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Films: 1. Personnel, 2. Feedback on the Job: Acccepting Criticism, 3. Busniss Plan: SWOT Analysis
Watch these films that are located in the univerisal library and use them as references.
Week 1 DQ 1
What are the major functions of human resource management (HRM)? What is the most important
function of human resource management? Explain your answer and provide a workplace example to
support your response.
WEEK 1 DQ 2
Why is diversity important in the work environment? What can organizations do to encourage
diversity? How is HRM involved in the area of diversity?
WEEK 2 HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT BROCHURE
The HRM department at fictional Hancock Manufacturing is planning to recruit new employees at a
local university career fair. To attract qualified applicants, the department has decided to design a
brochure to advertise the department at the career fair. A graphic artist has been assigned to create
the graphic design for the brochure and your team has been asked to provide the text for the
brochure. The text your team writes must focus on communicating to potential employees how the
department is addressing changes in technology, diversity, globalization, and ethics. This
assignment is due in Week Two.
Create the text information for the brochure for the HRM department at Hancock Manufacturing.
When referencing the Brochure create the reference from the APA Publication Manaual using
Hancock Manufactiring, year brochure made and edition and the names of your Learning Team
members using sections:
B. Books, Brochures, and Book Chapters
Brochure, coporate author
Example:
Research and Recruiting Center for New Hires. (2011). Guidelines for staffing procedures at
Hancock Manufacturing (5th ed.) [Brochure]. Walker, D: Author.
Include the following details in your Brochure text information. This will be in a written paper format
with references:
Title of brochure
An opening paragraph introducing the human resources department of Hancock Manufacturing
Three to four paragraphs addressing HRM changes in technology, diversity, globalization, and
ethics
Text in Brochure is separate from PowerPoint presentation slide text
Submit in Microsoft Word Format
PowerPoint Presentation
PowePoint Presentation to include 6 slides including reference slide (references may include some
of the same references from the written Brochure). This presentation will be in support of your
Brochure with slides of each of the major headings (technology, diversity, globalization, ethics,
history of Hancock Manufacturing. In presentation you may use items used in ABC Publishing to
enhance your presentation.
Please include downloaded pictures from the Internet or ClipArt to support your PowerPoint
Presentation.
Submitting it through assignment links will be two attachments. Assignment links will take these
attachments, one at a time.
Two items will be handed in through the assignment links (written brochure and PowerPoint
presentation of Brochure. Assignments will be loaded into same assignment link. There will be one
grade for the two part assignment.
Films: 1. Managing Diversity in Business, 2. Communication Skills, 3. The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside
Americas Most Powerful Company
4. Business Communication: Writing 5. Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment and How to Confront
It
Watch these films that are located in the univerisal library and use them as references.
Week 2 DQ 1
What is sexual harassment and what items cause this offense to occur in the workplace? What
methods of discourse do employees have when sexual harassment takes place?
Week 2 DQ 2
Assume you are the human resources (HR) manager at ABC Publishing. The company has recently
received several complaints of sexual harassment. The HR department has decided to create a
sexual harassment policy. What should the policy include? How should the policy be implemented
and enforced?
Week 3 Individual Assignment Employment Laws Chart
Resources: Weekly readings and additional research, if necessary
Complete Employment Laws Chart found on the student web page for Week Three. The chart
includes descriptions, court cases, importance of, and application of employment laws.
For Law citations please use D.03 Court Case Decisions (BlueBook Rule 10) found in APA
Publication Manual.
WEEK 3 TEAM
ASSIGNMENT EQUAL
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITY AND
EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
REVIEW
Refer to the University Material: Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Rights Review
located on the student website, for List A and List B.
For Law citations please use D.03 Court Case Decisions (BlueBook Rule 10) found in APA
Publication Manual.
Films: 1. Business Ethics, 2. Employer/Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Watch these films that are located in the univerisal library and use them as references.
Refer to Main classroom forum for directions to access them.
WEEK 3 DQ 1
Ch. 5 of Fundamentals ofHuman Resource Management introduces five job analysis methods
including observation, individual interview, group interview, structured questionnaire, technical
conference, and diary method. Select two job analysis methods. For each method chosen, describe
a situation which is most appropriate to apply the job analysis method. What are some
disadvantages associated with each method you have chosen?
Reference
Decenzo, D. A., & Robbins, S. P. (2007). Fundamentals of human resource management (9thed.).
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Week 3 DQ 2
Employee selection methods introduced in Ch. 7 of Fundamentals of Human
Management includes applications, employment tests, interviews, background investigations, and
medical or physical examinations. Select three selection methods that you feel are most useful. For
each selection method chosen, discuss the reliability and validity of the method. What are the
strengths and weaknesses of the selection methods you have chosen?
References
Decenzo, D. A., & Robbins, S. P. (2007). Fundamentals of human resource management (9th ed.).
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
WEEK 4 INDIVIDUAL
ASSIGNMENT JOB
DESCRIPTION AND
RECRUITING STRATEGIES
WORKSHEET
Conduct an interview with someone who has a job position that is different from your own.
Identify the duties associated with his or her position, as well as any skills and abilities necessary for
the position.
Gather the information from the interview, as well as the Week Three readings, to complete the Job
Description and Recruiting Strategies Worksheet found on the student Web page for Week Four.
Answer each question in paragraph format.
WEEK 4 TEAM
ASSIGNMENT HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
TRAINING PRESENTATION
Your Learning Team has been selected to conduct a recruiting and staffing training to a group of new
human resource management (HRM) employees at your company.
Note. Your instructor will assign each Learning Team a company from the Virtual Organization. Use
the assigned company and the above scenario to complete this assignment.
Resource: Virtual Organization
Create a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which your team trains new
employees on the role of HRM planning and its relationship to the strategic plan of the organization.
Include an overview of the process and steps of HR planning, recruiting, interviewing, selecting,
and hiring of employees.
Consider using visual aids and graphics to enhance your presentation.
Include clear and specific presenters notes.
Your group may introduce a training program for employees. This would just be an explanation to
the new hires that you have one at Baderman Island for new hires to enter into when hired.
Explain the current Baderrman Island overview (policies and procedures) in the area of recruiting
and staffing and if you want to add improvement areas, please do so. Research the organization
(Baderrman Island) first and include their procedures on how they do it. After explaining their
recruiting and staffing methods, add to it if you think it will help the recruiting and staffing process.
Be sure to label and document these sources. If you do add to it, identify what you did and label it
for me.
Please do this for the virtual organization you are assigned to.
Week 4 DQ 1
Explain the effects a learning organization may have on employees in todays organization. What
are the HRM implications of this effect?
Week 4 DQ 2
If management treats employees well, pays them a fair wage, communicates with them, and
ensures that they have a safe and healthy work environment, there is no need for a union. Do you
agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your position.
WEEK 5 INDIVIDUAL
ASSIGNMENT EMPLOYEE
TRAINING AND CAREER
DEVELOPMENT PAPER
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper addressing the following:
WEEK 5 TEAM
ASSIGNMENT SUSTAINING
EMPLOYEE
PERFORMANCE PAPER
Resource: Company assigned to you by your instructor.
Use the company in the Virtual Organization assigned to you by your instructor in Week Four.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper, due in Week Five, addressing the following:
Describe the general function of performance management systems. If your assigned company
does not use a performance management system, would you recommend it use one?
Suggest two job evaluation methods for each of the positions your team has chosen. What would
be the advantages and disadvantages of these methods, based on the positions you have selected?
Compare and contrast possible compensation plans for the two positions.
Explain the importance of providing employee benefit plans to employees working in the chosen
positions.
Week 5 DQ 1
What is the purpose of performance management systems within an organization? What are some
ethical concerns of performance management systems? How can a human resource management
(HRM) department ensure a performance management system is ethical?
Week 5 DQ 2
Decenzo and Robbins (2007) in Chapter 11 discuss three classifications of rewards. They are
intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards, financial versus nonfinancial rewards, and performance-based
versus membership based rewards. What are the strengths and weaknesses associated with each
type of reward? Which type of reward is most successful in the business environment and why?
Reference
Decenzo, D. A., & Robbins, S. P. (2007). Fundamentals of human resource management (9th ed.).
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1. ____Todays managers have found that employees do not set aside their cultural values and
lifestyle preferences when they come to work. The challenge is to make organizations more
accommodating to diverse groups of people by addressing different lifestyles, family needs, and
work styles.
2. ____The part-time, temporary, and contract workers used by organizations to fill peak staffing
needs or perform work not done by core employees is called the contingent workforce.
3. ____Quality managements objective is to create an organization committed to continuous
improvement or one that leads to achieving an effective and lean work force. A well-managed
organization according to W. Edward Deming was one in which statistical control reduced variability
and resulted in uniform quality and predictable quality of output.
4. ____Work process engineering will generate its benefits only if Human Resource Management
does train its employee population.
5. ____ Causes of stress can be grouped into two major categories: motivational and personal
6. ____Technological changes have required HRM to address or change its practices when it deals
with such activities as recruiting as recruiting and selecting employees, motivating and paying
individuals, training and developing employees, and in legal and ethical matters.
7. ____Drug testing in todays organization is conducted not to eliminate illegal substance at the
point of hire, but only to catch those using it in the workplace.
8. ____Type A behavior is characterized by a procrastinated sense of time urgency, excessively
competitive drive, and difficulty accepting and enjoying leisure time.
9. ____The purpose of job analysis is only concerned with the amount of money that is paid to the
employee for following their job description.
10.___A financial protection plan for executives in case they are released from the organization is
called a golden parachute.
11.___Social Security does not provide a source of income for American retirees, disabled workers,
and surviving dependents of workers who have died.
10. ___Employees cannot assume that well-publicized sexual harassment policies will constitute
reasonable care to prevent religious harassment. This was the issue in Agay v. City of Benton
Harbour1998.
13.___Some stress in organizations is absolutely necessary; without it, workers lack energy.
14.___Safety committees which follow the Occupational Safety and
25.___What is it called when the employer provides the employee with repeated opportunities to
discuss performance before any reward or punishment consequences occur that will eliminate
surprises at the formal annual review?
a. upward appraisal b. ongoing feedback c. 360-degree appraisal d. training e. validity
26.__What term refers to the act of employees using their organizations Internet access during work
hours to surf non-job-related Web sites and to send or receive personal emails.
a. Intranet b. firewalls c. cyber bullying d. cyber email e. cyberloafing
27.___There are two goals of recruiting. One is recruiting to generate a large pool of applicants.
The other one is?
a. How to discipline employees b. how to compensate employees c. provide enough information
for individuals to self-select out of the process d. look for ways to increase recruiting costs e. look
for ways to damage diversity
28.____Typically, OSHA enforces the standards based on a five-term priority listing. One of them it
is a serious accident that has occurred within the past ___ hours.
a. 75 b. 24 c. 48 d. working week e. none of the above
29.____Organization officials have a legal responsibility, if not a moral one, to ensure that the
workplace is free from unnecessary hazards and that conditions surrounding the workplace are safe
for employees ___.
a. physical b. to prevent incident rates c. physical and mental health d. to prevent immediate danger
e. job safety programs
30. ___ When OSHA was originally passed and put into legislation an inspector had the right to levy
a fine against the organization and award a fine with a maximum penalty of $ 10,000. Today, with
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 the $10,000 penalty can increase to which dollar
amount ___.
a. $ does not increase b. $ 20,000 c. $80,000 d. $70,000 e. $100,000
Short Answers. Explain in Short Sentences to Answer the Question Underneath the Question. Pick
Six Questions and Answer them. There are one point each. Total = Six Points. Credit = 5.75 Points
31. Explain the difference between employee development and organizational development?
32. What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act and when was it passed
33. Explain one of the major functions of Human Resource
34. Management and how does it relate to the job description?
35. What is the purpose of a S.W.O.T. analysis?
36. What is an Employment-at-Will contract and list and explain one way it can be broken?
37. What is the purpose of an employee handbook
38. What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
39. Explain two methods of employee recruitment?
40. What is the difference between Management and Human Resources? I am referring to the
elements each comprises.
41. List an intrinsic and extrinsic reward and explain how it is helpful in the workplace to increase
validity?
42. What is collective bargaining and what members are involved in the process?
One Long Essay. Answer the Following Question in One to Three Paragraphs in Your Own Words.
No In-Text Citations. I Will Count Off For This. (Three Points). Credit = 3 points
43. Why is the Global Village an important part of diversity as it relates to Human Resource
Management?