Consider your job pay rate or a job you are familiar with.How might the pay rate for your job be influenced if it was a similar job in another industry or another geographic area? For example, how might your pay be different if you were employed by a small, rural grocer as compared to a large, auditing firm in a major metropolitan area or medium-sized manufacturer in a suburb? What could you do to ensure external equity in your work?

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An organization's code of ethics establishes the moral standards or guidelines that each employee must follow when making decisions and acting. As you evaluate the content, organization, and tone of the code, keep this statement in mind.

Assume you are the chief executive officer (CEO) of a large technology-intensive hospital in a community of 200,000 people that includes two other smaller community hospitals and a wide range of physicians and other providers working in private practice. Currently, you are paid by Medicare—the federal insurance program for the elderly—for a fixed amount for every admission to your hospital and based on the severity of the patient’s needs. Physicians and other providers in your community are paid fee-for-service. The federal government has just made an offer to your community that it form an accountable care organization (ACO) that could accept a capitated annual payment for each person eligible for Medicare. How would you go about deciding whether to accept that offer? Would you want to lead that ACO or just be a part of it? Why? Would you argue against accepting the federal offer? Why or why not? How might you change the way care currently is organized in your community, given the…