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Instructions

This assignment allows you to demonstrate mastery of course outcome:

2. design a total rewards program that incorporates monetary, nonmonetary, and environmental elements in order to ensure organizational success

In this final assignment, you will design a total rewards program based on the organization you work at, and used for assignment one.

Before creating the final projected total rewards program, you will have conducted a research project in which you have obtained original data thorough and detailed information about organizational goals, objectives, and challenges. In addition, you will have obtained information about the current monetary and non-monetary rewards and work environment of the organization and the challenges or changes (such as expansions, downsizing, changes of services or products) the organization anticipates. You will have also designed metrics to evaluate the total rewards program.

In the final paper, you will provide the research findings in a report of at least 10 pages plus a title page and a reference page. Provide at least eight sources (in APA format) in a reference list and respective in-text citations. At least 5 of these sources must be from course materials. Please be sure to use topic headings and include the following:

1.  Provide a Title Page in Academic Format

2.  Give the Introduction and Purpose for the Paper

3.  Summarize and describe the organization, including its capabilities, key goals, objectives, challenges, values, and core competencies required for success.

4.  Demonstrate your knowledge of the total rewards model by describing the current total rewards philosophy of the organization and its three categories of offerings.

5.  Identify and describe the segmentation of the workforce (drawing up our study of how to differentiate employee groups depending on their drivers, such as flexible schedules, growth potential, desire for demonstrating individual expertise or team success, low obligation and easy income, or high obligation and high income).

6.  Describe further the current requisite capabilities of the organization and the competencies (knowledge, skills, and abilities) of the employees and, in your opinion, an analysis of whether the current needs will change given the issues faced by the organization.

7.  Recommend changes to the total rewards program, along with specific plans, including plans for communicating the changes and metrics that should be used by the organization to evaluate the success of the new program.

8.  Present the justification for your recommendations.

9.  Assess and discuss the risks of not implementing the program and the opportunities the program will give the organization.

10.  Provide your metrics for evaluating the total rewards program and share why you chose the ones you did.

11. Describe your conclusions and a summary of knowledge gained about total rewards through the activity.

12. Reference Page (with at least eight scholarly sources), at least 5 of these should be from course materials. 

Write a page answering the questions below.

Sometimes projects fail. Such failure can be contributed to unreasonable time constraints, poorly estimated financial estimates, poorly systematized planning process or organizational goals not understood at lower organizational levels.

As a project manager, what key factors are absolutely vital to prevent such failure?

Discuss the role of the leader and manager in a project environment or project initiative.

Be sure to identify how the duties of project managers reinforce the role of leadership. Use real-life examples.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

respond to this discussion

Change is inevitable. Since this is the case, change should not be feared, rather embraced and managed as the book puts it and there are systems and processes to make handling change or alterations to a project feasible.

Change Control is a “Balancing Act”.  When a project’s baseline is impacted by requested or forced adjustments it is important to stabilize operations by keeping the project current and updated. Action is required! Team members must respond to deviation with corrective action. That means that they should be equipped and given authority to do so as well.

Use of reviews, evaluations, logs, and feedback are some tools for maintaining control of a project and ensuring deliverable of intended outcome.

Select or create an organization for the authentic assessment. In this first assignment, you will begin to develop a training needs analysis (TNA) for your chosen organization. Company is Seventh Sense, a retail CBD company that is doing badly. 

Provide information about the organization and its needs regarding the training issue:

This should include general, high level information about the company in terms of product/services, size, geography, workforce attributes, etc. The training issue is the problem or challenge (could be deficiency OR need based on a predicted change in the operation, workforce, etc.). Here this should be “high level”, focused on the organization (not specifically the individual workers yet).

Determine the group or individuals who will receive the training:

This should include information about the target audience as it will impact the training developed – including demographic information, type of work, location of work, etc.

Identify the training issue:

This is a continuation from item 1. Here you will focus more on the individual workers and/or teams.

NOTE: the training issue should NOT be that they lack training. It should be tied to a performance deficiency or need. 

Provide a training needs assessment questionnaire:

The questionnaire should provide insight into the training need/gap; therefore it should focus on the training issue itself – choose questions that provide insight to the issue. In a sense, the questionnaire helps you identify and analyze the “why” (e.g., if you are addressing a performance issue, the questionnaire would help you hone in on the real issue).

SUGGESTION: think hard about using questions that ask how the audience “feels” about something – you want to obtain the most tangible and useful information.

NOTE: you will NOT administer the questionnaire! 

Your questionnaire should be included as an appendix to your paper – inserting questions within the narrative of your paper does not suffice.

Explain how the questionnaire will be utilized and will lead to the development of training outcomes/learning objectives within your written report:

Here you will essentially validate the questions posed in your questionnaire – if you can’t do that, you should probably revisit your questions.

You will probably not have the time or resources to implement the questionnaire or compile all the organizational and training-specific information necessary to complete the TNA. (If you are able to get real data and results, great! Otherwise, be creative and fabricate results.) The goal is to understand how a TNA is done effectively and to practice completing one.

(Assignment 2 items below)

Include at least three training outcomes, based on the TNA

Identify the expected performance of the group or individuals as a result of the training

Identify performance gaps and detail how training can help close those gaps

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-business/chapter/developing-employees/

ADDIE Model

https://simplifytraining.com/article/creating-a-custom-training-plan/

Two pages each

The concepts of “actuarial fairness” provide the background you need for this discussion.

For your initial post, describe how the conflicts of “actuarial fairness” have affected you, or someone you know, personally. Also, explain the loss or benefit to each party involved in the conflict.

The PMBOK (PMI, 2017) described PMO project governance as an oversight function that involves organization stakeholders and includes documented guidelines for roles and responsibilities as well as policies and procedures. Address the following discussion topic key elements:

• Distinguish between the PMO governance function and project governance.
• Present a specific example of PMO governance challenges uniquely experienced by a global enterprise; accentuate ethical consideration.

What ideas and strategies do you use when you are confronted by your own problems in living? What is your preferred coping style? Take some time to reflect on and make notes about two or three recent episodes in your life when you have been troubled or under stress. For the purpose of this exercise, your focus should not be on the actual situation itself, but on what you personally thought and did in order to resolve the situation. Once you have mapped out at least some of your favoured coping strategies, go through each of them in turn and identify the underlying cultural assumptions and discourses (e.g. religious, medical, psychological, philosophical) that they are drawn from. It can be valuable to carry out this learning activity in a small group as a means of becoming aware of the diversity of assumptions and strategies that people use. Finally, in relation to your counselling role: how do you react when you have a client whose ideas about dealing with personal troubles are different from your own?

APA FORMAT

300 WORDS MIN

This paper will allow you to examine your leadership skills and develop a plan for moving forward.

• Analyze your current leadership skills based on what you have learned in this course
• Identify 1 leadership theory that would be beneficial to your leadership role
  • Summarize your understanding of the 1 leadership theory
  • Explain how you would apply this theory to make you a more effective leader
  • Illustrate 2 positive outcomes that you would expect to occur
• Identify 1 change leadership theory that would be beneficial to your leadership role
  • Summarize your understanding of the 1 change leadership theory explain how you would apply this theory to make you a more effective leader
  • Illustrate 2 positive outcomes that you would expect to occur
• Develop a personal leadership philosophy and support your ideas with material from this course and outside research.
  • Provide an example where your leadership philosophy can be applied to lead an organizational change
  • Your leadership philosophy does not have to be any specific leadership model we reviewed. Rather, it should represent your trajectory of leadership as it applies to your career aspirations. Consider your career path and the industry you work (or wish to work in) and determine what leadership skills will be most effective. 

Submission Details:

• Submit a 7 to 8-page paper double spaced.
• Please provide at least six (6) scholarly references to support your paper. 

Create a Power Point presentation analyzing the future of Federal and state laws that deal with discrimination. Analyze these laws and regulations from both a domestic and global perspective. From your analysis, select five major developments that may occur in the next 10 years or so. Find five current references from research articles or publications that address potential future developments. You can select a state and country of your choosing as a reference point for this presentation.

Support your conclusions with references from a minimum of five (5) journal articles or publications.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as “speaker notes” for each slide.

Create a PowerPoint slide set. Think about who your target audience is and how your topic affects them.

The required length of the PowerPoint Presentation option for this assignment is 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide). Your presentation MUST include notes containing 150-200 words per slide (this is your script). Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style.

Save the file as a PPT file with the correct course code information in the name.