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1-2 PARAGRAPHS

APA FORMAT

REFERENCES 

Step 1 – Read the Information Below

Organizational behavior is the combination of four areas of study—psychology, social psychology, sociology, and anthropology. While each of these areas involves an examination of people and their interactions, the focuses are quite different:

• Psychology studies the mind and how people make decisions.
• Social Psychology examines how people work in groups.
• Sociology explores how systems work within the organization.
• Anthropology examines how culture works within the organization.

Now, assume that you are an organizational consultant and have been asked by a new CEO to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the organization.

Step 2 – Post a Response

Respond to the following.

• Of the four areas of study listed above, which would you focus on first?
• Make sure to explain why you chose this area, and why it would take precedence over the other areas.

Research the various generations: baby boomers, gen x and gen y (millennial). Compare and contrast five differences between the generations. How might these differences impact HRM?

Improving thinking, including problem-solving and creativity, by applying intellectual standards such as clarity, precision, logic and reflection. In this profession, critical thinking is necessary for situations where the work must assess client needs and find appropriate resources. Human service workers are problem-solvers.

Consider the following scenario:

Janie is a 34-year old mother of three. At present, she is separated from her husband of six years. Her children are Chloe, age seven, Devin, age four and Brenden, age two. Janie is a full-time mom and stays home to care for her children. She lives in a 3-bedroom apartment and receives child-support assistance from her husband. Janie comes to your human service organization because she is struggling to manage behavioral disorders regarding her daughter Chloe. On several occasions the school has contacted Janie informing her that Chloe is acting out at school as evidenced by oppositional behavior with teachers, arguing and fighting with peers, and poor academic performance. Janie reports similar oppositional behavior at home and states that Chloe has frequent nightmares. Her four-year-old brother is beginning to show signs of oppositional behavior.

Janie says that she is feeling overwhelmed and stressed in parenting her children. She complains of bouts of depression. She is also concerned that her husband’s child support is insufficient to sustain the family’s basic needs. Her husband rarely visits her or the children.

You are the caseworker assigned to work with Janie. Your agency is limited in the services it provides. Your organization’s primary function is to screen clients who may qualify for specific types of financial assistance for school supplies, childcare items e.g. formula, diapers, clothing and discounted school lunches.In a 2-page address the following: Identify the key problems in this scenario. Provide a rationale for the problems that you have identified as being the most important to address.Having identified key problems, review services/agencies in your community that would be a good and appropriate match for your client. Describe the services provided and defend your decision to refer to these agencies.Discuss organizations or agencies that can provide the most services without the client having to be referred to multiple agencies. This is not always possible. Discuss options in your community and identify any gaps in services.

I have a HR test which included 7 short answer questions and 16 multiple choice questions, and the time is one hour and 30 minutes

For this journal, first review the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document and post any questions to the General Questions Topic. Then review the Nimble Storage: Scaling Talent Strategy Amidst Hyper-Growth case study. 

In your journal, answer the following questions:

• What are some common concerns companies have that keep them from being more effective in the global market?
• In a global market, what should a company consider changing to better embody social and cultural norms and to become a more geocentric organization? Consider possible changes to the company’s technology, interpersonal policies, business practices, or other variables.

For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric document.

In your community there has been an increase in people being referred to local food pantries and applications food assistance. The local food pantry is being pushed to its limits in providing resources for families in need. Local contributions to the shelter are decreasing each month.

In a 1-2 page paper, address the following: How will you go about determining what is happening in the community and what is needed? Provide specific details.

Review spelling and grammar prior to submission. Please reference in-text citation and submit in APA format.

HR CHALLENGE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUE

Introduction

In your work as an HRM professional, you will often encounter situations where current events, issues, and technologies impact your work with the employees and systems in human resources. This assignment asks you to take a broad look at the human resources spectrum of topics and select a current, law-related topic. You will then analyze and assess the ethical ramifications of the issue in the workplace.

Scenario

Your supervisor has asked you to research some of the latest law-related trends in human resources so that the team can project ahead to scientific, technical, or social trends that might impact the workplace in the near future. This is intended to be a background research project—you will present your findings in a 3–4-page memorandum to your supervisor that might also be shared with other HRM executives.

Your Challenge

You are an HRM professional who is tasked with researching at least one law-related article about a current issue in human resources and writing a memorandum about the background research that you have completed.

Instructions

1. Write a memorandum to your supervisor describing and analyzing a contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue impacting the workplace. Select your issue from the list below. You may use the listed article as your required resource.

EEOC-Discrimination by Type

• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.). Discrimination by type. Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/index.cfm
• LEAP 2019: The top 10 lessons for HR.(2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(5), 5.

Age Discrimination

• How to avoid age bias when talking retirement with employees. (2014). HR Specialist, 12(1), 8.

Race/Color Discrimination

• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.). Race/color discrimination. Retrieved from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/race_color.cfm
• Assigning black employees to black clients: Is that racial bias? (2010). HR Specialist, 8(1), 3.
• Hawkins, D. (2016, February 8). Racial discrimination – Title VII. Wisconsin Law Journal.

Inclusion and Diversity

• Bisco, J., Gradisher, S., & Mulholland, B. (2019). Women and diversity: Why the conversation must continue in financial services. Journal of Financial Service Professionals, 73(1), 72–84.
• Burnham, C., Puckett, B., & Deakins, O. (2017). In contentious times, reaffirm commitment to inclusion, diversity. HR Specialist, 15(2), 7.

Respect Culture

• Ahlrichs, K. (2018). Go beyond harassment best practices: Add respect to your culture. HR Specialist, 16(8), 8.

Whistle-Blowers

• Whistleblower at work? Protect, don’t reject. (2019). HR Specialist, 17(11), 3.

LGBTQ Protections

• Nagele-Piazza, L. (2019). Creating LGBTQ-inclusive workplace policies.HRNews.

Gun Violence at Work

• Are you prepared for gun violence at work? (2019). HR Specialist: Employment Law, 49(10), 1–2.

Social Media at Work

• Di Gangi, P. M., Johnston, A. C., Worrell, J. L., & Thompson, S. C. (2018). What could possibly go wrong? A multi-panel Delphi study of organizational social media risk. Information Systems Frontiers, 20(5), 1097–1116.

2. Research the topic you selected using the law-related article associated with the issue from the list. Support your assertions with citations from your course readings, workplace examples, and any relevant additional research.

3. Address the following elements in your issue synopsis:

• Describe your chosen contemporary scientific, technical, or social issue, including how it has impacted the workplace.
• Analyze how your issue influenced or could influence employee productivity in your own current or former organization. Be sure to keep the organization anonymous.
• Explain the impact of your issue from your perspective of an HRM executive.
• Assess how relevant legislation affects your issue in the workplace.
• Assess the ethical ramifications of your issue on HRM practices in the workplace.

4. Review the HR Challenge: Contemporary Issue Scoring Guide before submitting this assignment to ensure that you have thoroughly addressed the grading criteria.

Submission Requirements 

The deliverable for this assignment applies professional skills in Human Resources Management (HRM) to workplace situations which you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work in HRM. As part of your learning, we focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace.

• Length of paper: Your memorandum should be 3–4 double-spaced pages, including the resources page.
• Organization: Make sure that your assignment writing is well-organized, using headings and subheadings to organize content for the reader.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Number of resources: A minimum of one law related article and any course readings.
• Evidence: Support your assertions with data and/or in-text citations. Use current APA format for in-text citations and create a reference list at the end of your documents. 
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting. 
• Written communication:
  • Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
  • Write for a specific audience, using the vernacular of the profession.
  • Use spell-check and other tools to ensure correct spelling and grammar

Find an income statement or balance sheet for a business. Review the accounting concepts and the income statement or balance sheet to answer the following questions:

1. How is the business performing based upon your review? Is the business growing or declining, why?
2. Where is the business focusing the majority of its resources?
3. What advice would you offer to the owner or leadership of the business?

Read Case 9-1 

“IT Governance at University of the Southeast” and then answer the following questions. 

First, describe the IT governance system that was in place at the University of the Southeast using both decision rights and structure as the basis of governance. 

Second, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized IT system?

Your answers should be in your own words, but should also incorporate (and cite) 

Your submission should be approximately be in APA format, three full pages, double spaced, running header, subheadings, in text citations and a reference list.

Supporting Document 2: Resistance Risk Mitigation Intervention Table

Overview

Using the same scenario from Identifying the Organizational Learning Issue, you realize that transitioning your organization to a learning environment may not be as easy as first imagined. You have encountered several resistance issues relating to the culture, psychological learning, organization structure, workforce commitment, and dissemination of knowledge. You decide to gather a decision-making team to assist in identifying the high or moderate resistance risks that may stop or slow down the process of this transition. The decision-making team must also recommend some mitigation intervention to lower the identified resistance risks to either moderate or low. For example, a high resistance risk can become moderate or low and moderate resistance risk can become low.

Your final product will be a table that identifies five issues related to the organization’s culture, psychological learning, organization structure, workforce commitment, and dissemination of knowledge. You must also provide a description of each resistance issue and rate the resistance risk before the mitigation intervention as either High (H) or Moderate (M). Then, you must provide a description of your team’s mitigation intervention and determine the resistance risk’s downgrade from High (H) to Moderate (M) or Low (L) and/or Moderate (M) to Low (L) after the mitigation intervention.
 

Instructions

Create a table in which you:

1. Determine one challenge in the culture that may cause a major resistance to the transition from individual learning to organizational learning. Next, recommend one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
2. Predict one psychological learning threat that may result from the transition and then provide one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
3. Assess the current organization structure as it relates to the free flow of knowledge, then specify one issue that may cause a major resistance to the transition. Provide one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
4. Critique the workforce commitment to this transition and predict one major resistance you may encounter. Next, provide a mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
5. Propose one dissemination of knowledge issue with the recipients’ ability to absorb the knowledge and comprehend it into action (that is, motivating the recipient to share knowledge). Next, provide one mitigation intervention to downgrade the identified resistance in your table. Provide a rationale for your selected mitigation intervention.
6. Use the Resistance Risk Mitigation Intervention Table template located here. You may also use Microsoft Word or other equivalent software to create a table in an equivalent format for this supporting document.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Create a table to identify transition resistance risks and an intervention to mitigate each.