Assessment 2 General
notes for students:
The overall objective of
assessment 2 is to write a strategic HR plan for
your organisation of choice. Through developing this plan you need to
demonstrate you can undertake the outlined 5 tasks and hence offer a report
that details the steps taken. An associated document “Key points for the
Report” can also be used to assist you.
In sum, structure your report
accordingly and start with a title page then
contents page. In the report offer an introduction that
provides an overview of your business (this helps set the scene). In this
section note the type of business, industry, mission, vision, how the
organisation is structured, how many staff are employed etc. From here you
may then wish to have headings for the set 5 tasks:
1. Strategic
analysis – complete a PEST and SWOT analysis for the
overall business – but this may highlight
certain HR aspects from an internal perspective
(i.e., more in regards to strengths and weaknesses in the SWOT analysis) . You
could place this analysis in the body of your report or in the appendices but
you will still need to offer commentary around them – noting key points in
regards to challenges etc going forward for the business.
2. HR linkage
to business plan – here you should offer some commentary about the
link with the above to HR and why an HR plan may be needed to help
address challenges highlighted and how HR will be structured to
achieve this (i.e., who will work within the HR team, who will take
charge of the HR plan and who will work with the
respective departments / CEO etc., to make sure it happens)
3. HR
functions – you need to define five key HR functions that the HR
Manager/department or respective person is responsible for within the
organisation and critically evaluate these defined functions – good and
bad aspects (perhaps if you are unsure perhaps you can make contact with
respective stakeholders to identify but if this is not feasible you may
need to make some assumptions here). You should, however, note any ethical
considerations regarding these functions.
4. HR
Challenges and Techniques – from the above functions (and above
steps) identify four key things that are the most urgent and
important thing for the HR team/person etc., to work on in regards to
offering some form of improvement for the business (perhaps in systems,
policies, etc). Discuss these and justify why they are important and what are
options for how these can be addressed.
5. HR plan –
table an HR plan from the above with a table that includes columns such as
objective, strategy, resources, who is responsible etc (look at the
example offered in the tutorials and is listed in your subject outline). This
plan really should sum up in table form what you may have identified in point
4 above (this can be included in the appendices).
You should also offer a conclusion,
recommendations and references section in your report.
