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Assessment: Industry Case Studies Report
What do you need to do for this assessment task?
You will be required to use the three case studies listed below to apply what you have learnt in this course and to construct a report which:
1. identifies the HRM problems that are present in these organisations.
2. analyses the effects of these problems on the employees, managers and organisational performance.
3. recommends strategic solutions for both the immediate and long term in each organisation.
What criteria will be used to assess your work? (each criterion is equally weighted)
1. Ability to identify and extrapolate the key issues and problems in each Case Study organisation.
2. Ability to analyse and differentiate how these HRM problems impact on a range of stakeholders.
3. Ability to generate and develop well-researched and coherent strategic recommendations for the resolution of these issues.
4. Evidence of synthesis and application of knowledge developed through course learning, references to course material, key academic perspectives and your independent review of relevant literature.
5. Clear and comprehensive written style (spelling, grammar, syntax etc.) using appropriate RMIT Harvard style referencing (in-text and list of references)
The Three Case Studies
Details of each case studies are accessible below.
You may need to research these organisations further.
Case study 1: 7-Eleven Stores Pty Ltd, Australia's is a private company owned by the Withers and Barlow family. The company has a license to operate and franchise 7- Eleven stores in Australia from the US based 7-Eleven Inc. The 7-Eleven Stores Franchise operates more than 670 stores in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the AustralianCapital Territory, and Western Australia.
Article - 7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience:
As 7-Eleven goes into damage control, this article exposes the wage scam at the heart of the multimillion dollar convenience store empire.
Read through this article here
Case Study 2: The CFA (Country Fire Authority) is a volunteer and community based fire and emergency services organisation.The CFA provides firefighting and emergency services to rural areas and regional towns in Victoria, and to some of the outer suburban areas of Melbourne, not covered by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. .At 1 July 2017, CFA personnel included 35,263 volunteer firefighters, 1120 career firefighters and some 1400 administrative, instructional and supporting paid staff.
Article - Leadership failure to blame for multiple assaults at Eaglehawk CFA: report
Read the article from the AGE newspaper here
Article - Sexual harassment, bullying, endemic for women in Country Fire Authority
Read another article from the Age newspaper here
Article - CFA captain at centre of teenage girl hazing video scandal says there are 'two sides to every story'
Read the ABC report here
Case study 3 - The Australian Banks
The recent Royal Commission into the banks has been exposing deep problems in Australia's banking system.
Video - There's no evidence behind the strategies banks are using to police behaviour and pay
To access this video, please click here and login using your RMIT identifiers
Video - Money For Nothing: Which bank cheats some of its most vulnerable customers in their hour of need?
Where can you find peer reviewed articles to use in your essay?
There are a number of places to look to find peer reviewed articles that you might be able to use in your essay:
- The reading list for your subject
- Extra readings mentioned in the lectures or tutorials
- Searching for items in the Library Databases such as "Ebscohost web" or "Proquest"
- The reference list at the end of books, chapters or articles which you have already found useful
- Scanning the contents pages of relevant journals
Your tutor will provide added advice on this and you also have the RMIT Online Library Liaison office to guide you to suitable peer reviewed journal articles.
Useful resources for writing the report
The following resources may be useful for this task:
1. "Human Resource Management - An Introductory overview" module (refer to the section headed modules on the learning management system for this course)
2. RMIT Emedia - Writing a case study
3. The AHRI Model of Excellence
How long should the report be?
Your report should be 2500 words in length and include at least 20 quality academic references.