Introduction to Task:
You are about to embark on starting up your own business enterprise/venture. You have been asked by the Government’s Trade and Industry Department to submit an academically authoritative and reliable paper which will explain how you will strategically manage your Human Resources as your business develops throughout its business/HR life-cycle.
Your paper will:
Critically explain what HRM strategic perspective(s) will inform the overall HRM Strategy for your new business and why is your strategic perspective chosen in comparison with other HRM strategic perspectives?
Explain how you will manage the performance of your workforce, whilst showing an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of your proposed Performance Management System.
Your paper will be supported throughout with authoritative and reliable academic sources
Guidance
Consult with your tutor if you are uncertain about any aspect of the assignment.
Instructions on Assessment:
You will need to research appropriate authoritative and reliable academic literature and make use of both lecture and seminar input. Use examples and in particular any organisational comparisons that may be appropriate. Always reference your work using the correct conventions.
All of your work will be supported with authoritative and reliable academic sources throughout!
Presentation and Word limits for assignments
The presentation for this assignment will be:
- Front Sheet. (Provided).
- Contents page.
- Executive Summary.
- Introduction.
- Main body.
- Conclusion.
- Appendices, if needed.
- Reference List.
The word count is to be declared on the front page of your assignment.
The word count does not include:
| · Front Sheet, (provided).
· Contents page · Executive Summary. |
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| · Reference List
· Appendices · Appropriate tables, figures and illustrations |
Please note, in text citations [e.g. (Smith, 2011)] and direct secondary quotations [e.g. “dib-dab nonsense analysis” (Smith, 2011 p.123)] are INCLUDED in the word count.
Summarising and compressing the information in your assignment into the word limit is one of the skills that students are expected to acquire, and demonstrate as part of the assignment process.
Submission of Assessment:
A single electronic document containing all reports and other documentation (i.e. explanations, output reports and page images of graphic tools etc. pertaining to all tasks).
Font size should be at least 11, and 1 ½ line spacing should be used.
The word count is 3500 words [+/- 10%] not including any appendices.
The document should be properly structured with a table of contents, reference list (online and literature sources) and appendices (where necessary).
Produce clear and specific reasoning to justify answers.
Work containing viruses, or work that cannot be opened, will result in a fail grade being awarded for this assessment.
The document should be submitted via JIRA for Campus International Option A students and by e-mail for re-sit student(s).
It is advisable to retain a copy of your assignment for you own records.
Your mark and feedback will be made available to you electronically once the internal moderation process has taken place, you should note that at this stage marks are still subject to external examiner and academic board approval.
Referencing your work
In this institution the Harvard method of referencing is used.
The Harvard method of referring to publications and of arranging references uses the author’s name and the date of the publication. References are listed at the end of the text in alphabetical order by author’s name. The general format of a journal reference is shown below:
Smith, J. (1999) How to succeed! Journal of Entrepreneurs , 1(2), p. 34-56
Author’s name and initials are listed first, followed by year of publication in brackets. Then there is the title of article and the journal where article appears, which is underlined or in italics. Finally, state the volume and issue Number (in brackets) along with the pages where article can be located.
A short guide to Harvard referencing will also be available on the Sunspace site under the module assessment navigation button.
