Report
Question Description
Instructions on Assessment:
Produce a 4000 word report in which you critically analyse the role of Line Manager/Leader and their relationship with the HR representative in the management of people in organisations today.
You must make significant reference to appropriate literature and best practice. To do this, you should pick one of the topics from across the module curriculum i.e.
- Recruitment and Selection of employees or
- Management and Leadership of employees or
- Motivating and engaging employees or
- Employee learning and development or
- Managing performance or
- Coaching or
- Managing and leading change
In your analysis you should:
- Define the key practice you have chosen
- Identify and critically discuss appropriate models relating to the practice
- Identify and evaluate the relationship between the line manager/leaders role and that of the HR representative in the management of people (inc. such as benefits, limitations, clarity, overlaps, tensions, devolvement etc).
The report is worth 100% of the module mark.
Word limits for assignments
The word count is to be declared on the front page of your assignment. Summarising and compressing the information in your assignment into the word limit is one of the skills that students are expected to acquire, and demonstrate as part of the assignment process. The assignment must be within +10% of the word-count – assignments in excess of this will accrue a penalty of 10%.
The word count does not include:
- Title and Contents page Reference list Appendices Appropriate tables, figures and
- Glossary Bibliography Quotes from interviews.
Illustrations
Please note, in text citations [e.g. (Smith, 2011)] and direct secondary quotations [e.g. “dib-dab nonsense analysis” (Smith, 2011 p.123)] are INCLUDED in the word count.
Submission of Assessment:
All assignments must be submitted on Canvas first. A Turnitin Report will be generated, which then needs to be submitted on JIRA along with the original file. Therefore there will be 2 attachments on JIRA. Your mark and feedback will be made available to you electronically on JIRA once the internal moderation process has taken place, you should note that at this stage marks are still subject to external examiner and academic board approval.
Referencing your work
In this institution the Harvard method of referencing is used. The Harvard method of referring to publications and of arranging references uses the author's name and the date of the publication. References are listed at the end of the text in alphabetical order by author's name. The general format of a journal reference is shown below:
- Smith, J. (1999) How to succeed! Journal of Entrepreneurs , 1(2), p. 34-56
Author’s name and initials are listed first, followed by year of publication in brackets. Then there is the title of article and the journal where article appears, which is underlined or in italics. Finally, state the volume and issue Number (in brackets) along with the pages where article can be located.
