Month: July 2018

Case Study 1: Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges

Due Week 3 and worth 200 points

Read “Case Study 3: Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges,” located on page 407 of the textbook. Then, read the article titled, “The Good, the Bad, and Wal-Mart”, located at http://www.workplacefairness.org/reports/good-bad-wal-mart/wal-mart.php.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

Examine the manner in which Walmart’s business philosophy has impacted its perception of being unethical towards supply and employee stakeholders. Provide one (1) example of Walmart in an unethical situation.

Determine the major effects that Walmart’s business philosophy has had on its human resource practices and policies.

Analyze two (2) of the legal mandates that workers and U.S. government has accused Walmart of violating. Provide an explanation as to why these legal mandates were violated, citing specific violations.

Evaluate the efficiency of the structure of the ethical decision making framework that Walmart has used in making its decisions. Provide a rationale for your response.

Recommend two (2) actions that Walmart’s Human Resources Department should take in order to improve the employees’ perspectives of Walmart’s human resources policies. Provide a rationale for your recommendations.

Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Describe the business ethics issues and definitions, theories, and frameworks important to organizational ethical decision making and the role of a human resource professional.

Determine the role of stakeholder interests, the interrelationship of ethics and social responsibility, and the role of corporate governance in ethics.

Examine ethical issues and dilemmas in business.

Write clearly and concisely about issues in ethics and advocacy for HR professionals using correct grammar and mechanics.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics and advocacy for HR professionals.

Affirmative Action and Harassment” Please respond to the following

 

1. Using the e-Activity, review the background of affirmative action. Then, argue whether or not the intended fairness afforded by affirmative action is relevant to the 21st century, considering that organizations are typically trending toward promoting a diverse workforce. Justify your response.

 

Go to The Leadership Conference’s Website to read the article titled “Affirmative Action”, located at http://archives.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/affirmaction.html. Be prepared to discuss.

 

 

2. Select two (2) of the following types of harassment: same-sex harassment, cyber harassment, or hostile virtual environment. Investigate the significant ways in which the selected type of harassment could alter work conditions in any organization. Then, formulate a plan to minimize the selected type of harassment in the organization.

Assignment 2: Project Leadership Roles at TriHealth (Case Study from Chapter 3)

Read the case titled: “Project Leadership Roles at TriHealth” found in Chapter 3.

This assignment is about developing a specific project team for TriHealth.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:Identify the common roles in a human resource project. Then, analyze these roles to typical human resource functions.Reorganize any two (2) roles at TriHealth that result in shared responsibilities and then state why you chose those two roles.Suggest the short-term and long-term effects on the company with roles being shared among employees.Analyze the need for an additional role. Then, propose a new role and its proposed impact.Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment

“Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) and the MinuteClinic”  Please respond to the following:

Read the case study titled “MinuteClinic,”. Predict whether or not embracing the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard will either benefit or damage MinuteClinic’s overall profitability.Visualize three (3) patient issues that may arise as a result of implementing an electronic record that can be easily transferred from clinic to physician. Next, propose a plan to proactively address any one (1) of the patient issues that you identified. Justify your response.

300 words

Identify industries outside of health care that have deployed innovative management techniques, operational practices, or technology to improve their workforce.

Identify best practices and determine which could be implemented to improve the workforce for a specific health care service, facility, or other health sector-related occupation.

Write a 350- to 525-word article that explains how a specific management technique, operational practice, or technology can be used to improve a specific health care workforce.

Cite at least 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Project Assignment on CISCO TECHNOLOGY:

Your organizations primary recruiting need is for engineering and technical personnel. Over that last two decades, these professions have generally been in high demand and relatively scarce supply. As the HRM manager responsible for recruiting and selecting people in these fields, you have a need to stay abreast of trends that affect the demand and availability of these specialties.   In this assignment, you will investigate these trends and identify steps that you might take to ensure that your company has access to the number and types of people that it needs.

Specifically: (ADDRESS ALL BELOW)

• Identify issues in the current business environment that affect the demand and supply of engineering and technical personnel.
• Describe specific measures and techniques that progressive companies are using to recruit and select people with these backgrounds.

APA style requirements of approximately five pages and  provide citations for at least three references

Write a high quality essay. There has 3 topics have to write it all, Fast food, Don’t blame the eater and Against meat. 5 paragraph, introduction, 3 body paragraphs and including a quotes from the book called “They say, I say”

The importance of trade continues to be a debated topic because the gains are not always quantifiable by those involved. Some would argue that due to a significant difference in wages and regulations, free trade is not always fair trade and that free trade agreements are used by companies to simply chase lower wages and fewer regulations. In the United States, this has been an ongoing debate in regard to both the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the normalized trade relationship with China. Take some time to read the following articles before beginning your post:

 

Free Trade vs. Fair Trade

U.S. Trade Strategy: Free Versus Fair

 

Based on what you have read, please address the following questions:

 

Which do you feel is a better approach, free or fair trade, and why?

Given the concept of comparative advantage, should we even be discussing free versus fair trade?

Assignment 1: Alignment of HRM and Business Strategies

 

Due Week 3 and worth 100 points

 

Select a publicly traded company to research and evaluate its Human Resource (HR) and business strategy, HR department job positions, and ways it markets its company regarding human capital. Some company Websites that provide this information are listed below:

 

Marriott: http://www.arubamarriottcareers.com/JobDescriptions.html

Allstate: http://www.jigsaw.com/id209321_d40/allstate_insurance_human_resources_business_contacts.xhtml

State Farm: http://www.statefarm.com/about/retirees/news_articles/hr_serv_assist.asp

Ford Motor Company: http://corporate.ford.com/careers/career-paths/human-resources?&ccode=US

 

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

 

Propose how you would ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy.

Describe the HR job positions and the responsibilities listed for that HR department.

Determine which HR job positions you would prefer and explain why.

Analyze how the selected company can establish HRM strategies to improve competitive advantages.

Propose three (3) ways that the company can increase diversity.

Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.