Question:
The primary purpose of this assessment is for you to develop a critical understanding of future trends in HRM within the context of current academic literature. The second purpose is to develop your oral communication and presentation skills.
Task
Select a topic. On-campus students will nominate for a topic in class in Week 2. Only 3-4 presentations can be held each week, and the Lecturer will re-allocate students as required for an even distribution. Distance students should advise the course coordinator by email HRM topics are as follows:
Week 4 HR planning
Week 5 Recruitment and selection
Week 6 Employee relations challenges
Week 7 Managing diversity and work-life balance
Week 8 Performance management
Week 9 Learning, development and career management
Week 10 Motivation, rewards and compensation
Week 11 Employee turnover and retention
Week 12 Evaluating and improving the HRM function
Select two articles for your presentation. Start gathering ideas for your topic with a review of a relevant textbook chapter and the references at the end of the chapter. Identify two (2) good quality journal articles from the CQU library databases and business press publications such as Harvard Business Review. The articles must have been published within the last five years.
Critically analyse the chosen articles to identify a key theme for current esearch and thinking on your topic, rather than simply summarizing the articles. Design your presentation. Creatively design your presentation with the aim to engage your class on the latest thinking research on your HRM topic.
Presentation is to be a maximum of eight (8) minutes with a maximum of six (6) PowerPoint slides. For each article, you should communicate : the title, topic, objective of the research, method for the research, argument/findings, and Conclusion. Your presentation should also include a discussion of the contribution of both articles to the field. (Distance students record a voiceover on powerpoint) Upload your slides before the presentation. Your powerpoint slides should be uploaded before your presentation, to assist with prompt marking. You should also provide your lecturer/tutor with a printed copy of the PowerPoint slides including a separate page for the references Plagiarism.
Copy detection software (TurnitIn) is used in this course and work found in contravention of the copying and plagiarism rules will be investigated. enalties apply in the case of proven instances of copying, plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Please check the following links to know more about TurnitIn: originalitycheck TurnitIn is only a tool and judgement needs to be used when you view yourOriginality Report. TurnitIn does not make a judgement as to what is ferenced properly, it highlights the nonoriginal material in a piece of work. You should use the similarity score as aguide only and must then check the originality report to determine whether or not changes need to be made to the assessment.
Required
Students must familiarise themselves with the following policies and procedures at Assessment of Coursework Policy; Assessment ofCoursework Principles; Assessment of Coursework Procedures.
Answer:
- Introduction: The article 1 deals with managing diversity in a workplace as in today’s globalized world diversity in the general workforce of the business organizations has become a common phenomenon.
- Objective: It is seen that one of the major issue in today’s world related to diversity in human resources is exclusion, and a perception of the general employees that they are not an integral part of the company. This is the main purpose of this work.
- Method: For this work relevant data were collected from various secondary sources like numerous websites, magazines, news papers and many more
- Argument:
- In the workplace the communication should be good among the employees.
- The management of the organizations should stress on motivating and increasing the moral of the employees
Conclusion:
- The management of the organization should have effective HR policies for the betterment of the situation.
- The employees should ensure that there is no drop in the organizational communication.
- Introduction: The article 2 deals with managing workplace diversity as in today’s world due to lot of pressure from the immigrants and ethnic minorities managing a diverse workforce has become essential.
- Objective: The aim of this paper is to establish various theories related to diversity management in the workforce with special focus on the ethnic minorities and immigrants in European Union. Method: For this work the author had to gather relevant data from various journals, websites, books and newspapers
- Argument: Within workplace internal conflicts should be avoided on the highest priority.
- The managers should have strong problem solving capability.
Conclusion:
- There are various negative and positive sides of diversity in the workplace.
- The business leaders should try to eradicate the negative issues and focus on how they can capitalize on the advantages. Contribution of articles to the topic
- The article one argued that making effective HR policies and increasing communication can effectively improve the situation in the workplace.
- The article two on the other hand concludes stating that the managers or business leaders should negate the disadvantages of diversity in the and embrace the positive aspects of it. Along with that the business leaders should emphasize on how they can capitalize on the rich diversified workforce.
References
Barak, M. E. M. (2016). Managing diversity: Toward a globally inclusive workplace. Sage Publications
Wrench, J. (2016). Diversity management and discrimination: Immigrants and ethnic minorities in the EU. Routledge.
Saxena, A. (2014). Workforce diversity: A key to improve productivity. Procedia Economics and Finance, 11, 76-85.
