CASE SCENARIO

 This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin®.Instructions

You are the Employee Relations Specialist for a national retail company with locations across the United States. The nearly 500 company employees are diverse in terms of age and demographic differences. Your primary work location is Southeast Pennsylvania. Recently, the employees in the mid-Atlantic region, managed by Kristopher Kolumbus, have expressed dissatisfaction with the work environment. There are approximately 125 employees in the mid-Atlantic region. Their specific concerns include receiving small pay raises for the past 2 – 3 years, limited employee benefits, lack of career mobility and progression, and heightened security controls implemented due to theft concerns. There has been recent talk among the employees about the possibility of unionization, and some workers have begun exploring options such as United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Before either of these unions will send an organizer to the organization, it wants to be sure that sufficient employees will back union representation. Some employees have started company-wide communication to increase interest in unionization.

As the Employee Relations Specialist, it is your responsibility to ensure that supervisors and managers follow the rules regarding a union organizing campaign. In response to this potential campaign, you decide to take some initial actions and prepare several documents to share with your boss, the Director of Human Resources: [You must use the underlined headings as separate discussion areas in your paper and in the order provided below. -.5pt if fail to do this.]

Late penalties: Paper is due by due date. There will be no extensions granted for this paper. 

This paper will require outside of the class room research to fully address all questions. 

  • A summary email to the Director of Human Resources describing the issues and what actions you are taking (which includes the below items)
  • A one-page memo to all managers and supervisors indicating what they can and cannot do during any union organizing effort.
  • An email to your human resource colleagues about actions the HR team should consider in response to some of the concerns raised by the Mid-Atlantic Region employees
  • An outline for a meeting to be held between Human Resources and the organization’s leadership team regarding the organizing effort.

Each document must be double-space, Times New Roman font 12, and APA format. Paper must be in narrative format, not bullets. [in word document not pdf] -.5pt if fail in any of these formatting requirements.

managing labor relations in public sector

 

Discussion # 1 [3pts for this topic]

1. From the HRM perspective, what are the implications, for both the employees and management, of managing labor relations in the Public Sector? Be specific

2. Initial comments to this discussion topic are due by midnight Saturday and then you must substantively respond to at least TWO student’s comments in this discussion topic no later than 10pm Tuesday. See Discussion Expectations for rules on discussion requirements.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL READING MATERIAL (NOT REQUIRED):

Discussion # 2 [No points for this topic]

Since we are at the end of this class, this is the perfect time to reflect upon the achievement of Course Outcomes. 

As the Syllabus states ….  After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • identify, interpret, and apply rules and policies governing the labor relations process
  • research and prepare background materials to support the labor relations process
  • differentiate between unionized and non-unionized environments in order to maintain legal compliance
  • identify, analyze, and classify potential labor relations issues in order to support the decision-making process

Leadership concepts

Discussion #2

Directions:  Reflect on each of the previous seven weeks. Briefly describe seven leadership concepts (one from each week) that you can apply to your leadership career. Be as specific as you can.  Consider both information from the course materials and the experiences you had in your group work.  Whenever referencing concepts from course materials, be sure to provide in-text citations and references. Post due by Saturday at 11:59 p.m. 

Respond to a minimum of three classmates by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time in the following manner: select ONE of the concepts highlighted by your classmate and describe how you could also use that new knowledge in your leadership career.

(Note the Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. Discussion deadline.)

Completing the Discussion

  • Read the grading rubric for the project.  Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible grade.
  • Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.
  • Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotation from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You are to put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA in-text citation format,  to the source document. In other words, once you paraphrase a source document, the source document must be shown in an in-text citation.  
  • Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotation from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You are to put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA in-text citation format,  to the source document. In other words, once you paraphrase a source document, the source document must be shown in an in-text citation.  
  • Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks.  Paraphrase means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA  in-text citation format, to the source document.  Not using direct quotation marks means that there should be no passages with quotation marks and instead the source material is paraphrased as stated above. 
  • Provide the page or paragraph number when using in-text citations.  Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.   
  • You may only use the course material from the classroom.  You may not use books or any resource from the Internet.

Due Tonight by 10 pm

 

Take some time to reflect upon the following prompts, and answer them in a 1-2 page Word document.

  • What are the top three things in your life that have most influenced your viewpoints on sex and sexuality (some things to consider: religion, friends, family, age, hometown, TV and movies, etc.)?
  • How would you describe your values and attitudes toward sexuality?
  • Do you have any biases regarding sexuality? Why do you feel you have these?
  • What do you think of how the media portrays sexuality? What do you think of the messages religious or government institutions send about sexuality?
  • Would you be able to stay friends with someone who held very different values related to sexuality? Why or why not?

Need Powerpoint Presentation of 7 – 8 slides with NO Plagiarism

  

discuss the areas of employee safety that are most important to you. Do you feel the organization has the same concerns as you? Why?

I need the PowerPoint Presentation on the mentioned topic with 7 – 8 slides excluding references and I need “Speaker Notes” for each and every slide with more than 100 words for every slide without any plagiarism.  And there should be more than 5 references.

STR (U4_RPL)

Please read and respond to the attachment.

Note: Only up to 20% of the content in the written response can be quotes from third parties

GLOB (U4_RPL)

Please read and respond to the attachment.

Note: Only up to 20% of the content in the written response can be quotes from third parties.

Week 6

 

Working individually, students should complete the questions per the list assigned.

Prepare responses to the questions below after viewing one of the following case studies:

  • p. 636 #2: Negotiating Pandas at the SD Zoo

Follow the questions as written in the text to frame your response.

The paper should be a minimum of 3 to 4 pages. Title page and reference page with 3-5 references are required. References are encouraged to be authored. In-text citations must match the references. Incorporate responses from the text as we have covered the last weeks together in additional to your other selected sources.

Wk 1 – Advisory Memo: Employment Issues [due Mon]

 

As a first-year Human Resource Specialist at “State of Estates” estate planning firm, your boss (Will N. Trusts) presents you with the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1

Gary, an estate planner, works on a contract basis for our clients at “State of Estates”. On occasion, we contract Gary to handle a specific client for a specific estate planning job. Per our contract with Gary for these specific clients, he is paid commission on a weekly basis based on the overall fee received by the firm. When working for these specific clients, Gary is able to use our office space, equipment, and any supplies necessary to complete the job. To ensure consistent work product and regulatory compliance, Gary submits his work to a supervisor, who approves it and send it to the client on behalf of our firm. Recently, we had to lay Gary off in the middle of a job and he filed for unemployment compensation.

  • What legal tests could be employed to determine whether Gary is an independent contractor or employee?
  • Based on these tests, what is your conclusion as to Gary’s status: independent contractor or employee?
Scenario 2

Susan, a financial products representative in our Nebraska office, landed a major Mutual Fund client just six weeks before planning to retire. In the interim, and before her commission was paid, she was let go by our firm. We did not have a contract for employment with Susan. She is now suing us for wrongful termination.

  • Would any exceptions to Susan’s at-will employment apply under these circumstances?
  • Does it make a difference if Susan was employed in our Florida office?

Apply the concept of employment at-will and its various exceptions, including differences in approach to at-will among the states.

Write two 175-word memorandums based on the scenarios in one document. The memos should be written in third-person voice, and include citation of references (both in-text and at the end of the memo) in APA format.

Discussion

Write at least 300 words to answer prof’s question, then respond to 2 classmates’ posts (each one 100 words). You need to use at least 1 source to support your idea and make reference