HRM513

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Guideline for the Assessment Manage

Workforce Planning BSBHRM513

Assessment Task 1: Written questions

Submit

• Answers to all 14 questions.

Explain: when a question asks you to explain something, you should make clear how

or why something happened or the way it is. Generally, you are expected to write a

response two or three sentences long.

List: when a question asks you to list something, this means that you are asked to

briefly state information in a list format.

Outline: when a question asks you to outline something, this means giving only the

main points, Generally, you are expected to write a response a few sentences long- two

or three sentences long.

Describe: when a question asks you to describe something, you should state the most noticeable qualities or features. Generally, you are expected to write a response two or three sentences long.

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Assessment Task 2

Task summary

This assessment task requires you conduct research and develop a workforce plan for King

Edward VII College. You will also be required to communicate the rationale for, as well as

objectives of, the plan to the CEO.

Submit

• Email with Workforce Action Plan attached

• Email with Revised Workforce Action Plan attached

1. Develop a workforce action plan.

See a separate guideline for workforce action plan

2. Send an email to the CEO (your assessor).

The text of the email should be in grammatically correct English, written in an

appropriate (polite, business-like) style.

It should introduce and summarise the contents of the attachment, seek their

feedback and for the place, date and time of a meeting to discuss it.

Attach your workforce action plan to the email.

3. Meet with the CEO to establish agreement on workforce action plan.

This part of the assessment requires you to meet with the CEO (roleplayed by your

assessor) to discuss the workforce plan you have developed and seek their input.

4. Revise the Workforce Action Plan.

Update your Workforce Action Plan, incorporating the CEO’s feedback from

the meeting.

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Name this document Revised Workforce Action Plan.

5. Send an email to the CEO (your assessor).

The text of the email should be in grammatically correct English, written in an

appropriate (polite, business-like) style.

It should introduce and summarise the meeting and the contents of the attachment,

and seek their approval.

Attach your revised workforce action plan to the email.

6. Send an email to all staff (your assessor).

The final part of the assessment requires to you send your final Workforce Action

Plan to the CEO and to all staff.

Assume that this is part of your strategy to assisting staff to deal with organisational

change so you should ensure that you clearly communicate

1) the benefits of the Workforce Action Plan and

2) summarise changes that will occur (relate to the needs gap to be filled).

Attach your Final Workforce Action Plan to the email.

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Assessment Task 3

Task summary

In this assessment task, you are required to review initiatives in the Workforce Plan for King

Edward VII College relating to recruitment and diversity. You will also assist the College in

being recognized as an employer of choice, and implement the required actions.

Submit

• Email with updated Recruitment, Selection and Induction Policy and Procedures

• Email with Diversity Calendar

1. Update Recruitment, Selection and Induction Policy and Procedures to increase

diversity.

Review the scenario information above, as well as the Recruitment, Selection

and Induction Policy and Procedures for King Edward VII College.

Use the internet to research best practice for increasing diversity through

improved recruitment and selection practices.

Update the recruitment, selection and induction policy and procedure to reflect

best practice procedures for increasing diversity in recruitment and selection.

Student only needs to add at least a step to ensure of diversity in the procedure.

The diversity can be any dimension and do some online research on ‘increase

diversity through recruitment practices’.

2. Send an email to the CEO (your assessor).

The text of the email should be in grammatically correct English, written in an

appropriate (polite, business-like) style.

Email body:

1) introduce and summarise the contents of the attachment.

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2) outline the importance of diversity in recruitment and selection as well as

key changes that you have made to the Policy and Procedures.

Attach your Updated Recruitment, Selection and Induction Policy and Procedures

to the email.

3. Develop a diversity calendar for 2020.

Review the scenario information above.

Research important dates for diversity and cultural events occurring in 2020 in

Sydney.

Use Google search to do it. Key words: diversity and cultural events occurring

in 2020 in Sydney.

Identify at least 6 important dates and develop a calendar of events. For each

event, identify how the College will celebrate that day or event.

Your calendar may be developed in any format, as long as it addresses the above

content requirements.

No. Diversity and cultural events

occurring in 2020 in Sydney.

How the College will celebrate

that day or event

1 NAIDOC Week

(National Aborigines and Islanders

Day Observance Committee.)

Invite a guest speaker

Or

A food event using Indigenous

ingredients

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4. Send an email to King Edward VII College staff (your assessor).

The text of the email should be in grammatically correct English, written in an

appropriate (polite, business-like) style.

1) introduce and summarise the contents of the attachment.

2) should explain the purpose of the calendar and advising staff to note the

dates in their calendar.

Attach your diversity calendar to the email.

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Assessment Task 4

5. Implement succession planning program.

Review the Role Competencies Statement.

Develop a career development plan for Jackie using the Career Development Plan Template.

The opportunities that you identify for Jackie should include a range of opportunities, including

job assignments that develop a candidate’s competencies, coaching and mentoring and

formal training.

The career development plan you develop should include at least six opportunities to be

completed over the upcoming 12 months.

Student needs to look at the Role Competencies Statement to identify the knowledge and

skills gap where you could come up with 6 activities to develop the candidate’s competencies.

e.g.

6. Implement a mentoring program.

Assume that the CEO has been communicating with you while you have been

preparing Jackie’s Career Development Plan. He has advised that he believes the

best way of implementing succession planning is to set up a mentoring program.

Therefore he has asked that you develop a Mentoring Guide to guide mentoring in

the organisation.

Your Mentoring Guide must including information about key aspects of mentoring

such as the purpose of mentoring, the mentor’s role and do’s and don’ts, how to

establish a successful relationship, the mentoring process including scheduling

meetings. As a guide your Mentoring Guide should be 6 – 8

pages and can include diagrams &pictures.

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Once you have finalised these documents, proceed with implementing the system

by advising via email all staff of the planned mentoring arrangements, summarising

the information from the document you have developed.

The template:

King Edward VII College

Mentoring Guide

What is mentoring?

A mentor and a mentee

What should a mentor do?

What shouldn't a mentor do?

Mentoring Journey Establishing a Successful Relationship with your Mentee

Mentoring processes

Monitoring and documentation

How do I know if I’m being a good mentor? End of Relationship

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7. Develop redundancy and redeployment policy and procedures.

Assume that it has been identified that there is no formal process in place within

King Edward VII College for redundancy and deployment. Previously, redundancies

or redeployments have not been identified as issues in the workforce plan, but now

a formal process is required.

Develop King Edward VII redundancy and redeployment policy and procedures that

include:

• Aim of policy/Purpose

• Key principles (2 points will be fine and each point one sentence)

e.g.:

committed to finding alternative employment options for staff within the

organisation

committed to assisting the staff member to transition to a new career if

applicable

• Definitions of redeployment and redundancy (a small paragraph)

• Redeployment procedure (a minimum of 3 steps and each step is one

sentence or two)

• Redundancy procedure, including entitlements as per the Fair Work Act (a

minimum of 3 steps and each step is one sentence or two)

Use the Redundancy and Redeployment Policy and Procedures Template to

guide your work.

8. Send an email to your assessor.

The text of the email should be in grammatically correct English, written in an

appropriate (polite, business-like) style.

It should introduce and summarise the contents of the attachments.

Attach your career development plan, and your redundancy and redeployment

policy and procedures to the email.