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Assignment 2

i want to read the case very well and i answer only from chapter 6 and the case. there are 3 questions.

I must have ORIGINAL work only with UP TO DATE references.

In addition to the above resources, the only other allowable website sources you may use are (1) Society for Human Resource Management [SHRM], (2) Association for Talent Development [ATD], (3) WorldatWork, (4) Human Capital Institute [HCI]. You may also use academic journal articles found on Strayer’s Online Library at research.strayer.edu 

Write a six- to seven-page paper in which you do the following: 

Analyze different types of strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, and focus or niche) and select which one you would deem more appropriate for an “efficiency-minded” retail organization and explain your rationale. How would the selected strategy ultimately affect how HR does its job? Examine the four approaches to job design or redesign and provide an example (not a definition) of each. Then, make a case to the interviewing panel on the importance of effective job design applications in supporting the overall strategic goals of the organization.  Consider challenges and constraints associated with recruiting workers and identify and discuss at least two issues. What advice would you give to ease your selected issues? Be specific.  List and describe 2–3 candidate selection process ideas that might add value and overall effectiveness to the process. Example: 5 Tips for Designing an Effective Employee Selection System. Also, what problems should HR and management teams avoid during the selection process? Use at least four quality academic resources, 1 of which must be the assigned textbook.  Internet websites are not to be used in this course unless they come from the course resources list in the course information section of this course. You may also use  the Strayer University Library to locate additional sources to support your work. 

Background: 

“Karla, two members of your staff came to see me and share a few areas of concern this morning,” explained Alley when she and Karla met in a conference room.

“I wish they had come to me first,” Karla said impatiently. “What were their issues?”

“Well, to be honest, they do not feel you are really committed to their development and that you lack concern for them.”

“Alley, I say yes to 90% of development requests from training, to tuition assistance, to conferences and even out-of-branch rotations. I go out of my way to develop my people.”

“I know, Karla! You have a great record on paper.”

“What do you mean? Where else do I need to have a great record? Isn’t what can be measured what is important?”

“Karla, I think the challenge you are facing is difficulty in projecting genuine and individual concern for them. I am convinced, you do all you can, but they do not seem to feel your concern, and that is where it really counts.”

“What can I do to change that, Alley? I care about my employees. I really do! How can I show them that?”

 Question:

• What could be the barrier or barriers that exist between Karla and her direct reports?

Respond to the following:

Popular press and media accounts generally suggest that executives are overpaid. For example: the average yearly salary of a CEO of Fortune 500 company in 2018 was $14.5 million. The average yearly salary of a regular worker was $39,888.

• Justify why the CEO’s pay is appropriate.
  • Support your response with specifics.

Case Analysis

Project 2 is due at the end of week 4 by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time.

Purpose 

In this project, you will view a video and discuss the organizational culture and organizational structure of the assigned organization.   

Outcome Met by Completing This Assignment

• organize human, physical, and financial resources for the effective and efficient attainment of organizational goals

How to Set Up the Paper

Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double-spaced using 12-point font.  The final product will be 3-4 pages in length excluding the title page and reference page.  Write clearly and concisely. 

Provide a title page with a title, your name, course and section number and the instructor’s name.

Instructions: 

You have been hired as an associate for a software company that offers support solutions and customer service to more than 500 businesses in the United States.  The company has recently started to experience significant growth and will need to hire many new associate positions.  Your manager, Jack Nyugen, has asked you to help create a recruiting video for the company that emphasizes the company as having a positive corporate culture in which employees live the company’s core values and like coming to work.  Jack provides you with a recruiting video for Zendesk, a favorite company of his, and has asked you to view the video to gain an understanding of the concepts, organizational culture and organizational structure.  Jack knows the value of seeing is believing but also knows the value in a person who is able to articulate what is seen. 

Jack has asked you to view the video on Zendesk:    https://youtu.be/l0uaSU6IVN4.   (You may need to right click on the link and open in a new window.)

You will write a report addressed to Jack and will use only the Zendesk video and course materials.  If external sources are used, the information will not be included in the grading.  

Use the following headings and instructions to complete the project:

Introduction

• Write an Introduction paragraph.  The Introduction paragraph is the first paragraph of the paper and describes to the reader the intent of the paper explaining the main points covered in the paper using a thesis statement.  This intent should be understood prior to reading the remainder of the paper so the reader knows exactly what is being covered in the paper. 

Organizational Culture 

• Discuss the seven dimensions of organizational culture
• Describe ZenDesk’s organizational culture by presenting examples for each dimension descriptor.    Your description of ZenDesk’s organization culture is accomplished by extracting facts from the video and matching those facts with the appropriate dimension descriptor. You must provide support, justification, and where appropriate, in-text citation, for the video facts matched with the dimension descriptors. 

Competitive Advantage 

• Discuss how ZenDesk uses its corporate culture to create a competitive advantage.  Make sure to correctly make connections between the video information and the course materials.

Organizational Structure 

• Identify and discuss ZenDesk’s organizational structure from what you see in the video and use the course material to support your description of the structure.  Make sure to use examples from the video. 

Conclusion

• Create a concluding paragraph.  The Conclusion summarizes the main topics discussed in the paper.

References    

Review the Paper 

Read the paper to ensure all required elements are present.

The following are specific requirements that you will follow.  Use the chec

• If you were to become an expert in the field of benefits strategy, describe how you would acquaint yourself with the availability of new types of flexible benefits. Provide a rationale for your plan.

Week 4- Non-Outdoor Education? 

I think that was the heavy lifting reading for the entire semester. Hopefully that quickly positioned Outdoor Ed, and made it increasingly clear that Outdoor Education has developed outside/apart of more ‘formal’ educational practices and institutions. Please watch the following video for an accelerated look at the history of western education as Sir Ken Robinson identifies current failings of our more formal Kinder – 12 grade education system. The video is fast and jam packed so don’t be afraid to give it two viewings. 

* Please don’t get too hung up on the speakers example of ADD/ADHD as it is admittedly a hyper-polarizing example of anesthetization of current students. 

Please reflect via a typed response and synthesize this video with our History of Outdoor Education assignment, and your annotated Bibliography articles.

Record/write as much or as little as you would like, but please submit a reflection. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

1. You have decided to start an OD consulting firm after you finish your MHR degree.

1. What will be your target industry?

2. What will you specialize in?

3. How are you going to get clients? How will you convince prospective clients of your credibility?