Week 2 Assignment: Employee Development And Training
Week 2 Assignments Employee Development and Training
• Evaluate the components of a training program.
• Examine how the roles of training and development influence organizational performance.
• Utilize methods of career management.
Course Assignments
Readings
• Read Ch. 7 of Fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
• Read Ch. 9 of Fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
• Read Ch. 16 of Fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
• Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
1. Individual Assignment: Staffing Plan Paper
• Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you develop a staffing plan for the organization in which you work, or one with which you are familiar. Determine how many people you need to hire
and in what functional areas, such as manufacturing, operations, customer service, distribution, marketing, and accounting. Develop strategies to recruit the appropriate applicants. Include a discussion of how the strategy is legally compliant. For this assignment, you are to develop a staffing plan, applying the concepts that you have learned from this week’s readings and your research. Describing the staffing process that currently exists within your organization is not sufficient for this assignment. Use the reading assignments, interviews with your HR representatives or staff persons, Web site articles, Electronic Reserve Readings, and HR journal articles to support your position. Use at least two text references.
• Format your paper according to APA standards.
2. Complete Learning Team Charter and Log. Summary of Week 2 Deliverables
Assignment Individual or Learning Team Location Due Staffing Plan Paper Individual Assignments Monday
Weekly Quiz Individual In-class Monday Learning Team Charter and Learning Team Log Learning Team Assignments Learning Team Monday
• Evaluate the components of a training program.
• Examine how the roles of training and development influence organizational performance.
• Utilize methods of career management.
Course Assignments
Readings
• Read Ch. 7 of Fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
• Read Ch. 9 of Fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
• Read Ch. 16 of Fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
• Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
1. Individual Assignment: Staffing Plan Paper
• Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you develop a staffing plan for the organization in which you work, or one with which you are familiar. Determine how many people you need to hire
and in what functional areas, such as manufacturing, operations, customer service, distribution, marketing, and accounting. Develop strategies to recruit the appropriate applicants. Include a discussion of how the strategy is legally compliant. For this assignment, you are to develop a staffing plan, applying the concepts that you have learned from this week’s readings and your research. Describing the staffing process that currently exists within your organization is not sufficient for this assignment. Use the reading assignments, interviews with your HR representatives or staff persons, Web site articles, Electronic Reserve Readings, and HR journal articles to support your position. Use at least two text references.
• Format your paper according to APA standards.
2. Complete Learning Team Charter and Log. Summary of Week 2 Deliverables
Assignment Individual or Learning Team Location Due Staffing Plan Paper Individual Assignments Monday
Weekly Quiz Individual In-class Monday Learning Team Charter and Learning Team Log Learning Team Assignments Learning Team Monday