GAGE University College

Program: MBA (Regular)

Group/Individual assignment for the course Human Resource Management (MBA 642)
Submission date: June, 06/ 2021

Instructions
 Please read the questions carefully and address the issues raised in each
questions.
 You are required to address major points and argue critically (use your
material, organizational documents, internet sources and other references,
while answering and analyzing the questions).
 In your report, you are expected to indicate references (sources).
 The report should follow formal reporting format (should have introduction,
main body, conclusion and recommendations, if any)
 Delivery: Through Telegram or Email (solomonbereket10@gmail.com)
 Weight: (20-30%)

Questions

1. Evaluate the relationship between strategic human resource management and

organisational performance.
2. Think of an organisation you have worked for where some work–life balance
practices were available. Why do you think this organisation elected to develop
and introduce work–life balance initiatives?
3. Imagine you are responsible for selecting operators to work in a call centre.
Prepare a set of behavioural questions suitable for the interview. You are
looking for evidence of strong social skills, e.g. good verbal communication,
positive attitude, good sense of humor, energy and enthusiasm; and good
technical skills, e.g. numeracy and keyboard skills. Test out these questions on
friends and colleagues to assess their effectiveness. What do you see as the key
strengths and weaknesses of this approach?
4. To what extent is it worth undertaking HRP activity in the face of economic
and business uncertainty?
5. What is the purpose of equality and diversity policies? Why do they sometimes
fail to live up to expectations?
6. What do you understand by the term ‘Management and Leadership
Development’?
7. What features distinguish a diverse workforce and how, if at all, might they
affect an organisations approach to managing performance?
8. For what reason has performance appraisal has been so severely critiqued? And
what are the theoretical links between HRM and performance appraisal?
9. Explain the terms ‘social partnership’, ‘welfare corporatism’ and ‘managerial
capitalism’. What is their significance for the regulation of the employment
relationship?
10.How can HR demonstrate their business capability? What systems and
measurement processes do they need to put in place to demonstrate the
contribution of HR practices to bottom-line performance?
11.What factors might account for the discrepancy between the proportion of
workplaces with strategic plans that include employee development issues and
the proportion of workplaces that involve HR in the development of these
plans?
12. Explain the importance and limitations of demand and supply forecasting to the
human resource planning process.