Category: Human Resource Management

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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?
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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?
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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?
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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.

below is the attachment please just scroll down to where it says this-
Positioning strategy for the primary and secondary target markets (Denisse Garcia)
And add –
Discuss the strategy that influences potential customers’ overall perception of the brand, products, or organization.

• Final Capstone Paper – Collective Bargaining Simulation: The Zinnia Hotel and Service Workers Local H-56. This simulation was created by the textbook author, John W. Budd, to apply the labor relations and collective bargaining concepts learned throughout the seven-week course. The collective bargaining agreement is between The Zinnia Hotel, a 300-room hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Local H-56 of the International Union of Service Workers and Allied Employees. The agreement expires soon.
• Students will work individually on their papers by reading all the prepared documentation (below list). Students with the last name beginning with the letter “A” through “J” will represent The Zinnia Hotel. Students with the last name beginning with the letter “K” through “Z” will represent Local Union H-56. I WILL BE REPRESENTING THE LOCAL UNION H-56. Students will create a PowerPoint presentation to be presented to hotel or union management, depending on their position assignment.
• Read the simulation in the Budd textbook Appendix “D” on page 539.
• Watch Dr. DiBenedetto’s Preparation Video
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• Access the simulation website at thezinnia.comLinks to an external site. and watch the 9-minute overview video with John Budd.
• Access the simulation website at thezinnia.com Links to an external site. and click on the following links to familiarize yourself with the content:
1. The Zinnia Hotel Website
2. Union Local H-56 Website
3. New Negotiator Training Workshop pdf – Getting Started
4. Corporate Intranet Pages
5. The Zinnia Hotel Bargaining Updates – Negotiations Background
6. Current Collective Bargaining Agreement
7. The Zinnia Hotel Contract Renewal Proposals
8. Union Local H-56 Contract Renewal Proposals
9. Costing Program – Excel Spreadsheet
• The PowerPoint presentation should be no less than twelve (12) slide pages (exclude title page and reference section) AND include either speaker’s notes or video recording on each slide including details and numerical analysis. Students should format their presentation slides as follows:
• Slide #1: NSU Cover Page (Include Assignment Title, Course Name, Student Name, Professor Name and Submission Date)
• Slides #2/#3: Introduction – Situation Overview and History of Company/Labor Union Relationship
• Slides #4/#5: Overview of The Zinnia Hotel OR Union Local H-56 Contract Demands. Focus ONLY on (a) Wage Increases and (b) Employee Healthcare Benefit Improvements.
• Slides #6/#7: Rationale for Contract Demands
• Slides #8/#9: Estimated Cost of Contract Demands
• Slide #10: Conclusion – Summary of Next Steps Needed for Bargaining Negotiation
• Slides #11/#12: References – Five to seven current, credible sources that will add an evidence-base to the presentation.