Discussion 1: The Relationship between Organizations and Employees
Every company has its own perspective on the relationship between it and its employees. The perspectives vary based on core assumptions. Chapter 6, in your text, compares two organizations, Apple and Nucor. Apple focuses more on seeing employees "as tools" to accomplish goals for the organization while Nucor is a company that believes its employees have individual needs that can be aligned with the company's profits and goals.
1) Review the resources and study the readings on Apple and Nucor.
2) Provide an explanation of which organization's (Apple or Nucor) perspective you think is more effective. Justify your position. Be sure to include the motivation theories that are relevant as well as Morgan's psychic prison metaphor in your explanation.
3) Provide at least four academic resources in APA style and citation format to support your topic.
Length: 2 pages
Assignment: Personal Human Resource Philosophy
As a current or future manager of an organization, it is important to examine your personal beliefs regarding the relationship between people and the organization. Developing a personal philosophy about human resources will also help guide your personal actions to influence the organization's beliefs about its relationship to employees. For this Assignment, you explore your personal beliefs of the employee-management relationship.
Develop your personal human resource philosophy for managing people. Discuss your beliefs about the employee-organization relationship and explain how you arrived at that position. Consider how you would build systems, create a culture, and implement practices to operationalize this philosophy.
Note: Think of this personal philosophy as your roadmap to creating, maintaining, and improving human resources within an organization.
1) The Assignment (5-6 pages).
2) Research at least five sources in addition to your course texts to support your position.
3) Use APA style to cite your sources and the Course Paper template from the Walden Writing Center for proper paper formatting.