Week-1

· Prompt 1 | The integrative project is a semester-long case study building on the material provided each week. Students should select an industry and create a name for a fictitious company.  Next, students should read as much as they can about the industry, its top performing companies, its growth outlook, and its current challenges and opportunities to be able to make decisions in setting up a human resource management function for the company. Students should describe what their company’s business strategy, competitive advantage, and talent philosophy will be as well as how they will position themselves to successfully compete in this industry. Students should apply the material provided in the PowerPoint documents, linking the business strategy to the human resource strategy for the organization.

· Prompt 2 |Think about and formalize the company’s position on social responsibility and ethics. Students should record their company’s formal statement about each. Students should describe the culture they would create at their company, explain why it is best suited to their company’s needs, and explain how it will contribute to its success.

· Prompt 3 Identify how diversity and inclusion can help their organizations execute their business strategies. Students should write a statement explaining their company’s approach to diversity and inclusion and identify how they will use different HR policies, media, and technologies to communicate and reinforce their approach with employees.

ANSWER FOR WEEK1

The success of XYZ Ltd relies on how effective the management has linked the business strategy to the human resource strategy of the organization (Armstrong & Brown,2019). The performance of the company has been affected recently due to the engagement of employees who are not qualified in various responsibilities within the organization. Furthermore, the recruitment strategy for the organization has not been aligned to its strategic objectives. The organization has been recruiting employees based on referrals by their friends already in the organization despite their incompetence in various roles.

The organizational growth has slowed for the last two years due to low productivity by the employees. Most of the employees in the company are not committed in their work, an aspect that has hindered the growth and development of the company. Lack of commitment has been attributed to the complexity of tasks experienced by most of the employees due to inadequate skills. The company should review its policies regarding recruitment and selection of the employees to ensure that only competent employees are inculcated in the workforce (Derindag & Canakci,2019).

The strategic objective of the company is to provide quality products to the clients hence the need for competent employees in the line of production. The talent philosophy for the company is to assign each employee tasks according to his or her skills and qualifications for adequate performance for the achievement of business objectives. The company should formulate effective advertisement strategies to increase its awareness to the potential clients regarding its existence. This would see the organization winning many clients achieve a competitive advantage over the others in the industry.

Week-2

Prompt 4 | Building on the work students have done so far, students should think about a job that is critical for their organization’s success. Do a mini competency analysis on the position, considering the company’s business strategy and competitive advantage. Do some research online and write a job description that would attract a job seeker who would be a great fit with that position.

Prompt 5 | Students continue with the same job they analyzed to develop a sourcing and recruiting strategy to locate and attract high potential applicants. Students should identify three recruiting sources that they feel would be effective and then create a job posting that could appear on the career site to interest high potential recruits for the position.

Prompt 6 | Students continue working on their project from the prior chapters. They now focus on developing a selection plan and job offer strategy for their chosen job. Students explain the assessment methods and scoring system used make the hiring decision. Students then write a job offer letter to the candidate that presents a valid job offer and attempts to persuade the candidate to accept.

Week-3

· Prompt 7 | Students continue working on their organization to describe the onboarding and socialization experience they would create for new hires in the position used from the Training and Development PowerPoint in Canvas.

· Prompt 8 | Students use the same job they chose previously and describe the performance management system they would establish to best align the goals of employees in that job with organizational goals and values. Also, students create a performance appraisal form for the job and explain why their choice is most appropriate given the goals of the appraisal.

Week4

 Prompt 9 | Students use the same job they used previously and describe the base compensation for the position. Describe the process used to make the decision. Use at least three of the web resources from Table 9-1.

 Prompt 10 | Students should describe the incentive pay system they would establish for this position. Explain the objectives for the incentive system as well as the pay mix for the job and how differentiated the rewards would be.

 Prompt 11 | Using the same job from the previous chapters, students describe the employee benefits package they would offer for the position. Students should explain their objectives for their employee benefits and why their recommendations are likely to be effective. Students should consider if the benefits are the same for everyone or if employees are able to choose some of their benefits.

WEEK-5

· Prompt 12 | Students use the same job they used for the previous chapter and describe what they would do to create a healthy work environment for employees in this position.

· Prompt 13 | Students develop a strategy to promote positive labor-management relations in their organization. Determine if you want to encourage unionization or try to prevent it and identify strategies to accomplish your goal.

· Prompt 14 | Using the same job you used for the previous chapter, create a retention plan for employees based on their job performance. Be sure to address if and how you will manage different performance levels differently and what actions you will take to maximize employee engagement.