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Managing Human Resources
Assessment Purpose: The primary purpose of this assessment is to enhance students' research, analysis and referencing skills.
The secondary purpose is to give students the opportunity to demonstrate their critical thinking and written communication skills.
The third purpose is to demonstrate that you have commenced appropriate research for Assessment 3.
Assessment Task - By reviewing the current literature in HRM, you are required to compile an Annotated Bibliography of recent four peer-reviewed journal articles. Hence, Assessment 2 will prepare you for Assessment 3 (Report).
Step 1: Read the Assessment 3 (report) task description to understand requirements for Assessment 3 as Assessment 2 is a designed to assist you in Assessment 3.
Step 2: Undertake research of the recent academic literature since 2014. Identify four academic peer-reviewed journal articles relevant to Assessment 3. It is not a must for these articles to be based on the sector (i.e., manufacturing or service) you have chosen for Assessment 3. However, these articles must be aligned with at least three (3) of the unit themes from Weeks 1 to 11 (e.g., the evolution of HRM, the context of HRM, industrial relations or HR planning and work design challenges in a global environment).
It is recommended that you undertake your research via the online ‘search' of CQUniversity Library site. Some of the peer-reviewed academic journals would include:
Human Resource Management (US),
Human Resource Management Journal (UK),
International Journal of Human Resource Management,
Personnel Review, and
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources.
You cannot use the article from your Assessment 1 - Presentation for Assessment 2.
Step 3: Write 500 words on each article (500 x 4= 2000 words). For each journal article, write to the headings in the template. These include:
Full reference of the article
Outline of research objective and research questions
Outline of the research method
Findings and discussion
Conclusion
Indication of how this will be relevant for your final report (i.e., Assessment 3)