Compare and contrast leadership roles and management responsibilities in a non-health care setting with that of a health care organization. In addition, present an overview of key leadership traits fundamental for health care organizational effectiveness, and discuss the essential functions of health care managers.

What does it take to be a "good" leader or manager?

What are the primary barriers and challenges associated with health care leadership?

Management and Motivation

What are the benefits of having a fully motivated staff, and what are the potential consequences of not having motivated staff?

What do contemporary theories tell us about the significance of motivation as a function of employee needs, extrinsic and intrinsic factors?

How do we motivate across generations? In your response, please be sure to identify and address at least two theories.

Utilize at least one scholarly source, cited in correct APA format that supports factual statements and conclusions about the topic. 

Strategic Planning

Discuss how strategic planning is a dynamic, verses linear, process. Why is this important?

What roles, if any, do quality and information technology play in an organization's strategic direction?
Utilize at least one scholarly source, cited in correct APA format that supports factual statements and conclusions about the topic. Review

Organizational Behavior and Public Relations ManagementComplete the interactive module associated with this study. Then, conduct a strategic marketing analysis, similar to the one that Melissa would prepare, for Radiance. Based on this information, thoroughly answer the following questions:

What marketing strategies should Radiance pursue in the next five years? Explain why the strategies you select would best fit the organization.

Should Radiance engage in lifestyle, sponsorship, or event marketing? Explain your answer.

Which venues would best match with Radiance's brand, should the organization choose to move forward with these types of marketing?

What damage control techniques should Melissa employ? Or, would she be better off to just wait and let some time pass before responding? Defend your answer.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate assignment.

MDoes Mr. Smith fit the typical profile for an uninsured person in the United States? Justify your answer.

How will your hospital most likely be reimbursed for Mr. Smith's medical care?
During the recent economic downturn, your community has experienced unemployment rates of approximately 9%. What can be done to mitigate the effects of the financial impact to your organization?

Managing Financial Budgets

Managing Multidisciplinary Professionals by Combining Assets and Activities

Describe the vertical and horizontal dimensions of this organization. Describe the authority/responsibility relationships that will present in this organization.
Should this practice become centralized, decentralized, mechanistic, or organic in its design? Defend your answer.

Explain the importance of differentiation, integration, and managing complexity, interdependence, and boundary spanning activities for this organization.

In a four- to six-page (excluding title and reference pages) double-spaced paper, consider and respond to the following points:

o Select one of the needs of Community South Medical Center and identify at least one strength, one weakness, one opportunity, and one threat (S.W.O.T.) for that need. How do each of these (e.g., the strength, the weakness, the opportunity, and the threat) correlate to the overarching issues confronting Community South Medical Center?

o Is it time to revise the strategic mission and plan of the organization from three years ago or continue as originally planned with a yearly assessment? Should the C.E.O. address the issues confronting Community South Medical Center or wait another year? If so, what should the strategic plan be? If not, why?

o What leadership positions would be a part of your strategic management team? Why? What would each of their responsibilities entail?

o What are some of the market trends you can identify in this area? How might they affect Community South Medical Center? How would fully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Cultural Diversity in Healthcare

How have the changing definitions of diversity affected healthcare management and the delivery of healthcare services?

What is the value of a culturally competent healthcare organization and its staff? How would you measure cultural competence in your organization?

If you were in charge of an organization with low cultural competency and a highly diverse workforce, what programs would you implement for your organization and why?

Utilize at least one scholarly source, cited in correct APA format that supports factual statements and conclusions about the topic. Review several of your classmates' posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers by Day 7.

Healthcare Ethics and Law

A woman arrives at a suburban emergency room in active labor. Both she and her husband speak very little English. The staff determines that the mother (and baby) is uninsured and unable to pay for healthcare services out-of-pocket. The baby is showing signs of distress and needs to be delivered. The on-call OB-GYN physician refuses to come to the hospital. He recommends that the patient be transferred to another facility. Provide a substantive 150 to 250 word initial post that fully answers the following questions:

What ethical principles relate to this case scenario?

What legal principles relate to this scenario?

What might the legal consequences be to the health care organization if there is a delay in treatment?

Utilize at least one scholarly source, cited in correct APA format that supports factual statements and conclusions about the topic. Review

several of your classmates' posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers by Day 7.
Final Project

To complete the following final paper, go to this week's Final Paper link in the left navigation.
Focus of the Final Project

The Final Project should demonstrate an understanding of the reading assignments, class discussions, your own research and the application of new knowledge. It should utilize previous skills developed in foundational health care courses and apply them within the context and viewpoint of a health care administrator and their role in managing health and human services.

For the Final Project, select one of the following topics and conduct scholarly and professional research while integrating the course's learning outcomes to address a selected topic:

Research specific leadership and management traits and theories necessary for managing a multidisciplinary and multicultural health care organization to promote organizational effectiveness.

Present how strategic planning, performance improvement, and information systems are interrelated and fundamental to the delivery of quality health care.

Examine the financial characteristics of health care delivery along with managing costs, revenues, and human resources.

Analyze ethical and legal concepts, including specific federal regulations, required of health care organizations to ensure the delivery of high quality health care that protects patient safety.