Unit Number and Title HNBS 303 Human Resource Management Academic Year 2017/18 Unit Tutor Dr Shohail...

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Unit Number and Title HNBS 303 Human Resource Management Academic Year 2017/18 Unit Tutor Dr Shohail Choudhury Assignment Title Managing and Leading Human Resources Issue Date Submission Date Assignment 1 Assignment 2 25/3/2018 (Week 8) (Individual Report) 5/5/2018 (Individual Report) IV Name & Date M T Islam (27 – 01 – 2018) Assignment 1 Submission Format The submission of Assignment 1 is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in a concise, formal business style using 1.5 line spacing and font size 12. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate and ensure that the report is justified aligned. All work must be supported with research and all research resources should be cited & referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Please also provide a Reference List including all cited materials using the Harvard referencing system. The recommended word limit is 2000–2500 words, although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit. Unit Learning Outcomes LO1 Explain the purpose and scope of Human Resource Management in terms of resourcing an organisation with talent and skills appropriate to fulfil business functions. LO2 Evaluate the effectiveness of the key elements of Human Resource Management in an organisation. LO3 Analyse internal and external factors that affect Human Resource Management decision-making, including employment legislation. Assignment Brief and Guidance Scenario As a newly appointed Human Resource Manager for an organisation of your choice. You have been tasked with leading on the restructuring of the department as part of organisational change. The Human Resources (HR) department will be restructured based on the findings of a review report, which you have been asked to complete. You are to review the effectiveness of the HR function within the organisation, researching the role and scope of HR and reviewing and assessing the main HR functions within the organisation. This has to be submitted as a case study report. The case study assessment report should cover then following: 1. An overview of the organisation. 2. An explanation on the purpose of the HR function and the key roles and responsibilities of the HR function. 3. An assessment of the approach to workforce planning, recruitment and selection, development and training, performance management and reward systems. 4. The approach to and effectiveness of employee relations and employee engagement, and comment on the adoption of flexible organisation and flexible working practice and ‘employer of choice’. 5. Key areas of employment legislation within which the organisation must work. Grading Criteria Pass Merit Distinction LO1 Explain the purpose and scope of Human Resource Management in terms of resourcing an organisation with talent and skills appropriate to fulfil business objectives D1 Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection, supported by specific examples. P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing an organisation. P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection. M1 Assess how the functions of HRM can provide talent and skills appropriate to fulfil business objectives M2 Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection. LO2 Evaluate the effectiveness of the key elements of Human Resource Management in an organisation D2 Critically evaluate HRM practices and application within an organisational context, using a range of specific examples. P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the employer and employee. P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational profit and productivity. M3 Explore the different methods used in HRM practices, providing specific examples to support evaluation within an organisational context. LO3 Analyse internal and external factors that affect Human Resource Management decision-making, including employment legislation. LO3 & 4 D3 Critically evaluate employee relations  P5 Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision making. P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision making. M4 Evaluate the key aspects of employee relations management and employment legislation that affect HRM decisionmaking in an organisational context. and the application of HRM practices that inform and influence decisionmaking in an organisational context. Assignment 2 Submission Format The submission of Assignment 2 is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in a concise, formal business style using 1.5 line spacing and font size 12. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate and ensure that the report is justified aligned. All work must be supported with research and all research resources should be cited & referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Please also provide a Reference List including all cited materials using the Harvard referencing system. The recommended word limit is 1500–2000 words, although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit. Unit Learning Outcomes LO4 Apply Human Resource Management practices in a work-related context Assignment Brief and Guidance Scenario While working as an intern in the Human Resources (HR) department of an organisation of your choice which you have selected for Assignment 1. You have been asked to take part in testing the new recruitment and selection process. You will work in a small team (3–4 members) to design a job specification for a particular job role and  then you will take part in an interview simulation for a job role advertised by another team. The aim of your team is to test the recruitment and selection process and each complete an individual document portfolio to submit. The document portfolio should include: 1. The design of a job specification for one of a number of given positions in the organisation. 2. A CV for each student, tailored to apply for one of the positions advertised by another team. 3. Documentation of preparatory notes for interviews, interview notes based on selection criteria and a justified decision of the candidate selected. 4. A job offer to the selected candidate. 5. An evaluation of the process and the rationale for conducting appropriate HR practices. Grading Criteria Pass Merit Distinction LO4 Apply Human Resource Management practices in a workrelated context LO3 & 4 D3 Critically evaluate employee relations and the application of HRM practices that inform and influence decisionmaking in an organisational context. P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific examples. M5 Provide a rationale for the application of specific HRM practices in a workrelated context.

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Order No – 31666		              Human Resource Management
Contents
Introduction	2
Overview of the Organisation	2
Workforce planning, Recruitment and Selection	4
Performance Management System in Google	6
Employee Engagement & Experience at Google	8
Restructuring	8
Reference	12
Introduction
HR department will be restructured based on the findings of the review report, which you have been asked to complete. You are to review the effectiveness of the HR functions within the organisation, researching the role and scope of HR and reviewing and assessing the main HR functions within the organisation. There is huge demand for Human Resource departments to become more dynamic and active with the evolving employees and changing market conditions. Today we live in digital age where business disruptions are anticipated that require versatile workforce. One of the organisation that was established two decades ago has been successful in changing the face marketplace and way in which the traditional business was conducted. The organisation on which I have built this cases study is Google as I was always fascinated about how this organisation has channelised its human resource department to become one of the most robust organisation in the industry. By the virtue of this case study, we would critically explain and unpack the impact of its human resource function, elaborating the primary roles, duties and responsiblities of the department. Furthermore, case provides you the assessment done on the approach taken for workforce planning, recruitment and shortlisting of the potential candidates. How does the company invest in employee's training and development and manage their performance along with keeping them engaged. Extensive analysis done on how descion are taken in the organisation and how the same is affected with internal and external factors. By the virtue of this case, we have done an extensive research to comprehend the criticality of HR function to drive some of the critical processes like – recruitment of potential employees, managing the performance and career of the exisiting and new employees in the organisation furthermore deep diving into the employee engagement and experience and how would I handle the restructuring in the company.
Overview of the Organisation
Google is one of the most popular and well known companies all across the world. It is an multinational technology organisation that pursues and differentiates in Internet related products and services. What began as a start-up in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin has transformed into most used and valuable organisation with its search engine dominating all across internet. Not only this, organization has brought many innovative applications for instance, gmail, google GPS etc that touches most of the people. The organisation has its headquarters in California in USA and headed by Sundar Pichai as Chief Exceutive Officers and Ruth Porat as chief Financial Officers. As per the annual reports and with reference to the facts presented in the article, “Google’s Organizational Structure & Organizational Culture” (Smithson, 2017) exhibits the strength of the employees in the organisation is 85,050 and provide due credit to its organisation culture that nutures their employees. Google as a business strives to operate on principles that are set by the founders. Mission of the organisation can be encapsulated as their commitment to the users requirment, "To organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful". 
The organisation has been consistently awarded as the best employer and that is majorly because of the outcome of management of people by HR department and practices so developed that focuses on growth and expansion. Although the organisation has grown leaps and pounds with inclusions of new products and aquiring high potential companies. Nevertheless, Google makes an effort to leverage the advantage that comes from being small and mobile by providing autonomy to their employees. Approach of the organization to recruit and shortlist the potential employees and create policies such that it leverages itself to appeal to exceptional performers across geographies. All these policies and approach would be analysed and explored.
Explanation on the purpose of the HR function and the key roles and responsibilities of the HR function
With reference to the facts established in the article, Google’s Human Resource Management Strategy (Pratap, A., 2017) HR department in the organisation is currated to be an employee centric where process and procedures are constructed to put employees at the heart of operations.Human capital management ensures that with every process made for the compliance is with the intent to keep the employees at its core. The mantra to the success of the orgnaisation is its positive and innovative culture at work. This culture drives loyality towards the company and commitment towards the work. 
· Value of Diversity - Google values diversity in all forms like incorporating different cultures, skills and interests that provides huge advantage for employees to learn and work in the teams. In order to avoid any kind of biases in the workplace. The long term advantage of incorporating the diversity is that organization is able to focus on the holistic vision of collaboration and development.
· Strive to hire and nourish exceptional employees – With referenece to How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management (Garvin, D. A., 2013). by the virtue of the recruitment process undertaken by Google only creative and extraordinary candidates are selected. Organisation receives more than one million applications every year out of which only 4000-5000 are selected. There is a very rigorous selection process since organisation concentrates on quality and not the amount of people being hired. Post hiring there are dedicated HR functions that focuses on career growth and training the employees with new technology and skills. Such re-skilling help employees to not just stay updated with market but also satisfied that their career is moving in ahead.
Workforce planning, Recruitment and Selection
Organisation believes that extraordinary things are possible by hiring creative and passionated people. Primary focus of recruitment policy at Google is to place right people for the right role. There is a team of around 200 to 400 internal and external recruiters that works in hiring new candidates in the employees. Essentially these recruiters takes into the consideration the attitude and culture, whether one is the right fit with the organisation or not. There is strong and stringent process for recruitment in Google that is explained below, taking reference from “Employee Recruitment: Current knowledge and important areas for future research” (Breaugh, J. A., 2008).
Human resource management in the organisation plays a pivotal role in talent management and ultimate success.

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