Assignment
Southwest Airlines is a well-known company featured in our textbook. Over the next 4 weeks, you will take on the fictional role of intern at Southwest Airlines Human Resources. You will utilize the textbook and other professional resources to complete your assessments.
Your first week on the job is filled with learning the ins and outs of Human Resources and the industry. Your manager told you that one of your projects is to assist with a new HR strategy for the company. This strategy is broken down into 3 parts that you will work on throughout the course. They are:
i. Examining current practices
ii. Talent recruitment and selection
iii. Strategy recommendation
Your first task is to examine Southwest's current HR practices, as reported in public sources. Complete the HR Design Decisions chart uploaded below with your review and rationale of the elements listed below to decide where Southwest Airlines' HR practices fall. Support the analysis with evidence from sources on the web.
i. Employees as expenses vs. employees as assets
ii. Compensation below market, above market, or competitive
iii. Spontaneous training and development or planned training and development
iv. Specific job descriptions or general job descriptions
v. External or internal recruitment, or both
vi. Limited socialization of new employees or extensive socialization
vii. Collective bargaining or individual bargaining
Possible sources for information include but are not limited to:
i. Organization website and associated websites
ii. Vault Campus includes detailed reviews and survey information about what it is like to work at Southwest. To access Vault Campus, visit eCampus and select PhoenixLink.
iii. Websites that specialize in company reviews and job postings
iv. Magazine and journal articles from the Internet or University Library
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes 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.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- HR-Design-Decisions.rar