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Assignment Overview

Your task is to create a Best Practices Fact Sheet for Canadian managers about a human resources management topic from below. Many new managers have been promoted from technical roles and have little experience or background in managing people. Your Fact Sheet will be posted as a resource on the "For Employers" page of the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario (HRPAO) website.

A fact sheet is a document that provides clear and easy to read information on a topic. Fact sheets are often used by experts in a particular field to disseminate their work to the general public. For example, a geologist at the Department of Natural Resources who studies flooding might produce a fact sheet explaining the flooding hazards in a particular region. Often, but not always, the purpose of a fact sheet is to convince the reader to do something, like getting a flu shot or recycle stuff.

The week of Module 13 has been set aside to work on this assignment - as there are no other learning activities during this final week of the course. Feel free to begin working on this assignment sooner if you wish.

Assignment Goals
The purpose of the writing assignment is to assess your core knowledge of an HR topic area and to develop your communication and critical thinking skills. The fact sheet project has the following goals:

- Make efficient use of library and online information resources and technology and demonstrate the ability to assess the quality, source, and validity of research materials.
- Express ideas and facts to others effectively and accurately in a fact sheet format.
- Comprehend, interpret, and analyze research resources in light of the organizational topic being studied and evaluate the logic, validity, and relevance of research materials to an assigned research topic.
- Synthesize research to arrive at reasoned conclusions or to demonstrate comprehension of a problem.
- Analyze and understand the interconnectedness between a research topic and other related organizational issues or consequences.

General Format and Audience
Your Best Practices Fact Sheet deliverable will be 4 pages. The first three pages contain the content of your fact sheet. The fourth page an Annotated Reference List.
Most fact sheets have a good balance of text (in a readable font), white space, and images. Your Best Practices Fact Sheet will be in "newsletter" style and will be informative and visually interesting. Use your creativity!
Below are two sample fact sheets. These are not related to human resources management (and do not use APA formatting), but they can help you visualize the layout of content and use of images:
Dupont Roofing Underlayment (see Appendix A) - this is informative, but the plain black font and lack of images
makes it very dull and boring to look at.
USDA Bioproducts Factsheet (see Appendix B) - this one is much more visually appealing; the only downside is
it's a bit too lengthy.

It is important to keep your audience in mind as you write the text for your fact sheet. You have to assume that your reader has little prior knowledge of the topic and will not be familiar with much of the terminology we have used in this class. It is important to define any terms you use (note that the first thing in the Dupont Roofing example was a description/definition of the underlayment). Informative subject headings within the document will also help your reader follow your narrative.

Content & Formatting Expectations
In terms of content, your fact sheet should:
1. Define any unknown words/concepts.
2. Provide the reader with information on the HR practice you've chosen. Below are some ideas to get you started. You only have two pages, so we do not expect you to answer all of these questions. It is up to you to decide which topics are relevant to your HR practice and worthy of inclusion in your fact sheet.
» What general HR topic is this practice related to? What discipline is it based on? What's the history of this issue?
» Why is this best practice important? Why should a manager care? How does it impact the everyday life at work? What are the potential benefits to employees, teams/departments, the organization, or Canadian society?
» What is this best practice used for? What are the key attributes and features?
» What is the implementation process (roll-out) for this best practice? Is it difficult to implement? What are the potential challenges? How do you overcome or avoid them?
» What is the likely future outlook for the issue this best practice is dealing with? Why? What factors (regulation, demographics, economic, technology, social, environmental concerns, etc.) currently affect the management of this issue?
3. Compare and contrast your best practice approach to other popular but less proven alternatives or traditional (dated) approaches.
4. APA formatting for in-text citations and reference list.
How you organize the best practices information on the first three pages is ultimately up to you, but keep in mind that being interesting and engaging is just as important as being informative.

» You must deliver the final document as a PDF. Since different versions of MS Word are used across machines, avoid saving your document in this format, as the formatting and objects will not remain intact. Do not use an alternative software program (Microsoft Works, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign, Quark Xpress, etc.) unless you know how to make it into a PDF. The final output must be a page size of 8.5 x 11 inches.
» The Best Practices section must be three (3) pages in length - no more, no less. Each page should stand on its own, without graphics or text bleeding across pages. The fourth page is the Annotated References list. Imagine the document being printed like a newsletter style format fact sheet of 8.5 x 11 inch size.

Below are some examples of fact sheets. These are not related to human resources management but they can help you visualize what the format should generally look like:
» Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Projects (see Appendix C)
» Sea Turtle Conservation: 10 Ways You Can Help (see Appendix D)
» Parent Food Safety Guide for Raw Milk (see Appendix E)
Content Topics
Select 1 topic from the list below and synthesize current evidence-based best practices on your chosen topic. You will be required to do a "deep dive" on your topic, beyond the content in our textbook:
1. Job Analysis Techniques and Practices
2. Behavioural Description Interviewing (BDI)
3. Types of Employment Assessments
4. The Balanced Score Card
5. Positive Discipline (e.g., "Discipline Without Punishment" method)

Paper: Synthetic Roofing Underlayment with Industry-Leading Walkability

Attachment:- Best Practices Fact Sheet.rar