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Assignment Structure for Unit 6 Managing a Successful Business

Company: of your choice

Your role: Research assistant

Managing a Successful Business Project

in Talent Management

Topic allocated for this project is:

What talent strategies do your organization use to attract and retain
people?

PLEASE COPY LOGBOOK AND PERFORMANCE REVIEW

TEMPLATE AT THE END OF YOUR ASSIGNMENT IN APPENDIX

Your wordcount is +-10% 3500 words (min 3150 max 3850)

Cover Page
Display all the required information including your word count

Student Declaration

Table of Contents

Introduction
In your introduction explain the context of this is a research
report highlighting the project management aspect.
When briefly introducing your chosen company only do it from
a HR/Talent Management point of view, as an employer, keep
it in line with your allocated topic.
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Section 1-covers LO1

1. Project Planning

Discuss your Project Aim

Only one aim

Discuss your Discuss your Discuss your

Objectives Objectives Objectives

Maximum 3 objectives
The aim and the objectives only can be TALENT MANAGEMENT related, keep it in
line with your allocated topic

Structure this part in a way that the aim and the objectives are clearly can be told
apart e.g. in separate paragraphs or in a table
Make sure the objectives closely link to the aim of the project

Discuss how do you intend to meet project objectives?

2. Project Management Plan

Project Management Plan

Initiation
Planning
Execution
Monitoring Use PERT method
and
Control
Closing
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You will have to cover the following aspects:

● Cost of the project
● Scope of the project
● Time (lengths of the project, start and end date, time schedule)
● Quality (how in-depth the project is going to be?)
● Communication throughout the project
● Risks potentially can jeopardize the completion of the success
of the project
● Resources you will need to carry out this project

3. Major events and phases of the project

Discuss the tasks and activities you will need to do, the regular
ones, the one-off ones as well and most importantly, how are
those activities will serve to the success of the project?

Create a milestone line and mark the major tasks, phases and
activities. Discuss critical path for the project

4.
Create a Work Breakdown Structure
and a
Gantt Chart
You can use a template or create one yourself
Keep it simple, color code it or use traffic light system on them

1. Section 2-covers LO2

Conduct Quantitative/Qualitative research

1.
Discuss research methodology – compare qualitative and
quantitative data
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How are you going to use each type of data to map out current Talent Management
Practices?
Briefly explain why you have chosen the traditional
methodology you use for this project out of the most common
project methodologies (mention agile and waterfall)
Discuss how are you going to collect primary data to map out
current Talent Management practices within the organization
(questionnaires? interviews? etc.)
Briefly explain the advantages and disadvantages of primary
research
Briefly explain how you chosen the people (and how many have
you chosen?) you question/interview by simple random
sampling:

Simple random sampling is the basic sampling technique where we select a group of

subjects (a sample) for study from a larger group (a population). Each individual is
chosen entirely by chance and each member of the population has an equal chance
of being included in the sample.

Introduce the tools you have chosen to create to collect your

primary data:
● Simple questionnaire min 5 -max 7 questions
● Simple interview agenda max 3 points of discussion

EXAMPLES ON THE NEXT PAGE

DO NOT FORGET TO PUT INTO THE COLUMNS YOUR OWN
QUESTIONS
You can use templates or create your own data collecting instruments in MS
Word or in MS Excel
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2.
Using secondary research compare the talent management
strategy of your chosen organization with a direct competitor
Briefly explain the advantages and disadvantages of secondary
research
Use textbooks, journals and other relevant sources for your
research

2.
What is the value of having a sound Talent Management
Strategy in place from a business performance point of
view?
Give a good example for the benefits of it and a bad example when the
organization is the lacking it, base it on research

3.
Summarize the good practice in Talent Management
Strategy you came across whilst carrying out your research
and identify the areas they could be used
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This part will be important for your recommendations part in your project later
on

2. Section 3-covers LO3

Present Findings
1.
Structure and organize your findings
Put your quantitative findings into tables, graphs, visualize
them
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Put your qualitative findings into a descriptive paragraph

make sure not merely repeat what you already have put into your quantitative
tables!
In this paragraph state whether your findings contradict or support the result of your
secondary research

2.
Offer your recommendations
You can use a table or paragraphs

Area within the Current TM Findings Best practice Recommended

organization practice based on based on application
research comparison

Product
Developmen
t
Finance
Marketing
Etc.

If currently there is no TM Strategy in your chosen organization, make sure you state
it
You must JUSTIFY any recommendation you come up with for
the organization to apply!!! They must be supported by your
findings based on your primary, secondary research

3.
Conclusion
Meaningfully summarize the outcome of the project and
ADDRESS all of the objectives from section 1
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3. Section 4 -covers LO4

Reflective Practice
1.
Complete the performance review form using the provided
template in your assignment brief
Do not use a different one, only the one to be found on page 9-10 in your AB

2.
Keep populating your logbook
template provided in your assignment brief
Remember, it is a working document you can expand on the template

This section is to reflect your own development as a

potential future project manager

4. List of References
Use approx. 1 reference per 100 words

Good luck with your report