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Assignment Objectives 

COVID-19 has placed the spotlight on HR and has fundamentally changed work, the workforce and the workplace. In the past few months, we have seen a greater appreciation for the breadth of what HR does and can do: HR has played an essential role in everything from monitoring workforce sentiment, to establishing connections between organizational leaders, workers, and teams, to integrating wellbeing into work and reimagining how, where, and what work gets done.

The purpose of the assignment is to familiarize yourself with current issues in Human Resources Planning and to develop your research and analytical skills, specifically related to a post Covid-19 world.

Questions and Report Guidelines

1. Prepare an executive summary. An executive summary is an overview of your report summarising key points of your report. The executive summary is not an introduction. It should be clear, concise and high level.

2. Your research focus should be on the on one industry in Canada only.

3. Critically assess the role of HR. How is Covid-19 redefining work, the workforce and the workplace.

4. Select one industry and discuss the HR planning implications and challenges for that industry and how they have to shift their business strategy in light of the pandemic. e.g retail, travel, hotel, education, airlines, etc

5. How should HR take a leading role in helping the industry, and the workforce, to adapt to changing business requirements.

6. Explain the dangers of a poorly implemented post Covid-19 plan. Evaluate the potential effect on the organization and HR.

7. Provide practical and creative recommendations for the industry to build a sustainable post Covid future.

8. Focus on the post Covid HR planning implications, rather than the pandemic itself.