Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. 

Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. Based upon the course readings, supplementary materials, and your own literature search via the CTU online library, provide the following for discussion:

this assignment must be about organizational change and  must provide synthesis of the organizational change literature

Synthesize the academic and practitioner literature.

Provide at least 2 scholarly resources to support your response. 

Use the LIBRARY or the MGMT Doctoral Library for help.

Chapter 15 of our text talks about bucks for behavior.  We’ll be introduced to the notion that the type of behavior we reward is the type of behavior we will get.  Take a moment to contemplate this concept then look at your own or previous employers and the “bucks” you received.  What kind of behavior did the rewards you received prompt in you?  Emma wants to have a discussion on what kinds of behaviors various types of rewards will elicit in CM Tech employees.  

• In your initial discussion post share with your classmates three types of rewards (base pay, overtime pay, profit bonus, sales bonus, project bonuses, piece pay, vacation, the sky is really the limit.) and what kind of behavior you think each type of reward would elicit from CM Tech employees.  Do you think those three would be effective?  Why or why not?  In your responses to your peers expand on your agreement or disagreement with the behaviors the types of rewards would elicit and share any experiences you have had with the reward types the group has shared.
• Support your initial post with at least one scholarly reference.    

Read the following case first; then proceed to the next steps.

A major cosmetics company posted a position on a local jobs board looking for a sales representative. The posting stated “Established fortune 500 company has an immediate opening for sales representative in the New York area. Candidates should have 3 or more years of experience in the cosmetics industry and a proven track record of success in this field.”

Sara and Jim both applied for the position in New York City. Sara is 24 and has 3 years of experience with a rival cosmetics company in their marketing department. Jim has 18 years of experience as a cosmetics representative who has just recently been laid off and is 49 years old. The company decided to hire Sara; and during the interview process, Jim was told that the company thought women were better suited for the cosmetics industry. It was also alluded to during Jim’s interview that the company wanted younger people to promote their product line.

Jim filed a lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and after a year and a half of litigation, Jim was awarded the job. During this time, Sara had been a very successful employee; however, with only one position available, the company had to fire Sara.

Step 2: Reflection Part

Think about the following:

• Was this a proper decision by the EEOC?
• If you worked for the EEOC, how would you have decided on this case? Explain your reasoning.

After you have thought through your position on this scenario, apply your thinking to this week’s philosophers and complete Step 3 – the writing part of this assignment.

Step 3: Writing Part

In 2 pages, explain how Machiavelli and Hobbes would explain the role of the government in this case if they were confronted with this situation. How might they apply the use of power to illustrate their philosophy? Support your analysis with quotes or paraphrases from the philosophers. Use APA format and citation when writing your assignment.

The application of social change, leadership, and advocacy to a specific human and social services organization is a systematic process. The initial step is to select and delineate a professional or societal issue about which you are passionate, and then locate an organization from anywhere in the world whose mission is related to this issue. Once you determine the issue and organization that you will focus on, the next step is to set a manageable social change, leadership, or advocacy-related goal for the organization.

Human services professionals can strive to achieve and/or support social change, leadership, or advocacy-related goals by creating a strategic plan. Throughout this course, you will develop the core elements of a strategic plan for your Capstone Project. You build off the coursework you completed in previous courses to conduct a needs assessment as well as develop the fundamentals, strategic issues, and technical elements of the strategic plan.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, considering strategies and approaches that human and social services professionals may use to achieve social change, leadership, and advocacy goals.
• Review the Capstone Project Overview in the Course Information area and the Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan – Introduction to the Final Project media in the Weekly Resources. Select one professional or societal issue that arouses your passion as a human and social services professional, and then choose a human or social services agency or organization, or a community, that works to support this issue. This can be a local, regional, national, or international agency, organization, or community. Throughout the completion of your Capstone Project, you will explore this issue and agency in depth, examining them from multiple perspectives. Therefore, you should select an agency, organization, or community issue that speaks to you as a human and social services professional.

By Day 4

Identify the agency, organization, or community for which you will develop a strategic plan. State whether the agency, organization, or community exists at the local, regional, national, or international level. Then, discuss why you have chosen this agency to focus on for your Capstone Project. Also, discuss whether your strategic plan will be developed from the perspective of social change, leadership, or advocacy for the agency, organization, or community. Explain why you have chosen to focus on that particular perspective for your strategic plan.

Take a moment to reflect on your knowledge of human resource management prior to taking this course and on what you have learned during the 10 weeks of the course. Choose one of the concepts below and explain how you plan to apply it to your current or future position:

• The human resource management process.
• The legal HR environment.
• How HR fits into the overall business level strategy of the organization.

The Industrial Revolution led to mass production of goods, rapid human population growth, and societal expansions. With these advancements, air and water pollution became rampant. The production and pollution practices occurred through most of the 20th century, until laws were implemented to reduce pollution and adverse human health effects.  

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Select an air or water pollutant that affects your community or household (emissions, chemical, pesticide, etc. – be specific about the contaminant).
• What are the environmental and health impacts of the pollutant?
• What are some strategies for reducing or removing the negative environmental and human health impacts?

The BP Oil Spill in 2010 was met with public outcry and demand for change. share your opinion regarding the need for revision to the Oil Pollution Act (OPA 90) to prevent another catastrophic disaster like the Deepwater Horizon Spill. Why do you feel it took such a catastrophe to prompt change?

In this assignment you will demonstrate your learning from the class that addresses the following areas:

1. Are people always a company’s most valuable asset?
2. How do human resource operations impact a company’s HR business strategy?
3. Discuss the myriad of human resource functional areas (including but not limited to: Recruitment, Training and Development, Performance Management, Compensation, Benefits, Employee Relations, Ethics and Succession Planning) and how HR can ensure alignment with the company’s strategic priorities. 
4. Examine how a company evaluates their strategies and HR implementation.
5. Discuss how companies can leverage diversity to their strategic advantage and provide specific examples/scenarios.
6. Describe the challenges HR professionals face today in a global environment and their evolving role.

You have options for how you may present your Capstone Project, including the following:

• A written reflective essay (8-10 pages-not including the cover, title, or reference pages)

 PLEASE PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS

 Re-read the hypothetical case scenario you created.  

Conduct some online research and identify community resources that would be beneficial to the client and/or family. 

 In a minimum of TWO-pages (not counting the title page and reference page) address the following:

• Identify at least four (4) community resources that may be beneficial to the client and/or family.
• Provide the name and location for the community resource and why you believe the resource would be beneficial to the client and/or family.

 Using the Sample Referral Form, complete at least three (3) referrals for the client and/or family. The only thing that I need completed on the referral form completed is the reason for the referral.

I have also uploaded the case scenario for you to read to help with finding the resources. The location is Beaufort SC.

Week 1: Current Goal in health services position

Week 3: What part of the team are you?

Week 4: Comment on technology

Week 6: Thoughts on strategic planning

Week 7: Current thoughts on your area of interest

Week 8: Impact of cost/finances