15 marks project (individual submission only)

Below is your project for this subject. Please read the brief and instructions thoroughly.

Write a report about a human resource management (HRM) issue affecting your
organisation or an organisation you know well.

The HRM issue you choose to write about must be one of the following: job analysis
and design, recruitment and selection, pay and benefits, performance management,
recruitment and selection, training and development or employee retention.
In your report make sure to include:

 A brief description of the organisation and the HRM issue you have selected.

 An analysis of the HRM issue. Describe the issue in detail. Explain why the issue
needs improving in the organisation and make a case for change. In your analysis,
compare a practice in your own organisation with industry best-practice, or another
organisation’s practice.

 A set of recommendations to enable improvement or change. Explain what could be

done to bring about improvement. These recommendations should follow logically
from the analysis above; they should not be an unconnected after-thought.

It is important to demonstrate your knowledge about the HRM issue and to clearly
reference your sources. Read about your issue in books (including the textbook),
industry reports, business literature, etc. Remember to note down your sources and
reference them in the report.

In order to do well you need to structure your discussion appropriately, use quality
references, and clearly link recommendations to the description and analysis presented
earlier in the report.
 This assessment is a group assessment. Please make groups of 4 or 5. The required
word length for this assignment is 2000 words (plus or minus 10%).

This assignment is 15% of your grade.

In terms of structure, presentation and style you are normally required to use the
following format:
1. Executive Summary
2. Table of Contents
3. Introduction and Background of the Company
4. Analysis of the issue in your organization
5. Benchmarking / Industry Best practices
6. Recommendations for Improvement
7. Conclusion
8. References

The preferred Microsoft Word settings for your report are 12 point font, Arial, left justified
and 1.5 line spacing.

You are also required to give a viva of this report in your final project. The viva will not
increase your marks. It can only reduce your marks.

Best of luck