Leadership in the Public Mgmt

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Paper #1In this Assignment you will compose a written “mock” memo. You will pretend you are in a management position and write a memo to your employees based on the following scenario:Scenario:Imagine you are the director of a state department that employs 1,500 people. Because of state budget constraints, the governor has proposed an early-retirement incentive package that would affect nearly 20% of your department’s employees — meaning that in 6 short months, your department will likely be losing around 300 employees from all management levels — from the executive office to the front lines. The governor has instructed all department heads to plan for this wave of early retirements, and to prepare for effective succession and knowledge transfer.Your Memo:In a memorandum to the governor, describe at least four distinct organization management challenges raised by the early retirement proposal, and apply one theory of effective management to each management challenge as you lay out your department’s plan for preparing for effective succession and knowledge transfer. These management challenges have been examined in your readings for this unit. Given this, please use those readings as a foundation for your memo.Additionally, imagine the governor is contemplating privatizing your state agency. Address the issue of what kinds of management challenges might come from the governor attempting to privatize your state department.How would this new private-sector department deal with a similar retirement issue?Compare those private sector management issues to your above-discussed public sector management challenges.Paper #2Source: Newton-Small, J. (2011, July 23). The inside story of Obama and Boehner’s second failed grand bargain. Retrieved from http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/23/the-inside-story-of-obama-and-boehners-second-failed-grand-bargain/After you have completed reading the above-cited article, write an essay discussing the various leadership theories implied by the article. Specifically, you should identify three leaders in the article and discuss a leadership approach/style that would move each of those three leaders close toward a so-called “grand bargain.”No approach/style will be a cure-all, so you need to use your best judgment from all you have learned in the previous units. Be sure to identify the historical context and associated practices of each leadership approach/style/theory discussed. Also, use specific examples when making a point. Your essay should be grounded in the facts of the article, as well as the readings.

Design & Theory

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Covering topics from Chapters 1-5.Please read each question, then choose four (4) of the five (5) questions to write a detailed response. Be sure to include examples and full discussion, if asked.Discuss several implications for design challenges in today’s organizations.Gathering data useful in design assessment may be obtained in several ways.  Identify two of these and discuss their implications to the design process.Discuss the distinctions between a corporate strategy and a business strategy and provide an example of each.Identify and discuss at least three (3) of the forces by which an organization would choose to adopt a front-back structureInternal competitive forces may work against the organization’s design for lateral capability.  Identify and discuss at least two of these challenges.Submission Instructions:Please provide citations from any outside sources including your text and internet sources.Be sure to include a reference page. Follow current APA format for citations and reference page.Be sure to double space your work, indent first line of each paragraph.Complete and submit the assignment by 9:00 PM ET Sunday.

Modern Health Insurance

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Outline the creation and expansion of modern health insurance in the United States.

Pay for Performance

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InstructionsASSIGNMENT 2: WEEK 5HR Headline: Pay for Performance Remains Controversial”Pay for Performance” has made inroads in business, but has remained a hard sell in public school systems. There are some successful examples where teacher pay has been linked to student test scores. For example, in Minnesota, some districts have stopped giving automatic raises for seniority and base 60% of all pay increases on performance. In Denver, unions and school districts designed an incentive program where teachers receive bonuses for student achievement and for earning national teaching certificates. However, some plans have not worked. For example, Cincinnati teachers voted against a merit pay proposal and Philadelphia teachers gave their bonus checks to charity rather than cashing them. It appears that having teachers involved in planning the incentive system is one key factor to success. The same can be said for all incentive plans – if employees don’t buy into them, they will not work.Your project may be based on a business entity of your choosing from the public or private sector and must answer the following Research Questions:1. How could an organization measure the effectiveness of its pay-for-performance plan(s)?2. From an employee’s perspective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pay-for-performance plan?3. From an employer’s perspective, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using a pay-for-performance plan?Research Project Instructions:IMPORTANT!!Submit your work as an MS WORD ATTACHMENT in either a .doc, .docx, or .rtf format.Please support your ideas, arguments, and opinions with independent research, and include at least three (3) supporting references or sources (NOT Wikipedia, unknown, or anonymous sources). References must include the name of the author and the date of publication. Websites are not acceptable. Format your work in proper APA format, include a cover, an abstract, an introduction, and a labeled conclusion in accordance with the course rubric, a minimum of 3 FULL pag es of written content, and a references section. Double-space all work and cite all listed references properly in text in accordance with the 7th edition of the APA manual.LATE POLICY: Students are expected to submit classroom assignments by the posted due date and to complete the course according to the published class schedule. The due date for each assignment is listed under each Assignment. As adults, students, and working professionals, I understand you must manage competing demands on your time. We all know that “life happens” but it is important to adhere as closely to the deadlines in the class as possible.Should you need additional time to complete an assignment, please contact mebefore the due dateso we can discuss the situation and determine an acceptable resolution. If arrangements are not made in advance, a late penalty of 10% will be assessed for any assignment submitted 1-7 days past the due date. Assignments will not be accepted after the 7th day. No work will be accepted past the final day of class.