HRM 201 CASE MOD 1

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Module 1 - Case

WORKFORCE PLANNING; JOB ANALYSIS, JOB DESIGN

Assignment Overview

Job Analysis and Job Design

In this assignment, you are heading up a work team with the task of conducting the following:

Job description includes basic job-related daqta that is useful to advertise a specific job and attract a pool of talent. It includes information such as job title, job location, reporting to and of employees, job summary, nature and objectives of job, tasks and duties to be performed, working conditions, hazards, machines, tools and eupment to be used by a prospective worker.

Job specification is also known as emploee specifications. A job specification is a written statement of educational qualifications, specific qualities, level of experience, physical, emptional, technical and copmmunication skills reuired to perform a job. This also includes responsibilities involved in a job and other unuaual sensory demands such as general health, mental health, intelligence, aptitude, memory, judgement, leaderhip, emotional ability, adaptability, flexibility, values, ethics, manners and creativity.

Job design follows job analysis. It aims at outlining and organizing tasks, duties and responsibilities into a single unit of work for the achievement of certain objectives. It also outlkines the methods and relationships that are essential for success of a

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certain job. In simplier terms, it refers to what, how much, how many and the order of tasks for a job.

Case Assignment

For this assignment, review the following:

Armstrong, M., & Tayler, S. (2020). Chapter 27: Workforce planning. In Armstrong’s handbook of human resource management practice (15th ed.). Kogan Page. Available in the Trident Online Library, Skillsoft database.

Sparkman, R. (2018). Chapter 1: Strategic workforce planning. In Strategic workforce planning: developing optimized talent strategies for future growth. Kogan Page. ISBN: 9780749482015. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Sparkman, R. (2018). Chapter 7: Skills-based strategic workforce planning. In Strategic workforce planning: developing optimized talent strategies for future growth. Kogan Page. ISBN: 9780749482015. Available in the Trident Online Library.

In this assignment, you are the HR Manager at your current employer or an employer you are familiar with. You have a staff whose main function is to analyze the company’s employment needs for the next 12 months. Apply your knowledge to design and implement job analysis and job specifications to one job at your company.

Your assignment is to analyze the current needs of your company by selecting one of the company’s open positions. (You can improvise background data needed for certain steps in the analysis process.)

In your essay, address the three parts of the assignment listed below:

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1. Describe each step your team will take to analyze a specific job. Next, conduct the analysis process as it is currently done at your organization. Discuss in as much detail as possible what your job analysis steps reveal about the selected job.

2. Discuss the job specifications for your selected job.

3. Meet with a colleague or coworker currently in this position and ask them if there is anything you missed that they would add to the position's specifications.

Refer to background readings and what you have found in the Trident Online Library. Cite all sources used to help you through these steps. Support your discussion of key concepts in this Case Assignment with at least one reference found in a peer-reviewed journal. In addition, cite any references from the assigned readings.

Your essay submission should be 3-4 pages (or not less than 3 full pages), not counting the cover page and reference list page. Use Times New Roman size 12 font; double-space everything, including references, but do not add extra spacing between paragraphs or after headings; and, make sure your margins are one inch on all four sides. You can view how the cover page content should appear in the sample paper found in the Purdue OWL APA Formatting and Style Guide. Student papers do not require a running head on any page. In addition, students are not required to include an Abstract. Your paper’s title should be above the first paragraph on page two (there can be no paragraph with the title of “Introduction”). Last, all pages must have a page number in the top-right corner.

Citation and reference style instructions are available at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/.

Also see the Trident guide to APA Style, 7th edition.

You will find the following useful as you critique sources:

Herring, J. E. (2011). Chapter 3: Evaluating websites, Figure 3.1, p. 38. In Improving students’ web use and information literacy: a guide

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for teachers and teacher librarians. Facet Publishing. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.

Lack, C. W., & Rousseau, J. (2016). Chapter 4: What is critical thinking? In Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience: Why we can’t trust our brains. Springer Publishing Company. Available in the Trident Online Library, EBSCO eBook Collection.

Assignment Expectations

Your submission will be assessed on your level of critical-thinking skills as reflected in the grading rubric:

The criteria found in the Critical-Thinking grading rubric for this assignment are:

Meets assignment requirements

Critical thinking

Writing/communication, and assignment organization

Use of sources and mechanics

Timeliness of assignment