Human Resources Case II Adam is an extremely competent grants writer, with an impressive record of personally obtaining grants and developing community coalitions that produce program funding. He has just been promoted to lead a newly created organizational division responsible for acquiring most of the organization’s operating funds through grants and community support. As part of this new division, Adam has hired two experienced assistant grants writers and an administrative assistant. Six months after these appointments, Adam’s boss meets with him to express concern about the long hours and weekends that Adam has continued to work even after the new staff have been added. Adam assures his boss that this situation is temporary as some important grant proposals are nearing completion. Shortly thereafter, one of the assistant grants writers resigns. During her exit interview, she reluctantly admits that Adam’s management style is “not something she could work with.” When pressed for details, she says he seems to have little confidence in either her or the other assistant grants writer and micromanages both writers’ assignments. She says that no matter what she produces, it isn’t good enough for Adam. She had not experienced this kind of criticism in her former positions, where she had successfully acquired many grants. She says she feels she has not been treated as a professional. Guidelines for Group Human Resource Case Review Assignments 1. Required: A list of participating and non-participating student names. Each group spokesperson shall submit for their group. Only one submission per group permitted. 2. Required: Complete detailed answers addressing each of the following questions using proper English and proper APA Style for citations and references. 2.1.1 What are the ethical, legal and human resource issues in this case? 2.1.2 What management and/or HR mistakes were made in this case? 2.1.3 What steps can be taken within this organization to remedy these mistakes? 3. Required: Formatting of submissions: 3.1.1 The question(s) must be repeated in full; 3.1.2 Followed by the group’s narrative response which must include substantively used sources as well as proper APA Style cited and referenced sources; and 3.1.3 The references used in each narrative response to a question shall follow immediately after the answer and before proceeding to the next question. 4. Required: More than two “External Authoritative Sources” are required in addition to the textbook for maximum points on EACH question. 4.1.1 In addition each paragraph and/or each substantive issue addressed in an answer must have at least one “External Authoritative Sources” cited (not including the text book). 4.1.2 It is unacceptable to have paragraph(s) and/or substantive narrative on issue(s), with zero sources cited and then have one paragraph or answer contain all “external authoritative sources” and the text book. 5. ...

1. Human Resources Case II
Adam is an extremely competent grants writer, with an
impressive record of personally obtaining grants and developing
community coalitions that produce program funding. He has just
been promoted to lead a newly created organizational division
responsible for acquiring most of the organization’s operating
funds through grants and community support. As part of this
new division, Adam has hired two experienced assistant grants
writers and an administrative assistant. Six months after these
appointments, Adam’s boss meets with him to express concern
about the long hours and weekends that Adam has continued to
work even after the new staff have been added. Adam assures
his boss that this situation is temporary as some important grant
proposals are nearing completion. Shortly thereafter, one of the
assistant grants writers resigns. During her exit interview, she
reluctantly admits that Adam’s management style is “not
something she could work with.” When pressed for details, she
says he seems to have little confidence in either her or the other
assistant grants writer and micromanages both writers’
assignments. She says that no matter what she produces, it isn’t
good enough for Adam. She had not experienced this kind of
criticism in her former positions, where she had successfully
acquired many grants. She says she feels she has not been
treated as a professional.
Guidelines for Group Human Resource Case Review
Assignments
1. Required: A list of participating and non-participating
student names. Each group spokesperson shall

2. submit for their group. Only one submission per group
permitted.
2. Required: Complete detailed answers addressing each of the
following questions using proper English
and proper APA Style for citations and references.
2.1.1 What are the ethical, legal and human resource issues in
this case?
2.1.2 What management and/or HR mistakes were made in this
case?
2.1.3 What steps can be taken within this organization to
remedy these mistakes?
3. Required: Formatting of submissions:
3.1.1 The question(s) must be repeated in full;
3.1.2 Followed by the group’s narrative response which must
include substantively used sources as
well as proper APA Style cited and referenced sources; and
3.1.3 The references used in each narrative response to a
question shall follow immediately after
the answer and before proceeding to the next question.
4. Required: More than two “External Authoritative Sources”
are required in addition to the textbook for
maximum points on EACH question.

3. 4.1.1 In addition each paragraph and/or each substantive issue
addressed in an answer must have
at least one “External Authoritative Sources” cited (not
including the text book).
4.1.2 It is unacceptable to have paragraph(s) and/or substantive
narrative on issue(s), with zero
sources cited and then have one paragraph or answer contain all
“external authoritative sources”
and the text book.
5. Required: Any direct quote in the narrative must include the
page or paragraph number in the
citation.
6. Required: It is improper to place a citation/source at the end
of a paragraph if material from the
source appears before the last sentence in the paragraph.
7. Required: It is improper to place a citation in the middle of a
sentence. One can lead with the source in
the sentence but cannot use a citation within parenthesis except
at the end of the sentence.
8. “External Authoritative Sources” for purposes of this course
shall mean: books, peer reviewed journal
articles, education and government sites as well as non-partisan
national or international organizations (such

4. as WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS etc) provided, the foregoing
source/material selected has in text citations and
references to support statements made therein. Under no
circumstances are newspapers including the Wall
Street Journal, blogs (regardless of source), editorials, panel
discussions and dot com sites to be used. The
foregoing is not considered authoritative for this course.
9. Additional Guidance: I urge student to review the adobe
connect session with FIU Libraries and Writing
Center on APA Style formatting and contact them personally if
more assistance is needed.
10. Proper Submission Required: The assignment must be
posted in the appropriate Assignment Folder.
Grading Rubric:
5- Excellent 4- Good 2-Fair 0-Poor
The issues were answered
in their entirety in the
students’ own words with
sources/citation to support

5. statements made and not a
string of direct quotes.
The issues were answered
in their entirety in the
students’ own words with
sources/citation to support
statements made; however
there were a few strings of
direct quotes.
The issues were not
answered in their entirety;
however, most of the
content was not the
students’ own words – it
contained an excessive
amount of direct quotes,
opinion/unsupported
statements.

6. The assigned questions
were not answered in their
entirety and most, if not
all, of the content was a
string of direct quotes,
opinion/unsupported
statements.
4- Excellent 3- Good 1-Fair 0.5- Poor
The student commented in
a substantive way on the
facts of the case study with
supporting sources that
included the USE OF
MORE THAN one
EXTERNAL authoritative
sources.
The student commented
in a substantive way on

7. the facts of the case study
with supporting sources
that included t
he USE OF AT LEAST
ONE EXTERNAL
authoritative sources.
The student’s
Comments on the facts of
the case study lacked
sufficient support, using
at sources that were not
authoritative.
The student did not
comment on the facts of
the case study. The content
submitted was not
corroborated with
authoritative sources.

8. 2- Excellent 1.5- Good 1- Fair 0- Poor
The submission complies
with the proper APA style
of in-text citations and
references (including page
numbers for each direct
quote) containing no
errors.
The submission complies
with the proper APA style
of in-text citations and
references (including page
numbers for each direct
quote) containing minimal
errors.
The submission does not
fully comply with the
proper APA style of in-

9. text citations and
references (including
page numbers for each
direct quote) and contains
excessive errors.
The submission does not
comply with the proper
APA style of in-text
citations and references
(including page numbers
for each direct quote).