Developing Human Resource Management Infrastructure for a Faith-Based Nonprofit Program for Treating

Creating an Action Plan for HR Management Infrastructure Development

Question 1 (5-10 pages)

Let us assume that you have secured a grant from a large foundation to develop a faith-based nonprofit program to treat female drug addicts. You have hired a staff of 15 trained social workers, and 7 drug treatment specialists, and 3 clerical workers. It is a daunting task to develop a working organization from scratch. Your first step is to develop an action plan to begin the process of developing a coherent human resource management infrastructure. Describe the process as well as a tentative description of the final set of policies and practices
1.    Develop a program for employee training and development.
2.    Developing a performance management system to motivate employee performance and cultivate teamwork (include a performance appraisal system description).
3.    Develop a workplace health and safety plan.
4.    Develop a client and employee drug testing policy

Question 2, (5-7 pages)

Discuss how you plan to apply the human resource tools and techniques discussed in class and in the readings (special emphasis on the Berman et al. and Roberts texts) to improving your own present and future work effectiveness. Secondly, how do you plan on using the tools and techniques to improving the quality of management in the organizations that you will work for? Provide both a short and a long term perspective with at least six clear personal examples.
Please critique the strengths and weaknesses of the listed personnel policies and practices of an organization that you have worked for either as an employee or a volunteer.  An alternative is to interview the personnel manager of an outside government, nonprofit or private organization. For each of the three areas, the student should develop a “best practice” model of at least six key practices to serve as the foundation of your analysis (total of 18 best practices). Based upon the results, present at least three specific recommendations (9 total for all three areas) with supporting rationale for improving HR practices and a discussion of their feasibility from a Christian servant leadership perspective as found in the Berman et al. and Roberts texts and supplemental materials;
Practices to Critique
1.    Performance appraisal (Berman chapters 10 and Roberts chapter 8) 
2.    Compensation (Berman chapter 7, Roberts chapter 11) 

Question 1 (5-10 pages)

Let us assume that you have secured a grant from a large foundation to develop a faith-based nonprofit program to treat female drug addicts. You have hired a staff of 15 trained social workers, and 7 drug treatment specialists, and 3 clerical workers. It is a daunting task to develop a working organization from scratch. Your first step is to develop an action plan to begin the process of developing a coherent human resource management infrastructure. Describe the process as well as a tentative description of the final set of policies and practices
1.    Develop a program for employee training and development.
2.    Developing a performance management system to motivate employee performance and cultivate teamwork (include a performance appraisal system description).
3.    Develop a workplace health and safety plan.
4.    Develop a client and employee drug testing policy

Question 2, (5-7 pages)

Discuss how you plan to apply the human resource tools and techniques discussed in class and in the readings (special emphasis on the Berman et al. and Roberts texts) to improving your own present and future work effectiveness. Secondly, how do you plan on using the tools and techniques to improving the quality of management in the organizations that you will work for? Provide both a short and a long term perspective with at least six clear personal examples.
Please critique the strengths and weaknesses of the listed personnel policies and practices of an organization that you have worked for either as an employee or a volunteer.  An alternative is to interview the personnel manager of an outside government, nonprofit or private organization. For each of the three areas, the student should develop a “best practice” model of at least six key practices to serve as the foundation of your analysis (total of 18 best practices). Based upon the results, present at least three specific recommendations (9 total for all three areas) with supporting rationale for improving HR practices and a discussion of their feasibility from a Christian servant leadership perspective as found in the Berman et al. and Roberts texts and supplemental materials;
Practices to Critique
1.    Performance appraisal (Berman chapters 10 and Roberts chapter 8) 
2.    Compensation (Berman chapter 7, Roberts chapter 11)