Week 5 Discussion

 

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

Discussion Questions

Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link “Doing Discussion Questions Right” and any specific instructions for this topic.

Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your classmates’ responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses in the Discussion Area.

Introduction:

By the due date assigned, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Respond to the assigned questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the reading.

Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub-questions of each bullet point. The sub-questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your peers have already posted so that we can engage in several discussions on relevant topics. If all of the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to reuse the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

Tasks:

Question 1:

  • Evaluate two companies that compete for the same talent.

Question 2:

  • Evaluate the importance of talent brand. 

Submission Details:

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.

Your initial posting should be addressed at 500–1,000 words as noted in the attached PDF.

Essay

 

Prepare an essay response of at least one page in length that addresses the following items:

  • What factors distinguish the labor relations system in the public sector from that in the private sector?
  • Propose a public-sector labor relations system for the employees of the city government.
    • What would it borrow from the private sector?
    • What would it not be able to borrow? Why?
    • How would you modify your system to account for specific aspects of city government? Why?

Homework

 

Prepare an essay response at least one page in length that answers the following questions:

  • What is the European Union’s Social Charter?
  • Why is it important for U.S. firms dealing with European unions to be aware of this?

Essay

 

In an essay, answer the following questions about the concepts tied to this unit. Your response needs to be at least one page in length.

  • To what extent is employment-at-will an issue in discipline cases in nonunion companies?
  • To what extent is it an issue in unionized companies?
  • Based on your research, what advice do you have for managers?
  • What advice do you have for lawmakers (i.e., to what extent should employment-at-will be relevant for employee discipline)?

Human Resources

  why is it important for HR Management to transform from an administrative and operational function to a strategic partner? Provide a brief history of the HR function (i.e., not more than 1 page) the do research and discussing  a specific organization of your choice that has successfully made this transition to support your ideas, arguments, and opinions. 

Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness

 

Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness

Overview

Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions. Use the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you address the following:

  • Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
  • Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
  • Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
  • Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
  • Use the Strayer University Online Library and to locate and include at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not quality as academic resources.

 

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is the following:

  • Determine the impact of globalization and technology changes, strategic models, vision and mission statements, and stakeholders on a corporation’s success.

HRM671 LEARNING THEORIES AND TECHNOLOGY

  

300 Words

We hear a lot about learning technologies.

Just what are they? 

List one or two learning technologies that you have heard about or used. 

Explain why this can be considered A technology and, more specifically, a learning technology. 

Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.

Balanced Scorecard

explain the concept of the Balanced Scorecard and briefly discuss how it is used in organizations and in HR 

Create section headings for the key HR metrics for each of the 3 categories: Routine HR Metrics, HR Strategy Metrics, and HR Organizational Oversight Metrics.

Explain the rational for including those metrics on the Balanced Scorecard

Cross-Cultural Leadership

 

Understanding national culture is a critical piece to conducting business operations around the globe, and HR practitioners must be prepared to take their cultural intelligence and incorporate it into the best practices of managing all HR functions.

This assessment is based on the following scenario:

You and your human resources team work for a hi-tech gaming firm in Northern California called Fighting Games. Fighting Games has offices across Europe and the Pacific Rim and more than 1200 employees in more than 50 countries. Among the biggest challenges the members and leaders of each office face is scheduling meetings in asynchronous time frames. The New York team and the Shanghai team have been assigned to work on the same project. The New York team is leading the story line and the graphics. The Shanghai team is in charge of special effects and overall integration of the game. Meetings are scheduled twice a week. The teams have been meeting, but both teams have been complaining to the executive team. The New York team has been arriving late and running the meetings much longer than they were scheduled to last. This has happened over a dozen times. The relationship between the teams seems strained and not long ago something surprising happened: the Shanghai team canceled a meeting after the New York Team had arrived late to the last three.

Consider the following points as you prepare for your assessment:

  • The New York and Shanghai teams are in different time zones, which makes coordinating meetings difficult.
  • There are two national cultures involved. Although the American team is multicultural, they have all lived in the US most of their lives. The Chinese team is comprised of all Chinese employees. 

 

Write a 3–5 page paper, using correct APA style and format, on cross-cultural leadership and how this scenario’s situation might be resolved. Include the following:

  • Explain why cultural intelligence is important for HR practitioners and other organizational managers.
  • Articulate recommendations to develop cultural intelligence. Make three recommendations.
  • Describe how to respond and overcome the issues present in this workplace scenario.

HI230 Quality Assurance and Statistics in Health

Communication Plan
Visit
https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/quality/toolbox/508pdfs/developingqiplan.pdf
The experts explain that a communication plan should describe needs and expectations. It should also be specific to need to know parties, as well as being consistent and timely. Why do you think this is this so important? What are the positive effects of the well thought out success plan and the negative?