DUE Friday, 08/25/2017 by 12:00PM!!!

Well done! You were effective in changing the CEO’s requested requirements for the new position of a Claims Supervisor. Now it’s time to begin your plan for filling the position.

Since you are new to the role of Human Resource Manager, and this is the first position you will be hiring for with the company, your CEO wants to approve your recruitment and selection plan. You need to decide what job analysis method to use for the new position that is being created. Then you will conduct a brief job analysis to create the job description.

As the Human Resource Manager for Premium Auto Insurance, it is your role and responsibility to ensure you are recruiting where and as you should be for the most qualified potential applicants. It is equally your role and responsibility to ensure proper recruitment and selection techniques.

In a minimum 4 page APA report, address the following:

1.   Explain what job evaluation method you are going to use to determine the worth of this position.

2.   Describe how the position that is being created ties back to the organization’s mission and goals.

3.   Discuss why diversity is important within an organization and what diverse qualities you will be looking for in candidates applying for this position.

4.   Continue by creating the job description. Be sure to include the descriptive header, the summary, the major functions, and then the job-specifications.

5.    Include an APA formatted title page and reference page with at least 2 credible sources. Make sure to include APA in-text citations for any information used from outside sources.

Conduct academic research using the library’s databases, EBSCO and ProQuest, as well as reliable webpages.

8-12 slides plus notes

You have finished the risk management plan and are preparing to present it to your manager and the project sponsor. Once they review and approve it, you will then present it to the stakeholders and the team. Although the project has not officially started, some upfront design work is being done by the vendor and three of the engineers. In the course of this work, you sat in on a design meeting and discovered that the vendor does not follow the documentation processes you had clearly defined as critical, because of the regulated nature of the product. Your engineers, who are not comfortable with the formal process approach the new CEO is taking, have told the vendor not to worry about the documents because they will do them at the end after they get the real work done.

You spoke with the quality manager who was hired just a couple of weeks ago. He (understandably) feels that this is the occurrence of a major risk, with project-stopping ramifications. The quality manager agreed not to immediately go to the CEO, giving you the opportunity to present the risk event to the sponsor and implement your action plan.

During the course of the design meeting, you also determined that your risk of the key engineer not being available to the project is actually occurring. Some junior engineers are doing most of the design work and are clearly struggling. Your engineers left the meeting frustrated, grumbling, and nervous about the project.

Assignment Guidelines:

Using the risk management plan you created during the group project, along with the library links, prepare an effective professional presentation of 8–12 slides with notes covering the following:

·         Briefly describe the approach that was taken to identify and assess the risks.

·         Define in detail the communication approach (audiences, frequencies, mechanisms, and exceptions) you will take to share risk updates.

·         Discuss the risks with the vendor that you see happening and describe your action plans.

·         Gain buy-in on the actions you will take with the vendors and your team.

·         Establish the escalation path you will take when you have concerns about project risks.

Your submitted assignment (140 points) must include the following:

·         An 8–12 slide PowerPoint presentation covering the topics listed in the assignment guidelines

Please refer to the following multimedia course material(s):

·         Unit 4: Techniques for Communicating Risks

·         Unit 4: Risk Reporting

·         Unit 4: Risk Reporting (2)

Discuss the law or court ruling mentioned in this week’s readings which most resonates with you. Your initial discussion board post should cover these three parts:

*Begin by naming the law or court ruling (in bold, underlined text), and provide a      one- to three-sentence summary of it.

*Discuss why this law or court ruling is so meaningful to you.

*Based on the analogy of “the runner and the track” described in both the unit lesson and the video clip listed in this week’s readings, discuss the potential barriers that may have obstructed the track lane of runners in this demographic group, which prompted this law.

PLEASE EXPLAIN WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH MY CLASSMATE ANSWER TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND WHY? (A MININUM OF 200 WORDS)

The law that resonates the most with me is the  Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967. This act requires that companies not discriminate against any individual age 40 or older for any reason when considering them for employment or conditions once they have been hired such as advancement. This law is important to me because my Mom was a single mother with little education. When my parents divorced she had to work several jobs to provide for me and my siblings. She was already past the age of 40 and because of this act she was able to secure work which may not have been available to her prior. Although she wasn’t well educated, she was smart, hard working, and loyal. This act enabled her access to employment where her age was forcibly overlooked and she had the opportunity to prove her age had nothing to do with her abilities. Just like today, aging workers face a younger, stronger, smarter workforce which shine brighter than they do on the outside. I mention the outside because what is often missed is the wealth of knowledge and experience an aging worker possesses on the inside. Younger workers, fresh out of college, offer employers a new dynamic in creativity, speed, agility, and cutting edge knowledge. Aging workers face hurdles such as increased health issues which may cause them to miss work or need accommodations to continue to perform the tasks they are provided. Aging workers may possess a different set of values, especially in comparison to the younger generation which was emerging in 1967 when the act was instated, which could pose an issue depending on the company they are seeking employment with or are currently employed at. In today’s society technology changes quickly which could be an obstacle to aging workers as they work to keep up intellectually. Stamina is a viable obstacle as well. We live in a society which pushes individuals to extremes at times requiring long hours at times. For an aging who may tire those hours could be a real obstacle

DUE TOMORROW 10/16/2017 AT 16:30!!! 

Please refer to “Case Study A – Discrimina V. Defense Plants” below under Case Notes. 

Problem 2. Lack of minority hiring, evidence of discrimination

There are no minority or foreign born employees at Discrimina, Inc, even though the local community consists of many newly arrived people of Mexican extraction. For years, the ads for new employees all contained the phrase, “must have solid ties to the community and top English communication skills.” For that reason, few Mexican people have ever applied for work at Discrimina.

Assignment:

1. Rewrite the ad, in a way that will attract, rather than repel, Mexican or other foreign born applications. 

2. Then prepare a memo to the executives at Discrimina, Inc. advising them of why they should use your version of the ad.

Case Notes:

1. A small corporation, Discrimina, Inc. is a small parts  machining shop owned by Hank Discrimina and his daughter, Eunice  Discrimina. Discrimina, Inc. makes high quality agricultural parts for  some of the agricultural implement manufacturers. 

2. Mr. Discrimina is thinking of retiring and has considered  selling out for about $1.2 million. His machine shop has only 15  employees and is appraised at only $600,000.00 including the steel  building, grounds, machines, parts, and going business value.

3. Defense Plants, Inc. has just offered to acquire the entire  company for $1 million, and Hank Discrimina is allowing them to check  out his company to see why they want to pay so much for a small machine  shop. The agreement at this point gives both parties full rights to back  out and allows Defense Plants executives to check out the place. 

4. Defense Plants, Inc. has large government contracts and also  does work for private individuals. They sell ammunition for military and  sporting uses.

5. Because of their large contracts with the government, Defense  Plants, Inc. has a group of people whose sole job is to comply with  government regulations. Defense Plants also has an excellent human  resources department that has developed a policy for nearly everything  likely to come up in the area of employment disputes. The company is  non-union. In contrast, Discrimina, Inc. is the alter ego of one man and  to a lesser extent, his daughter. The company does not comply with  employment laws. Up until recently, Discrimina was regulated mostly by  state law, but recent expansions have put them into federal jurisdiction  in a number of areas.

6. During the tour of his plant, Mr. Discrimina asks his visitors  from Defense   Plants what military purpose his small machine shop  could possibly have. Dave from Defense Plants politely declines to  answer the question. 

7. A uniformed Navy officer appears the next day and asks Mr.  Discrimina to sign a secrecy agreement. Mr. Discrimina recognizes the  officer’s voice from calls made from a small implement manufacturer in  another state. He puts two and two together and concludes that the whole  reason the  government and the other machine company are cooperating on  this whole deal is to obtain access to the one specific machined part  that has a military use. He also realizes that only one specific  employee is qualified to machine the specific part. In fact, the  employee, Jim Arbor, his best machinist, was the one who invented the  part. Jim had come to work for Discrimina because he had needed to stay  in the area for domestic reasons. One more important detail is that Jim  is dating Eunice Discrimina.

8. Mr. Discrimina is now considering selling the part directly to  the government instead of selling his business. But there are  employment law problems to solve before he can qualify as a government  contractor. 

9. One problem has to do with terminating employees. The  Discrimina, Inc. handbook says, “If you are a good employee and keep up  with your work, I won’t fire you. But, if I want to close the plant, I  can immediately fire everyone. I can also change this manual any time I  want.” 

10. During the past six months, without updating the manual, Mr.  Discrimina has fired three employees, all without logging any problems  into Discrimina’s employment records. When asked, Mr. Discrimina says  the three employees were harassing Rita Land, his bookkeeper, and he  does not tolerate that at his company. 

11. The men consider Rita part of management because she works  mostly in the office annex. Rita considers herself an ordinary employee,  even though she is frequently in on confidential business planning with  Hank Discrimina and his daughter, Eunice, the Vice President. 

12. If the company becomes a government contractor, Discrimina  would have to have a health plan and would have to raise wages. There is  no health plan now, due to increased costs resulting from the illnesses  of the oldest employee, Frank Oldburr.

Project Planning – Developing the Project Plan and Determining Critical Path 1.Using the District4WarehouseMove WBS.xls provided, create a project plan for the District 4 Warehouse Move project. Use the PDF document, Project Plan Check – District4Move, to check your work to be sure you have created your starting project plan correctly. ProjectLibre is required for this task. https://sourceforge.net/projects/projectlibre/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/projectlibre/   If you have not yet downloaded ProjectLibre, please click here and follow the directions to do so now.   Note: you will need to insert a column to include your WBS codes, then you will need to sequence the tasks to show tasks by work package.  2.Based upon the details in the WBS and the project case, determine which tasks need to be completed first and which tasks are dependent upon other tasks to be completed prior to starting. Using this information identify predecessors in your project plan’s predecessor column. Complete the predecessor column by entering the line number of tasks that must be completed in order for each task to start. This will create your project timeline.   3.Using ProjectLibre’s Network or flow diagram view, determine the critical path for this project. In a MS Word document, list the activities that are on the critical path. Considering the risks identified in the risk table below, identify which risks would be most likely to increase your project timeline. Justify your responses.  4.Submit both your completed project plan and your MS Word document.   District 4 Production Warehouse Move Project – Risk Table    1   Permits are not received per the schedule    2   Finish work contractors walk off the job half way through    3   Framing and drywall contractors are running behind schedule and can only produce half their crew as scheduled    4   Work benches are poor quality and 1/3 will have to be rebuilt    Submit your plan to M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, September 20, 2017.     Assignment 2 Grading Criteria     Maximum Points     Correctly developed a project plan from the WBS provided     60     Completed the predecessor column correctly in the project plan based upon information in the case.     40     Correctly identified critical path activities     16     Correctly identified risks that would impact the project schedule     40     Used proper writing components such as, correct grammar, spelling, and word choice and cited all sources using correct APA style, etc..     44   Total:  200