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Learning Activity: Creating a Severance Package

Completing this activity will help you prepare for the upcoming assignment in Week 7. Think of it as practice for the assignment. As such, focus on content, not formatting. Your paper should be no more than 1 to 2 pages in length.

For this activity:

• Create a severance package for a separated employee in a fictitious company.
  • At a minimum, include:
    • Position differences.
    • Years of service.
    • Actual compensation amounts.
    • Any additional benefits that you want to add.
• Determine whether severance pay is taxable.
• Create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation.
  • Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.

Use at least one quality academic resource in this activity. Consider beginning with your course textbook and quality sources that can be found in the Strayer Library.

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

PLEASE READ THE ASSIGNMENT CAREFULLY

12,000-15,000 words, not including references and appendices 

You have completed the development of an Organizational Change Action Plan. Your final project should include the following components:

Part 1: Background of the Organizational and its Current Situation

 Introduction

 Overview of the organization.

 Overview of the organization’s industry, environment, and competition.

 Background of the change initiative.

 Review of the failed change effort. 

Potential consequences if effective change is not adopted. 

Part 2: Review of the Literature 

Review of the academic literature of organizational change and development.

 Review of the practitioner literature of organizational change and development.

 Review of the academic literature of decision making and analysis.

 Review of the practitioner literature of decision making and analysis. 

Review of the academic literature of organizational learning.

 Review of the practitioner literature of organizational learning.

 Synthesis of the academic and practitioner literature. 

Part 3: Development of an Organizational Change Action Plan

 Evaluation of the academic and practitioner literature as it applies to the client organization.

 Creation of a detailed outline and implementation of the Action Plan.

 Systems thinking workshops

 Personal mastery workshops.

 Mental models workshops .

Building shared vision workshops.

 Caucuses to develop new change initiative.

 Review of new change initiative.

 Implementation of new change initiative .

Proposed time line and budget .

Part 4: References and Appendices 

Include a proposed implementation time line and a proposed budget that includes compensation for your services.

 Please submit your assignment.

Choose a topic found on the HFMA website. Provide an overview of the topic in one paragraph. Be sure to include an explanation regarding how it applies to something that you learned in the course. How do you think the HFMA can support your career growth and development?

Answer the discussion questions from the case 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OqCq2FPSqvwIA4QjS36Qp9tNisr0_4Jm/view?usp=sharing

Follow the guideline and template to do 

-Background  

-Problem Statement

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TjnikMEkiQN47ZRTYLshU1rXpr4YGyNQ/view?usp=sharing

Your Paper should be double-spaced, with “1” margins on all sides.
 

Having a cover page is important with any assignment. The cover page of your paper should have your complete name, name of the class, and title of the assignment.
 

You should have a brief abstract on the cover page. Have a complete Table of Contents on the next page identifying page numbers for various sections of the paper.
 

At this point in the semester, you have read about the nature of identity as experienced by various people based on their race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientations, national origin, etc. You have watched several diversity videos related to identity for deeper insights. I will be sending you more video links to watch as your prepare to do this assignment. Here are the two parts of the assignment. Please use proper subtitles within Part 1 and Part 2 to organize your paper so that it is easy to read. I leave it up to your creativity and talent to organize the paper using appropriate and clear subtitles.
 

1. The first part of this paper asks you to reflect on your personal identity and its defining characteristics (3-4 double spaced pages). You know yourself best! Right? You can use both sources from the textbook readings as well as the Diversity videos to give examples and support your personal reflections.
 

Address the following questions in Part 1. Based on your identity, how do you relate to various other groups of people who appear similar or different from you? Give examples to make your points. Do you feel that at this point in your life you have developed a capacity for self-reflection that allows you understand your responses to an environment where diversity is increasingly the norm? Give some examples of your capacity to understand a diverse environment (50%).
 

2. The second part of the paper follows from the first part and focuses on your Personal Cross – Cultural Competence Growth Plan (3-4 double spaced pages). Again, along with your personal reflections and creativity, you can use both sources from the textbook readings as well as the Diversity videos to support the logic behind your Personal Cross – Cultural Competence Growth Plan.
 

Address the following questions in Part 2. What are the some of the most important lessons that you have learned from the classroom discussions and readings and the Diversity Videos? What would your Cross-Cultural Competence Growth Plan look like to prepare yourself for future leadership roles? How will it be helpful to you? Make a 1-2 pages “to-do list” of actions that you can and will take to make yourself a more culturally-competent collaborator and leader.  Your “to-do list” should not only identify what you will do, but also when and how you will do it.  In other words, it must be a real action plan for growth and development.  While it is mainly for your growth, it will help me see how you are converting the course content and our discussions into your own plan for growth as a leader. (50%)

Review the Wiedmer article regarding workplace bullying.

Develop a two- to three-page APA- formatted paper that responds to the following:

• Provide a review of the article. Describe the impact of workplace bullying on both the victims and the organization.
• Reflect on a time when you may have witnessed workplace bullying. Discuss at least two practices of workplace bullying addressed in the article that were applicable to your scenario.
• Recommend at least two techniques from the article that management should implement to provide a positive impact on workplace bullying. Support your response with additional information from the textbook or additional research.

Your paper must be two to three pages (not including title and reference pages) and must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. You must cite two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

 Go to the United States Department of Labor website to read “Continuation of Health Coverage – COBRA.” This website communicates the current regulations and federal involvement in employee benefits. Navigate the website to become familiar with its contents. Write a five- to seven-page paper in which you: 

1. Describe the major features of this website and how each feature can be used to monitor employee benefits. 

2. Explain how employers could verify that their employee benefits comply with all federal laws by using this resource. 

3. Explain how employees would use this information to ensure their benefits rights are protected. 

4. Create an outline of the website so that you could orient others to its usefulness for regulatory compliance. 

5. Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. 

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not quality as academic resources. 

 conduct a business case study analysis in the form of a narrated PowerPoint presentation.

 Use a variety of analytical tools to monitor and improve business strategy. 

Application: Improving a College Recruitment Program, page 260

Students will read assigned applications provided in the text. (minimum 3 pages). Be sure to include your name, double space, provide page numbers, and use a 12 inch font and proper APA formatting.  Do not add personal experiences.  Be sure to number your answers to ensure you do not overlook any. Using external research to support your response is expected. Be sure to include references.

Instructions:

Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.

This discussion will allow you to create your outline or map for your first draft.

• Create a traditional outline that follows this format (Links to an external site.).
• Make sure you fill in the information specific to your topic and your essay.
• It is recommended that you complete this in a Word document (or other word processing software).
• Copy and Paste into the Canvas Editor and attach your outline document.
• Write a paragraph describing the challenges experienced while creating the outline for the paper.
• What challenges did you experience gathering research?
• Is there a resource that has been helpful in the process of researching, organizing and writing the research paper? (This can include software suggestions.)