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This assignment is worth 25% of your final grade. It gives you an opportunity to investigate trends in a topic related to virtual and global teams. You must complete this assignment individually, without contacting other students, and you may not use a paper or any part of a paper from a previous class or from another person or an online source. If you have any questions about this assignment, please post them in the Ask the Professor discussion forum so that everyone can benefit from the answers. This assignment addresses Course Objectives 3, 4, and 5.

Pick a topic related to virtual and global teams that interests you and explore it further in 6-10 pages.  Sample topics: use of technology among virtual teams; team-based rewards and recognition programs; characteristics of effective leaders of virtual teams; use of virtual teams in global corporations; theories of virtual team development. Identify and discuss the trends in your chosen topic area. 

Support your opinions and statements with a minimum of seven references from sources published within the last ten years and integrate appropriate concepts and theories from our work over the semester.  You can cite scholarly and practitioner-oriented journals, newspaper articles, and YouTube videos about the topic, but not Wikipedia, consulting company websites, or other non-academic sources. Please use the UMUC library to conduct a search for appropriate sources of information. You can access the library through the Resources section of our classroom (on the ribbon above the course title banner) or directly at https://sites.umuc.edu/library/index.cfm. Librarians are available by phone, email, and chat; they can help you narrow your topic,  create a search strategy, and identify appropriate sources. You can also consult a graduate writing tutor for help with organizing your ideas, presenting them clearly, and complying with APA style requirements. You can access tutors through the Writing Tutoring module in our classroom. 

Use APA format for all citations, references, and quotations.  This means your list of references should start on a separate page, and should be double spaced, with a hanging indent and no spaces between entries. Your paper should be 6-10 pages (not counting the cover or reference pages), double spaced with one inch margins and a font size of at least 11 points.  Writing should be in third person. For help with writing in the third person, see https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person?page=2.

Please include the following statement on your cover page:

This paper is my own work that I created specifically for this course and this section.  All research or material that I used in preparing this paper has been properly acknowledged within the assignment in accordance with academic standards for complete and accurate citation of sources.

Submit your assignment electronically via the Assignment folder.

Name your file this way: YourLastNameFirstInitial_IndividualResearch

(Example: StudentJ_IndividualResearch)

Due date: Sunday, [insert date], 11:59 p.m. Eastern time

Please see the next page for the grading criteria for this assignment.

Criteria for Grading Individual Research Paper

Note: The research paper should be 6-10 pages long, excluding the reference and cover pages. 

Strategic Planning and Organizational Restructuring  

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 with the fact 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, recommend an  organizational structure (e.g., functional, matrix, or projectized)  that will provide growth for the firm. Also, assess the influence that  this project will have on the customers (who are located throughout the  Americas) that are serviced by the HR group. 

NOTE: MORE THAN ONE ANSWER POSTED

Please read and respond to the attachment.

Note: Only up to 20% of the content in the written response can be quotes from third parties.  

Based on your review of the Regulation and Enforcement section of the text and powerpoint presentation and now knowing the vital role that each interdisciplinary staff member has in ensuring the compliance of those regulations:

Answer the following question

As a nursing facility administrator, what would you do to ensure that your organization is in compliance with the various regulatory standards? {be specific as to the actual plans you would put into place in the facility in order to stay compliant with the regulations}

Read the table on pages 317 and 318 “Examples of Transformational Events Associated with HR Process” from your textbook. Create a similar table, with at least 3 levels, using specific details on the organization you are researching for the Capstone project. Offer a 200-250 word explanation on the decisions you have made on the table. Use at least one scholarly source other than the textbook to support your ideas. Critique at least two of your classmates’ tables by offering constructive feedback. Remember to properly cite your sources.

Scenario 2

You are a former certified education administrator who departed your former position to become the owner of a small, in-home day care consisting of you and a part-time assistant where you care for children from age three (3) to age ten (10). Over the course of time, your demographic population has increased due to significant business growth that has resulted in many families relocating to your area. With more businesses projected to move to the area and the building of new housing developments, it is projected that this growth could be long term.

You have decided that this is a good opportunity to expand your day care business as you have received many inquiries for childcare. In order to comply with your home state regulations, you will require a larger facility and will need to hire additional staff in order to sustain the larger demand for day care. This staff will consist of five (5) Certified Day Care Professionals, one (1) Registered Nurse Professional, five (5) After-School Assistants, and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional. You have secured approval for a bank loan and qualify for future loans for future expansion if your current endeavor is successful. Meanwhile, the state in which you operate has requested that you provide a staffing plan before it will issue licensure for your expanded capacity.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments.

Select one (1) of the scenarios and write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Identify two (2) types of staffing models that could apply to your chosen scenario and determine which model would be best suited for efficiency, productivity, and possible future growth. Examine the significant effect of each identified staffing model on processes that may be occurring within the organization (e.g., outsourcing, contingent workers, consulting firms, etc.). 
2. Predict the major potential legal issues that you may encounter when establishing equal employment opportunities and diversity within the workplace while still aiming to acquire employees with the needed certifications and credentials. Next, explain the method of achieving transparency within your staffing model. Justify your response. 
3. Specify three (3) tasks that you need to perform to identify, analyze, and develop job requirements and task statements that you will include in formalized job descriptions. Next, predict the frequency with which you would need to review and adjust these job descriptions as your company progresses. Provide a rationale for your response. 
4. Describe three (3) methods to deal with high employee turnover and the availability of employees with required knowledge, skills, or abilities. Next, describe the primary manner in which the described succession-planning methods would be beneficial to your company. Justify your response. 
5. Go to https://research.strayer.edu to locate at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources. 
6. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements: 
   • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. 
   • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. 
   • Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow the Strayer Writing Standards. The reference page is not included in the required page length. 
   • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details. 

How has the Coronavirus effected the airline industry?

I need 300 words for this discussion post. follow the instruction in the file

Please read and respond to the attachment.

Note: Only up to 20% of the content in the written response can be quotes from third parties.  

Please ensure that your ethics portfolio is complete for the final project. As a reminder, you were provided an ethics portfolio template in week one and have added to it each week during the course. Now that you have finalized the ethics portfolio you should assess and correlate the information to synthesize how you can you this portfolio for your future. For the final ethics portfolio project, you will need to;

Submit your completed ethics portfolio.

Submit a 5 page summary on your assessment of the information from your personal assessments, the discussion forum information that you recorded during the course, the assignment information that you recorded during the course, and your take-aways from the weekly required reading and lectures. You should assess and correlate the information to synthesize how you can you this portfolio for your future. You will need to discuss these points from; alternatives, analysis, application, and action. Please also support your viewpoints with 2 or more peer-reviewed article from the GU library that were not used prior within the course. The articles will also need to be no more than 5-years-old in publication. 

The 5 page assignment should be submitted as a Word document and APA format is required. The title page and reference page are not counted in the 5 page requirement. You will also be required to submit a PowerPoint presentation of 5-10 slides that highlights the key elements and essential learning points of your ethics portfolio.