CF 10 - Managing a Global Pandemic - CQHRM S10

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Chartered Qualification in Human Resource Management

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Subject CF 10 - Managing a Global Pandemic - CQHRM S10

Assessment mode Group Presentation - 01

Handing over date 25th January 2023
Presentation Date 29th April 2023
Duration 20 minutes
Marks allocated 100 marks

Managing Global Pandemics

Throughout history, disease outbreaks have ravaged humanity, sometimes changing the course
of history and, at times, signalling the end of entire civilizations.

WHO Defines a pandemic as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a vast area, crossing
international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”.
The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease
severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate
southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international
boundaries and affect a large number of people.

It's better to be prepared for something that doesn't happen than unprepared for something that
does. Many organizations today are faced with many challenges: seeing through the current

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pandemic situation while sustaining and growing businesses, getting prepared for another
adverse situation such as a lockdown and developing strategies to successfully manage such
pandemics that may occur in the future.

Your Task

Assume that you are a leading Management and HR Consultancy firm in the country with local
and global expertise equipped with a professional team with diverse exposure and experience
in management consultancy at the strategic level. You have been invited to pitch for a
consultancy project to advise a leading private sector company in Sri Lanka on managing the
current situation and aggressively growing business and also device strategies for BCP
(Business Continuity Plan) for the coming five years and also other related HR strategies to
manage a pandemic in the future.

Scope of the project

You are expected to make a presentation pitch to the CEO and Board of Directors of the
company at the next board meeting covering the following:

1. Providing insights into the current pandemic with research and statistics on the levels
of impact both locally and globally, particularly for the related industry.
2. Managing an uninterrupted business in the current environment.
3. Current employee related issues faced by the company and recommendation for same.
4. Sustaining and growing business in 2021 and 2022.
5. Recommendation of inclusions to the BCP (only related to a pandemic situation).
6. Appointing a steering committee and leading the project.
7. Detailed action plan with timelines and costing.

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Guidelines

1. It will be a group presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint for 20 minutes.

2. You will be presenting to a panel of examiners appointed by CIPM.

3. Your PowerPoint presentation needs to be uploaded to the CIPM LMS on or before the

deadline.

4. All PowerPoint presentations with supporting elements such as videos etc. should be saved

to the classroom computer 15 minutes before class commencement. Subsequent changes,

amendments to the PowerPoint presentations would not be allowed.

5. Students are required to submit a printed hardcopy of presentation slides before the

presentation begins.

6. The marks allocation is:

As a group:

 Contents - 25 Marks
 Timing - 05 Marks
 Presentation Skills - 65 Marks
 Questions and Answers - 05 Marks

7. Marks allocated for timing is 05 and the following would be the timings;
 Less than 18 minutes 0 Mark
 18 to 19 minutes 2.5 Marks
 19 to 21 minutes 05 Marks (full marks)
 21 to 22 minutes 2.5 Marks
 More than 22 minutes 0 Mark

8. Time indication other than the projected digital stopwatch:

 18 Minutes - one sounds through manual push bell/digital alarm through computer
 20 Minutes - Two sounds through manual push bell
 22 Minutes - Three sounds through manual push bell
 23 Minutes - Few sounds through manual push bell and ask to stop

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9. Instructions to follow before and during the presentations:

 All students are required to be present 30 minutes before the presentation.

 Dress code: Men – Business Attire (Shirt & Ties)

Women – Appropriate Business Attire / Saree

 Cell phones should be switched off at all times.

 Students cannot leave class early unless the lecturer/examiner has approved.

 The students should maintain silence while the presentation is on.

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