Benchmark Assignment -Human Resources
and Change
Assignment:
The major responsibilities of human
resources management are attracting, developing, and maintaining a quality
workforce.
Review the RSPS (Rancho Solano) case
from Topics 1 and 2. Recall that the board of directors at RSPS has hired you
as part of a consulting team to review the situation and present your findings
and recommendations. Refresh your memory on the issues in the K-12 sector in
general, as well as in the case of RSPS in particular, by reading the case
study again. Your next task is to identify threesubsystems that are in need of
change in RSPS, as well as the people (human resources) you would
“attract, develop, and maintain” in order to effectively implement
change.
Based on the RSPS case, youwillchoose
one subsystem to change and write a 1,250-1,500 word paper in which you
addressthe following questions that pertain to the major human resource
management responsibilities and to change management. Strengthen your
recommendations by showing how your proposed changes are working in another
successful organization. In your comparison, consider referring to successful
private, charter, or public schools in Arizona. A list of recommended websites
and articles is provided at the end of this document for use in conjunction
with this assignment.
Address then following in your paper:
1. What
one major organizational subsystem needs to be changed in RSPS? Justify your
choice. How does it compare to any of the successful private, charter, or public
schools in Arizona?
2. How
will the subsystem change affect the two other subsystems within RSPS that you
have identified and how will you realign the total system?
3. Identify
and explain how you would ensure that the proposed change will satisfy any
three stakeholders of RSPS?
4. How
should RSPS attract, develop, and maintain the workforce required to bring
about your proposed change?
a. Choose
at least one of the following in your discussion about attracting a quality
workforce to support the change: human resource planning, recruitment, or
selection.
b. Choose
at least one of the following in your discussion about developing a quality
workforce to support the change: employee orientation, training and
development, or performance appraisal.
c. Choose
at least one of the following in your discussion about maintaining a quality
workforce to support the change: career development, work-life balance,
compensation and benefits, employee retention and turnover, or labor-management
relations.
Integrate a faith-based or
worldview-based component in the paperand make a clear connection on how it
informs the groups’ management practices. (NOTE:Individualsall have a
worldview, and that worldview influences their decisions, values, and
perceptions. It also affects how theymanage people, or think they should be
managed. For this assignment, this requirement relates to your worldview, not
of RSPS.
Include at least four academic
references to support your position. One of them should directly relate to the
company discussed in your paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the
guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please
review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this
assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success
Center.
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Recommended Websites and Articles:
Lists of Private Schools in Arizona:
1. 14
Most Expensive Private Schools in Metro
Phoenix.http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/09/17/arizona-phoenix-expensive-private-schools/15736007/
2. Best
Private High Schools in Arizona.https://k12.niche.com/rankings/private-high-schools/best-overall/s/arizona/
Lists of Charter and Public Schools in
Arizona:
1. Best
High Schools in Arizona.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/arizona
2. Phoenix
School. http://www.greatschools.org/arizona/phoenix/
3. Top
10 Arizona companies: Private schools.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2014/06/28/top-10-arizona-companies-private-schools/11366935/
Articles: Subsystems/Schools as
Subsystems:
1. “What
Are Organizational Subsystems?” by
Kokemuller.http://smallbusiness.chron.com/organizational-subsystems-41735.html
2. “Social
Organization and Schools: A General Systems Theory Perspective,” byBowen.
http://www.uncssp.org/publications/Bowen%20social%20Organizations%20and%20Schools%202006.pdf
3. “Educational
Systems and Development and Its Relationship to ISD,” by Reigeluth.
Chapter 6 in Instructional Technology: Past Present and Future (2nd ed., 1995),
by Anglin (Ed.).http://www.indiana.edu/~syschang/decatur/reigeluth_pubs/documents/74_esd_relation_to_isd.pdf
