5 Assignments
As an experienced HR manager, you have been asked to produce a discussion paper to be delivered in support of a seminar at a leadership development forum. The seminar is entitled ‘The Key Changes Facing Contemporary Businesses’. In order to facilitate discussion in the right direction, your paper should cover the following two key areas:
1. BUSINESS PERFORMANCE (3.1)
· How business performance can be evaluated using ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ indicators.
· How different types of metrics, in particular HR metrics, can be used.
· Examples of how HR contributes to business planning and in a change management agenda e.g. HR as a change agent (modelling and communicating the change, engaging others and providing support).
2. BUSINESS DATA (3.2)
· An analysis of different examples of sources of business and contextual data e.g. internal information within the organisation (HR metrics such as HR costs, responsiveness, issue management, recruitment, productivity etc.)
· Also industry information e.g. trends in HR, competitive information, government information.
· An explanation of how both sets of information can be used for business and HR Planning.
· In addition to the above, in a short paragraph, briefly describe your approach to your preparation of this discussion paper.
Please also comment on how you will transfer the new knowledge and skills gained during this assignment into working practices. You may also use this reflection for your CPD.
You should also include 3-5 references from up to date and relevant sources in order to support your findings.
The whole assignment should not exceed 2000 words
You should write your own word not copy and paste (special program will detect the web answer) so please be careful