Essay MGT 412 Human Resource Management and Law TUI

Essay MGT 412 Human Resource Management and Law TUI

MGT 412 Human Resource Management and Law TUI

MGT 412 Module 1 Discrimination in Employment and the Law

MGT 412 Module 1 Discussion

Discussion Topic

Review this brochure from the U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy. (2017). Building an inclusive workforce: A four-step reference guide to recruiting, hiring and retaining employees with disabilities. Retrieved from https://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/20100727.pdf

Your First Post:

Discuss with your colleagues how the trends discussed in the Building an Inclusive Workforce as well as in other sources you have come across relate to your current workplace and/or workplaces you have experienced in your past.

Your Subsequent Posts:

Read through the responses by your peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research/readings not mentioned yet.

Remember: To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). If you borrow from subject matter experts (authors, speakers, etc.), be sure to give them credit by citing sources.

MGT 412 Module 1 Case

Case Assignment

For your first assignment in this Module, you will be considering sexual harassment in the workplace, a topic which has garnered a great deal of attention recently. Review the required readings in the background material and then prepare a memo to yourself as follows:

You are a newly assigned top HRM professional in your organization and you wish to review your organization’s sexual harassment policies and training. You will begin by identifying and explaining the key legal concepts in sexual harassment in the workplace. Then, using the background material and your own research, discuss aspects of recent developments in sexual harassment that are relevant to how your organization addresses sexual harassment in the workplace. Finally, identify and explain what you consider future developments in this topic will be and how your organization’s policies and training concerning sexual harassment will need to be adapted.

Assignment Expectations

Your memo should be 3 to 4 pages in length (not counting title and reference page) and should be submitted by the module due date.

The criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment:

• Meets assignment requirements
• Critical thinking
• Writing and assignment organization
• Use of sources and mechanics
• Timeliness of assignment

MGT 412 Module 1 SLP

SLP Assignment

In this SLP assignment, you will prepare a PowerPoint slide presentation about Age Discrimination.

To begin, review the SLP materials related to Age Discrimination in the background material. To better inform yourself, also do some independent research to identify trends in the workforce related to age.

In your Power Point presentation, identify current issues in Age Discrimination in the workplace, social, economic, and political factors that will impact Age Discrimination in the future, and your recommendations for approaches that organizations should take to address age discrimination in the future.

Be sure to use in-text citations in your slides. Your PowerPoint presentation should be about 6-7 slides in addition to a title slide at the beginning and a reference slide at the end. Tip: Do not have too many or too few words on each slide – consider this is a slide presentation, not an essay. Also include your extra comments in the Speaker’s Comments section at the bottom of each slide, or use audio recording (voice over), or both.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Your submission will be assessed on the criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment:

• Meets assignment requirements
• Critical thinking
• Writing and assignment organization
• Use of sources and mechanics
• Timeliness of assignment

MGT 412 Module 2 Hiring Practices and Legal Compliance

MGT 412 Module 2 Discussion

Discussion Topic

Watch HR360 Inc. (2016) What Employers Need to Know About Disability and Religious Accommodations for Employees. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RaPdYCaiIM

Then Use Google Scholar to locate a legal case related to Disability or Religious Accommodations for Employees.

To access Google Scholar:

1. Go to http://scholar.google.com/
2. Click on Case law.
3. Type in your topic.
4. Click on the search button.

Review the results and focus on a legal case that treats the topic and interests you.

Your First Post:

View the video and discuss with your colleagues the relevant details of the case that you chose from your Google Scholar search. Be sure to cite the case so that anyone interested can follow-up.

Your Subsequent Posts:

Read through the responses by your peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research/readings not mentioned yet.

Remember: To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). If you borrow from subject matter experts (authors, speakers, etc.), be sure to give them credit by citing sources.

MGT 412 Module 2 Case

Case Assignment

For this module’s Case Assignment, review the background materials on pre-employment background screening.

Prepare an outline of points for a presentation to an employer about key issues in pre-employment screening.

Prepare a video (about 5 minutes) or a slide presentation with voice-over (10-12 slides). In your presentation, be sure to include a) how specific laws regulate screening pre-hires, b) your recommendations about what the employer should consider in deciding whether or not to conduct investigations or other pre-employment inquires of employees, c) the potential negative consequences of not conducting background screening, including a discussion of what “negligent hiring” means and how it could arise, and d) the legal risks the business faces in conducting background checks.

Submit your video and outline of points (word document) or your slide presentation by the module due date.

Case Assignment Expectations

The criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment:

• Meets assignment requirements
• Critical thinking
• Writing and assignment organization
• Use of sources and mechanics
• Timeliness of assignment

MGT 412 Module 2 SLP

Another important aspect to finding the best person to hire is pre-hire assessments. Read the following:

Rhodes, J. (Oct. 26, 2016) Physical Skills Test for Paramedics Violated Title VII Retrieved from https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/physical-skills-test-paramedics.aspx

Maurer, R. (Aug. 24, 2017) EEOC: Strength Tests Risk Bias Against Women. Retrieved from https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/eeoc-strength-tests-risk-bias-against-women.aspx

Now imagine you are an HR Professional for a large warehouse company. You have been asked to prepare a 2- to 3-page memo for your company’s hiring managers, explaining to them the employment law issues to consider in preparing pre-employment physical tests or assessments. Many of the warehouse jobs require physical skills of varying kinds, so pre-hiring physical tests are appropriate.

In your memo, you should address the key legal concepts hiring managers should keep in mind when working with medical consultants to design pre-employment physical tests. Be sure to discuss disparate treatment, disparate impact and how the EEOC might assess the test, among any other relevant issues. You should do your own additional research to make sure you are confident about the contents of your memo.

Turn in this memo by the module due date. Paper length: 2-3 pages, not counting the cover and reference pages.

MGT 412 Module 3 Employment-at-Will and Progressive Discipline

MGT 412 Module 3 Discussion

Discussion Topic

Please think about your own experiences disciplining and/or discharging employees. Or, think about your own discipline/discharge experiences with you as the employee, or stories about employee discipline and/or discharge from your friends or relatives.

Your First Post:

Once you settle on an experience, describe it to your colleagues. Discuss what you think went right in the experience. What went wrong? Consider it from the HR/Organization perspective, the employee and the supervisor perspective. How could the processes have been improved?

Your Subsequent Posts:

Read through the responses by your peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Bring in ideas/comments and/or research/readings not mentioned yet.

Remember: To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). If you borrow from subject matter experts (authors, speakers, etc.), be sure to give them credit by citing sources.

MGT 412 Module 3 – Case

Case Assignment

For this Case Assignment we will be focusing on

• The Employment at Will Doctrine
• Progressive Discipline

After reviewing the background reading, prepare a paper in which you

• Summarize the Employment at Will Doctrine and its exceptions (approximately ½ page), and answer the follow questions:
• Which of the exceptions to the Employment at Will Doctrine are most relevant to current HR practice and why?
• What is Progressive Discipline? Summarize the steps in Progressive Discipline and Progressive Discipline’s approach to employee discharge.
• How do the concepts and practices of employment at will and progressive discipline interact?
• How important are the employment at will doctrine and progressive discipline to realizing employee potential and maximizing organizational outcomes? Explain your answer.

MGT 412 Module 3 SLP

For this module’s SLP, we will focus on the importance of documenting in writing the process of discipline steps taken in an employee situation. Read the following article:

Segal, J. (2014). Legal trends: Blunders in documenting discipline. HR Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/1014-disciplinary-documentation.aspx

Put yourself in the role of an HR Manager advising line supervisors on how to document any disciplinary action given by the supervisor. From the 10 common disciplinary documentation mistakes set forth in the Segal (2014) article, choose 5 that you think are the most important to focus on.

Prepare a PowerPoint slide presentation (with speaker notes at the bottom of each slide). Your goal is to provide line supervisors with specific right and wrong examples of each of the 5 documentation mistakes you have chosen. Draw upon the background readings on progressive discipline to support your “right approach” to Progressive Discipline documentation and explain in your presentation how this “right approach” should guide the supervisors.

MGT 412 Module 4 Labor Law and Unionization

MGT 412 Module 4 Discussion

Discussion Topic

Your First Post

Check current periodicals to find an interesting current event article related to labor union relations today.

1. Read the article.
2. Provide a summary of the article.
3. Provide additional recommendations, arguments, and ideas.
4. Include a citation for the article.

Feel free to use any business-related journals or periodicals. A good place to find HR/labor relations -related journals is in ProQuest in the Trident Online Library. The following are other suggestions:

The Economist. Available at http://www.economist.com/

Society for Human Resource Management. Available at http://www.shrm.org/pages/default.aspx.

HR Magazine, SHRM’s publication, is found in ProQuest in the Trident Online Library.

The Wall Street Journal. Available at http://online.wsj.com/home-page

Your Subsequent Posts

Read through the responses by your peers and post responses to at least two classmates’ posts. Introduce ideas/comments and/or research/readings not mentioned yet.

Remember: To receive full credit in this forum, you need to post a minimum of three quality posts (your own initial post, and responses to two classmates). If you borrow from other authors, be sure to give them credit by citing sources.

Your discussion contributions will be assessed on the criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment:

• Assignment-driven criteria
• Critical thinking
• Writing mechanics and referencing
• Timeliness

MGT 412 Module 4 Discussion Integration and Reflection

Discussion Topic

Paragraphs 1-3:

Given the readings and assignments in the course, identify and discuss three important concepts applicable to your work experience, profession, and/or career plans for the future. Describe how each applies.

Paragraph 4:

What part of the course (background materials, assignments, and so forth) helped to shape or reshape your perceptions of the role of HRM in the private sector?

Note: No outside research or citations are needed with your four paragraphs to the Reflective Discussion. Also, no responses to your peers’ posts are needed.

After responding to the Reflective Discussion above, please complete an anonymous Course Evaluation Survey. Instructors are not able to view course evaluation reports until after the grade submission period is over. Thank you for your feedback.

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MGT 412 Module 4 Case

Assignment Overview

Review the background materials. Imagine that you have applied for a position as an HR executive in a private-sector corporation. As part of the interview process, you have been asked to prepare written notes using Word and a short video (less than 6 minutes) responding to the following interview questions:

• When a business anticipates that its workforce is trying to unionize, which laws and legal issues are most important for the business leaders to know about?
• What is the role of unions in the modern American labor force?
• How is the Human Resources Management function different in a unionized private-sector workforce setting?
• Would you prefer to work with a unionized or non-unionized workforce? Explain.

Note: The video file should be uploaded to YouTube and the link shared. Set as “public” or “unlisted,” NOT PRIVATE. Unlisted means your video will not come up in search results. Only those who know the link can view it, and they do not need a YouTube account/username. The reason YouTube is suggested is that it often takes time to upload a video directly to the classroom. If you have slow Internet, you could be timed out.
Important: Be sure to submit a Word document to the Case 4 Dropbox in which you provide your notes and cite and reference your YouTube link along with the other sources utilized to prepare the presentation. The Word document will tell your professor where to find your YouTube video to view.

MGT 412 Module 4 – SLP

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Just Cause Termination?

In this SLP assignment, you will prepare an essay based on a true-to-life scenario.

Imagine that you are working in an HRM department of a unionized facility. This is your second job in HRM and your first in a union environment. There was a newly filed grievance in your mailbox. It concerned yesterday’s discharge of employee George Klay.

As you get coffee from the empty break room you see a document titled “Using the Seven Tests” laying on the table. Someone left it there. You pick it up, stick it in your binder, and return to your office to look at the grievance form, the labor contract, and the “Using the Seven Tests” article.

The labor contract indicates that employees may not be discharged unless there is just cause. It will fall to the company to demonstrate that there was “just cause” to discharge Klay.

The paper you found on the break room table was “Using the Seven Tests,” from http://www.ueunion.org/stwd_jstcause.html

Klay’s situation was documented as follows by his supervisor:

Klay operated a machine in Building A. He usually was an average worker but working the past 4 weeks on that machine in Building A he had made lots of mistakes on which products to accept and put in the box and which to reject. The Plant Superintendent came into work in the middle of the night because the supervisor called him. The supervisor checked Klay’s boxes and 6 out of 8 had faulty parts inside. The Superintendent terminated Klay’s employment and walked him out the door.

• In your paper, discuss the seven tests and how they relate to this situation. What further information will you need to gather?
• What immediate actions will you need to take concerning this situation? Discuss.
• Would you be concerned about the “Seven Tests” if you were working in a union-free environment? Why?
• Are the “Seven Tests” a viable gauge for employers to follow in their employee relations efforts when dealing with employee discipline and terminations? Explain.

Utilizing background materials, library research, and/or other research will help strengthen your response.

Turn in this paper by the module due date. Paper length: 2-3 pages, not counting the cover and reference pages.