Further Analysis

Please review the DQ forum for this week. Select 2-3 postings from your peers to analyze in your personal assignment response. For your personal assignment this week;

Write a 3 page summary on your analysis of the discussion comments and how you believe this content has increased your ethical self-awareness. Please include alternatives, analysis, application, and action.

The assignment should be submitted as a Word document and APA format is required. The title page and reference page are not counted in the 3 page requirement. 

Performance Management

Please review the following scenario and place yourself in the position of the new Human Resource Manager for Acme Manufacturing. Once you understand the circumstances of the problems in this organization, please respond to the questions that the General Manager has posed.

Scenario: You just started work as the new Human Resources Manager for Acme Manufacturing, a Fortune 1,000 company. The job was vacant for 6 months prior to your hiring. You have wondered about this, especially since reading about employee harassment incidents and fights recently in the news.

The General Manager (GM) calls you into his office the minute you arrive. He shuts the door after saying a quick word of welcome and begins to tell you about an incident that happened last week that needs your immediate attention. The company’s manufacturing operation runs three shifts of production workers so that the plant is operating 24/7. Over the past 6 months, hostilities have arisen between employees on the third and first shifts. What started out as jeering and criticisms by the first shift, claiming they have to clean up the mess and complete all of the work left undone by the third shift, has escalated to physical confrontations and altercations. Although the GM says that aggressive bantering back and forth is common for shift workers in manufacturing, he admits that he is worried about further violent escalation. The GM says he needs your help.

  • Where do you think that this evaluation should begin? In your reply, explain your reasoning.
  • Explain the different levels of disciplinary actions that will be used for the Acme Manufacturing Company. Your reply should include the levels of discipline and 1 example of a disciplinary action for each level.
  • How would you determine the disciplinary action appropriate for the employees involved in this scenario? Your response should include your reasoning.
  • Why would you draft policies and procedures associated with disciplinary actions for the workplace? Provide a minimum of 2 reasons in your response.
  • How would you ensure that the entire workforce is trained on these new policies and procedures? Provide 1 example in your response.

Write a 5–7-page memo to the GM that provides your responses to his questions above. Be sure to cite any references used in proper APA format.

Labor Relations and Management Review and Reflection

Review and reflect on what you learned in the past 8 weeks. What is the most practical and easily applied lesson you learned? What was the hardest to grasp? Why?Why or why not?  

Provide a brief overview of the lessons over the past eight weeks.  Nothing was too hard to grasp, the material was straight forward and informative. 

Racial and Ethnic Identity discussion

 

Racial and Ethnic Identity – Affinity Group

In Unit 1, you completed reading “Section II: Race and Ethnicity” in the Culture and Identity text. Select the story you most identify with and respond to the following questions:

  • Which aspect of the story is closest to your own experience of racial or ethnic identity?
  • Which aspect of the story is furthest away from your own experience of racial or ethnic identity?
  • Each story presents an assessment section. Use your personal experience and respond to the questions in the assessment section of your selected story.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the posts of at least two learners. Compare and contrast the key aspects of their racial or ethnic identity with your own assessment of your racial and ethnic identity.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

  • Explore the historical or cultural and social factors that impact the development of personal identity.
  • Explore factors that impact the development of cultural beliefs.

Resources

Employ: Research Process High-speed rail

Instructions

Employ: Research Process

Evaluation Title: Research

This course requires the completion of a major research paper (8 to 10 content pages, not including the title, abstract and reference page) for the final assignment. In order to do this, the writing must be in a style appropriate for an academic discourse community and the references should be academic references. At least five of the articles must be located in the Herzing University Library

This week’s assignment builds on the unit 4 assessment and completes the gathering of reference materials.

  • Begin with the introduction to the paper which should include the thesis statement.
  • Submit a minimum of 7 primary resources and 3 secondary resources, for one of the following topics (In Unit 4, 3 primary and 2 secondary resources were submitted-please highlight these resources in the new document)
    • 3D Printing
    • High-speed rail
    • Stem Cell Research
    • Crowdfunding
  • Complete the literature review for each of the resources identified
  • Include the APA reference page

The literary resources and introduction should be in APA format.

All citations and references should be in APA format.