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HR CHALLENGE: OSHA ANALYSIS

Introduction

Creating a culture of workplace safety and legal compliance is a very real task for the human resource professional. Each type of work setting has some overarching safety standards. Compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is part of everyday record keeping and expenses within a business. 

You will have the opportunity to learn more about OSHA and how its work impacts modern organizations. By creating a memorandum for your leadership team, you will get practical experience communicating the legal issues, expenses, and benefits of compliance with OSHA regulations.

Scenario

Your organization is reviewing their OSHA practices and expenses to determine if they are currently effective or if they need to be revisited. Your executive memorandum will serve as background information for the ongoing discussions between organizational leadership and the human resource department.

Your Challenge

You are a human resources specialist with experience in establishing OSHA protocols and the related costs. You will write the memo of explanation to the organizational leadership team so that they can have an informed discussion about practices in your organization.

Instructions

1. Write a 2–3-page executive memorandum to organizational leadership regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its effectiveness in the workplace. Include the following: 

• Describe the mission and function of OSHA. 
  • What is OSHA intended to do? Is it working? 
• List some of the compliance objectives, or the overarching safety standards.
• Analyze the impact of OSHA in modern organizations. 
  • What does the HRM professional need to know about OSHA? 
• Analyze the cost of regulations and enforcement versus the benefit in reduced worker injury. Is the cost of regulations and enforcement worth the results? 
• Develop health- and safety-related best practices for human resources and organizational leadership. 
  • Are there different perspectives toward interpretation, monitoring, and compliance with OSHA, and do the differing perspectives enhance or hinder workplace safety? 
• Evaluate the ways in which a company can mitigate risk.

2. Your executive memorandum is to be written coherently to support a central idea with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a business professional.
3. Support your assignment with citations from relevant readings, and use real-world organization examples to demonstrate the importance of the concepts and analysis you have provided.

Note: Your instructor may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assignment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assignment, once your work has been evaluated. Learn more about the Writing Feedback Tool on the course Tools and Resources page. 

Submission Requirements

The deliverable for this assignment applies professional skills in Human Resources Management (HRM) to workplace situations which you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work in HRM. As part of your learning, we focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace. 

• Length of paper: Your paper should be 2–3 double-spaced pages, 11 point font, Times New Roman.
• Organization: Make sure that your assignment writing is well-organized, using headings and subheadings to organize content for the reader.
• Resources: It is suggested that you use just the resources provided for this assignment and used in this course, no outside research should be necessary.
• Evidence: Support your assertions with data and/or in-text citations. Use current APA format for in-text citations and create a reference list at the end of your documents. 
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting. 
• Written communication:
  • Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
  • Write for a specific audience, using the vernacular of the profession.
  • Use spell-check and other tools to ensure correct spelling and grammar.
• Recommended Headings for the Memorandum:
  • OSHA Description.
  • Compliance Objectives.
  • Risk/Opportunity (costs and benefits).
  • Specific Steps (approach).

Option #1:

For this Capstone assignment, you will create an organizational intervention and evaluation plan that focuses on technological and environmental impacts. Specifically, you will examine how to engage employees in organizational change efforts regardless of impact type.

Develop a well-written paper that addresses the following:

• Conduct an environmental scan and analyze at least two technological or environmental influences that are impacting an organization/industry of your choice.
• Recommend interventions or strategies that can be implemented to mitigate any negative impact that a new technology/environmental factor may have on the organization. Explain how the recommended strategies can be used to engage employees in the change process.
• Identify an evaluation process for the intervention plan. Specifically, explain how you will gauge the success of the plan.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 5-7 pages in length.

Option #1: Strategy 4: Talent Pool

For this Module 4 Milestone assignment, create a framework for the people, assets, information, and time factors that are needed to create a desired labor pool. Provide the theoretical foundation and decision making that underpins the talent pool process.

This Milestone assignment should be no more than two pages in length (not including cover and reference pages), so focus on being clear and concise. Your Milestone should be formatted according to the  CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.) and supported by a minimum of two academic sources.

chapters: 1, 2, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 19. 

Respond to the following:

Popular press and media accounts generally suggest that executives are overpaid. For example: the average yearly salary of a CEO of Fortune 500 company in 2018 was $14.5 million. The average yearly salary of a regular worker was $39,888.

• Justify why the CEO’s pay is appropriate.
  • Support your response with specifics.

Find an income statement or balance sheet for a business. Review the accounting concepts and the income statement or balance sheet to answer the following questions:

1. How is the business performing based upon your review? Is the business growing or declining, why?
2. Where is the business focusing the majority of its resources?
3. What advice would you offer to the owner or leadership of the business?

Unit VII Journal Training and Development 

Instructions

As a result of performance appraisal feedback, it is identified that training is needed. In preparing for the training, the need has been analyzed, designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated (ADDIE method). As the HR manager, it is your responsibility to assess the training efforts, to conduct the training, and to assess the outcome or success of the training. What are some recommended methods of assessment when it comes to meeting the legal concerns of training? In addition, which do you think is more driven by results? Please explain. Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VII Journal

Instructions

Contrast the rights of public employees with private sector employees to organize and bargain collectively. What authority do the unions have in each sector? Do you feel there is a tendency in your home state to favor the rights of public employees or the private sector? Are unions celebrated, or is the emphasis on the right to work? Share your rationale. Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VII Scholarly Activity

Instructions

You are a new union representative. Draft a memo requesting copies of documents, policies, and procedures the union has in place so you can begin your job effectively. Be sure to indicate the importance of these documents on your position. 

Your memo should be at least one full page. Below is a suggested format for the memo: 

To: (Include the name of the supervisor and any others to whom the memo needs to be sent)
From: (Your name and role in the organization/union)
Date:
Re.: Specify the Topic (In this case—Requesting specific documents, policies, and procedures pertaining to your role as the new union representative)
Request: Include paragraph explaining your request (For example: “I am compelled to express concern about how we at ____ Company handle issues related to equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment prevention laws. In an attempt to do my job efficiently and effectively, I respectfully request the following documents, policies, and procedures that reflect our organization’s efforts to affirm equal employment opportunity and those documents that reflect the organization’s sexual harassment prevention efforts:”)
Name of document
Name of document
Name of document Requested date: (when would you like to meet with the company leadership to discuss the documents?) 

Be sure close the memo with a sincere thank you for the cooperation of the person(s) to whom the memo is addressed and a desire to work together often in the future. References and citations are not necessary for this assignment.

Unit VIII Journal

Instructions

Discuss how you can apply the concepts learned in this course to your current or future career. How might the lessons you have learned positively influence your career success? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.

Unit VIII Scholarly Activity

Instructions

Write a letter to the current United States President, and put forth arguments regarding why you support or are against an increase in minimum wage. In your letter, discuss whether managers should be given a higher minimum wage or be paid overtime. Address what the minimum weekly salary should be for bona fide executives, administrators, or professionals. 

Your letter should be at least one full page and cite at least one reference from the CSU Online Library. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA style citations. Draft the letter using proper, formal letter writing format. Click  here to view the Writing Center’s example of a business letter.

• Inside addresses
• Formal greeting
• Introduction
• Purpose for the letter
• Rationale for your request and research to support your opinion and ideas
• Respectful appreciation for the president taking the time to consider your suggestions
• Formal closure including your name

250 min 

Read the following pamphlet from the director of the Family Acceptance Project on “Helping Families Support Their LGBT Children.”

https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/FamilySupportForLGBTChildrenGuidance.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Based on the findings from this pamphlet as well as what you have learned from the chapter, develop a hypothetical case management plan to assist a gay teen who has run away from home because of a negative coming out experience with his or her family members. The goal is to reunite the client with the family and to help the family and the teen to come to a mutual understanding and respect for the teen’s sexual identity.

1. List the approaches to case management that would be most useful for this client, with special attention to the challenges of working with minor youth, as well as the challenges related to a possible lack of a strong family support structure.
2. Discuss how you can simultaneously help the individual client increase his or her self-esteem and strengthen his or her support system while educating the teen’s parents and extended family, who may be hesitant to accept the client’s new sexual identity.

I need someone to comeplete this case study by 1:00pm on Monday September 14, 2020. 

Preferred company for the case study would be JC Penney.

Cover Letter