Human Resource Management Individual Project

Human Resource Management Individual Project

The Written Paper

Format

Microsoft Word document;
One-inch margins around, double-spaced, size 12 fonts; The length of the paper should be 5-6 pages.

Requirements 

You will assume the managerial position of an organization, a department, or a work unit in the organization you are currently working for or in an organization that you previously have worked for. The goal is to apply the knowledge from this course to analyze one or two key aspects of this organization or work unit in terms of how to further improve its Human Resource Management practices. Whether to analyze your current workplace or an organization you previously worked for is your choice. Depending on your personal interest, you can also choose to analyze a student association or another type of social organization that you’ve been involved in. If you do not have previous work experience, you may interview a family member or friend for the organization that he or she is working for.

This analysis should utilize information about the organization that can be typically observed by and shared with the public without divulging any sensitive proprietary information. Please use fake names for the managers and employees in the organization to protect their confidentiality.

Through the course, you will learn about major issues related to Human Resource Management such as equal employment opportunity, recruiting, selection, job design, training, performance management, employee development, retaining employees, pay structure and incentives, benefits, employee creativity, labor relations, and managing human resources globally. My requirement is that you will identify one or two key issues that are particularly relevant to this organization or work unit you are analyzing. These issues should be what you consider as the key areas that managerial attention should be focused on to improve the Human Resource Management of this organization or work unit. You will then apply the knowledge you’ve learned in this course about these key issues to diagnose the current situation in this organization and create recommendations for improvement. You can either apply one key issue to conduct an in-depth analysis or apply two key issues for a more balanced analysis.

Identifying areas for improvement reflects your managerial insights that are important to organization effectiveness. Such insights are also important for organizations that are already highly successful to help maintain their competitive advantages. I encourage you to choose the organization, work unit, or group you are interested in analyzing early in the semester and start to develop your ideas related to this analysis through the semester as you learn about different topics.

Key components of the paper 

1. Diagnosis (30 pts).In this part of the paper, you use the one or two key issues you identified to analyze the work situation and to explain what the current condition of these aspects are in this organization and how they affect employee behavior and organization effectiveness.

Your diagnosis will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Description of facts (10 pts): provided a clear and detailed description of the

current HR practices in the areas you are analyzing;

• Insight (10 pts): provided an insightful analysis of the pros and cons of these HR

practices based on what you’ve learned in this class;

• Class concepts (10 pts): the analysis reflects the knowledge learned from this

class; concepts from class applied correctly and effectively in the analysis.

2. Recommendations (30 pts).Your diagnosis of the current organizational situation will be followed with a set of recommendations for what can be done in the future to improve the Human Resource Management practices in this organization.

State your recommendations as specifically as possible to be meaningful. If you decided that the performance appraisal methods need improvement, please specify what exactly can be done to improve it.

Your recommendations will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Connection to diagnosis (10 pts): recommendations address the problems discussed in your diagnosis;
• Quality (10 pts): recommendations are specific, effective, and appropriate;
• Class concepts (10 pts): recommendations reflect your learning from this class and are based on the sound HR principles taught in this class

Every paper needs to include diagnosis and recommendation as two major elements.

3. Style (10 pts).Quality of the writing (e.g., grammar, sentence structure, flow) will be evaluated for 10 points.