...Aims: To examine issues and developments in the field of contemporary human resource management (HRM). To develop an understanding of the complex issues facing human resource (HR) specialists and line managers in meeting their responsibilities for selecting, deploying, training, appraising, rewarding, relating to and retaining human resources. Learning Outcomes: On completing the module, students are expected to be able to: • Explain the contribution of the HR function to corporate strategy; • Discuss the processes of recruitment, assessment and selection; • Outline activities involved in developing human resources and facilitating learning; • Explain the link between rewards, motivation and performance; • Critically evaluate the changing employment relationship, assessing the role of trade unions and other forms of employee involvement. Module Content: • History of the HR function, theories and models of HRM; • The roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in HRM; • The changing nature of work, managing diversity, technology and flexibility; • Human resourcing: recruitment and selection, human resource planning; • Reward and performance management; • Employee relations, employment legislation, the legal framework for unionism; • Human resource development; managing learning, knowledge and change; • The integration of HR and corporate strategy. Teaching Format: One 2-hour lecture per week; ...
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...process of preparing to write an academic paper. The aim is to devise a plan of how I intend to approach the second assignment and a justification of how and why I have chosen the individual topic relating to the key issues HR managers face will be made clear. In addition a brief summary of the elements, focuses and arguments that are to be covered in the individual paper will be looked at. The structure, draft of the introduction of the final paper and an evaluation assessing my progress so far will be embodied. 2. Background This briefing paper is essential because it clearly presents the process that I will undergo to complete the individual paper, it will provide guidance, advice and include specific resources. I will critically analyze the key issues HR managers face with reference to managing job design and flexibility and how HR managers could address the issues mentioned. This valued topic has been chosen because well managed job design increases the value of the position to the organization, engages the worker and reduces individual and organizational risk. It is substantial because it leads to greater organizational effectiveness and efficiency as well as better results from employees. The areas I will cover in this paper include various approaches to job design and flexible working and how they affect employee motivation, the implications to new ways of working, the psychological contract and the impact they appoint. 3. Findings 4.1 What is the assignment...
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...RESEARCH DETAIL TITLE : Effectiveness and Appropriateness of Therapeutic Play Intervention in Preparing Children for Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study. RESEARCHER: 1. Cheung Li, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Studies, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. 2. Violeta Lopez, PhD, is a Professor and Head of School, School of Nursing (NSW and ACT), Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, NSW, Australia. SUBMITTED DATE : January 25, 2007 ACCEPTED DATE FOR PUBLICATION : July 21, 2007 PUBLISHED DATE : April, 2008 JOURNAL : Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing INTRODUCTION It can be observed today that nursing is a dynamic profession,both internally and externally due to constant change occurring in the profession. As a dynamic profession, nursing is responsive and is adapting to meets the needs of patients and the public.Nursing is a practice discipline, which is dependant upon a high level of professionalism,ethics and human values that demand for intellect, skills and a high sense of social responsibility.The knowledge and essential skill that increased dramatically make nurses leading and developing new services in health care delivery. Nurses roles and resposibilities will continue to change in line with the health reforms that are improving care for patients.Therefore, nurses need to be encouraged...
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...--4 3. Methodology used in research----------------------------------------------------7 4. Expected results--------------------------------------------------------------------8 5. Conclusion---------------------------------------------------------------------------9 6. Reference----------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Introduction United Kingdom is a region with a large population. Also with the high diversity of the population, people tend to have different culture backgrounds. Walking along the streets in NTIC, you might find yourself in another Europe city as there is a large amount of African, Chinese, Indian and some people from other culture backgrounds. So this issue leads to the research which the author wants to dig in, will they really get along well with each other with different culture backgrounds or are they really that different? Also the author has set three objectives as followed which this research needs to complete. Objectives: 1. Find out does the cultural differences exist or not. 2. Analyse the main reason that is causing the cultural differences. 3. Find a way to improve the misunderstanding of cultural differences if it does exist. Literature Review The so-called “culture” is defined as those people who live in a same environment and they are sharing the same “common psychological procedures”. Moreover, culture is not just how this individual characteristic acts...
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...Professional Development: Critiquing Research The ability to critique (critically analyse and evaluate) research from both the qualitative and quantitative paradigms is an essential skill for occupational therapists. It is this skill, integrated with expertise gained from clinical practice that underpins evidence based practice (EBP). Although there are many definitions of EBP, Muir Gray (1997) defines it as “an approach to decision making in which the clinician uses the best evidence available, in consultation with the patient, to decide upon the option which suits the patient best." The purpose of this assignment is to enable the development of skills in critical analysis by critiquing a research article, which will contribute to further development of knowledge and skills in using EBP in clinical settings. A framework developed by Hek and Moule (2006) (see pages 3- ) has been used to guide the critique of a research article. A framework was used as Caldwell et al (2010 pg e1) argue that “ frameworks assist the novice healthcare practitioner with learning about approaches to research by giving consideration to aspects of the similarities and differences between the qualitative and quantitative research paradigms.” This framework was chosen as it is comprehensive and covers points/questions raised during the critiquing process, although it is important to remember that it is not a definitive checklist and other...
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...Assignment: Learner information OCR Level 3 Health and Social Care Unit 4: Development through the life stages Assessor: Important Dates | |Assessment Criteria |Issue Date |Formative Assessment |Summative Assessment | |Task 1 |P1, M1 |17th December 2012 |10th January 2013 |17th January 2013 | |Task 2 |P2, P3, M2, D1 |7th January 2013 |17th January 2013 |28th January 2013 | |Task 3 |P4, P5, M3,D2 |14th January 2013 |28th January 2013 |4th February 2013 | CANDIDATE NAME: General Information for Learners Q Do I have to pass this assignment? A Yes. You must pass this assignment to achieve the full qualification. Q What help will I get? A Your tutor will help you when completing the OCR assignment and will make sure that you know what resources/facilities you need and are allowed to use. Q What if I don’t understand something? A It is your responsibility to read the assignment carefully and make sure you understand what you need to do and what you should hand in. If you are not sure, check with your tutor. Q Can I copy other people’s work? A No. The work that you produce...
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...PY1101 – Writing in Psychology APA 6th Edition “HOW TO” GUIDE In Psychology, we use the formatting guidelines as set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 6th Edition. This is a starter guide to the APA formatting guidelines. This guide is not all-inclusive, but will help get you started for your first assignment. Burton’s ‘An interactive approach to writing essays and research reports in Psychology’ is the best guide to help you with APA formatting and referencing. There are other resources online and in the library also. Setting up the Format You need to consider all aspects of the format of the document. The easiest thing to do is to adjust your ‘default’ settings in Microsoft Word to the following: • Font = Times New Roman, Size 12 • This is non-negotiable • Line Spacing = double – everywhere (including the References) • Page Numbers = upper right corner • Title page should have a page number • Margins = 2.54cm (top, bottom, left & right) Headings |Level of Heading |Format | |1 |Centred, Boldface, Upper and Lowercase Heading | |2 |Flush Left, Boldface, Upper and Lowercase Heading | |3 | Indented,...
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...Quakers began providing accommodation and education for their workers (Wilton, 2011). This marked the initial shift in the nature of the employment relationship, and drawing on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs it can be seen that this would help satisfy the two basic tiers of ‘psychological’ and ‘safety’ (Maslow, 1954). This essay aims to critically evaluate the concept of the psychological contract, then analyse why in managing the modern day employment relationship and understanding of the psychological contract is important, relevant theories and academic models will be used where appropriate. The question will be addressed in three sections; firstly the concept and history of the psychological contract will be briefly covered, secondly and critical focus will be shown towards the concept of the contract, and finally we will examine the practicality of utilising the contract to manage the contemporary employment relationship. The concept of the psychological contract was initially termed and documented by Chris Argyris in 1960 (Argyris, 1960), later being described as “A set of unwritten reciprocal expectations between an individual employee and organisation” (Schein, 1978, p. 48). Blau suggests that the psychological contract uses social...
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...PGBM30 APPLIED RESEARCH METHODS ASSIGNMENT WORD LIMIT: 3000 words Issue Date: Friday 9th September 2011 Hand in date: Thursday 3rd November 2011 Suppose you were asked to investigate how to raise employee engagement in an organisation as an instrument for facilitating high level business objectives. Prepare a report outlining how you would carry out this research and justifying the approach you would take. Your report should include:- *your research aims and objectives-these should be written in M level language using bullet points. The research aims should be written using phrases such as ‘to critically review’, ‘to analyse’, ‘to investigate’, etc. *a brief critical review of the key academic sources you would use, outlining the main issues raised by these sources and how they support your aims and objectives. Do not just describe the literature! *an explanation of, and justification for, the research methodology you would use. In particular, what primary data would you want to collect and how would you collect this data? *an explanation of the methods of data analysis you would use. *an outline of any ethical issues involved. *an outline of the limitations to your research. There is NO requirement to collect primary data for this assignment. Do not collect or analyse primary data. DO outline what primary data you would need and how you would collect this data. Harter, J.K., Schmidt, F.L. and Hayes, T.L. (2002) ‘Business-unit level relationship...
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...A critical review of Basford & Offermann 2012, "Beyond leadership: The impact of coworker relationships on employee motivation and intent to stay", Journal of Management and Organization, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 807-817. Relationships between coworkers have a great influence in people’s lives. While the importance of interpersonal relationships is widely supported by psychological literature, the specific impact of relationships between coworkers has been carried out by too few studies. The present study of Basford & Offermann (2012) was aimed to put an addition to the small but growing interest of researchers on coworker relations. Basford & Offermann (2012) conducted the research to study whether positive employees outcomes may derive from good peer relationship, while negative outcomes obtain from poor coworker relationships. The major aim of this research was to investigate the impact of coworker relationships on the two specific outcomes - employee motivation and intent to stay. In this article, it was comprised of two main parts. First, the examination of whether the relationships of coworkers could, beyond supervisor and senior manager support, become a unique influence on other employees’ motivation and intent to stay. Three relationships, namely supervisory versus coworker relationships, importance of coworker relationships and concurrent examination of coworker and supervisory relationships were taken into examination. Second, the test of the generalization...
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...|Analysing an Essay Question | 1. Introduction Common criteria of undergraduate essay writing focus on the following requirements: students need to be analytical and critical in their response students need to structure their writing logically students need to be persuasive writers | students need to answer the question | This booklet looks at, how to analyse your essay question. Other Learning Centre booklets in this series deal with the other aspects: • Analytical Writing deals with the difference between analytical and descriptive writing • Planning and Structuring an Essay deals with logical structures • Developing and Supporting an Argument deals with persuasion Expectations of student assignments One of the difficulties experienced by students, particularly in first year, is understanding what standard is expected in essays at tertiary level. As well as this, each subject discipline has its own ways of doing things and its own conventions about essay structure and writing style. For instance, in some subjects it is acceptable to write very personally and put forward your own opinions and feelings on a topic and in others such a personal response would not be appropriate. You need to find out the expectations and conventions...
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...ASSIGNMENT –BMNV 5103 1 JANUARY SEMESTER 2015 BMNV5103 NEW VENTURE DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE: The assignment is intended to foster the following objectives: a. Improving your critical thinking and application skills. b. Identifying various sources of financing and skills management for different stages and types of new ventures. c. Conducting a brief research and case study analysis on how a new venture acquires and fulfils its business needs and preferences within different stages of its business operation. d. Combining knowledge from other courses with the new material presented in the course to develop sophisticated analyses and solutions to pursuing business solutions in today’s fast-paced, global, and highly competitive macro environment. INSTRUCTIONS: Read the case below and answer ALL questions. Then, select a business franchise (franchisor or franchisee) as a case for analysis The Malaysian National Franchise Development Blueprint 2012-2016, states that the Malaysian Government intends to increase the number of franchisors from the current number of 492 in 2010 to 650 by the year 2014 and the number of franchisees from 4,838 in 2010 to 6,050 by the year 2014. Meanwhile, the government would like to see the total franchise sales to GDP, to increase from 2.2 percent in 2010 to 3.3 percent by the year 2014. In terms of franchise employment to total national employment, it contributed 0.9 percent in 2010 and this figure is expected to rise to...
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...the retention of information. This essay examines three research papers on effectiveness of self-testing...
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...1) Ethical and conceptual issues Current research and research results It is increasingly recognized that within many areas (e.g., disability and handicap), conceptual issues and ethical issues about proper conduct and underlying values are highly intergrated. The treatment of ethical and policy issues depends on the content of the concepts employed and, at the same time, many central concepts are informed by moral opinions and, as a result, contested on ethical grounds. Taking this intergration of conceptual and ethical issues seriously from a research point of view requires that they are very strongly interconnected, i.e. mere studies of the way in which concepts are in fact informed by moral opinions and social values is not siffucient. Outright normative analyses of underlying ethical views need to underpin suggestions with regard to the way in which central concepts should be employed in policy contexts. This has been recognised in research on the basic ethical issue of what should be seen as the basic determinant of the quality of life or well-being (Brülde 1998, 2006), as well as research on applied ethics of relevance for disability (Brülde 2003; Munthe 1996, 1999; Juth 2005; Juth & Munthe 2006), and concepts such as happiness, health, illness, and mental disorder (Brülde 2000, 2006a, 2006b). Research on several of the conceptual issues has demonstrated how they are strongly connected to ethical problems related to health care policies and public health practices...
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...Reflective Report: An analysis of Everest Simulations | Evaluating experiences | Joey Lai z3332966 | Executive Summary: This report is a reflection of the experiences of the two Everest Simulations, examining and analysing the individual’s actions and their role and the impact it has on the group. The discussion then incorporates theories of communication, leadership and organisational structure to compare and critically analyse the results of the simulations and determine the overall success of the team. The report will also analyse the changes and evaluate the impact past experience had on the decisions and results on the second simulation. Further the processes of interaction will be evaluated to determine its effectiveness, partially attributing our failure in the first simulation to poor communication and preparation. Table of Contents Executive Summary 0.0 Introduction 3 1.0 Preparation for Simulation One 3 2.1 Delegation of roles 4 2.0 Simulation One 4 3.2 Examining the medium of communication 4 3.3 Examining our roles 5 3.4 Discussion process 5-6 3.5 Simulation One results 6 3.0 Team Contract 6-7 4.0 Simulation Two: Adherence to Team contract 7 5.6 Leadership style 7-8 5.0 Comparing Results 8 6.0 Analysing Changes 8-9 7.0 Conclusion 9 8.0 Bibliography 9-10 9.0 Appendix ...
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