Healthcare Management and Ethics

Work Group The proposed work group should have intimate knowledge of the issue and the different human resources policies impacted by the problem. This issue is connected to a variety of workplace departments, including human resource policies (in terms of employee expectations and quality of life); IT policies (how the Internet is managed and system security); and legal issues (employee rights). Representatives from all of these different departments should be present on the team. Ideally, their personalities should also work well together.

Although the work team is made up of diverse components, it should also have a clear sense of its mission and goals. Defining that central mission is an essential part of the first steps of "forming" a team. The team should also have a strict deadline to ensure that it meets its objectives with minimal waste of time and energy and understand the connections between their areas of expertise and those of other team members. "All members should be able to be versatile and willing to work cross-functionally" (Layton 2014).

If two members begin to argue, it is essential for the leader to immediately intervene and prevent personality conflicts from festering and re-focus the team. Having clear standardized operating procedures and formal negotiating rules can help the team from devolving into in-fighting early on. During the "storming" phase of team formation, a psychological concept first delineated by management theorist Bruce Tuckman, the leader must provide guidance as members negotiate their relationships ("Forming, storming, norming, and performing," 2014). References Forming, storming, norming, and performing. (2014). Mind Tools.

Retrieved from: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_86.htm Layton, M. (2014). How to choose agile management team members. Agile Project Management For Dummies. Retrieved from: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-choose-agile-management-team-members.html Discussion 2: Ethics The three dominant ethical systems are usually classified as consequentialist (emphasizing the consequences of actions, versus moral principles); deontological (emphasizing eternal rules and laws vs. anticipated consequences of ethical actions); and virtue ethics (the belief that a good character produces the best ethical actions).

The emphasis of the ethical actor (on results, moral laws, or personality) determines what he or she sees as the superior moral perspective. Feminist ethics has tended to question the different ethical philosophies such as utilitarianism, Kant's categorical imperative, and Confucianism, all of which have sprung from these respective categories.

Instead, feminists hold "traditional ethics overrates culturally masculine traits like "independence, autonomy, intellect, will, wariness, hierarchy, domination, culture, transcendence, product, asceticism, war, and death," while underrating feminine ideas like "interdependence, community, connection, sharing, emotion, body, trust, absence of hierarchy, nature, immanence, process, joy, peace, and life" (Tong & Williams (2014). Rather than objective moral "rightness" feminist ethics have tended to stress community, reinforcing harmony, and the relationship between the ethical actor and the exterior world, rather than establishing a singular principle of consequences vs. intentions which will last for all time.

Reference Tong, R. & Williams, N. Feminist ethics. (2014) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/feminism-ethics Discussion 3 A number of methods exist for an organization to raise capital. The first, most direct method is through contributions by individuals, either in the form of donations or in the form of "angel" investors, who may expect a return on their contribution if the venture is successful.

The advantage of this is such donations or investments do not need to be paid back in the case of financial failure; the downside is that such contributors often want some say in how the funds are used. The other option is taking out a loan from a bank: this must be paid back regardless of success of.