Module five
Business brief: High Performance Organization.
Purpose: This assignment is intended to assess your ability to:
• Discuss methods for enhancing employee morale and job satisfaction to increase business performance.
• Describe methods for measuring employee morale and job satisfaction.
• Analyze methods for supporting positive change in an organization.
• Integrate established human resource management principles into the discussion.
• Write a business report based on 5-step critical thinking decision making model.
Overview: Download the 5-step critical thinking matrix and consider the following:
a. Step 1: Identify the problem(s) and uncertainties based on the assigned problem.
b. Step 2: Obtain information on the matrix.
c. Step 3: Make predictions about the future on the matrix.
d. Step 4: Make decisions by choosing among the alternatives on the matrix.
Your writing as a graduate student should have a clear argument with no repeated or confusing narrative.
Action Items
1- Research various methods for finding and attracting top talent, read chapter 7 and 9.
2- Write a 4-page business brief that covers all upcoming items:
a. Describe the methods your organization currently uses to enhance employee morale and job satisfaction.
b. Based on your research, recommend how the organization can improve employee morale and job satisfaction. Include a rationale for why your recommendations would improve employee morale and job satisfaction and its impact on business performance.
c. Change is a constant element of today’s organizational environment. Describe the methods your organization uses to support positive change.
d. What key result areas in HR morale, job satisfaction, or change has your organization set, why did they choose these metrics, and how are they doing toward meeting those metrics? Review the HR metrics sample .
e. Based on your research and personal experience, discuss how effective the organization’s efforts are in achieving positive change. Recommend ways that the organization can improve its ability to respond positively to change.
