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As a new Human Resources Manager, you’ve been tasked with creating (or redesigning) an incentive plan for a common job in your organization. Based on what you’ve learned in class, consider the following:

• What factors will help you create an effective variable rate (aka incentive) pay plan?
• How will you decide whether to use individual employee, work unit/team, organization-wide incentives, or some combination?
• What key performance indicators will determine employees’ variable pay?
• What type of incentive pay-out structure will be most appropriate for this specific job, and why?  How will it motivate employees while maximize organizational success?

Write an initial post that addresses this in detail, using research content to support your answers.

Role and Functions of HR

Overview

As part of an orientation program for new managers, HR has developed a section of the orientation designed to help new managers learn more about HR’s functions and role in helping them become more effective in handling their HR responsibilities.

Using the course readings and articles, address the role of human resource management. Support your analysis with a minimum of three credible sources of research. (Keep in mind this document is meant for an orientation. The new managers may or may not have a strong understanding of the role of HR in health care.)

Instructions

Write an informational, 2 pages handout that addresses the following:

1. Determine the key roles that human resource management plays in today’s health care organizations.
2. Evaluate three to five core functions of human resource management in terms of their level of support to a health care organization.
3. Justify which HR function you believe is the most important in helping a health care organization achieve its strategy.
4. Analyze the role of human resource management in an organization’s strategic plan.
5.  Locate at least three quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Post a cohesive response to the following:

Post a model you have selected that health care organizations might use to improve the culture of quality. Describe whether the ethical theory of Just Culture would improve the quality of a health care organization and how.

Support your response by identifying and explaining key points and/or examples presented in the Learning Resources.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Consider how your colleagues’ postings relate to the information presented in the Learning Resources and to your own posting.

Assignment 4

“Civil Service and Interviewing Techniques”  Please respond to the following:

• From the case study “Didn’t Cut It? Hire Another”, state your analysis of the following and justify your response: 
  • The types of management errors were committed
  • Other options Kathy and Sam could have considered to fill this position that might have led to a more successful hiring decision

Assignment 1: Strategy, Planning, and Selection 
Due Week 3 and worth 170 points 

Assume for this assignment that you are being highly considered for a director-level HR management position for a best-in-class national retailer. You are in the final phase of the interview process and must respond to the interview panel regarding specific questions and scenarios that will help them determine if you are a good fit for the new role. The company’s culture is centered on the effective development of strategy, plans, and selection criteria aimed at building and sustaining a competitive and profitable organization. It will be extremely important that you respond with a strategic mindset in order to convince the organization you are able to help them ensure the execution of the business strategy. 

Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you: 

• Analyze different types of strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, and focus/niche) and select which one you would deem more appropriate for an “efficiency-minded” retail organization and explain your rationale. How would the selected strategy ultimately affect how HR does its job? 
• Examine the four (4) approaches to job design/redesign and provide an example (not a definition) of each. Then, make a case to the interviewing panel on the importance of effective job design applications in supporting the overall strategic goals of the organization. 
• Consider challenges and constraints associated with recruiting workers and identify and discuss at least two (2) issues. What advice would you give to ease your selected issues? Be specific. 
• List and describe 2–3 candidate selection process ideas that might add value and overall effectiveness to the process. HINT: http://www.selectinternational.com/blog/bid/147051/5-Tips-for-Designing-an-Effective-Employee-Selection-System. Also, what problems should HR and management teams avoid during the selection process? 
• Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements: 
  1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
  2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment (with running head), the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. 
  3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. Use the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to locate additional sources to support your work. 

The specific course outcomes associated with this assignment are:  

• Assess the strategic role of human resource management and the components that provide a competitive advantage to the organization. 
• Examine the human resource management functions of recruiting and selecting, and their importance to business strategy. 

this is assignment 1 that assignment 2 piggy back off 

When most people think about identifying a crisis or disaster, the first ones that come to mind are usually natural disasters like tsunamis, earthquakes, or draughts. Others may first think of wars, terrorism, or genocide. As counselor educators, you should be aware of all types of crisis that may occur, including business crises such as those that involve the global outsourcing of jobs or de-centralization of business functions. Political, personal, financial, or technological crises also are important categories to consider. For this Discussion, however, the focus is on the first types of crises mentioned—natural disasters and terrorist events.

Regardless of the type of crisis/disaster, the duration and intensity—or scope—of a crisis directs how your organization, community, or region will be impacted and the extent of the disaster response. The scope of a disaster also dictates whether an area is declared a disaster area by a nation’s leaders, whether assistance from outside your area will be needed, and the length of time necessary for disaster recovery efforts.

Another area counselor educators should investigate relates to the demographics of the crisis/disaster population. Knowing this information will inform you and first responders of cultural considerations involved. The U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts provides age, gender, ethnicity, home ownership, language, median income, and education level for your state, county, and city. This demographic data may be explored online.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review Chapter 2 in your course text, Crisis Management in the New Strategy Landscape, focusing on the types of crisis trends presented.
• Review the article, “Crisis in Context Theory: An Ecological Model,” and consider the proposed model for understanding the impact of crises.
• Review the articles, “Latina Mothers’ Perceptions of Mental Health and Mental Health Promotion” and “Risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression in Survivors of the Floods in Bahir, India” to help you understand multicultural considerations related to crisis responding.
• Review the articles, “Disaster Response: Mental Health Effects among WTC Rescue and Recovery Workers” and “Rescuing the Rescuers: First Responders at Risk,” for examples of health provider responses.
• Review Chapter 3 of the video, The Soldier’s Heart, and consider the impact of combat on those in the military.
• Review the articles, “The Hierarchy of Needs and Care Planning in Addiction Services: What Maslow Can Tell Us about Addressing Competing Priorities?” and “Basic Need Status and Health-Promoting Self-Care Behavior in Adults.” Think about how basic need satisfaction is correlated to health-promoting, self-care behavior and how this relates to crisis management and response.
• Choose a natural disaster or terrorist activity that would affect your community to use for this assignment. Think about the ways in which it would affect your community. Please choose an event other than Hurricane Katrina.
• Review demographics online at the U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts website to determine the characteristics of those who might be affected by this particular event. If you live outside the U.S., research your location.
• You should obtain data such as age, gender, ethnicity, home ownership, language, median income, and education level for your state, county, and city.

Three core concepts are relevant to members of human and social services professions: social change, leadership, and advocacy. Broadly speaking, social change has to do with righting the wrongs in society; leadership means being a guiding force in fostering social and professional change; and advocacy refers to sponsoring or promoting such change. Because these concepts are intrinsic to human services professionals, it is imperative to explore each of these core concepts more deeply, evaluate their meanings, and consider how they are alike and different.

To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources. Think about similarities and differences among the concepts of social change, leadership, and advocacy.

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 3

Post a brief explanation of two similarities and two differences between each pair of concepts (i.e., social change vs. leadership, social change vs. advocacy, and leadership vs. advocacy). Provide examples to illustrate your points. Then, explain 2–3 conclusions you drew or insights you had as a result of doing the comparison.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

MGMT 2115 – HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR ONLINE COURSE

Pick an article from the Savannah Morning News, Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution or any other business publication. 

THE ARTICLE MUST BE RELATED TO THE FIELD OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

You will submit a PowerPoint slide presentation (PP) about this article.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE POWERPOINT SLIDES:

• Create       a PowerPoint slide presentation – there is no designated number of slides.       Slides must cover the subject matter.

 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION EVALUATION

Grading Criteria: Each criterion = 20 points each

Total possible points = 200  SCORE

PP = PowerPoint slides

· Presenter submitted PP within designated timeframe      _______

· PP – article is related to the field of HR Management   _______

· PP – includes “bullet points” (no paragraphs or long sentences) 

(no more than 6 “bullet points” per slide; no more than 8 words

per bullet point)  _______        

· PP –  information is organized and detailed     _______

· PP – contains appropriate amount of information – (this means

that the “bullet points” accurately reflect the information you

wish to convey)         _______

· PP –   information is presented in a logical and interesting

sequence (flows)    _______

· PP –   slides are “aesthetically appropriate and pleasing” (slides have appropriate color, background, font (size/theme), pictures, etc.   ______   

· PP –   includes your reaction to the article   _______  

· PP –  includes why he/she selected this HR article       _______

· PP – slides are free of grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors   ______   

TOTAL SCORE (Max 200 points)  ________