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Assignment 1: System Development Life Cycle: Phases I & II – Planning and Analysis

Due Week 3 and worth 120 points

Read the details of the Larson Property Management Company case scenario on pages 114–115 of the textbook. The Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Larson, and the Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Johnson, would like to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the HR functions, as well as reduce overall HR costs. Mr. Larson and Ms. Johnson would like you, the HR Director, to serve as the change agent of the project. In this assignment, you will develop a plan and analysis (planning and analysis phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)) of the current business based on the details of the scenario.

Instructions:

Write a two to three-page proposal, in which you:

Introduction and Plan

1. Detail the current situation for the company, focusing on the issues that the organization is currently facing from using a legacy HRIS. Explain your plan for moving forward to address these issues.

Needs Analysis

2. Based on the issues the organization is currently facing, identify the new system needs. Identify change team members who will help identify system need and specify their role and responsibilities.

Interview, Questionnaire, Observation, or Focus Group

3. Determine how additional data will be collected regarding system needs. Determine how change management team will collect data during the exploration phase. Specify if team members will use interviews, questionnaires, observations and/or focus groups to collect data from end users. Provide at least five essential questions that will be asked of end users via interview, questionnaire, observation, or focus group.

Conclusion

4. Explain two to three reasons why the company would benefit from adopting an HRIS. Focus on how the HRIS would address the current HR needs of the organization.

Resources

5. Use at least two quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
• 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 is not included in the required page length.
• Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the strategy of the organization, the HR strategy, and HR programs with Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS).
  • Identify who and what is involved in an HRIS needs analysis including the types of activities performed.
  • Evaluate key elements and system considerations in the design of HRIS.

Ethics in Human Resource Practices

HR teams will play vital roles in organizations to ensure ethical behavior and compliance. To be effective, they must first place an emphasis on ethical behavior amongst their own teams. Go to https://www.shrm.org/about-shrm/Pages/code-of-ethics.aspx and review the HR Code of Ethics. Select any two of the 6 sections you feel might be more important than the others and explain your reasoning.

Skills Approach differs from Trait Theory because it focuses on an individual’s skills and abilities versus an individual’s traits. Although traits may be important for a leader in health care administration, skills also determine leadership effectiveness. Contemporary research has noted that an individual may garner skills and competencies from professional experiences. For example, a leader’s skills derived from nonprofit experience securing funds for multiple low-funded health clinics may assist in developing valuable competencies in matters of negotiation and organization. From developed skills and competencies, an individual may gain a leadership position or emerge as an effective leader.

For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources, paying specific attention to the journal article by Morrow, Glenn, and Maben (2014). Reflect on skills and traits that might be necessary for leadership within a health care administration setting. Also, think about how traits and skills may relate to your personal health care administration leadership philosophy.

Post a brief explanation that contrasts the Skills Approach and Trait Theory of leadership. Then, explain whether a skill represents a trait or if a trait represents a skill for informing leadership. Justify your response and provide an example. Finally, explain how each might relate to your personal health care administration leadership philosophy. Be specific and provide examples.

Mandatory Drug Testing (Research Topic)

After reviewing your assessment of the organization’s approach to addressing recent health care legislation and related evaluation of the strategic response commonly employed, leadership has asked you to develop an in-depth analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) facing the organization that can be used to support strategic planning.

Prepare a report of 5 pages with a minimum of 5 relevant scholarly or professional peer-reviewed references that includes the following information:

• Perform a formal SWOT analysis, and identify and explain at least 5–7 elements in each category: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
• Determine which stakeholder groups have the most influence on each of the elements identified in the formal SWOT analysis, and provide an explanation of the rationale to support your identification and how they impact the organization’s strategic plan.
• Project the likely organizational and operational outcomes that are possible if changes are made based on the SWOT analysis, and provide an explanation of the rationale supporting your projections.
• Predict the future viability of the organization if no changes are made based on the SWOT analysis, and provide an explanation of the rationale supporting your projections.
• Formulate at least 5 strategic recommendations that the organization should consider pursuing to effectively compete in the health care marketplace.

For a resource guide on using the online library to search for references, click here.

Please submit your assignment.

Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. Click here to view the grading rubric.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

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400 words in total 100 words each

Word Length: 1,000 words (10% leeway). Students should aim to produce an answer of the recommended length and may be penalised for answers which exceed the word limit by 10% of the recommended length.

Task:  

The client legal advice will require students to provide a written advice to a hypothetical client in relation to a specific factual scenario (or scenarios) that draw on common issues that arise in practice. Students will apply their knowledge of employment and industrial law in order to provide this advice and to answer the specific questions about that factual scenario. 

A bibliography is not required and there is no requirement to set out answers in a letter format. Please use appropriate legal referencing [but note that full citations are not necessary: you can use an abbreviated statute name eg FW Act, s311 (when referring to the sections of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth))].

Before commencing preparation for this task, it is strongly advisable for students to read the UTS Law Faculty’s Guide to Written Communicationhttp://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/law-form-guide-written-communication.pdf . This guide has a section on writing a legal problem question (which is the same aswriting a legal advice).

Turnitin: 

Essays must be submitted online through the turnitin application on UTSCanvas by the due 

date. All essays will be subject to an originality check through turnitin and the results may be 

used in the assessment of the essay. Please use the “UTS: Law Assignment Cover Sheet For Online Submission” 

No extension after assessment handed back: Please note that extensions will only be granted on the basis of illness, misadventure or disability.  Extensions will not be granted for a date after the assessment task is handed back to students. 

Avoiding Academic Misconduct: 

It is the responsibility of each student to not commit academic misconduct (including attempts by students to procure ghost written material, cheat, plagiarise or otherwise act dishonestly in undertaking an assessment task or assisting other students to do so) in the completion and submission of assessment assignments. Students must submit original work (student’s own work and not previously submitted for assessment) for each assessment task. 

Please see the employment and industrial law 79034 subject outline for more information on academic misconduct by students. 

Assessment grading criteria 

• Correct identification of important legal issues.  • Correct application of relevant cases and statutory materials • Succinctness, precision, clarity and persuasiveness of writing and arguments  • Correct advice on the appropriate action to take 

DUE THURSDAY (11/5/2020) AT 5 PM EST. 

2 PAGE BUSINESS REPORT / APA In-Text Citations/Reference

MUST USE WEEK 3 REPORT TEMPLATE AND ASSESSMENT RESULTS FOR PROJECT. 

I have attached the assignment outline (BMGT 464 Week 3 Assignment Criteria), the company profile + candidate positions, the skill assessment results (KC Assessment Results), and some course materials.

Please read the assignment materials (criteria, profile, positions, assessment results, and template) carefully. All these elements must be used in the assignment.