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Activity 1.: Formative Assessments
Activity 1.: Formative Assessments
Activity 1.: Formative Assessments
Formative assessments
Activity 1.
Research planning requirements
Document the processes and steps involved in researching the ongoing HR requirements for
the organisation for which you work. If you are not currently working address the question
from the point of a generic organisation.
Notes:
Activity 2
Develop human resources strategic plan
Explain in 2,000 words, how you would develop, for your organisation, a suitable human
resources strategic plan and what data you would use when developing the plan. Consider
strategic targets and the goals of the organisation.
In the paper:
1. Describe the organisation and its core business.
2. Explain:
a. Whether the plan will simply extend the current HR operations into the future or
whether it will be necessary to make charge?
b. Whether it will be necessary to conduct a cost-benefit analysis and to develop risk
management and contingency plans?
c. Who you would submit the plan to for ratification/authorisation?
d. Who you would collaborate and consult with?
If you are not working your response can be based around a generic or fictitious
organisation.
3. Describe at least two methods that can be employed to analyse political, economic,
social and technological development in a gllobal context as well as the strenghts and
weaknesses of existing and potential competitors. What tools could be used and why
would these be useful? (The use of PEST and SWOT analyses will be considered in
the summative assessment so select at least teo alternative methods)
Define due diligence and describe how it can be used to ensure that ventures are
consistent with your organisation’s vision, mission and values.
Activity 3
Write a strategic plan
The CEO of your organisation has asked for a procedural document to be drawn up, outlining
for any participants, the procedures to be followed when writing a strategic plan.
Notes:
Activity 4
Implement strategic plan
Scenario
You have developed a three year strategic plan for your company. You and four senior
managers met with middle managers to gather ideas and to find out where the personnel in
the organisation is going, and where they think it should go.
You distributed a list of questions to be answered by middle managers and their staff and
provided a number of scenarios for the middle managers and their staff to analyse in terms of
suitability. The resultant information was colected, discussed and used to help inform the
stretegic planning process.
Following the consultation process you and your senior managers worked together to draw up
a strategic plan for the whole organisation. This plan described the organisation’s goals for
You then broke the strategicc plan down into actions, key results areas, responsibilities and
expectations with regard to the various sections or departments within the organisation.
The next step is to actually communicate the plan to ther stuff and to implement it.
Summative assessment 1
Conduct independent research as required.
Question 1.
In each state or territory there is legislation and regulation that affects business operations.
Some of the legislation is general and applies to all businesses, while some will be industry
specific. Codes of practice also apply in most business sectors.
Notes:
Question 2.
What is risk management? Why is it relevant to strategic planning? Give examples of some
of the risk areas that might need to be addressed in a business organisation.
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Question 3.
Strategic planning methodologies include political, economic, social and technological
analyses and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analyses. Explain what is
involved in a SWOT analysis and a PEST analysis. Produce an example of each, relevant to
the organisation for which you work, or for an organisation for which you previously
worked.
Question 4.
When developing strategic plans it is necessary to identify internal and external sources of
information relevant to the organisation’s market, competitors, customer base, vision, values
and capabilities. Competitor knowledge is of particular importance.Define competitor
knowledg, explain the procrss for conducting a competitor analysis and explain why this is so
important to the deveopment of strategic plans.
Question 5.
Explain what organisational values are, why they are important and how they are developed.
Summative Assessment 2
Project
You have been asked to head the strategic planning process for your organisation this year.
You must show that you can work with others to develop a strategic plan that will help the
organisation for which you work as it moves towards a profitable future.
Answer all of the questions and draw up and submit, with suitable justifications, a strategic
plan.
1. Describe the organisation for which you work and briefly outline its business
operations.
If you are not currently working you might develop a strategic plan for a
fictitious business. Describe the business and what it does then address the
assessment project questions. The business could be a private or a non-for-profit
organisation.
2. Explain why the strategic plan is necessary.
Submit to your assessor. Answerrs to the questions, the plan and any background information
that was documented in orf=dert to develop the plan, for example risk assessments, cost
benefit analyses, business analyses, graphs, tables and charts etc.
Notes:
Assessor Comments: Satisfactory/
not satisfactory
BSBMGT617: Develop and implement a business plan
Alternative assessment
If you are currently employed in this field, to assist with assessment, and if you can verify
that these are entirely you own work, you might submit any of the following:
Written reports on strategic planning
A portfolio of evidence showing that you can develop and implement strstegic plans
Third party workplace reports of on-the-job performance
Performace review results
Written reviews relating to strategic plans that you have prepared and implemented
Documentation reviewing the development and implementaion of strategic plans
Documented analyses of data for inclusion in strategic plans
Notes:
Observation Report
The tast listed in the observation report will provide performance evidence.