UOP HRM498 week 2-5 assignments
Strategic HRM Plan, Part I: Division Overview Resource: Strategic HRM Plan Overview
WK 2 TEAM
Learning Team Assignment: Strategic HRM Plan, Part I: Division Overview
Resource: Strategic HRM Plan Overview;
Select a company that interests you. Each team member must research one company.
Research the company's HR Website for internally and externally disseminated documents, mission and vision statements, and the company's core competencies.
Review each member's organizational research and core competencies, and choose your company.
Write a 1,050 - 1,400 word memo that summarizes your choice for a company. You will focus on in creating your strategic HRM plan from the organizational research.
This assignment will include the company's name mission and vision statements, core competencies, and an explanation of your choice.
Use the Guidance for the WK 2 team assignment below
Guidance for the WK 2 team assignment - Matrix:
1. Team leader communicates their role in the team forum and the internal team leader DUE DATES (see below)
2. Use a WK 2 team matrix (example below or any matrix will suffice) to organize, and track each team members contribution to the team assignment
WK 2 Team Assignment Matrix
(Team Leader WK 2) Work
Team Member "x" Work
Team Member
"x" Work
Additional columns for
each team member
Resource: Company 'X'
Strategic HRM Plan Overview
Select: DUE DATE
Each team member must research on company
Research: DUE DATE
The company's HR Web Site for internally disseminated documents, mission and vision statements, and the company's core competencies.
Review: DUE DATE
Each member's organizational research and core competencies, and choose your company.
Write (*APA style)DUE DATE
Memo (paper) that summarizes your choice for a company you will focus on in creating your strategic HRM plan. Provide the companies name, mission and vision, core competencies, and an explanation of your choice
Format your paper according to APA standards
HEADERS & SUBHEADINGS: All assignments (individual and team) will include *headers (Abstract or Introduction and Conclusion) to tell the reader the purpose of the paper twice as well as sub-headings in the body of the paper to highlight each part of the assignment to insure that students respond to all parts of the assignment.
*Under the header Abstract or Introduction restate the purpose of the assignment from the Syllabus in the present tense "The purpose of this paper is to [restate all parts of the assignment in the present tense]"
*Under the Conclusion restate all parts of the purpose of the assignment from the Syllabus in the past tense "The purpose of this paper was to [restate all parts of the assignment in the past tense]".
WK 3 Stress Test Instructions and MATRIX for team member responses; Humorous Quip & Photo
WK 3: Learning Team Stress Test Photo and Matrix Assignment
Team Assignment:
After the WK 2 Learning Team assignment the coordination among team members may have produce individual and overall team stress. In preparation for the WK 4 Learning Team assignment, it is important to put in place strategies to reduce any individual and team stress to increase the productivity of individual team members and the quality of the team assignment.
Please look at the humorous Stress Test photograph and rate your stress level on a scale High - Med - Low and enter your stress level in the STRESS TEST MATRIX to calculate an overall Learning Team Stress Level.
Identify the strategies to overcome individual and team stress for the WK 4 assignment. In other words, what would you do differently as an individual and collectively as a team in the WK 4 assignment which you did not do in the WK 2 assignment?
Team member
WK 2 Individual Stress Level
High-Med-Low
Individual strategies to reduce stress for the WK 4 team assignment
Overall Team Strategies to reduce stress for the WK 4 team assignment
Week 4
Choose two ethical considerations and two diversity considerations affecting your division.
Write a 1050- to 1400-word proposal for your HR director in which you respond to the following:
Provide current conditions and reasoning for a modification.
Provide details about what the considerations are.
Justify why they were important for your strategic HRM planning process.
Recommend ways for addressing these considerations.
Suggest specific recommendations for best practices for dealing with each consideration.
Provide a rationale.
Format your proposal consistent with APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
Week 5
Strategic HRM Plan, Part IV: Final Report
All parts of the plan must be turned in with the Final Report.
Incorporate previous feedback you received and make improvements.
Choose three to four cultural HR issues and three to four emerging HR issues that affect your division. Your choices must reflect your predictions for priorities and concerns in your division’s HRM plan.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word detailed analysis, explaining how these issues and cultural considerations affect your division and the strategic plans.
Create a chart with descriptions of chart contents, or a detailed, bulleted outline of your recommendations for actions for five years and the division’s capabilities. Include organizational limitations and how those will be addressed. This chart or outline must include justification for each recommendation for forecasting needs and strategic steps you provide each year.
Create a 350- to 525-word executive summary.
Organize your materials according to your created outline.
Format your report consistent with APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.