Required Capstone Assignment 24.5: A Human Resources Initiative for Value Creation
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Learning Outcome Addressed:
- Analyze a healthcare initiative and assess how it creates value.
Depending on its size, the healthcare organization where you work may have a large HR department or one or two individuals who handle a wide range of HR responsibilities and projects. As a healthcare leader, you will inevitably need to understand these activities and communicate clearly about them with the HR team, your peers, and others in the organization. You will likely be involved in ideating and prioritizing some HR-related initiatives and supporting their execution. As discussed in Module 17, healthcare is a people business, and collaborations between HR staff and other leaders will be crucial to creating value within the organization.
In this capstone assignment, you will analyze a human resources initiative, project, or practice and assess its relationship to value creation. In Module 17, you studied some specific examples of these kinds of activities, including recruitment, retention, professional development, culture building, and DEI initiatives. You may refer to any of these or another human-resource initiative undertaken by your organization or by Kaiser Permanente.
You are encouraged to review and reuse material from your responses to previous assignments to complete this capstone assignment.
To complete this assignment:
- Review .
- Review Module 17.
- Recall that and that improving access is also an aspect of quality improvement.
- Write a two-to-three-page analysis that answers the four questions below.
The optional reading below will give you ideas for the kinds of human resources initiatives you may want to look for in your organization or at Kaiser and to help you think about the relationship between human resource projects and value creation:
- (Lytle 2020)
Answer these four questions in your response:
- Describe a human resources initiative from your current organization (or from Kaiser Permanente), and discuss at least one way it relates to the three value components: quality, access, and cost. Note that it may not directly impact all three elements. For any of the three that it doesnt affect, give at least one reason why.
- Describe at least one way the effectiveness of this initiative is being assessed or could be assessed, and share related data if it is available.
- Describe at least two things about the initiative that work well. If the initiative is just launching or planned for the future, describe at least two things you would focus on, as a manager, to ensure further success in creating value.
- Describe at least one thing that could be improved and at least one way it could be improved. If the initiative is just launching or planned for the future, describe at least two possible pitfalls you need to prepare for.
Submission instructions:
- Write your response, and save it as a PDF or Word document.
- Please name your file Capstone-24.5-FirstName-LastName.
- Click the Start Assignment button.
- Upload your saved file.
- Click the Submit Assignment button.
- IMPORTANT: Please review the rubric below for details about how your submission will be evaluated before you begin work on it.
- Note that a score of “Excellent” requires that you exceed the basic assignment requirements.
The average completion time for this activity is 1 hour 20 minutes.
This is a required assignment and counts toward program completion.
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Rubric
Required Capstone Assignment 24.5: A Human Resources Initiative for Value Creation
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDescribe a human resources initiative from your current organization (or from Kaiser Permanente), and discuss at least one way it relates to the three value components: quality, access, and cost. For any of the three that it doesnt affect, give at least one reason why. |
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5 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDescribe at least one way the effectiveness of this initiative is being assessed or could be assessed. |
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5 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDescribe at least two things about the initiative that work well. If the initiative is just launching or planned for the future, describe at least two things you would focus on, as a manager, to ensure further success in creating value. |
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5 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDescribe at least one thing about the initiative that could be improved and at least one way it could be improved. If the initiative is just launching or planned for the future, describe at least two possible pitfalls that a manager should prepare for. |
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