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Imagine yourself as an HRD professional working in a mid-size engineering firm. Of the 3,000 employees in the organization, 2,500 are licensed professional engineers with a continuing education requirement—some with multi-state requirements. What type of continuing education programs would you offer these employees? How would you monitor their professional status? […]

How does diversity affect the organization’s work/life balance, and what ethical considerations exist that may drive the organization to be more work/life balanced? What has been the impact of the role of HR with offshoring, mergers, the economy, and recession? What are other current employment challenges facing the role of […]

Read the article titled “Leading Change in Libraries: A Case Study”. Reflect on your academic career thus far. The decision to continue your formal education was a change that you implemented in your personal life. Whom did you place on your list as a guiding coalition and why? (Note: You do not […]

Create a career development program for yourself. In your program: Identify your career development needs Build your vision for change Develop a plan for action Discuss how you plan to implement this program Discuss how you would evaluate and maintain results Create a career development program for yourself and then […]

Consider the following topics: annual appraisal ratings, appraisal interviews, feedback, goal setting, coaching, linkages to employee development, and linkages to organizational rewards. Using these elements, design what you think would be an effective performance management system. How would you link these requirements to a learning management system? Share the results […]

Read the article titled “Habits as Change Levers”. Reflecting on step eight (8), Institutionalize the Change, identify a change that you implemented or was implemented at an organization with which you are familiar. What impact does an organization’s corporate culture have on maintaining and sustaining change? What steps need to be taken to […]