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Section 2 – PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency

The purpose of the Portfolio Project is to synthesize current research about the project management office (PMO) for the purpose of developing a PMO recommendation. The Portfolio Project is structured to help you demonstrate understanding of the course material, as well as the implications of new knowledge gained from research beyond the course readings and lectures.

Your Portfolio Project will be developed in three independent but cohesive sections, which considered in whole constitutes your PMO recommendation. The three sections are:

• Section 1: Subject Organization and Rationale
• Section 2: PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency
• Section 3: PMO Recommendations

Section 1 and Section 2 will be submitted as Portfolio Project milestones in Module 3 and Module 6, respectively. Section 3 will constitute your final Portfolio Project due at the end of the course in Module 8.

Based on your Section 1 choice, one of the two PMO recommendation options will be performed for your Portfolio Project assignment, which are described as:

Option #1: Recommendation for the implementation of a new PMO

– or –

Option #2: Recommendation for the advancement of an existing PMO

For Section 2: PMO Mission, Charter, and Competency of the Portfolio Project, you will build on the information detailed in your Portfolio Project Section 1. Based on analysis of your subject organization and further research, purpose the PMO’s mission and vision, PMO charter, and PMO competency continuum stage resultant from your Option 1 or Option 2 recommendation. To this end, substantively address the following key elements for your subject organization’s PMO recommendation:

• Develop the PMO’s Mission and Vision including: 
  • State the PMO’s mission and vision.
  • Validate alignment with subject organization’s mission and vision.
  • Designate key PMO stakeholders.
• Develop the PMO’s Charter: 
  • State the PMO’s business purpose.
  • Describe the PMO’s business alignment and affiliation.
  • Designate the PMO’s empowerment authority.
  • Describe the PMO’s fiscal management.
  • Identify the Charter approval.
• Relate to the PMO competency continuum: 
  • Designate the PMO competency continuum stage.
  • Justify the subject organization’s designated PMO competency continuum stage determination.
  • Correlate the designated PMO competency continuum stage to the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3).

Submit your Section 2 Portfolio Project Milestone as a single Microsoft Word document to the Module 6 submission area established for this purpose.

Your essay should address the following requirements:

• Your well-written PMO recommendation essay thesis should be 6  pages in length, which does not include the title, reference, or appendix pages. You need to add headings and subheadings associated with each of the bullet points listed in the Section 2 requirements.
• Format your paper per the CSU Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.) standards, which includes an introduction and conclusion.
• Include title and reference pages.
• In addition to your course textbook, cite at least four current (published within the past 5 years) scholarly resources (peer-reviewed, official governmental reports, and other scholarly sources) to support your suppositions, assertions, and conclusions. To enhance your learning experience, scholarly resources are available from the CSU Global library.
• Include an appendix for tables and figures as appropriate.

Please write clearly, concisely, and cohesively; use section level headers to organize the key elements of your thesis.

Prepare an essay response of at least one page in length that addresses the following items:

• What factors distinguish the labor relations system in the public sector from that in the private sector?
• Propose a public-sector labor relations system for the employees of the city government.
  • What would it borrow from the private sector?
  • What would it not be able to borrow? Why?
  • How would you modify your system to account for specific aspects of city government? Why?

Fill up 30 page template of a project managment charter. Ready template

You are in the role of a seasoned supervisor who has been invited to participate in a poster session at an upcoming leadership conference for managers and supervisors. Poster sessions at conferences allow professional presenters in a specific field to share their knowledge on a topic using a creative poster. The poster can be a combination of condensed text, tables, graphs, pictures, and other presentation formats as long as it makes the point.

 The purpose of your poster presentation is to share effective practices with fellow supervisors to motivate employees who resist efforts to support positive organizational change. Explain how supervisors at various levels of their organization can successfully do this. With this in mind, using the assignment template provided or any template you find appropriate, create a 1-page poster for the session that is informational, visually interesting, and engaging. Your poster should include a short title, an abstract, information on your topic, and any conclusions or recommendations.

 The length should be between 300-500 words total. This would allow a person to read your poster quickly to grasp the concepts in no more than 5-10 minutes. 

 Support your work with at three scholarly resources. Include a separate Word file with your reference list.

Following is the question for the Short essay and attached is the study material.

Define employment at will. Are there legal exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine? How can employers protect themselves from wrongful discharge lawsuits? Discuss (600+ words)

The assignment is to answer the question provided above in essay form. This is to be in narrative form and should be as thorough as possible. Bullet points should not to be used. The paper should be at least 1.5 – 2 pages in length, Times New Roman 12-pt font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins and utilizing at least one outside scholarly or professional source related to human resource management. The textbook should also be utilized. Do not insert excess line spacing. APA formatting and citation should be used.

What does “white anti-racist” mean? How can guilt get in the way? And what’s all this talk about being “colorblind”? Teaching Tolerance asked community activists to share their thoughts on these questions, and others. Their answers shine light on the concepts of comfort, power, privilege and identity.

Read the following panel discussion on race and social justice, and then address the following discussion questions.

1.  Guilt and white privilege, these activists say, can sometimes get in the way of white people being effective allies in the struggle against racism. What qualities or actions can help white people be effective allies?

2.  The activists all reject the idea of “colorblindness.” Many people contribute the “goal” of colorblindness to a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Was Dr. King advocating that people ignore color? Ignore racism? Why?

This problem-solving application profiles electronics retailer Best Buy. The entrance of Amazon and Walmart into the online resale marketplace gashed Best Buy’s instore sales. When you couple that with inefficient processes and procedures at the organization, and scandals with senior leadership, the organization really was in dire straits. Organizations such as Circuit City, CompUSA and RadioShack could not survive their problems, could Best Buy? In came new CEO Hubert Joly and CFO Sharon McCollam. They are now in the middle of the many challenges Best Buy is facing and need to find solutions to these major problems.

Question 1

Some of Best Buy’s internal issues could best be addressed by ______

Multiple Choice

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changing customer preferences

internal competition

demographic changes

participation/suggestions by employees

mergers and acquisitions

Question 2

If Best Buy chose to compete by introducing online sales direct to the consumer, this would be an example of ______ change

Multiple Choice

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innovating

adaptive

radically innovative

Product

Process

Question 3

Which type of analytical framework could help Best Buy develop a strategic plan?

Multiple Choice

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competing values analysis

SWOT analysis

systems analysis

force field analysis

organizational development analysis

Question 4

Best Buy might use all of the methods of change listed below. Which of these includes inputs, strategic plans, target elements of change, and outputs?

Multiple Choice

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organizational structure plan

social factors method

organizational arrangement

three-stage model of planned change

systems model of change

Question 5

When other tactics will not work or are too expensive, the best approach to overcoming resistance to change is

Multiple Choice

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facilitation and support

manipulation and co-optation

explicit and implicit coercion

participation and involvement

education and commitment

Question 6

6. The majority of problems Best Buy is facing have been brought about by ______ forces.

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external

Question 7

The change brought about by online competition from Amazon and Walmart are examples of _____

Fill in the blank

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changing customer preferences

Question 8

Best Buy’s new CEO and CFO will need to function as catalysts in helping the organization to deal with old problems in new ways. They would then be known as

Fill in the blank

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change agents

Question 9

Recommend a solution to the problem outlined above in no more than 175- words

Essay

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Best Buy is facing several problems including competition from Amazon and Walmart, inefficient internal processes, and scandals with senior leadership. Best Buy needs to develop a new strategic plan with radically innovative ideas, and quickly implement the plan. Company should try multiple strategies and choose trial and error phase to determine which strategy is the most effective one. Some of the strategies that can work for Best Buy are:

1. Give more attention to e-commerce and use this mode to enter new markets.

2. Set up ad-hoc shops that give heavy discounts and super deals. These shops will be set up for short period, and used to get customer attention.

3. Implement combination of online and brick-and-mortar strategy. Customers can check items in store and buy online. Also, customer can buy online and get delivery from store, or store delivers at doorstep.

4. To attract customers, Best Buy should offer attractions at store. For example, Best buy stores can have a gaming area, coffee shop, and other attractions that attract customers.

 This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin®.Instructions

You are the Employee Relations Specialist for a national retail company with locations across the United States. The nearly 500 company employees are diverse in terms of age and demographic differences. Your primary work location is Southeast Pennsylvania. Recently, the employees in the mid-Atlantic region, managed by Kristopher Kolumbus, have expressed dissatisfaction with the work environment. There are approximately 125 employees in the mid-Atlantic region. Their specific concerns include receiving small pay raises for the past 2 – 3 years, limited employee benefits, lack of career mobility and progression, and heightened security controls implemented due to theft concerns. There has been recent talk among the employees about the possibility of unionization, and some workers have begun exploring options such as United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Before either of these unions will send an organizer to the organization, it wants to be sure that sufficient employees will back union representation. Some employees have started company-wide communication to increase interest in unionization.

As the Employee Relations Specialist, it is your responsibility to ensure that supervisors and managers follow the rules regarding a union organizing campaign. In response to this potential campaign, you decide to take some initial actions and prepare several documents to share with your boss, the Director of Human Resources: [You must use the underlined headings as separate discussion areas in your paper and in the order provided below. -.5pt if fail to do this.]

Late penalties: Paper is due by due date. There will be no extensions granted for this paper. 

This paper will require outside of the class room research to fully address all questions. 

• A summary email to the Director of Human Resources describing the issues and what actions you are taking (which includes the below items)
• A one-page memo to all managers and supervisors indicating what they can and cannot do during any union organizing effort.
• An email to your human resource colleagues about actions the HR team should consider in response to some of the concerns raised by the Mid-Atlantic Region employees
• An outline for a meeting to be held between Human Resources and the organization’s leadership team regarding the organizing effort.

Each document must be double-space, Times New Roman font 12, and APA format. Paper must be in narrative format, not bullets. [in word document not pdf] -.5pt if fail in any of these formatting requirements.

“Ethical Issues in Business”  Please respond to the following:

• Read the article titled, “Recognition, Reification, and Practices of Forgetting: Ethical Implications of Human Resource Management.” Be prepared to discuss. Next, analyze one (1) human resource ethical issue that you believe is prominent in today’s organizations. Suggest two (2) approaches that organizations could take in order to resolve this issue. Provide a rationale for your response.
• Rank the major ethical issues and dilemmas in business in order of importance (one [1] being the most important). Provide a rationale for your response.

You are the Employee Relations Specialist for a national retail company with locations across the United States. The nearly 500 company employees are diverse in terms of age and demographic differences. Your primary work location is Southeast Pennsylvania. Recently, the employees in the mid-Atlantic region, managed by Kristopher Kolumbus, have expressed dissatisfaction with the work environment. There are approximately 125 employees in the mid-Atlantic region. Their specific concerns include receiving small pay raises for the past 2 – 3 years, limited employee benefits, lack of career mobility and progression, and heightened security controls implemented due to theft concerns. There has been recent talk among the employees about the possibility of unionization, and some workers have begun exploring options such as United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Before either of these unions will send an organizer to the organization, it wants to be sure that sufficient employees will back union representation. Some employees have started company-wide communication to increase interest in unionization.

As the Employee Relations Specialist, it is your responsibility to ensure that supervisors and managers follow the rules regarding a union organizing campaign. In response to this potential campaign, you decide to take some initial actions and prepare several documents to share with your boss, the Director of Human Resources:

• A summary email to the Director of Human Resources describing the issues and what actions you are taking (which include the below items)
• A one-page memo to all managers and supervisors indicating what they can and cannot do during any union organizing effort.
• An email to your human resource colleagues about actions the HR team should consider in response to some of the concerns raised by the Mid-Atlantic Region employees
• An outline for a meeting to be held between Human Resources and the organization’s leadership team regarding the organizing effort

Requirements include:

• Cover Page with Name, Date, and Title of Assignment
• Each of the 4 items indicated above (summary email, one-page memo, email to your human resource colleagues, and outline for a meeting)
• Headings to separate the sections of the paper
• A minimum of three sources (two must be from the course materials) for each response
• In-text citations in APA style
• Reference page using APA style