ORG 535 Wk 1 Discussion – HRM Competencies

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

The following exercise introduces you to skills related to HRM roles and responsibilities, including collaboration.

Complete the collaboration warm-up exercise, HR Competencies. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available.

Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Which HR competency do you feel is your strongest based on your work experiences?
• Based on your work experiences, which competency would you like to improve upon?
• How could you improve on your weakest competency? What experience might help?

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

ORG 535 Wk 2 Discussion – Compensation Approaches

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

Think about your current or a previous job, or a job you know well. Imagine that the HR department was going to design a compensation approach for that job that was aligned with reinforcement, expectancy, and agency theories.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Briefly describe the job.
• Describe a compensation approach for that job that aligns with all 3 theories. Consider the following questions when writing your response:
• What are the potential advantages of this plan?
• What are the potential negatives of this plan?
• What might be difficult in administering this plan?

Due Day 7

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

ORG 535 Wk 3 Discussion – HR Leadership: Job Ads

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

The following exercise introduces you to skills related to HRM roles and responsibilities, including collaboration.

Complete the exercise, HR Leadership Case Study. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available.

Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• As an HR professional, how would you go about using a more collaborative approach in gathering information for creating a job ad?
• In your opinion, what are the key components of a job ad that would attract the most qualified applicants?
• What are the best collaborative HR practices for job analysis and design?

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

ORG 535 Wk 4 Discussion – Experience-Based Situational Interview Questions

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

Ch. 6 of your textbook describes experience-based situational interview questions in which a candidate must describe how he or she handled a specific type of situation. (See Table 6.2 for examples.)

Imagine you received a promotion and were going to interview candidates to replace you in your previous role

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• What are 3 experience-based situational interview questions you might ask each candidate?
• What would you expect to learn about the candidate from his or her response to each question?

Due Day 7

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

ORG 535 Wk 5 Discussion – Employee Development and Pay Equity

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

The following exercise introduces you to pay equity in a corporate context and team discussion and collaboration.

Complete the exercise, Interactive Analysis: Employee Development – Pay Equity. A transcript of this interactive exercise is also available.

Consider what you learned in the experience and respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• What are your feelings on a traditional salary structure (many levels) vs. simplified pay bands?
• Have your thoughts on salary structure changed after this exercise?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of using salary bands?

Due Day 7

Post 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.

ORG 535 Wk 6 Discussion – Measuring Effectiveness

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students or your faculty member.

Due Day 3

Imagine you are the HR Director for an organization that is planning to do business in one of the countries listed in Table 15.2 of your textbook.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Which of those countries fascinates you the most, and why?
• According to the information in that table, what are the key cultural differences between the United States and the country you chose? In that other country, how effective do you think each of the following practices will be, and why?
• Extensive assessment of individual abilities for selection
• Individually based appraisal systems
• Suggestion systems
• Self-managing work teams

Due Day 7

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates or your faculty member. Be constructive and professional.