Health care organization to use for your assessments.
Health care organization to use for your assessments.
Choose a health care organization to use for your assessments. You may use the organization where you currently work or where you worked previously, or you may opt to use the Community Hospital Healthcare System: A Strategic Management Case Study that is linked in the Suggested Resources section. You should have enough knowledge about the organization to complete the course assessments.
Once you have selected an organization, complete Worksheet 1, located in the Required Resources section. You will not submit this worksheet, but will use the information you add to the worksheet to develop an overview of the strategic planning process for the organization you chose.
Assessment Requirements
Use the information from Worksheet 1 to develop an overview of the strategic planning process for the organization you have chosen to use. Your overview should address the following:
Identify the strategic planning outcomes. Keep in mind that the outcomes should be specific and measurable.
Describe the key components of the strategic planning process.
Define the strategic planning schedule.
Analyze past strategies to determine the reasons for their successes and failures.
Explain the strategies used in the past.
Identify the factors that contributed to the success or failure of the strategies.
Explain how this information can be used to improve your process as you complete the assessments in this course.
Format this assessment as a report, and be sure it is organized logically, using headings and sub-headings appropriately. Follow APA guidelines for in-text citations and references.
Additional Requirements
Overview length: 3–4 double-spaced pages, not including title page and reference page.
References: A minimum of three professional resources.
Format: Use APA format for all in-text citations and references. Include a title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.