ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND MANAGEMENT

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

BS in Accounting; BS in Business Administration; BS in Business Analytics; BS in Business Information Systems; BS in Business Management; BS in Entrepreneurial Studies; BS in Finance; BS in Finance and Economics; BS in Hospitality Management; BS in Marketing and Advertising; BS in Sports Management; BS in Supply Chain and Logistics Management

1.1: Demonstrate skills for effective collaboration, negotiation, and teamwork.

BS in Applied Management

1.4: Demonstrate skills for effective collaboration, negotiation, and teamwork.

BS in Homeland Security and Emergency Management

2.2: Demonstrate skills for effective collaboration, negotiation, and teamwork.

The major responsibilities of human resources management (HRM) are attracting, developing, and maintaining a quality workforce. Research an organization, with which you are familiar, that is in need of a change and present how you will manage the change process by incorporating the three essential duties of HRM. Throughout this assignment, teammates will need to demonstrate skills for effective collaboration, negotiation, and teamwork.

Address following in your presentation:

1. Provide an overview of the organization you have chosen including three subsystems of the organization, three stakeholders of the organization, and the reason for selecting this organization.
2. What one major organizational subsystem needs to be changed in the organization? Justify your choice. How does it compare to a similar successful organization?
3. How will the subsystem change affect the two other subsystems within the organization that you have identified and how will you realign the total system?
4. Identify and explain how you would ensure that the proposed change will satisfy any three stakeholders of the organization?
5. How should the organization attract, develop, and maintain the workforce required to bring about your proposed change?
   1. Choose at least one of the following in your discussion about attracting a quality workforce to support the change in Questions 2 and 3 above: human resource planning, recruitment, or selection.
   2. Choose at least one of the following in your discussion about developing a quality workforce to support the change in Questions 2 and 3 above: (and this must tie in to 5a too): employee orientation, training and development, or performance appraisal.
   3. Choose at least one of the following in your discussion about maintaining a quality workforce to support the change in Questions 2 and 3 above (and must relate to 5a and 5b): career development, work-life balance, compensation and benefits, employee retention and turnover, or labor-management relations.