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HR353 Intro to Human Resources Management

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Research Paper Requirements:

  • Be sure you include 4 topics/learning objectives to research. You may include your research review topic from Unit 4.
  • This is a 300-level (junior level) class ~~ I expect at least 300-level (junior level) work. You will be graded on what you submit (see grading rubric).
  • At least 75% of the verbiage in your offering for each topic must be in your own words.
    • Up to 25% can be the words of others taken from either the text or from the articles you used in support of your offering.
    • Any verbiage presented in your offering that is not properly cited or given appropriate credit will be deemed as you presenting those words as your own.
    • You may paraphrase (which is taking the words of others and restating them in your own words – see Online Writing Lab (OWL), or you may quote the words of others as long as you give proper credit (see APA Style Website). Be careful not to plagiarize, which is using the words of others and presenting them as your own.
  • Word document
    • Assignments must be uploaded as a single file attachment (no multiple files will be accepted). I will be able to accept any file saved in Rich Text Format (.rtf) format or Word doc format.
    • The paper should be approximately 7 pages in length, in total, excluding the cover page. All 4 topics should be approximately 1.5 to 2 pages in length. Paper settings should be 12 point font, double-spaced, with one inch margins.
    • Each new topic/core learning objective should be clearly noted. For example, you might bold and underline a new topic you begin to discuss.
  • References
    • Each new topic/core learning objective review should contain at least two to three appropriate quotes and citations.
    • When writing your papers, be sure to include applicable excerpts from the article (in quotes and referenced) that you use in support of your statements.
    • References should be listed at the end of each topic.
  • Instructions

    1. Choose four of the following topics to review
      1. Explain how a firm's human resources influence organizational performance.
        • Provides a very thorough, in-depth explanation of how human resources are the main way organizations perform, including examples from actual organizations.
      2. Describe how firms can use HR initiatives to cope with workplace changes and trends such as a more diverse workforce, the global economy, downsizing, and new legislation.
        • Creates and thoroughly describes situations and examples as well as identification of the HR initiatives to respond to workplace changes including diversity, globalization, and downsizing.
      3. Explain why employees join unions.
        • Submits a thorough explanation of more three reasons employees join unions and examples to support each reason.
      4. Define “human resource management.”
        • Defines “human resource management” with an in-depth explanation of the relation between HRM and the other organizational functions, and examples to support the definition and explanation.
      5. Explain why compliance with HR law is an important part of doing business.
        • Submits a thorough explanation of all aspects of HR law compliance and supports the explanation with examples.
      6. Describe the process of job analysis, components of a job description, and those of a job specification.
        • Provides a thorough, complete description and explains the relation between the three activities, the risks, and the positive outcomes of processes.
      7. Explain how a firm's human resources influence organization performance.
        • Shows an extensive description and explanation which may include some historical and future impacts of HR in how it provides support to a strategic management directive that equates to organizational success.
      8. List the factors influencing worker motivation that are under managers' control
        • Submits a thorough explanation of more than three influences managers can control to support worker motivation. This should also provide some motivational theories and or strategies used in organizations today.
    2. Show evidence of your research by providing research of at least three resources per topic or core learning objective. Remember to include the one topic from Unit 4 when you completed the Research Review. Again, that means you are now providing research on 4 of the core learning objectives related to this course for your final paper.


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THIS IS A SAMPLE RESEARCH REVIEW FORMAT THAT CAN BE USED FOR BOTH THE RESEARCH REVIEW AND THE RESEARCH PROJECT. THIS IS A SAMPLE DO NOT COPY OR USE FOR YOUR RESEARCH REVIEW AND THE FINAL PAPER for Format Purposes. Dating back as far as 1866 (when the National Labor Union was founded (AFL-CIO, 2010)), workers in America seek to unions as a way to handle the complaints they have against management. But why do employees join unions? One of the main reasons I perceive, is that employees seek out unions for overall fairness. When we feel like our bosses are being unfair we can turn to a union representative, explain our complaint and they will handle it for us. It’s an edge up. A tool in our handbags to assist in the fight. A human resources text dived into this particular issue in a publication in 2005. They stated that that there are three main reasons an employee will join a union. Dissatisfaction, lack of power and union instrumentality were listed. (Aswathappa, 2005) Fairness, as my assessment perceives, was not on this list however Aswathappa says “Employees seek union membership to improve work situation. Employees believe unionization fetches them power, power interned is believed to remove dissatisfaction. Employees join unions as instruments to remove dissatisfaction.” I found this most fascinating because I believe it is a power and control issue on some level. The text explains that the original reasons we saw unions form was because of inhuman work conditions, work hours, horrible pay and even hiring and firing tactics. The employees felt they had no power over the situation when the paycheck was life or death to their struggling families. They explain that unions started out fighting for economic type issues: wage rates, life and health insurance and job security. Today we are seeing unions continue with those roles but also take up empowerment participation, productivity, competitive advantage issues and the like. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States. In wanting to fully understand what the employee gets out of being in a union the AFL-CIO has listed many statistics representative of the US Labor Department data. The following data is based on weekly earned income between union workers and non-union workers. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014) According to the AFL-CIO not only are wages hire for union members across gender and ethnicity, the amount of sick leave earned, guaranteed pension plans and job-related health insurance are all leaps and bounds higher than those of nonunion status. (US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015) So these statistics tell me that there are a lot of benefits to joining unions. Of course, unions require regular dues and/or fees from its members, but it seems to me that the benefits are overall worthy. The AFL-CIO will assist workers in areas where there are no unions in creating on for themselves. Exactly how to form, how to run elections and meetings and all other pertinent data can be found on their website. (AFL-CIO, 2016) I mentioned fairness at the beginning of the paper as an issue that I felt was at the core of exploring why employees join unions. In exploring statistical data created in a Farber-Saks model using demographics such as race, job specialty, job security, promotion and attitude toward promotion as variables, D. W. Snyder deduces the following: “Workers who experience favoritism or discrimination do not necessarily vote for unionization but workers who believe unions protect against unfair supervisors do tend to favor unionization. Apparently, it is not the worker’s personal situation which is decisive but rather his or her own perception of whether a union is likely to alter that situation.” (Snyder, 1983) Snyder also points out that when workers perceive themselves in line for a promotion they are less likely to stay with or join a union around that time period. They believe that it makes management positively view them over other unionized competition. Taking aside certain job specialties like teachers or miners for example, just looking at union members vs. nonunion members, Snyder was able to see that across the board it was specific issues that workers had and most importantly, maybe didn’t even experience, only perceive them as issues. Almost like “would-be” issues. I asked around at Hill Air Force Base (AFB) in Utah to Federal employees I knew were a part of the union and was surprised to hear many say they joined out of loyalty. They joined because of the things the union had done for the workers prior to even their own hire. (Partington, 2016) Captain Partington of Hill AFB Fire Department explained that years prior the union he was a part of fought long and hard for the Fire Fighters’ Pay Bill (United States Office of Personnel Management, 2001) that they were currently under which regulated all of the hours, overtime, sick time and leave the firefighters were to receive. “Without this bill we would not be paid extra for the 32 hours a week we work in overtime when working our concurrent 48 hour shifts.” Although Captain Partington had never used his union to help him fight for anything in the past 12 years with the department he still felt loyalty and paid his monthly dues without question. This shows what Snyder concluded. That perceived fairness, perceived issue solutions and basically knowing the union is there is what truly draws employees to join a union. I believe that employees all throughout the world join unions for the ultimate ability to have fair labor practices throughout all they do daily. Whether we label that as pay, benefits, equal opportunity, promotion potential, safe work conditions or fairness in and of itself, employees have decided they have a right be heard. The power no longer can lie solely with the employer. Not if the employers want a stable, reliable workforce. Having a union to support you when and if you need it is very important to the majority of today’s workforce. And like we saw from the Captain of the Fire Department, they may never actually use it, but knowing it’s there helps employees to sleep better at night. References AFL-CIO. (2010). AFL-CIO America's Union. Retrieved from Labor History Timeline: http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Labor-History-Timeline AFL-CIO. (2016). AFL-CIO America's Unions. Retrieved from http://www.aflcio.org/ Aswathappa, K. (2005). Human Resource and Personnel Management. Whitby: Tata McGrawHill Education. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2014). AFL-CIO America's Unions. Retrieved from http://www.aflcio.org/Learn-About-Unions/What-Unions-Do/The-Union-Difference Partington, H. (2016, February 1). Why Did You Join Your Union? (R. C. Partington, Interviewer) Snyder, D. W. (1983). The Decision to Join a Union. Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business, 3-21. United States Office of Personnel Management. (2001). Firefighter Pay Reform Act, PL 105277. Pentagon: Benefits Officers Resource Center. US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2015). The Union Difference. http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/90691/2393381/version/2/file/UnionDifference_June20 15.pdf: AFL-CIO.
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