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Using the business combination that you have previously selected in Week 2, evaluate the performance of the acquired companies and determine if the parent is satisfied with the outcomes of the combination. Summarize the successes and failures of the originally planned outcomes of the business combination.

Prepare a paper that summarizes the outcomes of the business combination. Make your own recommendations as to the best course of action for the parent based on the information you have available. For example: Should the parent sell? Expand?

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The business combination I originally used was Google Integration

ALL PARTS NEED TO BE COMPLETED 400–600 words A PIECE

PART 1

You are interested in learning more about the health care reform that is occurring in the United States. You want to determine how this relates to international health care. Using the library, Internet, and other resources, conduct research and address the following:

Explain how macroeconomic factors affect health care costs.

Find comparative statistics for the U.S. health care system and the Canadian health care system. What is currently the major difference between the U.S. health care system and the Canadian health care system?

By comparing and analyzing the Canadian and the U.S. health care systems, describe how financing is provided to both national health care systems.

Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 references using APA format.

PART 2

As a health care professional for an international health care network, you plan to visit 7 foreign countries this year as part of a communicable disease prevention program. Before you travel, you need to provide information to your assistants about the health care services in the countries you will be visiting, as well as on the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency that is concerned with international public health.

Research using the Library and other resources to address the following:

Provide examples that show how the WHO is involved with global health care assistance.

Explain the role that the WHO plays in the prevention of communicable diseases.

Select 7 foreign countries, and briefly describe the communicable disease situation in the selected countries. Include your statistics in a table format.

What are the possible sources of financing for programs like the one in which you are involved?

Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 scholarly references using APA format.

PART 3

For this assignment, complete the following:

Explain how foreign medical education programs for physicians are accredited.

How do foreign medical education programs for physicians compare to medical education programs in the United States?

How do the differences impact the quality and cost of health care in the United States?

Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 scholarly references using APA format.

PART 4

Diversity in Teams

Organizations use different types of teams. Diversity in teams can mean everything from skill sets to ethnicity. Matching the right team structure to the needs of the organization takes understanding of the function of that team structure.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation of future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Respond to the following:

Explain at least 3 different types of work teams.

What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of each one?

Of the work teams you have chosen, is one type better than the others? Explain why.

PART 5

Building Teams

Human resources professionals are frequently assigned to be members of newly formed project teams. In most cases, the HR person’s role in the team is to keep the group focused and on task.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

You have been asked to lead a team on a new project. Discuss the steps that you will take to complete the following:

Ensure that the goals of the team are clearly understood by all members.

Build a strong, cohesive team.

Manage the interactions in the team.

PART 6

Team Conflict

Conflict exists in nature and, by extension, in all human relationships. Conflict can be something to avoid or embrace, or a more neutral approach can be taken. You will lead a group discussion on the subject among your peers. You decide that to generate a lively discussion, it is important to create a level of understanding of the role of conflict in groups and how conflict can be used to move a group forward.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

After doing some research on the topic of conflict, propose to your peers a position, and discuss the concept of conflict in teams.

Is conflict something to avoid or embrace?

Use examples from either your personal experience or from the literature that would support your position.

In phase 3, you need to create a Spreadsheet to capture the financial components involved in the plan. Please be sure to cover all the items you included in your memo and in your communication. Also, this is the time to amend your memo based on the budget if you need to do so.

Phase 3 grading will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the budget, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 25	Case Study
Criteria	Unacceptable Below 70% F	Fair 70-79% C	Proficient 80-89% B	Exemplary 90-100% A
1. Analyze all the components included in the memo Weight: 20%	Did not submit or incompletely analyzed all the components included in the memo	Partially analyzed all the components included in the memo	Satisfactorily analyzed all the components included in the memo	Thoroughly analyzed all the components included in the memo
2. Assess the cost of managing risk Weight: 20%	Did not submit or assessed how to manage risk	Partially assessed how to manage risk	Satisfactorily assessed how to manage risk	Thoroughly assessed how to manage risk
3. Provide resources for the CIKR Protection Program Weight: 20%	Did not submit or incompletely provided resources for the CIKR Protection Program	Partially provided resources for the CIKR Protection Program	Satisfactorily provided resources for the CIKR Protection Program	Thoroughly provided resources for the CIKR Protection Program
4. Ensure an Effective, Efficient Program Over the Long Term Weight: 25%	Did not submit or incompletely ensured an Effective, Efficient Program Over the Long Term	Partially ensured an Effective, Efficient Program Over the Long Term	Satisfactorily ensured an Effective, Efficient Program Over the Long Term	Thoroughly ensured an Effective, Efficient Program Over the Long Term
5. 3 references Weight: 5%	No references provided	Does not meet the required number of references; some or all references poor quality choices.	Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.	Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.
6. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements Weight: 10%	More than 6 errors present	5-6 errors present	3-4 errors present	0-2 errors present

Original discussion Question: Per the FARs, define what a contract is, and explain the elements of a contract. Additionally, what is the difference between “Common Law” and “Administrative Law”? Finally, why do we have a contract negotiation process? Post should be at least 250 words, MLA format. Use the attachments provided for research.

STUDENT 1 Reply:

Sherrie Ashby

The FAR defines a Contract as “a mutually binding legal relationship obligating the seller to furnish the supplies or services (including construction) and the buyer to pay for them” (FAR 2.1). For the Government there are two types of contracting methods sealed bidding and negotiated. In sealed bidding the Government clearly states the requirments and bidders submit unequivocal bids. Only two types of contracts can to issued on sealed bids, fixed price and fixed price plus fee. Negotiated contract is awarded using other than sealed bidding procedures because one of the four conditions of sealed bidding has not been met. Time does not permit solicitation, submission, and evaluation, award will not be made on the basis of price and other price-related factors; it is necessary to conduct discussions with the responding offerors about their bids, There is a reasonable expectation of not receiving more than one sealed bid.

The elements of a contract according to the FAR

Table 14-1–Uniform Contract Format explains and list what should be included in a completed contract.

Part I — The Schedule

A. Solicitation/contract form- this is all advertisements and solicitation documents to include responses.

B. Supplies or services and prices- what supplies or services are being contracted and what are/ is the price

C. Description/specifications- Scope of work clear requirements

D. Packaging and marking- what the are the specification of what the product will look like

E. Inspection and acceptance- what are the inspections and acceptance guidelines

F. Deliveries or performance- what will be delivered and when

G. Contract administration data- how will the contract be managed and carried out who will oversee

H. Special contract requirements- anything special or unusual that needs to be noted

Part II — Contract Clauses

I Contract clauses

Part III — List of Documents, Exhibits, and Other Attachments

J List of documents, exhibits, and other attachments

Part IV — Representations and Instructions

K Representations, certifications, and other

statements of bidders

L Instructions, conditions, and notices to bidders

M Evaluation factors for award

(FAR Table 14-1)

The difference of common law and administrative laws

common law, arethe laws that arecreated by court decisions and followed by the public.

administrative laws are those passed by executive agencies.

Brown, B. (2010). Introduction to Defense Acquisition Management. Retrieved from http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a606328.pdf.

STUDENT 2 Reply:

ADAM SMITH

Straight from the FARPart 2, Definitions of Words and Terms it states that, “ “Contract” means a mutually binding legal relationship obligating the seller to furnish the supplies or services (including construction) and the buyer to pay for them. It includes all types of commitments that obligate the Government to an expenditure of appropriated funds and that, except as otherwise authorized, are in writing. In addition to bilateral instruments, contracts include (but are not limited to) awards and notices of awards; job orders or task letters issued under basic ordering agreements; letter contracts; orders, such as purchase orders, under which the contract becomes effective by written acceptance or performance; and bilateral contract modifications.” (FAR 2)

In order for contracting officers to prepare contracts for a successful bid they will use the elements listed and outlined below.

Offer

Acceptance

Consideration

When looking at the offer section, which is listed in FAR 2.101, means a response to a solicitation that, if accepted, would bind the offeror to perform the resultant contact. A valid offer would have the intent, communication, complete terms and lastly a clear and unambiguous.

Acceptance of contract has requirements as well and they are follows; timely dispatched, clear and unequivocal and has a mirror image. The last element is consideration and this is something that both parties in the contract value from.

Common law and administrative law govern different parts of our society. The biggest difference is that common law is they are laws that have been obtained by old court issues. Meanwhile, administrative law are issued by the government and create and enforce new laws.

In my opinion, I think we have the contract negotiation process, so that everyone has the opportunity to solicit a bid, have the ability to compare, revise and get the best value of their contract.

STUDENT 3 Reply:

Kirby Cryoskie

Hello, Class.

A contract must contain; 1) an offer, 2) acceptance, 3) consideration, and 4) competent parties in order to form a legally binding contract. If one of those elements are broken it might cause one of the parties to default on their original contractual agreement. Meaning, the parties no longer have a contract.

An example of an offer could be one party selling a Harley Davison for $7,000 or in other words, “I’m offering” to sell the Harley for $7,000. In other words, the person who is proposing the terms is the one making the offer and is considered the “offeror”. The offer isn’t just locked into commercially available items either. An offer can even exist in construction and service type contracts.For example, I will pay $100 for a person to mow the grass or $100 for a person to build a dog house.

The acceptance happens when the other party agrees to those terms and begins to act. The consideration (benefit) is what the other party agrees to and thinks is fair and reasonable for their efforts. Nothing stops the person from negotiating the terms into a more favorable condition before they actually accept the terms.

The fourth element is really important because it states that both parties have to be aware of what they are actually doing. The FAR states, “prudent” (wise) business man, but term is loosely used in my opinion. For example, in the UCC they call it the mercantile rule which means that a person has to some experience in the field to fall under this category. The prudent art, IMO, just makes it seems like they have to coherent enough to sign the contract while standing on two legs. Maybe it’s meant to be that way since it’s on the government side of the house.

Administrative is authority granted to the DOD to enforce the rules set forth in the FAR. For example, if a contractor doesn’t pay his people the correct wages. Contracting officials can make him do so under the administrative law set forth by the FAR. Common law, I think, is what happens when a contract is being disputed. Meaning the contracting office and the contractor can’t agree. The dispute would then make its way to the legal team and eventually up to the claims department if necessary.

A contract negotiation process helps both parties reach a fair and reasonable agreement that benefits both sides. If we negotiate there wouldn’t be a way to protect the tax-payers’ money. Meaning, we would just be forced into paying w/e the merchants/vendors thought was a reasonable price.