Overview
Organisations are facing a crisis in productivity and global business competition which is threatening their very existence in the market. Coupled with this challenge is the demand that organisations deliver an increased quality of work life to employees and comply with an intricate and complex set of laws, regulations and court decisions. This unit provides you with an introduction to human resource management (HRM), and to frameworks and models that explain the core functions of HRM such as planning, recruitment, development, reward and motivating employees. In this unit, you will examine how human resources functions, strategies, and practices help an organisation to perform efficiently and effectively, and assist organisations to achieve a sustained competitive advantage. You will also examine the role of HRM in diverse organisations and different cultural contexts to understand what constitutes ethical human resource management.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
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Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- 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.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 25% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 45% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 25% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 45% | ||||||||
Textbooks
Human Resource Management: Strategy, People, Performance
Edition: 5th (2014)
Authors: Robin Kramar, Timothy Bartram , Helen De Cieri, Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart, Patrick Wright
McGraw Hill Education
North Ryde North Ryde , NSW , Australia
ISBN: 9781743070536
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
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- Enter Billing Info to purchase with a Credit Card
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IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
jacqueline.larkin@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
What is Human Resource Management?
Chapter
Chapter 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Strategic Human Resource Management
Chapter
Chapter 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
HR Planning
Chapter
Chapter 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Ethical and Legal contexts of HRM
Chapter
Chapters 3, 4 and 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Module/Topic
Industrial challenges for HRM
Chapter
Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Diversity and Work-Life Balance
Chapter
Chapter 9
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Assessment Task 2 - Case Study Report Due: Week 6 Friday (25 Aug 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Analysis and Design of Work
Chapter
Chapter 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Module/Topic
Employee Recruitment and Selection
Chapter
Chapter 8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Module/Topic
Performance Management
Chapter
Chapter 10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Module/Topic
Human Resource Development
Chapter
Chapters 11 and 12
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Module/Topic
Motivation, rewards and compensation
Chapter
Chapters 13 & 14
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment Task 1 - Presentations
Module/Topic
Contemporary Issues in HRM
Chapter
Chapter 18
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
No exam for this course
1 Presentation
The purpose of this assessment is for you to develop a critical understanding of future trends in HRM within the context of current professional and academic literature, as well as develop your oral communication and presentation skills. You will explore the question: “What is the current research for the HRM topic?”
The HRM topics is from the unit profile for weeks 4 – 11 inclusive and are as follows:
Week 4: Ethical and Legal Contexts of HRM
Week 5 Industrial Challenges for HRM
Week 6 Diversity and Work-Life Balance
Week 7 Analysis and Design of Work
Week 8 Employee Recruitment and Selection
Week 9 Performance Management
Week 10 Human Resource Development
Week 11 Motivation, Rewards and Compensation
Length: Presentation (maximum of eight (8) minutes) PowerPoint slides (maximum of six (6) slides)
During tutorial class from weeks 4 – 11 inclusive.
Assessments will be returned after two weeks of the presentation in the tutorial class.
Your presentation will be assessed on the extent to which it meets each of the following criteria:
Introduction (10%)
Knowledge of Content (30%)
Presentation Delivery (30%)
Conclusion (10%)
Visual Aids (20%)
Further details on each assessment criteria are outlined in the assessment rubric.
- Analyse contemporary issues in managing human resources within the context of current professional and academic literature
- Develop a critical understanding of contemporary human resources issues including ethical issues.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
Before you commence this assessment, you must read and follow all the instructions as per the assessment guidelines (including the assessment rubric) available from the Moodle site.
This assessment requires you to analyse and write a business report based on the discussion questions for the case study titled: The role of HR in creating sustainable organisations (pages 35-36 of the textbook): Human Resource Management in Australia (5th Ed.) by Kramar, Bartram, De Cieri, Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart & Wright, McGraw-Hill Australia).
Based on this case study, write a business report that answers all of the following questions:
1. What course of action would you recommend to the CEO in the first hospital as a way to improve the operation of HRM at the hospital?
2. What are the key features of building a sustainable HR capability?
Students are expected to engage in extensive research within the academic literature relating to employment relations, managerial styles, communication and performance management, to develop an argument with appropriate theoretical discussion and references. You must cite at least five (5) relevant peer reviewed journal articles (absolute minimum requirement). You can cite other academic references such as books, conference papers, and book chapters but these will NOT be counted as part of the 5 journal articles.
Length: 1,200 words ± 10% (including executive summary, introduction, heading and subheadings, recommendations and conclusion but excluding title page and reference list)
Week 6 Friday (25 Aug 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Assessment Task 2- Case Study Report
Week 8 Friday (8 Sept 2017)
Assessments will be returned after the marking and moderation processes are completed. However, sometimes there might be a delay pending contingencies. Also, late submissions will result in significant delays in returning your assignments.
- 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.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
3 Written Assessment
Before you commence this assessment, you must read and follow all the instructions as per the assessment guidelines (including the assessment rubric) available from the Moodle site.
This assessment will assist students to develop skills in analysing an organisational/industry environment, identifying specific issues, and suggesting practical solutions. 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 report writing.
Instructions:
Select an organisation or industry as the case study for your report. Identify some of the key challenges for recruiting the workforce for this organisation/industry, and recommend strategies to address these challenges. Your report should make reference to factors such as labour supply/demand, organisational image, demographic issues (such as an ageing workforce, generations, diversity etc), as well as recruitment strategies such as employer branding and types of advertising.
You should be familiar with concepts outlined in Modules 3, 6, 7 and 8, and related chapters of your textbook Human Resource Management in Australia (5th Ed.) by Kramar et al.
You should also engage in extensive research within the academic literature to develop an argument with appropriate theoretical discussion and references. You must cite at least ten (10) relevant peer reviewed journal articles (absolute minimum requirement). 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.
Length: 1,800 words ± 10% (including executive summary, introduction, heading and subheadings, recommendations and conclusion but excluding title page and reference list)
Week 12 Monday (2 Oct 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Assessment Task 3 - Report on Recruitment in an Industry/Organisation
Assessments will be returned following certification of grades on Friday 3 November 2017.
Your report will be assessed on the extent to which it meets each of the following criteria:
• Analysis (35%)
• Integration of Literature with case (25%)
• Research (20%)
• Presentation, referencing, organisation, structure, communication (20%)
Penalty for late submission without approval if applicable [(-5%× 45/day = -2.25 marks/day]
Important: Plagiarism will be reported to the Academic Services Centre of the University and may result in a “zero” mark.
- 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.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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