Business
Program of HR metrics and workforce
You are an external consultant hired to work with hospital administration and the human resources department. You are required to create a PowerPoint for a presentation to hospital administration. Read the Case Study about Regional Hospital on page 196, then answer the Case Study Questions below.
Case Study Questions
Describe why a program of HR metrics and workforce analytics might be useful in Regional Hospital. If so, why?
Explain opportunities regarding “where” and “how” metrics and analytics might be applied in this organization.
Identify three analyses and associated metrics that might be useful for Regional Hospital to consider.
Explain how Regional Hospital can utilize benchmarking as a part of its metrics and analytics effort, if at all.
Describe advice you would offer to managers at Regional Hospital about developing a program of HR metrics and workforce analytics.
Competitive advantage
Many companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your knowledge about the global economy, identify three brands you believe have the strongest likelihood of remaining a source of advantage in the 21st century and explain why. Explain the effects you believe the Internet’s capabilities will have on the brands you identified in the previous discussion and what the
Courtesy of globalization
Write a three-page analysis using the case study on “Kelly’s Assignment in Japan.”
Your analysis should address the questions listed below.
Explain the clashes in culture, customs, and expectations that occurred in this situation.
What stage of culture shock is Kelly’s family experiencing?
Turn back the clock to when Kelly was offered the position in Tokyo. What, if anything, should have been done differently, and by whom?
You are Kelly. What should you do now?
Business communication
This assignment allows you to apply the fundamentals of the three-step writing process (planning, writing, completing) to basic business communication messages.
Imagine you are planning a series of trainings for your team on best practices in workplace communication. Your first step is to send out an e-mail highlighting the topics of your upcoming series of trainings.
Write a 350- to 525-word e-mail message to your coworkers that discusses the topics to be covered in the upcoming trainings.
Your email should:
Define business communication and how is it different from personal communication.
Address intercultural communication in the workplace.
Apply ethics to business communication.
Discuss the impact of social media and other digital technologies on business communication.
Organizational philosophy on compensation
For this assignment, assume you are a compensation analyst in a large financial services company. You have been in your role for almost a year. At your weekly one-on-one with your boss, she tells you that the human resources representatives at the company are fielding a number of questions from employees and applicants about compensation. The human resource representatives’ knowledge of compensation is not deep.
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She asks that you prepare and deliver a 10- to 15-minute PowerPoint presentation (10–15 slides) at an upcoming departmental meeting that provides basic information about what is going on in the compensation field today. Specifically, she wants you to address compensation strategies that companies employ, note three of their best compensation practices, and examine three compensation challenges today’s companies are facing.