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PAD 530 All Assignments (2 Set)

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PAD 530 Assignment 1 Rationale and Analysis for Agency Selected Part I (2 Papers) PAD 530 Assignment 2 Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration (2 Papers) PAD 530 Assignment 3 Agency’s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce (2 Papers) PAD 530 Assignment 4 Analysis of the Agency’s Policies, Procedures, and Plans Regarding Unions, Privatization, Pension (2 Papers) PAD 530 Assignment 5 Preparing for the Agency’s Future Presentation (2 PPT)


-----------------------------------------------PAD 530 Assignment 1 Rationale and Analysis for Agency Selected Part I (2 Papers)

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Assignment 1 Rationale and Analysis for Agency Selected, Part 1

Due Week 2 and worth 100 points Refer to the Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Write a three to four (34) page paper, titled Rationale and Analysis for Agency Selected, Part 1


1. Provide background information about the agency’s key historical events, mission, and goals / objectives. (Title this section Introduction) 2. Describe at least three (3) functions of this agency, highlighting the public it serves. (Title this section Agency Functions) 3. Analyze at least two (2) current events involving the agency that might have implications to personnel management. (Use the eActivities from Week 1 and Week 2.) (Title this section Agency News) 4. Explain the rationale for selecting this agency with at least two (2) justifiable reasons. (Title this section Rationale for Selecting Agency) 5. List at least four (4) academic sources and government Websites you expect to access in your research. (Include no more than one (1) nongovernment Website)

-----------------------------------------------PAD 530 Assignment 2 Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration (2 Papers)

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Assignment 2 Evaluation of Agency’s Public Personnel Administration, Part 2

Due Week 4 and worth 180 points Refer to the Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Write a four to six (46) page paper in which you

1. Revise the previous assignment based on your professor’s feedback. 2. Analyze the organizational design of the selected agency’s human resource management in relationship to the entire organization. Assess its strengths and weaknesses. (Title this section Organizational Design) 3. Assess the agency in terms of its global or international linkages, highlighting its application of theory to its approach to personnel management. (Title this section Global Linkages and Personnel Management)

-----------------------------------------------PAD 530 Assignment 3 Agency’s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce (2 Papers)


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Assignment 3 Agency’s Law and Ethics of Hiring a Diverse Workforce, Part 3

Due Week 7 and worth 180 points

Refer to the Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Write a four to six (46) page paper in which you

1. Revise the previous assignment based on your professor’s feedback.


2. Analyze at least three (3) laws and court decisions that have implications to the agency’s personnel management. (Title this section Laws Affecting the Agency) 3. Analyze at least five (5) of the major components of the agency’s human resource system’s goals and practices regarding the recruitment and hiring of a diversified workforce, including race, ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. (Title this section Personnel Recruitment and Hiring Practices)

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Assignment 4 Analysis of the Agency’s Policies, Procedures, and Plans Regarding Unions, Privatization, Pensions, and Productivity, Part 4

Due Week 9 and worth 220 points

Refer to the Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Write a four to six (46) page paper in which you

1. Revise the previous assignment based on your professor’s feedback. 2. Analyze at least three (3) of the agency’s policies, procedures, and / or plans regarding unions. (Title this section The Agency and Unions) 3. Analyze at least three (3) of the agency’s policies, procedures, and / or plans regarding privatization. (Title this section The Agency and Privatization) 4. Analyze at least three (3) of the agency’s policies, procedures, and / or plans regarding pensions. (Title this section Employee Pension Plans) 5. Assess the agency’s approach to productivity and performance evaluation. (Title this section Productivity and Performance Evaluation)

-----------------------------------------------PAD 530 Assignment 5 Preparing for the Agency’s Future Presentation (2 PPT)


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Assignment 5 Preparing for the Agency’s Future, Part 5

Due Week 10 and worth 100 points

Refer to the Scenario for Assignments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of eight to ten (810) slides. Address the agency’s future using the following criteria (taken from Chapter 12)

1. Analyze at least three (3) challenges of succession planning for your selected agency.


2. Propose at least three (3) components of effective implementation of succession planning.

-----------------------------------------------PAD 530 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2

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PAD 530 Week 1 Discussion 1, “Public Human Resource Management� Please respond to the following: Analyze the topics discussed in Chapter 1, with the exception of the laws. Select two topics and discuss two positive effects and two challenges the topic poses for human resource departments in the public sector. PAD 530 Week 1 Discussion 2,


“Public Human Resource Management in the News” Please respond to the following: From the e-Activities, discuss the current event you reviewed from the selected federal, state, or local agency and determine the cause of the issue, noting if the cause was due to neglected public bureaucracies from elected and appointed officials. Discuss at least two results of the issue.

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PAD 530 Week 1 Discussion 1, “Public Human Resource Management” Please respond to the following: • Analyze the topics discussed in Chapter 1, with the exception of the laws. Select two topics and discuss two positive effects and two challenges the topic poses for human resource departments in the public sector.


PAD 530 Week 1 Discussion 2, “Public Human Resource Management in the News” Please respond to the following: • From the e-Activities, discuss the current event you reviewed from the selected federal, state, or local agency and determine the cause of the issue, noting if the cause was due to neglected public bureaucracies from elected and appointed officials. Discuss at least two results of the issue.

PAD 530 Week 2 Discussion 1,

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PAD 530 Week 2 Discussion 1, “Building HRM Capacity” Please respond to the following:


Imagine you are the consultant for the agency you selected in the Week 1 e-Activity (you may choose from one of the e-Activities). Assume the selected agency is large but poorly performing in a highly visible public program which did not have performance measures for employees. The public program serves over two million citizens across the 52 states. Propose and provide a rationale for two change strategies to address the agency’s performance. Propose two methods of performance measures for the department to meet within six months. Provide a rationale for each method.

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PAD 530 Week 3 Discussion 1, “Hiring in the Federal Government” Please respond to the following: Debate It: Building on the discussion of your selected agency from the previous week discussion, take a position for or against the “Rule of


Three” approach. Discuss two reasons and examples to support your position. Using your selected agency, analyze the reasons for and practice of recruiting and hiring a qualified workforce.

PAD 530 Week 3 Discussion 2 Debate It: Take a position for or against this statement: Government agencies should purpose to hire people from different ethnic, racial, and gender groups. Provide at least two reasons and examples to support your position.

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DQ 1: “Affirmative Action and the Law” Please respond to the following:


Debate It: Take a position for or against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 1986 on the use of affirmative action in hiring, promotion, and layoffs for your agency. Provide at two reasons and examples to support your position. DQ:2 “Ethics Management and Training” Please respond to the following: Analyze the topics discussed in Chapter 17 and provide two (2) strengths and two (2) weaknesses of diversity training during new employee orientation. Provide examples to support your answer.

-----------------------------------------------PAD 530 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2

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PAD 530 Week 5 Discussion 1 “Generational Differences and the Public Sector Workplace” Please respond to the following:


Analyze the descriptions of generations from traditionalists to Generation. Assess your own category and discuss the ways you agree and differ from the description, indicating which generation best describes you. Provide three reasons and examples for your position. Assume you have performed an analysis of your agency’s workforce and have concluded that over 30% of employees will retire within the next 24 months and another 35% in five years. Currently, the workforce of 650 employees has 40% baby boomers and 60% Generation X-ers and Generation Y-ers. Your observations indicate that the baby boomers distrust the Generation X-ers and Y-ers, appear to disrespect the baby boomers. Recommend two strategies you could implement to address and change this situation for the better. Provide a rationale for your views.

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PAD 530 Week 6 Discussion 1


“Chronic Health Issues and the Public Workplace” Please respond to the following: Analyze the issues involved in controlling costs for disabled and chronically ill employees. Discuss two major challenges and recommend two strategies your agency will implement.

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PAD 530 Week 7 Discussion 1

“Public Employee Unions in a New Era” Please respond to the following: Refer to Chapter 8, which points out that the New Era of public employee unions has nothing to do with who controls federal policy


making in Washington, D.C. The chapter focuses on the issues that public employees face daily as a result of agency mandates, policies, and procedures that can, at any time, have an adverse impact on job performance as well as fiscal constraints and budgetary resources. Assume your agency wants to discourage union involvement. Recommend at least two strategies your agency could implement to encourage and discourage its employees from seeking union representation.

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PAD 530 Week 8 Discussion 1

“Public Sector Pensions and Benefits� Please respond to the following:


Review the author’s statement in Chapter 13: “New-generation human resource managers must add to their work portfolios how to help employees make appropriate decisions about participation, contribution, and even investment in their benefit packages so that they better enable themselves when they retire to maintain the standard of living they had when they were working.� Analyze your own retirement pension and benefits package, (or absence of a company-provided package) and offer three pieces of advice to Generation X-ers and Generation Y-ers regarding their retirement. Discuss at least two pros and two cons of allowing public employees to bargain collectively with their agencies about their retirement benefits (OPEB). (Refer to Table 13.4 Benefits Reform Dimensions in Chapter 13.)

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PAD 530 Week 9 DQ 1 and DQ 2

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Analyze this scenario: The Department of Social Services has lost 25% of its federal funding for the next fiscal year, leaving the budget at a $128,000 deficit. Within the agency, there are 125 full-time employees; the average pay for all employees is $39,000, 75% female and 25% male. In addition, 25% of employees have been with the agency for over 20 years, 20% are near retirement age in three years, and 50% are under the age of 30. From the eActivity, discuss at least two of the eight obstacles and opportunities that best address an agency’s challenge of 45% of its workforce retiring in the next 36 months. Provide a rationale for your views.

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PAD 530 Week 10 Discussion 1


“Human Resources Management in Nonprofit Organizations� Please respond to the following: Debate It: First: Review Chapter 3: Generational Differences and the Public Sector Workforce and Chapter 6: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Employees in the Public Sector Workforce. Second: Take a position for or against this statement: religious organizations have a right to be exempt from federal guidelines regarding the employment of lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. Provide a rationale for your views.

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Assume that you have been selected as an expert panelist at the next Society for Human Resource Management seminar to discuss the future of federal employees. Discuss at least two points that you would address in your speech regarding their future


A clearly defined competency-based selection process can aid in recruiting, demonstrate fairness, encourage diversity and simplify the process of filing new openings. The future of federal employees or local and state employees could depend on their competency and their ability to be re skilled for leadership.

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