Managing Human Resources Semester Project
Assignment: Your project is to select any HR related topic / issue from your textbook that was
covered in class and use it as a topic of discussion for a feedback / performance review session.
You will use the CPR Model for Difficult Discussions you received as your guide. This is an
individual project. Each student needs to turn one in. This project is worth 200 points.
One of the hardest things for any supervisor/manager to do is have that challenging talk with
someone. It can be a subordinate, co-worker or supervisor, sometimes situations present
themselves and you know you and the organization would be better off if the issue was
properly addressed but you’re nervous about talking to someone about it. Not many people
enjoy a confrontation so it’s important that you are able to address potentially sensitive issues
positively in a manner that can leave both parties feeling good about the process and outcome.
You should select a topic and create a fictional (yet realistic) situation that one might expect to
encounter at some point as a supervisor / manager. Your topic may be based on something that
you have personally witnessed, seen in a movie / television program or something that you
think you may face in the future. Once your topic is selected, address each block in the model.
You will basically be telling a story about a face to face feedback session you will have with this
person about the issue you’ve selected. What you will turn in will look a lot like a movie script;
explaining what happened, what’s going on, why and who said what.