Due Week 3 and worth 200 points
You made it! You received your master’s degree in Human Resource
Management, and now it’s time for you to start seeking career opportunities. At
this point, you may be a little confused as to what areas you should focus on in
HR since your experience may be limited. Imagine that a friend shares with you
that he/she has a small but rapidly growing business which is in need of an HR
department. He has asked you to be the HR Manager. Your friend mentioned that
he / she previously worked with an HR consultant, but now has close to 100
employees with no definite, dedicated HR department, and really needs your
assistance. Although you are nervous, you realize that it’s now time for you to
show your skills and put all your years of studying into action.
Select an existing small company in an industry you are familiar with to be
the basis of the small business in this case. Review the company’s structure,
culture, business strategy, mission, and vision.
Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
1.
Provide a brief
summary, in your own words, of your selected company’s overall business
strategy. Next, determine the direction you visualize the company growing
within the next five (5) to ten (10) years. Hint: Review the common business strategies ofCost Leadership,
Differentiation andFocus orNiche on p. 50 of your text.
2.
Design a human
resource management strategy to support your selected company’s business
strategy. Explain the competitive advantage of your HRM strategy.Hint: Review the following common human resource
management strategies ofLoyal Soldier, Bargain Laborer, Committed Expert andFree Agent from previous courses.
3.
Develop an HR
Scorecard table for your selected company. Include the four (4) dimensions
(i.e., financial, customer service, internal process, and learning / growth /
sustainability). Next, assess the value of your proposal to the small business
in each of these dimensions. Hint: Review the video titled “Building the
Human Resources Performance Measurement Scorecard” (4 min 1 s) located at for additional
guidance in creating an HR Scorecard.
4.
Use at least
three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment from within the past
five (5) years.Note:
Wikipedia does not qualify as an academic resource.
5.
Format your
assignment according to these formatting requirements:
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Be typed, double
spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all
sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
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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 is not
included in the required page length.
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Include a
reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference
page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
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Assess the
strategic role of human resource management and the components that provide a
competitive advantage to the organization.
·
Determine the
human resource management function of human resource planning and its
importance to business strategy.
·
Develop work
designs that support the human resources strategy.
·
Use technology
and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
·
Write clearly and
concisely about 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 followingrubric.
