Description of Assessment Requirements:
As a Human Resource Management Consultant, you have been invited by a company of your choice to advise them on the possibility of rethinking their HR practices especially in view of the changes brought about by the Covid 19 pandemic. In particular the Board of Directors would like you to address the following:
Task 1
Drawing on relevant HRM models, analyse how the approach of the company to the management of its human resources has been altered due to the pandemic. (900 words/20 marks)
Task 2
Critically discuss how the organisation’s HR functions (such as recruitment & selection, HRD, motivation, performance) has changed due the pandemic. Make relevant recommendations as to how it could improve these. (1800 words/40 marks)
Task 3
Based on the criteria identified in the previous tasks, critically evaluate a number of HRM software programs that are available off the shelf and evaluate which one of these software programmes would be mostly beneficial to the organisation. (650 words/15 marks)
Task 4
In your advice to the company discuss the characteristics of effective leaders taking into consideration all the issues identified in the previous tasks. Draw on relevant models to justify your analysis. (650 words/15 marks)
Task 5
Presentation, citations and referencing (10 marks)
General guidelines:
1. Your analysis must be grounded in appropriate academic literature and must provide clear evidence of independent critical evaluation.
2. The coursework is an individual written assignment and worth 100%.
3. Your work can be submitted in either report or essay format.
4. All research must be referenced and a reference list attached. Improper or lack of either of these constitutes plagiarism and this will result in a restriction of marks.
5. The application of theory to practice will be given good marks.
6. Maximum Words (4000)
Assessment Criteria
You will be assessed on the following criteria:
• Ability to identify strategic HR issues relevant to the overall performance of the organisation (10%)
• Coherence and depth of analysis of issues identified (20%)
• Ability to critically evaluate issues facing your chosen company in relation to relevant theoretical models covered in this module (20%)
• Use of relevant evidence based on personal research to support your analysis (20%)
• Ability to achieve a personal synthesis by drawing relevant conclusions or making recommendations from the analysis and evaluation of relevant facts (20%)
• Presentation in terms of appropriateness of referencing methodology, length, and quality and quantity of references used. (10%)
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Further Guidelines:
• The submission of your work assessment should be organized and clearly structured in a report or essay format.
• Maximum word length allowed is 4000 words, excluding words in charts & tables and in the appendices section of your assignment.
• This assignment is worth 100% of the final assessment of the module.
• Student is required to submit a type-written document in Microsoft Word format with Times New Roman font type, size 12 and line spacing 1.5.
• Indicate the sources of information and literature review by including all the necessary citations and references adopting the Harvard Referencing System.
• Students who have been found to have committed acts of Plagiarism are automatically considered to have failed the entire module. If found to have breached the regulation for the second time, you will be asked to leave the course.
• Plagiarism involves taking someone else’s words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay banks and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very seriously.
