Paper 3

Please read and follow the uploaded information provided: Please use Scholarly Source for this APA Paper. Please use the grading rubrics attach with this assignment for this paper. Please make sure paper is proof read and cannot be over 15% plagiarism.

You are the HR manager for an upscale retail store which sells clothing, shoes, handbags, and other accessories. Due to the economic downturn, the company has experienced a significant reduction in earnings, resulting in the layoff of a number of retail sales associates. Business seems to be rebounding, but you are concerned about the performance of the retail sales staff. The CEO has requested that you recommend ways to increase sales and customer service. You believe that implementing a performance management system may help modify employee behavior and improve results.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Create a job description for a retail sales associate, which includes the most significant components necessary to describe the job both internally and externally.

2. Create an organizational behavior modification (OBM) plan to define four (4) key behaviors that are required for successful job performance as a retail sales associate. Suggest the significant ways that your plan will benefit the organization.

3. Specify two (2) ways that you would measure whether current employees exhibit the key job performance behaviors. Propose two (2) methods that you could use to inform employees of the new performance standards.

4. Outline a plan with two (2) methods of providing feedback to employees. Include the frequency with which the feedback will be provided. Propose two (2) actions company leaders should take to reinforce positive employee behaviors.

5. Examine at least three (3) key legal and ethical issues that could potentially impact the performance management system. Support your response with specific examples of the identified issues’ possible effects on the performance management system.

6. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

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:

· Examine performance management issues and processes.

· Examine the influences on and various approaches to compensation.

· Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management foundations.

· Write clearly and concisely about human resource management foundations 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 the rubric for this assignment.

Cannot Be Over 15% Plagiarism. Please follow the rubric

1. Thoroughly outlined one (1) job interview process, and thoroughly documented the methods that you must use to select the right person for available positions. Thoroughly determined two (2) employment laws that you must consider in the process in question, and thoroughly examined the key ramifications of the organization’s lack of enforcement of said laws.

2. Thoroughly predicted three (3) issues that you may encounter in building relationships with each type of worker. Thoroughly examined two (2) laws that you must follow during the relationship building process, and thoroughly specified the manner in which each law would help in the relationship building process.

3. Thoroughly evaluated the effectiveness of the organization’s HR policies and processes that are designed to promote a diverse workforce. Thoroughly outlined one (1) strategy for the organization that recognizes affirmative action. Thoroughly included a plan to mitigate both the glass ceiling effect and reverse discrimination within your organization. Thoroughly supported your response with at least two (2) examples that illustrate the major benefits of the plan to the organization.

4. Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.

5. Error free or almost error free grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting.

6. In-text citations and references are error free or almost error free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style.

7. Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

8. Information is provided in a clear, coherent, and consistent manner with reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.