Explain the importance of understanding each of these styles. How could mastering each be beneficial to you personally and professionally?

  • The PDF document has embedded narration. You should find a small recording icon in the upper left-hand corner of the document. These have been provided to help guide you through the inventory.
  • Prepare a 2-3 page personal refection on your conflict style.
  • Your paper should include:
  • A brief introduction to Conflict Styles, which may include a brief description of each and what the styles are meant to describe.
  • Body: Discuss your own conflict style. In which of the styles does the inventory suggest you are strongest? Which is the weakest? Do you recognize this tendency in the way you deal with conflict? Is your style always appropriate? Is your current life situation best suited for your unique style? What are some pros and cons of these styles? What will you need to do in order to embrace some of the other styles? Is there a specific style that your life situation most needs at this time?
  • Conclusion: Explain the importance of understanding each of these styles. How could mastering each be beneficial to you personally and professionally?

Post a brief comparison between Leader-Member Exchange and Social Network Theory.

A Chinese proverb states, “In a broken nest, there are few whole eggs.” Within an organization, broken professional relationships may result in damage to the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. For a leader, any “crack” or “break” in leadership may create future problems within the organization. With use of Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Social Network Theory, an effective leader may find that the creation of positive, professional relationships with subordinates is helpful in preventing breaks in relationships in order to guide an organization toward success.

For this Discussion, reflect on the similarities and differences between Leader-Exchange Theory and Social Network Theory. Consider how you might integrate each theory into your own personal, unified leadership theory. Think about how you might use this theory in a health care administration scenario.

Post a brief comparison between Leader-Member Exchange and Social Network Theory. Then, explain how you might apply Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Social Network Theory into your personal, unified leadership theory. Finally, relate this personal, unified theory to a health care administration scenario with which you are familiar. Be specific and provide examples.

Why are the drones a potentially important inventory management tool in warehouses?

  1. Why are the drones a potentially important inventory management tool in warehouses?
  2. What is Amazon doing to automate its warehouses?
  3. Do these initiatives meaningfully improve delivery time and service experience of Amazon’s customers or will these be just pipe dreams?

Provide a narrative explanation that shows how the developed theory can close the “gap” identified in the first part of the Project.

Having a Health Care Administration Leadership Theory is essential to any health care administration leader. With a well-constructed theory, you integrate leadership perspectives into practice in order to offer solutions to health care administration problems. Also, with a visual representation of your theory, you may present another way to highlight your research with effective design and theory implementation.

For this Assignment, you complete another part of your Health Care Administration Leadership Theory based upon your understanding of leadership perspectives you have reviewed in this course. In addition, you must use a systems thinking approach in the development of your visual representation of your personal Health Care Administration Leadership Theory.

This week you will provide a visual representation of your Health Care Administration Leadership Theory. It can be a table, schematic diagram, graph, or any other representation you choose.

  1. Provide a narrative explanation that shows how the developed theory can close the “gap” identified in the first part of the Project.
  2. Explain how it incorporates systems thinking.

Both the narrative explanation and the visual representation are included in the page count for the Assignment length. Remember, your theory can be based on those that we have examined in this course or that you have researched on your own. There is no wrong theory. What matters is the explanation of how it addresses the gap and uses systems thinking. While this does not have to be addressed now, keep in mind the last part of the Project will involve presenting a methodology that tests the developed theory empirically.

Using the risk management formula above, where did the planners at Kobe go wrong? Were they incompetent? Irresponsible? Or just unlucky?

Critics point to the National Flood Insurance Program as an example. Everyone feels compassion for those who have lost their homes and possessions due to flooding, right? Maybe not. Many insurance companies refuse to underwrite flood insurance in certain locations because the potential liability exceeds the premiums they can charge. The US National Flood Insurance Program resulted from recognition that private insurance companies can’t provide coverage at affordable rates that would allow them to be profitable. In order to receive coverage, however, communities that benefit must adopt and enforce floodplain management policies to mitigate threats to life and property damage in flood-prone areas. Critics assert that taxpayers should not be required to subsidize those who choose to build in known floodplains – they know the risk, they should accept the risk. Is this “donor fatigue?” What do you think? Explain your position.

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A very simplistic formula for risk management is expressed as Probability + Consequence + Mitigation Cost = Informed Decision. Consequence is usually the first element that people consider, followed by an assessment of the probability that something bad will actually happen. They can then consider the cost of mitigating either the consequence or the level of probability. Regardless of what they ultimately do, the key factor is that their course of action will be an informed decision. Whether they will make the right decision is another matter altogether.

This week’s readings include material from MCEER, a national Center of Excellence at the University of Buffalo, which provides research to enable communities to become more disaster resilient in the face of earthquakes and other extreme events.

Could resources like MCEER have made a difference in the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan? One of the reasons for the catastrophic damage in the Port of Kobe was the revelation that it had been built largely on landfill. The seabed in the port essentially liquefied. There was a perception that this information was unknown or not fully understood. In fact, the port authority was completely aware of this fact. A risk assessment had accurately forecast the level of damage that would result in the event of a major earthquake. It was known that engineering technology existed that would involve the use of extensive pilings to shore up the seabed in the port. It was also known how expensive such a process would be. In the end, the decision turned on how likely they believed that a major earthquake would occur. In essence, they rolled the dice and lost. The cost to restore the port was exponentially greater than it would have cost to reinforce the seabed.

Using the risk management formula above, where did the planners at Kobe go wrong? Were they incompetent? Irresponsible? Or just unlucky?

Looking at your identified industry for your paper, what considerations would have to be made in developing a long-term archival plan for a company within that industry?

From Chapter digital preservation can be defined as the long-term, error-free storage of digital information, with means for retrieval and interpretation, for the entire time span the information is required to be retained. Though this assessment holds true to the authors, business organizations continue to face significant challenges in meeting their LTDP needs, especially those organizations whose primary mission is to preserve and provide access to permanent records.

Looking at your identified industry for your paper, what considerations would have to be made in developing a long-term archival plan for a company within that industry?

Using the text and your own research, compare these early interests with contemporary American interests in the Middle East.

In the readings thus far, the text identified many early American interests in the Middle East from geopolitical to missionary. Using the text and your own research, compare these early interests with contemporary American interests in the Middle East.

In particular, how has becoming 1) a global hegemon after WWII and 2) the concurrent process of ‘secularization’ transformed American foreign policy thought and behavior toward Israel and the Middle East region generally? What themes have remained constant and what appear new? Would you attribute changes more to America’s new geopolitical role after WWII, or to the increasing secularization of American society? Explain carefully.