Course Project Instructions: Organizational Profile

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Your Course Project is to create an Organizational Profile. This written assignment will provide you with an organizational analysis of your fire department or other emergency service agency. In the course of this analysis, you will examine such topics as an organizational overview; use of a systems approach; recruitment, selection, and promotion; training and development; performance management and evaluation; corrective action and discipline; and a number of employee and labor relations issues.

 

The Organizational Profile will be broken down into ten parts. You will complete two parts at the end of each of the five modules:

• Overview
• Application of a Systems Approach
• Motivation
• Productivity
• Personnel Recruitment and Selection
• Training and Human Resource Development
• Performance Management and Evaluation
• Corrective Action and Discipline
• Compensation, Benefits, Health, and Safety
• Labor Relations and Communication

If you are not currently a member of a fire department or other emergency service agency, select an organization, manufacturing company or business entity with which you are familiar and can access in-depth information regarding internal personnel management and organizational processes. You may also consider your city or county government as a topic for this analysis.

You will use the same department or agency throughout the completion of this course.

You should be careful to cite all sources used. Visit Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online at http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ to find complete examples of how to cite sources.

General Instructions for Written Assignments

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Your written assignment is intended to test your understanding of important concepts and sharpen your intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and application. The intent of the written assignment is to provide an opportunity to more fully describe, explain, and analyze the books and other sources.

There are three main resources that will enable you to successfully complete written assignments:

1. Writing Resource Center - link here for access to writing resources developed by Empire State College and the Genesee Valley Center Writing Program.
2. Hamilton College's Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center - link here for general writing advice.
3. Empire State College's Writer's Complex - link here for writing tips and assistance.

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