Unit 2 DB
Defining Your Team
Building Teams
Human resources professionals are frequently assigned to be members of newly formed project teams. In most cases, the HR person's role in the team is to keep the group focused and on task.
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
You have been asked to lead a team on a new project. Discuss the steps that you will take to complete the following:
Ensure that the goals of the team are clearly understood by all members.
Build a strong, cohesive team.
Manage the interactions in the team.
Unit 2 IP
Defining Your Team
Your organization is building a new plant in the southwestern United States. This is the first time that a human resources professional will be part of the design team that is establishing the new personnel systems for the plant. You expect your candidates to be very diverse in their backgrounds and experience levels.
The plant director has asked you to focus on how you will develop the newly hired personnel into a strong team that crosses organizational boundaries within the plant. Prepare a presentation that addresses the following elements of a diverse workforce:
How will you determine whether the candidates are a fit for the team?
Discuss your design for a cross-functional training program that aligns strategic plant goals with each work group.
Identify the training topics that you will use to foster diversity, intergroup relationships, and productivity within the plant.
You must include a minimum of 2 scholarly references. (5-7 slides, excluding title and reference slides, and speaker notes of 200-250 words per slide)
Unit 2 DB
Preventive vs. Curative Services
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments.
This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
As a health care professional for an international health care network, you plan to visit 7 foreign countries this year as part of a communicable disease prevention program.
Before you travel, you need to provide information to your assistants about the health care services in the countries you will be visiting, as well as on the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency that is concerned with international public health.
Research using the Library and other resources to address the following:
Provide examples that show how the WHO is involved with global health care assistance.
Explain the role that the WHO plays in the prevention of communicable diseases.
Select 7 foreign countries, and briefly describe the communicable disease situation in the selected countries. Include your statistics in a table format.
What are the possible sources of financing for programs like the one in which you are involved?
Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 scholarly references using APA format.
Unit 2 IP
Preventive vs. Curative Services
Select 1-3 foreign countries, and provide the following information about the access, quality, and cost of health care:
Compare a foreign country's quality of care to the United States' quality of care.
Compare a foreign country's cost of health care to the United States' cost of health care.
Compare 1 of the foreign countries' access to medical care to the United States' access to medical care.
Give examples of how the World Health Organization (WHO) helps to provide health care in times of need.
Be sure to support your information by citing at least 2 scholarly references using APA format. (3-4 pages)