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Select one of the following case studies (located in your textbook.) 

• Case 11-1: Discounting Everything but Compensation at Costco.
• Case 11-2: Employee Red-Lining at CVS: The Have and the Have Not.
• Case 12-1: Best Buy or Best Scam? Trying to Get Commission Results on So-Called Noncommission Pay.
• Case 12-2: Barclays Bonus Bank: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.

Then complete the following: 

• Add your opinion about the choices and decisions being made—if this was your company, would you make this choice?
• What would you do differently?

You are strongly encouraged to make your initial post by the middle of each week so that you have plenty of time to respond to your classmates.

Assignment 1: Position Paper One – Media and Society

This is the first of two (2) position papers based on the following scenario to be completed in this course. 

Imagine  that you are running for a state office (e.g., governor, senator, or  Congressional representative) and you have to prepare a position paper  for a debate on controversial issues in the news. (Select one (1) of the  topics addressed in the first four weeks of this class.) Remember that  you are addressing a significant segment of your state’s population and  you want to be elected to public office, so your topic will have to have  a broad appeal, such as the importance of family values, the fair  treatment of women in the workplace (equal pay for equal work), the  treatment of minorities, and the media and one’s self-image, among other  topics from those chapters.
 

You  will want your position paper to demonstrate critical thinking, sound  logic, valid claims, personal passion, and credible support that is  cited correctly because the paper will be provided to the news media  before the debate and will be scrutinized by the media and reported on  regarding these criteria.

Write a two to three (2-3) page (500 to 750 words) paper in which you:

1. Introduce  your position using a thesis statement in the first paragraph,  including a quote, question, or statistic from your reliable sources and  an overview of the main points you will cover. (It’s important to grab  the audience’s interest and inform the audience of what the main and  support points are.) 
2. Provide two or three (2-3) major points to support your thesis statement. (Put each major point in a separate paragraph.)
3. Provide one (1) paragraph in which you identify and answer an expected argument against your view. 
4. Organize arguments and support your claims effectively. 
5. Demonstrate  personal passion for your position and critical thinking with  persuasive language, sound logic, valid claims, and credible support for  the claims. 
6. Use  the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to  locate and provide two to three (2-3) credible and reliable sources (in  addition to the textbook) about current events, which have been  published in the last five (5) years and are cited correctly in the  position paper. (Wikipedia, dictionaries, and encyclopedias are unacceptable and will not count toward your number of credible sources.)

    

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be  typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow Strayer Writing Standards. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
• Include  a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s  name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover  page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment  page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues involving mass media and society. 
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in media and society.
• Write clearly and concisely about media and society using proper writing mechanics.

1.Check all of the following tangible benefits of well-crafted visions that are primarily cognitive components: Underline all that apply 

A. Great profits and dividends 

b. Provide road maps, direction 

c. Enable sounds strategic planning 

d. Recruit talent- provide feeling of engagement 

e. Develop distinctive competencies 

f. Aspiration 

g. Inspiration 

2. Which of the following statements explains why a vision is more critical to change than a mission statement? 

A. a mission statement focuses on what an organization is and does. A vision focuses on the possible future scenario a change can bring. 

B. a mission statement imagines a new future the change will bring. A vision is a dream that will never be real. 

c. a mission statement explains who we are now. A vision focuses on where we are going. 

3. which of the statements below are Pendlebury’s three components of vision that are key to change management. Check all that apply.  

A. why the change is needed 

b. the mission of the organization 

c. the aim of the change 

d. a stringent plan and budget 

e. the change actions that will be taken 

4. Match the approach for crafting a vision to when it is used. 

1. Tell       2. Co-create    3. Consult      4. Test      5. Sell 

Match each of the options above to the items below. 

Involvement is not seen as important 

Chief executive is attracted to the vision and wants others to adopt it 

Chief executive wants to see which aspects of the vision find support 

Chief executive needs to help develop the vision 

Chief executive wants to identify shared visions throughout the organization 

5. To what extent do stakeholders influence a plan and subsequent implementation of organization restructuring that accommodates change? 

1. Stakeholders are incidental to the change process. 
2. Stakeholders are not decision makers and cannot influence the potential outcome of organizational restructuring. 
3. Stakeholders expertise in managing change is very limited, and should not be considered by change leaders in the planning of adaptable organizational structures. 
4. None of these 

6. Barbara, a change manager, has good political skills. She has built a range of relationship across and outside the organization. These characteristics of Barbara are an example of ______________  dimension of political skills. 

1. Networking ability 
2. Apparent sincerity 
3. Interpersonal influence 
4. Social astuteness 

7. Sam, a change manager, has many competencies. One particular strength is his ability to gather meaningful data through interviews, surveys, and observations. These characteristics of Sam are an example of the _______________ skill of a change manager. 

8. An important CMI change manager competency includes personal responsibility, prioritizations and time management, resilience, flexibility, and emotional intelligence. This competency is best described as: 

1. Strategic thinking 
2. Self-management 
3. Coaching for change 
4. Scouting 

9. Which of the following are the undesirable characteristics of a change manager? Check all that apply. 

1. Recognizes and deal with office politics 
2. Accepts risks and challenges 
3. Has high need for praise and recognition 
4. Impatient and lacking persistence 

10. When coaching for change, it is important to have a good grasp of (check all that apply) 

1. Adult learning principles 
2. Why the change is needed 
3. Role models 
4. Cost management 
5. Complex research models 

11. The ability to market your skills and persuade internal customers to use your services is an example  of : 

1. Initiation skills 
2. Diagnostic skills 
3. Implementing skills 

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Group Research Project

This assignment is worth 25% of your final grade. It gives you an opportunity to work with a group of peers to research and develop a team charter that will guide your work on the Group Consulting Project. Your charter should be the original work of your team; the team may not use papers or any part of papers from a previous class or from another person. If you have any questions about this assignment, please post them in the Ask the Professor discussion forum so that everyone can benefit from the answers. The assignment addresses Course Objectives1, 2, and 3.

Introduction

In your first assignment, you analyzed and wrote about the trends you observed in the High Performing Work Teams (HPWT) survey.  You also discussed what team members could learn from taking such a survey. 

Some of what you may have learned by working through the assignment was that the survey and the grouping of the questions provide a good model for the elements required to facilitate team efficiency and effectiveness. 

· The mission provides a statement of the team’s purpose which provides the motivation and direction for team members. 

· The goals are the results the team needs to achieve within specified time frames. Team members perform more efficiently and productively when the goals are easily understood.

· In addition to goals, role clarification helps team members understand what is expected of each person in order for the team to achieve its goals.  By discussing roles the team ensures that all the responsibilities for achieving the team’s goals are covered and being performed. 

· HPWTs also decide early on the “rules of engagement,” or how they are going to work together.  They determine things like how and when they are going to communicate; the frequency of meetings; how disagreements and conflict will be handled; and how to handle social loafing, when team members don’t do their fair share of the work.

· Respect, honesty, and trust among team members are hallmarks of effective teams and how they work together.  People are different – they have different experiences and different values – so team members need to commit to work with each other despite their differences. The level of respect, honesty, and trust the team develops allows the team to work through conflicts that may occur and successfully achieve the team’s goals.  

By paying attention to what you have learned from your analysis of the high performing work teams, in conjunction with the stages of team development, you and your team will be able to establish the roles, rules, and norms of how you will work together early on in your team’s development.  For more information on ensuring team success, please read the Team Work document posted in the Week 4 Supplemental module in our classroom. The document includes a 14-step action plan and some frequently asked questions (FAQs) about team work.

YOUR TASK

For this assignment you will be placed in a team.  This will be your team for this assignment and for the Group Consulting Project you’ll complete later in the term.  There are two deliverables for this assignment: 

· a team charter and 

· an individual reflection paper. 

Team Charter

Working together with your team, you will research elements for an effective team charter. Please use the UMUC library to identify a minimum of five appropriate sources about team charters.  Appropriate sources are scholarly or practitioner journals and academic books published within the last ten years.  Your team will use the results of your research to create a team charter that will guide how you will work together to complete the Group Consulting Project. Your team charter should include, but is not limited to, the following elements:

· A team mission and vision – an initial team vision that summarizes what your team needs to accomplish and describes how you will interact in order to accomplish its mission. Include any other thoughts to help your team form and focus.

· A communications plan – agree on how you will communicate, parameters for communication (e.g., no phone calls after 9:00 p.m. EST); how frequently you’ll check in with each other; how your interactions will be documented (meeting agendas, minutes of meetings), etc.

· A work division plan – agree on how you will divide work, who will take on what role (will you have a team leader or coordinator or will leadership rotate?), expectations about quality and quantity of work.

· A conflict management plan – discuss areas of potential conflict for the team; decide and document how your team will deal with conflict and resolve disagreements. 

Please add other elements to your team charter, based on your research. Once everyone signs off on the charter, one team member will post a copy in the appropriate discussion forum so other students can read and give your team feedback on the charter. Decide how you will handle responding to comments and questions posted in the discussion forum. 

Each team member will upload a copy of the team’s final charter to his/her assignment folder. Make sure your team number and the names of all team members appear on the cover page of your charter.

Name your team charter this way:
Team X_Charter

(Example: Team 1_Charter)

Please include this academic integrity statement on the cover page of your team charter:

This charter is the work of our team that we jointly created specifically for this course and this section.  All research or material that we used in preparing this charter has been properly acknowledged within the assignment in accordance with academic standards for complete and accurate citation of sources.

Individual Reflection Paper

After your group has completed your team charter, each person in your group will then write a 2-3 page reflection paper (not counting cover and reference pages) discussing: (1) what you personally learned from working on developing the team charter; (2) your thoughts on how the process worked within your group; and (3) the advantages and disadvantages of using this process to create team charters. Since this is a reflection paper, you may write it in the first person (e.g., I, we, me, our). There is no minimum number of references required for your reflection paper; however, the paper should cite appropriate sources to support your statements and opinions and can include sources cited in your team’s charter. Use APA style for all citations, quotations, and references. Your paper should be double spaced, with one inch margins and a font size of 11 points or larger. 

Name your reflection paper this way:
YourLastNameFirstInitial_Reflection

(Example: StudentJ_Reflection)

Please include this academic integrity statement on the cover page of your Individual Reflection Paper:

This paper is my own work that I created specifically for this course and this section.  All research or material that I used in preparing this paper has been properly acknowledged within the assignment in accordance with academic standards for complete and accurate citation of sources.

Due Date: Sunday, [insert date], 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

Your grade for this assignment will be a combination of a team grade for the charter and an individual grade for your reflection paper. The team charter is worth 55% of the total grade and your reflection paper is worth 45% of the total grade. Please review the grading criteria on the following pages.

APA format

Must include reference from one or both of the following source: 

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics  

https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nursing-excellence/ethics/code-of-ethics-for-nurses/coe-view-only/ 

Include 1 additional reference

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:

• Why is the concept of organizational ethics important to health care organizations? Who should set them?
• What’s your experience with organizational ethics?

Review the following lectures:

• Performance Management, Employee Performance, and Reward Systems
• Understanding the Performance Management Process
• Organizational Performance and Strategic Planning

Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction

You are the HR Manager for a manufacturing company. The company is open seven days a week and twenty-four hours per day. There have been constant disagreements between the production manager, the sales manager, and the quality assurance manager. The sales associates have promised each client a shipment on a specific date, bypassed the quality assurance manager, and gone straight to the production manager. The production manager has shipped the product without allowing the quality assurance team to inspect the merchandise before it is shipped. Each time this situation occurs, a customer returns the defected merchandise and the quality assurance team is blamed. In addition to the new orders that must be shipped, the organization has to replace and ship another order to the previous customer. Since this is a replacement order, the organization cannot charge the customer. Employee morale is low and no one has received a raise in a year. The performance appraisals are used as means to terminate employees, and the job descriptions are outdated. Lastly, the company is on the verge of losing several large contracts as well as competitive advantage. Before you begin to tackle this organizational issue, let us begin with some preliminary work.

Tasks

• Analyze the purpose of performance management.
• Assess how performance management can be used as a business strategy.
• Evaluate the key steps of the performance management process.
• Evaluate critical components for performance management and strategic planning.

To support your work, use your course and text 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 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document.
• Name your file as SU_HRM5050_W1_Project_LastName_FirstName.

develop a recruitment strategy for the warehouse associate position for SaharaOasis, which includes the use of the Internet. This information must be presented to the Vice President (VP) of Human Resources (HR) in a PowerPoint slide presentation for her review.

Using resources and the course text and materials, research e-recruiting and create a presentation that addresses the following:

• Specifically, which e-recruiting media and methods would you recommend, and why?
• How would you use these methods to market the job to potential candidates? How will you differentiate and position the job in the job market?
• What legal considerations must be taken into account with Internet-based recruitment programs?
• In addition to e-recruiting, briefly discuss what other methods you would consider, and why.
• From a business finance/accounting perspective, how would you analyze and measure the effectiveness of your recruitment strategy? What economic conditions might be considered?

200 speaker notes per slide

Read through response by peer and post individual response to classmates’ posts. Include ideas/comments and/or research not mentioned yet. Cite your sources. 300 words, APA format

Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics of this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction

Developing a feedback-rich environment is a process that exceptional leaders must set forth for optimal team performance. As a leader, you want to improve the level of feedback provided to and received from your staff.

Tasks

Begin by reading the following article:

• The Influencing Mechanisms of Authentic Leadership on Feedback-Seeking Behaviour: A Cognitive/Emotive Model

You are to develop a plan to implement a feedback-rich environment within your organization. You may use your current organization (healthcare or not). In developing your plan, be sure to include the following:

• Describe the feedback setting before establishing the feedback initiative.
• List the type(s) of feedback techniques that will be used (at least two).
• Describe how you will establish shared competency language.
• Explain why increasing feedback is important to the organization (how it aligns with organizational goals).

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.