Human Resorce

THE ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

Develop a paper responding to the following question:

Critically review the situation at RestaurantCo and provide recommendations to the board on the strengths and weaknesses of it approach to managing human resources.

Your answer should include reference to at least the following issues:

A discussion of the links between corporate strategy, HR policy and management practices at the workplace level;

The underlying theories informing EIP (employee influence and participation);

The utility of Management goals, capabilities and development processes.

REQUIREMENTS

Not more than 2,500 words.

Harvard referencing standard. 12-15 sources. E Books, journals, reliable sources such as academic papers. Try not to use ONLINE resources other than Ebooks. Journals have to be professional journals. Reliable magazines. Can use websites but they do not count as references. Have to be supported by the papers. (Use Human Resource Management by Alan Nankervis, Robert Compton, Marian Baird, Jane Coffey – 7th edition book to do some of the refercing.)

Essay format.

PLEASE NOTE: The discussion questions that are in the PDF file, after the case study are just some questions to help with the actual assignment question, which is the one written above. The discussion questions ARE NOT the essay questions!

SOME TIPS:

Only use the case.

Not looking at what Restaurant co is about but looking at all the info given in the case.

References in the case study to support the case.

Another perspective – referencing is to support the arguments that are provided in the case. (Useful for e.g HR policy, culture in company)

e.g talk about standardization then we need to ask ourselves which company will standardize processes like this. Can google and find out about bigger companies, then we can use it to support our and say, for example, this company RestaurantCo is on the right track because standardizing is pretty common. (that can be one source)

Find evidence to support our argument. To demonstrate it, company is e.g short of supplies. We need to find evidence in the case to show like what caused the supply. Cannot just assume e.g they don’t have a proper accounting system. Need to draw conclusion WITH Evidence. Need to recommend a solution e.g what does the company have to do, such as find out the cause of this shortage. E.g supplies not delivering on time, waiters not attentive. Need to give them a recommendation for the likely cause. Then give like solutions based on evidence. E.g A is XXXXX B is XXXX and should do YYYYY. Based on the evidence so far the likely cause is B….. (to demonstrate our analysis) Don’t jump into conclusion without support from our findings.

How to demonstrate analysis and discussion is to have different views of each issue. Can be supported by referencing. E.g in restaurants it is normal to have franchising agreements, followed by the source we got it from.

Different views we must give certain conclusion. E.g what is the best view and this needs to be supported by evidence/ referencing. The shortage of supplies was due to the fact that there was no computerized system. And in order for them to be more efficient they need to get their goods on time and they can do that by having a computerized system. Give reference.

Got to give in text referencing.

Differences between line and staff.

Line are people directly involved with the goods and services. E.g factory the production supervisors, waiters

Staff function e.g warehousing people. Accounting staff, sales manager.