Organizational Development

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How does a successful organization determine whether an environmental change is a brief fad or fashion to be ignored, or a development that requires a fundamental rethinking of the way in which it does business? 

Discovery and Design Project

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 Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review this week’s readings and Weekly Lecture.

You are the new HR leader for a small manufacturing firm located in the Midwest. During your interview, the owner of the company expressed an urgent need for a complete staffing review due to the fact that a substantial amount of technical change had occurred at the plant over the past decade without regard to the job description or the requirements of the position.

Establishing the proper staffing process is important to reaching a successful outcome. You must have a firm understanding of how you will accomplish the task of reviewing the actions and behaviors of each role and/or position within the organization. The owner of the manufacturing firm has asked for a structured three-section report explaining how the project will be accomplished and where the process will begin. With the concerns of the owner in mind, you will develop a detailed report, defining the process, the reasoning for conducting the job analysis, the resulting job design, and the performance evaluation process for each position and/or role within the organization.

Your project must be designed in such a way that is understandable to both administrators and subordinates and comprehensive in the results.

Section 1 – Job Analysis (Three to four pages and two scholarly resources in addition to the text.) Use keywords and HRM language that are connected to each of the header areas. Include resources that support your findings.

  • Part 1 – Explain your reasoning for the purpose of the job analysis and the relationship to individual needs and corporate strategy. Evaluate why it is important to perform a job analysis for the positions within the organization.
  • Part 2 – Describe an analysis tool that would be most appropriate for this particular project. Explain the reasoning for your selection and your desired outcomes. Indicate the type of information that will be delivered via the analysis tool.
  • Part 3 – Identify specific external resources available to HR, and explain how they will be used to provide occupational data and descriptors.
  • Part 4 – Summarize the assumed data to be defined during analysis. Explain why the content is important to job design and performance evaluation.

Section 2 – Job Design (Three to four pages and two scholarly resources in addition to the text)

  • Part 1 – Create a job description for the organization based on the proposed data delivered in Section 1. Specifically identify each section of the job description, and defend the importance of each to the selection process. This should be a description of the template, not a job description for a specific job.
  • Part 2 – Explain how the required employment and labor laws (BFOQ, ADA, EEO, and OSHA) are incorporated into the job description. Evaluate how the organization will account for the deployment of these laws.
  • Part 3 – Based on your research, explain why the chosen design is appropriate for the organization.

Section 3 – Performance Appraisal (Three to four pages and two scholarly resources in addition to the text)

  • Part 1 – Explain the purpose and intended outcomes of a performance appraisal. Evaluate the proposed job description (Section 2), and describe how the elements of the job description will be measured.
  • Part 2 – Develop a performance appraisal using the measureable actions defined within the job description.
  • Part 3 – Explore the challenges and opportunities that a performance appraisal adds to the overall job analysis and job design process.

Summary

Provide an overall summary of the proposed structure for the staffing review as requested by the owner of the organization. Briefly describe each section of the plan, and defend why your choices will provide the information needed for a successful outcome.

The Discovery and Design Project

HRM671 LEARNING THEORIES AND TECHNOLOGY

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Bling-Bling, Inc. is a struggling jewelry outlet that provides modestly priced gold, silver and gemstone jewelry via kiosks placed in large malls. Since their products are made with lower quality and less expensive stones and lower levels of key ingredients (like gold) and since they do not rent or own building floor space, they can sell for prices that meet the needs of many mall shoppers. However, they have the on-going issue of training and retraining sales associates. BBI wants to beef-up their orientation program.You have been hired to build a low-tech training solution for these associates.

IN 300 WORDS ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: 

 Based on the information below, what are the key cognitive issues, and memory/attention factors that you will consider in your designs? Based on that analysis of the essential learning needs, what learning theories, modalities, methods and technologies would be most likely to meet the need? Explain your reasoning and support your opinions.

Bling-Bling, Inc Sales Associates Level 1 (kiosk-based):

  • Age: 18-30 (average age 19)
  • For 49% of sales associates this is their first job ever, while 39% indicate that they have held another full-time job, and another 9% indicate that this is their second job (i.e., they are already working 40+ hrs a week for another business), 3% did not respond.
  • Tend a mall kiosk during mall hours with 15 minute breaks every 2 hours.
  • Have a 40% turn-over in 90 days and a 75% annually
  • When surveyed about the work indicated that:
    • They are often bored by sitting in a kiosk with nothing to do
    • Do not have a phone (or at least not one provided by the company)
    • Their only computer is one provided by the company for posting sales and does not have internet or wireless access
  • When mall security were asked about Bling-Bling’s Sales Associates work practices, they indicated that:
    • “They’re just kids. Like all kids they spend more time on the phone or playing games on their iPods than working.”
    • “When a new one starts the first day, I show‘em how they will handle a money-changer con artist. None of them have ever heard of that. When I ask how they will handle someone ripping off some of the jewels, they don’t seem to know what your company wants them to do.”

Week 5 Project

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Instructions

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lectures:

Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction:

In Week 4, you were preparing to open a manufacturing plant in Cambodia. The CEO is excited about a new opportunity. As the HR professional, you will need to develop a plan and explain the importance of anchoring the company before launching the product. Select one of the following organizations to assess before creating and presenting your ideas: SAS Institute, Unilever, or Nestlé.  

Tasks:

  • Analyze the globally integrated (GIE) approach and value to the organization.
  • Evaluate the strategy, structure, and culture of an international company.
  • Analyze the employer and the talent brand.
  • Evaluate how the organization diagnoses and conducts strategic planning.
  • Evaluate how talent is managed. 
  • Analyze how the organization acquires, selects, develops, and retains talent.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite all sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details:

  • Create a 3- to 4-page document.
  • Name your file as SU_HRM6000_W5_Project_LastName_FirstName.

Unit V journal

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 Describe a couple of products in your household that have been imported. Could a domestically made product have filled the need just as well? Can you describe any services that you use as being imported? 

unit IV assignment

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Part 2 on attachment

5 pages – Management & Leadership of Organizations

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You are the president of XYZ Manufacturing company. You have recently learned about the following issue:

A month ago, the company’s general manager (GM) told one of the line managers to produce an extra 15,000 units of a product so that there would be inventory in stock for the next time the item is ordered. Last week, the GM scolded the line manager for having 15,000 units of the item in stock. The GM told the line manager that producing excess inventory costs the company money and should never be done. The GM then puts the line manager on a performance plan. This is not the first time you have heard about the GM telling an employee to do one thing only to criticize him or her for doing it later.

This employee feels very frustrated by this, but does not want to make a formal complaint because she has seen other employees lose their jobs or get demoted for questioning the GM.

Create an outline that proposes a leadership solution to this issue. The outline should address the following:

  • How      the culture of the organization contributed to this issue
  • How      the structure of the organization contributed to this issue
  • A      plan to change organizational culture while maintaining the current      structure of the organization
  • A      coaching plan to help the general manager change this behavior and improve      his leadership skills

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

  • Title      page: Remember the running head. The title      should be in all capitals.
  • Length: 5      pages
  • Abstract: This      is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third      person.
  • Body: This      begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be      double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between      paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier      in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as      required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of      the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic      citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety      of academic sources is encouraged.
  • Reference      page: References that align with your      in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The      references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging      indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the      type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography      but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the      paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

hrmt

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 why is it important for HR Management to transform from an administrative and operational function to a strategic partner? Provide a brief history of the HR function  and research regarding a specific organization of your choice that has successfully made this transition to support your ideas, arguments, and opinions. Format your work in proper APA format, include a cover page, an abstract, an introduction and a labeled conclusion in accordance with the course rubric, a minimum of five (5) FULL pages of written content, and a references section. Double-space all work and cite all listed references properly in text in accordance with the 7th edition of the APA manual. 

Management

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Ask me for the textbook chapters!!!

Critical Thinking About HRM

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Step 1: Individual Critique Paper 

Using the instructions below, you will analyze an assigned article.The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate your skills with critical thinking.

First, skim read the article assigned to you and make notes. Next, carefully read the article and consider your responses to the following questions.

In your paper answer the following framework for critical thinking.  These questions are designed to help you think critically about the reading:

1. The main purpose of this article is:
(State as accurately as possible the author’s purpose for writing the article)

2. The key question that the author is addressing is:

(Figure out the key question in the mind of the author(s) when s/he wrote the article)

3. The most important information in this article is:
(Identify the facts, experiences and data the author is using to support his/her conclusions)

4. The main inferences/conclusions in this article are:

(Identify the key conclusions the author comes to and presents in the article)

5. The key concepts to understand in this article are:___________. By these concepts the author means________
(What are the important ideas you would have to understand to fully understand the author’s line of reasoning)

6. The main assumption(s) underlying the author’s thinking is (are)
(What is the author taking for granted)

7. If we take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are:
(How could an HR manager apply the author’s findings? What could he/she do?)

8. If we fail to take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are:
(If an HR manager did not take this line of reasoning seriously – what could be the implications?)

9. After reading the article imagine you are an HR manager and you have time to ask the author three questions. What three questions would you ask and why and how would you respond?   In what ways do you want to continue the conversation?  Include in your analysis reference to TWO more academic articles and ONE more industry article to support your responses. 

1,000 words to answer questions 1 through 8 and 500-600 words to answer question 9.

Paul, R., & Elder, L., (2007). The miniature guide to critical thinking concepts and tools. (pp. 13) Foundation for Critical Thinking Press