Critically evaluate contemporary organisations and their environments and analyse demographic, social and technological trends and their effects.
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Description
Human Resource Management in Context
ASSESSMENT BRIEF
Module Code: HCN
Module Leader: Chris Bradshaw
Assessment Method:
Element 1: Group poster presentation 25% (500 words +/- 10%)
Element 2: Individual essay 75% (1,500 words +/-
10%)
Deadlines: Element 1: Presentation
29/10/2019. Student Evaluation 12/11/2019
Element 2: 13
January 2020 by 4.30 pm
Learning Outcomes
On
successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
1. Critically evaluate contemporary
organisations and their environments and analyse demographic, social and
technological trends and their effects.
2. Critically evaluate how organisational
HR strategies are developed in response to internal and external factors.
3. Synthesise key globalisation and
international forces and evaluate how they impact on HR strategies and
organisations.
Assessment Overview
The assessment
for this module consists of two Components:
Element 1: Group poster presentation 25%
(500 words +/- 10%)
Element 2: Individual essay 75%
(1,500 words +/- 10%)
Please note: in
order to pass this module, you must achieve an overall mark of 50%. For each Component,
1 and 2, you must have a minimum mark of 40%.
A minimum mark
of 40% in each Component will mean that you fail this module.
Please note
that you have to submit both Components.
Element 1
Learning
Outcome to be achieved:
LO1. Critically evaluate contemporary
organisations and their environments and analyse demographic, social and
technological trends and their effects.
Key Elements and Task
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Task |
Group Poster presentation 500 words or
equivalent +/- 10% Elite Publications Elite publications are a small, specialist
academic book publisher based in Oxfordshire, UK. They employ 10 writers, editors and on-line
publishing specialists and compete in a very fluid market. The employees are mostly, UK citizens,
although the Finance Director is from Germany and there are some EU and
international authors sub-contracted to write books and articles. The main business of Elite Publications has
been directed at the European and North American university market and is
targeted to niche areas, often neglected by the larger academic publishing
houses. While hard copies have been provided in the
past, using a local supplier for print and distribution, increasingly, Elite
are concentrating on the digital market utilising technology to provide
e-books and journals. The business has
shown a slow rate of increase over the last 10 years, but this now seems to
be under threat from adverse exchange rates and market uncertainty, partly
driven by changes to UK university funding and Brexit. The business in family owned by Alice and Eric
Bookbinder, and is operated from a converted barn in their family farm. They
also employ people from the nearby Village of Pageturner, (population 136) and
have a policy of using local suppliers where possible. A mini-bus is used to collect employees and a
part time driver is employed for this task, she also tends the farm gardens. Recently, a new mini-supermarket opened in the
nearby town of Little Inkwell and they have a growing reputation as a best
practice employer as well as aggressive plans to expand throughout Oxfordshire. Task:
Using the STEEPLE (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political,
Legal and Ethical) model, critically evaluate and analyse the external
factors which could impinge on Elite Publications. |
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Submission
Method |
Via the learning management system as a Power Point presentation. |
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Classroom
or other resources |
None |
|
Special
instructions |
Each student must
summarise, how you contributed to the poster and you will also be asked to
provide an assessment of each group member’s contribution to the task. You
will be given special sheets by Student Support that will enable you to
complete both of these summaries. Please ensure that you
follow the instructions on designing a poster presentation appendix 1. |
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Submission
Date |
29/10/2019 |
|
Use of
Turnitin |
Yes, all submissions will be electronically checked for plagiarism. |
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Peer
marking |
None. |
|
Feedback
Date |
TBC |
|
Feedback
method |
In writing via the gradebook. |
