For this small group discussion, assume the role of an HR professional who has been assigned the task of improving the success rate of your organization’s expatriate program.

Using what you read on pp. 11–13 of “Keys to Expatriate Success: A Toolkit for Diversity Management,” create a data-gathering tool you would use to audit the organization’s current expatriate process. This data would be used to develop recommendations for change to improve the success of the process. 

Question 1:

Propose at least three general ways that HR can use competitive advantage in the marketplace to recruit new applicants.

• What are some ways to recruit qualified candidates?
• Has technology hindered or assisted the process?

Question 2:

Imagine that the CEO of your company (past, present, or future) has asked you to explain the importance of adding more funding to the organization’s talent management program. You have two minutes to convince the CEO that your ideas will add value and to allow you to expound on your ideas in a more formal follow-up presentation.

• Briefly outline the key points of your strategy.

Create a matrix in which you:

• Identify at least 3 economic trends of the health care payment system.
• Identify ethics and compliance issues associated with those trends.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your paper.

Submit your assignment.

Note: This assignment is meant to be a high-level look at these issues. You will cover the issues in more depth in the Week 5 Finance Trends assignment. For assistance creating a matrix using Microsoft® Excel, read the Create a Matrix tech tip from Microsoft® Office Support.

 Weight: 15% Format: Interview and Report Due Week 5, Day 7 INTRODUCTION To gain a real-world perspective on hiring, onboarding, and performance management, for this assignment you will do a short interview with an HR professional (or with a manager) at your workplace. You will ask a total of five questions and keep a record of the responses. Then you will write a paper of 2 to 3 pages, in the form of a report, summarizing the answers you received and reflecting on the impact the interview had on you. Use three of the suggested questions below and make up two questions of your own. Your questions should relate to at least TWO of the following HR topic areas: hiring, onboarding, and performance review. INSTRUCTIONS Approach your HR department (or manager) to arrange a short informational interview with a mid-level or senior professional in your workplace (half an hour or less). If you cannot make this happen in the timeframe required, you may instead interview a business professional whom you know outside of your current workplace. Questions for the Interview: Select three (3) of the below questions: 1. What 2 or 3 key competencies do you seek in job candidates? Why are these competencies at the top of your list? 2. When would you hire externally and when would you promote internally to fill gaps in your team? 3. How useful are references to you in assessing job candidates? 4. How do you onboard new members of your team or department? 5. What performance review process does your organization use? How effective is it? Create two (2) questions of your own, for a total of five (5) questions. 

 Instructions

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lectures:

• Management and Labor Relations
• Evolution of the Labor Relations Movement
• Legal Influences and Union Representation

Introduction:

You have just been hired as the director of HR and Operations for a stadium. At present, you are responsible for nine hundred employees. So far, the employees have been content with the employer-employee relationship. However, you have just been notified by one of the managers that a well-established union has been targeting all stadiums in the state. In addition, the manager has also informed you that an emerging union is also targeting the organizations. Of course, the management team would prefer to have a union-free work environment, but this is not an option. To assess this scenario, you will need to research some of the most powerful and emerging (weakest) unions.

Tasks:

• Identify an industry or organization where there is a strong union presence.
• Analyze the reason the union is so powerful.
• Evaluate the potential outcome for the organization if a powerful union is elected by the employees (for example, productivity, wages, compensation, layoffs, and growth).
• Evaluate the potential outcome for the organization if an emerging (weak) union is elected by the employees (for example, productivity, wages, compensation, layoffs, and growth).

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 2-page word document.
• Name your file as SU_HRM5070_W1_Project_LastName_FirstName.