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You are the CEO of a company with four foreign subsidiaries. Your work schedule makes it nearly impossible to visit more than once per year. How would you ensure you receive accurate information to fairly appraise each expatriate manager? Explain your answer.
Scenario
Imagine you work as an HR professional for the company you selected in the first assignment in Week 3. The company has been having issues with their current performance evaluation process. Some of the issues include the data collection process, proper documentation, and making appropriate decisions on employee performance. Your manager has asked you to evaluate and update their current performance evaluation process and present it as a training module to a group of new supervisors in your organization. Apply the revised or improved evaluation process to the specific job you created in the Week 3 assignment. Note that your manager has asked you to present the new process in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.
Instructions
Based on what you know about performance evaluations, use the Internet to research and select a performance evaluation tool that you believe is best suited for your company. Create a PowerPoint presentation with speaker’s notes to present this new tool to new supervisors.
Create a PowerPoint presentation to present this new tool to new supervisors. Include the following points:
Explain the benefits of using performance evaluations.
Assess the existing performance evaluation used in the organization.
Create a sample of the performance evaluation tool selected for the company.
Justify the selection of the performance evaluation tool.
Develop a detailed, step-by-step description of the evaluation process.
The PowerPoint presentation should be a minimum of 10 slides with corresponding speaker’s notes, in addition to a title slide and references slide. Include graphics as needed to improve, enhance, or clarify the content.
For organizations to prosper globally necessitates the ability to embrace continual change through continual learning. Offer examples of the ways leaders might evaluate the sustainability of their organization to function as a learning organization.
Select a social network and summarize three important points you learned about its privacy policy for this environment. How does this apply to your personal information? Most of the privacy policies can be found at the bottom of the website
Write a minimum of five to six sentences related to the topic.
Case Study 1. Whirlpool Mixes up Its Managerial Training: Closed-Looped Method Brings Learning Full Circle
Most Americans are familiar with Whirlpool. Whirlpool, which is based in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been in business for more than century and is perhaps best known for the washers and dryers it makes. In addition, the company makes refrigerators, freezers, and cooking appliances that it sells under various other brand names around the world (Amana, Maytag, KitchenAid, and Roper are some of them).
During the last economic recession, appliance sales plummeted, and Whirlpool was forced to lay off thousands of workers. Although budgets were being slashed, Whirlpool needed to develop managers who could lead the company through the downturn as well as provide training that would have a measurable impact at a lower cost.
Previously Whirlpool University, the company’s 100-acre learning division located at its corporate headquarters, had used mainly classroom learning. The university now has a learning management system and conducts online training. A series of 30-minute modules are used to help familiarize and onboard new hires. In addition, Whirlpool now takes a “closed-loop” approach to training. Instead of just doing the popular types of training that other companies have adopted, it surveys managers to find out what types of training Whirlpool truly needs and what types it doesn’t, and then designs training programs based on those specific needs.
Because managers are central to the training and development of their employees and are in the best position to observe and coach rank-and-file employees, Whirlpool utilizes a 12-month-long intermittent training program for its managers called Leading People. The program consists of blended learning, including prework modules managers do online, followed by classroom training, business projects, and seminars with top managers. A manager’s direct reports provide an initial baseline assessment of the manager’s skills, and then the manager is assessed again following the training. James Crawford, in Whirlpool’s Chicago division, said the training helped him become a better leader: “It helped me pinpoint weak spots in my leadership practices and then gave me a strategy for turning those weaknesses into strengths.” The managers are later surveyed on how well the training is working and what can be done to improve it. In other words, there is a feedback system in place—hence the “closed-loop” moniker. With this approach, the design, delivery, and redesign of the training is a continuous circle and constantly being improved over time.
Its closed-loop feedback system has helped Whirlpool continue to assess and alter its training to adapt to new conditions. For example, today Whirlpool isn’t laying off employees; it’s trying to hire more of them as its older workers retire. To attract Millennials, the company has partnered with high school and colleges to offer an on-site apprenticeship program called “Work, Earn, and Learn.” In 2017, Whirlpool’s CEO, Jeff Fettig, was one of a number of corporate executives who met with President Donald Trump to talk about saving American jobs and encourage government support for the vocational training that today’s high-tech skills manufacturers today. “The jobs are there, but the skills are not,” said one executive at the meeting.
Questions
Why are a needs assessment and ongoing training important for firms like Whirlpool to conduct?
How do you think Whirlpool’s training strategy will need to change in the future?
As an intern, you have been tasked with looking into countries where Southwest can expand. You will need to review human resource management principles from some of the countries listed below to determine if the country is a good fit for the organization.
Countries to include:
Mexico
Canada
France
Japan
China
India
Select a country and be its representative. Provide your newfound expertise of human resource principles for your selected country. Consider information about the following:
Recruitment practices
Payment systems
Labor relations
Training and support
Create a 5- to 7-slide presentation for management that features your research and recommendation on where the organization should expand. Include detailed speaker notes so any person could present if needed. Include citations in APA format (not included in slide count).
Draw the associated E-R Diagram and signify which components need to be included to meet the defined needs.
1) The user is a director of research for a large foundation. Approximately three hundred facilities are staffed by the foundation’s twelve-hundred employees. Over seventeen hundred projects are currently underway, with some three-hundred and fifty waiting to be worked on in the future.
The system is responsible for information regarding the current state of affairs only. Requests for information are:
· List all current employees in name sequence
· List all employees who work at a particular facility
· Determine which facility has the most employees; which has the fewest
· Display the names of all employees currently working on a particular project
· Display all projects an employee is currently working on
· Locate inactive (no employee assigned) project
· Determine the ratio of active to inactive projects
Using Amazon and AWS as your company, they have a centralized thought process while relying on employees to think outside the box. Write a word paper for your Leadership Styles Rationale. Address the following in your paper:
Restate the needed change within the organization.
Analyze the various leadership styles you explored in Week 3 in the context of the organizational culture and proposed change.
Justify which leadership style or approach would best support the organizational change.
Discuss how this style will support sustainable organizational success.
Discuss how this style integrates the organization’s mission and vision.
Discuss how this style will increase value for stakeholders.
Socrates was illiterate and avoided the written word because he felt it weakened the mind. Similarly, many people today fear that we’re weakening our children’s minds by making them too dependent on computers.
Also, in many schools students spend two years of math education learning long division – a skill that’s almost never used in the age of computers. Some educators argue that a student’s time could be better spent learning other things.
Do you think people are becoming too dependent on computers, or are computers allowing us more time to learn other things?
Explain the following and how they have increased our understanding of motivation:-
1.Abraham
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
2.Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene Theory
3.McCelelland’s Learned Needs Theory
Compare and contrast the three theories influences of human motivation in the contemporary work setting.
Choose one theory that best applies to your own personal and developmental journey.