Author a letter in which you state to your current employer why you would be:
1. Best suited for an administrative position as a contract negotiator, but not as a manager in charge of union management operation
OR
2. Best suited as a manager in charge of union management operation, but not suited for an administrative position as a contract negotiator.
As you write your letter, be sure to discuss what each job might entail and information about your personality, interests, and background.
Submission Instructions:
Any papers/assignments should at a minimum contain 500-750 words of content (double spaced), include a properly formatted cover page (abstracts are optional), and a reference listing page with at least three (3) NEW references properly listed at the end of your work. Providing additional references to your assignments demonstrate your desire to conduct additional research on the topic area, and can improve your research skills.
With all assignments, include properly formatted in-text citations within the body of your work for each of your listed references so the reader can ascertain your original thoughts or ideas as well as the portion of your work that is credited to credible sources. It is very important to identify work from other sources to ensure that proper credit is provided to researchers in the field.
Healthcare Organization: University of North Carolina Health Care System Minimum Page Length: 3 pages Minimum Resources: 4 Textbook: Strategic Management of Healthcare Organiations by Ginter, Duncan & Swayne (2013)
Instructions For this assignment, you will complete a TOWS matrix and portfolio analysis, and use any other appropriate analysis tools, to determine alternative strategies for your health care organization's future success. Include the following elements:
Incorporate the use of new methodologies from the knowledge-economy management approach that might be appropriate for this organization. Correlate recent research findings regarding strategy management into your approach. Synthesize operational and financial components in your strategic planning process. Incorporate your findings from your current environment analysis. Preface your newly revised strategic plan with the core assumptions regarding environmental opportunities and threats, organizational strengths and weaknesses, and organizational behavior dynamics that are foundational to the strategy. Determine the organizational structure that best facilitates the strategy—functional, divisional, or matrix. Include a brief description of the proposed strategy that reflects the choices made regarding: Product domain. Market domain. Level of investment in the respective product and market domains. Positioning approach for achieving competitive advantage. Maneuvers that will be used to implement the positioning approach. Distinctive competencies or assets that will be relied on to gain and sustain competitive advantage.
write a 4-6 page (double spaced) review (not report) of the book. This should include an analysis of the author’s main arguments and the evidence to support these as well as some analysis (including comparing/contrasting) of the book
Please see the attached Unit 6 Case Study Assignment and also the template that gives the exact details of what is needed for the case study.
I will submit the discussion information on Wednesday since it is a group discussion as I am waiting on the the fortune 1000 company the group will be using. I will attach the the discussion topic and will get back with you once I get more details from the classmates.
Discussion Topic: Team Exercise About Outsourcing
Why have outsourcing initiatives become a key element in shaping functional tactics for today’s global companies? As a team, choose a Fortune 1,000 company that has adopted the use of outsourcing and has done so successfully. Work with your assigned teammates in the Team Discussion Area to create a collaborative post in this Discussion Board addressing the outsourcing question per your team’s company of choice. Support your finding through proper citation.
Take time to review the responses of your classmates’ team and provide your feedback. Cite your sources in APA format and style.
Once your team has fully addressed the topic, please post your team response to the General Discussion. Only one team member please to post.
Please note, you will be broken up into teams for this Discussion and only your team members will be able to see and participate in the Discussion.
In this team Discussion on outsourcing initiatives, you will engage in developing the following professional competency:
•Working effectively in teams to meet project deadlines
What did you learn that will be useful? What did you like? What did you really dislike? Do you have any ideas for improvement? Do you have any creative or interesting ideas for learning activities in this class?
Back in the Stone Ages, when I was just a kid, about the only place to get information was out of a book at the library. I was recently visiting my relatives, and one of my nieces, who is seven years old, wanted me to look at a paper she was writing about the moon for her class at school. She led me off to her room, and fired up her computer. First she showed me the paper in her word processing program. I asked a question about some information she had included. She rolled her eyes, flipped over to Google, and found the source of her facts in less than 30 seconds.
These days, information is everywhere, and you need to harness its power. Using the web well opens doors to success in every field.
Please view this video before writing your analysis: Employee Performance Management Evaluation Review Appraisals [Video File][02 Min 46 Sec]
The impact of the computer and related technology on the human resource function over the last 25 years has been dramatic, and in many ways, revolutionary. There has hardly been an aspect that has not undergone significant change.
WEBSITE ANALYSIS: For this assignment, you are asked to find and report on at least four websites that relate to performance management/performance appraisal/career management. In your report, you must review each website in terms of the quality and usefulness of the information for the HR professional or manager. Your report should be 2-4 pages in length and written in APA style.
Your report should consider:
Have you identified and included the link to at least four unique websites? Have you provided a review of each website that notes its strengths and weaknesses in the information presented from the perspective of an HR professional? Is information from the textbooks and other sources integrated into your analysis appropriately? For all sources, you must provide complete citations. Is the paper professionally presented? Remember your audience. It is important to present your information as clearly and succinctly as possible. (Do not sacrifice thoroughness for mere brevity.) Please proofread carefully for grammar and spelling errors.
Back in the Stone Ages, when I was just a kid, about the only place to get information was out of a book at the library. I was recently visiting my relatives, and one of my nieces, who is seven years old, wanted me to look at a paper she was writing about the moon for her class at school. She led me off to her room, and fired up her computer. First she showed me the paper in her word processing program. I asked a question about some information she had included. She rolled her eyes, flipped over to Google, and found the source of her facts in less than 30 seconds.
These days, information is everywhere, and you need to harness its power. Using the web well opens doors to success in every field.
Please view this video before writing your analysis: Employee Performance Management Evaluation Review Appraisals [Video File][02 Min 46 Sec]
The impact of the computer and related technology on the human resource function over the last 25 years has been dramatic, and in many ways, revolutionary. There has hardly been an aspect that has not undergone significant change.
WEBSITE ANALYSIS: For this assignment, you are asked to find and report on at least four websites that relate to performance management/performance appraisal/career management. In your report, you must review each website in terms of the quality and usefulness of the information for the HR professional or manager. Your report should be 2-4 pages in length and written in APA style.
Your report should consider:
Have you identified and included the link to at least four unique websites? Have you provided a review of each website that notes its strengths and weaknesses in the information presented from the perspective of an HR professional? Is information from the textbooks and other sources integrated into your analysis appropriately? For all sources, you must provide complete citations. Is the paper professionally presented? Remember your audience. It is important to present your information as clearly and succinctly as possible. (Do not sacrifice thoroughness for mere brevity.) Please proofread carefully for grammar and spelling errors.
A worker digging a road using a pneumatic drilling machine Linking individual performance to organizational success is a difficult task in the simplest of environments. It is, however, an extremely important piece of the HR puzzle; especially when the context is global.
Employees are able to improve their performance and develop their KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities) faster if they know what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. So, an accurate performance appraisal offers the prospect of helping employees reach their full potential sooner rather than later.
Secondly, performance appraisal can also help ensure employees see a connection between their performance and the rewards (e.g., compensation) they receive. These two objectives, however, can compete with one another when one appraisal is used to fulfill both.
If the appraisal is developmental, it is important for both the employee and his/her manager to have an open discussion on the employee's strengths and weaknesses with a goal of identifying steps to be taken to help the employee reach his/her potential. It is difficult for this type of conversation to take place, if the appraisal also is used to allocate rewards (e.g. pay increases, bonuses).
Does the performance appraisal process where you work get used to fulfill more than one purpose? Do you think it fairly measures your performance? What would you change about the system if it was up to you?
For this discussion activity, suppose you work for a company whose performance appraisal process is used to fulfill more than one purpose. Share your views on whether this process fairly measures performance. Draw upon your readings and, if possible, your personal experience to justify your views. Then discuss what you would change about the system if it was up to you. Explain.
Paper 2 Many of the motivation theories you may have studied in other classes incorporate some aspect of rewards as a basis for explaining behavior. In this section, we are going to look at several perspectives on that relationship.
Linking Pay with Performance
Pay-for-performance programs link financial reward to successful job performance. A recent survey found that approximately 50% of the companies responding have some form of pay-for-performance program for employees. The plans which include a fixed wage base and a variable pay portion are generally accepted by employees. While enthusiastic about the extra earnings potential, they worry about the objectivity in employee ratings.
A young doctor reading the contents of a paper sheet and smiling.
To effectively link pay compensation with performance, an understanding of motivation theory is necessary. It is important to understand the difference between intrinsic - extrinsic rewards; expectancy and equity theories as they relate to compensation and performance; and finally, an implementation action plan to assure an effective link has been made.
Compensation plans linking pay with performance were first introduced by Frederick Taylor, the father of scientific management. Based on the belief that money is the prime motivator, these incentive systems were widespread from the early 1900s through World War II. The direct connection between money and performance began to be questioned by the 1950s. Humanistic theorists (e.g. Herzberg, McGregor) developed motivation theories that considered both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Underlying these approaches was the belief that the only real motivators of work were intrinsic rewards like responsibility, autonomy, feelings of accomplishment, etc. The only way a manager could improve performance was through intrinsic reward provided through job design to include more responsibility, autonomy and control. Pay was shrugged off as an expense and managers devalued the reward system's ability to help improve productivity.
The intrinsic-extrinsic approach ignores the individuals' perceptions and expectations about rewards. An understanding of these can be gained through the study of expectancy and equity theories. Under expectancy theory, if a valued reward is made contingent on actual performance, the employee will become more productive. Equity theory argues that an employee remains motivated as long as he/she perceives the rewards he/she receives in comparison to a peer are appropriate given the employee's perception of the efforts made by both parties. With these basic understandings of motivation theory, compensation and performance, it is possible to develop an action plan to design and administer the reward system that can help employees reach higher levels of productivity. Steps to consider in designing the system are:
Develop a list of all the rewards the organization offers its employees. Decide the purpose of each reward and express it in behavioral terms. Conduct a survey of employees to find out how they perceive each reward. Examine the findings of the survey and investigate those rewards where the perceptions of employees are different from those of established by the organization. Review and reformulate the compensation system to link pay with performance. What are the factors that would make you most likely to quit a job? Is the relationship between your pay and your perception of your performance a reason? Why or why not? What could your organization do to keep you?
Dessler, G. (2013). Human Resource Management (13th ed.). Boston, MA: Prentice Hall.
Discussion Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Future
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an “idea that business has [as] a duty to serve in general as well as the financial interest of stockholders” (Pearce & Robinson, 2013, p. 57). Do you believe society’s expectations for CSR will change in the next decade (p. 85)? Please explain.
You are the athletic director at a large private university with a highly comprehensive, highly competitive intercollegiate athletics program. Every year the football team is ranked in the top 25 and is always in the hunt for an NCAA Division I national championship. The football team captain at your university has just been in your office. He presented you with a petition signed by 70% of the players that requests permission to start the process leading to unionization. The players aren’t asking to be paid, but they believe it is in their best interests to have union protection when it comes to their physical well-being, academic progress, and financial affairs. Since you are at a private university, the players are within their rights and can speak with unions such as the National College Players Association about representing them. The next step in the process will be for the players to distribute formal “union cards” for signatures. If at least 30% sign the cards, they could ask the National Labor Relations Board to endorse their request to unionize. This is a complete surprise to you.
Questions
1, You have to contact the university president, but you want to be well prepared. What notes will you make about on goals, critical issues, possible outcomes, and stakeholders in this situation?
2, What will be on your list of possible recommendations?
3, What will be your preferred course of action, and why?
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