6. Write a paper guided by the following requirements:

a. Introduction: Write a brief introduction to the paper.

b. Article Summary: Provide a brief summary of the Birkman (2008) article: “HR Measurement and Metrics: Gaining a Seat at the Strategy Table.”

c. Process Value Analysis Form: Select a test problem in your organization to conduct a process value analysis.

i. Be sure your responses on the form are clear, concise, complete, and correlated to your learning and the test problem you are analyzing.

ii. You can approach completing the process value analysis form in one of two ways:

1. Current/Future-Oriented:

2. Past/Current-Oriented

iii. Impact Using Metrics: For the second question in the Impact section of the Process Value Analysis form, identify what changes occurred. Include in your description of change, how that change was measured as attributable to each process variable: cost, time, quantity, quality, and human reaction.

iv. Five Points for Adding Value: Fitz-enz (2009) identified five points for adding value:

1) Setting requirements,

2) Interference from outside the process,

3) The person performing the process,

4) Feedback, and

5) The consequence.

v. Detail which of the five points for adding value would likely is accomplished through the process value analysis you completed in 7.c. above.

vi. Be sure your response is evidence based and evidence informed.

d. Two Means for Adding Value: Fitz-enz (2009) stated that value is added in at least one of two ways: by a person “improving his or her performance through training or other personal inputs [or by] leveraging the tools that were provided by the organization” (p. 103).

Explain which way is more evidenced in your process value analysis.

e. Conclusion: Provide a brief conclusion.

f. Use appropriate headings for each of the above lettered items in the paper.