MBA6247: Course Project: Content Workforce management and workforce development practices and strategies are essential to any successful organization. As a representative of an organization’s human resources group and a supporter of human capital management, it is important to understand these strategies and practices and how to apply, use, and measure them within an organization. Examples of workforce management practices include compensation and benefits, reward and incentive programs, retention and turnover, and globalization. Examples of workforce development practices include on-the-job training; onboarding practices, new employee orientation, and organizational socialization. In this project you are asked to assess both a workforce management practice and a workforce development practice and apply both to an organization. In order to do that, you must complete the following: Choose one workforce development practice and one workforce management practice that should be started or improved in your organization. Select a practice from the Workforce Management and Workforce Development Practices Lists or choose your own. Provide a high-level overview of your chosen organization’s business systems, processes, and technology to help explain why the practices you have chosen are the right ones on which to focus. Identify each practice and explain why you chose it. Provide scholarly support. Explain how each practice would be measured. How would you put those measurements in place? Describe how you will know if the practices are working. To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to: Explain why the chosen business systems, processes, and technology practices are the best fit for the organization. Support the choice of a particular workforce management strategy. Support the choice of a particular workforce development strategy. Explain how each practice would be measured. Assess the effectiveness of workforce management practices within an organization. Assess the effectiveness of workforce development practices within an organization. Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for HR professionals and is appropriate for a graduate level course, citing resources. Toggle Drawer Project Requirements To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements. Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting. Length of paper: Must be appropriate for the content expected within the assignment. Font and font size: Arial, 10 point. Toggle Drawer Project Grading Criteria Workforce Management and Development Practices Scoring Guide Grading Rubric Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished Explain why the chosen business systems, processes, and technology practices are the best fit for the organization. 14% Does not identify business systems, processes, and/or technology practices. Identifies business systems, processes, and technology practices, but does not explain whether these are the best fit for the organization. Explains why the chosen business systems, processes, and technology practices are the best fit for the organization. Explains why the chosen business systems, processes, and technology practices are the best fit for the organization, and identifies benefits of using same. Support the choice of a selected workforce management strategy. 14% Does not identify a workforce management strategy. Identifies, but does not support a workforce management strategy. Supports the choice of a selected workforce management strategy. Supports the choice of a selected workforce management strategy, and explains the possible consequences of not using this strategy. Support the choice of a selected workforce development strategy. 14% Does not identify a workforce development strategy. Identifies, but does not support a workforce development strategy. Supports the choice of a selected workforce development strategy. Supports the choice of a selected workforce development strategy, and explains the possible consequences of not using this strategy. Explain how each practice would be measured. 14% Does not identify a form of measurement. Identifies a form of measurement, but does not explain how each practice would be measured. Explains how each practice would be measured. Explains how each practice would be measured, and explains why each form of measurement is the best to use for the selected practice. Assess the effectiveness of workforce management practices within an organization. 14% Does not identify the effectiveness of workforce management practices within an organization. Identifies, but does not assess the effectiveness of workforce management practices within an organization. Assesses the effectiveness of workforce management practices within an organization. Assesses the effectiveness of workforce management practices within an organization, and explains why these are the best fit for the organization. Assess the effectiveness of workforce development practices within an organization. 15% Does not identify the effectiveness of workforce development practices within an organization. Identifies, but does not assess the effectiveness of workforce development practices within an organization. Assesses the effectiveness of workforce development practices within an organization. Assesses the effectiveness of workforce development practices within an organization, and explains why these are the best fit for the organization. Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for HR professionals, write in a manner appropriate for a graduate-level course, and provide support from the research literature. 15% Does not communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for HR professionals, writes in a manner that is inappropriate for a graduate-level course, and/or fails to provide support from the research literature. Communicates on a basic level that is somewhat professional or consistent with expectations for HR professionals, writes in a manner that is somewhat appropriate for a graduate-level course, and provides support from the research literature. Communicates in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for HR professionals, writes in a manner that is appropriate for a graduate-level course, and provides support from the research literature. Communicates in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for HR professionals, writes in a manner that is appropriate for a graduate-level course, provides support from the research literature, and includes no grammatical or spelling errors. Toggle Drawer Project Components Project Component Course Grade Weight Unit Due Workforce Management and Development Practices 25% 6 Total: 25% Toggle Drawer [u06a1] Unit 6 Assignment 1 Workforce Management and Development Practices Your project is due in this unit. Be sure to review the course project description and related scoring guide to ensure that you are fulfilling the requirements for the project. Your complete paper should include a title page, headers, a reference section, and other sections as applicable. It must also follow APA formatting. Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information. Resources Workforce Management and Development Practices Scoring Guide. Writing Feedback Tool. Workforce Management and Workforce Development Practices Lists.