Parts 1 & 2 should be submitted as one paper, but MUST be clearly marked as ‘Part 1’ and ‘Part 2’. You will select any “entry-level” professional position that you could expect to seek after graduation. Your position should be general enough to facilitate research, but not so general that your assignments lack meaningful content. Examples (please choose your own) of positions in Human Resources and Management include (Use O*Net to research positions):

Human Resources Administrator (Generalist)

Recruiter

Training Specialist

Compensation Analyst

You can choose your own positions to research, the above listed are just examples.

• Part 1 – Job Analysis and Job Description – (Due) 75 points:
• You will perform a job analysis on your selected position and use that information to write a job description. To do an effective job, it would behoove students to find as many examples as possible of this position to analyze.
• Minimum 3 pages containing the following sections:
• Report of basic job content– Report should give an overview of job content including: job title, industry where job is found, a description of basic duties, a description of basic qualifications, and a description of the job’s role in the organization.

Report should identify job specifications: List KSAO’s needed to perform the most important tasks as identified with your job description. Identify essential job functions.

Written Job Description– Please be sure to end this section with the job description you’ve created for the position. (BE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS – Review the PowerPoint that discusses Job analysis.)

Part 2 – Employment Ad, Interview & Selection – (Due) 125 points:

You will identify recruitment sources and create an Employment Ad to recruit the position you analyzed. You will also describe the interview and selection process you will use.

• Minimum 3 pages containing the following sections:

Description of recruitment sources (3 external, 1 internal) including where your ad will run – describe how each source will be used to generate applicants. **Sources chosen should produce a diverse applicant pool.**

• Written employment advertisement that will be used to recruit for this position.

Discuss how you will evaluate and sort the applicants to determine who and how many will get an interview. Will you do any pre-screening of applicants? If so, what type? Why?

• A plan for the interview process. Who will interview the applicants? What interview format will be used? Will there be any selection tests used? If so, what type? Why? Include at least four sample interview questions.

Selection. How will you make your selection decision? What selection measures will you use? How will you ensure it’s a good measure?

• Onboarding: Briefly describe how the new employee will be trained and socialized, and by whom.

• In this essay you will write a book report on “Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In” that includes not only a summary of key points from the book but you will also apply the learnings from this course.
• In your introduction, summarize the book and describe key lessons you learned. Make sure it is a strong introduction with a “hook” to interest the reader (me) into wanting to read more. Don’t forget to mention the book name and the authors.
• Make sure your conclusion is also strong and summarizes what you took away from it and if you would recommend the book to orders (Note: It’s OK if you don’t want to recommend it so long as you argue your point).
• Include a cover page with name, date, email and your unique LinkedIn URL.
• 1,000 word maximum, single-spaced, and 12 point Times New Roman font.
• Make sure to use MLA-style in-text citations and include a separate page with your “Works Cited” list also in MLA format (Links to an external site.). This extra page does not count towards your 1,000-word maximum. Feel free to use sources outside of the book, just make sure you cite them.
• Use direct quotes from the bookmaking sure to cite your sources properly with in-text citations.
• Introduction: In your introduction, summarize the book and describe key lessons you learned. Make sure it is a STRONG introduction with a “hook” to interest the reader (me) into wanting to read more.
• BATNA Explain in detail what BATNAs are and why it is so important to know what they are and when to use them at the negotiating table.
• Tricky Tactics Mention at least two of the common tricky tactics (as defined in the book) and what strategies may be used to overcome them.
• Positional Bargaining Explain in your own words what the problems are with positional bargaining. What are the reasons it doesn’t work? Provide an example from the book or the real-world of positional bargaining.
• Points of Principled Negotiations Define and explain the four points of principled negotiation.
• Current Events Mention a recent international negotiation that you have read in the news in the past few months and what tactics from the book have you recognized were being used by each party.
• Conclusion: Summarizes what you took away from the book and how you see yourself using these techniques in your professional life and if you would recommend the book to others (Note: It’s OK if you don’t want to recommend it so long as you argue your point).

Discussion Question – Summary & Critical Thinking – Week/Course Learning Outcomes

In this discussion question you have the opportunity to be creative and to relate what you have learned to your professional lives. Please explore and critically think about some of the learning outcomes and concepts presented in this course. Please effectively communicate how you would lead an organization (or a group of people within the organization) by applying the knowledge you have learned ethically and responsibly.  Your discussion should also include innovative thinking, and information-technology aspects (such as the Internet, social-media, computers, and so forth) that may assist you in decision-making. You may frame your discussion around any functional component of business, and in any context; problem-solving, management, leadership, organizational behavior, and so forth.

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2. Write a paper.

• Course Learning Assessment #2
• Select, research, and analyze a real organization – Fashion Company “SHEIN”.

Examine a problem or issue of concern within that organization. Be selective in choosing an issue or problem within an organization, as a lack of depth in the issue itself will not be an acceptable excuse for lack of depth in the analysis. The purpose of this paper is to apply both what has been learned in the course as well as your own independent research to problems in an organization of your choice. 

Focus on an issue or problem that the organization is facing and is relevant to the content of this course. It will likely take several reflection sessions to identify a problem or issue that can be clearly defined, is manageable in scope, and is relevant to the course, so start this paper weeks before it is due. 

Gather information while supplementing this information with data from the media, the organization’s literature, and other secondary sources. You should identify a relatively recent problem to analyze (i.e., this should not be an historical account of a problem and the company’s solution). You should focus your analysis by applying the concepts from the course. While it is acceptable to incorporate several concepts from the course, please aim for depth rather than breadth regarding the use of course concepts. 

1) What are the issues or problems facing the organization?

2) What theoretical concepts from this course can be applied to understand why this problem is occurring? 

3) What recommendations can you offer to help improve organizational functioning?

What are the main causes of the symptom(s)?

What actions should executives take to correct the problem(s)? (Remember, this is a union environment, so changing the wage scale, incentives or benefits for the workers are not options).

Step 1.

Healthy People 2030 is a government initiative to “identify health improvement priorities. Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress. Provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, State, and local levels.” It is public health in a nutshell!

Go to Healthy People 2030 (Links to an external site.) and find an area of interest.

Step 2. Click on “Browse Objectives by Topic” (Links to an external site.) and choose an area of interest. ( I chose, in Populations, Children) You can use ANY of the segments (Health Conditions/Behaviors/Populations/Systems and Settings/Social Determinants)

If you know your area of interest, you can just type it in the white area where it says search.

Step 3. Then scroll in your area to further refine the AREA AND GOAL. (I chose Child and Adolescent Development) See how many areas there are to choose from!? You have many choices in all categories so have fun and find something you are passionate about! YOU DO NOT NEED TO PICK CHILDREN!! YOU CAN PICK FROM ANY AREA. This is just what my page looks like.

Step 4. Then I chose my goal in the Children and Development section,

THE ONE YOU CHOSE WILL BE YOUR TOPIC FOR THE ENTIRE SESSION. EACH WEEK YOU WILL EXPAND THE PROJECT.

FOR THE ASSIGNMENT you need to create 4 powerpoint slides:

1. A title slide with your name and topic.

2. Next slide with your AREA, SUBSET AND GOAL WITH NUMBER LISTED.

3. A slide with a background of Why is this important to health? You may need to look that up! for example, if your area was smoking you might look up “smoking and cancer” to get more data. You must have one fact why this is an important goal. How does it impact people? Why did you pick it?

For mine, I googled, “reading and health outcomes” and found resources on why learning to read in childhood helps later health. If you pick, say STDs, you may google “rate of STDs” to show us how prevalent it is. If you pick mental health, you could site suicide rates or discuss how much mental health costs our economy. The choices are endless, just tell us how YOUR CHOSEN problem impacts our health and society.

4. Reference slide

In the Excel Template file, conduct the following PM Analyses. Make sure to include the highlighted part in the Excel. You don’t need to include the analysis in your essay.

Define the project and all its significant activities or tasks.

Develop the relationships among the activities. Decide which activities can take place simultaneously, and which activities must precede others.

Draw the Diagram Network connecting all the activities.

Assign three time and cost estimates to each activity. For the estimation, you may rely on your previous experience or information on the Internet (make sure they are properly cited in your essay).

1. Calculate the expected value and variance of activity times.
2. Find the Critical Path using time slack
3. What is the budget plan for the project? Draw the budget cost table for both the earliest and latest times.

In the essay,

1. Briefly describe your chosen event.

Based on PM Analysis results, answer the following questions:

What is the expected project completion time? Is the time estimation subject to a lot of variations?

1. If you are more conservative, and you want to find out the due date by which the project can be completed with a probability of 95%, what will be the due date? Include the computation steps (either in Excel using Excel functions or in the essay if you do manual calculations). The z-score corresponding to 95% is 1.65.

What is the expected cost for the project? How to manage your cash flow?

What can be the bottlenecks of your project?

1. Under what circumstances, your project can be completed in a shorter time? What is the trade-off here (i.e., what additional resources you may need)? How to shorten the completion time in an optimal way? You don’t need to perform the crashing analysis. Please only discuss these questions and show your understanding.

Briefly discuss how can we use the PM analysis to plan, monitor, and control projects? The discussion is not limited to the PM analyses performed in the assignment. Feel free to include other techniques learned in class

Excel format: An Excel file that displays (clearly labeled)

1. A diagram Network with activity time t, ES, EF, LS, LF, and critical activities labeled.

A time estimation table listing activities, three time estimates, expected completion time, and competition time variance for each activity

A slack table listing activities, ES, EF, LS, LF, Slack, an indicator of whether on Critical Path or not.

A budget cost table listing activities, week index, total cost per week, total cost to date for both earliest and latest times.