American Plastics had fared rather worse than its competitors had during the economic downturn. With revenue, quality, and productivity down, management set several goals to reverse the company’s fortune. One area in need of improvement was human resources and “Janet,” the newly appointed HR Director faced a daunting challenge: to quickly re-invent the Human Resources function, reposition it a strategic partner to the business, and […]

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, […]

In previous weeks of this course, you explored many major aspects of crisis and intervention including the scope of crisis; skills, strategies, and models of intervention; the characteristics and nuances of crises affecting individuals, couples, families, and systems; and the collaborative nature of crisis intervention. Until now, your primary focus has been on the intricacies of how to help others experiencing a crisis. All too […]

Throughout the course of your degree program, you have had the opportunity to examine various topical issues that are addressed by professionals in the health and human services field. To demonstrate your mastery of the program learning outcomes, you will synthesize your knowledge of various content areas related to a social issue of your choosing, and use this to develop an original intervention (i.e., strategy, […]

Within organizations, the human resources department is considered an ally by some managers and a barrier by others. The legal requirements of managing HR require you to be the dispenser of policies, procedures, and rules at times and a trusted counselor and guide at other times. There are varying perspectives on the value HR policies bring to an organization. In other words, the policies, procedures, […]

A potential client wants you to be the project manager for a project that involves moving to a new computerized human resource management system that supports the firm’s staffing, compensation, employee relation, and benefit functions. The client is very vague about what needs to be done for all that they know is that they do not like the current system. Identify the types of questions […]

You will begin to work your project that involves interviewing a local organization on a current quality improvement process by creating an interview outline tool. You will use this tool for planning and executing your interview.  Examples of quality improvement teams in your community might be: local public health department, hospital, long-term care facility, physicians’ group practice, radiology department.   Your interview outline tool must include […]

During a global career succession assessment of leadership talent pipeline, a candidate was asked to complete a personality/behavioral tendency profile.  The candidate asked to speak to the program administrator about the validity of the assessment.  The assessment is based on first responses to  several sets of word values.  The instructions were to respond with first instinct to the set of words listed in several different […]

For this assignment, you will investigate a social media public relations (PR) campaign by an organization. Some examples of platforms are LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, and YouTube. The organizations can be national or can be local to your area.  In this assignment, you will need to include the following components:   Provide information about the social media platform.  Provide information about the organization […]

Develop a Diversity Policy  In this assignment, you will develop a policy which addresses how to deal with diversity in the classroom. This assignment should consist of a policy statement for the acceptance, recognition, and respect of both student and staff who are involved in an EMS program. Assume your policy will be included in staff training and in a course syllabus.  You can use […]