R/617/5012 Strategic Human Resource Management, Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

Aim: The aim of this unit is to develop learners' understanding of how the effective strategic management of human resources supports the achievement of organisational objectives in different contexts. Learners will evaluate the contribution of strategic human resource management, and the application of leadership and management theory for organisational benefit.

Learning Outcome 1: Understand the role of management of human resources. Critically justify the importance of human resource management in organisations.Assess the role and purpose of the strategic human resource management function and activities in an organisation.Evaluate how human resource management is related to other functional areas.

Learning Outcome 2. Be able to create a human resource plan for an organisation. Assess the business factors to consider before human resource planning.
Determine human resource requirements in different organisational contexts.
Develop a human resource plan for an organisation.

Learning Outcome 3. Understand the role of legal and ethical issues in developing human resources policy. Explain the purpose of human resource policy.
Assess the impact of regulatory and legal requirements on human resource policies in an organisation.
Assess the impact of business ethics, CSR, and sustainability requirements on human resource policies for an organisation.

Learning Outcome 4. Be able to plan develop human resource strategies. Critically analyse the impact of an organisational strategy, structure and culture on the management of human resources.
Develop a structured, relevant and comprehensive HR strategy.
Critically monitor the effectiveness of human resources management.

Learning Outcome 5. Understand HRM approaches within organisations and their relationships with organisational performance.
Critically evaluate the relationships between business strategy and human resource management.
Explain the implementation and measurement of HR approaches using relevant metrics.
Monitor and evaluate a human resource strategy that supports organisational mission, vision, values and objectives.

Case Study

Based in central London the European Club was founded in 1900.

Task 1 - Presentation and Briefing Report (AC 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1 & 2.2)

Instructions:
The CEO has asked you to prepare a 15-minute presentation and accompanying briefing report for the Board of Directors "selling" your consultancy services. You still need to pitch for the contract as the two other board members will be involved in the decision.

Prepare a presentation with speaker notes and a briefing report in which you should:
Explain the importance of Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) and how you could add value to the ClubHouse. You should discuss how strategic HRM could be linked with other departments.
Explain the Strategic Human Resource services you could provide to the ClubHouse and their purposes.
Analyse the factors that the ClubHouse should consider before embarking on the renovation and restructure.
Determine some preliminary HR requirements for the organisation considering the new contract.

Delivery and Submission:
Presentation file (including references) with speaker notes (500 words)
Briefing Report (500 words) excluding TOC, diagrams, references and appendices

Task 2 - HR Plan and Memo

Instructions:
You have been successful in securing the contract, and you have a lot to do. The management priority is to have a HR plan and policy in place as soon as possible.
You have decided to create the outline for a HR plan, and include a memo about HR policy.

You therefore need to prepare:
An outline of a Human Resource plan.
A memo concerning the importance of HR policy - the memo should provide examples of regulatory, legal and ethical concerns that should be covered within the policy ie living wage vs minimum wage, maternity cover, Equality Act 2010, termination of employment etc.) which would be important to the ClubHouse.
Delivery and Submission:
1x HR plan (1000 words) excluding TOC, diagrams, references and appendices
1x HR memo (500 words)

Task 3 - Report

Instructions:
Having done all of the preliminary work for the ClubHouse, you should now write a report in which you should:
Examine the impact of different management and leadership theories on organisational strategy and structure.
Describe the impact of organisational strategies, structures and culture on the management of HR.

Determine the effectiveness of the current ClubHouse HRM, and critically discuss the link between leadership & management and HRM.
Present an analysis of how the existing culture and structure of the ClubHouse might impact on the success of the ClubHouse project and the motivation of the staff.
Explain how you would develop, monitor and evaluate a leadership strategy that supports the development or revision of the ClubHouse organisational mission, vision, values and objectives.

Referencing:
Each section must reflect any supporting Harvard style citations.