Human Resource Management Foundations

Performance Management

1. From the scenario, propose two (2) approaches that a company can use to leverage a 360-degree performance appraisal system to evaluate individual performance. Support your answer with examples. Select the two (2) methods that you believe are the most effective for measuring employee performance, and provide justification and support for your selection.

2. Go to TLNT’s website to read the article titled “The Top 50 Problems with Performance Appraisals”, determine two (2) advantages to providing timely performance feedback to employees. Introduce two (2) examples of possible repercussions of not providing employees with performance feedback in a timely manner.
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Employee Development and Psychological Tests

3. From the scenario and the video titled “HR Management: Job Descriptions and Job Analysis” Video Source: Bareham, S. (Oct. 21, 2012). HR Management: Job Description & Job Analysis [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51xgYK9PTKY, examine two (2) areas in which the 60 percent participation rate of women in the workforce has impacted organizations in America. Predict two (2) changes that will occur in the next five (5) years in relation to this participation rate.

4. Read the article titled, “Women in the Workforce: What Changes Have We Made?,” located at https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mehroz-baig/women-in-the-workforce-wh_b_4462455.html, recommend the psychological test that you believe is most appropriate for selecting the right candidate for a management position within an organization for which you have worked or with which you are familiar. Justify your recommendation.

5. Use the Internet to research a psychological test (such as IPIP-NEO Personality Test or the Kolbe Index) that may be used in employee development to identify individual preferences, ways of decision making, means of gathering information, etc.

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Employee Pay

6. Go to Salary.com’s website and use its U.S. Salary Wizard to compare the salary for the same job in two different areas of the country. Try to select areas of the country that will yield varied salaries for the same job. Use the Internet to research possible reasons for the discrepancy in pay; compare the salaries for the same job in two (2) different geographic locations within the United States. Speculate on two (2) economic influences that may impact the pay difference in the two (2) geographic areas you selected. Propose two (2) ways an organization can respond to these conditions. Justify your response.

7. From the scenario, examine two (2) strategies that organizations use to combine incentive plans in a balanced scorecard. Provide two (2) examples in which the balanced scorecard measures performance linked to a company’s long-term goals.

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