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Assignment 1 - Strategy and Key HR Challenges

y  Background

o  Business Activities

o  Goals

o  Business Strategyo  Services Provided

o  Clientele

o  Locations

o  How many employees in each job category

y  Culture

o  Distinctive?

y  Approach to HR 

o  Awareness?

o  How does HR view/treat employees?

o  Vertical/Horizontal fit?

y  Focal Job

y  Challenges

o  What challenges are faced with respect to the focal

 job?

  How and why?

Assignment 2 - Job Analysis of Focal Job

y  Methods and information sources used to collect datay  Job description for the task comprising the focal job

o  Use the template

o  List all major duties/tasks of the job

y  Job Specification

o  What knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes

o  Be sure the list of KSAs is sensible, justifiable, and non-

redundant

o  Keep it simple

Assignment 3 - Recruitment

y  What are the current recruitment practices for the foal job?

o  Are there problems? If so, what?

  Too many or too few?

  Poorly qualified applicants?

  Misuse of resources?

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  Costly use of resources?

  Too slow?

  Less than optimal wording?

  Wrong market?

  Website?  Working or not?

y  Develop a recruitment plan that addresses your concerns

with the system in place.

o  Identify the sources of the candidates and the methods

to attract them

  Should any of these areas be discontinued? Why?

Assignment 4 - Selection

y  What are the current selection practices for the focal job?

o  What works? What doesn¶t?

y  Essential KSAs that you need to measure in a job applicant

o  Look at the Job Specification from Assignment 2

y  Specify ways to assess the characteristic you¶re looking for

y  Describe your selection process; start to finish

o  Outline the steps

o  Will you measure all applicants on all predictors?

  In what sequence?

  BE SPECIFICo  Tests?

o  Specific knowledge?

o  Interview?

o  Application?

o  Work sample or trainability?

o  Reference checks?

Assignment 5 - Training and Development

y  What are the current training practices?

o  What¶s good, what isn¶t?

y  What changes would you recommend?

y  Design a training tool to address the issue.

 Assignment 6 - Perfor mance Appr aisal 

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y  What perfor mance appr aisal, perfor mance management, and 

f eedback sy  stems ar e al r ead y  in place? What¶s good, w hat 

isn¶t? 

y  What ar e t he key aspects of perfor mance on t he focal j ob

t hat should be assessed? y  H ow should t hey be assessed? 

o  Objective measur es, r ating or  r anking? Devel o p items

for t he appr aisal inst rument or modi fy  it i f  it needs it.

y  H ow of ten and by w hom should perfor mance on t he focal j ob

be assessed? 

y   I  ssues of  f eedback t o empl oy ees and perfor mance

management should be handled.

Assignment 7 - Reward and Motivation

y  How are employees paid? Incentives? Other means of 

motivation? Do they work?

y  What sort of behaviour does an organisation want to

motivate amongst employees in the focal job?

y  Recommend a plan

y  What challenges do you foresee? 

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