BAA612 Enterprise Communication

Assessment

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Late Assessment and Extension Policy

1. In this Policy:
   • (a) ‘day’ or ‘days’ includes all calendar days, including weekends and public holidays;
   • (b) ‘late’ means after the due date and time; and
   • (c) ‘assessment items’ includes all internal non-examination based forms of assessment
2. This Policy applies to all students enrolled in Faculty of Business Units at whatever Campus or geographical location.
3. Students are expected to submit assessment items on or before the due date and time specified in the relevant Unit Outline. The onus is on the student to prove the date and time of submission.
4. Students who have a medical condition or special circumstances may apply for an extension. Requests for extensions should, where possible, be made in writing to the Unit Coordinator on or before the due date. Students will need to provide independent supporting documentation to substantiate their claims.
5. Late submission of assessment items will incur a penalty of 10% of the total marks possible for that piece of assessment for each day the assessment item is late unless an extension had been granted on or before the relevant due date.
6. Assessment items submitted more than five (5) days late will not be accepted.

BMA583 Managing People and Employment Relationship

Journal Article Review

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This task requires students to select ONE (1) HRM practice (e.g., Training, Compensation, Recruitment etc.) and complete the following tasks:

1. Download and read THREE (3) peer-reviewed journal articles related to the specific HRM practice you have chosen that have been published since 2015.
2. Summarise the journal article content for your marker by (i) providing a combined/comprehensive definition of the HRM practice as presented in the 3 papers, (ii) describing the common HRM context (e.g., public sector, financial industry, not-for-profit) within which each of the journal articles studied the HRM practice, and (iii) summarise the conclusions and recommendations for effective HRM management in this regard.

The Journal Article Review should include an Introduction section to provide an overview of the answer to the marker.

Following are some of Academic Journals you may consider:

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

Human Relations

Human Resource Management Journal

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Work, Employment and Society

Please note:

1. Please ACCURATELY reference the academic journal publications. You will need to use the Harvard Referencing Style Guide for your in-text and full reference citations.
2. Word count does not include references.
3. By submitting your assignment on MyLo: 

You declare that all material in this assignment is your own work except where there is clear acknowledgement or reference to the work of others. You am aware that your assignment may be submitted to plagiarism detection software, and might be retained on its database. You have read and complied with the University statement on Plagiarism and Academic Integrity on the University website at www.utas.edu.au/plagiarism.  You will keep a copy of this assignment until the end of th

BMA583 Managing People and Employment Relationship

Team Live Case Analysis

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Students are required to form into teams of 3 to 5 people and complete the following tasks:

1. Locate an organisation that has undertaken a major change in its organisational strategy within the last 5 years
2. Undertake secondary research on the nature and scope of the organisation’s change (i.e., from online news sources)
3. Identify THREE (3) HRM practices (from the list of topics in this unit) and analyse how they were used as part of the organisation’s change of strategy (either successfully or unsuccessfully)
4. Present your work as a 10–15-minute presentation (recorded and submitted to MyLO as a .mp4 file) AND the PowerPopint slides with any notes you want to include about your work therein.

As part of your submission, clearly identify what aspects of the work were authored or spoken by each team member (5 marks for individual contribution).

Please note:

1. Please ACCURATELY reference the academic journal publications. You will need to use the Harvard Referencing Style Guide for your in-text and full reference citations.
2. Word count does not include references.

BMA583 Managing People and Employment Relationship

Capstone Assessment

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Building upon Assessment Tasks 1 and 2, students are required to submit an individual report that presents:

1. an overview of an employment relations issue common to an industry of your choice
2. TWO (2) examples (from news stories published since 2015) where the employment relations issue has occurred in that industry AND the HRM practices most relevant to it
3. a detailed recommendation of how HRM practices could be used as a system to address the employment relations issue raised in your examples.

This report should be written with an Introduction and Conclusion section.

Please note:

1. Please ACCURATELY reference the academic journal publications. You will need to use the Harvard Referencing Style Guide for your in-text and full reference citations.
2. Word count does not include references.