Foundations in Human Resource Management

Assessment tasks
Assessment task title: Assignment 1: Guided Reading Worksheets + In-class essay. Due Date: Worksheets are to be completed each week for weeks 1-4 for class discussion. Final versions to be submitted in Week 5. Weighting/Value: Guided Reading Worksheets (4 in total) = 10% In-class essay = 25%  Details of Task: This is a task for an individual and it relates to Unit Objectives 1, 2, 3 & 4. This assignment requires you to read the allocated reading for each week (Weeks 1-4) and complete the Guided Reading Worksheet in draft form in preparation for class discussion and activities related to the weekly topic The weekly reading and completed Guided Reading Worksheets are to be used as an “open book” to help you complete your in-class essay. The aim of this task is to: 1. Develop students’ academic reading skills to enhance their knowledge of HRM by giving them a method for and practice in reading scholarly articles on HRM topics relevant for Weeks 1-4; 2. Provide the basis for class discussion during the weekly seminar; 3. Provide a set of materials to enable students to write a class essay (individual task) on an introductory HRM topic; and 4. Provide a basic literature review for Assignment 2 and a knowledge foundation for Assignment 3. 1. Guided Readings (drafts weekly, final version Week 5) Instructions to Students (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY) Each week you must read one assigned reading (from the online reading list) and complete a ‘Guided Reading Worksheet’. The purpose of the worksheet is to prompt you to identify and note down IN YOUR OWN WORDS  key HRM concepts, definitions, ideas and arguments found in the readings that relate to the weekly topic. You will discuss the readings in class and your Guided Readings will help you
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the weekly topic. You will discuss the readings in class and your Guided Readings will help you participate in class activities.  The online reading list available through Moodle and accessible at http://moodle.vle.monash.edu or via the library at ./my/ http://lib.monash.edu/non-cms/resourcelists/ Your Guided Reading Worksheets MUST BE COMPLETED USING THE TEMPLATE FOUND ON MOODLE. The completed worksheet MUST BE no more than both sides of an A4 page 12pt, single space formatted as per the worksheet template. To avoid plagiarism you must paraphrase all the material you record on your guided reading worksheet and your essay. YOU MUST DIRECTLY COPY MATERIAL BY CUTTING AND NOT PASTING FROM THE READINGS into your worksheet.  If you are unsure about what is meant by paraphrasing and  how to avoid plagiarism then please look at the following web links: https://www.monash.edu/rlo/research-writing-assignments/referencing-and-academic-integrity /academic-integrityhttps://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/506345/qmanual.pdf  https://www.monash.edu/rlo/research-writing-assignments/writing/paraphrasing-summarising-andquoting 2. Class Essay (Week 5) ​You have 60 minutes to write about 1000 words in the exam script books provided using material on your Guided Reading Worksheets to respond to the essay question. You must submit your with your class essay and include a coversheet for the completed guided reading worksheets Guided Reading Worksheets (one coversheet for 4 readings). CLASS ESSAY QUESTION This is a quote from a successful Australian retail company, Mecca. The statement while unique to Mecca, is typical of statements made by employers on company recruitment sites. ” Our goal is to be the NUMBER ONE EMPLOYER for people who connect with our values and who are as passionate about CUSTOMER SERVICE as we are.
Explain, with reference to HRM models, theories and concepts how HRM can help Mecca achieve its strategic goals by aligning employee values and aspirations with those of the business?   Your Guided Reading Work Sheets (Max – one A4 page (both sides 12 font, single spaced) will provide you with the material to assist you to write your class essay (1000 words max/ 60 minutes). In order to provide evidence to support your response to the essay question you MUST .cite references to the readings PLEASE NOTE: In writing the essay you must PARAPHRASE material from your Guided Reading Work Sheets into your essay response. You must NOT directly copy paragraphs or sentences from your guided readings to your class essay. IF YOU FAIL TO DO THIS YOU MAY BE CHARGED WITH PLAGIARISM. If plagiarism is deemed to be intentional then the case will be reported to the Faculty and disciplinary procedures will take place. 
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N/ARelease date:  Guided Reading Worksheets must be completed using the template available on Word limit:   Moodle and be no more than one A4 page (2 sided) single spaced 12pt text. The in-class essay is hand written and will be approximately 1000-1200 words Presentation requirements: Guided Readings must be on the template available on Moodle. They must be completed weekly and brought to class in draft form. The in-class test (Week 5) is hand written in an exam book that will be provided in class on the day of the essay. Final version Guided Readings to be handed in with the completed essay.
 Week 7Estimated return date: See marking rubric available on Moodle.Criteria for marking:    Learning objectives assessed:  Unit Objectives 1, 2, 3 & 4.   Submission details: In-class essay week 5.  Penalties for late lodgement: Students without an approved Special Consideration form will receive zero for the in-class essay if they fail to complete the essay at the nominated time. Students with an approved Special Consideration form will be given a chance to sit the in class essay as soon as can be arranged.  Please provide a signed cover sheet when you submit the guided reading Assessment coversheet: worksheets (4 in total) in week 5. N/AAdditional information: 
Assessment task title: Assignment 2: Team research report and boardroom presentation Due Date: Boardroom Presentations run in weeks 9-11 Research reports due at the same time Weighting/Value: Paper = 25%. Presentation 10%  Details of Task: This is a team assignment and you will work in your existing teams to conduct a project relevant to HRM. 
Teams must be self-managing and everyone must contribute. There are materials on Moodle to support your team. This includes: 1. Confidential Peer Rating Sheet to be filled out by each group member individually and handed in with the research paper. 2. Template for taking minutes of the meetings you hold: You MUST SUBMIT the agreed (all group members must sign off) minutes of group meetings held during the preparation of your assignment. 3. Learning contract to guide your team expectations and outcomes. These materials and other resources to help you manage your team can be found on the MGF 5921 Moodle site at http://moodle.vle.monash.edu/my/ If you are looking for hints on working in teams please see: https://www.monash.edu/rlo/study-skills/learning-at-university/working-in-groups-and-teams Team Research Report Task   
The International Corporation Ltd  (ICL) , a large commercial business with a diverse workforce,
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The International Corporation Ltd  (ICL) , a large commercial business with a diverse workforce, has asked your team of  HR consultants (give your team a name and an identity) to advise them on how to so ICL can align employee efforts and aspirations with engage their diverse workforce IFCL strategic vision using a SHRM approach. ICL’s strategic vision is to be a leading corporation that is valued by its customers and an employer of choice for its employees.  They wish to develop an HR strategy to support this strategic vision by focusing on . employee engagement and diversity They are interested in what the says about employee engagement and academic literature diversity as well as what other organisations do to engage their diverse workforces. It is also interested in the role designation plays in helping to engage a diverse employer of choice workforce. To complete this assignment, you must review a sample of HR literature on employee  (search years 2015 – 2019). In addition to this your engagement, diversity and employer of choice team must choose  , to report to ICL on one organisation as a case study employee engagement, . The client wants you to report your findings to their Management diversity and employer of choice Committee.
The guiding questions to get your research up and running are as follows:
What is employee engagement and how does diversity contribute to employee engagement? What are the assumed outcomes of a highly engaged and diverse workforce for the organisation and the employee? What role does employer of choice designation have in helping engage diverse employees?
Your research report must address these questions. To focus your research for the report, you will be allocated one topic question to address in your report to ICL. Allocation of topic question and presentation date will take place in tutorials through a ballot. Here are the Topic Questions  Choose on employee engagement and Topic 1: 2 HRM activities found in your literature review diversity that foster employee engagement within the  . Explain how these Gen Y workforce activities align to help organisations achieve their strategic business objectives and meet the needs of Gen Ys. Using your chosen organisation as a case study, what HRM activities would you recommend to ICL to ensure their Gen Y workforce is engaged and focused on achieving ICL’s strategic vision. What role does employer of choice designation have in engaging and retaining Gen Y employees?  Choose Topic 2: 2 HRM activities found in your literature review on employee engagement and that foster employee engagement for and explain how these activities diversity female employees can align to help organisations achieve their business objectives and meet the needs of female employees. Using your chosen organisation as a case study, what HRM activities would you recommend to ICL to ensure their is engaged and focused on achieving female workforce ICL’s strategic vision. What role does employer of choice designation have in engaging and retaining female employees? From your , outline the strategic implication(s) Topic 3. literature review on employee engagement for organisations that place employee engagement and diversity at the centre of their HR strategy.  Using your chosen case study organisation, , and with reference to your literature review
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strategy.  Using your chosen case study organisation, , and with reference to your literature review explain how employer of choice designation helped your chosen organisation align its HR strategy (choose 2 activities identified from your case study organisation) to its strategic goals. Would you suggest they adopt additional HRM activities to foster engagement? If so what do you suggest? Would you recommend ICL adopt these activities? Why? Focusing on employees with family responsibilities (both male and female) Topic 4: and with , identify 2 HRM activities that promote this group’s engagement reference to your literature review in the workplace. With reference to your chosen case study company, what does it do to promote employee engagement among employees with family responsibilities? What do you recommend to ICL with regard to engaging employees with caring responsibilities? Why?   From your research on that Topic 5: employee engagement and diversity, identify 2 HR activities facilitate employee engagement in a diverse workforce through employer of  choice designation. Using your chosen case study organisation as an example, show how they use employer of choice designation to foster employee engagement? Would you recommend their approach to ICL?  Focusing on (both male and female) Topic 6: older employees and with reference to your literature , identify that promote this group’s engagement in the workplace. With review two HRM activities reference to your chosen case study company, what does it do to promote employee engagement among older employees? What do you recommend to ICL with regard to engaging older employees? Is employer of choice designation relevant to older employees? Topic 7: is often used as a way of engaging diverse employees as well as being used Work design as a brand for  employer of choice. From your literature review, identify aspects of work design that   Using your foster employee engagement and that may brand companies as employers of choice. chosen case study organisation as an example, choose one diverse group and identify one other HRM activity that aligns with work design to foster employee engagement with this group. What do you recommend to ICL with regard to using work design to foster employee engagement and employer of choice designation? Why? Topic 8: Drawing on your literature review on employee engagement and diversity, how does  foster employee engagement in a diverse workforce. Using your chosen training and development case study organisation as an example identify one other HR activity related to training and development that can engender employee engagement and employer of choice designation. Topic 9: From you research on employee engagement, diversity and employer of choice, explain how organisations engage LGBTIQ employees in order to retain them in the workforce. Using your chosen case study organisation as an example outline the HRM activities used to foster employee engagement and retention of LGBTIQ employers. What do you recommend to ICL? Topic 10: New graduates aspire to do well in their first job, however they may not stay for long and there is much written about the loyalty of the Gen Ys to organisations. From your literature review on employee engagement and diversity, and using your chosen case study organisation as an example, what are the key factors that help engage Gen Y graduate recruits in order to enhance retention of Gen Ys?  Do these activities contribute to employer of choice designation? What do you recommend ICL do to engage and retain Gen Ys? Your literature review and research report must use at least 10 ACADEMIC SOURCES including at least 4 readings from weeks 5-11 (please mark these articles with an * in your reference list)  plus other relevant resources (government reports, government resources, practitioner material, consulting firm reports, media reports) to respond to your allocated topic and target group.
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The research report must be written as an   evidenced based report (see Q Manual). This means your paper must offer a critical analysis of your topic and your target group that incorporates various viewpoints about the usefulness, relevance and importance of approaches to the main research question and your allocated topic.
A reminder about plagiarism: please ensure that your report is correctly and adequately referenced and any material drawn from journal articles, reports and websites is appropriately acknowledged in the report. THE REPORT MUST BE SUBMITTED TO (TO ENSURE THAT YOU TURNITIN HAVE NOT INADVERTENTLY PLAGIARISED) ON MOODLE AS WELL AS HANDING IN A ,  HARD COPY.   Boardroom Presentation: The presentation component includes the preparation of a 20 minute (plus 5 minutes of questions) group presentation to ICL’s  Management Committee. This is a professional activity and we expect that you will treat it as a professional presentation and dress and behave accordingly. It is entirely up to the team to decide how they want to present their findings, but please remember it is meant to be a professional presentation. You can do a poster, stand and present, do a role play, make a video, present a case study or any other way you think is a useful way to communicate your findings.  Everyone in the team has to contribute to the presentation (either by preparing and/or presenting) and everyone has to be present on the day of presentation and involved in some way on the day of It is not necessary that everyone presents but all group members must be able to the presentation. demonstrate they are actively engaged with the material. You do not have to use PowerPoint or similar but if you do you should have a maximum of 10 -12 slides. You must reference the material on your slides by including references on each slide to indicate where the material you have used came from.  Please be mindful of the technology constraints in your class room and maintaining audience interest. 
Presentation requirements:  see above Questions from ICL Management Committee:
During your presentation, the rest of the teams will represent the Management Committee. They will prepare and ask questions of your group about your presentation and chosen organisation. 
 
N/ARelease date:  Paper = 2000 – 2500 words. Presentation = 20 minutes (max) + 5 minutes question Word limit:   time Report format. The research report must be submitted to Turnitin and Presentation requirements:  the Turnitin report must be downloaded attached to research report and submitted.  2 Weeks after presentation.Estimated return date:
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 2 Weeks after presentation.Estimated return date: See marking rubric on MoodleCriteria for marking:    Objectives 2, 3 & 4.Learning objectives assessed:   Report to be submitted at conclusion of presentation.Submission details:  See previous statements about the late policy and special Penalties for late lodgement: consideration.  Students must attach an individually signed coversheet to the group Assessment coversheet: paper.  Additional information: Note comments about team participation and contribution. The Chief Examiner reserves the right to make a judgement about a student’s relative contribution to the team and mark their work accordingly.
Assessment task title: Assignment 3: Individual In-Class Test (written paper) Due Date: In class week 12 Weighting/Value: 30%  Details of Task: This is an INDIVIDUAL assessment task. It tests students’ knowledge of HRM with a focus on Weeks 5 -11 of the unit content, readings and textbook chapters. The test will be completed in class in Week 12. No books or other materials are to be used. There is no word limit but a time limit of 60 minutes will be set. The question is as follows: Define and outline 3 HRM activities from Weeks 5-11. Then, with reference to HRM models and concepts, explain how these activities can be aligned to meet the needs of employees as well as the strategic goals of the organisation. You must refer to at least 3 readings discussed in weeks 5-11 to in your response to the essay question.  Presentation requirements:
Essay format. Response to be written in an exam booklet.
N/ARelease date:  No word limit but time limit of 60 minutes (approximately 1000 words)Word limit:   Essay format. Response to be written in an exam booklet.Presentation requirements:   4 weeks after submissionEstimated return date: See Moodle for Assignment 3 In Class Test Marking RubricCriteria for marking:    All learning objectivesLearning objectives assessed:   In class in Week 12.Submission details:  Penalties for late lodgement: See previous statements. Students who fail to complete the in class test in week 12 must submit a Special Consideration form with evidence to explain their absence. If the special consideration is approved then students will be given an opportunity to complete the in class test.