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Purpose of Assignment: This assignment examines the concept of cultural humility and requires the student to evaluate and respond to scenarios requiring humility.

Instructions:

Consider the following scenario:

As a Caucasian-American you have moved from a small rural American town in Wyoming to the city of Chicago. (You may also consider an alternate scenario where you are African- American, Hispanic- American, Asian- Asian etc. moving to an unfamiliar part of the country e.g. moving to a small rural town). Coming from a predominately white culture, you are unfamiliar with persons of color and different minority populations. You are now the minority. You find yourself being judgmental and critical of some of the cultural nuances, vernacular and mores. You now have to form new friendships with members of a culture with which you are not familiar.

In a 2-page paper discuss the following:

• Define and discuss the concept of cultural humility.
• Explain the role of cultural humility in this scenario.
• Discuss what changes in thinking must occur for you to successfully mitigate the challenges outlined in the above scenario.

Format:

• Use APA format including concise and clear grammar.

Assess the personality traits, various personality traits, Big five Model, Two attributes of value, difference between terminal and instrumental values, list the dominant values

International Organization for Standardization

Students will visit the ISO website (https://www.iso.org/about-us.html) and be familiar with the ISO governance structure, vision, and purpose. The purpose of this assignment is for student to review ISO popular standards and select one standard with a case study to do a research. 

The final product will be about two pages writing (single space, Time NW 12) and 3 PPT slides covering the following items:

· A selected ISO standard with a brief summary of major points (standard’s name, description, purposes, requirement, and benefit), 100-200 words length.

· A case study under your selected ISO standard, a summary of major points should contain, but not limit to: company name, business background, type of ISO certification and benefits, problems (if any) and business improvement and performance, tools and techniques used in the implementation (e.g. LSS, quality, SWOT, problem solving tools,…).

· Any pictures, graphs, and diagrams related to the case study.

· References

Suggested websites:

1. Learn about ISO standards, go to https://www.iso.org/popular-standards.html, then select one standard that you are interested to study (e.g. ISO 9001, 22000, 14001, 13485, 2600, 8601, 31000, 50001, 17025, 27001,…). A standard manual is located on the right column, “Preview our standards”

2. Case study, there are several website on ISO case study. A simple one with Google Search, keyword “ISO and case study”, some other sources:

1. www.asq.org,
2. https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/standards/,       select the standard and use keyword ‘case study’ 

Review the Wiedmer article regarding workplace bullying.

Develop a two- to three-page APA- formatted paper that responds to the following:

• Provide a review of the article. Describe the impact of workplace bullying on both the victims and the organization.
• Reflect on a time when you may have witnessed workplace bullying. Discuss at least two practices of workplace bullying addressed in the article that were applicable to your scenario.
• Recommend at least two techniques from the article that management should implement to provide a positive impact on workplace bullying. Support your response with additional information from the textbook or additional research.

Your paper must be two to three pages (not including title and reference pages) and must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. You must cite two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

Looking for a text book.  Must be PDF, clean copy, and searchable text.  

1. Human Resource Management 11th Ed

   a. Authors-   Leslie Rue, Lloyd Byars, et al. 

   b. ISBN   978-0-07-811279-9 (or similiar) 

• Why is organizational change significant? Why do most employees resist change? What can you do as a leader to develop the organization, so they accept and make change possible?
• What can we do as individuals and leaders to ensure our companies have the best fit and culture to be successful from a talent development perspective? Can we develop culture, change it, or develop others to create and promote a successful organizational culture?

What major HR issues must be addressed as an organization moves internationally, briefly explain.

Instructions

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lectures:

• Strategic Decisions in Organizational Design
• Organizational Structure

Introduction

For this assignment, consider that organizations must create a structure that is best adapted to its industry, goals, and resources. Managers rely on the structure to control outcomes, which involves monitoring and influencing employees to gain the highest productivity possible.

Tasks

Respond to the following:

• Analyze the pros and cons of both centralized and decentralized structures.
• Explain whether a decentralized structure would work for any organization. Why or why not?
• Evaluate how an organization can be effective when decisions in a decentralized structure are made by employees and not managers.
• Analyze how both centralized and decentralized structures influence innovation.
• Explain how both centralized and decentralized structures impact employee motivation.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details

• Create a 4–5-page Word document.
• Name your file as SU_HRM5090_W3_Project_LastName_FirstName.

Please read and respond to the attachment.

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

In an essay, answer the following questions about the concepts tied to this unit. Your response needs to be at least one page in length.

• To what extent is employment-at-will an issue in discipline cases in nonunion companies?
• To what extent is it an issue in unionized companies?
• Based on your research, what advice do you have for managers?
• What advice do you have for lawmakers (i.e., to what extent should employment-at-will be relevant for employee discipline)?

Ensure the references are not more than five years old