Reflect on the role that the electoral process and government plays in one’s daily work and family life. As nurses, health policy can influence both arenas of our lives. What policy issues might drive nurses to lobby Congress and/or get involved in campaign politics?

Reflect on the role that the electoral process and government plays in one’s daily work and family life. As nurses, health policy can influence both arenas of our lives. What policy issues might drive nurses to lobby Congress and/or get involved in campaign politics? What strategies might nurses use to have their voices heard?

Explain new insights gained based on your results of the “Value Systems” assessment.

This week’s self-assessment, located in your text, is a brief individual leadership assessment entitled “Value Systems.” This simple assessment is designed to initiate your thinking on the topic of values in leadership and how your values might impact your leadership in the field of health care administration.

For this Professional Leadership Journal, complete the “Value Systems” assessment. As a scholar-practitioner in the field of health care administration, reflect on what the assessment may reveal about your leadership values. What values may be important to you as a leader in the field of health care administration?

  • Explain new insights gained based on your results of the “Value Systems” assessment.
  • Explain how these new insights might impact your current or future role as a health care administration leader.

A good IT professional is able to be versatile in SQL programming styles. Identify at least two possible advantages of utilizing PL/SQL instead of standard SQL Syntax

Advanced SQL and PL/SQL

• Extracting and interpreting data can be very valuable to an organization. Describe the importance of using sub queries in a database system. Provide at least two business case scenarios to support your response.

• A good IT professional is able to be versatile in SQL programming styles. Identify at least two possible advantages of utilizing PL/SQL instead of standard SQL Syntax. Explain whether either syntax provides enhanced code processing capabilities with examples.

Explain the Six-Sigma quality constraints and provide a justification as to why the software development company should consider it.

1. Explain the Six-Sigma quality constraints and provide a justification as to why the software development company should consider it.

2. Compare and contrast quality control processes for both hardware and software.

3. Examine the arguments presented in the case study and evaluate their applications to control the quality of software produced in the organization.

4. Propose a testing strategy for a software development project that ensures high quality of the software delivered.

5. Describe the idiosyncrasies of software, and explain why software needs a different set of rules for testing and for quality control as opposed to those used in hardware.

6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Explain why a high degree of coupling among components of a software system can make maintenance of the system difficult.

“Cost of Strongly Coupled Components” Please respond to the following:

• Explain why a high degree of coupling among components of a software system can make maintenance of the system difficult. Provide at least one example that supports your answer.

• Elaborate on two maintenance strategies that you would apply to lessen the effect of an already tightly coupled software that you have to maintain for an organization that requires 100% uptime on its safety-critical system. Provide a justification as to why you would implement these strategies over other options that are available. Describe how your strategies would change if the system only required 90% uptime and could be shut down for short periods of time during nonbusiness hours.

Describe the three (3) principles of direct manipulation and give examples as to how they are used in video game controls.

Early computer systems relied on command line interfaces to perform all actions. Today, the majority of systems use direct manipulation rather than a command line interface. The goal of designing a direct manipulation interface is to make use of the system intuitive to the end user. One industry that has been extremely successful designing intuitive direct manipulation inputs is the video game industry. Most game players are able to learn controls as they play a game and then apply the same controls to similar games. Rarely do they need to read a user manual.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the three (3) principles of direct manipulation and give examples as to how they are used in video game controls.

2. Analyze video game-type interfaces and discuss three (3) reasons why video game-type interfaces would not be effective for real-world applications.

3. Describe at least three (3) advantages of direct manipulation versus command line interfaces.

4. Evaluate direct manipulation and describe three (3) problems with it.

5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe direct manipulation and virtual environments.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human-computer interaction.

• Write clearly and concisely about HCI topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Evaluate online tutorials and online communities in regard to helping users. Create an argument for the approach you find to be the most effective and explain why.

Please respond to the following:

“System Documentation” Please respond to the following:

• Ray and Jason have just finished developing the documentation for a system your team recently completed. Ray insists that the documentation should be printed in booklet format and included with the system. Jason insists that paper manuals are outdated and that the documentation should only be distributed electronically via DVD. Compare and contrast the use of online documentation and paper documentation. Then, make a decision about what documentation you will provide with your system and explain it to Ray and Jason.

• Debate whether or not to give credit to authors and designers of training manuals. Support your argument.

 

Discussion 2:

Please respond to the following:

“Online Communities” Please respond to the following:

• Evaluate online tutorials and online communities in regard to helping users. Create an argument for the approach you find to be the most effective and explain why.

• From the e-Activity, evaluate at least two sites or tools for developing end user documentation. Discuss the abilities the sites or tools provide and how the sites or tools aid in the creation of user documentation. Make a suggestion to improve the site or tool.

Assess the potential barriers to changing an organizational culture.

As the change leader for Delta Pacific Company (DPC), you know you need to determine potential organizational barriers to change for the company’s goal of changing the culture from the more traditional manufacturing environment to one of a contemporary consulting environment. Now it’s time to create your strategy to combat barriers to change:

  • Assess the potential barriers to changing an organizational culture
  • Analyze change strategies appropriate for this type of change
  • Determine potential employee resistance behaviors
  • Determine the best way to influence employees in the right direction

Since you are the change leader, it is your responsibility to consider that there will be organizational and human barriers to change. As part of your role, you should take proactive measures and design a change strategy to address potential barriers and resistance.

Conduct academic research and create a plan to present to the CEO and board in which you complete the following change strategy for barriers and resistance:

  • Explanation of potential organizational barriers that are most likely to occur for this type of change.
  • Description of the employee resistance behaviors.
  • Explanation of your strategy to overcome the barriers and resistance.
  • Discussion of your strategy recommendations to overcome barriers and influence employees in the right direction.
  • Remember that this is a proposal. Make sure to format your paper properly for your proposal. A proposal is a persuasive document, so make sure to use proper language and tone. Remember, you are the change leader, and you are writing to the CEO. So use a tone in your proposal that is specific to your audience (the CEO).
  • As with the previous two deliverables, this deliverable asks you to use the Delta Pacific Case Study to think about potential human and organizational barriers to organizational change. After assessing the potential barriers, you are asked to create a strategy or plan for the CEO and Board which will explain potential barriers to change and strategies to overcome the barriers – whether human or organizational. Use recommended library databases in the Business Management Research box below to search for resources related to identifying and overcoming barriers and resistance to organizational change.