Overview
HR’s most important role is to be in compliance with federal, state and local laws, regarding an organization’s employment practices and procedures. Not following these laws will leave an organization vulnerable to lawsuits and other potential legal issues, the last thing any business owner needs. To that end, well-written HRM policies and procedures will cover applicable laws, as well as items that are specific to an organization’s culture and industry. As emerging HR leaders, your Capstone Project assignment is to conduct a SWOT Analysis of OAK POINT’s HR Policies and employment practices. Moreover, your role is to evaluate OAK POINT’s employment practices by assessing the internal strengths, weaknesses, external opportunities, and threats of its HR Manual and related human resources practices by applying the HR concepts, readings and laws discussed in this course as well as literature from other applicable resources. The results of your SWOT Analysis will demonstrate your ability to identify an area within the organization that could be improved upon by modifying the human resource practice. For example, you may believe there is not a documented HR policy that addresses Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the organization. If so, as a practitioner, it is your responsibility to determine what the organization needs to do to improve upon that HR practice.