Health esource Allocation and the Elderly
Growing old is an undeniable aspect of life for all human beings. However, America has repeatedly been accused of being a nation which does not care adequately for its elderly population, instead focusing eternally on the young. In order to be a more humane, sensitive society, one could argue that we need to focus on our most vulnerable populations, and the elderly definitely make up a large portion of that population. One manner in which to treat the elderly population in a more humane and dignified manner would be to re-evaluate the allocation of resources of society, so that the elderly are more likely to be on the receiving end of the goods, services and medications that they need.
However, when it comes to things which are slightly more controverstial, such as ICU beds, resource allocation can fall into a sort of gray area. To select…...
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Brock, D., & Wikler, D. (2014). Chapter 14 Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation, Research, and New Product Development. Retrieved from nih.gov: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11739/
Smith, G. (2002). Allocating Healthcare Resources to the Elderly. Retrieved from law.edu: http://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1201&context=scholar
Force Development Process and Organizational Model
The article on "General Odierno AUSA Winter Symposium" presents pertinent issues that affect the actual force development process. The force development process takes place in five phases. These five phases include development capabilities, design organization, organization model development, determining organization authorizations and organization authorization documentation. Among the last three stages of the force development process, the article greatly addresses issues that affect determining organizational authorization (General Odierno 2012). The issues of the Army force discussed in the reading greatly affects the various aspects of determining organizational authorizations compared to the other phases of force development process.
Determining organizational authorization is the resourcing phase of the development process. The force development and operations require resources to operate effectively. The various areas of the organizational model within the force compete for a substantial share of resources from the planning stage through to the programming and budgeting process…...
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F103RA-1 (2014). The Army Force Development Process. US Army Command And General Staff College
General Odierno. "Feb. 24, 2012 - Gen. Odierno AUSA Winter Symposium," US Department of the Army, News Archives, February 28, 2012. Transcript of speech given by General Odierno. (Accessed 6 June 2014.) http://www.army.mil/article/74650/Feb__24__2012___Gen__Odierno_AUSA_Winter_Symposium/
Healthcare esources
Allocating Healthcare esources
Allocation of Healthcare esources
It may seem that the resources that a healthcare organization has at its disposal is contained in a very small list, but for proper allocation of total resources every possible thing has to be considered. esources refers not only to the money that a business has on hand, but the people, buildings, land, recruitment of people, retention and finances. An organization is the sum of all of its parts and must operate within the framework of those resources. How those resources are allocated is an important function of the control of the organization also. This essay will discuss the resource acquisition and allocation processes in a healthcare organization with specific emphasis regarding those processes in allocating financial, operating, capital, human, recruitment, and retention resources.
esource Acquisition and Allocation
In one aspect a healthcare organization is no different from any other organization depending on type. Healthcare businesses…...
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health services organizations and systems (pp. 433-470). Baltimore, MD: Health
Salaries and benefits are cost drivers. If there is enough revenue to cover these things then one is in good shape, but if there is not then major problems will occur. There are a lot of hidden costs that are associated with not only maintaining but adding to current staff positions. Hiring new staff involves training and support in addition to salaries and benefits; advertising new positions; along with evaluating the need for additional office space, furniture, equipment, and supplies. You also need to consider that an expanded staff requires additional time for staff meetings, supervision, and coordination. Making sure that your institution has staff is a vital aspect of doing business which makes the budgeting for this staff such an important component of any budget plan.
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Schmidtlein, Frank A. (2001). Why Linking Budgets to Plans Has Proved Difficult in Higher
Education. In ASHE, Finance in Higher Education (pp.415-424). New York:…...
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Schmidtlein, Frank A. (2001). Why Linking Budgets to Plans Has Proved Difficult in Higher
Education. In ASHE, Finance in Higher Education (pp.415-424). New York: Pearson.
resource scheduling and evaluating various methods used to schedule resources in project management.
esource scheduling involves implementing and planning a way of scheduling one's resources. It involves ascertaining that the necessary resources for perpetrating the task are there; that the right resource/s are used; that timing or resource is correct and that there is optimum use of this resource; and that the aggregation of resources is appropriate.
esource scheduling is important in order to prevent project constraint (problems with competing project). Its benefits are three-fold:
When project delay is unacceptable, resource scheduling allows sufficient time for considering alternatives such as cost-time trade-offs and changing of priorities.
esource scheduling matches budget with dates so that deadlines are met
esource scheduling shows project managers amount of flexibility they have with certain resources and how far they can therefore go with their ideas and plans.
There are 3 different types of project constraint:
1. Technological, - the sequence in…...
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Volunteer activities
Volunteers are considered to be compassionate, patience, unselfish caring and just plain love which are expressed by an individual to another. Voluntarism is considered to be in kind donation in that it is where a person donates his skills and manpower to the organization by performing duties a signed to him. Management and leadership of nonprofit organizations should ensure that they get highly skilled volunteers who come and stay through the extension of the visions of the volunteering through creating an experience which is meaningful, develops skills, demonstrate impact and ability to tap into the volunteers' capabilities and interest.
Volunteers my stop rendering their services due to poor management practices. Nonprofit organizations should tap volunteers to help in doing charitable work in their organization. Most people do not volunteer because they are never given a chance by the nonprofit organizations.
According to the Context for Nonprofit esource Development (2011), non-profits organizations…...
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Ethics and Accountability (2011)
The Nonprofit Sector: Resource Development and Management (2001)
The Resource development Process (n.d)
The Context for Nonprofit Resource Development (2011)
esource management is an effective and efficient way of deploying the resources within an organization. These resources include human skills, inventory, financial resources, production resources or even the information systems. For there to be success in any project there has to be effective management of resources when it comes to assigning them to the projects. This often includes hours of labor for those people who are assigned to the particular project. esource management also involves management of the labor hours of the people that are involved in subcontracts. Apart from the management of people, resource management also involves managing equipment that are to be used for specific projects and the materials required by people and the specific equipment that have been assigned to the projects. When it comes to project management there are techniques, philosophies, and processes can be developed in a bid to ensure that the best approach is…...
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Aiber, S, Gilat, D & Sela A.(2011).Business objective-based resource management.Retrieved November 6,2013 from http://www2004.wwwconference.org/docs/2p236.pdf
NetSuite Inc.(2013). Resource Management. Retrieved November 6,2013 from http://www.openair.com/Resource-Management
The notes in the around the Activity box are actions needing fixed at the present time such as detecting allocation and costs and most importantly the priorities of the hospital's maintenance.
The diagram then has a box drawn below labeled objects in both methods, yet these objects are defined to ABC by tracing activity drivers because it represents products/services and customers while the current method looks at only products and services of pharmacy maintenance repairs which is derived from the custom way where allocations such as the direct cost of supplies, labor, administration on the basis of square footage. The focus is on costs vs. Activity-Based Costing and cost cannot control expenditures, yet it in comparison to cost accounting current at Jumper Hospital, it will permit the facility to see the what they do have control of, what has been done including the management that provided regularly or on a…...
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Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. (2003, January). Pharmaceuticals: their role in the cost of health care. Retrieved from http://www/phc4.org/reports/issue_briefs/docs/pharmcom.pdf
WiseGeek. (2011). What is cost allocation? Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cost-allocatioin.htm
usiness Report: Adelaide Convention Centre
How Resource Requirements Are Determined
Why resources are acquired and allocated
How resource usage is and reported
The Adelaide Convention Centre was founded in 1987 with an aim to promote tourism and industry related economic activities in the area of South Australia. The center hosts banquets, cocktail functions, conferences, exhibitions, green events, meetings, product launches, school formals, weddings, and corporate events[footnoteRef:1]. [1: Adelaide Convention Center. "Our Green Commitment," Adelaide Convention Center. n.d. (accessed January 14, 2014). http://www.adelaidecc.com.au/planning-your-event/event-types/green-events.]
Part A: How Resource Requirements Are Determined
Current Processes:
The current operational plans are mainly targeted towards providing a place for the business and local community to organize their events in the center. The center provides the place for the event including food and beverages. There are various partnering suppliers for floral, lighting, music, and other special arrangements. The resources required for the center can be divided into two main categories including basic organizational resources…...
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Adelaide Convention Center. "Our Green Commitment," Adelaide Convention Center. n.d. (accessed January 14, 2014). http://www.adelaidecc.com.au/planning-your-event/event-types/green-events .
Collier, Paul M., and Samuel Agyei-ampomah. P3-Performance Strategy: Strategic Level, Performance Pillar. Elsevier, 2009.
Tennent, John. Guide to Cash Management: How to Avoid a Business Credit Crunch. Vol. 109. USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012.
Overview of ecommendations
As has been demonstrated above, whether or not a company should outsource its human resources management tasks and processes is a highly individual consideration. Many aspects of the company's operations, its financial standing and capital reserves, and the specific industry fluctuations must be taken into account when determining whether or not to outsource. It should be noted that this overview recommendation is by no means an exhaustive list of considerations.
Companies that are very small or that have very stable human resources needs should keep most if not all of their human resources management processes and tasks internal, and specifically should allocate these tasks amongst line managers in order to achieve the maximum efficiency. In certain industries where human resources management takes up a large amount of organizational resources yet remains very stable in the time devoted to such management -- academia and healthcare are examples, in some regions…...
mlaReferences
Becker, B. & Huselid, M. (2006). Strategic Human Resources Management: Where Do We Go From Here? Journal of Management 32(6):898-925.
Gospel, H. & Sako, M. (2010). The unbundling of corporate functions: the evolution of shared services and outsourcing in human resource management. Industrial and Corporate Change 19(5): 1367-96.
Greer, C., Youngblood, S. & Gray, D. (1999). Human Resource Management Outsourcing: The Make or Buy Decision. The Academy of Management Executive 13(3): 85-96.
Lawler, E. (2004). Human resources business process outsourcing. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Human Resources roles of Managers and Supervisors and the impact of the roles upon the management team?
Human resources managers traditionally handle a management team's specific personnel decisions. These decisions often include the hiring of new staff, the position assignment of existing staff members and the adjustments to the pay schedule and other forms of compensation for both existing and new organizational members. Human resource management decisions are subject varying levels oversight by human resource supervisors. For instance, a human resources professional at a smaller firm may be simultaneously involved in financial resource allocation, compensation, benefits, compliance with laws affecting employees and the workplace, and safety and health issues. A human resource professional at a larger firm will likely be assigned to oversee one of those areas. Thus, a human resource supervisor at a large organization may be responsible for coordinating the various efforts of many different managers within the…...
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Magdaradog, Victor. (21 April 2003) "Strategic business partners." Computer World. Retrieved 19 Apr 2005 at leveli=0& info=Computerworldhttp://www.itnetcentral.com/computerworld/article.asp?id=11340& ;
Princeton Review. "A Day in the Life of a Human Resources Manager." Careers in Brief. The Princeton Review Website. 2005. Retrieved 19 Apr 2005 at http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=78
Society for Human Resource Management. (SHRM) "Human Resources as a Profession." (2005) SHRM Website. Retrieved 19 Apr 2005 at pf_id=48.46519http://shrmstore.shrm.org/shrm/product.asp?dept_id=18& ;
Public Admin General Budget Allocation
Budget Area
Defense
Health Care
Social Insurance (aid to the elderly, disable, unemployed)
Job Training
Disaster Relief
Public Education (K -- Universities)
Environmental Management (regulate clear and clean water; regulate the handling & disposal of hazardous & radioactive wastes)
Support of Cultural Institutions (e.g. libraries, museums, zoo, etc.)
Conservation of Natural Resources
Management of National Parks % Lands
Manage Law and Order
Regulate Business
Build and Maintain Roads, Dams, & Other Infrastructure
TOTAL
A critique of the general thought process used to reach a consensus on the various public policy categories
In choosing the public policy category, it is crucial to determine the necessary resources and measures that should prioritize the percentage budget allocation for the federal government. Security of the federal government is crucial to the development and growth of the nation. This makes security reasonable to command large portion of the budget allocation. 15% of the budget of the federal government (5 trillion) should focus on ensuring of the security…...
MS Project
hat was the original project duration prior to resource leveling? (eek 5 (1) file is the BS before leveling)
In MS Project, a report was run to find the project's total duration. The total duration of the project before the resources were leveled was 140.73 and this made the expected project completion date April 9th, 2012.
hat was the revised project duration after resource leveling? (eek 5 (2) is the BS after leveling)
After the resources were leveled another report was run. This time the duration was calculated to be 84.75 days with a 55.96 day variance.
Carefully read the resource leveling section in Chapter 8. Based on your reading and experience in MS software, why is resource leveling important in schedule development?
Resource leveling is a way to fix resource over allocation. Generally, resources are leveled in two ways (MS Office, 2011):
By delaying a task until the assigned resource has time to…...
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MS Office. (2011). About Resource Leveling. Retrieved from MS Office: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project-help/about-resource-leveling-HP001041939.aspx
Wei, C., Liu, P., & Tsai, Y. (2002). Resource-constrained project management using enhanced theory of constraint. International Journal of Project Management, 561-567.
Ethical Distribution of Access to Health Care esources
ight to Health Care esources
ole of Nurses
ight to Health Care esources
While the concept of 'right to health' is applicable in many of the socialist countries, most of the modern societies lay emphasis on the concept of 'right to health care." This is the concept that has been evolving over the years with the aim of providing equal health care resources to keep every individual healthy and to promote "quality of life" for their citizens.
However the concerns are about what the governments and the authorities related to health care can do what considerations, especially the ethical ones, which need to be considered while preparing a policy for equitable distribution of health care for the citizens (Flak & Chong, 2008).. These attempts of ethical policy formation help to open access to proper health care for people who had been previously left out of the adequate…...
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Beauchamp, T., & Childress, J. (2001). Principles of biomedical ethics, 5th ed. NY: Oxford University Press.
Best, M. (2006). Ethics in Health Services Management. Quality Management In Health Care, 15(4), 311. doi:10.1097/00019514-200610000-00016
Flak, N., & Chong, E. (2008). Beyond the Bedside: Nurses, a Critical Force in the Macroallocation of Resources. Nursingworld.org. Retrieved 30 August 2015, from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/vol132008/No2May08/ArticlePreviousTopic/MacroallocationofResources.html
Tschudin, V. (2003). Approaches to ethics. Edinburgh: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Macroeconomics
For most of the time since the subject of economics was first studied, the idea of resource constraints has been irrelevant. The world was simply not viewed as a finite place. The concept of resource constraints was limited, more or less, to the consideration of constraints on an individual economy. Adam Smith recognized that all economies would face resource constraints of one type or another. As Snowdon (2003) points out, "to Smith, it was obvious that all economies were faced with resource constraints and that free trade was a policy that would allow any nation to achieve the most efficient allocation of its scarce resources." This notion was built into the Ricardian trade theory and classical economics. It has not been until recent times, however, that the concept of worldwide scarcity has become relevant. The idea of peak oil and a world with seven billion people (or more) has economists…...
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Asheim, G., Buchholz, W., Hartwick, J., Mitra, T. & Withagen, C. (2005). Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints. CESInfo Working Paper No. 1573
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Friedman, M. (1971). The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. New York Times Magazine. Retrieved November 27, 2011 from http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman-soc-resp-business.html
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Title: Bridging the Skills Gap in the South African Supply Chain Industry
Introduction:
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, the supply chain industry plays a vital role in ensuring the efficient flow of goods and services. However, South Africa's supply chain sector faces a significant skills gap, hindering its growth and competitiveness. To address this challenge, it is essential to identify and cultivate generic, transferable, core, or key attributes that can bridge this gap effectively. This essay will discuss the different forms of such attributes....
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The aquaculture industry in the Philippines has the potential to be a significant contributor to the country's economic growth and food security through sustainable practices and technological advancements, while addressing environmental concerns and ensuring the well-being of coastal communities.
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- The aquaculture industry in the Philippines has the potential to contribute significantly to the country's economy.
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