1. From the case study (Age Discrimination in a Promotion, end of Ch. 2 under Applications, around p. 75), take a stand on whether or not the employer’s actions were motivated by discriminatory intent. Support your position with evidence or examples from the case.
2. Debate both sides of the following argument: Yes and No: “Gus was not promoted to the new CCS position because of his age.” Support your position with evidence or examples from the case.
3. From the case study (Age Discrimination in a Promotion, end of Ch. 2 under Applications, around p. 75), take a stand on whether or not the employer’s actions were motivated by discriminatory intent. Support your position with evidence or examples from the case.
4. Debate both sides of the following argument: Yes and No: “Gus was not promoted to the new CCS position because of his age.” Support your position with evidence or examples from the case.

Project Analysis, Selection, and Charter (For A Web Portal)

In this course you will develop a project plan; in each assessment
you will complete different component of this plan. Complete the
assessments in the order in which they are presented.

For this assessment, analyze a project, select the subject matter to
use for your project plan, and write a project charter for your
selected project.

Be sure to use the following resources as you complete your assessment:

• Review the Concept Map (linked in the Resources under the Capella
  Multimedia heading) to view the project management life cycle.
• Read the Assessment 1 Coaching document (linked in the Resources
  under the Required Resources heading) for expert tips and advice on how
  to create a project scope statement.
• Refer to the Project Charter media piece (linked in the Resources
  under the Capella Multimedia heading) for information on project
  charters.

Part 1: Project Analysis

1. Read Davis’s 2005 article, “An Experiential Case Study in IT
   Project Management Planning: The Petroleum Engineering Economics
   Evaluation Software Imperative.” This article is linked in the Resources
   under the Required Resources heading. As you read, consider these
   questions:
   • What is the background of this project? That is, why is it being done and what are the key player’s expectations?
   • Who are the stakeholders for this project?
   • What is the organizational context of this project?
2. After reading the article, write a 2–3-page paper in which you address the following as they relate to the article:
   • Analyze three concerns about the project related to the stakeholders, project background, or organizational context.
   • Describe potential solutions for the project risks.
   • Describe risks to the project that might be specific to a project in this industry or area.

Be sure to properly reference and cite the Davis article in your paper using APA style and formatting.

Part 2: Project Selection

Now is the time to choose the subject matter for your project plan.
You will use the subject matter you choose for this assessment to
complete the project charter and Assessments 2–6. The Davis article
addresses some of the important questions you must ask when beginning a
project. As you choose the subject matter for your project plan, ask
questions based on the information in the Davis article to help with
your choice.

The subject matter for your project plan must come from one of the
following two options. Once you have selected your project, use it to
create your project charter in Part 3 of this assessment.

Choose Your Own Project (Web Portal)

You may choose a project of your own that meets the following requirements:

• There is a clear business purpose and a specific completion outcome.
• The completion window is self paced but must be completed before the end of the present quarter.
• Cost estimates that serve as the basis for a budget are used as part of the plan development process.

Part 3: Project Charter

At a project’s initiation, management and stakeholders authorize and
approve the work to be done. This process often takes the form of a
project charter, which can be either an informal document or a formal
contract. In both cases, key stakeholders should sign the document to
indicate their approval.

For this part of the assessment, use the Project Charter Template,
linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading, to create
a project charter for the project you selected in Part 2. Your project
charter should include the following components:

• Business Need: Describe the business
  need/requirement for the project. Indicate how this will align with
  organizational strategic goals and objectives.
• Project Objectives: Describe the implementation of the project followed with bullet points regarding the major deliverables
• Approach: Describe how the project will be managed.
• Assumptions/Constraints/Dependencies: Describe each of these things as they relate to the project.
• Initial Risk Factors: Describe the risk factors identified to date.
• Regulatory Cost/Impact: Describe the regulatory impacts of the project.

Submit the following:

• 2–3-page project analysis.
• Project charter (using the Project Charter Template).

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Ensure that your writing is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Format resources and citations according to APA (6th edition) style.
• Number of resources: Use a minimum of one resource in your project analysis.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.

Assignment 1: Staffing Plan for a Growing Business
Due Week 6 and worth 280 points

Please choose from one (1) of the scenarios below. Note: The scenario that you choose in this assignment will be the one (1) with which you continue for Assignment 2.

Scenario 1

You are a Human Resources Manager of an expanding technology company consisting of 170 employees that develops and distributes small electronic devices. Over the past two (2) years, a research group formed, designed, and built prototypes of small remote surveillance cameras used for security. Recently, your company won a contract to build and provide these remote surveillance cameras to various government agencies. The contract will begin with your company supplying these cameras to agencies within your home state. If all orders are fulfilled sufficiently, the contract will be expanded to supplying agencies outside of your home state.

For the immediate future, you will need to secure a larger facility and hire more staff to sustain the first part of the contract. This staff will consist of ten (10) Assembly Technicians, one (1) Certified Quality Control Engineer, one (1) Contract Administrator, and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional. Meanwhile, there is a contract clause requiring that you provide a staffing plan in order to ensure future product deliveries and sustain the possible future growth.   Â

Scenario 2

You are a former certified education administrator who departed your former position to become the owner of a small, in-home day care consisting of you and a part-time assistant where you care for children from age three (3) to age ten (10). Over the course of time, your demographic population has increased due to significant business growth that has resulted in many families relocating to your area. With more businesses projected to move to the area and the building of new housing developments, it is projected that this growth could be long term.

You have decided that this is a good opportunity to expand your day care business as you have received many inquiries for childcare. In order to comply with your home state regulations, you will require a larger facility and will need to hire additional staff in order to sustain the larger demand for day care. This staff will consist of five (5) Certified Day Care Professionals, one (1) Registered Nurse Professional, five (5) After-School Assistants and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional. You have secured approval for a bank loan and qualify for future loans for future expansion if your current endeavor is successful. Meanwhile, the state in which you operate has requested that you provide a staffing plan before it will issue licensure for your expanded capacity.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of these assignments.

Select one (1) of the scenarios and write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Identify two (2) types of staffing models that could apply to your chosen scenario and determine which model would be best suited for efficiency, productivity, and possible future growth. Examine the significant effect of each identified staffing model on processes that may be occurring within the organization (e.g., outsourcing, contingent workers, consulting firms, etc.).
2. Predict the major potential legal issues that you may encounter when establishing equal employment opportunities and diversity within the workplace while still aiming to acquire employees with the needed certifications and credentials. Next, explain the method of achieving transparency within your staffing model. Justify your response.
3. Specify three (3) tasks that you need to perform to identify, analyze, and develop job requirements and task statements that you will include in formalized job descriptions. Next, predict the frequency with which you would need to review and adjust these job descriptions as your company progresses. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Describe three (3) methods to deal with high employee turnover and the availability of employees with required knowledge, skills, or abilities. Next, describe the primary manner in which the described succession-planning methods would be beneficial to your company. Justify your response.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

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Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and 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 assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and improve productivity.
• Develop a model for staffing an organization that supports the firm’s Human Resources Management strategy and sustains productive operations.
• Summarize the key legal compliance issues associated with staffing organizations.
• Explain the planning considerations for staffing organizations, the use of job analysis, and the components of a staffing plan.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in staffing organizations.

Provide an explanation describing the following decision-making styles: directive, analytical, conceptual and behavioral. Then, discuss which style, or styles, best describes your preferred decision-making strategy. Feel free to identify different styles for different situations.

Imagine you have been selected for an interview. Discuss what you would do to prepare for the interview, including: what would you research, wear, practice, and bring to the interview? Identify at least three key strategies that would help you successfully interview.

PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING:

Directive style decision-making has little tolerance for uncertainty and is sensible. Analytic style decision-making has great tolerance for uncertainty and is sensible. Conceptual style decision-making is characterized by high tolerance for uncertainty and is instinctive in nature. Behavioral style decision-making has little tolerance for uncertainty and is instinctive.

-I will attach previous papers to help with the requirements. I will also provide the grading rubric for this assignment. –

Throughout your education, you have been asked to research topics
and write papers, engage in thought-provoking discussions, consider
diverse perspectives, and a host of other challenges that have required
you to use both your discipline-specific skills as well as your soft
skills. These are called transferable skills, and are skills that you
develop that can be transferred and applied within your chosen career.
Transferable skills are highly valuable and essential for career
success.

Throughout this course, you have been working on a project that
allowed you to demonstrate your understanding of the transferable
skills. It is now time to submit your project/assignment and add a
transferable skills reflection.

To complete this assignment, you will need to do the following:

1. In a minimum of 1 full page, using Microsoft Word, write an essay
   (full introduction and conclusion), which includes the following:
   • Describe the knowledge, skills and/or attitudes regarding
     each of the transferable skills that you’ve gained as a result
     of completing this particular project/assignment.
   • Discuss the ways that you are going to incorporate the
     transferable skills (the transferable skills that you showcased
     in your exemplary project) into your work within your chosen
     career field.
   • Describe your future goals based on the transferable skills that you’ve chosen to showcase.
   • Write your paper utilizing proper tone, spelling and grammar.