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Read the following two cases: Ethical Issues in Using the Internet in Research—1 PDF and Ethical Issues in Using the Internet in Research—2 PDF. Address the following:

• Identify three ethical issues that might arise in the conduct of the research present in the cases. For each, explain why it is an ethical issue and how it may pose a challenge in conducting the research.
• Select one of the issues you identified and describe how you would address this issue to comply with both legal and professional standards of practice.

Stakeholder Involvement  

Strayer  University is moving to a new HR/payroll system that is sponsored by a  firm called Workday.com. You have been asked to oversee the stakeholder  management aspects of this project. Identify some of the key  stakeholders at Strayer, and describe how you plan to keep them engaged  during your year-long project. Be sure to include the appropriate  methods, since not all of your stakeholders are located at the HQ office  in Herndon, VA. 

NOTE: MORE THAN ONE ANSWER POSTED CHOOSE ANY

 Create a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation for the organization’s management team in which you analyze and compare three human resource information systems.

Demonstration of Proficiency

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Apply legal standards in human resource management decision making and practice.
  • Assess how workplace privacy can be supported by the selected human resource information systems.
• Competency 2: Use data to support human resource management decision making.
  • Develop a chart indicating the pros and cons for each HRIS.
  • Explain the potential cost savings of selecting one of the HRIS recommendations.
• Competency 3: Develop human resource management strategy recommendations to support organizational goals in a dynamic environment.
  • Articulate HRIS recommendations for FFH (or a selected organization).
• Competency 4: Develop strategies to address HR needs and opportunities for a multicultural and inclusive workforce.
  • Analyze human resource information systems for attributes that meet FFH’s (or selected organization’s) employee needs.
• Competency 5: Communicate human resource management needs, opportunities, and strategies with multiple stakeholders.
  • Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for human resource professionals and master’s-level programs.

Preparation

Familiarize yourself with the Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations to ensure your recommendations are clearly presented to the intended audience. 

Instructions

Based on FFH’s organization and culture or that of your workplace or an organization you are familiar with, conduct an online search for at least three human resource information systems (HRIS). Management has decided to select a more up-to-date and user-friendly HRIS that will allow for employee self-serve options. Employees would be able to check in and out of work online, review their benefits and payroll information, and make changes to things like the number of exemptions, beneficiaries, level of benefits selected, et cetera. Data tracking including sales figures, absenteeism, and performance evaluations would also be an additional benefit.

Using your own research, include the following in a PowerPoint presentation for your three HRIS recommendations to an organization’s management team:

• Analyze human resource information systems for attributes that meet FFH’s or your selected organization’s employee needs. How will globalization and cultural and inclusive practices be supported by each HRIS?  
• Develop a chart indicating the pros and cons for each HRIS. The chart should identify the three systems you selected, each website’s URL, and supporting data. What analytical methods could be applied? 
• Assess how workplace privacy can be supported by the selected human resource information systems.
• Articulate your HRIS recommendations. How do your recommendations support FFH’s or the selected organization’s goals?
• Explain the potential cost savings of selecting one of the HRIS recommendations. Indicate at least five ways an HRIS will streamline HR processes and save the organization money. These might include tracking training programs, onboarding processes, succession planning, et cetera.

Select a slide template appropriate for a professional presentation. Include the content of the slides as well as a supporting narrative in the notes. Do not over-build your slides; use them to support what you will be saying, which should appear in the notes of each slide.

The presentation of your HRIS recommendations should demonstrate graduate-level writing skills through the accurate communication of thoughts that support a central idea and use of correct grammar and mechanics as expected of a human resources professional.

Additional Requirements

• References: Support your analysis with at least two academic, scholarly, or professional resources
• Format: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and format.
• Length: Ten PowerPoint slides, in addition to the title slide and references list.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Wharton Human Resources Topic Reflection

Overview: For this task, you will write a reflection on a current issue in strategic human resources. To find your topic, use the University of Pennsylvania’s https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu website. Type “human resources” into the site’s search feature to find articles about issues that can be directly impacted by a human resources strategy (e.g., workforce training, company culture, etc.).

Prompt: Once you have read the article of your choice, write a reflective analysis in relation to an organization you work for or used to work for. Refer to the article How to Broaden Your Critical Thinking Skills (https://eds-a-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=f0759719-7058-40f6-8e45-47376d82c16f%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=edsbig.A590168184&db=edsbig)

use critical thinking in your response to the following three questions:

1. What area of human resource strategy is discussed in the article you chose, and how did the strategy address a human resource issue? Provide supporting details.
2. How would you compare the human resource strategy in the article to the human resource strategy in your organization? Provide supporting details.
3. If you were the human resource leader, what would you have done the same, and what would you have done differently? Explain your answers with a
   supporting rationale based on the course and curriculum content you’ve learned this far.

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document (in addition to a cover page and references). Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Along with the original article, reference at least one other source. Cite all sources in APA style.

Review Chapter 10: Talent Development

“Since organizational outcomes rely on individuals making quality contributions and fulfilling their roles effectively, HR professionals must work together to bring out the best in employees.”  Performance management and/or appraisal process allows organizations and employees to measure job performance.

Research Performance Management and explain/identify:

• Why a performance management process is necessary or why organizations should eliminate their performance management process.
• Differences between strategic, administrative, and developmental uses of performance appraisal.
• Advantages and/or disadvantages between rating, ranking, and goal-setting methods.
• Ethical considerations pertaining to the performance appraisal process.

Paper Requirements:

• Write a 3-4 page double-spaced, 12 font, and APA formatted paper that addresses the items above.
• Do not use first person. This paper isn’t your opinion. Your paper is guided by your research. 
• The 3-4 pages is counted from the introduction through the conclusion. It does not include the title page or reference page.
• Include a title page properly formatted in APA. 
• You Do NOT need to include an abstract
• Make sure to include an Introduction to your paper. Your introduction needs to include a strong preview sentence.
• Create headingsin the body of the paper (between the Introduction and Conclusion) that are named based on the content in that section of the paper. For example, your headings could be the trends you identified. Please review the APA Heading Format Guidelines (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) in order to develop a good understanding of how to format the headings in your paper.
• Include a Reference page. You must include a minimum of 5 references (textbook and 4 scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles from Welder Library E-Resources). 

Please refer to the rubric for the grading requirements.    

Your submission will go through turnitin. Turnitin evaluates the originality score of your paper. Your turnitin score should be 25% or less. 

Please make sure that you follow all the teacher instruction and watch out for spelling and grammar errors.

Book Reference: Gomez-Mejia, L. R., Balkin, D. B., & Cardy, R. L. (2016). Managing human resources (8th ed.) [VitalSource Bookshelf version]. Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780133953718 

 Describe the biggest challenge that you think human resource management faces in managing employee diversity in the workforce. Support your response with at least one academic source. 

Thinking about a job situation, where short-term (or short-sighted) thinking has effectively turned into strategic thinking or strategic management to achieve the best result. In this sense, you can see how the system operates and the situation you encountered or read about. Short-term fixes and methods are not necessarily the right solution in the longer term.

write An overview of what you have done to turn short-term thought into strategic thinking and management and what you will have to do to get others to follow your lead in this change of thought and management. What challenges do you foresee? 

Assessment 5

• Determine a new market for an existing product and submit your concept in the form of a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

Creatively meeting the needs of customers is an important aspect of any businesses. Finding new customers for an existing product is one variable that can make a company successful. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to put consumer behavior theories into practice using a real-life example.

• 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.

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• Many companies are good at creating more efficient versions of existing products but often have trouble generating new products that are innovative and fit with changing consumer interests. Consider the following questions as they apply to a company for which you have worked or currently work: o How could management staff in the company encourage the creation of new products that fit customers’ needs?o What are specific changes or improvements the company could make to better determine customer wants and needs?o What are practical examples of how management staff could adjust the organization so that new product ideas could become a reality within the organization? Obviously, money is always an issue for companies. Hence, considering the company’s size, think of reasonable ways the company could spur innovation.

• Assessment Instructions

Determine a new market for an existing product and submit your concept in the form of a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

You will first need to select a product on which to base your presentation. You may wish to view the Choosing a Product – Topic Selection Capella multimedia presentation linked in the Resources for information on how to choose a product to use in your presentation.

Once you have selected a product, create a presentation that completes the following:

• Describe the product or service you selected.• Examine and describe the market segmentation information. This includes the demographics and psychographics of the existing customers for this product.• Assess ways the product would have to be adapted to meet the needs of the new customers.• Describe the demographic profile of the new customers.• Describe the new market segment you plan to reach.• Develop a strategy for pricing this item to attract this new clientele.

Your presentation should comply with the following format and style requirements. Tutorials for using Microsoft PowerPoint are available in the Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu.

Length: 15 to 20 PowerPoint slides.
Style: The text portion of the presentation must follow APA guidelines. These style guidelines do not necessarily apply to charts, diagrams, or tables.
Writing and Grammar: Make certain that all project components are professionally written and free of grammar and spelling errors.
References: You must use proper APA style and formatting when citing and creating references for your sources. Include a complete list of references, including books, Web sites, articles, and other resources.
Submissions: Use Microsoft PowerPoint.

Consumer Behavior Presentation Scoring Guide

Consumer Behavior Presentation Scoring Guide Grading Rubric

Criteria 

Non-performance 

Basic 

Proficient 

Distinguished 

Examine a market segmentation and potential customers for the use of a product.

Does not identify a marketsegmentation and potential customers for the use of a product. 

Identifies but does not examine a marketsegmentation and potential customers for the use of a product. 

Examines a marketsegmentation and potential customers for the use of a product. 

Examines a marketsegmentation and potential customers for the use of a product, and clearly explains both by providing concrete real-world examples. 

Assess a company’s strategy to market a product, based on customer behavior concepts.

Does not identify a company’s strategy to market a product, based on customer behavior concepts. 

Identifies but does not assess a company’s strategy to market a product, based on customer behavior concepts. 

Assesses a company’s strategy to market a product, based on customer behavior concepts. 

Assesses a company’s strategy to market a product, based on customer behavior concepts, and identifies a new strategy. 

Analyze strategies and concepts that influence consumer behavior.

Does not analyze strategies and concepts that influence consumer behavior. 

Analyzes either strategies or concepts that influence consumer behavior. 

Analyzes strategies and concepts that influence consumer behavior. 

Analyzes strategies and concepts that influence consumer behavior, and evaluates the factors that make each strategy successful. 

Develop a strategy to market an existing product to a new market segment and customer.

Does not develop a strategy to market an existing product to a new market segment and customer. 

Develops a partial strategy to market an existing product to a new market segment and customer. 

Develops a strategy to market an existing product to a new market segment and customer. 

Develops a strategy to market an existing product to a new market segment and customer, and predicts the likelihood of success. 

You were introduced to the concept of accountability in Chapter 15. The Balanced Score Card was introduced in Chapter 17.  The Balanced Scorecard is a business tool that has grown in popularity.  It provides a quick overview of the several performance measures in several areas of the organization.  Some managers feel that whatever gets measured will get improved simply because it is getting additional attention.  As you will see in Chapter 17, however, not everyone agrees that the scorecard is an effective performance management tool.

Emma is on the fence as well.  She would like you to research the Balanced Scorecard concept and share your recommendations as to whether or not CM Tech should adopt the tool.

Your research paper for Emma should include the following key elements: 

1. Provide an overview of the balanced scorecard that describes what the scorecard is and what a management team would hope to accomplish by using one. 
2. Debate the tool:  Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using a Balanced Scorecard.
3. Develop your recommendation to Emma as to whether or not CM Tech should adopt the Balanced Scorecard.  Be sure to fully support your recommendation with reasoning, examples, and research.

Your report should outline the key concepts in each area listed above and provide examples as appropriate.  Be sure your report is a minimum of 5 pages, includes an introduction and conclusion paragraph, title page, and references page.  The title and references pages do not count toward the total page count.  

As a small business employer, explain how nontraditional (e.g. flex time, telecommuting) work schedules might make it easier for you to recruit employees.