Not only do managers oversee functional processes in company, they also have to manage people. Human Resources (HR) is the primary way that companies manage people and HR assists managers with areas such as hiring, training, employment law, performance management, employee benefits, and compensation. They also use organizational behavior principles to build positive employees relations. Reflect back on what you have learned in your program on HR and organizational behavior. Please review the following article on HR:

• Core Functions of HR

Then as a refresher, research both topics and answer the following questions:

• You are a manager working with a recruiter to hire a new employee, what steps should you take to hire them? 
• Your new employee just started, how would you explain each area of HR to them? 
• What principles of organizational behavior could help you build your team? 
• What leadership theories and skills would you use to successful lead your team?

Primary Discussion Response is due by Thursday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Saturday (11:59:59pm Central).

Within the Discussion Board area, write 200-300 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

There are many reasons why a company should pay attention to their reputation as it relates to their future vendor relations and product supply costs and availability. Complete the following:

• Discuss why it is important for organizations to manage their reputation by answering the following questions:
  • What impact could a poor quality product have on a company?
  • How does reputation help a company to be more competitive?
  • How do you think a company can improve their vendor and customer relations?
  • Summarize 3 examples of what goes into the reputation of a company. 

TOPIC

How is the reintroduction of privatization impacting public policy decision making and the targeted social outcomes? For example, imagine a state determines that access to high-speed internet for every home is essential for long-term public health, yet in areas of the state, the market has determined that it is not profitable to provide the service. Should the state form a partnership with a private sector business (i.e., subsidize) to ensure that their social goal is obtained?

I. Introduction Concisely describe your chosen organizational, legal, or cultural challenge in the field of public administration.            II. Theoretical Overview: Ensure that you focus your response specifically on the organizational, legal, or cultural challenge that you selected. A. Public Administration Advocates: Describe the original advocates for the development of professional public management within the federal government of the United States. In your description, consider questions such as these: What were their viewpoints? How did they advocate for the development of public administration? B. Impact on Public Administration: Differentiate between the views of Dwight Waldo and Herbert Simon. How did each impact the development of the public administration profession? C. Public Administration Dichotomy: Analyze the founding dichotomy of public administration as expressed by Dwight Waldo for its impact on public administration practice.

 NEED IN 10 hours

Week 9 Assignment – Talent Value Proposition for the Present and Future

Overview 

Acting as an HR Manager you have been asked to develop a proposal that offers an overview of a Talent and Value Proposition. Leadership has asked you to include information that includes the U.S. Department of Labor resources, “gig economy,” gig workers, employee-based suggestion program, and remote work in your proposal. 

Instructions

6 page proposal in which you: 

1. Develop a proposal that provides an overview of an original Talent and Value Proposition that focuses on creativity, annual budget savings, and changes within the workplace regarding current employees.
2. Explain how employers could verify that their employee benefits comply with all federal laws by using the U.S. Department of Labor resources. 
3. Explain how employees could verify that their employee benefits comply with all federal laws using the U.S. Department of Labor resources.
4. Describe the steps that can be taken to support the development of individualized strategies for the creation of an internal “gig economy” and why and how this can be beneficial inside of an organization. 
5. Recommend a process that optimizes an employee-based suggestion program to continually refresh the total rewards and contingent worker development within an organization.
6. Determine the unique needs of contingent workers as non-employee talent continues to rise and remote work becomes more prevalent within organizations.
7. Discuss the pros and cons of providing benefits and rewards for gig workers.
8. Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality academic resources. Please see the course resources list in the course information section.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards but students may also opt to use APA 6 or APA 7. For assistance and information, please refer to the “requirements documents” listed in the course information section. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Create a strategy for maximizing the advantages of a total rewards program, including how it’s communicated.
• Assess the effectiveness of a total rewards program in motivating employees.
• Review how employers and employees can benefit from the Health Plans and Benefits section of the U.S. Department of Labor website.
• Determine innovative approaches for optimizing employee benefits and rewards systems.

TOPIC FOR ASSIGNMENT: How is the reintroduction of privatization impacting public policy decision making and the targeted social outcomes? For example, imagine a state determines that access to high-speed internet for every home is essential for long-term public health, yet in areas of the state, the market has determined that it is not profitable to provide the service. Should the state form a partnership with a private sector business (i.e., subsidize) to ensure that their social goal is obtained?

ASSIGNMENT: Public Administration in Practice A. Governmental Operations: Ensure that you focus specifically on the organizational, legal, or cultural challenge that you selected. 1. Civil Service Implementation: Assess the impact that the implementation of civil service had on the effectiveness of public service in the federal government. 2. Local Governmental Operations: Illustrate how public administration has manifested itself in local governmental operations. In other words, what impact has professional management had on local governmental operations? For example, you could consider how prevalent the mayor/manager form of government is. 3. Impact of Iron Triangle: Assess the impact of the “iron triangle” on public policy and program administration at the state and federal levels of government. In other words, how does the bureaucracy counterbalance the direct relationship between special interests and the legislature? B. Differences Between Public Administration and Private Sector Management: Ensure that you focus specifically on the organizational, legal, or cultural challenge that you selected. 1. Organizational Differences: Contrast the impact of political boundaries in governmental operations versus the private sector. For example, you could consider how political boundaries impact program and operational efficiencies. Provide specific examples to support your response. 2. Legal Differences: Analyze mandates, legal and nonlegal, related to the challenge you selected. How do they impact the operations of state and local governments? How do these mandates apply to private sector firms? Provide specific examples to support your response. 3. Cultural Differences: Illustrate the impacts politics can have on administrative appointments in the public and private sectors. In other words, what is the impact of political appointments on the culture of governmental agencies and private businesses? Provide specific examples to support your response. C. Roles of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches: Ensure that you focus specifically on the organizational, legal, or cultural challenge that you selected.           1. Executive Branch: Outline the role of the executive branch of government in the development of public policy, specifically related to the challenge you selected. 2. Legislative Branch: Outline the role of the legislative branch of government in the development of public policy, specifically related to the challenge you selected. 3. Judicial Branch: What role does the court system play in arbitrating public policy disputes between the executive and legislative branches of government? Focus specifically on how the judicial branch has impacted the challenge you selected. D. Public Budgeting Techniques: Ensure that you focus specifically on the organizational, legal, or cultural challenge that you selected. 1. Zero-Based Budgeting: Assess the principle of zero-based budgeting for how it has impacted federal programs and their stakeholders. What are the pros and cons of this methodology? 2. Performance-Based Budgeting: Assess how performance-based budgeting applies to private sector budgeting practices in a public sector setting. What are the pros and cons of this methodology? Include the impact on public programs and their stakeholders in your response. 3. Emerging Budget Strategies: Describe emerging budget strategies being utilized by public agencies to address the difficult fiscal environment facing local governments. In other words, what contemporary public budgeting techniques are effective? E. Governmental Communication Strategies: Ensure that you focus specifically on the organizational, legal, or cultural challenge that you selected. 1. Impact of Social Media: Assess the effectiveness of social media on governmental operations at the federal, state, or local governmental level. Consider questions such as these: What impact has social media had in enhancing public outreach? How has social media been used to develop a sense of community? 2. Impact of Other Media Types: Assess how various other media types can enhance public outreach and impact a citizen’s sense of community. 3. Communication Strategies: How has the proliferation of information outlets impacted the communication strategies utilized by government officials?