Assignment 2-Week 9 HUMA 53 - Principles of Human Resources Management - Winter 2020 Case Study - Start Up Central For this assignment, students are required to pre-read Chapter 8 - Performance Management. Go to page 273, read the case and answer the discussion questions. Students must defend their answers using material from the textbook, class, other resources and personal experiences. Discussion questions: 1. Are there any differences between Melvin as an entrepreneur-in-residence with a stipend as compared to an employee of Start Up Central? 2. As Jocelyn, how would you handle Melvin's absence? How would you ensure that Melvin has clear performance expectations? 3. If this was Melvin's third unexplained absence as compared to his first, how would you set up a set of steps to ensure performance improvement? 4. Is absence a reason for just cause dismissal? Explain the documentation and steps you would have to take to dismiss Melvin for just cause. Due Date: March 5, 2020, before 11:59 pm. Assignments submitted after the due date/time will not be graded. Performance Appraisal Issues Jocelyn took a deep breath and took another look at the clock. It was 5:45 p.m. and still no Melvin. Start Up Central was running its fifth session in the eight-week Hatchery program from 6:00 pm until 8:00 p.m., and Melvin was scheduled to facilitate the session. The front door bells jingled and two more keen entrepreneurs entered the collision space for the reception before the session. They hung up their coats and headed toward the coffee and snack station. joining the other entrepreneurs gathered in anticipation of tonight's session. The event calendar indicated they should expect representatives from 12 early stage companies, although Jocelyn knew from experience that others might decide to show up at the last minute. Tonight was their practice pitch event and all representatives would get the opportunity to spend three minutes describing their business opportunity to the mock investors in the room and receive feedback on their performance The entrepreneurs had been generating their business canvases and crafting their pitch decks in the weeks since the Hatchery program had begun. On the final night just three weeks from tonight, they would be pitching their business opportunities to an angel investment crowd in the greater Toronto area Back when Start Up Central was just getting off the ground, Jocelyn had led the Hatchery program herself, She was the inaugural executive director of Start Up Central, which was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs in the Toronto aren. The group had put seed money into Start Up Central with a view to developing new entrepreneurs in a boot camp type fashion. Jocelyn herself had built a social marketing company that had been acquired by Forbes four years ago. With a successful experience building and then exiting a startup herself. she found the executive director role filled her desire to give back to the community by connecting new entrepreneurs with the various resources they needed to make their business creams come true. Building Start Up Central and setting new entrepreneurs up for success was more than job to Jocelyn, it had become her life's work. But there was reason she had hired Melvin to now shoulder some of the Start Up Central workload Jocely been at hier desk since before 8 am that morning. She had met with their advisory group over