Write an 8–10-page situational analysis of an HRM (or organizational) topic, trend, or issue at a global organization, from the perspectives of the business, the organization, and the organizational culture. The purpose of your situational analysis should be to help inform strategic decisions in the organization. Note:  The organization you select for the situational analysis will also be the subject of your Assessment 4 Action Plan. Please keep this in mind as you work on this assessment. SHOW LESS By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: Competency 1: Analyze HRM trends and issues in global organizations. Analyze a selected HRM topic, trend, or issue in a global organization. Competency 2: Analyze HRM and business policies and their implementation in organizations. Analyze the influences of HRM in achieving the organizational goals of an organization. Competency 3: Explain strategic and tactical approaches to human resources management. Analyze the influences of HRM in achieving the business strategy of an organization. Analyze key performance indicators measuring progress and achievement of organizational goals. Analyze HRM influences from the cultural perspective of an organization. Analyze strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address findings, from a  business perspective. Analyze strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address findings, from an  organizational  perspective. Analyze strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address findings, from a  cultural  perspective. Write an 8–10-page situational analysis paper on an HRM (or organizational) topic, trend, or issue at a global organization, from the perspectives of the business, the organization, and the organizational culture. The purpose of your situational analysis should be to help inform strategic decisions in the organization. The organization you select for the situational analysis will also be the subject of your Action Plan in Assessment 4. Please keep this in mind as you work on this assessment. Topic Selection Select a topic, trend, or issue at a global organization that concerns HRM, or the entire organization. You are encouraged to use your own workplace as the organizational setting, but you can use a different workplace, as long as you are able to access sufficient information to accomplish the competencies and assessment criteria for this assessment.  Note:  Completing a situational analysis for your own workplace may enable you to address and resolve an existing organizational impediment. Examples of topics, trends, or issues you might choose include: Expatriates and disparate HR practices; the human resources department as practice leader. Exclusion or inclusion of HR professionals in organization-wide strategic business planning and decision-making. Outsourcing HR to increase HR and business effectiveness: professional preparation, positioning, .

1. Write an 8–10-page situational analysis of an HRM (or
organizational) topic, trend, or issue at a global organization,
from the perspectives of the business, the organization, and the
organizational culture. The purpose of your situational analysis
should be to help inform strategic decisions in the organization.
Note:
The organization you select for the situational analysis will
also be the subject of your Assessment 4 Action Plan. Please
keep this in mind as you work on this assessment.
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By successfully completing this assessment, you will
demonstrate your proficiency in the following course
competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze HRM trends and issues in global
organizations.
Analyze a selected HRM topic, trend, or issue in a global
organization.
Competency 2: Analyze HRM and business policies and their
implementation in organizations.
Analyze the influences of HRM in achieving the organizational
goals of an organization.
Competency 3: Explain strategic and tactical approaches to
human resources management.
Analyze the influences of HRM in achieving the business
strategy of an organization.
Analyze key performance indicators measuring progress and
achievement of organizational goals.
Analyze HRM influences from the cultural perspective of an
organization.
Analyze strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address
findings, from a
business
perspective.
Analyze strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address
findings, from an

2. organizational
perspective.
Analyze strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address
findings, from a
cultural
perspective.
Write an 8–10-page situational analysis paper on an HRM (or
organizational) topic, trend, or issue at a global organization,
from the perspectives of the business, the organization, and the
organizational culture. The purpose of your situational analysis
should be to help inform strategic decisions in the organization.
The organization you select for the situational analysis will also
be the subject of your Action Plan in Assessment 4. Please keep
this in mind as you work on this assessment.
Topic Selection
Select a topic, trend, or issue at a global organization that
concerns HRM, or the entire organization. You are encouraged
to use your own workplace as the organizational setting, but you
can use a different workplace, as long as you are able to access
sufficient information to accomplish the competencies and
assessment criteria for this assessment.
Note:
Completing a situational analysis for your own workplace may
enable you to address and resolve an existing organizational
impediment.
Examples of topics, trends, or issues you might choose include:
Expatriates and disparate HR practices; the human resources
department as practice leader.
Exclusion or inclusion of HR professionals in organization-wide
strategic business planning and decision-making.
Outsourcing HR to increase HR and business effectiveness:
professional preparation, positioning, and execution.
A business case for or against the HR professional as a change
agent.
Are HR professional properly prepared to participate in
business or union negotiations?

3. Situational Analysis
After you have selected a topic, conduct research in the
literature of the field, as well as within your chosen
organization, to build your situational analysis paper. Your
paper should include the following sections:
Business Perspective Section
In the Business Perspective section, provide an overview of
organizational information that is relevant to your selected
topic. Include the following information about your selected
organization:
Organizational profile.
Organizational vision.
Organizational mission.
Human resources profile.
Economic context.
Political or regulatory contexts.
Competitor analysis.
Operations infrastructure.
Organizational Perspective Section
In the Organizational Perspective section of the paper, provide a
succinct overview of the relationships and influence of your
HRM topic on achieving the organization's organizational goals.
By definition and design, organizational goals are a product of
the organization's mission and vision; and are specific,
measurable, and time-bound. Key performance indicators may
include such measures as annual return on investment,
percentage of repeat business with existing clients, and positive
customer service ratings.
Select at least three key performance indicators (KPI) for the
organization, to use in measuring the progress and achievement
of the organizational goals. Note that you will need to have
access to information about the organization's measures in order
to analyze these KPIs. Make an informed decision regarding the
key performance indicators that you should use for your chosen
issue.
Divide the Organizational Perspective section of your paper into

4. distinct sub-sections addressing each of the KPIs you have
chosen.
Identify each KPI and analyze how it relates to your HRM or
organizational topic.
Cultural Perspective Section
In the Cultural Perspective section of the paper, provide a
succinct overview of your selected organization's cultural goals
and the influence your chosen HRM topic has on realizing those
goals. Like the business and organizational perspectives, the
cultural perspective is a product of organizational vision and
mission. An organization's culture reflects organizational
thought and behavior, and is socially constructed. While
organizational culture can be challenging to identify and
measure, it can be roughly identified by categories such as
organizational values, orientation to change, and leaders'
leadership styles.
Select two cultural categories that are relevant to the
organization you chose.
Divide the Cultural Perspective section of your paper into two
distinct sub-sections addressing each of the two cultural
categories you have chosen.
Analyze your chosen HRM topic within the context of those two
categories.
Refer to the Analysis Versus Evaluation document (linked in the
Resources under the Capella Resources heading) for a review of
how these two skills are defined within the context of the
assessment scoring guide.
Additional Requirements
Written communication:
Your writing should be free of errors that detract from the
overall message.
APA formatting:
Format resources and citations according to APA (6th edition)
style.
Font, font size, and page layout:
Times New Roman, 12-point, double-spaced font with one-inch

5. page margins.
Length of paper:
8–10 pages.
Analysis Versus Evaluation
Throughout this course, you will be asked to
analyze
and
evaluate
concepts. You will see these two terms used in the scoring
guides for your assessments. You may note that demonstrating
the skill of analysis is often required in order to perform
proficiently in a criterion, while the skill of evaluation is often
linked to distinguished performance. Thus,
evaluation
is defined as a higher skill level than
analysis
.
It can be difficult to distinguish the differences between these
two skills. Since the level of performance you demonstrate in
your assessments will impact your grade, it might help to have a
clear working definition of the differences at hand. The
following is an explanation that should help guide your work.
Analysis
An
analysis
is the critical thinking process through which a concept,
practice, or object is studied, by identifying and understanding
its parts (individual components, elements, or pieces), and
separating them from the whole. An analysis would result in an
understanding of the subject's unique features and purposes.
For example, an analysis of an apple would result in an
understanding of its features: the shape, skin, core, seeds, stem,
and meat—as components of the whole apple. Your analysis of
the apple would uncover and present objective information
about these parts. In your analysis, you might gather data about
detailed features, such as the apple's caloric value and vitamin

6. content. You would demonstrate that you understand what the
apple is made of, and what its basic function is, as a piece of
fruit.
Evaluation
An
evaluation
is considered to represent the next highest level of critical
thinking. In evaluation, the relative value of the concept,
practice, or object is determined, in light of a specific context.
In short, evaluation is the process of
determining value
.
For example, an evaluation of the apple would address its
usefulness for different purposes:
The vitamins and fiber in the apple’s skin and meat offer
nutrition; you might evaluate the apple as being a valuable food
source.
The apple’s irregular shape makes it less aerodynamic than a
perfect sphere. Its soft skin and meat make it vulnerable to
damage upon impact at a high velocity. Therefore, you might
evaluate the apple as unsuitable for use as a baseball.
The apple is evaluated in the context of its intended use (in this
case, nutritional and recreational). Note that, in order to
successfully evaluate the apple's usefulness in these contexts,
you must first
analyze
the apple. Without the objective information gathered during
analysis, the evaluation would not produce an accurate or
logical valuation—potentially resulting in an unfortunate
experience for baseball players.
In simplest terms, you might think of analysis as being as a
means to gain a comprehensive, objective understanding, and
evaluation as the internal process of determining its value,
based on that analysis.
KEY FACTORS THAT MUST BE INCLUDED:

7. Evaluates a selected HRM topic, trend, or issue in a global
organization.
Evaluates the influences of HRM in achieving the business
strategy of an organization.
Evaluates the influences of HRM in achieving the
organizational goals of an organization.
Interprets key performance indicators to measure the progress
and achievement of organizational goals.
Evaluates HRM influences from the cultural perspective of an
organization.
Interprets strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address
findings, from a business perspective.
Interprets strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address
findings, from an organizational perspective.
Interprets strategic and tactical approaches to HRM that address
findings, from a cultural perspective.
Assessment 4
Overview
Create 5–6-page action plan based on the findings you have
generated about a selected topic, addressing each of the three
situational analysis perspectives. Your action plan should allow
an HR professional to make informed, data-driven decisions
focused on taking strategically aligned and tactically effective
action for organizational success.

8. In this course, you have analyzed selected human resource
topics, trends, and issues that HR professionals typically
encounter in the workplace. You have applied these topics to
real-world experiences, to help an organization achieve its
business, organizational, and cultural goals efficiently and
effectively. In your final assessment, you will demonstrate
critical thinking skills, strategic acumen, tactical capability,
sound judgment, common sense and logic, and attention to
detail, in developing an action plan for addressing the findings
of the situational analysis you completed in Assessment 3.
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HR professionals should be prepared to develop situational
analyses and action plans to enable organizational leaders and
associated stakeholders to understand HR's orientations, value
proposition, and business-related outcomes. The result is a
transformed HR professional and profession, creating a new
position of credibility and contributions for 21st century
knowledge age organizations.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will
demonstrate your proficiency in the following course
competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Analyze HRM and business policies and their
implementation in organizations.
Analyze criteria used to measure progress and goal
achievement.
Analyze resources necessary to enable the action plan objective
to be achieved.
Analyze
goals
of a proposed HRM organizational initiative.
Analyze
actions
of a proposed HRM organizational initiative.
Analyze
metrics
of a proposed HRM organizational initiative.

9. Metrics Recommendations
Evaluate the performance of your organization (or an
organization with which you are familiar) against other
organizations.
Compare the organizations' metrics, survey data, et cetera, in
your evaluation. Metrics can show what benefit your HR
practices may provide, and how they might contribute to the
organization's profits.
Benchmark the data and designated time frame (plan year, fiscal
year, et cetera). Compare the data projections, using the same
time frame (Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, et cetera), to show
improvement or decline.
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HR Planning in the New Era of Importing Labor
How is attracting, retaining, and developing a workforce that
possesses technical knowledge and skills important to an
organization's ability to compete in the global marketplace?
What are the ethical and leadership issues HR must face as a
result of the changes to the H-1B visa policy?
Assessment Instructions
Build an action plan on the situational analysis paper you wrote
in Assessment 3; however, be sure to provide the full context
needed to support your action plan within this paper. Assume
that the reader is not familiar with your situational analysis
paper.
Create your action plan based on the findings you have
generated about your selected topic, addressing each of the
three situational analysis perspectives (business, organizational,
cultural). Your action plan should allow an HR professional to
make informed, data-driven decisions focused on taking
strategically aligned and tactically effective action for
organizational success. Action plans are created using a myriad
of different formats. In order to articulate the goals, actions,
and metrics of your organizational initiative, vary the format as
needed to best present your work. Use empirical information
and data specific to the organization to support your action

10. plan. Eliminate any personal or unsupported assertions, industry
attitudes, or opinions, in order to ensure your action plan is
viable and convincing.
Your action plan should address all of the following:
Achievement criteria: What criteria are used to measure
progress and goal achievement?
Action steps: Who performs specific actions to achieve
objectives within a specific timeframe?
Resource requirement: What resources are necessary to enable
the action plan objectives to be achieved?
Achievement dates: What are the objective achievement dates
for the action steps?
Review criteria: When will action plan results be reviewed, by
whom, and using what achievement criteria?
Note:
It is highly recommended that you research the materials listed
in the Resources under the Internet Resources heading before
attempting to complete this assessment, paying special attention
to the topic of HR metrics.
Refer to the Analysis Versus Evaluation document (linked in the
Resources under the Capella Resources heading) for a review of
how these two skills are defined within the context of the
assessment scoring guide.
Additional Requirements
Written communication:
Your writing should be free of errors that detract from the
overall message.
APA formatting:
Format resources and citations according to APA (6th edition)
style.
Bibliography of accumulated resources:
Support your action plan with references from at least 10–15
scholarly and professional resources, comprising the following:
At least 6–8 scholarly works.
At least 4–7 resources comprised of interviews or blogs of
knowledge practitioners, conference proceedings, and

11. organization-specific business data. The business data should
include empirical information specific to the organization you
have selected.
Font, font size, and page layout:
Times New Roman, 12-point, double-spaced font with one-inch
page margins.
Length of paper:
5–6 pages.
MUST INCLUDE CRITERIA BELOW:
Evaluates criteria used to measure progress and goal
achievement.
Evaluates resources necessary to enable the action plan
objective to be achieved.
Interprets goals of a proposed HRM organizational initiative.
Interprets metrics of a proposed HRM organizational initiative.
Interprets actions of a proposed HRM organizational initiative.