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LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE
These module aims are implemented through a set of Learning Outcomes.
The Learning Outcomes for the module are set out below. Passing the module means that you can show you have met the outcomes by satisfactorily completing the assessment tasks.
The Learning Outcomes are also allotted to key skills which have been identified as those skills you need to develop to show understanding of their subject and prepare for work and life.
On completion of the module, you should be able to:
Knowledge
1. Demonstrate a broad comprehension of the complex nature of initiatives in the field of International HRM.
Thinking skills
2 Demonstrate critical analytical ability in the examination of a range of contemporary International HRM concepts.
Subject-based practical skills
3 Show understanding and reflective analysis of the importance of contexts and external and internal environments influencing the choice and effectiveness of HRM initiatives.
Skills for life and work (general skills)
4 Demonstrate written and oral understanding of the nature, concepts and approaches in global human resource management practices, with the effective ability to communicate through presentational methods.
1. Assignment
HR3012 2012/2013 Resit
Assignment 1 Case Study
A World marketplace for jobs in a project-based work environment (Global)
It used to be necessary to bring workers to where the work was. But with the advent of the World Wide Web, the internet and mobile phones and the global communication they make possible, it is now possible to send work to wherever workers are by putting together multinational project teams, by using the internet to recruit employees on a global scale, or by using open-source software to accommodate global collaboration. These new styles of work and employment are arising particularly in response to the capabilities of computers and mobile phones and to the chronic needs for IT skills in growing numbers of industries.
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For example, one firm in Bern, Switzerland, recruited from the web a group of doctorates in discrete mathematics and graph theory from as far away as Belarus, India, Israel, and Ireland for a semiconductor design project. Team members never left their home countries and the team leader never left his home office. And the task group beat its deadline.
In industry after industry, as customers expect quicker service and competition forces shrinking product life cycles, employers are being driven to apply a ‘Hollywood model’ to their tasks. They assemble the best talent available at that moment from anywhere in the world (which is the way teams are put together to film a movie). When the project is complete, the team breaks up and the members move on to new projects. The end result is a new highly efficient global labour market unlike any seen before.
Even for small businesses, their new talent pool is the world. A new generation of online services is providing small businesses with opportunities to find specialised expertise and affordable labour. Businesses can go shopping in a virtual international bazaar of freelancers to recruit computer programmers in Russia, graphic designers in Italy, or data analysts in India. A small business of one can look to the world like a very large company and have access to all kinds of services. Technical advances have made remote work and virtual teams more feasible. And, increasingly freelancers are taking on assignments like customer service, data entry, writing, accounting, human resources, marketing, payroll – virtually, any ‘knowledge process’ that can be performed remotely, even setting up and managing business profiles on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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In some cases, the cost savings can be substantial: for example, the hourly rates of programmers in Russia, India or Pakistan are a fraction of those in North America or Europe. And these freelance marketplaces also allow small businesses to assemble teams quickly, find specialised expertise, begin new initiatives, and then be able to drop everything when it’s no longer needed.
When John Wilde, chief executive of Tailor Made Products, a small manufacturing firm in a small town in Wisconsin, in the USA, wanted to build a website for a new line of children’s kitchen gadgets called the Curious Chef, he turned to oDesk and hired a firm in India. He paid about US$20,000, which he estimates was roughly half of what he would have paid in the USA.
Sources: Norris, C.D. (2000), Already starting: A world marketplace for jobs, International Herald Tribune, August 8, 6; Pattison, K. (2009), Enlisting a global work force of freelancers, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/business/smallbusiness/25freelance.html
accessed 14 March 2013
Assignment question:
Critically assess the impact that the use of multicultural virtual teams has on international human resource management and the role that the HR department will have in these employee relationships.
(Please make sure that you address issues relating to political, legal and employee relationships in analysing the case study and answering this question.)
You need to work as a group of about five people. Groups will be pre-allocated. Small groups will be set up on UELPlus so that you can communicate with people in your group.
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It is expected that you will be consulting the following sources:
1. The Case Study
2. Main text books
3. Current academic articles
4. Practical examples of organisations
5. Practical examples of HR practices
6. Critical text
The final submission date for the Assignment is 12 aug 2013
and your Group Report must be put through Turnitin. Please allow at least 48 hours for completion, in order to receive the Originality Report, which must be included in your submission.
NO EXTENSION IS GIVEN TO THIS DATE.
The feedback sheet should be duly completed, indicating your student number and Turnitin ID and the Assignment to be submitted to the Student Support Centre within the opening times.
A receipt is obtained for the submitted work through checking on UEL Direct.
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Preparation for this assignment
- You need to work as a group of about five people. Groups will be pre-allocated. Small groups will be set up on UELPlus so that you can communicate with people in your group.
- As part of the process, you will need to analyse the case study and identify what you regard as being the key issues. You should do this individually and then discuss it with your group members so that you can agree what the key issues are. This process should help you to share the work out between the five people in this group.
- Once the work has been divided amongst the group members, members should review what has been covered on the module that relates to the work that they have agreed with the group for which they will write the 2,000 words. This also means making sure that the 2,000 words relate to what is required by the question.
- It is advisable to discuss with the group what mark members of the group are aiming for so that all members can aim to meet the requirements of that level of grade.
- This group work also requires project management skills so that work can be drafted, reviewed and then modified to avoid duplication in the final single document.
- Please make sure that all members of the group are familiar with the assessment and marking criteria.
- Using a peer review system to review work between members of the group is also advisable in order to review the achievement of the level of work in the 2,000 words to the agreed standard and to check for degree of critical thinking, focus on the area, appropriate links between the case study and the theoretical areas covered through the module.
- Additional reading will also be required since the set text is a starting point and other sources will need to be identified.
- Please ensure that the answers also include analysis of the key issues in the case study which have strong links to appropriate theories, concepts and models that relate to what h
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