HRM722:
Personnel Research Techniques & HRIS

Assignment
Two: Human Resources Research (15%)

HR
professionals need to be constantly aware of workforce behaviour, standards of
behaviour and how to make people perform better.

Choose
a workforce behaviour that you believe needs correcting in the HR department
(of a company you have worked for or know about). Perhaps it is a problem of absenteeism, lack
of customer service or accident rates.
Answer the following questions:

1. Provide a brief description about
the organization (not the name, but the number of employees, size of HR
department, service vs. manufacturing, what it does).

2.
Identify the workforce behaviour and provide a
brief description of why you think it is a problem.

1. State an acceptable
   standard (benchmark) you would like to achieve. For example, if your identified
   behaviour is an absenteeism rate of 12%, then you might see 7% being a
   standard.
2. List some root causes of
   this behaviour. Why do you think
   employees are absent from work etc?
3. Describe at least three
   policies or programs you might introduce to achieve the desired
   results. Put these in priority
   order (which ones are thought to be most effective in achieving results,
   keeping in mind cost considerations).

Please
ensure that your completed assignments meet the following requirements.

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References	For references, quote and cite the source. Example: “XXX”, (Belcourt & McBey, p. 127)
Due Date	Please check the Timeline (in Course Information) for the due date for each assignment.

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