Part A:
1. What costs must be included in HRM projections to meet divisional needs? Which are most important and why?
2. How would you plan for a company's divisional capabilities? How does one plan to address divisional limitations? What methods may be used to fill gaps between capabilities and limitations?
3. What is the best strategy for addressing issues that may arise when a strategic plan is implemented? Should stakeholders be involved? Should changes be made during a strategic plan's initial unfolding if problems arise? Should this be staved off in favor of data collection?
4. What was the most challenging aspect of your strategic planning process? Was the work more meaningful because it was done as a team? Why or why not? What, if anything, would you change about your process or the plan?
5. In what ways did the strategic planning process change the way you view your HR role? How will this course benefit on-the-job skills and your thinking processes?
Part B:
1. Identifyat least 2 to 3basic HR needs in your current or past place of employment and propose some ideas about how they could be met.Support your work with at least two scholarly sources (as outlined above).
2. Considering your current or previous workplace, how would understaffing, benefit reductions, poor training, increased professional development requirements, and demand for furthering education affect HR? Support your work with at least two scholarly sources (as outlined above).
3. Diversity involves many factors, such as religion, race, age, gender, and national origin. Think about a diversity issue you read about or know about from the past. Recall what you remember about this issue, including the context, situation and what attention it attracted. Then, note how this issue affected the company and HRM. Support your work with at least two scholarly sources (as outlined above).
4. Choose a company you are familiar with recognized for recruiting and retaining quality employees. Conduct some online research of the company's HR initiatives and strategies related to employee recruitment and retention. You have been selected to create an advertising pitch for the company's vice president. Write a short advertisement, explaining every reason why the company is the year's best place to work. Choose or create at least one graphic or image to add to the advertisement.Support your work with at least two scholarly sources (as outlined above).
5. Based on our course materials, your discussions with other students and your learning team discussions identify and discuss three major areas of HR Management you have found to be of most interest to you during this class. Support your work with at least two scholarly sources (as outlined above).