Students will prepare an assignment that evaluates a strategy for motivating and engaging workers in an organization in the business case study assigned individually

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Students will prepare an assignment that evaluates a strategy for motivating and engaging workers in an organization in the business case study assigned individually.

 

Deliverable Document 1: The Business Case Resolution (85% of total grade)

 

The Business Case Resolution should have no more than a 500-word executive summary and a 2’000-word main text.

 

It should comprise of the following key components:

 

I) A 500-word Executive Summary

II) Report:

 

Part 1. Selected HR practice related to leading success through human capital: critical literature review of a selected a selected Leadership topic, Organizational Behaviour (OB) aspect, a specific Human Resource (HR) management practice, for example Dysfunctional Leadership, such an OB aspect as Stress or Motivation, or such an HR practice as Recruitment, Selection, Training, Appraisal, Development, Compensation, Employee Relations, or alike (1’200 words minimum).

 

Part 2. Critical analysis of the business case (500 words minimum)

Part 2.a) Business case summary (200 words minimum).

Part 2.b) Identification of the strategy for motivating and engaging workers in an organization (50 words minimum).

Part 2.d) Description of a selected HR practice for leading success through human capital and evaluation of its relevance/effectiveness; justification of such evaluation by referring to the case study and the literature reviewed (250 words minimum).

Part 3: Global conclusion about the effectiveness of current strategy for motivating and engaging workers (300 words minimum)

 

d. Reference list, using at least 5 literature sources (using only English based literature from credible sources, such as a book chapter, a professional association review, or an academic journal article)

 

The coursework should follow the assessment brief. Please ensure that you do cite correctly the adequate number of references and follow the below guidelines in order not to lose any points for presentation elements unnecessarily:

1. Font size 12, Times New Roman

2. Spacing 1.5

3. Names of all the students including their student numbers need to appear on the cover page

4. Word count needs to appear on the cover page

5. A contents page also needs to be included

6. Main text pages need to be numbered and the topic also included in a footnote

7. Word count should not include cover page, contents’ page, appendices, reference list, only the main text

8. Use a variety of credible and academic references and strictly follow the Harvard referencing style

9. Ensure that you do utilize the e-resources available to you such as Emerald, EBSCO etc.

 

Deliverable Document 2: Presentation of Business Action Plan (15% of total grade)

The 10-minutes Presentation with 10 PowerPoint slides is followed by a Question and Answer session about the whole Business Case Resolution. If a student is not able to deliver a live presentation with the lecturer for a valid reason, an online presentation with audio/video camera on must be scheduled within 7 days after the originally scheduled presentation date at latest.

 

The Presentation should focus on Recommended areas of improvement and Action plan, by referring to the critical literature review results:

- Business recommendation (approximately 100 words): maintaining currently successful strategy for motivating and engaging workers in an organization or for improving it.

- Action plan (approximately 300 words): objectives, strategy, and selected HR practice analysed in the literature review for maintaining currently successful strategy for motivating and engaging workers in an organization or for improving it. It can take form of a table with milestones and deliverables.

 

The student should present the case findings in relation to the literature reviewed and the business case, as well as participate in “Question and Answer” session regarding the business case resolution.

 

 

 

Assessment of the presentation is the following (each weighting 5%):

· identification of the recommended continuation or improvement areas (business recommendation)

· development of the action plan (objectives, strategy, and selected HR practice for maintaining currently successful strategy for motivating and engaging workers in an organization or for improving it)

· justification of the proposed objectives, strategy, and HR practices

· case discussion quality

· reflection, quality, relevance, and originality of visual presentation materials

 

Students will be allowed to submit drafts to check the level of plagiarism. Plagiarism is not tolerated, and if students are found to have plagiarized then the group project will be awarded a zero grade and referred to the Academic Board for evaluation and proposed further action.

 

The Assignment will be assessed according to the following criteria:

Overall clarity, style, logic, coherence of the written submission and use of Harvard style referencing =20% (the business report)

Selection, review and application of appropriate literature=30% (the business report)

Critical analysis, evaluation, and discussion quality=50% (including 35% allocated to the case evaluation and 15% allocated to the presentation of its resolution)