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 Go to the Geico website to read “Total Rewards Program.” Write a five- to seven-page paper in which you: 

1. Determine which facets of the Geico total rewards program align with the five top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook. Discuss your reasoning. 

2. Create a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages. 

3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the communication of Geico’s total rewards program based upon the website’s descriptions of the benefits. Recommend two areas for improvement. 

4. Assuming employees are unhappy with the current plan, offer two improvements or changes to Geico’s total rewards program. 

5. Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources 

PLEASE READ EVERYTHING and attachment of discussion titles and book findings. 

Weekly discussion posts should include a minimum of 300 words with two references in APA style to support their statements and beliefs. The references should include at least one reference from the course textbooks and one reference from another source. 

This book is for discussion 8,9,10

Kotter, J. P. and Cohen, D. S. (2012). Leading Change. Boston, M.A., Harvard Business School Press.  ISBN:   9781422186435

This book is for discussion 11 

Bolman, L.G. and Deal,    T.E. (2017)Reframing Organizations, (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.  ISBN: 9781119261825

• The owner of a bookbinding company just received an enormous order for extra textbooks to be produced. She does not think she has enough employees to fulfill the order. She suggests to HR that they might hire five independent contractors on a short-term basis to help with the process. The manager of HR indicates there may be issues with this approach and has a number of questions.Who is an employee and who is not an employee? The first four weeks of the course are about laws pertaining to employees, and now it is important to clarify who is a temporary employee and who is an independent contractor. They are entitled to all of the same protections. This week, there are three cases that all deal with when the courts call someone an employee.
  TO DO LIST:
  • Discussion: Define the employer-employee relationship to enable a productive workplace, which minimizes conflict and controversy.
  • What You Need To Know: Cases and articles illustrate different scenarios that define the employee relationship.
  • Prepare: Prepare to participate in a conference call with your assigned team for the HR Challenge: Oral Argument assignment.
• Discussion Overview
  Define the employer-employee relationship to enable a productive workplace, which minimizes conflict and controversy.
• What You Need to Know
  Legal Background
  Read the course file, Legal Background: Employer and Employee [PDF], for a basic understanding of the topic for this week. This background information is intended to support your learning like a section of a textbook
  Cases
  It is recommended that you identify the main argument and decision of all of these cases by reading the abstract for each case. Then select one case to analyze using the IRAC method.
  • Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Darden, 503 U.S. 318 (1992).
    • Focus area: Defining the relationship.
  • Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, 490 U.S. 730 (1989).
    • Focus area: Defining the relationship.
  • Ruiz v. Shell Oil Company, 413 F.2d 310 (5th Cir. 1969).
    • Focus area: Court applies nine-question analysis.
  • Definition of Employee
    These articles are less than two pages each and illustrate different scenarios that are used to determine the definition of who is an employee.
  • Janette, L. F. (2019, September). Are sports referees employees or independent contractors? Workforce Management (Time and Attendance) Excellence Essentials.
  • Schoeffler, B., & Oak, C. (2018, October 15). Time to revisit independent contractor vs. employed producer status. Insurance Journal.
  • Smith, S. (2016, February 29). OSHA administrative law judge rules Connecticut contractor misclassified employees as independent contractors.EHS Today.
  • The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (1997, May 2). Enforcement guidance on EEOC & Walters v. Metropolitan Educational Enterprises, Inc., 117 S.Ct. 660 (1997).Retrieved from http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/metropol.html 
    • This notice identifies the number of employees that are necessary for an employer to demonstrate a sufficient number for the jurisdictional prerequisite for coverage under Title VII, ADA, and ADEA.
• Write Your Discussion Post
  Employer and Employee Roles
  As referenced in the cases and articles assigned this week, the definition of the employer-employee relationship is subject to interpretation. Moreover, the way employers and employees interact in the workplace initiates productivity, conflict, and controversy.
  How can HRM professionals help define roles and responsibilities associated with the employer-employee relationship to enable a productive workplace? Use real-life examples, if at all possible.

 Discuss about the Chinese Learners Meet Constructivist Pedagogy Online. 

Ascertain the importance of strategic planning for an organization. Next, suggest one strategy you may use to structure the strategic planning session for a not-for-profit mid-sized health organization that is competing with several for-profit facilities in the area. Then determine your approach to communicate the mission, vision, and value statements for the strategic planning. Provide a rationale for your response.

Use Library Databases to research articles on business plan creation within health organizations. Next, based on your research and analysis, recommend 3 best practices of business plan creation and support your response

• Managing Knowledge Assets and Business      Value Creation in Organizations : Measures and Dynamics

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The creation of industry front groups: the tobacco industry and “get government off our back”.

Academic Journal

(English) ; Abstract available. By: Apollonio DE; Bero LA, American journal of public health [Am J Public Health], ISSN: 1541-0048, 2007 Mar; Vol. 97 (3), pp. 419-27; Publisher: American Public Health Association; PMID: 17267719, Database: MEDLINE Complete 

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Leading In Health Care Organizations : Improving Safety, Satisfaction, and Financial Performance

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By: Savage, Grant T.; Leroy, Hannes; Simons, Tony. Series: Advances in Health Care Management, v. 14. Edition: First edition. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2013. eBook., Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security; Leadership; Health services administration

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Discussion One: 

Explain the difference between performance management and performance appraisals and discuss the components of a performance management process. How does performance management provide strategic value to the organization? Share an example of an employee performance goal that is aligned with an organizational performance need. 

Explain how performance feedback can be delivered to motivate employees and enhance performance. Discuss some strategies for managing poor performance and how and when you would use development plans to improve performance issues.

Be sure to provide the references for the sources of the information you used including the material provided in the classroom.

SOURCES PROVIDED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVYZI8A29P4

https://blog.shrm.org/blog/how-ongoing-performance-management-benefits-the-employee-and-the-business

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/create-successful-performance-appraisal-goals-1918840

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/provide-feedback-that-has-an-impact-1916642

Discussion Two: Focus on Analytics

“With the additional responsibilities of being a strategic business partner, the modern HR function now faces greater pressure to make sound and impactful decisions. As a result, data-driven decisions have become an integral part of effective strategic HRM. To achieve strategic objectives and a competitive advantage, a growing number of organizations collect, analyze, and interpret data via HR information systems and HR analytics. More specifically, technological advances have made it easier to capture and store HR data in HR information systems, and using HR analytics, these data can be used to improve HR systems, policies, and practices and, as a result, the performance and viability of the organization. HR analysts test hypotheses to determine the best ways to manage people within the organization—or in other words, to arrive at data-driven decisions that bring the organization one step closer to meeting strategic objectives” (Bauer et al, 2018, p. 42).

Bauer, T., Erdogan, B., Caughlin, D., & Truxillo, D. (2018). Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics. SAGE Publications. 

With this in mind, study the data collection in the attached spreadsheet. Then study the slides showing how to correlate one variable with another. Lastly, complete the activity on slide 3. Attached your spreadsheet with your explanation of the results.

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Help with Board Question and Unit Project. APA Format Throughout to Include Reference Page. 

400 words with references

Question A

Explain three areas in which employee rights and employer responsibilities could result in conflict. How might this conflict arise? 

Question B

Describe what it means for HR managers when employees win an election to unionize? What can HR do at this point to make sure the employee’s and company interests align?

1. What have been the results of the increased interest and research into emotional intelligence (EQ)?

2. Compare and contrast the leader behavior research conducted by the Ohio State and University of

Michigan.

I will attach what documents I have for this assignment.