Using this lead-in as a backdrop, conduct online research and choose an organization, public or private, that has gained popularity because of their flexible benefits program or lack thereof.  

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Flexible Benefits Programs

Many organizations, both public and private, use flexible benefits programs to help attract and retain a motivated and high-performing workforce.

  • Using this lead-in as a backdrop, conduct online research and choose an organization, public or private, that has gained popularity because of their flexible benefits program or lack thereof.

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

  • Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
  • Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
  • Include cover page and reference page.
  • At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
  • No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
  • Use at least three references from outside the course material
  • Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

Point out the less effective parts of the training.

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Organizations typically offer many different types of learning activities designed to appeal to the wide variety of employees who may have a preferred style of learning. Reflecting on your experience with an organization in which you have worked, describe how you were trained to perform the function you perform currently or in a previous role. Indicate what you believe to be effective training strategies and those that did not help you learn your role well. Make suggestions about how improvements could be added to future training for employees in the same situation.

Write a 2–3-page paper in which you do the following:

  1. Describe a training event in which you were a participant.
  2. Point out the less effective parts of the training.
  3. Describe the effective parts of the training.
  4. Identify at least one different activity you would have included in the training event and how it would improve the effectiveness of the event.
  5. Use at least two quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-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

Identify what role HR should play as a strategic business partner in addressing this incident.

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Write a 700- to 1,050-word analysis of the incident, “Illegal Hiring.” Include the following in preparing your response:

  • Identify what role HR should play as a strategic business partner in addressing this incident.
  • Summarize what you would have done in response to learning about the facts in this incident.
  • Discuss what factors in this incident might influence a company to make less-than-ethical decisions.
  • Summarize a brief policy that would help an organization like the one in “Illegal Hiring” make sound and legal hiring decisions within the framework of the law and support a culture of diversity and inclusion.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials; yet, the number of violations each year is staggering. Some violations center on the use of unethical HR practices. For example, the banking industry has been investigated for its internship and full-time employment hiring practices. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon) gave internships to family members of foreign government officials. The bank’s leadership intended to maintain or increase business with a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund. Internship programs are legal and BNY Mellon has a legitimate internship program, but these internships were awarded outside the accepted procedures and criteria used in its program. The U.S. SEC issued a cease-and-desist order, stating that “Delivering them [internships] ‘was seen by certain relevant [bank] employees as a way to influence the officials’ decisions.” This is the first cease-and-desist order of which internship hiring was the subject. Phillip Bezanson, a Bracewell & Giuliani Law LLP (firm) partner stated that “the concept of ‘anything of value’ under the FCPA can be ‘really abstract.’. . .”In the end, the bank agreed to pay a $5 million penalty, give up $8.3 million, and pay $1.5 million in interest.

Evaluate different approaches to ethical decision making.

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Complete the following:

  • Evaluate different approaches to ethical decision making.
  • Analyze the approach you feel works best in resolving ethical dilemmas.
  • Identify an ethical issue. You may use the same issue you used in the first assessment.
  • Once you have chosen the ethical approach you feel is best, apply it to your identified issue.
  • Assess the resolution that your ethical decision making approach suggests for this issue. How valid is the resolution that is suggested by the approach?

Questions to consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

  • What criteria are important to you when determining the level of an organization’s ethical performance? Why are these important criteria? Consider both corporate and personal values as part of the criteria. Examples may include treatment of employees, compliance with laws, or treatment of the environment (such as air quality).
  • Consider your best experience in working for someone who demonstrated exemplary ethical behavior. Or, consider your worst experience in working for someone who demonstrated unethical behavior. For the situation selected, what are the characteristics of the person, from an organizational values approach? In other words, what stated corporate values were modeled or ignored by this person? What effect did it have on the organization? If you decide to discuss this with others, protect the confidentiality of all individuals involved by substituting made-up names for the organization and the individuals.

What need is the new product trying to fill? Do you think it will meet that need?

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PART 1: Find a recent article or video describing a  new product in development. Post a link to the article or video in the  discussion thread and describe the following:

  1. What need is the new product trying to fill? Do you think it will meet that need?
  2. What type of innovation does the new product represent?
  3. What kind of process do you think will be used to make the  product? Would it be possible to produce a lot of the product in a short  amount of time?

Explain how you determined the  duties and qualifications for the job and which laws were considered  when creating the job description. 

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Due Week 3 and worth 200 points

A new position has been approved  for creation; this position will be eligible for full benefits and may  even need to be sent to foreign countries.

You have been given the opportunity  to create a detailed job description for your job, a former job, or a  job you would like to move into.

Based on what you know about a job analysis, employment laws, and safe working environments, include the following categories:

  1. Job overview
  2. Responsibilities and duties
  3. Qualifications
  4. Explain how you determined the  duties and qualifications for the job and which laws were considered  when creating the job description.

This assignment should be 2-3 pages and accurately reflect an actual job description in the workplace today.

NOTE: This assignment will  be used as a basis for the remaining assignments in the course. Make  sure you take this into consideration when doing the work for this  assignment.

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

From any recent or current event in the news, discuss and explain the use of these two specific theories that the firms you researched believed in  

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Your manager believes in learning from other companies’ success stories as well as stories of failure. In particular, she likes to apply various management theories when possible, rather than starting from the beginning every time a decision has to be made. She asks you to write a memo to her addressing the following:
From any recent or current event in the news, discuss and explain the use of these two specific theories that the firms you researched believed in
•In the human resource area, moving toward an employee empowerment culture
•In the marketing area, the theory of penetration pricing
For each of these two, explain the following:
•The issue being addressed that gave rise to employing these theories
•How the theory being followed leads to specific actions on the part of the company
•Results achieved
•If you had been the senior manager in these situations, at those companies, how might you have addressed the situation any differently? What other theory could have been the basis for the decision.

Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.

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Value Proposition in Patient Care

Paradise Hospital, Inc., is a for-profit hospital. As the facility’s new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in current-day America.

Note: You may create or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.

Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital’s service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.

Specify four specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such a value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.

Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find four recent (within the last five years) quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides.

Follow APA or school-specific format for citations and references. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your 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.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Propose areas where a hospital can add value to patient services.

Describe your plan for assessing employee retention, noting the factors you elect to address and explaining why these factors can be important as they relate to turnover and retention. 

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You are a human resources practitioner in the HR department of a large, not-for-profit hospital. Your title is Employee Relations Manager, and your immediate superior is the facility’s Vice Present for Human Resources. Repeating a concern brought to him by administration, the HR vice president has stated that employee turnover appears to be excessive for this facility. As a result, the vice president has concluded that employee retention is a major issue and assigns you the task of assessing retention practices. He requests a work plan describing how you will proceed.

Describe your plan for assessing employee retention, noting the factors you elect to address and explaining why these factors can be important as they relate to turnover and retention.

In essay form, develop two arguments, one supporting job descriptions and one opposing job descriptions. Finally, provide your opinion in support of one argument or the other. 

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Some management commentators have argued that job (or position) descriptions are not necessary, that they are simply unneeded paperwork that occupy file space and that they are not particularly useful. In essay form, develop two arguments, one supporting job descriptions and one opposing job descriptions. Finally, provide your opinion in support of one argument or the other.

References

Fallon Jr., L. Fleming, & McConnell, Charles R. (2019). Human Resource Management in Health Care Principles and Practice. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning