Assignment 4: Avoiding Wrongful Employee TerminationsDue Week 10 and worth 200 points To be wrongfully terminated is to be fired for an illegal reason, which may involve violation of federal anti-discrimination laws or a contractual breach. The legal standards governing termination differ substantially depending on whether private-sector and nonunion employees or public-sector and unionized employees are being considered. As the company HR leader, you are […]

 Diversity and Inclusion Plan: Transforming Military Culture to Embrace Diversity and Inclusion Imagine that you are an organizational leadership consultant hired by the U.S. military to lead a key initiative to transform the military culture to embrace diversity and inclusion. To accomplish this, you will outline a plan for transforming the culture, focusing on one of the following diversity and inclusion topics of your choice: […]

You might think that social problems only affect those who suffer from the problem directly, but they actually have much broader impact. For example, the public education system shapes the educational experiences of those who are not a part of the private school system. The government provides policies and procedures necessary to develop the public education system and make recommendations on ways to engage youth. […]

Read Case 9-1 “IT Governance at University of the Southeast” and then answer the following questions. First, describe the IT governance system that was in place at the University of the Southeast using both decision rights and structure as the basis of governance. Second, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized IT system?Your answers should be in your own words, but should also […]

Your Immersion Project for this course is essentially ethnographic research. When you hear the words ethnography or ethnographic research, you may think of Margaret Mead or Franz Boas performing their research on cultures outside their own countries and living among their research subjects. Contemporary ethnographic research includes many other types of research scenarios, such as urban ethnography, neighborhood studies, and even microstudies of groups as […]

 A valuable skill in Human Resources Management is the ability to critically analyze and resolve troublesome situations. Many different aspects of unions have been presented in this course. Likely at this point you have a very good understanding of each of these different aspects, such as the pros and cons to forming unions, today’s local and global union environment, attitudes and characteristics of union leadership, […]

As she continues her journey at CSU, Claudia has been asked to teach her fellow classmates about various learning strategies related to academic success.   Take all of the information that you have learned from the Unit III Lesson and the reading assignments, and create a PowerPoint presentation that helps Claudia teach the other students about achieving academic success at CSU. Click here to access the […]

Compensation Strategy for Knowledge Workers   To prepare for this assignment, review Waring’s article about employee compensation, which is also listed in the required reading section of the Unit IV Study Guide. Note: both links contain the same information; only one needs to be reviewed.   Waring, D. (2013). How to design an employee compensation plan [SlideShare slides]. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/FitSmallBusiness/how-to-design-a-compensation-plan-dave?ref=http://fitsmallbusiness.com/how-to-pay-employees/   Waring, D. (2013). How to pay […]

The Fig Technologies Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has asked you to compile a report regarding the age demographics within the organization. Your findings are that employees between the ages of 18 to 25 comprise 11% of the workforce, employees 26 to 39 comprise 31%, employees 35 to 55 comprise 34%, employees 56 to 69 compose 18%, and the remainder are age 69 and above. You […]

A competency model is a set of knowledge, skills, behaviors, or attributes, which defines what is needed by a person to be effective in a particular leadership position. The two articles this week titled: A leadership competency model: Guiding the NAON process and Leadership Competencies from SHRM website, introduce the concept of competency models and provides an example of a leadership competency model. Study the […]