Week 1 Discussion 1
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"Changes in Human Resource Management (HRM)" Please respond to the following:
• Analyze the evolution of HRM, and provide two examples of how these evolutionary changes directly affect HRM in health care organizations.
• * From the first scenario, examine the role of human resources in health care organizations. Suggest a key characteristic that is required by HR to establish effective relationships with line managers, indicating the likely impact to the organization.
• Optional question ( in lieu of question 2) for those who have not received their Learn Scape Access or Text: Based on your current knowledge, identify some basic concepts that you feel may be important in Human Resource Management.
Week 1 Discussion 2
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"Employment Law" Please respond to the following:
• Determine which employment laws have the most impact on routine human resources activities within a health care organization. Support your rationale with examples of how two areas of the law affect HR in health care organizations.
• * From the second scenario, recommend a strategy that HR can use to address complaints related to a specific employee rights issue. Provide support for your recommendation.
• Optional question ( in lieu of question 2) for those who have not received their Learn Scape Access or Text: Based on your current knowledge, identify some basic "Employment Laws" that you feel may be important in Human Resource Management.
Week 2 Discussion 1
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"Human Resources Activities" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest which HR function you believe to be the most important to the overall success of the organization. Provide one example to support your rationale.
• Determine the most likely function of HRM that is sometimes challenged by line managers in health care organizations and resulting organizational impacts of this challenge. Justify your response.
Week 2 Discussion 2
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"Relationships" Please respond to the following:
• * From the scenario, analyze the role that line managers in health care organizations play in developing HRM. Provide an example to support your analysis.
• Suggest the management characteristic that is most important to build and maintain effective manager-employee relationships, indicating the resulting impact to the organization. Provide support for your rationale.
Week 3 Discussion 1
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"Job Descriptions" Please respond to the following:
• Create an argument that describes why job descriptions are necessary in a health care organization. Provide support for your argument.
• From the e-Activity, evaluate the value of the work of the Joint Commission in the health care environment, indicating one thing that you may change. Provide support for your rationale.
Week 3 Discussion 2
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"Civil Service" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest the most significant difference in the recruiting and hiring process for civil services versus private employment. Examine the resulting impact to the hiring process if this difference is not acknowledged. Provide support for your rationale.
• Predict the likely outcome of disciplining a civil service employee. Provide support for your prediction.
Week 4 Discussion 1
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"Interviewing Techniques" Please respond to the following:
• Recommend a strategy for conducting an interview that has the potential to ensure an optimal hiring decision. Provide support for your recommendation.
• From the e-Activity, create an argument for using behavioral-based interviews to fill open positions in health care organizations. Provide support for your argument.
Week 4 Discussion 2
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"Employee Training and Development" Please respond to the following:
• Create an argument for investing in training and development to improve employee performance. Support your rationale.
• Suggest how HR and department managers can collaborate to create an effective process designed to mentor and develop employees for leadership roles. Provide support for your suggestion.
Week 5 Discussion 1
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"Compensation and Benefits" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest a key factor to be considered in the creation of a competitive compensation and benefit plan for an acute care hospital. Provide support for your rationale.
• From the perspective of HR, propose one strategy to manage complaints from employees who believe their salary and benefits package is not fair.
Week 5 Discussion 2
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"Employee Relations" Please respond to the following:
• Analyze the importance of determining whether an employee issue is related to behavior or performance. Propose one recommendation on how to correct each type of issue.
• Create an argument that describes HR- key role in resolving employee relations issues, indicating how they can impact the outcome. Provide support for your argument.
Week 6 Discussion 1
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"Safe Work Environment" Please respond to the following:
• Recommend a key objective that should be included in an HR policy to help ensure the existence of a work environment that protects employees from situations involving harassment, violence, or breaches of personal information. Provide support for your rationale.
• Agree or disagree that legal requirements for employee safety and welfare are essential to keeping employees safe. Support your rationale.
Week 6 Discussion 2
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"Documentation" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest the most significant type of documentation that should be maintained in an employee- HR file to protect the organization from legal action.
• Recommend a strategy for handling employee documentation to ensure that privacy obligations are not violated. Provide support for your recommendation.
Week 7 Discussion 1
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"Employee Terminations" Please respond to the following:
• * Based on the scenario, suggest the most likely cause for the employee failing to recognize the serious nature of the situation and how this failure may be avoided in the future. Provide support for your rationale.
• Determine the most likely unintentional consequence of downsizing and / or layoffs in organizations, indicating how an organization may avoid these consequences. Provide support for your rationale.
"Decision Making" Please respond to the following:
• Excluding situations related to hiring and terminating employees, provide one example of a decision related to an HR policy or process, and determine the moral and ethical factors that management should consider when making the decision in question.
• Recommend a strategy that managers should implement to ensure ethical decision making with regard to HRM. Predict the most likely impact of ethical decision making within an organization.
Week 8 Discussion 1
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"Succession Planning" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest a key element for a succession plan, indicating how an organization may act to realize the plan. Provide support for your rationale.
• Create an argument that describes why formalized succession planning is essential for sustaining an organization. Support your argument.
Week 8 Discussion 2
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"Unions" Please respond to the following:
• From the e-Activity, determine whether you agree or disagree that unions add value to a health care organization. Provide support for your position.
• Analyze the relationship between department managers and union representatives. Recommend a strategy to create an environment of collaboration between the two groups. Provide support for your recommendation.
Week 9 Discussion 1
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"Employee Relations" Please respond to the following:
• Determine a key benefit of a health care organization having positive employee relations. Support your rationale.
• Create an argument that explains why organizational resources should be allocated to employee relations activities. Provide support for your argument.
Week 9 Discussion 2
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"Avoiding Litigation" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest a key benefit for an employee to arbitrate rather than litigate. Provide support for your rationale.
• Suggest a key way that an organization can reduce the number of HR cases that reach the point of arbitration. Support your recommendation.
Week 10 Discussion 1
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"Consultants to Support HRM" Please respond to the following:
• Suggest a key driver for a health care administrator to engage the services of a consultant to improve the functions of HR.
• Create an argument for hiring an HR consultant within a health care organization. Provide support for your argument.
Week 10 Discussion 2
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"The Future of HRM in Health Care" Please respond to the following:
• From the e-Activity, speculate which trend is driving the HR function with health care organizations. Provide support for your speculation.
• Based on the trend identified in the previous discussion, recommend a key way that HR can support department managers to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of human resources management.
Week 11 Discussion 1
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"Transfer It" Please respond to the following:
• Determine two ways to apply what you learned in this course in your current or a future position.
• Create a list of three best practices to follow in the field of health services human resource management.
Week 11 Discussion 2
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"Sum It Up" Please respond to the following:
• Assess how your own theories of health services human resource management have matured or changed since the beginning of this course.
• Write a speech that you would give to a friend in an elevator summing up the contents of this course. You have 30 to 90 seconds to inform your friend of the most important elements. Go!
ASSIGNMENT
Assignment 1: Health Care Human Resources Management Due Week 3 and worth 240 points
Imagine that you have applied for the position of Manager of Human Resources at an acute care hospital in your community. The hospital is planning to expand its services to meet the needs of a growing community. As part of the application screening process, you have been asked to write a document that outlines the steps you would take, as the manager of HR, to improve the effectiveness of HRM in this organization. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: Analyze two (2) current trends in health care that are affecting human resources management that may likely impact your hiring decision as HR manager. Provide support for your analysis. Suggest a significant opportunity for HR to become more of a strategic partner within an organization. Justify your response. Recommend a model of human resources management that would be the most appropriate for this organization in question. Provide support for your recommendation. Recommend a strategy that HR could implement in order to develop more effective relationships between Human Resources and the organization- managers and senior executives, indicating how each strategy will achieve the desired goal. Determine a specific employment law that may affect the hiring and selection process at the acute hospital in your community. Provide support for your rationale. Use at least three (3) 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 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- name, the professor- name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources (HR) in health care organizations. Evaluate the effects of major employment laws on HR functions in health care organizations. Evaluate the competencies necessary for effective health care human resources management. Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management. Write clearly and concisely about health services human resource management using proper writing mechanics.
Assignment 2: Human Resources Policies and Procedures
Due Week 7 and worth 320 points
Continuing with the scenario from Assignment 1, imagine that you have been hired as the Manager of Human Resources for the acute care hospital. Your first task is to create a set of policies and procedures to ensure that the organization- HRM processes are aligned with the organization- goals and objectives. You are also responsible for completing a hiring plan, training plan, compensation and benefits plan, and a performance appraisal.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1. Examine a significant way that the Joint Commission has influenced the basic functions of HRM and predict the likely impact of the policies and procedures at the your acute hospital. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Analyze the importance of collaboration between HR and department managers when filling open positions, indicating the most likely impact on the hiring process.
3. Create a detailed outline of a training program for managers. The outline should include, at a minimum, interviewing techniques that both help managers identify the best candidate for the job and meet the requirements of appropriate employment laws and regulations.
4. Determine the most significant factor that should be considered in order to develop a compensation and benefit plan that is fair, competitive, and aligned with the organization- strategic objectives, indicating the direct impact of each factor on the elements.
5. Recommend a performance appraisal method that you believe would be the most effective for the organization and support the reasons for your decision. Provide support for your recommendation.
6. Create a strategy to effectively manage both performance- and behavioral-based employee problems, which will lead to the desired behavior result.
7. Use at least three (3) 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 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- name, the professor- name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Develop the key components of an employment agreement.
• Examine the influence of the Joint Commission on the development of job descriptions and performance management programs.
• Develop an effective interview and selection process that meets the requirements of employment laws and regulations.
• Propose ways that job performance and training can be integrated.
• Analyze the challenges that confront health care employers in providing competitive compensation and benefit programs.
• Analyze the objectives and methods of an effective performance appraisal process.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services human resource management using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
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Assignment 3: Human Resources Planning and Employee Relations
Due Week 10 and worth 360 points
Building on the work that you completed in Assignment 2, continue evaluating the role of functions HR in creating a set of Human Resources’ policies and procedures for the acute care hospital.
Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
1. Explain the importance of maintaining accurate and objective employee records, indicating the consequences that may result from lack of record keeping. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Provide an example of formal and an example of informal documentation that would normally be maintained in an employee file, indicating how each is likely to protect an employer.
3. Determine the most significant factor that will ensure an effective legal termination, indicating the most likely way employees can protect themselves from termination in a downsizing situation. Provide support for your rationale.
4. Analyze two (2) major challenges that today- health care leaders face in trying to uphold the ethics of critique, justice, and caring, indicating how managers can balance the need for ethics with employee and organizational needs.
5. Create a detailed outline of an effective succession planning process that will help ensure a smooth transition as members of the management team at your organization begin to retire. (The plan should prescribe, at a minimum, how to identify employees for advancement, training and development programs, mentorships, and a timeline for preparing leaders for their role.)
6. From both a management and employee perspective, justify or dispute unionization. Provide support for your rationale.
7. Suggest the best way in which HR can continue to be an effective strategic partner in helping this organization achieve its future goals. Provide support for your rationale.
8. Use at least three (3) 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 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- name, the professor- name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources in health care organizations.
• Demonstrate the importance of HR as a strategic partner in health care organizations.
• Analyze the impact of labor unions on the health care industry.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management.
• Write clearly and concisely about health services human resource management using proper writing mechanics.
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