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Social workers strive to make informed decisions about the interventions they implement. These decisions should be driven by what the research data say. As a result, social workers have been called to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions they implement. A common way to evaluate interventions is to use a single-subject design. This involves monitoring an outcome for an intervention implemented for one client. After a social worker works with the client to determine the outcome to be measured, the following steps to the evaluation might look like this:

• Administer the instrument before the intervention is implemented
• Implement the intervention
• Administer the same instrument, after a specified time period
• Monitor to determine if there have been any changes in the outcome

In this Discussion, you use the lens of resiliency theory when reflecting on a case from your fieldwork, and then you consider how to measure the effectiveness of a possible intervention.

To prepare, read this article listed in the Learning Resources:

• Smith-Osborne, A., & Whitehill Bolton K. (2013). Assessing resilience: A review of measures across the life course. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 10(2), 111–126. doi:10.1080/15433714.2011.597305

Post:

• Reflect on your fieldwork experience, and identify a case where it would have been beneficial to employ resiliency theory. Describe the case in 2 sentences.
• Describe the presenting problem in one concise sentence.
• Describe an intervention you would implement to promote resiliency.
• Identify an instrument from the Smith-Osborne and Whitehill Bolton’s article that would be appropriate when employing a single-subject design to evaluate how effective the intervention is in increasing the client’s level of resiliency.
• Explain why you selected the instrument.
  • In other words, why would the instrument be appropriate? (Consider the age of the client and for whom the instrument was designed, how feasible it would be to administer the instrument such as cost, time to administer it, etc.).

 Review Case 6 in the text book on ethics and compliance at the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Despite the NCAA’s wide array of rules and regulations, there have still been many criticisms of their practices. Identify and discuss at least 3 criticisms of the NCAA that can be interpreted as possible ethics concerns. 

Here’s a copy of the Case Study :

• Length of each written assignment must be equivalent to three (3) full & complete typed pages,      double spaced
• Otherwise acceptable submissions of less than three full and complete pages will receive partial credit 
• One inch margins all around and a #12 font, no cover sheet or folder
• at the very top of the first page put only your name and the number and title of the assignment, then start your paper
• You don’t have to agree with everything/anything presented in the article.

 Due Thursday, 9/3/20 at noon, (12pm Dallas time) for the readings Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity  and Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets. Provide me with a brief synopsis of the articles and then address this issue: I think these two articles really complement each other nicely. For written assignment #1 you need to reconcile the information in the two articles. How do the different ideas fit together? Come together? Coincide? Do they diverge? Keep in mind that to reconcile ideas means to make them compatible or consistent with each other. It implies that the two ideas can co-exist in harmony.  

Article 1: https://hbr.org/1996/09/making-differences-matter-a-new-paradigm-for-managing-diversity

Article 2: https://hbr.org/2008/11/winning-the-race-for-talent-in-emerging-markets

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.