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MBO 

ABC company management has decided to revamp their performance appraisal system. As human resources director, you have been tasked with outlining a new program. The goal is to move every business unit to an MBO performance system. The company’s goals as a whole have been set for the year. Now it is time to deliver the program to the various business units. The first area being converted is the sales department. To prepare for the change, you are tasked with the following. 

1. Define an MBO performance appraisal system, including a description of its six (6) steps. 

2. Identify and describe the three (3) areas where there may be problems implementing an MBO system.

3. Include one (1) possible solution to overcome each of the identified problems that is directly related to implementing the system with salespeople.

ASSIGNMENT #2:  Your specific assignment for this module is to select a health care organization for your project and have it approved by your professor. You may consider any health care organization as long as you have enough access to the organization and/or level of understanding of that organization necessary to complete the assignment.

Note: You will not be asked to reveal any proprietary or confidential information in your reports. In addition, there are several health care organizations that do a fantastic job of publicly disclosing their health information infrastructure in an online format such as: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/the_johns_hopkins_hospital/ . If you don’t have direct access to a health care organization, you can use one of the health care organizations that provides its health information infrastructure online.

Accordingly, your selected health care organization can be:

·  The organization for which you work.

·  A health care organization for which a friend or relative works. You must be able to access information concerning this organization that is relevant to your SLP assignments.

·  A local health care organization that is willing to share insight about how it manages health information.

·  Any health care organization that makes public its approach to health information management, operations, and organizational structure.

******Provide a 7- to 10-slide (not including title slide and reference slides) PowerPoint presentation on the health care organization you have selected. Provide a brief overview of the health care organization. Next, discuss the types of health care information systems the organization uses (i.e., EHR, clinical decision support, patient portals, etc.). Finally, close with describing how these systems impact patient outcomes, quality and/or safety. PROVIDE SPEAKER NOTES TO SUPPORT YOUR SLIDES. 

REQUIRED READINGS: Kruse, C. S., & Beane, A. (2018). Health Information Technology Continues to Show Positive Effect on Medical Outcomes: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8793

Paul, R. J., Ezz, I., & Kuljis, J. (2012). Healthcare information systems: A patient-user perspective. Health Systems, 1(2), 85–95. https://doi.org/10.1057/hs.2012.17

Fichman, R. (2011). The role of information systems in healthcare: Current research and future trends. Information Systems Research, 22 (3): 419–428. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Understanding Health IT Usability through User Experience (UX). Retrieved from: https://www.himss.org/library/user-experience-healthcare-it

Option #1: Strategy 3: Total Rewards Program 

For the Module 3 Milestone assignment, create a framework with the critical components for a total  rewards program to increase employee interaction, production, and morale. Include  specific objectives that drive the framework.

This Milestone assignment should be no more than two pages in length  (not including cover and reference pages), so focus on being clear and concise.  Your Milestone should be formatted according to the  CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.) and  supported by a minimum of two academic sources.

Review the rubric in the Module 3 folder  for specific grading criteria.

• Unhappy with her job, Terri goes to her friend and coworker Joyce and suggests that what the workplace really needs is a union. She thinks this would keep their jobs free from discrimination. Joyce suggests that there are laws that already protect them from discrimination but there may be other benefits to a union.This week will focus on the protected activities of a labor union, in addition to the history of labor unions and their current practices. You will see a clear difference between employment law from the rest of the course and the labor law that is explored this week. The pendulum swings back and forth for the strength of unions and, historically, it is has been a power struggle between management and the union. You will also learn the different types of union shops so that if you are ever in an HRM professional position to work with a union, you will have some awareness and know some questions to ask.
  TO DO LIST:
  • Discussion: Redefine the role and purpose of the modern union so it effectively serves its membership.
  • Assignment: Prepare and record a presentation of 4–6 PowerPoint slides that explains and analyzes the key elements of National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp., 1963.
  • What You Need To Know: Study the case and the laws to learn more about employer/union rights and obligations.
  • Interactive Learning Module: Practice identifying the different types of union shops through the scenarios and questions in the activity.
  • Prepare: Review the assignment for next week, HR Challenge: OSHA Analysis.
• Discussion Overview
  Redefine the role and purpose of the modern union so it effectively serves its membership.
• Assignment OverviewBased on key guidelines from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), analyze the National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp., 1963 case. Prepare and record a 4–6 slide PowerPoint presentation that explains and analyzes key elements of the case.
• What You Need to Know
  Legal Background
  Read the course file, Legal Background: Labor Unions [PDF], for a basic understanding of the topic for this week. This background information is intended to support your learning like a section of a textbook.
  Case
  Analyze this case using the IRAC method in preparation for your assignment.
  • National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp., 373 U.S. 734 (1963). 
    • Focus area: Curbing the notion of closed shop.
  • Labor Unions
    These articles will give you background information on the types of union shops to help you analyze the case for your assignment.
  • Otani, A. (2013, July 15). Hostess Twinkies return to stores, but unionized jobs disappear. Christian Science Monitor.
    • A series of cost saving measures brings Hostess company back from bankruptcy, but at the cost of union jobs.
  • Herbert, W. A. (2019). Janus v AFSCME, Council 31: Judges will haunt you in the second gilded age. Relations Industrielles, 74(1), 162–173. 
    • This article is about the serious changes for rules on public sector unions (such as government employers), and open, closed, union, and agency shops.
  • Key Labor Laws
    These laws and a web page outline the legal rights and obligations of employers and unions.
  • National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act). 
    • The Wagner Act helped address the causes of labor disputes and the obstruction of interstate and foreign commerce. Also, this act created the National Labor Relations Board.
  • Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act). 
    • Amended the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 to provide additional facilities for the mediation of labor disputes affecting commerce and to equalize legal responsibilities of labor organizations and employers.
  • Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (Landrum-Griffith Act). 
    • This act provides for the reporting and disclosure of certain financial transactions and administrative practices of labor organizations and employers to prevent abuses as well as provide standards for the election of officers to labor organizations.
  • National Labor Relations Board. (n.d.). Employer/union rights and obligations.Retrieved from https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/rights/employer-union-rights-and-obligations 
    • Web page with current descriptions of the rights and obligations of employers and unions.
  • Kaltura
    Prepare to record your presentation using Kaltura. See Tools and Resources for more information.
• Interactive Learning Module: Types of Union Agreements
  Access this interactive activity to learn more about unions. Understanding basic union organization is essential for the HRM professional. Whether your job involves working with union representatives or not, you should understand how the laws around union activity have impacted employee relations. This background will help you analyze the case for your assignment.
  LAUNCH INTERACTIVE MODULE
• Write Your Discussion Post
  The Role of Unions in the Twenty-First Century
  What will be the role of labor unions in the twenty-first century? Some argue that the traditional role of the union in protecting the worker has been usurped by significant legislation protecting the worker against discrimination, unsafe work conditions, and unfair pay. Others point out that unions remain indispensable for several reasons; for example, because “at-will” employment is still the law of the land, meaning that most workers can be fired for any reason.
  • How does the role and purpose of the modern union need to be redefined to effectively serve its membership?
  • How does the presence of a union influence the job of the HR professional?

 write a review that looks at the article’s strengths and weaknesses in terms of what the article is attempting to accomplish. Your review should be approx. 200 words and include description, paraphrases, and your own analysis. Your review should also include the full reference for the chosen article using the either APA or UTS Harvard referencing system. 

 Rasmussen, T., & Ulrich, D. (2015). Learning from practice: how HR analytics avoids being a management fadLinks to an external site.. Organizational Dynamics, 44(3), 236–242. 

Human Resource Initiatives (Primary Research Assignment)

Primary research for this assignment can be in the form of a personal or telephone interview.  With COVID-19, please utilize technology to conduct your interview, so the interview is not face-to-face (teleconference, video conference, etc.).  The person must be an expert in the human resource field, someone who has first-hand experience with the initiative or issue, reporting of direct observation from you in a researcher role or a human resource role.

Secondary research does not require an interview and we continue to gather data by utilizing existing research.

Topic: Human Resource Working Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Topic Selections:

• Remote Working Plan (telework)
• Business Continuity Plan
• Managing Employee Communication
• Maintaining Organizational Culture
• Talent Acquisition and Retention
• Engaging Remote Employees
• Essential versus Non-Essential Employees
• Implementation of Preventative Measures
• Considerations to Remain Open or Re-Opening
• Investment in Technology
• Handling of Sick Leave and/or Time-Off

Our paper must select a minimum of 5 COVID-19 HR related topics.

• Person to interview
• Consider the COVID-19 learning objectives or concepts of interest to research
• 5-6 page paper demonstrating an understanding of Human Resource application of course concepts
• A minimum of 6 references
  • We must use a minimum of 3 references from our Annotated Bibliography. 
  • We must use information from the course textbook to support your paper.  
  • Find additional peer-reviewed journal articles from Welder Library E-Resources or Google Scholar to support your paper (minimum of 5). Your articles must be within the last 10 years. 

Paper Requirements:

Write a 5-6 page paper demonstrating an understanding of the application of course concepts. A good rule of thumb is to introduce the subject discussed and use the information from your interview to support the subject. You must include citations from the course textbook and a minimum of four scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles (from Welder Library E-resources) to support your paper. Also, make sure how to review how to cite an interview in APA.  (Links to an external site.)

• Your paper is required to be in APA. 
• Include a title page 
• You do NOT need an abstract
• Avoid first person. 
• Include a reference page with a minimum of 6 sources (the course textbook and 5 peer reviewed journal articles). If you list a source as a reference,  you must include an in-text citation within your paper for that source.v

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• Why should health care managers know about specific recruitment strategies? Explain. 
• What strategies do you believe would be most effective? Why? 
• 175 words minimum 200 max.
• DUE TODAY 8/23/20

• Describe what an IRB is and how research is approved.  
• Comment on regulatory protections of human subjects in research, and most particularly when IRB approval is needed.  
• Include two examples of human research studies that went awry, and the lessons learned from those examples. 
• Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words

In a page define total quality management. Explain the importance of designing and implementing a total quality management within different divisions of an organization so that the effective outcome contributes to optimizing organizational performance. Then explain and describe different types of known total quality management programs and discuss ways to ensure that a specific total quality control program contributes to an organization’s ability to excel in all areas. 

In order to explain you may need to include, explanation, and analyze the importance of control measures to ensure total quality management programs.

Be sure to use references in APA format and include intext citation.