Think about how human resources are handled at the company you work for, or one you have worked for in the past. In the discussion thread, comment on the following questions:

What steps of the human resources cycle does the company handle well? Why?
What steps of the human resources cycle are handled poorly? Why?
How is culture impacted by the Human Resources department?
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2. Week 9: Overcoming Obstacles using Communication

Communicating effectively can often help us manage conflict and overcome challenges in the workplace. Review the following scenario and answer the questions below.

Your bags are packed for a family vacation to Jamaica, and you leave in three days. Then, your co-worker calls the office to say she can’t come to work this week because her child has the flu and she has no one to babysit. Your supervisor says you have to cover that co-worker’s shift AGAIN for the fourth time in two months. Unfortunately, if you cover the shift, you will miss your vacation, and you will lose the money you spent on it. How would you manage this workplace obstacle using the skills and tools you’ve been learning throughout this course? As a reminder, those skills are communication, technology, productivity, and self and social awareness.

3. The purpose of project management and the SDLC is to increase successful software implementation. The article titled “IT Project Failure Rates: Facts and Reasons” makes it clear that a lot of projects still fail.

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Identify an IT system development failure that occurred within the last two years. Do not repeat an example from earlier in the course or one that has been posted by another student.
Analyze which project management concepts were not respected by the project managers and where in the SDLC these lapses occurred.
Describe how you might have spoken up had you been on the steering committee.