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Assignment 3: Dismissal Meeting
Due Week 6 and worth 150 points
Imagine that you are an office manager and you have been tasked with the job of coordinating and heading the dismissal meeting for an employee layoff.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.
- Describe a step-by-step process of conducting the dismissal meeting.
- Determine the compensation that the fictitious company may provide to the separated employee.
- Using Microsoft Word or an equivalent such as OpenOffice, create a chart that depicts the timeline of the disbursement of the compensation.
- Predict three (3) ways that this layoff may affect the company.
- 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:
- Formulate HRM strategies and policies to recruit, select, place, and retain the most efficient and effective workforce.
- Develop effective talent management strategies to recruit and select employees.
- Design processes to manage employee performance, retention, and separation.
- Analyze laws governing employment and how organizations can ensure ethical practices.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic human resource development.
- Write clearly and concisely about strategic human resource development using proper writing mechanics.
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Dismissal Meeting - Outline
Thesis statement: A dismissal meeting is one of the hardest tasks a manager can handle. There
is need to manage the whole process properly to avoid negative emotions by the victim
employees as well as the reputation of the factious company.
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Ways of minimizing negative emotions
A. Compensation of the employees
B. Prior communication
C. Fairness in the dismissal process
II.
Steps of the dismissal meeting
A. Respect for employees
B. Privacy meeting
C. Independent officer as witness
D. Discussion of termination benefits
E. Retrieval of personal items by the employees
F. Gathering of company’s items from employees
G. Allow employees leave the workplace
H. Document all details regarding the dismissal
III.
Compensation benefits that the company can provide to the employees
A. Severance benefits
B. Unemployment benefits
C. Compensation benefits
D. Payment of unpaid salaries
IV.
Ways in which the layoff may affect the organization
A. Cost cutting
B. Low productivity
C. Loss of customer loyalty and confidence
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Introduction
Employee termination is the process by which employment contracts are terminated.
In most cases, termination of employees occurs due to employee failure in his/her duties, but
in this case, neither of such reasons may be the cause of the termination. It is always a hard
decision for managers to make and a hard borne for employees to crush. Employees are
terminated from working for an organization having done no wrong. An organization may
carry out the employee layoff process due to a couple of reasons. Some of the reasons may
include overstaffing, poor forecasting on human resource, and increased labor cost among
other reasons. It is not the will of the employer neither is it the will of the employee, and it
happens when the organization has no choice. The process is stressful for both parties, and
therefore, the employers must handle every step of the process with great care to minimize
the adverse effects the process may have a reputation of the organization as well as the victim
employees.
Ways in which the Employer can Minimize the Negative Emotions as a Result of
Employee Layoff
As mentioned earlier, this process is stressful to both the employee and the employer.
However, the employer can try to minimize the adverse effects through adopting various
strategies. The first one is compensating the employee to the extent, which the organization
can afford. Many times, organizations will lay off their employees at the extent...
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