Discussion questions

These are discussion questions for online class.

"Best Practices and Strategies" Please respond to the following:

• From the video, determine the Fruit Guys business strategy. Identify three other businesses that could use the five questions the Fruit Guys used to determine effectiveness and identify three businesses in which the business strategy would not work well. Provide a rationale for your answer.
• http://www.cengage.com/management/webtutor/denisi_hr/video/ch04.html
• From the e-Activity,( Pick an organization with which you have familiarity. Then do a competitive environmental scan for that organization.) assess how the competitive environment for the company you researched affects the HR function for the organization. Determine which strategy would be best suited to address the effects discussed.

"Improvement and Evaluation" Please respond to the following:

• Assign a grade to your current or former employer’s HR function. Provide a justification for the grade. Then, analyze two improvements that could be implemented quickly (within 3 months’ time) that would raise the grade you assigned.
• Assess the challenges of effectively evaluating the human resources function and steps you could take to address those challenges.