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JWI 522: Strategic Partnering with the C-Suite Assignment 1

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Assignment 1: HR Scorecard The View from the Top Due: Monday, 9:00 am (eastern), Week 3 (Weight: 10%)

Overview You cannot expect to earn a seat at the table if you do not understand what matters to the other leaders who are already at the table. Elevating HR to a strategic partnership with the C-Suite requires a deep knowledge of the business. This includes the competitive landscape, how the business makes money, and the threats and opportunities the business faces. It also requires that the very essence of the company – its mission and values – forms the foundation for every hiring, firing, compensation and talent development initiative that HR and the business leaders undertake.

In this assignment, you are given the opportunity to develop a brief “snapshot” document to be used as a visual support for an initial meeting a between a newly hired, or recently promoted, CHRO and the CEO and CFO. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how well current talent-development efforts and the HR function as a whole support the Mission, Values and Strategy of the organization. In other words, are the things that HR is spending its time on the same things the C-Suite actually cares about?

Instructions For this assignment, you will use your own organization and place yourself in the role of the senior-most HR leader. Because this is a meeting with C-Suite executives, you know that presenting a lengthy document is not the right way to support the discussion or to demonstrate your executive presence.

You decide to create an executive brief that does two things: (1) demonstrates your knowledge of the business and (2) presents a snapshot of how the HR role is currently functioning. Follow the steps below to complete this assignment.

1. Use the Assignment 1 template provided in the course as a guide. You may modify the template document to create a more visually interesting layout if it supports your synopsis, as long as your submission addresses all required components.

• Page 1 is a snapshot of the business and includes brief summaries of your assessment of the top priorities in elevating the HR function in ways that will improve the profitability of the company.

• Page 2 is a scorecard using the 7 Principles from The Talent Masters as a way to summarize your observations of the corporate culture and practices in your organization that impact HR and talent development.

2. Type your notes - in brief - into each of the cells in the template. You may expand as needed but your entire submission must be no more than 3 pages in length.

JWI 522: Strategic Partnering with the C-Suite Assignment 1

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Formatting Requirements

• The template provided is used as a guide to create the executive brief

• All required components are included for both the snapshot and the scorecard

• The scorecard is based upon the 7 Principles from The Talent Masters

• The submitted document must not exceed 3 pages in length

• The notes in the document are well written, without errors in spelling and grammar

JWI 522: Strategic Partnering with the C-Suite Assignment 1

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RUBRIC: Assignment 1

CRITERIA

Honors

High Pass

Pass

Low Pass

Unsatisfactory

1. HR Snapshot Weight: 45%

Template demonstrated excellent understanding of topics and provided deep insights into HR issues and opportunities.

Very good summaries of each topic demonstrating research and understanding of HR issues and opportunities.

Met basic requirements but lacked detailed content demonstrating understanding of key issues.

All sections were completed but content demonstrated only superficial understanding of issues and research into competitive environment.

Template was missing or had multiple sections left blank and/or content was off topic.

2. Scorecard Weight: 35%

Scorecard was exceptionally well thought out and provided an excellent synopsis of the situation relating current practices to Talent Masters principles.

Scorecard content was very well organized and provided very good synopses of the situation relating current practices to Talent Masters principles.

Al Scorecard fields were completed with good synopses and rankings were complete. Content showed basic understanding of issues and principles.

Scorecard presented basic assessment of Talent Masters principles but was confusing and/or rankings were missing.

Scorecard was incomplete or contained irrelevant content that demonstrated lack of understanding of the Talent Masters principles.

3. Writing and Mechanics Weight: 20%

Document was error- free and well written with outstanding summaries of content.

Document was error- free and well written with very good summaries of content.

Document was free from major errors in spelling and grammar mistakes and made good use of summary to highlight main points.

Document had minor spelling and mechanical errors. Structure and summary were adequate but lacked refinement.

Document contained numerous spelling and mechanical errors. Summaries were unclear or poorly structured.