BUS 692 Week 1 to 6 Assignment

BUS 692 Week 1 Assignment, Selection of the firm

Determine an organization you will analyze and evaluate over the six weeks of this course. The organization can be one in which you work, one in which you have access, or one of such substance that significant internet material is available for your use.
Write a three to five page paper that:

Describes the nature of the organization (provide industry, product/service, a brief history, and position in relation to competition)

• Identifies significant management personnel
• Discusses business strategy
• Defines the specific area of the business you plan to address

BUS 692 Week 2 Assignment, 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?

BUS 692 Week 3 Assignment, Technology and Training Systems

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.

• Proposes suggestions for improving 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. 

BUS 692 Week 4 Assignment, 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.

• Uses regional economic corporations, US Department of Labor and other sources to provide data.

BUS 692 Week 6 Final Project

You work for a HR consulting company and an organization (just like the one in which you currently work, have worked, or have access to) has hired your firm to conduct  an HRM analysis and make recommendations to better align HR practices to the key business initiatives of the company. In order to accomplish the goal:
1. Analyze the organization and develop a set of HRM practices based upon textbook illustrations and figures.  You will develop an 8-10 page research paper (not  including the title and reference pages) modeling one or more of the illustrations from the course text.  Your paper should also:

• Identify the firm’s history, strategy, market position, and specific area of alignment.
• Provide job pricing and compensation package.
• Describe and analyze the current and targeted work processes as well as the respective knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required to achieve the organization’s objectives.
• Incorporate a discussion of relevant technology considerations to achieve work output in the context of the organization’s goals.
• Provide a discussion of the labor market and the appropriate labor law context.  Identification of companies that are preparing to address the changes.
• Prescribe a set of HRM recommendations, specifically tailored for the selected firm, consisting of choices from the 19 dimension of an HRM system presented in Chapter 3 of the course text.
• Describe other HRM issues as applicable.

2. Timetable:

• Week One: Organization identification, history, industry, and definition of business strategy
• Week Two: Key employee behaviors and KSAs appropriate for work class
• Week Three: Technology factors and organizational design of work processes
• Week Four: Labor market and legal environment
• Week Five: Draft of HRM practices
• Week Six: Final 8-10 page paper