1. Employee Goal Setting Toolkit
What it does:
The Employee Goal Setting Toolkit contains step-by-step
guidance and supporting resources to empower employees to set
effective goals.
How to Use it:
Provide employees with direct access to this resource to help
them set their own goals.
Instructions:
1. Questions to Ask Your Direct Manager
Before you begin with the goal setting and alignment process,
ask some of these questions to your direct manager to develop
your individual goals that align with the overall organizational
objectives.
2. Goal Alignment Template
Use this template to develop and map your individual goals and
success measures based on the Manager Goal Communication
Sheet you received from your manager and your initial
conversation with your manager. Example of an objective is
included below.
3. S.M.A.R.T. Goal Checklist
While filling the Goal Alignment Template, use this checklist to
verify whether the goals you have set are Specific, Measurable,
Attainable, Relevant, and Timely. S. M.A.R.T. goals ensure that
managers and employees have mutual understandings of
expectations.

2. Post creating and reviewing your goals, share the final version
of the Goal Alignment Template with your manager.
QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR DIRECT MANAGER
· How do you perceive the value-add of this function to the
business?
· How well has the function delivered value in the past three
years? Where has it succeeded and where has it struggled?
· Where we have struggled to deliver value why do you think
that is? Where we have succeeded what are the drivers of our
success?
· What are the short-term priorities of the business? Are any of
these at risk?
· Where do you see the greatest potential for our function and
my sub-function to support those priorities?
· What are the long-term strategic objectives for the business?
· What do you view as being the key organizational drivers of
success in achieving those objectives (i.e. what does the
organization need to get right in order to succeed)?
· Where do you see the greatest potential for our function and
my sub-function to support those priorities?
· How well does my function partner with other functions to
deliver business outcomes? Is there a greater need for us to
collaborate more effectively with other parts of the business?
· Are there specific issues or needs that you would like me to
focus on in my first 90 days?
· Are there process, structure, technology or people issues in the

3. function that you would like me to pay particular attention to?
· What will success look like for me in the first year? What
about in the first three years?
· What are the right success metrics for those goals?
· Are there specific internal clients or stakeholders you would
recommend I meet with as I consider my goals and objectives?
· Are there external clients or other stakeholders I should meet
with as I consider my goals and objectives?
GOAL ALIGNMENT TEMPLATE
2019 INDIVIDUAL GOAL-SETTING
Employee Name
Position Title
Manager’s Name/Title
Objective setting is an important part of our performance
management process. It is an opportunity for managers and
employees to clarify what’s expected, what associates are
accountable for, and why it matters.
Using all the key business and functional objectives along with
the managerial goals, employees can connect their work to
what’s important for the organization (e.g. Communicate the
Big Picture).
Business Unit Objective
Your Aligned Goal
Goal Description
Success Measures
Timeframe
Alignment

4. Enter the Organization Objective
Identify your objectives for the upcoming year. These should
come from core job accountabilities and/or specific projects and
objectives.
Mention the action steps that you need to take in order to
achieve the goal.
Choose 1 to 3 measures; where possible, align your success
measures to your manager’s and senior leader’s success
measures.
Enter the target date for achieving the goal.
Indicate how the goal aligns with your manager’s and senior
leader’s goals.
Ex: People
Ex: Expanding mentoring acceptance
Ex: Improve the program by implementing new concepts
Ex: Track progress of mentoring by using rating process.
Current at a “4” achieve “5” level.
Ex: End of Q2

5. Approved by: _____________________
Date: ____________________
S.M.A.R.T. GOAL CHECKLIST
While goals are forward-facing and provide the company with
the direction in which it will move, SMART goals, or
objectives, serve as mile markers along the road indicating
progress and maintaining motivation.
Employees should follow the below checklist to set SMART
goals to ensure that there are no gaps in understanding of
expectations.
Is the goal results-based?
Does the goal define specific metrics (quantity, quality,
timeliness, cost, etc.)that can be objectively measured?
Measurable
Time Bound
Specific

6. Does the goal clearly define expectations in terms of actions
and outcomes?
Does the goal avoid generalities and use action verbs?
Achievable
Is the goal challenging, but within reason?
Does the employee have the skills and experiences necessary to
achieve the goal?
Is achievement of the goal within the employee’s control?
Can the employee reasonably be expected to successfully
complete the number of goals assigned?
Relevant

7. Is the scope of the goals appropriate given the employee’s job
responsibilities and level?
Does the goal clearly connect to departmental and/or
organizational goals?
Does the employee understand how his/her goal contributes to
the organization’s objectives?
Does the goal specify a date or elapsed amount of time by when
each goal needs to be completed?
Things to Consider:
Is the scope of the goals appropriate?
Are there too few or too many goals?
Are the measures practical or achievable?
Do I have the skills needed to achieve the goals?

8. Understand the components of SMART goals to make goal
achievement realistic
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GLO 420: Future Societies
Global Futures Research Paper Guidelines
The second major assignment for the Future Societies course is
a final research paper in lieu
of a final exam. The final research paper is intended to provide
students with an opportunity to
research and write on an issue of personal interest and to
articulate a personal vision of what it
means for them to be a member of a global community and a
future leader in business and
society. Students will select a research topic early in the term
and are encouraged to work on
the paper throughout the term. Students will have an
opportunity to submit and received
feedback on a draft paper or outline in the latter part of the
term, and will prepare a
“presentation poster” on their research paper for class
discussion at the end of the term. The
final research paper is due during Exam Week. See MyCourses
for due dates.

9. The final paper should be a minimum of 2500 words (10 pages,
double-spaced, in 12-point
font). It should include a title page, an introduction, the body of
the paper, and a conclusion
identifying the implications of the research for our
understanding of the future as well as
questions or issues that, from the student’s perspective, merit
further consideration. The
“presentation poster” should consist of one piece of poster
board (22” x 28”). It should use
photographs, drawings, diagrams, maps, or other visual images
rather than words to convey
the student’s analysis of the research topic and its implications
for the future – presentation
posters should include no more than 50 words of text.
Selecting a Research Topic
For this paper students must begin by articulating a question
about the future that is of
personal interest. When looking to the future the focus should
be on looking beyond the next 5
to 10 years, to the next 20 or 30 years, i.e. to 2040 or ideally
2050 CE. The parameters for
what would make an appropriate “research question” are
intentionally broad and open-ended,
to allow students maximum scope to frame their research around
a topic of personally
compelling interest. The following examples are offered as
ways of thinking through how to
frame a research question for this paper and should not be taken
as prescriptive of the
questions that can or should be asked or as limiting in any way
the range of questions that
student’s might wish to consider.

10. 1. One way to frame the research question for this paper is
geographically. For example, a
research question could be, what will the city of San Francisco
or the San Francisco
Bay Area look like in 2050? Or, how will the city of Mumbai or
communities along the
Goa coast in India be impacted by and adapt to rising ocean
levels as a result of climate
change? Or, how will the European Union develop and evolve
socially, politically, and
economically over the next 30 years?
2. Another way to frame the research question is in terms of the
future of an industry (e.g.
financial services, real estate, fashion, information technology,
travel and tourism,
transportation, etc). When taking this approach, there are a
range of questions that
could be asked, such as, how will the industry develop over the
next 30 years? Or, what
role will the industry play over the next 30 years in shaping the
future of the global
community, in potentially both positive or negative ways? Or,
how will the industry be
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transformed by the development of the new technologies of the
4th industrial revolution?
Or, what role might the industry play in addressing one or more

11. of the grand challenges
that currently confront human societies and the global
community?
3. A third way to frame the research question could be in terms
of a specific technology
and its potential impact on individuals and societies. For
example, the research question
could focus on how societies might be transformed over the next
30 years by the
development of increasingly powerful virtual reality
applications. Or, how human
experience and/or human societies might be transformed by the
development of
biogenetic technologies and their impact on human health and
life expectancies. Or,
how the Internet of Things and an always-on, always-connected
world with diminished
expectations of privacy might impact how people lead their
daily lives.
4. A fourth way would be to take a more philosophical approach
by asking questions like,
how might the success of efforts to extend life expectancies
resulting in societies where
there are many more older people and relatively few children
change our understanding
of the meaning and purpose of human life and experience? Or,
how might living in a
world of abundance rather than scarcity, or in a world where
few people engage in what
we today would consider work, reshape a society’s values,
goals, or expectations about
the future? Or, how might the development of human-like

12. artificial intelligence impact
our sense of identity as a species or our understanding of what
it means to be human?
As noted, these suggestions on how to approach developing a
research question or how you
might frame your research topic are not intended to be exclusive
or exhaustive. The challenge
is to come up with a research question that interests you, and to
frame that question in such a
way as to support and encourage an exploration and elaboration
of the research topic. Since
the formulation of a research question that is at once specific,
manageable, and open-ended,
represents a significant challenge, students are required to
submit their proposed research
question to the instructor for approval before beginning their
research. An assignment box has
been set up in MyCourses for submission of these proposed
research questions.
Developing Your Research Topic
Once students have decided on a research question, they will
need to consider and address
the following questions:
1. What is the current situation with regard to this research
topic and how did we
get here? To address this question students will need to conduct
research on their
selected topic to get a better understanding of the current
opportunities or challenges in
a geographic region, or the current sources of competitive

13. advantage or threat in an
industry, or the current level of development of a technology, or
the ways in which
people have thought about or approach a given philosophical
issue, etc. The scope of
this research and the best way to approach is likely to vary by
topic. However, coming
to some understanding of the past history of the topic and its
current trajectory will be
critical for arriving at an informed understanding and
appreciation of its possible futures.
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2. What are the forces driving change with regard to the
selected topic, and what
forms are those changes likely to take? Again, research will be
required to answer
this question. As O’Reilly noted in the assigned reading from
WTF, our capacity to
understand and anticipate the future is dependent on the
accuracy of our current maps,
and an important component of those maps is our understanding
of the forces driving
change, and how these forces are being shaped and directed by
the interplay of
cultural, social, economic, and political institutions. You will
also want to consider what
type of change (evolutionary, life-cycle, dialectical, or
teleological) is likely to be most
critical for shaping the future in with respect to your selected
research question.

14. 3. What is your own personal vision of the future with respect
to your research
topic, and how might we get there? The answer to this question
will ultimately require
an act of imagination. Given what you’ve learned about the
current state of play with
regard to your research topic and the forces driving change,
what might the situation be
like 20 or 30 years from now, in 2040 or 2050 CE? Your vision
for the future could be
consist of one particular outcome of the change processes
already underway or could
be represented by a range of possible outcomes depending on
how events unfold over
the coming decades. Once you have developed your vision of
the future, you will need
to write the story of how we might get there, we being, for
example, humanity in general,
or those living in a particular region or working in a particular
industry. The story you
create should articulate where we started, where we’re going,
why we might make
particular choices or take particular actions, and therefore how
we got to your future
vision. It could consist of a single, over-arching narrative or
have a branching tree, with
different possible futures appearing at each decision point.
4. How do you want to contribute to shaping the development of
this future vision
and who would you want to be in this future society? Answering
this question will
require you to reflect on your own values, your own priorities,

15. and your own sense of
efficacy. For this, you will want to consider your own emotional
response to the current
situation and the future possibilities. What role do hope and
fear, optimism and despair,
love and anger play in shaping your responses, and perhaps
determining the choices
you are likely to make as you look to the future? How are your
values and beliefs about,
for example, the nature of human experience, the nature of
society, or our relationship
with the natural world and with each other, likely to shape your
future actions? How are
these values and beliefs reflected in, or perhaps also
contradicted by your vision for the
future? To what extent do you feel a sense of efficacy in your
capacity to shape a future
to your expectations, or a sense of powerlessness in the face of
the overwhelming
power of the forces driving change. What role, if any, is there in
your vision of the future
for empathy, compassion, and the wisdom that comes from an
understanding of the
interconnectedness of all things? Finally, in what sense do you
or might you see
yourself as a leader, in business and society, in creating your
future vision?
Assignment Submissions
As noted above, the research paper submission must include a
title page, an introduction, the
main body of the paper, and a conclusion. It should also include
a bibliography listing the
sources consulted and cited in the research paper.

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1. Title Page: The title page should include, at a minimum, a
descriptive title, your name,
and the date of submission.
2. Introduction: The introduction should define and describe the
research question, provide
an overview of the structure and content of the main body of the
paper, and summarize
the main points or observations from your conclusion. In most
instances you will find it
easier to write the introduction after you have completed the
rest of the paper.
3. Main Body: The main body of the paper should address the
first three questions
outlined in the preceding section, i.e. the historical development
of the current situation;
the main forces driving change; and your vision for the future
and how we’ll get there.
There is no set structure for the main body of the paper. The
paper could certainly be
divided into three subsections with separate headings for
“Current Situation”, “Forces
Driving Change” and “Future Vision”, but there are likely to be
other and better ways to
organize the main body of the paper depending on your
particular research topic or
approach to this assignment. However you decide to structure

17. and organize the main
body of the paper, you are encouraged to use headings and
subheadings to guide the
reader as you present the results of your research.
4. Conclusion: The research paper submission should include a
conclusion that reflects on
the implications for you personally of the research you’ve
conducted for this paper, as
suggested by the fourth research question outlined above. In
this context, the
conclusion should consider the implications of your research for
our understanding of
the future as well as highlight issues that you feel merit some
further consideration.
5. Bibliography: The bibliography should consist of a list of
works cited in your research
paper, listed alphabetically by author, in APA style.
In addition to submitting the research paper, which will be due
at the end of the term during
Exam Week, students are also required to prepare and bring to
class on the last day of the
term a poster presentation based on their research. Students are
also required to submit a
photograph of their presentation poster along with the
submission of their research paper.
As noted above, the “presentation poster” should consist of one
piece of poster board (22” x
28”). The poster should represent in some way the research
topic, your sense of the current
situation and forces driving change, and your vision for the

18. future. You should use
photographs, drawings, diagrams, maps, or other visual images
rather than words to convey
the results of your research – presentation posters should
include no more than 50 words of
text. During the last class session students will have a chance to
circulate and look at each
other’s posters and to share their future visions.
Grading Criteria
A rubric for assessing the final research papers and presentation
posters will be posted to
MyCourses. As noted above, students will need to obtain
approval for their research question
before proceeding, and will have an opportunity to submit a
draft or outline of their research
paper in the latter part of the term and receive feedback.
However, only the final version of the
paper will count toward the final course grade.
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Research papers should be a minimum of 2,500 words (10
pages). They should be formatted
in 12 pt font, double-spaced, with 1” margins, and should be
submitted as Word docs or PDFs.
All papers will be reviewed by TurnItIn.com and receive a
TurnItIn non-originality score. Papers
must include a title page, an introduction, the body of the paper,
and a conclusion. Students
are encouraged to use headings and subheadings to organize the

19. body of their paper.
Students must support their analysis by citing relevant and
reliable sources. In-text citations
should be in the APA style. The appended bibliography,
properly formatted, should include at
least fifteen books, journal articles, magazine articles,
newspaper reports, or other relevant
publications by think tanks, nongovernmental organizations,
government agencies, and/or
intergovernmental or transnational institutions.
In general, good final papers will draw on the material covered
in the course, material covered
in other courses, academic research, and other relevant sources
of information. They will
clearly articulate a response to the research question, addressing
the four questions
highlighted above. Good papers will offer a vivid and
compelling vision of the future, or of a
range of possible futures, and include a thoughtful consideration
of the factors and forces
driving change and shaping these future possibilities. Good
papers will also show evidence of
personal reflection by the author on the implications of these
changes for their own lives and
their own potential role in shaping these future possibilities.
Good research papers will, of
course, clearly document their sources of information using the
APA style and will be well
organized and of appropriate length; written in clear English
that is generally free of errors; and
demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of academic
writing.
Abhirath Sridhara

20. The topic I would like to choose for my paper is “How
unplanned urbanization in the major cities of India is affecting
the climate in those cities.” The biggest example is Delhi,
Mumbai and Bangalore. As I was born and raised in Bangalore,
I have seen the city develop and how this development has
affect the beautiful climate of my city.
Professor’s reply
Hi, Abhirath - One of the approaches suggested for this paper is
that a student could focus on the development of a particular
region or area. In this context. I think focusing on the future
development of a metropolitan area in India, such as Delhi,
Mumbai, or Bangalore, would make a fine topic for this paper.
My inclination would be to have you focus on one of these
cities, so that you can explore the topic in detail. I could,
however, also see merit in taking a "compare and contrast"
approach by picking two of these cities and looking at how their
development trajectories might differ given local geographic,
demographic, and economic and social conditions. I think trying
to focus on all three cities might spread your analysis too thin,
so I would counsel against that approach. That said, I am
puzzled by two aspects of your topic statement.
First, it is certainly true that unplanned urbanization, or
perhaps more accurately, the unplanned movement of large
numbers of rural residents to these urban areas, will have a
significant impact on their future development. However, this
seems to me to be only one of a number of different factors.
Ultimately, it seems like your focus should be less on how these
cities will change if their populations continue to grow in the
absence of effective urban planning, and should instead focus
on how political and social leaders at the local, regional, and
national levels should plan for the continued expansion of these
urban areas in order to create the best possible outcome for the
city's residents, surrounding communities, and the nation. It is
pretty easy to see that if no steps are taken the situation in these
cities is likely to worsen. The question is, what are the steps
that should be taken to make the situation better and to, in fact,

21. create the best possible outcome for these cities in the future?
My second puzzle has to do with your reference to climate. I
am assuming that by climate you mean something like
"atmosphere" or "general quality of life" and not specifically
the climate itself, as in the weather. Certainly, as you consider
the future of your selected city (Delhi, Mumbai, or Bangalore,
or at most, two of the three), you will want to consider how
changes in the global climate are likely to impact the city,
through changes in rainfall patterns, temperature patterns, sea
levels, or other factors. However, aside from lowering their own
greenhouse gas emissions, there is not much any one city can do
to forestall these changes. However, every city will need to
consider how it might need to adapt to changes in the global
climate and ways that it can increase its own resilience and the
resilience of its residents in the face of these potentially
significant climate changes. As I said, I wasn't sure in what
sense you intended to use the word "climate". If in the former,
you will certainly want to consider how to improve the overall
quality of life for residents in these cities. At the same time, as
you consider the future development of your selected city, you
should take into consideration the potential and likely impact of
climate change, as well as the impact of unmanaged rural-urban
migration.
Compensation and Benefit Strategy for RTA Transport
Company
-Write a comprehensive compensation and Benefits strategy for
RTA Transport Company and explain the role you will play as
the compensation and Benefits Specialist, in the overall success
of 2019 and the overall achievement of the 2022 HR strategy.
(50 marks)-4.5 pages
-Explain the compensation and Benefits journey (where we are
& where we want to be in 2022) & also detail out priorities for
2019 and 2020) (15 marks) -2 pages

22. -Use the Employee Goal setting attached to set your Objectives
& stretched goals. (15 Marks) -2 pages
-Expand the compensation and Benefit Strategy to vision 2022.
(10 marks) -1 page
-Explain some quick wins in the compensation and benefits
strategy (10 marks)-0.5 page
**I have attached the HR Strategy & 2018-2022 priorities for
your use.
(Use Times New Roman 12)