Instructions
Through your research, you have completed your analysis of the impact human resource management has on policy and the implementation of a dress policy conveying the conduct that is expected to be followed. The creative implementation of employee ideas through a policy suggestion program also promotes efficiency.
For this assignment, you are serving as the new vice president of an HRM division. You’re tasked by the president to compare an external organization of choice that you are familiar with and analyze three policies and how they are implemented within the organization. While this is a new assignment, the opportunity to better understand policy and implementation will provide you with insight to make internal decisions to policy for your organization in the future. You must analyze your findings of the external organization.
This analysis also will assist you with understanding the implementation of policies within organizations by allowing you to make needed suggestions for improvement. You must present your findings to the executive team, along with recommendations for improvement.
Prepare a policy implementation presentation that addresses the following points:
- Describe the issues and challenges you encountered in your investigation and the impact it has on the organization.
- Describe how you will gain the buy-in of the executive team and how you will communicate the recommended change(s).
Length: 3 pages, not including title and reference slides
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.
Introduction to Policy and Implementation
Think about the purpose of policies and how they are used within any company. They are usually implemented to establish boundaries or accepted rules to follow within the organization (Kokemuller, 2018). They serve as another way for management to convey to employees how to act at the workplace. Examples that convey the type of behavior expected is the dress policy. Other examples within the organization consist of acceptance of cultural diversity and time attendance. Other policies promote worker participation such as the policy suggestion program and flex-work policy. These policies allow workers to share best practices towards enhancing company production and efficiency.
One role of human resource management is to provide policies and procedures to help the organization maintain a consistent way of doing things at work (Coburn, 2016). Unpredictable changes in employee benefits, schedules, and responsibilities create the risk of making employees unhappy, angry, and dissatisfied, which may lead to conflicts.
Policies are usually written rules, laws, regulations, and plans of action presented by the human resource department to be followed by all members of the company. Think of policy as implementing the process following the passing of a law, or the action taken to put it into effect. When the policy is not implemented, this can detrimentally affect the organization (Marhefka, Sharma, Schafer, Turner, Falope, Louis-Jacques, Wachira, Livingston, Roig-Romero, 2019).
References
Coburn, C. E. (2016). What’s policy got to do with it? How the structure-agency debate can illuminate policy implementation. American Journal of Education, 122(3), 465–475.
Kokemuller, Neil. (2018). What is the purpose of a workplace policy? Small Business – Chron.com.
Marhefka, S. L., Sharma, V., Schafer, E. J., Turner, D., Falope, O., Louis-Jacques, Wachira, Livingston, Roig-Romero (2019). “Why do we need a policy?” Administrators’ perceptions on breast-feeding-friendly childcare. Public Health Nutrition, 22(3), 553–563.
Ünal, A. (2013). Labor law and human resources management dimensions of stress in working life. Paradoks: The Journal of Economics, Sociology & Politics, 9(1), 26–37.