Contemporary HRM Practices

     One of the contemporary HRM practices that is becoming more and more relevant and useful are health and wellness programs.  Health and wellness benefits are something companies are offering and also something talent looks for when finding a job.  A company that offers a health and wellness program is one that talent will be more likely to apply to than one that does not.  One of the major reasons that talent is looking specifically for health benefits recently is because of the Obama Care requirement that began a couple of years ago.  This requires everyone in America to have health insurance or they will be penalized on their taxes.  I personally know this all too well as I have had three jobs at once, and none of them offered health insurance, so I have been penalized the past two years.  Often times Obama Care is too expensive for people (like me) to afford.  Therefore, companies that offer it are highly desired.  This type of practice does not apply specifically with sharing, or learning but can be seen as innovative.  It can also have many benefits for the organization.  One of these benefits is that if all employees have a health program, they will be less likely to call into work and take off for health reasons, which can increase productivity.  Talent will also be more motivated to work for and stay with a company that offers health benefits.  Some companies even offer gym memberships with their wellness programs which is another motivator for employees.  Every HR professional should consider offering health and wellness benefits to their employees because it can not only motivate employees to work hard to stay with the company, but it can increase production and create a competitive advantage in the company.

Ethical Concerns for HRM

Ethical Concerns for HRM

            Human resource managers are faced with needing to prove their strategic value within their organization.  This includes showing the organization that their proposals and programs are valuable and are adding to the competitive edge of the organization.  There are problems that can arise when human resource professionals believe that their contribution is not working or not adding value.  There can be ethical concerns that come about because of the human resource’s fear of failing at being valuable.  One of these concerns would be if the human resource manager (HRM) shows the organization figures of their success that are not true.  For example, if the HRM was giving false numbers in order to make their programs look like they are creating more value than they really are.  This could cause problems for the rest of the organization and could lead to more problems like a domino effect.  Instead, the HRM should figure out why the programs or proposals that are failing.  If they know the reasons behind why there are problems, they can create solutions.  This will lead the organization to be successful in the human resource department, which can affect all other parts of the company. Human resource professionals need to have honest communication with all other management in order to meet organizational objectives.  This will ensure everyone is on the same page and that there are no ethical concerns happening.

 

 

Online Learning in k-12 Schools

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Reflection

In reflecting upon this course, "Integrating Technology Across the Content Area", I am very satisfied with all that I have learned. First, I feel like I have grown in my knowledge of technology tools that I can use in my classroom. For example, in using a Wiki throughout the class I feel more proficient and comfortable in using a Wiki with my students. I think this will be a very strong tool that students will really be excited about using.

Secondly, in reaching my NETS goals I feel that I have grown professionally a great deal. I have organized websites that I can use as tools in the coming year by standard. This is something that I have almost been putting off until I needed to do it, but I am glad that I finally completed the task so that my students can benefit from all of the tools I have learned about. I will continue to meet my goals as the year begins and I will become more comfortable in the technology tools I have learned about. I also plan to add more to my list of technology tools I have learned about. I feel like there is an endless amount of tools teachers can learn about and it is there job to find the most useful ones for their students so that they have the best education they could have.

Some of the adjustments that I will make in my classroom would be first, using the tools that I have learned about in this class. Secondly, I will expose my students to new technology tools that I plan to learn more about as I complete the rest of my Master's at Walden University.

Using the GAME Plan Process with Students

I am very exciting to start sharing what I have learned during this class with my students. I think they will be very interested in the new technologies I will have available for them. I also think that my students will help me in reaching all of my goals because as I use these new tools I will gain more knowledge about them and be able to use them in more and more ways. One of my goals that I had set in the beginning was in reguards to inspiring students to become creative learners using technology. This goal cannot be met until I actually use my tools with my students throughout next year and hopefully then they will become creative and learn from the technology tools I have given them. I feel like I have done my part in creating and organizing tools for my students to use and that is the only goal I can reach so far without the students. Once the school year starts and I have students I can meet the rest of my goals and be truely successful.

GAME Plan Progress Part 3/Week 6

Most of what I have learned so far in trying to reach my goals is the importance of organization. I have also been learning about the importance of online collaboration tools and how to integrate technology into any lesson I teach. With this has come many more opportunities for learning about more websites to use in my classroom. I have recently found several more web quests and websites that I could use in my classroom for various New York State Standards.

The new goals that I have set for myself are to continue organizing my new technology tools and to find more online collaboration tools that I would be able to use at an elementary school level. I also want to continue to meet my goals by finishing the rest of the work for Walden University to the best of my ability.

GAME Plan progress

Within the past week I have realized that something that is very important to me is organization of technology tools. This is something that I think I need to add to my list for reaching my goals. Since there are so many technology tools out there to see, the main goal that I can reach now (since there is no school) is to organize the technology tools that I find in order have the best way to utilize them. Currently, I am looking for some sort of organization tool such as delicious or some other website that will organize the tools I find. I feel that the next step I need to take is finding how what to organize them by, whether it be unit or standard. I am looking for suggestions to how I should organize and separate the information I find.