performance management processes

Library Research Assignment 

A strategic component and responsibility of the human resources department is the management of the people of the organization, which is frequently called human capital management. As the new HR manager, you have conducted an analysis of your organization and found that performance management processes are highly inconsistent among departments. There are no ties to organizational goals, and departments are free to determine the review criteria for their employees. Some departments have a process of a formal annual appraisal while other departments do not provide employees with any documented feedback on their performance. In performance improvement, some departments have a process of documenting employee performance issues; others seem to follow a process of no documented warnings before recommending termination. With your experience, you recognize the benefits of establishing a comprehensive performance management process that ties individual, group, and department performance, and rewards to organizational goals and success.

Using the Internet and the library, research information on performance management and then develop a detailed plan to present to your chief executive officer (CEO). In this process, you will focus on three key areas of performance management: performance appraisals, tying performance goals with strategic organizational goals, and the disciplinary action/performance coaching process. At minimum, your plan should address the following:

  • The value a performance management program brings to the organization
  • A discussion of the various performance management programs you considered in developing your final suggestions
  • A rationale for your selection of different aspects of your plan
  • How your organization will address the three key areas of performance management: appraisals; improving employee performance; and aligning individual performance to group, department, and organizational goals
  • A communication plan for informing all employees about the new process
  • Training that will be provided to employees and managers
  • The additional issues/challenges that need to be considered with the implementation of these programs
  • In your research, other areas of performance management the organization might consider for implementation after this initial phase

Note: You are required to use a minimum of 2 scholarly references in your research. Ensure that citations and references are formatted in compliance with APA style.

Understanding Social Change

Understanding Social Change

As Weinstein explains in our text on Social Change, our contemporary understanding regarding social change is that it may be intentional or it may be unintentional. In other words, individuals or social movements can intentionally cause social change (either progressive or regressive). It is equally true that unintended changes in society can result from environmental changes, migrations of people responding to war, climate change, cultural clashes, and urbanization.

  1. Drawing from your readings, discuss one example of intended or unintended progressive social change and one example of intended or unintended regressive social change.
  2. In light of the probability that there will always be proponents of change as well as persons seeking to maintain the status quo, discuss how human services professionals may play a role in advancing progressive social change or regressive social change.

Discuss the self as instrument and how you will engage this construct in your practice

Discuss the self as instrument and how you will engage this construct in your practice

APA FORMAT 7TH EDITION ( 5-7 PAGES)

Describe your second cycle of action research with your organization. Be sure to discuss all 3 phases of the action research cycle. For each phase, provide specific actions that you would take with your organization.

Facilitation

Your project proposal will contain a Facilitation section. The section should be between 5–7 pages (not including the title page, table of contents, or reference list), and it should address the following elements:

  • Discuss the self as instrument and how you will engage this construct in your practice of appreciative inquiry and action research (AI/AR). Include at least 2 different sources.
  • Discuss systems theory, leading to a discussion of open systems theory and how you will include an awareness of systems theory in your work.

Please submit your assignment.

impact of years of service at their company has on workers’ productivity levels

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Part 1

Top management of a large company has told you that they would like to be able to determine what the impact of years of service at their company has on workers’ productivity levels, and they would like to be able to predict potential productivity based upon years of service. The company has data on all of its employees and has been using a valid productivity measure that assesses each employee’s productivity.

What is a possible way to answer management’s question, and how does the analysis work? Reference the section on bi-variate linear regression from Green & Salkind.

Part 2

After reviewing the results of the analysis in Part I, the company found they are significantly related. However, a statistician reviewed the output and said that the results really do not explain much of what is happening in the total relationship.

What information is the statistician referring to from your output, and why is it important? Reference the section on bi-variate linear regression from Green & Salkind.

How has ethics, communication, and diversity legislation impacted the company?

How has ethics, communication, and diversity legislation impacted the company?

you will examine how ethics, communication, and diversity legislation have impacted three large companies, and compare and contrast diversity legislation that is designed to protect against workplace discrimination.

Assignment Details: 

Write a 1,000-word paper. In your readings and videos this week, many companies were highlighted as case studies. You are welcome to use those companies for this paper or research others.

Chose 2 companies, and for each company answer the following question:

1. How has ethics, communication, and diversity legislation impacted the company? 300 words or more for each company; 600+ words total.

2. Name one diversity law or piece of legislation. How effective has this legislation been at eliminating discrimination from the workplace? 300 words or more for this response as well.

Submission Requirements: 

· APA format is required, which includes:

o Title page

o 12pt. font in Times New Roman and double-spaced

o Reference page, with in-text citations

· Entire paper length should be 1,000 words or more; the answer to each question should be over 300 words each.

Include an introduction and conclusion (included in word count!)

Discuss reasons for the popularity of pay-for-performance reward plans

1. So, there are alternative views of the value of an employer conducting performance evaluations. There are some who believe that conducting an annual paper and pen document does not have the benefit that is believed.  What are these opinions based on and what are the suggested alternatives?  Please use our text, the SHRM article included in our readings list and other research to respond to this question.

2. Under what conditions are group incentive plans particularly effective? Why do you believe this to be the case? Describe where you have seen a group incentive plan work effective OR where you believe one should be tried and why.

3. Discuss reasons for the popularity of pay-for-performance reward plans. Do you agree? Why or why not?

4. Below is a link to a YouTube video by WorldatWorkTV (the compensation folks).

Published on Apr 14, 2014

An important part of cash compensation, variable pay reflects employee payouts based on a variety of factors. WorldatWork’s Kerry Chou and Alison Avalos discuss the basics of this type of pay program.

After watching this video – what helped you to hone in on your understanding of Variable Pay Plans?

https://youtu.be/7NdhR2UOl0Y

Below is a link to another YouTube video by WorldatWorkTV (the compensation folks).

Published on May 5, 2014

In part two of this series Kerry Chou, CCP, WorldatWork, discusses the various types of incentives and the pros and cons of this type of variable pay.

After watching this video – what helped you to hone in on your understanding of Incentive Plans?

https://youtu.be/DbB49Y9ahxQ

Environmental Scanning Article Review Assignment

Environmental Scanning Article Review Assignment

Purpose:

The purpose of the Environmental Scanning Article Review Assignment is to help students synthesize their understanding of the HRM3110 course outcomes to the current, real-world, HR environment of business.

Instructions:

· Research a current event article related to the assigned topic. Students should focus their research on relevant HR trade publications such as HR Magazine and Workforce Magazine.

Topic:

Module 5: Article Review 3 – Pay-for-Performance’s effect on Motivation

· Prepare a two-three paragraph summary of the article.

· Explain in an additional two-three paragraphs your understanding of the article as it relates to the assignment topic.

· Explain in an additional one-two paragraphs whether you agree or disagree with the author and why.

· Explain in the final one-two paragraphs how knowledge of this topic will help you in your future HR career.

Format:

The completed assignment must be prepared in APA format, including the title page, reference page, and in-text source citations. The Article Review will consist of 6-10 paragraphs of body – approximately 1000-1500 words total, not including title and reference pages.

Communication in the Workplace

ACED 2050 – Communication in the Workplace

Unit 4 Activity – Practice Business Report

Due Date: Monday, April 12

This activity has been designed to give students experience with formatting a Formal Business Report.  For this activity, students will open a Microsoft Word text document that is already keyed but is not formatted.  Students will use Microsoft Word to correctly format the text into a Formal Business Report according to the guidelines given below.   Your completed report will be submitted here in BlazeView.

Points: 30

Please follow the instructions below:

Please click on the first attachment below (Report for Lesson SP2015).  If you don’t see any attachments at the bottom of this message, you need to scroll up and actually click on this assignment’s title that has the blue icon beside it.  Clicking on it will cause the message to open up everything.  Then, you will be able to scroll down to the bottom and find the attachments.  When you click on the attachment, a Microsoft Word file will open with the unformatted text of your report.  When it opens, click “save as” to save the file onto your jump drive or hard drive of your computer. Use the filename Student last name – Practice Report.   Five points will be deducted for using a different file name.

Click the second attachment below (Key to Practice Report).  An image file of the report will open with the report correctly formatted with handwritten tips to help you format your document. Your document should look like this when you are finished.  You should print these pages to use while working on your document.  Below are some additional instructions that you must also follow. It might be helpful to print these instructions you are reading as well.  Points will be deduced for NOT following the instructions below.

FORMATTING:

  1. After you have opened the Word file, turn on Vertical Page Position.  To turn on the Vertical Page Position in MS Word, do the following:
    1. Point your mouse on the very bottom, gray bar at the bottom of the Word screen and right-click your mouse.
    2. When the menu appears, find Vertical Page Positions and put a check mark by Vertical Page Position. Vertical Page Position will give you a measurement in inches letting you know how far from the top of the page your indicator is.  You will need this to properly position your titles.
  2. Title Page:
    1. Press the enter key to place the title of your report at 2″ (1.9″ or 2.1″ is fine).  You can tell when you are at 2″ by looking at the bottom of your screen where you turned on Vertical Page Position.  The measurement (in inches) will change as you press enter to let you know how far from the top of the page you are.
    2. Format your title and other title page text as indicated on printout.  Yours should look exactly like mine.
    3. After the date at the bottom of the title page, insert a page break.  You can do this by holding down the Control (ctrl) key and pressing Enter.
    4. Save again
  3. Table of Contents:
    1. Press enter until you are at 2.1″ of the second page and key Table of Contents as indicated on your printout.
    2. On the Table of Contents page, format your page numbers and dot leaders by doing the following:
      1. Delete the dots that are after each section title (do not delete the page numbers).
      2. Then, place a blank line between each section as shown by pressing the enter  key.
      3. Use your mouse to select/highlight from the word “Introduction” all they way through “References” on this second page.
      4. Then, access the Tabs feature by clicking the little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Paragraph group found on the Home tab/toolbar.  Click Tabs… on the bottom left of the window. The Tab Menu will appear.
      5. Key 6.5 in the tab setting section; in the Alignment section, place a dot in the Right choice (not Left or Center).
      6. In the Leader section, choose the second choice.  Click Set. Click OK.  Now your tabs are set are ready to be used.
      7. To make your tabs work, click your mouse after the word “South” (between the word and the page number) and press the tab key on your keyboard.  This will make your number move to the right margin with dots in between.
      8. Do this for each of the section headings.  You will correct the page numbers when you are finished with formatting this report.
      9. Place another page break in the blank line after References by pressing Control and Enter.
  4. Pages 3, 4, and 5
    1. Format these pages as indicated on your printout
    2. Notice bold, all caps, spacing, etc.
    3. Yours should look exactly like mine
    4. Save again
  5. Reference page
    1. Format text as indicated on your printed pages.
    2. Turn on Hanging Indent by doing the following:
      1. Make sure your horizontal ruler is turned on at the top of your screen.  If it isn’t, click the View menu and put a checkmark beside Ruler.
      2. Then, use your mouse to highlight your text from “Allen” to the very end of the references.
      3. On the horizontal ruler at the top of the Word screen, use your mouse to point to the small horizontal ruler markers on the left side of the horizontal ruler.  There are three little tools there (a down-pointing triangle, an up-pointing triangle, and a little square). Continue pointing to the up-pointing triangle until it says “hanging indent.”
      4. Then hold down your left mouse button and drag that little triangle a half inch and let go.  This will format your references in a hanging-indent format.
      5. Save again
  6. Page Numbers
    1. To turn on page numbers, click Insert, Page numbers.  Choose bottom center, drag to highlight the number and change the font and size of your page numbers to Times New Roman, 12 pt.
    2. On the Design Tab, put a check mark in the option for “Different first page.”  This will keep “1” from showing up on the title page and “2” will show up on the Table of Contents, 3, etc. as shown on your printout.
    3. Go back and put the correct page numbers for the different sections of your Table of Contents page information.  Some of the page numbers might be incorrect.
  7. Proofread
    1. Check back over your report and make sure yours looks like mine.
    2. Save again and CLOSE the file.
  8. Submit
    1. Note:  Do not try to attach your practice report unless you have closed it and MS Word.
    2. When you are ready to submit your Practice Report, click on Assessments above in the BlazeView menu and find Assignments.
    3. Click Assignments
    4. When you get to Assignments, click on Unit 4 Activity – Practice Business Report and a window will open for submitting your document.
    5. Look under the Submit Files section and click the button labeled Add A File
    6. Look over to the right and click the button labeled Upload
    7. Locate your Practice Report file on your computer or jump drive and double click
    8. Look down at the bottom of the Assignments screen and click the Add button.
    9. If you selected the correct file and you are ready to submit your practice report, click the submit button.

I will grade this report using MS Word’s Review feature.  I will resave the document with my markings/corrections,  will attach the graded document back to you in Assignments, and assign a grade based on accuracy of your formatting.  Do not share your work with anyone; do your own work.  A grade of zero will be given to any two students with the same hidden identification labels.

Please don’t hesitate to email with any questions.  However, make sure you read instructions carefully before emailing questions.

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Compensation and Wal-Mart 

Week 6 – Paper #4 “Compensation”

Week six- paper #4: Compensation and Wal-Mart

Note that Employment Law should be addressed throughout all these papers. We are not addressing it as a separate topic in any week, as it applies to all HR topics/issues.

Papers must follow this FORMAT, and contain responses to all the following questions.

Papers MUST include ALL of the BOLD WORDS in Bold font in each paper.

(a.) Cover Page: Title (with running and short heads)

(b.) Topic / Issue Identification: What are the central facts in regards to the weekly topic/issue (i.e. Staffing, Training, Performance Management, or Compensation) and assumptions you are making about these facts or missing facts regarding Wal-Mart? What are the major, overriding ethical issues regarding Wal-Mart? What major ethical issues/questions does this case regarding Wal-Mart address that merits its study in this course and in connection with assigned reading materials?

(c.) Analysis / Evaluation: Analyze Wal-Mart in regards to the weekly topic/issue (i.e. Staffing, Training, Performance Management, or Compensation). Who are the stakeholders and what are their stakes? What threats, opportunities, or challenges are posed by these stakeholders? What economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities does Wal-Mart (or the managers) have and what exactly is the nature and extent of these responsibilities? Describe the major tensions that exist among these responsibilities. If the Wal-Mart case study involves a company’s or manager’s past actions/decisions/practices, evaluate what they did or did not do well/right/ethically. What ethical principles, concepts, ideas, or models related to the decisions or actions that have been taken or should be taken in the case?

**Be sure to support all statements/recommendations with in-text citations and references to concepts/theories you have learned in your prior HR courses. You are required in each weekly paper to have a minimum of one reference (in-text citation) per page to a scholarly journal, or material from a prior HR course.

(d.) Recommendations: Identify the alternatives you recommend to be considered for dealing with this specific issue/topic in regards to Wal-Mart. What are their advantages and disadvantages? What ethical principles, concepts, or ideas support your recommendations? Be sure to support all statements/recommendations with references (citations) to concepts/theory in the text.

(e.) Learning Outcomes: Identify and summarize the key learning outcomes or conclusions you reached as a result of studying and analyzing this specific issue/topic in regards to Wal-Mart. Focus on what you learned and how this information could be applied in your current organization or situation if you were in an authority/decision-making position.

PAPERS MUST BE IN APA FORMAT AND INCLUDE ALL THE SUBHEADINGS ABOVE AND RESPOND TO ALL THE QUESTIONS IN THE SUBHEADINGS FOR EACH SECTION. PAPERS MUST INCLUDE CITATIONS TO THEORY (TEXTBOOK or OTHER REFERENCE) TO SUPPORT YOUR OPINIONS AND STATEMENTS

Best Practices in Talent Management textbook case study

Best Practices in Talent Management textbook case study

From the Best Practices in Talent Management textbook, the Avon Products (Chapter 1) case study for this assignment.

Write a 5 page paper in which you:

  1. Provide a brief description of the status of the company that led to its determination that a change was necessary.
  2. Identify the model for change theory typified in the case study of your choice. Discuss what led you to identify the model that you did.
  3. Illustrate the types of evaluation information that were collected and how they are used to benefit the company.
  4. Speculate about the success of the changes within the next five years and how adjustments could be made if the results become less than ideal.
  5. Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not quality as academic resources.