...Unit title Level Credit value Unit code Unit review date Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources 31 4 3HRC Sept. 2011 Purpose and aim of unit This core unit provides an introduction to the role of human resources and learning and development (HR/L&D) within an organisation and the environmental context. By the end of this unit the learner will have developed their understanding of how HR activities support an organisation’s strategy and assist the achievement of business objectives and how these are shaped by internal and external factors. This unit is suitable for persons who: are aspiring to, or embarking on, a career in HR/L&D are working in the field of HR/L&D in a support role and wish to develop their knowledge and skills have responsibility for HR/L&D activities and decisions within an organisation without a specialist function are employees or independent consultants within the field of HR/L&D wish to understand the role of HR/L&D in the wider, organisational and environmental context. Learning outcomes On completion of this unit, learners will: 1 Understand the purpose of an organisation and its operating environment. 2 Understand the structure, culture and functions of an organisation. 3 Understand how HR activities support an organisation. 1 Equivalents in Ireland = 5; Scotland = 6 CIPD unit 3HRC - Version 2 - 17.03.10 1 Unit content Indicative content is provided for each of the learning...
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...Understanding Organisations and the role of Human Resources The author of this assignment will describe his findings on how HR activities in an organisation support a organisations strategy and how they assist the achievement of business objectives in a modern world through internal and external factors. An organisation will encounter all kinds of problems and can be affected by culture, size, law and many others. By looking at these factors a person can understand how Human resources and Learning and development can help to ensure an organisation will survive in its environment. According to Shein.E (1988) Organisational Psychology in: Mullins.L (1985) Management and Organisational Behaviour a pitman publishing imprint “a formal organisation is the planned co-ordination of the activities of a number of people for the achievement of some common, explicit purpose or goal, through division of labour and function, and through a hierarchy of authority and responsibility.” The purpose of (company name ) Is to forward customers tangible goods to (company Name) to build cars, to become globally recognised and to be the most dominant and profitable supplier of third party logistics service to the chosen clients by offering standards of excellence unachievable by competitors. A Swot analysis quoted by Mullins.L (1985) Management and organisational Behaviour Financial Times Pitman Publishing Imprint “can offer a number of potential...
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...Certificate in HR Practice Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources (3HRC) Assessment Method – Observed Presentation and Report to the Board Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the purpose of an organisation and its operating environment 2. Understand the structure, culture and functions of an organisation 3. Understand how HR/L&D activities support an organisation Both activities should be completedActivity 1A new manager is starting in the organisation shortly. Your HR department has been asked to provide a ten minute presentation that will give the manager some understanding of the organisation in preparation for their start. The presentation may be made one-to-one or to a larger group and should be observed by your tutor.The information you provide should include: * the purpose and goals of the organisation * a list of what the organisation produces or the services that it offers to its customers * an identification of the main customers * an analysis of 4 external factors and their impact on the business activities of an organisation * the structure of the organisation that includes at least 4 functions * an explanation of how these different functions work together within the organisation to optimise performance * an identification of the culture of the organisation and at least 2 ways this affects operationsActivity 2Your Executive Directors are proposing to reduce the size of the HR section, or even close the function...
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...3HRC F302B (HR) CIPD Assessment Activity Template |Title of unit/s |Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources | |Unit No/s |3HRC (HR) | |Level |Foundation | |Credit value |4 | |Assessment method |Observation, Written | |Learning outcomes: | |Understand the purpose of an organisation and its operating environment | |Understand the structure, culture and functions of an organisation | |Understand how HR/L&D activities support an organisation | |Both activities should be completed |Assessment Criteria | | ...
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...September 2004 1 Introduction 1 2 Purpose of this guide 2 3 Key elements of workforce planning programs 2 4 Implementation guidelines 3 4.1 Consider the broader context 3 4.2 Identify your future business direction and workforce needs 4 4.3 Know your current workforce 6 4.4 Bridge the gap – identify and address your workforce issues 8 4.5 Provide a sound basis for effective implementation 9 5 WORKFORCE PLANNING CHECKLIST 10 5.1 Key considerations for effective workforce planning 10 6 UNDERPINNING KNOWLEDGE FOR WORKFORCE PLANNING 12 Introduction Workforce planning is the continuous process of ensuring that the right people are in the right place at the right time, in order to accomplish the organisation’s mission now and into the future. Its fundamental purpose is to align and integrate the organisation’s workforce with its strategic goals and objectives. The degree to which the organisation has the appropriate skills, the correct numbers and the right talent mix to achieve its mission in a dynamic external environment will be crucial to its continued success. It is also about the sound management of human capital processes, including recruitment, retention, development, redeployment, and retirement planning for minimal loss of knowledge. Workforce planning can assist TAFE Institutes anticipate the staffing and skill requirements of the changing VET environment. This is essential if the TAFE sector...
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...Qualification Unit number and title Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma Business Unit 1: Business Environment Learner name Assessor name Nour Hawarneh Date issued Completion date Submitted on Nov 08, 2015 Jan 18, 2016 Assignment title Your company’s environment LO2 LO3 Assessment Criteria In this assessment you will have the opportunity to present evidence that shows you are able to: 1.1 organisational purposes of businesses Identify the purposes of different types of organisation 1 1.2 Describe the extent to which an organisation meets the objectives of different stakeholders 1 1.3 LO1 Learning outcome Understand the Learning Outcom e Explain the responsibilities of an organisation and strategies employed to meet them 2.1 Explain how economic systems attempt to allocate resources effectively 2 2.2 Assess the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on business organisations and their activities Evaluate the impact of competition policy and other regulatory mechanisms on the activities of a selected organisation 2 Understand the nature of the national environment in which businesses operate Understand the behaviour for oganisations in their market environment 2.3 3.1 LO4 2 Illustrate the way in which market forces shape organisational responses using a range of examples Judge how the business and cultural environments shape the behaviour of a selected organisation 3.3 Be able to assess the significance of the global factors that shape national business...
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...HNC Business Student Name: Claire Broughton Student Number: 30272054 Unit Title: Business Environment (Unit 1) Unit Leader: Nigel Groser Understanding the Business Environment Date of Submission: 15/11/2015 Word Count: 4342 Introduction The purpose of this report is to demonstrate an understanding of the business environment. Research into the John Lewis Partnership PLC will be utilised to show an understanding of the organisational purposes of businesses and the nature of the national environment in which businesses operate. The report will also address the behaviour of organisations in their market environment as well showing the significance of the global factors that shape national business activities. Section 1 1.1 Types of Organisation The John Lewis Partnership was founded in 1929 by John Spedan Lewis; the eldest of two sons whose father, John Lewis, had opened the first John Lewis store in 1864 in Oxford. Spedan Lewis has a unique approach to business in that the happiness of the employees was at the centre of his mind. He began to set up new practices such as a third weeks paid holiday, shorter working days, a staff committee and an in-house magazine, the Gazette, which is still published today. By 1914, these rather dramatic and forward-thinking adjustments to the staff working conditions were causing conflict between Spedan Lewis and his father, who was alarmed at such changes. This conflict resulted in Spedan Lewis withdrawing his active involvement with...
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...|Unit Title: |Unit No:1 |Date Issued | |Business Environment | |Week beginning 11/02/13 | |Student Name |Student ID |Due Date – 03/06/13 | |Lecturer Name: Ibrahim kevin, Sujata,& Issac |Internal Verifier Name | | |Mr. M. Azam | Rules and regulations: |Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes: copying information directly from the Web or books without | |referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from| |another student and submitting it as your own work. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be dealt | |with according to the procedures set down by the College. Please see your student handbook for further details of what is / isn’t plagiarism.| Coursework Regulations 1. Submission of coursework must be undertaken according to the relevant procedure – whether online or paper-based. Lecturers will give information as to which procedure must be followed, and details of submission procedures and penalty fees can be obtained...
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...CIPD ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION DECLARATION To be completed by candidate: |Centre name: |ACACIA LEARNING | | |Candidate name: |Suzanne Averis | | |CIPD Qualification undertaken: | |CIPD Membership No: |44402910 |Unit code(s): |3HRC (HR) | |Unit title(s): |Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources | |Unit tutor: |Janine Waldman | |Date due for assessment: |2/9/15 |Date submitted: |11/8/15 | |Word Count: | | |State number of word used |2194 | |Candidate declaration: ...
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...EC staff consolidated version as of 21 June 2012, FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY EN – EU IFRS 8 International Financial Reporting Standard 8 Operating Segments Core principle 1 An entity shall disclose information to enable users of its financial statements to evaluate the nature and financial effects of the business activities in which it engages and the economic environments in which it operates. Scope 2 This IFRS shall apply to: (a) the separate or individual financial statements of an entity: (i) (ii) (b) whose debt or equity instruments are traded in a public market (a domestic or foreign stock exchange or an over-the-counter market, including local and regional markets), or that files, or is in the process of filing, its financial statements with a securities commission or other regulatory organisation for the purpose of issuing any class of instruments in a public market; and the consolidated financial statements of a group with a parent: (i) whose debt or equity instruments are traded in a public market (a domestic or foreign stock exchange or an over-the-counter market, including local and regional markets), or (ii) that files, or is in the process of filing, the consolidated financial statements with a securities commission or other regulatory organisation for the purpose of issuing any class of instruments in a public market. 3 If an entity that is not required to apply this IFRS chooses to disclose information...
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...2 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS - A BROAD DEFINITION 2 3 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 2 4 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 2 4.1 Industry Attractiveness 3 4.2 Porters Five Forces Model 3 4.3 Industry Dynamics 4 5 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS OF MARUTI SUZUKI 4 6 MARUTI SUZUKI’S INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 4 6.1 Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and threats 4 6.2 Maruti Suzuki Broad Environmental Forces 5 7 INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS OF MARUTI SUZUKI 5 7.1 Bargaining power of customers: High 5 7.2 Bargaining power of suppliers: Medium 6 7.3 Existing competitors (rivalry’s): High 6 7.4 Threat of new entrants: Increase 6 7.5 Substitute Providers: Increasing 6 8 CONCLUSION 7 9 DECLARATION STATEMENT 8 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this document is to critically explain what is meant by Industry analysis in context of the External environment. I will also analyse the attractiveness of the industry in which Maruti Suzuki is operating in. The analysis will be based on Porters Five Forces model which will comprise of looking at the power of buyers (Customers), the power of suppliers, existing competitors, potential competitors (threat of new entrants) and substitute providers (substitute products or services). 2 INDUSTRY ANALYSIS - A BROAD DEFINITION Osmond Vitez defines an industry analysis as a business function that is used to help organisations understand the market they are competing in and how this understanding can be used to gain a competitive advantage. (Definition...
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...Table of Contents Introduction 2 External Environment: laying the foundations 2 Task Environment 3 General Environment 4 Non-Profit vs. For-Profit: perspectives on competition 5 Environment Characteristics 6 Opportunity or Threat? 8 Conclusion 8 References 10 Introduction “No organization can exist in a vacuum” (“Key forces in the external environment, Chapter 3”, n.d.). To a certain extent all types of organisations; whether private or public services, governmental bodies or charitable groups, are subject to and influenced by specific environmental factors. In this day and age with many existing classes of organisations utilising different approaches to management, there is a feasible assumption that a common change in the organisational environment may likely affect two separate organisations diversely. This response will identify how the environment directly impacts organisations, in relation to leadership roles and organisational performance. For the purpose of comparison, the point of focus will revolve around two major classes of organisations namely; ‘profitable’ verses ‘not-for-profit’ groups. The primary aim of this paper is to construct a foundational view of the external environment from a manager’s perspective. Theoretical key principles discussed will attempt to identify with the following statement - “In comparison to profitable groups; not-for-profit groups possess a different...
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...External Environment Table of Contents Introduction 2 External Environment: laying the foundations 2 Task Environment 3 General Environment 4 Non-Profit vs. For-Profit: perspectives on competition 5 Environment Characteristics 6 Opportunity or Threat? 8 Conclusion 8 References 10 Introduction “No organization can exist in a vacuum” (“Key forces in the external environment, Chapter 3”, n.d.). To a certain extent all types of organisations; whether private or public services, governmental bodies or charitable groups, are subject to and influenced by specific environmental factors. In this day and age with many existing classes of organisations utilising different approaches to management, there is a feasible assumption that a common change in the organisational environment may likely affect two separate organisations diversely. This response will identify how the environment directly impacts organisations, in relation to leadership roles and organisational performance. For the purpose of comparison, the point of focus will revolve around two major classes of organisations namely; ‘profitable’ verses ‘not-for-profit’ groups. The primary aim of this paper is to construct a foundational view of the external environment from a manager’s perspective. Theoretical key principles discussed will attempt to identify with the following statement - “In comparison to profitable groups; not-for-profit groups possess a different degree of vulnerability...
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...Management needs relevant information to control and make decisions. *Relevant information implies information which; a) Increases knowledge ; b) Reduces uncertainty; and c) Is usable for the intended purpose. Information Classification How can you classify information? It depends on the level of the information and how one is looking at it. Information may be classified by; A. Source; e.g. Internal, External, Primary and Secondary. B. Level; e.g. Strategic, Tactical and Operational. C. Time; e.g. Historical, Present and Future. D. Frequency; e.g. Daily, Monthly and Continuous (Real-time) E. Form; e.g. Written, Visual and Oral. DATA AND INFORMATION DEFINED 1. DATA : a. Raw facts b. Unprocessed facts c. Unorganised facts Definition: Data; Are recorded bits and pieces of facts related to a given transaction Working Definition; Data; Are bits and pieces of facts about a given business transaction or event which have been recorded. Are bits and pieces of facts from the input raw materials from which information is produced. 2. INFORMATION • Is data that have been processed in such a way as to be useful to the user. Note: it is vital for the producer of information to be aware of the user’s requirements, education, position in the organisation and context in which the information will be used in order to increase the likelihood of information being derived from messages or reports. THE VALUE OF GOOD INFORMATION Information is considered to be...
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...------------------------------------------------- Name: Sarah Kearsley ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Centre Name: ICS ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ICS Student Number: 21000543 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- CIPD Student Number: 44235175 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Qualification Title: Human Resource Practise ------------------------------------------------- Unit Title: Understanding Organisations and the Role of Human Resources (3HRC) ------------------------------------------------- Unit Code: 40552A ------------------------------------------------- Assignment Number: 1 ------------------------------------------------- Candidate declaration: ------------------------------------------------- ‘I confirm that the work/evidence presented for assessment is my own unaided work.’ ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- I have read the assessment regulations and understand that if I am found to have ‘copied’ from published work without acknowledgement, or from other candidate’s work, this may be regarded as plagiarism which is an offence against the assessment regulations and leads to failure in the relevant unit...
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