This version will include all revisions based on feedback from your instructor to the Executive Summary/Strategic Analysis, Section 1: Internally Consistent Job Structures, and Section 2: External Competitiveness. It should be prefaced with a 12-page historical perspective on compensation and close with a 12-page summary of how you used strategic approach, research, communication, analytical skills, and problem-solving to present a compensation package tailored for e-sonic. […]

Introduce yourself to your classmates by sharing something unique about your background. Explain how you expect this course will help you move forward in your current or future career. When a restaurant employee slipped onspilled soup and fell, requiring the evening off to recover, the owner realized that workplace safety was an issue to which she had not devoted much time. A friend warned the […]

Suicide and Active-Duty Military Personnel The rate of suicidal rates among the United States’s public has seen a tremendous increase in the past twenty years, albeit the case has been active among the military personnel and the post 9/11 war veterans, hence making suicidal rates higher among them and outpacing the average Americans (Suitt, 2021). Suicide underlies the second leading cause of death among the […]

Assignment 1: Self-Assessment, Leading Individual Change Due: Sunday, Midnight of Week 2 (15% of total course grade) Background Our course is organized around three core themes: (1) leading change in oneself, (2) leading change in teams, and (3) leading change in enterprise situations. Each of these will have an assignment that provides you with an opportunity to apply what you have been learning. This first […]

Statistics Studies have shown an increase in deaths by suicide by military personnel, yet nothing has been done about the issue as there is no quick fix for it. To begin with, by 2019, the number of military personnel deaths by suicide was 115, and by April-June 2020, the number increased to 128, representing an 11.3% increase (Losey, 2021). By the third quarter of 2020, […]

Work-Life BalanceFinancial Offering employees a work-life balance program is yet another way to gain employee engagement and also contain organizational costs related to employee absences and disengaged employees. The following companies can be analyzed to generate ideas for some work-life balance programs to implement in your organization: Google Kaiser Permanente Johnson and Johnson Keller Williams Realty Lockheed Martin Dell American Express Nike When employees are […]

Chronic Stress It underscores a prolonged and constant stress disorder that can negatively affect a person’s health if not treated. Its major causes are everyday traumatic situations and pressures from family and work. Simultaneously, chronic stress occurs when the body experience stressors with such intensity that the automatic nervous system may never have enough opportunity to system activate the relaxation response, thereby affecting all systems […]

Explain the difference between performance management and performance appraisals and discuss the components of a performance management process. How does performance management provide strategic value to the organization? Share an example of an employee performance goal that is aligned with an organizational performance need. Explain how performance feedback can be delivered to motivate employees and enhance performance. Discuss some strategies for managing poor performance and […]

Episodic Stress This type of stress occurs when a person experiences frequent acute stress. A person with episodic acute stress typically feels under pressure or has the feeling that things are usually going wrong, thereby exhausting them both mentally and physically. As per Columbia River Mental Health Services (2018), some of the symptoms of episodic stress disorder underlie rapid heartbeat, frequent panic attacks, digestive problems, […]

“With the additional responsibilities of being a strategic business partner, the modern HR function now faces greater pressure to make sound and impactful decisions. As a result, data-driven decisions have become an integral part of effective strategic HRM. To achieve strategic objectives and a competitive advantage, a growing number of organizations collect, analyze, and interpret data via HR information systems and HR analytics. More specifically, […]