Part 4 – 400 words with 2 reference citations

Now is the time to make a decision about relocating the manufacturing operation to the United States is fast-approaching. AutoEdge, like most companies, uses a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat (SWOT) analysis to facilitate its decision making.

You have just completed your first monthly activity report for the board when Lester calls.

“Hi,” you say. “I just finished my monthly report for the board. I’ll e-mail it to you when we get done talking.”

“Sounds good,” he says. “I’m calling because we need your expertise again for another facet of our investigation into the manufacturing operation. This time, I want you to conduct a detailed SWOT analysis for AutoEdge, and provide a brief summary of your analysis.”

“I was expecting this,” you say. “Some of the research I’ve done over the past 4 weeks will be useful as I put this analysis together for you.”

“Yes, I thought you were in a good position to do this work,” he says. “Your analysis may be different from other people who have been at the company longer, but your fresh perspective on the components will be helpful in moving the debate forward.”

“That’s a good point,” you say. “I’ll keep that in mind as I go through the information.”

Scenario

Imagine you work as an HR professional for the company you selected in the first assignment in Week 3. The company has been having issues with their current performance evaluation process. Some of the issues include the data collection process, proper documentation, and making appropriate decisions on employee performance. Your manager has asked you to evaluate and update their current performance evaluation process and present it as a training module to a group of new supervisors in your organization. Apply the revised or improved evaluation process to the specific job you created in the Week 3 assignment. Note that your manager has asked you to present the new process in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.

Instructions

Based on what you know about performance evaluations, use the Internet to research and select a performance evaluation tool that you believe is best suited for your company. Create a PowerPoint presentation with speaker’s notes to present this new tool to new supervisors.

• Create a PowerPoint presentation to present this new tool to new supervisors. Include the following points:
  • Explain the benefits of using performance evaluations.
  • Assess the existing performance evaluation used in the organization.
  • Create a sample of the performance evaluation tool selected for the company.
  • Justify the selection of the performance evaluation tool.
  • Develop a detailed, step-by-step description of the evaluation process.

The PowerPoint presentation should be a minimum of 10 slides with corresponding speaker’s notes, in addition to a title slide and references slide. Include graphics as needed to improve, enhance, or clarify the content.

Write a 3-page executive summary about best practices, risks, and other considerations to take into account when creating a social media policy for a small trucking company. You will highlight three main bullet points at the end of the summary that you would use to discuss the social media policy issues with stakeholders.

Changes in technology and society will always impact the work of the HRM professional. In this assessment, and with the issues in your future career, you will need to collect the relevant historical background, legal compliance issues, ethical considerations, and organizational information to be ready to facilitate conversations between stakeholders around policy decisions. The pendulum may swing back and forth throughout your career, but with a sound background researching issues and clarifying the decision points, you will be prepared to lead change.

Introduction

Scenario

The HR division of your organization, a small private trucking company, has tasked you to lead a discussion about the key considerations when developing a social media policy for the company. You are to provide direction as to key considerations of legal compliance, ethics, and the relationship to the organizational mission. Ultimately, the internal committee of stakeholders to who you are presenting will create the social media policy and you need to lead them through the decisions that they should make in that process.

Your Challenge

You are an HRM leader for a small private trucking company and you have been asked to lead a discussion to develop the social media policy for the company. You will present your information and discussion points in the form of an executive summary including the issues that the internal committee should discuss and take into consideration when developing the policy.

Instructions

1. Review the Sample Social Media Policy [PDF].
2. Write a 3-page executive summary that includes the following:

• Describe best practices for creating a social media policy for an organization.
  • What should be included in the policy?
  • Are we allowed to control comments about our company?
• Identify the legal and ethical risks of social media policies.
  • What mistakes should be avoided?
• Evaluate the risks for private and governmental organizations of actions that may or may not be defined as “protected concerted activity.”
  • Are there protected activities that may be seen as a “protected concerted activity?”
  • Does a First Amendment right to free speech apply?

1. At the end of the summary, reiterate and list three brief bullet points of your most important recommendations for the development of the social media policy. Bullet points should be no longer than a simple sentence.

Academic Requirements

The deliverable for this assessment applies professional skills in Human Resources Management (HRM) to workplace situations that you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work in HRM. As part of your learning, we focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace.

• Length: Your executive summary should be three pages, not including your resources page.
• Organization: Make sure that your assessment writing is well-organized, using headings and subheadings to organize content for the reader.
• Font and font size: 11 point font, Times New Roman.
• Resources: Use scholarly or academic sources.
• Evidence: Support your assertions with data and/or in-text citations and create a reference list at the end of your documents.
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Written communication:
  • Write for a specific audience, using the vernacular of the profession.
  • Use spell-check and other tools to ensure correct spelling and grammar.

Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.

Competencies Measured

Competency 1: Apply legal thinking to human resource management issues in the workplace to ensure compliance.

• Identify the legal and ethical risks of social media policies.

Competency 3: Examine relationships between law, human resource management practices, and business activities.

• Describe best practices for creating a social media policy for an organization.
• Evaluate the risks for private and governmental organizations of actions that may or may not be defined as “protected concerted activity.”

Competency 6: Communicate clearly, accurately, and professionally in the HR field.

• Support main points, assertions, arguments, conclusions, or recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
• Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

The Research Plan

In this course, you and your team will create a research plan based on qualitative interviews with IT stakeholders working in an organization in a similar sector.

You and your team should use your network to identify at least one stakeholder, but preferably two stakeholders, who work in a similar sector to your chosen problem.

Testing the Solution

The Solution Testing page includes five areas of business associated with or significantly affected by the implementation of new information technology in an organization.

How will your proposed solutions stand up in each of these application areas? Each member of the team will test all three proposed solutions from attached document against at least two of the common application areas given on the Solution Testing page.

At this stage, you are also invited to think creatively and add information you already possess to apply your skills and knowledge to test the value of your solutions. You should describe how the proposed solutions address the concerns identified in the common application areas. When possible, provide concrete details and data to support your answers. Use a format agreed upon by the team to present the results of your testing.

The Results

Testing the solution will yield results. In this course, the results of your test will show the strengths and weaknesses of your proposed solutions. What you learn from testing your proposed solutions against the scenarios in this step will help you identify, revise, and clarify which of your proposed solutions, or combination thereof, to use as your final solution.

Instructions for Deliverable

1. Present your research plan as an orderly and useful document, demonstrating the work you completed.
2. Then, each member of the team should test all three proposed solutions from Step Three against at least two of the application areas listed on the Step Four Solution Testing(new tab) page. Use a format agreed upon by the team.
3. To conduct the test, describe how your three proposed solutions address the concerns and questions identified in each application area. Analyze the solutions for any weaknesses: Do they provide the solutions needed? Is the solution a better fit for one type of application over another? Make recommendations for improving the solutions within the plan to better tailor them to your organization.
4. As appropriate, compare your test results to your research plan. What information overlaps? What information differs?
5. Present the results of your test as organized information. Provide a brief summary of the action steps needed to strengthen your solution. Clearly indicate team members’ contributions.

Notes:

This assignment is continuation of previously submitted assignment, (STEP3) the attached document.

There are 3 proposed solutions, you can find all of them under the sub heading proposed solutions. Need to write at least 2 pages about testing each solution based on above instructions.