Assessment Task 1
Strategic HR Plan
Due: Week 3 Value: 35%
Format: Report
Word length: 2,000 -2,500
Task description
The aim of this activity is to:
• Understand and explain the contextual environment that impacts HRM in your organisation or a company of your choice.
NB The company you choose may be your employer or any other company of which you have sufficient information to enable the task to be completed.
• Examine and explain the rationale for moving HRM in your organisation, or a company of your choice, to a strategic focus (or improved strategic focus).
• Create a high level* HR plan. This plan will also include your recommended strategies to develop or improve a SHRM approach. (* high level indicates enough detail to understand how to proceed to implement the plan but not to a detailed task level).
Each of the following key steps and components should be included in the HR plan:
a. Identification of company strategic objectives
b. Identification of the potential HR implications of the strategic objectives (select two or three key strategic objectives to focus on if word limits are an issue)
c. Recommendation of specific HR strategies to address the HR implications (provide reasons for your chosen strategies)
d. Critical success factors (CSFs) need to be identified for the recommendations above, i.e. what needs to be in place to enable success and how will progress/success be measured?
Note: Ensure you align the CSFs with each of the specific strategies.
It is strongly recommended that the high level action plan be presented in a table form with headings addressing points a-d above
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Assessment Submission Requirements:
This assessment should be submitted in report format, and include:
1. Title page
2. Executive summary (no more than 250-300 words)
3. Introduction
4. Background of organisation
5. Strategic objectives
6. HR implications to obtain Strategic Objectives
7. Conclusion
8. Recommendations
9. List of references
10. Appendices.
Your report should be no more than 2,500 words. The following are excluded from your word count: • Executive summary
• Text incorporated into tables and figures
• References
• Appendices.
You are expected to utilise credible, relevant and current academic and industry sources in preparing your work – including the course texts. A minimum of six journal articles is expected to meet a Pass standard for the research depth criteria.
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TEXT: Human Resource Management Strategy and Practice (2019), Nankervis A. et alExternal tool
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TEXT: Human Resource Management in Australia (2017), 2nd edn, Nel P. et. al.External tool