Category: Human Resource Management

  

You will prepare a 3-4 page paper, exclusive of title and reference pages, in current APA format. Create your disaster plan for a fictitious office, including the following components.

1. Describe the specific type of emergency you have selected, including how it might occur in the office.

2. Include measures of personal, facility, and local or state preparedness. Provide specific instructions in a format that could be easily followed by office personnel during a time of emergency. Prioritize what must be done first, second, etc. Remember to include follow – up measures such as reports and debriefing as well.

3. Feel free to include numbered or bulleted lists where appropriate.

The plan should include information from your assigned readings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bible. Cite your references using APA style. Title and reference pages are not included in the number of pages for the assignment. 

Part 1: Research

Conduct  some independent research. Using Rasmussen and other resources, locate an  article about a current event related to crime  and violence that has affected your community. (Beaufort, SC)

Part 2: Reflect

In a minimum of  two-pages (not counting the title page and reference page) address the  following:

• Offer a one (1)  paragraph synopsis of the article.
• Identify if this event  is something that is common in your community or more of an isolated incident? 
• Discuss if it is  something that is common in your community, what strategies would you suggest  be implemented in your community to combat it?
• Address if it is a  rare occurrence and why do you believe it happened?
• Explain how you would advocate  for your client if they were the victim in this situation?

 (8 pages, abstract, cover, and references)

Write a research paper concerning this scenario: You have been charged with the development of a Crisis Management Plan for the real or hypothetical health care organization that you chose earlier in this course.

Your research should be based on the following criteria:

• Select a real or hypothetical crisis, such as a natural disaster (hurricane, tornado, flooding, or earthquake), a catastrophic building failure, or an act of terrorism.
• Discuss resource management based on ethical approaches used during crisis management.
  • Consider issues such as patient triage or current as well as incoming patients, supply, and personnel availability.
• Discuss and develop an authoritative chain of command for crisis management.
  • Include such responsibilities as Incident Commander, Communications Officer, and other members of the chain of command for the incident.
• Discuss the importance and implementation of community communication, involvement, and coordination.
• Discuss the necessary policies for personnel management and safety.
  • Include provisions for lock-down status and family communication abilities.
• Outline the steps for supply chain management, both for personnel and the supplies needed to provide care.

 

Assignment Details (3-4 pages, abstract, conclusion, and references)

Quality Improvement in the Health Care Organization Accreditation

The mandate for improving the way in which health care is delivered was stimulated by the public outcry over the estimated 98,000 deaths because of medical errors each year according to the Institute of Medicine in 1999. Since then, health care organizations have sought means by which the public can be reassured that they were meeting quality and safety standards. Accreditation agencies (e.g., The Joint Commission) and quality awards provide a means for the public to evaluate where the agency is meeting minimum standards.

You have been assigned by your manager to determine which accrediting agencies or quality improvement programs your hospital will utilize in its upcoming revenue cycle. Your hospital is a magnet hospital in a large urban area that provides multilayered services. You have previously used The Joint Commission for your accreditation but feel that you might be better served by using another accrediting body. You have three months in which to gather data and present the information to your manager.

Complete the following for this assignment:

• Choose 3 quality improvement or accreditation-related programs to consider in replacing The Joint Commission for your organization, and briefly describe them. Your agency accepts Medicare and Medicaid payments; therefore, you will need to explore, as background, the conditions of participation for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is important information because you will need to compare your list of accrediting agencies and quality improvement programs with the conditions of participation to see if they meet the criteria.
• Analyze the costs and benefits of each quality improvement or accreditation-related program by stakeholder group (e.g., patient, provider, and third-party payer).
• Rank your quality improvement or accreditation-related program suggestions with rationale.

 

Lateral Leadership

What opportunities for lateral leadership exist in your current professional role?

After watching this week’s videos and reviewing the course materials, consider how you would improve your approach to getting support for your initiatives in situations where you don’t have management authority.

Post your initial response by Wednesday, midnight of your time zone, and reply to at least 2 of your classmates’ initial posts by Sunday, midnight of your time zone.

respond 1

 Yalanda Edwards RE: Week 7 Discussion

The opportunity for lateral leadership in my current professional role occurs when I can advise college students on the importance of the journey they have taken on. I recently change work careers from being an office manager in manufacturing to administrative assistant to Dean of Education at a college. This transition is a lot different from what I have been use to yet a lot more rewarding. The lateral leadership now is talking with young people making sure they understand this education journey they are taking will be challenging, but the reward will come.

There is a lot of support education; the problem exists when trying to bring all or most of the resources together improving on getting support for initiatives in situations where management can also help with supplies. The problems come when attempting to get everyone on the same page. We tend to have the same goals in mind; just reaching the target the same way is the problem.

Ideas to getting support:

1. Give Subtitles for research
2. Creating teams
3. Bring teams together for brainstorming
4. Define an ultimate reachable goal

Article I found interesting:

Five winning strategies for Lateral leadership

Published on April 24, 2014

Chihttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140424064618-21659755-5-winning-strategies-for-lateral-leadershipef Control Officer, Digital HSB

References:

Welch, J.: Chapter 18: Hard Spots

 Huffman, E.: 7 Tips for Managing Sideways

Prentiss, B.: Lateral Leadership: Tips for Leading Colleagues Even If They Don’t Report to You

respond 2

 

We are talking this week about working relationships and ways to make our relationships with coworkers more productive and efficient.  We have to make sure, as Jack says, that you have the most capable and highly developed people on your team. This encompasses more than technical knowledge and capability. It encompasses the ability of the team members to interact well with each other and contribute to the work of the organization. It also includes the concept of lateral leadership which is the ability to influence those with whom you work without occupying a position of formal authority.

The article below offers a unique perspective on this mandate. 

 You are the president of the Local Union 312 Chapter. As the president of the union, you are the chief spokesperson and representative of the Local Union 312 to management. Next month, you will start the collective bargaining process with management to get your union members greater wages and benefits and better and safer working conditions. 

 

Read Ch. 5, Incident 2, I am Qualified, Why Not Me?

Write a 700- to 1,400-word analysis, using your research, of the incident, “I am qualified, Why Not Me?” Include the following in preparing your response:

• Discuss whether or not Bobby has a legitimate complaint. (Consider HR principles and employment law along with motivation principles). Does any organization, like Crystal Productions, have a responsibility to provide training and development opportunities to enhance promotion from within?
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of a promotion from within policy and whether such a policy would be appropriate for Crystal Productions.
• Identify what the Head of HR should consider as the first step in creating the policy, who should be involved in developing the policy, and what should be done in preparing for implementation. (avoid first person language).
• Recommend the desired goals/outcomes of such a policy and the impact the new policy would have on staffing and performance management strategies for the organization.
• Summarize what impact the changing workforce might have on the new policy.
• Summarize a brief policy that addresses hiring from within.

Include a minimum of 3 sources to support your work comprised of the course text and 2 peer reviewed journal articles (see Announcements section for definition of a peer reviewed journal source). Government and professional organization websites are good sources but will be considered as additional sources to the 3 required.

Format the paper to APA standards. There is a template in the Announcements section to help with proper formatting of the cover page. There is another handout posted in the Announcements section that has the main general rules of APA.

Purpose of Assignment

For this assignment, you will write an executive summary of either Part 3 or Part 5 of the Duarte textbook. You choose whether you want to summarize Part 3 or Part 5.  You will synthesize the main points of what you read. Assume the audience is a class member who needs to understand the purpose and main points of that Part of the text. 

The purpose of this assignment is to:

• Further familiarize you with the Executive Summary form and have you strategically communicate in that form

Using information delivered in class and shared materials (on Canvas):

• Summarize either Part 3 or Part 5 of the Duarte textbook
• Audience: Your classmates

Format:

Your Executive Summary should contain the following section headers:

• Purpose: What was the main point of the Part of the text? 
• Findings: What are the most important things you learned from the text in the Part you chose?
• Recommendations: What recommendations do you or the authors have?

You may refresh your memory with what an Executive Summary is:  and http://polaris.umuc.edu/ewc/web/exec_summary.html. You may review some good vs. poor examples of Executive Summaries here:  

You are required to use the standard executive summary format, which can be found on in the links shared above.

• Stay within 2 pages.
• Single-space your assignment.
• Your assignment should be skimmable and employ “chunking” of text.
• Use bulleted or numbered lists as needed.

Discussion 1:

HR Knowledge 6: Compensation   

  

Based on your review, please respond to the following:

As important as compensation is to employees so is how compensation is communicated by the organization. As Chief HR Officer for the company what key ideas would you implement in the company to ensure communication of the compensation plan is effective? Be specific.

NOTE: You may not use more than 2 references for your response, and you must comment to a minimum of 1 other student’s response.

Discussion 2:

HR Knowledge 7: Employee Benefits  

  

Based on your review, please respond to the following:

The video shares a discussion specifically on 9 benefits related to voluntary employee benefits. Review the VEB’s and if you could only have 4 of them, which 4 would you select? Be sure to explain why you made those choices.

NOTE: You may not use more than 2 references for your response, and you must comment to a minimum of 1 other student’s response.

Discussion 3:

HR Knowledge 8: Multi-Topic HR

Select and READ one of the following case studies (located in your textbook):

CASE 14-2 YOU ARE NOT HURT? GOODYOURE FIRED! 
CASE 15-1 CEO COMPENSATION: DO THEY DESERVE ROCK STAR PAY? 

Next, analyze the case and provide an overview of key points or discussions. An overview is not a detailed description or regurgitated statements from the case, but instead key points in the case. Then, make 2 recommendations for improvements for any parts of the case (think like an HR leader). Saying that someone should have did this, or what you would have done are not considered improvements.

NOTES:

• One to three small sentence-responses for analyzing the cases are not considered substantive.
• You may only have no more than two references for your response and each must be appropriately cited in the words.
• You may not copy and paste any part of another student’s response as part of your response.
• For this course, you must comment to a minimum of 2 other students’ responses…No Exceptions!
• Although not mandatory, you are strongly encouraged to make your initial post by Wednesday of each week so that you have plenty of time to respond to your classmates.

Assignment 3: Strategic Value of Employee Benefits Programs 
Due Week 8 and worth 170 points 

To attract, motivate, and retain good workers, companies need to define what an employee wants from the employment relationship. One way to define employee needs is to consider total rewards, which are everything an employee perceives to be of value resulting from working for the company. Benefits are a core element of total rewards and the ever-growing package of offerings have evolved. You must now work with the company to define precisely where the various programs will be categorized. 

Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you: 

• Identify and discuss at least three (3) important variables that almost always should be considered by organizations when providing employee benefits programs. Be sure the response is specific and relevant.  
• Compare and contrast income protection programs and pay for time not worked programs, both of which are usual elements of benefits programs. How are the programs similar? Are they mandatory? 
• Research and discuss at least four to five (4-5) of what may be referred as Other Benefits that you could recommend to the management team as necessary elements for the benefits package. HINT: Flextime and product/service discounts are good examples. 
• Develop an employee benefits package for any exempt or non-exempt position level of your choosing, making sure you support the selection of your program elements. NOTE: The preferred method for presenting your benefits package information is using a table or exhibit, but either approach is not mandatory. HINT:
• Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements: 
  1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
  2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment (with running head), the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. 
  3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. Use the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to locate additional sources to support your work. 

The specific course outcome associated with this assignment is:  

• Establish the importance of compensation and benefits, and how they support business strategy. 

 

INCIDENT 2 Illegal Hiring

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials; yet, the number of violations each year is staggering. Some violations center on the use of unethical HR practices. For example, the banking industry has been investigated for its internship and full-time employment hiring practices. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon) gave internships to family members of foreign government officials. The banks leadership intended to maintain or increase business with a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund. Internship programs are legal and BNY Mellon has a legitimate internship program, but these internships were awarded outside the accepted procedures and criteria used in its program. The U.S. SEC issued a cease-and-desist order, stating that Delivering them [internships] was seen by certain relevant [bank] employees as a way to influence the officials decisions. This is the first cease-and-desist order of which internship hiring was the subject. Phillip Bezanson, a Bracewell & Giuliani Law LLP (firm) partner stated that the concept of anything of value under the FCPA can be really abstract.. . . In the end, the bank agreed to pay a $5 million penalty, give up $8.3 million, and pay $1.5 million in interest.

1. 2-21. What would you have done in response to learning about these facts?
2. 2-22. What factors in this situation might influence a company to make less-than-ethical decisions?

Writing Assignments

1. 2-23. Why should a firm want to create an ethical culture?
2. 2-24. Why is everyone not on board about corporate social responsibility?