Monthly Archives: March 2023

• British Petroleum.
• Coca-Cola.
• Ecolab.
• Exxon Mobil.
• Hilton.
• Marriott.
• McDonald’s.
• McKesson.
• Modelo.
• PepsiCo.
• You may choose another company with approval from your instructor.

Note: You will use this same company in all of your assignments in this course.

Your company has recently merged with a fictitious smaller, domestic company.

Create two company introductions and develop an 8–10 point checklist in which you:

• Give a succinct overview of the global company.
• Give a succinct overview of the fictitious domestic company merged with.
• Develop an 8–10 point checklist of steps you would take to unify company culture.
• Explain your rationale for choosing each of the steps in your checklist.

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
• 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.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Create a checklist outlining the steps to unify company culture for a given organization.

During an interview, the case manager demonstrates attitudes about self and others. One way to learn about these attitudes and characteristics is to watch others conduct interviews. A good practice is to watch interviewers on television. The following programs will work for this assignment:

• Oprah
• Meet the Press
• Dr. Phil
• Good Morning America
• Today Show
• Larry King

While you are watching the interviews, make notes on the attitudes and characteristics that are important for good interviewing.

General Observations

1. Describe how the interviewer presents him- or herself.
2. What are your initial impressions of the interviewer?
3. What happens in the interview to cause these initial impressions?
4. Describe how the interviewer greets the interviewee. What type of climate does the greeting establish?
5. Does the interviewer control the interview?

Focus on the Interviewee

1. What is the interviewer’s attitude toward the interviewee? How does the interviewer convey this attitude?
2. Does the interviewer demonstrate respect for the interviewee? How is respect or lack of it conveyed during the interview?
3. How does the interviewer convey empathy?
4. Does the interviewer convey cultural sensitivity or the lack of it? How?

 1. As one of the top HR people at your organization, you are being asked to lead a Reduction In Force (RIF) project which will eliminate 25% of the workforce across multiple company US locations. Describe the steps and project plan in-depth including some of the project challenges and how you might overcome them. 

2. You are negotiating an offer with a mid-career Systems Engineering candidate that your organization really wants, but your start up organization can’t afford to pay what he/she is currently earning. The market salary for the role is typically between $60 – $80K and the candidate is currently working for a much larger organization at $85K. The position has been open for over 3 months and the business manager has turned down candidate after candidate and only agrees to meet with candidates who are overqualified. Describe your strategy and preparation for the conversation with the candidate as well as the business manager. You had originally had some reservations about presenting this candidate and now the business line is counting on you to close the deal. 

 3. As you consider High Performance Work Systems (HPWS), how does aligning people, technology, and organizational design create optimal business results? Be specific in discussing expected outcomes and results when creating a High Performing Organization (HPO). 

 Develop a short human resource strategic plan for an organisation 

I have an assignment due. I will attach the requirements needed to complete this assignment.

Situational Leadership II (SLII) is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical method of effectively managing and developing people, time, and resources in the world. SLII provides leaders with a model and the tools for creating open communication and developing self-reliance in those they manage. It is designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about performance and development. As a result, competence is developed, commitment is gained, and talented individuals are retained. SLII is recognized as both a business language and a framework for employee development because it works across cultural, linguistic, and geographical barriers. The foundation lies in teaching leaders to diagnose the needs of an individual or a team and then use the appropriate leadership style to respond to the needs of the person and the situation.

For this forum, review the figure 5.2 in the Dugan text. There are four specific leader styles aligned on the chart. They are directing, coaching, supporting and delegating. These are leader styles. There are also the follower’s developmental levels described as D1 – D4.  There is a direct relationship between the follower’s level of competence and the leader’s style.  For each developmental level there is an appropriate style of leadership that should be adopted (i.e. a style that depends on the situation). 

Select one of the four leadership styles.    Choose a specific follower development level (D1 – D4) and give an example of how this leadership style and developmental level would work in real life.   In other words, create a “situation” that needs to be led and explain this concept in your forum.

Instructions:  Your initial post should be at least 250 words. Please respond to at least two other students.  

Directing (S1): Highly directive behavior coupled with lower levels of supportive behaviors; provision of clear instructions about what needs to be done and how to do it; highly structured with regular feedback and monitoring of progress. 

Coaching (S2): Both highly directive and supportive; clear structure and direction along with a strong investment in the individual; begins to engage the follower as an active contributor to the process as well as in decision making. 

Supporting (S3): Lower levels of directive behaviors coupled with highly supportive behaviors; shared decision making; role becomes that of facilitator to support followers, using their knowledge and skills to accomplish goals. 

Delegating (S4): Lower levels of both directive and supportive behaviors; locus of control shifts to the follower for decision making and task direction; focus on monitoring and offering support and growth opportunities. The leader’s style should progress over time from directing th

D1 – Enthusiastic beginner

D2- Disillusioned learner

D3 – Capable but cautious contributor

D4 – Self-reliant Achiever 

Adopting a Family Relationship Framework
Answer the  questions below by using chapter 1 of your textbook.

1. A typical family system is characterized by  _______.  

☒ an  evolved set of rules for itself and its members

☐  the lack of values

☐  decreased communication

☐  none of these apply

2. Which statement about families is true? 

☐  Families never add new members

☐  Families can be influenced by the community in which they live in

☐  Family members all get along all the time

☐  none of these apply

3. Which statement is true about American  families? 

☐ All American families are wealthy.

☐ American families can be made up of  members of many ethnicities and live in a wide variety of areas.

☐  Every American family is White, has two children, and lives in the suburbs.

☐  None of these apply

4. Rituals can best be described as  _____. 

☐  beliefs that gods do not exist

☐ symbolic actions related to beliefs that  help families adapt to change and bring meaning to 

their  lives

☐  beliefs in supernatural evil forces

☐  none of these apply

5. Which of the following helps to increase a  family’s resilience (a family’s ability to recover quickly from difficult  problems or how they cope with situations)?  

☒ family  members have clear and consistent communication and problem-solving processes

☐  ignoring the needs of vulnerable family members

☐  having a negative belief system

☐  none of these apply

6. While children grow up, their gender roles  are influenced by _____. Gender roles are a set of society norms that  determines what types of behaviors are acceptable, appropriate or desirable  for a person based on their actual or perceived sex. 

     Parents and society 

☐  pregnancy only

☐  puberty only

☐  none of these apply

7. A _________ is a natural social system that  occurs in a wide variety of forms and represents different cultural heritages.   

☐  family

☐  monarchy

☐  hierarchy

☐  none of these apply

8. African American family members are often made  up of__________ 

☐ mothers, fathers, children, and a wide  network of kin, close friends, and community members

☐  nephews and nieces only

☐  neighbors only

☐  none of these apply

9. People in families are intimately _______.  

☐  ignored 

☐ connected
☐ forgotten
☐ none of these apply

10. The people most vulnerable to living in _______  are nonwhite minorities, single mothers, children under 18 and the elderly.  
 

☐ wealth
☐ poverty
☐ mansions
☐ none of these apply

     Reflection
Entrance  into a family occurs by birth, adoption, through marriage or with other  committed relationships as new family members enter a family. Identify a  member of your family, explain how they joined or entered the family and share  a unique trait or characteristic of that family member in the chart below. 

11. Read the chart below. Complete the missing  information.   

Name    of the family member

How    did the family member enter the family?

Unique trait about that    family member

Type answer here

Type answer here

Type answer here

12. Families have different customs, rituals or  cultural practices which are passed onto to their children and other family  members. Rituals and customs are social behaviors related to specific  cultures, and they are used to increase family bonds. Sometimes customs or  rituals can strengthen a family system or split it apart. For example, a  family might have a ritual where all their children attend church. If a  teenager refused because they are an atheist, it could cause a family to  divide. Describe an example of a family ritual or custom below, and example  how it could strengthen or divide a family. 

a. Describe a family  ritual or custom.  

Type answer here

b. Explain why you feel  the ritual or custom can strengthen or divide a family.  

Type answer here

13. Identify your favorite ritual growing up. Examples  include but are not limited to: going to church, going to a family members  home for family dinners, etc. Explain why  these rituals are so important to  you. An example is provided below:  

Ritual

Description of ritual

Explanation of why ritual is important

Ex: Church

Ex: You must attend Church 3 times a week

Ex: My family is religious and it was    expected to attend this event weekly.

a. Type answer here

Type answer here

Type answer here

14. All families face challenges: an unexpected  death, the divorce, job loss, retirement. Families adopt ways of coping to build resiliency. Resiliency is the ability to bounce back and overcome  a challenge. Often, family members can build on their strengths to become  resilient. 

Identify one challenge within a family and explain a strategy to boost  resiliency within the family within the chart below. Resiliency within a  family relates to their ability to recover quickly from difficult problems or  overcome situations.

Family    Challenge

Explanation    of strategy to boost resiliency

a. Type answer here

Type answer here

15. A strength-based  approach is used frequently while working with clients in the HHS field. It  can be used with individual clients or with families experiencing challenges.  A strength-based approach involves identifying the strengths of an individual  or family and building upon them. Once strengths are identified, goals can be  set to help the client solve their problems or issues. For example, a client  who is negative (weakness) might be stuck in a cycle of drug abuse. The clients  can become more realistic (strength)  when they realize the negative impact their drug use has on their family.  Becoming more realistic about their situation can motivate them to obtain  sobriety from drugs. 

Choose on area of weakness in the illustration below and explain how  you can build on the associated strength to help a client solve a problem.  

a. Weakness: Type answer here

b. Strength: Type answer here

c. Explanation (how to build on the strength  to overcome the weakness): Type answer here

Sharma, G. (2019). How to Turn Your  Weaknesses into Strengths | Visual.ly. [online] Visual.ly. Available at: https://visual.ly/community/infographic/lifestyle/how-turn-your-weaknesses-strengths  [Accessed 11 Feb. 2019].

Select one of the following case studies (located in your textbook): 

• Case 8-1: Not Spilling the Beans at Jelly Belly: Developing a More Accurate Performance Appraisal System.  
• Case 8-2: Amazon.Com: Selling Employee Performance With Organization and Leadership Review. 
• Case 9-1: Balancing Rights and Privileges.
• Case 9-2: Off-Duty Misconduct:

Then complete the following: 

• Add your opinion about the choices and decisions being made—if this was your company, would you make this choice?
• What would you do differently?

You are strongly encouraged to make your initial post by the middle of each week so that you have plenty of time to respond to your classmate

 Strayer University is moving to a new HR/payroll system that is  sponsored by a firm called Workday.com. You have been asked to oversee  the stakeholder management aspects of this project. Identify some of the  key stakeholders at Strayer, and describe how you plan to keep them  engaged during your year-long project. Be sure to include the  appropriate methods, since not all of your stakeholders are located at  the HQ office in Herndon, VA. 

Elaborate on the concept of diversity, equal opportunity, and affirmative action in the workplace.  Place special emphasis on the legal terminology you learn. Apa Style, avoid plagiarism, and use References.