1. Should banks be required to clearly state any off balance sheet activities? Should banks be required to hold reserves against their off balance sheet activities?
2. Should governments purchase the devalued paper so that financial institutions can clean up their balance sheets and prevent a collapse of the financial system?
3. Should governments seize the insolvent banks and operate them until private buyers can step in?
4. Should governments regulate investment banks and private equity funds and hedge funds? If so, would this regulation have to be international in scope?
5. Should governments regulate the compensation schemes of the senior managers and traders in financial institutions?
6. In a crisis, should financial institutions be required to mark to market?
7. Should credit rating agencies be regulated?
8. Should governments regulate mortgage terms and security conditions?
9. Has globalization created the ineviatability of global contagion in financial crises?
10. Did the financial crisis make a recession inevitable?

 Structure: Identify the firm's structure and analyze the fit of the structure with the firm's strategy.

1. Culture: Assess the firm's culture and the fit of the culture with the firm's strategy.
2. Management Analysis: Analyze the firm's key operations management and human resource management characteristics in relation to its strategy.
3. Marketing Analysis: Assess the "4 Ps" and the key marketing strategies of the firm in relation to the firm's strategy.
4. Financial Analysis: Assess the firm's finances using a DuPont analysis or ratio analysis and assess the firm's growth potential in relation to its financial structure.
5. R&D Analysis: Assess the firm's R&D capabilities in light of the firm's strategy.
6. Information Systems Analysis: Assess the firm's IS capabilities in relation to its strategy.
7. Analysis of Competitive Advantage: Assess the firm's competitive advantages using a VRIO analysis.
8. Internal Factor Analysis Summary (IFAS): Summarize the results of the above-listed analyses using the IFAS format.

Select what you believe are the top three most important leadership attributes as discussed in weeks 1-8 (e.g., visionary, problem-solver, team builder, manager of emotional intelligence, communicator, liaison, planner, etc.). 

Identify a leader of an organization and assess their ability to exemplify these attributes in the workplace. Explain the challenges of the company and how this leader created change (or is in the process).  

In addition, identify the leadership theory that best reflects this leader's approach, providing examples and research as needed.

Some additional things to consider when preparing your paper:

1. You use APA format for your title page, body of the paper, citations, and references.
2. You DO NOT need an abstract
3. Work hard to avoid the use of first person (e.g., I, us, we, our) and second person (e.g., you, yours).  As you progress in your educational journey, you will be expected to use third person.
4. The paper length (i.e., the body of the paper) will be no less than 3 pages and no more than 7 pages.  

 Read: Keller: Chapters 5 – 8 

 
Watch: Dr. Dave Ulrich – The Future of HR 

Question 

Submit the name of a subject company with at least 100 employees. Be sure to review the full Strategic HR Audit Assignment Instructions before completing this. Approval by your instructor will be signified with this assignment.

 Read: Hardy: Chapter 3 

 Read: Valentine: Chapters 4, 6 – 7 

 
Watch: Recruiting Trends with SHRM's Tony Lee at SHRM19 

Watch: Recruiting Trends with SHRM's Tony Lee at SHRM19

Discussion Thread: Exploring Job Design, Staffing, and Christian Worldview

 How does Hardy’s (Chapter 3) conceptualization of vocation and the “divine economy” specifically connect with at least 2 salient job design and employee engagement/retention constructs outlined by Valentine (Chapters 4-5)? Discuss at least 2 related HR-practice implications for strategically recruiting and selecting employees (Valentine Chapters 6-7). 

DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
THREAD: INSTRUCTIONS
The student will post one thread of 400-700 words thread must be in current APA Format and double-spaced.
Thread: Specific Reference Requirements
For Discussion Thread: Introducing HR and Christian Worldview and Discussion Thread: Shaping
the Future of HR, include a references section, and be sure to have in-text citations for the
following sources:
 At least 2 citations from Valentine: Human Resource Management.
 At least 1 citation from Hardy: The Fabric of this World: Inquiries into Calling,
Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work.
 At least 1 citation from Keller: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to
God’s Work.
 At least 2 citations from related scholarly journals (e.g. Human Resource Management
Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Strategic Human Resource
Management, Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, Christian Scholars Review).
For Discussion Thread: Exploring Employee Engagement, Globalization, and Christian
Worldview and Discussion Thread: Exploring Job Design, Staffing, and Christian
Worldview, include a references section, and be sure to have in-text citations for the following
sources:
 At least 2 citations from Valentine: Human Resource Management.
 At least 1 citation from Hardy: The Fabric of this World: Inquiries into Calling,
Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work.
 At least 2 citations from related scholarly journals (e.g. Human Resource Management
Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Strategic Human Resource
Management, Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, Christian Scholars Review).