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Assessment Guideline and Question Paper
Module title: International Human Resource Management
Module code: MGT 307
Semester: B1T2 2018
Duration of semester 16 July 2018 to 26 October 2018
Course: Bachelor of Business (Business Management)
AQF level: 7
Lecturer: Dr Eugene Lim
Number of
assessments:
One
Weighting: 25% of the final assessment of the module
Content weighting: See ‘Structure and weighting criteria of assessment’ and ‘Assessment Grading Criteria’ for details
Format: Essay
Individual/ group work Individual
Length of assessment: 3,000 words (specifically on discussion content)
Due date Week 9/ no later than 16 September XXXXXXXXXX:59 pm
Instructions to students
General:
The Harvard Style of Referencing system is COMPULSORY. See ‘Notes on Plagiarism &
Harvard Referencing’ for more information.
Students who have been found to have committed acts of Plagiarism are automatically
considered to have failed the entire term. If found to have
eached the regulation for the
second time, they will be asked to leave the course.
Plagiarism involves taking someone else’s words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay
anks and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very
seriously. Take care of your work and keep it safe. Don’t leave it lying around where your
classmates can find it.
Format of assessment:
Cover page should include name, student number, unit number, unit name, assessment
number, assessment name, and date (you can download this from Moodle)
Use Arial, Cali
i, or Tahoma, XXXXXXXXXXpt. font
Double spacing
Double justification of text
Headers and footers on all pages other than the cover page – headers and footers should
contain your name and student number, the unit number and name, and a page number
Failure to adhere to the stipulated format, a penalty of marks reduction would be imposed.
If you have any questions about the assessment, ask your lecturer, or email to
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Assessment Brief
Question:
Choose any organisation of your choice and as external observer of the organization undertake
critical analysis of the following functions and make recommendations for improvement.
HR strategies
Employee development
Employment relations & grievance handling
Training
Give appropriate recommendations based on your analysis so that it can have a positive impact on a
firm’s performance. Analyse how the use of HRM practices helps organizations in achieving their
goals and objectives using many relevant examples.
Guidelines:
Thorough literature review must be evident.
Discussion on the HR practices and strategies that needs to be undertaken when
environmental factors affect organizations should be evident.
There must be sufficient linkage between theory and practice.
Harvard style of references should be used
Structure and weighting
criteria of the
assessment:
Please ensure that your assessment has all these required sections (failure to do so would subject to a
penalty of loss of marks):
Official EEI Cover Sheet
Must be fully completed with ‘actual’ signature (NO typed in signature
allowed)
Table of contents This is mandatory to highlight each series of structured headings in
the assessment. Page numbering is a requirement and listing must
e reflect accuracy.
List of figures and/ or tables
where appropriate
1.0 Introduction
Choose a ‘real’ case study and provide: Weighting
1.1 Background of the company
15% 1.2 Company objectives (vision/ mission)
1.3 Cu
ent business performance
2.0 Body of discussion
2.1 HR strategies
25%
2.2 Employee development
2.3 Employment relations & grievance handling
2.4 Training
Use of diagrams/ models, tables and charts 5%
3.0 Conclusion
3.1 Conclusive thoughts on case study’s practice
30% 3.2 Critical analysis in comparison with another case
3.3 Recommendations for future applications/ strategies
Use of diagrams/ models, tables and charts 5%
References
List of references should be between fifteen (15) to
twenty-five (25) sources of information and must
adhere to the Harvard referencing format 20%
Appendices If appropriate
Total 100%
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Notes on Plagiarism & Harvard Referencing
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is passing off the work of others as your own. This constitutes academic theft and is a
serious matter which is penalised in assessment marking.
Plagiarism is the submission of an item of assessment containing elements of work produced by
another person(s) in such a way that it could be assumed to be the student’s own work. Examples of
plagiarism are:
The ve
atim copying of another person’s work without acknowledgement
The close paraphrasing of another person’s work by simply changing a few words or
altering the order of presentation without acknowledgement
The unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another person’s work and/or the
presentation of another person’s idea(s) as one’s own.
Copying or close paraphrasing with occasional acknowledgement of the source may also be
deemed to be plagiarism if the absence of quotation marks implies that the phraseology is the
student’s own. Plagiarised work may belong to another student or be from a published source such
as a book, report, journal or material available on the internet.
Harvard Referencing:
The structure of a citation under the Harvard referencing system is the author's surname, year of
publication, and page number or range, in parentheses, as illustrated in the Smith example near the
top of this article.
The page number or page range is omitted if the entire work is cited. The author's
surname is omitted if it appears in the text. Thus we may say: "Jones XXXXXXXXXXrevolutionized
the field of trauma surgery."
Two or three authors are cited using "and" or "&": (Deane, Smith, and Jones, 1991) or
(Deane, Smith & Jones, XXXXXXXXXXMore than three authors are cited using et al. (Deane et al.
1992).
An unknown date is cited as no date (Deane n.d.). A reference to a reprint is cited with the
original publication date in square
ackets (Marx [1867] 1967, p. 90).
If an author published two books in 2005, the year of the first (in the alphabetic order of the
eferences) is cited and referenced as 2005a, the second as 2005b.
A citation is placed wherever appropriate in or after the sentence. If it is at the end of a
sentence, it is placed before the period, but a citation for an entire block quote immediately
follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the
quotation itself.
Complete citations are provided in alphabetical order in a section following the text, usually
designated as "Works cited" or "References." The difference between a "works cited" or
"references" list and a bibliography is that a bibliography may include works not directly
cited in the text.
All citations are in the same font as the main text.
Examples:
Examples of book references are:
Smith, J. (2005a). Dutch Citing Practices. The Hague: Holland Research Foundation.
Smith, J. (2005b). Harvard Referencing. London: Jolly Good Publishing.
An example of a journal reference:
Smith, John Maynard. "The origin of altruism," Nature 393, 1998, pp. 639–40.
An example of a newspaper reference:
Bowcott, Owen. "Street Protest”, The Guardian, October 18, 2005, accessed Fe
uary 7,
2006.
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Assessment Grading Criteria
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Gives enough to tell
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Describes topic, refers
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As in fair effort, but shows
what past work has
done/not done; logical
progression to
topic
Interesting and complex
account to why this topic,
what questions need to be
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original contribution
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Some relevant points in
descriptive lists, mainly
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More relevant points
drawn from literature,
lists both pros and cons,
ut has difficulty in
making a convincing
case
Most/all relevant points
from mainstream literature;
uses appropriate structure
to resolve issues in
convincing argument.
As in good effort, but
makes an original case in