Review Porter’s Five Forces model (Unit 3) and apply it to analyse the US airline industry

Question 1
Review Porter’s Five Forces model (Unit 3) and apply it to analyse the US airline industry. This
is an industry-level analysis of the competitive environment – part of external environment
analysis. At this stage do not focus too much on how Southwest Airlines managed to overcome
the forces and successfully compete in the industry, as this is the basis for the analysis of its
internal capabilities in question 2.
The purpose of the Five Forces Model is to gain a deeper understanding of the intensity of
competition in the industry and which forces are the key influencers. The more intense the
competition, the less attractive the industry, the lower the average level of industry profitability.
The reverse applies to less intense levels of competition. You must analyse each force
individually through an examination of the structural factors which determine the impact
of this force. The discussion of how these factors influence each force means that your
answer will go beyond the description of each force. For each force arguments should be
presented as to whether the force’s influence is high, medium or low. Your arguments should
reach formal conclusions:
• Is this an attractive/unattractive industry (high/low/average profit margins) as result of the
intensity of the competitive forces?
• What are the most significant forces facing the US airline industry in the future that all
competitors should take into account in their strategy formulation?
Question 2
Conduct an internal analysis (Unit 4) of Southwest Airlines’ capabilities, then to identify
and evaluate its core competencies:
• Use the Value Chain framework to analyse Southwest Airlines’ capabilities. You must go
further than describing what it does in each activity through a discussion of what it does well
(strengths) and what areas it needs to improve (weaknesses to address).
• To identify Southwest Airlines’ core competencies, analyse critical linkages/processes in
the Value Chain, some of which should be the basis for your choice of core competencies
(CCs). The explanation of Value Chain linkages is an intermediary stage to identifying CCs.
Assess which linkages are “core” by applying either Barney’s or Grant’s criteria.
• The final part of the question requires you to identify its choice of generic competitive
strategy – differentiation, cost leadership or hybrid (Unit 5). Your choice should be
supported by the capabilities and CCs you have derived from your preceding value chain
analysis.
Question 3
The focus here is on the organisational culture of the airline, and how this is able to influence
its strategic choices and implementation. Use the cultural web (Unit 10), and back up your
description with evidence from the case study. Again, you must go further than simply
describing what the culture is, by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of different
elements of the framework, and how they might impact the ability of the company to make and
implement strategic decisions.
Question 4
Consider three international strategy approaches (multi- domestic, global or transnational),
and to select which strategy you think Southwest Airlines should pursue, in the context of
the case study. To develop an argument to support your choice, work through the elements
of the Integration-Responsiveness Grid (from Unit 7) which apply to the industry and also to
Southwest’s own capabilities. You may wish to draw on your earlier analysis of Southwest’s
strengths and weaknesses to comment on how the company might overcome some of the
common difficulties associated with your chosen strategy.

Quality Health Care Management

You are a quality analyst in a health information management (HIM) department appointed to lead a project team. Your team must assess the problem with the documentation of the patient’s discharge disposition status in the health record and present your findings in a meeting to the department.
An increasing number of errors have been reported, and frustration among the coders has risen. These coders claim that conflicting information is often present in the record, requiring them to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to obtain verification. Coding productivity has been affected. Explain how you would assess the problem, strategies that you may develop to resolve the problem, and a way to study the effectiveness of your strategies. Give examples of tools you would use to present your findings in the meeting.
Your research paper should be 3 pages long (excluding the cover page and reference page), supported by the readings from Week 4 and at least two additional scholarly sources (not Wikipedia etc.) Please adhere the writing rubric and let me know if you have any questions. This paper should be in proper APA format, which includes a title page, reference page, and APA-formatted references.

Lesson Reading: Examine legal and ethical aspects of health information management.

Lesson

Because of their capacity to provide objectivity, data are a crucial element used to measure the quality of patient care. Data have been used to study the quality of patient care for over a century, leading in part to the development of accrediting organizations that concentrate on advancing patient care. Data collected from the patient’s healthcare record are a vital part of any quality initiative in the healthcare field, including those at the federal level. Private efforts to advance patient care have measured the performance of care and service through data collected at the healthcare provider level, with the HEDIS data set serving as a prototype for managed care plans. The use of quality monitoring cycles, benchmarking processes, and quality indicator reports has expanded vastly over the last few decades, assisting those within the healthcare field to improve the delivery of patient care and those outside the field to evaluate care given.

Two areas that depend greatly on data quality are performance improvement and risk management, with performance improvement concentrating on the review of clinical processes as a means to improve the quality of patient care and risk management focusing on the review of nonclinical processes as a means to reduce medical, financial, and legal risk to an organization. Both areas have gotten a lot of attention because of their potential to affect both the administration and delivery of patient care.

By contrast, utilization management emphasizes the appropriateness and planned use of resources as an effort to govern healthcare costs. This concentration has become essential to the delivery of patient care, as both accrediting and licensing standards require healthcare organizations to comply with utilization management requirements.

We will also review the historical development of healthcare quality including a review of the important pioneers and the tools they developed. Their work has been deliberated, polished, and broadly used in a variety of applications related to performance-improvement activities. We will also analyze risk management, with emphasis on the significance of coordination with quality activities. This is followed by is a discussion of the evolution of utilization management, with a focus on its relationship to quality management.

Numbers and mathematical theories have played a role in society for millennia. The past few centuries have seen the growth of healthcare statistics, ranging from the elementary level to the complex level. These statistics are characterized by category, with descriptive statistics playing the largest role in healthcare. Measures of central tendency appear regularly in the healthcare field like research studies, as well as in mainstream fields like press releases and articles. How data are gathered, utilized in calculations and formulae, and presented are essential to the practice of statistics in any field, including healthcare.

Relationships among data variables are the emphasis of regression analysis, an advanced statistical tool used in the emergent fields of clinical and applied informatics. Regression analysis is an important element of grouper programs. Health information management statistics concentrate on the use of statistical formulae on a routine basis. HIM managers count on productivity measures to determine how effectively the organization is being managed. Statistical instruments such as control charts, trend charts, and process capability analysis are used to address process problems, increase productivity, and contribute to the organization’s financial well-being.

References:

Green, M., & Bowie, M. (2011). Essentials of health information management: Principles and practices

(2nd ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Cengage.

LaTour, K. (2013). Health information management: Concepts, principles, and practice (4th ed.). Chicago,

IL: AHIMA.

McWay, D. (2014). Today’s health information management: An integrated approach (2nd ed.). Clifton Park,

NY: Cengage Learning.

Sayles, N. (n.d.). Health information management technology: An applied approach (4th ed.). Chicago, IL:

AHIMA.

Required Reading

McWay, D. (2014). Today’s health information management: An integrated approach (2nd ed.). Clifton Park,

NY: Cengage Learning.
◦ Chapter 7 & 8

Situational Leadership Model involves both “inputs” and “outputs” 

Hersey and Blanchards Situational Leadership model

For this assignment, first, review the background materials with a focus on Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership model from Avery (2011). Make sure you are familiar with the four leadership styles covered in the situational approach (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, and Delegating) and situations where you are supposed to use these four styles.

You are in charge of a team of architects. They are highly skilled but have strong opinions and do not necessarily follow instructions. These architects are independent thinkers who are used to doing things their own way.

1. What is the Situational Leadership Model, and how can it be used to improve your selected scenario?
2. The Situational Leadership Model involves both “inputs” and “outputs” by taking employee commitment and competency as inputs and then, based on the employee information, selects one of the four Directing, Coaching, Supporting, or Delegating as an output.
   Create a table comparing and contrasting the four leadership styles (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, or Delegating) in terms of inputs and outputs, and include a 1 or 2 paragraph discussion of your table.
3. Based on your table and the readings, which of the four leadership styles do you think is most useful to the scenario and why?

 

Hersey and Blanchards Situational Leadership model

For this assignment, first, review the background materials with a focus on Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership model from Avery (2011). Make sure you are familiar with the four leadership styles covered in the situational approach (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, and Delegating) and situations where you are supposed to use these four styles.

You are in charge of a team of architects. They are highly skilled but have strong opinions and do not necessarily follow instructions. These architects are independent thinkers who are used to doing things their own way.

1. What is the Situational Leadership Model, and how can it be used to improve your selected scenario?
2. The Situational Leadership Model involves both “inputs” and “outputs” by taking employee commitment and competency as inputs and then, based on the employee information, selects one of the four Directing, Coaching, Supporting, or Delegating as an output.
   Create a table comparing and contrasting the four leadership styles (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, or Delegating) in terms of inputs and outputs, and include a 1 or 2 paragraph discussion of your table.
3. Based on your table and the readings, which of the four leadership styles do you think is most useful to the scenario and why?

 

Hospital Staffing Analysis
This assignment is an application of data analysis applied to workforce planning and the
development of a recruiting plan. The following information is provided in the attached excel
spreadsheets:
• Current and historical data on beds, staffing levels, and turnover,
• Information on available recruiting sources, numbers available from those sources and
associated costs.
• Information needed to calculate costs associated with any terminations.
Part One
As we come to the end of 2020, you have been asked to:
1. Forecast how many nurses you anticipate losing due to turnover for each of the three
departments in 2021. (You can assume that turnover rates do not differ across
departments.)
2. Forecast how many nurses you project will be needed to be hired to staff each
department given the staffing ratios provided.
Part Two
Develop a recruiting plan that fills those openings cost effectively. Your plan should detail:
1. How many total recruits you will need to seek out from the source, and how many hires
will result from that (recognize that there are limits on the number of recruits you can
expect to be available from each source and you should recognize that limitation in your
plan.)
2. You are also to indicate the overall cost associated with your plan.
Part Three
The hospital is also considering purchasing an automated patient monitoring system which will
reduce the time nurses in the In-patient and Out-patient unit spend taking and recording
patient information. If implemented, this would change the staffing ratio for the In-patient
department from one nurse for every ten beds to one nurse for every 12 beds. In the Outpatient department from One Nurse for every twelve beds to One Nurse for every fourteen
Beds.
It would cost $1 Million to purchase and implement, along with a one-time training cost of $200
per nurse.
From a strictly financial perspective, should the hospital purchase and implement this system?
To answer that, you will need to calculate the staffing levels required if the system were
adopted, and develop a staffing or layoff plan with associated costs.