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 Identify and define your personal philosophy of leadership.You must cite your sources and provide references. The most common place this would be is in Personal Philosophy of Leadership Essay. So, if in your essay or anywhere in your assignment) you write that you identify with “Democratic Leadership because…..” then go on to define it, you will need an in-text citation and a reference page. Another example is if you write, “Democratic Leadership  is one of the most effective leadership styles because it allows lower-level employees to exercise authority they’ll need to use wisely in future positions they might hold. It also resembles how decisions can be made in company board meetings.” You will need an in-text citation and reference page. 

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Learning Activity: Creating a Severance Package

Completing this activity will help you prepare for the upcoming assignment in Week 7. Think of it as practice for the assignment. As such, focus on content, not formatting. Your paper should be no more than 1 to 2 pages in length.

For this activity:

• Create a severance package for a separated employee in a fictitious company. 
  • At a minimum, include: 
    • Position differences.
    • Years of service.
    • Actual compensation amounts.
    • Any additional benefits that you want to add.
• Determine whether severance pay is taxable.
• Create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation. 
  • Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.

Use at least one quality academic resource in this activity. Consider beginning with your course textbook and quality sources that can be found in the Strayer Library.

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

I have a written assignment due. I will attach the requirements needed to complete this assignment. Please be advised that there is a 300 word minimum for this assignment. Must use required reading for in text-citations. Must use APA formatting.

Note: Only up to 20% of content in the written assignment can be quotes from third parties. 

• If your organization uses e-learning, is it effective for training employees? Why or why not?
• What online training and development systems/methods would you recommend? Explain

How do you feel about becoming a social change agent, leader, and advocate? What areas of interest do you have that are related to bringing about a society committed to the mental health and welfare of its members? How might you inspire current and future students and colleagues so that they relate to and become engaged in doing something to bring about this vision? How do you plan to remain a competent human services professional?

Human services professionals are committed to understanding and addressing professional and societal issues. As you continue on your journey as a human services professional, it is your responsibility to constantly engage in professional development. This engagement might include continuing education courses, conferences, graduate degrees, certifications, and research, to name a few.

To prepare:

• Identify at least three personal and/or professional commitments that you are willing to make as a result of your understanding of the need for social change, leadership, and advocacy.
• Consider steps you might take in your professional development to become a more effective social change agent, leader, and advocate.
• Consider how your new understanding might impact your future work as a human and social services professional.

 I need someone to reply to two discussion that I have for class, the  response to these question should be on a graduate level, and responses  should be at least two paragraphs. 

Select 2-3 of the journal questions located on the LHRD 4804 Professional Development Internship Instructions and answer them.

Make sure your submitted word document has a heading at the top including your name, course number, and date. Your journal entry should be no less than one page (as measured by Microsoft Word, Times New Roman 12 point font.) You are required to keep a copy of this journal entry. 

You are the newly appointed director of human resource management for the police department of a city in the northeastern United States. Your organization has struggled to hire new police officers for some time. Your predecessor attempted to increase recruitment and selection of new officers by implementing an employee referral plan; however, the number of new officers hired through referrals has fallen short of hiring goals. The need for police officers intensified when your city’s newly elected mayor promised to lower crime by increasing the number of police patrols in high-crime areas. The police department has met the need for increased patrols by assigning existing police officers additional hours and paying overtime wages. As the number of hours worked and overtime payments increased over time, the practice—originally intended to be a short-term remedy—attracted unwanted attention. A front-page article in your city’s newspaper has revealed that three police officers earned higher annual salaries than the mayor, due to excessive overtime. Stung and embarrassed by this disclosure, the mayor fired your predecessor and put you in his place. Both the mayor and your boss have given orders to “reduce overtime by hiring new police officers immediately!” The mayor’s mandate to cut the overtime of currently employed police officers has created an employee relations problem. Officers on the city’s police force have worked extra hours for so long that the extra overtime pay is now perceived as an entitlement. Some police officers have assumed loans or increased living expenses in the expectation that the opportunity to earn overtime pay would continue. The officers are now unhappy that their ability to earn overtime pay will be greatly reduced (by the hiring of new police recruits) and are upset by the manner in which they learned about city management’s decision to cut overtime pay. Representatives of the officer’s union have responded with the attached “Memo on Police Officers’ Reaction to Planned Cuts in Overtime Pay.” You must manage the current conflict between the police officers and city management and try to prevent future conflicts by developing a workplace culture that creates a positive work environment for employees and management. You will also revise job descriptions and selection procedures using the attached “Job Description of City Police Officers” to make managing workplace conflict a required job competency.

Competencies

3039.1.2 : Job Analysis

The graduate evaluates jobs and develops job descriptions.

3039.1.5 : Employee Relations

The graduate identifies employee-relations activities, policies, and procedures for balancing the rights of employer and employee in order to support strategic goals, objectives, and values of the organization.

Introduction

In today’s hypercompetitive business environment, an organization’s sustainable competitive advantage is derived largely from intangible assets: human, social, and intellectual capital. Intangible assets are produced by skilled, capable workers. Human resource professionals enable current and future organizational competitiveness by maintaining an adequate supply of people with the skills, knowledge, and abilities needed to produce these resources. This is accomplished through workforce planning, recruitment and selection of top-quality talent, and effective employee relations management. As a human resource professional, your ability to effectively identify your organization’s need for employees, plan and implement employee recruitment and selection strategies, and manage employee relations will directly contribute to your organization’s success.

Scenario

You are the newly appointed director of human resource management for the police department of a city in the northeastern United States. Your organization has struggled to hire new police officers for some time. Your predecessor attempted to increase recruitment and selection of new officers by implementing an employee referral plan; however, the number of new officers hired through referrals has fallen short of hiring goals. The need for police officers intensified when your city’s newly elected mayor promised to lower crime by increasing the number of police patrols in high-crime areas. The police department has met the need for increased patrols by assigning existing police officers additional hours and paying overtime wages. As the number of hours worked and overtime payments increased over time, the practice—originally intended to be a short-term remedy—attracted unwanted attention. A front-page article in your city’s newspaper has revealed that three police officers earned higher annual salaries than the mayor, due to excessive overtime. Stung and embarrassed by this disclosure, the mayor fired your predecessor and put you in his place. Both the mayor and your boss have given orders to “reduce overtime by hiring new police officers immediately!” The mayor’s mandate to cut the overtime of currently employed police officers has created an employee relations problem. Officers on the city’s police force have worked extra hours for so long that the extra overtime pay is now perceived as an entitlement. Some police officers have assumed loans or increased living expenses in the expectation that the opportunity to earn overtime pay would continue. The officers are now unhappy that their ability to earn overtime pay will be greatly reduced (by the hiring of new police recruits) and are upset by the manner in which they learned about city management’s decision to cut overtime pay. Representatives of the officer’s union have responded with the attached “Memo on Police Officers’ Reaction to Planned Cuts in Overtime Pay.” You must manage the current conflict between the police officers and city management and try to prevent future conflicts by developing a workplace culture that creates a positive work environment for employees and management. You will also revise job descriptions and selection procedures using the attached “Job Description of City Police Officers” to make managing workplace conflict a required job competency.

Requirements

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Create a report (suggested length of 3–5 pages) in which you discuss strategies for managing conflict caused by cuts in overtime pay.

A.  Discuss three causes of workplace conflict between the city’s police officers and city management in the current situation.
 

B.  Discuss two possible short-term outcomes if the conflict is not resolved.
 

C.  Discuss two possible long-term outcomes if the conflict is not resolved.
 

D.  Discuss three possible actions for resolving the current conflict about overtime pay.
 

E.  Design a plan to create a more positive work culture in the city’s police department by doing the following:

1.  Discuss two basic components of a work culture that prevent negative conflict.

2.  Create two new specifications for the “required” section of the attached “Job Description of City Police Officers” that relate to a candidate’s ability to effectively manage workplace conflict.

3.  Create three situational interview questions designed to illuminate a job candidate’s competency in managing workplace conflict.
 

F.  Explain two methods of evaluating improvements in employee relations in the city police department.
 

G.  When you use sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project, provide acknowledgement of source information for any content that is quoted, paraphrased or summarized. Acknowledgement of source information includes:

•  Author

•  Date

•  Title

•  Location of information (e.g., publisher, journal, or website URL)

Based on the course readings, supplementary materials, and your own literature search via the CTU online library, please submit Part 1 of your Organizational Change Action Plan.

This part of the Organizational Change Action Plan should include the following components:

In your planning stage, I cannot over-emphasize the importance of communication.  Be sure to build that into your plan.

Part 1: Background of the Organizational and its Current Situation

Introduction Overview of the organization

 Overview of the organization’s industry, environment, and competition

 Background of the change initiative

 Review of the failed change effort

 Potential consequences if effective change is not adopted

 References (minimum of 5 scholarly references) 

Imagine you work at a company and it is time for an employee named Jim’s annual review. While he was a model employee the first nine months of the year, recently Jim has been coming in late. It has not been just a few minutes each day, either. It is starting to cause problems in the production line. In this assignment, write a summary of how you would approach your conversation with Jim. How will you address his recent performance issues while still praising him for his previous nine months of good work? Your goal is to balance negative and positive feedback so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best. This assignment should focus on your goals for the conversation and which employee relations approaches you will use to address the situation.

Write a 5–7 paragraph paper in which you:

· Explain how you will address Jim’s recent performance issues.

· Suggest both constructive and positive feedback designed so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.

· Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

o This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. 

o Include at least one reference to support your paper.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

· Recommend a plan for addressing performance issues in an annual review that includes motivational feedback.