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JWMI 522 – Assignment 1 (1192) Page 1 of 2
HR Scorecard: The View from the Top
Due: Sunday, Midnight of Week 2 (10% of total grade)
Overview
You can’t expect to earn a seat at the table if you don’t understand what matters to the other leaders who
are already at the table. Elevating HR to a strategic partnership with the C-Suite requires a deep
knowledge of the business. This includes the competitive landscape, how the business makes money,
and the threats and opportunities the business faces. It also requires that the very essence of the
company – its mission and values – forms the foundation for every hiring, firing, compensation and talent
development initiative that HR and the business leaders undertake.
In this assignment, you are given the opportunity to develop a brief “snapshot” document to be used as a
visual support for an initial meeting a between a newly hired, or recently promoted, CHRO and the CEO
and CFO. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how well current talent-development efforts and the
HR function as a whole support the Mission, Values and Strategy of the organization. In other words, are
the things that HR is spending its time on the same things the C-Suite actually cares about?
Instructions
For this assignment, you will use your own organization and place yourself in the role of the senior-most
HR leader. Because this is a meeting with C-Suite executives, you know that presenting a long written
document is not the right way to support the discussion or to demonstrate your executive presence. You
decide to create an executive brief that does two things: (1) demonstrates your knowledge of the
business and (2) presents a snapshot of how the HR role is currently functioning.
Submission Requirements
- Use the template and scorecard provided as a guide. You may modify these to create a more
visually interesting layout if it supports your synopsis, as long as your submission addresses all
required components.
• Page 1 is a snapshot of the business and includes brief summaries of your assessment
of the top priorities in elevating the HR function in ways that will improve the profitability
of the company.
• Page 2 is a scorecard using the “7 Principles of The Talent Masters” as a way to
summarize your observations of the corporate culture and practices in your organization
that impact HR and talent development. - Type your notes (in brief) into each of the cells in the template. You may expand as needed but
your entire submission must be no more than 3 pages in length.
Sample Solution