A Phenomenological Study on Meaningful Professional Experiences for Human Services

A Phenomenological Study on Meaningful Professional Experiences for Human Services

Think back to the beginning of this course. What were your perceptions of the human services profession? Given what you have learned about various human services roles, how has your perception of the profession changed? You address these questions in the following Discussion.

To Prepare

  • Review your Course Announcements for possible information related to this week’s Discussion and Assignment.
  • Reflect on your initial perceptions of the human services profession.
  • Revisit the assigned chapters in the course text to refresh your memory about different advanced human services professional practitioner roles and functions.
  • Read the article, “A Phenomenological Study on Meaningful Professional Experiences for Human Services Professionals.” Reflect on the nature of human services work based on the themes the authors identified from interviews with advanced human services professional practitioners.
  • Based on what you have learned, consider how your perception of the human services profession has changed.

By Day 4

Post a response to the following questions: How do the various advanced human services professional practitioner roles that you have learned about in this course align with what you previously believed is the purpose of the human services profession? In what ways has your perception of the profession changed?

External and Internal Environments

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS

External and Internal Environments

Overview

In this assignment, you are to use the same corporation you selected and focused on for the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness assignment.

Using the corporation you chose from the Week 3 assignment, Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness, examine the industry in which the entity operates. Use any or all of the following resources to conduct research on the company:

  • Company website.
  • Public filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page. https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
  • Strayer University’s online databases. https://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/search/basic?vid=0&sid=df299142-fd05-4c53-93bc-107c733702d4%40sdc-v-sessmgr01
  • The Lexis Advance database.
  • Other miscellaneous sources. Note: the company’s annual report will often provide insights that other resources may not include.

Use the External and Internal Environments Template [DOC] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you do the following:

  • Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose.
    • Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
  • Considering the five forces of competition, choose the two that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose.
    • Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two forces in the recent past.
  • With the same two forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
  • Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation.
    • Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
  • Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses.
    • Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
  • Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
  • Go to the Strayer University Online Library to locate three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

  • Analyze the effects of the general environment, competition, threats, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses relative to a corporation.

GOOGLE WAS MY CHOSEN ON THE LAST REPORT.

Examine the equal opportunity laws of another country, not the United States.

Examine the equal opportunity laws of another country, not the United States.

After reading chapter-3 and chapter-4 from the attached textbook answer the following questions as thorough as you can. Answer should be in own words based on the understanding from chapters, outside sources. APA format must and strictly no plagiarism. Total assignment minimum 3 pages.

 

  1. Examine the equal opportunity laws of another country, not the United States. Are the laws in other countries as much a concern for HRM specialists as they are in the United States? (hint: You are needing to use an outside source for this, so there should be in-text citations and references.)
  2. Affirmative action has become a political, economic, and emotional issue. What are some of the reasonable arguments in favor of and opposed to affirmative action.
  3. Why is it important in today’s business environment to have a sound job analysis system? What methods are available for collecting job analysis data?

Identifying Microaggressions in Your Local Area

Identifying Microaggressions in Your Local Area

A member of the racial, ethnic, or cultural population group you selected in Unit 4 discussion is relocating to your local community. Consider the experiences of your selected racial, ethnic, or cultural identity population with living in your community:

  • Explore the community and find all of the everyday resources needed for this racial, ethnic, or cultural population group to make a life in your community. (For example, grocery store, doctor, place of worship, gym, library, barber, hair stylist, shopping mall, school, social club, and a newspaper that reflects the racial, ethnic, or cultural group’s point of view and interests.)
  • Describe the demographics of your community. Include information on the selected racial, ethnic, or cultural group’s percentage within the community.
  • Visit your local grocery store, pharmacy, and shopping mall. Are there products, goods, and services that readily address your racial, ethnic, or cultural group’s sensibilities?
  • Is this racial, ethnic, or cultural group represented in the pictorial images found in stores, billboards, and local publications? If so, do the images represent intragroup diversity (age, gender, socioeconomic status, et cetera)?
  • Is this racial, ethnic, or cultural group represented in the local professional community (doctor, dentist, lawyer, judge, accountant, teacher, et cetera)?
  • Is this racial, ethnic, or cultural group represented in the local business community as business owners?
  • Is this racial, ethnic, or cultural group represented in the local government (city council, mayor, et cetera)? If so, does the percentage of government representation match the percentage of the population?
  • If your racial, ethnic, or cultural group visited the public library, would they find a robust collection of titles dedicated to the interests of the racial, ethnic, or cultural group or written by members of this racial, ethnic, or cultural group?

Discuss your findings for your community observation. Compare and contrast your findings for your community observation with the discussions in the Sue text (2010), Chapters 7, 8, and 9.

Identifying Social Change Issues

Identifying Social Change Issues

Consider your own community and describe a social change that demands the development of new policy. (This example should be different from the social change issue you have chosen for this unit’s assignment.)

Discuss the following:

  • Explain what you believe to be the most suitable method for identifying this social issue.
  • State the policy that you would propose to be enacted.
  • Identify the specific agency, government, business, non-profit, or combination of these that should implement your proposed policy.
  • Describe what you think is the most likely outcome of your social change policy proposal. Who will benefit and who will not benefit?

legal constraints on pay systems

Analyze the legal constraints on pay systems and recommend that the  government either repeals one law

Analyze the legal constraints on pay systems and recommend that the  government either repeals one law or adds one new law—of your  design—that improves current pay systems or addresses gaps.

  • Explain your rationale for legislative changes.
  • Be creative, but make sure your recommendations are applicable.

The Wages and the Fair Labor Standards Act  website is a great source of information on such topics as minimum  wage, child-labor, nonexempt and exempt employees, overtime, independent  contractors, garnishment laws, equal pay, and others.https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa

Critically  analyze and discuss any researched (web or textbook) training process  model you may consider for use in developing employees

Scenario

Continuing  from the Strategy, Planning, and Selection assignment, you were  selected as the new HR director for the retail company and now have been  in the position for approximately six months. Your approach to  strategy, planning, and selection have been quite successful thus far,  and now it is time to address the organization’s expectation for  performance and development of employees since these components of HR  strategy are critical in achieving business outcomes and success.

Instructions

Write a four- to five-page paper in which you do the following:

  • Critically  analyze and discuss any researched (web or textbook) training process  model you may consider for use in developing employees  Then, identify and discuss at  least 3 possible challenges that might be faced in implementing a new  training process in the company.
  • List  and briefly discuss at least three types of training that can be used  for employee training. Of the three, which would you select to train the  retail employees, and why? Be specific.
  • Differentiate  the concepts of performance management and performance appraisal with  three to four key points. Then, make your case to leadership for or  against using annual performance appraisals in the organization. Be  specific with your perspective.
  • Use at least four quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: You may only use the resources listed in the Course Guide and those that are specifically provided by the professor.

Why is it important to have an adaptable workforce in a global economy?

  1. Why is it important to have an adaptable workforce in a global economy?
  3. read these two articles:
  4. Respond to the following:
    • Why is it important to establish the meaning of talent and talent management in a particular organizational setting?
    • How does the strategic direction of the organization influence human resource planning activities?
    • What are some potential disadvantages of using a packaged application to help automate the employee goal-setting process?
    • Why is it important to have an adaptable workforce in a global economy?

Evaluate and revise ethical issues in visual media communication to improve awareness of social perceptions.

Assignment Content

  1. Competency
    Evaluate and revise ethical issues in visual media communication to improve awareness of social perceptions.

    Student Success Criteria
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    Scenario
    You are the campaign manager for a well known environmental outreach organization. The current campaign is to bring awareness to the organization’s Ohio River Clean-Up Project. As the manager, one of your tasks is to review all content and visuals used by the campaign. You actively evaluate and revise any ethical issues that may be detrimental to the project, your organization, or society in general.

    As you meet with one of the campaign designers, you identify several ethical problems with the new poster he has created. His poster includes the following elements:

    1. The poster image shows a group of poor, urban, African-American children playing alongside the Ohio River.
    2. The poster text states: “Let’s help them clean up.”
    3. The poster has several overlaid images in the corner of a few celebrities, which gives the impression of celebrity endorsement.
    4. There are no sources acknowledged anywhere on the poster.
    5. The poster has been digitally altered to make the African-American children appear thinner, darker, and dirtier.
    6. Since you are flying out to a campaign meeting in one hour, you ask this campaign designer to hold this poster and wait for your video review.

      You plan to take time tomorrow to create a seven minute or less video analysis. Using screen share, you can present the poster image visually and verbally instruct this designer how to correct several ethical visual issues. You realize you will not only have to identify the ethical visual issues and explain how to revise and change them, but you will also need to clearly describe to him the effect these unethical media issues will have on society.

SWOT analysis for your current job environment

Conduct a simple SWOT analysis for your current job environment

50 words using APA (7th Edition) in text cite and 2 references

 

Topic: Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats (SWOT)

Conduct a simple SWOT analysis for your current job environment or a former one. How can management use this information as part of a strategic plan for improvements?