Week Four Essay Assignment

Please use APA formatting, double-spaced, 6-8 pages, include references.

-You are in upper management for a mid-sized manufacturing company. Recent economic changes forced upper management to move much of the manufacturing to a foreign country. As a result, many of the state-side employees will be forced to work directly with foreign counterparts. There is great concern that the existing employees may not embrace the change, and you’ve been tasked with creating a plan to minimize the fallout.

-Develop a plan that will facilitate as smooth of a transition as possible, optimizing employee buy-in, satisfaction, and productivity. Write a report that explains the details of your plan, and be sure to integrate concrete examples and supportive reasoning for how to implement this plan following each step of Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change.

Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change : Web Reference https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_94.htm

Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change: Text Book Reference 

Nelson, D. L., & Quick, J. C. (2012). Organizational Behavior: Science, The Real World, and You (8th ed., Vol. 8). Cengage Learning.

Designing a Training Program 

Assignment 2: Designing a Training Program

Due Week 8 and worth 300 points.

Create a written proposal in which you detail the complete design of an employee training program.

Write a 6–8 page paper in which you:

1. Design a two-day training program for a group of 20 employees.
2. Identify 2–3 training needs though a training needs analysis (TNA) and justify an approach for this training.
3. Develop the training objective for this program based on an analysis of the business.
4. Determine the training cost for the training program you are proposing. Include a detailed breakdown of time allotted for each piece, the subsequent cost analysis, and the total cost for the project as a whole.
5. Select key training methods to deliver the program to employees, such as an e-learning module or a one-day face-to-face training program.
6. Create an agenda of activities for the training program.
7. Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

• This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• Typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font, 12 points, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• 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 is not included in the required page length.
• Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow SWS format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

You will prepare the SHRM case analysis on “Designing a Pay Structure,” which consists of your completion of Tasks A–J that simulate the creation of a compensation system for an organization in meeting its goals and supporting its mission. In your analysis, respond to the following tasks found in the case study by using Excel.

Your case analysis should consist of:

• Task A: Create a complete job description for the benefits manager position using O*NET.
• Task B: Calculate the job evaluation points for the administrative assistant, payroll assistant, operational analyst, and benefits manager jobs. Provide a rationale for assigning specific degrees to the various jobs.
• Task C: If there were any outliers (i.e., extreme data points) in the data, what would you recommend doing with them? From this point forward, assume no extreme data points exist in the dataset.
• Task D: Conduct a simple regression in Excel to create a market pay line by entering the job evaluation points (on the X axis) and the respective weighted average market base pay (on the Y axis) for each benchmark job.
• Task E: What is your R squared (variance explained)? Is it sufficient to proceed?
• Task F: Calculate the predicted base pay for each benchmark job.
• Task G: Because your company wants to lead in base pay by 3%, adjust the predicted pay rates to determine the base pay rate you will offer for each benchmark job.
• Task H: Create pay grades by combining any benchmark jobs that are substantially comparable for pay purposes. Clearly label your pay grades and explain why you combined any benchmark jobs to form a grade.
• Task I: Use your answer to Task H to determine the pay range (i.e., minimum and maximum) for each pay grade.
• Task J: Given the pay structure you have generated, consider the following: Does this pay structure make good business sense? Do you think it is consistent with the organization’s business strategy? What are the implications of this pay structure for other HR systems, such as retention and recruiting?
• Your analysis of this case and your written submission should reflect an understanding of the critical issues of the case, integrating the material covered in the text, and present concise and well-reasoned justifications for the stance that you take. You are to complete this case analysis using Excel in a spreadsheet analysis format.

You may discuss your case analysis assignment with the class, but you must submit your own original work.

Case analysis tips: Avoid common errors in case analyses, such as:

• Focusing too heavily on minor issues.
• Lamenting because of insufficient data in the case and ignoring creative alternatives.
• Rehashing of case data — you should assume the reader knows the case.
• Not appropriately evaluating the quality of the case’s data.
• Obscuring the quantitative analysis or making it difficult to understand.

Stop and Shop-Scan IT

Read Case 12-1 “Stop and Shop-Scan IT!” and then answer the following questions.

What is the benefit of the Scan It! data to Stop & Shop?

What are some disadvantages, please be specific? 

How would you as the President of an organization assess the level of maturity of Stop & Shop’s use of analytics? 

What concerns might shoppers have about their privacy?

 1. Reflect on your own personal travels. What have you learned about yourself? About  others?

 2. As a future tourism/hospitality business leader, how does knowledge of traveler/tourist motivations and personal lessons learned help you run your business?  

 Main Paper 

 Brief Introduction § Introduce the topic to the reader and summarize your reflection of this topic/article. o 

Body § Address the following prompts as prescribed in the assignment. Include 3-4 examples for each prompt 

 Conclusion § Conclude the reflection paper by summarizing your comments and main points to the reader. o References § Include any references that were used in your reflection paper including the main authors. Use APA style. 

Culture and Ethics

Examine the major influences that organizational culture can have on organizational ethical decision making. Be sure to make a meaningful connection between culture and ethics through either research or a personal experience in current or past organizations to which you belong(ed).

Questions 1: Consider post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It’s not just something a service member endures. Many people have some form of PTSD relating to trauma in their lives. So, be inclusive in your response by thinking of all employees, as well as returning service members. Remember that people are more willing to tell you they have a physical disability but may be reluctant to tell you they have a mental disability.

• Develop an outline to educate your management team to recognize returning service members who may be showing signs of PTSD.
• Identify the steps that could be taken to help all employees, including the service members transitioning back into the workforce

Question 2: Go to the Newsroom on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) website and review cases regarding diversity. In the search box under Browse through Press Releases from EEOC, type “diversity” and review three of the results from your search.

• Propose three ways that an organization can increase employee diversity.
  • Take a position on the importance of diversity and explain how your proposed methods for increasing diversity support your position.

This module consists of Chapter 9 from both books, the corresponding Discussion Board postings, plus Case Study 4 and Exercise 4. Make sure to complete all before going on to Module 7.

Additional resources:

http://wyn-partners.com/offre/chief-enterprise-architect/

https://blog.leanix.net/en/kpmg-study-its-a-great-time-to-be-an-enterprise-architect

https://jobs.cvshealth.com/ShowJob/Id/179217/Enterprise-Architecture-and-Delivery,-Senior-Advisor/

Case 4#

The case investigates SAP’s need to change within the IT industry, to come up with a new strategy and business design. This new strategy would fundamentally change SAP’s existing business design, i.e., the totality of how SAP would define its coverage, value propositions and offerings; penetrate the selected markets; and configure its resources to develop its products. Would this strategy and business design work? What difficulties would SAP anticipate? What benefits would there be with this new approach? From your observation of what SAP has previously done, and using IT Enterprise Architecture techniques, outline a new technology, innovation or process that SAP could be adding in today’s IT marketplace. Please answer all question with specifics and stay away from generalities.

Your written report should be 1 page (New Times Roman, double space, font size 12, and normal margins). Cite resources within the paper and attach a list of references at the end. I expect you to use published resources as well as the Internet, posted additional resources and the books.

Why are strong leaders important in healthcare organizations? How do you believe they can make an impact on daily activities with the organizations? 200-word minimum w/cited references.

Ledlow, G. R., & Stephens, J. H. (2018). Leadership for health professionals: Theory, skills, and applications (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781284142051 

 Instructions

Your Leadership Reflection Journal should exhibit a personal reflection of your present leadership competencies and also possible adjustments that could be made to your leadership approach. Importantly, your Journal entry should be in light of the various concepts that have in covered each week in the course. Also of importance, the Leadership Reflection Journal should be far beyond a mere casual discussion. It should demonstrate a high level of understanding and should also provide adequate integration of authoritative sources as assigned for reading each week.

• You should integrate other scholarly sources, most preferably to review literature retrieved from the University research library.
• Your weekly Leadership Reflection Journal should be no less than one page and no more than two pages in length.

Assignment Objective

• Each week you will be required to submit a Leadership Reflection Journal.

Assignment Purpose

• This journal should be written in the first person and should be critically reflective. As such, you will discuss the most important concepts that you have learned throughout the week and how those concepts may be applied to your leadership career.