MN5506 Managing People and Organisations

Brief Description of the assessment:

Written report (individual):

  1. Describe and critically appraise the recruitment, motivation and retention process at an organisation (you may choose to select a company you have worked in previously).
  2. How might the Human resource activities of recruiting, performance appraisal and retention (e.g pay), be related to corporate strategy and culture of the company?
  3. What Human Resources challenges (recruiting, hiring, training and developing, retaining etc) does your chosen company/organization face today?

For the resit assignment, you must not use the same examples as you have in your first submission. Your selected companies need to be from different industrial sectors.

Individual formal written report (of 2500 words MAXIMUM):

Use your student ID's for anonymity

You must demonstrate the application of the appropriate theoretical frameworks where necessary.

Full references and sources of all materials must be stated.

Indicative Structure

The following proposed structure is not intended to be prescriptive but is offered to help you in preparing your assignment and in giving appropriate weighting to the different parts of the questions.

  1. Introduction (10%)

A brief description of the company, number of employees, role of central/local Personnel etc.

  1. Critical appraisal of HR process (35%)

Examine the strengths, weaknesses, timescales (recruiting, performance appraisals etc), and realistic motivational frameworks used by the organization you have selected in their recruitment, motivation and retention of key staff.

  1. Demonstrate how human resource activities relate to the corporate culture and strategy of the organization? (35%)

Examine recruitment, performance appraisal and retention (e.g via pay) in relation to the organizations corporate culture and strategy.

  1. What human resources challenges (recruiting, hiring, training, diversity, attitudes towards diversity, culture etc) does your chosen organization face today (20%)
Learning outcomes for the assessment (refer to the appropriate module learning outcomes)

Human Resource Management planning for organisational development and effectiveness that will lead to high employee motivation and enhance company competitiveness.

Assessment criteria:

The students will be required to prepare an individual assignment (no shared work).

HRM theory from course text and relevant Journal publications is essential.

Full references and sources of all materials must be stated.

Guidance on the required critique and evaluation is given on the following pages.

Assessment method by which a student can demonstrate the learning outcomes:

Strategic Human resource management relating to a real organization in a single report that is marked by the module tutor.

Weighting:

100% of module marks

Format of the assessment/coursework: (Guidelines on the expected format and length of submission): Note: appendices are not included in the word count for this report.

Format is a formal written report of maximum word limit of 2500 words (word limit to be stated on the front cover) including diagrams and tables. Report should comprise Title Page, and Parts 1 –4.

Also (not included in word count): References (essential) and Appendices (if needed).

Assessment date/submission deadline:

Submission via Wiseflow. Submission dates are published at the start of term.

Indicative reading list:

§  Management by Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina (2010) or latest edition

§  Academic Journal papers

 

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