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2. BUS 692 Week 1 DQ 1 Achieving Organizational Strategy through People For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Achieving Organizational Strategy through People. A common theme observed in modern organizations today is the poor alignment of business strategy and HRM strategy. Find an article(s) through ProQuest which discusses the benefits of aligning HRM activities with key business initiatives and discuss the challenges and the opportunities of doing so. Present your findings in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Remember to properly cite your sources.

3. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 1 DQ 2 Expectancy and Equity Theory For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 1 DQ 2 Expectancy and Equity Theory Expectancy and Equity Theory. Business managers seek higher performing workers to staff positions in organizations. Read pages 33 through 45 of the text and at least one article(s) through ProQuest. Consider organizational strategies and practices in your organization that could be enhanced by the application of these theories and address them in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Remember to properly cite your sources.

4. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 1 DQ 2 Expectancy and Equity Theory For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 1 DQ 2 Expectancy and Equity Theory Expectancy and Equity Theory. Business managers seek higher performing workers to staff positions in organizations. Read pages 33 through 45 of the text and at least one article(s) through ProQuest. Consider organizational strategies and practices in your organization that could be enhanced by the application of these theories and address them in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Remember to properly cite your sources.

5. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 2 DQ 1 KSAs and Strategic Skills Analysis For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com KSAs and Strategic Skills Analysis. Find an article through ProQuest that discusses Strategic Skills Analysis for Selection and Development. Discuss the relationships among KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities), job analysis, organizational strategy, and HR activities. What are the KSAs needed by the firm to achieve the strategy and what KSAs are currently resident? How does the firm grow its KSAs to meet the strategic challenge? Present your findings in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings.

6. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 2 DQ 2 Internal and External Pay Equity For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Internal and External Pay Equity. Find an article through ProQuest that discusses pay equity as it relates to KSAs. Address the importance of managing pay equity (both internal and external) and the consequences for not doing so. Also address the role of pay equity and employee job satisfaction and motivation from a strategic perspective. Present your views in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings. Remember to properly cite your sources.

7. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 2 Targeted Work Class For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Targeted Work Class. Write a four to seven page paper that: Describes the results of your assessment of the work processes and key employees to be addressed in your final paper. Discusses how the organization will change while meeting its strategic challenges in the future. Includes what kinds of workers will be needed; what knowledge, skills, and abilities will be appropriate; what is the compensation system and is it reflective of the market’s conditions?

8. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 3 DQ 1 Aligning Staffing Systems with Organizational Strategy For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Aligning Staffing Systems with Organizational Strategy. First use the various orientation frameworks (Miles & Snow, Olian & Rynes’s, etc.) from pages 102-105 to analyze and assess your firm’s current orientation and to make recommendations for improvement. How will the firm retrain, hire staff, or outsource to meet future demand? How might the processes be improved considering the strategic orientation?

9. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 3 DQ 2 Kirkpatrick’s Training Model For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Kirkpatrick’s Training Model. Find an article through ProQuest that discusses Donald Kirkpatrick's Four level Evaluation Model, devised in the 1970s and a standard tool in training circles, and evaluate the value and limitations of the model in practice. How would application of such a model improve training in your organization? What ways could you evaluate results if you were devising a training program? Present your views in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings. Remember to properly cite your sources.

10. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 3 Technology and Training Systems For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Technology and Training System. Write a four to seven page paper that: Describes the results of your assessment of the technology requirements relevant to employee productivity, staffing systems, career development systems, and training systems deployed by the organization to manage and increase competency and productivity of employees.

11. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 4 DQ 1 Aligning Performance Management with Strategy For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Aligning Performance Management with Strategy. Read pages 141 -149 from the course text and imagine a performance evaluation system that promotes roles, behaviors, and work outcomes appropriate to achieve organizational strategic objectives throughout the firm. What would such a system look like? Would it be similar to the one used in your organization? How would individual and/or team performance assessment be conducted? What tools would you recommend? Would you use MBO or another system? Present your views in 200 words or more in your discussion post.

12. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 4 DQ 2 HRM Adds Value to the Firm For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com HRM Adds Value to the Firm. Find an article through ProQuest that discusses the proposition that HRM adds value to the firm. Also, examine the topic of “Marginal Utility Analysis” and how it is used to make a case about the value of HRM. How does HRM practices and systems add value? What is the basis for an argument for or against this proposition? Present your views in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings. Remember to properly cite your sources.

13. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 4 Labor Market For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Labor Market. Write a four to seven page paper that: Describes the results of your assessment of the labor market from which your selected organization draws candidates for open positions. Explains the population, demographics of the population, levels of education, and how much training may be required to prepare new workers drawn from this pool for positions in the firm.

14. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 5 DQ 1 Linking Strategy to HRM Practices For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Linking Strategy to HRM Practices. Read pages 177 -180 from the course text and imagine how “Well-designed HR systems can influence business results.” Read Fast Company’s article on SAS (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/sanity.html ) as well as the article on CBS "60" minutes (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/main550102.sht ml), and visit the SAS website (http://www.sas.com/corporate/index.html ) to learn more about the company.http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/sanity.htmlhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/main550102.sht mlhttp://www.sas.com/corporate/index.html

15. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 5 DQ 2 Conflicting HRM Systems For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Conflicting HRM Systems. Almost every organization with more than 200 employees has at least one significant conflicting HRM practice, which undermines the total performance of the organization at least marginally— examples abound. Discuss one or more conflicting practices you have experienced and recommend one or more alternative HRM practices that could appropriately minimize, or even eliminate, the conflict. Explain in detail. Present your views in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings. Remember to properly cite your sources.

16. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 6 DQ 1 BFOQ For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BFOQ. Research the term BFOQ in your text and at least one article found through ProQuest. Explain its importance and relevance to our discussion in this course. How might not appropriately incorporating well defined BFOQs lead to difficulties for the organization? How would the concept of BFOQ be linked to “disparate treatment” and/or “disparate impact” in respect to staffing? What is the link between the ADA (1990) and BFOQs? Present your views in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings. Remember to properly cite your sources

17. BUS 692 Innovative Education- -snaptutorial.com BUS 692 Week 6 DQ 2 Foreign Restrictions on Termination For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Foreign Restrictions on Termination. Search your text and at least one article found through ProQuest on the topic of restrictions on termination of employment in European countries. Assess the different requirements and consider risks, operational requirements for MNCs, modified HRM policies, and any other conditions or restrictions facing a firm operating in such environments. Present your views in 200 words or more in your discussion post. Respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings. Remember to properly cite your sources.

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