All posts by : chebby

Describe business ethics and its importance and talk about the assessments.  300 words. 

Self-assessments are a beneficial tool to provide one with more insight on why they are the way they are. During week one you will complete three self-assessments in this course related to ethics. You will record your results on your ethics portfolio.

Based on your ethical assessments completed for this course during week one, what are your initial thoughts on how your individual results compare to have you view ethics personally and how you view ethics in business. You are encouraged to share some specific examples of your assessment results to support your opinion. However, if you would like to keep your results private, you can speak to your results in general terms.

Please provide 1-2 examples to support your viewpoints that other learners will be able to assess and debate within our weekly discussion forum.

Instructions

Write a paper evaluating three ethical theories. Compare and contrast as well as discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.

This written assignment must have 5 pages (not including the title and reference page).

Also, the paper must be written in accordance with APA writing standards. The appropriate citation is required and 5 scholarly sources are a must.

 This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin®.Instructions

You are the Employee Relations Specialist for a national retail company with locations across the United States. The nearly 500 company employees are diverse in terms of age and demographic differences. Your primary work location is Southeast Pennsylvania. Recently, the employees in the mid-Atlantic region, managed by Kristopher Kolumbus, have expressed dissatisfaction with the work environment. There are approximately 125 employees in the mid-Atlantic region. Their specific concerns include receiving small pay raises for the past 2 – 3 years, limited employee benefits, lack of career mobility and progression, and heightened security controls implemented due to theft concerns. There has been recent talk among the employees about the possibility of unionization, and some workers have begun exploring options such as United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Before either of these unions will send an organizer to the organization, it wants to be sure that sufficient employees will back union representation. Some employees have started company-wide communication to increase interest in unionization.

As the Employee Relations Specialist, it is your responsibility to ensure that supervisors and managers follow the rules regarding a union organizing campaign. In response to this potential campaign, you decide to take some initial actions and prepare several documents to share with your boss, the Director of Human Resources: [You must use the underlined headings as separate discussion areas in your paper and in the order provided below. -.5pt if fail to do this.]

Late penalties: Paper is due by due date. There will be no extensions granted for this paper. 

This paper will require outside of the class room research to fully address all questions. 

• A summary email to the Director of Human Resources describing the issues and what actions you are taking (which includes the below items)
• A one-page memo to all managers and supervisors indicating what they can and cannot do during any union organizing effort.
• An email to your human resource colleagues about actions the HR team should consider in response to some of the concerns raised by the Mid-Atlantic Region employees
• An outline for a meeting to be held between Human Resources and the organization’s leadership team regarding the organizing effort.

Each document must be double-space, Times New Roman font 12, and APA format. Paper must be in narrative format, not bullets. [in word document not pdf] -.5pt if fail in any of these formatting requirements.

eadership is the ability to influence others to achieve  organizational goals. Organizations spend billions of dollars each year  to improve the leadership skills of its employees. Leadership skills are  needed within organizations to execute the vision, mission and  strategic goals of the organization.

Visit the mind tools website and complete the short Leadership Skills exercise (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_50.htm). After you explore your strengths and areas for growth, address the following items in your response:

• What are your strengths?
• Where do you have opportunities to grow your leadership skills?
• Based on your assessment results, propose three things you can do to improve your leadership skills

Debriefing and Progress Report

• Imagine your organization is in survival mode as it tries to ride out the economic downfall. The organization has adopted a strategy of 20 percent reduction in staff compensation in order to prevent layoffs. It is not plausible this strategy will retain top talent if it continues to be the company’s strategy. As an HR executive at the company, you have been asked to develop a pay-for-performance strategy. Address how you would approach this task and what you would propose.

1200 words

10 hrs

urgent

 discuss the areas of employee safety that are most important to you. Do you feel the organization has the same concerns as you? Why? 

Write a 5-6 page paper in APA format with 6 references to address the following:

1. Discuss the influence social media has (or could have) on Human Resource Management success.
2. What are the challenges of Human Resource Management professionals using social media to learn about current and potential employees?
3. The link below talks about how Facebook recruits. Bring in three other real-life, private sector employers (by name from your readings/research) and discuss their approaches to social media in the Human Resource Management context. 

https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/technology/Pages/How-Facebook-Recruits.aspx

Imagine that you have just been hired by a new company as the director of the HR department. You have been tasked to hire a new secretary for the department and to develop an employee compensation and benefits package that will be used for that position upon hire. Develop a PowerPoint presentation to present this information to your Vice President. Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Website, located at www.bls.gov, for information regarding organizations and pay in your geographical area.  

Section 1: NarrativeWrite a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Choose the type of organization for which you are designing the package.
2. Develop an employee compensation and benefits package for this new position. Support your ideas for the compensation/benefits package.
3. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Section 1 of 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.

Section 2: PresentationCreate a twenty (20) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

4.  Provide an overview of the employee compensation and benefits package that you developed in the narrative portion of this assignment.5.  Determine if the employee will be exempt or nonexempt and discuss how overtime will be handled.6.  Suggest other benefits that might be considered within the next few months to enhance employee performance and provide job motivation.7.  Provide information on how government regulations will influence the compensation.8.  Examine data from two (2) organizations listed in the BLS Website with packages similar to yours, focusing on salary, compensation, and benefits in order to convince upper management that your package should be accepted and implemented.9.  Describe how the competitive compensation and benefits package will align with the HRM strategy.