Author: chris

DQ 1

The field of human resources is evolving from providing services to an organization to becoming a strategic partner in its growth.  Analyze and discuss how the role of human resources today can provide value as a strategic partner in an organization.

DQ 2

Effective human resources professionals have a solid understanding of the changing nature of work and the workplace. Compare and contrast the evolution of work and the workplace over the past 20 years and how it has impacted human resources.

IBM’s Multicultural Multinational Teams

Historically, IBM was one of the most tradition-bound companies on the planet. It was famous for its written and unwritten rules—such as its no-layoff policy, its focus on individual promotions and achievement, the expectation of lifetime service at the company, and its requirement of suits and white shirts at work. How times have changed.

IBM has clients in 170 countries and now does two-thirds of its business outside the United States. As a result, it has overturned virtually all aspects of its old culture. One relatively new focus is in the teamwork area. While IBM, like almost all large organizations, uses work teams extensively, the way it does so is unique (Aguinis, & Kraiger, 2009).

To instill in its managers an appreciation of local culture, and as a means of opening up emerging markets, IBM sends hundreds of its employees to month-long volunteer project teams in regions of the world where most big companies don’t do business (Hymowitz, 2008). Al Chakra, a software development manager located in Raleigh, North Carolina, was sent to join GreenForest, a furniture manufacturing team in Timisoara, Romania. With Chakra were IBM employees from five other countries. Together, the team helped GreenForest become more computer savvy to help its business. In return for the IBM team’s assistance, GreenForest was charged, well, nothing.

This is hardly pure altruism at work. IBM calculates these multicultural, multinational teams are good investments for several reasons. First, they help lay the groundwork for opening up business in emerging economies, many of which might be expected to enjoy greater future growth than mature markets. Stanley Litow, the IBM VP who oversees the program, also thinks it helps IBMers develop multicultural team skills and an appreciation of local markets. He notes, “We want to build a leadership cadre that learns about these places and also learns to exchange their diverse backgrounds and skills.” Among the countries where IBM has sent its multicultural teams are Turkey, Tanzania, Vietnam, Ghana, and the Philippines.

As for Chakra, he was thrilled to be selected for the team. “I felt like I won the lottery,” he said. He advised GreenForest on how to become a paperless company in 3 years and recommended computer systems to boost productivity and increase exports to western Europe (Gupta, 2008).

Another team member, Bronwyn Grantham, an Australian who works at IBM in London, advised GreenForest about sales strategies. Describing her team experience, Grantham said, “I’ve never worked so closely with a team of IBMers from such a wide range of competencies.”

Assume you are employed by a consulting company that works with Fortune 1000 companies on Organizational Behavior topics. You have been asked to write a white paper in which you discuss the following questions. This paper will be used to inform potential clients about your company’s philosophy on teamwork and to give them a sense of how your company will prepare their teams. This is an extremely high profile assignment and its success is critical to your company.

Based on the above reading and the knowledge gained from your assigned readings, respond to the following questions:

• If you calculate the person-hours devoted to IBM’s team projects, they amount to more than 180,000 hours of management time each year. Do you think this is a wise investment of IBM’s human resources? Why or why not?
• Why do you think IBM’s culture changed from formal, stable, and individualistic to informal, impermanent, and team oriented?
• Describe the stages of group development these teams should expect to experience. At each stage, make recommendations that will help move the team into the next stage.
• Multicultural project teams often face problems with communication, expectations, and values. How do you think some of these challenges can be overcome?
• Explain some of the group decision-making challenges the team may experience and recommend ways to overcome them.
• Discuss at least three recommendations to help make these teams effective.
• Identify three factors that will help make individuals into team players.

This week, you continue your Consultancy Report for the executive leadership of your selected organization. Review the Final Project Template for proper APA formatting and details for this week’s component.

In 4–6 pages, complete the following:

o Use the World Economic Forum matrix, located in this week’s resources, to explore resilience in your selected organization. Describe your organization or one with which you are familiar in terms of each of the cells found in the matrix in a narrative format.

o Explain why you do or do not believe the organization you selected is resilient. Furthermore, explain how the organization may be resilient in some ways but not in others. Give illustrative examples supporting your conclusions.

o Explain how the executive leadership might use this information about resilience to improve its decision-making behavior.

Include at least two citations/references to current literature to support your explanations and recommendations to the executive leadership.

esearch the clinical and management tracts for nursing advancement.

Based on your research, complete the following tasks as a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document:

• Discuss at least three advancement opportunities you have as a professional nurse with a BSN.
• Compare the opportunities in the clinical versus management tracts.
• Describe the track that you will choose to pursue and provide reasons for your choice.

Use APA 6th Edition when formatting your assignment

Resources are attached: Material – Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline; Innovation Business Model, Vision, Mission, Values; Supply and Value Chain; SWOTT Analysis; Balanced Scorecard; Communication Plan

Write a 700- to 1,050-word section for your business model and strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your objectives, measures, and targets.
Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.
Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally.
Explain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and then summarize the organization’s corporate social responsibility.
Develop a 350-word page executive summary defining the new division of existing business. Share your Vision, Mission, final business model, value proposition and list your key assumptions, risks, and change management issues. Quantify the growth and profit opportunity and planned impact on various stakeholders.

Note:  Any investor should be eager to meet with you after reading your executive summary.

You, as a HR Generalist, have been asked by your HR Director for your recommendations in terms of what tools your organization could use to better manage the talents of your employees. This will help to develop policies and procedures in managing your human capital. Please develop a PowerPoint presentation to your Director addressing the following:

• Describe and analyze the broad range of talent management efforts that use software applications to help you Director to make an educated decision.
• Give some examples of firms that have successfully used these applications.
• Describe how these efforts are useful in terms of strategic human capital management.

The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the end of each unit, DB participation will be assessed based on both level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion.

At a minimum, each student will be expected to post an original and thoughtful response to the DB question and contribute to the weekly dialogue by responding to at least two other posts from students. The first contribution must be posted before midnight (Central Time) on Wednesday of each week. Two additional responses are required after Wednesday of each week. Students are highly encouraged to engage on the Discussion Board early and often, as that is the primary way the university tracks class attendance and participation.

The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.

Assignment Details

There are times when you will give ideas extemporaneously, and there are times when you will have time to carefully plan what you will say. As a professional in business, information technology, or criminal justice, your opinions will carry more weight if you are considered to be a knowledge-focused, thinking, and educated representative in the discipline. Here, you will consider ways to blend and merge your overview of your education, your oversight of your discipline, and a need to be able to represent yourself and your topics in the best light.

Respond to the following questions during this unit’s discussion. If you use research to support or explain your answer, be sure to format citations and a reference list according to APA guidelines.

Part A

• What are 3 key things that you would want a mid- or upper-level manager to know about you if you had a chance to make a presentation to him or her?
• Why are the 3 items important to you, and why do you think they would be important pieces of information for your managers?
• If you were going to tell a mid-level manager or senior executive about your own personal history and professional goals in a brief elevator trip, how would you summarize them?
• How might such an elevator speech be of help to you as you move forward?
• Be sure to consider the concepts of speaker, message, audience, and situational awareness as part of your discussion.

Part B

• How do you use and apply the concept of reflective practice in your everyday work and in your career thinking and planning?
• Discuss ways in which your preparation for presentations can make use of the concept of reflective practice.
• How could you use reflective practice, your discipline knowledge, and your understanding of the rhetorical triangle to create an effective, career-related online presence on social media?

Identify two films not presented in class that you believe have the potential to transform one’s political sensibilities pertaining to deep differences. In addition to your recommendations, be sure to give a full citation and a short abstract for each of the two films you suggest.  (650 words)

I need for someone to help me with this immediately, since the person I hired neglected to provide me with the completed document by the due date 1/10/15.  I need this by 5:00 1/11/15 So I can at least receive partial credit.

For your next orientation meeting with your new hire, and to be helpful when other new accountants are hired, prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 5–10 slides with speaker notes that includes the following:

• Describe and explain at least 3 differences in for-profit entities and governmental agencies that cause them to have different required accounting procedures; include an example of each.
• At least 1 slide should explain which regulating authority oversees the accounting rules for governmental vs. for-profit entities. Include an example and brief explanation, in your own words, of the most recent new guideline established by the agency overseeing government accounting. Access the following Web site: www.gasb.org/st/stpg.html.
• At least 1 slide should explain at least 2 differences between governmental entities and nonprofit, nongovernmental agencies, including an example of each difference.
• This is a power point that needs at least two APA references

The Case of Hurricane Katrina

The diversity movement suggests that our differences should not have economic, social, or political consequences and that we should be entitled to the same access to resources and opportunities regardless of our differences. However, the human suffering resulting from Hurricane Katrina and the images of victims have stimulated a debate about differential access to resources.

Using the Internet, research about the differential treatment and access to resources. Based on your research, create a 3- to 4-page report in a Microsoft Word document that includes answers to the following questions:

What are the potential ethical issues that researchers may face when conducting public health research targeting vulnerable populations?
What are the specific vulnerable groups that are potentially at risk as a result of the disaster? Why?
What are the specific strategies that you would propose to ensure equity? Explain.
What are the strategies that you would recommend to prevent potential human rights violations? Explain.