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Assignment 4: Risk Management on a Satellite Development Project (Case Study from Chapter 10)

Due Week 8 and worth 240 points

Read the case titled: “Risk Management on a Satellite Development Project” found in Chapter 10.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Suggest the issues that could have developed had the team not had a risk plan. Determine the major impacts of risk that the team needs to understand for the project to be successful.
2. Justify the value of risk plan considering the time, effort, cost, and resources it took to develop such a plan. If you were the project manager, recommend the approach that you would take to ensure the project met the critical path identified.
3. Assess how to determine the level of risk management appropriate for a project.
4. Imagine the team working on the satellite development project was a virtual team in which team members were unable to meet in person. Explain the expected impact on the project, and suggest two (2) ways the team could maintain its current goal in both planning and execution.
5. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Estimate project costs and associated risks associated with each cost.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing human resource projects.
• Write clearly and concisely about managing human resource projects using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Click to access the rubric for this assignment.

Assignment 1: LASA 2 Strategic Plan and Self-Reflection Summary

Review the initial scenario and the Strategic Business Plan presented in Module 1 to make sure that the requirements of the Board and the Part II Strategic Plan are met. In order to meet the requirements of the Board, you will prepare the final Strategic Business Plan—Part II—Strategic Plan to the Executive Board. Ensure your strategic plan is thorough, succinct, and complete. Challenge yourself to link the targets to specific initiatives you have identified in the Strategic Plan you are developing for H-D.

Your written report should include a title page, table of contents, executive summary, and each of the following sections in an 8- to 12-page report:

Part I: Global Economy & Factors Affecting H-D  

1. 1. Identify H-D’s Motivations & Risks

• • Motivations for Expansion
  • Risks in Expansion

1. 1. Explain H-D’s competitive advantage in Global Markets
   2. Determine and explain entry strategies for global expansion
   3. Recommend an Internet approach/strategy for H-D

• • How the Internet adds value
  • Internet Business Models
  • Competitive Strategies
  • Leverage E-Business Capabilities

Part II: Corporate LeadershipDevelop the following: Current Direction Setting

1. Organizational Culture: In addition, evaluate the culture at Harley-Davidson (H-D) and define what attributes you think team members should possess in reaching the business goals set forth by the organization. If you were part of the management team at H-D, what motivational techniques would you implement to make these teams successful?
2. Organizational Design: As you have been completing the Strategic Business Plan, the management at Harley-Davidson has decided to take a team-oriented approach in various departments rather than the traditional, functional structure. Based on your knowledge of different types of teams and their focus, suggest what kinds of team strategies should be applied to each department. Be sure to explain your recommendations in detail.
3. Leadership Traits
4. Ethical Organization Characteristics

• Identify elements
• Identify missing elements

• Identify elements
• Identify missing elements

Part III: Strategic Plan Summary

• Conclusions
• Recommendations
• Implementation
  • Discuss how you will implement your strategic plans, including how teams should be implemented in each department
  • Develop a brief roadmap for implementation
  • Identify the primary benchmarks to assess success or failure
• Risks

Part IV:  Self-Reflection Summary

Self-reflection is the key to good leadership and good management. Reflect on what you have learned in this class and on what you gained from your Bachelor of Science program. Based on your reflections, discuss the following:

• Five or six key “lessons” learned from the textbook and the content that will help you in your career.
• Consider what you have learned throughout this program. Discuss career opportunities that interest you in business.
• Include what you have learned about yourself.

Evaluate how your personal biases and assumptions have affected your work in the past and how you plan to manage them in the future. Your final product will be in an MS Word document approximately 8–12 pages in length and utilizing approximately 4–6 scholarly/professional sources. Your document should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Case Study #1: Improper admission orders resulting in morphine overdose and death

There were multiple co-defendants in this claim who are not discussed in this scenario. Monetary amounts represent only the payments made on behalf of the nurse practitioner. Any amounts paid on behalf of the co-defendants are not available. While there may have been errors/negligent acts on the part of other defendants, the case, comments, and recommendations are limited to the actions of the defendant; the nurse practitioner.

The decedent patient (plaintiff) was a 72 year old woman who had been receiving hospital care for acute back pain resulting from a fall. Her past history included chronic pain management and end-stage renal disease for which she received hemodialysis. She was to be transferred to the co-defendant nursing facility for reconditioning and physical therapy prior to returning to her home.

The nurse practitioner (defendant) was on-call at the time of the patient’s transfer, and the nursing facility contacted her and read the orders to the defendant nurse practitioner over the telephone. The defendant nurse practitioner questioned the presence of two morphine orders for different dosages with both dosages administered twice daily. She instructed the nurse to clarify the correct morphine dosage with the transferring hospital’s pharmacist and to admit the patient only after the pharmacist clarified and approved the morphine orders. The defendant nurse practitioner had no further communication with the facility and no other involvement in the patient’s care. The facility nurse telephoned the hospital pharmacist who approved both morphine orders, and the patient was admitted to the nursing facility.

During the first evening and full day of her nursing facility stay, documentation revealed the patient to be alert and oriented. On the second day, she was found by nursing staff without vital signs. Despite immediate chest compressions and EMS additional resuscitation measures, the patient was pronounced dead. The autopsy results listed the cause of death as morphine intoxication. Surprisingly, the patient also had an elevated blood alcohol level (equal to drinking three to four alcoholic beverages). Because the source of the alcohol could not be identified, the medical examiner was unable to rule out accident, suicide or homicide and classified the manner of death as undetermined.

Resolution

Defense experts presented testimony that the nurse practitioner’s actions to be within the standard of care.

Defense experts testimony was that the patient’s final morphine blood levels, even considering her renal disease, could not have resulted from the amount of morphine ordered, administered and recorded in the patient’s health information record. The elevated morphine and alcohol levels led experts to the opinion that the patient may have ingested morphine and alcohol from a source other than the nursing facility.

Plaintiffs did not present any experts to contradict defense experts.

A motion for partial summary judgment for the defendant nurse practitioner was denied by the court and the decision was made to proceed to trial. After the completion of testimony but prior to receiving the verdict the co-defendants settled the case out of court with no individual liability attributed to the defendant nurse practitioner.

Questions

Summarize the case and the outcome of the case. Defend/discuss your answers to the following questions WITH appropriate  current peer-reviewed research.

1. Based on your review; What does Summary Judgment mean? Do you agree with the court’s decision? Why?
2. Do you agree with the out of court settlement and no liability to Nurse Practitioner?
3. What practice-related legal and/or ethical issues were breached and by whom? What other defendants [personnel] may be responsible? How?
4. Identify a risk management action plan to prevent this issue(s) from reoccurring.  See this link for how to do a risk management action plan (Developing an Action Plan)

Develop and discuss a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy, using iSTART (Ideology, Strategies, Tactics, Financing (Accounting), Recruitment, Targets), for the terrorist group you chose.