Question description
Module 4 – SLP
Workplace Relations, Value Creation, and the Future
(Signature Assignment: Oral Communications, Reinforced
Level)
In this SLP 4 assignment you are the top human resources
manager in your retail organization. You are responsible for your
organization’s human resource function with HRM offices in locations all over
the world.
You have just received an email from your boss (the CEO). He
wants you to help turn around the organization’s anti-union culture. He has
asked you to prepare a slide presentation (10-15 slides) with notes at the
bottom that he (the CEO) will give to his top management staff next week. In
the presentation he wants to explain why it is important for all managers and
supervisors to stop with their narrow anti-union mentality and instead keep
unions out by building workplace relations and employee engagement. Remaining
union-free is still your organization’s goal, but there needs to be more
emphasis on strengthening workplace relations and employee engagement. Your
boss wants you to email him the slides “today if possible, and tomorrow at the
latest.”
You are currently sitting in an airport in Paris with a
10-hour delay. It is a good time to write and send in this presentation. You
have prepared slides and notes for your boss before. He wants appealing slides
with attached, meaningful notes so that he doesn’t need to add content.
Any references utilized for this assignment should be
included in a “List of References,” using APA format. Please upload your
presentation by the Module due date.
You may want to view a humorous video with good ideas for
preparing slides:
McMillan, Don (2012). Life after death by PowerPoint.
Retrieved from
Oral Communications Emphasis
As you may recall in HRM520 SLP for Module 1 emphasis was
placed on the first step to building oral communications skills—deciding what
to cover.
Now at this “reinforced” level, the HRM522 4 SLP takes oral
communications a step further by working on your slide presentation skills.
And, finally, in HRM 599 (Integrative Capstone) your oral
communications skills will be further developed. In Module 3 Case in HRM599 you
will complete an audio presentation component to bring your final speech
outline and slide presentation alive.
These three assignments build upon each other and aim to
offer you the opportunity to enhance and practice your oral communications
preparation and delivery skills.
The grading rubric MBA/MSHRM Oral Communication has been
developed to measure student success in meeting the HRM522 SLP 4 expectations
related to oral communications. Rubrics for the other two courses are included
in their respective oral communications assignments.
Assignment Expectations
Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis of the relevant
issues and HRM actions, drawing on your background reading and research.
Information Literacy: Evaluate resources and select only
library/web-based resources that provide reliable, substantiated information.
Give authors credit for their work. Cite sources of borrowed
information in the body of your text as footnotes or numbered end notes, or use
APA style of referencing.
Prepare a slide presentation (and accompanying notes) that
are professionally prepared. Proofread carefully for grammar, spelling, and
word-usage errors.
Visit Trident’s Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality
Academic Paper for instruction on writing papers, citing sources, proper
referencing, and so forth.
