Category: Human Resource Management homework help

 
Review the case study “Alaska Airlines: Navigating Change” and then complete the following: (a) State what actually occurred in the case regarding Kotter’s steps 5 and 6 of empowering employees for broad-based action and generating short-term wins, and (b) address each of the critical elements for Section II parts E and F in your change effort analysis. Make sure to include your recommendations for implementing Kotter’s steps 5 and 6.
E. Enable Action by Removing Barriers
Identify the forces, barriers, and hindrances to the organizational change effort, and describe each.
How can resistance be recognized? How will you eliminate resistance or mitigate its impact on the implementation of the change plan?
Describe actions that will enable and empower employees to help drive the change effort.
F. Generate Short-Term Wins
Determine how you will generate short-term wins. How will you reward these wins?
What can be gained from short-term wins? Support your response.

Your Strategic HR Plan will demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response will reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards. 

 
This week you’ll develop a SWOT analysis and identification of strategic issues for the organization you’ve chosen for the term.  Develop a list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges/threats based on the information you’ve collected and researched (in-text citations and references are required) .For the SWOT analysis, do a separate list under each category (it’s fine to use short phrases rather than complete sentences, if desired).  This information typically comes from your personal experience with the agency if applicable, the internal documents you found in the Week 2 Deep Recon, informational interviews, and external research.   External sources can include things like newspaper articles, think tank reports, government documents, peer-reviewed articles, and more.  
Then, using the SWOT analysis, identify 3 strategic issues the organization needs to address. Refer to your workbook (Worksheet #35, Master Strategic Issue Statement, p. 148) for how to do the write-up on the issue.  NOTE:  Instead of answering all of Question 2 on Worksheet #35, you can address this instead:  Why is this an issue? Why does this issue exist? Is this an issue a strength, weakness, opportunity, or threat? Explain why very briefly.”

You have been asked to replace the project manager who was heading up your firm’s new compensation and benefits system. One of the reasons the project manager is being replaced is because the project schedule had the wrong resources assigned (for example, resources who do not fully understand compensation and benefits). You have been asked to solve this problem quickly by either replacing the resources or getting the resources up-to-speed on compensation and benefits.
Present your recommendation for solving this critical resource problem by reviewing the pros and cons of each option.

 
1 Open-ended Question/Description with a minimum Curiosity Score of 60, worth 20 points of the assignment grade. 
2 Response Questions to other classmates’ questions with a minimum Curiosity Score of 60, each worth 15 points of the assignment grade (30 points total).

 
Please respond to the following:
Imagine that your organization has expanded into a new country requiring several employees to live there for the duration of their employment. Create one social and control function to assist the expatriate’s experience, and then suggest a systematic approach using one psychological function to share with future expatriates. Justify your response. Note: You may reference any country of your choice in your response.

 
Overview
Using the same scenario from Identifying the Organizational Learning Issue, you realize that transitioning your organization to a learning environment may not be as easy as first imagined. You have encountered several resistance issues relating to the culture, psychological learning, organization structure, workforce commitment, and dissemination of knowledge. You decide to gather a decision-making team to assist in identifying the high or moderate resistance risks that may stop or slow down the process of this transition. The decision-making team must also recommend some mitigation intervention to lower the identified resistance risks to either moderate or low. For example, a high resistance risk can become moderate or low, and a moderate resistance risk can become low.
Your final product will be a table that identifies five issues related to the organization’s culture, psychological learning, organization structure, workforce commitment, and dissemination of knowledge. You must also provide a description of each resistance issue and rate the resistance risk before the mitigation intervention as either High (H) or Moderate (M). Then, you must provide a description of your team’s mitigation intervention and determine the resistance risk’s downgrade from High (H) to Moderate (M) or Low (L) and/or Moderate (M) to Low (L) after the mitigation intervention.
Instructions
Create a table in which you:
Determine one challenge in the culture that may cause a major resistance to the transition from individual learning to organizational learning. Next, recommend one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
Predict one psychological learning threat that may result from the transition and then provide one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
Assess the current organizational structure as it relates to the free flow of knowledge, then specify one issue that may cause major resistance to the transition. Provide one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
Critique the workforce commitment to this transition and predict one major resistance you may encounter. Next, provide a mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
Propose one dissemination of knowledge issue with the recipients’ ability to absorb the knowledge and comprehend it into action (that is, motivating the recipient to share knowledge). Next, provide one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
Use at least two quality academic references in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.
Use the Resistance Risk Mitigation Intervention Table Download Resistance Risk Mitigation Intervention Table template. You may also use Microsoft Word or other equivalent software to create a table in an equivalent format for this supporting document.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Create a table to identify transition resistance risks and an intervention to mitigate each.
 

 
Week 6 Discussion – A New Aptitude Test
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Your employer, Acme Manufacturing Company (AMC), has just developed a new aptitude test. CMC believes it will accurately predict the future performance of new sales reps (the company employs over 200 sales reps and is planning to double this number next year, so this test is very important to the company). The challenge is that it takes a new sales representative about two years to come up to speed on performance.
Post a Response
Please respond to the following:
Describe how you could validate this new test so that meaningful data will be available after the first 50 new reps are hired (in about six months). Why would you select this method for validating this test?

As a manager of the department, you reviewed the sales report, and sales are drastically down. You decided to attend a seminar on emotional intelligence, and the seminar encouraged you to implement an emotional intelligence management approach in your department. Propose a strategic solution that details how an EI approach can improve organizational outcomes and sales for the CEO.
As you continue to evaluate your role as a manager, the next task to deliver is an emotional intelligence management approach to the CEO. Conduct a research analysis of the company and propose strategic solutions to the CEO of your chosen organization1.  EI and Motivation:
o  Discuss which of the EI building blocks (select one) would impact management’s ability to enhance employee performance and job satisfaction.
§  You will have to research EI, employee performance, and job satisfaction to formulate your individualized approach to this question.
o  Describe which motivational theory you would utilize based on research to influence the members of the organization.
§  Include how the selected theory would aid in helping to utilize this new approach to manage its members. Support your solution.
2.  EI, Social Skills, and Decision-Making:
o  Explain how emotional intelligence would enhance decision-making within the management team.
3.  Effective Teams:
o  Describe the core attributes of an effective team and the strategies you would implement to develop team dynamics that will benefit the organization.

 
PowerPoint presentation (8-10 slides), with speaker notes, in which you respond to the following:
What are the three principles upon which resident-centered care, in a modern nursing home, is guided and relates the challenges to a full integration? 
What are the various skills and competencies associated with social services, admission, and discharge functions?
What are the six main activity programs that are valuable in LTC and how can you determine their effectiveness and implementation?
There are several considerations to ensure the effective purchasing of food and supplies; however, three considerations are fundamental to menu planning. What are they and why are they essential?
Summarize your key findings on one slide.
Use five sources to support your writing. Sources should be recent and published within the last five years. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.