31 Jan Review of employment

WEEK 7 COURSE PROJECT

Objective

For the Course Project, each student is to prepare a course paper, approximately 12–15 pages in length (excluding appendices), on a topic related to the theme of strategic staffing. Within this broad theme, the course paper is intended to be an opportunity to explore, in some depth, a topic related to the course that is of specific significance to you.

Deadlines

Week 2: Write a short (no more than one page) paper describing your selected topic and submit it for grading.

Week 7: The Course Project is due. All information for this assignment is found on this page.

Remember to submit your assignment for grading when finished.

Best Practices

Avoid any type of plagiarism. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to make sure all quotes, ideas, or conclusions not your own are given proper acknowledgment in your text.

Plagiarism in its purest form involves copying passages either verbatim or nearly verbatim, with no direct acknowledgment of the source.

Paraphrasing does not relieve you of the obligation to provide proper identification of source data.

All references must be cited in two places: within the body of your paper and on a separate reference list. Choose references judiciously and cite them accurately.

Use the APA style guide.

Please do not select the same topics that you used to create the previous two assignments for this course.

Take the perspective of an HR business partner when writing this assignment.

Be sure to proofread your work.

Take a research approach to writing this paper, but have practical recommendations.

Structure the paper using the grading rubric categories: Approach, Focus, and so on.

Sample Topics

A list of example topics for course papers is provided below to provide some ideas. However, these are examples only. Please feel free to consider other staffing-related topics that are of interest to you.

Alignment of strategic staffing strategies with the organization’s strategic requirements

Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods: time, cost, quality, and retention

Effects of utilizing realistic job previews (RJP) on employee selection, performance, and retention

Review of recent developments in job analysis

Practical strategies to implement a flexible workforce model

Review of employment laws and court cases in selection testing and assessment

Defining the new careers of the 21st century and implications for staffing strategies

Requirements and implementation strategies for a human resource information system (HRIS)

Practical strategies to fully engage the entire management team in strategic forecasting and planning

Unique considerations and approaches in developing protected-class employees to become future managers in the organization

Explanation of all the costs related to recruiting: creation of a sample budget for recruiting

Update of most recent employment laws and court cases