ITS 631 Paper 3: Emergency Room, Layout, Teams, and Review Systems

This assignment, ITS 631 Paper 3, addresses several key aspects of business operations and management. It begins by examining factors influencing the capacity of emergency rooms, including physical space limitations, staffing issues, and delays in services, supported by research from various scholars. The paper then outlines the three essential steps in designing process layouts: information gathering, development of a block plan, and developing a detailed layout. The assignment also explores the characteristics of self-managed teams, highlighting aspects like clear direction, team-oriented tasks, shared rewards, and resource utilization. Finally, it presents the advantages and disadvantages of periodic review systems, such as cost-effectiveness versus potential counting problems and weaknesses in stock control. The paper adheres to APA format and utilizes multiple scholarly references for each question, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the topics discussed.

ITS 631 Paper #3 (Chapters 9 - 12)

Contents
Answer 1:.........................................................................................................................................1
Answer 2:.........................................................................................................................................1
Answer 3:.........................................................................................................................................2
Answer 4:.........................................................................................................................................2
References........................................................................................................................................4

Answer 1:
The factors that are contributing the patient volume in the emergency department room includes
the limited physical spacing, availability of the bed space and the intensive care unit. There is
increase of the proportions of the geriatric individuals for the general population with personnel
shortages and the delayed consultation. The factors contributing also include the delays in the
imaging or the laboratory services, and the critical patients are monitored closely within
monitored observation units in the emergency department (Eubanks, Palanski, Olabisi, Joinson &
Dove, 2016).
One of the major factor is the insufficient staff who is able to take hold of the patients, and then
discharge them. The booking of more staff than required would lead to the abundance limit with
experts sitting futile (Nelson, Proell & Randel, 2016). There are crisis mind suppliers and the
backers who can modify the ecological factors with developing the utilization of the crisis
division by the uninsured.
Answer 2:
The process of the designing will include:
a. The gathering of information includes the details of the space needed, availability and the
closeness requirements of the departments (Savelsbergh, Poell, & van der Heijden, 2015).
The information is important for the designing and then planning about the key resources.
The managers should focus on the large resources of the hospital, depending upon the
requirements like the size of the equipment and the number of employees.

b. The development of the block plan with the schematic layout. A proper planning is done
after the data is gathered. It includes the evidences about the plan and the timeline which
is important for proceeding with the work effectively (Li, Lin, Tien & Chen, 2017).
c. Developing a delayed layout: The detailed layout will help in progressing further and
work on the designing, accordingly, depending upon the resources and budget.
Answer 3:
Clear Direction: The clear direction is to understand about the team going in and why it exists.
The members need to be articulated with the team goals, objectives and the purposes. The
members need to know about the end goals in sigh where they can easily manage themselves
towards reaching the end goals in sight (Magnusson & Öberg, 2015).
Team Oriented Tasks: The teams work on task accomplishments, where it (the tasks) are
allotted to the different members of the team. In this way, the individual members work on
different parts and then put them together, so that it can help in solving the problems and
completing the solutions.
Shared Rewards: This is when the teams are sharing the reward to encourage themselves to
work towards a better goal.
Resources: They accomplish the task by their resources and the team does not depend on any
other person (Tretyakova, Fedorov, Abramov, & Kalimulin, 2016).
Team Goals: The goals are aligned with the objectives like the purpose, members and the
organization. to clearly determine the overall performance.

Answer 4:
Some of the advantages are:
a. There are no permanent employees who are needed for the physical countering of the
merchandise investment. Hence, it is less expensive.
b. The applicability is for the business organizations for the large and small dealing of the
goods (Li et al., 2017).
c. The stock taking of the merchandise is through date of quantity of stock, which is
reliable.
The disadvantages are:
a. the problems about the act of counting the merchandize stock, which needs to be done in
a short time (Eubanks et al., 2016).
b. The fraud and the forgery activities.
c. The stock control is weak.

References
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virtual, partially distributed teams: Optimal role fulfillment. Computers in human
behavior, 61, 556-568.
Li, C. R., Lin, C. J., Tien, Y. H., & Chen, C. M. (2017). A multilevel model of team cultural
diversity and creativity: The role of climate for inclusion. The Journal of Creative
Behavior, 51(2), 163-179.
Magnusson, M., & Öberg, L. M. (2015). Crisis Training Software and User Needs: Research
Directions. In The 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis
Response and Management (ISCRAM), Kristiansand, May 24-27 (Vol. 1). ISCRAM.
Nelson, M. W., Proell, C. A., & Randel, A. E. (2016). Team-oriented leadership and auditors'
willingness to raise audit issues. The Accounting Review, 91(6), 1781-1805.
Savelsbergh, C. M., Poell, R. F., & van der Heijden, B. I. (2015). Does team stability mediate the
relationship between leadership and team learning? An empirical study among Dutch
project teams. International journal of project management, 33(2), 406-418.
Tretyakova, N. V., Fedorov, V. A., Abramov, D. V., & Kalimulin, D. M. (2016). Educational
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