Your post made me think of things that HR incorporates into management training, which is how to manage diversity among people in the working environment. Being a manager is not easy and takes the right type of individual who can learn how to manage people based on their differences. Knowing employee strengths and weaknesses as well as being able to reflect on their own individual […]

In chapter 3: “Equal employment opportunity”, the nature of equal opportunity is quickly established as “Employment decisions must be made on the basis of job requirements and worker qualifications.” Unlawful employment decisions occur when a decision is made based upon protected characteristics. Protected characteristics include certain individual attributes such as race, age, sex, disability, or religion. Unlawful discrimination can also include either disparate treatment which […]

Senior leadership at Matrix International Corporation now has a strong understanding of the importance of performance management and its value to the company. Their knowledge came as a result of the information that you provided to them in your executive summary. The human resources department and your supervisor, Annalise Zajac, the Director of Human Resources, are very proud of the foundation that you have built […]

 Your hospital has been placed on alert for receiving patients from a  local explosion at a large factory. Reports from the scene are spotty in  terms of numbers killed or injured, and you do not know how many  patients you may be getting. News reports are calling for casualties in  the 100s, but local fire responders are sending in conflicting reports.  You need to know […]

 In the nonunion facility where you work in a human resources (HR) role, there have been rumors of union-organizing activity. There are numerous reports of e-mails to hourly employees at their work e-mail addresses seeking support for union representation. Pamphlets detailing  workers’ rights and suggesting that voting in a union will increase pay and benefits have been distributed in various areas of the facility and […]

Team leader – responsible for overseeing the project, gaining consensus on the local leader to be used for the basis of the project, gathering, organizing, and proofreading each team member’s slides, organizing the references, and submitting the final project. Maria Batticani  Team member 1 – Responsible for the Biography and Organizational profile slide(s). Elena Brito  Team member 2 – Responsible for Characteristics of leadership and […]

These are NOT short answer responses. Use proper essay writing style and fully develop and justify your responses. Content, spelling, and grammar are all evaluated. 1. Describe the progressive discipline process. What are the pros and cons? Cite two offenses that should be handled with immediate discharge versus going through the progressive discipline steps. Would the company be able to defend this in a court […]

Assessing value in health care is based on outcome. The policy that is implemented to analyze value must be one that is specific to the healthcare organization, and must address the value issues (i.e., past, current, and forecasted). It is important to note that ethics and values are both inclusive and exclusive of each other in terms of policy; from both the stance of “professional […]

Revisit the Finding the Right Resources video from week 1. Now that you have learned much more about organizations, and particularly virtual team work, respond to the following question: Using the concepts from Chapter 8 of the course text, describe the roles that social presence, digital communication, and unshared environmental context played in both the development and resolution of the problematic dynamics of the virtual […]

Prepare a five to seven paragraph response based on this comment: “If you have made several problematic decisions in a row, be prepared to have your leadership questioned. It may be a moment of personal trial, a point when the cooperation of others is most needed but least forthcoming” (Useem, 1998, p. 54). What mistakes did Dodge make to cause his credibility to spiral downward […]