Assignment 1: Organizing HR Projects

Due Week 3 and worth 145 points

Your company has had embedded HR generalists in business units for the past several years. Over that time, it has become costlier, and more difficult to maintain standards, and is a frustration for business units to have that budget “hit.” The leadership has decided to move to a more centralized model of delivering HR services and has asked you to evaluate that proposition and begin establishing a project team to initiate the needed changes. The project team is selected and you must now provide general direction.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Review and define the five (5) steps of strategic planning depicted in Exhibit 2-1 in the textbook on page 34. Based on the information, provide a statement of overall importance of these steps to your project team.
2. Develop a vision and mission statement for the project team specific to the current project. HINT: It is highly recommended to follow the guidance offered in the textbook about vision and mission statement.
3. Explain to the project team what a project charter is and why it is used. Then, review Exhibit 3.3 in the textbook and select any 3 charter elements you feel are more important and explain why.
4. Provide a “Statement of Emphasis” to your project team based on the information you provided in the previous 3 sections above. The goal is to ensure your team understands the importance of the information.
5. Go to https://research.strayer.edu to locate at least three (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain the elements of project management and its relationship to human resource management.
• Assess organizational strategies that contribute to effective project management of human resources.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing human resource projects.
• Write clearly and concisely about managing human resource projects using proper writing mechanics.

Great ethical issue around the under application of manufacturing overhead. Please read the scenario presented in that problem. Then in your post answer the two questions posed. Question #1 asks you for each of the tree alternative courses of action that Jackson is considering, explain whether or not the action is appropriate. For question #2 assume that Jackson again approaches Brown to make the necessary adjustments and is unsuccessful. Describe the steps that Jackson should take in proceeding to resolve this situation.  

Suggest two (2) staffing strategies that organizations can utilize to maintain sustainability and minimize the impact of a significant percentage of the workforce approaching retirement age. Support your rationale with specific examples of such strategies.  Consider the staffing strategies presented back in Ch. 1, Fig. 1-7.

Focus on the Strategic Planning and the Forecasting HR Availabilities sections of Ch. 3.  Pay special attention to the sections on succession planning and developing replacement charts.

Company Name : Amazon

In this paper, examine your organization’s generic and diversification strategies, its international moves, and its ethics, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability practices. Submit your work in your assignment folder in the form of an approximate 2,000-word double-spaced APA-formatted paper. The title page, reference list, and any appendices are not included in this suggested word count. You do not need to include an abstract.

Your paper should address these topics:

1. Your organization’s generic strategy or strategies. 
2. Any diversification strategies the organization pursues.
3. Any international moves made by your organization. Does it operate internationally? In what format(s)?
4. What ethics policies and practices does your organization have in place? 
5. Does your organization practice social responsibility? In what way(s)? 
6. What are your organization’s environmental sustainability practices? 

Supporting Lecture:

Review the following lecture:

• Workplace Harassment

OSHA

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics for this unit on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction:

The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) makes it illegal for employers to retaliate against an employee for voicing concerns and filing a safety complaint against the organization. The human resource manager, safety compliance manager, leaders, and employees should be well informed of all safety policies and disclose any violations. Conduct an Internet search to find a court case in which a whistle-blower faced termination or discrimination for disclosing safety violations against the employer.

• Identify the parties involved in the OSHA violation and provide the factual details of the event, which led to litigation.
• Analyze the facts and apply the OSHA regulations for whistle-blowers.
• Analyze the facts and determine if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) applies to the organization.  
• Justify your view on what should have been done to prevent the OSHA violation as well as provide your advice and best OSHA practices to avoid future OSHA violations and litigations.

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

Submission Details:

• Create a 2- to 3-page Word document.
• Name your file as SU_HRM5020_W4_Project_LastName_FirstName.

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WEEK 2 DISCUSSION POST

Disaster, Crisis, and Recovery Logistics

While the United States Military has a long and successful history of disaster relief, government, private concerns, and non-profits lag behind. The logistics of disaster and recovery are becoming more crucial in an age when speed and accuracy are coveted, and the economy is dependent on complex connections and relationships.

Module 3: Week 2 Discussion Background Readings

Cargo Thieves Target Containers Rushed into U.S. Ahead of Threatened Tariffs (2019)

Resilience360 Analyzes Supply Chain Impacts of the Wuhan Coronavirus (2020)

Emergency Logistics in a Large-Scale Disaster Context: Achievements and Challenges (2019)

Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Adaptability Study (2019)

Donations to Australian Wildfire Victims Swamp Region’s Charity Infrastructure (2020)

Navigating the Logistics of Recovery After Hurricane Dorian (2019)

Modernizing Information Along the Supply Chain for Natural Disaster Response (2020) 

This week’s readings provide information on an array of disaster or crisis scenarios that affect logistics. Find at least one other recent resource for support. For your post:

• Explain how disasters and crises affect the logistics of for-profit companies.
• Based on research, determine the two most detrimental aspects of these scenarios.
• Using the resource beyond this week’s readings, provide a real-world example of a for-profit company that has found a successful solution. (The article should be less than two years old.)

This post should be 2 paragraphs in length (at least 100 words). Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite in the body of the post and add a reference list in APA format. NOTE: Failure to use research with accompanying citations to support content will result in reduced scoring “Level 2-Developing” for Assignment-Driven Criteria, Critical Thinking, Writing Mechanics, and Referencing on the grading rubric.

Write a paper that summarizes how the Internet may affect public opinion in a positive or negative way with regards to brand reputation. Select a well-known brand (i.e. Nike or Microsoft) and discuss the current state of public opinion using the Internet as your research tool.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing. 

Main Discussion:  As Hite and Seitz (2016) discuss in Chapter 5: Climate Change, reputable scientific studies continue to show that the Earth is warming at an unsustainable rate because of a rise in the release of CO2 and methane gases. 

Task 1) What is the relationship between population increases and climate change? 2) Discuss possible benefits and/or negative consequences of intentional governmental control of an individual or couple’s decision to have children. 

Task 2) From the “World Bank 2020 List of Developing Countries” (See Course Info) or use internet address, https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/capacity-building/developing-countries?Itemid=167 select two (2) developing countries (that might interest you for the Week 4 Assignment).  Post the names of those two countries of the countries you have selected (to this discussion). 

Throughout this course, you have considered the value of developing a health care services marketing plan and have determined the relevance of this process for the practice of health care administration. As you refine your skills for developing health care services marketing plans, you will be able to define, develop, and implement health programs, initiatives, or offer health care services. In addressing the needs for your target audience or community, your organization or agency will be better poised to offer effective health care delivery.

For this Final Project, review the components you submitted throughout the course and reflect on Instructor feedback. Then, revise the components and consider the short- and long-term implications of your health care services marketing plan.

The Project (13–21 pages, not including references)

• Component 1 (submitted in Week 2)
• Component 2 (submitted in Week 4)
• Component 3 (submitted in Week 5)
• Component 4 (submitted in Week 6)
• Component 5 (submitted in Week 7)
• Component 6 (submitted in Week 8)
• Component 7 (submitted in Week 9)
• Component 8 
  • In 1–2 pages, explain the short-term and long-term potential impacts of the health care services outlined in your health care services marketing plan.

Be sure to provide 10 to 15 references to support your entire health care services marketing plan submission.