Human Resources

  

Six Articles Review

This assignment is to allow you to critique six articles. The six articles are:

1.  Equal Employment Opportunity and Safety

2.  Strategic Human Resource Management

3.  Human Resource Planning and Recruitment

4.  Employee Development

5. Impact of  Pay Structure Decisions

6. Performance Management and Employees Appraisal 

· Must have at least 2 pages for each of the topics

· Must have headings for the six articles before the narratives of the article(s)

· Must cite sources within the articles properly

· must have name(s) of authors in the body of the narratives

· Must discuss the interest of the articles, strengths, and weaknesses of the topics

· Must have conclusions and recommendations

· Must have the references

· The paper should be single space only

Resources and References

One of the most important aspects of the research capstone project is the research component and the selection of scholarly references that will be utilized in researching your topic.

 

Instructions

  • Create a one-page summary of the scholarly resources you plan on using to support your conclusions in your health care management research capstone paper. Include in your summary why you selected them and how you think they will support your ideas.
  • You are required to use at least three different types of resources (video, website, professional journals, webcast etc).
  • You must develop at least 10 references that you will utilize to conduct research on your health care topic.
  • The Supplemental Resources will provide you with an overview of the resources available in the Herzing University Online Library that will help you to review and secure scholarly resources for your capstone research project.
  • (Please note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable site as its validity of information cannot be supported)

Ethics 2

Create a six-slide, 12-minute presentation briefing a team on a potential ethical dilemma.

In the career for which you are preparing, where will you look for ethical guidance?

  • Employer: contractual obligations, employee handbook, corporate culture.
  • Colleagues: fellow workers, deserving respect, productive relationships.
  • Clients: honest treatment, service with dignity, contractual obligations.
  • Profession: fellow practitioners, counterbalance to employer, code of conduct.
  • Personal: individual commitments, personal responsibility, integrity.

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All of these overlapping concerns may create conflicted situations. Professional association codes of ethics commonly deal with a number of concerns:

  • Expertise: qualifications for practitioners, continuing education.
  • Research: informed consent, plagiarism, shared publication credit.
  • Privacy: record keeping, protecting confidentiality, public statements.
  • Relationships: harassment, conflicts of interest, workplace behavior.

No matter how extensively the professional code is spelled out, it cannot cover everything, and it often overemphasizes enforcement. It is more helpful to take a positive approach, thinking aspirationally about how best to handle challenging situations.

Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

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  • What concrete situations in your workplace might give rise to ethical dilemmas?
  • Does the professional code of conduct provide any relevant guidance for these cases?

Assessment Overview

Imagine management at your future workplace tasks you with making a formal presentation to your team discussing a workplace ethical dilemma they might face. You consider an appropriate professional code of conduct, but only to the extent that it might offer useful guidance in this situation. The central task is to help everyone work together productively in resolving tricky issues.

For this assessment, fulfill the management task and create an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to common workplace situations. Submit your work as a narrated visual presentation in the courseroom submission box. You may develop a series of annotated PowerPoint slides, for example, using Kaltura to record the audio portion of your work. If you are more familiar with other presentation software, you may use that, so long as your submission satisfies all of the required elements of the assessment.

Assessment Instructions

Include the following in your narrated visual presentation:

  • Apply a professional code of ethics to this workplace situation.
  • Assess the advantages and disadvantages of the selected professional code of ethics.
  • Explain methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.
  • Describe areas of one’s personal disagreement with professional standards.

Note: Include in your presentation slides or annotations a full APA-style citation of any quotation or paraphrase from the professional code or other sources you choose to employ.

Your instructor may provide video feedback on your work, in addition to completing the official scoring guide for the assignment.

Submit this assessment to your ePortfolio.

Additional Requirements

  • Communication: Create an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to common workplace situations.
  • Media presentation: Create a minimum of 6 slides, 12 minutes total in length, with notes or a transcript to ensure accessibility to everyone. Upload the presentation.
  • Resources: There is no minimum number of resources required; however, use your judgment to ensure your topic is thoroughly researched.

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Ethics in the Workplace Scoring Guide

CRITERIA

NON-PERFORMANCE

BASIC

PROFICIENT

DISTINGUISHED

Apply a professional code of ethics to a workplace situation.

Does not apply a professional code of ethics to a workplace situation.

Explains a workplace situation in the context of a professional code of ethics.

Applies a professional code of ethics to a workplace situation.

Assesses an appropriate professional code of ethics as applied to a workplace situation.

Assess the advantages and disadvantages of a professional code of ethics.

Does not describe the advantages and disadvantages of a professional code of ethics.

Describes the advantages or disadvantages of a professional code of ethics, but not both.

Assesses the advantages and disadvantages of a professional code of ethics.

Analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of a professional code of ethics.

Explain methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.

Does not mention methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.

Mentions methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.

Explains methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.

Assesses methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.

Describe areas of one’s personal disagreement with professional standards.

Does not describe areas of one’s personal disagreement with professional standards.

Lists areas of one’s personal disagreement with professional standards.

Describes areas of one’s personal disagreement with professional standards.

Explains areas of one’s personal disagreement with professional standards.

Create an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to a workplace situation.

Does not create an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to a workplace situation.

Creates an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics, but the presentation lacks detail or does not reflect a workplace situation.

Creates an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to a workplace situation.

Creates an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to a workplace situations, and the presentation is engaging and detailed.

Eye catching

 Go to one of your favorite stores and take a picture of something that catches your eye—the front entrance from the street, a display rack inside, a sign on the wall, etc. Upload the photo to the discussion thread and provide a summary of the following:

  1. The products offered by the store you visited and why you like shopping there
  2. What the photo shows us about the decisions the store has made regarding one or more of the 4 P’s
  3. How these 4 P’s work together to keep you coming back again and again

Current Event

 

Unit 4: Current Event Exercise

  • Due Sunday by 11:59pm
  • Points 20
  • Submitting a file upload
  • Available until Jul 5 at 11:59pm

Introduction

The purpose of the HR current event exercise is to analyze the student’s articulation of key HR activities (CLOs/ULOs Unit 4). The project is due on Sunday of each of the following units: 3,4,5,6, and 7. The assignment is worth 20 points each week.

Directions

Each student develops a presentation (Power Point Presentation). The presentation will summarize the HR business case of a current event. The current event can be from the news, the employee’s organization, or other current event. The presentation must clearly articulate how the Human Resource Management functions represented in the source provides a link between the organization’s employee development and organizational outcomes. Source citing in APA format is required both in the body of the presentation as well as in the final presentation slide.

Option #1: Analyzing Leadership Decisions Outline

Option #1: Analyzing Leadership Decisions Outline

For this Portfolio Project milestone, develop a 2-page outline of your proposed topics and subtopics. Then, identify the decision-making processes used, or any additional factors that might have led to ineffective decision making. Be sure to critique any processes used. Next, describe and justify two to three recommendations for different approaches that could have been taken. Lastly, identify potential theories that may be relevant to your Portfolio Project topic.

Be sure to review the Portfolio Project in Module 8 and the rubric for this milestone for details regarding the project requirements.

PROJECT MODULE 8 REVIEW :Option #1: Analyzing Leadership Decisions

For this option, your final Portfolio Project is a thoughtful analysis of an ineffective or poor leadership decision. You may use a well-known leadership decision, such as the 2011 decision to split Netflix, which resulted in serious financial losses for the organization. Your project must include the following:

  • Research a leadership decision that was ineffective or did not have the desired results.
  • Describe the problem that may have precipitated the decision, as well as the apparent processes used by the leaders involved in the decision-making effort. Use terms from this course.
  • Critique the processes they implemented, applying what you learned from this course.
  • Recommend a different approach that could have been taken, using theories and methodologies from this course.
  • Present a strong case for how your recommendations could have altered the decision made, leading to more effective results for the organization.
  • Use theory from this course to support your evaluation, critique, and recommendations.