Demonstrate the importance of HR as a strategic partner in health care organizations.

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Assignment 3: Human Resources Planning and Employee Relations

Due Week 10 and worth 360 points

Building on the work that you completed in Assignment 2, continue evaluating the role of functions HR in creating a set of Human Resources’ policies and procedures for the acute care hospital.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

  1. Explain the importance of maintaining accurate and objective employee records, indicating the consequences that may result from lack of record keeping. Provide support for your rationale.
  2. Provide an example of formal and an example of informal documentation that would normally be maintained in an employee file, indicating how each is likely to protect an employer.
  3. Determine the most significant factor that will ensure an effective legal termination, indicating the most likely way employees can protect themselves from termination in a downsizing situation. Provide support for your rationale.
  4. Analyze two (2) major challenges that today’s health care leaders face in trying to uphold the ethics of critique, justice, and caring, indicating how managers can balance the need for ethics with employee and organizational needs.
  5. Create a detailed outline of an effective succession planning process that will help ensure a smooth transition as members of the management team at your organization begin to retire. (The plan should prescribe, at a minimum, how to identify employees for advancement, training and development programs, mentorships, and a timeline for preparing leaders for their role.)
  6. From both a management and employee perspective, justify or dispute unionization. Provide support for your rationale.
  7. Suggest the best way in which HR can continue to be an effective strategic partner in helping this organization achieve its future goals. Provide support for your rationale.
  8. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources in health care organizations.
  • Demonstrate the importance of HR as a strategic partner in health care organizations.
  • Analyze the impact of labor unions on the health care industry.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health services human resource management using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Research a recent article on the organization that is related to their current and/or future CSR activities.

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Using the Fortune 100 List (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., choose an organization that has their corporate social responsibility (CSR) statement, vision, and mission statements available on their website.

  • Quote the statement and describe what this means in your own words
  • Research a recent article on the organization that is related to their current and/or future CSR activities.
  • Describe how the new plans will affect the organization, both internally and externally.
  • Develop an idea for a new CSR endeavor for the organization based on the organization’s mission and vision.

The paper

  • Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    •  Title of paper
    •  Student’s name
    •  Course name and number
    •  Instructor’s name
    •  Date submitted
  • Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text and the article by Snider, Hill, and Martin (2003).
  • Must document all sources APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must end with a conclusion that clearly summarizes what was presented in the paper.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Daoism and Confucianism Forum Responses

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Daoism and Confucianism Forum Responses (“Class Participation”) – Post by Friday, February 1st

Instructions: Below you will find TWO reading selections from two important texts in Chinese religion and philosophy: the Confucian Analects (the recorded conversations between Confucius and his students) and the Zhuangzi (an important text in Daoism).

Choose ONE of the readings selections below and then write a forum post of at least 100 words.

Then, respond to a classmates’s forum post with a response of at least 100 words.

Make sure to identify which reading selection you are analyzing in your forum post, 1 or 2.  For example, if you decide to analyze reading selection 2, then write “Response to reading selection 2” at the beginning of your response post in this forum.

Complete the post and response by Friday, February 1st.

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Reading selection # 1:

Analyze the Confucian sayings on the idea of virtuous leadership and political rule (from the Analects)

2.1 – The Master said: When one rules by means of virtue it is like the North Star – it dwells in its place and the other stars pay reverence to it.

2.3 – The Master said: Guide them with policies and align them with punishments and the people will evade them and have no shame. Guide them with virtue and align them with li and the people will have a sense of shame and fulfill their roles.

Question to answer in your discussion post: How do you think the political philosophy expressed in this Confucian saying differs (in a broad, general sense) from American political philosophy? Do you think we could benefit from any of the Confucian concepts of virtuous leadership in the US now?  If so, what aspects?

Reading selection # 2:

Analyze “Monkey Mountain” (a story/riddle from the Daoist text Zhuangzi)

The Prince of Wu took a boat to Monkey Mountain. As soon as the monkeys saw him they all fled in panic and hid in the treetops.

One monkey, however, remained, completely unconcerned, swinging from branch to branch – an extraordinary display.

The prince shot an arrow at the monkey,  but the monkey dexterously caught the arrow in midflight.

At this the prince ordered his attendants to make a concerted attack. In an instant the monkey was shot full of arrows and fell dead.

Then the prince turned to his companion Yen Pu’i, “You see what happened? This animal advertised his cleverness. He trusted his own skill. He thought no one could touch him. Remember that! Do not rely on distinction and talent when you deal with men!”

When they returned home,  Yen Pu’i became a disciple of a sage to get rid of everything that made him outstanding. He renounced every pleasure. He learned to hide every distinction.

Soon no one in the kingdom knew what to make of him. Thus they held him in awe.

Question to answer in your discussion post: What type of person or character does the monkey represent and why do you think he dies?  What error does he make? What Daoist virtues does this story promote as the worthiest of virtues?  (See in particular Young’s discussion on “The Worldview of Daoist Philosophy” beginning on p. 126)  How do these Daoist virtues compare and contrast with the highest virtues in our own society?

Practical Application Of Research Skills

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Read the article I have attached  “Adult Education and the Social Media Revolution,”. Pay particular attention to the references these authors make to the works of others. Every citation within this article is essentially a head nod to other authors who have written about the same or similar topics. Were they all in the same room, you could imagine the authors of this article pointing to or calling out those other authors while speaking. This is what we mean when we refer to research and writing as one big conversation, with all of the participants listening and responding to one another.

In a discussion post, point to an example from this article and explain how the authors do one of the following:

  • refer to another work in order to give legitimacy to their own point;
  • refer to another work in order to build upon the ideas of others; or
  • refer to another work in order to challenge that work.

If you select “refer to another work in order to give legitimacy to their own point,” first describe what the authors’ point is, then describe how the cited article supports that point.

If you select “refer to another work in order to build upon the ideas of others,” first describe what the ideas are, then describe how the authors build upon those ideas.

If you select “refer to another work in order to challenge that work”, first describe what is being challenged, then describe how the authors are challenging the cited work.

Then, give an example from your own life in which you rely upon the work of others to complete a task or accomplish a goal. (This example might be from your workplace, community, or academic life.)

Post identifies examples from both the text and the student’s life and fully explains the significance of these examples within the stated context