recognise that occasionally concerns may arise about some aspects of our work or the conduct of our staff. This policy sets out our approach and procedures for handling complaints about Ofsted’s work. Our definition of a complaint is any expression of dissatisfaction about our actions that needs a response. We take complaints very seriously and do what we can to resolve the issue. We view them as an important way of improving what we do. Complaints tell us about things that worked less well...
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...Complaints about GDA: Sohota Raising concerns and making a complaint about Ofsted |Abuse: I was wearing my hoody and she pulled me by it and I nearly chocked I was gasping for breath and then she bent me over her desk | |and tactically inserted her penis inside me. Then every time I walk around the school she always notices me and says “ you liked it | |didn’t you whore”. I felt so isolated but im not scared anymore. | Published: April 2013 Reference no: 130128 Contents Introduction 4 Principles 5 Step 1 – Resolving concerns quickly 5 Step 2 – Making a formal complaint 6 Step 3 – Requesting an internal review 9 Independent and external review of Ofsted’s complaint handling 9 Complaints feedback 10 Introduction We aim to carry out our work to high standards and expect that all our inspections will be of consistently high quality and proceed smoothly and without incident. We recognise that occasionally concerns may arise about some aspects of our work or the conduct of our staff. This policy sets out our approach and procedures for handling complaints about Ofsted’s work. Our definition of a complaint is any expression of dissatisfaction about our actions that needs a response. We take complaints very seriously and do what we can to resolve the issue. We view them as an important way of improving what we do. Complaints tell us about things that worked less well...
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...Managers as decision Makers The Decision Making process: ( 8 Steps) Decision making is typically described as choosing among alternatives, decision making is a process it’s not just a simple act, the eight steps of Decision making is as follows: 1- Identifying the problem: every decision start with a problem, the problem is the gap between the existing and desired condition, in the real word problem doesn’t come with neon flash, we have to identify them, what you consider it as problem might not be a problem for other manager. 2- Identifying Decision Criteria: when manager identify a problem, he must identify the decision criteria which is very important to resolving the problem, every decision maker has criteria that can guide him to the decision. 3- Allocating weights to the criteria (give points): the decision maker must weigh the items and give them the correct priority in the decision; we give the most important criteria the highest weight and so on. 4- Developing Alternatives: decision maker must list the alternatives that could work to solve the problem; in this step decision maker must be creative. 5- Analyzing Alternatives: when alternatives identified, a decision maker must evaluate each one. 6- Selecting an alternative: is choosing the best alternative. 7- Implementing the Alternative: put the decision into action by communicating with others 8- Evaluating Decision Effectiveness: evaluating the results of the...
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