Description

Essay One: A 1000-word essay (+/- 10% and excluding the reference list) that reviews one aspect of Qatar National Bank’s approach to managing people (e.g. recruitment & selection; training and development; the reward system; etc.) and makes recommendations in the light of your review (30% of the course mark).

•      Essay format, not a report, but it is concerned with a practical element of people management. 

•      Most of your essay will be concerned with description/practical analysis but make reference to three or four sources from the literature to support your work.

•      There would normally be four parts to the structure of your essay: Introduction; Analysis; Recommendations; References.

•      Introduction:

•      indicate the subject to be covered and why you have chosen to write about this topic, e.g. personal experience of the topic; its significance to your department/organisation or simply that you are interested in the topic);

•      State the structure of the rest of the essay, e.g. after this introduction the second part of your essay will describe the organisational context briefly and then outline the issues concerning the topic you wish to write about highlighting problems or good practice and that the third part of your essay will look at recommendations you propose in the light of your analysis.

•      Analysis:

•      Outline again but in a little more detail the topic you wish to write about and why it is of importance to you/your department/organisation

•      Indicate how the subject is typically applied in your organisation/department/area of focus

•      Compare this with what might be considered “good practice” from the literature, practice you are familiar with in other organisations, how friends/colleagues say it is operated in their organisations, etc.

•      Conclude where the problems lie or if you think the topic is handled well why this is the case

•      Recommendations:

•      Your suggestions for remedying the problems identified or, if good practice is already in place, what you would do to keep this good practice being applied.

•      References:

•      A list of three or four references at most that support various parts of your work.

You can make use of headings/sub-headings if you want to but they are not necessary.

These websites will be worth looking at in relation to your topic:

•      http://www.cipd.co.uk/

•      www.acas.org.uk/