What marketing channel do banks normally use?

Question 2: Emerging HR Trends Discuss three current or future trends impacting the HR profession. What opportunities and challenges might these trends present for HR and for the organization? As a human resource professional, what new skills and/or competencies would you need to further develop to adapt to these trends and to continue to be successful in your role?

Question 1: HR Professional Ethics

Part A: Read the SHRM Code of Ethics. Review the guidelines under the category of Professional Development. Propose and discuss a learning opportunity that you will pursue to achieve one or more goals related to these guidelines.

Part B: Discuss three examples of ethical challenges that HR professionals may encounter as they apply to modern organizations. Discuss how you would address each situation (not necessarily the solution, but how you would approach the problem). Use the resources provided to support your ideas.

What do you think are the most important trends that will influence marketing in domestic and international markets?

Upward mobility is important to all organizations and particularly critical to employees. Traditional career paths emphasize strict upward mobility within an organization. How does mobility differ in organizations with innovative career paths? List the career paths discussed in our text, sharing not only how mobility occurs in each, but also how you might have observed such practices or the lack of them in your own experience. How do you feel about these innovative career paths?

an evaluation of the effectiveness of transactional and transformational leadership in business. In your evaluation, do the following:

• Describe two well-known business leaders who respectively exhibit transactional and transformational business leadership behavior, and explain how each business leader exemplifies the identified type of leadership.
• Explain whether you believe that transformational leadership is the most effective type of business leadership and why. Be sure to include specific examples, if any, in which transactional leadership might be more appropriate.
• Describe any potential negative consequences of transformational leadership

Alice smith purchased a toy chest at Target. Once she got home, she assembled the toy chest, but neglected to read the instructions provided by the manufacturer, Let's Play!. Unfortunately, at the end she realized she had some parts left over. Not wanting to start over, she decided that the chest worked well enough and filled it with toys. She threw out the remaining parts. The next day, Alice and her mother, Alexandra Miler, spent the afternoon playing with children in the living room, where the toy chest was located. As they were tidying up, they opened the lid to the toy chest. As they were doing so, the lid on the chest, unexpectedly slammed shut on Alexandra's arm causing bruises, scraps and cuts as well as broken bones.

Alexandra sues Let's Play! for $100,000 in damages based on a claim of strict product liability. What does Miller have to establish to prove her case of strict product liability? List all elements she must show to prove her claim. Apply the elements to the facts in the case. Judgment for whom?

A. What are the three key components/categories of effective teams?

B. Under each of these categories, discuss briefly a few of factors that add or detract from team effectiveness and why.

People have done some amazing things to get or keep money! Think of a potential or real issue of an ethical dilemma in compensation. Define the issue and think about what you did or might do under similar circumstances. What would an HR professional and company need to do to avoid or put systems in place to guard against this type of problem, especially with pay for performance plans.  

do you believe that geographical region, occupation, and role in your occupation make a difference in how you handle conflict? Why?

A. What is the difference between formal and informal groups? Give an example of each.

B. There are at least 7 ways group cohesiveness can be increased. Pick three and describe them.

C. What is social loafing, and why does it occur (name at least two possible causes) ?

Our text tells us that the behavior of group members is shaped by the workgroups, which " help explain individual behaviors as well as the performance of the group." ( Robbins & Judge, p.139) There are several defining group properties including roles, norms, status, size, cohesiveness, and diversity. Pick three and give a brief explanation of how each might affects the workgroup positively and/or negatively.

Motivation is one of the major areas of interest in organizational behavior (OB). Properly motivating a workforce can lead to gains in productivity, innovation, and employee retention. There are three key elements of motivation. Please describe them.

When a Body Meets a Body

What a day! A traveling couple has stopped overnight at this airport hotel to break up 27 hours of travel from almost around the world. It is already late, almost 11:00 pm when they finally get to their room. What’s that noise? A party in the room across the hall. After giving the partygoers an additional hour to finish up, the distraught guest calls the desk. No answer after some 10 rings. Every 10 minutes the caller rings the desk because the party has grown louder and louder and it is now well past 1 am. No answer. No answer. No answer. More than 2 hours after arriving, the man puts on his clothing and walks down to the lobby. The lobby is pitch dark except for emergency lighting. “Wow, something has happened. Oh Gosh! There’s a body on the sofa!” The guest is startled even more when the night auditor jumps up from the sofa and his deep sleep, mumbling something about; “sorry I must have fallen asleep.”

Questions:

1. Was there a management failure here? If so, what?

2. What is the hotel’s immediate response (or action) to the incident?

3. What further, long-run action should management take? If any?