LO1 Explain the impact of the role of HRM in creating sustainable organisational performance and contributing to business success

Student Name/ ID Number

43, 44, 30 & 31 January 2022

Unit Number and Title

Unit 3: Human Resource Management

Academic Year

2021/22

Unit Tutor

Mohammed Rahman

Assignment Title

The Role of HRM and Organisational Development

Issue Date

Week commenceing 17^th January 2022

Submission Date

Week commenceing 7th March 2022, submitted through Turnitin by 11^th March 23.59

Submission Format

This submission is in the form of a presentation that includes a visual roadmap. It is a 15-minute presentation with five minutes allocated for questions. The presentation slides and speaker notes should be submitted as one copy. You are required to make effective use of PowerPoint headings, bullet points and sub-sections as appropriate. All work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system (or an alternative system). You will need to provide a bibliography using the Harvard referencing system (or an alternative system). Inaccurate use of referencing may lead to issues of plagiarism if not applied correctly.

The recommended word limit is 2,000–2,500 words, although you will not be penalised for going under or exceeding the total word limit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

LO1 Explain the impact of the role of HRM in creating sustainable organisational performance and contributing to business success.

LO2 Assess the contribution of HRM in recruiting and retaining talent and skills to achieve business objectives.

LO3 Examine how external and internal factors can affect HRM decision making in relation to organisational development.

Transferable skills and competencies developed

• Articulating and explaining information effectively.
• Communication and listening, including the ability to produce clear, structured business communications in a variety of media.
• Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
• Development and delivery of HR solutions to the business, appropriate to the organisational context.
• Research, analysis and presentation of HR business data (both internal and external) to provide insight, support solutions to business issues and track performance.
• Curiosity about HR business trends and developments, incorporating them into work

Vocational scenario

Organisation:

Toyota is a global car manufacturer. It has both centralised and decentralised functions. One of the decentralised functions is the HR function. In each global location they are based, while production is the core of the organisation, there are many other support functions that ensure the success of the business. The business  requires committed employees to ensure that the organisation is successful and sustainable, and that it achieves its business objectives through strong performance. LO1 Explain the impact of the role of HRM in creating sustainable organisational performance and contributing to business success

However, like other industries, automotive is looking at a global skills shortage, in which too few engineers are sufficiently qualified to operate sophisticated automated machinery and equipment or support the advancements available via emerging technologies. These roles cover a number of disciplines, including design, production and programmes and quality; all of which require differing levels of skill, experience and expertise.

Role

As a Human Resources Administrator, it is your job to understand HRM practices and to provide information accurately and in a timely way to the appropriate stakeholders.

Your typical duties involve:

• liaising with a range of people involved in policy areas such as staff performance and health and safety
• recruiting staff, which involves developing job descriptions and person specifications, preparing job adverts, checking application forms, shortlisting, interviewing and selecting candidates
• making sure that prospective staff have the right to work at the organisation
• developing and implementing policies on issues such as working conditions, performance management, equal opportunities, disciplinary procedures and absence management
• preparing staff handbooks
• advising on pay and other remuneration issues, including promotion and benefits
• preparing management reports on employee-related data on a monthly basis.

Assignment activity and guidance

In your role of Human Resources Administrator, one of your goals is to address the issues of skills shortage and hard-to-fill vacancies in the organisation. You have been asked by your line manager to undertake a review of HR practices and processes in order to produce a roadmap for successfully strengthening the organisation’s talent management strategy.

The review will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of HRM to critically evaluate factors that will contribute to decisions taken; it is to be delivered as a presentation that gives a clear vision and roadmap to success. The priority objective is to improve recruitment and employee engagement and motivation, and to grow internal talent.

You will be reviewing internal HRM practices and processes, with a focus on recruitment and selection, and external influences on HRM practices, in order to determine HR solutions for strengthening the organisation’s talent management strategy. LO1 Explain the impact of the role of HRM in creating sustainable organisational performance and contributing to business success

The presentation will include the following:

• a comparison of the different HRM areas and their contribution to organisational performance
• an examination of strategic HRM in relation to the changing effects on organisations and its business environment
• critical evaluation of the role of recruiting and retaining appropriate employees from the available labour markets.

As part of the presentation, you will critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of HRM in terms of its contribution to business success.

Use a variety of organisational examples to support valid recommendations and considerations for the roadmap to:

• carry out an investigation into the internal and external factors that influence HRM decisions in the workplace
• discuss and evaluate these factors and how they support organisational development.

The presentation will conclude with a visual roadmap that shows the steps that need to be taken to successfully strengthen the organisation’s talent management strategy.

Recommended resources

Please note this is not a definitive list of resources but it will help you to start your research by acting as a starting point of reference.

Weblinks:

Industry Forum. Skills needs in the changing global manufacturing landscape. Available at: https://www.industryforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/04/Skills-needs-in- the- changing-global-manufacturing-landscape.pdf

Nissan Motor Corporation. HR information. Available at: https://www.nissan- global.com/EN/ SUSTAINABILITY/REPORT/SOCIAL/HR_DEVELOPMENT/

Product Plan. Creating a Roadmap: A Guide to Get you Started. Available at: https://www. productplan.com/creating-a-roadmap/

Toyota Manufacturing UK. Toyota Recruitment Information. Available at: https://recruitment. toyotauk.com/

Venngage. How To Create a Product Roadmap (Product Roadmap Templates). Available at: https://venngage.com/blog/product-roadmap/

HN Global

HN Global (2021) Reading Lists. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists

HN Global (2021) Student Resource Library. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/subjects/resource-libraries

HN Global (2021) Textbooks. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks

Journal articles:

Gyllensten K, Torén K, Hagberg M, Söderberg M (2020) A sustainable working life in the car manufacturing industry: The role of psychosocial factors, gender and occupation. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0233009. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233009

Yamauchi, M. Employment practices in Japan’s automobile industry: the implication for divergence of employment systems under globalization. Evolut Inst Econ Rev 18, 249–270 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40844-020-00188-9

Textbooks:

Armstrong, M. and Taylor, S. (2020) Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. 15th Ed. London: Kogan Page.

Leatherbarrow, C. and Fletcher, J. (2018) Introduction to Human Resource Management.

4th Ed. Kogan Page.

Student Name/ ID Number

43, 44, 30 & 31 January 2022

Unit Number and Title

Unit 3: Human Resource Management

Academic Year

2021/22

Unit Tutor

Sherryl Kikigue

Assignment Title

HRM Practices

Issue Date

Week commenceing 17^th January 2022

Submission Date

Week commenceing 21^st March 2022, submitted through Turnitin by 25^th March 2022 23.59

Submission Format

The submission is in the form of a recorded training session that can be delivered either virtually or face to face. This is a small-group activity that requires submission of individual evidence for the completion of the Learning Outcome and Assessment Criteria.

Each training session will be allocated 25 minutes plus five minutes for questions.

Your group will need to submit the recording, the materials used and each member a reflective journal of approximately 500 words, although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

LO4 Apply HRM practices in a work-related context for improving sustainable organisational performance.

Transferable skills and competencies developed

• Communication and listening, including the ability to produce clear, structured business communications in a variety of media.
• Effective communication skills: verbal and non-verbal.
• The ability to generate, develop and communicate ideas.
• Creative thinking.
• Development and delivery of HR solutions to the business, appropriate to the organisational context.
• Tailoring of business-centred advice on the interpretation and application of HR policies and processes.

Vocational scenario

In your role of Human Resources Administrator, you have had a performance review with your line manager. In the review, you discussed that, leading on from the earlier personal development activity, you would like to consider specialising in talent management. Your manager has therefore put you into a project group tasked with creating an interactive and engaging training session on recruitment and retention in the organisation, in order to support continuous professional development.

The training session is for managers taking part in the recruitment and selection of potential employees.

Assignment activity and guidance

Prepare and deliver a training session, that assesses HRM practices within the workplace.

The training should cover the strengths and weakness of HRM practices, with recommendations of how the practices illustrated can improve sustainable organisational performance. The training should focus on at least two of the following areas:

• recruitment and selection documentation
• recruitment and selection process
• performance management
• employee relations.

The training session needs to be interactive and must include short activities to engage the participants. For example, the session could include the use of role play, scenario and solution exercises, video clips and case studies. It should also include a peer-review activity at the end of the session to enable participants to provide feedback.

The method used for the training should be decided by the group. A journal that shows each group member’s contribution to the group activity should be kept.

Recommended resources

Please note that the resources listed are examples for you to use as a starting point in your research – the list is not definitive.

Weblinks

Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD). Recruitment and Selection. Available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/fundamentals/people/recruitment/ selection- factsheet#7261

Business Case Studies. Available at: https://businesscasestudies.co.uk/recruitment- selection-and-training/ HR Zone. What are Employee Relations? Available at: https://www.hrzone.com/hr- glossary/what-are-employee-relations

Tesco recruitment. Available at: https://www.tescounderwriting.com/join-us/our- recruitment-process/

Amazon. Interviewing at Amazon. Available at: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/ interviewing-at-amazon

Recruitment in the Automotive Industry in Europe: Industry Report 2019 Available at: https://www.skeeled.com/blog/recruitment-in-the-automotive-industry-in-europe

HN Global

HN Global (2021) Reading Lists. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists

HN Global (2021) Student Resource Library. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/subjects/resource-libraries

HN Global (2021) Textbooks. Available at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks

Textbooks

Armstrong, M. and Taylor, S. (2020) Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. 15th Ed. London: Kogan Page.

Bratton, J. and Gold, J. (2017) Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice. 6th Ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave.