Report on Developing HR Function and Implementing Performance Management System at PineApps Ltd

Task 1: Advantages of Developing HR Function at PineApps Ltd

Read the case study below and imagine that you are the Business Adviser for the company. Write a 2,000-word report outlining your advice to the Divisional Director of PineApps Ltd on the following issues:

Task 1

Based on the academic literature, discuss and evaluate the advantages for Pine-Apps Ltd in developing their own HR function.

Task 2

A. Evaluate the role of a performance management system.

B. Explain how a performance management system can be implemented with other HR processes to improve organisational performance at Pine-Apps Ltd

A. Explain how a performance management system can be used to improve employee commitment and engagement at Pine-Apps Ltd,

B. Please identify the challenges they may face using this system and propose howthese can be overcome or managed.

Additional guidance

• You should present your work in a report format using headings and sub-headings

• Follow the structure of the assignment tasks in your report.

• Graphs and tables are accepted.

• Please place any documents, policies or similar in the appendix.

• Please submit the assignment in MS Word format.

• Please ensure that you refer to the academic literature and the case study to illustrate your answers for each task.

• Please ensure all sources are cited throughout your report. Use Harvard Referencing system

• Further details including suggested websites and resources will be on Canvas ‘Module Materials AB1 Case Study’

Weighting of the tasks

• Response to Task 1 is worth 30% of the overall grade for AS1.

• Response to Task 2 is worth 30% of the overall grade for AS1.

• Response to Task 3 is worth 30 % of the overall grade for AS1.

• Academic Conventions (i.e. structure, layout, clarity of the response) is worth 10% of the overall grade.

Please Note: When you submit you will be asked to confirm you have referred to the Submission Checklist (see Appendix 1) and the act of submitting your work electronically will be taken as an acceptance of the Declaration of Authorship (see Appendix 2).

4. Learning Outcomes for the assessment

This item of assessment covers the following learning outcomes. For the full list of learning outcomes for the module, please refer to the Module Study Guide.

• Understand and evaluate the main drivers, enablers, and barriers which are encountered in the development and implementation of successful talent management in organisations.

• Identify and evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of performance objectives at team and individual level.

Task 2: Evaluation and Implementation of Performance Management System for Organisational Performance

• Evaluate talent management policies and practices for differing contexts or industries.

1. Have you checked Canvas messages/announcements for any additional/final details of the assessment?

2. Are you submitting in the correct submission area e.g. if it is a resubmission of your second assignment it should be ‘AS2R’?

3. Make sure you are submitting the correct final version of your work.

4. Have you kept to the word limit? Remember, anything greater than 10% above the word count will not be marked.

5. Have you addressed the assessment requirements as outlined in the Assessment Brief?

6. Have you spell checked and proofread your work?

7. Is your work formatted correctly and consistently?

8. Are you submitting a document in the correct format?

9. Is your work written in an appropriate academic style?

10. Have you checked your citations and Reference List/Bibliography?

11. Have you submitted your work to get a similarity report to check you have paraphrased where required?

12. Have you read the Declaration of Authorship (Appendix 2)?

By submitting this work electronically to Bloomsbury Institute and the University of Northampton, I confirm that I have read and understood the Declaration and Definitions below: Declaration of Authorship:

1. I hold a copy of this assignment which can be produced if the original is lost/damaged.

2. This assignment is my original work and no part of it has been copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement has been made.

3. No part of this assignment has been written for me by any other person except where such collaboration has been authorised and as detailed in the Assessment Brief.

4. I have not previously submitted this work for any other course/module.

5. Where applicable, I have included a declaration confirming external editorial or proof-reading services (see Appendix 3).

Definitions

I understand that:

1. Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is one’s own. It is a form of cheating and is a serious academic offence which may lead to expulsion. Plagiarised material can be drawn from, and presented in, written, graphic and visual form, including electronic data, and oral presentations. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the material used is not appropriately cited.

2. Collusion is working with someone else on an assessment task which is intended to be wholly your own work.

3. Contract cheating/Commissioning is where you contract out an academic assessment to writers and purchase back the finished work and submit it as your own.

4. Duplication/Replication is submitting the same material more than once for the purposes of obtaining academic credit.

5. Fabrication refers specifically to the falsification of data, information or citations in an academic exercise, typically an assignment. This includes false excuses for missing deadlines and false claims to have submitted work. It may be specifically referred to as falsification.

6. My completed assignment is submitted and checked for plagiarism through the use of plagiarism detection software called Turnitin