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 Imagine your company is being considered for subcontracting the  management of a project because of your firm’s excellent human resource  and quality management skills. However, you find that you must first  convince the contracting company that your company is worthy of the  position. Recommend a plan that centers on total quality management  (TQM) that highlights your firm’s experience with TQM and human  resources. 

• Think of how you as a leader can develop your skills around team leadership. What are the key elements for a leader to “lead” a team of individuals? What are some of the pros and cons? 
• How would you approach team leadership if you were given the opportunity? In addition, how can you as a leader increase collaboration among your teammates and/or within your department organization to make it higher performing or more effective?

Respond… Do you agree with them? Why or why not? Explore the points of your agreement or disagreement.

There are many different government agencies that track the different reports that stem from OSHA. With the steady increase in injury statistics, those new standards were made. Through the Briefings on Hospital Safety, it was found OSHA was under pressure to keep better records and make workplaces more accountable. (OSHA rule……, 2019) Government agencies also wanted to keep the information that is collected from being publicly disclosed, such as items that may be sensitive – workers’ injuries to body parts and PII ( personally identifiable information). Although the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) may have made it easier for the public to find records that are being kept by companies, the hopes are that the companies will do a better job with recording and filing data, as well as making safety in the workplace a big issue. Looking further in the article, it can be interpreted as OSHA will be ever be evolving to include many different things including worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, and more.

As there are low amounts of oversight on small incidents, such as slips, falls, or other common worker injuries, there is a proposed regulation that will address them. “While some advocates say new regulations would help make healthcare safer, others argue that pressure on organizations to report more injuries to OSHA will cause facilities to try and cheat the system, especially if government entities like CMS tie Medicare funding to statistics such as injury incidence.” (OSHA rule….., 2019) This would deter employees from reporting injuries sustained at work in likes that they will lose their jobs or healthcare. On the bright side, making injuries transparent and available for the public will hopefully push employers to have a greater focus of protecting their employees in the workplace in order to protect themselves as well.

Create an initial discussion post. Must use the attached background material. 275 words. APA format with citations.

Edit question’s body

In this final written assignment, you will combine what you have done in these two exercises by examining an ethical issue and defending your own position on an ethical question regarding that issue.

HR Knowledge 9: Human Resource Management

Thoroughly review the following video:

Based on your review, please respond to the following:

Specifically focus on the key HR functional areas. Now, select any 3 of the functional areas that would be your first, second, and third choices if you could work in HR. List each by priority and briefly explain why you selected your choices.   This is where you can find the video.

Gregg Learning. (2017, July 24). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJhRXBpXTPI

Human Resources Management

12-point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins on all sides, double-spacing. 

Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. You may reference any information from the class textbook, chapters 1-8 in your answers and discussions. Format: APA version 7.

Class textbook: Human Resources Management. Author: Valentine; Meglich; Mathis; Jackson. Publisher: Pearson. Edition: 16th. ISBN: 978-0357033852

Write a 2-page paper to discuss the following: 

4. Recruiting and employer branding should be seen as part of an organizational marketing effort that is linked to the overall image and reputation of the organization and its industry. If you were responsible for enhancing your organization’s employment brand: How would you convince senior leaders that the investment would be worthwhile? Who would you partner with inside and outside your organization to develop and convey your brand message? (Chapter 6. Page 188)

Question #1

Piderit (2000) believes that the definition of the term resistance must incorporate a much broader scope. She states that “a review of past empirical research reveals three different emphases in conceptualizations of resistance: as a cognitive state, as an emotional state, and as a behavior” (p. 784).

The notion that employee resistance can be overcome cognitively suggests that negative thoughts or beliefs about the change exist. Piderit sites, “Watson (1982) who suggests that what is often labeled as resistance is, in fact, only reluctance. Armenakis, Harris, and Mossholder (1993) define resistance in behavioral terms but suggest that another state precedes it: is a cognitive state they call (un)-readiness” (2000, p. 785).

Others attempt to define employee resistance based on the emotional factors exhibited as a result of organizational change. From their early study, Coch and French (1948) acknowledged aggression and frustration in employees as the emotional factors that caused undesirable behaviors and resistance to change. Argyris and Schon (1974, 1978) noted that resistance to change is a defense mechanism caused by frustration and anxiety (Piderit, 2000).

The final aspect of Piderit’s conceptualization focuses on individual behavior in an attempt to define employee resistance to change. She cites Brower and Abolafia (1995) who define resistance as a particular kind of action or inaction. Ashforth and Mael (1998) define resistance as intentional acts of commission (defiance) or omission. Shapiro, Lweicki, and Devine (1995) suggest that willingness to deceive authorities constitutes resistance to change (2000).

Piderit (2000) claims that: although these conceptualizations of overlap somewhat, they diverge in important ways. Finding a way to bring together these varying emphases should deepen our understanding of how employees respond to proposed organizational changes. Each of these three conceptualizations of resistance – as a behavior, an emotion, or a belief – has merit and represents an important part of our experience of response to change. Thus, any definition focusing on one view at the expense of the others seems incomplete (p. 785).

According to Dent & Goldberg (1999), individuals aren’t really resisting the change, but rather they may be resisting the loss of status, loss of pay, or loss of comfort. They claim that, “it is time that we dispense with the phrase resistance to change and find a more useful and appropriate models for describing what the phrase has come to mean – employees are not wholeheartedly embracing a change that management wants to implement” (p. 26).

Taken from : Resistance to Change

IN YOUR OWN WORDS:

What is your understanding of these three types of resistance (use your own words)? Give an example of each type.

Required Reading 

 https://www.newfoundations.com/OrgTheory/Bolognese721.html  

Health Communication

Jean is a health care administrator for a hospital that serves an urban population. Jean is promoting a recent initiative to install a free clinic to provide minor urgent care. Before the hospital can begin allocating resources to install the free clinic, the hospital directors are asking that Jean establish a community meeting to allow community members to provide feedback on what type of medical services the free clinic should provide. Jean would like to announce the community meeting to generate interest.

What considerations should Jean keep in mind when announcing the community meetings? How might Jean integrate the feedback from community members to ensure that the free clinic’s health care services marketing campaign effectively communicates the types of services offered by the free clinic?

For this Discussion, review the resources for this week and reflect on elements of health communication essentials for the role of a health care administrator. Then, consider how trends in health communication might impact your role as a health care administrator and reflect on how health communication influences future health care services marketing campaigns.

By Day 3

Post by a brief explanation of two key elements of health communication that are most essential for a health care administrator and why. Then, explain how one key trend in health communication may affect your role as a health care administrator. Finally, describe one way you might use health communication in a future health care services marketing campaign and explain why.

QUESTIONS

1.In a US work environment, would reading a newspaper or magazine with nude pictures on the cover besexual harassment?

2.If so, would it be sexual harassment in Germany when working for the same company? Why or why not?

3.Frau Knies argues that Rebecca’s request to prohibit Germans from reading newspapers which offend her isno different than prohibiting German women from dressing in ways which offend Islamic immigrantsworking in the plant. Is this a valid argument? Why or why not?

4.What should Rebecca do?

5.What should Rebecca’s company have done to prevent this problem?