[SOLVED] Human Resources policies and procedures

Assignment #6b: Human Resources Assignment Human Resources policies and procedures
Points: 100
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is review Human Resources policies and procedures within the company you are conducting your internship.
• Skills: As a result of completing this assignment you will apply concepts learned in HMD 259, review the specifics of a manager’s job description, and gain interviewing skills and practice written professional letter writing.
• Knowledge: This assignment will allow you to discuss many HR issues managers deal with on a daily basis.
Task: To complete this assignment: Select a manager who directly supervises you or one that you have observed managing employees where you are interning and interview them for this assignment. Students who have not covered this material in any of their classes to date will
need to do independent research to support your discussion of these topics.
Meet with the management level employee and discuss following areas:
1. Manager’s job description
2. Department/company’s organizational chart
3. Scheduling Policies and Procedures
Interview and observe a manager while they are preparing an employee schedule.
Discuss how the following influence the employee schedule?
A. Union Contracts
B. FLMA
C. Vacation
D. Requested days off
E. Others
4. Recruitment, Selection, and Hiring Procedures
Explain the procedure for hiring employees. Discuss the following:
A. How are the openings advertised?
B. Explained the interviews procedure
C. How are the interviews conducted
D. Which company forms are completed upon hiring
5. Training Procedures
Explain the procedure for training employees. Discuss the following:
A. Is it formal or informal?
B. Who is responsible on training hourly employees?
C. How long is the training for?
6. Discipline Procedures
Explain how employees are disciplining
A. Is there a union contract? If so, explain the discipline procedures
B. How is discipline administered?
C. How are employees terminated?
• Report your discussion findings in a paper.
• This assignment may require you to interview more than one manager. Be sure to
include the manager’s name, title, and contact information within the assignment.
• Include references to your human resources course, an HR textbook, websites and/or
journal articles.
• Write a “thank-you” letter to the manager(s) for the time they took for the interview.
This must be a professional letter, either typed in hard copy or emailed. Include this
letter as part of the submission for this assignment.
Criteria for Success: A successful assignment will have the following characteristics:
• A well-formatted assignment meets the following requirements:
o Double-spaced using 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper
o Three pages (1500-2000 words) minimum – you can always write more
o 1-inch margins on the top, bottom, left, and right
o 12-point font (Arial or Times Roman)
o Headings and, if appropriate, sub-headings used to help organize paper (Use the
numbers provided above for your section headings..)
o Citations for any ideas not the student’s own are fully and accurately cited so a
third party can easily find the original source (APA format).
o Use in text citations and submit a reference list.
o Professional language used in the assignment write up and the thank you letter.
• Save file as: last name first initial HRassign (for example sammonsg HRassign)
• Submit your assignment by 10:00 pm on the due date.
• Late assignments will not be accepted.