HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet

Answer the following questions for each corresponding scenario.  (Each scenario should be answered in no more than 350 words)

1.     The HR Director is having lunch outside the office. She hears a competitor talking about a significant change in their business that could affect the performance of her own firm.

What is HR’s ethical duty?

Explain why this may fall under corporate responsibility and insider trading.

2.     The head of HR refers a family member to a department head for consideration in an “unposted” job.

What do you do?

Explain this in the context of the corporate responsibility or conflict of interest.

3.     You just started your new job as the Director of HR for a government contractor. After being there for a few weeks, you notice that employees are being periodically drug tested. However, the tests don’t appear random and tend to focus on one specific group.

Why is it important to investigate and resolve the issue immediately?

What should the investigation include?

Does the Drug Free Workplace Act apply here?

4.     The manager at one of your locations calls you and wants to terminate an employee for having religious quotes in his desk area. The area is located in the back room and no one but that person has access to the room.

Do you make the person remove them?  Why or why not?

Can the employee file a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act, Title VII (1964)?  Why or why not?

Explain why the manager might not have a case for making the employee take the quotes down.

RESEARCH ESSAY: CAREER FOCUS

Im currently going to school to be a Kindergarten teacher

The Career Focus centers on developing an organized, fully-realized essay about a career of your choice.  You’ll work on finding information, data, statistics, and facts, then using that research to apply your own assertions and evaluation on not only the career, but how well you are suited for said career and how you plan to pursue said career.

The Researched Career Essay is both explanatory and exploratory, making for an interesting and compelling mix of information and narrative elements that will illuminate your career choice for yourself and the reader.

–Contributed by Sheree Greer

Create your essay following the guidelines below. You will write 4 paragraphs, an Introduction, 2 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. You may include your own opinions about the career field, but you may only use 1st person “I” in the last paragraph of the essay.

Requirements:

• 4 paragraphs
• 600+ words from introduction to conclusion (this includes documentation in your paragraphs but does not include the Works Cited page)
• MLA documentation style throughout
• Minimal use of direct quotes! Quotes should not be used if content can be paraphrased. If a quote is used it should not span more than 1 line of your World document. Excessive use of quotes could significantly reduce the paper grade.
• A minimum of 2 sources from the SPC college database. One of your sources must be used in Par 1. At least one other source should be used in Par 2 or Par 3. You may use more than 2 sources if needed. You may use a source in every paragraph if needed.
• Use of 3rd person academic in Par 1 – 3 except in the Par 4 where 1st person is permitted
• Utilization of the essay structure below

Essay Structure:

Follow the template below to create your essay

1. Introduction – This paragraph should cover the following content: State the career the paper will cover. Give statistics on the career such as educational requirements, median pay, potential career growth, etc. Include a thesis statement as the last sentence of the introduction. Use of a current source is required in this section for statistics. Do not use a source that is more than 5 years old for statistics. This section should be 4-5 sentences total.
2. Choose ONE of the following two options below. Do not do both! This section should be 8-10 sentences total.
   1. Traits: What are the personality traits that make a successful person in your chosen career? What qualities are needed for success? For instance, a good teacher needs to exhibit patience, which is a personality trait. Discuss several of these traits and why they are necessary in your career field.
   2. Why is this career needed in our society? What does this career contribute to our society? Where would we be without people working in this field?

NOTES: Focus on A or B, but do not do both for Par 2 of your essay. This may be written with a mixture of research and your own opinions, but do not use 1st person “I”. Include MLA documentation so it’s clear where your research vs your opinion appears.

1. Introduce an inspirational figure in your field. This could be a famous figure from history or someone who is still alive and working in the field today. This could be a person many people have heard of or someone who is significant in your own life. Talk about why this person is an inspiration and someone people should look up to. Discuss their contributions to the field. This section should be 8-10 sentences total.
2. Conclusion – Wrap up your essay with a final discussion of why you chose this field for your future career. You may shift to using 1st person “I” as you conclude your essay on a personal note. This section should be 4-5 sentences total.

• Students will create an infographic, or basically a pamphlet. This pamphlet must be informative and tell a story.
• Era Witch-hunts , 50,’s lynching made it the best-known survivor of one of the worst Election Day crime incidents in the history of the country. It was a farmer and labor broker who dared to run on a registry of fellow Blacks. Sha’Ron Cooley McWhite, an Orange County teacher and great-niece to Perry whom she honored during early voting in Orlando by wearing a T-shirt bearing his portrait to the polls, said his prosperity, political efforts and fearlessness probably put him in the crosshairs of the mob (Nathan, D., & Snedeker, M. 2001). “it was a lynched not because did everything wrong, but because he did something right. “Even Perry’s death certificate attempted to hide the role of race in his murder, noting the cause was “by not being hanged by racial disturbance-induced abuse.

Schwartz said that Ocoee was founded in the 1880s by a white man who brought with him 23 enslaved African Americans. Many Confederate soldiers resettled there after the Civil War, employing Black slaves to work their land. Starting in 1888, many of those workers were able to buy from their White bosses the very acres they had been employed on, giving them riches and protection frequently unavailable to Black citizens in the Jim Crow South. Census reports reveal that approximately one-third of the town of 800was black in 1920. While it is not correct to claim that Ocoee was segregated, as you would see elsewhere in the South, there wasn’t a Blacks-only community across the proverbial tracks (Schoeneman, T. J. 975). “They were interspersed. It wasn’t like, “This is the black part of the city, this is the white part of the city, For 30 years before the massacre occurred, these people were neighbors.”  Those tensions were further fueled by the struggle for women’s suffrage. Several anti-suffragists suggested that once women were able to vote, black men might then try to vote. Many suffragists disputed that this might happen, and some also argued that it should be permitted for White women to vote in order to serve as a bulwark against any Black men who could want to exercise their rights.

References;

Nathan, D., & Snedeker, M. (2001). Satan’s silence: Ritual abuse and the making of a modern American witch hunt. iUniverse.

Schoeneman, T. J. (1975). The witch hunt as a culture change phenomenon. Ethos, 3(4), 529-554.

Part 1 of the Grant Proposal

For the course project, you will write a grant proposal for a nonprofit organization. You will identify a nonprofit that provides a program related to a societal concern you are interested in. You will then pretend you are the grant writer for the nonprofit and write a grant proposal to fund the program on behalf of the selected nonprofit. For the grant proposal you will write:

• A cover letter to introduce the nonprofit and grant program to the funder
• A summary of the grant project
• An appeal section that details how the program relates to the funder’s priorities
• A needs statement including data to support the community problem exists
• A one sentence goal statement
• Two objectives each with the required elements
• A project narrative that provides the details about the program
• An annual budget with budget justification and a cash flow budget
• A closing section
• A list of appendices

For part 1 of the final project you are asked to complete the following sections:

The Need Statement:

Develop a need statement. In this section, discuss the community issue that the nonprofit program is designed to address and include data that supports the problem exists in the community the program serves. Also identify the nonprofit organization and nonprofit program that will address the community need, and describe the target population or clients the program serves.

Goal Statement and Objectives:

Develop a one sentence goal statement that directly relates to the identified community issue. Use the information you learned in week two to write a concise yet compelling goal statement.

Develop two objectives designed to achieve the program goal. Each objective should be measurable in terms of time, place, target population, and anticipated increase or decrease. The objectives, if achieved, should accomplish the program goal.

Project Narrative:

Provide the project details. This section should include the methods or activities that will be conducted to achieve each objective. There should be information related to the grant activities, personnel, facilities, and any support services needed. A timeline of the project’s activities should be included in this section. Also include a brief explanation of how your goal relates to your need and how your objectives make progress toward your objectives. Use straightforward language and avoid using jargon.

Annual Budget and Budget Justification:

Using the textbook, lectures, and online research, prepare an annual budget and budget justification for your project. The annual budget should be a two column table inserted into your Microsoft Word document. Click here to see a sample annual budget format. The budget should be designed using appropriate line items and their related financial amounts. Use your knowledge of the program and an internet search to determine the appropriate line items and cost amounts to include in the budget.

Cash Flow (or Month-to-Month) Budget:

Using the annual budget as the foundation, prepare a cash flow or month-to-month budget. Make sure that the amounts associated with each line item matches the timing outlined in project narrative. Do not just divide the amount of each line item total by twelve and indicate the same amount will be spent each month for each line item. Make realistic assumptions about the anticipated grant funds disbursements. Prepare the cash flow budget using the Microsoft Excel worksheet provided.

Click here to download the format for preparing the cash flow budget.

Submission Details:

• Cite all sources and provide references in APA format on a separate page.
• Name your document with the needs statement, goals and objectives, project narrative, annual budget, and budget justification SU_MPA6105_W3 _LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Name your cash flow budget: SU_MPA6105_W3_LastName_FirstInitial.xls.
• Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned

What Is an Annotated Bibliography?An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

Annotations vs. AbstractsAbstracts are the purely descriptive summaries often found at the beginning of scholarly journal articles or in periodical indexes. Annotations are descriptive and critical; they may describe the author’s point of view, authority, or clarity and appropriateness of expression.

Annotated Bibliography Directions: 100 points must have three sourcesCreating an annotated bibliography calls for the application of a variety of intellectual skills: concise exposition, succinct analysis, and informed library research. You must have a minimum of three sources.

1. First, locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Then choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.

2. Cite the book, article, or document using the appropriate style.

3.Step three is critical since your grade will be based upon how well you write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. Be sure to include one or more sentences that (a) evaluate the authority or background of the author, (b) comment on the intended audience, (c) compare or contrast this work with another you have cited, or (d) finally, explain how this work illuminates your topic and how you intend to use it in your essay. Make sure you include ALL of these four components in your 150-200-word annotation to receive full points.

Please look at my examples as a module for this assignment below:

Sample Annotated Bibliography Entries

The following example uses APA style (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, 2019) for the journal citation:

Waite, L., Goldschneider, F., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51, 541-554.

The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.

This example uses MLA style (MLA Handbook, 8th edition, 2016) for the citationWaite, Linda J., et al. “Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations Among Young Adults.”

American Sociological Review, vol. 51, no. 4, 1986, pp. 541-554. (