Explain how HR managers can be instrumental in helping a company create a competitive advantage. Ethics and Biblical Worldview

Part 1

Navigate to the threaded discussion below, respond to the following using the bold headings below in your post: HR’s Role: A significant role for HR professionals is to be knowledgeable about the field of HR. SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) has recently implemented the SHRM Learning Assessment, an exam that tests a student’s (those within one year of graduation – one year prior to or one year following graduation) knowledge of HR. Review the SHRM website detailing this assessment ( http://www.shrm.org/external/assuranceoflearning/index.html), then answer the questions that follow. What advantages to taking the exam are there for the student? For the current or potential employer? Are there any disadvantages? Explain. HRM Concepts: Give at least one example of how HR management concepts and techniques can be of use to all managers. Explain. HR Laws: Identify the main features of one of the following: Title VII, the Equal Pay Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. HR Competitive Advantage: Explain how HR managers can be instrumental in helping a company create a competitive advantage. Ethics and Biblical Worldview. Explain the basic concepts of ethics and fair treatment at work, what shapes ethical behavior, HR’s role in establishing organizational ethics, and how that role might be better informed by a Biblical worldview

Part 2

Provide examples for Siemens of at least four strategically required organizational outcomes, and four required workforce competencies and behaviors. Identify at least four strategically relevant HR system policies and activities that Siemens has instituted in order to help human resource management contribute to achieving Siemens’ strategic goals. Provide a brief illustrative outline of a strategy map for Siemens. This may be included directly in the initial post discussion window or a document showing your map may be attached to your initial post.