In a 200-250-word response, what are some of the ways you can foster a “high-performance culture” focused on teamwork and success within your new business venture?
How can you reflect these efforts within your business plan?
Human resource professionals are responsible for responding to and resolving issues that involve employees and management. A key element in resolving issues is identifying the source of the issue and trends that may impact the issue. In this scenario you are an HR analyst in an 800-employee telecom service company. Your company has a varied workforce and runs three shifts each day. The company is approximately eight years old and has a management team with mixed experience.
Your manager, who is the director of Human Resources, recently received a Department of Labor complaint. The complaint claims that employees are not paid properly for overtime in any area of the company and states that employees have brought their concerns to management repeatedly with no resolution. Your manager has asked you to investigate the root cause of the complaint. You know that you will begin your investigation with the payroll department.
In this milestone, you will investigate the complaint that was received by the company. As a reminder, in the milestone you will draft a section of Project One. The feedback for this milestone should be applied to your final submission of Project One that is due in Module Five. The complaint states that employees have complained about unfair wages. Begin your analysis by reviewing the Employee Job Descriptionlocated in the Supporting Materials section. Your next step is to determine if the employees should be classified as exempt or nonexempt. Use section two of the the FLSA Designation Worksheet to support your classification. Note that the minimum salary was recently changed to $35,568. To access the worksheet, open the link located in the What to Submit section.
You will continue your investigation by analyzing the Timesheet Records document located in the Supporting Materials section to see if the employees were fairly compensated based on your determination of their classification. When you have gathered all necessary information, you will present your findings and recommendations in a risk memo. You will need to summarize your findings and the potential risks for noncompliance with management.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
To complete this milestone, you must submit the following:
Payroll Investigation Worksheet: Complete your Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Designation Worksheet. Fill out the worksheet PDF then use the download icon to save your work. Be sure to select the “with your changes” option. Alternatively, you may download the PDF first, fill out the needed information, and then save the PDF. Upload your completed PDF to Brightspace.
Risk Memo
Your risk memo should contain the preliminary conclusions of your investigation and should be 3 to 4 paragraphs in length using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Any sources should be cited according to APA style.
The following resources support your work on the project:
Resource: Employee Job Description – ABC Company
Use this sample job description to begin your research into the employee complaint.
Resource: Timesheets Record
Use the sample employee data in this Excel sheet to help determine the validity of the employee complaint.
How I Built This Project
Instructions:
Choose 1 podcast from the How I Built This archive (Found here in a new window). You are free to choose any episode that you want and I encourage you to choose one that interests you. You should write a reflection that should be at least 1 page in length that includes the following items. This should be in paper format (not question and answer or bullet points).
Summarize the entrepreneur's rise to success.
What stumbling blocks did they encounter? How did they rise above them?
What did you learn from this entrepreneur?
What is your opinion on whether a entrepreneur's success is dependent on luck or skill?
Why did you choose this entrepreneur?
Plain text link: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this
Grading (See Rubric for more information)
Answers all 5 prompts above (can include other things if you want).
This should be in paragraph form and not bullet points or question and answer.
Proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation
At least 1 page in length.
For Milestone Two, you will describe for your audience the nature of your chosen public health issue, so that they will be able to understand and appreciate your presentation. Building upon your Milestone One worksheet submission, your analysis will include the economic principles and impacts of the principles involved with your public health issue, related socioeconomic factors, and the healthcare organizations impacted. Use the feedback you received on Milestone One to assist you in developing your introduction.
Submit your analysis as a short paper that you may use to develop speaker’s notes for your final presentation.
Describe for your audience the nature of your chosen public health issue, including the economic considerations involved.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Reflect on what you consider healthcare to be. Briefly describe your definition of health based on your personal and/or professional experience.
View the video "From Sickcare to Wellcare" and address the following questions:
Use the journal as an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the final project requirements and case study. Journal activities in this course are private between you and your instructor. Only the instructor can view and comment on your assignments.
Your journal assignment should be 2 to 4 paragraphs in length. Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12- point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.
The Case for Incentivising Health is based on Australian data, but the challenges of combating chronic disease there are similar to the challenges present in the United States. Read the case carefully and consider the list of main considerations those working in the preventative health space could think about when developing programs, policies or interventions to change behaviors listed on page five. Address the following questions:
Support your responses with examples from your own experience, the case, or references to the textbook or other scholarly sources.
Use the journal as an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the final project requirements and case study. Journal activities in this course are private between you and your instructor. Only the instructor can view and comment on your assignments.
Your journal assignment should be 2 to 4 paragraphs in length. Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12- point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.
After analyzing your public health issue in Milestone One and studying socioeconomic factors affecting healthcare in this module, you will write a short paper to identify and analyze socioeconomic barriers and supports involved in addressing the public health issue. Your paper must include an introduction to your public health issue, a discussion of socioeconomic barriers to change, a discussion of supports for change, and a conclusion with a call to action for your readers. Assume your readers will include healthcare administrators and managers, as well as healthcare policy makers and legislators.
Write a short paper including the following sections:
Your short paper must be submitted as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format
Follow the textbook examples – step-by-step Attached. Create a spreadsheet like the one in the book using the same labels – inputting the numbers in the homework problem.
For Milestone Three, you will address the critical elements in the Evaluation of Policy section of your final project and write a letter to the stakeholders involved to describe and defend your proposed policy. Stakeholders could include policy makers, healthcare providers, insurers, and healthcare consumers.
Your letter should include background on the key health issue and your assumption of the positive and negative impacts inferred by existing policies (e.g., unintended consequences or public reaction). The document should not be based solely on emotion, though it should not be divorced of sentiment, as it needs to rouse the proper energy to effect change. The goal of the document is to convince the reader that your proposed policy will improve the U.S. healthcare system in terms of quality, costs, and accessibility.
Submit your analysis in a letter format that you may use to develop speaker’s notes for your final presentation.
Prompt: Write a letter to a stakeholder to describe and defend your proposed policy.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Discussion Board/Collaboration Forum – Revenue Strategy
Deadline: Due 2/11
After reading the chapter and watching and reading the sources below, give an example of a business and the type of revenue strategy they are using to earn revenue. Your example must be different from the articles/videos below but similar. Ex: low pricing, freemium, or unit sales. Explain your example and how it applies to the revenue model.
Submission: This posting should be a minimum of one short paragraph and a maximum of two paragraphs. Words totals for the post should be in the 150-200 range. References should include the textbook, (NOT PPT slides) and link from the source you watched and read from.
