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M G T 3 0 7 I H R M / A S S E S S M E N T / B 1 T 2 2 0 1 8 / V 1 . 0 P a g e 1 | 4 Assessment Guideline and Question Paper Module title: International Human Resource Management Module code: MGT 307 Semester: B1T2 2018 Duration of semester 16 July 2018 to 26 October 2018 Course: Bachelor of Business (Business Management) AQF level: 7 Lecturer: Dr Eugene Lim Number of assessments: One Weighting: 25% of the final assessment of the module Content weighting: See ‘Structure and weighting criteria of assessment’ and ‘Assessment Grading Criteria’ for details Format: Essay Individual/ group work Individual Length of assessment: 3,000 words (specifically on discussion content) Due date Week 9/ no later than 16 September 2018 11:59 pm Instructions to students General: The Harvard Style of Referencing system is COMPULSORY. See ‘Notes on Plagiarism & Harvard Referencing’ for more information. Students who have been found to have committed acts of Plagiarism are automatically considered to have failed the entire term. If found to have breached the regulation for the second time, they will be asked to leave the course. Plagiarism involves taking someone else’s words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay banks and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very seriously. Take care of your work and keep it safe. Don’t leave it lying around where your classmates can find it. Format of assessment: Cover page should include name, student number, unit number, unit name, assessment number, assessment name, and date (you can download this from Moodle) Use Arial, Calibri, or Tahoma, 10 - 12 pt. font Double spacing Double justification of text Headers and footers on all pages other than the cover page – headers and footers should contain your name and student number, the unit number and name, and a page number Failure to adhere to the stipulated format, a penalty of marks reduction would be imposed. If you have any questions about the assessment, ask your lecturer, or email to
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[email protected] M G T 3 0 7 I H R M / A S S E S S M E N T / B 1 T 2 2 0 1 8 / V 1 . 0 P a g e 2 | 4 Assessment Brief Question: Choose any organisation of your choice and as external observer of the organization undertake critical analysis of the following functions and make recommendations for improvement. HR strategies Employee development Employment relations & grievance handling Training Give appropriate recommendations based on your analysis so that it can have a positive impact on a firm’s performance. Analyse how the use of HRM practices helps organizations in achieving their goals and objectives using many relevant examples. Guidelines: Thorough literature review must be evident. Discussion on the HR practices and strategies that needs to be undertaken when environmental factors affect organizations should be evident. There must be sufficient linkage between theory and practice. Harvard style of references should be used Structure and weighting criteria of the assessment: Please ensure that your assessment has all these required sections (failure to do so would subject to a penalty of loss of marks): Official EEI Cover Sheet Must be fully completed with ‘actual’ signature (NO typed in signature allowed) Table of contents This is mandatory to highlight each series of structured headings in the assessment. Page numbering is a requirement and listing must be reflect accuracy. List of figures and/ or tables where appropriate 1.0 Introduction Choose a ‘real’ case study and provide: Weighting 1.1 Background of the company 15% 1.2 Company objectives (vision/ mission) 1.3 Current business performance 2.0 Body of discussion 2.1 HR strategies 25% 2.2 Employee development 2.3 Employment relations & grievance handling 2.4 Training Use of diagrams/ models, tables and charts 5% 3.0 Conclusion 3.1 Conclusive thoughts on case study’s practice 30% 3.2 Critical analysis in comparison with another case 3.3 Recommendations for future applications/ strategies Use of diagrams/ models, tables and charts 5% References List of references should be between fifteen (15) to twenty-five (25) sources of information and must adhere to the Harvard referencing format 20% Appendices If appropriate Total 100% M G T 3 0 7 I H R M / A S S E S S M E N T / B 1 T 2 2 0 1 8 / V 1 . 0 P a g e 3 | 4 Notes on Plagiarism & Harvard Referencing Plagiarism: Plagiarism is passing off the work of others as your own. This constitutes academic theft and is a serious matter which is penalised in assessment marking. Plagiarism is the submission of an item of assessment containing elements of work produced by another person(s) in such a way that it could be assumed to be the student’s own work. Examples of plagiarism are: The verbatim copying of another person’s work without acknowledgement The close paraphrasing of another person’s work by simply changing a few words or altering the order of presentation without acknowledgement The unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another person’s work and/or the presentation of another person’s idea(s) as one’s own. Copying or close paraphrasing with occasional acknowledgement of the source may also be deemed to be plagiarism if the absence of quotation marks implies that the phraseology is the student’s own. Plagiarised work may belong to another student or be from a published source such as a book, report, journal or material available on the internet. Harvard Referencing: The structure of a citation under the Harvard referencing system is the author's surname, year of publication, and page number or range, in parentheses, as illustrated in the Smith example near the top of this article. The page number or page range is omitted if the entire work is cited. The author's surname is omitted if it appears in the text. Thus we may say: "Jones (2001) revolutionized the field of trauma surgery." Two or three authors are cited using "and" or "&": (Deane, Smith, and Jones, 1991) or (Deane, Smith & Jones, 1991). More than three authors are cited using et al. (Deane et al. 1992). An unknown date is cited as no date (Deane n.d.). A reference to a reprint is cited with the original publication date in square brackets (Marx [1867] 1967, p. 90). If an author published two books in 2005, the year of the first (in the alphabetic order of the references) is cited and referenced as 2005a, the second as 2005b. A citation is placed wherever appropriate in or after the sentence. If it is at the end of a sentence, it is placed before the period, but a citation for an entire block quote immediately follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the quotation itself. Complete citations are provided in alphabetical order in a section following the text, usually designated as "Works cited" or "References." The difference between a "works cited" or "references" list and a bibliography is that a bibliography may include works not directly cited in the text. All citations are in the same font as the main text. Examples: Examples of book references are: Smith, J. (2005a). Dutch Citing Practices. The Hague: Holland Research Foundation. Smith, J. (2005b). Harvard Referencing. London: Jolly Good Publishing. An example of a journal reference: Smith, John Maynard. "The origin of altruism," Nature 393, 1998, pp. 639–40. An example of a newspaper reference: Bowcott, Owen. "Street Protest”, The Guardian, October 18, 2005, accessed February 7, 2006. M G T 3 0 7 I H R M / A S S E S S M E N T / B 1 T 2 2 0 1 8 / V 1 . 0 P a g e 4 | 4 Assessment Grading Criteria A ss es sm en t se ct io n s W ei g h ti n g Mediocre effort Fair effort Good effort Outstanding effort Total In tr o d u ct io n 15% Gives enough to tell what the topic is but little prioritizing Describes topic, refers to past work, what is proposed to do here As in fair effort, but shows what past work has done/not done; logical progression to topic Interesting and complex account to why this topic, what questions need to be addressed, foretaste of original contribution 1 - 3 5 - 7 9 - 11 13 - 15 B o d y o f d is cu ss io n 30% Some relevant points in descriptive lists, mainly either pro or con More relevant points drawn from literature, lists both pros and cons, but has difficulty in making a convincing case Most/all relevant points from mainstream literature; uses appropriate structure to resolve issues in convincing argument. As in good effort, but makes an original case in