Application Assignment
Building a Wiki of HR Knowledge and Practice
Look back over the applications you have completed during this course. Which experiences have most affected your professional practice and principles? How can the theories and concepts explored in this course relate to your development within the HR field? Wikis are resources that are growing in popularity and usefulness to members of numerous professional communities. They offer a place for a diverse set of individuals to consolidate knowledge distilled from their professional experience. For this week's Application, you will reflect on the topics covered in this course and your own experiences in order to develop three short articles that would make a valuable contribution to a hypothetical wiki for HR professionals.
For this Application, select three topics relevant to HR practitioners and imagine that you are developing a wiki article describing each; each wiki entry should be approximately 1 page in length.
Examples of topics you might write about include fostering productivity in virtual teams, specific compensation or benefits strategies, or dealing with conflict in different types of workplaces. When writing your articles, be sure to keep in mind that this wiki is intended as a body of knowledge that will be useful to scholar-practitioners such as yourself. Be sure to highlight practical applications and implementations of the topic and to describe both the benefits and challenges of this application.
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.
Articles/Readings
Brown, P. (2010). The power of HR outsourcing. Strategic HR Review, 9(6). 27-32.
This article looks at the practicality of outsourcing the human resources function within an organization, focusing on certain disciplines within human resources that might be best served if supplied by a third party.
Caldwell, C., Truong, D. X., Linh, P. T., & Tuan, A. (2011). Strategic human resource management as ethical stewardship. Journal of business ethics, 98(1), 171-182.
This article examines the role of human resource professionals and the opportunites they have to contribute to the overall success of their organizations by being aware of their ethical duties.
Drucker, P. F. (2002). They're not employees, they're people. Harvard Business Review, 80(2), 70-77.
This article explores the ever-increasing number of both temporary and contract employees in today's workplace, emphasizing the need for organizations to ensure they are acting in a responsible manner when managing these people, much the same way as managing their permanent staff.
Society for Human Resource Management. (2016).
This article looks at key trends brought forth by a collective group of various subject matter experts.
Sroufe, R., Liebowitz, J., & Sivasubramaniam, N. (2010). Are you a leader or a laggard? HR's role in creating a sustainability culture. People and Strategy, 33(1), 34-43.
This article looks at how human resource practices can be tailored to help build a sustainable culture within an organization.