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Choose a city in one of the following countries: Taiwan, Spain, Uruguay, Australia, or Turkey. Research the culture of the chosen city, and write a two-page essay to describe what you need to know about three cultural differences that would help you open a subsidiary, hire staff, and manage it for your corporation successfully in that country.

Scenario:

As the Human Resources Manager at the ABC Company, an employee has accused their Manager of sexual harassment. You have been assigned to conduct a thorough investigation. 

Assignment:

1) Conducting a thorough investigation- take me through the steps you will take from start to finish 

Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining 

Learning Objectives

1. Explore the role of labor unions.
2. Describe the basic union structure and organized      labor’s strategies for a stronger movement.
3. Discuss laws affecting collective bargaining.
4. Summarize the formation of bargaining units and the collective bargaining process.
5. Describe the grievance procedure in a union environment.
6. Explain union decertification.

Internal Employee Relations.

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the concept of employment at will.
2. Describe the concept of discipline and summarize disciplinary action.
3. Discuss employment termination of various occupational groups.
4. Explain the use of ombudspersons and alternative dispute resolution.
5. Describe transfers, promotions, resignations, and retirements as factors involved in internal employee relations. 
6. Discuss three major factors that contribute to an employee’s decision to join a union. Discuss the five reasons that have contributed to the trend of decline in unionization.
7. How would a manager use the progressive disciplinary action approach? How would the use of this approach prevent employees from being surprised if they are terminated?

Expectation:

–  Minimum of 450+ words and in APA format (including Times New Roman with font size 12 and double spaced)

–  Identify the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.

–  essay form (narrative form) no Bullet points should not to be used 

–  2 outside scholarly or professional source related to human resource management. 

–  Textbook : Title: Human Resource Management  , ISBN: 9780134739724 Authors: Martocchio Publisher: Pearson Edition: 15TH 19 

Assignment #1: Leave No One Behind at Starbucks  (short essay – no more than 2 pages) – DUE AT END OF WEEK 1 May 10th

Study  the Leave No One Behind at Starbucks case on page 13 of our textbook.  Based on this reading, write a brief essay summarizing the case and that  addresses the following questions:

1. What do you think Schultz meant when he said that Starbucks’ objective is “Getting big and staying small”?

2. If you have visited a Starbucks, did you see any examples of teamwork among its employees?

Research the current lists of Fortune’s  “100 Best Companies to Work For” and “America’s Most Admired  Companies.” Information is available at  www.money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/.

Remember  to integrate references from at least two different sources to support  all conclusions and recommendations. You may use the textbook as one of  the sources/references neede

Instructions

Supporting Lectures:

Review the following lecture:

• Role of the Consultant

Introduction

For this assignment, you will assume the role of an HR generalist. You play an essential and strategic role in supporting organizational productivity, growth, and longevity for your company. It is your role to protect the organization from legal and regulatory issues. At the same time, your job is to support the management and employees equally in line with organizational goals, policies, and procedures.

A manager and his or her employee contacted you separately to complain about one another. The manager is complaining that the employee has an attitude about the manager, the manager’s work, the department where the manager works, and the organization. The manager is concerned about the loss of productivity this employee is costing his or her department, as well as the impact of morale other employees. The employee is complaining that the manager is a dictator, does not care about people, only cares about productivity, and is inflexible. Both complained that the other does not communicate effectively.

Using your skills as a consultant, select some tools at your disposal to approach this problem. Remember, you have no direct power over these employees—you are acting as a consultant.

Tasks

• Explain whether to focus on relationships or on processes and goals of the organization.
• Describe your consultative goals and consultative roles.
• Evaluate the steps you will take to influence the manager and the employee, through indirect control, to remedy the conflict.
• Explain your approach using the techniques of content and personal side of working with people to resolving this conflict.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details

• Create a 3–5-page Word document.
• Name your file as SU_HRM5090_W1_Project_LastName_FirstName.

As the chief diversity officer of your organization, you have been tasked to deliver a presentation to executive leadership regarding the implications of a global workforce.

You will create a report in which you will discuss 3 to 4challenges of implementing a diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy such as emerging markets, lack of skill and diverse talent in some functions across the globe, legal cultural, and multigenerational issues, etc.

You will want to assess the impact it would have on the organization and its D&I strategy and some of the areas to consider when doing so.

Support your assignment with at least three scholarly or professional resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.

Length: 10-12 slides, not including title and reference slides

Notes Length: 200-350 words for each slide

Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information. 

From your readings in Chapter 9, please review the Video Case Study on BP. After your review of the video case study, please post a summary on your thoughts about the case study. Please correlate your thoughts to the readings from the chapter and one peer-reviewed article from the GU library.  500 words with creditable references. 

Create a six-slide, 12-minute presentation briefing a team on a potential ethical dilemma.

Context

In the career for which you are preparing, where will you look for ethical guidance?

• Employer: contractual obligations, employee handbook, corporate culture.
• Colleagues: fellow workers, deserving respect, productive relationships.
• Clients: honest treatment, service with dignity, contractual obligations.
• Profession: fellow practitioners, counterbalance to employer, code of conduct.
• Personal: individual commitments, personal responsibility, integrity.

SHOW LESS

All of these overlapping concerns may create conflicted situations. Professional association codes of ethics commonly deal with a number of concerns:

• Expertise: qualifications for practitioners, continuing education.
• Research: informed consent, plagiarism, shared publication credit.
• Privacy: record keeping, protecting confidentiality, public statements.
• Relationships: harassment, conflicts of interest, workplace behavior.

No matter how extensively the professional code is spelled out, it cannot cover everything, and it often overemphasizes enforcement. It is more helpful to take a positive approach, thinking aspirationally about how best to handle challenging situations

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.

SHOW LESS

• What concrete situations in your workplace might give rise to ethical dilemmas?
• Does the professional code of conduct provide 

Assessment Overview

Imagine management at your future workplace tasks you with making a formal presentation to your team discussing a workplace ethical dilemma they might face. You consider an appropriate professional code of conduct, but only to the extent that it might offer useful guidance in this situation. The central task is to help everyone work together productively in resolving tricky issues.

For this assessment, fulfill the management task and create an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to common workplace situations. Submit your work as a narrated visual presentation in the courseroom submission box. You may develop a series of annotated PowerPoint slides, for example, using Kaltura to record the audio portion of your work. If you are more familiar with other presentation software, you may use that, so long as your submission satisfies all of the required elements of the assessment.

Assessment Instructions

Include the following in your narrated visual presentation:

• Apply a professional code of ethics to this workplace situation.
• Assess the advantages and disadvantages of the selected professional code of ethics.
• Explain methods for resolving ethical disagreements productively.
• Describe areas of one’s personal disagreement with professional standards.

Note: Include in your presentation slides or annotations a full APA-style citation of any quotation or paraphrase from the professional code or other sources you choose to employ.

Your instructor may provide video feedback on your work, in addition to completing the official scoring guide for the assignment.

Submit this assessment to your ePortfolio.

Additional Requirements

• Communication: Create an audiovisual presentation that applies a professional code of ethics to common workplace situations.
• Media presentation: Create a minimum of 6 slides, 12 minutes total in length, with notes or a transcript to ensure accessibility to everyone. Upload the presentation.
• Resources: There is no minimum number of resources required; however, use your judgment to ensure your topic is thoroughly researched.
• APA guidelines: Ensure resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and format. When appropriate, use APA-formatted headings.
• Font and font size: Use a font of appropriate size and weight for presentation, generally 24-28 points for headings and no smaller than 18 points for bullet-point text.

Human Resource Initiatives 

Review and Plan

• Annotated Bibliography (module 4)

We will complete an Annotated Bibliography utilizing our primary or secondary research topic.  The 5 sources researched and cited for our Annotated Bibliography must be utilized within our primary or secondary research paper.

• Primary or Secondary Research Assignment (Module 5)

Primary research for this assignment can be in the form of a personal or telephone interview.  With COVID-19, please utilize technology to conduct your interview, so the interview is not face-to-face (teleconference, video conference, etc.).  The person must be an expert in the human resource field, someone who has first-hand experience with the initiative or issue, reporting of direct observation from you in a researcher role or a human resource role.

Secondary research does not require an interview and we continue to gather data by utilizing existing research.

Topic: Human Resource Working Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Topic Selections:

• Remote Working Plan (telework)
• Business Continuity Plan
• Managing Employee Communication
• Maintaining Organizational Culture
• Talent Acquisition and Retention
• Engaging Remote Employees
• Essential versus Non-Essential Employees
• Implementation of COVID-19 Preventative Measures
• Considerations to Remain Open or Re-Opening
• Investment in Technology
• Handling of Sick Leave and/or Time-Off

Our paper must select a minimum of 5 COVID-19 HR related topics.

• Person to interview
• Consider the COVID-19 learning objectives or concepts of interest to research
• 5-6 page paper demonstrating an understanding of Human Resource application of course concepts
• A minimum of 6 references
  • We must use a minimum of 3 references from our Annotated Bibliography. 
  • We must use information from the course textbook to support your paper.  
  • Find additional peer-reviewed journal articles from Welder Library E-Resources or Google Scholar to support your paper (minimum of 5). Your articles must be within the last 10 years. 
• Paper Requirements:
  Write a 5-6 page paper demonstrating an understanding of the application of course concepts. A good rule of thumb is to introduce the subject discussed and use the information from your interview to support the subject. You must include citations from the course textbook and a minimum of four scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles (from Welder Library E-resources) to support your paper. Also, make sure how to review how to cite an interview in APA.  (Links to an external site.)
  • Your paper is required to be in APA. 
  • Include a title page 
  • You do NOT need an abstract
  • Avoid first person. 
  • Include a reference page with a minimum of 6 sources (the course textbook and 5 peer reviewed journal articles). If you list a source as a reference,  you must include an in-text citation within your paper for that source.v

Attached word document contains 5 references, please make this into an annotated bibliography