Applied Concepts

Imagine yourself as a consultant or someone who is presenting the business case for a telecommuting program. Prepare your research to help an imaginary company make the best decision for designing a new program. You can draw from real world companies to give as support or reference. This is not an analysis or summary of what a real-world company has already done.

Purpose of this Paper (Explain what you will cover in this paper.)
HR List of Components of a Successful Formal Telecommuting Program
For each item on the list, explain in detail its importance.
Ask: Why would you create a program like this and what would you need to implement it? Consider types of companies, departments and jobs that are a good fit, reasons why telecommuting is a good idea for these jobs, best practices in setting up and running programs. Can include a business need, agreements, training, technology, communication equipment, types of software services & programs, and more…Choose 3-5.
Formal HR Telecommuting Policy – Address the key components of the policy and why you chose each. Guidelines to make it work smoothly, policies, procedures, work hours, responsiveness, technology, collaboration tools, productivity requirements, general infrastructure, equipment considerations. Bring in new ideas not covered in depth in the components, refer to policy doc from Unit 1, express in your words, do additional research, add more, choose the ones you believe are most important. Choose around 5.

Selection of Participants– What criteria will be used to select participants? What qualities and characteristics make for a productive and reliable remote worker? Personality traits, attitudes, core self-evaluations, choosing who is a best fit per motivation theories. -Choose around 3-5. Choose models from the course (Attitude/Motivation/Personality chapters). How will you use each? Be specific.

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