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- 1. Week 8 Assignment 3 - Submit Here Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment" in the Student Center. Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. Assignment 3: Pay, Benefits, and Terms and Conditions of Employment Due Week 8 and worth 300 points It is your responsibility as the HR Director of the same organization from Assignment 2 to a) create policies regarding pay and benefits for the selected job opportunity, and b) develop methods for both addressing unionization and implementing OSHA regulations. You will present your findings to the Vice President of Human Resources for approval. In preparation for this assignment, review the following articles on contractors vs. employees and temp workers: · Bier, Ellin & Tucker: Distinguishing Between Independent Contractors and Employees · Murray: Difference Between Independent Contractors and Employees
- 2. · “ The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed ” Create a PowerPoint presentation with fifteen to twenty (15-20) slides in which you: 1. Create a Wage and Hour standard for the job opportunity that you had selected in Assignment 2, and support your standard by using the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Equal Pay Act to prevent any potential discriminatory impact. 2. Decide on three (3) benefits required for the job opportunity using ERISA. Propose two (2) methods that the employer can use in order to manage the fiduciary duties wisely and with the employees’ best interests in mind. Provide a rationale for your response. 3. Elaborate on two (2) rights regarding unionization that Section 7 of the NLRA guarantees. Next, examine two (2) unfair labor practices, and argue the importance of your organization refraining from using such practices during any self- organization and collective bargaining activities. Explore two (2) potential repercussions of an organization’s interference with self-organization and collective bargaining practices. 4. Propose three (3) ways to discourage employees from considering unionization. Then, compose one (1) strategy for championing a supportive and satisfying work environment within the organization. 5. Select one (1) OSHA violation case, and determine whether the resulting penalties were sufficient to deter the organization in question from repeating the same violative action. Justify
- 3. your response. 6. Outline a plan for investigating workplace injuries, and formulate a policy that explains the process for filing a worker’s compensation claim within the selected organization. 7. Narrate each slide, using a microphone, and indicate what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience. 8. 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: · Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from eighteen (18) feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. · Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title slide is not included in the required slide length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: · Develop policies that are compliant with employment laws. · Evaluate an organization’s physical environment and determine criteria that ensure occupational safety.
- 4. · Use technology and information resources to research issues in employment law. · Write clearly and concisely about employment law using proper writing mechanic. Reference: This Assignment Strayer University - Online HRM-510: Business Employment Law August 12, 2018 The Hiring Process and Managing a Diverse Workforce As the HR Director of my association, I must utilize an assortment of business laws to build arrangements and techniques that help the advancement of a decent variety in the work environment. My present association is looking for an Executive Administrative Assistant who will work intimately with an answer to the Chief Legal Officer. My organization obviously, empowers everybody who is keen on the situation to apply as we are at last looking to enlist the best individual for the position. As the HR Director, I have seen a few episodes that finished with legitimate activity because specific business laws were not utilized while making the association’s enrollment strategies and application process. I must guarantee that I shield the association from lawful repercussions, as well as devise compelling strategies and plans that secure potential and existing representatives. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans Disabilities Acts are just a couple of the
- 5. fundamental laws that add to the work laws that are expected of bosses to use amid all phases of the enlisting procedure. Enrollment or Employment Methods Conveying the accessibility of business chances to work searchers is the initial phase in the enrollment procedure. It is critical that business laws are remembered when creating enrollment techniques for an association. As the HR Director, I have chosen that the best and best enrollment strategies for my association are 1) Social Media 2) Job Advertisements and 3) Employment/Recruitment Agencies. Online networking has assumed control over this age and is associating individuals in more routes than one. Numerous associations are bouncing on the online networking fleeting trend and have begun their own Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts. More professionally, there are internet-based life organizing locales particularly for job seekers like LinkedIn, Monster, Indeed, among others. These can be utilized as incredible selecting apparatuses because they are not that costly, and they can achieve an awesome measure of individuals in a short measure of time. Notwithstanding publicizing work openings, web-based life gives the association another approach to check data given by the candidate. Being dynamic via web- based networking media administrations like Twitter enables you to 'meet' potential competitors from multiple points of view: through shared associations, through shared talk subjects, and because it's simple for work searchers to get in touch with you. A fourth of UK organizations are enlisting using expert systems administration locales like LinkedIn. Your internet-based life movement likewise extends your boss image, indicating hopefuls what your authoritative culture resembles. That is incredible for drawing in top ability,
- 6. accepting your way of life is great. It works the other much as well. Organizations can utilize internet-based life to screen competitors, surveying their reasonableness considering the substance of their online posts (Simpson et al. 2006). Another employment technique my association would use is put work ads, essentially in print, in places that our non-innovative group would have the capacity to get to effortlessly. For instance, daily papers, announcements, radio ads, release load up postings and flyers would be an extraordinary method to convey work chances to people in general. As required by most separation laws, the wording of need promotions and different kinds of occupation declarations must be nonpartisan. Its development demonstrates the quality of Internet promoting — it's anticipated to surpass TV as the greatest advertisement medium by 2019. Publicizing on enlistment sites guarantees a possibly broad reach with ease. Employment searchers can utilize Google to discover sorts of occupation at a scope of the most common enrollment sites. Furthermore, it takes just a couple of minutes to set up a promotion. You can likewise promote opportunities all alone corporate sites, even though advertisements might be less obvious than those on real locales (Simpson et al. 2006). Ability look is another technique for selecting new representatives or laborers. The notoriety of online enlistment has influenced the ability to look through a doable contrasting option to work publicizing. Prevalent enlistment destinations hold databases of thousands of CVs, which you can seek utilizing catchphrases to discover potential hopefuls. There are entanglements: the procedure can be tedious and put away CVs may not generally be breakthrough. Numerous enlistment offices additionally offer ability look administrations utilizing their database of employment searchers. An ever-increasing number of organizations are utilizing center abilities
- 7. evaluations that identify with the organization's needs and to the individual expected a set of responsibilities. Many center capabilities are general, for example, respectability and reliability, yet are essential for any individual who works inside a group (Simpson et al. 2006). Different capabilities, for example, aggressiveness and critical thinking, might be more significant to occupations, for example, deals with staff or directors who are continually given due dates, objectives, resistance or industry changes. Utilize open-finished inquiries and pretending to assess a select's level of skill. For instance, request that a list clarified an occurrence when they needed to manage a steamed client and afterward to talk about the result of that circumstance. Another thought is to give a theoretical situation, for example, “Envision that you strolled into the store and discovered somebody’s wallet left on the counter.” Avoiding Discrimination during Hiring Process When utilizing every one of the above enrollment techniques, there are various routes for staying away from segregation while enlisting representatives. One of them is to dissect and detail the aptitude and abilities required. For this situation, it is imperative to be when posting these prerequisites and distinguishes whether the ability and aptitudes will be used promptly after employing, or if they will be found out at work or through gave preparing. For example, a sales representative ought to have what it takes to advertise your item or administration and close arrangements adequately; in any case, the points of interest of your specific offering conceivably can be learned at work (Simpson et al. 2006). Furthermore, while enlisting on the web, to keep away from separation, it is imperative to solicit similar inquiries from all applicants – and maintain a strategic distance from unlawful
- 8. ones. It is basic to build up a rundown of inquiries considering your examination of the position and be steady when asking them. Given the hopeful's answers, your subsequent inquiries may change. Make sure to incorporate inquiries concerning past work involvement, at work situations, and inquiries that survey the hopeful's capacities as a rule territory, for example, self- inspiration or relational aptitudes. It is vital that all candidates have risen to a chance to take an interest in their meeting and clarify why they are the correct decision for the activity. At long last, production of a point by point portrayal of the activity obligations and duties of the position is vital in dispensing with segregation cases. In such manner, it is critical to list fundamental occupation capacities and other “significant” obligations required by the activity, starting with errands that should be performed first, and lesser assignments toward the end. Five Steps for Maintaining All Applicants' Records For a recently made position or while deciding if another position is required, it is vital to: i) Understand and mull over key objectives for the University as well as the office. Are there any up and coming changes that may affect this part? ii) Conduct a speedy examination of UC Core Competencies. Are there any holes? What center aptitudes are absent from the division? Assess the center aptitudes required now and those who might be required later on. iii) Conduct a Job Analysis if this position will be new to your specialty. This will likewise recognize holes. Something else, when whittling down happens; supplanting the
- 9. part is ordinarily the coherent advance to take. Before acquiring endorsement to promote the position, think about the accompanying: iv) As with a recently made position, it might be useful to direct a Job Analysis to tailor the situation to what is as of now required and to guarantee appropriate characterization. Your HR Classification Analyst can help with auditing and finishing (Simpson et al. 2006). v) Review the part and choose if there are any progressions required for specific errands and obligations performed by the past individual may not or ought not to be performed by the new individual Business Tests Various business tests are typically done and utilized by organizations. Some of them include: a) Personality tests Identity appraisals can offer to understand into hopefuls’ social fit and whether their identity can convert into work achievement. Identity tests are winding up progressively mainstream among HR experts, yet there are still significant number misguided judgments about what identity tests are and how they ought to be utilized. Identity tests try to answer the inquiries: Will the competitor be agreeable in this part? Does the competitor have the social characteristics that are connected to accomplishment in this position? Not at all like with inclination tests, there are no rights or wrong answers on identity tests. Rather, these tests measure the degree to which individuals have moderately lasting conduct attributes. Estimating these qualities can enable
- 10. managers to foresee work fit by deciding whether an applicant’s social propensities are a decent counterpart for both the position and the organization culture. Identity attributes have been appeared to relate to work execution in various parts. For instance, sales representatives who score high on extraversion and decisiveness tend to improve the situation. The Big Five model is prominent. Inspiration tests are likewise identity appraisal tests, utilized more every now and again via vocation direction advocates in schools (Simpson et al. 2006). In any case, this test additionally has a few restrictions. Social, attractive quality predisposition assumes an important part in self-detailed tests. Individuals tend to answer given what they think you need to hear and wind up distorting themselves. Ensure the test you pick is intended to get deceptions. A few hopefuls may likewise discover identity surveys intrusive, which could hurt the applicant encounter. Along these lines, be watchful how and when you utilize them. b) Skills appraisal tests Abilities appraisals don't center on learning or dynamic identity characteristics. They measure real aptitudes, either delicate abilities (e.g., tender loving care) or hard abilities (e.g., PC education). For instance, a secretarial hopeful may take a writing test to indicate how quickly and precisely they can type. Different illustrations incorporate information checking tests, and initiative capacity tests, introductions or composing assignments (De, 2011). This test has its impediments as well. Aptitudes appraisal tests are tedious. Applicants require time to submit work or give introductions. Procuring chiefs likewise require time to assess comes about. You can utilize abilities evaluations amid later phases of your enlisting procedure when you have a little competitor pool. Aptitudes tests measure work-related
- 11. abilities; wide ones like verbal, math, and relational abilities, or restricted ones like writing and PC aptitudes (De, 2011). These are abilities that hopefuls have grabbed through their instruction and vocation accounts – these aptitudes don't reflect fundamental inclination however rather reflect obtained learning – what the candidate knows how to do considering past understanding. c) Physical capacity tests Physical capacities tests measure quality and stamina. These characteristics are basic for some, callings (like firefighting). So, they ought to never be disregarded when significant. By augmentation, they'll help decrease work environment mishaps and specialist's remuneration claims. Furthermore, hopefuls won't have the capacity to counterfeit outcomes as effectively similarly with different tests. Occasionally, physical capacity tests may take after therapeutic examinations that are ensured under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In case you're not cautious, you could confront suit. You ought to likewise take into consideration contrasts in sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity when deciphering your hopefuls' outcomes, for a similar reason. Employment and Promotion Policies for Executive Administrative Assistant Indistinct advancement approaches can make clashes and high turnover rates among representatives who don't comprehend why collaborators got an advancement rather than them. Issues may not end there if ambiguous advancement strategies additionally seem unfair. Bosses can maintain a strategic distance from such troubles by making a straightforward advancement arrangement and reliably apply that approach's models to every representative looking for
- 12. progression. 1. A powerful advancement arrangement centers around propelling representatives given their aptitudes and execution, not bias (Powell, 2011). Organizations hazard placing individuals in occupations they can't deal with when advancements aren't founded on laborers' capacities. Also, bosses who don't construct representative progression considering employment execution could confront claims if specialists attest that the advancement procedure is oppressive. In such cases, laborers would need to demonstrate that a business damaged Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The enactment disallows organizations from denying work advancements because of specialists' age, sexual orientation, race or different qualities. 2. It is vital to decide the base criteria for headway and make representatives mindful of the benchmarks they must meet to win advancements. For instance, representatives may need to work with an organization for no less than two years previously they're qualified for advancement or meet certain standards to progress inside an organization (De, 2011). 3. Make posting all employment opportunities in the work environment part of your advancement strategy, so headway open doors are available to every single qualified applicant. In 2007, the sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals established that a representative could sue a business for not posting employment opportunities. The choice came about because of a case including a 50-year-old Tractor Supply Company worker who affirmed he wasn't considered for advancement to a not publicly broadcast position due to his age. The court decided the organization wasn't liable of age separation. Assess every single qualified representative for advancement in a similar way to keep away from the presence of partiality or
- 13. segregation. For instance, guarantee a contracting director looks at execution evaluations and utilizations them to choose the best contender for advancement. Keep the application survey process predictable by deciding the significance of different capabilities and judging all competitors on those components (Paludi, 2012). Difficulties and Potential Adverse Impact of utilizing Subjective Criteria The significant difficulties and potential unfavorable effect of utilizing subjective criteria for surveying delicate aptitudes are various. This is because most contracting choices are predicated on some part on subjective criteria (Paludi, 2012). How about we take for instance, “Demeanor and relational abilities” which are on the best the enlisting criteria and without a doubt, the test is that at least one individual surveyed these attributes from the Phil's employing group given how the applicants introduced themselves at the meeting. This employing approach is generally polished by organizations the nation over and despised by government requirement offices. Besides, courts inspecting subjective contracting criteria have not inside and out precluded their utilization, but rather have advised against their progression since they are “effortlessly manufactured” (Paludi, 2012). As of late in Wingate v. Gage County School District, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a business' utilization of subjective criteria did not make an induction of age segregation when target criteria were likewise used to settle on the word of choice. These difficulties can be moderated by using the accompanying: - Make the state of mind and relational abilities an express criterion in sets of responsibilities and rundowns of least
- 14. occupation necessities - Describe its activity relatedness and business legitimization - Assess whether the criteria are making an unfriendly effect - Implement "shields" in the enlisting procedure depict in OFCCP Guidance Work-Life Conflicts The successful administration of work/life adjust (WLB) is an issue progressively perceived as of key significance to associations and of criticalness to representatives. We contend that associations must draw in and hold esteemed workers in an exceptionally aggressive work showcase is a solid spurring factor for expanded hierarchical mindfulness and activity as to usage and administration of WLB techniques. The primary work-life strife is monetary and scene and the social weights of the advanced world, which have drastically changed how work influences individuals around the world. The other work-life struggle is the authoritative culture of a dominant part of American managers (Paludi, 2012). It doesn't make a difference what industry or calling, regardless of whether the business is a pipes supply house or the best flight New York law office, the "supervisor" does not just can influence work-life approaches and workloads, they likewise set the tone at the workplace for how every worker adjusts function and life. Usually for human asset officials to find that the CEO does not bolster work-life activities because the CEO sees these projects as “delicate issues” of faculty administration. Human asset officials regularly find that work-life programs are an extreme pitch to CEO and other corporate officers in light of the brain research of the official and the humanism or culture of the working environment (Paludi, 2012).
- 15. A few organizations find that work-life programs increment their incentive to potential representatives, in this way pulling in and holding astounding applicants. A recent report directed by Work and Family Connection, Inc. overview 153 U.S. associations to explore the profundity and the impression of the accomplishment of introduced work-life programs. A case of a "work-life" adjust being connected to a control-based association is a private manager (with no less than 50 representatives) sticking to government law (Family Medical Leave Act) and holding a pregnant worker's activity amid her unpaid maternity leave, if she has been utilized for no less than multi-year before her maternity clear out. The business, in this case, is utilizing the representative's status with the association, and additionally the FMLA statute, as measures in deciding if her maternity leave will end her activity. The business isn't considering the representative when settling on her choice and is rather depending on outside powers to spare cash and to escape social duty (Powell, 2011). Reference De, B. S. (2011). Managing cultural diversity . Maidenhead: Meyer & Meyer. Hardina, D., Middleton, J., Montana, S., & Simpson, R. (2006). Empowering Approach to Managing Social Service Organizations . New York: Springer Publishing Company. Paludi, M. A. (2012). Managing diversity in today’s workplace: Strategies for employees and employers
- 16. . Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. Powell, G. N. (2011). Managing a diverse workforce: Learning activities . Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric found here.