Performance Appraisal System

The evaluation of performance should be a process that assists in achieving individual and organizational goals and serves as a catalyst for overcoming challenges. The assignment connects the dots between the initial position questionnaire, the resulting job analysis, the job design, and finally, the intent of the performance appraisal process.

For this assignment, you will

Evaluate the importance of the initial position questionnaire/interview, the resulting job analysis, the job design, and the performance appraisal process.

Explain how each step is connected and why each is important to the next, ensuring consistency in employee job performance.

Explain the elements that you consider to be important and appropriate for an appraisal system for an individual and the organization based on your evaluation.

Support your decisions with examples and scholarly resources.

The Performance Appraisal System paper

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. 

WK4 PART 1

Your community is undergoing leadership change in both political and emergency management arenas. What are some of the changes that may occur with transformational leadership taking place? How can new personal thoughts and ideas make positive social changes for emergency response leadership?

300 WORDS

Mana 213

Defining and interpreting the following concepts, Create a table with the concepts to the left and the meaning to the right, please give an example of its usage. Please include the references.

Performance analysis

Induction programs

Training

Internal and External Development Centers

Organizational changes

ISO 9000

TQM (Total Quality Management) programs

Process Reengineering

Flexi-time

National Labor Relations Act

 

Discussion #1

What do you see as the most important provision in the Wagner or National Labor Relations Act? Support your view with at least one reference from the class materials.

 

Discussion #2

Review the NLRB Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) process. What is the value of this process? How does it compare to processes in non-union environments?

References

1.  https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/who-we-are/our-history/1935-passage-of-the-wagner-act 

2.   https://learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/content/510257/Home 

3.  https://www.nlrb.gov/resources/nlrb-process/unfair-labor-practice-process-chart 

NOTE……..Pls stick to the references

Cultural Competence Profile – My Practice Skills

 Cultural Competence Profile – My Practice Skills

Select one of the four self-assessments of cultural competence that you completed in the Unit 6 study, identify three strengths you believe you possess, and identify three areas you need to improve.

Select one of the stories from Thomas and Schwarzbaum (2017), “Section III: Immigration and Acculturation,” and discuss how your identified strengths and areas of needed improvement would impact therapeutic work with this person.

 

CULTURAL COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT

Part 1: Self-Assessment

Instructions: This 34 item assessment was developed to heighten your personal awareness of your cultural knowledge, cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural action.

SELF-ASSESSMENT

Cultural Knowledge

Please rate the extent to which you do the following.

  1. I am knowledgeable of my own racial and ethnic heritage.
  2. When in public or at work, I only engage and interact with people of my own race.
  3. When in public or at work, I only engage and interact with people of my own ethnicity.
  4. When in public or at work, I only engage and interact with people of my own social class.
  5. When in public or at work, I only engage and interact with people of my own religion.
  6. When in public or at work, I only engage and interact with people of my own gender.
  7. When in public or at work, I only engage and interact with people of my own age.
  8. During leisure and personal time outside of the public eye, I only engage and interact with people of my own race.
  9. During leisure and personal time outside of the public eye, I only engage and interact with people of my own ethnicity.
  10. During leisure and personal time outside of the public eye, I only engage and interact with people of my own social class.
  11. During leisure and personal time outside of the public eye, I only engage and interact with people of my own religion.
  12. During leisure and personal time outside of the public eye, I only engage and interact with people of my own gender.
  13. During leisure and personal time outside of the public eye, I only engage and interact with people of my own age.
  14. I have firsthand knowledge of others specific cultural facts and insights through direct one-to one personal interactions and communications.
  15. I have firsthand knowledge of others specific cultural facts and insights through direct social interactions and communications.
  16. I have second hand knowledge of others cultural facts and insights through intentionally reading, viewing (documentaries/films), and talking about people whose culture differs from my own.

Cultural Awareness

Please rate the extent to which you do the following.

  1. I am mindful of my thoughts, attitudes, and feelings of others cultural differences when I interact with them.
  2. I recognize the impact of my specific thoughts, attitudes, and feelings I have regarding a culture different from my own.
  3. I recognize the affect my lack of cultural knowledge has on someone’s safety and well-being.
  4. I am always aware (conscience and responsive) to the needs of those whose culture differs from my own.
  5. I always distinguish between others worldviews and my own when interacting with those whose culture differs from my own.
  6. I am always subjective and empathetic when interacting with those whose culture differs from my own.

Cultural Sensitivity

Please rate the extent to which you do the following.

  1. I always demonstrate a welcoming attitude (approach and outlook) of respect when speaking about those whose culture differs from my own regardless of the setting and audience.
  2. I am always genuine (authentic) in my interactions with those whose culture differs from my own regardless of the setting and audience.
  3. I am always aware that I can be effective as a professional and still not be genuine in my interactions with those whose culture differs from my own.
  4. I am proficient in cultural awareness and am aware that certain products and practices can cause harm to those whose culture differs from my own.
  5. I am always able to distinguish between my attitude and the attitude others whose worldviews differs from my own.
  6. I am always responsive and mindful of my attitude when interacting with those whose culture differs from my own regardless of the setting and audience.

Cultural Action

Please rate the extent to which you do the following.

  1. I always respond to the needs of others whose culture differs from my own regardless of the setting and audience.
  2. I always take into consideration cultural differences of when making decisions about others well-being.
  3. I always seek to improve my understanding of how intercultural communications of those whose culture differs from my own can affect decision-making and administrative practices.
  4. I always adjust my tone and approach when I am aware that in doing so fosters trust in certain cultures.
  5. I always take action when I encounter an in justice or offense that occurs due to lack of knowledge and awareness regarding a specific cultural practice.
  6. I always self assess my current knowledge and adjust my attitude toward others in an effort to move beyond barriers of limited traditional assumptions about culture to include the idea that cultures are closed and self contained systems, individuals are primarily part of one culture, there is internal homogeneity and coherence and there are clearly defined borders.

REFERENCES

  • Carrizales, T. (2010). Exploring cultural competency within the public affairs curriculum. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 16(4), 593-606.
  • Rice, M.F. (2015). A post-modern cultural competency framework for public administration and public service delivery.
  • Sharp, B. S., Aguirre, G., & Kickham, K. (2011). Managing in the public sector: A casebook in ethics and leadership. Boston, MA: Longman. ISBN: 9780136039754.

CREDITS

Subject Matter Expert:Carolyn AllenInteractive Design:Tara Schiller, Alyssa JensenInteractive Developer:Dre AllenInstructional Designer:Marisa JohnsonProject Manager:Andrea Thompson, Marc Ashmore
 

Week 7

Consider a project such as moving to a new neighborhood, completing a long-term school assignment, or even cleaning your bedroom.  Develop a set of activities necessary to accomplish that project, and then order them in a precedence manner to create sequential logic.  Explain and defend the number of steps you identified and the order in which you placed those steps for best completion of the project.In crashing a project, we routinely focus on those activities that lie on the critical path, not activities with slack time.  Explain why this is the case.Identify and discuss some of the problems or dangers in using project networks.  Under what circumstances can they be beneficial, and when can they be dangerous?