Case Blog
A key task for HR employees is to be able to write short reports that are engaging, easy to read and factually accurate (with references if your readers want to follow up) on a range of issues. These are also the sort of short pieces that you can use to demonstrate your talent and to promote yourself in the employment market by starting discussions in forums like LinkedIn.
Your real world brief
Your client for this semester is QUT. QUT has a strategy documentQUT Blueprint which positions QUT into the future. Aligned with the Blueprint, QUTsIndigenous Employment Strategy outlines its approach and commitment to increasing employment and development opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The strategy aims:
- for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to be 1.7 per cent of the workforce and to ensure all staff have sufficient understanding and knowledge of Indigenous perspectives to contribute to Reconciliation in the undertaking of their duties
- to significantly increase the University's community engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their involvement in decision making.
Aligned with this, there are strategies to enhance Indigenous students' enrolment. QUTs current performance against this target can be found in theQUT Annual Report
Research problem
You are to choose ONE of the topics below. In the light of QUTs strategic target for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' employment, you are to investigate the research on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and these aspects of employment and consider how you (as HR adviser) might help QUT reach its employment target.
Week 4 Representation - due week 6
Week 5 Time and Work - due week 7
Week 7 Work Skills and Routines - due week 9
Week 8 Survival Strategies due week 10
Week 9 Emotion Work due week 11
Week 10/11 Discrimination and Equity - due week 12
Your task (as a group)
1. Define your term/s.
2. Investigate the literature around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and your chosen issue. Make sure you maintain good records of where your literature comes from as you will be required to hyperlink to it in your writing. You are aiming for evidence (statistics and quality academic literature) to inform your suggested strategies.
3. In your groups inworkshops,you will develop specific research question/s and related data sources. You may discuss your plan with others, but your written work must be your own.
Your task (individually)
As an individual, you should write 1000-1200 words (in a journal post/blog with hyperlinks), explaining why the issue is important and providing advice to QUT about the issue