HCS 325 All Assignments

Week 1

Individual Assignment: Roles and Functions Paper

Prepare a 300+ word paper based on your readings for this week describing your definition of the role and application of management functions used by todays health care managers. Consider the following:

What is the most important role or function for a health care manager?

What is the most significant aspect related to health care management that you want to gain by taking this class?

Use a minimum of two references to support your paper.

Week 2

Individual Assignment: Effective Communication Paper

Few healthcare workplaces today can be considered true boundaryless organizations. Workplace trends within and outside healthcare are requiring employees to connect with an ever-widening array of co-workers, consultants, off-site employees, and other resources. Whatever form a boundaryless organization takes, sharing knowledge is critical to the organizations success.

Prepare a 700+ paper in which you consider ways in which your organization currently shares knowledge and/or involves employees in formulating solutions to problems.

What techniques have been most effective for sharing information and ideas?

What techniques were ineffective?

How might these techniques be applied or modified in a healthcare work environment?

How can technology impact this process as well?

Use a minimum of 3 references to support your paper.

Week 3

Learning Team Assignment: Presentation Outline (Word doc)

Create a Word document outline for what your Learning Team Power Point presentation will look like in Week 5. In this Word document you will frame the presentation to be given in week 5. Use the requirements given in week 1 to help draft the outline. Although weeks 4 and 5 should not be fully developed they should include surface level-type information. This Word document outline is just a rough draft; I wont be concerned or dock points if your Week 5 Power Point presentation does not completely match your Week 3 outline. The intent of the W3 Presentation Outline is just to get your team headed in the right direction, so you have a plan of major points which will be presented in the Final Paper.

Week 4

Individual Assignment: Motivational Methods Paper

Within your organization, upper management has decided that certain changes need to be made and it is up to each manager to start preparing their team for the changes. One of the changes that need to be addressed involves motivational techniques. As manager it is your job to research and understand various motivational methods in order to implement them within the team.

Prepare a 1050+ paper in which you discuss at least 3 motivational methods you would apply as a manager and how this change can affect the organization. Provide at least three sources in your response.

Week 5

Learning Team Final Assignment: Power Point Presentation

Finalize and submit your Learning Team Power Point Presentation. Make sure that all requirements are met including detailed speaker notes at the bottom of the slides.

Some students ask, Who should the audience be for whom we are writing the Power Point presentation? The University creates the assignments in the Materials section. I have adapted them somewhat for more clarification, such as this paragraph. I am fine with whatever audience your Learning Team chooses, but one suggestion to keep things simple is that you have the presentation be oriented as if you are the manager of the rehabilitation center, presenting the information to your upper leadership at the corporate office.

Please remember to have an Overview of Presentation or Introduction slide in the beginning of your Power Point, and a Conclusion slide at the end (see Organization/Development section of the attached Grading Rubric)