Employee Relations: Personnel Training, Strategic Planning, Risk Management, and More

This article covers various aspects of employee relations, including personnel training requirements for marketing and human resource departments, key elements of strategic planning, things for managers to monitor, sequential steps in risk management process, enterprise agreement, and skills and knowledge required by managers to effectively implement strategies.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Response to Question 1:
Requirement to Ensure Personnel training within Marketing Department:
a. The legislative requirements: It strictly suggests to avoid the misleading and false
promotions of a product by the marketing department. The department is required to
abide by ‘Do Not Call Register Act’ of Australian government (Biggs et al. 2013).
b. Practical knowledge and skills required: The major requirement is communication
skill and understanding digital channel of the concerned region. The employees must
have creativity, leadership abilities and should be able to execute marketing
campaigns.
c. WHS requirements: WHS is workplace health safety requirement of an employee to
provide safe work premises. It requires the employee to comply with instructions
provided by WHS and intends to provide proper training for the use of personal
protective equipment (Pouliakas and Theodossiou 2013).
Requirement to Ensure Personnel training within Human Resource Department:
a. Legislative Requirements: The human resource department should be aware of the
guidelines of their organisation and comply by those guidelines.
b. Practical Knowledge and Skill Required: The required skills for human resource
are communication, leadership, organizational and administrative.
c. WHS Requirement: The HR department should ensure that each employee of
organisation should abide by the instructions of WHS.
Response to Question 3:
Four key elements of strategic planning are as follows:

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 A vision: The initial requirement of an organisation is to define the vision which
would be helpful in focusing on the long term goal of the organisation
 Core Values: An efficient strategic planning requires well-crafted set of goals.
Identification of core values is important in order to define the initial state.
 Clearly Defined Outcomes: The plan is considered ineffective unless it provides a
clearly defined outcome. The outcome would be defined as a combination of actions
to be taken, details, unit, metric and deadline.
 Accountability: It is important to be consider for proper execution of strategic
planning. The organisation requires members to stand by actions and decision and it
would also develop a sense of responsibility for the work (Cassidy 2016).
Response to Question 4:
Four things that would be Important for Manager to Monitor are:
 Performance of employees and provides feedback.
 Operations and their requirement.
 The software used by the employees.
 Financial or pay database of employees.
Response to Question 5:
Sequential Steps in Risk Management Process:
Identify the Risk: The initial stage of risk management is identification of the type of risk
and its impact on the future.
Analyse the Risk: This step provides the probability of this events and consequences of this
risk.

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Evaluation of The Risk: Evaluation of the risk is important as it would be helpful in
prioritizing the risk according to its effect.
Implement the Solution: This step involves treating of risk and providing an alternative plan
for implementing it.
Monitor and Review the Risk: The last step is to monitor the risk and track all the related
data (Lam 2014).
Response to Question 6:
Enterprise agreement is formal agreement of pay and condition of employment in an
organisation. An enterprise agreement includes pay scale, condition of employment,
flexibility term, settlement procedure in case of dispute and nominal expiry date.
Response to Question 7:
Skills and Knowledge Required by Manager to Effectively Implement Strategies are
communicational skills, organizational skills, leadership management and administrative and
financial skill.

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References
Biggs, S.E., Banks, T.D., Davey, J.D. and Freeman, J.E., 2013. Safety leaders’ perceptions of
safety culture in a large Australasian construction organisation. Safety science, 52, pp.3-12.
Cassidy, A., 2016. A practical guide to information systems strategic planning. Auerbach
Publications.
Lam, J., 2014. Enterprise risk management: from incentives to controls. John Wiley & Sons.
Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I., 2013. The economics of health and safety at work: an
interdiciplinary review of the theory and policy. Journal of Economic Surveys, 27(1), pp.167-
208.

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