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Assignment 3: Proposal Video Presentation

Due Week 10 and worth 250 points

Using the same scenario from Assignment 1, Supporting Documents, and Assignment 2, you have completed your proposal and are ready to present the information to the CEO and the organization’s decision-makers. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a five to ten (5-10) minute video in which you present the findings and recommendations of your full proposal.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone, you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial located here.

Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Proposal Video Presentation

Tags: HRM562, Proposal

Description: First Name, Last Name – HRM562 Assignment 3 (Date Uploaded ex. 10-27-2014)

Note: Check with your professor for any additional instructions. If you do not have access to a video camera or necessary hardware to complete this assignment, please contact your professor.

Tips to prepare for your video:

• Create note cards
• Practice in front of a mirror and / or friends
• Review materials thoroughly
• Be persuasive
• Be professional
• Be creative
• Have fun!

Create a five to ten (5-10) minute video presentation in which you:

1. Present the major points of your proposal for addressing organizational learning issues. Include details on criteria one through nine (1-9) from Assignment 2.
2. Project your voice in order to clearly convey your ideas.
3. Present in a professional manner.
4. Use technology (e.g., audio quality, video quality, naming conventions) to convey ideas.
5. Use voice inflection and proper grammar.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the processes of how organizations learn and organizational barriers that impact the process.
• Examine the concepts of personal mastery and mental models and their related importance in a learning organization.
• Examine the driving forces related to organizational learning.
• Analyze the key components of a learning organization and the role of a chief learning officer.
• Evaluate strategies for creating a learning organization.
• Evaluate management behaviors that influence organizational learning.
• Analyze the shifts in organizational structure and processes to create a learning organization.
• Examine talent management as an essential element of the learning organization.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in developing a learning organization.
• Write clearly and concisely about developing a learning organization using proper writing mechanic.

 

You may select the company of your choice, but it is highly recommended you choose a large public corporation that is easy to research. Common choices include such companies as Apple, Ford, Wal-Mart, ExxonMobil, or GE.
Instructions
1.Select a large public corporation as the subject of your research.
2.Conduct research on the company’s financial strengths, weaknesses, and risks.
a.Sources of research information might consist of (but are not limited to) annual financial reports published by the company, news articles and analyst opinions, interviews with management, and reputable internet sources that provide comparable industry financial information.
b.Recommended financial news and data sites include http://Finance.Yahoo.com, http://Reuters.com, http://Morningstar.com, and http://www.Msn.com/en-us/Money. Extensive data and analysis is also available through Off-Campus Library Services.
i.For instance, detailed company profiles can be found for most large companies in the Business Source Complete database.
ii.From the library homepage (http://www2.indwes.edu/ocls), under “Article Databases”, click on the word “Business”. On the next page click on “Business Source Complete”. You may be asked to login at this point, and should then be in the Business Source Complete database.
iii.At the top-center of the screen, look for the word “MORE”. Hover over the word and you will get a drop-down menu where you can choose Company Profiles. Click and you will be taken to a screen where you can search for a company.
c.A minimum of 8 unique research sources from reputable scholarly, news, or industry sources are required. The sources should represent an appropriately well-balanced variety of perspectives.
3.Construct a financial analysis case study of the company. The paper should be well-organized into logical sections, covering a spectrum of topics to support the final recommendation. These topics should include:
a.Brief overview of the company, its management, its history, and its product lines.
b.Environmental Factors: Brief discussion of any relevant domestic or international political, economic, social, environment, or technological factors which are significantly impacting financial results.
c.Evaluation of the company’s financial strengths and weaknesses, based on a ratio analysis of at least the last three years’ financial statements.
i.Consider key financial ratios for the company you have selected. Include a small table in your paper listing at least 10 key financial ratios for the company.
ii.These ratios are readily available from Internet sources for all large public corporations. Refer to Chapter 3 of your textbook as necessary to refresh your memory on financial ratios.
iii.Compare and contrast the key ratios you selected to at least two of the company’s main competitors. Show the ratios of these competitors side-by-side to the company you are researching in the table of ratios you have created.
iv.Identify areas of financial strength and weakness based on your analysis.
d.Evaluation of the company’s capital structure and financial risk.
i.Compare the company’s capital structure (use of debt and equity) relative to its main competitors. Discuss any advantages or disadvantages such a structure might afford the company.
ii.Discuss the characteristics of the company’s common stock, as well as any preferred stock or bonds. These characteristics could include the recent market performance of these financial instruments, differing classes of stock or special bond features, along with any public information about dividend history or policy.
iii.Locate the company’s Beta from a reputable financial news source, such as Yahoo Finance or Morningstar. Discuss the implications for the company of this Beta and evaluate it relative to the larger industry or the company’s main competitor.
iv.Locate or calculate the company’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital based on the information you have uncovered. A good source for this information is valuepro.net. Discuss how this Weighted Average Cost of Capital would serve as a competitive advantage or disadvantage for the company.
v.Identify areas of financial risk facing the company based on your analysis.
e.Conclude your paper with a few thoughtful, actionable recommendations for company management to minimize weaknesses, mitigate risks, or more fully capitalize on strengths.
i.These recommendations must be well-grounded in and supported by your financial analysis.
ii.Include at least one Biblical reference that applies to this company’s circumstances that guided your recommendations.
4.You should consult at least the latest three full years of the company’s financial reports in order to prepare your analysis. These financial reports should be attached as an appendix to the completed paper.
5.The completed paper should consist of a minimum of 8-10 pages of content (not including cover, reference, and appendix pages).

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.

After reading “The Morality of Euthanasia” by james Rachels, respond to the following questions
concerning the distinction between active and passive euthanasia located at the end of the chapter.
Your response to each question should be 100 to 300 words in length. Would someone in
circumstances like jack’s be better off dead? That is. would dying quickly and painlessbl be in his
best interest? What are Rachels’s objections to the principle of utility? Do you find them convincing?
How does Rachels’s second argument d’qfer from the utilitarian argument? Do you agree with
Rachels that it is a stronger argument? Rachels claims that euthanasia cannot be said to violate
anyone’s rights, given that the patient requests it. Do you find this claim plausible? Is it possible to
do something that violates someone’s rights even if he or she consents to it? Rachels claims that (in
some cases) active euthanasia promotes the interests of eveiyone concerned. If our society were to
allow active euthanasia, would this be harmful to anyone’s interests? Why or why not?

Write a 4-5 page paper addressing one of the educational problem(s) in the U.S. higher educational system. This paper must be typed, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. It is expected that the paper be checked for proper grammar and spelling errors.

First, examine the U.S. higher educational system, its advantages and disadvantages based on reading of Chapter 10 in Ballantine and Hammack 2012, and additional research on your own. The research question that you will address in the paper is: does the U.S. higher educational system offer equal opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, gender, and social class, e.g., in admissions and quality of education? In other words, does the U.S. higher educational system address the issues of excellence and equality effectively? Focus on only ONE area of inequality. Which sociological theory, (functional or conflict theory) best help you support your thesis?

Second, what type of educational policy would you recommend for the U. S. higher education? How would problems of excellence and equality be addressed by your policy?

For your research paper, you need to use at least 3 scholarly sources, which do not include textbooks, encyclopedia, popular magazines, or newspapers. The first place to start is the references in the back of your textbook. Please check with me regarding the sources used in your paper. Be careful with internet sources.
Ballantine, Jeanne H. and Floyd M. Hammack. 2012. The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis. ISBN: 0205800912 New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Law
Critically Comment on the Constitutional Ground of the Hong Kong Independence Movement and its Feasibility under the Basic Law and the Chinese

Constitution.

All citations and sources must be properly acknowledged. In this connection, we adopt OSCOLA (Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal

Authorities, 4thEd., 2012),

Describe what the term “Equatorial Africa” refers to and countries and physical features found in Equatorial Africa.

Write a two-paragraph constructed response in which you support (agree with) or refute (disagree with) the statement using evidence from the

nonfiction text. The statement : ”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” (Helen Keller)”

 

Put the elements of each source into a proper Works Cited entry.

Film called Bell, Book, and Candle, made in 1958, directed by Richard Quine. Film was viewed on DVD and produced by the studio Sony Pictures Home

Entertainment in 2000.

 

 

 

The article was published on August 1st, 2014and accessed on August 7th, 2014 at The New Inquiry website, which is self-published. The article’s title is

Beauty and (In)Conspicuous Consumption. The author’s name is Autumn Whitefield-Madrano. The URL is http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/the-beheld/beauty-and-

inconspicuous-consumption/.

 

 

Stanley Krippner published an essay called The Psychedelic Experience, Contemporary Music, and the Grateful Dead in an anthology called Reading the

Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey. It was on pages 257-268. The anthology was compiled by Nicholas G. Meriwether. It was published in Lanham, Maryland in

2012 by Scarecrow Press.

 

 

The article is called Family Traditions. It was published in the Holiday 2013 issue of Domino magazine. It is on pages 76-85. It was written by Robert

Leleux.

 

The article is called Narratives of Absolutism in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. It is on pages 116-140. It was accessed through the Academic Search

Complete database on August 7th, 2014. It was written by Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and was published in the Papers on Language & Literature academic journal

in Spring 2013 in Volume 49, Issue 2.

 

 

The book is called Kafka: The Years of Insight. It was published in 2013 by the Princeton University Pressin Princeton, New Jersey and was written by

Reiner Stach.

 

 

The article is called The Real Cost of Mandatory GMO Labeling. It was published on December 23rd, 2015 on The Huffington Post by TheHuffingtonPost.com, and

it was accessed on December 4th, 2016. The URL is http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/the-real-cost-of-mandator_b_8865742.html