Managing a City’s Health Benefits In management positions, critical decisions are made every day, and these decisions affect many. However, some of the decisions made by the directorate personnel are inconvenient for the people that affect it. Moreover, city officials face this decision often when budget cut occur, and resources are scarce. This problem is being faced by a city in which they can no longer afford to pay for self-insure the employees’ health insurance benefits. This paper is going to explain the situation and the decision that the city is going through. Moreover, this document will discuss the satisfiers and dissatisfiers cause by the decision taken. As well, this paper will also analyze if the city should take into consideration the workers view on their decision since the state laws are not labor friendly. Also, this article will take the view of the workforce and analyze if striking is an option and what would be the consequences of doing it. Lastly, this document will choose one of the two approaches to organizational change, and it will describe why that approach would be useful for this scenario.
Problem, Satisfiers, and Dissatisfiers In a city where all the personnel are public servants is critical to maintaining and spend the city budget adequately. Moreover, sometimes city need to cut expenses from an area that affect the workers. Therefore, the city officials sometimes face the decision on personnel cuts or even reducing the workers benefits. The
In the reading this week as a manager and a leader, conflict and responsibilities are required. The requirements are to the obligation are made for the company. With all shareholder participation the employees and communities will benefit from the decision. There are studies that the manager is required to complete to solve the issues of conflicts and responsibilities. There are going to be affects but it is up to the manager to make sure that the decision is not pulling and is the right decision for the situation.
Health has been influenced by many factors such as poor health status, disease risk factors, and limited access to healthcare. All these factors are due to social, economic and environmental disadvantages. According to the World Organization (WHO) (2015), “the social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities, which is the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries”
The benefits and drawbacks of having state health programs verses one that is uniform across the country can vary on a broad basis. Medicare and Medicaid are state and federally funded health programs; programs that must be fair and allow access to everyone across the country that are enrolled and eligible to receive such benefits. In addition, these programs have unlimited caps so that there is flexibility to continue financing care without delay. The Medicare program was designed to provide access to health care for those who are not able to afford appropriate health care and meet the needs of vulnerable communities. If it were not for the assistance of the federal government in providing states the necessary funds to continue providing health
Health insurance is important as it allows people to receive health care. However, health insurance providers are not equal, which result in an unequal quality of care. Private health insurance leads to an increase quality of health care. This is show in the article “A National and State Profile of Leading Health Problems and Health Care Quality for US
Ford Company faced the labor surplus because of its high cost structure and decreased in the demand of automobile. There was no work for all employees in the company but the ford paid salary and other benefit to all employee even there are not contributing and involving in the production. As there was decrease in sales of Ford automobile, they had surplus in their work force. Moreover they were unable to afford to keep all the employing paying their salary. They also had to bear financial loss. Hence they were eager to cut down their entire work force. (htt91)
Administrative staff remains at the top- level of the organizational structure, formulated of individual’s that have ownership (stakeholders) with the functions of operations in the healthcare facility. These important individuals are accountable for the enforcement on policies and regulations, with ensuring the implementation for public
For any public service to work effectively the members of these services must be efficient. They must be disciplined as this is a large part of the uniformed public services. It is very important as if members are disciplined and self-disciplined they have will affect the members own performance and their services professionalism and efficiency in a positive way and vice versa.
The purpose of this report is to summarize the findings of Huskie Consulting’s analysis into payments made to personnel working for the City of Chicago. This report analyzes (1) salaries, (2) overtime pay, (3) reimbursement expenses, and (4) employee indebtedness to the city. Specifically, this report seeks to identify notable trends and any areas of spending that should be examined further to reduce personnel costs in the City of Chicago.
Highlight rationale for choice of subject related to health benefits and current health and social care agenda. The rationale provided demonstrates an exemplary understanding with a very high level of evaluation of the supporting evidence from policy and literature. Do I understand the nature of the health promotion activity? Including local, national and professional relevance? Can I discuss with confidence the evidence base for what I am doing or have done?
The topic that I will be discussing is Health Care Benefits Costs. There are several different trends in the health care field that are used in business. Major issues and obstacles are also very big regarding Health Care Benefits Costs. Controlling Health Care Benefits Costs is a very important topic that is trending today throughout the world.
According to my analysis, the problems are distrust between the managers and employees and unfairness of rewards between the employees and supervisors. In order to keep productivity and profitability of the plant, it should resolve the issues urgently before the situation deteriorated further. I recommend the option two is better for Bent to deal with these problems for the plant. Firstly, communication is the most important factor that affects the relationship between managers and employees. If the managers could listen advices of the work in time from their employees, it not only will be more easier to handle the existing problem in the company, but also will improve the relationship between managers and employees because the staff feel the company takes, to respect and to trust them, feel oneself is in enterprise's one, and they can have the confidence and the sense of responsibility for the development of their company. Secondly, it is to give the appreciation by managers to employees frequently that will improve the employee morale because they will feel more attached to their company. As the result of this, employees will devote to their work without any complaint. Consequently, because of the improvement of relationship and employee morale, the efficiency and productivity of company will improve with the efforts of all staff and give them corresponding reward. Although the first option is probably to resolve the crisis
It’s no surprise that Los Angeles is one of the largest populated areas in the United States, representing over 25% of California’s residents living within a 4,057 square mile radius. The healthcare systems in Los Angeles are measurements of the county’s commitment to retain only the best standards of living, through the use of patient centered networks, utilizing the top healthcare providers in medical research, health care and its community amenities.
In this analysis we will review a case titled “The Dilemma at the Public Service Department.” We will be discussing different issues, amongst them are: opinions on the honesty, malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, accountability, competence, and why these particular responsibilities are identified. We will also discuss certain trade-offs made by the commissioner’s loyalty to the department as well as the governor, and public interest. We will also be discussing three barriers when it comes to deciding how the governor will be approached, along with the basic elements that are recommended in strategic management planning.
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the public interest and the administrative responsibility. Discuss some of the recent ethical obligations confronting public administrators in their day to day decision making. Also we will examine the recent trend in privatizing government functions. Finally, we will discuss if privatizing posses any type of dilemma’s for the attainment of public interest.
When the word Public Administration come accross one’s mind, people would think of government civil workers and bureaucracy in government office. However, Public Administration is wider than that. It comprises of many part among them are technical issues,financal issues and ethical issues.Among many of them is the importance of manegerial technique, a characteristic where an organization such as government office should have in order to organize, planned, co-ordinate and budgetting. Government office is a big