hrm assignment

HRM 1101 Final Assignments

( worth 20 % of total semester grade )

( take home assignments—due in one week at midnight )

( Typed answers send to riemertr @aol.com as word attachment)

Components ----Three Parts

· 8 Leadership questions @ 60 % value of your grade.

· 2 Leadership Situations @ 20% value of your grade.

· 1 Proposal type question @ 20 % value of your grade.

Questions---Part One

1) Motivation—Chapter 3—You are promoted into a position previously held by a poor performing manager/leader who was fired. Employees did not respect and thus did not work hard for this manager just fired. How will you specifically motivate the 15 employees now working for you ? Give me the five ( 5 ) most important things you will do to motivate them ? –one line for each of the 5.

2) Tell me the five ( 5 ) most important ways Leaders fail? ---5 one line statements.

3) Culture—Chapter 13—In your job search after Temple, what type of culture will you seek and hope to work in because you know you will be happier and more productive. List 5 important values that will help most young people just out of college be more productive.

4) Lessons from TV report / Book Report you did. ---Give me the number one lesson you learned from this assignment that you will follow in your work life? Then tell me why this was so important and how you will use this lesson ? Be concise.

5) Riemer’s Hurdles---Which Hurdle has professor Riemer continuously stated as a big weakness for most executives. ? Then tell me in one well thought out sentence why this is such a big weakness to a Leader?

6) Chapter 8—Creativity & Innovation—Assume you and your partners are in a technology business and you want your employees to work in a culture that welcomes creativity, innovation and new ideas. Give me five ( 5 ) actions Leaders will take to encourage Creativity and Innovation?—One action per line.

7) Chapter 4-Communications—Effective Leaders often have a talent for reading people’s emotions—for listening and sizing up people well—this helps them be an excellent communicator. This excellence in communications helps them in many ways. Give me there ( 3 ) ways in 3 one line statements ?

8) Chapter 5—Planning---So that you understand the important difference between Strategic and Tactical---write me a personal

· Strategic Statement Overall Goal

· 2 specific Tactical goals to achieve the Strategic Goal ?

Part Two---- Two Situations

Situation # 1—You take over in 2016 as the new District Manager of 20 stores in Eastern PA. and South Jersey and Delaware. ( business you are in is irrelevant). Nearly all 20 stores are performing below company standards in their financial profit and sales/marketing revenue goals. This failure is now your job to turn around. One issue for sure is employee turnover is at an extreme high rate. Too many employees are leaving your company to work elsewhere compared to competitors who have much lower turnover rates. So with this knowledge, you have called for a meeting of all 20 store managers to come to the corporate office in Philadelphia where your office is located. There you will conduct your first all Store Manager meeting since you started just a few weeks ago. There is so much you want to tell them plus ask them questions but clearly even with this limited knowledge, there are strong messages you want to send to all 20 Managers. What three ( 3 ) messages will you as a Leader want to tell them ? one line for each message.

Situation # 2—You and your 2 partners from college days of Temple start a new Technology Service business and are convinced this business will grow fast, very fast. You and your partners plan to soon add many offices of regional customer service centers across America from California to Denver to Chicago to the east coast. As partners in this venture, what type of organization structure will you decide on in the early few years until the growth slows down? –Centralized or Decentralized? Then tell me why is a short bullet list why you decided what you decided ?

1. Your decision of what structure to use is _______. ? ?

2. Then the bullet list.

Part Three---Leading a High Performing Function in your Organization. Let’s suppose you desire to be recognized as an excellent Leader of whatever function you are in charge of in your organization. To achieve the status of being called a great Leader what 10 things must you do to achieve this recognition? Put those 10 statements in order of importance with 1 being the most Important.

OVERALL INSTRUCTIONS for this Final Assignment.

A. On separate 3 pages, you do not need to type out the questions.

B. Just make sure on Part One---you list the numbers 1 to 8 to avoid confusion.

C. On Page 2—Part 2—Just type in the words Situation # 1 and Situation # 2.

D. For Part Three—just type in Part Three and then your listing of 1 to 10.

E. Email by due date to –riemertr @aol.com with word attachment. Thank You