Additional Resources

Talent Development

Read Employee Training and Development and Tips for Transferring Training to the Workplace, which provide a foundation for understanding the elements associated with talent development (training and development). The goal is to help you more fully understand an organization’s ability to effectively manage human capital.

View the following video to understand the importance of reward, retention, and recognition:

You may also find the following sources helpful:

101 Ways to Reward Employees (Without Giving Them Cash)

22 Surefire Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Source: Eisenhauer, T. (2016). 22 surefire ways to boost employee engagement. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/gtqo98n

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

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DEVELOPING AND REWARDING EMPLOYEES

Assignment Overview

Hallowell (2011) explains, “What I mean by peak performance—and what most of us seek in our lives and what managers wish to help their people achieve—is consistent excellence with improvement over time at a specific task or set of tasks.” He further asserts, “Those three factors—excellence, consistency, and ongoing improvement—define peak performance for my purposes.” Managers should always be on the lookout for employees who just don’t “fit in” with the organization’s culture. “You can tell a person is not in the right role if he feels no enthusiasm for what he’s doing, if his mind never lights up, if he never gets excited about his job, if he chronically complains.” And, the author continues, “This doesn’t mean he’s a dull person or that the line of work he has chosen is intrinsically dull, just that he’s not assigned to the right task.”

Being assigned the right tasks and then being responsible for those tasks relates to the “division of labor” concept coined by Adam Smith (1776). “The goal is for employees to spend as much time as possible at the intersection of three spheres: what they like to do, what they are most skilled at doing, and what adds value to the project or organization.” For peak performance or enhancing productivity levels, many would argue that specific tasks should be assigned to specific individuals with specific skills. Strategic leaders are known for being able to quickly match skills to tasks.

HR managers need to understand the importance of employees having fun while at work. Many organizations are highly task oriented and forget the importance of being relationship oriented. “One way you can tell if your employees are in alignment with the Cycle of Excellence is to see if they are having fun.” For example, some modern managers see the value of having fun at work or even taking time off from work to just relax and reflect. For example, Bill Gates is famous “for taking seven days off, twice a year, in a secluded cabin where he reads, drinks diet Orange Crush, and thinks.”

The author provides the following recommendation for managers, “Consider having a goofy day of some sort now and then. It must conform to the basic rules and values of your organization’s culture, of course. But make it fun.” By having a goofy day at work or dressing up for certain holidays, employees are able to have some fun, which also relieves stress.

“Effective management limits bad stress as much as possible, while promoting good stress in the form of surmountable challenges.” Effective managers also understand the importance of recognizing employees for their daily contributions. The author continues, “Recognition is so powerful because it answers a fundamental human need, the need to feel valued for what we do. Managers are in a unique position to offer—or withhold—such recognition, and with it, the feeling of being valued.”

According to Hallowell (2011), there are five steps to igniting peak performance in an organization. He calls the steps the Cycle of Excellence:

Step 1—Select: Putting people into the right jobs so that their brains light up.

Step 2—Connect: Overcoming the potent forces that disconnect people in the workplace both from each other and from the mission of the organization, and restoring the force of positive connection, which is the most powerful fuel for peak performance.

Step 3—Play: Play, or imaginative engagement, catalyzes advanced work, and managers can help people tap into this phenomenally productive yet undervalued activity of the mind.

Step 4—Grapple and grow: Managers can create conditions where people want to work hard, and employees making progress at a task that is challenging and important turns ordinary performers into superstars and increases commitment.

Step 5—Shine: Doing well—shining—feels good, so giving recognition and noticing when a person shines is critical, and a culture that helps people shine inevitably becomes a culture of self-perpetuating excellence.

The five steps of the Cycle of Excellence provide a novel approach to maximizing peak performance.

Reference: Hallowell, E.M. (2011). Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review.

Homework Case Assignment

Draw on the material in the background readings and do additional research to prepare a magazine article in which you do the following:

· Analyze the five steps of the Cycle of Excellence and discuss the added value of using the Cycle of Excellence.

· Critique Hallowell’s Cycle of Excellence and use it as a starting point to create your own cycle of excellence. Share real-world employer examples (by employer name).

· Discuss how the cycle of excellence you have developed is the optimum approach for managing human capital.

· The magazine article you are writing should be similar to an article you might find in TD: Talent Development (magazine of the Association for Talent Development) or in HR Magazine (magazine for the Society for Human Resource Management, SHRM). 

· Utilize at least three other reference sources to build your article. Cite sources within your paragraphs and include them in a References list at the end of your article. (Note: Even though practitioner magazine articles at times do not cite sources or have a reference section, they are needed for our academic purposes. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper for additional information.

· Include a cover page and a reference page. Note that the deliverable for this assignment is not an essay paper, but rather a journal article formatted like other published journal articles. (Most articles are written in columnar form.)

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HRM’S ROLE IN MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL

Assignment Overview

If you are not familiar with blogs, the information below may help you complete this assignment. To learn the basics about blogging, read What is a Blog? – The Definition of Blog, Blogging, and Blogger, obtained from First Site Guide.

When blogs began in 1994, they were more of a personal diary to be shared online. This online journal could be used to talk about daily life or share things you were doing. However, people began to see blogs as an opportunity to communicate information in a new way. 

Provided Link: https://firstsiteguide.com/what-is-blog/

What is a Blog?

Definition of blog

A blog (shortening of “weblog”) is an online journal or informational website displaying information in reverse chronological order, with latest posts appearing first. It is a platform where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject.

What is the purpose of a blog?

There are many reasons for starting a personal blog, and only a handful of strong ones for business blogging. Blogging for business, projects, or anything else that might bring you money has a very straightforward purpose – to rank your website higher in Google SERPs, a.k.a. increasing your visibility.

As a business, you rely on consumers to keep buying your products and services. As a new business, you rely on blogging to help you get to these consumers and grab their attention. Without blogging, your website would remain invisible, whereas running a blog makes you searchable and competitive. In other words, the main purpose of a blog is to connect you to the relevant audience.

Another purpose for a blog is to boost your traffic and send quality leads to your website. Posting better, more frequent blogs increases the chances for your website to get discovered and visited by your target audience, making the blog an effective lead-generation tool. Adding a great call to action (CTA) converts your website traffic into high-quality leads.

A blog also allows you to showcase your authority and build a brand. Using your niche knowledge for creating informative and engaging posts builds trust with your audience. Great blogging makes your business look more credible, which is especially important if your brand is still young and fairly unknown. It ensures presence and authority at the same time.

Blog structure

The appearance of blogs changed over time, and nowadays blogs include different items. However, most blogs include some standard features and structure, including:

• Header with the menu or navigation bar
• Main content area with highlighted or latest blog posts
• Sidebar with social profiles, favorite content, or call-to-action
• Footer with relevant links like a disclaimer, privacy policy, contact page, etc.

**Homework Assignment

Write 5 short blog entries (at least one-half page each). In each entry highlight:

1. One specific topic/issue related to Module 1 that you would like to investigate further. Explain why.
2. Discuss your reactions to what have you learned so far concerning your specific topic/issue as it relates to human capital management. Cite at least one of your module sources.
3. Discuss what more you would like to learn concerning your topic/issue. Explain why.
4. Find one valid source (not listed in this module) from which you could learn more about your specific topic/issue. Look in the Trident Online Library for valid sources, such as peer-reviewed academic journals. (The goal is to broaden your resource list, so do not list the same specific source more than once across your 5 journal entries.) 

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

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Module 1 – Case

INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIA AND VIRUSES

Assignment Overview

Note: You must install Adobe Shockwave Player and Quicktime onto your computer in order to view these videos and tutorials. They are available for free online http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer.html & https://support.apple.com/en_US/downloads/quicktime). Google Chrome browser does NOT work for the Pearson links; please use Mozilla Firefox in this case.

Case Assignment

In this activity you will be researching a microbiologist who has made an important contribution to the study of microbiology. Next you can choose an area of microbiology to research and find out about the scientists who are carrying on that type of research today.

Choose one of the following microbiologists: David Baltimore, Robert Koch, Louis Pasteur, Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, Antonie Van Leeuwenhook, Walter Reed or Margaret Pittman.

When researching your chosen area of microbiology, a good resource can be found here: http://www.microbeworld.org.

In a 2- to 3-page essay, address the following questions:

1. Which microbiologist did you choose from the list above?
2. What are his/her most notable accomplishments?
3. What branch of microbiology did he/she specialize in (bacteriology, virology, protozoology, epidemiology, etc)?
4. How is this branch of microbiology important in today’s world?
5. Find a current researcher (2000-today) conducting studies in this field of microbiology. What are his/her most notable findings?
6. How have these findings changed the field of microbiology and medicine?

Assignment Expectations

Page Length: 2 to 3 pages

Scholarly Content and Format

TUI encourages all students to comply with APA style and format guidelines for proper citation of references.  Your case assignments are considered scholarly works. Your final work should include peer reviewed (scholarly) sources.  Please use the formatting demonstrated in your Background section to cite the tutorials and readings from the Module Overview.

Please keep in mind that you should not use sources such as “Answers.com” or “Wikipedia” or “Wikianswers.”  None of these are scholarly sources and they can be “modified” by any registered user which makes them unreliable.

Appropriate Headings and Paper Flow

Remember that you are preparing a formal academic paper. Your paper should make use of appropriate headings and subheadings.  You should not cut and paste the questions posed and answer them like a “Question and Answer” session.  Your finished paper should read like an academic paper. You will post your final essay as a Word document to the Case assignment dropbox.

 

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