Strategic Staffing Research Project
Course Project Overview Week 2
Objective
For the Course Project, each student is to prepare a course paper, on a topic related to the theme of strategic staffing. Within this broad theme, the course paper is intended to be an opportunity to explore, in some depth, a topic related to the course that is of specific significance to you.
The Assignment
Week 2: Write a short(no more than one page)paper describing your selected topic and submit it for grading.
Grading Rubric
Week 2 Rubric
| Structure | Description | Points |
| Cover Page | Include the title of your course paper, your name | 5 |
| Topic and Value | What is the topic of this paper and why does this topic interest you?
Describe why this topic is of value to you as a professional of the organization or the HR staffing professional or whatever else you deem of value. Why put out the energy to write this research paper? Who benefits? |
25 |
| Conclusion/References | Cite any references that you used to write this short paper. | 10 |
| Total: | 40 |
Best Practices
- Avoid any type of plagiarism. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to make sure all quotes, ideas, or conclusions not your own are given proper acknowledgment in your text.
- Plagiarism in its purest form involves copying passages either verbatim or nearly verbatim, with no direct acknowledgment of the source.
- Paraphrasing does not relieve you of the obligation to provide proper identification of source data.
- All references must be cited in two places: within the body of your paper and on a separate reference list. Choose references judiciously and cite them accurately.
- Use the APA style guide.
- Please do not select the same topics that you used to create the previous two assignments for this course.
- Take the perspective of an HR business partner when writing this assignment.
- Be sure to proofread your work.
- Take a research approach to writing this paper, but have practical recommendations.
- Structure the paper using the grading rubric categories: Approach, Focus, and so on.
Sample Topics (I have highlighted three topics that interest me. You can choose whatever you want. I will be trying to use the same writer to complete the actual project, so choose something you could write 12-15 pages(excluding appendices)about easily.)
A list of example topics for course papers is provided below to provide some ideas. However, these are examples only. Please feel free to consider other staffing-related topics that are of interest to you.
- Alignment of strategic staffing strategies with the organization’s strategic requirements
- Internet staffing methods compared to traditional staffing methods: time, cost, quality, and retention
- Effects of utilizing realistic job previews (RJP) on employee selection, performance, and retention
- Review of recent developments in job analysis
- Practical strategies to implement a flexible workforce model
- Review of employment laws and court cases in selection testing and assessment
- Defining the new careers of the 21st century and implications for staffing strategies
- Requirements and implementation strategies for a human resource information system (HRIS)
- Practical strategies to fully engage the entire management team in strategic forecasting and planning
- Unique considerations and approaches in developing protected-class employees to become future managers in the organization
- Explanation of all the costs related to recruiting: creation of a sample budget for recruiting
- Update of most recent employment laws and court cases
