JWI 522: Assignment 1 HR Snapshot Template (Students to replace RED text with their own content) Mission Values/Behaviors Write the mission of the organization. Include additional team (or divisional) mission statements, if applicable. What are the stated values (or behaviors) of the company? HR’s Importance to the CEO and C-Suite Provide a brief summary of the relationship between your HR department and the CEO and C-Suite. Use specific examples where possible to support your assessment (such as inclusion in key strategy and budgeting meetings). You should also address less formal metrics such as whether the CEO sees the head of HR as a trusted partner in running the company or whether HR is primarily viewed as a service function. Since you are being asked for candor in your assessment, present things as you see them. Be direct and honest. HR Successes and Wins How has HR contributed to the success of the organization in your eyes? Provide examples of key strategic wins if they exist. If not, focus on the day-to-day operational efficacy of the team. Don’t embellish and don’t let your ego (or wishful thinking) obscure the truth. If you feel there is a discrepancy between your views on this and the views of the CEO, address this in your comments. Top Competitors Biggest Threats Biggest Opportunities Who are we up against? What do we know about their talent management practices? What can cause us to lose our competitive advantage? How can we win? What are the implications for talent development needs? How does HR spend its time now? What are the most pressing talent development and staffing needs to help the company win? Provide a snapshot of the size of the team, the roles/specialties on the team and how time is allocated to various functions — hiring and firing, compliance, benefits, strategic planning, budgeting, training & development, etc. What’s needed to help the company fulfill its mission and meet its strategic initiatives? Think beyond the tactical (e.g., fill all our open positions by the end of the quarter) and address ‘big picture’ needs. Note: when you finish entering your notes, there will be a side-by-side list created with the previous question highlighting alignment (or lack thereof) between what’s happening now and what’s needed. © Strayer University. All Rights Reserved. This document contains Strayer University confidential and proprietary information and may not be copied, further distributed, or otherwise disclosed, in whole or in part, without the expressed written permission of Strayer University. This document is subject to change based on the needs of the class. JWMI 522 — Assignment 1 Template (1212) Page 1 of 2 Talent Masters Scorecard (see pages 18 — 20 of The Talent Masters Chapter 1 for a brief summary of each principle) Principle Synopsis of Current Situation Score (1= L0W; 5 = HIGH) 1. Enlightened Leadership Team 2. Meritocracy Through Differentiation 3. Working Values 4. A Culture of Trust and Candor 5. Rigorous Talent Assessment 6. A Business Partnership with Human Resources 7. Continuous Learning and Improvement © Strayer University. All Rights Reserved. This document contains Strayer University confidential and proprietary information and may not be copied, further distributed, or otherwise disclosed, in whole or in part, without the expressed written permission of Strayer University. This document is subject to change based on the needs of the class. JWMI 522 — Assignment 1 Template (1212) Page 2 of 2 JWI 522: Strategic Partnering with the C-Suite Assignment 1 Assignment 1: HR Scorecard The View from the Top Due: Sunday, Midnight of Week 2 (10% of total grade) Overview You can’t expect to earn a seat at the table if you don’t understand what matters to the other leaders who are already at the table. Elevating HR to a strategic partnership with the C-Suite requires a deep knowledge of the business. This includes the competitive landscape, how the business makes money, and the threats and opportunities the business faces. It also requires that the very essence of the company — its mission and values — forms the foundation for every hiring, firing, compensation and talent development initiative that HR and the business leaders undertake. In this assignment, you are given the opportunity to develop a brief ‘snapshot’ document to be used as a visual support for an initial meeting a between a newly hired, or recently promoted, CHRO and the CEO and CFO. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how well current talent-development efforts and the HR function as a whole support the Mission, Values and Strategy of the organization. In other words, are the things that HR is spending its time on the same things the C-Suite actually cares about? Instructions For this assignment, you will use your own organization and place yourself in the role of the senior-most HR leader. Because this is a meeting with C-Suite executives, you know that presenting a long written document is not the right way to support the discussion or to demonstrate your executive presence. You decide to create an executive brief that does two things: (1) demonstrates your knowledge of the business and (2) presents a snapshot of how the HR role is currently functioning. Submission Requirements 1. Use the template and scorecard provided as a guide. You may modify these to create a more visually interesting layout if it supports your synopsis, as long as your submission addresses all required components. • Page 1 is a snapshot of the business and includes brief summaries of your assessment of the top priorities in elevating the HR function in ways that will improve the profitability of the company. • Page 2 is a scorecard using the ‘7 Principles of The Talent Masters’ as a way to summarize your observations of the corporate culture and practices in your organization that impact HR and talent development. 2. Type your notes (in brief) into each of the cells in the template. You may expand as needed but your entire submission must be no more than 3 pages in length. © Strayer University. All Rights Reserved. This document contains Strayer University confidential and proprietary information and may not be copied, further distributed, or otherwise disclosed, in whole or in part, without the expressed written permission of Strayer University. This document is subject to change based on the needs of the class. JWI 522 — Assignment 1 (1212) Page 1 of 2 JWI 522: Strategic Partnering with the C-Suite Assignment 1 RUBRIC: Assignment 1 CRITERIA Unsatisfactory Low Pass Pass High Pass 1. HR Snapshot Template was missing or had multiple sections left blank and/or content was off topic. All sections were completed but content demonstrated only superficial understanding of issues and research into competitive environment. Met basic requirements but lacked detailed content demonstrating understanding of key issues. Very good summaries of each topic demonstrating research and understanding of HR issues and opportunities. Template demonstrated excellent understanding of topics and provided deep insights into HR issues and opportunities. Scorecard was incomplete or contained irrelevant content that demonstrated lack of understanding of the Talent Masters principles. Scorecard presented basic assessment of Talent Masters principles but was confusing and/or rankings were missing. Al Scorecard fields were completed with good synopses and rankings were complete. Content showed basic understanding of issues and principles. Scorecard content was very well organized and provided very good synopses of the situation relating current practices to Talent Masters principles. Scorecard was exceptionally well thought out and provided an excellent synopsis of the situation relating current practices to Talent Masters principles. Document contained numerous spelling and mechanical errors. Summaries were unclear or poorly structured. Document had minor spelling and mechanical errors. Structure and summary were adequate but lacked refinement. Document was free from major errors in spelling and grammar mistakes and made good use of summary to highlight main points. Document was errorfree and well written with very good summaries of content. Document was errorfree and well written with outstanding summaries of content. Weight 45% 2. Scorecard Weight 35% 3. Writing and Mechanics Weight: 20% Honors © Strayer University. All Rights Reserved. This document contains Strayer University confidential and proprietary information and may not be copied, further distributed, or otherwise disclosed, in whole or in part, without the expressed written permission of Strayer University. This document is subject to change based on the needs of the class. 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MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.