You have recently joined an organization in an entry level HR position. The organization is now subject to union representation. You have been asked by your supervisor to write a brief memo for your HR colleagues that provides an overview of the expectations for managing human resources in a unionized environment. Your memo must address the following:

1. The differences, from the organization’s perspective, in operating in a union-free environment versus a unionized environment
2. The rights of the union, management, and employees
3. The impacts of the union on human resource functions, including
   • Work restructuring  
   • Performance Management
   • Employee Discipline and Job Security
   • Wages and Benefits
   • Health and Safety
4. Any costs the organization may expect based upon these impacts

Use headings to separate the sections of the paper, double-space, and Times New Roman font, cover page, page numbers, and APA format.

Support your answers! In responding, you must use FIVE references including THREE FROM THE COURSE MATERIAL BELOW. They should be from a scholarly journal or credible news source from within the past three years. At least three should be from course materials. 

PICK 3 ARTICLES TO CITE FROM OUT OF CLASSROOM MATERIAL!

 https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-rights/employer-union-rights-and-obligations 

 https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb 

 https://open.lib.umn.edu/humanresourcemanagement/chapter/12-2-collective-bargaining/ 

 https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/bargaining-in-good-faith-with-employees-union-representative 

 https://www.fedsmith.com/2008/07/08/why-do-employees-file-discrimination-complaints-2/ 

Unit 4: Discussion

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Introduction

Students are required to participate in the discussion area each week. Discussions will involve students finding and presenting material upon which classmates will reflect and discuss. 

Directions

Post a question based on an article, book, video, podcast, or any other current (less than 4 years old) material relevant to the current unit’s key topic. You are encouraged to use the Park course library to find an article.  The article must support a business case for HR management. Each student must post a question based on their article no later than Tuesday of each week in order to receive full discussion points. If you miss the Tuesday deadline ten percent will be deducted from the final discussion grade for the week. The Tuesday deadline enhances the discussion area and provides others with an opportunity to comment on your posts. 

Each student must also respond (reply) to at least two other student’s posted questions, a student’s response to a question, or to instructor input.  Two peer responses are due each week.

All initial questions input must be accompanied by a summary of the selected article. There is no length requirement for the question. However, the question must be comprehensive (a summary analysis of the key article points followed by a question that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no response. The peer responses are required to be comprehensive and clearly state your reason for agreeing or disagreeing with the post in a professional manner. Peer responses are not just short responses like: “I agree.”  Peer responses must include data or other information that makes an HR business case for the response (with at least one source for support).

Discuss an ethical failure in the financial services industry. Did regulation help prevent the full extent of damage? Did regulation result from the actions? Was regulation in place but able to be avoided by the individual or individual committing the acts?

The successful submission will clearly explain the regulatory environment surrounding or resulting from an ethical failure and/or criminal event in the financial services industry.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 750 – 1,250 words      (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example      below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and      reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must      be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your      content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references      from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost.      Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but      are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material      (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the      paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing. 

Based on your reading of the textbook chapter, describe and give an example of an assumption in your organization. This should be a belief that is “taken for granted”, about “the way we do things here”. 

In responding to question 2 this week, be careful not to confuse assumptions in the contemporary sense with the anthropological meaning as it is ascribed to it in culture studies. In the contemporary definition, an assumption is a belief that something is true or accepted as true, often without proof. For example, “In my company, people assume that you can leave early on Friday” or “An assumption is that if you work hard you will be recognized”.

In organizational culture, as described by Schein, basic assumptions are much deeper than that. Basic assumptions are generally around the nature of something. 

For example, a basic assumption around the nature of humans:

“Humans are inherently evil. They will tend to cheat or lie if they can get away with it”.

Or, a basic assumption around the locus of control:

“Nature controls us. So it doesn’t matter what I do, whatever will happen, will happen.”

Read the explanation carefully before responding:

Schein describes some assumptions around core problems organizations face:

1. External adaptation and Internal Integration

This are the core problem groups and organizations are faced with : survival in and adaptation to the external environment and integration of the internal processes to ensure the capacity to continue to survive and adapt.

Do we control our environment or does the environment control us?

All groups develop norms around these categories and if these norms get external tasks done while leaving the group reasonably free of anxiety, the norms become critical genetic elements of the culture DNA.

2. Reality and Truth

All kinds of society are based on deeper assumptions on general abstract issues.This is how people relates to reality and truth, time and space, human nature and how people should relate to each other. Reaching consensus for instance is a process of building a shared social reality. There are many different criteria for determining truth, from belief and morality (pure dogma and right / wrong dichotomy) to pragmatism (scientific method).

Is there an actual truth? Is reality objective or subjective?

3. Time and Space

Anthropologists have noted that every culture make assumption about time. Schein identifies three types of organization depending on their time orientation : past, present and future. 

Is time monochronic and polychronic?

Monochronic is a view of linear time that can be split, wasted, spent etc … This is typical of the western rational cultures. Some culture in Southern Europe or Middle East view time as polychronic, a kind of medium defined more by what is accomplished than by a clock, within which several things can be done simultaneously.  In polychronic cultures, relationships are viewed as more important than short-run efficiency and may leave monochronic managers frustrated and impatient.

Space has both a physical and a social meaning and feeling about distance have biological roots. This ends up in different levels of distance (intimacy, personal, social, public) whose length may differ depending on the culture. Also space includes a symbolic value through different allocations (executives at the top of the building, managers with dedicated office etc …). This is one of the reason why the introduction of new communication technologies (email, collaborative spaces, social networks)  causes anxiety : it forces to the surface assumptions that have been taken for granted in terms of relation to space.

4. Human nature, activity and relationships

Are humans inherently good or evil?

Douglas Mc Gregor has well known framework on this subject known as Theory X (managers believe people are lazy and must be motivated and controlled) and Theory Y (people are basically self-motivated and need to be channeled and challenged). The latter assume it is possible to design organizations that enable employee needs to be congruent with organizational needs. This is the dimension of organizations seeking to grow and to dominate their market.

Do we control nature or does nature control us?

There is the Doing orientation whereby nature can be controlled and manipulated, there is a pragmatic orientation toward the nature of reality and a belief in human perfectibility. On the other hand, the Being orientation where nature is powerful and human is subservient to it, an orientation that implies fatalism and enjoying what we have, here and now. This is the orientation of organizations looking for a niche, trying to adapt to external realities rather than creating markets.

In between both there is the Being-In-Becoming organization where the focus is on development rather than on a static condition. It is more on what the person is and can become rather than what the person can accomplish.

References

 https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/orpc/vol4/iss4/3/ 

 https://thehypertextual.com/2013/01/17/edgar-schein-organizational-culture-and-leadership/

https://learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/content/510657/viewContent/19033531/View

N/B……….Pls stick to the references

entry level healthcare management 

 Each student is to prepare a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 7 slides including the cover slide and the reference slide. Every slide needs to include 75 words in the Notes section. 

Please, ensure that your name is on the cover slide. You must use at least one reference, in addition to your book. You need to use in-text citations. Your in-text citation and your reference (on your reference slide) must be in APA format.

Please, ensure every group member’s name is on the cover slide. You must use at least one reference, in addition to your book. You need to use in-text citations. Your in-text citation and your reference (on your reference slide) must be in APA format.

Topic for PowerPoint Presentation

Utilizing Chapter 13, discuss the areas of employee safety that are most important to you. Do you feel the organization has the same concerns as you? Why?

The purpose of this assignment is for you to analyze the ethical considerations and team-based approach to leadership by reading a brief case study about a hospital in a flood and making decisions to mitigate the circumstances. 

In August of 2007, the patients and staff at a hospital in Dyer, Indiana, experienced rising waters from excessive rainfall. As such, an evacuation took place to protect everyone inside St. Margaret Mercy Hospital. Evacuations sound easy enough; however, they can be a bit tricky if the plan does not account for all of the important factors. In this case, 70 patients of the hospital had psychological difficulties, which prevented them from being able to effectively care for themselves. For example, the patients’ charts indicated descriptors such as suicide risk, severe depression, high levels of anxiety, and lack of proper medication. 

Using the foundations of this event as a learning platform, the challenge to address for this case study is how to effectively evacuate 70 dependent patients from a hospital by using ethical decision-making and a team-based approach to leadership. 

Consider each of the following details as you describe how you would effectively manage such an emergency as a leader: 

• What types of things would lead you to decide that evacuating the patients is necessary? (You can address ethical decision-making.) 
• Where would you place the patients? In other words, what would serve as your evacuation shelter? Be sure to explain why this would be an effective evacuation shelter by describing the location and its surroundings. 
• How would you transport the patients and their medication to the evacuation shelter? 
• Who would monitor the patients at the evacuation shelter? 
• How would you apply team-based leadership in an emergency like this (e.g., interagency collaboration and cooperation)? 

Compile your answers in a three-page case study. Use APA style to format the paper, and make certain to include a title page. You are expected to conduct research for this assignment by including at least two references on a reference page. The research should focus on ethical decision-making and team-based leadership. 

Case Analysis 

We will be discussing a functional team and how it works both positively and negatively. What is the difference between a team and a group? The difference is that everyone in a team has the same shared end goal and a group does not. A great example of this would be our team here. We all have the same shared end goal, to get a full grade on this project. We have decided to pick a specific team from the reading to focus this project on. I will turn this over to Jose to discuss our chosen team topic. 

no refernces and answer from you own word from chapter 8 and case.