Unit 3 HRM Project: Talent Management Strategy - ICON College

This project, part of the Pearson BTEC HND in Business (RQF) Unit 3: Human Resource Management, requires students to act as Human Resource Administrators addressing skills shortages within a global car manufacturer. The project involves a presentation outlining a roadmap for strengthening the organization's talent management strategy, focusing on recruitment, employee engagement, and internal talent growth. Students must review internal HRM practices, particularly recruitment and selection, and consider external influences to propose HR solutions. The presentation must include a comparison of HRM areas, an examination of strategic HRM in the changing business environment, and a critical evaluation of recruitment and retention practices. Additionally, students must prepare and deliver an interactive training session for managers on recruitment and retention, focusing on HRM practices, their strengths, and weaknesses, along with recommendations for improving organizational performance. The training session needs to be interactive and include activities such as role play, scenario exercises, video clips and case studies. Furthermore, each team member will submit a reflective journal. The project emphasizes the application of HRM practices in a work-related context to improve sustainable organizational performance, including meeting specific learning outcomes and assessment criteria.

ICON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Pearson BTEC HND in Business (RQF)
Unit 3 Human Resource Management
Assignment Brief
Session: September 2022
Programme title TNA67 Pearson BTEC HND in Business (RQF)
Unit number and title Unit 3 Human Resources Management
Unit Type Core
Unit Level and Credit
Value Level 4 15 Credit
Assessor (s) Dr Md Zahidul Islam
Issue Date 5 October 2022
Final assignment
submission deadline 9-14 January 2023
Late submission deadline
16-21 January 2023
The learners are required to follow the strict deadline set by the College
for submissions of assignments in accordance with the BTEC level 4–7
submission guidelines and College policy on submissions.
Resubmission deadline TBA
Feedback
Formative feedback will be available in class during the semester.
Final feedback will be available within 2 weeks of the assignment
submission date.
General
Guidelines
• The work you submit must be in your own words. If you use a quote or an
illustration from somewhere you must give the source.
• Include a list of references at the end of your document. You must give all
your sources of information.
• Make sure your work is clearly presented and that you use correct grammar.
Internal verifier Prof Zakir Hossain
Signature (IV of the
brief) * [e-mail] Date 1/10/22

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ICON College of Technology and Management
Pearson BTEC HND in Business (RQF)
Unit 3: Human Resource Management
Session: September 2022
Coursework
Recommended word limit for the Assignment: 2,000–2,500, although you will not be penalised
for going under or exceeding the total word limit.
This Unit will be assessed by
1. Assignment and 15-minute presentation with Five minutes allocated questions.
2. A recorded virtual or face to face training session of group. Each recorded session will be
25-minutes long with five minutes allocated questions. Each team members will submit a
reflective journal of approximately 500 words
You are strongly advised to read “Preparation guidelines of the Coursework Document”
before preparing for presentation and answering your assignment.
Transferable skills and competencies developed
• Articulating and explaining information effectively.
• Communication and listening, including the ability to produce clear, structured business
communication in a variety of media.
• Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
• Development and delivery of HR solutions to the business, appropriate to the organisational
context.
• Research, analysis and presentation of HR business data (both internal and external) to
provide insight, support solution to business and track performance.
• Curiosity about HR business trends and developments, incorporating them to work.
Unit Learning outcomes:
LO1 Explain the impact of the role of HRM in creating sustainable organisational performance and
contributing to business success.
LO2 Assess the contribution of HRM in recruiting and retaining talent and skills to achieve business
objectives.
LO3 Examine how external and internal factors can affect HRM decision making in relation to
organisational development
LO4 Apply HRM Practices in a work-related context for improving sustainable organisational
performance.
Vocational Scenario
Organisation (Select an appropriate car manufacturer to meet local needs).
The organisation is a global “car manufacturer”. It has both centralised and decentralised functions.
One of the decentralised function is the HR function. In each global location they are based, while
production is the core of the organisation, there are many other support function that ensure the
success of the business. The business required committed employees to ensure that the
organisation is successful and sustainable, and that it achieves its business objectives through
strong performance.
However, like other industries, automotive is looking at a global skills shortage, in which too few
engineers are sufficiently qualified to operate sophisticated automated machinery and equipment or
support the advancements available via emerging technologies. These roles cover a number of
disciplines, including design, production and programmes and quality; all of which require differing
levels of skill, experience and expertise.

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Role
As a Human Resources Administrator, it is your job to understand HRM practices and to provide
information accurately and in a timely way to the appropriate stakeholders. Your typical duties
involve:
• liaising with a range of people involved in policy areas such as staff performance and health
and safety
• recruiting staff, which involves developing job descriptions and person specifications,
preparing job adverts, checking application forms, shortlisting, interviewing and selecting
candidates
• making sure that prospective staff have the right to work at the organisation
• developing and implementing policies on issues such as working conditions, performance
management, equal opportunities, disciplinary procedures and absence management
• preparing staff handbooks
• advising on pay and other remuneration issues, including promotion and benefits
• preparing management reports on employee-related data on a monthly basis.
Assignment Activity and guidance:
In your role of Human Resources Administrator, one of your goals is to address the issues of skills
shortage and hard-to-fill vacancies in the organisation. You have been asked by your line manager
to undertake a review of HR practices and processes in order to produce a roadmap for successfully
strengthening the organisation’s talent management strategy.
The review will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of HRM to critically evaluate factors that will
contribute to decisions taken; it is to be delivered as a presentation that gives a clear vision and
roadmap to success. The priority objective is to improve recruitment and employee engagement and
motivation, and to grow internal talent.
You will be reviewing internal HRM practices and processes, with a focus on recruitment and
selection, and external influences on HRM practices, in order to determine HR solutions for
strengthening the organisation’s talent management strategy.
The presentation will include the following:
• a comparison of the different HRM areas and their contribution to organisational
performance
• an examination of strategic HRM in relation to the changing effects on organisations and its
business environment
• critical evaluation of the role of recruiting and retaining appropriate employees from the
available labour markets.
As part of the presentation, you will critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of HRM in
terms of its contribution to business success.
Use a variety of organisational examples to support valid recommendations and considerations for
the roadmap to:
• carry out an investigation into the internal and external factors that influence HRM decisions
in the workplace
• discuss and evaluate these factors and how they support organisational development.
The presentation will conclude with a visual roadmap that shows the steps that need to be taken to
successfully strengthen the organisation’s talent management strategy.

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HRM Practices
LO4 Apply HRM practices to a work-related context for improving sustainable organisational
performance.
Submission format
The submission is in the form of a recorded training session that can be delivered either virtually or
face to face. This is a small-group activity that requires submission of individual evidence for the
completion of the Learning Outcome and Assessment Criteria.
Each training session will be allocated 25 minutes plus five minutes for questions
Your group will need to submit the recording, the materials used and each member a reflective
journal of approximately 500 words, although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word
limit.
Transferable skills and occupational competencies developed
• Communication and listening, including the ability to produce clear, structured business
communications in a variety of media.
• Effective communication skills: verbal and non-verbal.
• The ability to generate, develop and communicate ideas.
• Creative thinking.
• Development and delivery of HR solutions to the business, appropriate to the organisational
context.
• Tailoring of business-centred advice on the interpretation and application of HR policies and
processes.
Vocational Scenario
In your role of Human Resources Administrator, you have had a performance review with your line
manager. In the review, you discussed that, leading on from the earlier personal development
activity, you would like to consider specialising in talent management. Your manager has therefore
put you into a project group tasked with creating an interactive and engaging training session on
recruitment and retention in the organisation, in order to support continuous professional
development.
The training session is for managers taking part in the recruitment and selection of potential
employees.
Assignment activity and guidance
Prepare and deliver a training session, that assesses HRM practices within the workplace.
The training should cover the strengths and weakness of HRM practices, with recommendations of
how the practices illustrated can improve sustainable organisational performance. The training
should focus on at least two of the following areas:
• recruitment and selection documentation
• recruitment and selection process
• performance management
• employee relations.
The training session needs to be interactive and must include short activities to engage the
participants. For example, the session could include the use of role play, scenario and solution
exercises, video clips and case studies. It should also include a peer-review activity at the end of the
session to enable participants to provide feedback
The method used for the training should be decided by the group. A journal that shows each group
member’s contribution to the group activity should be kept.

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Relevant Information
To gain a Pass in a BTEC HND Unit, you must meet ALL the Pass criteria; to gain a Merit, you must
meet ALL the Merit and Pass criteria; and to gain a Distinction, you must meet ALL the Distinction,
Merit and Pass criteria.
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
Pass Merit Distinction
LO1 Explain the impact of the role of HRM in creating sustainable organisational
performance and contributing to business success
LO1 and LO2
D1 Critically evaluate the
strengths and weaknesses
of HRM in relation to
creating sustainable
organisational
performance and
achieving business
objectives.
P1 Explain the main areas of HRM in their contribution
to creating sustainable performance.
P2 Review the effects of the changing nature of
organisations on human resources skills and
knowledge.
M1 Compare areas of
HRM to create
sustainable
organisational
performance
M2 Examine HRM in
relation to the changing
nature of the modern
business organisation.
LO2 Assess the contribution of HRM in recruiting and retaining talent and skills to
achieve business objectives.
P3 Review relevant HRM practices in relation to
recruitment and retention of employees for the
achievement of business objectives.
M3 Evaluate the use of
HRM practices in
recruitment and retention
in relation to the
importance of the labour
market.
LO3 Examine how external and internal factors can affect HRM decisions making in
relation to organisational development
D2 Evaluate key factors
affecting HRM decision
making to make valid
recommendations.
P4 Investigate the external and internal factors that affect
HRM decision making to support organisational
development
M4 Discuss the key
external and internal
factors that affect HRM
decision making, using
relevant organisational
examples to illustrate
how they support
organisational
development.
LO4 Apply HRM Practices in a work-related context for improving sustainable
organisational performance.
D3 Determine strengths
and weaknesses of HRM
practices to make
recommendations for
improving sustainable
organisational
performance.
LO4 Apply HRM Practices in a work-related context for
improving sustainable organisational performance.
P5 Apply HRM practices in a work-related context, using
specific examples to demonstrate improvement to
sustainable organisational performance.
M5 Illustrate how the
application of specific
HRM practices in a work-
related context can
improve sustainable
organisational
performance.

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Guide to student
1. Preparation guidelines of the Coursework Document
a. The submission is in the form a Presentation that includes a visual roadmap. It is a 15-
minutes presentation with five minutes allocated for questions. There should be a recorded
virtual or face to face training session of group. Each recorded session will be 25-minutes
long with five minutes allocated questions. Each team members will submit a reflective
journal of approximately 500 words.
b. The presentation slides should be submitted along with speaker notes as one copy. You are
required to make effective use of PowerPoint headings, bullet points and subsections as
appropriate.
c. Document margins must not be more than 2.54 cm (1 inch) or less than 1.9cm (3/4 inch).
d. The assignment should be in a formal business style using single spacing and font size 12.
e. Standard and commonly used type face such as Arial should be used.
f. All figures, graphs and tables must be numbered.
g. Material taken from external sources must be properly referenced using the Harvard
referencing system.
h. You should provide references using the Harvard referencing system.
i. Do not use Wikipedia as a reference.
2. Plagiarism and Collusion
Any act of plagiarism or collusion will be seriously dealt with according to the College
regulations. In this context the definitions and scope of plagiarism and collusion are
presented below:
Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes copying information
directly from the Web or books without referencing the material; submitting joint coursework
as an individual effort.
Collusion is copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from another
student and submitting it as your own work.
Suspected plagiarism or collusion will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be
dealt with according to the College procedure (For details on Plagiarism & Collusion
please see the Student Handbook).
3. Submission
a. Initial submission of coursework to the tutors is compulsory in each unit of the course.
b. The student must check their assignments on ICON VLE with plagiarism software Turnitin
to make sure the similarity index for their assignment stays within the College approved
level. A student can check the similarity index of their assignment three times in the Draft
Assignment submission point located in the home page of the ICON VLE.
c. All Final coursework must be submitted to the Final submission point into the Unit (not to
the Tutor). The student would be allowed to submit only once and that is the final
submission.
d. Any computer files generated such as program code (software), graphic files that form part
of the coursework must be submitted as an attachment to the assignment with all
documentation.
4. Good practice
a. Make backup of your work in different media (hard disk, memory stick, etc.) to avoid distress
for loss or damage of your original copy.
5. Extension, Late Submission and Resubmission
a. If you need an extension for a valid reason, you must request one using an Exceptional
Extenuating Circumstances (EEC) form available from the College examination office and
ICON VLE. Please note that the tutors do not have the authority to extend the coursework
deadlines and therefore do not ask them to award a coursework extension. The completed
form must be accompanied by evidence such as a medical certificate in the event of you

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being sick, and should be submitted to the Examination Office.
b. Late submission will be accepted and marked according to the College procedure. It should
be noted that late submission may not be graded for Merit and Distinction.
c. All late coursework must be submitted to the Late submission point into the unit (not to
the Tutor) in the ICON VLE. A student is allowed to submit only once and that is also
treated as the final submission.
d. Only one opportunity will be given for reassessment (resubmission) will be permitted and the
assessment will be capped at Pass for the unit. In addition, no resubmission will be allowed
in any component of the assessment for which a Pass grade or higher has been achieved.
e. Repeat Units – A student who has failed to achieve a Pass in both Final/Late submission
and in the Resubmission must retake the unit with full attendance and payment of the unit
fee. The overall unit grade for a successfully completed repeat unit is capped at Pass for
that unit. Units can only be repeated once.
6. Submission deadlines Online to the ICON College VLE
Final Submission date: 9-14 January 2023
Late Submission date: 16-21 January 2023
Glossary:
Apply: Use a particular method/technique to solve a problem.
Compare: Estimate, measure or note the similarity or dissimilarity between one thing and another…
(compare something to) draw an analogy between one thing and another for the purpose of
explanation or clarification.
Critically evaluate: To look at the arguments for and against an issue. You look at the strengths
and weaknesses of the arguments.
Determine: Find a solution by argument, making clear your reasoning (e.g., determine the type of
event that has occurred, based on the data provided”) (application) or “Determine the most
appropriate course of action for the company, within the given constraints” (higher order skills).
Discuss: Identify the issue/situation/problem/argument that is being assessed within the question
Explore all aspects of an issue/situation/problem/argument Investigate the issue/situation etc. by
reasoning or argument.
Evaluate: Examine in detail the meaning or essential features of a theme, topic or situation; break
something down into its components; examine factors methodically and in detail, identify separate
factors, say how they are related and how each one contributes to the topic to make reasoned
judgements and conclusions. Review the information then bring it together to form a conclusion.
Explain: When you explain you must say why it is important or not important. Clarify a topic by
giving a detailed account as to how and why it occurs, or what is meant by the use of this term in a
particular context.
Examine: When you evaluate you look at the arguments for and against an issue.
Illustrate: Include examples or a diagram to show what you mean.
Investigate: Carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of (problem,
options, incident, allegation etc) to establish the truth.
Review: To examine, survey, reconsider a subject, theory or item, deciding what was effective or
not.