Task Description:

HRM strategy for Happy Dogs - The broad purpose of this assessment item is to develop your knowledge about and skills in strategic human resource management.
The specific purpose of this task is to develop your knowledge about and skills in:
- identifying an organisation’s strategic goals
- determining the implications that strategic goals have for HRM
- developing an HRM strategy to support achievement of an organisation’s strategic goals

To complete this task, you will develop a HRM strategy for Happy Dogs Pty Ltd. You will do this by analysing the strategic context and strategic plan for Happy Dogs and develop an HRM strategy in which you:
1. Identify the strategic goals of the business (Can be a goal of its growth strategy, diversification strategy or business-level strategies)
2. Explain the HR implications of these strategic goals. (Which aspects of HRM will it influence? What will the company need to do that it is not doing now?)
3. Set an objective(s) for that area of HRM that the company can pursue in order to achieve its overall strategic goals.
4. Identify the external or internal factors which may influence Happy Dogs’ ability to achieve the objectives of its HRM strategy and explain how it could do so. (What is the factor(s)? How will it help or hinder the company’s execution of its HRM strategy?)
5. Suggest the outcomes the company could use as a ‘progress tracker’ to evaluate whether it is achieving its HRM strategy. (If the company was successful in achieving its HRM strategy, what will it have in 12 months time that it doesn’t have now?)
This task is to be completed in week 4 in groups of around four students. The groups will be formed in week 1.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 5

Weight:

30 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

This assessment task will synthesise your understanding of workplace
diversity and inclusion concepts with your theoretical and practical
knowledge of human resource management. The focus of this activity
is determining how the practice of HRM must be adapted to the needs
of different employee groups in order to create organisational value
from diversity. In completing this assessment, you will develop and
demonstrate your ability to translate theoretical concepts into
management practice by a) identifying the implications of employee
diversity for the performance of a specific aspect of the HRM function,
and b) determining how the performance of that functional element
must therefore be amended to generate value from employee diversity.
To complete this task, you must select a form of employee diversity
and prepare a report recommending how HRM practice should be
performed in order to be effective and appropriate to the needs and
circumstances of the identified employee group. Your report should be
supported by relevant HRM literature.
For example, you might consider how training materials need to be
adapted to employees with literacy or numeracy problems or
employees from non-English speaking backgrounds.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 9

Weight:

40 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

This assessment task is intended for students to work in teams to research practical issues from different theoretical and applied perspectives and provide evidence-based strategies and solutions.

Each group will be assigned specific tasks. Groups are to present for 25 minutes (maximum) on the allocated topic in class. There will be a question & answer session for 5 minutes for other students to ask questions and the presenting group to explain/defend their presentation content. Asking and answering questions are part of the criteria for this assessment task.

NOTE: Working effectively in groups requires planning, clear communication and keeping to agreed time frames. Team members will be required to submit appropriate documentation to demonstrate individual contribution to the group work.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 13

Weight:

30 %

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CRITERION