Team Collaboration and Performance Management

WEEK 5’S ASSIGNMENT: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Objective: This week’s assignment has you write an APA formatted essay that describes individual work-life balance issues and applies OD processes to offer suggestions.
Preparation Task: Review Week 5’s textbook chapters that cover the topics of performance management, wellness management, career planning, and development interventions.
Reviewing these chapters will help you start the research needed to draft your essay. Moreover, the concepts in these materials are crucial to successfully completing this assignment.
Assignment
Step 1. Read the case Employee Benefits at HealthCo in your textbook (p. 519-522). Be sure to take notes on the approaches taken toward performance management and organizational work-life balance.
Step 2. Using your notes and what you have learned this week, answer the following questions:
· Apply the OD processes, such as diagnosis and change management, to issues related to performance management, employee and organizational work-life issues, benefits, and programs.
· Describe some of the issues related to individual work-life balance, and analyze related organizational support for it. How can Healthco become a top work-life balance company?
Step 3. Time to produce an essay that should meet the following requirements:
Requirement 1. Your essay must address the questions from Step 2 using the concepts and the topics covered this week. Be sure to support your claims and assertions using citations.
Requirement 2. It must be an APA formatted 3-5 page long (1000-1500 words) essay. You might find it helpful to use the APA template available at the CIU Writing Center.
Requirement 3. It must contain at least three scholarly sources (peer-reviewed journal articles) and a minimum of five in-text citations. Requirement 4. It must have a title page and a references page (not included in the word count).