Discussion-Human Resource Management
Critical analysis is a crucial skill for evidence-based leaders. Through organizational analysis, leaders gain the insight, data, and context needed to address organizational performance problems. This assignment challenges your investigatory abilities and provides an opportunity for you to analyze the performance of your chosen organization and the specific management or leadership issue or crisis you are addressing.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze contemporary healthcare issues from an evidence-based leadership perspective.
Analyze the historical background of a current organizational leadership issue or crisis.
Competency 2: Apply evidence-based leadership principles to problem-solving in real-world healthcare organizations.
Identify metrics to evaluate current and future organizational performance.
Compare the organizational leadership structure and approach in place at the onset of an issue or crisis to the current leadership structure and approach.
Competency 3: Propose evidence-based leadership actions and strategic planning options that promote positive behavioral change, collaboration, workforce performance, and outcomes in contemporary healthcare organizations.
Assess the organizational impact of a specific management or leadership issue or crisis.
Propose an evidence-based strategy for resolving a leadership issue or crisis.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
Scenario
Congratulations! Your consulting company was awarded the contract, and you will be leading the effort to resolve the organization’s management or leadership problem. Your introductory memo helped convince leadership to decide in your favor, based on your style, assessment of the problem, and proposed plan of action.
Discussion-Human Resource Management
Your next step is to complete an organizational analysis. Some of the information you need to gather may be well-known by the organization. However, it is your job to assemble all of the relevant data and information for a concise written analysis of the situation, as well as the former and current organizational leadership structure and approach. Your analysis will provide the basis of an evidence-based strategy for resolving the current leadership issue or crisis.
You are designing a direct marketing campaign for an online clothing retailer. As part of your design, you quantify the expected response rates by ethnic group. Your definition of the term “ethnicity” follows that of the U.S. Census Bureau (e.g., Hispanic, Asian, African American, etc.). You want to test your campaign using 1,000 randomly selected households, but you want your sample to mimic the US population in terms of the proportion of different ethnicities (e.g., if Hispanics constitute about 12 percent of the US population, 12 percent of your sample should be Hispanic).
Assess the appropriateness of using a simple random sample as the test’s sampling plan.
Evaluate other potential sampling plans and describe why such other sampling plans might be more or less appropriate than using a simple random sample. Support your discussion with relevant examples, research, and rationale.
The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.
Submission Details
Your posting should be the equivalent of 1 to 2 single-spaced pages (500–1000 words) in length.
Respond to 2 students’ responses. Use APA referencing style.
