Graded Homework

Title	Activity 4_10

Instructions

Activity
Instructions: New Employee Orientation

Training Magazinereports
that only 4% of the companies they surveyed donotprovide new employee orientations.
This activity deals with orientation and is comprised of two (2) parts. (100
points) (A 4-page response is required for the combination of Parts A and B.)

Part A	Through research, identify five (5) companies that provide new hire orientations and write a report that describes what each of the five (5) companies covers in its orientation. At least one (1) of the five (5) companies should be one that you research through a telephone interview, research through a personal visit, or know from personal experience. This report should include objectives, schedules/outlines, etc., to convey what these organizations stress in new employee orientations. In addition, include noted “best practices” activities that personally impress you. (55 points)
Part B	Create a training program identifying the main topics that you think should be covered in a new employee orientation for an existing or imaginary company. Be specific. Your training program should include an outline of topics, schedule, five (5) course learning objectives, and what you consider the best delivery method. (45 points)

Title

Discussion Question 5_11

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Discuss the following:

Explain the following
third-party interventions: mediation, fact-finder, and binding arbitration.
Provide hypothetical examples of each.

Compare four (4) tactics
that a union might use to break an impasse. Do not discuss the three (3)
interventions discussed in “a” above.

Title

Discussion Question 5_12

Instructions

You are an employee
relations manager. Your last employee values and behaviors survey showed low
ratings in the following three (3) areas:

A casual regard for
company property and minor theft

Among the salesforce, a
lack of concern for and failure to apply ethical principles when dealing with
clients

A lack of familiarity
with company ethics policy.

Respond to the
following. (25 points) (A 1½-page response is required.)

Access the Ashworth
online library, ProQuest, and come up with three (3) creative initiatives to
improve employee commitment to ethics in the workplace.

Discuss three (3)
methods to communicate your initiatives to employees. This item is “out of
scope” for current budget, so you cannot use means beyond normal communication
tools (weekly newsletter, etc.).

Title

Activity 5_13

Instructions

Activity Instructions: Employee
Performance Appraisal Guidelines (100 points)

Your company has just
decided to implement annual employee performance appraisals. This is a new
process for all levels of employees and management feels there may be
reluctance or hesitation to put much effort into this process. Your task is to
create a PowerPoint presentation for those persons who will be administering
the performance appraisals.

The following content
should be present in the PowerPoint presentation.

A discussion of four (4)
common dangers in filling out rating-scale appraisals.

Five (5) recommendations
on how to avoid appraisal problems.

Four (4) tips/techniques
for delivering an employee performance appraisal, such as making some
suggestions about how to have a performance appraisal meeting or interview with
an employee.

In addition, the
presentation should be interesting to the viewers, providing a pleasant viewing
experience.

(100 points) (A 10-slide PowerPoint
presentation is required.)

Title

Discussion Question 6_14

Instructions

Discuss three (3) reasons why international business efforts fail.
Then discuss the five (5) factors important in the selection of management
staff for international assignments. Include coverage of three (3) components
for each factor.

Title

Discussion Question 6_15

Instructions

Describe the 4-Level training and development strategy to support
expatriates in a start-up company that plans to sell American wine in France.
(24 points) (A 1½-page response is required.)

Title

Activity 6_16

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Activity
Instructions: Outsourcing Case Study

(100 points) (A 4-page
response is required.)

Part A	You are the director of HR for a company that sells an upscale line of gourmet snack foods. Your company has a 30-employee call center that takes calls from customers about order and payment issues. Your boss talked to someone on the plane during a recent business trip and has become interested in outsourcing the call center to an off-shore firm in India. “We could save 80% on labor alone!” he exclaimed. You have heard that about half of outsourcing off-shore work is terminated fairly quickly. Write a paper outlining the pros and cons of off-shore outsourcing in this situation. Present at least three (3) positive and three (3) negative sides of the issue. In true, objective fashion, present the facts, but let your boss make up his own mind. (60 points)
Part B	Discuss an example of one (1) company that is successfully outsourcing work offshore and one (1) company that tried outsourcing offshore but terminated the effort. (40 points)

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