The organization being analyzed is the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which is the largest integrated healthcare system in the U.S. VHA is a component of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and it is led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health. The organization is charged with implementing medical assistance programs for Veterans Affairs (VA) by administering and operating various VA medical centers. The organization offers it care service at 1,243 healthcare facilities that include 170 VA medical centers and 1,063 outpatient sites. VHA serves over 9 million veterans each year (Veterans Health Administration, n.d.).… Continue Reading...
the federal agency, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) in the year 1970. The agency was made responsible for formulating safety and health standards for organizations. Ever since, key discourse on workplace safety and health has revolved around setting of these public standards. The chief issue is the suitability of cost-benefit analyses for establishing safety and health standards. This appears to be the Colberian facility's chief issue -- the disparity between executives' (i.e., employers') and employees' working conditions, pay, and living standards (Hartman, 2008). People employed by a U.S.-based multinational corporation outside America might be covered under… Continue Reading...
Spills:
· 3) Spill Control Association of America
· 4) Occupational Safety and Health Administration
· Hazardous Environment:
· 5) Environmental Protection Agency
· Livestock:
· 6) The Humane Society
· Agriculture:
· 7) American Farm Bureau Federation
· 8) National Farmers Union
· Industrial Manufacturing:
· 9) National Association of Manufacturers
· Economic Stability:
· 10) American Risk and Insurance Association
First is the Short Line Safety Institute. This Institute could provide information to the commission that would be useful in understanding the risks and safety issues posed by the rail line running through the city. The Short Line Safety Institute recently… Continue Reading...
points out that the sports management has overlapped the recreation and health administrations leading to the interrelationships with other disciplines. While Chelladurai, (1993) evaluates the taxonomy of sports management in the 80s and early 90s, however, sports management has changed in the last 20 years because it has integrated the sport merchandising services, and sport facilities services.
The objective of this paper is to explore the taxonomy of sports management over the last 20 years.
Sports Management Taxonomy in the Last 20 years
Over the past 20 years, the field of sports management has changed based on the growth of the… Continue Reading...
can deploy more resource-intensive needs requiring specialized equipment or personnel. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA, 2018), which is part of the United States Department of Labor, manages a list of state-based agencies that provide first responder solutions in the aftermath of an earthquake. Besides first responder agencies, then, a plethora of organizations would be responsible for providing response and information services. Many of these organizations, like the United States Geological Survey (USGS), also offer the necessary tools and resources for earthquake preparedness, which should include the empowerment of individuals to become their own first responders via first aid kits, stocked food and… Continue Reading...
and Tulane University (post-graduate degree in the Public Health Administration) alumnus swears by the principle that nonprofit firms are mission-based in nature; their business is: to carry out their mission. Ever since 1982, when he established his own consulting company, Corporate Alternatives, Brinckerhoff has aided innumerable firms in increasing their mission-capability (Brinckerhoff, 2009, xv-xiv). His award-winning works include Mission-Based Marketing, Second Edition; Mission-Based Management, Third Edition; Faith-Based Management; and Social Entrepreneurship.
Mission-based management: Leading your nonprofit in the 21st century is targeted at nonprofit charitable firms’ leaders. The author aims at offering a different perspective of the actual functioning of top-quality nonprofit… Continue Reading...