Decisions 1: Motivation vs. Ability
Discuss whether ability or motivation is more important in selecting the right person for the right job. Explain your rationale.
Discussion 2: Overcoming the Challenges Associated with Employee Feedback
Assess the challenges of managers providing accurate, timely, and effective feedback to employees. Recommend how managers can overcome any two of the challenges you identified.
Making a Big Positive Impact on an Organization
Of the concepts covered in the textbook, determine which, if implemented well, would have the greatest impact on an organization. Provide a rationale with your response.
Assignment: Annual Review and Create your Dream Job
Imagine you work at a company and it is time for an employee named Jim's annual review. While he was a model employee the first nine months of the year, recently Jim has been coming in late. It has not been just a few minutes each day, either. It is starting to cause problems in the production line. In this assignment, write a one page summary of your conversation with Jim. How will you address his recent performance issues while still praising him for his previous nine months of good work? Your goal is to balance the negative and positive feedback so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.
Write a one page paper in which you:
1. Explain how you will address Jim's recent performance issues.
2. Suggest both constructive and positive feedback designed so that Jim will leave motivated to do his best.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Explain e?ective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations, including career development, fostering ethical behavior, discipline, labor relations, and dismissals.
Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.
In this assignment, you get the chance to create your dream job and to build its compensation plan and appraisal performance.
Write a six to eight page paper in which you:
1. Create a job description and specifications for your dream job.
2. Design a compensation and benefits package related to your dream job.
3. Rationalize your compensation and benefits package. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the compensation and benefits package.
4. Imagine this is the only position of its kind in the organization. From this perspective, design a performance appraisal program to assess your job performance.
5. Rationalize your performance appraisal program. Be sure to indicate the research and considerations that went into the design of the performance appraisal program.
6. Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Discuss job analysis, job descriptions, and specifications.
Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of employee compensation programs.
Analyze various techniques, considerations, and designs of performance appraisal programs.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.