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CP 1011 PART A

Create either a fact sheet or infographic that describes how an effective manager behaves and makes plans.

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Introduction

You will explore the fundamental principles of management and their relationship to the modern workplace. The resources will focus on these principles and their relationship to the modern workplace environment and important issues frequently encountered by managers, including effective planning.

Overview

In this assessment, you will create either a fact sheet or infographic that describes how an effective manager behaves and makes plans.

Remember to use insights from the What is Resilience? interactive experience to describe how a manager applying resilience could positively impact the success of the event or project.

Preparation

Step 1: Choose a topic.

  • An example from your workplace experiences. 
  • Managing a social event. 
  • Managing a small business project. 

Step 2: Choose a format.

  • Fact Sheet:
    • Length: 1 page.
    • Template: Fact Sheet Template [DOCX].
    • Resource: Visit Assessment Resources to review the following helpful aid: 
      • 39 Beautiful Fact Sheet Templates, Examples and Designs.
    • Tip: Use 10-point or 12-point font for text and no more than 14-point font for headers. 
  • Infographic:
    • Resource: Visit Assessment Resources to review the following helpful aid:
      • Create a SmartArt Graphic From Scratch. 
    • Tips:
      • An infographic is an image that shares information. The infographic can include numbers and text. Before thinking of ideas, you can look up infographics on the Internet to get ideas. 
      • Infographics require using the fewest words possible to make your point. The visual design will be an important part of what you are communicating—it will replace some of the words you’d use in a paragraph. 
      • Text should be no smaller than a 10-point font. If you use images from an external source, check for copyrights and make sure to give credit to your source.

Instructions

For this assessment, choose a time where you had to manage a specific event or project. This does not need to be in a business setting. For example, you could have led a social event, a project, or you can use your own work experience.

In your chosen format, describe characteristics effective managers should do as well as how they should behave. You will also describe the planning process that made this project or event successful.

In your assessment, include the following:

  • Describe characteristics of effective managers that would relate to your situation.
    • For example, how would a manager demonstrating resilience positively influence the outcome of your event or project?
  • Explain how managers should behave to be effective in the situation.
  • Describe how a manager should plan for the situation to be successful.

Notes:

  • Use Microsoft Word if you are doing the fact sheet. You can upload the Word document as your submission.
  • If you are creating the Infographic, you can use either Word or PowerPoint. These can be submitted as an uploaded file.

Submission Requirements

Your assessment should meet the following submission requirements:

  • Communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional. Your assessment should be:
    • Clear and organized.
    • Free of errors in grammar and writing.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

  • Competency 1: Apply knowledge of effective managers characteristics and behaviors.
    • Describe characteristics of effective managers.
    • Explain how an effective manager should behave.
  • Competency 2: Use managerial principles to plan, organize, control, and lead.
    • Describe how a manager should plan for a situation to be successful.
  • Competency 3: Communicate effectively using professional standards embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
    • The writing is clear and organized with very few grammatical mistakes.
    CP 1011 PART B
  • Create either a fact sheet or infographic that describes how an effective manager behaves and makes plans.Collapse All

    Introduction

    You will explore the fundamental principles of management and their relationship to the modern workplace. The resources will focus on these principles and their relationship to the modern workplace environment and important issues frequently encountered by managers, including effective planning.

    Overview

    In this assessment, you will create either a fact sheet or infographic that describes how an effective manager behaves and makes plans.Remember to use insights from the What is Resilience? interactive experience to describe how a manager applying resilience could positively impact the success of the event or project.

    Preparation

    Step 1: Choose a topic.
    • An example from your workplace experiences. 
    • Managing a social event. 
    • Managing a small business project. 
    Step 2: Choose a format.
    • Fact Sheet:
      • Length: 1 page.
      • Template: Fact Sheet Template [DOCX].
      • Resource: Visit Assessment Resources to review the following helpful aid: 
        • 39 Beautiful Fact Sheet Templates, Examples and Designs.
      • Tip: Use 10-point or 12-point font for text and no more than 14-point font for headers. 
    • Infographic:
      • Resource: Visit Assessment Resources to review the following helpful aid:
        • Create a SmartArt Graphic From Scratch. 
      • Tips:
        • An infographic is an image that shares information. The infographic can include numbers and text. Before thinking of ideas, you can look up infographics on the Internet to get ideas. 
        • Infographics require using the fewest words possible to make your point. The visual design will be an important part of what you are communicating—it will replace some of the words you’d use in a paragraph. 
        • Text should be no smaller than a 10-point font. If you use images from an external source, check for copyrights and make sure to give credit to your source.

    Instructions

    For this assessment, choose a time where you had to manage a specific event or project. This does not need to be in a business setting. For example, you could have led a social event, a project, or you can use your own work experience.In your chosen format, describe characteristics effective managers should do as well as how they should behave. You will also describe the planning process that made this project or event successful.In your assessment, include the following:
    • Describe characteristics of effective managers that would relate to your situation.
      • For example, how would a manager demonstrating resilience positively influence the outcome of your event or project?
    • Explain how managers should behave to be effective in the situation.
    • Describe how a manager should plan for the situation to be successful.
    Notes:
    • Use Microsoft Word if you are doing the fact sheet. You can upload the Word document as your submission.
    • If you are creating the Infographic, you can use either Word or PowerPoint. These can be submitted as an uploaded file.

    Submission Requirements

    Your assessment should meet the following submission requirements:
    • Communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional. Your assessment should be:
      • Clear and organized.
      • Free of errors in grammar and writing.

    Competencies Measured

    By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
    • Competency 1: Apply knowledge of effective managers characteristics and behaviors.
      • Describe characteristics of effective managers.
      • Explain how an effective manager should behave.
    • Competency 2: Use managerial principles to plan, organize, control, and lead.
      • Describe how a manager should plan for a situation to be successful.
    • Competency 3: Communicate effectively using professional standards embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
      • The writing is clear and organized with very few grammatical mistakes.
      WB 4045 PART C
    • Write and submit a 3–4 page analysis of a selected legal case involving disparate treatment in selection and hiring.Collapse All

      Introduction

      Many U.S. laws, ordinances, and guidelines directly impact the hiring and selection process. Legal compliance is important to protect the individual and the organization. It is crucial for the HRM professional to understand issues surrounding discrimination and how to best avoid pitfalls. This includes awareness not only of disparate treatment, but also of disparate (or adverse) impact and how to analyze the issue. In this assessment, you will select and analyze a legal case involving disparate treatment in selection and hiring.

      Overview

      Workplace discrimination—disparate treatment—is intentional employment discrimination. This assessment provides you with the opportunity to analyze a case involving disparate treatment and demonstrate your understanding of the factors involved.

      Planning

      The time it takes to complete an assessment can vary greatly. But it often takes longer than we think to explore the scope of a task, research it, write a draft, and then come back and revise it. Consider the following as rough guideposts for setting aside the time you need to do your work. You will want to adjust these as you learn more about your own pace and working style.
      • Research and reading: 4 hours.
      • Interactive activities: 30 minutes.
      • Writing: 6 hours.
      • Revising: 2 hours.

      Instructions

      Use the Capella library or internet to research a legal case involving disparate treatment in the selection or hiring process. Then in a 3–4 page paper, succinctly and clearly analyze the case. Include the following in your analysis:
      • Describe the important issues in the case.
        • Provide a description of the case, and describe the important issues.
      • Distinguish the theory of disparate treatment from the theory of disparate (or adverse) impact.
        • Distinguish the theory of disparate treatment from the theory of disparate (or adverse) impact using specific examples from your selected legal case and provide additional context if needed to support your work. Be sure to identify the dispute, and what makes this a case about disparate treatment.
      • Analyze the outcome of the case.
        • Explain the court's decision.
        • Note whether you agree with the court.
        • Analyze disparate impact.
      • Analyze the evidence of discriminatory effects.
        • Analyze the evidence of discriminatory effects in your selected case, and provide specific examples of connections to the rule, policy, or process.
      • Describe how the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures help employers avoid issues related to disparate or adverse impact.
      • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
        • Be sure you communicate in a scholarly, professional manner that addresses the intended audience and is free of grammatical and mechanical errors.

      Submission Requirements

      • Written communication: Written communication is thoughtful and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
      • APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. See Evidence and APA.
      • Length of assessment: 3–4 typed, double-spaced pages.
      • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
      • Communication: Understand the audience and communicate professionally.
      Refer to the assessment scoring guide to ensure that you meet all criteria. To earn full points for each criterion, be sure to note the details on what constitutes distinguished performance.

      Competencies Measured

      By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
      • Competency 4: Analyze the impact of legal and regulatory issues on staffing management.
        • Describe the important issues in the case.
        • Distinguish the theory of disparate treatment from the theory of disparate (or adverse) impact.
        • Analyze the outcome of the case.
        • Analyze the evidence of discriminatory effects.
        • Describe how the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures help employers avoid issues related to disparate or adverse impact.
      • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional.
        • Communicate in a matter that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
        WB 4045 PART D
      • Create and submit a 10–12 slide PowerPoint presentation recommending an internet recruiting strategy.Collapse All

        Introduction

        How organizations transition from recruiting a large pool of qualified applicants to selecting the best applicant for the position is a complex process that changes over time.Employment recruitment and selection decisions are significant for managers and organizations. Poor decisions can result in a tremendous loss for the company. Employee performance is critical to organizational effectiveness because an organization will only be as productive as its workers.Recruiting methods have evolved significantly in the last five years, and the use of technology in the advertising process is critical for employers to have a competitive edge. In this assessment, you will research and develop a PowerPoint presentation recommending an internet recruiting strategy.

        Overview

        For this assessment, assume you are a member of a recruiting department for a retail organization. You have been asked to research internet recruiting strategies and best practices of other successful organizations to create a strategy for your own organization.

        Planning

        The time it takes to complete an assessment can vary greatly. But it often takes longer than we think to explore the scope of a task, research it, write a draft, and then come back and revise it. Consider the following as rough guideposts for setting aside the time you need to do your work. You will want to adjust these as you learn more about your own pace and working style.
        • Research and reading: 4 hours.
        • Interactive activities: 30 minutes.
        • Writing: 6 hours.
        • Revising: 2 hours.

        Instructions

        Create a PowerPoint presentation with key bullet points and a paragraph in the Notes sections to address each of the following:
        • Identify two retail employers and links to their online job application portals, then:
          • Articulate the user-friendliness of the application process for the selected employer sites.
          • Compare the quality of the job information for each employer's site from an applicant's and an employer's point of view.
        • Select two general job search websites (for example, CareerBuilder, Indeed, SimplyHired, LinkedIn, Monster, et cetera) and:
          • Articulate the ease of use of the general job search sites from both an applicant's and an employer's perspective.
        • Select two social media websites (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, et cetera) and:
          • Articulate, from an employer's perspective, the benefits of social media sites to recruit highly qualified candidates.
        • Based on the information you found:
          • Articulate a recruiting strategy for a retail organization that includes justifications for the selected strategies.
            • Articulate the internet recruiting strategy you will suggest for your retail organization and justify your selections. Will your company have a jobs page linked to the website? Will you also use sites, such as LinkedIn or Indeed, to attract additional applicants? Will you use social media sites?
        • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
          • Be sure you communicate in a scholarly, professional manner that addresses the intended audience and is free of grammatical and mechanical errors.

        Submission Requirements

        Your presentation should meet the following requirements:
        • Written communication: Written communication is thoughtful and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
        • APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. See Evidence and APA.
        • Length of assessment: 10–12 PowerPoint slides with notes.
        • Communication: Understand the audience and communicate professionally.
        Refer to the assessment scoring guide to ensure that you meet all criteria. To earn full points for each criterion, be sure to note the details on what constitutes distinguished performance.

        Competencies Measured

        By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
        • Competency 1: Describe how hiring practices support an organization's strategy.
          • Compare the quality of the job information for each employer's site from both an applicant's and an employer's point of view.
          • Articulate, from an employer's perspective, the benefits of social media sites to recruit highly qualified candidates.
        • Competency 2: Assess approaches for recruiting, selecting, and retaining talent.
          • Articulate a recruiting strategy for a retail organization that includes justifications for the selected strategies.
        • Competency 3: Explore technology tools that support recruiting and staffing management.
          • Articulate the user-friendliness of the application process and for the selected employer sites.
          • Articulate the ease of use of the general job search sites from both an applicant's and an employer's perspective.
        • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional.
          • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
          WB 4045 PART E
        • Create and submit a 5–6 page report detailing a pre-employment screening process.Collapse All

          Introduction

          Through an effective recruiting strategy aimed at recruiting talent, employers will attract a candidate pool of highly qualified applicants. Next, employers must decide how to limit the candidate pool to begin the pre-employment process and ultimately select the top talent to hire. In this assessment, you will integrate effective strategies to create a recommended pre-employment screening process for a retail organization.

          Overview

          For this assessment, assume you are a HR professional and have been tasked with creating and reporting on a pre-employment screening process for a retail organization.

          Planning

          The time it takes to complete an assessment can vary greatly. But it often takes longer than we think to explore the scope of a task, research it, write a draft, and then come back and revise it. Consider the following as rough guideposts for setting aside the time you need to do your work. You will want to adjust these as you learn more about your own pace and working style.
          • Research and reading: 4 hours.
          • Interactive activities: 30 minutes.
          • Writing: 6 hours.
          • Revising: 2 hours.

          Instructions

          In a 5–6 page report, explain your pre-employment screening process. Include the following:
          • Examine how the initial candidate pool will be limited.
            • Examine the factors you will use to limit the initial applicant pool. For example, if you receive 200 resumes for an open position, what factors will you consider to determine which candidates will move to the next step in the process?
          • Explain why your selected type of interview is the best choice for a first interview.
            • Describe the type of interview you will conduct for your initial interview (telephone, Zoom, in-person), and substantiate why this is the best choice for the retail organization.
          • Examine pre-employment background checks and the sequence of use for screening candidates.
            • Determine which pre-employment candidate background checks will be required (Criminal Background checks, Drug Tests, Reference checks, et cetera).
            • Explain when the pre-employment candidate checks will be conducted during the pre-employment process.
          • Examine assessment methods that will be used to screen candidates and how they will be sequenced.
            • Explain which pre-employment assessments will be used (aptitude/skill assessments, et cetera).
            • Explain when the pre-employment assessments will be conducted.
          • Explain how technology impacts the selected assessment methods.
            • Explain how technology will impact the screening and selection methods you chose.
          • Articulate possible legal issues associated with screening candidates.
          • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
            • Be sure you communicate in a scholarly, professional manner that addresses the intended audience and is free of grammatical and mechanical errors.

          Submission Requirements

          Your report should meet the following requirements:
          • Written communication: Written communication is thoughtful and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
          • APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. See Evidence and APA.
          • Length of assessment: 5–6 typed, double-spaced pages.
          • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
          • Communication: Understand the audience and communicate professionally.
          Refer to the assessment scoring guide to ensure that you meet all criteria. To earn full points for each criterion, be sure to note the details on what constitutes distinguished performance.

          Competencies Measured

          By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
          • Competency 2: Assess approaches for recruiting, selecting, and retaining talent.
            • Examine how the initial candidate pool will be limited.
            • Explain why a selected type of interview is the best choice for a first interview.
            • Examine pre-employment background checks and the sequence of use for screening candidates.
            • Examine assessment methods that will be used to screen candidates and how they will be sequenced.
          • Competency 3: Explore technology tools that support recruiting and staffing management.
            • Explain how technology impacts the selected assessment methods.
          • Competency 4: Analyze the impact of legal and regulatory issues on staffing management.
            • Articulate possible legal issues associated with screening candidates.
          • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional.
            • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
            WB 4045 PART F
          • Develop and submit a 5–6 page plan for interviewing candidates for a sales position within a retail organization.Collapse All

            Introduction

            The candidate interview is an important component of the hiring process. To hire the most qualified candidates, HR professionals and hiring managers must understand how to conduct interviews effectively and be skilled with different interview methods. In this assessment, you will develop a plan for interviewing candidates for a sales position within a retail organization.

            Overview

            As an HR professional for a retail organization, you have been asked to develop a plan for interviewing candidates for a sales position within a retail organization. The hiring managers in the organization will be conducting the interviews.

            Planning

            The time it takes to complete an assessment can vary greatly. But it often takes longer than we think to explore the scope of a task, research it, write a draft, and then come back and revise it. Consider the following as rough guideposts for setting aside the time you need to do your work. You will want to adjust these as you learn more about your own pace and working style.
            • Research and reading: 4 hours.
            • Interactive activities: 30 minutes.
            • Writing: 6 hours.
            • Revising: 2 hours.

            Instructions

            Write a 5–6 page interview plan. In the plan:
            • Assess whether structured or unstructured interviews are the best option for the interview process.
              • Decide whether structured or unstructured interviews are the best option for your interview process. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of your selection.
            • Describe interview question styles to use during the interview process:
              • Behavioral questions (provide insight into how the candidate has dealt with specific situations in the past).
              • Situational (designed to see how a candidate thinks and reacts in certain situations).
              • Competency-based (designed to determine if a candidate possesses certain skills or attributes).
              • Or a combination of these three options.
            • Describe instructions hiring managers will be given to avoid illegal questions during the interview process.
              • Describe the instructions you will provide the hiring managers regarding illegal interview questions that they must avoid.
            • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
              • Be sure you communicate in a scholarly, professional manner that addresses the intended audience and is free of grammatical and mechanical errors.

            Submission Requirements

            • Written communication: Written communication is thoughtful and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
            • APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. See Evidence and APA.
            • Length of assessment: 5–6 typed, double-spaced pages.
            • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
            • Communication: Understand the audience and communicate professionally.
            Refer to the assessment scoring guide to ensure that you meet all criteria. To earn full points for each criterion, be sure to note the details on what constitutes distinguished performance.

            Competencies Measured

            By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
            • Competency 2: Assess approaches for recruiting, selecting, and retaining talent.
              • Assess whether structured or unstructured interviews are the best option for the interview process.
              • Describe interview question styles to use during the interview process.
            • Competency 4: Analyze the impact of legal and regulatory issues on staffing management.
              • Describe instructions hiring managers will be given to avoid illegal questions during the interview process.
            • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional.
              • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.
              WB 4045 PART G
            • Write and submit a 5–6 page paper on the value of employee retention and practices employers can use to improve their retention rates.Collapse All

              Introduction

              Organizations must take an active approach in retaining the employees they invested so much time, energy, and money to recruit. As part of this effort, they may also implement processes to understand the major reasons for employee turnover. In this assessment, you will write a paper on the value of employee retention and practices employers can use to improve their retention rates.

              Overview

              This assessment requires you to explore the importance of employee retention and reducing employee turnover and identify processes employers can implement to combat this time consuming and costly element of business.

              Planning

              The time it takes to complete an assessment can vary greatly. But it often takes longer than we think to explore the scope of a task, research it, write a draft, and then come back and revise it. Consider the following as rough guideposts for setting aside the time you need to do your work. You will want to adjust these as you learn more about your own pace and working style.
              • Research and reading: 4 hours.
              • Interactive activities: 30 minutes.
              • Writing: 6 hours.
              • Revising: 2 hours.

              Instructions

              Write a 5–6 page paper on the value of employee retention and practices employers can use to improve their retention rates. In your paper:
              • Describe how an effective onboarding process can help reduce employee turnover.
              • Describe the important elements of an effective New Hire Orientation.
              • Discuss the current national average of employee turnover.
              • Explain practices employers can implement to track employee turnover to better understand how to retain employees.
              • Describe the most important practices employers can implement to improve employee retention rates.
              • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.

              Submission Requirements

              • Written communication: Written communication is thoughtful and free of errors that detract from the overall message.
              • APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. See Evidence and APA.
              • Length of assessment: 5–6 typed, double-spaced pages.
              • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
              • Communication: Understand the audience and communicate professionally.
              Refer to the assessment scoring guide to ensure that you meet all criteria. To earn full points for each criterion, be sure to note the details on what constitutes distinguished performance.

              Competencies Measured

              By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
              • Competency 1: Describe how hiring practices support an organization's strategy.
                • Describe the important elements of an effective New Hire Orientation.
              • Competency 2: Assess approaches for recruiting, selecting, and retaining talent.
                • Describe how an effective onboarding process can help reduce employee turnover.
                • Discuss the current national average of employee turnover.
                • Describe the most important practices employers can implement to improve employee retention rates.
              • Competency 3: Explore technology tools that support recruiting and staffing management.
                • Explain practices employers can implement to track employee turnover to better understand how to retain employees.
              • Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional.
                • Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations of members of the human resources profession.