Create a 2-5-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for a Mini-Strategy using the Mini-Strategy Outline.

Note: Students will select a different organization from the one selected in Week 3.

Include the following in your outline:

• • • • • • Perform competitor analysis. 
          • Develop strategic recommendations to the board of directors including rationale.Part B

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            Follow the instructions based on decision to complete the Strategic Plan or Alternative Capstone Project:

            Strategic Plan: Implementation Plan, Strategic Controls, and Contingency Plan Analysis

            Write a 1,400-word minimum strategic implementation plan in which you include the following:

• Create an implementation plan including:
  • Objectives
  • Functional tactics
  • Action items
  • Milestones and deadlines
  • Tasks and task ownership
  • Resource allocation
• Recommend any organizational change management strategies that may enhance successful implementation.
• Develop key success factors, budget, and forecasted financials, including a break-even chart.
• Create a risk management plan including contingency plans for the identified risks.Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

  Part C

  After reading the chapter please answer the following Questions: https://phoenix.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781305217188/cfi/6[s2]/12!/4/2

• • • 1. What are the three basic benefits firms can achieve by successfully using an international business-strategy? 200 WORDS
    • 2.  are the three international corporate-level strategies? What are the advantages and disadvantages associated with these individual strategies? 300 WORDS

• • 3. after reading this chapter answer the following questions: 400 WORDS https://phoenix.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781305217188/cfi/8[s3]/6!/4/2
    • What are the characteristics of the functional structures used to implement the cost leadership, differentiation, integrated cost leadership/differentiation, and focused business-level strategies?
    • What is a strategic network?
    • What is a strategic center firm?
    • How is a strategic center used in business-level, corporate-level, and international cooperative strategies?

• • 4.  After reading the article in the link below, which talks about three key aspects on how to implement our strategy, please answer the question below.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottedinger/2012/08/07/three-cs-of-implementing-strategy/#5fa5475276b1

What are the three Cs that are mentioned in the article and how would they impact the creation of our implementation plan? 400 WORDS

“Performance Appraisals” Please respond to the following:

• Determine why organizations can have higher productivity when top managers encourage supervisors to set goals, assess performance, and provide feedback to employees. Support your answer with examples. Then, describe the experience you have had with performance appraisals and how your performance has been influenced by them.
• Go to businessballs’ Website and review the information regarding performance appraisals. Next, rate the importance of measuring performance and providing an opportunity for feedback. Support your position.

DISCUSSION 2

Performance Measurement” Please respond to the following:

• Imagine you are working at an ice cream shop. It is the middle of summer, the shop’s busiest season, and the electricity goes out during a storm. Rank the actions that you should take in order of importance, as your performance will be measured regarding your immediate actions.
• Assess the advantages and / or disadvantages of having more than one source of performance measurement within a company. Support your position with examples. Of the performance measurement sources you provided, select one that you believe your current or previous company could benefit from and explain why.Imagine you were just hired as the new HR director. In the past, HR has not had significant input in the organization’s strategic planning. In one of your first meetings with the CEO, you suggest that the HR function should be more strategic. The CEO is unsure if this is necessary and responds, “I will invite you to the next meeting with all the directors. You can make a presentation to convince us why and then we can discuss this more.”

Imagine you are interning at a local physical therapist’s office.  Mrs. Smith, your supervisor, has asked you to prepare a total of three basic posters for the office.  The posters will highlight the elbow and wrist joints, as well as the hand.   In order to make your posters visually appealing and informative for patients, Mrs. Smith would like for you to incorporate pictures, tables, diagrams, or other visuals. She has asked you to be creative in the design and in the selection of visuals.  Each of the three posters should provide information regarding the structure, prime movers, and anatomical relationships for the elbow and wrist joint, as well as the hand. Use your course text and at least two outside resources to support your work. All sources utilized must be cited and referenced according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  Please note: In order to avoid overloading viewers with too much written information, please refrain from including long paragraphs of text. A few options for copyright free images are Wikimedia Commons and 123RF.    You may choose to create your posters in GIMP, Pixlr, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or another format of your choice. Due to the assignment being graded in Waypoint, convert your poster files into a single PDF for submisstion.  If you are unable to convert your poster file to a PDF document and you created it in an online program, you may provide the URL link to your work within the Waypoint comment box when submitting.  Your instructor must be able to view your posters in order to provide feedback and a grade.

It is your responsibility as the HR Director of the same organization from Assignment 2 to a) create policies regarding pay and benefits for the selected job opportunity, and b) develop methods for both addressing unionization and implementing OSHA regulations. You will present your findings to the Vice President of Human Resources for approval.

In preparation for this assignment, review the following articles on contractors vs. employees and temp workers:

“Distinguishing Independent Contractors and Employees”

“The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed”

Create a PowerPoint presentation with fifteen to twenty (15-20) slides in which you:

Create a Wage and Hour standard for the job opportunity that you had selected in Assignment 2, and support your standard by using the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Equal Pay Act to prevent any potential discriminatory impact.

Decide on three (3) benefits required for the job opportunity using ERISA. Propose two (2) methods that the employer can use in order to manage the fiduciary duties wisely and with the employees’ best interests in mind. Provide a rationale for your response.

Elaborate on two (2) rights regarding unionization that Section 7 of the NLRA guarantees. Next, examine two (2) unfair labor practices, and argue the importance of your organization refraining from using such practices during any self-organization and collective bargaining activities. Explore two (2) potential repercussions of an organization’s interference with self-organization and collective bargaining practices.

Propose three (3) ways to discourage employees from considering unionization. Then, compose one (1) strategy for championing a supportive and satisfying work environment within the organization.

Select one (1) OSHA violation case, and determine whether the resulting penalties were sufficient to deter the organization in question from repeating the same violative action. Justify your response.

Outline a plan for investigating workplace injuries, and formulate a policy that explains the process for filing a worker’s compensation claim within the selected organization.

Narrate each slide, using a microphone, and indicate what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience.

Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

ORIGINAL DOCUMENT NO PREVIOUS SOLD OR USED PRESENTATIONSLESS THAN % PLAGARISM AS IT HAS TO GO THROUGH A CHECKER

PLEASE USE SCHOLARLY REFERENCES NO MORE THAN 1 WEBSITE AS A REFERENCE

Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from eighteen (18) feet away.

Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Develop policies that are compliant with employment laws.

Evaluate an organization’s physical environment and determine criteria that ensure occupational safety.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in employment law.

Write clearly and concisely about employment law using proper writing mechanic.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric found here.

Performance management is a process that is much more than a performance appraisal, which is often the perception. It is the process by which management ensures that employees are effective in meeting the organization’s goals. Different positions, including human resources, management, and the employee can be involved in establishing these goals. An employee’s performance, as related to these goals, is formally measured in the appraisal. Performance should also be communicated informally through regular dialogue between manager and employee throughout the year. In theory, there should be no surprises during a performance appraisal, if the performance management system is effective.

Effective performance management encourages communication, establishes standards for rating performance, and helps the organization identify top, mid-range, and poor performers. Additionally, formal performance management is imperative to help protect an organization against employment-related legal claims.

Objectives

To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:

1. Discuss techniques managers can use to help improve the performance of employees.
2. Describe a performance management system.
3. Describe steps an organization can take to protect itself from performance management litigation.
4. Explain formal and informal performance feedback processes.

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  Studies

  Readings

  Use your Fundamentals of Human Resource Management text to complete the following:

  • Read Chapter 9, “Creating and Maintaining High-Performance Organizations,” pages 270–297.
  • Read Chapter 10, “Managing Employees’ Performance,” pages 298–331.

  Multimedia

  Managing Performance

  Transcript

  Click Managing Performance to view the interactive multimedia.

  Internet resources

  One way to gather information for performance management or other HR functions is to participate in conversations with professionals on Internet message boards. In this exercise, you will visit one of these boards to learn what HR professionals are saying about a particular topic. You may choose from one of the Web sites listed below or find your own. In either case, please provide appropriate citations for the site or sites you use.

  Suggested sites:

  • HRNet: Human Resources Management Discussion, a Yahoo! Groups discussion of HR.
  • HR.com: Forums and discussions for HR topics.
  • If you are a member, visit Society for Human Resource Management: HR Talk.

  Whatever site you choose, look for a topic that has generated some conversation. Your observation and findings from this exercise should contribute, enhance, or be referred to in your HR Topics Presentation assignment in Unit 10; it is suggested that you visit forums and threads that relate to your topic.

  Follow these steps to complete this study activity:

  1. Click a subject line that interests you.
  2. Navigate to the original message in the thread, and you should see a list of responses. If you cannot find the original message, or you do not see any responses, try another message.
  3. When you have selected a message that has generated responses, read through all of the messages.
  4. Take note of the themes, trends, and emerging ideas that you cull from these forums. In addition to their contribution to your Unit 10 assignment, a summary of your findings and how they contributed to your selected topic will occur the Unit 10 discussion, HR Topics Presentation Sharing.
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  Best Practices in Performance Management

  Resources

  • Best Practices in Performance Management Scoring Guide.
  • APA Style and Format.
  • Capella Library.
  • Capella Writing Center.
  • Tutorials: Microsoft Office Software.
  • Undergraduate Research Guide.

  Choose an organization to use for this assessment. It can be where you are currently employed or a company with which you are familiar. It must be an organization that is researchable, as you will need to gather and analyze information in order to complete the assignment.

  If you choose the organization where you are currently employed, please keep in mind that the analyses you develop must be based on facts that can be documented, rather than on your personal opinion as an employee.

  Research the performance management system of your chosen organization and then prepare a 3–4 page paper that presents the following information:

  1. Describe the performance management system that is currently in place. Explain the formal performance feedback process.
  2. Describe any informal performance feedback that takes place.
  3. Recommend at least two best practices the organization should consider that would improve the process for employees and their managers.
  4. Support your recommendations with peer-reviewed and professional articles.

  Requirements

  • Written communication: It should be free of errors, so that the overall message is clear.
  • APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style.
  • Number of resources: Minimum of two scholarly resources. Distinguished submissions will likely exceed that minimum.
  • Parts of paper:
    • Title page.
    • Body of paper.
    • References page.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.

  Remember, you can use the research and resources for this assignment to inform your Unit