Assignment 4: Cultural Information PaperDue in Week 10 and worth 300 pointsYour new employee is going to be moving overseas! Develop a cultural information paper that will help them understand how to make the transition. (NOTE: You are able to choose any country–please make sure the county of choice is logical for the position.)Include in this paper:a short introduction to the country,the local customs,what to […]

NPOs/NGOs depend on volunteers to fulfill their mission and vision. Fortunately, more people are feeling a call to engage in volunteer work for their communities and the causes they support. Christopher Gearon (2010), writer for U.S. News & World Report, observed, “Though the economy is hurting, volunteering in the United States jumped last year at the fastest rate in six years. At least 63 million […]

The Final Paper must have depth of scholarship, originality, theoretical and conceptual framework, clarity and logic in its presentation and adhere to grammar guidelines. You select either one of the emerging managed healthcare delivery models, Accountable Care Organizations or Patient-Centered Medical Homes, for your Final Paper. The 10-15 page paper (excluding title and reference pages) must follow APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing […]

1. Recall the model for improving interpersonal skills and the major personality factors and traits from the unit readings. A goal has been identified for a particular employee: become front-line manager in six months. The employee has met the demands for duties and responsibilities with no reprimands nor sanctions for performance, and the employee is continuing mentoring and shadowing efforts with another seasoned front-line manager. […]

Week 3 Forum: Many employers use integrity and personality tests but some of these have been challenged in courts. One example is where the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Rent-a-Center’s use of the MMPI personality test probably prevented mentally challenged individuals from getting promotions in the company. Shortly after this ruling, Jeannine Cruz sued the Louisiana State Police claiming that she was […]

Read Case 12-1 “Stop and Shop-Scan IT!” and then answer the following questions.What is the benefit of the Scan It! data to Stop & Shop? What are some disadvantages, please be specific? How would you as the President of an organization assess the level of maturity of Stop & Shop’s use of analytics? What concerns might shoppers have about their privacy?Your answers should be in […]

You are a Human Resources (HR) program of one. Based on information learned in this course, create a Human Resources plan of the steps needed to create a one-person HR department. The design of the HR department must correspond to the various dimensions of the organization. For example, if there are multiple customers, products, or locations, then HR needs to support them all.  In your […]

Successful completion of a doctoral dissertation requires significant amounts of independent reading on the research topic. This allows the doctoral learner/researcher to become familiar with the scope of the topic and to identify gaps or tensions within the existing literature on the topic. These gaps and tensions become the source of the dissertation research. In this assignment, you will read and annotate potential sources in […]

Employers, and specifically Human Resources professionals, have been focusing on finding the right person for the right positions, keeping in mind that they want to retain the best people, many times also considering the employee/organization match. Evaluate various interview strategies and simulations. Based on research and your experiences, identify two strategies that would work best to ensure best fit/match for vacancies in your organization or […]

A job description is a useful tool that describes all the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a position. The primary function of this assignment is to increase understanding of the critical elements in a job description and its alignment to the HRM process and to talent acquisition. Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the article Job Worth Doing: Update Descriptions (Links to an external […]