...Summary: The article looks at training programs for group home supervisors that can be used when working with youth that are transitioning from care to independent living. The programs were used in training sessions over the course of 5 months, with eight one-day training sessions. The training sessions took place in Massachusetts. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau funded the project (Collins, Hill, Miranda, 2003, p. 43). The purpose of the training programs were to train group home workers in assisting foster care youth in the transition from care to independent living. The authors realized that there's very little attention paid to staff in group homes and training programs toward supervisors. "The training program was, therefore, designed with the assumptions that community-based group home staff members are fundamental to the preparation of youth for later independence," (Collins et al, 2008, p. 43). The training was in collaboration with a school of social work and public care welfare agency. The attendants include a total of 186 that were mainly group home supervisors and workers. Also in attendance were staff of Massachusetts Department of Social Services Adolescent Outreach Program (Collins et al, 2008, p. 44). The training sessions intentionally took in consideration the challenges of transition youth from care to independent living. Four main topics were covered during the training sessions; positive youth development...
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...Manage in a Foreign Land Globalization is the growth in international business where we see the integration of economies throughout the world. A thorough understanding of a country’s culture will greatly facilitate globalization. Basic understanding of a country’s beliefs, language, attitude, communication styles, customs, relationships, values and work ethic are necessary in making a smooth transition of the kind this assignment refers to. This kind of cultural information is essential for developing an effective and realistic global strategy. To begin the transition, a team must be selected. It is important to select the right people for this team. We must first begin with conducting interviews. To begin the interviews, a manager may want to survey potential candidates through tools such as questionnaires, surveys and polls. This method will allow management to gain an understanding of individuals who may be interested in playing an integral role, such as team member. Some things to consider when selecting team members are potential challenges and cultural differences, which this paper will discuss further. Management may also devise a plan to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, a member may have in order to effectively determine the role one will assume on the team. In brainstorming this matter, I have come up with a few bullet points I would consider in selecting my team: * Cultural values * Passion about international relations ...
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...will require the stakeholders to meet twice a week for one hour every meeting, for a total period of three months to develop such protocol. The following report will describe the below points: * Challenges, Transition Process & Change strategy * Hierarchy of Needs Analysis, Implementation Analysis, Loss Management * Successful Implementation and Celebration Strategies Our company is currently facing tough economic times. We cannot afford to continue losing market share to our competitors due to inefficient manufacturing processes when introducing new product to the market. I believe that this project will be a milestone for the company which encompasses the mission of exercising continuous improvement towards excellence. Table of Contents Executive summary 2 1. Part A - Challenges, Transition Process & Change Strategy 4 1.1. Challenges 4 1.2. Transition Process 5 1.3. Change Strategy 6 2. Part B - Hierarchy of Needs Analysis, Implementation Analysis, Loss Management 7 2.1. Hierarchy of Needs Analysis 7 2.2. Implementation Analysis 8 2.3. Loss Management 10 3. Part C - Successful Implementation and Celebration Strategies 10 3.1. Successful Implementation 10 3.2. Celebration Strategies 11 1. Part A - Challenges, Transition...
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...University of Westminster Westminster Business School Module code and title: BKEY401 Professional Competences Formative Essay on Student Transition to University The transition to university can be considered life-changing (Cottrell,2013, p.9) and it is a fundamental step for every student. As a student during this transition you have to go through a process of adaptation and change (Whittaker,2013), you will experience a new environment with lots of challenges that will help you to learn more about yourself. This journey will give you the opportunity to understand the person you want to be in the future and it will influence not only your career but the rest of your life. As a student you will find lots of challenges and you have to learn how to deal with them in the best way. For some of this challenges you will have to use your innate skills that are part of your character for others you will have to develop new skills (Hendry, 2015, p. 8). As a student you have to sacrifice lots of your free time, that is why is very important for you to learn how to organize it in the best way. You have to learn how cope with stress and try to learn from mistakes by not judging yourself too severely. By analyzing your mistakes and your weakness you can understand more about yourself, to be more confident and to accept that even if you have some weakness you have lots of quality as well (Brown,2010, p1). During your journey you will experience a new environment, you will...
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...21/10/2015 University of Westminster Westminster Business School Module code and title: BKEY401 Professional competences Understanding of transition to University Student Name: David Leandro Rodrigues Fernandes Student ID number: 155139862 Seminar Leader name: Theocharis Papadopoulos Word Count: 780 1 21/10/2015 Katanis (2000, p100) says that “the experiences during the first semester at university may be critical in student’s decisions to continue or discontinue studies”. The student transition can be considered as a transition from adolescence to adulthood in which students have to be critical about their future decisions and take responsibility from their actions. This transition could be also considered complex for students because it introduces new challenges and issues, especially in academic literature. In this essay, it will be explained how university can help students to face issues and challenges, means of support that are accessible at the University of Westminster during first year and finally analyze strategies and actions to succeed this transition. Students during the first semester appreciate personal encounters with tutors, which enables them to create and prevent an identity during the transition. However, it seems that they do not get personal encounters because according to Briggs et al (2012) studies have shown the absence of individual contact with staff...
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...Challenges of New Graduate Nurses: Transition to Practice Job retention rates amongst newly graduate nurses tend to fluctuate widely. These fluctuations have many possible and combined explanations including orientation quality, level of confidence, residency programs, pay rates, mentoring programs, management support, and countless views of job satisfaction. My concept will focus on transition to practice success of new graduate nurses in relationship to their organization’s orientation process, job satisfaction, and the effects of job retention rates. Identifying these challenges are significant noting that low retention rates are costly for health care facilities as well as for the economy. According to Gemberling, Tretter-Long, Reiner, Potylycki, and Davidson in their article Clinical Support for the Off-Shift Nurse and the Graduate Nurse: The Clinical Rock Stars, “Depending on the specialty, estimated replacement costs for an RN were $42,000-$64,000 [in 2005]” Gemberling et al. (2011). This topic is especially important for new graduate nurses when considering a first place of employment. Nursing educators and health care managers have been analyzing and designing new ways to combat low retention rates specifically for newly graduated nurses. Review of Literature Several factors influence job satisfaction, which is a key characteristic that effects job retention rates. Gemberling et al. (2011) found that most new nurses leave their first job because of stress related...
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...AMBER PARKER Chapter 2: Cultural Diversity: Family Strengths and Challenges FILM Spanglish, 2004 (Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.) MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual content and brief language Format: DVD/VHS Plot Outline: Flor and her daughter Christina immigrate to Los Angeles from Mexico in search of a better life. After 6 years in the familiar and “safe” surroundings of a Hispanic enclave, Christina’s transition to adolescence prompts Flor to seek a job that will make it possible for her to supervise Christina more closely. When Flor gets a job as housekeeper for the family of a successful chef, her interactions with the affluent, eccentric American family challenge her parental and relational values. DESCRIPTION OF CLIP [Scenes 1-3 on DVD] The movie begins with a committee at Princeton University reviewing Christina’s letter of application. Christina, describing how her mother, Flor, has influenced her, narrates the story of their emigration from Mexico and their experiences adjusting to a new culture. They settle in Los Angeles, with its large Hispanic population, where they receive help from extended family members. After six years of isolation in the Hispanic enclave, Christina’s transition to adolescence prompts Flor to seek employment that will allow her to quit her second job and supervise Christina more closely. Flor’s cousin, Monica, accompanies Flor to her interview. [Length: 14 minutes] VIEWING GUIDE: SPANGLISH Review the...
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...The Transition from 2D Drafting to 3D Modeling Benchmark Report Improving Engineering Efficiency September 2006 — Underwritten, in Part, by — The Transition from 2D Drafting to 3D Modeling Benchmark Report Executive Summary D o more with less. The mandate hasn’t changed for manufacturers. They must develop more products with increasing complexity to address customer and competitive pressures. Yet, there’s no “give” in project timelines to adopt new technologies like 3D modeling to help them win. However, some manufacturers are not only adopting 3D modeling technology, but excelling at hitting their product development targets at the same time. How is it possible? Interestingly enough, it’s actually quite simple. Key Business Value Findings • Best in class manufacturers their hit revenue, cost, launch date, and quality targets for 84% or more of their products. • Best in class performers typically produce 1.4 fewer prototypes than average performers. • Best in class performers average 6.1 fewer change orders than laggard performers. • In total, best in class manufacturers of the most complex products get to market 99 days earlier with $50, 637 lower product development costs. Implications & Analysis How do they do it? • Best in class performers are 40% more likely to have engineers use CAD directly to ensure they stay close to the design. • Best in class performers are 24% more likely to take advantage of extended 3D modeling design capabilities. They are 55%...
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...happy and did not know how to react at the moment once informed at five pm of Friday evening. I asked few questions in regards to how quickly this transition was going to happen and how to handle my current projects and work I had. My problem was that I was going to be placed involuntarily in a position, which I have no experience and similarity with my current role. I was fairly new in my current position and now in middle of fiscal year they are throwing me to the wolves with out any financial or supportive incentive After the weekend to think about the situation with a more calm mind, I started to consider the pro and cons. Hence, I realized this transition may end up resulting too many positive opportunities that I would not be exposed to in my current position. At this point I had few alternatives, rejecting the move and risking my job. Accept the move, and just do my job and not be happy. Finally, I can start familiarizing myself in the new department to make my transition more smooth and comfortable. There were many challenges I would have to deal with. The main was balancing my current position pending projects and deal and learning my new position. The new position would be more challenging than my current role I started as a new employee. First I had no experience with the system used in the front end group and training was not offered at the moment. I would have to answer to not one but many upper management people. This position consisted with working...
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...Passage/Separation, initiation, and reintegration Rites of Passage are significant transition points in the lives of people. They occur often and in many ways throughout a lifetime and in all cultures. There is a marking or a celebration of times that are considered to be a special period of growth, a period of separation from the past and a transition or journey forward to a new stage of life often involving a challenge to change and become new, to mature or move into a different period of growth. These times are celebrated with rituals or ceremonies that include whole communities. A mythologist named Joseph Campbell “put forward the idea of a threefold rite of passage called the monomyth”. He used it in hero roles in legends and myths to illustrate how it applies to humanity as well. A rite of passage included three parts, separation, initiation, and reintegration. It had to do with the coming of a time to separate oneself from family, friends, old ways, or an old life. It is a time when one separates themselves from everyday surroundings and society and takes a ‘sacred voyage’ or journey to a special place, a sacred place. This place is often where one endures hardships or tests that cause a person to think about all they have learned and have been and who they really are and intend to be. This stage is often called the initiation and is marked by a challenge or struggle. It is a time of overcoming, a time of accomplishment and at its end one emerges...
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...below thirty-four years are experiencing the highest levels of unemployment in the US population. It has been observed that most members of the military have difficulties adjusting to life in the civilian workforce (Ray and Heaslip, 2011). Additionally, most of the veterans get back to the military life with injuries and disabilities sustained in their line of work and this poses major setbacks in their search for jobs. This paper gives a detailed analysis of the transitioning from the military to the civilian workforce. Challenges faced during the Transition Process Service in the military is difficult and demanding. However, the transition to the work force poses major challenges to the veterans as well. There are over twenty-six million veterans in the United States. Each of the veterans sacrificed their mental and physical skills to the service of the nation. This explains why the veterans that leave the military service deserve a smooth transition into the work force. The number of veterans grows on...
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...The women in the article have had very successful professional lives as a male, and have still continued to have them after their transition. The transition has allowed them to see the world through different eyes. The transition stage is a very emotional and rough time for anyone that takes on the challenge. It is even harder when they are around people who try and harm them and make them be someone that they do not want to be. Support and equality is something that all people in the United States need to have. It does not matter who we are, we all should have the same rights when it comes to work, education and benefits that we receive. “A Remarkable Transformation” states the facts about what being transgender really is and has women in a professional environment sharing their experiences with the world and talking about what they had to overcome. Anyone reading this article can sense that the authors of the article deeply care about equality for all and...
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...Organizational Transition to Electronic Health Records Terry Badey- McClelland Capella University Omega Home Health Agency Omega Home Health Agency (OHHA) was established in 2010, to provide care services for disable and elderly adults in their homes in North Carolina. The organization is the second largest home health agency in the state of North Carolina. The agency is licensed by the North Carolina Division of Facility Services, as a home health care provider. Omega Home Health offer a variety of services, such as, in-home health care, mental health services, group homes, respite and adult day care. Our objective is to assist clients in maintaining their health, safety, as well as their well-being, which allows them to remain at home, through the professional and quality care provided by our agency. Our vision is to transform home health through innovative ideas and missions that embody a holistic environment for our clients. Omega Home Health Agency partners with Carolina’s Medical Center. Omega Home Health Agency’s employees are Physicians, clinicians, licensed Registered Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants, Medical Technicians, Dieticians, Registered Health Information Administrators, Registered Health Information technicians, licensed Counselors, Qualified Professionals, and Behavioral Technicians. Omega Home Health operates seven facilities throughout North Carolina, with facilities in Statesville, Hickory, Charlotte, Huntersville, Mooresville, Lincolnton, and...
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...MANAGING COMMITMENT-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENTS V. Aruldas, P. Zachariah, S. Awale Commitment-based organizations (organizations with a strong commitment to help individuals, groups or communities as a labour of love) are typically found in areas of need – working with street children, the homeless, healthcare for the poor, battered women, etc. Some of these areas of need have, over time, attracted other providers who see a business opportunity, resulting in a competitive setting. In India, the church-owned hospitals are an example of commitment–based organizations facing a competitive situation. Most church-owned hospitals in the country when there was little private or government healthcare, with a strong commitment to provide health care to the poor. Over the years, the number of healthcare providers has increased, the technology of healthcare provision has changed, funding for care of the poor is no longer easily available, and the founders of the hospitals have handed over leadership to the next generation. Managing such commitment-based organizations in this changed environment is a challenging task. A case-based study of 6 Indian church-owned hospitals was undertaken to understand how this challenge can be addressed. The findings suggest that such organizations need to have three primary areas of management focus: a) managing the operations b) managing the environment, and c) managing the ideology. Managing the operations...
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...The Adolescent Development Analysis This comprehensive document defines the differences and similarities of young males and females reactions to the age of puberty. The most fascinating aspects of adolescence defined as the challenges of growing into adulthood. Researchers consider puberty as the development marker with important implications. These implications include the transition of the young male or female travels before adulthood. This document details the knowledge of self-learning, and group, or peer learning within the cultural mixing pot of today’s world. Early Gender Differences Early gender differences should not cause young males or females any difficulties, or harmful reactions from this transition. Most young people going through the transitions normally show no ill effects from the change. This transition does show first beginning of a range of psychosocial problems; early maturity, sub-cultural, peer pressures, and emotional reflections. For the young culture of this world, this first stage into adulthood signals the birth of significant, rapid changes for most young males and females. Significant associations define these changes through the biological differences in sleep patterns, hormonal, and body influences. The psychological differences define traumatic shifts in identification crisis, body, and mental relationships with self, parents, and peers (Blondell, Foster, & Kamlesh, 1999). Early Maturity Differences Researchers studying the beginnings of...
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