1.Consider the macro and micro trends affecting the business of providing undergraduate education. Give an example of a current trend that will impact Northeastern for each factor in the tables.
Write a movie review based on the cultural & psychological aspects.
• Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital’s service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.
• Specify four (4) specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital and argue the most significant reasons why such value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.
• Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services.
Prompt: In Pavlovian Conditioning organisms learn to predict one stimuli from the presentation of another. That’s Pavlovian (Classical) Conditioning in a nutshell. In this assignment, you will take on the role of a therapist who has a young patient that has developed a phobia of the dentist and desperately needs help to overcome this fear. Using your knowledge of learning processes you’ll discuss how Pavlovian Conditioning could both account for and possibly alleviate this young girl’s fear.
To earn full credit on this assignment students should:
Restate the immediate problem experienced by the young girl
Define Pavlovian Conditioning in your own words and explain how this form of learning could account for the young girl’s fear
Identify the possible conditioned stimuli, unconditioned stimuli and unconditioned responses that the young girl is experiencing when she goes to the dentist
Define extinction (as a learning term, not a kill the dinosaurs term) in your own words and create a plan for reducing the girls fear of the dentist using this process
Define in your own words spontaneous recover, reinstatement, or renewal and explain how this effect could cause a relapse in the young girl’s phobia even after treatment
Imagine you are the owner of a small rehab center with one President or CEO, one General Manager, one Exercise Physiologist, one Physical Therapist Supervisor, two Massage Therapists, five Physical Therapists, three Physical Therapist Assistants, and three Receptionists.
Analyze your staff needs.
Create a job description.
Create compensation Programs.
Staff training and assessment of training costs.
Role of manager in staff performance.
Reasons for termination.
Give a description of the disability. If you had that disability, what accommodations would you need to function in your daily life? What are your overall thoughts on living and functioning with this disability?
If a student had this disability, what modalities of learning would he/she need to have to in order to be successful in your course? What institutional resources are available to the student? What is the role of the faculty member in assisting students with accommodations?
If a faculty member had this disability, are there accommodations the institution would need to provide?
Identify and describe the target audience by message and medium
An evaluation of the various mediums including website, press and news releases, current ads, social media and any other communications.
What is the message? Is there an action required?
Does the communication and message meet the target audience? What recommendations would you offer to improve specific communications.
If you think the communication and communication mediums are appropriate, explain in detail why. It is not enough to say the communication as is is ok.
Explain how the elements above were combined to shape meaning.
What recommendations would you make to improve the marketing writing based on reading and other research you conducted in the course?
Based on what you learned in your case study analysis, what knowledge, skills, and concepts can you transfer to work and/or community activities?
Formulate strategic business decisions from a management, leadership and organizational design perspective.
1) Discuss several implications for design challenges in today’s organizations.
2) Gathering data useful in design assessment may be obtained in several ways. Identify two of these and discuss their implications to the design process.
3) Discuss the distinctions between a corporate strategy and a business strategy and provide an example of each.
4) Identify and discuss at least three (3) of the forces by which an organization would choose to adopt a front-back structure
1. Problem statement (thesis statement): What is happening?
Include a brief summary of the environmental/natural resource issue and why it is important.
Be sure to clearly identify the attributes of the resource that make efficient allocation problematic.
Identify who has standing (the population impacted by this issue and those who are expected to contribute).
2. Preliminary analysis: Is there a solution?
If there is a policy, discuss the background and the current state of the policy including how this policy addresses or fails to address the problem at hand (hint: look at the incentive/disincentive structure imposed by the policy).
If there is no current regulation, discuss why that may be the case and potential for future governmental intervention or the need to avoid government intervention.
3. Describe the deliverables of this project: how will you present the relevant information?
Discuss how you will inform the audience about the topic either via a news article, art project or poster. Be sure to include justification for the project choice.
Discuss how your project will communicate economic principles/theories and/or market failure at work.
