How can human resource management strategically contribute to the organization’s mission and vision on a daily basis?

Human Resource Management

  Assignment 2: Human Resource and Organization Performance

Effective management of human resources contributes to mission accomplishment and vision achievement. Given that a vision is the future preferred status for an organization, it is critical to align people with the processes and resources necessary to propel the organization forward. As easy as this may seem to the uninformed, there are many challenges as pressure is applied to consistently reduce costs while delivering superior goods and or services.

Whether you are part of a small entrepreneurial start up, a civil servant with a mature and large government entity, or a volunteer for a non-profit organization, someone is fulfilling the role of HR oversight. No matter what type of organization you are working for the HR functions typically associated with building human capital are: analysis and design of work, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee relations, personnel policies, compliance with laws, and strategies for supporting the mission.

This assignment is designed to integrate the reflection of personal experience, and the information covered in the textbook. Assuming you are Juanita, answer the following questions:

  • How can human resource management strategically contribute to the organization’s mission and vision on a daily basis?
  • What skills might Juanita have to develop to better fulfill her role?
  • How might Juanita engage line managers to become more involved in what has traditionally been HR’s function in this organization? Why?
  • Which aspects of human resource management would she want to entrust to specialists? Why?
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What does an early childhood professional need to know in order to understand the situation and needs of these children and families?

APP 2

Application: Action Plan 2: Supporting Young Children Through a Family Loss

This week, you have been learning about the vital role of the family in the socialization of children. The course text highlighted many changes in the composition and functioning of families over time, notably the influence of divorce, single parenting, and step-parenting. This week, for your second Action Plan, you will focus on ways to support children through an event that was not covered in your text but one that, as an early childhood professional, you may face while working with young children and their families: the death of a close family member. You may already be aware that children respond to and have a different understanding of death than adults. Use the knowledge of child development that you have gained so far, your perception of family ecology from the readings this week, and the specific articles provided below in developing your Action Plan.

Action Plan Professional Scenario: Imagine you are working in an early childhood setting that cares for and teaches children ages 0–5. Two families in your program share a grandmother who has been an active and loving caregiver for their children—an infant, a toddler, and a preschooler. The grandmother has recently passed away and you want to support these families by helping them understand how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers grieve in order to help the children with this loss.

Before you create your Action Plan, consider:

  • What does an early childhood professional need to know in order to understand the situation and needs of these children and families?
  • What ideas and advice from experts may be useful in assisting children and families?
  • What can early childhood professionals do to help, either directly, by suggesting activities and advice, or by referring the family to other community resources and professionals?

As you prepare this Action Plan, keep the focus on gathering and identifying the knowledge and ideas that you can best share with parents and other key adults. Remember that working directly with children as a grief counselor is an area of expertise that you may choose to pursue. However, as an early childhood professional, you are most qualified to help young children in this area by supporting the significant adults in their lives and remaining consistent, sensitive, and caring.

Follow these steps to create your Action Plan:

1. What You Need to Know: Learning About How Children at Different Ages Respond to Death

Naturally, children respond to situations in their own ways often based on where they are developmentally; sometimes based on temperament. Keep this uniqueness in mind as you read the following articles on children and grief. Although there is some overlap, you will find that all three help to clarify how young children of different ages respond to death. As you read, take notes on important developmental information and ideas that you think are important to share with parents/family members:

2. Ideas and Advice: Checking Resources

Think concretely about how best to help the parents/family members of an infant, a toddler, and a preschooler. Check your notes from reading the articles above. As needed, skim the articles again for key concepts about how young children perceive death and specific ways to support each age to share with parents/family members. Access these articles below as additional resources:

3. Taking Action: Supporting the Whole Family in Responding to Loss

With knowledge and ideas in hand, you’re ready to suggest ways to support young children in dealing with a family loss. Use the information and advice from the articles to make your plan. Think of it as preparing a script for meeting with the parents or other significant family adults. Include the following in your plan:

Part I: Supporting an Infant

Explain in your own words:

  • Developmental information about what an infant may feel or understand about a family death
  • Possible ways that an infant may respond to a family death
  • Specific advice from experts on how to help an infant through a family loss

Part II: Supporting a Toddler

Explain in your own words:

  • Developmental information about what a toddler may feel, believe, or understand about a family death
  • Possible ways that a toddler may respond to a family death
  • Specific advice from experts on how to help a toddler through a family loss

Part III: Supporting a Preschooler

Explain in your own words:

  • Developmental information about what a preschooler may feel, believe, or understand about a family death
  • Possible ways that a preschooler may respond to a family death
  • Three specific ideas or activities the family can do at home to help a preschooler through a family loss

As you write your plan, remember the following:

  • Your goal is to help parents/family members understand how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers may respond to the family loss.
  • Parents/family members are most likely grieving, too. Consider their feelings in explaining their children’s needs.
  • Choose language that you would feel comfortable using—language that is respectful and sensitive—to create a model presentation for talking with adult family members.

Assignment length: 2–3 pages

What are the technological components or services that this system relies on?

For A-PLUS WRITER ONLY

Components of Knowledge Management

According to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the four core components of knowledge management are:

  • Governance: The leadership that commits to an organizational structure capable of managing the knowledge.
  • Content: The quantity and quality of the data and information that is managed.
  • Processes: The standards and guidelines that will be used to collect, manage, and disseminate information.
  • Technology: The system supporting the other three components.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research and read the article, “Rhode Island HEALTH Web Data Query System: Death Certificate Module”(Gjelsvik & Monteiro, 2009).

Or

Click here to read the article.

Reference:

Gjelsvik, A., & Monteiro, K. (2009). Rhode Island HEALTH web data query system:

Death certificate module. Health by Numbers92(1), 32-33.

Based on your reading, create a 5- to 6-page document in Microsoft Word, which includes the answers to the following questions:

  • What is the “Rhode Island HEALTH Web Data Query System: Death Certificate Module?” Briefly describe the system’s purpose and how it came about.
  • Which organizations are involved in its governance? Provide a list and description of each organization.
  • What information can be found using this system? What are the advantages and limitations, if any, to the information that is available?
  • How is the information collected, managed, and retrieved?
  • What are the technological components or services that this system relies on? Why?

Conduct a query using one of the programs on this site.

Describe your query and then provide the results you obtained using this system.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Where do you think you should instruct your partner to look for evidence of accelerant use?

Arson Investication 1

You are responding to a house fire at the single-floor ranch home of the local petrochemical plant foreman. You have been told by detectives from your agency that the foreman in the local Novandon Petrochemical Plant recently had to lay off about one-third of the factory staff. The cuts were because of the poor economy, but the layoffs were seen as personal because the foreman is a difficult individual to get along with. The foreman and his family were out of the area for the weekend, so nobody was injured. A neighbor saw 3 men in a pickup truck with a chemical plant parking decal leave the neighborhood just prior to the fire’s breakout.

The battalion fire chief has released the scene as safe. The battalion chief indicates to you that the fire appeared to have started in the attached garage and the kitchen at about the same time. This indicates an arson fire. The garage is a painted concrete slab, and the kitchen has linoleum tiles. You must now start your scene investigation. You have a new partner, and you want to make sure that he knows what to consider in terms of accelerants.

  • Where do you think you should instruct your partner to look for evidence of accelerant use? Why?
  • What type of detection for accelerants would you use? Why?
  • What type of crime scene perimeter do you think would be best to establish? Why?

5 Paragraphs with references and no more then 25% plaigiarism

What do you think are the primary roles of evidence in criminal investigations?

Criminalistics 1

Assignment Guidelines

  • In 5 paragraphs with references and no more then 25% plaigiarism, address the following:
    • Do you think evidence plays a crucial role in every criminal investigation? Why or why not? Explain in detail.
    • What do you think are the primary roles of evidence in criminal investigations? Explain.
    • If you had to select one, which of the following is the most important step in processing evidence?
      • Recognition
      • Documentation
      • Collection
      • Preservation
    • Besides simply being exhibited for the court to ensure a criminal conviction, how else do you think physical evidence can be used to assist criminal justice professionals? Explain and be specific.

What internal aspects of an organization need to be examined before choosing a HRIS?

Consideration when choosing an HRIS

This is just a discussion post, There are several factors to consider before implementation of a HRIS. For the discussion this week, we will examine these considerations. Research and report on your findings. Consider the following questions.

  • What internal aspects of an organization need to be examined before choosing a HRIS?
  • What external factors need to be considered before choosing a HRIS?
  • Who should be a part of the discovery and decision making process?

If citing use APA format only, again this is a discussion post only 2 pargraphs needed at most

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Explain the importance of roles within an organization.

Organizational Structure

Write a 1-2 page paper analyzing an organization’s structure and roles and cover the following:

  • Write a 1 paragraph introduction to briefly explain an organization’s structure and roles
  • Discuss the importance of having an organizational structure.
  • Explain the importance of roles within an organization.
  • Provide 2 resources.
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What groups are excluded, and what groups are doing the excluding?

M3A1 Discussion – Identity-through-Exclusion

 

Assignment 1: Identity-through-Exclusion

 

Discussion Question

 

After reading the materials for this module, reflect on the different ways that various groups in American history have tried to define the national identity in terms of exclusion—whether it be whites excluding non-whites, males excluding females, natives excluding immigrants, and so on.

 

For this discussion thread, think about ways that such a process of identity-through-exclusion persists today.

 

For instance, one of the most obvious examples of “identity-through-exclusion” is our national identity. We know we are Americans because we are not Canadians, or Germans, or Japanese, and so on. Within American culture, we often define our identity in similar ways. Some stores exclude non-members from shopping there, some clubs or organizations require certain traits (for example, being a certain age, a certain religion, a certain ethnicity), and some rights exclude groups (voting rights, citizenships rights, and so on). Such exclusions are sometimes rooted in monetary gain (like requiring shoppers to buy memberships), sometimes in efficiency (like preventing children from voting), and sometimes in other goals.

 

Can you think of any instances where Americans find or define their identity by excluding other groups? What groups are excluded, and what groups are doing the excluding? What does the excluding group hope to gain by preventing the other group from being counted as a member?

 

Submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Start reviewing and responding to your peers’ posts as early in the module as possible. Expand on your classmates’ posts to critically engage in the discussion. You can ask a question, post a comment, or add a point to expand the discussion. Write your initial response in 3–4 paragraphs.

 

By Friday, January 22, 2016, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, January 27, 2016, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

 

How did the agents of socialization change as to their level of influence?

SOC M3A1 – Discussion

 

Assignment 1: Discussion

 

In this third module, we are discussing the human socialization process and how it influences our psychosocial development. After you have read the reading assignment and lecture for the module, please respond to all parts of the discussion by Saturday, January 23, 2016:

 

  1. Identify and describe Erikson’s stages of development as each applies to your own personality formation. How did success at one stage prepare you for meeting the next challenge?  What do you anticipate for stages you have not yet reached?
  2. As you progressed through each stage, how did the agents of socialization change as to their level of influence?  For any stages you have not yet reached, which agent(s) do you predict will be the most influential?
  3. Look in the Argosy University online library and the Internet for information on “feral children.” Explain why feral children are used as examples of young people for whom the socialization process has been stopped.

 

Remember to respond to the posts of at least two other students in the class. Complete your participation for this assignment by Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

 

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How is someone from a different cultural background likely to perceive your message?

Assignment 1: Culture and Communication

Assignment 1: Culture and Communication

In this assignment, you will explore your own cultural and ethnic background and analyze how this background may affect your communication. A great deal of a message is communicated not through spoken words but through the nonverbal channels. Culture and personal experience can play a large role in the transmission and interpretation of nonverbal messages. You will reflect upon your personal experience from the viewpoint of your cultural and ethnic affiliation(s) and compare it with the scholarly literature relevant to your cultural and ethnic background.

Tasks:

Watch the video, Empathy Training for Ethnic and Cultural Awareness. Afterwards, identify your cultural and ethnic background. In your response, answer the following questions:

  • In what ways do you feel your culture affects the way you communicate? (For example, eye contact or the lack of eye contact has a cultural component and can be interpreted as defiance or something similar by those unaware of the cultural context.)
  • Provide an example of how your culture has influenced nonverbal communication.
  • Discuss how nonverbal communication could influence whether or not a message is perceived accurately.
  • How is someone from a different cultural background likely to perceive your message?

Submission Details:

  • By Saturday, January 23, 2016, post your responses in at least 3–4 paragraphs to this Discussion Area. Your response should rely upon at least three sources from professional literature. This may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov). Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA format); and use accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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