Affirmative Action

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As the manager of human resources (HR) in a medium-size company that is involved with several Affirmative Action initiatives, you have noticed that the racial makeup of your workforce has an increasing number of multiracial employees (or workers who are the offspring of a biracial couple). You are wondering how these employees should be counted in any kind of attempt to implement Affirmative Action.

In other words, if future hiring is meant to make the workforce relatively proportionate to the population’s racial mix, should workers who are, for example, offspring of an African-American mother and a Caucasian father be counted as White, African-American, or neither? Explain your answer.

Discuss the following information:

  • The trend being seen in the general population in terms of people who could be characterized as biracial.
  • Study the following table and comment on the views of multiracial people regarding Affirmative Action found  

    Interviewees’ Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action

    View on Affirmative Action

    Overall

    Pro-AA and in favor of biracial persons qualifying

    58%

    Mixed feelings about AA but believe all biracial persons should qualify

    23%

    Pro-AA but unsure whether or not biracial persons who appear white should qualify

    4%

    Pro-AA but believe biracial persons who appear white should not qualify

    4%

    Opposed to AA but believe biracial persons should qualify as long as it exists

    11.5%

    (Korgen, 1999)

 How do you think biracial people should be counted in terms of Affirmative Action initiatives? Explain your answer from an objective perspective. This should be the main focus in your discussion.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

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 This week’s second discussion forum will focus on the populations of the chronically ill and the disabled.

You may be familiar with the common quote “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In reality, however, you may know of a person, family, or group who is not receiving adequate preventive or medical care due to a lack of resources and funds. Identify one specific illness or disability and address the following:

  • Research and discuss two available preventive care services within your immediate community and within the U.S. and briefly describe all four services.
  • Is the continuum of care adequate or insufficient to meet the health needs of the group? Why or Why not?

Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by a minimum of two scholarly sources beyond your course text
This week’s second discussion forum will focus on the populations of the chronically ill and the disabled.

You may be familiar with the common quote “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In reality, however, you may know of a person, family, or group who is not receiving adequate preventive or medical care due to a lack of resources and funds. Identify one specific illness or disability and address the following:

  • Research and discuss two available preventive care services within your immediate community and within the U.S. and briefly describe all four services.
  • Is the continuum of care adequate or insufficient to meet the health needs of the group? Why or Why not?

Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by a minimum of two scholarly sources beyond your course text
This week’s second discussion forum will focus on the populations of the chronically ill and the disabled.

You may be familiar with the common quote “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In reality, however, you may know of a person, family, or group who is not receiving adequate preventive or medical care due to a lack of resources and funds. Identify one specific illness or disability and address the following:

  • Research and discuss two available preventive care services within your immediate community and within the U.S. and briefly describe all four services.
  • Is the continuum of care adequate or insufficient to meet the health needs of the group? Why or Why not?

Your initial contribution should be 250 to 300 words in length. Your research and claims must be supported by a minimum of two scholarly sources beyond your course text

Teamwork and Motivation Assignment 3 – HSA/599

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Imagine that you are the owner of a small manufacturing company. Your company manufactures a commodity, widgets. Your widget is a clone of a nationally known widget. Your company’s widget, WooWoo, is less expensive and more readily available than the nationally known brand. Presently, the sales are high; however, there are many defects, which increase your costs and delays delivery. Your company has fifty (50) employees in the following departments: sales, assembly, technology, and administration. 

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Design an organization motivation plan that encourages: 

a. high job satisfaction

b. low turnover

c. high productivity

d. high-quality work

2. Propose two (2) methods to motivate all of the employees in the organization. Rate these methods in order of importance.

3. Propose three (3) ways to motivate the minimum wage service worker. Support your suggestions with a motivation theory.

4. Analyze the relevance of the individual worker in today’s organizational context.

5. Re-create and complete the following Individual Work to Teamwork chart using Microsoft Office or an equivalent such as OpenOffice. 

The left-hand column is filled with terms that describe an individual worker. Fill in the right-hand column with descriptive terms that suggest the desired change in behavior from individual work to teamwork. Use Chapter 8 as a reference. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length. 

Individual Work to Teamwork

INDIVIDUAL WORKER

TEAM MEMBER (change in behavior from individual to team member)

Talks

 

Me oriented

 

Department focused

 

Competitive

 

Logical

 

Written messages

 

Image

 

Secrecy

 

Short-term sighted

 

Immediate results

 

Critical

 

Tenure

 

6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

·         Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

·         Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

·         Explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations.

·         Analyze the formation and dynamics of group behavior and work teams, including the application of power in groups.

·         Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational behavior.

·         Write clearly and concisely about organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics.

 

 

Supply Chain Management

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For all the problems, to receive full scores, you have to show your complete and accurate work. If you only provide the final answers without showing your computations, you will not be assigned a full score (or you will miss the opportunity of receiving partial credit).

 

Problem 1: Line Balancing (9 points)

Employees at ABC Assembly Line work from 6am to 2pm Monday through Friday.  Everyone on the assembly line is allowed a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks.  Other cross-trained associates cover lunches and breaks for the associates on the assembly line so the line doesn’t stop.  On your second week at ABC Assembly Line, you record the processes of the assembly line are laid out in the following manner:

Task                       Predecessor

 1                             none

 2                             1

 3                             none

 4                             2

 5                             3

 6                             4, 5

 

 

The intern the summer before recorded the following observations:

Task 1 average cycle time = 1.1 min

Task 2 average cycle time = 0.8 min

Task 5 average cycle time = 1.4 min

 

You complete the 20 observations at each of the other 3 stations and record the following:

Task 3 average cycle time = 52 sec

Task 4 average cycle time = 36 sec

Task 6 average cycle time = 63 sec

 

Due to quality issues in the field causing $300k worth of parts to be recalled, a new quality check Task 4a needs to be added after Task 4 and the quality check must be completed before Task 6 can begin.  The Quality Assurance Team estimates this new process will take an average of 27 seconds to complete.  Prior to adding this quality check task, the line was achieving an output of 300 units per day and the Plant Manager needs to maintain that output.

Assuming the new quality check task is added, do the following:

a)      Draw the precedence diagram with the processing times for each task displayed (2 points).

b)      Compute the Takt time for the line (1 point).

c)       Assign tasks to work stations using the greatest amount of time remaining as a heuristic rule (2 points).

d)      Compute the efficiency and percent idle time for the system (2 points).

e)      Determine which work station has the least amount of idle time (1 point).  Determine which work station has the greatest amount of idle time (1 point).

 

 

M1A2 human resources

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Assignment 2: Discussion—HR Challenges in Relation to People and Technology

Strategic planning in HR is about using technological tools and working with people. This assignment will allow you to think about both areas.

Use your module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet to research HR challenges in relation to people and technology in terms of strategic planning.

Then, respond to the following:

  • Identify and describe at least three HR challenges in relation to people and technology in terms of strategic planning.
  • Could social networking be used to address some of the challenges?

Support your positions with appropriate references from your assigned readings and other articles from peer-reviewed journals found in the Argosy University online library.

Write your initial response in a minimum of 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Beginning comment on at least two of your peers’ responses.

Do the following when responding to your peers:

  • Read all posts from your peers.
  • Explain how their experiences differ from yours.
  • Provide substantive comments by contributing new, relevant information or quotes from course readings, Web sites, or other sources; building on the remarks or questions of others; or sharing practical examples of key concepts from your experiences, professional or personal.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points

Initial response:

  • Was insightful, original, accurate, and timely.
  • Was substantive and demonstrated advanced understanding of concepts.
  • Compiled and synthesized theories and concepts drawn from a variety of sources to support statements and conclusions.
16

Discussion response and participation:

  • Responded to a minimum of two peers in a timely manner.
  • Offered points of view supported by research.
  • Asked challenging questions that promoted the discussion.
  • Drew relationships between one or more points in the discussion.
16

Writing:

  • Wrote in a clear, concise, formal, and organized manner.
  • Responses were error free.
  • Information from sources, where applicable, was paraphrased appropriately and accurately cited.
8
Total:

PSY304 MIDTERM SOLUTION

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Question 1 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Tong used binocular rivalry to test brain response when the person perceived a house or a face. When the person perceived the house, activity in the ___________ increased.

 

 

 

Question 2 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Kamitani and Tong’s orientation decorder was able to correctly predict what orientation a person was loooking at on ____ % of the trials.

 

 

 

Question 3 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

One aspect of the visual system that helps us achieve selective attention is

 

 

 

Question 4 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

The incidence of change blindness _________ when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which part of the scene has changed.

 

 

 

Question 5 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

According to feature integration theory, the color, orientation, and other features of objects are initially processed in the __________ stage of processing.

 

 

 

Question 6 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

The _________ is activated in observers without brain damage when performing conjunction visual searches.

 

 

 

Question 7 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

The movement of elements in the environment relative to the observer is called

 

 

 

Question 8 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Mirror neurons

 

 

 

Question 9 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

The perceptual grouping of lights in biological motion has been shown physiologically to occur in the ________ area of the cortex.

 

 

 

Question 10 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Our ability to perceive movement when reading “message boards” used in advertising is based on

 

 

 

Question 11 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Camouflage can be interpreted as a problem of

 

 

 

Question 12 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

MST neurons that respond to flow

 

 

 

Question 13 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Brian looks at the moon and some clouds at night. He perceives the moon moving through the clouds. This is an example of

 

 

 

Question 14 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

The ____________ is demonstrated when you look through a circle you make with your fingers, and move a pencil either horizontally or diagonally behind your fingers.

 

 

 

Question 15 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

__________________ is a technique that has been used to temporarily disturb brain area functioning in humans.

 

 

 

Question 16 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Visual form agnosia is a problem of the ________ step of the perceptual process.

 

 

 

Question 17 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

Trying to find your friend’s face in a crowd is related to the method of

 

 

 

Question 18 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

To double the perceived brightness of a light, you need to multiply the physical intensity of the light by about 9. This is an example of response

 

 

 

Question 19 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

____________ is necessary for the neural transmission and processing of information.

 

 

 

Question 20 of 26

0.0/ 5.0 Points

Describe the process of synaptic transmission. Include in this description the differences between excitatory and inhibitory transmitters.

 

Question 21 of 26

0.0/ 5.0 Points

A) What is the blind spot? B) Discussion two reasons why we are not usually aware of the blind spot.

 

Question 22 of 26

0.0/ 5.0 Points

A) Describe the difference in simple cortical cells, complex cortical cells, and end-stopped cells. B) Explain why these cells are called “feature detectors.”

 

Question 23 of 26

0.0/ 5.0 Points

Discuss three reasons why object perception is difficult for computer vision.

 

Question 24 of 26

0.0/ 5.0 Points

Discuss the differences in attention between autistic and non-autistic people, from behavioral and physiological perspectives.

 

Question 25 of 26

0.0/ 5.0 Points

Name and discuss two characteristics of optic flow.

 

Question 26 of 26

1.0/ 1.0 Points

According to Land and Lee, drivers look __________ when driving on straight road.

 

 

 

HR 595 Negotiation Skills, Week 6 You Decide

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Week 6: Group Negotiation, Difficult Situations and Third Party Approaches – You Decide

 

Scenario Summary

A supervisor in a large accounting firm is scheduled to interview a job candidate who comes highly recommended and has excellent qualifications. Jim has an accounting degree (bachelors) from a prestigious Ivy League school and has been working on his MBA by attending an online program for the last 18 months and is close to earning his degree. In addition, he has been working for one of your competitors for several years and has excellent references attesting to his ability. Your payroll budget has recently been reduced significantly as a result of a declining client base, and your manager has the final authority in establishing salaries for the new hires, but generally is responsive to what his supervisor’s propose to a job candidate. In addition, the HR Director has established salary ranges for new hires that are to be adhered to, unless there are extenuating circumstances such as candidates with special expertise, the ability to bring in additional clients, or excellent credentials, including having the CPA certification.
 

Your Assignment

Your role is to determine whether distributive or integrative negotiations will be preferred in this scenario between the job applicant and the supervisor, and discuss the other potential negotiations that may occur between the other individuals who have an interest in hiring the job applicant. Your analysis should include your rationale for the preferred negotiation strategy for each negotiation based on the specific objectives of each of the participants in each scenario. Your responses to each question should be 50–100 words.

 

What is the appropriate negotiation strategy that would be most advantageous for Sharon and Jim in this scenario, distributive or integrative bargaining? What are the factors that should be considered in making this determination?

CPA yet. 2. What factors do you feel will contribute to the Accounting Supervisor and her Manager in determining the salary that Jim should be offered as a new hire? What are some other considerations that could be made to entice Jim to accept the job assuming that his salary demands could not be met? What are Jims and the Accounting Supervisors interests?

3. What are HRs interests in this scenario, and what would be the potential negotiation strategy between the Accounting Manager and HR assuming that there is a decision that the published salary range for attracting Jim will have to be exceeded in order to hire him?

4. Propose a negotiating outcome for each of the possible negotiations that could occur in this scenario and defend your responses. 

Human Resources White Paper Assignment (Harassment policy)

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This assignment is adapted from the module 2 case. Be sure to read the module 2 case study scenario found in the Course Content area of our classroom carefully, then begin to develop your white paper ideas. Your white paper should identify major American employment-related laws and regulations and include a clear and comprehensive interpretation of these laws as they apply to Pomodoro, Inc. Your paper should be three to five pages in length and include citations and references in APA format.

“Your new boss has made it clear she wants the firm to comply with U.S. employment regulations. In addition, she wants to inform the firm’s staff that a zero-tolerance policy for harassment of any sort is in effect. Develop a three to five page white paper defining the important harassment and employment-related laws and regulations in place and outlining the points you want to include as you develop and publish your firm’s harassment policy. (Research topics might include but are not limited to: harassment, wage and salary legislation, employment laws, and OSHA regulations.) And please remember! Your firm has both American and international employees so you will want to include a discussion of policy implications for your company’s global workplace.”

Module 2 Case:

The goal of corporate officers is to position their business entities in the marketplace to ensure optimal competitiveness. This goal applies whether the entity produces goods, services, or information, or whether the entity is an international conglomerate or a start-up venture. Management faces special challenges, for example, in the case of mergers. The challenge can be greater when units that span international boundaries merge. Human resource managers must always be aware of the influences, whether environmental, organizational, or individual, to lead their businesses through challenging times.

In the following scenarios, your company has just been subsumed by a large multinational firm, Pomodoro, Ltd., a food and beverage industry giant. Your previous company, Thompson Snack Foods, manufactured and distributed snack foods in the southeast United States. Your product line included organic potato and corn chips, pretzels, and peanuts. You have been asked to stay on as HR manager, and you look forward to working with the new management team. Your new boss, recently transferred from the firm’s offices in Brussels, has called a meeting for Monday morning.

Scenarios

  1. Develop a PowerPoint presentation for your new boss, the stateside director of operations, who has concerns about your firm’s ability to comply with federal HR regulations. In your presentation, identify the HR unit’s policies and procedures for keeping abreast of changes in HR laws. Describe in detail your sources for tracking the status of pending legislation as well as the provisions for complying with recently enacted laws. Your sources might include Web sites, HR-related organization memberships, magazines, and listservs.
  2. Your boss has also requested information about the latest government regulations on sexual harassment. Conduct a Web search and then prepare a two-or-three-page memorandum for your boss outlining the procedures you recommend the firm adopt to reduce potential liability if charged with sexual harassment.
  3. Your new boss has made it clear he wants the firm to comply with U.S. regulations. In addition, he wants to inform the firm’s staff that a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any sort is in effect. Develop a PowerPoint presentation for use at a sexual harassment training seminar at your firm. Begin by defining harassment. Session attendees would include American and international employees.
  4. On October 17, 2000, an immigration law titled the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act was enacted. The high-tech industry heavily supported the provision that allowed H-1B employees to start work immediately. Research this law and develop a three-page position paper identifying the issues most important to your firm. Why was the high-tech industry so heavily invested in the bill’s passage? Be sure to discuss thoroughly the pros and cons of the bill.
  5. Develop a white paper defining the issues you believe most critical for HR managers to address. Then develop a training plan for a midsize manufacturing corporation (500–1,000 employees). For this exercise, simply list the courses by topic that you would include. As a follow-on exercise in subsequent modules, you will be asked to develop a full-blown training program plan for the firm.

 

Develop a three- to five-page white (position) paper defining the important harassment and employment-related laws and regulations, and outline the relevant application points. Some of the topics might include, but are not limited to, sexual harassment, wage and salary legislation, recruitment, interviewing, affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, and ADA. Write the position paper knowing that the audience (those who will read the paper) will be both American and international employees; therefore, you will want to write it in such a manner that all can understand the implications, although they are not all U.S. citizens.

 

 

LDR/531 Week-2 Individual Assignment

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Assignment Grading Guide Week 2

Individual Assignment

 

Assume you are the manager of your learning team and need to develop a plan that will address the characteristics of your group and yourself as the leader. This plan can be used to determine the needs of the learning team and is a tool for members to assess their skills, strengths, areas needing improvement, and the resources needed to help them reach their career goals.

 

Use each Learning Team member’s DiSC assessment results completed in Week One.

 

·         Develop a combined DiSC chart of your Learning Team members for use in developing this paper. Based on the individual assessments, what are the characteristics of your team?

·         Create a professional development plan to address the characteristics of the Learning Team members both individually and as a group and your ability to lead them:

·         Evaluate the individuals, including yourself, and the group based on the DiSC assessment.

 

Required Elements:

·         1050 words (10% +/- allowance)

·         Follow the details in this guide and the table below to make sure your paper meets all requirements.

 

RESOURCES: ALL CLASS MATERIALS USED DURING THE CLASS

 

Use this Assignment Grading Guide and the table detailed below to make sure your paper meets all requirements. Take into account that the requirements in this Guide abide by the Instructor Policies document and supersede those from any other source.

 

Use the UOPX/APA Sample paper as a guide to write your paper. This sample is available in PDF format in the Center for Writing Excellence (CWE).

 

Use theAssignment Templates as a reference to write your paper.

 

The Abstract section is optional and if you opt to include it, its word count will be part of your narrative. The Abstract should be a summary of your entire paper and very different from your introductory section. See the UOPX/APA paper or visit CWE for more information.

 

Send your paper to the CWE for grammar review and plagiarism check with enough anticipation so you can receive feedback from CWE before submitting your assignment. Do not submit your results as those are yours to keep.

 

 


Assignment Grading Guide

 

Content

75.00 Percent

Points Available

6.00

Points Earned

X/6.00

Additional Comments:

Assume you are the manager of your learning team and need to develop a plan that will address the characteristics of your group and yourself as the leader. This plan can be used to determine the needs of the learning team and is a tool for members to assess their skills, strengths, areas needing improvement, and the resources needed to help them reach their career goals.

·         Develop a combined DiSC chart of your Learning Team members for use in developing this paper. Based on the individual assessments, what are the characteristics of your team?

·         Create a professional development plan to address the characteristics of the Learning Team members both individually and as a group and your ability to lead them

·         Evaluate the individuals, including yourself, and the group based on the DiSC assessment.

1.     Your paper must include at least the following sections:

1.1.   Cover Page

1.2.   Abstract section (optional 150 – 250 words)

1.3.   Introductory section to include an overview of your entire paper

1.4.   Section I: Where you develop a combined DiSC chart of your Learning Team members for use in developing this paper. Based on the individual assessments, what are the characteristics of your team?

1.5.   Section II: where you create a professional development plan to address the characteristics of the Learning Team members both individually and as a group and your ability to lead them:

1.6.   Section III: where you evaluate the individuals, including yourself, and the group based on the DiSC assessment.

1.7.   Conclusion section

1.8.   Reference page

2.     Use Level One Heading or Level Two Heading to separate each one of the sections in your paper. Use adequate and meaningful titles and subtitles.

3.     Use the UOPX/APA Sample paper and the Individual Assignment Templates as guides to write your own.

4.     At least 80% of your paper’s content should be your original work. The other 20% may come from other sources you want verbatim quote or paraphrase, including previous work approved by me.

5.     Support your research work with peer-reviewed bibliography and include at least five sources:

5.1.   At least two of those sources must be the eBooks or Class Materials used in the class.

5.2.   At least two other sources must be academic peer-reviewed selected from the UOPX Library.

5.3.   Additionally you can use any other relevant source, excluding the Disallowed Reference Sources detailed in the Instructor Policies.

6.     Include at least one valid APA citation per section or sub-section in your paper; remember they go in pair, for each citation you must have an entry in your reference page.

 

 

 

Organization / Development

12.50 Percent

Points Available

1.00

Points Earned

X/1.00

Additional Comments:

·         The paper is 1,050 words in length (+/- 10% permissible) and meets the word count requirements detailed in the Instructor Policies. The word count includes all text entered into your paper except the cover page and the reference page.

·         Paragraph transitions are present, logical, and maintain the flow throughout the paper.

·         The academic tone is appropriate to the content and assignment.

·         Sentence transitions are present and maintain the flow of thought.

·         Citations seamlessly integrate with the narrative.

 

 

 

Mechanics

12.50 Percent

Points Available

1.00

Points Earned

X/1.00

Additional Comments:

·         Formatting or layout and graphics are pleasing to the eye (font, colors, spacing).

·         Follow rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation; make sure the spelling is correct.

·         Sentences are well constructed, complete, strong, clear, concise, and varied.

·         Paper adheres to APA guidelines.

·         Please upload your assignment to and include your name in your file name for easy identification. For example in my case, I use LDR531-Week02-EddieAprile-Individual.doc you can change your name accordingly.

 

 

 

 

Total Available

Total Earned

 

 

8.00

 

 

 

HRM-594 Strategic Staffing – Course Project, A+ Material (HRM594 HR594)

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Objective

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For the Course Project, each student is to prepare a course paper, approximately 12–15 pages in length (excluding appendices), on a topic related to the theme of Strategic Staffing. Within this broad theme, the course paper is intended to be an opportunity to explore, in some depth, a topic related to the course that is of specific significance to you.

 

Sample Topics

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A list of example topics for course papers is provided below to provide some ideas. However, these are examples only. Please feel free to consider other staffing-related topics that are of interest to you.

  • Alignment of staffing strategy with organizational strategy.
  • Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods: time, cost, quality, and retention.
  • Effects of utilizing realistic job reviews on employee selection, performance, and retention.
  • Current developments in job analysis.
  • Breaking the glass ceiling: Sociological, legal, and organizational issues.
  • Current issues: Managing the flexible workforce.
  • Current developments in selection testing and validation.
  • Defining the new careers of the 21st century and implications for staffing strategies.
  • Requirements and implementation strategies for a staffing management information system.
  • Developing innovative mobility paths for career development: Parallel tracks and lattice tracks.

 

Deadlines

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Week 3 – Submit to your Dropbox a short (no more than one page) paper describing your selected topic.

Week 7 – Course Project due to your Dropbox. 

Submit your assignment to the Dropbox located on the silver tab at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read these Step-by-Step Instructions or watch this Dropbox Tutorial.

See Syllabus/”Due Dates for Assignments & Exams” for due date information.

 

Required Components

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Your paper must include, and will be graded on the following components:

Section

Points

240 Total

Description

Title Page

5

Include the title of your course paper, your name, email address, school name, instructor’s name, date of submittal, and class (HRM594).

Introduction

20

Describe the strategic staffing topic that you have selected and identify why it is significant. Present any background or facts that will enable the reader to clearly understand the issues.

Problem

30

Identify and clearly state the issues or problems. Remember, that what appears to be the strategic staffing problem may actually be just a symptom of a bigger problem—dig deep to be sure you’ve identified the real problem(s). If there appears to be more than one problem/issue, decide if they are separate or related issues. Keep the problem statement short and concise. Specify whose point of view you are taking to identify the problem.

Topical Area

60

Connect the problem to a specific topical area of work in Strategic Staffing. Name the topical area (e.g., high rate of voluntary turnover of valuable employees). Then write your synthesis of at least four scholarly or professional studies or articles that seem relevant to your inquiry.

Causes

60

Provide an identification and description of the causes of the problem/issue. Be sure the causes you identify relate directly to the problem/issue. A critical element of the strength of this section is to apply concepts and models from our text, from class discussions, and from your literature review. Discuss the concepts, ideas, or insights that are most valuable in helping you make sense of the causes of the staffing problem. Support your analysis with reference to appropriate research.

Solutions

40

Suggest consequences to the organization in the next year, two years, or more if nothing is done differently and no actions are taken to address the causes of this problem.

Recommend a more desirable state of affairs (behaviors); compare this state to what happens if no changes are made; and propose at least two action steps that will leverage the organization toward the more desirable state. Describe exactly whatshould be done and how it should be done, including by whom, with whom, and in whatsequence.

Reflection

15

Think about this assignment and write a well-thought-out reflective statement about how this assignment influenced your personal, academic, and professional leadership and managerial development.

References

10

You must use no less than eight resources outside your textbook. Cite all sources.

All references must be cited in two places: within the body of your paper and on a separate reference list. Choose references judiciously and cite them accurately. Refer to The Business Student Writer’s Manual to understand how to cite sources appropriately.

Citing an author’s work within your text documents and your research identifies the source for readers, and enables readers to locate the source of information in the alphabetical reference list at the end of the paper. To use the ideas or words of another person without crediting the source is plagiarism. Plagiarism in its purest form involves copying passages either verbatim or nearly verbatim, with no direct acknowledgment of the source. The most common (and unconscious) form of plagiarism is to paraphrase a direct quotation. Paraphrasing does not relieve you of the obligation to provide proper identification of source data. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to make sure all quotes, ideas, or conclusions not your own are given proper acknowledgment in your text.