Purpose of Assignment Employment costs are arguably a business's biggest expense. Consider how employment law regulates concepts such as discrimination, injuries on the job, employee vs. independent contractor, wrongful discharge, and unionization, to name a few. As you research for this assignment, consider the decisions made in this area are much more than business decisions but, in fact, impact lives. How do we reconcile between hurting employees and impacting the bottom-line? This is much tougher than it appears.
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Resources: Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues: Ch. 18, 19, 20, and 21.
Scenario: As employment costs continue to escalate, it is incumbent upon organizations to continually monitor its internal operations to ensure best practices are being followed. To that end, your CEO has asked you to prepare a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis. Prepare a SWOT analysis in one of the following formats: A maximum 1,050-word written analysis in Microsoft® Word. Examine the following: Consider the impact a principal and agent creates on the business and its employees. Compare how express, implied, and apparent authority created by the principal and agent impacts equal opportunities for employees. Identify the laws protecting workers against discriminatory practices. Evaluate how the legal protections present in the workplace differ for employee and independent contractors. Cite a minimum of two references for the four content areas taken from a business or legal resource. At least one reference must be from the University of Phoenix Library.
Social media can have a significant impact on a company’s success (both positive and negative). What are the pros of social media, and how do you think they can be harnessed to promote effective communication? What are the cons, and how do you think they can be avoided, to prevent a communication disaster? Identify one example that illustrates effective use of social media, and one example that illustrates ineffective use of social media.
You have examined the benefits and limitations of the HR Scorecard, and you will now take the knowledge you gained to construct an HR Scorecard for your chosen organization. You should use the course text for guidance, and you should ensure that your HR Scorecard both offers the benefits outlined in the course text and incorporates feedback you received from your Instructor and/or colleagues in the Discussion area.
For this Application, you will develop an HR Scorecard using the template provided. Your HR Scorecard should not only look at HR functions, but also the organizational functions (e.g., organization change or sustainability).
Please Note:
1. You must use the HR Scorecard Template to complete the scorecard construction portion of the assignment. 2. Below the scorecard construction area of the template discuss in 1-2 pages how the HR Scorecard might be used to demonstrate value creation that aligns with the organization's strategic goals. Be specific, and provide examples with references to the literature.
Visual media can have a significant impact on how effectively a message is communicated. Appropriate and strategic visuals can inspire the audience, lend clarity to a message, and, in general, say things that words alone cannot.
Throughout this course, you decided on a message to communicate, determined the most effective platform or medium for that message, and selected the most appropriate visuals to support the message. For the Final Project, incorporate a minimum of three different types of visual design, such as typography, graphics, and images to deliver your intended message. Note that if you did not create the visual, you must include a reference for the visual(s) contained in the project.
For this project, use the concepts you’ve learned in this course to effectively apply visuals to a business-related message. Below, you will find just a few examples of how visuals can be utilized to communicate a message in the business setting. Feel free to use any of the examples listed below, or if you choose to select examples not included on the list, be sure to request instructor approval prior to completing the Final Project.
Examples of Business Communication
How Each Example Might Look for Your Assignment
Presentation on department achievements
PowerPoint slides with visuals such as video clips, images, and charts and associated speech in the Speaker’s Notes section at the bottom..
Print advertisement for your own business
Word document or PDF version of an advertisement, complete with appropriate image(s), embedded (or links to) video clips, composition, typography, and company logo and website.
Training materials on your job responsibilities
Word document or PDF version of job instructions using typography, composition, and relevant images and video to promote clarity.
Company website
Word document, PowerPoint, or PDF mock-up that illustrates what you would want your website to look like. Complete with appropriate images, effective composition and color usage, company logo, video clips, and shapes representing where the buttons would be.
Your Final Project must contain aspects of each element discussed in the course as it applies to your example communication piece. It must use appropriate typefaces, deliver a clear message, and have clear brand identity
Prepare a paper in which you evaluate a recent business case of unethical behavior with which you are familiar. Be sure to address the following in your paper:
Briefly summarize the historical scenario surrounding your selected case. Explain how you believe the unethical behaviors occurred for as long as they did. Evaluate the outcome of events, including relations with internal and external stakeholders. Determine if the punishment was justified, and then explain why. Explain if and why it is difficult for us to identify ethical breaches that we personally commit. Support your paper with a minimum of five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
MANDATORY REQUIREMENT FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT: As this is a research-based course, you MUST include at least one peer-reviewed source in your paper. The source must appear as an in-text citation (either direct quote or paraphrased statement with proper citation) and on the reference list. Failure to include a peer-reviewed source has the following penalties: first submission without a peer-reviewed source will deduct 1 point of the total score; second submission without a peer-reviewed source will deduct 2 points of the total score; third or more submissions witout a peer-reviewed source will result in the grade of 0 on the entire assignment.
You are the new HR Director of Ayles Networks, an established IT networking company. The company currently employs over 3,000 people across the Southwestern United States. The HR office is centrally located, but is as much as 500 miles from several of the corporate offices. Some of your primary duties include recruiting, training, and performance management. The CEO has asked you to use HR statistical techniques to assess the staffing, training, and HR assessments that the company currently has in place.
Write a paper of no more than 1050 words discussing each of the statistical techniques that follow. Determine what type of data you would need; how you would use the techniques to assess the effectiveness of the staffing, training, and HR assessments; and provide a brief example of an application of each technique: t-test, ANOVA, and regression analysis. What other statistical methods might you use to analyze the effectiveness of your training and staffing programs?
a brief description of how private, for-profit organizations differ from public and nonprofit organizations. Then, describe at least one challenge associated with implementing private, for-profit management practices in the reform of public and nonprofit organizations, and provide a specific example. Finally, explain the private management practice you feel is the most applicable to public and nonprofit organizations and why.
how to export alfalfa pellets to china, what are the foreign country expects in terms of quality, sanitation, and licensing. 2-3 issues that are to specific China you may encounter when trying to export pellets to that country
a brief description of the public or nonprofit organization you selected. Then, describe at least two motivational strategies you believe would be most effective for employees in the organization, and explain why. Finally, explain how you might apply these strategies in the organization. Be specific.
Units of competency: CERTIFICATE IV leadership and Management – Australia not academic style more casual BSBLDR401 Communicate effectively as a leader in the workplace BSBLDR402 Lead effective workplace relationships BSBLDR403 Lead team effectiveness
Your organisation will be launching a new enquiry service in four weeks’ time. The service (which is government funded) AUSTRALIAN will seek to translate into ‘plain English’ information provided to external clients around superannuation investment, financial planning and income protection. To deal with enquiries for this service a new team has been formed. Dave, Jessica and Mike have been selected for their roles within the team based on success in unrelated areas, and have little to no experience in dealing directly with external stakeholders, particularly in a call centre environment. After four weeks of operation, the manager has begun to receive feedback that the team seem to lack confidence in their roles and have difficulty working together to achieve the common goal of assisting ordinary people to understand the complexity that surrounds superannuation and financial planning. You have been asked to come in on a weekly basis to provide the necessary coaching/mentoring aimed at getting the small team back on track to achieve their goals. The manager has given you the following status report:
Dave has come from the public sector where he worked on writing policy and policy directives, but was very isolated from other agency staff. His performance was judged solely on translating policy directives into policies and procedures. Jessica is very new to the financial services sector, having previously been employed as a client services manager in a large recruitment firm. She is comfortable dealing with people and receives good feedback from everyone she deals with, but doesn’t fully understand the politics and structure involved in working within a financial services organisation, call log monitoring, or government funding. Mike is the most experienced of the group, having previously worked in a training administration role in an inbound/outbound call centre for a large financial services organisation. He knows his job very well but is unmotivated as his true passion lies in education, and his ideal role would be to become a full time trainer. The team are all employed on a three month contract and if they cannot improve their performance their contracts will not be renewed.
a. Develop a team action plan. Your action plan should include: • Team goals and how these link to organisational objectives • Allocation of tasks and responsibilities of team members • Timeframes and resources required • Explanation of what you will do to create an effective team environment, such as; Consult with team members to seek input and clarify objectives Support the team in meeting performance outcomes Encourage participation in team activities Provide feedback to recognise contributions and identify issues or concerns Address issues of diminishing or underperformance or conflict within the team
b. Prepare a development plan for the team which includes: • Identifying any relevant legislation and/or policies that may need to be considered before implementing a coaching/mentoring strategy for the team. • An evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of each team member, and how these interact with each other. Identify how you can utilise different industry experience and backgrounds to assist you in providing effective coaching/mentoring to the team while making the most of existing talents. • A strategy for encouraging the team to work together on their tasks, including setting collective goals and sharing existing skills and knowledge with each other. • A summary of the development activities you would implement and how you would monitor their success, with reference to outcomes on both an individual and group level. Describe what you do/would do to gain the trust and confidence of others, encourage employee contribution and resolve staff conflict that is causing diminishing or poor work performance
identify how leaders are or are not effective. Who is this leader, what are this person’s strengths and/or shortcomings?
Compare and contrast various aspects of global leadership theory. Why is s/he was/is a leader
Understand the principles of leadership ethics and social responsibility What did you learn about ethics and social responsibility based this “Who Is?”” assignment?
Explain and discuss leadership issues; bring discussions and experiences into later leadership opportunities What could you gain from knowing more about this leader?
Instructions for Graded Writing Assignment 3: Short Report Readings: • Lesikar’s Chapter 11, pages 339-359 • Sample Short Report, pages 350-358 • Lesikar, Appendix B, pages 615-620 Instructions: For this final Graded Writing Assignment, you will compose a Short Report based on one of the scenarios outlined below. You must choose one of the scenarios listed below; papers submitted reflecting a scenario other than those listed below (even those listed in your text) will not be given credit or graded. Assignment Requirements: Write your findings as a well-organized Short Report containing the following key elements: • A title page • Document headings to separate parts of the report • At least two sources with brief in-text citations as shown in sample Short Report (pages 350-358)1 • Interpretation of your findings in terms of their likely significance to you and your readers. Assignment Notes: • Create all pieces of the short report as one (1) document. • The Short Report should be 1,200-1,500 words in length. Remember to focus on content, not just writing to fill a word requirement. • You will upload your finished document to the appropriate assignment in Business Communications. Instructions on how to upload are available in the Topic 12 assignment area. Scenarios: Option 1) The graphic design shop where you work as the account manager is doing well. Just last year, the owner hired three new designers and a receptionist, bringing the total number of employees to 14. But with growth comes certain headaches, and one of them is figuring out how to regulate employees’ Internet use. Currently, employees can download anything they want from the Internet and view any web site they wish. The owner’s IT person has alerted him to several problems. One is that the designers are downloading any and all software that they think sounds “cool” —even software in beta 1 Please note that the sample shown in your book is a Mid-length Report and therefore contains some sections that you will not need for the Short Report. For instance, you will not need the letter of transmittal or the executive summary.
2 versions that still have a lot of kinks. As a result, their computers lock up or malfunction, and the IT person has to spend hours troubleshooting the problem to get it resolved. Two, there is concern over what Internet sites employees are viewing, specifically those that are inappropriate for the workplace. Overall, the IT person is worried about security breaches resulting from these downloads, inappropriate web site visits, and other Internet activities. It’s time for a policy to be developed governing Internet-use, and your boss thinks you’re just the person to help write it. Your assignment is to study the current wisdom on workplace Internet policies and send your findings to your boss and the IT person as a short report, including a proposed Internet-use policy that might be implemented. Option 2) As a Senior Buyer at Darcy’s, a national department store, Sasha Warner manages the buyers in the eastern U.S. region. You’re currently working under her as a sale co-op student. She drops by your office to chat one day and brings up a subject she’s been wondering about. “Do you know anything about Skype?” she asks. You nod, having used this online international phone service yourself. “I heard it’s totally free and really easy to use,” she continues, “so I’m thinking about recommending that all my buyers subscribe to it. Then maybe they could talk to each other and to international designers and merchandisers more easily. Is there any downside? Maybe security issues?” You’re not sure--but you offer to look into the matter for her. Do the necessary research, and, if you haven’t yet done so, try this service yourself and then write Sasha a report giving her the information she needs to decide whether or not to pursue this idea further. She may want to share your report with other managers in the company, so be sure you give it your best effort. Option 3) You work for the owner of three local coffee and tea shops, one of which opened a few months ago. The newest one has already developed quite a nice, regular clientele, mostly those in or near the neighborhood who want an alternative to the big-coffee-chain experience, but your boss thinks its sales need a bump. She is considering holding an in-store promotion at the coffee shop – her first ever. Since she knows you’re an Internet whiz, she turns to you for help. “How do you run one of these events?” she wants to know. “How much do they cost? Are they worth the effort and expense? What are my options? Do such promotions have lasting effects? How can I maximize the results?” You turn to the Internet and find a lot of great stuff about in-store promotions, so much, in fact, that you decide to present your findings to your boss in writing. Tell her what she needs and wants to know in a clear, well organized report. Having the information in writing will also be helpful if she wants to share it with other employees. Be sure she can go to your sources and read more if she wants to. Option 4) Many managers today are realizing that there really is something distinctive about “Gen Y,” or “Millennial,” employees (the children of the “baby boomers”--who were themselves children of the World War II generation). Find a real client or invent a realistic company to use
3 as your client. Then review the literature on Gen Y employees and write your client a report in which you describe the distinctive traits of this segment of the workforce and recommend ways to recruit, manage, and retain them. Option 5) Your company does not offer flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for its employees. Your boss wonders if your company (you pick the name) should. Are FSAs a good idea for businesses and employees? Prepare a report for your boss in which you analyze the advantages
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