HRM/498

  

Assignment Content

Review the Week 3 Individual Knowledge Check.

Read Ch. 8, Incident 2 “There’s No Future Here!”

Scenario: As the head of HR, you have been asked to write a response to the incident in the form of an interdepartmental memo. You must address important issues about the company’s career planning and development program that are a result of the situation with Bob.

Write a 350- to 700-word memo in which you:

Describe what actions might prevent future resignations like Bob’s, and who should manage an employee’s career—the employer or employee. Explain the rationale for the choice.
Recommend changes that should be made to the career planning and development program from the perspective of the head of HR.
Identify challenges to making changes, and recommend who should be involved in making the changes (non-HR staff can be included if appropriate).
Describe what should be the outcomes of a career planning and development program.
Discuss the impact of the new program on training and/or staff development and performance management strategy.
Summarize a brief policy as an outline to your new career planning and development program.
Remember to consider HR principles and employment law in the arguments presented in the paper.
Use a memo template provided by Microsoft. (Make sure to comply to APA within the template to include cover page, reference page, citations, page numbers, line spacing, etc.

Include a minimum of 3 sources to support your work comprised of the course text and 2 peer reviewed journal articles (see Announcements section for definition of a peer reviewed journal source). Government and professional organization websites are good sources but will be considered as additional sources to the 3 required.

Format the paper to APA standards. There is a template in the Announcements section to help with proper formatting of the cover page. There is another handout posted in the Announcements section that has the main general rules of APA.