BSBHRM613 - Task 2 - Skills Test – Research Report

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Assessment Task 2: Skills Test – Research Report                                                                                               

Skills Test – Research Report

This assessment requires you to take on the role of a HR Manager in your training organisation.

You are required to complete a research report on the development and analysis of learning and development strategies for your training organisation.

During the preparation of the research report, you will be required to:

• Consult a range of internal stakeholders to identify the training organisation’s policies and procedures relating to the development of learning and development
• Conduct online research to identify and develop change management processes for your training

Note: The purpose of this research report to participate and carry out workplace-related activities and tasks, using your training organisation as an example of existing workplace and workplace personnel such as trainers/assessors and other nominated individuals by them as the stakeholders required to complete this assessment task.

The research report should be based on the information provided in the scenario and description sections.

Scenario

To be a sustainable training organisation, all training organisations must develop a learning and development strategy that sets out the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the organisation needs.

The workforce capabilities, skills and competencies are assessed based on the following factors:

• Internal
• External environment
• Training organisation’s

The existing learning and development strategy is outdated. To address the workforce gaps and plan for the achievement of strategic objectives, the management wants to develop a new learning and development strategy.

They want the HR Manager to develop a research report on the development of learning and development strategy that they will use as a baseline for the development of the training organisation’s learning strategy.

As a HR Manager, your job role requires you to:

• Assess the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the training organisation needs.
• Analyse the legislation, code of practice and national standards that the training organisation must comply with during the development of learning and development
• Evaluate the existing learning and development strategies used at the training
• Assess quality management requirements and opportunities for implementation of quality policies and procedures to address compliance requirements.
• Research and assess approaches to learning strategy design, including flexible learning, development and assessment strategies
• Review and examine existing organisational policies and procedures relating to the development of learning and development strategies.

Description of the activity:

This activity requires the student to complete a research report on the development and analysis of learning and development strategies for your training organisation.

You will take on the role of the HR Manager at your training organisation. Your report must follow the below-given guidelines:

• The report must be prepared using ‘Template 1’ The word limit to complete the report is 1500-1800 words.
• Start with an introduction, then move on to supporting body Write a conclusion and cite your sources.
• You must only use authentic and verifiable
• The report should be presented in the provided format.
• Proofread
• Always make sure to run your ideas by your trainer/assessor to make sure that it is okay that you approach the report in this
• Your report must contain original content and should not be a “copy” of someone else’s
• You must use Harvard style referencing in the

To prepare the report, you must use the templates attached and follow the steps given below:

• Assess the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the training organisation needs.
• Assess the training organisation’s
• Consult the training organisation’s internal stakeholders, such as your trainer/assessor, and assess the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies that the training organisation
• Discuss the sources you used to assess the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the training organisation needs.
• Conduct online research and identify the legislation, codes of practice, and national standards that the HR Manager (You) must comply with during your training organisation’s learning strategy
• Assess the training organisation’s
• Discuss the legislation, codes of practice and national standards that the HR Manager (You)

must comply with during your training organisation’s learning strategy development.

• Assess the need for communication and consultation processes to support and encourage stakeholder input into design, implementation and review of organisational learning and development strategy
• Discuss the need for communication and consultation
• Discuss the key stakeholders to be consulted in the following phases of the learning and development strategy:
• Design
• Implementation phase
• Review phase
• Discuss the sources used to gather the
• Conduct research and identify common approaches to learning strategy
• Assess the most common approaches to learning strategy design based on the assessment of existing competitors in the
• Document two (2) common approaches to learning strategy
• Assess the existing organisational learning and development strategy design, conduct a SWOT analysis and recommend changes to the learning and development strategy
• Consult with relevant internal stakeholders to identify organisational learning and development strategy
• Conduct a SWOT analysis on organisational learning and development strategy
• Recommend changes, including the addition of flexible learning, development and assessment strategies based on the SWOT analysis conducted.
• Assess and analyse the organisational technology and systems requirements to support an organisational learning strategy based on the changes recommended in the previous
• Assess the outcomes of the SWOT analysis conducted in the previous
• Analyse and document the organisational technology and systems requirements to support the change recommendations to organisational learning strategy
• Analyse and examine continuous improvement processes associated with organisational learning and development strategies
• Evaluate the existing training organisation’s continuous improvement processes associated with organisational learning and development
• Assess what improvement can be made to the continuous improvement processes based on the analysis of previous
• Develop strategies for evaluation of learning and management
• Research and develop a framework for review and evaluation of learning and development
• Discuss the KPIs that will be used to evaluate the learning and development
• Conduct research and identify the quality management compliance requirements as it relates to organisational learning
• Identify the quality management compliance requirements related to organisational
• Analyse the quality management standards that the training organisation can use to monitor compliance with its learning and development
• Analyse the policies and procedures that your training organisation would require to manage the development, implementation and review of learning and development strategies.
• Document three (3) policies and procedures to manage the development, implementation and review of learning and development strategies.
• Discuss the purpose of each policy and

The student must complete a research report on the development and analysis of learning and development strategies for your training organisation. Your report must contain all of the following:

• Introduction to the Include the following information:
• Your research topic
• Background information
• Objectives of writing the report
• Body of the report:
• Workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the training organisation needs.
• Training organisation’s
• Workforce capabilities, skills and competencies that the training organisation
• Sources you used to assess the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the training organisation needs.
• Legislation, codes of practice, and national standards that the HR Manager (You) must

comply with during your training organisation’s learning strategy development.

• Legislation
• Codes of practice
• National standards
• Need for communication and consultation processes to support and encourage stakeholder input into design, implementation and review of organisational learning and development strategy
• Need for communication and consultation
• Key stakeholders to be consulted in the following phases of the learning and development strategy:
• Design
• Implementation phase
• Review phase
• Sources used to gather the
• Common approaches to learning strategy
  • Most common approaches to learning strategy design based on the assessment of existing competitors in the
• Two (2) common approaches to learning strategy
• Assessment of the existing organisational learning and development strategy design
  • Organisational learning and development strategy
• SWOT analysis on organisational learning and development strategy design.
• Changes, including the addition of flexible learning, development and assessment strategies based on the SWOT analysis conducted.
• Technology and systems requirements to support an organisational learning strategy
  • Organisational technology and systems requirements to support the change recommendations to organisational learning strategy
• Continuous improvement processes associated with organisational learning and development strategies
• Evaluation of the existing training organisation’s continuous improvement processes associated with organisational learning and development
• Improvement that can be made to the continuous improvement processes based on the analysis of previous
• Strategies for evaluation of learning and management
  • Framework for review and evaluation of learning and development
• KPIs that will be used to evaluate the learning and development
• Quality management compliance requirements as it relates to organisational learning
  • Quality management compliance requirements related to organisational
• Quality management standards that the training organisation can use to monitor compliance of its learning and development strategy.
• Analysis of the policies and procedures to manage the development, implementation and review of learning and development strategies.
• Three (3) policies and procedures to manage the development, implementation and review of learning and development
• Purpose of each policy and
• References and bibliography (Harvard style – Any five references)