Option #1: Leadership and Teams – Theoretical Leadership Models

Synthesize the topics of leadership and teams by crafting an essay in which, using supporting materials, you assess the theory and practice of leadership as it relates to teams.

In your critical essay, address both of the following items:

1. Describe and explain how one leadership model (a model deemed valid by today’s research standards, as discussed in the module material) interacts with the most important performance outcomes with regard to teams.
2. Choose one or two contemporary leadership theories and describe how a leader who was following the tenets of the theory or theories would interact with the members of his or her team in order to maximize the strengths of work teams in general while mitigating the pitfalls of such teams. Support your thinking by describing and applying at least one example, which can be based on an actual case or a hypothetical one.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• 3-4 pages in length in addition to the title page and reference page
• Formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
• Cite a minimum of two scholarly sources, at least one of which is not provided in, or linked from, the course. The CSU-Global Library is a great place to find scholarly sources!

Write clearly and logically, as you will be graded on content, analysis, and your adherence to the tenets of good academic writing, which should be succinct where possible while also exploring the topics appropriately. Although two outside scholarly sources are required for this paper, remember that you can always improve your work by providing support from additional outside scholarly sources, which helps both to bolster your own assertions and supplement your ideas.

Option #2: Leadership and Teams – Conformity

Submit a critical essay that responds to the following questions:

1. Does the desire to be accepted as a part of a group leave one susceptible to conforming to the group’s norms?
2. Can a group exert pressure that’s strong enough to change a member’s attitudes and behavior?
3. How does one particular leadership model (a valid one, by today’s research standards, as discussed in this module’s materials) interact with the most important performance outcomes with regard to teams?
4. What can you use from this analysis to help you be a better manager?
5. How would a leader who was following the tenets of the leadership model interact with the members of his or her team in order to maximize the strengths of work teams in general while mitigating the pitfalls of such teams?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• 3-4 pages in length in addition to the title page and reference page
• Formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
• Cite a minimum of two scholarly sources, at least one of which is not provided in, or linked from, the course. The CSU-Global Library is a great place to find these scholarly sources!

Write clearly and logically, as you will be graded on content, analysis, and your adherence to the tenets of good academic writing, which should be succinct where possible while also exploring the topics appropriately. Although two outside scholarly sources are required for this paper, remember that you can always improve your work by providing support from additional outside scholarly sources, which helps both to bolster your own assertions and supplement your ideas.

You will present a sales pitch of the telemedicine site you have been developing throughout the semester. Create your pitch as a PowerPoint to persuade a philanthropy, entrepreneur, or investor (depending on the model of your site) to fund your vision. Your presentation should be 10-15 minutes and coalesce the work you have done throughout the semester into one cohesive presentation. The presentation should address the vision of your site, your business model (profit vs. non-profit), the population you will serve, the needs of this population, why this population would benefit from inclusion in a telemedicine model, the staff you will need to operate the site, training you will give to providers and users, the technology that providers and users will need to access, how you will remain financially solvent or make a profit, local and /or global applications, and the ethical, legal, political and technical issues that will facilitate or hinder your plan. You will be expected to use course readings and other peer reviewed articles to support your presentation; the research should be academic in nature. Use personal experience only as applicable to the sales pitch of your project.

Please have this done, Emergency, needs to be done within 36 hours! I have attached all work that is associated with this assignment. Not a hard project I just do not have the time to do it. I’m traveling and need help.

1. Employment Laws

This week you studied the theory surrounding Employment Laws.

Begin this week’s discussion forum by researching the following question?

In what ways do employment laws
differ in a global environment?  

In your discussion provide an example of a country with different employment
laws.  

Also answer the following questions:

• Is there a
  reason for the difference?  

• Do you agree
  with the difference?  

• Why or why not?
   

Note:  A good starting point might be China.  It’s not uncommon
for employees to work 60 to 100 hours each week.

2. Interviews

For
decades, interviews have been an integral part of the selection process.  

In
this discussion forum, examine and discuss the following questions:

• What are the major problems of the
  interview as a selection device?  

• What can HRM do to maximize
  fairness during the interview process?  

Discuss
not only HRM strategies for “during the interview” but also strategies
which can be implemented prior and following the interview.

3. Cultural Training

Imagine
that your organization has asked you to move to another country and perform a
job that is critical to the success of the organization. 
Note: You will be given the opportunity to take your family with you on this
assignment.

For
this discussion forum,

1. Select a country where you could perform a foreign work
   assignment.

2. Explain and discuss why it is critical for
   employees (and their families) to have cultural training before
   embarking on an overseas assignment. 

3. Also discuss the specific cultural training you
   (and your family) would need in order to work in the country you chose to
   write about.  What risks would their be to your family and to your
   organization if this training was not provided by the organization.

4. Performance Management Systems

How does the global nature of
business affect performance management systems?  

Consider both the technical and
social aspects of
different cultures in your response.

5. Social Security

“Social Security should serve as a
foundation for employee retirement programs. Therefore, Congress should
explore more extensive revisions to the program to ensure that the next generation
of retirees will receive the benefit.”  

Do you agree or disagree with this statement?  Explain your response.

6. Unions

Where
are unionizing efforts focused today?  

• Do you agree with unions?  Why or why not? 
  (I do not agree with Unions anymore, in the past they added benefit)

Please
back your explanation with history and citations.

1.

Patient, Andrew Mahoney called the office and was very angry.  He had been in a year ago asking for an HIV test
to be performed as he believed he had been exposed.  He asked that his
insurance NOT be billed and that he be paid out of pocket for the
testing.  Somehow, someone filed the claim to his insurance and it went
unnoticed as the charges were applied against his deductible. 

His angry call today was in regards to being denied life insurance because the life insurance company received a health profile from his health insurance company which listed the diagnosis of HIV from the prior year. 

Think about how this happened. YOU are responsible for the error!
This is only one of many errors you have made and now it has made a
significant impact on someone else’s life.

• How would you communicate with sincerity and extension of an apology?
• Discuss exactly how you would repair the damage.
• Explain what other code or codes you should have used to demonstrate exposure instead. 
• Explain what you could do in the future to avoid doing sloppy work and making careless errors.

2.

It is Friday September 30, 2012, and you are having lunch with a
friend who works at another physician’s office.  During the course of
the conversation, she asks you if your office is ready to handle the
ICD-10 transition from ICD-9 Diagnostic coding.  You look at her with a
blank stare and ask, “What transition?”  She explains how everything is
going to change, including the format and number of digits.  You realize
that since the medical billing specialist left for maternity leave six weeks ago, that no claims have gotten billed.

• What process will you take to get those claims filed? 
• Is there time before Monday when the change takes effect?
• Oh no, will it be better to electronically file the claims over the
  weekend in the ICD-9 format; Go thru a clearinghouse; or print
  everything out on paper, hoping the claims will be considered under the
  ICD-9 format and not under the ICD-10?
• Explain your choice.

3.

Your office recently decided
to stock braces and crutches as you had anticipated an increase of
patients coming in with sprains and fractures of body parts as summer
was right around the corner and your physician wanted to service the
patients better by not having the patient drive to multiple places for
those Durable Medical Equipment (DME) items.

However, you noticed that denials are coming in from Medicare.  Medicare Remittances are stating that they are not the payer.  However, you pull the patients cards and see Medicare
very clearly on their cards. What actions would you take to find out
which payer is responsible for the Durable Medical Equipment (DME)? 
Your physician is a Participating provider with Medicare.  What is the problem?  Why is Medicare not paying? 

• Define the steps you would take to find out why Medicare is not paying and how you would solve the problem. 
• What steps need to be taken? 
• Who is supposed to be the payer? 
• How do you get the claims to that payer?
• Does any other paperwork need to be completed?  If so,what?

4.

Your Orthopedics
Specialist’s office has NOT been getting many referrals from the
largest HMO organization in your area.  This has drastically affected
the bottom line, as your physician’s surgical schedule has decreased. 
You have been tasked with finding out why. 

What is the first step you would take? You hold a general round table
discussion with other staff members to see if they have heard
anything.  During the meeting, the medical billing specialist
in your office speaks up about refilling a large quantity of claims
because she did not add modifiers to the procedural codes to reflect
that there were other surgeons assisting during surgical procedures and
had been taking calls from that particular HMO’s billing department to
rectify the billing error. 

• What would your reaction be?
• What would be the next step to correct the issue?
• How would you communicate with your physician; the referring physicians; the patient?
• What would you recommend to implement in changes to avoid this from happing in the future?
• How would you rebuild the relationship with the referring HMO providers?
• Could this be classified as up coding?  If not, compare up coding to this situation.

  Refer back to the learning activity in this learning plan: 

  5..“After graduating as a Medical Assistant/
  Medical Administrative Assistant, you landed the perfect job at a
  clinic that just opened.  After working there for 1 ½ years, all of the
  staff is called in for a meeting with the Administrator and are told
  that the clinic has to downsize.  This means you are losing your job, as
  the bills are not getting paid because not enough money is coming in. 
  But you know this to be wrong because the schedules are filled every day
  and insurance companies are being billed.  What happened?  How can this
  be happening? Look up the statistics on how many medical facilities
  open and have to close within a short time frame due to lack of money
  coming in.”

  Answer the following in your discussion. Be creative in your posting as well as in your responses to your team members.

  • Speculate on what you think the series of events and deficiencies may have been in this office to cause the lack of funds. 
    • Was it not filing claims timely or at all?
    • Was it filing claims on paper and not electronically?
    • Did this office use a Practice Management System like Medisoft?
    • If insurance was being filed timely, was there any follow-up on those claims, i.e. calling insurance companies on their status?
    • Were claims being filed according to the guidelines of the third-party payers?
    • Were the physician reimbursement fee schedules high enough to pay
      for the services being provided to the patients and to cover overhead?
    • Were services being pre-authorized?
    • After entering data and completing other tasks within the Medisoft Practice Management System,
      do you think that if the reports were more closely monitored and shared
      with all office staff that the downsizing could have been prevented?
    • What role did you play as an employee?  If you were aware of the situation, how did you handle this knowledge?
    • What would have been different if claims were filed electronically
      instead of paper?  Do you think this could have been a problem?

  Discussion Rubric

All these are these are DQ question so the answer dont have to be so long just want my points. Thanks