Question: Taking into account the case study you have examined, please produce your views on the following issues: 1. Talent planning and recruitment activities 2. Managing dismissal, redundancy and retirement effectively and lawfully In producing your report, you should conduct research into contemporary and emerging practice in both key areas. Your report should include discussion covering the following details:  The principles of effective workforce planning and the tools used in t...

Question: Taking into account the case study you have examined, please produce your views on the following issues: 1. What labour market trends might make it hard for the company to recruit and retain the staff they need? What developments might change the situation? (1.1) 2. Explain the significance of ‘tight’ and ‘loose’ labour markets. (1.3) 3. Recommend two differing approaches that could be taken in the short term as a means of improving the organisation’s ability to retain staff eff...

Question: This report build upon Part A in which you were asked to write an initial report against the context of the following: There are many examples of organisations that clearly misunderstand the concept of employee engagement. Often levels of employee engagement are measured in a very superficial way that potentially adds very little value - for example, by the use of employee engagement surveys. Your recently appointed C.E.O, in the past has been a very strong advocate of engagement ...

Question: There are many examples of organisations that clearly misunderstand the concept of employee engagement. Often levels of employee engagement are measured in a very superficial way that potentially adds very little value - for example, by the use of employee engagement surveys. Your recently appointed C.E.O, in the past has been a very strong advocate of engagement surveys. He has come to you (in HR) for advice and has asked for a proposal for how levels of employee engagement can be ef...

Question: Your organisation (or one with which you are familiar) is going through a period of change, and you have been appointed as the project manager for a 12 month programme of Organisation Development (OD). Having produced your short research paper on Organisational Development, you are now asked to prepare a Project Initiation Document (PID) which should be structured in the following way: 1. Project Purpose and summary (A.C.1.1) Include change context, project objectives and benefit...

Question: Your organisation (or one with which you are familiar) is going through a period of change, and you have been appointed as the project manager for a 12 month programme of Organisation Development (OD). You are asked to develop a short research paper (approximately 1000 words) on the main theories and principles of organisation development. This should:  Explore and discuss the origins of OD, leading towards contemporary definitions, and covering ideas of learning theory; psychol...

A member of the senior leadership team has recently read an article on the relationship between sustainable organisational performance and the strategic alignment of an organisation’s different components such as its structure, culture, processes, and people management approaches, and is keen to explore the following question: “To what extent does the current ‘design’ of the organisation support organisational success?” You have been asked to produce a 1500 – 2000 word report which:  Sum...

Building upon your research in Part A, which focused on secondary research, you are asked to conduct some primary research into performance management practice within your own organisation. Identify some line managers within your organisation and conduct some research activity to explore the following questions:  What performance management activity is conducted? (in relation to the performance management cycle). This should include a focus on the performance/development review process/discus...

Question: As part of an ongoing programme of organisational change, your HR director wants to introduce a new performance management process, which will sit alongside other people management and HR practices that have been designed to support High Performance Working within your organisation. She has sked you to provide an initial report based on your research covering the concept of ‘High Performance Working’ (HPW) and the extent to which it supports sustainable organisational performance. ...

Question: Title: Workarounds and Their Implications for Patient Safety Instructions: was the implementation of connecting the system to the fans approve by management as the new workflow or did this staff member do this to make the job more convenient for them? Solution: As aforementioned, the workaround behaviors are frequently used in fixing an issue such as the workflow in the healthcare settings. As noted by Halbesleben et al. (2010), they are primarily adopted for different reasons a...