Blog 17: Answer 3

Research 

1. What is the best way for a Human Resource Manager to promote well-being in the workplace?

2. The best way for a Human Resource Manager to promote well-being in the workplace is through  communication/equal opportunities.

3. Details/examples:

• Through communication you can get to know employees better.

          - Employees can let their HRM know what's going on in their work lives in order to be updated on their work status as well as their work performance.

• Equal opportunities allow the workplace to be equally balanced and well managed.

          -Favoritism should never be allowed in the workplace therefore always hire/promote someone simply by their work performance.

• Both communication/equal opportunities allow for a workplace free of discrimination. 

         -Employees will be able to voice their backgrounds and still be treated the           same as everyone else.

4. This answer is not certain and there's still more research that I need to complete but at the moment I'm somewhat confident and just wish my answers all flow nicely. 

Extra Blog: February

I read this book this month and it was of great help. Not only did it help me go more in depth with my senior topic but it helped me come up with ideas for my independent component as well. I also completed my 2 month of mentorship and I couldn't be more happy with it. I very much love my mentors, organizing and just learning more about the subject. Over all, I'm feeling confident about my senior topic/presentation. (▰˘◡˘▰)

Blog 16: Answer 2

Presentation

1.  What is your EQ?

-My EQ is What is the best way for a Human Resource Manager to promote well-being in the workplace?
2.  What is your first answer? 

-The best way for a Human Resource Manager to promote well-being in the workplace is to lead by example. (appropriate, professional and respectful)
3.  What is your second answer? 

-The best way for a Human Resource Manager to promote well-being in the workplace is to be well informed/educated. (ex://go to training's, research laws, etc.) 
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Training→react in situations like employee altercations or substance abuse in the workplace.
• Researching laws→be up to date in the way you treat employees (sexual harassment, etc.)
• Education→work to be a lot easier by knowing what's right and what's wrong

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

-Human Resource Essentials: Your Guide to Starting and Running the HR Function by Lin Grensing-Pophal.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

-Managing People in a Small Business by John Stredwick.
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

-I plan to reword/make my answer 2 more precise but I feel like in order to promote well being in the workplace it truly is important to have training interventions and be well educated to manage your employees in an effective manner.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Independent Component 

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

- I have 2 ideas at the moment. I was thinking of 1 watching a lot of videos/reading a lot of books that have to do with the whole training of employees since I do believe that can be one of my answers to my essential question or making a book/documenting all the laws that have to do with employee management since that is also a branch of my senior topic.
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

- For my first idea I think I can make a log of all the movies/books I came across and just write little descriptions about them and/or for my second one obviously making a book.
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

- Like I said before for my first idea, I believe that looking up training can help me understand an answer to my essential question whereas my second one can help me go more depth with my topic and explore different branches of it.
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log

- DONE.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Independent Component

Literal:

(A) I, Gretel Mejia, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 23 hours of work.

(B) My mentors Janet Galgani and Maria Martinez helped me complete my independent component.

(C) Done.

(D) I completed a binder of insurances that my mentor needed as well as all the files and labels of 2015 to begin filing. I also made a few packets here and there for some employees.





Interpretive: The significance my project had towards my project was the fact that it gave me an outlook as to what it takes to be an HR Manager. I realized that it's a lot of organizing putting big things together. This binder helped me realize that you must always keep track of your employees as an HR manager to make your life easier. Making the labels/files/packets helped me realize that you must keep your self updated/organized and prepared not only to keep the employees happy but yourself happy as well.

Applied: My component helped me understand the foundation of my project better by allowing me to experience some of the things that HR Managers have to do in order to keep their workplace in order. Like for example there was this time when one of the employees had most of their paperwork missing and it took us a descent week just to figure out what had happened to his file and so on and thanks to this binder we were able to track him and his paperwork down.

Extra Post: January

 

I completed my first month of mentorship this month and I'm quite grateful for that because I very much enjoy doing it. Both of my mentors are very helpful and are providing the resources I need for my senior project. Not only that but I get to do a lot of files/organizing which is something I'm great at doing and get to experience what it's like to work in an office like environment. Since it is a small/family business I also get to witness the way it works in order for it to be successful. Last but not least, I've already become acquaintances with some people in the office and get to walk by this cute parrot named Arthur every time I go in/out of mentorship.  （ミ￣ー￣ミ）

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

Presentation

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
-I'm very proud of my board because I worked hard on it and in my opinion I think it came out very nice and pretty. I was also very proud of my prop which was the little booklet/packet because my mentors were nice enough to put it together for me to bring to my presentation.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
-I've always been my hardest critique and I dwell on thins for ages. I had practiced my presentation twice the night before and I went over the speaking time but I guess the change of environment and just nerves made me speak way too fast and forget a lot of the things I was suppose to say so that caused me to drag out my presentation just to simply make time and that's something I was quite disappointed on.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
-I would honestly say having Aubree as moral support because if she wouldn't have been there I probably wouldn't have made time and just would've been even more nervous.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
-I wish there wouldn't have been technical difficulties because we would've stayed in Riva's classroom since I was use to it and just be calm and collected.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
-So far the books I'm reading talk a lot about Interviews and how you can go right and wrong on that so I'm sure my second answer will have to do with something about that since promoting the well being in the workplace also had to do with hiring the right kinds of people.