HR Assignment

HRM 335 Final Exam – Best Company to Work For Spring 2017 !

Every year, Fortune magazine partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America. Last year, 280 firms participated in the survey. To pick the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Fortune uses nine (9) standards to evaluate the companies, including:

1. quality of management

2. quality of products and services

3. innovation

4. long-term investment value

5. financial soundness

6. responsibility to community and environment

7. wise use of corporate assets

8. global business knowledge

9. ability to attract, develop, and retain talent

A company's overall ranking is based on the average of the scores in all nine (9) categories.

!! For the final exam:

1. Go to the following Web site to see Fortune’s 2016 list of "100 Best Companies to Work For:” http://fortune.com/best-companies/ → (Note: As you look through the list, click on some companies that are not

familiar to you and look through the company’s page for information on such things as: company ranking for Best Company for Millennials to Work For; company ranking for Best Bosses to Work For.)

! 2. From the list of the top 50 companies:

a. choose a company (NOT Google or Wegmans) that interests you

b. review the related Fortune web page and the company's website.

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! 3. Based on what you can learn from:

a. the Fortune web page

b. the company's website

c. the readings/discussion boards over the last few months

! Identify and Analyze why you think your company is the best company to work for based on aspects of HRM practices we’ve discussed this semester (see the list of practices in the first statement below).

Content of material on which you will be graded: → HRM practices include the following eight (8) areas: !

• Culture • Recruitment • Training • Performance Management • Employee Relations • Compensation • Benefits • Diversity !

→ Choose at least three (3) of the above HR areas. For your paper ! a. Summarize the company’s practices for each area AND ! b. Relate the HRM practices to the company’s business strategy and

success (e.g., how is the practice implemented, used, incorporated, developed, measured) !

→ References should be provided on the last page and follow APA format. ! • APA format example: Coleman, (2005). “Diversity in Marymount

Students: A cross cultural perspective.” Journal of Cultural Management 22(3), 120-126. !

→ You need to have at least five (5) references, of which three (3) should be from written sources (no blogs) or contemporary business sources (e.g., Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Money Magazine) written in the last two (2) years.

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! • All articles/URLs must be turned in with the paper. You may scan or

photograph the articles. • Materials found on the company website count as one (1) reference (no

matter how many pages were used). • Interviewing a current/former employee or member of the HR team may

also be used in place of one (1) reference. ! → Merely listing and/or copying items from your reference materials, especially

websites, will reduce your grade. You must analyze how the HRM elements relate to the company’s strategy and success. !

• Specifically, break the HR practices into their component parts to examine, question, explore the information/ data, so you can: !

1. use/quote important information to build your paper and 2. to answer the “so, what?; why should I (Dr. Scanlon)

care?” questions. ! → Given that this course examines HRM from the perspective of a manager who

wishes to effectively use his/her human resources and interact with HR professionals rather than assuming the student wants to become an HR professional, your paper must demonstrate that you have a working knowledge of the HR practices you choose to write about not that you are an HR specialist. !

→ The paper should be at least five (5) pages (1 page each for Intro/ Conclusion and 3 HR areas) but no longer than eight (8) pages. !

• The length of the paper does not include your Reference page, graphs, charts, attachments, or appendices. !

→The paper and accompanying documents should be uploaded NLT May 7.

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