1. According to almost all estimates, union membership has either remained flat over the last three years or declined. If that trend continues, what effect do you think it will have on the field of human resources? Specifically, how might human capital issues in the workplace be impacted by flat or declining union membership? 400 words

2. When filling open positions in an organization, staffing professionals have a variety of sources to identify and attract applicants.  These options fall into two categories, or pools:  internal and external.

 Research to find:

• The advantages and disadvantages of each of these options,
• The situations in which one option would be better than the other, and then
• Explain your rationale for this decision, using your research findings.

Find at least two scholarly sources addressing this issue.  When researching, it is good to find sources that provide varying perspectives on the same topic. 400 words

3. You have just been hired as a Human Resource Manager in a small, but rapidly growing organization with 160 employees.  During the interview and selection process, the CEO stated that the reason an HRM Manager was needed was because there was an increase in customer complaints concerning errors in shipments of orders.  Errors included incorrect products and quantities, as well as increases in defective products.  The errors seemed to be random; in other words, customers did not know if and when they would receive a correct and complete order or one with missing and/or incorrect or defective products.

You have one non-exempt HR clerical-type employee in the department.

Obviously, this is an important problem for a growing start-up organization. Where would you start to determine what is wrong?  What would you do to quickly, but effectively, correct the problem? 400 words

Find at least two scholarly sources addressing this issue. When researching, it is good to find sources that provide varying perspectives on the same topic.

4. Pick a human resource task or function that tends to be time consuming for HR practitioners. Discuss the pros and cons of automating that task or function. In your response, be sure to consider both organizational and employee perspectives. 500 words