Assessment name: Assessment 2 – Memorandum on using HR systems internationally
Weight: 40 %
Length: 2000 words (words +/- 10%) excluding references This assessment supports the following Graduate Outcomes:
- Work-ready
- Global in outlook and competence
- Cultural and socially aware
- Active and lifelong learners
- Innovation
Details: Memorandum for your CEO
Assessment Descriptions
Overview
You will write a memo arguing for, or against, imposing specified common HR policies and practices across multiple countries. Students will write a memo arguing for or against imposing specified common HR policies and practices across multiple countries.
Description
As an HR leader of a company headquartered in Australia and with subsidiaries in three countries (Germany, Canada, Mexico), prepare a memo for your CEO arguing either for, or against, imposing a common HR system and processes across all three company’s locations (Germany, Canada, Mexico).
Talent management (TM) and managing performance (MP) (including reward) have been identified as two of the most critical HR issues facing international companies today. As the HR leader for a company headquartered in Australia, operating and providing services in Germany, Canada, Mexico, prepare a memorandum for your CEO arguing either for, or against, imposing a common HR system and processes across all three company’s locations, in relation to these two critical HR issues (TM and
PM - including reward). In brief, recommend either for or against imposing a common system (this is related to: localisation vs. standardisation - which global HRM strategy is best in each country and why?) for these HR processes (TM & MP) in your three operations.
Memo details
You should make reference to the GLOBE study and other material covered in weeks 1-6; and provide an outline of the HR system or HR systems you recommend. Globe country comparison can be found in this link: GLOBE: comparing countries (Links to an external site.)
This is a memorandum not an essay. Although company's memorandum (or memos) usually wouldn't include in text references and reference list, you must include in-text references as this is an assessment, and a reference list indicating where you have sourced your concepts. Students will demonstrate additional research beyond the course material and the course textbook by using recent peer reviewed academic journal articles published between 2010 and 2022 (minimum of ten {15}).
Assessment Criteria:
Please be sure for the Assessment Criteria that:
- a memorandum format, not an essay format, is
- Be creative: create a scenario in the Australian company and it's subsidiaries; use current Global HRM issues learned during assessment 1 (e.g., is similar or different operating in developed countries such as Germany and Canada, than operating in emerging economies
such as Mexico?; how global issues such as the pandemic or emerging technologies or global mobility or deglobalisation or any other global issue are affecting the Australian multinational operating in each one of the three locations?)
- Key issues, critical analysis and synthesis has been developed, and using the relevant academic
- Ideas and assertions are substantiated through the use of high quality reference
material and the use of key academic concepts/theories/perspectives/views to explain the key issues, critical analysis and synthesis
- Hence, it should be an explicit linking of the literature to the memo
- Opinions or arguments that are not substantiated by quality references are
- A clear and comprehensive written style is used, including correct spelling, grammar, and
In general, the Assessment Criteria is also based on the following:
- Key issues, critical analysis and synthesis have been developed; and using creativity to explain them
- Critical analysis and synthesis of the relevant literature
- Ideas and assertions substantiated through use of high quality reference material and key academic perspectives/views
- Explicit linking of the literature to answering the
- The avoidance of opinions or arguments that are not substantiated by quality
- Clear and comprehensive written style (spelling, grammar, ) Appropriate Harvard style referencing (in-text and list of references)
- Written in memorandum
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