Week 5 - Assignment 1-Due by Thursday at 5pm CST

Week 5 Assignment 1 Template

Response to Group Case Study: Part II

In Week 4, you worked with a group to analyze a case study related to strategic human resource management. In the Group Discussion Forum, you were asked to select the appropriate case study thread and add your group's case study as an attachment. You were to include the group number and case study title in your posting.

As a reminder, group case studies were selected from the course text, Human Resource Management: Linking Strategy to Practice (Stewart & Brown, 2014):

· Medical Center (pp. 326–327)

· Northwestern Memorial Hospital (pp. 372–374)

· Expanding into Switzerland (pp. 407–408)

Respond by Day 4 to one of the other groups in one of following ways:

· Ask a probing question related to the other group’s case.

· Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.

· Offer and support an opinion regarding the project’s strength or weakness.

· Make a suggestion to the other team about how to capitalize on a strength or overcome a weakness.

· Expand on a colleague’s posting.

Your post should be approximately 200–250 words in length.

Below are three UNRELATED EXAMPLES of how to cite within a paragraph in APA format. You need to cite resources in your Discussion Post to support and justify your thinking:

Haag and Cummings (2003) base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and...

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and... (Haag & Cummings, 2003).

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time. They stated that “…IT is the most important aspect that needs attention by upper management” (Haag & Cummings, 2003, p. 89).

Now, draft your response of at least 200–250 words below:

After you have finished addressing all elements of the Discussion prompt, do not forget to include your references in APA format. You will need to write the references to any resources that you cite in your Discussion Response. Below are examples of references, including your course text. When complete, please copy and paste your response in the appropriate thread in the Discussion Forum.

References

Stewart, G. L., & Brown, K. G. (2014). Human resource management: Linking strategy to practice (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Wiley.

Below are UNRELATED REFERENCES from a journal, a newspaper, and Web site. These references are only intended to illustrate correct APA formatting:

Ismail, A., Mohamad, M. H., Mohamed, H. A.-B., Rafiuddin, N. M., & Zhen, K. W. P. (2010). Transformational and transactional leadership styles as a predictor of individual outcomes. Theoretical and Applied Economics, 17(6), 89–104.

Porter, E. (2014, May 13). The politics of income inequality. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/business/economy/the-politics-of-income-inequality.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D

Walmart. (n.d.) Our business. Retrieved from http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-business/