• From the case study, examine HR’s role in ensuring that organizations comply with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the United Kingdom Bribery Act. Determine what you believe to be HR’s biggest challenge in ensuring compliance with the FCPA and U.K. Bribery Act and suggest one (1) action that HR departments can take to address this challenge.
• Examine two (2) of the major HR ethical issues multinational corporations face when operating globally. Recommend two (2) preventative actions that HR departments can take in order to lessen the occurrence of these ethical issues. Provide a rationale for your response.

There are three written assignments in the course, in which you will use the same organization to analyze the culture and make recommendations. It is essential you start to think about your company selection now.

Consider selecting a company for which you or a family member works. You might also choose a civic organization. To ensure your selection sets you up for success in all three assignments, be sure that your company:

• Is one with which you are familiar and is one in which you have access to internal processes.
• Has a true issue that need to be resolved.
• Is one for which you can think of possible solutions to the issue that are realistic and enforceable.

Requirements

For this assignment, write a 1 page double-spaced paper in which you will discuss:

• Your selected organization.
• The issue you will be analyzing.
• How the issue hinders organization efficiency.
• This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

Confidentiality:Since you will be addressing real issues in real organizations in your assignments, it is important to respect confidentiality. Feel free to use an alias for any company or individuals you might mention in your assignments. Remember that all discussions about these organization should only occur within this course and not be shared with people outside the course.

1. Watch the video “Massive Cyberattack Strikes Anthem” (1m 43s).
2.   Based on the video, your  readings this week, and the case study, please respond to the following  questions:
   • What information privacy principles have been breached?
   • How were the information privacy principles breached?
   • What would you do to address the situation
   • https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/100000003493507/massive-cyberattack-strikes-anthem.html

• Based on the scenario, evaluate the significance of a needs analysis in terms of addressing business performance.
• Justify your position on the following statement: “An external business consultant is more effective than an internal HR employee in performing an organizational performance gap analysis (OPG).” Support your position with concrete examples.

respond to this discussion

A project mission is the main purpose of the project. What have you set out to accomplish every day?

A vision statement is something you hope to achieve. What can you hope to accomplish one day?

Goals are non-specific ideas about what you want your company to succeed at. (Like bringing fun and happiness to your town)

Objectives are concrete milestones that help you meet those goals. (Live music, Good food, and exciting events could help you bring fun)

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Deliverable 7 – Risk Prevention Policy

Competencies

• Evaluate the safety and security compliance of organizational and employee work environments.
• Analyze organizational practices as they relate to union-related and labor relations laws.
• Design reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of employees and the organization.
• Appraise the workforce relations of an organization to ensure optimal performance.
• Integrate negotiation strategies with legal decision-making to ensure policies and practices reflect ethical values.
• Design an organizational risk management plan.

Scenario

You have been hired as the new Vice President of HR for your organization. One of the first areas in which you need to familiarize yourself with is in how well (or not) the organization manages and prevents risk. Upon review, you realize that there is no comprehensive policy for risk prevention and management currently in place. You report your findings to the CEO, who agrees that this lack of documented policy must be corrected immediately. The CEO has instructed you to develop a policy document to protect the organization and its employees from risk. As part of your role as VP of HR, you will need to research your organization, note that it is publicly-traded.

Instructions

Based on your research, prepare a policy document for the company that:

• Outlines standards for employee safety and security.
• Designs measures for reasonable accommodation.
• Designates critical components that must be addressed to assure business continuity in the event of a natural disaster.
• Describes how management decisions must align to the ethical values of the organization.
• Illustrates the impact of labor laws and unions.
• Incorporates a Human Resources audit.
• Provides attribution for credible sources used in the policy document.

Resources

Article Databases:

• Business Source Complete via EBSCO
• Business via ProQuest
• Regional Business News via EBSCO

• Examine the major influences that organizational culture can  have on organizational ethical decision making. From your personal  experience in your current or past organization, provide one (1) example  of how organizational culture influenced the outcome of an ethical  decision. Note: Please do not identify workplaces or leaders by name.
• Use the Internet to research a business leader that you  believe to be an ethical leader. Next, examine the key traits and  actions that the selected leader demonstrates in order to influence a  positive ethical culture in the organization. Suggest two (2) actions  that a company could take in order to achieve a positive ethical  culture.

Visit Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/) and search for one of the Big 8 ethics theorists (St. Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, Martin Buber, Lawrence Kohlberg, Victor Frankl). You may also use the web resources for each individual theorist provided in the text on page 25.

Read about the different theorists and then summarize your thoughts about the relevancy of the philosopher’s writings to today’s healthcare issues

respond: Do you think this trend described is Beneficial or harmful to society? 

• How can we use technology and legislation to prevent workplace discrimination?

Technology and legislation can be used to prevent discrimination by creating apps and other internet platforms to helps explain to candidates based on their experience, education, and job description they can tell you how much you would be making in that position. It can also show users what it would be like to work in these companies the pros and cons. It also helps to find a wider diverse set of candidates for the positions they are looking to hire.

• How should the HR professional approach privacy issues in the workplace?

When it comes to Privacy issues HR professionals need to make sure that they do not step over bound with what information can be tracked or obtained and what information cannot. The reason for this is because there is a privacy act that in place to help keep individuals safe from information being misused by employers or employees. HR professionals need to ensure that they monitor customer privacy, employee privacy, internet security, emails, computers, information on the cloud, health and personal information just to name a few. If HR professionals do not communicate correctly the privacy laws and the company’s privacy laws, there can be lawsuits or even loss of revenue. It is imperative that they know how important it is to communicate the importance of privacy at the business to employees and explain what is covered under the privacy laws. For example if you are working at an elementary school with students with IEP’s their information at the meeting is held to confidential and if you speak with someone about it that is not supposed to know you could be fired for breach of confidentiality. 

• Why are clear expectations important?

Clear expectations ae important because you know exactly what is expected of you. When you explain what the privacy laws of the company and the state is to the employees they understand what can be said what cannot, what can be posted on social media and what can not especially if it is going against the company you can loose your job. If you do something illegal and it was posted on social media and it goes against the company’s policy, you can lose your job. Being aware of what is expected of you and keeping with the privacy laws can save you and the company lawsuits in the long run. It also helps employees to stay on task and stay on the goals that the company has laid out. It also helps them to reach their goals that the company has for them.

• What added considerations might HR have in the health care field?

The health care field is very demanding for the HR professional on top of the basic duties of hiring, firing, training, continued development of job duties and training, evaluations, billing, and the making sure the customers are taken care of.  Some challenges are finding the right candidates for the right positions and shortages in the healthcare field. Wages are always something that most jobs have challenges with because some do not pay well enough for the job they are asking to do. Another thing would be retention keeping employees working for you and being compensated correctly. 

The job characteristics model has five components that enhance employee jobs – skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. Give an example illustrating how each component can be used to improve the organization and the job of the employee.