Assignment title: Information
Assignment 2: Organizational Structure
Due Week 6 and worth 300 points
You are the HR manager for a small retail company that sells a high volume of products over the Internet. Your
company is growing rapidly due to increased Internet sales. Your company prides itself on providing high-quality
products and services. The Customer Service department is integral to the success of the company. Over the past
few months, the Customer Service department has been unable to fill its openings for Customer Service
Representative positions. You suspect there could be a number of reasons for this, but you know you first need to
look at the job, the work flow, the knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience the company is seeking to ensure the
job reflects the current workload and expectations.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1. Examine at least three (3) approaches that you can take as the HR manager to conduct a job analysis of the
Customer Service Representative position. Suggest the major pros and cons of each selected approach.
Recommend the approach that would be most effective in conducting the job analysis for this organization.
Justify your recommendation.
2. Select two (2) out of the four (4) approaches to job design that are the most important for you to consider.
Suggest two (2) challenges that you may encounter when designing a job using each of the selected
approaches. Support your response with specific examples to illustrate the potential advantages and
disadvantages of using each approach.
3. Using the four (4) approaches to job design, create two (2) strategies that the organization can implement to
attract and select qualified applicants for the Customer Service Representative position. Justify the main
reasons that the selected strategies would be effective.
4. Propose three (3) ways that you can use the information obtained from a job analysis to measure the
performance of Customer Service Representatives. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least four (4) quality academic (peer-reviewed) resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and
other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides;
citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any
additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the
course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required
assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Analyze issues involved in job design, resource planning, and recruitment.
Evaluate an organization's approaches to and procedures for training employees to meet organizational
goals.
Examine performance management issues and processes.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management foundations.
Write clearly and concisely about human resource management foundations using proper writing
mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and
writing skills. Click here to access the rubric for this assignment.
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