7HR02 Resourcing and Talent Management to Sustain Success

Resourcing and Talent Management to Sustain Success

Assessment Principles

In your assignments at Level 7 you will be required to achieve the following:

• Systematic understanding of knowledge and techniques, and a critical awareness of problems and/or new insights in the field of study and area of professional practice.
• Originality in the application of knowledge relating to practical issues.
• Ability to make decisions about complex issues, both systematically and creatively, and justify your judgements in the absence of complete data.
• Ability to show self-direction and insight in tackling and solving problems, and in planning and implementing tasks at a professional level.
• Clarity and confidence in communicating conclusions which can influence both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Demonstrate insight in tackling and solving problems, and in planning and implementing tasks at a professional level.
• Critical reflection and a passion for learning to advance your own knowledge and understanding through independent learning and the development of new skills at a high level.
• Consistent and professional standard of presentation.

Preparation for the Tasks:

• Refer to the indicative content in the unit to guide and support your
• Ensure that the evidence generated for this assessment remains your own work.

You will also benefit from:

• Reflecting on your own experiences of learning opportunities and training and continuing professional
• Reading the CIPD Insight, Fact Sheets and related online material on these
• You should relate academic concepts, theories, and professional practice to the assessment task(s), in a critical and informed way, and with reference to key texts, articles and other publications.

Don’t forget to:

• Complete the front cover sheet, sign with a “wet signature” and place at the front of your assessment.
• Use the bullet points below each task as headings and sub-headings so your marker can see where your answer begins.

Scenario

You have been requested to critically assess the future of strategy and practice in the field of resourcing and talent management within your sector and organisation or one you are familiar with. To do this the CEO has asked you to produce a covering email and a briefing paper.

This will form a critical review on what is likely to stay the same and what is likely to change over the next ten years.

Task 1 – Email to CEO

The CEO has requested an email to understand the impact of the changing business environment on resourcing and talent management strategy and practice.

Your email must include:

• A critical analysis on current developments impacting the business environment and their significance for organisational resourcing and talent strategy and practice.
• Critically discuss potential future developments (looking at what could change over the next 10 years) in the fields of resourcing and talent management.

Your email should be well-referenced, using both academic papers/books and professional publications. All your key points of analysis and your recommendations should be persuasively justified.

Your evidence must consist of:

• Email to CEO (1,000 words)

Task 2 – Briefing Paper

Accompanying the email, the CEO has asked that you attach a briefing paper about the future of strategy and practice in the field of resourcing and talent management within your sector and organisation or one you are familiar with.  Your paper should provide a critical review on what is likely to stay the same and what is likely to change and any recommendations you may have.

Your paper should be 3,000 words in length and should be addressed to the CEO. It should focus on the three areas below:

Recruitment and Selection

You should research and critically assess current developments in job analysis, job design and competency frameworks. Once assessed, you need to evaluate effective recruitment, selection and induction methods in organisations.

You should focus your research on contemporary and alternative methods and the debates that concern these.

Workforce Planning and Employee Retention

You should analyse a minimum of two analytics to determine your chosen organisation’s talent planning and retention strategies. You should also justify measures you could bring into the organisation, designed to reduce voluntary employee turnover.

Performance Management

In this part of the briefing paper, you should critically evaluate the use of technology to monitor individual and team performance. You should consider the debates about the ethics of using technology to facilitate, monitor and predict performance at work.

Your briefing paper should be well-referenced, using both academic papers/books and professional publications. All your key points of analysis and your recommendations should be persuasively justified.