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Think about a time when you were part of a staffing process. Describe the situation using as many details as possible.
1. BUS 335 Week 1 Discussion
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" Please respond to the following:
Think about a time when you were part of a staffing process. Describe
the situation using as many details as possible. Then, recommend three
(3) areas in which the staffing process could have been improved. Justify
your answer.
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BUS 335 Week 1to11 Discussion
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BUS 335 Week 2 Discussion
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" Please respond to the following:
Select two (2) out of the five (5) discussion questions presented on page
37 of your textbook. Answer your chosen questions, and justify your
answers.
1. What would a potential problem(s) be with having a staffing process
in which vacancies were filled (1) on a lottery basis from among job
applicants, or (2) on a first come-first hired basis among job applicants?
3. 2. Why is it important for the organization to view all components of
staffing (recruitment, selection, and employment) from the perspective
of the job applicant?
3. Would it be desirable to hire people only according to the
person/organization match, ignoring the person/job match?
4. What are examples of how staffing activities are influenced by
training activities? Compensation activities?
5. Are some of the 13 strategic staffing decisions more important than
others? If so, which ones? Why?
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BUS 335 Week 3 Discussion
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" Please respond to the following:
Go to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website and
select one (1) case from the list. Then, assess the major federal provision
4. that was violated. Recommend at least three (3) action steps to avoid
making a similar violation as hiring manager.
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BUS 335 Week 4 Assignment 1 Staffing Plan for a Growing
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Assignment 1: Staffing Plan for a Growing Business
Due Week 4 and worth 240 points
Please choose from one (1) of the scenarios below. Note: The scenario
that you choose in this assignment will be theone (1) with which you
continue for Assignment 2.
Scenario 1
You are a Human Resources Manager of an expanding technology
company consisting of 170 employees that develops and distributes
small electronic devices. Over the past two (2) years, a research group
formed, designed, and built prototypes of small remote surveillance
cameras used for security. Recently, your company won a contract to
build and provide these remote surveillance cameras to various
government agencies. The contract will begin with your company
supplying these cameras to agencies within your home state. If all orders
5. are fulfilled sufficiently, the contract will be expanded to supplying
agencies outside of your home state.
For the immediate future, you will need to secure a larger facility and
hire more staff to sustain the first part of the contract. This staff will
consist of ten (10) Assembly Technicians, one (1) Certified Quality
Control Engineer, one (1) Contract Administrator, and one (1) Office
Support Paraprofessional. Meanwhile, there is a contract clause
requiring that you provide a staffing plan in order to ensure future
product deliveries and sustain the possible future growth.
Scenario 2
You are a former certified education administrator who departed your
former position to become the owner of a small, in-home day care
consisting of you and a part-time assistant where you care for children
from age three (3) to age ten (10). Over the course of time, your
demographic population has increased due to significant business
growth that has resulted in many families relocating to your area. With
more businesses projected to move to the area and the building of new
housing developments, it is projected that this growth could be long
term.
You have decided that this is a good opportunity to expand your day
care business as you have received many inquiries for childcare. In order
to comply with your home state regulations, you will require a larger
facility and will need to hire additional staff in order to sustain the larger
demand for day care. This staff will consist of five (5) Certified Day
Care Professionals, one (1) Registered Nurse Professional, five (5)
After-School Assistants and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional.
You have secured approval for a bank loan and qualify for future loans
for future expansion if your current endeavor is successful. Meanwhile,
6. the state in which you operate has requested that you provide a staffing
plan before it will issue licensure for your expanded capacity.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed
for the completion of these assignments.
Select one (1) of the scenarios and write a four to five (4-5) page paper
in which you:
Identify two (2) types of staffing models that could apply to your chosen
scenario and determine which model would be best suited for efficiency,
productivity, and possible future growth. Examine the significant effect
of each identified staffing model on processes that may be occurring
within the organization (e.g., outsourcing, contingent workers,
consulting firms, etc.).
Predict the major potential legal issues that you may encounter when
establishing equal employment opportunities and diversity within the
workplace while still aiming to acquire employees with the needed
certifications and credentials. Next, explain the method of achieving
transparency within your staffing model. Justify your response.
Specify three (3) tasks that you need to perform to identify, analyze, and
develop job requirements and task statements that you will include in
formalized job descriptions. Next, predict the frequency with which you
would need to review and adjust these job descriptions as your company
progresses. Provide a rationale for your response.
Describe three (3) methods to deal with high employee turnover and the
availability of employees with required knowledge, skills, or abilities.
Next, describe the primary manner in which the described succession-
planning methods would be beneficial to your company. Justify your
response.
7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.Note:
Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
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.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment
are:
Explain the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and
improve productivity.
Develop a model for staffing an organization that supports the firm’s
Human Resources Management strategy and sustains productive
operations.
Summarize the key legal compliance issues associated with staffing
organizations.
Explain the planning considerations for staffing organizations, the use of
job analysis, and the components of a staffing plan.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in staffing
organizations.
8. Write clearly and concisely about staffing organizations using proper
writing mechanics.
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Discrimination in a Promotion (Pg. 83 - Pg. 85), identify three (3)
considerations that the Best Protection Insurance Company (BPIC)
could include in the promotional process that it utilized to avoid future
legal issues. Provide support for your rationale.
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Suggest two (2) staffing strategies that organizations can utilize to
maintain sustainability and minimize the impact of a significant
9. percentage of the workforce approaching retirement age. Support your
rationale with specific examples of such strategies.
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BUS 335 Week 6 Discussion
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" Please respond to the following: Use the Internet to research
companies that utilize external recruiting processes. Next, based on your
research, provide three (3) characteristics of a job where external
recruitment would be ideal. Next, determine two (2) advantages and two
(2) disadvantages of using each recruiting process. Support your position
with specific examples of the identified advantages and disadvantages.
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10. Please respond to the following: Select three (3) out of the five (5)
discussion questions presented on pages 302 and 303 of your textbook.
Answer your chosen questions, and justify your answers.
3. Compare and contrast a closed internal recruitment system with
an open internal recruitment system.
4. What information should be included in the targeted internal
communication message?
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BUS 335 Week 8 Assignment 2 Business Expansion and
Sustainability
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Assignment 2: Business Expansion and Sustainability
Due Week 8 and worth 280 points
In order to complete this assignment, refer to the scenario that you chose
in Assignment 1.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed
for the completion of these assignments.
11. SCENARIO-
You are a former certified education administrator who departed
your former position to become the owner of a small, in-home day care
consisting of you and a part-time assistant where you care for children
from age three (3) to age ten (10). Over the course of time, your
demographic population has increased due to significant business
growth that has resulted in many families relocating to your area. With
more businesses projected to move to the area and the building of new
housing developments, it is projected that this growth could be long
term.
You have decided that this is a good opportunity to expand your day
care business as you have received many inquiries for childcare. In order
to comply with your home state regulations, you will require a larger
facility and will need to hire additional staff in order to sustain the larger
demand for day care. This staff will consist of five (5) Certified Day
Care Professionals, one (1) Registered Nurse Professional, five (5)
After-School Assistants and one (1) Office Support Paraprofessional.
You have secured approval for a bank loan and qualify for future loans
for future expansion if your current endeavor is successful. Meanwhile,
the state in which you operate has requested that you provide a staffing
plan before it will issue licensure for your expanded capacity.
Using the scenario from Assignment 1, write a six to seven (6-7) page
paper in which you:
Identify three (3) job requirements (e.g., needed certifications, previous
work experience, external influences, etc.) that could apply to your
chosen scenario. Determine two (2) ways these requirements could
impact staffing at your organization. Next, suggest one (1) strategy that
12. you could utilize to ensure that all applicants meet the identified job
requirements for your organization. Justify your response.
Outline a long-term recruitment plan that contains at least four (4)
components, is aligned with your company’s recruitment strategy, but
also addresses possible job skill or credential shortages. Note: Consider
concepts such as succession planning and hiring retirees.
Describe three (3) branding strategies that you would employ to attract
qualified applicants to your organization. Next, suggest three (3)
communication methods that you would utilize to reach out to
applicants. Predict the outcome of integrating your branding strategies
and communication methods at your organization. Provide a rationale
for your response.
Determine two (2) selection processes for recruiting new employees that
could apply to your chosen scenario and then identify five (5) selection
criteria that you could use when hiring new employees. Next, analyze
the effect of the five (5) identified selection criteria on long-term
employee retention and preservation of organizational knowledge.
Justify your response.
Suggest two (2) assessment methods that you could employ to select
new employees for your organization and then analyze the validity and
reliability of each method in regards to the job your organization is
offering. Next, identify four (4) job predictors that you believe can
assess candidates’ knowledge, skills, abilities, and other skills and
experiences (KSAO’s). Provide support for your rationale.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
13. 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.
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 page
length.
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"Assessment Methods" Please respond to the following: Determine three
(3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of using traditional predictors
(e.g., resume-bio presentations, interviews, reference checks, etc.) versus
substantive assessment methods (e.g., personality tests, cognitive tests,
integrity tests, etc.) when selecting new employees.
Next, select the one (1) assessment method that you believe is the most
reliable for hiring new employees, and specify two (2) benefits of
utilizing your selected method within an organization. Justify your
response.
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"Internal Selection Factors" Please respond to the following:
Choose three (3) internal selection factors that you believe would be
most reliable for promoting employees within an organization. Next,
describe two (2) reasons why an individual should consider these three
(3) factors when promoting employees within an organization. Justify
your response.
Based on the case study, determine what you believe are the three (3)
primary weaknesses in BioGlassInc’s promotion policy. Next, describe
two (2) solutions to address the identified weaknesses. Then, provide
one (1) method for preventing similar problems in the future. Support
your rationale with specific examples of such strategies.
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Go to BizFiling’s Website and read the article titled “Identifying and
Addressing Employee Turnover Issues,” located at
http://www.bizfilings.com/toolkit/sbg/office-hr/managing-the-
workplace/employee-turnover-issues-tactics.aspx. Next, examine your
current job position or a job position with which you are familiar. Then,
choose three (3) significant factors that you believe have contributed to
employees leaving the organization. Next, suggest three (3) methods
organizations could utilize to retain their employees. Support your
rationale with two (2) examples of such factors / methods.
Based on the case study Retention: Deciding to Act (Pg. 718 – Pg. 720),
determine whether the major complaints presented in the case study are
the true reason for Wally’s Wonder Wash’s high turnover rate. Then,
suggest two (2) reasonable retention strategies that Wally’s Wonder
Wash could implement. Justify your rationale. Note: Remember,
turnover is not always about salary. Therefore, please present strategies
that would not involve pay increases.
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BUS 335 Week 11 Discussion
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16. "Week 11 Discussion" Please respond to the following:
• Discuss the primary manner in which the concepts of this course
can be applied to your current or future work position.
• Rate the three (3) most important concepts that you have learned
in this course in order of importance (one [1] being the most important;
three [3], the least). Provide a rationale for your rating scheme.
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