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Assignment 3: Human Resources Planning and Employee Relations

Due Week 10 and worth 360 points

 

Building on the work that you completed in Assignment 2, continue evaluating the role of functions HR in creating a set of Human Resources’ policies and procedures for the acute care hospital.

 

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Explain the importance of maintaining accurate and objective employee records, indicating the consequences that may result from lack of record keeping. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Provide an example of formal and an example of informal documentation that would normally be maintained in an employee file, indicating how each is likely to protect an employer.
3. Determine the most significant factor that will ensure an effective legal termination, indicating the most likely way employees can protect themselves from termination in a downsizing situation. Provide support for your rationale.
4. Analyze two (2) major challenges that today’s health care leaders face in trying to uphold the ethics of critique, justice, and caring, indicating how managers can balance the need for ethics with employee and organizational needs.
5. Create a detailed outline of an effective succession planning process that will help ensure a smooth transition as members of the management team at your organization begin to retire. (The plan should prescribe, at a minimum, how to identify employees for advancement, training and development programs, mentorships, and a timeline for preparing leaders for their role.)
6. From both a management and employee perspective, justify or dispute unionization. Provide support for your rationale.
7. Suggest the best way in which HR can continue to be an effective strategic partner in helping this organization achieve its future goals. Provide support for your rationale.
8. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources in health care organizations.

• Demonstrate the importance of HR as a strategic partner in health care organizations.

• Analyze the impact of labor unions on the health care industry.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management.

• Write clearly and concisely about health services human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you discuss the regulation of hazardous waste. Include the following:

• What are the two key regulations that govern hazardous waste sites in the United States?
• What are the key components and differences between Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?
• When were these acts enacted?

Format citations and references consistent with APA guidelines.

How would a better understanding of the Sun help us understand the threat created by greenhouse gas

emissions? How could these observations be carried out? Is a visible light telescope on Earth or in

space enough to determine how the atmosphere and the Sun interact?

2. How are sunspot numbers determined and linked to short-term climate change? Is there evidence that

sunspots are related to other phenomena, such as stock market cycles or clothing styles? Explain.

3. What forms of nonrenewable and renewable energy are solar energy? How much of the Earth’s energy

needs could be replaced by renewable forms of solar energy?

4. Could life exist in a molecular cloud? How can astronomers peer into molecular clouds to see what is

going on inside when visible light will not penetrate these regions of space? Explain.

5. Provide an example of popular culture’s use of the term

 

black hole. Why do you think black holes have

captured the public imagination

Please list the four (4) benefits of studying persuasion

Please list the two (2) criticisms of persuasion

Please list some criteria for what people consider persuasion

What makes attitude important in the realm of persuasion?

What is considered as consistency?

What is credibility?

What is the Sleeper effect?

Please list some of the demographic variables of persuasion

How do crowds affect persuasion?

Discuss some variables in dealing with in communication persuasion. Please list both
verbal and nonverbal communication criteria.

 

demographics of social vulnerability
After reading Chapters 5 and 6 of the Fundamentals of Emergency Management, discuss the demographics of social vulnerability. Write a minimum of 2 pages (not including cover page and reference list) on the topic. Describe the term social vulnerability and explain how emergency managers can use this information to their advantage during the mitigation, response and recovery phases of emergency management. How can failing to use this information complicate our emergency plans?

External research will generally be required in addition to the assigned reading. Please create your response in a Microsoft word document, following APA guidelines, and upload as an attachment for submission. Pages are to be double-spaced utilizing Verdana 12 point font text. The page requirements are exclusive of your reference list and cover page.

Effective public health programs are keys to addressing health disparities and health inequities. Apply either an individual or population-based theory to an approach/model or program addressing a health disparity. Explain the benefits and challenges of the theory proposed. Discuss strategies for addressing the challenges in utilizing the theory proposed.

Provided a thorough and complete explanation of the concept, as described in the evaluation criteria. 10 Provided a statement of clarification that is original and free from plagiarism. 10 Used correct spelling, grammar, and professional vocabulary and cited all sources using the APA style. 5 Participation Criteria Commented on at least two different discussion question responses by asking a question, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging a point of discussion, or making a relationship between two or more points. 10 Suggested specific additions or clarifications for improving the discussion question responses, justified ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from textbooks, the South University Online Library, and other acceptable references, and cited the sources in APA format. 10 Total: 45

The new topic is : “Education and policy in the West African countries: obstacles to universal literacy and development in the post colonial era”

Please revise the paper accordingly. Review other parts for them to fit the new design.

Examine area of development such as the The millenium development goals and the sectorial provisions that identified education as a key sector that

can create development.

What have been done for countries to miss targets? The objective of universal literacy is part of the challenges west Africa is faced with.

Write a 700- to word paper in which you compare public and private budget preparation strategies. Make sure to include: Introduction to budget preparation Operating and funding sources of public revenue Effects of demographics on public revenue services Include at least two academic sources in your paper, including one from the University Library

1. When looking at the night sky, you can see the light of different stars. If one star looks brighter than

another, is it necessarily brighter? Explain.

2. In ancient times, Egyptians thought that the combined light of the Sun and the brightest star in the

nighttime sky, Sirius, created summer heat. Today, many believe this heat is caused by our closeness

to the Sun for part of the year. What can you point out that proves this to be a misconception?

3. Astronomical discoveries are imperative to science. How are they significant to our personal lives?

Explain.

4. Describe the difference between astronomy and astrology.

5. Why do you think astronomy was important to people in ancient times? How do those beliefs affect us today?