Assignment 2: Human Resources
Policies and Procedures
Due Week 8 and worth 320 points
Continuing with the scenario
from Assignment 1, imagine that you have been hired as the Manager of Human
Resources for the acute care hospital. Your first task is to create a set of
policies and procedures to ensure that the organization’s HRM processes are
aligned with the organization’s goals and objectives. You are also responsible
for completing a hiring plan, training plan, compensation and benefits plan,
and a performance appraisal.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page
paper in which you:
- Examine a significant way that the Joint
Commission has influenced the basic functions of HRM and predict the likely
impact of the policies and procedures at the your acute hospital. Provide
support for your rationale.
- Analyze the importance of collaboration
between HR and department managers when filling open positions, indicating the
most likely impact on the hiring process.
- Create a detailed outline of a training
program for managers. The outline should include, at a minimum, interviewing
techniques that both help managers identify the best candidate for the job and
meet the requirements of appropriate employment laws and regulations.
- Determine the most significant factor that should
be considered in order to develop a compensation and benefit plan that is fair,
competitive, and aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives,
indicating the direct impact of each factor on the elements.
- Recommend a performance appraisal method that
you believe would be the most effective for the organization and support the
reasons for your decision. Provide support for your recommendation.
- Create a strategy to effectively manage both
performance- and behavioral-based employee problems, which will lead to the
desired behavior result.
- Use at least three (3) quality academic
resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
- Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using
Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations
and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
- 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 and the reference page are not
included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning
outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Develop the key components of
an employment agreement.
- Examine the influence of the
Joint Commission on the development of job descriptions and performance
management programs.
- Develop an effective interview
and selection process that meets the requirements of employment laws and
regulations.
- Propose ways that job
performance and training can be integrated.
- Analyze the challenges that
confront health care employers in providing competitive compensation and
benefit programs.
- Analyze the objectives and
methods of an effective performance appraisal process.
- Use technology and information
resources to research issues in health services human resource management.
- Write clearly and concisely
about health services 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 following rubric.