Assessment Task 2 (30 %)
Essay 1500 words/15 quality academic references
What you need to do:
Select an organisation of your choice. Ideally, you should select an organisation where you currently work or have worked in the past or an organisation that you would like to work for in the future.
Your task is to:
- Describe the context of the organisation you have selected, including the nature of the industry, the level of competitiveness within the industry, the key external stakeholders and the current trends in the industry; and
- Describe the organisation, including the nature of the work undertaken, the products and services created, the current strategies that are operative in the business being pursued and the current level of organisational performance.
- Identify five key problems facing the practice of HRM in the organisation.
Drawing on your understanding of the industry, the organisation, and the HRM challenges you have identified and key HRM theoretical frameworks, examine the HRM-performance chain in your selected organisation.
In your answer, consider:
- How would you advise the organisation to improve the effect of HRM on organisational performance?
- What have you learned from the assignment that can enable you to become an effective HR manager?
Assessment Task 2 will be assessed against the following criteria - each criterion is equally weighted:
- Key issues relating to the question have been developed
- Analysis and synthesis of relevant HRM literature in peer-reviewed and quality newspaper articles such as the Age, Sydney Morning, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, McKinseys, Deloittes, BBC, ABC podcasts, Quality blogs,
- Ideas and assertions cited or quoted in text and substantiated through use of high-quality academic material
- Clear written style (spelling, grammar, syntax etc.) and appropriate RMIT Harvard style referencing (in-text and list of references, following Easycite* http://www.lib.rmit.edu.au/easy-cite/ guideline(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Guidance for Assessment 2 and key steps
Refer to the following steps to help you construct the core elements required in your essay.
Step 1: Select any organisation of your choice. Ideally, select an organisation where you currently work or have worked for in the past OR an organisation that you would like to work for in the future.
Your organisation may be nationally based, international, government, not-for-profit or even the family business. You may have worked at this organisation as a full time or part time employee, as a contractor or volunteer. Alternatively, the organisation you select may just be where you would like to work next. There are no parameters concerning your selection.
Step 2: Conduct research into your organisation to enable you to describe the following.
- The context of the organisation you have selected, including the nature of the industry, the level of competitiveness within the industry, the key external stakeholders and the current trends in the industry. External stakeholders include anyone your organisation deals with, such as customers, clients, suppliers, contractors, employer associations, unions, legislative bodies etc.
- The nature of the work undertaken by the organisation, the products and services created, the current strategy being pursued and the current level of organisational performance. Organisational performance comprises real results or outputs compared against its objectives and goals.
You may wish to look at this business database list from the RMIT library to help you with your research. You may also want to peruse the Proquest newpaper database to search for the organisation or industry sector you are focussing your Task 2 on and find recent articles to assist you with the knowledge and work for task 2.
Note: Please do not divulge any confidential information about your organisation. Any information that is not publicly available for which you have consent to use (for example, at your current workplace) should be de-identified so that there is no recognisable reference to the actual organisation name (e.g. instead of NAB, call your organisation ‘Financial institution 1’), its employees or stakeholders.
Step 3: Identify five (5) key problems facing the practice of HRM in the organisation.
Analyse and synthesise relevant models, theories and HRM literature to demonstrate how these problems affect organisational performance. You may wish to reference one or more of the following (if applicable):
- Harvard model of HRM.
- Guest model of HRM.
- CIPD Model.
- High-performance work systems framework.
Step 4: Provide advice to the organisation on how they could improve the effect of HRM on organisational performance, given what you know about the organisation, industry and the five (5) problems you have identified.
Your advice should include the application of theory and link to high-quality academic material.
Step 5: Reflect on what you have learned from this assessment to equip you to become an effective HR manager.
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