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Student Name/ID Number
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Unit Number and Title
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Unit 3/ Management of Human Resources
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Academic Year
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AY 2025-26/ Sep-25 Cohort
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Unit Tutor
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Assignment Title
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The Role of HRM in Organisational Development and Workforce Action Plan (Part 1)/ HRM PracticesPortfolio (Part 2)
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Issue Date
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10/10/2025
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Submission Date
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Saturday 24th January 2026 at 11.59 pm
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Guideline for Final Submission
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- The submission must be in the specific format (s) as specified in the assignment brief instructions.
- The assignment should be submitted in a MS Word© format, or equivalent.
- The assignment has two parts. Please read both parts carefully.
- There will be only one submission link in Turnitin via canvas. You are required to compile both Part 1 and Part 2 into one Microsoft Word file for submission.
Please access HN Global for additional resources to support and reading for this unit. For further guidance and support on academic writing please refer to the Study Skills Unit on HN Global at: www.highernationals.com
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Submission Format: Part 1
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The submission is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in a concise, formal business style using 1.5 spacing and font size 12. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Please also provide a reference list using the Harvard referencing system. The recommended word limit is 2,000 to 2,500 words, although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit.
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Learning Outcomes
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LO1 Explain the impact of the role of HRM in creating sustainable organisational performance and contributing to business success
LO2 Produce a workforce action plan for recruiting and retaining talent to address skills shortages in an organisation
LO3 Examine how external and internal factors can affect HRM decision-making inrelation to organisational development
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Transferable skills and competencies developed
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- Articulating and explaining information effectively.
- Communication and listening, including the ability to produce clear, structured business communications in a variety of media.
- Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
- Development and delivery of HR solutions to the business, appropriate to the organisational context.
- Research, analysis and presentation of HR business data (both internal and external) to provide insight, support solutions to business issues and track performance.
- Curiosity about HR business trends and developments, incorporating them into work
- Effective communication skills: verbal and non-verbal.
- The ability to generate, develop and communicate ideas.
- Creative thinking.
- Development and delivery of HR solutions to the business, appropriate to the organisational context.
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Vocational scenario
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You are working as a Trainee Human Resource Executive for a car manufacturing company of your choice (e.g. Jaguar, Vauxhall, Land Rover, etc), and your duty is to address the skills shortages issue in the industry specifically the hard-to-fill vacancies in your chosen organisation.
Your line manager has instructed you to undertake a review of human resource practices and process in the firm and produce a workforce plan for improving and strengthening the organisation’s talent management strategy. The review will assess the strengths and weaknesses of Human Resource Management (HRM) processes and procedures to critically evaluate the factors that will contribute to the decision-making process. You need to prepare a report that provides a clear vision and a plan to the success of the firm.
The main objective is to improve recruitment and employee engagement and motivation, and to grow the talent management.
You are required to review internal HRM practices and processes, with a focus on recruitment and selection, and external influences on HRM practices to determine HR solutions for strengthening the organisation’s talent management strategy.
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Assignment activity and guidance
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The report will include the following:
- A comparison of the different HRM activities and practices and their contribution to organisational sustainable performance and success.
- An examination of strategic long-term HRM in relation to the changing effects on organisations and its business environment including their human resources skills and knowledge.
- Develop a strategic workforce action plan for improving the recruitment and selection process. This should highlight the issue of skills shortage and hard-to fill vacancies, as well as retaining appropriate talented employees from the available labour markets.
- Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of HRM in terms of creating a sustainable workforce action plan for recruiting and retaining talented staff to create sustainable organisational performance.
- Evaluate how the internal and external factors influence HRM decision-making in the workplace with specific reference to organisational performance and development.
- Make some recommendations on how they could improve their activities.
- Discuss and evaluate these factors and how they support organisational development.
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Submission Format: Part 2
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The submission is in the form of a portfolio. This should be written in a concise, formal business style using 1.5 line spacing and font size 12. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with research and references using the Harvard referencing system. Please also provide a reference list using the Harvard referencing system. The recommended word limit is 1,000 to 1,500 words, although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit.
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Unit Learning Outcomes
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LO4 Apply HRM practices in a work-related context for improving sustainable organisational performance.
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Assignment activity and guidance
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Your next task as a Trainee Human Resource Executive for a car manufacturing company of your choice (use same company as task 1). You have been asked to prepare some documentations for training managers on various HR related issues such as recruitment and selection practice, performance management and employee relations etc.
Your task is to compile all documentations into a digital portfolio. The portfolio should include the followings:
- The design of a job description for the position of a Trainee Human Resource Executive in your chosen firm.
- A person specification for the same role in your chosen firm.
- A recruitment and selection process flowchart to be used by the organisation in future and this will be followed during all new staff recruitment.
- An assessment of your selected company’s performance management and reward systems with examples of their impact on the employees.
- A review of the organisation’s current approach to and effectiveness of employee relations and employee engagement and how this could be further strengthened.
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Recommended Resources
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Please note that the resources listed are examples for you to use as a starting point in your research – the list is not definitive.
Textbooks
Armstrong, M. and Taylor, S. (2023) Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource
Management Practice. 16th Ed. London: Kogan Page.
Leatherbarrow, C. and Fletcher, J. (2018) Introduction to Human Resource Management. 4th Ed. London: CIPD and Kogan Page.
Marchington, M., Wilkinson, A., Donnelly, R. and Kynighou, A. (2020) Human Resource Management at Work: The Definitive Guide. 7th Ed. London: CIPD and Kogan Page.
Torrington, D., Hall, L., Atkinson, C. and Taylor, S. (2020) Human Resource Management. 11th Ed. London: Pearson.
Websites
www.cipd.co.uk
www.hr-guide.com
www.personneltoday.com
www.shrm.org
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