Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) Development

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Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) Development

Instructions

Your previous contributions addressing a variety of important topics outlined in all previous assignments for this course are deemed essential in supporting the business’ overall organizational structure and competitive advantage strategy.

 It is now time to consider developing your own HR department team to ensure they have the requisite skills and competencies necessary to perform at high levels over time. Effective and motivated HR business partners (HRBP) will be the key to translating HR and business strategy into action. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Body of Competency and Knowledge (BoCK) can be an invaluable resource to help develop and certify HR professionals. 

You must now explain to the management team the components of this model and how it can be leveraged to achieve operational success for the HR department. A one-hour meeting has been scheduled, and the CEO will be in attendance. 

Create a 20-slide minimum PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:

  1. Include cover, presentation agenda, conclusion, and reference list slides, all of which may count toward total slide count. 
  2. Provide a slide with an overview on the importance of having a highly-developed staff of HR business partners. Be clear with your position. Example: The Evolution of the HR Business Partner Role.
  3. Provide 1–4 slides introducing the SHRM BoCK model and its components. Be sure to highlight each of the areas of the model.Note:It is highly recommended to insert an image of the actual SHRM BoCK model into the presentation. 
  4. Include in the remaining slides the following required presentation information: 
  5. Use one of the PowerPoint Template that attach to this assignment.
  6. The previous assignment are attach as a attachment to this assignment
    • Provide a minimum of three to four bullet points (more if needed) of information or discussion describing the specifics on the SHRM BoCK’s “Behavioral Competencies.”
    • Provide a minimum of three to four bullet points (more if needed) of information or discussion describing the specifics on the SHRM BoCK’s “HR Expertise: Domains 1 & 2.” 
    • Provide a minimum of three to four bullet points (more if needed) of information or discussion describing the specifics on the SHRM BoCK’s “HR Expertise: Domain 3”. 
    • Provide a minimum of three to four bullet points (more if needed) of information or discussion describing specifics on certifying your HRBPs. 

NOTE: Because of the requirements for the bullet points to have 3-4 full sentences, students are not required to use presentation notes.

       5. Use at least four quality academic resources in this assignment. Note:You may only use the resources listed in the Course Guide and those that are specifically provided by the professor.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  1. Select any one of three professional PowerPoint templates provided by the professor (required).
  2. Have headings for each section with all bulleted information aligned properly and using the same font and size. Use either Arial, Times New  Roman, or Calibri as text type. Use 24-28 font size for main headings, 18-20 size for sub-headings, and 16-18 for all other information.
  3. Images may be used but must be professional and relevant to the topic.
  4. The source or sources of all images must be credited with both citation and reference. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  5. Include citations and references for all information received from other sources.
  6. All bullet point information must be descriptive and have a minimum of 3–4 full sentences. Note: It is OK to decide what your input will be.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course outcome associated with this assignment is:

  • Convince stakeholders of the value of using the SHRM BoCK model to develop effective and motivated HR business partners. 

Write a paper of 1,750 to 2,100 words that can be used as a resource when working with an individual from the selected group.

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For this assignment you will select a specific group from the following list:

  • Veterans
  • Minorities
  • Individuals with disabilities
  • College students
  • Individuals from welfare to work
  • Single parents
  • Displaced workers
  • Late-life career loss
  • Individuals with minimal work experience or large gaps in employment
  • Individual changing careers

Write a paper of 1,750 to 2,100 words that can be used as a resource when working with an individual from the selected group. Use scholarly resources to support your use of a specific career theory as well as interventions with this population. The paper should include the following:

  • An explanation of who the population is and why it is important for this group to receive career counseling (CACREP 2.F.4.e)
  • Statistics on the group (e.g., how large, how many have employment problems, how many utilize career counseling) (CACREP 2.F.4.c)
  • Discussion of career counseling theory to be used with the group (e.g., Minnesota theory of work adjustment). Include evidence supporting the use of this theory in the general population as well as within the group. Please note: If none is available, it is important to indicate that as well. (CACREP 2.F.4.a)
  • Basic plan for counseling utilizing chosen theory (e.g., interview, use of assessment tools, explanation of theory) (CACREP 2.F.4.a, CACREP 2.F.4.i)
  • Environmental/personal barriers that may prevent the client from finding work (e.g., disability, substance use history, felony, transportation, limited computer access) and specific intervention plans to address barriers (CACREP 2.F.4.b, CACREP 2.F.4.g, CACRE 2.F.4.j)
  • Relevant and local resources available to help the client obtain work (e.g., job center, training programs, support groups) and a description of activities and supplemental materials that can be used by the individual (CACREP 2.F.4.h)
  • Based on the information listed above, provide some recommendations with regard to your plan to include your opinion on whether this plan is tenable and if you think if it can work. (CACREP 2.F.4.f)
  • A discussion of how spirituality can be incorporated into career counseling. As examples, when counseling a Jewish client that observes the Sabbath, the counselor would want to talk to them about considering the work schedule when looking for employment or the counselor could ask questions about purpose and value as it relates to finding employment. Please refer to the Vocation and Lifelong Spiritual Formation: A Christian Integrative Perspective on Calling in Mid-Career article for your response.
  • A minimum of eight scholarly references.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

MARKETING 100: Positioning Statement and Motto

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””Amazon

Amazon’s Mission Statement
Amazon.com has had a clear focus and a solitary mission since it began. Founder Jeff Bezos has publicly referred to the Amazon.com mission statement as the guiding force behind his leadership decisions many times in the company’s 18-year history. It can be concluded that the success of Amazon.com as the top Internet retailing company in the world is due at least in part to their unwavering commitment to this mission and the daily execution of it. The mission and vision of Amazon.com is…

“Our vision is to be earth’s most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.”

Amazon’s 2001 Positioning Statement (when it almost exclusively sold books)
For World Wide Web users who enjoy books, Amazon.com is a retail bookseller that provides instant access to over 1.1 million books. Unlike traditional book retailers, Amazon.com provides a combination of extraordinary convenience, low prices, and comprehensive selection.

For World Wide Web users who enjoy books, Amazon.com is a retail bookseller that provides instant access to over 1.1 million books. Unlike traditional book retailers, Amazon.com provides a combination of extraordinary convenience, low prices, and comprehensive selection.””

In this assignment, you will be writing a 5 pages paper following APA format, in which you will create a Positioning Statement and Motto for the following brand: Amazon.com

Use the information listed above, as well as your own research, to assess the brand by answering the following questions. At the end, be sure to develop what you believe would be a new or better positioning statement and motto for the brand.

1. Target Customers/Users

– Who are the target customers for the company/brand?

– How could/does the company reach its customers/users? What methods and media might and/or does the company use to reach the customers/users?

– What would grab the customers/users’ attention? Define the customers/users according to their demographics and psychographic information (e.g., age, gender, income, education, lifestyle, values, etc). How do they want to be perceived?

– What do these target customers’ value?

2. Competitors

– Who are the brand’s competitors?

– What product category does the brand fit into? 

– What frame of reference will customers use in making a choice to use/purchase this brand/service? What other brands/companies might customers compare this brand to?

3. USP (Unique Selling Proposition)

– How is this brand/company better than its competitors? What is the brand’s USP (Unique Selling Proposition?

– What is the brand’s uniqueness?

– What is the competitive advantage of the brand? How is it different from other competing brands?

– Does the brand have any attributes or benefits that dominate competitors?

4. Positioning Statement & Motto

Develop a new positioning statement and motto for the brand you selected. 

Below is an example of BMW’s positioning statement and motto.

• BMW Positioning statement: The brand for discerning customers of sports cars (target customers) who want an exhilarating experience (USP).

• BMW Motto: BMW is the ultimate driving machine.

consumer protection or antitrust problem

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 Course objectives:

  • CO1 Assess the legal environment of business.
  • CO2 Explain how ethical frameworks shape business decisions.
  • CO10 Assess laws applying to antitrust and consumer protection.

You are provided source links in the table about the company to get you started. You will need to do more research about the company as well as the ethical frameworks and applicable law.
 

Apple

(Antitrust) 

 

Spotify v. Apple

Vincent, J. (2019, March 13). Spotify files antitrust complaint over “Apple tax.” The Verge.  

And

Lapowsky, I. (2019, March 13). Spotify’s Apple complaint cuts to a core antitrust issue. Wired. 

For the other topics, look into Apple’s employment practices, contract practices, privacy protections, corporate social responsibility, ethical code, etc. 

 

When you have selected your company, research and cover the following points in a well written essay. Use APA format and topical headings.

  1. In an introductory paragraph identify the company, the topic and a well crafted thesis statement.
  2. Briefly describe the company and the nature of its business and corporate business environment. Do not spend a lot of time on the history of the company, but do describe sufficiently to create meaningful context. This should only need to be a paragraph.
  3. Research, define and discuss the legal issues and regulatory environment for the company’s consumer or antitrust issue. (i.e., What are the laws involved?) Include case law.
  4. Ethical dilemma and frameworks: Identify the ethical dilemma that the company presents with respect to its antitrust or consumer problem. This should be encapsulated in a single sentence. Evaluate two ethical frameworks with respect to the company’s management’s decisions that led to the situation. One of these should be the ethical framework you identify as the framework the company followed in its decision-making. The other should be a contrasting framework that might have produced a different situation for the company.
  5. Other legal topics that relate to the company’s business: Also, clearly define and evaluate three (3) additional legal topics (NOT antitrust or consumer protection) that we covered this term — and that are explained in your text and required readings, and apply them to the company’s business. (Hint: Review the legal topics in the textbook and cite to the the text in your analysis. We covered many subjects. Examples: contracts, torts, product liability, bankruptcy, securities & stocks trading, employment issues, defamation, privacy, ADR, etc. Include illustrative case law.)
  6. General recommendations for business leadership and managers that you have learned from this study (not just for the company you have selected, but for running a business).
  7. Conclusion.
  8. References list

Further Guidance:

  1. Reflect on the class discussions and the text, required readings, articles that you have read during the class and use the information, and other academic sources
  2. Write a well-supported analytical essay critiquing the company, its operations, and the ethical dilemma it caused. Discuss the legal issues and concepts identified and make recommendations for management. LENGTH: – See RUBRIC
  3. Number of sources: Exemplary level of performance states 7 sources, at least 2 of which from library and none of which from excluded sources.
  4. Proper citation and references formatting must be in APA 7th Ed.
  5. Papers that do not include appropriate in text citations will lose points.
  6. Dictionaries, encyclopedias — including Investopedia — Wikis, and the like, and Internet generic quick-answer websites are not acceptable to populate your Reference list. Use your text, required readings, and other scholarly sources.
  7. Review Grading rubric.
  8. Organize your paper with appropriate subheadings.
  9. Do not write in 1st or 2nd person. Paper must be written in 3rd person.
  10. Do not use contractions.
  11. All sources on References list must be correctly cited in the text of the paper and vice versa.
  12. Paper meets the length requirement of 2500-3000 words. 

Grading Rubric

Please review the Grading Rubric carefully prior to submitting your work.

Turn It In

Your paper will automatically refer to Turn It In upon submittal. If you obtain a report above 15% (excluding reference list and direct quotes), you must review the cause and rewrite and resubmit to fix the problem. Further, as to direct quotes, these must be in quotation marks with the source properly cited. No more than 10% should attribute to direct quotes. Submit a draft of your paper before the due date to test it for Turn It In. You are permitted multiple submissions for this purpose.

Papers must be submitted in MS Word.

BUSNWK8

Blockchain Implementation Project Plan- Developing blockchain app on Walmart…

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Every project that has a reasonable chance at success starts with a solid plan. A project plan is far more than just a schedule – it is a master plan that directs all planning and execution efforts to meet a project’s goals. For this class project, you will create a project plan to implement a newly developed blockchain application. 

The first step in this assignment is to describe your organization’s environment and blockchain application. You can choose a consumer-based or enterprise application environment. Each one has its own environmental concerns. Once you describe your organization and blockchain application environment, you will provide the abbreviated project plan. (A real project plan will include detailed schedule, budget, procurement, and other supporting plans. This project won’t require all components of a real-life project plan.) 

You abbreviated project plan (with organizational and blockchain environment introduction) must be no less than 1500 words. Your paper must be in proper APA format, including proper in-text citations and end references for any external sources you use. No more than 10% of this paper may originate from external sources. This isn’t a research paper – it is a project plan. Your paper must start with the following sections (which should comprise at least 1/3 of your paper): 

    Abstract

  • Organizational overview – Introduce your organization (it can be fictitious). Describe what your organization does, how it defines success, what services or products it produces, and why it decided to venture into blockchain technology. Then describe the specific goals blockchain technology must meet to be deemed a success.
     
  • Blockchain environment overview – Describe the type of blockchain your organization has decided to implement and why. Explain how your chosen blockchain implementation is the best choice for your organization’s goals and capabilities, and how your organization participates in your chosen blockchain network’s governance.
     

  • Deliverables – a list (with descriptions) of artifacts to be delivered to the customer (defined in
    stakeholders above) at the end of the project
     
  • Critical success factors – What criteria will customers use to determine whether the deliverables
    are acceptable?
     
  • Work Breakdown Structure – What steps are necessary to take your application from a
    development environment to a deployed and operating environment? This section demonstrates an understanding of the implementation process. Provide a description, along with details, of tasks necessary to deploy a blockchain application and make it available for end users. You don’t need to provide specific commands or details but describe the process in enough detail that your technical staff could create procedures from your plan.
     
  • Quality plan – Describe how you plan to measure and enforce quality standards at each step. Describe your chosen quality metrics and how you will ensure your desired quality standards will be maintained.
     
  • Operationalization plan – Once you have successfully deployed your application conducted a formal hand-off to customers, describe how you will hand-off the maintenance of your application to operations. Describe the process of handing off the application and what operations needs to take delivery of your application responsibilities.
     

  Don’t let this plan become a collection of lists. The purpose of this assignment is for you to consider the level of effort required to implement any blockchain application. We aren’t covering the initial blockchain network implementation – just an application’s implementation. Be creative when you choose an application. Really think through how to describe your blockchain application in such a way that you can use your description to get funding and support for your project.
 

UGA: Practice Summarizing an Article

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Purpose: This discussion activity is meant to help your group put into practice the skills you learned last week about how to read journal articles. Knowing how to do this is vital not only to being able to successfully evaluate the truth (or falsity) behind your group’s myth, but also for the next group assignment: writing an annotated bibliography. Participating as a group in this discussion will allow your group to get ungraded feedback on this task before you have to do it for a grade.

General Instructions:

  1. AS A GROUP, select a peer-reviewed journal article related to your myth that you’d like to discuss. I recommend choosing an article your group has found so far that you think you might use in your Annotated Bibliography. Doing so will benefit your group when it comes time to write & submit that assignment.
  2. Once your group decides on a article, one group member must post that article in the discussion so that I have access to it. To do this, simply click in the Reply box as if you were going to write a response & then click “Attach” at the bottom.
  3. After the article has been selected, each group member should take time to read it over carefully.

Discussion Instructions:

Each group member will need to make their own initial post DUE Thursday, 3/11, containing the following:

  • A summary of the main points/purpose of the work that are most relevant to the group’s myth. For example, you might focus on the study’s goals, methods, findings, limitations, or implications.
    • Try to write a summary that is 100 words or less. So be succinct and mention only what is most important. 
    • Put the ideas from the article into your own words. No quotes allowed!
  • Any questions about a part of the study you had when reading the article. 

The group should then reply to each other, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the summaries that have been posted, trying to help each other find the best way to summarize the chosen article. Again, think of this as a way to ensure the whole group will succeed on the annotated bibliography assignment! 

I will check in on these discussion after Sunday 3/14 and provide feedback to the group as a whole on the summaries provided, so make sure you’ve participated in the discussion by that date in order to earn credit for this activity.

Enlg reading response night of the living dead

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Reading Response #2: Night of the Living Dead

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  • This reading response is for George Romero’s film, Night of the Living Dead. While it is a film and not a “reading,” you still have the opportunity to analyze it. Rather than picking a quote from written material, you should pick a quote from the spoken communication in the film. Remember, it’s still crucial that you quote directly. That’s always the same. 
  • Each reading response entry should begin with a quotation from the required reading. It should be a quote of a passage that you have a question about and that interests you in some way.
  • After you’ve posted the quotation, you need to try to articulate a question that you have about that passage, and that relates to something in the reading that is of interest to you. The question should be explained over at least five sentences. This will give you the opportunity to develop your thinking about the reading in a meaningful way. Do not simple restate facts, or summarize what you’ve read or viewed. We’ve all read it and we DO NOT need you to rehash the plot, the major themes, etc… You should be engaging with this material in a way that reflects what you’re thinking about it. That’s what’s most important here.
  • Each entry should refer directly to the specific passage that you quoted from. You may want to relate this passage to another passage in the reading, or to a broader idea but the question needs to be based in the passage itself.
  • You will also be required to respond to at least one of your classmates’ reading responses. Be sure to engage in a meaningful, respectful way with their ideas. Don’t just say “I agree” or “that’s a bad idea.” Try to use your engagement as an occasion to produce new ideas. 

Reading responses are graded, and in order to receive full credit, they need to reflect careful reading and thinking. Reading responses that don’t demonstrate that you’ve done the reading will not receive credit. For instance, if you write, as a question, “Why did you have us read this?” or, “What other books did this author write?” or “What does the author want to say to us?” then you won’t receive credit. Be specific, referencing the reading/viewing material and engaging with it, and you’ll do fine.

LINK OF THE FILM 

Informative speech outline

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This Should be an Outline
Please Provide an outline of your speech  by 07/20/2021 using the material below as a guideline. Refer to the outline and information in the textbook located under Informative Speech. Please arrange your informative speech outline according to the textbook.

Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to share novice information with the audience by fully describing and explaining the complete subject that is your topic. Through this speech, you will have the opportunity to “teach” us something. Therefore, this speech should inform the audience on your topic as if it were generally unknown to them, while developing its significance to them specifically, as well as society generally, and at a depth that we will find truly educational. This speech should only move to inform the audience.

This speech outline should be researched and must be reference with valid sources, preferably, .org, .edu, .net, and .gov. You should have at least three sources. Research information retrieved for this speech MUST be between the year of 2016  & 2021 (No exceptions).
All three of these sources must be verbally cited within the speech as supporting material for claims that are made or data that are offered. All sources cited must be credible. The use of a visual aid is required.
APA citation styles may be accessed at:
(APA) https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
(Links to an external site.)
Links to an external site.

 Your speech outline will be graded on content, organization and delivery. The specific elements that will be graded are listed below:
Criteria for Informative Speech
Analysis and Content
Organization
(minimum of 3 sources). Preferably, .org, .edu, .net, and .gov.

Please: USE THE BOOK EXAMPLE VIA INFORMATIVE SPEECH CHAPTER

INTRODUCTION

 Gained attention and interest                 

 Demonstrated importance of topic         

 Establish credibility                                

 Previewed main points of the speech     

CONTENT

 Developed main points                         

 Quality of support material                 

 Informative approach to topic             

 Speech was interesting                         

 Use of language 

          Use of Visual                                 

PURPOSE WAS CLEAR

 Purpose was clear                               

 Purpose was achieved                          

 Speech subject was appropriate            

ORGANIZATION

 Main ideas clearly presented and is a replica of the text book (Informative Speech Chapter)         

 Relationship of ideas clear                    

 Effective transitions                              

Conclusion

 Summarized main points                       

 Closing device  (Lasting impression sentence)       

Sources must be listed:                          

Spr1.4

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 Assignment 1: 

According to Kirk (2016), most of your time will be spent working with your data. The four following group actions were mentioned by Kirk (2016):

· Data acquisition: Gathering the raw material

· Data examination: Identifying physical properties and meaning

· Data transformation: Enhancing your data through modification and consolidation

· Data exploration: Using exploratory analysis and research techniques to learn

Select 1 data action and elaborate on the actions preformed in that action group.

Textbook is attached, “Andy Kirk – Data Visualisation_ A Handbook For Data Driven Design-Sage Publications (2019)”.

Requirement: 

· ****Separate word document for each assignment****

· Minimum 300-350 words. Cover sheet, abstract, graphs, and references does not count.

· Add reference separately for each assignment question.

· Strictly follow APA style. 

· Include at least two citations (APA) from academic resources

· No plagiarized content please! Attach a plagiarized report.

· Check for spelling and grammar mistakes!

· $5 max. Please bid if you agree.

Assignment 2: 

Assume you are a security professional. You are determining which of the following backup strategies will provide the best protection against data loss, whether from disk failure or natural disaster:

· Daily full server backups with hourly incremental backups

· Redundant array of independent disks (RAID) with periodic full backups

· Replicated databases and folders on high-availability alternate servers

Answer the following question(s):

Which backup strategy would you adopt? Why?

Requirement: 

· ****Separate word document for each assignment****

· Minimum 300-350 words. Cover sheet, abstract, graphs, and references does not count.

· Add reference separately for each assignment question.

· Strictly follow APA style. Length – 2 to 3 paragraphs. 

· Sources: 2 References to Support your answer

· No plagiarized content please! Attach a plagiarized report.

· Check for spelling and grammar mistakes!

· $5 max. Please bid if you agree.

Discussion Topic Business Finance

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For this week discussion you will be using

http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp  

In your initial response you should answer the main question: If you are an investor who is looking for a corporate bond to invest to, are you going to buy a bond that you chose? To answer this question you should complete three steps:

1). Copy the bond’s quotation from the website.

2). Describe the main elements of the bond:

  •  Coupon rate
  •  Calculate annual coupon payment (assuming face value $1,000)
  • What is the frequency of coupon payments of the bond? If the frequency is greater than 1, how much is payment is going to be?
  •  Maturity,
  •  Rating. Explain the meaning of rating.
  •  The last price listed in quotation
  •  How much the investor would pay for the bond assuming $1,000 face value and using the last price listed in quotation?
  • Calculate the current yield of the bond assuming that par value of the bond is $1,000
  • How much is the YTM listed in quotations is for the bond? Explain the meaning of YTM.
  • Is the bond callable or not? If the bond that you chose is callable (non-callable), will it change your decision to buy it?

To find the information on bonds, click on Search in the middle of the screen, under Quick Search type the Issuer Name and the Symbol, and click SHOW RESULTS.

Another useful website on bond information is https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds. To find the information on bonds, scroll down the page, type the name of the company in the window under Bond Finder, and click SEARCH.

3) Take a look at the balance sheet and income statement of the company. What data or ratios support your decision to buy this bond or not? You should develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale to explain your answer.