Assignment 3: Human Resource Project Plan
Due Week 6 and worth 280 points
You have recently been appointed head of human resources and are now in charge of managing a small team. Your next project is to revamp the compensation and benefits package employees are receiving at your company. Design a plan for the human resource project without the use of MS Project or similar software. Note: You will have to make assumptions or create fictitious data for this assignment. Be clear about these assumptions and data for your professor to follow along.
Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:
1. Construct a project charter to revamp the compensation and benefits package.
2. Design a communication plan for the project.
3. Define the scope of the project.
a. Create a work breakdown structure including numbered components. Submit your WBS by creating a table inside your assignment.
b. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment.
Your assignment must:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· 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 and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Determine the characteristics of a successful project plan.
· Deconstruct the project planning process and how that affects human resource management.
· Identify the scope of projects and the structure of the accompanying work.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing human resource projects.
· Write clearly and concisely about managing human resource projects using proper writing mechanics.
Chapter 4 Discussion Board
Chapter 4 Discussion Board
Part 1
Review ABC’s Strategic Plan for 2017 – 2022 online at http://www.abc.edu/cs-acad/strategicplan/index.cfm. The Metrics and Framework link includes metrics that ABC will be working towards achieving in the coming years. Choose three (3) of the nine (9) metrics listed and revise them to represent a SMART goals for the University. I am looking for your ability to apply the SMART goal concept to this information.
If you are unsure what a SMART goal is, please read below.
When writing goals, it is helpful to remember the acronym SMART. Different people associate different words with each of the letters in the SMART acronym, but for the purposes of this problem, SMART means that effective goals are:
| 1. | Specific. A good goal defines exactly what you expect to accomplish. When your goals are specific, the behaviors required to accomplish them are clear. Many people say that they want to recycle to save the environment, but a better goal would be “Place every used bottle or can in a recycling container within five minutes of finishing its contents.” |
| 2. | Measurable. You can measure the outcomes of a good goal. When you measure how much of a goal you have attained, you get feedback on your work. For example, compare the goal “I want to be skinny” with “I want to lose 10 pounds by the end of the month.” How can you measure skinny? But by measuring the pounds you have lost so far, you know exactly how close you are to meeting your goal. |
| 3. | Attainable. Good goals are hard to reach, but not impossible. If a goal is too easy, you will not have to work hard to attain it, and your overall performance will not improve. If a goal is too hard, you will be discouraged from attempting to reach it. One way of making sure that goals are attainable is to break larger, difficult goals into smaller, more easily accomplished subgoals. |
| 4. | Result-oriented. A good goal contains only one outcome or accomplishment. If you combine two or more outcomes in one goal, it will be difficult to decide where to focus your attention. For example, “To increase produce sales by 3% and to achieve a 5% market share” is a less effective goal than “To increase produce sales by 3%.” |
| 5. | Time-bound. Good goals specify precisely when you will meet them. Doing so provides you with a deadline for your actions. For example, it is easy to say “I want to be a millionaire,” but you are more likely to accomplish that goal if you say “I will have a million dollars in a bank account by January 1, 2020.” |
Part 2
Conduct a mini SWOT analysis for ABC University. List each two (2) strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Remember – strengths and weaknesses are internal and opportunities and threats are external. Many students misstate opportunities as something internal. An opportunity is not an action that a company would take. The action must be based upon a factor in the external environment that has created an opportunity for the company to pursue.
THE ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ENHANCING POSITIVE ORGANIZATION, THE CASE OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Assignment 3:
3.1 Research conceptual framework (up to 5,000 words)
A conceptual framework is defined by Miles and Huberman (1994) as: “explains either graphically, or in narrative form, the main things to be studied – the key factors, concepts or variables …. and the presumed relationship among them”.
Not all research projects necessarily lead to a conceptual framework. If you have already carried out the literature review to the standards required at the PhD level, you will have already a deep understanding of the research issues and concepts associated with your research project.
Research planning requires a good understanding of how the research concepts being investigated are linked. Also, you must be able to explain the relationships between the concepts associated with your investigation. Probably, you are already aware that you need to follow logical research processes to generate the necessary information to support your investigation.
The literature review assists you to develop your topic knowledge on what to do. The frameworks help you to explain the why and how aspects of your research. It is also a very important tool to use to filter research questions, variables and methodologies. To do so, you need to clearly understand how the elements of your research are mapped together on a sound theoretical scientific base. Thus, the necessity of a research framework to guide the direction of your thesis study.
Creating your research conceptual framework:
Essentially, the framework provides you with the structure and content for the investigation based on the literature and to certain extent in-depth knowledge of a student and his DOS. Developing research conceptual frameworks is an iterative process. The concepts and variables incorporated in the framework should be derived from the literature. These should capture the underlying principles of the theories you want to investigate. The background studies (carried out in part one of this assignment) should help you to understanding the theories that describe relationships between your conceptual framework variables of interest. To create your research framework, you need consider:
• The research background to define concepts and their relationship. You also need to investigate how past researchers have framed similar research problems;
• Identify the key elements (e.g., independent and dependent variables) of your research;
• Represent the framework in the form of flow charts, mind maps, tree diagrams, mathematical equations, etc;
• Scientifically explain the association between the elements of your framework
If the framework is developed based on a solid background this help you to define and refine your thesis objectives, research questions, propositions, hypotheses and the methodology you need to deploy to investigate them.
Output:
This will depend on the nature of your investigation. It is most likely that you will end up with a chapter documenting the relationships and links between the key elements of your research. This will help to define your research instruments, which are the next logical step in the development of your research study.
You must work closely your DoS and academics in your field of research to identify, develop, review and refine your research framework.
3.2 Research methodology (up to 5,000 words)
You need to justify the validity and robustness of the scientific methods you are planning to deploy to achieve your research aims and objectives. Precisely how you will approach this issue will depend on your selected research problem (and also the field of research) that you are investigating. Thus, you need to discuss with your DOS the range of possible methodologies.
Broadly speaking, in this section you must justify the scientific and philosophical theories that underpin the process and methods you are planning to choose to collect and analyse/model data to answer your research questions.
For example: are you using qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods? Is the research theoretical or empirical? Does it develop new theory or find new applications of existing theory?
Output:
The output from this exercise will form the bulk of your methodology chapter in your thesis
What research tradition are you going to be working in; and remember, you may be drawing on more than one field of research. You need to consider all the relevant intellectual traditions, theories, and types of analysis for your research.
You may use the following to help you to justify your research approach.
• Investigating an issue or problem?
• Applying a theory/theories or model/models?
• Developing simulation models
• Testing a specific hypothesis?
• Investigating a policy formation, methodology, approach or its implementation?
• Gathering existing research to revise, modify, or expand an existing theory or model?
• What relevant research methods exist to choose from?
• Why have you chosen the one you have?
• Why are the others not appropriate?
The answer to the above list of inquiries in conjunction with the literature review from Term 1 will help you to develop strategies for designing and implementing your research. This is the most important of part of your research methodology chapter. You need to assure the examiners that the methods and tools you used to deploy you study, analyse and interpret your results are valid and reliable.
Ethical Considerations
You should demonstrate an awareness of the ethical and micro-political implications of working as a researcher and discuss how your own values and perspectives may influence your research approach and design. Use the ethics guidelines material from the core textbooks provided in RM1. Include in an Appendix the relevant ethical approval documents, e.g. letter of verification that the study has been submitted to the University’s Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee for review regarding research with human subjects.
Limitations
• What are the boundaries of your research project?
• What topics are you not researching?
• What aspects are you not covering?
• What subject groups are you not including?
• What locations or sites are you not investigating?
• What contextual factors are you not covering?
• What causal factors are you not including?
• What time period(s) are you not covering?
Note:
Output:
The output from this exercise will form the bulk of your methodology chapter in your thesis
Research future plans
You are to work closely with your DOS to produce a draft work plan for the remaining period of your research project. The plan should describe, including the timeline, all of the following tasks:
1. Data collection
2. Data analysis
3. Writing up
4. Dissemination
5. Resources/support may need for data collection and analysis
6. Risk for not completing the above tasks
CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT
The overriding assessment criterion for your work is its suitability for incorporating in the final doctoral thesis. Thus, before submitting your work please check with your DOS that he/she is satisfied that the draft content you write achieves the standard for the PhD level and can be incorporated into your final thesis.
Assessment Indicative Criteria Yes Partiality No
3 Literature Review in-depth and critical review of literature – gap identification in existing knowledge – relevance of literature to the research aims objectives and questions
FEEDBACK:
4 Theoretical Understanding of the research conceptual framework Comprehensive understanding of theoretical background of their research – clear statement of assumptions and limitations of study
FEEDBACK:
5 Methodology/Numerical/Experimental/modelling Formulation IF Applicable systematic description of methodology, numerical and experimental methodology – discussion of significance, sample size, population and experimental problems
FEEDBACK:
6 Research gap or novelty Systematic demonstration of the novelty and relevance of the proposed research through scientific understanding of the subject area
FEEDBACK:
7 Future research plans Realistic plan for further work and risk of completion
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8 Technical Writing Appropriate structure of content
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9 Overall Comments Overall impression about the quality of the report
FEEDBACK:
Urban Geography
- ● What are the key focus/foci of this sub-discipline?
- ● What the key/typical questions or problems this sub-discipline tries to answer?
- ● What types of methods are used by this sub-discipline?
- ● Who uses the information generated by this sub-discipline?
- ● What is one key theories of this sub-discipline?
Your response should be presented in proper English, written in paragraph style, and involve at least 3 academic sources. All sources of information need to be presented in full American Psychology Association (APA) referencing. (300 words)
Explain the alignment of the marketing plan with the organization’s strategic plan and business goals, and describe major elements of a marketing strategy
Objective: Explain the alignment of the marketing plan with the organization’s strategic plan and business goals, and describe major elements of a marketing strategy. Introduction The primary role of marketing is to create, manage and communicate a company’s brand to consumers. Consumers want to believe, trust and have access to information about a product or service. To accomplish this, a company must have a detailed and effective marketing plan and strategy that is clearly aligned with their company strategic plan. This essay will allow you to explain the alignment of the marketing plan with the organization’s strategic plan and business goals, as well as describe major elements of a marketing strategy.
Deliverable The essay for this lesson is required to be a minimum of 750 words that clearly demonstrate your understanding of the activity. Essays should have a clear introduction, thesis statement and conclusion, written in APA format (APAstyle.org). A minimum of three sources must be cited in-text and in the Reference list. Activity Details
Step 1: Read the following questions and directives, and apply what you have learned about this lesson’s objective to summarize your responses.
•What is the role of marketing in an organization and why is it important to organizational success?
•How is marketing integrated into an organization and its structure? Address how/why the marketing plan should be aligned with the strategic plan, mission and vision.
•What are some planning tasks necessary for marketing to be successful?
•What is a brand and what role does branding and brand equity play in the marketing strategy? How is this aligned with the strategic plan?
•How is branding established, managed and measured?
•Explain the benefits to a company of having a social media component as part of the overall marketing strategy. Can social media impact a brand? Is social media marketing right for every company?
Describe how a consumer's attitudes and beliefs about CAM could hinder objective assessments of reliability and credibility in CAM
Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on a methodology you create for assessing credibility and reliability of an Internet source of CAM information. Include detailed speaker notes and reference citations.
Describe how a consumer’s attitudes and beliefs about CAM could hinder objective assessments of reliability and credibility in CAM.
Create five objective criteria to judge the credibility and reliability of a source of information on CAM.
Select a CAM therapy or modality of interest.
Research the Internet for websites on this therapy or modality. Be sure to not use the same therapy you used for the CAM paper, discussion or a website from class. Then, perform the following:
- Describe the therapy.
- Examine the type of training or education that is required.
- Discuss whether a license or certification is required to practice this therapy.
- Identify the overseeing or regulating organization for this therapy.
Using your criteria, review one of the websites and determine how reliable the site is for CAM information.
- Explain how you reached your conclusion about the website. Consider using a grading scale or grid for this exercise.
- Describe steps the website could take to increase its credibility.
Present the Assessing Reliability and Credibility of CAM ResourcesPresentation.
- For Local Campus students, these may be (at the discretion of faculty) oral presentations accompanied by Microsoft® PowerPoint®presentations.
- For Online and Directed Study students, these are Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with speaker notes.
What is history? Why should we study history?
What is history? Why should we study history? Within the context of our stories
concerning Christopher Columbus, Native Americans, the Pilgrims, or slavery,
discuss how historians (Zinn and Loewen) have dealt with the above issues
specifically. How have history textbooks begun to complicate our histories even
further? With regard to the above topics, how have your readings and studies in
this class differed from the ways in which these topics have been portrayed (all the
way back to elementary school) to you in previous classes? In the quote above,
W.E.B. DuBois suggests that in our studies of history, when we skim over the bad
parts, our histories begin to lose their value as “incentive and example.” What
does he mean by this? What are the far-reaching consequences of the ways in
which so many of us have been taught history?
DIRECTIONS
1) Your response to the question must be typed—twelve point font, double-spaced,
one-inch margins. In writing your answer, please do not exceed five pages.
2) In your response, use only your assigned text(s), the instructor’s handouts, or
class notes taken from discussions. Do not use additional library or internet
sources.
3) Your generalizations must be supported by direct citations from the text, class
notes, or instructor’s handouts.
4) Citations should be made in MLA format. For class notes or presentations, you
might use: (60’s handout) or (class notes).
Note: You must cite parenthetically throughout your narrative. Please follow this format. There
should be many citations throughout your response taken from the sources noted above because
assumptions and interpretations must be bolstered by citations. The strength of your response is
dependent largely upon your citation of the assigned sources.
annotated bibliography & research questionaire-MILESTONE PROJECT (toxic supervision )
M3 – Capstone Milestone
Capstone Milestone Radial StampPrimary Research Design
One requirement of this course is to conduct primary research related to your research question. For this week’s capstone milestone you are required to plan your research design for either a questionnaire or an interview you will conduct. Begin by asking yourself these questions:
•What am I trying to find out?
•How am I planning on finding it out?
•Who am I going to talk/observe/study?
•How am I going to gain access to these individuals?
•What do I expect to discover?
Select whether you will be conducting an interview or questionnaire and submit the requested material. Remember, you do not need to conduct the research yet, but you do need to demonstrate that you know the best way to obtain the information needed. You will determine your sample in the coming week and will need to administer the questionnaire and analyze the results for your capstone.
1. Interview
a. Interview guide: a brief statement of who you plan to interview, your goals for the interview, and how those goals relate to your research questions. If you conduct an interview, you must interview at least two people.
b. Interview questions: provide a list of the 15 questions you plan to ask in your interview and explain how each relates to your research goals.
2. Questionnaire
a. Research population: describe who they are and how many there are.
b. Sampling strategy: will you distribute the survey to your entire research population? If not, how will you determine who is in your sample (i.e., who is invited to complete the survey)?
c. Questionnaire of at least 25 questions (you must actually design the questionnaire).
d. A description of how each question relates to your research goals.
The purpose of this assignment is to help you evaluate an aspect of your research problem and demonstrate your clear understanding of surveying and/or interviewing techniques and analysis. Please keep the following questions in mind while writing your questions:
•What are the goals of this research design?
•What should be asked?
•How should each question be asked?
•In what sequence should the questions be arranged?
•What questionnaire layout will best search the research objectives?
•How should the questionnaire be pretested? Does the questionnaire need to be revised?
Assignment Mechanics
•There is no identified format for this assignment; your format will differ depending on a number of variables. It’s your option whether to use a pencil/paper survey or an online survey.
•Include your name and the date at the top of the page.
•Include your last name in the file name of the assignment.
M3 – Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
White paper that says “The Annotated Bibliography” on a black background
An annotation gives a list of sources on a selected topic and summarizes the contents of each source. Writing an annotated bibliography may first seem to be busywork, but it helps students to keep track and evaluate their sources.
Write an annotated bibliography for a minimum of 4 resources for your capstone project. Your bibliography should include the following information:
1.Defines the scope of the source, lists the significant topics and tells what the source is about.
2.Summarize the source.
3.Weigh the strengths and weaknesses of the source to gauge its relevance and usefulness
4.Write one or two sentences to summarize/describe the content and one or two sentences providing an evaluation.
Additional Resources
•APA Cleary Style Manual located in the Documents Library
•Annotated Bibliographies (Purdue OWL)
•Annotated Bibliography Sample
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The Annotated Bibliography (linked here and located in the Documents Library)
Assessment Mechanics
•Use proper APA formatting
•Include your name and the date at the top of the page.
•Include your last name in the file name of the assignment.
Marketing Ethics And Social Responsibility
Objective: Examine ethical dilemmas faced in two international companies and describe the impact to overall organizational health and marketing strategy. Introduction: Globalization means that more and more organizations are conducting business across borders and encountering different cultures and political, ethical and legal environments in their everyday business affairs. This essay will allow you to explore ethical dilemmas encountered when operating in various international cultures and their impact on the firm’s overall market position and marketing strategies. You will select two case studies involving ethical dilemmas in international companies, examine the challenges of applying codes of ethics in varying cultures, explore the impact of these events on marketing strategy and make recommendations about how managers can deal with ethical practices in international settings.
Deliverable: The essay for this lesson is required to be a minimum of 750 words that clearly demonstrate your understanding of the activity. Essays should have a clear introduction, thesis statement and conclusion, written in APA format (APAstyle.org). A minimum of three sources must be cited in-text and in the Reference list.
Step 1: Select companies. Select two case studies that reflect ethical dilemmas that have occurred in international companies. For example, Nike experienced ethical dilemmas related to using child labor in their foreign factories; other firms have had to consider how to deal with bribery in countries where it is an accepted business practice.
Step 2: Conduct research. Conduct research using the Cline Library, the Internet, the lesson textbooks or other academic resources. Explore how your two chosen companies have dealt with ethical dilemmas when operating in different cultural, political and legal environments.
Step 3: Read and formulate responses. Read the following prompts and use what you have learned about this lesson’s objective to formulate your responses. •Describe the two companies and case studies that you have selected. Where are their headquarters? What are their main products/services? In which other markets/countries do they operate?
•Describe the ethical dilemmas that these companies faced. Did these companies have Codes of Conduct or Codes or Ethics available to their international managers? How did these ethical dilemmas conflict with their codes of conduct?
•Do the companies communicate their Codes of Conduct/Ethics to their stakeholders (managers, employees, suppliers, customers, etc.)?
•Assess the impact of political and regulatory climates in these situations, as they relate to the described ethical dilemmas. How did they impact marketing strategies going forward?
•How did these companies manage the specific ethical dilemmas described in the two selected cases?
•What recommendations do you have that might have also helped the situations?
•What impact might ethical differences and resulting backlash from mishandling them have on the bottom line of these companies?
Step 4: Write a paper. Write a 750-word paper that incorporates your responses to the points above. Please review the essay rubric prior to proceeding. Use these writing guidelines: •Include a cover page and a reference page in addition to your required page count. •Use APA format. •Double-space text. •Use size 12 Times New Roman font. •Optional: Use section headings to organize. •Indent paragraphs. •Include in-text citations as appropriate. •Use correct spelling, grammar, sentence structure and verb tense.
Strategic Communications Plan-Com 510 Wk 3 DISCUSSION
- The purpose of the communication
- Your goal
- Audience
- Key Message
- Supporting Points
- Channel Selection
- Action Request
Part 2: Review at least two of your peers’ Strategic Communications Plan. Provide feedback. Don’t be afraid to challenge their assumptions, suggest new possibilities, and affirm their choices when those choices are good.
Note: Remember, feedback is a powerful and essential tool. Thoughtful, useful feedback is specific. It combines suggestions for improvement with the recognition of good ideas. When you offer feedback, you should contribute new ideas and new perspectives to help your peers learn and move forward.