Work these questions

What is performance architecture?

Week 1 Discussion

Question B

What is performance technology?  If you do not know, conduct some independent research regarding this topic and using a performance map for an organization of your choice.

Week 1 Assignment

Influencing the “investment orientation” of an organization.

Answer the following questions:

• What is performance?
• What is performance technology?
• Briefly describe the business logics model.
• What does it mean to adopt an investment perspective?
• Briefly describe what can result in enhanced financial performance.

Your paper should be a minimum of 2 pages following proper APA format. Be sure to utilize outside resources in order to back up your plan with data/theories that have proven to be a success. Outside research is required for this assignment. 

Week 2 Discussion

Modeling Mastery Performance and Systematically Deriving Enablers for Performance Improvement

Modeling mastery performance and systematically deriving the enablers generates data for use in downstream improvement efforts, including additional analyses, design, and development efforts. What are two linked sets or data that are produced from the current-state view of master performers who have proven that high performance levels are attainable? What are three performance variables that may need changing?

Week 2 Assignment

The Full Scoop on Full-Scope Evaluation

After reviewing this week’s reading, explain full-scope evaluation and its importance within the workplace. Expand upon your thoughts on what makes full-scope evaluation different from a simple evaluation. Your paper should be a minimum of 2 pages following APA essay format. Your responses should be back up by scholarly outside research. 

Week 2 Project Outline

Project Outline

Review the information on the following website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Following these guidelines, create an effective outline for your final project. This work should follow proper APA format. Submit your work for grading by uploading your completed assignment as an attachment.

Week 3 Discussion

Alignment in Your Organization?

Does your organization properly align management and IT? If you don’t know or are unemployed, conduct some independent research regarding this topic for an organization of your choice. If so, what are some of the HR issues and challenges related to technology? If not, how could they be?

Week 3 Assignment

Title and Reference Pages

Part 1

Review the information on the following website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Following these guidelines, create a title page and reference page (containing at least five scholarly resources) for your final project. It is expected that the reference page will expand by the end of week 8, however, take the time to begin gathering your resources. This work should follow proper APA format. Submit your work for grading by uploading your completed assignment as an attachment.

Part 2 - Understanding Organizational Change

Change can often lead to a decreased morale and productivity level within the workplace. There are many tools that can be utilized to create a seamless transition within the workplace when change is inevitable. Using scholarly research, explain why change often leads to decreased morale and productivity and what can be done to avoid this in the workplace.

Week 3 Assignment

Understanding Organizational Change

Organizational change can be difficult, and may be resisted by some, but must be managed effectively to facilitate organizational performance.

Answer the following questions:

1. What are certain critical HR functions should remain internal to the organization?
2. How is instruction used as a performance intervention?
3. What are some different approaches to align business in growing organizations?
4. In what situations would each approach be used? Use specific examples.
5. How can an HPT professional help organizations effectively communicate between the management and production?

Write a 2-3 page paper using APA format for references.

Week 4 Disucssion

Human Requirements in Workspace Design?

Explain workplace design, causes of performance gaps, staffing requirements, and identify categories of interventions that may improve performance. Make sure to justify your answer to this question based on your research.

Support your opinions by referencing sources such as the textbook or other internet research. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.

Week 4 Assignment

Six Sigma and the HPT Practitioner!

Part 1

Employment law requires HR practices that fit within the context of applicable laws in order to avoid significant costs (both monetary and reputation) of non-compliance. As a HPT practitioner, briefly explain the tools of a Six Sigma toolbox that a DMAIC team of a large organization could use. Your paper should be a minimum of 2 pages following APA essay format. Your responses should be back up by scholarly outside research.

Part 2 -  Project Abstract

As you continue working towards the completion of your final project, you will complete the project abstract. Your abstract will consist of a concise summary of the key points of your research. A good abstract summarizes the key points of your paper without providing unnecessary detail. Your abstract should be a single paragraph double-spaced. Your abstract should be between 150 and 250 words.

Week 5 Discussion

Which Type is Best?

Now that you know a bit more about the over-reliance on quantitative methods in the field of HPT and widespread use of written questionnaires, discuss why the type of methodology employed should be driven by the research questions rather than being selected because of preconceived notions about scientific rigor. Make sure to justify your answer to this question based on your research. 

Week 5 Assignment

Analyze and Evaluate Human Performance Technology

Now that you have a good understanding of human performance technology, explain the most frequently used means of gathering data in the field of human performance technology (HPT). Why is this important to an organization? What can go wrong?

Use scholarly research to back up your thoughts in this assignment. Your work should be a minimum of 2 pages following APA format.

Week 6 Discussion

Critical Thinking

Compare and contrast the four evaluation methods. Give an example of an organization in which each of the four methods might provide an optimal strategic fit. 

Support your opinion by referencing sources such as the textbook or other internet research. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.  

Week 6 Assignment

Management’s ongoing partner!

We are well on the way to that partnership goal, but we are certainly not there yet. A HPT model can successfully meet management’s ongoing needs.

In a 2 page minimum paper following APA format, please answer the following questions:

• Can HPT ever be management’s partner on an ongoing basis?
• Can HPT be the partner that management cannot do without, management’s must-have partner, the go-to partner to continuously identify or help solve issues of work performance as they emerge?
• Can HPT become a partner that is not eliminated or severely reduced in numbers and influence in hard economic times?
• Is it not the hard times when work performance improvement is even more needed by management?
• Should HPT be part of the solution, rather than being perceived as part of the problem or something to be ignored?

Your responses should utilize scholarly research to back up your thoughts on this assignment. 

Week 7 Dscussion

Knowledge Management

Select and organization of your choice and examine the extent to which it has established any processes or procedures to ensure knowledge retention of departing employees. If you do not know or are unemployed, conduct some independent research regarding this topic for an organization of your choice.

Support your opinions by referencing sources such as the textbook or other internet research. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.

Week 7 Asignment

Comprehensive Performance Evaluation

The typical objective of every human performance technologist, as well as every educator, professional development specialist, corporate trainer, human resources professional, middle-level manager, corporate executive, psychologist, coach, and self-help guru, is to create better human performance. In a 2 page minimum paper following APA format using scholarly research to back up your thoughts, please answer the following questions:

• Describe the current evaluation models in HPT literature.
• Describe the theoretical variables for comprehensive performance evaluation.
• Describe the required elements of a simple logic model and key variables to make a generic logic model for comprehensive performance evaluation (CPE).

Week 7 Assignent RD

Project Rough Draft

Complete the rough draft of your final project. This assignment should include the appropriate headings and other APA formatting. Submit your work for grading by uploading your completed assignment as an attachment. Please remember that a rough draft should be a completed project. Incomplete projects will not be considered for grading. This assignment will be reviewed and edited for your review in preparation for the final project submission next week.

Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.

Week 8

Final Project

Submit the Final AFTER you have completed the Student End of Course Survey 

Throughout this course, you have been working on your final project. For this project, you will develop a proposal for a hypothetical performance dashboard project at your place of work or another organization of your choosing. The final paper must incorporate concepts and techniques covered in the course and should be persuasive in nature (“sell” your project to management).

The final project should be a minimum of 10 pages in length (not counting title page, abstract, and references) and written in APA format.

Complete the final draft of your project.

Be sure to make corrections based on feedback from your rough draft submitted in Week 7.

Submit your work for grading by uploading your completed assignment as an attachment.