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1. List the pros and cons of interest arbitration. Why do you think the usage of interest arbitration in the private sector is so low?
2. Not all forms of strikes are protected by the NLRA. What types are protected? Unprotected? Does this make sense, or should all types of strikes be treated equally?
3. Seniority is central in many private and public sector union contracts in the United States. What are the advantages to both employers and employees of using seniority to allocate employment opportunities? What are the disadvantages? How can a balance be struck between the interests of employers and employees?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having the workplace governed by a legally enforceable contract supported by rights arbitration? Is this a good model for the workplace for the 21st century?

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).

Southwest Airlines is a well-known company featured in our textbook. Over the next 4 weeks, you will take on the fictional role of intern at Southwest Airlines Human Resources. You will utilize the textbook and other professional resources to complete your assessments.

Your first week on the job is filled with learning the ins and outs of Human Resources and the industry. Your manager told you that one of your projects is to assist with a new HR strategy for the company. This strategy is broken down into 3 parts that you’ll work on throughout the course. They are:

1. Examining current practices
2. Talent recruitment and selection
3. Strategy recommendation

Your first task is to examine Southwest’s current HR practices, as reported in public sources. Complete the HR Design Decisions chart with your review and rationale of the elements listed below to decide where Southwest Airlines’ HR practices fall. Support the analysis with evidence from sources on the web.

• Employees as expenses vs. employees as assets
• Compensation below market, above market, or competitive
• Spontaneous training and development or planned training and development
• Specific job descriptions or general job descriptions
• External or internal recruitment, or both
• Limited socialization of new employees or extensive socialization
• Collective bargaining or individual bargaining

Possible sources for information include but are not limited to:

• Organization website and associated websites
• Vault Campus includes detailed reviews and survey information about what it’s like to work at Southwest. To access Vault Campus, visit eCampus and click PhoenixLink.
• Websites that specialize in company reviews and job postings
• Magazine and journal articles from the Internet or University Library

Answer the following:

This week you are beginning the process of developing your capstone project. The first step in the capstone research process is to define your health care management topic. Requirements for this project include a current health care topic that can be supported by scholarly resources and will incorporate the Health Care Management program objectives.

• Discuss some of your ideas for your capstone project.
  • Include in your discussion why you selected this Health Care Management topic.
  • What challenges do you think you will encounter with the selection of your topic?
  • What kinds of resources do you think are available for you in regard to your topic?
  • How do you think you will use this topic to cover the Health Care Management program objectives?
• Please answer the questions and support your answers with information from the readings (and your own personal experience as appropriate).
• Initial posting should be 150 words.

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

Write a minimum of two pages in which you analyze how an organization can use ground rules and dialogue to grow as a learning organization.

The team learning discipline helps a team sustain and reinforce its learning, and increases the capacity to act synergistically and learn how to learn. Dialogue is a fundamental skill in the discipline of team learning, and is essential to the effective practice of the other learning disciplines. Dialogue makes meaningful, shared vision building possible. It makes systemic insight possible by facilitating reflection and inquiry in work groups. Consequently, it is important to understand the value and nature of dialogue, and how it differs from other forms of conversation.

Questions to Consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

• Review The Ladder of Inference multimedia piece in the Resources. Consider the meaning of this concept and your experience using it. What suggestions do you have for self-improvement when using it next time? How might the ladder of inference apply to communication within an organization? How might it diminish effectiveness in terms of organizational learning? Can dialogue play a useful role? If so, how?
• Consider how dialogue can allow ostensibly conflicting allegiances or differences (for example, unionized labor and management) while allowing an organization to learn as a common entity.

Assessment Instructions

Analyze how ground rules and dialogue can be used to grow a learning organization. Address the following elements:

• Describe the differences between debate, discussion, and dialogue.
• Analyze the value of dialogue in helping a team learn and change.
• What are the ground rules required to reach this level of conversation?
• Describe what you are learning about how to design an effective dialogue session.
• Analyze the ease or difficulty of conversing at this level. Comment on the dangers and obstacles.

Your assessment should be a minimum of 2 pages in length, double-spaced.

Develop 1,500‐2,000 word, high‐level, Performance Management Cycle Plan. The plan should contain an introduction and conclusion that explain how effective performance management supports organizational strategy and HR goals.

The purpose of this assignment is to simulate the thought process that managers use when evaluating the various elements of supervision, performance management, and employee retention. The students are expected to produce a plan that includes:

1. Introduction of the organization that outlines the importance of performance management in organizations and performance management needs in the chosen organization.
2. Performance Management Process (Step 1). Performance outcomes for the company and performance outcomes for a selected department in the company. Students should include policies that support a culture of diversity.
3. Performance Management Process (Step 2). Develop employee goals, behavior, and actions to achieve outcomes.
4. Performance Management Process (Step 3). Provide support, supervision, and ongoing performance discussions.
5. Performance Management Process (Step 4). Evaluate performance of employees.
6. Performance Management Process (Step 5). Identify improvements needed.
7. Performance Management Process (Step 6). Provide consequences for performance results.
8. Evaluate HR management strategies including strengths and weaknesses of current training methods. Consider showing the link between how employee training supports HR goals including supporting a culture of diversity. 
9. Proposed impact of the revised human resource management strategies (recruitment, performance management, and employee training) on employee retention. 
10. Conclusion including human resource practices (performance management, training, and employee retention) and their contribution to the organization’s competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Incorporate three to five resources (including your course textbook) to support your paper.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

BS in Business Management- No Emphasis

5.3 – Examine human resource practices and their contribution to an organization’s competitive advantage in the marketplace.

BS in Health Information Management

5.5 – Evaluate human resource management strategies and techniques to facilitate staff recruitment, retention, and supervision.

5.6 – Create programs and policies that support a culture of diversity.

For this assignment, you will focus on how the National Response Framework (NRF) and the U.S. National Planning Frameworks direct the nation’s response to incidents and disasters, specifically focusing on Hurricane Matthew. 

Review the unit’s reading on the preparedness and response efforts to Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and write an analysis of the federal response. Your case study should address, at a minimum, the following questions. 

• Discuss how the National Planning Frameworks core capabilities and guiding principles applied to the Hurricane Matthew response. 
• How did the federal government prepare in advance for the landfall of Hurricane Matthew under the National Response Framework (NRF)? 
• How did communities apply the community approach to prepare and respond to Hurricane Matthew? 
• In your opinion, was the National Preparedness Goal achieved? 

Visit the following website by clicking on the link provided to read about each of the five frameworks and their available resources.

1. Federal Emergency Management Agency. (n.d.). National Planning Frameworks. Retrieved fromhttps://www.fema.gov/national-planning-frameworks

Links to read about the federal response to Hurricane Matthew.

2. Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2016, October 8).

 Hurricane Matthew unified response efforts underway [Press release] Retrieved from http://femacontract.com/news/hurricane-matthew-unified- response-efforts-underway/

3. COCESoE. (2015, June 22). Module 2 National Planning Frameworks [Video file]. Retrieved from

4.Katz, E. (2016, October 12). Federal agencies deploy thousands of feds for hurricane Matthew response.Government Executive. 

Your submission should be a minimum of three pages, not including the title and reference pages. You should support your analysis with strong arguments and evidence. You may use the two sources listed above as a basis for your analysis, but you must conduct additional research and use at least two additional sources. Your case study and all sources used should be formatted in APA style. 

Part 1: Research

Conduct  some independent research. Using Rasmussen and other resources, locate an  article that supports your personal values and professional communication  style. 

Part 2: Reflect

For this assignment, you will use your critical thinking  skills and reflect upon your personal values and professional communication style.

In a minimum of two-pages (not counting the title page and  reference page) address the following:

• Discuss how you will show your personal values through the  professional communication style you will use with clients.
• Identify concepts such as boundaries, respect, body language, the role of humor and  support, and disclosure. 
• Explain correlations  between the student’s personal values and their own professional communication  style. 
• Incorporate one (1)  credible resource to support your communication style. Cite source used. 

Use professional language including complete sentences and proper  grammar, spelling, and punctuation throughout your paper. Be sure to cite any  research sources in APA format.

Information Privacy  

1. Watch the video “Massive cyberattack strikes Anthem” (1 min 43 s.)  
2. Review  the Case Study: Practical Applications of an Information Privacy Plan  on page 443 of the textbook. Based on the video, your readings this  week, and the case study, please respond to the following questions:  

• What information privacy principals have been breached?  
• How were the information privacy principals breached?  
• What would you do to address the situation?

NOTE: MORE THAN ONE ANSWER POSTED CHOOSE ANY

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that justifies the implementation of a new compensation strategy that will support the motivational needs of knowledge workers and reinforce the real-time performance appraisal system that the organization has embraced. While your goal is to retain, motivate, and grow the current workforce of multi-generational knowledge workers, you must also justify to your senior management that this compensation strategy is competitive in the marketplace.

Min of 12 slides