Discussion post 1-7 attached, chapters 1 and 2 added for discussion post 1-3.

Need two paragraphs on ways in which stakeholders affect communication.

1 reference.

Question # 1

Based on the reading for this week, identify an artifact and a value in your organization. 

Describe each one in detail.  

https://www.thercfgroup.com/files/resources/Defining-Culture-and-Organizationa-Culture_5.pdf 

http://www.businessmanagementib.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/11758934/________types_of_organisational_culture.pdf 

Question #2

https://learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/content/484531/viewContent/18262372/View 

Based on the interview with Schein, respond to these questions:

a. How does Schein define culture in this interview?

b. When does culture matter, according to Schein?

c. Why does Schein say that “best practices” do not work?

Respond to two classmates.

You must start a thread before you can read and reply to other threads 

Responses must be 2-3 paragraphs, 200+ words

2 references required

Use references that were provided 

If you or your home were to be impacted by a disaster, do you feel there is overlap or gaps in the federal assistance strategies and resources that would be available to you or your state? Explain your concern, and give an example of how it might personally affect you. 

300 WORDS , NO REFERENCE NEEDED

Unit 4: Discussion

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Introduction

Students are required to participate in the discussion area each week. Discussions will involve students finding and presenting material upon which classmates will reflect and discuss. 

Directions

Post a question based on an article, book, video, podcast, or any other current (less than 4 years old) material relevant to the current unit’s key topic. You are encouraged to use the Park course library to find an article.  The article must support a business case for HR management. Each student must post a question based on their article no later than Tuesday of each week in order to receive full discussion points. If you miss the Tuesday deadline ten percent will be deducted from the final discussion grade for the week. The Tuesday deadline enhances the discussion area and provides others with an opportunity to comment on your posts. 

Each student must also respond (reply) to at least two other student’s posted questions, a student’s response to a question, or to instructor input.  Two peer responses are due each week.

All initial questions input must be accompanied by a summary of the selected article. There is no length requirement for the question. However, the question must be comprehensive (a summary analysis of the key article points followed by a question that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no response. The peer responses are required to be comprehensive and clearly state your reason for agreeing or disagreeing with the post in a professional manner. Peer responses are not just short responses like: “I agree.”  Peer responses must include data or other information that makes an HR business case for the response (with at least one source for support).

Option #1: Develop Applications Relative to Course Objectives 

As part of successfully completing this course, you should be able to master the eight course objectives:

1. Demonstrate the need for project management metrics.
2. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope.
3. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics.
4. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management.
5. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics.
6. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations.
7. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
8. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.

In this portfolio project, you are to show your mastery of the eight course objectives at a master’s level. You are to write a paper that covers each of the eight topics.

Notice that each objective is written with a verb as the first word to show some action that students must achieve for success in this class. Verbs like “demonstrate,” “apply,” and “create” require that the student takes some action on a project to satisfy the requirement. You should find a project to use in this portfolio where you may take those actions and document them in your paper. You might apply earned value analysis on a project underway to satisfy course objective number 5, for example.

Verbs like “establish,” “characterize,” and “explore” require that the student shows mastery of current thinking on the subject. This part of your paper may be taken from research, or interviews. You might explore an application of dashboards by interviewing a project manager and performing research on current thinking about dashboards, for example.

Therefore, your paper should include sections to address the following:

1. Identify and describe an actual project that was successful in part because it used project metrics, what those metrics were, and why they were a contributing factor to success.
2. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about effective management of time, cost, and scope with metrics.
3. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about the key characteristics of properly defined metrics, and identify and describe an actual project to compare its use of metrics to your research to determine if the metrics were properly defined.
4. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about KPIs.
5. Show your application of value-based project management metrics on a project with which you are familiar and interpret the results of your application.
6. Research and report on performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations, and visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
7. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management on a project with which you are familiar.

Since the key sections of your work correspond to individual module of the course, it is recommended that you progressively develop your project based on the weekly topics.

Paper Requirements:

• Prepare a portfolio paper to address the eight-course objective. All eight course objectives must be addressed. The Course Objectives are: 
  1. Demonstrate the need for project management metrics and benefits of metric-driven project management.
  2. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope.
  3. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics.
  4. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management.
  5. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics.
  6. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations.
  7. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
  8. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.
• Incorporate at least 10-12 current peer-reviewed scholarly references (current means published in past five years). The CSU-Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find your sources. Additionally, be sure to visit the Library’s Project Management Resource Guide (Links to an external site.) for assistance with research and writing.
• Incorporate any constructive feedback provided by your instructor on your work in Week 2.
• Properly organize your writing and include an introductory section with thesis and mapping, headings/subheadings for the body of your work, discussion, recommendations, and a conclusion.
• Any diagram, figure, or table should be included in an appendix, but clearly discussed in the text portion of the paper. Appendices should be included after the references.
• Format your entire paper in accordance with the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.).

Your paper must be 10 pages long, not including the required title page and references page or any other supplemental pages such as appendices that you choose to include.

There are many evident trends that impact workforce planning (for example, growth in the Hispanic population, an aging population, geographic growth in some places and declines in others, and possible changes in government economic policies). For this discussion, select a trend, and, using at least two sources, describe how you believe this trend will impact an organization’s ability to forecast its workforce needs.

In your opinion, what benefits are of greatest value to employees? To the organization? Why?

PART 1

Think about how human resources are handled at the company you work for, or one you have worked for in the past. In the discussion thread, comment on the following questions:

1. What steps of the human resources cycle does the company handle well? Why?

2. What steps of the human resources cycle are handled poorly? Why?

3. How is culture impacted by the Human Resources department?

Thoroughly review the following video:

Based on your review, please respond to the following:

As important as compensation is to employees so is how compensation is communicated by the organization. As Chief HR Officer for the company what key ideas would you implement in the company to ensure communication of the compensation plan is effective? Be specific.