Assessment Essay: Attracting and retaining staff
Task Description
You will write an essay on the key challenges in attracting and retaining a workforce in your selected sector.
Students have completed an annotated bibliography for Assessment 2 (Managing Human Resources), and that material should be used towards Assessment 3.
Assessment 3 will assist students to apply their learning to a particular industry sector, and tailor their argument to that sector's specific challenges. It will give students the opportunity to enhance their research, analysis, critical thinking and written communication skills; particularly in the areas of argument development and essay writing.
Before starting this assessment, please read the marking criteria (at the end of this document).
For Assessment 2, you selected a sector to study (e.g. agriculture; construction; financial services; health care; hospitality; manufacturing; mining; retail; transport).
You will write an essay on the key challenges in attracting and retaining a workforce in your selected sector.
Your essay will draw on at least five themes from Week 1 to Week 11 of this unit(My selected five themes: 1) HRM and Strategic HRM? 2) Motivation, rewards and compensation 3) HR planning, 4) Employment relations challenges, 5) Evaluating and Improving HRM), being those most relevant to your selected industry sector (Health Care sector).
Your essay will draw on the academic literature (including the annotated bibliography for Assessment 2), and develop an argument applying that literature to your selected sector. You must cite at least ten (10) relevant peer reviewed journal articles, and 3 chapters from the Kramar textbook. You can cite other academic references such as books, conference papers, and book chapters but these will NOT be counted as part of the 10 journal articles.
Referencing Style
- American Psychological Association (APA)
Learning Outcomes Assessed
- Critically assess the role and functions of HRM for strategic integration and achieving organisational objectives
- Analyse contemporary issues in managing human resources within the context of current professional and academic literature
- Identify and evaluate human resource management strategies and practices to plan, attract, recruit, develop, motivate and reward employees and respond to internal and external changes
- Develop a critical understanding of contemporary human resources issues including ethical issues.
Graduate Attributes
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership