Ashford BUS644 Ashford Complete Week 2 – DQs & Assignment

BUS 644 Ashford Complete Week 2 – DQs & AssignmentBUS 644 Week 2Week 2 DQ 1 Productivity: Many times trade-offs are necessary to increase productivity. What are important trades-offs involving the inputs to productivity? Your initial post should include real life situations and be at least 200-250 words.Week 2 DQ 2 Product Design and Quality: What important organizational activities enable a firm to build quality into its products? Explain each of these along with its benefits. Your initial post should include examples and be at least 200-250 words.Week 2 Assignment – Memorial Hospital: Read the “Memorial Hospital” case study in Chapter 4 of your text. Answer questions 1- 4 in a two- to- four (2-4) page paper in accordance with APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your paper should be in paragraph form (avoid the use of bullet points), and supported with the concepts outlined in your text. Provide at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library or other external sources, excluding the textbook. Do not include the original questions of the assignment in the paper. a. Discuss some ways that a hospital might measure quality. b. What are the potential costs of quality for Memorial Hospital? How could the value of a human life be included? c. Are there any ideas or techniques from TQM that Janice could use to help Memorial focus on providing quality health care? d. What measures could Memorial use to assess the quality of health care it is providing?Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment