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Chapter 7

Assignment: Gap Analysis

Consider an organization that has a well-developed strategic plan in place, but isn’t tracking performance to ensure that established goals are being met and aligned with the organization’s direction. Consider an organization where employees work diligently for a long period of time, only to wake up one day and wonder, where are we? This may be the time for a gap analysis.

To begin this Assignment, use the Walden Library, media, or other scholarly sources to identify and select a contemporary article that describes an organization with a performance issue. You may also use an organization with which you are personally familiar.

Then, to complete this Assignment, review the Learning Resources for this week, and other resources you identify in the Walden Library or online, and respond to the following bullets in a 3- to 5-page academic paper.

Prepare a gap analysis that includes a description of your findings and recommendations, along with the following components/sections:

• Define a gap analysis and discuss how it is utilized related to Human Resources.

• Define the current and desired state of the organization you identified.

• Identify the existing resources, organizational capabilities, and performance deficiencies within the chosen organization.

• Identify the alternatives that are available to close/eliminate the gap between the desired state and the current state.

• Assess 2–3 performance management strategies available to the organization in working toward its desired state.

• Formulate a solution, i.e., select 1 strategy and provide a brief rationale, including 4–6 action steps for implementing the strategy; and identify a post-implementation metric that can be used to track the performance of the strategy once implemented.

Your Assignment must include 3 references to support your thinking.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Note: It is highly recommended that you review the resources in the following order.

Aguinis, H. (2019). Performance management (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

• Chapter 10 – “Performance Management, Rewards, and the Law,” pp. 321–338

Note: To access this week’s required Harvard Business Review resources, select the article link and navigate to the relevant article or go back to Blackboard and select Harvard Business Articles from the course navigation menu.

Buckingham, M., & Goodall, A. (2015, April). Reinventing performance management. Harvard Business Review, 40–50.

Van De Voorde, K., & Beijer, S. (2014). The role of employee HR attributions in the relationship between high-performance work systems and employee outcomes. Human Resource Management Journal, 25(1), 62–78. doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12062

Lawton, A., & Páez, I. (2015). Developing a framework for ethical leadership. Journal of Business Ethics, 130(3), 639–649. doi:10.1007/s10551-014-2244-2

Neves, P., & Story, J. (2015). Ethical leadership and reputation: Combined indirect effects on organizational deviance. Journal of Business Ethics, 127(1), 165–176. doi: 10.1007/s10551-013-1997-3

Required Media

EMP: Expert Program Management. (2017, October 17). Ho