Managing People in Organisations: Recruitment, Motivation, Leadership

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of managing people in organizations, covering key functions such as recruitment, training, motivation, and performance management. It examines various recruitment and selection methods, the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion, and the role of skills, training, and development in enhancing employee performance. The report also discusses performance management practices, academic writing, referencing, plagiarism, motivation, rewards, the psychological contract, employee engagement, international differences in management, and leadership styles. The impact of COVID-19 on adult learners' employability is also addressed. Desklib provides students access to this and many other solved assignments for academic support.

Module Title: Managing People in Organisations
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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Week 2: Recruitment methods..............................................................................................................4
Week 3: Selection Methods...................................................................................................................6
Week 4: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion..............................................................................................7
Week 5: Skills, Training and Development.............................................................................................8
Week 6: Performance Management......................................................................................................9
Week 7: Academic writing, referencing and plagiarism ......................................................................10
Week 8: Motivation and rewards........................................................................................................12
Week 9: The psychological contract and employee engagement........................................................14
Week 10: International differences in organisations and management..............................................15
Week 11: Leadership style...................................................................................................................16
Reference list.......................................................................................................................................18
Appendices..........................................................................................................................................19
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Introduction
Managing people in the workplace is one of the important and valuable function which the
managers of the organisation has to follow in their organisation. There are different types of
functions are present in the organisation which the managers has to follow in the workplace
such as recruitment, management, training and motivation to manage the workforce of the
organisation. This report is based on providing effective analyses on the topic of managing
workforce in the organisation.
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Week 2: Recruitment methods
1. Explain why line managers adopt the rational approach to recruitment?
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
Rationale approach of learning is one of the
important approach of recruitment under which the
managers of the organisation has analyses the
behaviour and attitude of the employees in the
organisation (Summers, 2021). The managers of the
organisation has used effective and valuable
leadership approach to influence the behaviour
towards the achievement of organisational goals
and objectives. One of important advantage of this
approach is that it helps to achieve the goals and
objectives of the organisation in effective manner.
2. Describe the differences between a job description and person specification?
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
Jon description is related to those tool of the
information under which the management of
the company has specified different roles and
responsibilities for the specific position in their
organisation. Person specification refers top
those document under which the company has
mentioned different type of their requirement
related to the qualification, skills and many
more in the person to fulfil the demand of
specific job role. The main difference between
these terms is that job description provides
roles and another one contains skills needed
by the company.
3. List three ways to encourage diversity when recruiting candidates?
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
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 One of the effective method of establishing
diversity in the recruitment is to
encourage the diverse employees of the
organisation to refer their connections.
 Another important method is to audit the
existing and the old job ads and make
relevant changes in them according to the
present condition.
 Develops effective employee brand in the
market.
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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?
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
There are different types of problems has to faced
by the managers of the organisation while
selecting the employees for the organisation
because it is one of the critical function of the
management. The brief discussion related to the
same are given below:
 one of the common problem is that
sometime managers has taken premature
decision which is not favourable for the
company.
 The problem of negative information about
the candidate is one of the important
problem.
 Personal bias plays important role in the
problem making in recruitment process.
2. What are the advantages of using a competency framework to design selection
interview questions?
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
There are number of advantages are present of
using competency framework to design interview
and the description related to the same are given
below:
 it helps the managers to see beyond the
employees which they are talking about.
 It helps to measure the competency and
growth of the individual.
 It helps the managers to achieve the goals
and objectives of the organisation.
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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.
Diversity in the organisation is one of the important
and valuable aspect which helps the management
of the organisation a more competitive and
productive in the market. Diversity provides better
understanding to the people and also helps the
organisation to develop effective strategic
management in the organisation. As per the article
I am agree with the George's friend.
2. Please recommend to George two alternative diversity management
interventions, that academic research has proven to be effective.
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
Diversity is one of the important and valuable
aspect which helps to maintain different types of
employees in the organisation. Academic research
has played important role in the success of the
organisation because it help the company to grab
different types of information from the market
which are beneficial for the management of the
organisation (Small, 2021).
 Diversity management helps to establish
effective employees rights in the
management of the organisation.
 Diversity management helps the
management to increase the motivation of
the employees.
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Week 5: Skills, Training and Development
1. What are the challenges which Covid 19, has created for adult learners’
employability in the labour market?
Covid pandemic is one of the blunder for the
businesses and other sectors in the market. It has
negatively impacts on the learning section of the
market. As there are many adult learners are
present in the market which want to learn different
types of employment but they have to face many
challenges in relation to this and the brief
discussion related to the same are given below:
 All the companies of the market are not
allowed to be operated with their
maximum strength so the companies has
neglect learners in place of the
employees.
 All the opportunities in the market can be
minimised due to the Covid.
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?
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The coaching and training provided by the line
managers to their employees has played
important role in the development of the
employees in the organisation.
 It helps to develops different types of skills
in the personality of the employees.
 The training provided by the management
of the organisation has make their
employee motivated towards the
achievement of organisational goals and
objectives.
Benefits of doing induction of new employees in
the organisation
 it helps the new employees to develop
effective relations in the market.
 It helps to develop effective employee
interaction in the organisation.
Week 6: Performance Management
1. Please copy and paste a fully completed table assessing the performance
review practices that you have experienced in your current job role.
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2. Identify one area of performance review in your current job role that is weak
and explain why this is a problem.
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
It is analysed from the personal analyses that my
communication skills are not up to the mark which
is required to be improved by me (Raiden and King,
2021). It is one of the Important skill which should
be present in my personality because it helps to
maintain the personal relations and also helps me
to find the deviation from my personality.
Week 7: Academic writing, referencing and plagiarism
1. What have you learnt about academic writing that will do differently as a
result of your learning from today’s lecture/seminar?
Academic writing is refers to those style of writing
which is used in different types of academic
institutions. It is one of the important and valuable
style of writing which is required to be understand
by the people because it enables them to write in
their academic career. The present lecture has
provide understanding related to the development
of structure and format of the academic writing
which is one of the important part.
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2. What have you learnt about plagiarism OR referencing that will do
differently as a result of your learning from today’s lecture/seminar?
Plagiarism is one of the growing negative aspect of
the academic institution under which the student of
the colleges and universities has copied the work
of the other to make their work. There are different
types of sources and websites are present in the
internet which is used by the student to copy the
work of the other. It is one of the negative aspect
of the organisation which is very harmful for the
academic integrity.
Referencing is related to provide valid source to
the data which is used to gather the information for
particular aspect of the organisation. It is one of
the important aspect of the report which helps to
provide valid source to data.
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Week 8: Motivation and rewards
1. Identify the main pros and cons of “Payment by Results” (PBR).
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
Advantages of Payment of Results
 one of the great advantage of this system
is that it provides flexibility.
 Helps to increase the attention and
attainability
 helps to increase transparency and
accountability (Fredriksson, 2021).
Disadvantage of payment of result
 It includes high risk of data failure.
 The cost of applying are very high.
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.
You should cite relevant theory to support your points and illustrate them
with empirical evidence using Harvard referencing.
Bonuses
It refers to those financial reward which is provided
by the company to their employees on different
types of occasion and events other than their
salary. These are given on the specified festivals.
Pros
 Helps to increase the motivation.
 Helps the employees to fulfil their needs
on occasions.
Cons
 demotivate those employees which does
not get.
Referral programmes
it is related to those programmes of the
organisation under which the employees are
suggested to provide different types of employees
that they refer skilled employees to the
organisation and get the referral bonus.
Pros
 helps to increase the level of employees.
 Provide retention benefits to the company.
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