We recently have merged airlines and are starting to merge personnel, equipment, and other components. Our HR professional works closely with the employees impacted by airline merger. We realize that we need to hire more customer service representatives as we go about merging rewards and airline miles. We also need to reduce the duplicate executive and middle management positions as we have unnecessary personnel with the merger. Which aspect of the strategic HR would this fall under?

We are working as consultants in an unethical cookie factory. They do not meet the safety requirements of OSHA. Employees do not change gloves or equipment in the allergy section leading to cross contamination with peanuts and eggs. Several bosses will fire people on the spot for minor infractions. One person was fired for taking the boss’ favorite coffee mug. There is horrible morale, high absenteeism, huge production delays, and many employees are constantly fighting with one another. In order to fix the culture and stay in business, we have been hired to help.   Please discuss and define 2 illegal questions for the interview for new employees. What could we ask instead? Make sure to use the scenario in your example.

Our HR professional works closely with the employees impacted by airline merger. Several of the gate attendants ask if we could share the the company’s schedule on a private social media page and shift swaps be approved on there. What challenge in Human Resources would this fall under?

We are working as consultants in an unethical cookie factory. They do not meet the safety requirements of OSHA. Employees do not change gloves or equipment in the allergy section leading to cross contamination with peanuts and eggs. Several bosses will fire people on the spot for minor infractions. One person was fired for taking the boss’ favorite coffee mug. There is horrible morale, high absenteeism, huge production delays, and many employees are constantly fighting with one another. In order to fix the culture and stay in business, we have been hired to help.   Which external factors in HR (according to the book) may make it hard for us to make these changes. Make sure to include the scenario in your example.Which one do you think is most likely to influence us? Why?

Recently we have combined 2 coffee shop chains to reduce overhead and share resources. We are revisiting all of our processes to make sure our processes are effective as possible and lead to faster response times for our customers visiting our shops. We do intensive training to make sure we can replicate the coffee drinks and pastries at each location so the same level of quality is there. What would fall under in Ulrich’s HR model?

Extra Credit – worth up to 1 point We’re about 8 weeks into the semester. What is working well/ you want to continue to see the rest of the semester?

We are working as consultants in an unethical cookie factory. They do not meet the safety requirements of OSHA. Employees do not change gloves or equipment in the allergy section leading to cross contamination with peanuts and eggs. Several bosses will fire people on the spot for minor infractions. One person was fired for taking the boss’ favorite coffee mug. There is horrible morale, high absenteeism, huge production delays, and many employees are constantly fighting with one another. In order to fix the culture and stay in business, we have been hired to help.   You are hiring a new Cookie Taste Tester. Please discuss, define, and provide an example of 3 different types of interviews. Which one do you think would be most beneficial here? why? 

Agatha is meeting with the VP of finance this week. With the inflation and increase in cost of living, the current healthcare plan is costing the company too much money. Agatha wants to find a plan that is reasonable for the employees and employers. What external challenge of HR is this?

I am hiring for my new Logistics company. I don’t have time to schedule individual interviews with my customer service representatives so I schedule applicants to come in and interview in groups of six. What type of interview is this?

__________________ is the worst type of interview that leads us open to possible illegal questions and questions not tied to the job. _______________ is better as you can ask follow up questions.