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ADM 624 Module 1 Discussion 1 Agency
Stakeholder   For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   Using Agency Stakeholder, describe
the political field and the players in the
administrators political force field.    
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  ADM 624 Module 1 Discussion 2   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What
potential problems do you see arising when the
private sector delivers a social service? What
are the advantages of this approach to service
delivery?  
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ADM 624 Module 2 Case 3.1 The Katrina
Breakdown   For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   Details Read Case Study 3.1 and
Government Saw Flood Risk but Not Levee
Failure. Answer Questions 1 and 3 at the end of
Case Study 3.1 . the readings.
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ADM 624 Module 2 Discussion 1   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Some major social
and economic innovations in the United States
have begun with small-scale experiments on the
state level. For example, Wyoming permitted
womens suffrage 50 years before the 19th
Amendment was ratified. Can you think of the
other examples? What current state experiments
might one day be taken up by the federal
government?
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ADM 624 Module 2 Discussion 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   The fragmentation
and redundancies of the U.S federal system are
expensive in terms of coordination and personnel
costs. Would you favor or oppose greater
consolidation? Why or why not?  
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ADM 624 Module 3 Case 5.1 A Strategy is
Born   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Details Read Case Study 5.1. Answer Questions
1, 2, and 3 at the end of Case Study 5.1.
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ADM 624 Module 3 Discussion 1   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Public officials at
all levels of government are frequently
criticized for making shortsighted decisions.
Elected officials may be accused of looking
forward only as far as the next election and of
placing narrow, parochial interests above the
general welfare. To what extent is such criticism
justified? Do you see any solution
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ADM 624 Module 3 Discussion 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Unlike several
European countries, the United States does not
have a full-fledged national planning body.
Nonetheless, a number of institutions, such as
the Council of Economic Advisors, do have
important planning functions. What other
institutions would you say contribute to planning
at the national level?  
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ADM 624 Module 4 Case 6.1 Wild Horses   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Details Read
Case Study 6.1. Answer Questions 1, 2, and 3 at
the end of Case Study 6.1.  
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ADM 624 Module 4 Discussion 1   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Suppose you were to
build a model that would forecast the nationwide
demand for nurses 20 years from now. As a start,
you must make assumptions about population growth
and the effects of new drugs. What else? Do you
think the list of variables is endless? Support
your answer.
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ADM 624 Module 4 Discussion 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Use the concept of
opportunity cost to explain why lawyers are more
likely than physicians to get involved in
politics.
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ADM 624 Module 5 Case 7.1 Aravind Eye
Hospital   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   Details   Read Case Study 7.1. Answer
Questions 1, 3, and 4 at the end of Case Study
7.1.
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  ADM 624 Module 5 Discussion 1   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Not everyone
is enchanted by ideas of empowerment and
teamwork. For example, Richard Sennett, a
sociologist at New York University, argues in The
Corrosion of Character, that because teamwork
relies on the fiction of harmony, it stresses
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ADM 624 Module 5 Discussion 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   What are the
advantages and disadvantages of using charts to
illustrate organizational structure?  
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ADM 624 Module 6 Discussion 1   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   For years, the
performance of a states facilities maintenance
group, which is responsible for keeping
government buildings in the state capital clean
and neat, was mediocre. No amount of pressure or
inducement from the secretary of state, who had
ultimate responsibility, seemed to do any good.
What recommendations would you make?
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ADM 624 Module 6 Discussion 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   In terms of Maslows
hierarchy, what motivates you? How would you
determine what motivates employees?
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ADM 624 Module 7 Case 10.1 The Star Award   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Details
  Read Case Study 10.1. Answer Questions 1 and 2
at the end of Case Study 10.1. Each question
should be answered in an essay format of
approximately 250-500 words. Ensure your paper
answers the questions and uses concepts studied
in the module and from the reading. Support your
answers with personal experiences, current
events, and references to the reading.
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ADM 624 Module 7 Discussion 1   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Identify some
organization with which you are reasonably
familiar. Describe what key elements would be
needed in a performance appraisal form for
managers. Would you weight the traits to
determine a raw score? Why or why not? (Refer to
pages 343-346 in the textbook.)
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ADM 624 Module 7 Discussion 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Diversity means
having an inclusive workforce made up of people
of different human qualities or who belong to
various cultural groups. From the perspective of
individuals, diversity means including people
different from themselves along
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ADM 624 Module 8 Case 11.1 Dangerous
Stratagems   For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   Details   Read Case Study 11.1. Answer
Questions 1, 2, and 3 at the end of Case Study
11.1.
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ADM 624 Module 8 Discussion 1 Revenue-Raising
Limitations   For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   One response to revenue-raising
limitations being placed on local government is
to delete exemptions. In the textbook, P. S.
Flores offers the following examples of welfare
and charitable groups enjoying property-tax
exemption YMCA, fraternal clubs, chambers of
commerce, labor unions, the American Legion,
Masonic lodges, orphanages, humane societies,
hospitals, and retirement and nursing homes.
Which exemptions would you delete? How would you
justify it?  
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ADM 624 Module 8 Discussion 2 Two kinds of Taxes
not Explicitly Mentioned in are luxury
Taxes   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Two kinds of taxes not explicitly mentioned
in Figure 11.6 are luxury taxes (for example,
taxes on furs, jewelry, boats, and airplanes) and
sin taxes (for example, taxes on alcohol,
tobacco, oil, gasoline, and firearms). What
impacts, secondary as well as immediate, do you
think each kind of tax has?  
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