Individual student workbook
Week 2: Recruitment methods
1. Explain why line managers adopt the rational approach to recruitment?
2. Describe the differences between a job description and person specification?
3. List three examples of how Diversity could encourage diversity when recruiting candidates in organizations?
Week 3: Selection Methods
1. What are the problems with using selection interviews to identify the best candidate in relation to reliability and validity as a selection tool?
2. What are the advantages of using a competency framework to design selection interview questions?
Week 4: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
1. A friend suggests that George should implement mandatory diversity training. Based on your reading of the Dobbin and Kalev (2016) article, do you agree with George’s friend?
Provide specific examples from the article to back up your point why you agree/why you do not.
2. Recommend to George two alternative diversity management interventions, that academic research has proven to be effective.
Week 5: Skills, Training and Development
1. What are the challenges which Covid 19, has created for adult learners’ employability in the labour market?
2. Why is coaching by line managers important for the performance of their teams?
What benefits does conducting induction for new joiners have for organizations?
Week 6: Performance Management
1. Copy and paste a fully completed table assessing the performance review practices that you have experienced in your current job role.
2. Identify one area of performance review in your current job role that is weak and explain why this is a problem.
Week 7: Academic writing, referencing and plagiarism
1. What have you learnt about academic writing that will do differently because of your learning from today’s lecture/seminar?
2. What have you learnt about plagiarism OR referencing that will do differently because of your learning from today’s lecture/seminar?
Week 8: Motivation and rewards
1. Identify the main pros and cons of “Payment by Results” (PBR).
2. Identify at least three of the more significant components of financial reward other than salary. Argue the benefits and drawbacks of each of them.
Week 9: The psychological contract and employee engagement
1. Present a reliable definition of Employee Engagement.
2. Identify at least three of the benefits of Employee Engagement to organisations.
Week 10: International differences in organisations and management
1. Describe the challenges for line managers of leading in global firms?
2. List the reasons why expatriates fail in global firms?
Week 11: Leadership style
1. Present definitions and give examples of these five concepts:
Transactional Leadership
Transformational Leadership
Contingency Leadership
Situational Leadership
Inclusive Leadership
2. Choose one of the above Leadership approaches and, give example of practice from an organization. (Research your organization)