1. "Employee Retention" Please respond to the following:

Determine three reasons that employees may leave and three reasons employees may stay with an organization.

Outline a retention strategy to your CEO that provides guidance in decreasing the three reasons you mentioned that employees may be leaving.

2. Performance Management and Appraisal" Please respond to the following:

Create an acronym to explain the key objectives of your performance management plan, and define and discuss each letter of the acronym.

Evaluate three reasons employees may react negatively to performance appraisals and discuss the validity of the employees' position from your perspective.

3. Employee Training" Please respond to the following:

Explain how the role of a Chief Learning Officer (CLO) adds value to the human resources organization.

Describe two different training methods, and list one advantage and one disadvantage of using these methods to train employees.

4. Effects of Talent Management" Please respond to the following:

Describe the talent management practices that you have experienced in your career and their effects on your sense of your well-being based upon this type of organizational commitment.

Imagine you ran into your CEO going to a budget meeting. She asked you to explain the importance of adding more funding to the organization's talent management program. You have two minutes of her time to convince her that your ideas would add value. Briefly outline the key points to your strategy.

5. Recruiting and Labor Markets" Please respond to the following:

· Argue either for or against using external recruiters as a general practice for any company. Explain your rationale. Illustrate how your position would affect what you would do as an organizational leader faced with this issue.

· Research a company for which you would like to work, with a focus on their recruiting efforts, make recommendations for how the company you researched can improve its recruiting efforts. Provide specific examples to support your response.

6. Selecting Human Resources" Please respond to the following:

· Analyze the challenges of selecting human resources to determine which part of the process is the most challenging to the greatest number of organizations. Explain your rationale.

· Briefly describe a position you would someday like to hold, and then outline the optimal selection process for such a position. Provide specific examples to support your response.