This document provides instructions for a student to complete a risk management plan as a project for a course on risk management. The student is to write a risk management plan for a fictional healthcare organization called Health Network Inc. that has several products and locations. The plan should include an introduction, scope, discussion of relevant compliance laws and regulations, roles and responsibilities, and a risk mitigation plan addressing threats identified for the organization. The student is provided details on Health Network's products, IT infrastructure, and identified threats to incorporate into the risk management plan sections.

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Employee Selection and Training
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Employee Selection and Training
Shauna Davis
Walden university
9/8/19
Topic: Employee Selection and Training
Employers are facing several risks when it comes to
employment selection as well as training and development
programs. An organization must, therefore, ensure that
statements, overtures as well as advertisements are not suspect
as well as ensuring that there is no form of discrimination in its
selection process. There should be no references to age as well
as gender but instead, be based on the description of the job.
Selection is entailing all the activities aimed at choosing a
suitable candidate from the applicants to fill a given post while

2. training is consisting of the processes aimed at ensuring that the
job holders have the right skills, attitudes as well as knowledge
towards achieving the objectives of the organization. New
em[loyees should be given an induction program where they are
capable of meeting other employees as well as showing the
skills they must learn. Organizations thus must have a detailed
training scheme which can either be on the job where skills are
acquired through experience at work or off the job where
learning is via attending courses (Larsen, 2017, p. 114).
Organizational, as well as industrial psychologists, usually use
a different process in selecting new employees regarding what
the organization needs. The selection is enabling the
organization to screen out individuals who are not suited for the
role. The goal of industrial or organizational psychl=olofy is to
give answers to a specified role such as how to select the best
employees, choosing the best training, mechanisms for the
employees as well as the way of determining the turnover cases
alongside ways of reducing it. The industrial psychology is
dealing with training, selection as well as placement while
organizational psychology is dealing with issues such as
increasing job satisfaction as well as determining how
employees can be motivated (Larsen, 2017, p. 110).
Reference
Larsen, H. H. (2017). Critical issues in training and
development. Policy and practice in European human resource
management (pp. 107-121). Routledge.
Project: Risk Management Plan
Purpose
This project provides an opportunity to apply the competencies
gained in the lessons of this course to develop a risk
management plan for a fictitious organization to replace its
outdated plan.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes

3. You will gain an overall understanding of risk management, its
importance, and critical processes required when developing a
formal risk management plan for an organization.
Required Source Information and Tools
Web References: Links to Web references in this document and
related materials are subject to change without prior notice.
These links were last verified on April 19, 2015.
The following tools and resources that will be needed to
complete this project:
· Course textbook
· Internet access for research
Deliverables
As discussed in this course, risk management is an important
process for all organizations. This is particularly true in
information systems, which provides critical support for
organizational missions. The heart of risk management is a
formal risk management plan. The project activities described in
this document allow you to fulfill the role of an employee
participating in the risk management process in a specific
business situation.
The project is structured as follows:
Project Part
Deliverable
Project Part 1
Task 1: Risk Management Plan – Due 2/19
Submission Requirements
All project submissions should follow this format:
· Format: Microsoft Word or compatible
· Font: Arial, 10-point, double-space
· Citation Style: Your school’s preferred style guide
Scenario
You are an information technology (IT) intern working for
Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a fictitious health

4. services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Health Network has over 600 employees throughout the
organization and generates $500 million USD in annual
revenue. The company has two additional locations in Portland,
Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of
corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a
co-location data center, where production systems are located
and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors.
Company Products
Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange,
HNetPay, and HNetConnect.
HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the
company. The service handles secure electronic medical
messages that originate from its customers, such as large
hospitals, which are then routed to receiving customers such as
clinics.
HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s
HNetExchange customers to support the management of secure
payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at
Health Network production sites, accepts various forms of
payments and interacts with credit-card processing
organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.
HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics,
and other medical facilities to allow Health Network customers
to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains
doctors’ personal information, work addresses, medical
certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics
offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able to update the
information in their profile. Health Network customers, which
are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all three of the
company’s products using HTTPS connections. Doctors and
potential patients are able to make payments and update their
profiles using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.
NOTE: Any discussion of products not a part of this scenario,
such as health insurance products, will result in an automatic
50% reduction in points. Your paper is not a research paper on

5. risk management – it is a risk management plan to a very
specific situation and must relate to the scenario, above.
Information Technology Infrastructure Overview
Health Network operates in three production data centers that
provide high availability across the company’s products. The
data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health
Network maintains 650 corporate laptops and company-issued
mobile devices for its employees.
Threats Identified
Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following
threats were identified:
· Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from
production systems
· Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-
owned assets, such as mobile devices and laptops
· Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various
events, such as natural disasters, change management, unstable
software, and so on
· Internet threats due to company products being accessible on
the Internet
· Insider threats
· Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations
Management Request
Senior management at Health Network has determined that the
existing risk management plan for the organization is out of
date and a new risk management plan must be developed.
Because of the importance of risk management to the
organization, senior management is committed to and supportive
of the project to develop a new plan. You have been assigned to
develop this new plan.
Additional threats other than those described previously may be
discovered when re-evaluating the current threat landscape
during the risk assessment phase.
The budget for this project has not been defined due to senior
management’s desire to react to any and all material risks that
are identified within the new plan. Given the company’s annual

6. revenue, reasonable expectations can be determined.
Project Part 1
Project Part 1 Task 1: Risk Management Plan
For the first part of the assigned project, you must create an
initial draft of the final risk management plan. To do so, you
must:
You Risk Management Plan will contain the following sections:
1. A section titled Introduction discussing the purpose of the
plan. You must include details from the scenario, above,
describing the environment. 10 points.
2. A section titled Scope discussing the scope of the plan. 10
points
3. A section, titled Compliance Laws and Regulations. Using
the information in the scenario provided above, discuss
regulations and laws with which Health Network must comply.
30 points
4. A section, titled Roles and Responsibilities, that will discuss
the different individuals and departments who will be
responsible for risk management within the organization (this
was presented in your textbook). 20 points
5. A section, titled Risk Mitigation Plan, that discusses the
threats identified in the scenario and your proposed mitigations,
as well as any new threats.30 points.
Write an initial draft of the risk management plan as detailed in
the instructions above. Your plan should be made using a
standard word processor format compatible with Microsoft
Word.
Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics
· Did the student demonstrate an understanding of the
competencies covered in the course thus far?
· Did the student include all important components of a risk
management plan in the outline?
· Did the student demonstrate good research, reasoning, and
decision-making skills in identifying key components and
compliance laws and regulations?

7. · Did the student create a professional, well-developed draft
with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?
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Final Project Template
Please note: This template assists you with style and format of
your Final Project for PSYC 8754/PSYC 6754 Personnel
Psychology in the Workplace. All components of the Final
Project must follow APA format, per the 6th edition of the APA
Publication Manual.
[Project Title]
by
[Your Name]
Submitted in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the course
Personnel Psychology in the Workplace
Walden University
As part of the requirements for the Final Project, you construct
an abstract and introduction. Using the information provided,
consider the necessary information for an abstract and
introduction.
Abstract
The abstract is a concise, well-developed paragraph that

8. highlights the purpose and key points of your paper. An abstract
should be no more than one page, double-spaced, with the first
sentence left-justified. An abstract is not an evaluation; rather,
it is a report of relevant theoretical foundations and conceptual
frameworks in your paper. In addition, the abstract provides
your empirical review of the issue or topic and a concluding
statement for future research.
Include in the Abstract Assignment:
· A brief statement about the theoretical foundations/conceptual
frameworks as appropriate
· A brief summary of your empirical review
· A brief description about the gap(s) in research of personnel
psychology you selected
· A summary of your research questions and hypotheses
· A concluding statement on the implications for future research
and for positive social change
Introduction Section
Background
The introduction clearly identifies the specific topic or issue.
The introduction also provides a statement of purpose and
addresses goals for the paper. In developing your introduction,
consider the following questions: Why is the topic you selected
important? How does the topic or issue relate to previous
research and/or topics in the field? How does your presentation
of the topic or issue differ from previous research and/or
topics? How might your topic or issue relate to previous
theories or hypotheses?
Include in the Assignment Introduction:
· A description of the topic of the study and why the topic is
important

9. · A brief summary of the theoretical and empirical literature
related to the study topic
· A description about the gap(s) in research of personnel
psychology and why it is important
· An explanation of potential social implications of your
research
In Week 11, you submit a literature review for your Final
Project. You may benefit from reviewing the media on literature
reviews in Week 6. Literature Search Strategy
After you have introduced the topic or issue, the next section
incorporates a search on relevant literature in the field. With a
literature search strategy, discuss exactly how you conducted
your search of the literature. That is, very specifically, describe
your search strategy. What keywords did you use to conduct
your search? What databases did you search? What additional
methods did you use to uncover relevant articles, books, et
cetera? (For example, did you examine the reference section of
the articles you located for additional articles?)
A literature search strategy includes:
· A description of accessed library databases and search engines
used
· A description of key search terms and combinations of search
terms (with more detailed search terms located in an appendix if
appropriate)
· A description of the scope of literature review (years searched,
types of literature and sources searched, including seminal and
current peer-reviewed)
· A description of additional search methods in cases where
there is limited current research, dissertations, conference
proceedings, etc.

10. Literature Review
Following your literature search, you present a synthesis of
peer-reviewed, scholarly literature in a literature review. In
presenting relevant, scholarly literature, you annotate each
resource to include pertinent theoretical and empirical findings,
methodology, and/or research disparities relating to your topic
or issue.
A literature review includes:
· A discussion of relevant theories that form the basis for your
literature review
· A description of major theoretical propositions and/or major
hypotheses of those theories
· A review of the literature that describes studies related to the
leadership topic and/or theory of your choosing
· A review and synthesis of studies related to the key
independent, dependent, and covariate variables to produce a
description and explanation of what is known about the
variables, what is controversial (i.e., mixed findings by
researchers), and what remains to be studied
Problem Statement
· State the research problem.
· Provide evidence of consensus that the problem is current,
relevant, and significant to the discipline.
· Frame the problem in a way that builds upon or counters
previous research findings focusing primarily on research
conducted in the last 5 years.
· Address a meaningful gap in the current research literature.

11. Purpose of the Study
· Provide a concise statement that serves as the connection
between the problem being addressed and the focus of the study
and contains:
· The research paradigm (quantitative/qualitative/mixed) and
specific design/tradition within paradigm
· The study intent (such as describe, compare, correlate,
explore, develop, etc.)
· The independent, dependent, and covariate variables
(quantitative studies) or concept/phenomenon (qualitative
studies)
Research Question(s) and Hypotheses
· State the research questions.
· State what constructs you might measure and how you might
measure them.
· State the hypotheses by using appropriate population
parameters and statistical notation. (Use of an equation editor
makes typing hypotheses easy.)
· For quantitative studies, state the null and alternative
hypotheses that identify the independent and dependent
variables being studied and the association being
tested.References
In this section, you cite the work of scholars in the field that
contributed to your paper. Additionally, this section allows for
the retrieval of information. For a detailed guide on
constructing citations, refer to the APA Publication Manual (6th
edition).
A reference list includes:
· Title of the section (e.g., References)

12. · Each scholarly journal article or other scholarly resource used
in your research or preparation of your research
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