Module 3 – Case

METRICS & ANALYTICS; 360-DEGREE FEEDBACK; INTERNSHIPS/APPRENTICESHIPS

Case Assignment

In this Case Assignment after you have read the articles from the required reading list, conduct your own library search and write a comprehensive summary/critique in which you answer the questions:

• What is the difference between metrics and analytics?
• What is benchmarking?
• What are scorecards and dashboards?
• How are these tools being utilized in the HRM context? Bring in private-sector employer examples found in your readings/research (stating employers by name).
• Offer your insights into the topic and its implications for HR.

Use at least 5 library sources to help strengthen your discussion. Reference all material cited.

Your paper should be at least 4-5 pages (not including cover sheet and reference page). Deal with these issues in an integrated fashion, rather than treating them as a series of individual questions to be answered one by one. Follow APA 6^th Edition guidelines.

Assignment Objectives

Differentiate the similarities and differences between employment experiences of men and women

Assess the role of gender in occupational choices and opportunities

Describe how changes in population affect the makeup of the workforce

Summarize the historical issues of different races in the workforce

Assignment Overview

Type: Individual Project

Unit: Sexual Issues & Discrimination

Due Date: Tue, 10/24/17

Grading Type: Numeric

Points Possible: 200

Points Earned: 0

Deliverable Length: 5 to 7 pages excluding cover and reference pages

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Assignment Details

Assignment Description

You have just been hired as the human resources (HR) manager by your company’s chief executive officer (CEO). During your interview process, the CEO indicated that in the last 2 decades, the workforce demographics of her company have changed dramatically. Although this had been occurring, both the previous HR manager as well as all of the company’s front-line supervisors have remained as they had been for years: primarily white males, now in their 50s and early 60s, from a Judeo-Christian background. The CEO indicated that at a frequent rate, workplace strife had been increasing, and it seemed to be related to the changing demographics of the workforce itself. The CEO asked you to compile a training manual that consists of sections targeted at the training of the existing front-line supervisors. Later on, there will be sensitivity training as well as to help all employees understand the changing workforce and what it might mean for them.

Diversity Training Manual: Overview

The content of the final complete manual will need to cover diversity issues, specifically the following forms of discrimination:

• Religious
• Ethnic
• Gender
• Age

There also must be information regarding the following information:

• Recent trends
• Forecasts about the changing general population
• Legislation covering these type issues

There will need to be subsections that deal with the following information:

• Customs and values of each group
• The need for sensitivity to differing values and customs
• Legislation affecting supervisor regulations

Diversity Training Manual: Part I

Given that the training manual will be dealing with several diversity issues, prepare the table of contents and write the first part of the manual, which should deal with some useful background for the company’s supervisors and managers.

The first parts that the CEO wants completed are as follows:

• A preliminary outline of the entire manual (this may change as you work on the project)
• The table of contents
• The following sections regarding the demographics of the U.S. population should be included:
  o Current statistics
  o Recent trends
  o Forecasted trends
• Using the Web sites listed, present information about trends in the U.S. populations regarding the following information:

o Immigrant versus native
o Religion
o Age
o Race

Use the following Web sites:

• Web site 1
• Web site 2
• Web site 3

Diversity Training Manual: Part II

As the new human resources manager, you are now ready to complete the next section of a diversity training manual that is targeted at making your workforce supervisors more aware of current racial diversity issues (e.g., the dramatic increase in the Hispanic percentage of the workforce) and how the supervisors should address them. The goal is to reduce potential tensions in the workplace among employees of different races.

Part II is to be titled, Historical Issues of Different Races in the Workplace and How to Handle Them.

This section should discuss the following:

• Different races now or likely to be in the workforce of the future, based on the U.S. populations racial demographic changes
• Particular issues that create tensions among the different groups
• How supervisors need to address these issues that could potentially cause tension

Diversity Training Manual: Part III

As a continuation of the diversity training manual, you (as the new manager of human resources) should now create portions that specifically address gender issues and are targeted at training and raising the sensitivity of all supervisors regarding potential gender issues. It should include a section on how the supervisor should or should not handle certain gender-based workplace issues. For example, can the supervisor hand out work assignments that he or she feels are better suited to different genders? Can he or she write a job requirement that only one gender can meet, such as a strength requirement?

This section of the manual must, at a minimum, address the following information:

• A few general facts about the U.S. population’s gender mix and the gender mix found in notable segments of the workforce should be included. Make sure to include all sources of information.
• The essence and applicability of the landmark Griggs v. Duke Power case dealing with stated job requirements should be addressed. Click here to read the Griggs v. Duke Power case.
• Describe how the supervisor should state minimum job requirements when he or she requests new employees to be hired into the department.
• Explain how the supervisor might communicate to his or her department (of all male employees) when a female is about to become part of the work team.

References

Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971). Retrieved from the FindLaw Web site: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c…

Passel, J. S., & Cohn, D. (2008, February 11). U.S. population projections: 2005-2050. Retrieved from thePew Research Hispanic Trends Project Web site: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2008/02/11/us-populatio…

Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project. (n.d.). Reports. Retrieved from http://religions.pewforum.org/reports

Pierce, R. (n.d.). Dealing with a changing workforce: Supervision in the 21st century. Retrieved from the Business Expert Webinars Web site: http://www.businessexpertwebinars.com/content/view…

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

1. TITLE PAGE. Remember the Running head: AND TITLE IN ALL CAPITALS
2. ABSTRACT. A summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person voice.
3. BODY. The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 4-6 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
4. REFERENCE PAGE. References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lower case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference Page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Individual Project will be graded based upon the rubric provided here

choose one of the data base. research College Success. choose an article about it and write what was the most important take away from this article (100 words) .

please send the article that you are going to choose.

This coming week we’re turning our eyes toward poetry, where language operates independently of narrative to do its own thing. As you might expect or already know, that means that the larger meaning ends up being a bit more abstract and a bit more difficult to glean.

For this prompt, then, take a look at either the Ross Gay poems (“Feet” and “Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt,” both available on Course Reserves) or Jana Prikryl’s poem “A Place as Good as Any” and pick a single line that baffles or mystifies you. Post it up here and then try to riff on the specific word choices to try and figure out what the line says and, then, relate those choices to a section or line of the poem you have a good grasp on. Hopefully this leads to some insights about the larger aspects of the poem and what it might be trying to say as a whole.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Project Proposal. The project proposal should contain enough detail so that relevant stakeholders (who will vary depending on your topic of interest)
can determine if the proposed solution is feasible and will address the needs or gaps in the current operating environment. The following sections
should be included:
A. Problem Statement: Craft a clear, accurate problem statement that highlights the information technology-related aspects of the challenges you
are facing.
B. Significance: Analyze the significance of this problem and what a solution could mean to you, the company or group, and the discipline or area
of interest within information technology. In other words, describe the significance that this project has to your discipline or area of interest
within information technology and your development as a practitioner. This will be your chance to sell this project idea so that it is exciting for
your imaginary stakeholder audience, and also for your real-world instructor, peers, and potential employers.
C. Objectives: Describe the scope, goals, and objectives of your project. If you are addressing only a part of the overarching problem, state this in
this section. Make sure that your objectives are reasonable (i.e., could be accomplished without exorbitant resource usage, an irrational
timeline, etc.).
D. Deliverables: Propose your overall solution, highlighting the key deliverables that you will create to solve the problem or challenge the
statement.
E. Methodology: Establish the methodology and techniques that you intend to use throughout the design phase of your project, with support as to
how each is appropriate for the situation.
F. Risks: Analyze the problem and your own solution proposal to highlight any risks that may prevent successful completion of your solution
design. Include risks that result from the project not fulfilling the objective to solve the information technology problem. In other words, what
risks are present and how would they impact the potential for a successful information technology solution?

Here is my project proposal. Use my project proposal paper for this assignment.

Designing and implementing an information technology system requires the use of an effective method. The methodology used to implement an IT project proposal should be very effective to ensure its success in an organization. The cloud service project proposal which seeks to boost the security, as well as efficiency in the use of IT services by customers in the market, requires the use of effective methodology to implement it. The cloud services will offer solutions to the security threats faced by many information technology systems applied by firms in the industry to boost the performance of their organizations. This way, a firm can boost its performance in the industry.

Joint Application Design is one of the effective system design methodologies that can be used in the implementation of this system. This methodology will ensure all the important stakeholders in a firm are consulted in the implementation of the project. The system designer, executive sponsor, and manager of the system will be consulted through the use of this technique (Khaitan & McCalley, 2015). As such, the project will succeed effectively once implemented in the firm.

Some of the potential risks that may hinder successful completion of this project are lack of adequate resources by the firm, poor management of the project and finally lack of support by the top management (Batkovskiy, Batkovskiy, Klochkov, Semenova & Fomina, 2016). These risks will prevent successful completion of the project in the market hence leading to its failure. For a project to be successful for instance, the top management should support it effectively. Through the support of the top management, adequate resources will be channeled to the project hence leading to its success in the market. Effective management of a project also promotes its success in the industry. These risks should be mitigated effectively to ensure the success of the project in the firm.

References.

Batkovskiy, A. M., Batkovskiy, M. A., Klochkov, V. V., Semenova, E. G., & Fomina, A. V. (2016). Implementation Risks in Investment Projects on Boosting High-Tech Business Production Capacity: Analysis and Management. Journal of Applied Economic Sciences. Romania: European Research Centre of Managerial Studies in Business Administration, 11(6), 44.

Khaitan, S. K., & McCalley, J. D. (2015). Design techniques and applications of cyberphysical systems: A survey. IEEE Systems Journal, 9(2), 350-365.