HRM 531 All Assignments

Week 1

HRM 531 Week 1 Summary

Week 2

Learning Team Reflection Paper

Discuss this past weeks objectives with your team. Objectives: 2.1 Explain how a job analysis is used to create a job description. 2.2 Explain the functions of a job description Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field. Describe the reasons your team feels high turnover may/may not contribute to unionization. Prepare an 800- to 1,000- word paper detailing the findings of your discussion. APA Format

Individual Labor Laws and Unions

Choose an organization with which you are familiar that is currently unionized.

Outline the organization chosen by including the following:

Provide brief background information on your chosen organization. Identify legal issues and obstacles that this organization could encounter.

Determine which federal, state, or local laws could be broken because of these legal issues and why. Provide recommendations to minimize possible litigation.

Write a paper of no more than 700 words discussing the effects of the union on the chosen organization. Address the following questions:

What are the organizations benefits of joining a union? What is the unionization process? How does a union bargain? What effects does union bargaining have on the organization?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

HRM 531 Week 2 Summary

Week 3

Individual Job Analysis

Option 3: Rewriting a Job Description

Locate a job description using a popular website for job seekers.

Analyze the job posting you selected. Consider the following criteria:

How and when would you determine the need to create a job position within your business? What strategy would use to outline the positions details? What would the duties be? What would the performance requirements for the position be? What preexisting knowledge and skills would be required for the position?

Rewrite the job posting chosen.

Identify what you added or subtracted from the original job posting, and explain why.

Learning Team Reflection

Discuss this weeks objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.

Prepare a 350- to 1,050- word paper detailing the findings of your discussion.

HRM 531 Week 3 Summary

Week 4

Learning Team Compensation and Benefits Plan:

Read and discuss each Learning Team members Week Three Analyzing a Job assignment.

Select one team members Analyzing a Job assignment.

Research websites that summarize compensation and benefit plans consistent with the job analysis chosen for the research. Examples of websites include but are not restricted to the following:

Career InfoNet

Society For Human Resource Management

Salary.com

Vault, Career Intelligence

Write a proposal of 1,200 to 1,400 words on a compensation and benefits plan that meets the needs of the employee and the organization. Complete the following in your proposal:

Justify your chosen approach.

Identify any obstacles or resistant you foresee if the compensation and benefits plan were to be implemented.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Learning Team Reflection

Discuss this weeks objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.

Prepare a 350- to 1,050- word paper detailing the findings of your discussion.

HRM 531 Week 4 Summary

Week 5

Learning Team Who and Why

Resource: Ch. 6 of Managing Human Resources

Locate a job description online for a well-known organization. The job description should include the following components:

Position details Job duties Performance standards Job factors

Identify recruitment and selection methods that are consistent with the organization chosen.

Develop a concept map that summarizes the steps of recruiting and the selection criteria for an employee using the job description selected.

Write a paper of no more than 1,050 words that includes rationale for the teams decisions.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Learning Team Reflection

Discuss this weeks objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.

Prepare a 350- to 1,050- word paper detailing the findings of your discussion.

HRM 531 Week 5 Summary

Week 6

Individual Growing Your Staff Presentation

You currently work as a human resource management consultant, and you have scheduled a presentation to pitch your organizations value to a company that you have worked for in the past.

Prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that will be used to pitch the need for your consultant services.

Include the following components in your presentation:

Identify the organizations operational gap or need for the human resource management services. Provide any relevant background information within the speaker notes.

Determine why a training or employee development plan is needed and why it will fill the organizational gap identified.

Provide an outline of the proposed training or employee development plan.

Create a performance improvement plan worksheet and integrate it into the presentation. Complete the following in your presentation:

Convey the benefits of using your performance improvement plan over more standard, similarly used forms.

Explain how your performance improvement plan should be used.

Determine what impact your proposed services will have on the organization and its goals.

Explain how these changes might affect the companys Equal Employment Opportunity standing and its overall diversity-related issues.

Learning Team Reflection

Discuss this weeks objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.

Prepare a 350- to 1,050- word paper detailing the findings of your discussion.