‘As individuals live longer, and their careers extend beyond the traditional retirement age, Human Resource professionals will increasingly find themselves responsible for managing a workforce whose ages range across six or more decades. Such age diversity offers an exciting challenge’
Deakin's Bachelor of Commerce and MBA are internationally EPAS accredited. Deakin Business School is accredited by AACSB. MMH230 – Fundamentals of Human Resource Management Trimester 1, 2019 Assessment Task 1: Written Analytical Essay (Individual) DUE DATE AND TIME: Week 8, Monday 29 April 2019, 5:00 PM (AEST) PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: 40% WORD LIMIT 3000 Words (excludes the reference list) Learning Outcome Details Unit Learning Outcome (ULO) Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO) ULO 1: Your ability to identify and explain SHRM frameworks, theories, concepts, and processes, and the broader legal context within which SHRM is performed, as is appropriate to the essay topic. GLO 1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO 3: Digital literacy GLO 4: Critical thinking ULO 3: Your ability to collect, integrate and critically analyse theoretical and empirical information using standard research techniques and produce a clear and logically written discussion around specific SHRM issues / scenarios, as is appropriate to the essay topic. Assessment Feedback Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback on Cloud Deakin on 20 May by 5:00pm. https://www.efmd.org/index.php/accreditation-main/epas http://www.aacsb.edu/ Deakin's Bachelor of Commerce and MBA are internationally EPAS accredited. Deakin Business School is accredited by AACSB. Assessment Task Requirements: Topic Statement: ‘As individuals live longer, and their careers extend beyond the traditional retirement age, Human Resource professionals will increasingly find themselves responsible for managing a workforce whose ages range across six or more decades. Such age diversity offers an exciting challenge’ Task: Individually, research and write an analytical essay which uses relevant human resource management (HRM) theory, empirical research evidence and other authoritative sources to examine and critically evaluate: - the multi-generational nature of the Australian workforce - both the HRM challenges and potential benefits an age diverse workforce creates - the HR practices organisations need to adopt if they are to manage an age diverse workforce in a strategic and productive manner, whilst also meeting the needs of their multi-generational employees. Presentation: A professional-looking document builds credibility. Your essay should be presented in a reader-friendly way, so please ensure it: o has a title page o is written in essay format o is in 12pt font o is 1.5 spaced with 2 cm margins on each side o has numbered pages o uses correct in-text referencing (Harvard system), and o includes a reference list which is correctly formatted (Harvard system) and begins on a new page. https://www.efmd.org/index.php/accreditation-main/epas http://www.aacsb.edu/ Page 3 of 4 Submission Instructions Each individual student is to submit an electronic copy of their assignment online in the assignment drop box provided in the MMH230 Unit Site (accessed via Deakin Sync). Your assignment will be counted as ‘on time’ if submitted by 5:00pm AEST or AEDST on the due date. If necessary, you can look up your local time at http://www.whitepages.com.au/wp/helpfulInfo.do?category=info&item=worldTime. You must keep a backup copy of every assignment you submit, until the marked assignment has been returned to you. In the unlikely event that one of your assignments is misplaced, you will need to submit your backup copy. Any work you submit may be checked by electronic or other means for the purposes of detecting collusion and/or plagiarism. When you are required to submit an assignment through your CloudDeakin unit site, you will receive an email to your Deakin email address confirming that it has been submitted. You should check that you can see your assignment in the Submissions view of the Assignment dropbox folder after upload, and check for, and keep, the email receipt for the submission. If technological problems are encountered assistance should be sort from the IT Helpdesk, and a work request number sought in case it is needed when requesting an extension on these grounds. 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Notes Extensions: Extensions can be granted for circumstances beyond your control such as documented serious illness or for compassionate reasons under special circumstances. Extensions can only be approved by the Unit Chair, Dr Kerrie Saville. Please email your request to
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[email protected] Page 4 of 4 be given between 1 day and 2 weeks to submit your work. https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/assessment-and-results/special- consideration Work or holidays or other assignments are NOT grounds for an extension – you are expected to manage these issues as part of your studies. You are strongly encouraged to start early and to continually backup your assignment as you progress. Computer crashes or corrupted files will NOT be accepted as valid reasons for an extension of any length. • Penalties for late submission (with no approved extension): In accordance with sections 46 and 47 of the University’s ‘Assessment (Higher Education Courses) Procedure- Penalties for Late Submission of Assessment Tasks’, the following marking penalties will apply if you submit an assessment task after the due date without an approved extension: 5% will be deducted from available marks for each day up to five days, and work that is submitted more than five days after the due date will not be marked. You will receive 0% for the task. 'Day' means working day for paper submissions and calendar day for electronic submissions. The Unit Chair may refuse to accept a late submission where it is unreasonable or impracticable to assess the task after the due date. In accordance with this policy, the late penalty on this assessment task, due by 5pm April 29 2019 (AEST), in which a total of 40 marks are available, will therefore be calculated as follows: 1 day late. Penalty 2 marks (0.01 to 23.59 hours after due time and date, shown in hours on Cloud Deakin Drop Box) 2 days late. Penalty 4 marks (24-47.59 hours after due time and date, shown as 1 day on Cloud Deakin Drop Box) 3 days late. Penalty 6 marks (48-71.59 hours after due time and date, shown as 2 days on Cloud Deakin Drop Box) 4 days late. Penalty 8 marks (72-95.59 hours after the due time and date, shown as 3 days on Cloud Deakin Drop Box) 5 days late. Penalty 10 marks (96-119.59 hours after the due time and date, shown as 4 days on cloud Deakin Drop Box) Dropbox closed 5pm May 4 2019 AEST. • For more information about academic misconduct, special consideration, extensions, and assessment feedback, please refer to the document Your rights and responsibilities as a student in this Unit in the first folder next to the Unit Guide of the Resources area in the CloudDeakin unit site. • Building evidence of your experiences, skills and knowledge (Portfolio) - Building a portfolio that evidences your skills, knowledge and experience will provide you with a valuable tool to help you prepare for interviews and to showcase to potential employers. There are a number of tools that you can use to build a portfolio. You are provided with cloud space through OneDrive, or through the Portfolio tool in the Cloud Unit Site, but you can use any storage repository system that you like. Remember that a Portfolio is YOUR tool. You should be able to store your assessment work, reflections, achievements and artefacts in YOUR Portfolio. Once you have completed this assessment piece, add it to your personal Portfolio to use and showcase your learning later, when applying for jobs, or further studies. Curate your work by adding meaningful tags to your artefacts that describe what the artefact represents. https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/assessment-and-results/special-consideration https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/assessment-and-results/special-consideration Learning Outcome Details Assessment Feedback Assessment Task Requirements: Submission Instructions Notes