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Assignment 3: Human Resources Planning and Employee Relations
Due Week 10 and worth 360 points
Building on the work that you completed in Assignment 2, continue evaluating the role of functions HR in creating a set of Human Resources’ policies and procedures for the acute care hospital.
Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
- Explain the importance of maintaining accurate and objective employee records, indicating the consequences that may result from lack of record keeping. Provide support for your rationale.
- Provide an example of formal and an example of informal documentation that would normally be maintained in an employee file, indicating how each is likely to protect an employer.
- Determine the most significant factor that will ensure an effective legal termination, indicating the most likely way employees can protect themselves from termination in a downsizing situation. Provide support for your rationale.
- Analyze two (2) major challenges that today’s health care leaders face in trying to uphold the ethics of critique, justice, and caring, indicating how managers can balance the need for ethics with employee and organizational needs.
- Create a detailed outline of an effective succession planning process that will help ensure a smooth transition as members of the management team at your organization begin to retire. (The plan should prescribe, at a minimum, how to identify employees for advancement, training and development programs, mentorships, and a timeline for preparing leaders for their role.)
- From both a management and employee perspective, justify or dispute unionization. Provide support for your rationale.
- Suggest the best way in which HR can continue to be an effective strategic partner in helping this organization achieve its future goals. Provide support for your rationale.
- 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:
- Analyze the unique aspects of managing human resources in health care organizations.
- Demonstrate the importance of HR as a strategic partner in health care organizations.
- Analyze the impact of labor unions on the health care industry.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services human resource management.
- Write clearly and concisely about health services human resource management using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Avoid writing in first person (I), first person plural (we or us), and second person (you or your).
Use APA headings to identify each section as you write, for example:
Keeping Accurate Employee Files
Types of Documentation
Cite your research sources in the body of your paper. Check your Safe Assign score and make sure it’s well below 50%.
Follow APA rules for formatting pages, headings, and citation
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Importance of Keeping Accurate and Objective Employee Records
Keeping correct and unbiased employee data is an important part of human resources.
The information is reflected in the best act of keeping perfect records and also a federal law of
maintaining specific worker records. The national government commands the type of documents
one should keep and for what duration should they be kept. The same occupation chances orders
that organizations maintain employee curriculum vitae, employment applications, housing
requests, advancements or devaluations, and the performance assessments for not less than one
year (Morris, 2014). The Fair Labor Standards Act entails that all details concerning payments
which involve working overtime, reward, increment or reduction in pay which should be retained
for not less than three years. Ant tax associated with compensations should be kept for four
years. The Immigration Reform and Control Act orders that all new employees fill out a specific
form which must be reserved for three years or one year after separation contingent on which
occurs first.
Organizations should also keep worker documents comprising of discipline information,
worker training and others such as licensure or qualifications workers hold. All of these
documents must be retained in different files. These files normally have personal information in
documents like employment application, curriculum vitae, advancements, and devaluations. The
firm should maintain medical documents in a place they can be accessed easily. The medical
documents comprise of any serious medical illnesses, allergies and the person who should be
notified immediately in case emergency. If the records are mishandled and not maintained in an
orderly manner, the national government can sue the firm. The workers also have a right to file
claims against the firm for unlawful termination, unsafe working conditions, or for
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discrimination. To adequately prevent such complaints the documents must be kept and
preserved perfectly and also quantitatively.
Example of Formal and Informal Documentation
Formal documentation comprises of curriculum vitae, letters employment applications
background analysis and discipline recommendations. The document is usually ascertained by
the worker and the...