Practice Assessments for Human Resource Manager Role

Formative Assessment for Case Study 1

Practice (Formative) Assessments are designed to test your progress and provide you with feedback to help you improve your Final (Summative) Assessment answers.  Read the case study below and complete the task below by sending your report to your tutor for marking. 

You are the newly appointed Human Resource Manager in your organisation. The Managing Director has tasked you with making an immediate impact on the business by improving the employment relationship in order to enhance business performance.

You have decided that the best approach to this task would be to carry out both an internal and an external analysis on the organisation. 

Prepare a brief report to the Managing Director outlining the findings of your analyses that are the key factors impacting directly on the employment relationship.

Practice (Formative) Assessments are designed to test your progress and provide you with feedback to help you improve your Final (Summative) Assessment answers.  Read the case study below and complete the task below by sending your report to your tutor for marking. 

Your proposals for improvement to work-life balance have been received positively and you have settled in well to your new role as the Human Resource Manager.

The early positive impact you have made has resulted in you gaining respect from most employees who now feel safe in discussing with you very personal matters that previously they would not have disclosed. They have also made you aware that they do not feel comfortable discussing personal issues with their line managers.

These discussions with individual employees have revealed the recurring theme that many employees do not feel that they are being treated fairly and there are suggestions that discrimination is a frequent occurrence. 

You are fully aware of the important role of line managers in ensuring fairness and equality in the workplace and have decided that the best approach is for you to facilitate a workshop for line managers.

Prepare a short presentation that highlights the business benefits of promoting a climate of fairness and equality in the workplace

Practice (Formative) Assessments are designed to test your progress and provide you with feedback to help you improve your Final (Summative) Assessment answers.  Read the case study below and complete the task below by sending your report to your tutor for marking. 

You are now firmly established in your role as Human Resource Manager and have managed to make several positive improvements in the day to day operational aspects of people management.

You have now turned your attention to the strategic aspect of your role and have begun to review the organisation’s key policies and procedures. An immediate issue you have uncovered is that many policies and procedures are out of date and in urgent need of updating. In particular, the redundancy procedure requires to be completely re-written.

Task: prepare a brief that outlines a good practice process for the managing of a redundancy situation.

Supporting Good Practice in Managing Employment Relations (3MER)

When you have completed your assignment, please submit it below and remember to include your cover sheet as page one, with all information including the candidate declaration. Without this information your assignment cannot be marked.

This assignment is designed to assess the following learning outcomes:

1. Understand the impact of employment law at the start of the employment relationship

2. Understand the main individual rights that the employee has during the employment relationship

3. Understand the issues to address at the termination of the employment relationship.

Please complete the following case study (600 words)

Oxford City Council employs a number of tour guides to take visitors around the city. It employs 20 tour guides on permanent contracts, working all year round. In addition, it employs up to 50 tour guides on a casual basis through the summer months. These tour guides are offered a number of tours each week, depending on the bookings that the council has received. The tour guides can refuse to do any tours, and Oxford City Council has no obligation to offer a minimum amount of work.

1. What do you think will be the main internal and external factors impacting on the employment relationships with the two different groups of tour guides? (give at least two internal and two external factors)

2. Explain the different employment status of the two groups of tour guides. Identify one other type of employment status.

3. Why does the different employment status matter? (give at least three reasons).