Category: Human Resource Management

Assessment 1
HR Challenge: Contemporary Issue
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In a 3-4 page memorandum to your HRM supervisor, you will outline a contemporary HRM issue and the laws associated with it. In the memorandum, you will provide background research on the issue, which your supervisor will share with the leadership team as they plan for scientific, technical, or social trends that might impact the workplace in the near future.
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Introduction
The employment relationship is predicated on the exchange of power and authority for compliance and reward. As a result, employees voluntarily relinquish control of their time, effort, and industry. When employees determine that their employers inadequately compensate them for their work and seem to control their lives, conflict can result. This transforms a viable transactional relationship into a crucible of conflict and strife. When people come together in a workplace, they bring with them their values, opinions, prejudices, and sensitivities. Frequently, conflict occurs from within the employer-employee relationship as a result of these differences.
Controls, policies, and procedures must thus be created to address conflict and enable organizations to operate effectively. Employers predominantly control the workplace, so most laws and regulations restrict, inhibit, or guide the behavior and authority of employers with respect to employees. Employment law guidelines provide the philosophical, legal, and moral foundations for conflict resolution in the workplace. They embody a vital component of our system of government.
This assessment investigates a contemporary, HR law-related issue of your choice (not social media, it is addressed later in the course) and create a memorandum to your supervisor describing the scientific, technical, or social issue and how it impacts the workplace.
Scenario
In your work as an HRM professional, you will often encounter situations where current events, issues, and technologies impact your work with the employees and systems in human resources. This assessment asks you to take a broad look at the human resources spectrum of topics and select a current, law-related topic. You will then analyze and assess the ethical ramifications of the issue in the workplace.
Scenario
Your supervisor has asked you to research some of the latest law-related trends in human resources so that the team can project ahead to scientific, technical, or social trends that might impact the workplace in the near future. This is intended to be a background research project—you will present your findings in a 3–4-page memorandum to your supervisor that might also be shared with other HRM executives.
Your Challenge
You are an HRM professional who is tasked with researching at least one law-related article about a current issue in human resources and writing a memorandum about the background research that you have completed.
Instructions
1. Write a memorandum to your supervisor describing and analyzing a contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue impacting the workplace. Select your issue from the list below (do not choose social media because it will be addressed in another assessment). You may use the listed article as your required resource.
EEOC-Discrimination by Type
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.). Discrimination by type. Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/index.cfm
LEAP 2019: The top 10 lessons for HR. (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(5), 5.
Age Discrimination
How to avoid age bias when talking retirement with employees. (2014). HR Specialist, 12(1), 8.
Race/Color Discrimination
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.). Race/color discrimination. Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/race_color.cfm
Assigning black employees to black clients: Is that racial bias? (2010). HR Specialist, 8(1), 3.
Hawkins, D. (2016, February 8). Racial discrimination – Title VII. Wisconsin Law Journal.
Inclusion and Diversity
Bisco, J., Gradisher, S., & Mulholland, B. (2019). Women and diversity: Why the conversation must continue in financial services. Journal of Financial Service Professionals, 73(1), 72–84.
Burnham, C., Puckett, B., & Deakins, O. (2017). In contentious times, reaffirm commitment to inclusion, diversity. HR Specialist, 15(2), 7.
Respect Culture
Ahlrichs, K. (2018). Go beyond harassment best practices: Add respect to your culture. HR Specialist, 16(8), 8.
Whistle-Blowers
Whistleblower at work? Protect, don’t reject. (2019). HR Specialist, 17(11), 3.
LGBTQ Protections
Nagele-Piazza, L. (2019). Creating LGBTQ-inclusive workplace policies. HRNews.8.
Gun Violence at Work
Are you prepared for gun violence at work? (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(10), 1–2.
2. Research the topic you selected using the law-related article associated with the issue from the list. Support your assertions with citations from your course readings, workplace examples, and any relevant additional research.
3. Address the following elements in your issue synopsis:
Describe your chosen contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue, including how it has impacted the workplace.
Analyze how your issue influenced or could influence employee productivity in your own current or former organization. Be sure to keep the organization anonymous.
Explain the impact of your issue from your perspective of an HRM executive.
Assess how relevant legislation affects your issue in the workplace.
Assess the ethical ramifications of your issue on HRM practices in the workplace.
Academic Requirements
The deliverable for this assessment applies professional skills in Human Resources Management (HRM) to workplace situations that you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work in HRM. As part of your learning, we focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace.
Length of paper: Your memorandum should be 3–4 double-spaced pages, including the resources page.
Organization: Make sure that your assessment writing is well-organized, using headings and subheadings to organize content for the reader.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Number of resources: A minimum of one law related article and any course readings.
Evidence: Support your assertions with data and/or in-text citations. Use current APA format for in-text citations and create a reference list at the end of your documents.
APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
Written communication:
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Write for a specific audience, using the vernacular of the profession.
Use spell-check and other tools to ensure correct spelling and grammar.
Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.
Competencies Measured
Competency 3: Examine relationships between law, human resource management practices, and business activities.
Analyze how a described scientific, technical, or social workplace issue influenced or could influence employee productivity in an organization.
Explain the impact of an identified scientific, technical, or social workplace issue from the perspective of an HRM executive.
Assess how relevant legislation affects an identified contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue in the workplace.
Competency 4: Assess ways in which human resource professionals resolve conflicts between ethical and legal aspects of practice.
Assess the ethical ramifications of an identified contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue on HRM practices in the workplace.
Competency 6: Communicate clearly, accurately, and professionally in the HR field.
Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

attached is the article to be critiqued along with an example of how the critique should be formatted

Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Explain how human resources supports organizational needs
Select appropriate resources and tools to support day-to-day work functions
Scenario
You are a human resources generalist at a start-up company. As new business volume grows, the employer needs to add more talent to the organization. New employees are being added to all departments, including your own. As an HR generalist, you are part of the group that manages orientation for new employees. Your next new employee orientation session includes new human resources colleagues.
The new HR employees will be working in a distributed work design, either at the company site or 100% remote. You will need to give both sets of new employees the same basic information about your company, as well as information that is specific to their role as an HR generalist. To support this distributed workforce, you will create an orientation presentation that can be used either in person or in a remote setting.
Directions
Create a PowerPoint presentation that you will use for the new HR employee orientation. Use the Project One New Hire Orientation Presentation Template provided in the What to Submit section. In addition, you will use the Project One Speaker Notes Template provided in the What to Submit section to record full speaker notes for your presentation. Alternatively, you may record a voice presentation onto your slides. You may find it useful to use the Project One Speaker Notes template to draft your script prior to recording your audio.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Overview
Human Resources Overview: Describe the major functions of HR as they relate to the employee life cycle.
Organization Structure: Describe how human resources contributes to an organization’s strategy.
Explain the role of an HR professional and how the role supports an organization.
Describe how HR uses KPIs to support organizational needs.
Talent Acquisition and Retention: Describe the organization’s approach for attracting and retaining talent.
Explain the roles of job analysis, job design, and job specifications.
Describe how job analysis, job design, and job specifications support talent acquisition and retention.
Promoting Culture: Describe methods that Human Resources uses to promote and drive culture in an organization.
Describe why supporting a culture of development, diversity, and inclusion adds value to an organization.
Technology
Technology Evaluation: Describe the process that HR uses to evaluate technology to support their needs.
Describe the criteria for selecting human resource information systems (HRIS) for meeting organizational needs.
Discuss how a new employee might contribute to the selection process.
Diversity and Accessibility: Discuss how recruitment and engagement technology and tools can assist with diversity and accessibility for employees or potential employees.
Automated Processes: Explain how automated processes can impact a business.
Describe how automated workflows can affect training, recruitment, and other HR functions.
Technology Example—Social Media: Describe how use of social media can increase employee engagement and improve retention.
Consider ways that different types of social media resources can be used when hiring or communicating employee initiatives.
Give examples of appropriate social media channels that can be used in the workplace.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
New Hire Orientation Presentation
Your presentation should be 8 to 10 slides in length, not including the title and references slides. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Speaker Notes Document or Recorded Audio on Slides
Use complete sentences to outline what you would say in a verbal presentation. Sources should be cited according to APA style when using the document. If audio is used instead, each slide should contain 1 to 2 minutes of audio, not including the title and reference slides.

For this activity, you will submit the proposed topic for your research paper for approval. The research paper should be written on a subject related to compensation and/or benefits that requires scholarly inquiry and substantiation or support of an argument or proposition. It should not be a purely descriptive effort, but a subject that requires students to research and argue their points!
Directions
Submit your research paper topic to your instructor with some detail describing your research topic. Topics must be approved by your instructor.
Students will be required to submit a research paper on a subject related to employee compensation
Course textbook.
Title: Compensation
ISBN: 978-1259532726 Hardcover
Authors: George Milkovich
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
Publication Date: 2016
Edition: 12th

Application – Still Your Turn: Mapping Compensation Strategies on page 64 in the textbook.
Answer the questions on page 64

Descriiption and Scenario
You are an HRIS consultant working for one of the Big Four Accounting firms in their Human Capital Consulting Practice. Your client is a mid-level biotech company. Your company is expanding its technology expertise in the biotech industry.
Your current workforce consists of:
Executive Management and Senior Management
30
Professional / Technical Personnel
265
Scientists
20
Professional / Administrative Personnel
152
Manufacturing Personnel (non-exempt)
275
Non-manufacturing personnel (non-exempt)
75
Total workforce:
817
You have been retained by the Vice President (VP) of Human Resources (HR) of this company to recommend to the company an optimum (the Best Fit) HRIS and Payroll system that would be appropriate for the concerned company. This company is currently using ADP as the outsourced payroll service and a paper-based model for all their HR administrative processes.
The VP of HR would like your expertise to recommend to the company an integrated Payroll and HRIS system that would be appropriate for the company and fit the company’s needs. The company does not want to outsource any Payroll to HR Administrative Processes.
Your task in this consulting assignment is to recommend to the VP of HR two HRIS/Payroll integrated systems that the VP can include in her final due diligence before she selects the “right” system for the company.
The specifications and features that are her musts are the following:
Automation of HR Administrative processes.
A Compensation Administration module.
A Benefits processing module.
A Performance Management processing module.
A Training and Development Administration module
An Applicant Tracking Module.
Payroll processing with an HR Integration Interface.
A Time and Attendance tracking module.
An appropriate report generation feature with custom and standard reporting features.
In summary, the VP wants to find a single system that fulfills the company’s payroll processing needs and also satisfies the HR department’s needs for automating all regular HR administration processes.
Your task as a consultant is to do a thorough web-based research study to find and recommend to the VP two off-the-shelf purchasable turn-key hybrid Payroll/ HRIS systems suitable to satisfy the wants of this company.
There are three deliverables to this assignment:
Week 2: Outline
Week 7: Final Course Written Paper
Week 7: Final Report
The report is to be written as though you are giving it to the VP of HR. It should be clear, concise, and well researched. Writing should be professional and clean without the use of unexplained acronyms or slang terms.
Remember, in your project work, you have to address the cost of purchase which should include the cost of customization to convert the off-the-shelf purchased system into a ready-to-use turn-key HRIS/Payroll integrated solution for the company. Also, project the training costs and time of current employees in using the new system should be included.
There are hundreds of systems in the market, and therefore the VP of HR needs your help to narrow down the options to TWO short-listed HRIS / Payroll vendors that would provide your client the highest value and return on investment (ROI).
Start your web research by using the search term “HRIS” on a search engine such as Google and review the findings. You will find other sources on the Course Research page. Use the link to HRIS Vendors found in Webliography and research different HRIS vendors.
Also, you will find material for the Course Project in the following Canvas Class Sections:
Course Resources
Week 1: Lesson
Week 2: Lesson
Week 5: Lesson
Review the grading rubric below to ensure you meet all of the criteria to maximize your final grade.
Week 7 Final Report Grading Rubric
The following information must be included in your paper, and use the headings outlined below.
Headings
Descriiption
Points
Introduction
The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points.
25
Analysis and Recommendations
A thorough web-based research study finds and recommends to the VP two off-the-shelf purchasable turn-key hybrid Payroll/ HRIS systems suitable to satisfy the wants of this organization.
The project addressed the cost of purchase which includes the cost of customization to convert the off-the-shelf purchased system into a ready-to-use turn-key HRIS/Payroll integrated solution for the company. Also, training costs of current employees in using the new system is included. Benefits of the two are clearly articulated.
100
Project Mechanics
Second, the report is written as though you were giving it to your client, the VP of HR. The report is clear, concise, and well thought out. Writing is professional and clean.
All aspects of the assignment grading criteria are included. The assignment adheres to APA formatting guidelines:
· Includes a properly formatted title page and reference page.
· Intext citations were used correctly for direct quotes and paraphrasing.
· Page numbers were included.
· Paragraphs indented.
The assignment was treated as a real-world situation giving the opportunity to conductresearch and provide information as an HRM professional.
25
Total Points

150
I have attached outline.

Review the module resources.
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/reimagining-hr-insights-from-people-leaders
https://www.inspirus.com/blog/top-priorities-for-hr-leaders-in-2023/?hsa_acc=5473861309&hsa_cam=20357109342&hsa_grp=&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=x&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad=1
Then, in your initial post, address the following:
What HR functional areas within the People Knowledge Domain do you believe will be affected the most by future trends? How?
What HR functional areas within the Workplace Knowledge Domain do you believe will be affected the most by future trends? How?
What HR functional areas within the Organization Knowledge Domain do you believe will be affected the most by future trends? How?

HA255-1: Explain the structure, management theories, key responsibilities, and challenges of evidence-based strategic human resources management.
For this assignment, imagine you are being interviewed by a reporter who wants to know a little about human resources in a health care setting. Answer each of the questions as if you are responding to the reporter. Copy and paste the questions into a Word document and provide your answers. Your answer to each question should be a minimum of 100 words. If you use a reference to answer your question, follow APA guidelines.
Q: What skills, knowledge, and educational requirements are necessary for an effective human resource professional?
A:
Q: How is a typical human resources department structured? What are the areas of responsibility for a human resource department?
A:
Q: What is the role of human resources in managing and enforcing competency standards, such as those put in place by The Joint Commission or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services? Name ways human resource professionals ensure that staff qualifications align with job responsibilities. What are the consequences of non-compliance with these standards?
A:
Q: What are some of the challenges the organization faces in regard to human resources? How important is having a positive organizational culture and advocating for employees regarding these challenges?
A:
Q: What is one example of a management theory applicable to the health care environment that is relevant to human resource management?
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In this course you have learned many strategies to adapting to new situations, cultures, and dialogues in the professions. But as you have seen, these changes are systemic and not always easy. Oftentimes, they require us to not only shift our communication methods but our mindsets as well. This is the challenge of adaptation. Our textbook defines cultural adaptation as “the long-term process of adjusting to and finally feeling comfortable in a new environment” (317).
For the last graded assignment of the course, you will reflect on your own cultural adaptation process. As part of your response, consider the following.
Summarize the strengths and weaknesses from your Week 2 Cultural Intelligence Self-Assessment. What do you think has changed? What skills do you still want to improve?
Consider the role of communication in the cultural adaptation process. What are three strategies that you have learned in this course that will help you develop your intercultural communication skills? How will you utilize these skills in your profession?
Reflect on leadership. How will intercultural communication skills help make you a stronger leader in the workplace? In your community?
Successful assignments will be the following.
Be one to two pages in length.
Be in APA format.
Include a structured response with an introduction, body, conclusion.
Have a clear and focused thesis.
Provide specific examples to support claims.

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Positioning strategy for the primary and secondary target markets (Denisse Garcia)
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Discuss the strategy that influences potential customers’ overall perception of the brand, products, or organization.