Posted: April 14th, 2015

hrm

Assignment guide

Length: 2000 words ± 10% (including all tables and figures but excluding title page, reference list and appendixes)

Reference Style: Harvard Style

Before starting this assessment, please read the marking criteria

Purpose:

• Use of human resource management (HRM) principles, theories and models in the analysis of HR practices in organizational issues related to employment relations.

• Analyze the current situation, identify organizational issues and suggest practical solutions related to the organization’s employment relations management.

Description:

• The assignment requires the writing of a business report.
• The report should be designed as a management document that can be used to implement recommended changes.
• It should include a comprehensive analysis of the current situation using HRM theory, models and frameworks.
• The report should clearly explain the various options available and analyses the consequences of these.

Details:

• The assessment item is based on the case study titled Constructive Relations at Top Trucking Company (attached file)
• You are required to support your arguments with appropriate theoretical discussion and references.
• This assignment MUST be a properly constructed business report.
• It MUST contain headings and sub- headings and executive summary.
• The introduction should introduce the report, thesis statement (main objectives of the assignment) and include your argument.
• The main body of the assignment should present the evidence you have collected to support your arguments for the questions you are required to research.
• The conclusion section should restate your arguments, summaries the evidence and make a conclusion from all previous discussions.
• The assignment should contain a coherent, but necessarily restricted review of the academic literature on HRM topics in question. The literature review should be integrated into the assignment and not be a separate section.
• A reference list formatted in the prescribed Harvard style is compulsory
• You will be expected to present information and evidence from, and cite, at least twelve (15) relevant peer reviewed journal articles (absolute minimum requirement), references should be up to 5 years.

Tasks

Case Study: Constructive Relations at Top Trucking Company (Pages 169-170 of the textbook: Human Resource Management in Australia (5th Ed., 2014) by Kramar, Bartram, De Cieri, Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart & Wright, McGraw-Hill Australia).

Based on the case scenario, answer the following questions in business format. You MUST answer all questions listed here:

1. How do the new workplace practices introduced by the new yard manager complement one another?
2. What are the risks to sustaining these changes if George or the yard manager moves on?
3. Do you think tough blue collar unions like the Transport Workers Union are more of less likely to engage in workplace changes like these than public or service sector unions? Why? How would you find out if you are right?