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Case Study : National Collegiate Athletic Association Ethics and Compliance Program

Due Week 6 and worth 200 points

Read “Case Study 6: National Collegiate Athletic Association Ethics and Compliance Program,” located on page 444 of the textbook.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Determine the fundamental ways in which the NCAA’s ethics program failed to prevent the scandals at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Alaska. Support your response with one (1) example from each of these schools’ scandals.
2. Examine the principal ways in which the leadership of the NCAA contributed to the ethical violations of Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Alaska. Support your response with one (1) example from each of these schools’ scandals.
3. Predict the key differences in the scenarios that occurred at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Alaska if an effective ethics program was in place. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Postulate on two (2) actions that the NCAA leadership should take in order to regain the trust and confidence of students and stakeholders.
5. Recommend two (2) measures that the HR departments of colleges and universities should take to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. Provide a rationale for your response.
6. Go to https://research.strayer.edu to locate at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Describe the business ethics issues and definitions, theories, and frameworks important to organizational ethical decision making and the role of a human resource professional.
• Determine the role of stakeholder interests, the interrelationship of ethics and social responsibility, and the role of corporate governance in ethics.
• Analyze scenarios to determine the ethical character of decisions made and the related impact on the organization.
• Write clearly and concisely about issues in ethics and advocacy for HR professionals using correct grammar and mechanics.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics and advocacy for HR professionals.

  

HR managers who pass certification exams in human resource management are knowledgeable in all of the following aspects except __________.

Question options:

  

strategic management

 

information technology

 

employee and labor relations

 

occupational health and safety

 

Question 2

5 / 5 points

       

No manager wants to __________.

Question options:

  

have his or her employees not   performing at peak capacity

 

hire the wrong person for the job

 

find employees not doing their   best

 

all of the above

 

Question 3

5 / 5 points

       

A(n) __________ examines current organizational practices for potential action violations.

Question options:

  

EEO representative

 

training specialist

 

job analyst

 

compensation manager

 

Question 4

5 / 5 points

       

A __________ is a system that enables employees to manage their own benefits and update their personal information.

Question options:

  

company portal

 

cybernetic portal

 

formulation system

 

software-based system

 

Question 5

5 / 5 points

       

Strategic human resource management refers to __________.

Question options:

  

formulating and executing human   resource policies and practices that produce the employee competencies and   behaviors the company needs to its achieve strategic aims

 

planning the balance of internal   strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats to maintain   competitive advantage

 

emphasizing the knowledge,   education, training, skills, and expertise of a firm’s workers

 

extending a firm’s sales,   ownership, and manufacturing to new markets

 

Question 6

5 / 5 points

       

The __________ HR group focuses on being HR business partners to specific departments.

Question options:

  

embedded

 

corporate

 

centers of expertise

 

transactional

 

Question 7

5 / 5 points

       

Which term refers to letting vendors abroad provide services for a firm?

Question options:

  

external work systems

 

application service providers

 

offshoring

 

data warehousing

 

Question 8

5 / 5 points

       

Which of the following is an issue that HR managers have to deal with today?

Question options:

  

managing ethics

 

managing employee engagement

 

adding value

 

all of the above

 

Question 9

5 / 5 points

       

Of the 10 most serious ethical issues, how many were HR related?

Question options:

  

six

 

10

 

seven

 

four

 

Question 10

5 / 5 points

       

__________ maintain contact within the community and publicize openings.

Question options:

  

Job analysts

 

EEO representatives

 

Recruiters

 

Compensation managers

 

Question 11

5 / 5 points

       

In today’s business environment, __________ are often the firm’s main source of competitive advantage.

Question options:

  

machines

 

highly trained and committed   employees

 

superior organizations

 

superior ad campaigns

 

Question 12

5 / 5 points

       

Which of the following demographic issues represents a challenge for human resource managers?

Question options:

  

an increasingly diverse workforce

 

an aging workforce

 

an increasing use of contingent   workers

 

both A and B

 

Question 13

5 / 5 points

       

Which organization provides professional certification for human resource managers?

Question options:

  

Academy of Management

 

Society for Human Resource   Management

 

Academy of HR Partners

 

Association of Business   Administration

 

Question 14

5 / 5 points

       

Which of the following is an example of HR management’s changing role?

Question options:

  

HR managers must measurably   improve organizational performance.

 

HR managers must represent the   organization even when they are off the clock.

 

HR managers must be individually   centered so as to ensure that there will be no favoritism.

 

None of the above.

 

Question 15

5 / 5 points

       

All of the following are new HRM skills except __________.

Question options:

  

improving off-shoring skills

 

supplying transactional services   while serving more strategic, internal consulting activities

 

improving internal consulting   skills

 

all of the above

 

Question 16

5 / 5 points

       

Over the next few years, employers may face a severe labor shortage because __________.

Question options:

  

there are fewer people entering   the job market than there are retiring baby boomers

 

one-third of single mothers are   not in the labor force

 

people are living longer

 

all of the above

 

Question 17

5 / 5 points

       

Which of the following job titles indicates a position in human resources?

Question options:

  

recruiter

 

training specialist

 

EEO coordinator

 

all of the above

 

Question 18

5 / 5 points

       

The __________ HR group may provide specialized support for organizational change.

Question options:

  

transactional

 

corporate

 

embedded

 

centers of expertise

 

Question 19

5 / 5 points

       

Which strategic management tool provides a departmental performance overview indicating how the department helps achieve the firm’s strategic plan?

Question options:

  

an HR score card

 

a strategy map

 

a department performance report

 

a digital dashboard

 

Question 20

5 / 5 points

       

The ________ HR group works with the top management team to develop long range plans for the company.

Question options:

  

transactional

 

embedded

 

centers of expertise

 

corporate

 

he topic of this week’s learning segment is “The Art of Persuasion”. You will learn the ability to persuade others to understand your viewpoint and to agree with you.

Knowing how to convince people of your perspective is very important in business communications. As it says in your Week 5 syllabus description, “Persuasion requires more than the ability to mold an opinion; it requires the ability to inspire action.”

Think of a new product, idea or proposal to start a company you would like to have a Shark invest in. It can be real or imaginary.  For your Discussion post, you will be asked to imagine you are actually on “Shark Tank,” and are trying to get the sharks to invest in your idea, product, and/or company.

If you are not familiar with Shark Tank you can check this out to get a sense of how a pitch goes in this venue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq3fwHwgB9g

As you begin your readings, watching the videos, and thinking about your Discussion Post this week, I would like to offer you some items that you should consider including in your response:

• who you are (be personable when you introduce yourself; engage)
• include your name, the name of your company and the name of the product
• why you are here
• tell me my problem that you want to solve
• introduce your hook
• tell a story: empathy, get me interested (*I often lead with a story when I am pitching to hook my audience in.)
• describe your product or service
• mention its differentiating advantages
• use a pitch as described in this week’s reading material
• make up data and statistics: is the product in production; is the service being offered;  how many have you already sold; costs, profits, revenue, where (city, states, countries); how is it being used; consumer excitement, etc.
• tell me what you will do with the money you get from me, i.e. build the item or App, more marketing, build a factory, speed up production, hire more people, etc.
• describe your persuasive technique and why you chose it (from the reading)
• do not forget the ask or call to action; how much money you want and what percentage of the business you are offering them

Remember, you only have 1-2 minutes to make your “elevator pitch”. This is an imaginary scenario, so use your imagination with the product or service you have invented.

After your pitch, remember to tell us about the persuasive techniques you used and why you chose them. Please include the application of and references to both this week’s reading material and external sources.

Please have fun with this discussion and let your imagination run wild.

 RE: Week 5 DiscussionCOLLAPSE

Greetings, classmates, and Professor Elias: below is my shark tank pitch.

Hi, Sharks, my name is Hubert Brown. I am an impactor & entrepreneur; My goal is to leave a functional footprint on the world. And with your help- We can make it happen

My company Waterworks has discovered a new technology to test, filter, purify water on the go, and in the home at a price affordable to all. 

I am here today to seek your help in getting this new portable water filtration system in the hands of all worldwide.

We have a right to live in a world where food and clean water is accessible to every human on this planet. It is a human right that should not barter or compromised with the well-being of all. As of right now, 780 million people don’t have access to a quality water source (www.cdc.gov ) I want to fix that.

As a father, I think a lot about my kids and the world I want them to grow older in. It’s hard to relay the promises of the great wonders of this world when there are kids without the basic necessity of clean water. I read about people traveling miles by foot to access water that not even cleaned. I think of the diseases that people contract due to the lack of clean water. So, I thought about how I can use solar light combined with low Ultraviolet light to power and clean water from any source. This product will allow anyone, anywhere, and any point to use this product with the power of the sun, and the ultraviolet light to purify the water.

This Waterworks product is clear, portable, and lightweight. You can see the water filtration activate within three minutes. It can filter a gallon of water at a time. It also has a self-cleaning mode that allows for reuse. The product’s shelf life is five years. And you don’t have to change a filter within this system.

This water filtration system using the sun to operate, so the cost of using this product after purchase is free. It also leaves less of a carbon footprint on the environment. The low cost of manufacturing the outcome yields a higher margin.

It has been reported that up to 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water supply, including cities in the US. This lack of clean water has killed 1.8 million people a year. 94% of these deaths were preventable if they had access to clean water(World Health Organization 2007). So what I am asking you today is to be part of the statistic that helps decrease this preventable problem. My product Waterworks could help prevent those deaths. It is an affordable, portable watering system that uses the power of the sun and the UV rays from the sun to clean the water.

We are currently in production, as of right now we are manufacturing out of a small factory in Virginia. Due to the size of the factory, we are only able to produce 5,000 a day, and we need to produce a minimum of 50,000 a day to meet the need. We are currently working with the local governments in Cambodia, so far, we have provided them with a 100,000. The cost to manufacture this product is $3.00 per unit. We would like to sell the product for $9.99; therefore, it’s at a price point that is affordable and profitable for all. The bulk price per unit will be $6.00.

Your investment will allow us to grow into a much bigger facility, therefore allowing us to increase our product and distribution. 

Please join me if you want to help save lives and leave a lasting footprint on this water. Give the right to clean water to all with an investment of $500, 000.00 for 15% share of my company Waterworks.

Describe your persuasive technique, and why you chose it (from the reading), I used the persuasive technique of Social Proof. The idea behind Social Proof to appear the Social Awareness of how they could contribute as a whole to being part of the solution and not the problem. In this pitch, I want the Sharks to see themselves not just as investors, but has solver/contributors to the lack of clean water problem (Keller 2015) 

References:

Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH). Center for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/wash_statistics.html

Combating Waterborne Diseases at the Household Level. World Health Organization. 2007. Part 1.

Keller, Larry. The Science of Persuasion. 2015. https://www.success.com/the-science-of-persuasion/

 

The group project is aimed at the process of management and its functions in real organizations and the legal, moral, and ethical dilemmas we face as individuals and in our roles as part of the managerial process.  Students will be divided into teams of three and provided a topic to work on but they will be working against each other.  Each student will take either a “pro” or “con” side to a topic taken from business, government, or education. Further, each situation will be fraught with ethical considerations and ramifications.  As individuals, each team member will search, discuss, analyze, and report information back to their classmates and course instructor with slide presentations they will post in the Discussion Board.

Again, each student will be provided with a topic to be handled by teams of three. Each team member will be presenting opposing arguments, one for and one against that topic, the third will play both roles. The point is that as managers, clarity of thought influences not only the quality of their life but all those who work for them.  As decision-makers, managers often need to be willing to take a position and try to influence others to make a decision that they try to promote.  To be effective, they should be willing and able to describe their rationale for the choice they made.  

After a topic is assigned, students will develop PowerPoint slides to support their position (20 slides max, not including references slides listing your sources). The rest of the teams will ask at least one question per team, but no more than three questions, so each person may clarify/defend their position. The exception is that you may not ask questions of your counterpart who is arguing the opposite side of your position.  Instructors will judge the quality of your presentation based on the criteria found in the rubric. Furthermore, the instructor may also question if they feel a position lacks merit. Additionally, instructors will look at the quality of your questions and answers to other students and at the end, a student’s rationale for choosing one side of an argument over the other.

The slides will be posted on the Discussion Board for everyone to view by the date listed on the course schedule.  All questions must be submitted to the Discussion Board and the answers posted by the scheduled dates as well.  Finally, after all the questions are in and the questions answered, each student will select the position for each topic that they feel is the better of the two and explain their rationale for that decision in the Discussion Board, again as per the course schedule.

The point of this exercise is to help each of you develop clarity of thought. Be advised that instructors may ask pointed questions from each student to determine whether the basis of a position is an opinion or rationally based ideas on these topics.  Just as with other assignments, facts, figures, and expertise, carry a lot more weight when arguing a position that does opinion alone.

Give the instructor and other students facts when arguing positions.  Facts, data, and analysis in addition to insight are all potent tools in any manager’s arsenal.  Finally, please note that some positions will be easier to argue than others when grading, instructors will take that into consideration as well.  So even if it seems the other side has an easier position to defend, instructors will compensate for that issue.

  

Please be sure that your work follows essay format. Your work should include significant responses that are supported by outside research. Each response should be a minimum of 150 words and should include a reference list. Your responses should include examples and should be entirely in your own words.

· Using your knowledge from what you have learned in the past 4 weeks, analyze and provide an example of four (4) basic terms that are associated with measurement and evaluation.

· You have learned that measurement and performance chain play a significant role in human performance technology. Using your workplace AT THE PRISON or a company from your assignments, prove how measurement and performance chain can be applied to help improve organizational success.

· You have learned that training impacts business performance in a positive and negative way. Summarize how business performance can be impacted in both a positive and negative way and provide an example of how the negative can be transformed into a positive leading to organizational success.

· Ethics play a role in performance management. Distinguish the role ethics play and provide a real-world example of an organization that was impacted by the ethics of their employees in either a positive or negative manner.

· Using what you have learned over the past 4 weeks, analyze the guidelines, process, and decisions that are critical to testing. Provide an example of how these concepts pertain to your workplace. 

 

Stakeholder Involvement  

Strayer  University is moving to a new HR/payroll system that is sponsored by a  firm called Workday.com. You have been asked to oversee the stakeholder  management aspects of this project. Identify some of the key  stakeholders at Strayer, and describe how you plan to keep them engaged  during your year-long project. Be sure to include the appropriate  methods, since not all of your stakeholders are located at the HQ office  in Herndon, VA. 

NOTE: MORE THAN ONE ANSWER POSTED CHOOSE ANY

Section 2 – PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency

The purpose of the Portfolio Project is to synthesize current research about the project management office (PMO) for the purpose of developing a PMO recommendation. The Portfolio Project is structured to help you demonstrate understanding of the course material, as well as the implications of new knowledge gained from research beyond the course readings and lectures.

Your Portfolio Project will be developed in three independent but cohesive sections, which considered in whole constitutes your PMO recommendation. The three sections are:

• Section 1: Subject Organization and Rationale
• Section 2: PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency
• Section 3: PMO Recommendations

Section 1 and Section 2 will be submitted as Portfolio Project milestones in Module 3 and Module 6, respectively. Section 3 will constitute your final Portfolio Project due at the end of the course in Module 8.

Based on your Section 1 choice, one of the two PMO recommendation options will be performed for your Portfolio Project assignment, which are described as:

Option #1: Recommendation for the implementation of a new PMO

– or –

Option #2: Recommendation for the advancement of an existing PMO

For Section 2: PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency of the Portfolio Project, you will build on the information detailed in your Portfolio Project Section 1. Based on analysis of your subject organization and further research, purpose the PMO’s mission and vision, PMO charter, and PMO competency continuum stage resultant from your Option 1 or Option 2 recommendation. To this end, substantively address the following key elements for your subject organization’s PMO recommendation:

• Develop the PMO’s Mission and Vision including: 
  • State the PMO’s mission and vision.
  • Validate alignment with subject organization’s mission and vision.
  • Designate key PMO stakeholders.
• Develop the PMO’s Charter: 
  • State the PMO’s business purpose.
  • Describe the PMO’s business alignment and affiliation.
  • Designate the PMO’s empowerment authority.
  • Describe the PMO’s fiscal management.
  • Identify the Charter approval.
• Relate to the PMO competency continuum: 
  • Designate the PMO competency continuum stage.
  • Justify the subject organization’s designated PMO competency continuum stage determination.
  • Correlate the designated PMO competency continuum stage to the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3).

Submit your Section 2 Portfolio Project Milestone as a single Microsoft Word document to the Module 6 submission area established for this purpose.

Your essay should address the following requirements:

• Your well-written PMO recommendation essay thesis should be 6  pages in length, which does not include the title, reference, or appendix pages. You need to add headings and subheadings associated with each of the bullet points listed in the Section 2 requirements.
• Format your paper per the CSU Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.) standards, which includes an introduction and conclusion.
• Include title and reference pages.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least four current (published within the past 5 years) scholarly resources (peer-reviewed, official governmental reports, and other scholarly sources) to support your suppositions, assertions, and conclusions. To enhance your learning experience, scholarly resources are available from the CSU Global library.
• Include an appendix for tables and figures as appropriate.

Please write clearly, concisely, and cohesively; use section level headers to organize the key elements of your thesis.

  

• Length of each written assignment must be equivalent to three (3) full & complete typed pages,      double spaced
• Otherwise acceptable submissions of less than three full and complete pages will receive partial credit 
• One inch margins all around and a #12 font, no cover sheet or folder
• at the very top of the first page put only your name and the number and title of the assignment, then start your paper
• You don’t have to agree with everything/anything presented in the article.

 Due Thursday, 9/3/20 at noon, (12pm Dallas time) for the readings Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity  and Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets. Provide me with a brief synopsis of the articles and then address this issue: I think these two articles really complement each other nicely. For written assignment #1 you need to reconcile the information in the two articles. How do the different ideas fit together? Come together? Coincide? Do they diverge? Keep in mind that to reconcile ideas means to make them compatible or consistent with each other. It implies that the two ideas can co-exist in harmony.  

Article 1: https://hbr.org/1996/09/making-differences-matter-a-new-paradigm-for-managing-diversity

Article 2: https://hbr.org/2008/11/winning-the-race-for-talent-in-emerging-markets

Application: Types of Crises/Disasters

What is a crisis? Crisis definition is fundamental to understanding types of crises or disasters. The definitions of crises and types of disasters are numerous. Most definitions involve perception and the loss of resources for dealing with a situation. Types of disasters include natural, man-made, organizational, and personal crises. By understanding the definition of crisis you will broaden your understanding of the types of disasters.

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review Chapter 1 in both of your course texts, Crisis Intervention Strategies and Crisis Management in the New Strategy Landscape, to understand the interplay of crisis definition and types of crises.
• Think about a crisis you have experienced and how this fits into a definition of crisis and a type(s) of crisis(es).
• Think about a crisis of which you are aware and consider how crisis perception and loss of resources for dealing with a crisis impact psychological responses and/or reactions to the situation.
• Think about various types of crises (e.g., natural disasters, school/workplace shootings, terrorism, military trauma, etc.) and their similarities and differences.
• Review Dr. Baron’s video program, “On the Road to . . . Peace of Mind,” and focus on the importance of training the trainers about responding to crisis planning with an understanding of local culture and traditions in mind. Then note the types of crises and disasters the training group might respond to. (Note: When Dr. Baron is talking about counselors in this particular film, she is referencing local lay people and not fully-trained counselors such as you and your colleagues.)
• Review Dr. Baggerly’s video program, “Disaster Mental Health and Crisis Stabilization for Children” and focus on the importance of training the trainers who work with children rather than adults. Then note the types of crises and disasters the training group might respond to.
• Review the various crisis-responding roles of national and international organizations you wrote about in this week’s Discussion and how these roles might differ depending on the type of crisis.

The assignment: (4–6 pages)

• Compare types of crises (e.g., natural disasters, school/workplace shootings, terrorism, military trauma, etc.), making sure to outline their similarities and differences.
• Describe the crisis-responding roles of national and international organizations for each type of crisis you discussed above.
• Then briefly describe any insights and/or conclusions you gained from completing this assignment.

 

You know that many factors affect the overall satisfaction of employees. As part of your efforts to continually improve performance and employee satisfaction at your own organization, you decide to learn what other top companies are doing in this area. Consolidate your research into 4-6 pages that can be shared with decision makers at your organization.

Choose one of the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For from this year’s list if you can’t see list it’s from 2009. Use the library and Internet to research the company and its employee programs.

• Describe the employee programs that have helped this organization make the Top 100 list.
• Explain how the effectiveness of these programs can be measured.
• Explain the measures used to compile the Top 100 rankings.
• Describe how a performance management system can lead to positive organizational outcomes.
• Include as much specific information as possible to support your ideas.
• Cite resources using APA style.