BUSM4495 Contemporary Issues in Strategic Human Resource Management

Overview

In this assessment you will undertake the role of an HR specialist and prepare a video presentation targeted towards a hypothetical organisation's executive committee on your chosen topic. You will do this by analysing the topic and its SHRM issues in relation to its organisational impact in terms of strategy and culture.

The purpose of this assessment is to build your ability to evaluate and manage contemporary issues in SHRM.

Course Learning Outcomes

This assessment is relevant to the following course learning outcomes

RMIT Capabilities

AoL 5: Expert: application of discipline knowledge

Assessment Criteria

This assessment will measure your ability to:

• Explain the SHRM issue and its link to organisational strategy, culture and the role of HR (8pts)
• Identify and analyse key SHRM issues (6pts)
• Apply relevant SHRM theory and models (6pts)
• Develop evidence-based recommendations and conclusions to address SHRM issues (6pts)
• Meet academic presentation and referencing requirements (4pts).

Assessment Details

The Task

In this assessment you will undertake the role of an HR specialist for a hypothetical organisation. As the HR specialist, you are to prepare a video presentation for the executive committee of this organisation, however, the report should include academic theories and models to support your presentation.

Follow the steps below to compile your presentation:

Step 1: Select and Describe One Topic from the Following List

1. Improving workplace health and wellbeing
2. Managing employee voice

Step 2: As the HR Specialist, Identify and Analyse the Contemporary SHRM Issues Related to Your Chosen Topic

To do this:

Firstly, describe and explain the contemporary SHRM issues related to your chosen topic.

Secondly, analyse the link between the topic and its issues, within the following two aspects of your hypothetical organisation:

• Strategy, and
• Culture

Step 3: Outline the Role of HR

Outline the role of HR in managing potential roadblocks that relate to the topic and its contemporary SHRM issues.

Provide your recommendation(s) for the executive committee in managing these roadblocks.

Use academic theory and models to support your response.

Assessment 2 Details

Students should use PowerPoint or a similar presentation software (e.g Prezi) for their presentation.

Presentations are to be voice recorded. Presentations can also be video/sound recorded via Teams.

Introduce the presentation and provide a summary/conclusion at the end.

Submit a PDF copy of the presentation slides along with the MP4 video file (2 files-PDF & MP4 video presentation)

Relevant academic references should be provided. Students will demonstrate additional research beyond the course material by using recent peer reviewed academic journal articles published from 2016 onwards (minimum of ten recent peer reviewed journal articles).

Use of the grey literature (media articles etc) can also be used in addition to academic journal articles.

Example List of Quality Journals

• Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
• International Journal of HRM
• Human Resource Management
• Personnel Review
• Journal of Industrial Relations
• Australian Journal of Labour Law

Referencing Guidelines

Use RMIT Harvard referencing style for this assessment.

You must acknowledge all the courses of information you have used in your assessments.

Refer to the RMIT Easy Cite referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to reference in the appropriated style. You can also refer to the library referencing page for more tools such as EndNote, referencing tutorials and referencing guides for printing.

Submission Format

Use PDF for slides and MP4 for video presentation.

The assessment will be submitted in Canvas as a file upload.

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.

You should take extreme care that you have:

• Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted (i.e., directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment through the appropriate referencing methods.
• Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary. This includes material taken from Internet sites.

If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own.

RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct.

Plagiarism covers a variety of inappropriate behaviours, including:

• Failure to properly document a source
• Copyright material from the internet or databases
• Collusion between students

For further information on our policies and procedures, please refer to the University website.