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Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
For Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 you will take on the role of a consultant for a government agency. Your consulting firm has been asked by the agency to research it, interview representatives within the agency, compile a report, and provide recommendations for improvement. The first role of the consultant is to become familiar with the agency, its departments, and key actors. You will develop the assignment in five (5) parts, submitting each to your supervisor (your professor’s role) who will offer feedback for revisions.
Select a local, county, state, or federal agency and a department within the agency. Usually, you can find contact information on their Websites.
Assignment 1: Rationale and Analysis for Agency Selected, Part 1 (Week 2)
Assignment 2: Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration, Part 2 (Week 4)
Assignment 3: Agency’s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce, Part 3 (Week 7)
Assignment 4: Analysis of the Agency’s Policies, Procedures, and Plans – Unions, Privatization, Pensions, and Productivity, Part 4 (Week 9)
Assignment 5: Preparing for the Agency’s Future, Part 5 (Week 10)
After selecting an agency and department, you are expected to:
1. Research the literature regarding issues that involve the selected agency and public administration in general.
2. Interview at least two (2) representatives of the agency’s department for the different sections of the paper. (If you can obtain more than two (2) different interviews, do so. The more perspectives, the better. Interviews can be conducted in person, by phone, or by an electronic method such as email.)
3. Develop the assignments in parts, submitting them to your professor for review and feedback.
4. Revise Assignments 1, 2, and 3 based on your professor’s feedback.
Note: Guidelines for Interview Assignments at Strayer University:
(1) Before students engage in an interview assignment, they must adhere to these Guidelines for Interview Assignments at Strayer University:
(a) The purpose of the assignment is to train students in interview/research methods, not to develop or contribute to research that can be applied to situations beyond that studied or that is created to share with others beyond the local setting.
(b) No publication of projects containing the results of or information from the interviews is allowed, including publication in social media, blogs or the Internet generally. The interview findings may only be shared in the class.
(2) When presenting the results of their interviews to their instructor and / or classmates, students may not disclose personally identifiable information about an interviewee, unless they have received written permission from the interviewee as verified by their instructor.
(3) All interviewees must be at least 18 years old.)
***Assignment 3: Agency’s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce, Part 3
Due Week 7 and worth 180 points
Refer to the Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
1.Revise the previous assignment based on your professor’s feedback.
2.Analyze at least three (3) laws and court decisions that have implications to the agency’s personnel management. (Title this section Laws Affecting the Agency)
3.Analyze at least five (5) of the major components of the agency’ s human resource system’s goals and practices regarding the recruitment and hiring of a diversified workforce, including race, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. (Title this section Personnel Recruitment and Hiring Practices)
4.Evaluate the agency’s approach to ethics and diversity training programs provided for new and existing employees, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses. (Title this section Ethics and Diversity Training)
5.Recommend at least two (2) actions the agency could take to improve in the areas of recruiting and training a diversified workforce. (Title this section Recommendations for Recruiting and Training a Diversified Workforce)
6.Provide at least four (4) relevant and credible outside sources that support the content of this assignment. (Include no more than one non-government Website)
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
•Recommend improvements to processes involved in public personnel management and / or solutions to problems confronting those in the field.
•Assess external organizational and employee conditions as well as their implications to and impact on personnel management.
•Analyze pertinent issues, such as motivation and productivity, collective bargaining, labor relations, equal employment opportunity (EEO), affirmative action (AA), intergovernmental relations, and / or professionalism, facing public personnel managers.
•Evaluate current and emerging issues and trends in public personnel management, such as evaluation, public sector recruitment, staffing employment development compensation, benefits, pensions, strategic planning, and / or succession planning.
•Evaluate ethical issues surrounding public personnel management and training.
•Develop a proposal for strategic public personnel management for a specific setting.
•Use technology and information resources to research issues in public personnel management.
•Write clearly and concisely about public personnel management using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Click here to access the rubric for this assignment...
