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17. Describe the legal and morale implications of internal employee relations including the discussion of disciplinary action, collective bargaining, grievance procedure, arbitration, and termination.The student will show attainment of this knowledge by scoring at least a passing grade on the course unit and final exams.COURSE RESEARCH PAPERChoose any three of the issues from the next section to research. You can use your course text, other books, journals, magazines, newspapers, your own experience, or actually interview people. Twothree typed pages for each answer.Your paper must meet the format requirements set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 4ed (ISBN 1557982414). This paper must be in your own words. Make certain to enclose any quoted materials in quotation marks and provide proper reference (citation) in the body of the paper (see the APA manual). Further, the paper will be typed, doublespaced with 1inch margins (top, bottom, and sides). As a minimum, your paper must be securely stapled together (no paper clips, please). The Research Paper will represent 30% of your final course grade.This paper must be sent to Columbia Southern and returned prior to scheduling your final exam.11 / 63QUESTIONS FOR COURSE RESEARCH PAPER1. Since EEO and legal requirements, progress has been made establishing equal pay and providing jobs for minorities and women. How much effort is being made to attract applicants who are of minority status? What would be the average 45 year old white male’s chances in landing a job be when peting with applicants who are of minority status, female, and/or younger? Is this fair? legal? Professional athletic teams don’t hire based on quotas. Positions are filled by the people who can perform the best. Why shouldn’t this be the case in business and education as well? 2. Strategic Planning has e “of age.” Organizations have mission statements and a strategic plan as well as often insisting that departments also have a strategic plan. Strategic planning takes a significant amount of time and effort. Follow up includes dates objectives are to be acplished as well as specific people responsible for achieving the results. Your assignment is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic planning, giving the pros and cons of this method for anizations. 3. Organization X insists that employees are more than simply professionals and do an honest day’s work, but that they see their work at this anization as a “calling” At the managerial level, if someone is out of the office on pany business, there is no pensatory time and working 10 hours per day is expected, as well as at home and on some weekends. Work es first, family and personal needs second. In return the employee is fairly paid and retains their job unless job cuts are necessary to meet the anizational budget and needs. What is your analysis of this situation? Is it the way things need to be in a profitproduction centered world?4. What is the difference between working as a manager or supervisor in the United States pared to working in a country in Europe? Compare the hours of work expected, vacation times, job security, pensation (relative to the specific conditions that country), chance for advancement for people of different races, ages, and sex, and retirement. Cite research to back up your conclusions and thinking.5. Sexual harassment has bee a dominant litigation issue in America. No one argues that true cases of harassment need to be surfaced and legally handled. But have things gone too far? In one State situation, if a child kisses another’s face area below the eye, the administrator is required to bring in the police for investigation and a written report. In another study, females have admitted bringing law suits, not because of harassment but because they wanted to “get even” with tough bosses and couldn’t find a better way of expressing their anger. Based on what you find and think regarding sexual harassment, ment on this issue.12 / 63CHAPTER ONE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEWCHAPTER OBJECTIVESAfter pleting this chapter, the student should be able to:1. Identify the human resource management functions.2. Explain how anizations are adjusting to human resource restructuring trends.3. Explain the need for human resources to be a strategic partner.4. Compare and contrast executives, generalists, and specialists.5. Describe the changes that occur in the human resource function as a firm grows larger and more plex.6. Explain the nature of the professionalization of human resources and the direction it has taken.7. Define ethics and relate ethics to human resource management.These objectives are taken from page 1 of your course text (Human Resource Management [8th edition] by Mondy, Noe, and Preameaux.CHAPTER OVERVIEWIn the first part of the chapter, the basic human resource management functions are discussed. Next, the chapter addresses human resource restructuring trends and the human resource manager as a strategic partner. Then, the impact of technology is reviewed. The distinctions among human resource executives, generalists, and specialists, and among the human resource function in anizations of different sizes are addressed next. Then, the chapter covers professionalism and ethics in the dynamic discipline of HRM. Finally, a description of the scope of the book concludes the chapter.This overview is taken from the Instructor’s Manual for Human Resource Management, 8th edition, by Mondy, Noe, and Premeaux. The Instructor’s Manual was written by Judy Bandy Mondy and Elisa Adams. ISBN: 0130340022.13 / 63CHAPTER EXERCISESThe chapter exercises for this chapter are located online at , log on to this page, and select the appropriate