| Title | Activity 4_10 |
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Activity Instructions: New Employee Orientation
Training Magazine reports that only 4% of the companies they surveyed do not provide new employee orientations. This activity deals with orientation and is comprised of two (2) parts. (100 points) (A 4-page response is required for the combination of Parts A and B.)
| Part A | Through research, identify five (5) companies that provide new hire orientations and write a report that describes what each of the five (5) companies covers in its orientation. At least one (1) of the five (5) companies should be one that you research through a telephone interview, research through a personal visit, or know from personal experience. This report should include objectives, schedules/outlines, etc., to convey what these organizations stress in new employee orientations. In addition, include noted "best practices" activities that personally impress you. (55 points) | ||
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| Part B | Create a training program identifying the main topics that you think should be covered in a new employee orientation for an existing or imaginary company. Be specific. Your training program should include an outline of topics, schedule, five (5) course learning objectives, and what you consider the best delivery method. (45 points) | ||
| Title | Discussion Question 5_11 |
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Discuss the following:
Explain the following third-party interventions: mediation, fact-finder, and binding arbitration. Provide hypothetical examples of each.
Compare four (4) tactics that a union might use to break an impasse. Do not discuss the three (3) interventions discussed in "a" above.
| Title | Discussion Question 5_12 |
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You are an employee relations manager. Your last employee values and behaviors survey showed low ratings in the following three (3) areas:
A casual regard for company property and minor theft
Among the salesforce, a lack of concern for and failure to apply ethical principles when dealing with clients
A lack of familiarity with company ethics policy.
Respond to the following. (25 points) (A 1½-page response is required.)
Access the Ashworth online library, ProQuest, and come up with three (3) creative initiatives to improve employee commitment to ethics in the workplace.
Discuss three (3) methods to communicate your initiatives to employees. This item is "out of scope" for current budget, so you cannot use means beyond normal communication tools (weekly newsletter, etc.).
| Title | Activity 5_13 |
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Activity Instructions: Employee Performance Appraisal Guidelines (100 points)
Your company has just decided to implement annual employee performance appraisals. This is a new process for all levels of employees and management feels there may be reluctance or hesitation to put much effort into this process. Your task is to create a PowerPoint presentation for those persons who will be administering the performance appraisals.
The following content should be present in the PowerPoint presentation.
A discussion of four (4) common dangers in filling out rating-scale appraisals.
Five (5) recommendations on how to avoid appraisal problems.
Four (4) tips/techniques for delivering an employee performance appraisal, such as making some suggestions about how to have a performance appraisal meeting or interview with an employee.
In addition, the presentation should be interesting to the viewers, providing a pleasant viewing experience.
(100 points) (A 10-slide PowerPoint presentation is required.)
| Title | Discussion Question 6_14 |
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Discuss three (3) reasons why international business efforts fail. Then discuss the five (5) factors important in the selection of management staff for international assignments. Include coverage of three (3) components for each factor.
| Title | Discussion Question 6_15 |
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Describe the 4-Level training and development strategy to support expatriates in a start-up company that plans to sell American wine in France. (24 points) (A 1½-page response is required.)
| Title | Activity 6_16 |
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Activity Instructions: Outsourcing Case Study
(100 points) (A 4-page response is required.)
| Part A | You are the director of HR for a company that sells an upscale line of gourmet snack foods. Your company has a 30-employee call center that takes calls from customers about order and payment issues. Your boss talked to someone on the plane during a recent business trip and has become interested in outsourcing the call center to an off-shore firm in India. "We could save 80% on labor alone!" he exclaimed. You have heard that about half of outsourcing off-shore work is terminated fairly quickly. Write a paper outlining the pros and cons of off-shore outsourcing in this situation. Present at least three (3) positive and three (3) negative sides of the issue. In true, objective fashion, present the facts, but let your boss make up his own mind. (60 points) | ||
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| Part B | Discuss an example of one (1) company that is successfully outsourcing work offshore and one (1) company that tried outsourcing offshore but terminated the effort. (40 points) | ||
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