This document outlines the course requirements for HRM 498 Strategic Human Resource Management and Emerging Issues. It includes assignments for each of the 5 weeks in the course. The assignments require researching challenges facing HRM, designing cultural competency training, analyzing diversity management strategies, developing compensation plans for different generations and cultures, examining Hofstede's cultural dimensions model, creating a strategic HRM plan addressing cultural and emerging issues, and designing an employee safety program. Students must write reports, presentations, analyses, and plans in APA format and include in-text citations and a references page with required sources.

1. HRM 498
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT AND EMERGING ISSUES
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HRM 498 Week 1 Management Challenges and Concerns
Report
At your company, you work on all HRM responsibilities, and have been asked to join a
committee to present a report on management challenges. To accomplish this task, you
will need to:
Using a search engine of your choice from the Internet, your texts, or the University
Library, research several different types of articles on HRM challenges.
Write a 350- to 500-word Microsoft®
Word report in the third person voice about these
challenges. This report must include content regarding challenges, possible causes, and a
plan for addressing them.
Format your report consistent with APA guidelines, the University's Writing and Style
Guide Template for 300-499 level courses and follows the University's Academic Essay
Development guidelines.

2. Use at least a minimum of two in-text citation sources within the report. The sources must
be identified in your APA correctly-formatted References page.
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HRM 498 Week 2 MacroEnterprises Case Study
Resource: SHRM Student Workbook, MacroEnterprises Case Study, Inc. Case #1
You are creating a presentation in the third person voice intended to be delivered to Pat,
the HR Director for MacroEnterprises, Inc. Your role is that of an HR Consultant.
Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft®
PowerPoint®
presentation that makes a compelling
argument for why HR should be a strategic partner at MacroEnterprises, Inc.
 The presentation should be between 9 to 10 slides, not including the title page,
Q&A page, or References page. Include brief speaker notes.
 Include charts or diagrams such as the models, exhibits, and figures found in
Chapter 3 of your Strategic Human Resource Management text to explain your
argument for why HR should be a strategic partner. Remember the purpose of the
presentation is to help turn Pat's HR department into a strategic partner.
Summarize your argument using any of the case scenario information in the Student
Workbook.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
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HRM 498 Week 3 Design a Cultural Competency Training
Workshop
Resources: Social Science Strategies for Managing Diversity: Industrial and
Organizational Opportunities to Enhance Inclusion
As the Human Resources Management team, you all are concerned about recent alleged
discrimination complaints brought to your attention by several employees based on race,
national origin, and pregnancy. You decide it is time to design a cultural competency
training workshop for all levels of employees. To accomplish this task, you will need to:

3. Research several different types of cultural competency workshops, seminars, or
Microsoft®
PowerPoint®
on the topic using a search engine of your choice from the Internet,
your texts, or the University Library.
Design a cultural competency training workshop that considers protected classes of
employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, suitable for all
levels of employees.
Create the training workshop written in the third person voice and the content should be
presented as a Microsoft®
PowerPoint®
Presentation which includes Speaker notes.
Use at least a minimum of three in-text citation sources within the document. The sources
must be identified in an APA correctly formatted References page
Format the cultural competency training workshop consistent with APA guidelines with
appropriate APA formatted in-text citations and Reference page.
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HRM 498 Week 3 Strategy for Managing Diversity
Write a 350- to 700-word Microsoft® Word paper written in the third person voice in which
you analyze and discuss the following:
 Should managers promote open discussion of stereotypes as part of a strategy for
managing diversity?
 What risks and potential advantages and disadvantages are inherent with such a
strategy?
Use at least a minimum of three in-text citation sources within your paper to support your
responses. The sources must be identified in your APA correctly formatted References
page.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines, the University's Academic Essay
Development Guidelines and the University's Writiing and Style Guide Template for
300-499 level courses.
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HRM 498 Week 4 HR Strategic Compensation Planning
Process

4. Design a simple online compensation survey in Microsoft® Word of no more than 10
questions for employees as part of a compensation-planning process that:
 Determines broadly what motivates workers from different generations and
cultural backgrounds.
 Determines whether or not money motivates these employees.
Interview an employee from each age group of 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s from any
organization, domestic or global. The employee may be of any culture that he or she
self-identifies. Ask each employee to fill out your survey.
Analyze your results.
Create a matrix or grid of compensation plans for each generation and culture that would
result in high performance, based on the survey results.
Provide an analysis of the survey results and the matrix, along with an explanation of how
these compensation plans as well as generational and cultural issues integrate into the
strategic planning process.
Use at least a minimum of three in-text citation sources within the analysis. The sources
must be identified in an APA correctly formatted References page.
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HRM 498 Week 4 Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
Resource: Hofstede's framework, Exhibit 14.1, in Chapter 14 of Strategic Human
Resource Management.
Write a 500-700 word summary written in the third person voice in which you discuss the
following:
 Explain how each of Hofstede's cultural dimensions might result in specific kinds
of HR programs and practices.
 Examine the four dimensions of culture presented in Hofstede's framework. What
strategies would you recommend in dealing with a different culture that is opposite
on each of the dimensions? For example, what advice would you give to someone
from a culture that stresses individualism when dealing with someone from a
collectivist culture?
Use at least a minimum of two in-text citation sources within the summary. The sources
must be identified in your APA correctly-formatted References page.

5. Format the summary using Microsoft® Word and consistent with APA guidelines, the
University's Academic Essay Guidelines as well as the University's Writing and Style
Guide Template for 300-499 level courses.
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HRM 498 Week 5 Strategic HRM Plan
Choose three to four cultural HR issues and three to four emerging HR issues that affect
the potential of a company you are familiar with or an imaginary company of your choice
to be at risk of either:
 Unionization or
 Catastrophic Danger and Damage
Your choice must reflect predictions for priorities and concerns in your company's
Strategic HRM Plan.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word detailed analysis in a Microsoft® Word document, written in
the third person voice, explaining how these issues and considerations affect your
company and the strategic plans.
Create a chart with descriptions of chart contents, or a detailed, bulleted outline of your
recommendations for actions for five years and the company's capabilities.
Include organizational limitations and how those will be addressed. This chart or outline
must include justification for each recommendation for forecasting needs and strategic
steps provided each year.
Format the Strategic HRM Plan consistent with APA guidelines.
Use at least five in-text citation sources within the plan. The sources must be identified in
your APA correctly-formatted References page.
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HRM 498 Week 5 Strategic Safety Program
Safety programs may accomplish their purposes in two primary ways:
1. one focusing on unsafe employee actions
and

6. 2. the other on unsafe working conditions.
Your task is to:
Design a basic safety program of your choice addressing either purpose and
demonstrate how the program would fit into a company's overall Employee Safety, Health,
and Wellness strategies.
Select an idea from any of the topics on Employee Safety, Health, and Wellness covered
in your reading.
Create 700-950 word Microsoft® Powerpoint Presentation written in the third person
voice in which you discuss the following:
 Explain the focus of the design of the safety program.
 Explain the nature and role of safety, health, and wellness in the safety program.
 Summarize the economic impact of the safety program.
 Explain how the safety program integrates into the company's overall Employee
Safety, Health, and Wellness strategies.
The presentaion should use at least of three sources within the content and includes
Speaker notes.
Format the presentation consistent with APA guidelines, sources must be identified in
your APA correctly-formatted in-text citation and Reference Page listings.
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