Assignment: Response to Union Organizing Campaign (Paper)
Instructions
You are the Employee Relations Specialist for a national retail company with locations across the United States. The nearly 500 company employees are diverse in terms of age and demographic differences. Your primary work location is Southeast Pennsylvania. Recently, the employees in the mid-Atlantic region, managed by Kristopher Kolumbus, have expressed dissatisfaction with the work environment. There are approximately 125 employees in the mid-Atlantic region. Their specific concerns include receiving small pay raises for the past 2 – 3 years, limited employee benefits, lack of career mobility and progression, and heightened security controls implemented due to theft concerns. There has been recent talk among the employees about the possibility of unionization, and some workers have begun exploring options such as United Food & Commercial Workers International Union and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Before either of these unions will send an organizer to the organization, it wants to be sure that sufficient employees will back union representation. Some employees have started company-wide communication to increase interest in unionization.
As the Employee Relations Specialist, it is your responsibility to ensure that supervisors and managers follow the rules regarding a union organizing campaign. In response to this potential campaign, you decide to take some initial actions and prepare several documents to share with your boss, the Director of Human Resources:
A summary email to the Director of Human Resources describing the issues and what actions you are taking (which include the below items)
A one-page memo to all managers and supervisors indicating what they can and cannot do during any union organizing effort.
An email to your human resource colleagues about actions the HR team should consider in response to some of the concerns raised by the Mid-Atlantic Region employees
An outline for a meeting to be held between Human Resources and the organization’s leadership team regarding the organizing effort
Requirements include:
Cover Page with Name, Date, and Title of Assignment
Each of the 4 items indicated above (summary email, one-page memo, email to your human resource colleagues, and outline for a meeting)
Headings to separate the sections of the paper
A minimum of three sources (two must be from the course materials) for each response
In-text citations in APA style
Reference page using APA style
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Rubric Name: Assignment 3: Response to Union Organizing Campaign (Paper)
Criteria One
Outstanding
Proficient
Basic
Below Expectations
Not Present
Criterion Score
Criteria 1: Organization
10 points
Arranges ideas clearly and logically to support the purpose or argument; ideas flow smoothly and are effectively linked; reader can follow the line of reasoning.
8 points
Arranges ideas adequately to support the purpose or argument; links between ideas are generally clear; reader can follow the line of reasoning for the most part.
6 points
Arranges ideas adequately, in general, although ideas sometimes fail to make sense together; reader remains fairly clear about what writer intends.
4 points
Arranges ideas illogically; ideas frequently fail to make sense together; reader cannot identify a line of reasoning and becomes frustrated or loses interest.
0 points
Did not submit or did not meet minimum expectations.
Score of Criteria 1: Organization,
/ 10
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Criterion Score
Criteria 2: Content
10 points
Gives very specific information. Addressed all of the assignment components. Clearly illustrates critical and reflective thinking. Well thought-out responses.
8 points
Contains specific information. Addressed all of the assignment components. Is relatively detailed. Shows some critical and reflective thinking. Relatively well thought-out responses.
6 points
Has some specific information. Addressed many of the assignment components. Not detailed.
Poorly thought-out responses.
4 points
Is vague and does not address all assignment components. No evidence of having given the assignment real thought.
0 points
Did not submit or did not meet minimum expectations.
Score of Criteria 2: Content,
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Criteria Three
Outstanding
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Criteria 3: Mechanics, References and APA
5 points
Execution is excellent. No grammar or writing errors. Reads easily. Is well organized. Includes two additional scholarly, relevant sources.
4 points
Well executed. Few grammar or writing errors. Reads easily. Is fairly well organized. Sources are either not all scholarly or not all relevant.
3 points
Execution is poor. Many grammar or writing errors. Hard to read. Poorly organized.
2 points
Falls short of the required length for the assignment. Very poorly written. Very difficult to read. No organization is evident. Reads like a last minute effort.
0 points
Did not submit or did not meet minimum expectations.
Score of Criteria 3: Mechanics, References and APA,
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Score of Assignment 3: Response to Union Organizing Campaign (Paper),
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Overall Score
Outstanding
22.5 points minimum
Proficient
20 points minimum
Basic
17.5 points minimum
Below Expectations
15 points minimum
Not Present
0 points minimum
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