Category: Human Resource

Disciplining and/or discharging employees.

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Please think about your own experiences disciplining and/or discharging employees. Or, think about your own discipline/discharge experiences with you as the employee, or stories about employee discipline and/or discharge from your friends or relatives.

Your First Post:

Once you settle on an experience, describe it to your colleagues. Discuss what you think went right in the experience. What went wrong? Consider it from the HR/Organization perspective, the employee and the supervisor perspective. How could the processes have been improved?

 

Company’s treatment of the grievant

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Should the company’s treatment of the grievant for the first two “sleeping on the job” incidents influence the outcome in this case? Explain.
Did the Company have just cause to dismiss the grievant for violating safety rules when in each instance cited, the truck was out of gear with the safety brake on?
Is the union’s argument that the grievant just appeared to be “sleeping” creditable in the absence of any testimony of support by the backhoe driver, a fellow union member?
Your response should be a minimum of 150 words per question. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations, and cited per APA

The importance of workplace diversity

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In this discussion, we will respectfully tackle a sensitive topic. As a manager, or employee you may have to handle or even experience bias, discrimination, and stereotyping. Please watch the following two videos and then post your response to the questions below.

First, making a connection to this week’s reading materials as well as the videos, explain why workplace diversity is important.
Second, what are two (2) specific challenges managers may face in managing diversity and inclusion? How would you go about solving each of these two?
In response to your classmates, respectfully compare and contrast your classmates’ responses with your own thoughts, experiences, and ideas about the topic.

Employee attributions

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Two types of employee attributions are noted in the article (intentionality and deceptive intentionality), please review these concepts and answer the following questions:

Provide a high-level overview/ summary of the case study
Note how constructive intentionality impacts innovation implementations
Find another article that adds to the overall findings of the case and note how attribution-based perspective enhances successful innovation implementations. Please be explicit and detailed in answering this question.
Google Scholar is a great source for research. Please be sure that journal articles are peer-reviewed and are published within the last five years.

 

 

The Essential Workplace Conflict

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First, read Chapters 2, 3, and 4 in The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook, regarding how diversity and inclusion (Chapter 2) and team building (Chapter 3) inform your understanding of the Define piece of the DMAIC process model. Chapter 4 moves into an examples-based consideration of the problem definition, from a narrative perspective. Also, be sure to read the DEFINE Supplementary Document.In your initial discussion post, address the following:

What elements are involved in defining the problem? Why?
Why is accurate use of Define so critical in successful resolution of organizational conflict?
How can you be sure that your Define piece is accurate?
What structural issues may be involved in the Define piece?
What unintended consequences may emerge? (In Modules Seven and Eight, you will think about the C, or Control.)
Why is it so important to understand diversity and inclusion when seeking to define the problem?

 

Blockchain maturity

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1. How can Blockchain increase human resource management efficiencies? 2. What are the stages of Blockchain maturity and explain which stages have the most potential for human resource management application? 3. How and why is Blockchain a disruptive technology in human resource management?

Staffing Alternatives

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Once a staffing need has been acknowledged, the decision must be made as to the appropriate employment type suited for the identified need. Options include full time, part time, per diem outsourcing and in the case of physicians, locum tenens. For your initial response to the below discussion question:

Pick two employment types and define each.
Identify the positives and negatives of each employment type you identified.