Evaluate and provide examples of how hypothesis testing and confidence intervals are used together in health care research.

Evaluate and provide examples of how hypothesis testing and confidence intervals are used together in health care research. Provide a workplace example that illustrates your ideas.

Read “Chapter 11: Logic of Hypothesis Testing,” and watch the associated videos by Lane, from Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study.

URL:http://onlinestatbook.com/2/logic_of_hypothesis_testing/logic_hypothesis.html

Refer to the “Visual Learner: Statistics” to learn more about the statistical calculations presented in this topic.

URL:http://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt362v/the-visual-learner/the-visual-learner-v2.1.html

Read “Chapter 6: Research Design” and watch the associated videos, by Lane, from Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study.

URL:http://onlinestatbook.com/2/research_design/contents.html

Read “Chapter 10: Estimation” and watch the associated videos, by Lane, from Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study.

URL:http://onlinestatbook.com/2/estimation/estimation.html

Read “Probability, Clinical Decision Making and Hypothesis Testing,” by Banerjee, Jadhave, and Bhawalker, from Industrial Psychiatry Journal (2009).

URL:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016704/

The subsidiary has been financed by bank borrowings in the United States. One of your analysts told you that the Mexican peso is expected to depreciate by 30 percent against the dollar on the foreign exchange markets over the next year. What actions, if any, should you take?

You are the CFO of a U.S. firm whose wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico manufactures component parts for your U.S. assembly operations. The subsidiary has been financed by bank borrowings in the United States. One of your analysts told you that the Mexican peso is expected to depreciate by 30 percent against the dollar on the foreign exchange markets over the next year. What actions, if any, should you take?

Assume that you have been hired as a marketing consultant by HOM Furniture’s management.What specific type of the information should HOM Furniture collect to measure their customer satisfaction?

case 07
For this case please answer the following questions ( in addition to the case questions)

Assume that you have been hired as a marketing consultant by HOM Furniture’s management. The reason they hired you is that they are facing with the decline in sales in their stores recently.

1. what market segment should they focus on? Talk about demographic characteristics of the them.

2. Do you categorize furniture as high involvement or low involvement purchase type?

3. If you want to track the problem in the store, what data sources will you use to collect the information you need?

4. As a traditional method, stores usually track the effectiveness of their advertisement in any spike in their sales. What are the advantages of this method? What are the disadvantages of this method? Do you have a better suggestion for them?

5. What specific type of the information should HOM Furniture collect to measure their customer satisfaction?
Questions
1 (a) Identify the data sources
HOM Furniture uses in its marketing information system. (b) Which
would you classify as secondary
data sources? (c) Which would be
considered primary data sources?
2 When HOM Furniture advertises, it looks for a resulting spike
in sales using an extensive database. (a) What are the advantages
of this approach? (b) What are the
possible shortcomings of this approach and how would you address
them?
3 Assume that you have been
hired as a marketing consultant by
HOM Furniture’s management. (a) What specific types
of information should HOM collect to measure customer
satisfaction with its stores and services? (b) For each type
of information you identified in (a), how could HOM
Furniture make use of that information to improve customer satisfaction?

file case 09
Questions
1 Identify at least three bases for segmenting the lawn
mower market. Prepare a market-product grid illustrating
at least one of these bases.
2 What criteria should a lawn equipment company use
in assessing the attractiveness of market segments? What
sort of information is needed to fill in the market-product
grid and allow the firm to make that target market
decision?
3 How might a lawn mower company use segmentation
for positioning purposes? At present, the manual reel
mower market is rather small but growing. What marketing mix recommendations could be used to significantly
expand this market?
file case 11
Questions
1 What product attributes and benefits could an upscale
hotel provide a pet owner? Are these the same product
attributes and benefits provided by an upscale kennel?
2 What strategy would a company like Petco be pursuing by entering the pet hotel market? What strategy would
a company like Marriott be pursuing by entering the pet
hotel market?
3 What are the pros and cons of (a) a multiproduct
branding strategy and (b) a multibranding strategy in the
pet hospitality industry for companies such as (a) Petco
and (b) Marriott?
4 In what stage of the product life cycle is the pet hospitality industry? In what stage of the product life cycle is
an offering such as PetSmart’s PetsHotel? Explain and
support your answers.

Describe the “perfect” work environment, discuss if your ideas are realistic to the workplace.

Describe the “perfect” work environment, discuss if your ideas are realistic to the workplace. After you have developed your perfect workplace watch the following video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d8_lkiH7zs

After watching the video discuss the potential for changes taking place in the work environment to accommodate employees in the 21st century.

Describe positive and negative outcomes that can result from societal, political, and cultural differences when managing a corporation in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

1. What does effective global leadership achieve? What are the different roles that managers on international assignment often assume to enhance leadership effectiveness? Choose one country in South America and one country in Europe to describe some of the differences.

2. Describe positive and negative outcomes that can result from societal, political, and cultural differences when managing a corporation in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

3. Technology is one of the methods used in business overseas. Describe the impact of e-business on leadership. What differences would a manager have to be aware of if doing business in Africa, Australia, or South America?

 

4. Consider the role of culture when motivating employees. Describe some differences that can gain employee trust in at least three countries. Each country should be located on a different continent.

Which of the following statements best describes the role of gender in the association of coffee drinking and sense of well-being?

A hypothetical case-control study found that regular coffee drinkers were 1.8 times more likely to report a positive sense of well-being than non-coffee drinkers (OR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.3-2.4). When the results were stratified by gender, the odds ratio for women was 1.1 (95% CI = 0.9-1.3) and the odds ratio for men was 0.9 (95% CI = 0.7-1.1). Which of the following statements best describes the role of gender in the association of coffee drinking and sense of well-being?

Describe how social policy can impact social service delivery and access to social services. You can provide examples to support your response.

For each response, provide a heading that includes the number and/or letter of the question.

1. Identify a social policy at each of the three levels of government (local, state and federal) that impacts well-being and social services.

2. Describe how social policy can impact social service delivery and access to social services. You can provide examples to support your response.

3. Develop, advocate for, and analyze social policy to advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.

3.1 Identify a social policy issue that you will address in this assignment.

3.1 A) Provide evidence of the current (within the past 5-8 years) scope and impact of this issue/problem. For example, identify who is primarily or directly affected by this issue/problem and who may be indirectly affected. Cite available statistics or appropriate sources.

3.1 B) Describe how the problem impacts human rights, social, economic, and environmental justice.

3.2 Describe your suggestions to improve the policy response to this problem. Identify at least two specific improvements that you would make.

3.3 Identify at least two stakeholders (individuals or groups) that you will include in your efforts to address this problem and discuss their role in the policy process. Consider the advantages and challenges of including stakeholders in the policy- making process.

Explain the strategies and thought processes that you used to formulate the code.

This assignment provides you with an opportunity to create a code of ethics for you and your family, as well as to explain the strategies and thought processes that went into developing the code. First, create an original code of ethics for your family by thinking about your family as an organization. In your code of ethics, please include the following items:

  • guiding principles,
  • purpose of the code,
  • core values,
  • training and education (How will you train and educate others about the code?),
  • definitions,
  • who it covers,
  • mission statement, and
  • other pertinent elements you feel necessary to have a comprehensive code of ethics.

The next part of this assignment involves an evaluation, where you describe the thought process behind the code of ethics that you prepared. For the evaluation part of this assignment, draft an essay to include the following items:

  • Identify the key roles of those who have a vested interest in the ethical behavior that your code defines.
  • Explain the strategies and thought processes that you used to formulate the code.
  • Explain how you would strategically implement and communicate the code to others in the organization.
  • Explain how you will monitor the practice of ethical decision-making.
  • Provided that laws exist and have been enacted for resolving conflict, why do we also need a code of ethics?

 

Describe the importance of preparing a budget for a healthcare organization.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze decisions impacting the healthcare delivery system in the United States. Break the research paper into components of national, state, and local decisions. The research paper will be titled: The Future of Health Care Delivery and Health Policy. The paper must address the following concepts discussed in this course.

Identify best practices when reporting financials in the healthcare field. Describe the importance of preparing a budget for a healthcare organization. Explain the importance of disseminating information to manage a team effectively at a healthcare center.

The research paper should include the following elements:

an introduction that engages the reader in the topic and clearly presents a summary of the main points;

an identification of the problem or decision needed, including definitions of terminology as appropriate;

the historical evolution of the issues;

an identification and explanation of financial decision-making tools that would be effective in managing this problem or making the best decision;

a discussion of the possible outcomes of the decision;

and a summary of what actions will be taken to disseminate the final decision. Included in this paper should be realistic steps and processes that could be implemented to address the issue and make a positive and effective decision.