Tips for the Assignment

1. Introduction
I. Significant of talent management in higher education (5 lines)
II. Role of Talent management in Omanization
III. Profile of the College (200 , 150 are expat, 50 are Omani what is the % of Omani
IV. Justification

- General introduction highlighting the issue and importance of talent management in the higher
education (Mention like 3 benefits), use in-text citations like (John, 2019)
- Role of talent management in Omanization.
- Profile of the College you have selected, stating when it was established and its vision and mission
and core programmes (from the company website).
- Justification of the project. Due to the directives of the Ministry of Labour to increase the number of
Omani nationals in the higher education, the management felt the need to initiate this project to
address this problem. Also state the contribution of the project to the overall performance of the
company.
Task P1
The aim of the project it to enhance the Omanization process in Higher education by increasing the
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The objectives can be summarized as follows:
For example

1) To measure the percentage of Omanization in administrative and teaching staff jobs in the
College of Banking and Financial Studies (CBFS).
2) To identify
3) To assess
4) To examine

Here are some questions will help you to state the objectives

To assess the talent management practices related to attracting talents in the College
1) What are the talent management practices related to retaining talents in the College?
2) What are the talent management practices related to succession plan in the College?
3) What are the attitudes related to talent management in the College?
4) What is the rate of talents Turnover among the Omani employees in the College during the last 3
years?
5) Why there is hight turnover among Omani talent in the higher education in Oman ?
6) What are the challenges of talent management in the College
7) What are the challenges of the Omanization in higher education in Oman and what is the role
talent management in addressing that ?
8) To what extent diversity of talents in the College interms of gender, tribes…is an asset or liability?
9) What are the best strategies of talents that can increase the number of Omani staff in the higher
education in Oman?
10) To what extent are the Omani talents are satisfied with the talent management policies in the
College?
 11) To what extent the management is committed to talent management and the Omanization in the
College?

Task P2 : Produce a project management plan that covers, aim and deliverables, time, quality, communication, risk and
resources.
- Aim
- Deliverables
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In order to meet the deadline and complete the project within three months. The following is a project management
plan with respect to the following aspects:
1) The aim
2) Th deliverables ( REPORT, SYSTEM )
3) The timeframe for the project is three months with the following activities set in weeks (can be made in a form
of table that contains activities and duration per weeks)

Activities Duration (in

weeks)
Review (terms of reference) TOR of the project 1 week
meetings with key stakeholders to identify the project objectives,
success criteria, key deliverables, high-level requirements, summary
milestones, and other summary information.
Project plan 1 week,
Survey regarding existing policies related to talent management 2 weeks
(interview with HR Department
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Total 12 weeks

4) The quality ( indicators to monitor the state of talent management in the company, feedback from
stakeholders)
5) The communication (how the policy will be communicated to the employees, top management, customers…etc)
Poster, newsletter, e-mails whatsapp (internal and external communication)
6) The risk (in the short and long run) financial risk, strategic risk, reputational risk (Omanization) risk of cultural
conflicts…etc higher demand of financial compensation in the market, unappealing culture, high turnover, lack of
leadership in the pipeline.
7) The resources (human and financial resources). Developing steering committee or unit to be responsible for the
planning and executing of this policy (how many staff required in this new unit (5, manager, secretary, events
coordinator, marketing coordinator….etc)

Task P3
- Components of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) include:
o Work statement or vision of the project
o Phases (activities of the project)
o Deliverables
o Tasks
o Assigning team members to tasks
Gantt Chart For the project

Time W1 W2 W3 Assigned
Team
Activities member
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3

Minimum 5 Activities
Time (weeks) Activity W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 Assigned
team member
Review terms of reference (TOR) Project
with the Dean of the College manager PM
Activity 2

Final report

Task P4
- Applying primary and secondary methods for meeting project aims and objectives
- Primary methods can be in form of interview ( 2 interview with top management FOR WHAT PURPSOES–
Who are they, sample of questions to be asked, and their objective
- Design a small questionnaire containing 15 questions to assess the talent management in the College, ( 3
questions related to personal information (gender, age, etc), 10 questions related to talent management (i.e
likert scale: Highly satisfied (HS), Satisfied (S), Neutral (N), Dissatisfied (D), Highly Dissatisfied (HD), and 2
open-ended questions, at the end of the questionnaire ( what is your view…… )
- Determine the sample size (minimum 30, 35,40 ) for the questionnaire. Ie how many employees are
supposed to fill the questionnaire. How the questionnaire will be administered (online or paper and pencil
…..etc) using Google Form, Survey Monkey, e-mails,,,,,,,,
- What type of secondary data you need and from where you will get them? (Organization website, NCSI)
National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI)

- A sample of a questionnaire is provided below .

 Talent management
Questionnaire

Dear respondents, Aslam Alakum

This questionnaire aims to assess the level of employees satisfaction about the talent management policies
adopted in the organization. All the information you will provide will be confidential and will be used for the
purpose of scientific research only.

Section A: Personal Details

1-Gender: Male Female

2- Age < 30 years 30-39 40-49 50+

3.

Section B: Talent management issues in the College

State your level of agreement with the following talent management practices adopted in the College, using 5-Likert scale
where : 1 indicating strongly disagree (HD), 2 disagree (D), 3 Uncertain (N), 4 agree (A), 5 strongly agree (SA).

Items 1 2 3 4 5
SD D N A SA
4- Am confident with the quality of current
Omani staff at the college
5-The College is attracting top talent Omani staff
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14: Rate your overall satisfaction of the existing policies of talent management in the College, by giving any number between 1-10
(where 1 means not at all satisfied, and 10 means very satisfied).

15. Give some suggestions to foster talent management in the College

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Thanks you for your cooperation

Task M1 Produce a comprehensive project management plan, milestone schedule and project schedule for monitoring
and completing the aims and objectives of the project

- Produce a comprehensive project management plan (Terms of reference (TOT), aim and objectives, scope of
the project, schedule, resources, timeframe,…..etc
- Key milestones, you can identify 4 to five milestones with estimated completion date.
- A project milestone is a task or an event showing an important achievement in a project.

Example

Key Milestones Estimated Completion Date

Reviewing TOR 14/5/ 2020

Survey Undertaken

Final Project Report to the Management 1/7/2020

Task M2 Evaluate the accuracy and reliability of primary (Interview/questionnaire) and secondary (company
website/Government report) methods applied.

- Evaluate the accuracy and reliability of primary and secondary methods applied.
- The reliability of the questionnaire and the interview
- Validity (view of the experts on the questionnaire)
- Reliability (piloting of the survey) and statistical tests to show internal consistency of the items of the
questionnaire
- Secondary sources used should be authentic.

Task D1
Critically evaluate the project management process and methods applied for gathering information and data
collection.
- Process management process defines what to do and when
- The different phases (initiation, design, delivery, and development) or we can say - initiating
(start)
- Planning (plan)
- Execution (Do)
- Monitoring and control (check and act)
- Closing (End)

- Evaluate the relevance and accuracy of the methods of data collection and information gathering
(primary and secondary)
 - There is no proper talent management strategy in the Bank
- Career Advancement opportunities are so limited
- Employees are not focusing on organizational goals
- There is lack of training in the Bank

- Values of the project

- An effective talent management strategy has been created in the Bank
- A better alignment between human capital requirements and organizational goals has been set.
- The best possible solution to retain the talent in the Bank was provided
- The profitability and financial performance of the Bank will improve substantially if the strategy is
implemented properly.
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