Assignment 1: Strategy, Planning, and Selection 
Due Week 3 and worth 170 points 

Assume for this assignment that you are being highly considered for a director-level HR management position for a best-in-class national retailer. You are in the final phase of the interview process and must respond to the interview panel regarding specific questions and scenarios that will help them determine if you are a good fit for the new role. The companys culture is centered on the effective development of strategy, plans, and selection criteria aimed at building and sustaining a competitive and profitable organization. It will be extremely important that you respond with a strategic mindset in order to convince the organization you are able to help them ensure the execution of the business strategy. 

Write a six to seven (6-7) page paper in which you: 

• Analyze different types of strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, and focus/niche) and select which one you would deem more appropriate for an efficiency-minded retail organization and explain your rationale. How would the selected strategy ultimately affect how HR does its job? 
• Examine the four (4) approaches to job design/redesign and provide an example (not a definition) of each. Then, make a case to the interviewing panel on the importance of effective job design applications in supporting the overall strategic goals of the organization. 
• Consider challenges and constraints associated with recruiting workers and identify and discuss at least two (2) issues. What advice would you give to ease your selected issues? Be specific. 
• List and describe 23 candidate selection process ideas that might add value and overall effectiveness to the process. HINT: . Also, what problems should HR and management teams avoid during the selection process? 
• Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements: 
  1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
  2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment (with running head), the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. 
  3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length. Use the Strayer University Library at https://research.strayer.edu to locate additional sources to support your work. 

The specific course outcomes associated with this assignment are:  

• Assess the strategic role of human resource management and the components that provide a competitive advantage to the organization. 
• Examine the human resource management functions of recruiting and selecting, and their importance to business strategy.

Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Part A (Chapter 4)

1. Think about the improvements you would make to your current or previous organizations Resource Information Systems (HRIS). Review the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Explain the system needs and provide a few details on what you would do during each phase of the SDLC.

Part B (Chapter 5)

2. Based on your system recommendations from Part A, make a brief proposal request to a vendor (see vendors on page 110, Table 5.3) using the information from Table 5.2 as a guide.

Due Week 3 and worth 120 points

Read the details of the Larson Property Management Company case scenario on pages 114115 of the textbook. The Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Larson, and the Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Johnson, would like to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the HR functions, as well as reduce overall HR costs. Mr. Larson and Ms. Johnson would like you, the HR Director, to serve as the change agent of the project. In this assignment, you will develop a plan and analysis (planning and analysis phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)) of the current business based on the details of the scenario.

Instructions:

Write a two to three-page proposal, in which you:

Introduction and Plan

1. Detail the current situation for the company, focusing on the issues that the organization is currently facing from using a legacy HRIS. Explain your plan for moving forward to address these issues.

Needs Analysis

2. Based on the issues the organization is currently facing, identify the new system needs. Identify change team members who will help identify system need and specify their role and responsibilities.

Interview, Questionnaire, Observation, or Focus Group

3. Determine how additional data will be collected regarding system needs. Determine how change management team will collect data during the exploration phase. Specify if team members will use interviews, questionnaires, observations and/or focus groups to collect data from end users. Provide at least five essential questions that will be asked of end users via interview, questionnaire, observation, or focus group.

Conclusion

4. Explain two to three reasons why the company would benefit from adopting an HRIS. Focus on how the HRIS would address the current HR needs of the organization.

Resources

5. Use at least two quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the strategy of the organization, the HR strategy, and HR programs with Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS).
  • Identify who and what is involved in an HRIS needs analysis including the types of activities performed.
  • Evaluate key elements and system considerations in the design of HRIS.

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Retention of productive employees is a major concern of HR professionals and business executives. It is more efficient to retain a quality employee than to recruit, train and orient a replacement/new employee of the same quality.

4 key points.

Some management commentators have argued that job (or position) descriptions are not necessary, that they are simply unneeded paperwork that occupy file space and that they are not particularly useful. In essay form, develop two arguments, one supporting job descriptions and one opposing job descriptions. Finally, provide your opinion in support of one argument or the other. 

References 

Fallon Jr., L. Fleming, & McConnell, Charles R. (2019). Human Resource Management in Health Care Principles and Practice. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning 

You are a human resources practitioner in the HR department of a large, not-for-profit hospital. Your title is Employee Relations Manager, and your immediate superior is the facility’s Vice Present for Human Resources. Repeating a concern brought to him by administration, the HR vice president has stated that employee turnover appears to be excessive for this facility. As a result, the vice president has concluded that employee retention is a major issue and assigns you the task of assessing retention practices. He requests a work plan describing how you will proceed. 

Describe your plan for assessing employee retention, noting the factors you elect to address and explaining why these factors can be important as they relate to turnover and retention. 

Value Proposition in Patient Care

Paradise Hospital, Inc., is a for-profit hospital. As the facility’s new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in current-day America.

Note: You may create or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a 46 page paper in which you:

Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.

Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital’s service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.

Specify four specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such a value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.

Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find four recent (within the last five years) quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides.

Follow APA or school-specific format for citations and references. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Propose areas where a hospital can add value to patient services.

Your manager believes in learning from other companies’ success stories as well as stories of failure. In particular, she likes to apply various management theories when possible, rather than starting from the beginning every time a decision has to be made. She asks you to write a memo to her addressing the following:
From any recent or current event in the news, discuss and explain the use of these two specific theories that the firms you researched believed in
 

In the human resource area, moving toward an employee empowerment culture
In the marketing area, the theory of penetration pricing
For each of these two, explain the following:
 

The issue being addressed that gave rise to employing these theories
How the theory being followed leads to specific actions on the part of the company
Results achieved
If you had been the senior manager in these situations, at those companies, how might you have addressed the situation any differently? What other theory could have been the basis for the decision.

Due Week 3 and worth 200 points

A new position has been approved  for creation; this position will be eligible for full benefits and may  even need to be sent to foreign countries.

You have been given the opportunity  to create a detailed job description for your job, a former job, or a  job you would like to move into.

Based on what you know about a job analysis, employment laws, and safe working environments, include the following categories:

1. Job overview 
2. Responsibilities and duties 
3. Qualifications 
4. Explain how you determined the  duties and qualifications for the job and which laws were considered  when creating the job description. 

This assignment should be 2-3 pages and accurately reflect an actual job description in the workplace today.

NOTE: This assignment will  be used as a basis for the remaining assignments in the course. Make  sure you take this into consideration when doing the work for this  assignment.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using  Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides;  citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.  Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
• Include a cover page containing  the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name,  the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page  are not included in the required assignment page length

PART 1: Find a recent article or video describing a  new product in development. Post a link to the article or video in the  discussion thread and describe the following:

1. What need is the new product trying to fill? Do you think it will meet that need?
2. What type of innovation does the new product represent?
3. What kind of process do you think will be used to make the  product? Would it be possible to produce a lot of the product in a short  amount of time?