HRM 200 Project One Guidelines and Rubric

Competency

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

• Explain how human resources supports organizational needs
• Select appropriate resources and tools to support day-to-day work functions

Scenario

You are a human resources generalist at a start-up company. As new business volume grows, the employer needs to add more talent to the organization. New employees are being added to all departments, including your own. As an HR generalist, you are part of the group that manages orientation for new employees. Your next new employee orientation session includes new human resources colleagues.

The new HR employees will be working in a distributed work design, either at the company site or 100% remote. You will need to give both sets of new employees the same basic information about your company, as well as information that is specific to their role as an HR generalist. To support this distributed workforce, you will create an orientation presentation that can be used either in person or in a remote setting.

Directions

Create a PowerPoint presentation that you will use for the new HR employee orientation. Use the Project One New Hire Orientation Presentation Template provided in the What to Submit section. In addition, you will use the Project One Speaker Notes Template provided in the What to Submit section to record full speaker notes for your presentation. Alternatively, you may record a voice presentation onto your slides. You may find it useful to use the Project One Speaker Notes template to draft your script prior to recording your audio.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Overview
   1. Human Resources Overview: Describe the major functions of HR as they relate to the employee life cycle.
   2. Organization Structure: Describe how human resources contributes to an organization’s strategy.
      1. Explain the role of an HR professional and how the role supports an organization.
      2. Describe how HR uses KPIs to support organizational needs.
   3. Talent Acquisition and Retention: Describe the organization’s approach for attracting and retaining talent.
      1. Explain the roles of job analysis, job design, and job specifications.
      2. Describe how job analysis, job design, and job specifications support talent acquisition and retention.
   4. Promoting Culture: Describe methods that Human Resources uses to promote and drive culture in an organization.
      1. Describe why supporting a culture of development, diversity, and inclusion adds value to an organization.
2. Technology
   1. Technology Evaluation: Describe the process that HR uses to evaluate technology to support their needs.
      1. Describe the criteria for selecting human resource information systems (HRIS) for meeting organizational needs.
      2. Discuss how a new employee might contribute to the selection process.
   2. Diversity and Accessibility: Discuss how recruitment and engagement technology and tools can assist with diversity and accessibility for employees or potential employees.
   3. Automated Processes: Explain how automated processes can impact a business.
      1. Describe how automated workflows can affect training, recruitment, and other HR functions.
   4. Technology Example—Social Media: Describe how use of social media can increase employee engagement and improve retention.
      1. Consider ways that different types of social media resources can be used when hiring or communicating employee initiatives.
      2. Give examples of appropriate social media channels that can be used in the workplace.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

New Hire Orientation Presentation
Your presentation should be 8 to 10 slides in length, not including the title and references slides. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Speaker Notes Document or Recorded Audio on Slides
Use complete sentences to outline what you would say in a verbal presentation. Sources should be cited according to APA style when using the document. If audio is used instead, each slide should contain 1 to 2 minutes of audio, not including the title and reference slides.

The following resources support your work on the project:

Template: Project One New Hire Orientation Presentation Template
Use this template to create your presentation.

Template: Project One Speaker Notes Template
Use this template to complete your speaker notes.