devry mgmt410 week 5 ,6 and week 7 discussion

What are the different performance appraisal methods? Pick two: the one you find to be MOST effective (and tell us why) and the one you find to be LEAST effective (and tell us why).

For the most effective, explain how it is effective in doing the following:

• providing fair and reliable ways of differentiating employees;
• targeting and rewarding those who most deserve it;
• setting forth a fair and cost-effective plan for compensation; and
• motivating and ensuring performance of employees.

Compare and contrast the following methods of job evaluation: ranking, classification, factor comparison, and point method. Which of these do you feel is most useful and why?

week 6

Who would have thought that OSHA and the IRS would be discussed in the same discussion topic of an HRM course? This topic will be a bit foundational, but also without as much precedential information as normal. First, we’ll start with OSHA. Visit the OSHA website at www.osha.org. Then, click on “More News” under the latest news area (http://www.osha.gov/newsrelease.html). Find your region and click the link. Review a recent news item about an OSHA violation from your region/area. Post a summary of the violation, the resulting fine (if any), the violation type (if provided), and what the company did wrong to cause the violation. Provide ideas for preventing such an accident or injury in the future, and the link to your news release.

More questions will follow!

Read the Application Case: STRIKING FOR BENEFITS at the end of Chapter 13. We will begin with the first question in that case and move from there while we discuss benefits, perks, employee motivation, and retention.

week 7

Employee engagement has become popular in HRM these days. Measuring it and determining whether a company’s employees are “engaged” are actually vendor services for which companies pay through the use of anonymous surveying tools. The science behind employee engagement is not yet perfected—there are many different ways that employers can help their employees get engaged! We’ll talk about this throughout the week and your professor will bring in additional questions and thoughts. To get started, please do this: Provide your definition of employee engagement. Support your definition using a citation from a website, the textbook, or a scholarly article from the DeVry Online Library. Give one example of how you have been engaged in a job in the past, and how your employer assisted you in being engaged.

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Read the Application Case, Negotiation With the Writers Guild of America, at the end of Chapter 15. To start, answer Question 1 in the case. We will move through the case with more questions, and discuss more of the issues involved with the union issues.