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HRM 530

Discussion 1

Respond to one of the following:

“Managing Change in Organizations” Please respond to the following:

  • Determine why change is so difficult for organizations. Propose ways that human resource (HR) specialists can assist in making change easier.
  • Propose two ways that HR can prepare its employees for the changes involved with moving from a domestic assignment to an overseas assignment. Respond and evaluate another learner’s comment. Ground students will do this through discussion.

Discussion 2

“Future of Human Resource Management” Please respond to the following:

  • Use the Internet or Strayer Library to research three trends in HR. Next, examine the three trends in HR that you researched. Provide probable causes for these trends. Provide probable causes for these trends. Predict how these trends will affect organizations in a single sector of your choosing.
  • Examine the duties and responsibilities of a HR specialist. Determine the contributions that someone in this position makes to an organization. Support your position.

Discussion 3

“Strategic Approach” Please respond to the following:

  • Assess Southwest Airlines’ strategic approach to human resource (HR) management. Determine how its strategy increases organizational effectiveness.
  • Propose three ways that HR can use competitive advantage in the marketplace to recruit new applicants in general.

Discussion 4

“Diversity” Please respond to the following:

  • Go to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Website and review cases regarding diversity. Note: Enter the Website and in the search box under “Press Releases” type “diversity”. Review three of the results of your search. Next, propose three ways that an organization can increase diversity within itself. Take a position on whether diversity is or is not important and determine how the methods you provided support your position.
  • Evaluate ways that an organization can measure and reward compliance. Determine if organizations that measure and reward compliance are more or less likely to experience lawsuits.

Discussion 5

“Job Applicants” Please respond to the following:

  • Examine two ways that companies can recruit qualified job applicants. Determine which method may be most effective and predict how it could benefit the company when hiring new employees.
  • Go to O*Net Online’s Website and review at least two (2) different occupation descriptions. Next, compare the two selected occupation descriptions. Recommend two changes to make the occupation descriptions more marketable. Provide examples to support your recommendations. Be sure to provide details of the occupation descriptions in case others want to use them.

Discussion 6

“Company Competitive Advantage” Please respond to the following:

  • Propose two ways that a company can gain a competitive advantage over other companies when striving to recruit job applicants. Determine whether technology has assisted or hindered the process.
  • Imagine you are head of the HR department, and you have been asked to review two applicants for the sales clerk position at your company. Alice, the first applicant has 10 years of experience in sales work, but can be easily distracted. She will not work on commission and cannot work weekends. She can be a little obstinate, but has an excellent job history. Mary, the second applicant, has one year experience, but very congenial and loves working with people. Her work schedule is very flexible, but she can become a little stressed at times and has been known for having to quietly leave and regroup for a short time. Determine which candidate would be the “right fit”. Support your decision by describing the thought process that lead up to your decision.

HRM 517

Discussion 1

  • Human Resource Management and Project Management
  • You are a project manager for a large hospitality firm (e.g., Marriott International) who will be in charge of the firm’s HQ office relocation. You have been asked to speak to the HR staff about the move and many of them have very little understanding of project management. Also, they are fearful that this project will end up being a failure since other projects have failed at the firm. Explain to them the key elements of project management and its relationship to human resources management (HRM). Be sure that your explanation curtails their fears of project management.

Discussion 2

  • Strategic Planning and Organizational Restructuring
  • Imagine you are the HR director of a growing international staffing organization that services both North America and South America. The CEO has come to grips that the HR group, which is currently decentralized, is in need of restructuring to account for the expected increase in revenues. The CEO has asked for your opinion on how to best restructure the firm. Based upon your knowledge, recommend an organizational structure (e.g., functional, matrix, or projectized) that will provide growth for the firm. Also, assess the influence that this project will have on the customers (who are located throughout the Americas) that are serviced by the HR group.

Discussion 3

  • Project Charter
  • You have been hired to oversee the decentralization of your client’s human resources function in which corporate functions will be relocated to each regional office. Your boss wants you to start the project immediately, but you are insisting that a project charter be established first. Explain to your boss the importance of a project charter and what could happen if you decided to proceed ahead without a charter.

HRM 522

Discussion 1

“Business Ethics and Stakeholder Theory” Please respond to the following:

  • Watch the video titled, “The Case for Business Ethics” (also available below). Next, go to the Society for Human Resource Managers’ (SHRM) Website and read the “SHRM Code of Ethical and Professional Standards in Human Resources Management,” located at http://www.shrm.org/about/pages/code-of-ethics.aspx. Then, assess the importance of business ethics to today’s organizations. Suggest two (2) actions that human resources can take in order to influence positive ethics in an organization. Provide a rationale for your response.
  • From the case study, give your opinion on which theory you believe dominates business today, and explain why. Take a position as to whether or not you believe Monsanto was successful in its effort to meet stakeholder interests. Provide one (1) example of Monsanto’s effort to meet stakeholder interests to support your position.

Discussi0n 2

“Ethical Issues in Business” Please respond to the following:

Discussion 3

“Mandated Legal Requirements and Ethical Decision Making” Please respond to the following:

  • Read the article titled, “Sarbanes-Oxley Act: HR’s Role in Ensuring Compliance and Driving Organizational Change.” Next, suggest two (2) actions that HR should take in order to ensure an organization’s compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Explain the manner in which HR policies and practices are instrumental in implementing, and ensuring compliance, with legal mandates.
  • Examine the key individual and organizational factors that influence an ethical decision-making framework in resolving ethical dilemmas. Outline a guide that HR can use to implement principles and core values in ethical decision making in an organization. Provide a rationale for your response.

HRM 565

Discussion 1

“Human Resource Development and ATD Competency Model” Please respond to the following:

  • Discuss how Human Resource Development can be implemented into organizational strategic planning.
  • Review the Association for Talent Development’s (ATD) Competency Model located at https://www.td.org/Certification/Competency-Model. Next, discuss at least two of the areas of expertise listed in the ATD Competency Model. Provide examples of how you have observed or experienced successful demonstration of these areas of expertise in the workplace.

Discussion 2

“Employee Motivation and Organizational Learning” Please respond to the following:

  • Select two motivational theories and compare and contrast their basic premises. Select one of these theories to use as the basis for the solution you would propose for the workplace employee motivation problem you identified in the first discussion question and support your selection.
  • Imagine you have recently been hired to be the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) for a corporation and have been tasked to establish a corporate university. Discuss the various types of training media you would use to educate your corporate students and how these media would be put to use.

Discussion 3

“Needs Assessment and Use of a Specific Type of Needs Assessment” Please respond to the following:

  • Distinguish between organizational needs assessment and strategic planning, and assess how each can be helpful to identify the needs of an organization.
  • Review the theories and models described at the Needs Assessment Website located at http://www.needsassessment.org/. Next, using two models or theories from the e-Activity, justify the conditions in which a person analysis would be critical to the development and delivery of effective HRD programs.