Introduction
It is important for HR practitioners to be able to identify
how cultural dimensions and communication impact a global organization’s
teamwork and training goals. For this assessment, you will create a PowerPoint
presentation to provide training to your HR team on engaging a global workforce
culture to maximize performance.
This
assessment is based on the following case study:
You are
the section leader of a seven-member training and development team within the
larger human resources department of a multinational corporation headquartered
in Washington, DC. All the HR professionals are Americans who grew up in the
United States. Three of your peers have extensive global experience; the other
four have not worked outside the U.S., nor have they ever been part of a global
HR team. The multinational corporation you work for is an engineering firm with
projects around the globe and employees over 34,000 employees from 50 nations.
Understanding how to blend
global talent into teams to support an organization’s training goals, while
being mindful of cultural dimensions, values, communication, and expectations
helps HR practitioners take on this challenging task. Seeking to understand
biases and behaviors in our communications is critical to our cultural
awareness, whether we are based domestically or abroad. Exploring culture as it
relates to team building in the workplace can enhance our ability to engage
employees. Inclusivity builds solid employee relations and engagement with
people from all cultures while supporting human resource practices.
Instructions
Create a PowerPoint presentation of 7–10 slides, using
detailed speaker notes, to provide training to your HR team on engaging a
global workforce culture to maximize performance. Include the following:
·
Analyze differences in
work styles between a U.S. worker and that of another country.
o
Demonstrate that these
differences are cultural and not performance based by selecting a country of
your choice for this comparison.
·
Describe best practices
for a virtual human resource team of a global workforce.
o
How does cultural
differences influence employee management with such things as self-service
tools or HR systems?
o
Consider practices
concerning the workforce coordination with senior leaders (executives) and the
communication of labor laws with HR peers.
·
Analyze the impact of
cross-cultural communications on employee management.
o
How does personal bias
or knowledge of other’s cultural backgrounds, active listening, and forms of
nonverbal communication impact cross-cultural interactions and communications?
o
Provide one or two
workplace examples that maximize the performance and effectiveness of a HR
team.
Your PowerPoint presentation should meet the following
requirements:
·
7–10 PowerPoint slides,
with speaker’s notes, plus title and reference slides.
o
Select a PowerPoint
slide template appropriate for a professional presentation.
o
Include the content of
the slides as well as the supporting narrative in the speaker’s notes.
o
Be sure slide content
supports your main points and ideas.
o
Do not overbuild your
slides; information that supports what you are saying should appear at the
lower portion of each slide as notes.
·
Communicate in a manner
that is scholarly and professional. Your writing should be concise and
logically organized and free of errors in grammar and mechanics.
·
Use a minimum of three
relevant and credible scholarly or professional resources such as the Wall
Street Journal to support your work.
·
Format all citations and
references in accordance with current APA guidelines.
